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Giles Corey was accused of witchcraft and stoned to death during the Salem Witch Trials in 1692.
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Fictional bearer: In the YA novel "Incarceron", the main character Finn thinks he's the long-lost Prince Giles (I haven't read the sequel yet so I don't know how this ends).
Pronounced with a J sound.
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Pronounced with a J sound.
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Giles Corey was the one guy in the Salem witch trials who wasn't hung. He got squished to death by rocks for not pleading guilty or not guilty.
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There is a novelist named Giles Blunt.
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The name of one of the characters in Thomas Hardy's novel 'The Woodlanders', portrayed in the recent film by Rufus Sewell.
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Professor Tolkien used Giles to name the main character in his story 'Farmer Giles of Ham'. Giles is but the 'vulgar' form of the name; the farmer's full name was Aegidius Ahenobarbus Julius Agricola de Hammo.
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Giles Lytton Strachey (March 1, 1880–January 21, 1932) was a British writer and critic and part of the Bloomsbury Group.
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Rupert Giles is a character on the "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" T.V. show. He's played by Anthony Stewart Head.
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