(from the article "India") The most notable personality of the period was Mahmud Gawan, who was a leading administrator during the reigns of Humayun and his son Ahmad III and was vizier (chief minister) ...
(from the article "Shah Rokh") ...Herat in Khorasan (now in western Afghanistan). Particularly important were the library and the school of miniature painting that developed and flourished there. One of his wives, Gawhar Shad, worked ...
town, South Australia, northeast of Adelaide. It lies at the confluence of the North and South Para rivers (which there form the Gawler River), at the western foot of the ...
(from the article "Australia") In the far southwest, the Darling Range forms an upfaulted block underlain mainly by granite but capped by laterite, a reddish, iron-rich product of weathering rock. The Gawler block, in ...
mountains and hills in South Australia, extending 100 miles (160 km) east-west across the northern part of Eyre Peninsula, south of Lake Gairdner; they rise in the west as high ... [1 Related Articles]
(from the article "Gawler") ...of Adelaide. It lies at the confluence of the North and South Para rivers (which there form the Gawler River), at the western foot of the Mt. Lofty Ranges. Surveyed ...
(from the article "Tepe Gawra") ...The site, which apparently was continuously occupied from the Halaf Period (c. 5050-c. 4300 BC) to about the middle of the 2nd millennium BC, gave its name to the Gawra ...
(from the article "gay rights movement") ...45 minutes and resumed on succeeding nights. Gay rights organizations proliferated in the United States in the succeeding years. "Stonewall" came to be commemorated annually in June by Gay and ...
(from the article "sports") ...this stereotype, which has damaged efforts to increase wider participation and greater spectator interest, conventional feminine ideals have been stressed in the marketing of women's sports. The Gay Games, established ...
(from the article "homosexuality") ...it was particularly prevalent in urban gay communities. As a result homosexuals were at the forefront of advocacy for research into the disease and support for its victims through groups ...
civil-rights movement that advocates equal rights for gay men, lesbians, bisexuals, and transsexuals; seeks to eliminate sodomy laws barring homosexual acts between consenting adults; and calls for an end to ... [3 Related Articles]
(from the article "El Monte") ...Southern Pacific Railroad depot was established there in 1873, spurring the development of local agriculture, with extensive fruit orchards and walnut fields. From 1919 to 1942 the city was home ...
(from the article "Vigny, Alfred-Victor, comte de") ...a literary leader of the Romantic movement in France. The Romantic poet Alphonse de Lamartine recognized his talents, and Hugo and Charles Sainte-Beuve treated him as a friend. Vigny and ...
English poet and dramatist, chiefly remembered as the author of The Beggar's Opera, a work distinguished by good-humoured satire and technical assurance. [6 Related Articles]
(from the article "Utilitarianism") Another strand of Utilitarian thought took the form of a theological ethics. John Gay, a biblical scholar and philosopher, held the will of God to be the criterion of virtue; ...
(from the article "Track and Field Sports (Athletics)") American sprinters Tyson Gay and Allyson Felix won three gold medals each. For Gay, who placed fourth in the 200 m at the 2005 championships, a battle with world record ...
(from the article "Gay-Lussac, Joseph-Louis") ...one were not animated with the desire to discover laws, they would often escape the most enlightened attention." Of the laws Gay-Lussac discovered, he remains best known for his law ...
French chemist and physicist who pioneered investigations into the behaviour of gases, established new techniques for analysis, and made notable advances in applied chemistry. [6 Related Articles]
(from the article "Latvia") ...people with low incomes to stage protests and seek employment abroad. Municipal elections were held on March 12. Some politicians and traditionalists protested against Latvia's first gay-pride parade on July ...
city, south-central Bihar state, northeastern India. It lies along the Phalgu River, a tributary of the Ganges. With major rail, road, and air connections, Gaya is a major centre of ... [1 Related Articles]
(Bos frontalis), one of the species of true cattle, belonging to the subfamily Bovinae (order Artiodactyla) and found in northeastern India and Myanmar (Burma). Considered a domestic form of the ...
(from the article "Prescott, William H(ickling)") Working with a superb personal library of perhaps 5,000 volumes and with the help of such overseas associates as Pascual de Gayangos, the Spanish aide who discovered manuscripts and rare ...
(from the article "Hinduism") ...and Tantric elements. If not shortened, the morning ceremonies consist of self-purification, bathing, prayers, and recitation of mantras, especially the Gayatri-mantra (Rigveda 3.62.10), a prayer for spiritual ...
American soul singer-songwriter-producer who, to a large extent, ushered in the era of artist-controlled popular music of the 1970s. Gaye's father was a storefront preacher; his mother was a domestic ... [3 Related Articles]
(from the article "Iran") The pressure was increased beyond the economy's endurance: the Il-Khanid government ran into fiscal difficulties. An experiment with paper currency, modeled on the Chinese money, failed under Gaykhatu (reigned 1291-95). ...
