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Glasgow, University of: state-supported university in Glasgow, Scot. The university was founded in 1451 by a bull of Pope Nicholas V on the petition of King James II of Scotland. From 1460, lands ...
Glashow, Sheldon Lee: American theoretical physicist who, with Steven Weinberg and Abdus Salam, received the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1979 for their complementary efforts in formulating the electroweak theory, which explains the ...
Glaspell, Susan: American dramatist and novelist who, with her husband, George Cram Cook, founded the influential Provincetown Players in 1915.
glass: an inorganic solid material that is usually transparent or translucent as well as hard, brittle, and impervious to the natural elements. Glass has been made into practical and decorative objects ...
glass fibre: see fibreglass.
glass harmonica: musical instrument consisting of a set of graduated, tuned glass bowls sounded by the friction of wetted fingers on their rims. It was invented by Benjamin Franklin and was derived ...
Glass House Mountains: group of 11 principal peaks, the highest of which is Beerwah (1,824 feet [556 m]), in southeastern Queensland, Australia, 45 miles (70 km) north of Brisbane. Composed of volcanic trachyte, ...
glass snake: any lizard of the genus Ophisaurus in the family Anguidae, so named because the tail is easily broken off. The Eastern glass lizard, Ophisaurus ventralis, occurs in southeastern North America ...
glass sponge: any of a class (Hexactinellida, also called Hyalospongiae, or Triaxonia) of sponges characterized by a skeleton that consists of silica spicules (needlelike structures) often united into a delicate geometric network-e.g., ...
Glass, Carter: American politician who became a principal foe in the Senate of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal in the 1930s.
Glass, Philip: American composer of innovative instrumental, vocal, and operatic music.
glassblowing: the practice of shaping a mass of glass that has been softened by heat by blowing air into it through a tube. Glassblowing was invented by Syrian craftsmen in the ...
Glassboro: borough (town), Gloucester county, southwestern New Jersey, U.S. It lies 17 miles (27 km) south of Camden. Hollybush (1849), the home of the president of Rowan College of New Jersey ...
Glassco, John: Canadian author whose poetry, short stories, novels, memoirs, and translations are notable for their versatility and sophistication.
glassfish: any of about 24 small Indo-Pacific fishes of the family Ambassidae (or Chandidae, order Perciformes), most with more or less transparent bodies. Sometimes placed with the snooks and Nile perch ...
glassware: any decorative article made of glass, often designed for everyday use. From very early times glass has been used for various kinds of vessels, and in all countries where the ...
glasswort: any of about 15 species of succulent herbs constituting the genus Salicornia, of the goosefoot family (Chenopodiaceae). They are annual plants native to salt marshes around the world. The jointed, ...
Glastonbury: town ("parish"), Mendip district, administrative and historic county of Somerset, England. It is situated on the slopes of a group of hills that rise from the Brue Valley to a ...
Glatigny, Albert-Alexandre: French poet of the Parnassian school, known for his small poems of satiric comment and for his peripatetic life as a strolling actor and improvisationalist.
Glatstein, Jacob: Polish-born novelist and literary critic who in 1920 helped establish the Inzikhist ("introspectivist") literary movement. In later years he was one of the outstanding figures in mid-20th-century American Yiddish literature.
Glauber's salt: colourless crystalline sulfate of sodium (q.v.).
Glauber, Johann Rudolf: German-Dutch chemist, sometimes called the German Boyle; i.e., the father of chemistry.
Glauber, Roy J.: American physicist, who won one-half of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 2005 for contributions to the field of optics, the branch of physics that deals with the physical properties ...
glaucochroite: manganese-rich variety of the mineral monticellite (q.v.).
glaucoma: disease caused by an increase in pressure within the eye as a result of blockage of the flow of aqueous humour, a watery fluid produced by the ciliary body. (The ...
glauconite: greenish ferric-iron silicate mineral with micaceous structure, characteristically formed on submarine elevations ranging in depth from 30 to 1,000 metres (100 to 3,300 feet) below sea level. Glauconite is abundant ...
glaucophane: common amphibole mineral, a sodium, magnesium, and aluminum silicate that occurs only in crystalline schists formed from sodium-rich rocks by low-grade metamorphism. It also forms from sedimentary rocks by the ...
glaucophane schist facies: one of the major divisions of the mineral facies classification of metamorphic rocks, the rocks of which, because of their peculiar mineralogy, suggest formation conditions of high pressure and relatively ...
