any member of the division Gnetophyta, a small group of vascular gymnospermous plants that are represented by three genera: Ephedra, Gnetum, and Welwitschia. There ...
in European folklore, dwarfish, subterranean goblin or earth spirit who guards mines of precious treasures hidden in the earth. He is represented in medieval mythologies as a small, physically deformed ...
aphoristic verse containing short, memorable statements of traditional wisdom and morality. The Greek word gnome means "moral aphorism" or "proverb." Its form may be either imperative, as in the famous ...
philosophical and religious movement prominent in the Greco-Roman world in the 2nd century AD. While Gnosticism drew from and influenced in turn many traditional religions, its effect was most clearly ...
(from the Greek meaning "known life"), condition of life in which only known kinds of organisms are present. Gnotobiotic organisms are of two major types: germfree, that is, free of ...
board game for two players. Of East Asian origin, it is popular in China, Korea, and especially Japan, the country with which it is most closely identified. Go, probably the ...
state of India. Comprising a mainland district on the country's western coast and an offshore island, it is located 250 miles (400 kilometres) south of Bombay. It is bounded by ...
Indian people of the Guajira Peninsula in northern Colombia and adjacent Venezuela. Numbering about 127,000 in the late 20th century, they speak an Arawakan language and are linguistically and culturally ...
town, central Bangladesh. It is situated near the confluence of the Padma and Jamuna rivers. Goalundo Ghat is linked by road with Faridpur and Kushtia and is an important river-steamer ...
any ruminant and hollow-horned mammal belonging to the genus Capra. Related to the sheep, the goat is lighter of build, has horns that arch backward, a short tail, and straighter ...
(species Aruncus dioicus or A. sylvester), herbaceous perennial plant, of the rose family (Rosaceae), native to the North Temperate Zone. It occurs most commonly in rich woods, especially in mountainous ...
alternative name of birds of the family Caprimulgidae, otherwise known as nightjars (q.v.). The name goatsucker is sometimes applied to the order, Caprimulgiform.
town, eastern Namibia. It lies on the edge of the Kalahari (Desert) on the intermittent Black Nossob River at an elevation of 4,740 feet (1,445 m). It is a rail ...
Swiss politician, administrator, philanthropist, and author, cowinner of the Nobel Prize for Peace in 1902. He shared the prize with Elie Ducommun (d. 1906), whom he succeeded as director of ...
archbishop of Paris whose resignation doomed him to association with the Hebertists, followers of the extremist journalist Jacques-Rene Hebert, who, during the French Revolution, pursued an anti-Christian policy in a ...
French family of dyers and clothmakers whose factory became world-famous for its tapestries. Jehan Gobelin who ran a factory in the Faubourg Saint-Marcel just southeast of Paris, discovered a scarlet ...
great desert and semidesert region of Central Asia. The Gobi (from Mongolian gobi, meaning "waterless place") stretches across huge portions of both Mongolia and China. Contrary to the perhaps romantic ...
(count of) French diplomat, writer, ethnologist, and social thinker whose theory of racial determinism had an enormous influence upon the subsequent development of racist theories and practices in western Europe.
in Western folklore, a wandering sprite that is usually mischievous but often malicious. Goblins supposedly live in grottoes but attach themselves to households, where they are believed to bang upon ...
rare species of shark belonging to the family Mitsukurinidae (order Lamniformes). Only one extant species (Mitsukurina owstoni) is known, on the basis of a few specimens, although fossils of extinct ...
any of the more than 800 species of fishes of the suborder Gobioidei (order Perciformes). Gobies are carnivorous, usually small in size, and found throughout the world. Especially abundant in ...
religious sect founded in 1896 by Prophet William S. Crowdy. He passed his mantle of leadership to Bishop William Plummer, who announced himself as "Grand Father Abraham." This group believes ...
one of the two national anthems of New Zealand (the other being God Save the Queen, national anthem of the United Kingdom). The words to the anthem were written in ...
British royal and national anthem. The origin of both the words and the music is obscure. The many candidates for authorship include John Bull (c. 1562-1628), Thomas Ravenscroft (c. 1583-c. ...
any of several Pentecostal churches that developed in the U.S. South from the late 19th- and early 20th-century Latter Rain revival, based on a belief that a second rain of ...
