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goldenrod: any of about 100 species of weedy, usually perennial herbs that comprise the genus Solidago of the family Asteraceae. Most of them are native to North America, though a few ...
goldenseal: (species Hydrastis canadensis), perennial herb native to woods of the eastern United States. Its rootstocks have medicinal properties. The plant has a single greenish white flower, the sepals of which ...
goldentop: (species Lamarckia aurea), ornamental annual grass of the family Poaceae, native to the Mediterranean region and cultivated in gardens for its golden, tufted flower clusters. It grows as a weed ...
Goldenweiser, Alexander: American anthropologist whose analyses of cultural questions ranged widely, encompassing intellectual movements in psychology and psychoanalysis. In particular, he suggested that cultural diffusion is not a mechanical process but, rather, ...
goldeye: North American freshwater fish, a species of mooneye (q.v.).
Goldfaden, Abraham: Hebrew and Yiddish poet and playwright and originator of Yiddish theatre and opera.
Goldfield: mining ghost town, seat (1907) of Esmeralda county, southwestern Nevada, U.S., in desert country south of Tonopah. It was the site of a gold rush that began in 1902 and ...
goldfinch: any of several species of the genus Carduelis (some formerly in Spinus) of the songbird family Carduelidae (sometimes placed in the Ploceidae); they have short, notched tails and much yellow ...
goldfish: (Carassius auratus), ornamental aquarium and pond fish of the carp family (Cyprinidae) native to East Asia but introduced into many other areas. The goldfish resembles the carp (Cyprinus carpio) but ...
Goldhaber, Maurice: U.S. physicist whose contributions to nuclear physics include the discovery that the nucleus of the deuterium atom consists of a proton and a neutron.
Goldie, Sir George: British colonial administrator, organizer of a chartered company (1886) that established British rule on the Niger River, who was chiefly responsible for the development of northern Nigeria into an orderly ...
Golding, Louis: English novelist and essayist, an interpreter of British Jewish life.
Golding, Sir William: English novelist who in 1983 won the Nobel Prize for Literature for his parables of the human condition. He attracted a cult of followers, especially among the youth of the ...
Goldman, Emma: international anarchist who conducted leftist activities in the United States from about 1890 to 1917.
Goldman, Eric Frederick: American historian, author, and special advisor to President Lyndon B. Johnson from 1963 to 1966.
Goldmann, Nahum: Israeli Zionist leader who was an outspoken critic of Israeli policies.
Goldmark, Josephine Clara: American reformer whose research contributed to the enactment of labour legislation.
Goldmark, Karl: Austro-Hungarian composer whose opera Die Konigin von Saba ("The Queen of Sheba") was highly popular in the late 19th century.
Goldmark, Peter Carl: American engineer (naturalized 1937) who developed the first commercial colour-television system and the 33 13 revolutions-per-minute (rpm) long-playing (LP) phonograph record, which revolutionized the recording industry. Goldmark joined the Columbia ...
Goldoni, Carlo: prolific dramatist who renovated the well-established Italian commedia dell'arte dramatic form by replacing its masked stock figures with more realistic characters, its loosely structured and often repetitive action with tightly ...
Goldsboro: city, seat (1850) of Wayne county, east-central North Carolina, U.S. It is situated near the Neuse River about 50 miles (80 km) southeast of Raleigh. Settled in 1838, it was ...
Goldschmidt, Hans: German chemist who invented the alumino-thermic process (1905). Sometimes called the Goldschmidt reduction process, this operation involves reactions of oxides of certain metals with aluminum to yield aluminum oxide and ...
Goldschmidt, Meir Aron: Danish writer of Jewish descent whose work foreshadowed later Realism.
Goldschmidt, Richard B: German-born U.S. zoologist and geneticist, formulator of the theory that chromosome molecules are the more decisive factors in inheritance (rather than the qualities of the individual genes). His experimental work ...
Goldschmidt, Victor Mordechai: German mineralogist who made important studies of crystallography. His first major publication, Index der Kristallformen (3 vol., 1886-91; "Index of Crystal Forms"), was a catalog of the known forms of ...
Goldschmidt, Victor Moritz: Swiss-born Norwegian mineralogist and petrologist who laid the foundation of inorganic crystal chemistry and founded modern geochemistry.