Glaucus: (Greek: Gleaming), name of several figures in Greek mythology, the most important of whom were the following:
glaze: ice coating that forms when supercooled rain, drizzle, or fog drops strike surfaces that have temperatures at or below the freezing point; the accumulated water covers the surface and freezes ...
Glazov: city and administrative centre of Glazov rayon (sector) in Udmurtiya republic, Russia. Founded in 1780 as a point of Udmurt settlement, it is on the Cheptsa River. Industrial activities include ...
Glazunov, Aleksandr: the major Russian symphonic composer of the generation that followed Tchaikovsky.
Gleason, Jackie: American comedian best known for his portrayal of Ralph Kramden in the television series The Honeymooners.
Gleason, Kate: American businesswoman whose resourceful management skills were largely responsible for the success of her family's machine-tool business and that of other companies and institutions.
glee: (from Old English gleo: "music" or "entertainment"), vocal composition for three or more unaccompanied solo male voices, including a countertenor. It consists of several short sections of contrasting character or ...
Gleim, Johann Wilhelm Ludwig: German Anacreontic poet.
Glen Eagles: narrow glen, Perth and Kinross council area, Scotland, running south through the Ochil Hills. Within the glen are the remains of Gleneagles Castle (14th century), which was superseded in 1624 ...
Glen Ellyn: village, DuPage county, northeastern Illinois, U.S. It is a suburb of Chicago, lying 23 miles (37 km) west of downtown. Glen Ellyn's phases of development were marked by seven name ...
Glen Innes: town, northeastern New South Wales, Australia, in the New England district on the Northern Tableland south of the Queensland border. Founded in 1851 on Furracabad stock station, it became a ...
Glen Mor: valley in the Highland council area of north-central Scotland, extending about 60 miles (97 km) from the Moray Firth at Inverness to Loch Linnhe at Fort William. It includes Lochs ...
Glencairn, Alexander Cunningham, 5th earl of: Scottish Protestant noble, an adherent of John Knox and a sometime supporter of Mary, Queen of Scots.
Glencairn, William Cunningham, 4th earl of: Scottish conspirator during the Reformation.
Glencoe: glen (valley) south of Fort William in the Highland council area of western Scotland. From a relatively low watershed and pass to Glen Etive at an elevation of 1,011 feet ...
Glencoe, Massacre of: (Feb. 13, 1692), in Scottish history, the treacherous slaughter of the MacDonalds of Glencoe by soldiers under Archibald Campbell, 10th earl of Argyll. Many Scottish clans had remained loyal to ...
Glendale: city, Maricopa county, south-central Arizona, U.S., in the Salt River valley, just west of Phoenix. Founded in 1892, it is an agricultural trading centre (fruits, vegetables, cotton). It is the ...
Glendale: city, Los Angeles county, California, U.S. Adjacent to Burbank and Pasadena, Glendale lies in the Verdugo Hills, at the southeastern end of the San Fernando Valley. Laid out in 1887, ...
Glendalough, Vale of: valley, County Wicklow, Ireland. When St. Kevin settled there in the 6th century, Glendalough became an important monastic centre and, until 1214, the centre of a diocese. The series of ...
Glendive: city, seat (1881) of Dawson county, eastern Montana, U.S., on the Yellowstone River. It was founded in 1881 after the arrival of the Northern Pacific Railway and named for nearby ...
Glendower, Owen: self-proclaimed prince of Wales whose unsuccessful rebellion against England was the last major Welsh attempt to throw off English rule. He became a national hero upon the resurgence of Welsh ...
Glenelg River: river in southwestern Victoria, Australia, rising on Mt. William in the Grampians east of Balmoral and flowing west and south to join its chief tributary, the Wannon River, at Casterton. ...
Glenmore: national forest park in the foothills of the Cairngorm Mountains, Highland council area, north-central Scotland. Established in 1948 and comprising 12,000 acres (5,000 hectares), the park extends upward from 1,000 ...
