Iranian singer and actress who was one of Iran's most popular and enduring entertainers despite being banned from performing for some 20 years following the Iranian Revolution (1978-79).
town, unitary authority of East Riding of Yorkshire, historic county of Yorkshire, England. Situated at the confluence of the Rivers Don and Ouse, it is the most westerly port of ...
town, southeastern South Australia, near the mouth of the Murray River, 40 mi (65 km) southeast of Adelaide. It is located on the Goolwa Channel, which is crossed by a ...
town, southern Queensland, Australia, on the Macintyre River and the Queensland-New South Wales border. It was proclaimed a town in 1888, its name coming from an Aboriginal word meaning "resting ...
any of various large, heavy-bodied waterfowl intermediate in size and build between large ducks and the swans, especially those of the genera Anser (so-called gray geese) and Branta (so-called black ...
fruit bush of the Northern Hemisphere, frequently placed in the genus Ribes, along with the currant, in the family Saxifragaceae; some taxonomic systems assign exclusively to the gooseberry the generic ...
any of about 12 species of anglerfishes of the family Lophiidae (order Lophiiformes), found in warm and temperate seas around the world. Goosefishes are soft and flabby with wide, flattened ...
any of several salt-tolerant plant species belonging to the genus Chenopodium, in the goosefoot family, Chenopodiaceae. They are weedy, rank-smelling plants of wide distribution. Some of the species in the ...
city, Baden-Wurttemberg Land (state), southwestern Germany. It lies at the foot of the Swabian Alp, on the Fils River, southeast of Stuttgart. Founded about 1150 by the ...
in South Indian architecture, the entrance gateway to the Hindu temple enclosure. Relatively small in the earlier period, the gopuras grew in size from the mid-12th century until the colossal ...
Hindu master yogi, commonly regarded as the founder of the Kanphata yogis, an order of ascetics that stresses the physical and spiritual disciplines of Hatha Yoga.
town, southeastern Uttar Pradesh state, northern India. It lies along the Rapti River, at the junction of several roads and rail lines. Embankments built along the river protect the town ...
(species Nemorhaedus goral), a small Asiatic goatlike mammal of the family Bovidae (order Artiodactyla). The goral has slightly backward-curving, cylindrical horns and a coarse, brownish gray coat. It is a ...
town, southeastern Bosnia and Herzegovina, on the Drina River. It is an industrial town surrounded by fruit-producing farmlands. The site of a munitions factory, it also was of strategic importance ...
Soviet official, the general secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) from 1985 to 1991 and president of the Soviet Union in 1990-91. His efforts to democratize ...
(Knyaz) statesman who served as Russia's foreign minister during the quarter century following the Crimean War (1853-56), when Russia was trying to regain its stature as a powerful European nation.
(Knyaz) Russian military officer and statesman who played a major role in the Crimean War (1853-56) and served as the Russian viceroy in Poland (1856-61).
Roman emperor who ruled jointly for three weeks in March-April 238 with his father, Gordian I. He was killed in a battle with Capellianus, governor of Numidia.
knot that gave its name to a proverbial term for a problem solvable only by bold action. In 333 BC, Alexander the Great, on his march through Anatolia, reached Gordium, ...
ancient Anatolian city, the ruins of which, along the banks of the Sakarya (ancient Sangarius) River, northwestern Turkey, have yielded important information about ancient Phrygian culture. American excavations after 1950 ...
river in southwestern Tasmania, Australia. The Gordon River rises from Lake Richmond in the King William Range of the central highlands and flows southeast around a great bend to the ...
American race-car driver who dominated the sport in the 1990s and early 2000s. His aggressive driving style and knack for publicity helped popularize stock-car racing in the United States.
Confederate military leader and post-American Civil War politician who symbolized the shift from agrarian to commercial ideals in the Reconstruction South.
Jewish poet, essayist, and novelist, the leading poet of the Hebrew Enlightenment (Haskala), whose use of biblical and postbiblical Hebrew resulted in a new and influential style of Hebrew-language poetry.
American lawyer, editor, and reformer, one of the first women in the American West to speak and campaign for women's rights, who also pioneered in professions normally reserved for men.
American writer whose novels and short fiction deal with growing up as a Roman Catholic and with the nature of goodness and piety as expressed within that tradition.