Iraqi lawyer and politician who was prime minister of Iraq (1933, 1940-41, 1941) and one of the most celebrated political leaders of the Arab world during his time. [4 Related Articles]
a carbonate mineral, hydrated sodium and calcium carbonate [formulated Na2Ca(CO3)2·5H2O], that precipitates from soda lakes. It has been identified in deposits at Lagunillas, Venezuela; in the eastern Gobi (desert), Mongolia; ...
(from the article "France") ...was also conducive to a "no" in the referendum campaign. Unemployment in France remained persistently high, and the government's political stock fell further when Finance Minister Herve Gaymard was forced ...
in later Zoroastrian creation literature, the first man, and the progenitor of mankind. Gayomart's spirit, with that of the primeval ox, lived for 3,000 years during the period in which ... [2 Related Articles]
(from the article "Maldives") Area: 298 sq km (115 sq mi) | Population (2007 est.): 305,000 | Capital: Male | Head of state and government: President Maumoon Abdul Gayoom | Maldivian Pres. ...
(from the article "Belgium") ...of GDP to just over 90%. Belgium's energy sector was set for a shake-up in 2007, not only from the introduction of liberalization but also from the planned merger between ...
(from the article "Nguni") ...Shaka, were able to conquer other African peoples and to establish new states throughout southern and central Africa. These included the Ndebele state in southwestern Zimbabwe, under Mzilikazi; the Gaza ...
kingdom established in the highlands of the middle Sabi River in Mozambique in the 1830s by Soshangane, the Ndwandwe general who fled from Zululand after his defeat at the hands ... [3 Related Articles]
city and principal urban centre of the Gaza Strip, southwestern Palestine. Formerly the administrative headquarters for the Israeli military forces that occupied the Gaza Strip, the city came under Palestinian ... [10 Related Articles]
territory occupying 140 square miles (363 square km) along the Mediterranean Sea just northeast of the Sinai Peninsula. The Gaza Strip is unusual in being a densely settled area not ... [18 Related Articles]
(from the article "Allenby, Edmund Henry Hynman Allenby, 1st Viscount") ...of the Egyptian Expeditionary Force. The strength of his personality created a new spirit in his army, and after careful preparation and reorganization he won a decisive victory over the ...
(from the article "humanism") ...Academy of Florence. George of Trebizond (Georgius Trapezuntius, 1395-1484), a student of Vittorino, was a formidable bilingual stylist who wrote important handbooks on logic and rhetoric. Theodore Gaza (c. 1400-75) ...
(from the article "World War II") ...26, he prepared a counteroffensive. When the British still imagined his forces to be hopelessly crippled, he attacked on Jan. 21, 1942, and, by a series of strokes, drove the ...
former nonindependent Bantustan, northeastern Transvaal, South Africa, designated for the Shangaan and Tsonga people. It was made up of four detached portions of low veld, two of which adjoined Kruger ... [1 Related Articles]
(from the article "Gbaya") The Gbaya migrated southeastward from what is now the Hausa area of northern Nigeria early in the 19th century, fleeing the jihad (holy war) of Usman dan Fodio. Led by ...
lookout or belvedere in the form of a turret, cupola, or garden house set on a height to give an extensive view. The name is an 18th-century joke word combining ... [2 Related Articles]
any of the numerous antelopes of the genus Gazella, family Bovidae (order Artiodactyla). Graceful in build and small to medium in size, gazelles range in herds that usually contain about ... [2 Related Articles]
peninsula extending northeast from the island of New Britain, Papua New Guinea, southwestern Pacific Ocean. It is about 50 miles (80 km) wide but tapers to 20 miles (32 km) ... [1 Related Articles]
originally, a newssheet containing an abstract of current events, the forerunner of the modern newspaper. The word is derived from the Italian gazzetta, a name given to ... [1 Related Articles]
(from the article "dictionary") ...is called a concordance. Theoretically, a good dictionary could be compiled by organizing into one list a large number of concordances. A word list that consists of geographic names only ...
(from the article "Danishmend dynasty") Danishmend's son and successor, Gazi, intervened in dynastic struggles among the sons of Qilij Arslan and helped Mas'ud seize power in 1116. Gazi then captured Malatya, Ankara, Kayseri, and Kastamonu ...
(from the article "cacos") ...Matias Delgado and Pedro Molina, liberals who demanded independence under a federalist, anticlerical constitution. They were opposed by the more conservative gazistas, led by Jose Cecilio del ...
cold soup of Spanish cuisine, especially that of Andalusia. It is an ancient dish mentioned in Greek and Roman literature, although two of the main ingredients of the modern version, ...