Goldsmid, Sir Frederick John: major general in the British Army who, through negotiations with several Asian countries and supervision of a cross-continental construction project, made possible the Indo-European telegraph, the first rapid communication system ...
Goldsmid, Sir Isaac Lyon, 1st Baronet: financier, Britain's first Jewish baronet, whose work for Jewish emancipation in that nation made possible the passage of the Jewish Disabilities Bill of 1859, granting basic civil and political rights ...
Goldsmith, Oliver: English essayist, poet, novelist, dramatist, and eccentric, made famous by such works as the series of essays The Citizen of the World, or, Letters from a Chinese Philosopher (1762), the ...
Goldsmith, Raymond: Belgian-born economist who devised ways to measure wealth with such creations as balance sheets that tracked the flow of capital among various segments of the economy.
Goldstein, Eugen: German physicist known for his work on electrical phenomena in gases and on cathode rays; he is also credited with discovering canal rays.
Goldstein, Joseph L.: American molecular geneticist who, along with Michael S. Brown, was awarded the 1985 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for their elucidation of the process of cholesterol metabolism in the ...
Goldwater, Barry: U.S. senator from Arizona (1953-64, 1969-87) and Republican presidential candidate in 1964.
goldwork: sculpture, vessels, jewelry, ornamentation, and coinage made from gold.
Goldwyn, Samuel: pioneer American filmmaker and one of Hollywood's most prominent producers for more than 30 years.
golem: in Jewish folklore, an image endowed with life. The term is used in the Bible (Psalms 139:16) and in Talmudic literature to refer to an embryonic or incomplete substance. It ...
golf: pocket-billiards game named for its similarity to the original outdoor stick-and-ball game of golf. In the billiards version, each player tries to play an assigned object ball into the six ...
golf: a cross-country game in which a player strikes a small ball with various clubs from a series of starting points (teeing grounds) into a series of holes on a course. ...
Golfito: city, southern Costa Rica. It is located on sheltered El Golfito Inlet, off the Gulf of Dulce and surrounded by steep hills. The heavy rainfall supports a tropical rain forest ...
Golgi, Camillo: Italian physician and cytologist whose investigations into the fine structure of the nervous system earned him (with the Spanish histologist Santiago Ramon y Cajal) the 1906 Nobel Prize for Physiology ...
Golgotha: (from Latin calva: "bald head," or "skull"), skull-shaped hill in Jerusalem, the site of Jesus' Crucifixion. It is referred to in all four Gospels. The hill of execution was outside ...
Goliad: historic city, seat (1837) of Goliad county, southern Texas, U.S., near the San Antonio River, 85 miles (137 km) southeast of San Antonio and 80 miles (129 km) north of ...
goliard: any of the wandering students and clerics in medieval England, France, and Germany, remembered for their satirical verses and poems in praise of drinking and debauchery. The goliards described themselves ...
Goliath: (c. 11th century BC), in the Bible (I Sam. xvii), the Philistine giant slain by David, who thereby achieved renown. The Philistines had come up to make war against Saul, ...
Golitsyn, Boris Alekseyevich: Russian statesman who played a major role during the early years of the reign of Peter I the Great (ruled 1682-1725).
Golitsyn, Boris Borisovich, Knyaz: Russian physicist known for his work on methods of earthquake observations and on the construction of seismographs.
Golitsyn, Dmitry Mikhaylovich, Knyaz: (Prince) Russian statesman who unsuccessfully tried to transform the Russian autocracy into a constitutional monarchy.
Golitsyn, Vasily Vasilyevich, Knyaz: (Prince) Russian statesman who was the chief adviser to Sophia Alekseyevna and dominated Russian foreign policy during her regency (1682-89).
Gollancz, Sir Victor: British publisher, writer, and humanitarian who championed such causes as socialism and pacifism while managing a highly successful publishing business.
Golmud: town in central Tsinghai sheng (province), western China. Golmud is an important highway centre, standing at the intersection of two ancient routes, which have in recent times become modern highways. ...
Golovin, Fyodor Alekseyevich, Count: (Graf) Russian statesman and diplomat who served prominently during the reign (1682-1725) of Peter I the Great of Russia.