Christian fellowship that considers itself a "reformation movement" among Christians and not a church or sect; it accepts its title for identification purposes only. Its members believe that they have ...
in Christianity, the spiritual realm over which God reigns as king, or the fulfillment on Earth of God's will. The phrase occurs frequently in the New Testament, primarily used by ...
a measure by the medieval Roman Catholic Church to suspend warfare during certain days of the week and during the period of certain church festivals and Lent.
pilgrimage centre, western Madhya Pradesh state, central India. It lies along the Narmada River southeast of Indore. Godarpura has noted Saivite, Vaisnavite, and Jaina temples, mostly of the 14th and ...
sacred river of central India. It rises in the Western Ghats 50 miles (80 km) from the Arabian Sea and flows generally eastward across the Deccan Plateau, along the Maharashtra-Andhra ...
lord chief justice of England from 1946 to 1958. Seldom lenient but always respectful of legal proprieties, he set a valuable example to the lower judiciary in controlling the crime ...
American professor and inventor generally acknowledged to be the father of modern rocketry. He published his classic treatise, A Method of Reaching Extreme Altitudes, in 1919.
important Belgian Romanesque goldsmith and enamelist of the Mosan school. Little is known of his life, but he seems to have been most active in the service of the abbot ...
distinguished French family of legal scholars and historians. Denis I Godefroy, called Denis the Old (1549-1621), was a Protestant who for that reason lived in exile in Switzerland and Germany. ...
Austrian-born U.S. mathematician, logician, and author of Godel's proof, which states that within any rigidly logical mathematical system there are propositions (or questions) that cannot be proved or disproved on ...
British tennis player, a dominant figure in women's tennis in the 1920s who won two singles titles at the All-England Championships at Wimbledon, five doubles titles in Grand Slam events, ...
Danish Godfred, or Gudfred king in Denmark who halted the northward extension of Charlemagne's empire. He may have ruled over all Denmark, but his centre of power was in the ...
duke of Lower Lorraine (as Godfrey IV; 1089-1100) and a leader of the First Crusade, who became the first Latin ruler in Palestine after the capture of Jerusalem from the ...
French Aristotelian philosopher and theologian prominent in the medieval controversy over faith versus reason that dominated the intellectual life of the University of Paris, then the academic centre of the ...
French monk, philosopher, theologian, and poet whose writings summarized an early medieval Christian Humanism that strove to classify areas of knowledge, to integrate distinctive methods of learning, and to recognize ...
U.S. radio and television entertainer widely popular in the 1940s and '50s, whose many broadcast programs launched the careers of numerous popular singers and other entertainers.
English magistrate whose death, allegedly at the hands of Roman Catholics, touched off a wave of anti-Catholic hysteria that shook the government of King Charles II.
town, administrative headquarters of Panch Mahals district, northeastern Gujarat state, west central India. Godhra is a road and rail junction and a commercial centre for timber and agricultural produce. Industries ...
suburb immediately south of the city of Mendoza in northern Mendoza provincia (province), western Argentina. Originally an agricultural oasis supplying wine grapes, fruit, potatoes, and alfalfa, Godoy ...
Spanish royal favourite and twice prime minister, whose disastrous foreign policy contributed to a series of misfortunes and defeats that culminated in the abdication of King Charles IV and the ...
one who stands surety for another in the rite of Christian baptism. In the modern baptism of an infant or child the godparent or godparents make profession of faith for ...
Russian statesman who was chief adviser to Tsar Fyodor I (reigned 1584-98) and was himself elected tsar of Muscovy (reigning 1598-1605) after the extinction of the Rurik dynasty. His reign ...
British architect, designer, and writer notable for his contributions to the English Aesthetic movement in design, which drew its inspiration mainly from East Asia, particularly from Japan.
bishop and historian who wrote the first story of space travel in English literature, The Man in the Moone: or A Discourse of a Voyage Thither by Domingo Gonsales, the ...
social philosopher, political journalist, and religious dissenter who anticipated the English Romantic literary movement with his writings advancing atheism, anarchism, and personal freedom.
any of four species of large, long-billed shorebirds of the genus Limosa, family Scolopacidae, named for its whistling call. Godwits are generally reddish brown in summer and grayish in winter; ...
minister of propaganda for the German Third Reich under Adolf Hitler, generally accounted responsible for presenting a favourable image of the Nazi regime to the German people.
German botanist whose Organographie der Pflanzen (1898-1901; Organography of Plants, 1900-05) clarified the principles of the science of plant morphology in relation to form and structure.