(from the article "Belarus") The year 2007 began in Belarus with a fractious dispute with Russia over natural gas prices. Belarus agreed to pay Gazprom $100 per 1,000 cu m for imported Russian gas, ...
African politician who became president of Cote d'Ivoire in 2000. During his presidency, he grappled with civil war and an extended period of disunity. [7 Related Articles]
(from the article "Benue-Congo languages") The largest of the approximately 17 Nupoid languages are Nupe (1,000,000), Gbagyi (700,000), and Ebira (1,000,000). They are spoken in the area north and west of the confluence of the ...
(from the article "African dance") ...with face masks and elaborate headpieces of embroidered cloth, which allow for a dance that accelerates into a climax of rapid, abrupt movement. The Nago and Akakayi ancestral masqueraders of ...
city, north-central Liberia, West Africa, at the intersection of roads from Monrovia and northern Sierra Leone. A rural administrative and local trade centre, it has government and church secondary schools, ...
a people of southwestern Central African Republic, east-central Cameroon, northern Congo (Brazzaville), and northwestern Congo (Kinshasa). Numbering about 970,000 at the end of the 20th century, they speak a language ...
(from the article "Gbaya") ...of southwestern Central African Republic, east-central Cameroon, northern Congo (Brazzaville), and northwestern Congo (Kinshasa). Numbering about 970,000 at the end of the 20th century, they speak a language of the ...
(from the article "art, African") ...and human masks, the latter reported to be portraits used in commemorating the dead, are elegant-well polished, with elaborate hairdressings and scarification. More roughly finished are the gbekre figures, representing ...
(from the article "Xhosa") a cluster of related peoples living primarily in Eastern Cape province, South Africa, and forming part of the southern Nguni group of Bantu-speaking peoples. The main Xhosa groups are the ...
esoteric Tibetan Buddhist rite that aims at "cutting off" the human ego and thus destroying the illusion of duality between samsara (the world of appearances and of death and rebirth) ...
city, capital of Pomorskie wojewodztwo (province), north-central Poland, situated at the mouth of the Vistula River on the Baltic Sea. [7 Related Articles]
southern inlet of the Baltic Sea, bordered by Poland on the west, south, and southeast and by Kaliningrad oblast (province) of Russia on the east. The gulf extends 40 miles ... [1 Related Articles]
South American Indian peoples who speak languages of the Macro-Ge group. They inhabit eastern and southern Brazil and part of northern Paraguay. The Ge peoples include the Northwestern Ge (Timbira, ... [1 Related Articles]
(from the article "computer") ...with a new time-sharing-oriented operating system. AT&T dropped out after the project was well under way, but GE went ahead, and the result was the Multics operating system running on ...
(from the article "Literature") Another notable novel to appear in China during the year was Shanhe ru meng ("Shadow in Her Dream") by Ge Fei, a well-known novelist and literature professor in Beijing. The ...
(from the article "death") ...to have been written between the 2nd century BC and the 2nd century AD, Sheol was composed of three divisions, to which the dead would be assigned according to their ...
kiln known for the wares it produced during the early Song dynasty (960-1162), probably in the Zhejiang province in China. Scholars are uncertain of the kiln's exact location. Legends recorded ... [2 Related Articles]
a group of about 10 South American Indian languages that extend through inland eastern Brazil as far as the Uruguayan border. Most linguists classify the Ge languages with a number ... [4 Related Articles]
(from the article "An Lushan") ...in the narrow pass up the Huang He (Yellow River) leading into Shaanxi province. For six months the rebels were unable to advance. There was great suspicion and rivalry between ...
(from the article "Ethiopian chant") ...a specific melodic formula, or serayu. In performance, a formula is embellished with improvised melodic ornaments. There are also apparently three distinctly different manners of chanting: ge'ez, in which most ...
liturgical language of the Ethiopian church. Ge'ez is a Semitic language of the Southern Peripheral group, to which also belong the South Arabic dialects and Amharic, one of the principal ... [7 Related Articles]
(from the article "painting, Western") ...sign of qualities that were to become characteristic of modern painting. Though exceptional, it was not unique; in Italy during the 1860s the Russian painter of historical and scriptural themes, ...
(from the article "Lebanon") ...June, after the parliament passed motions allowing two Christian leaders to participate in them. The first of these pardoned Gen. Michel Aoun, who was living in exile in Paris; the ...
machine component consisting of a toothed wheel attached to a rotating shaft. Gears operate in pairs to transmit and modify rotary motion and torque (turning force) without slip, the teeth ... [7 Related Articles]
(from the article "petroleum refining") In gear lubrication the oil separates metal surfaces, reducing friction and wear. Extreme pressures develop in some gears, notably those in the rear axles of cars, and special additives must ...