Golovkin, Gavriil Ivanovich, Count: (Graf) Russian statesman and diplomat who was a close associate of Peter I the Great (reigned 1682-1725) and became Russia's first state chancellor.
Golovnin, Vasily Mikhaylovich: Russian naval officer and seafarer.
Goltz, Colmar, Baron von der: Prussian soldier, military teacher, and writer, an imperial German field marshal who reorganized the Turkish army (1883-96) and who served as commander in chief of Turkish forces against the British ...
Goltz, Rudiger, Count von der: German army officer who, at the end of World War I, tried unsuccessfully to build a German-controlled Baltikum in Latvia, in order to prevent domination of that country by Soviet ...
Goltzius, Hendrik: printmaker and painter, the leading figure of the Mannerist school of Dutch engravers.
Golubnichy, Vladimir: Soviet race walker who won four Olympic medals and dominated the 20-kilometre (12.43-mile) walk in the 1960s and '70s.
Goluchowski, Agenor, Count: (Graf) foreign minister of Austria (1895-1906) who negotiated the Austro-Russian agreement of 1897, which became the basis for a decade-long detente between the two powers.
Goluchowski, Agenor, Count: (Graf) conservative Polish aristocrat and statesman who as Austria's minister of the interior (or minister of state; August 1859-December 1860) was one of the principal authors of the "October diploma" ...
Gomarist: follower of the Dutch Calvinist theologian Franciscus Gomarus (1563-1641), who upheld the theological position known as supralapsarianism, which claimed that God is not the author of sin yet accepted the ...
Gomarus, Franciscus: Calvinist theologian and university professor whose disputes with his more liberal colleague Jacobus Arminius over the doctrine of predestination led the entire Dutch Reformed Church into controversy.
Gomati River: tributary of the Ganges River, central Uttar Pradesh, northern India. It rises in northern Uttar Pradesh about 32 miles (51 km) east of Pilibhit and is intermittent for the first ...
Gombe: town and traditional emirate, southeastern Bauchi state, northeastern Nigeria. Gombe emirate was founded in 1804 by Buba Yero (Abubakar), a follower of the Muslim Fulani leader Usman dan Fodio. The ...
Gomberg, Moses: Russian-born American chemist who initiated the study of free radicals in chemistry when in 1900 he prepared the first authentic one, triphenylmethyl.
Gombert, Nicolas: one of the leading Flemish composers of the Renaissance, whose work forms a link between that of the two masters Josquin des Prez and Palestrina.
Gombos, Gyula: Hungarian premier (1932-36) who was known for his reactionary and anti-Semitic views and who was largely responsible for the trend to fascism in Hungary in the interwar period.
Gombrich, Sir Ernst Hans Josef: Austrian-born art historian who was one of the field's greatest popularizers, introducing art to a wide audience through his best-known book, The Story of Art (1950; 16th ...
Gombroon ware: in Islamic ceramics, pierced white pottery and porcelain dating from the 18th century and noted for its colourless glaze and delicate texture, seeming more like glass than porcelain. Simple patterns ...
Gombrowicz, Witold: Polish novelist and playwright whose works were forerunners of the Theatre of the Absurd.
Gomel: (city and province, Belarus): see Homel.
Gomera: island, Santa Cruz de Tenerife provincia (province), Canary Islands comunidad autonoma (autonomous community), Spain, one of the Canary Islands in the North Atlantic Ocean. ...
Gomes, Diogo: Portuguese explorer sent by Prince Henry the Navigator to investigate the West African coast about 1456.
Gomez de Avellaneda, Gertrudis: Cuban playwright and poet who is considered one of the foremost Romantic writers of the 19th century and one of the greatest women poets.
Gomez de la Serna, Ramon: Spanish writer whose greguerias, brief poetic statements characterized by a free association of words, ideas, and objects, had a significant influence on avant-garde literature in Europe and Latin America.
Gomez Farias, Valentin: the leader of Mexican liberalism in the mid-19th century, notable for his social reforms of 1833-34, which earned him the enmity of the clergy, the army, and the gentry. After ...
Gomez Palacio: former city, now a suburb of Torreon (to the southeast across the Rio Nazas), northeastern Durango state, north central Mexico. It is an important agricultural and industrial centre in the ...