American astronaut who accompanied Charles Conrad on the September 1966 flight of Gemini 11. They docked with an Agena target on the first orbit and were propelled together to a ...
American writer and actress who achieved award-winning acclaim in both pursuits. Much of her writing was done in collaboration with her second husband, Garson Kanin.
any of various trees in the genus Gordonia of the tea family (Theaceae). The genus is native to North America and East Asia and includes the loblolly bay and other ...
American businessman, founder of the Motown Record Corporation (1959), the most successful black-owned music company in the United States. Through Motown, he developed the majority of the great rhythm-and-blues performers ...
45th vice president of the United States (1993-2001) in the Democratic administration of President Bill Clinton. In the 2000 presidential election, one of the most controversial elections in American history, ...
English theologian, Anglican bishop, and an exponent of the liberal tendency within the Anglo-Catholic movement. He demonstrated a willingness to accept historical criticism of the Bible.
small island just south of Cape Verde Peninsula, Senegal, that was the site of one of the earliest European settlements in Western Africa and long served as an outpost for ...
American contract bridge authority whose innovative system of point-count bidding and repeated successes in tournaments made him one of the world's most famous and influential players.
American writer, illustrator, and designer, noted for his arch humour and gothic sensibility. Gorey drew a pen-and-ink world of beady-eyed, blank-faced individuals whose dignified Edwardian demeanour is undercut by silly ...
town, north-central, Iran. It is situated along a small tributary of the Qareh River, 23 miles (37 km) from the Caspian Sea. The town, in existence since Achaemenian times, long ...
monster figure in Greek mythology. Homer spoke of a single Gorgon-a monster of the underworld. The later Greek poet Hesiod increased the number of Gorgons to three-Stheno (the Mighty), Euryale ...
town, Milano provincia, Lombardy regione, northern Italy, northeast of Milan city. The town is famous for the making of Gorgonzola cheese, which is soft when freshly made; after being drained ...
city, administrative centre of Gori rayon (sector), Georgia, on the Kura River. Gori is one of the oldest cities in Georgia, founded in the 7th century AD as Tontio. Before ...
largest of the apes and the closest living relative to humans, with the exception of the chimpanzee. Gorillas live only in tropical forests of equatorial Africa. Most authorities recognize a ...
a leader of the Nazi Party and one of the primary architects of the Nazi police state in Germany. He was condemned to hang as a war criminal by the ...
capital of Gorizia provincia, Friuli-Venezia Giulia regione, northeastern Italy, on the Isonzo River north of Trieste. From the 11th century Gorizia was the seat of the independent county of Gorizia ...
judet (county), southwestern Romania, occupying an area of 2,178 square miles (5,641 square km). The Transylvanian Alps (Southern Carpathians) and the sub-Carpathians rise above settlement areas in the valleys and ...
American painter, important as the direct link between the European Surrealist painters and the painters of the American Abstract Expressionist movement.
Russian short-story writer and novelist who first attracted attention with his naturalistic and sympathetic stories of tramps and social outcasts and later wrote other stories, novels, and plays, including his ...
city, Saxony Land (state), extreme eastern Germany. It lies along the Neisse River, opposite the Polish town of Zgorzelec (which before 1945 was part of Gorlitz), east ...
city and administrative centre of Altay republic, southern Russia. It lies in the foothills of the Altai Mountains, along the Mayma River near its confluence with the Katun. Gorno-Altaysk is ...
town, east-central Papua New Guinea. Proclaimed a town in 1953, Goroka is a centre of European settlement in the central highlands. It has an airport and also lies on the ...
American physician who discovered the cold-air process of refrigeration as the result of experiments to lower the temperature of fever patients by cooling hospital rooms.
outstanding Dutch poet of the 1880 literary revival, a movement nourished by aesthetic and "art for art's sake" ideals. Gorter's early poetry, with its sensuous imagery and alluring air of ...
statesman who, as prime minister of Australia (1968-71), maintained his country's military commitment in Vietnam and expanded the role of the federal government in education, science, and taxation.
ancient Greek city toward the western end of the southern plain (Mesara) of Crete (near modern Ayioi Dheka). Although unimportant in Minoan times, Gortyn displaced Phaestus as the dominant city ...
in Japanese religion, vengeful spirits of the dead. In the Heian period (AD 794-1185) goryo were generally considered to be spirits of nobility who had died as ...