Glenn, John H., Jr.: the first U.S. astronaut to orbit the Earth, completing three orbits in 1962. (Soviet cosmonaut Yury Gagarin, the first person in space, made a single orbit of the Earth in ...
Glenrothes: town, Fife council area and historic county, eastern Scotland. Scotland's second new town was established in 1948 to provide housing for coal miners near the experimental Rothes Colliery. When the ...
Glens Falls: city, Warren county, east-central New York, U.S., on the Hudson River, 45 miles (72 km) north of Albany. Part of the Queensbury Patent (1759; now Queensbury town [township]), it was ...
Glenview: village, Cook county, northeastern Illinois, U.S. It is a suburb of Chicago, located 20 miles (30 km) north of downtown, and lies on the north branch of the Chicago River. ...
Glenwood Springs: city, seat (1889) of Garfield county, west-central Colorado, U.S., at the confluence of Roaring Fork and Colorado rivers. It lies in a canyon at an elevation of 5,758 feet (1,755 ...
Gleysol: one of the 30 soil groups in the classification system of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). Gleysols are formed under waterlogged conditions produced by rising groundwater. In the tropics ...
Glidden, Joseph Farwell: American inventor of the first commercially successful barbed wire, which was instrumental in transforming the Great Plains of western North America.
glider: nonpowered heavier-than-air craft capable of sustained flight. Though many men contributed to the development of the glider, the most famous pioneer was Otto Lilienthal (1848-96) of Germany, who, with his ...
glider: any of about six small phalangers-marsupial mammals of Australasia-that volplane from tree to tree like flying squirrels. Most have well-developed flaps of skin along the flanks; these become sails when ...
gliding: flight in an unpowered heavier-than-air craft. Any engineless aircraft, from the simplest hang glider to a space shuttle on its return flight to the Earth, is a glider. The glider ...
gliding bacterium: any member of a heterogeneous group of microorganisms that exhibit creeping or gliding forms of movement on solid substrata. Gliding bacteria are generally gram-negative and do not possess flagella. The ...
Gliere, Reinhold: Soviet composer noted for his works incorporating elements of the folk music of Russia, Ukraine, and surrounding republics.
Glikl of Hameln: German Jewish diarist whose seven books of memoirs (Zikhroynes), written in Yiddish with passages in Hebrew, reveal much about the history, culture, and everyday life of contemporary Jews in central ...
Glinka, Mikhail: the first Russian composer to win international recognition, and the acknowledged founder of the Russian nationalist school.
glioma: a cancerous growth or tumour composed of cells derived from neuroglial tissue, the material that supports and protects nerve cells. Gliomas may form in the retina of the eye, in ...
glissade: (French: "sliding"), in ballet, a sliding step beginning and ending in the fifth position (feet turned out and pressed closely together, the heel of the right foot against the toe ...
Glissant, Edouard: black French-speaking West Indian poet and novelist who belonged to the literary Africanism movement.
Gliwice: city, Slaskie wojewodztwo (province), southern Poland. An old settlement of Upper Silesia, Gliwice was chartered in 1276 and became capital of the Gliwice principality in 1312. It ...
global warming: an increase in global average surface temperature resulting from an increase in the amount of carbon dioxide, methane, and certain other trace gases in the atmosphere. These gases are known ...
globalization: the process by which the experience of everyday life, marked by the diffusion of commodities and ideas, can foster a standardization of cultural expressions around the world.
globe: sphere or ball that bears a map of the Earth on its surface and is mounted on an axle that permits rotation. The ancient Greeks, who knew the Earth to ...
Globe: city, seat (1881) of Gila county, east-central Arizona, U.S. It lies along Pinal Creek in the foothills between the Pinal and Apache mountains. Miami, its sister city, is 6 miles ...
globe amaranth: (Gomphrena globosa), ornamental garden plant of the family Amaranthaceae, native to the Old World tropics. Globe amaranth is a short annual with dense, cloverlike flower clusters that often are dried ...
Globe and Mail, The: daily newspaper published in Toronto, the most prestigious and influential journal in Canada.
Globe Theatre: famous London theatre in which after 1599 the plays of William Shakespeare were performed.