estuary on the Bay of Biscay, in Gironde departement, Aquitaine region, southwestern France, formed by the confluence of the Garonne and Dordogne rivers (qq.v.). It trends from southeast to northwest ...
a label applied to a loose grouping of republican politicians, some of them originally from the departement of the Gironde, who played a leading role in the ...
Spanish author best remembered for his long historical novel Los cipreses creen en Dios (1953; The Cypresses Believe in God), in which the conflicts ...
British artist who at the turn of the 19th century firmly established the aesthetic autonomy of watercolour (formerly used mainly to colour engravings) by employing its transparent washes to evoke ...
computer system for performing geographical analysis. GIS has four interactive components: an input subsystem for converting into digital form (digitizing) maps and other spatial data; a storage and retrieval subsystem; ...
in sepulchral sculpture, recumbent effigy representing the person in death; especially, an effigy depicting the deceased in a state of advanced decomposition, as was popular particularly in the 15th and ...
city ("district") and port on Poverty Bay, Gisborne unitary authority, east coast of North Island, New Zealand. The city is located where the Waimata and Taruheru rivers join to form ...
unitary authority, east-central North Island, New Zealand. The authority includes the eastern side of East Cape (the easternmost promontory of North Island), most of the Raukumara Range, and the Waipaoa ...
time division of the Ordovician Period in Australia and New Zealand. The Gisbornian Stage precedes the Eastonian Stage and follows the Darriwilian Stage; it is characterized by the presence of ...
American actresses who were major figures in the early motion picture industry, particularly in director D.W. Griffith's silent-film classics. Lillian, regarded as one of the most creative cinema artists, was ...
an Icelandic saga set in northwestern Iceland and written probably before the middle of the 13th century, which tells of an outlaw poet, Gisli Sursson (d. c. AD 980), who ...
rare mineral in the zeolite family. Many specimens have been found in Ireland and Iceland in basaltic lavas, along with such other zeolites as chabazite, thomsonite, and phillipsite. Gismondine forms ...
market town, Eure departement, Haute-Normandie region, northwestern France. It lies in the valley of the Epte River, northwest of Paris and southwest of Beauvais. The early town was dominated by ...
prince of Salerno, the last important Lombard ruler to oppose the Norman conquest of southern Italy; his defeat marked the end of effective resistance to the Normans.
(Sanskrit: "The Poem in which the Cowherd Is Sung"), lyrical poem celebrating the romance of the divine cowherd Krishna and his beloved, Radha, renowned both for its high literary value ...
town, central Burundi. The town lies about 40 miles (65 km) east of the national capital of Bujumbura. Constituting the second largest town in the country, Gitega functions as a ...
either of two medieval stringed musical instruments, the guitarra latina and the guitarra morisca. The latter was also known as the guitarra saracenica.
judet (county), southeastern Romania, occupying an area of 1,471 square miles (3,810 square km) bounded on the south by the Danube River and Bulgaria. The county, consisting mostly of lowlands, ...
city, capital of Giurgiu judet (county), southern Romania. It is situated on the left (north) bank of the Danube, 40 miles (65 km) south of Bucharest. Its origins have not ...
northern Italian poet and satirist, whose satires on Austrian rule during the early years of Italy's nationalistic movement (the Risorgimento) had great influence and are still enjoyed for their Tuscan ...
city, eastern suburb of Tel Aviv-Yafo, west-central Israel, on the Plain of Sharon. The city is a union of several workers' quarters, the first of which, Shekhunat Borokhov, was founded ...
new town, Northern province, South Africa. It was the capital of Gazankulu, a former nonindependent black state. Giyani is located on the northern bank of the Klein (Little) Letaba River ...
three 4th-dynasty (c. 2575-c. 2465 BC) pyramids erected on a rocky plateau on the west bank of the Nile River near Al-Jizah (Giza), northern Egypt; in ancient times they were ...
in many birds, the hind part of the stomach, especially modified for grinding food. Located between the saclike crop and the intestine, the gizzard has a thick muscular wall and ...
city, southern Albania. Lying southeast of the Adriatic port of Vlore, Gjirokaster overlooks the Drin River valley from the eastern slope of the long ridge of the Gjere mountains. Picturesque, ...
medieval monk and chronicler whose works, though lacking critical sense and order, are useful as historical documents. He read extensively, traveled considerably, and observed and recorded major events.
town, Cape Breton county, northeastern Nova Scotia, Canada. It lies on the eastern shore of Cape Breton Island, overlooking the Atlantic Ocean, just east of Sydney. An important coal-mining town ...
any product of flowing ice and meltwater. Such landforms are being produced today in glaciated areas, such as Greenland, Antarctica, and many of the world's higher mountain ranges. In addition, ...
in geology, a cold episode during an ice age, or glacial period. An ice age (q.v.) is a portion of geologic time during which a much larger part of the ...