(from the article "pump") The most common type of gear pump is illustrated in Figure 1. One of the gears is driven and the other runs free. A partial vacuum, created by the unmeshing ...
(from the article "machine tool") ...such as making screws, and it presaged the momentous developments of the 20th century. Various gear-cutting machines reached their full development in 1896 when F.W. Fellows, an American, designed a ...
(from the article "gear") machine component consisting of a toothed wheel attached to a rotating shaft. Gears operate in pairs to transmit and modify rotary motion and torque (turning force) without slip, the teeth ...
(from the article "machine tool") Three basic cutting methods are used for machining gears: (1) form cutting, (2) template cutting, and (3) generating. The form-cutting method uses a cutting tool that has the same form ...
(from the article "machine tool") Most cut gears produced in large lots are made on machines that utilize the gear-generating method. This method is based on the principle that two involute gears, or a gear ...
(from the article "machine tool") Gear-hobbing machines use a rotating, multiple-tooth cutting tool called a hob for generating teeth on spur gears, worm gears, helical gears, splines, and sprockets. More gears are cut by hobbing ...
(from the article "fungus") ...puffballs; included in subclass Agaricomycetidae; example genera include Boletus, Scleroderma, Coniophora, and Rhizopogon. Found under trees, mainly conifers; spherical or egg-shaped fruiting bodies resemble mushrooms, some become star-shaped after ...
(from the article "Lycoperdaceae") Another genus is Geastrum (Geaster), consisting of about 50 widespread species of earthstars with an expanded starlike base. They are found among dead leaves in woods in summer and autumn.
in ancient Egyptian religion, the god of the earth, the physical support of the world. Geb constituted, along with Nut, his sister, the second generation in the Ennead (group of ... [3 Related Articles]
(from the article "Oio") ...concelhos (municipalities) of Farim, Bissora, and Mansoa in the mid-1970s. Oio's border with the Quinara region, its neighbour to the south, is formed by the Geba River, which flows east-west. ...
(from the article "medal") ...the greatest sensitivity in capturing individual character in his portraits. Friedrich Hagenauer, active in Munich and in Augsburg (1527-32), produced more than 230 medals. In Nurnberg, Matthes Gebel (active 1525-54) ...
German-born American circus animal trainer (b. Sept. 12, 1934, Schweidnitz, Ger. [now Swidnica, Pol.]-d. July 19, 2001, Venice, Fla.), was one of the most celebrated circus entertainers in history. As ... [1 Related Articles]
unknown author of several books that were among the most influential works on alchemy and metallurgy during the 14th and 15th centuries. [2 Related Articles]
(from the article "Germany") ...for power in Europe among the Habsburg dynasties, France, England, and the Netherlands-was likely to lead to a general war. A series of incidents moved events toward the brink. In ...
music intended, by virtue of its simplicity of technique and style, primarily for performance by the talented amateur rather than the virtuoso. Gebrauchsmusik is, in fact, a modern reaction against ... [1 Related Articles]
(from the article "Unilever") ...companies founded in the 19th century. In The Netherlands the Jurgens family had been in the dairy business for some 50 years when in 1854 two brothers, Anton and Johannes, ...
(from the article "Track and Field Sports (Athletics)") On September 30 in Berlin, Ethiopian Haile Gebrselassie broke the marathon world record with a time of 2 hr 4 min 26 sec. In his seventh serious marathon, Gebrselassie earned ...
(from the article "Thonet, Michael") His representative works shown at the Great Exhibition, London (1851), were a huge success. In 1853 he incorporated with his sons, renaming his firm Gebruder Thonet. By 1856 he had ...
(from the article "land crab") ...fields, swamps, and mangrove thickets. Some penetrate inland as far as 8 km (about 5 miles). Adults weigh about 0.5 kg (18 ounces) and measure about 11 cm (4 inches) ...
any lizard of the family Gekkonidae, which contains over 100 genera and nearly 1,000 species. Geckos are mostly small, usually nocturnal reptiles with a soft skin. They also possess a ... [6 Related Articles]
Scottish goldsmith who invented (1725) stereotyping, a process in which a whole page of type is cast in a single mold so that a printing plate can be made from ...
(from the article "Jeremiah") When Jerusalem finally fell, Jeremiah was released from prison by the Babylonians and offered safe conduct to Babylonia, but he preferred to remain with his own people. So he was ...
a minor Jewish observance (on Tishri 3) that mournfully recalls the assassination of Gedaliah, Jewish governor of Judah and appointee of Nebuchadrezzar, the Babylonian king. Gedaliah, a supporter of Jeremiah, ... [2 Related Articles]