stream valley that has been glaciated, usually to a typical U-shaped cross section. U-shaped valleys occur in many parts of the world and are characteristic features of mountain glaciation. These ...
any large mass of perennial ice that originates on land by the recrystallization of snow or other forms of solid precipitation and that shows evidence of past or present flow. ...
scenic indentation, about 50 miles (80 km) long, on the coast of southeastern Alaska, U.S., about 100 miles (160 km) northwest of Juneau. It contains a spectacular display of 16 ...
national park and preserve in southeastern Alaska, U.S., on the Gulf of Alaska. It was proclaimed a national monument in 1925, established as a national park and preserve in 1980, ...
park in southeastern British Columbia, Canada, lying in the heart of the Selkirk Mountains, within the great northern bend of the Columbia River, east of Revelstoke. Established in 1886, it ...
national park set in a scenic Rocky Mountain wilderness in northwestern Montana, U.S., adjoining the Canadian border and Canada's Waterton Lakes National Park. The two parks together compose the Waterton-Glacier ...
scientific discipline concerned with all aspects of ice on landmasses. It deals with the structure and properties of glacier ice, its formation and distribution, the dynamics of ice flow, and ...
American artist whose paintings of street scenes and middle-class urban life rejected the dictates of 19th-century academic art and introduced a matter-of-fact realism into the art of the United States.
city, North Rhine-Westphalia Land (state), western Germany. It lies in the Ruhr industrial region. First documented in 1019, Gladbeck was a small rural village until the first ...
professional combatant in ancient Rome. The gladiators originally performed at Etruscan funerals, no doubt with intent to give the dead man armed attendants in the next world; hence the fights ...
genus of about 300 species of flowering plants of the iris family (Iridaceae) native to Europe, Africa, and the Mediterranean area and widely cultivated for cut flowers. The flowering spike, ...
Russian writer best known for Tsement (1925; Cement, 1929), the first postrevolutionary novel to dramatize Soviet industrial development. Although crudely written, this story of a Red Army fighter who returns ...
city, eastern Queensland, eastern Australia, on Port Curtis, an inlet of the Coral Sea. Originally settled in 1847 as a colony by the New South Wales government, it was abandoned ...
zoological park in Brownsville, Texas, U.S., which has one of the world's finest reptile collections. Opened in 1971, the 31-acre (12.5-hectare) park is owned by the city and operated by ...
script introduced into the Slavic-speaking Balkan communities in the late 9th century AD, together with the Slavonic liturgy of the Roman Catholic Church. Glagolitic script was used by Roman Catholic ...
musical movement that began in Britain in the early 1970s and celebrated the spectacle of the rock star and concert. Often dappled with glitter, male musicians took the stage in ...
castle and village in the council area and historic county of Angus, eastern Scotland. The present castle, a fine example of Scottish Baronial architecture, dates from the late 17th century, ...
historic county, southern Wales, extending inland from the Bristol Channel coast between the Rivers Loughor and Rhymney. In the north it comprises a barren upland moor dissected by narrow river ...
cell or tissue that removes specific substances from the blood, alters or concentrates them, and then either releases them for further use or eliminates them. Typically, a gland consists of ...
specific infectious and contagious disease of solipeds (the horse, ass, and mule); secondarily, humans may become infected through contact with diseased animals or by inoculation while handling diseased tissues and ...
genus of small pelecypods (clams) especially characteristic of the Miocene Epoch (between 23.7 and 5.3 million years ago). The ornamentation of the shell includes prominent ribbing that extends from the ...
English self-styled Skeptic and apologist for the Royal Society who defended the reality of witchcraft and ghosts and the preexistence of the soul. Thereby, according to some, he initiated psychical ...
justiciar or chief minister of England (1180-89) under King Henry II who was the reputed author of the first authoritative text on the common law, Tractatus de legibus et consuetudinibus ...
town, capital of Glarus canton, eastern Switzerland, on the left bank of the Linth River, at the northeastern foot of the Glarnisch Massif (with four peaks, rising above 8,900 feet ...
canton, east-central Switzerland, comprising the deep, level upper valley of the Linth River, which rises in the southwest in the glaciers of the Todi (11,857 feet [3,614 metres]), highest of ...
segment of the Central Alps lying north of the Vorderrhein River mainly in Glarus canton of east central Switzerland. The mountains extend east to the Rhine River and north to ...
Scottish Presbyterian clergyman denounced by his church for opposing the concept of a national religious establishment. He was founder of the Glasites (Sandemanians, q.v.).
American physicist and recipient of the 1960 Nobel Prize for Physics for his invention and development of the bubble chamber, a research instrument used to observe the behaviour of subatomic ...
city, west-central Scotland, along both banks of the River Clyde 20 miles (32 km) from that river's mouth on the western, or Atlantic, coast. Glasgow is Scotland's largest city. It ...
