| | - Gissing, George
- English novelist, noted for the unflinching realism of his novels about the lower middle class.
- Gist, Christopher
- American colonial explorer and military scout who wrote highly informative journals describing his experiences. [1 Related Articles]
- Gisu
- (from the article "Elgon, Mount") The Bantu-speaking Gishu (Gisu), cultivators of coffee, bananas, millet, and corn (maize), occupy the western slopes. Elgonyi was the Masai name for the mountain. The Scottish explorer Joseph Thomson visited ...
- gisu
- (from the article "elopiform") ...are fast-swimming predators with adult lengths of up to 2.5 metres (approximately eight feet) in tarpons and about one metre (three feet, three inches) in ladyfishes. The bonefish and Japanese ...
- Gisulph II
- 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. [1 Related Articles]
- Gitagovinda
- (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 ... [3 Related Articles]
- Gitano
- (from the article "Spain") The one ethnic minority of long standing in Spain is the Roma (Gypsies), who are known in Spain as Gitanos. Their traditional language is Calo. Many of them have assimilated ...
- Gitega
- 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 ...
- Githmark, Linn
- (from the article "Curling") ...junior curling championship held in March in Trois-Rivieres, Que., Niklas Edin edged Switzerland's Stefan Rindlisbacher 5-4 to give Sweden its first junior gold since 1989. Norway's Linn Githmark defeated Canada's ...
- Githongo, John
- (from the article "Kenya") ...was still subject to bribery. Early in the year Sir Edward Clay, the U.K. high commissioner in Nairobi, renewed his verbal attacks on government corruption. His remarks resonated on February ...
- Gitksan
- (from the article "Athabaskan language family") ...and h&schwa;da 'moose' were borrowed from the Carrier kw'&schwa;ts'&schwa;zda and the Sekani x&schwa;da, respectively. Gitksan, a Tsimshianic language spoken to the west, contributed xwts'a:n ...
- gitoxin
- (from the article "steroid") The most important cardiac glycosides, medicinally, are those occurring in foxglove (Digitalis): digitoxin, gitoxin, and digoxin. Each of these contains a specific aglycone (e.g., digitoxigenin [23] is the aglycone of ...
- gittern
- either of two medieval stringed musical instruments, the guitarra latina and the guitarra morisca. The latter was also known as the guitarra saracenica.
- Giuffre, Jimmy
- American jazz woodwind player and composer experimented with jazz sounds and structures and, with a series of combos named the Jimmy Giuffre Three, pioneered chamber jazz-at first in an original, ...
- Giulia, Via
- (from the article "Bramante, Donato") About 1508, when Julius II's new city plan for Rome began to be put into effect, Bramante played an important role as architect and town planner. Within the framework of ...
- Giulia, Villa
- (from the article "Western architecture") Increasingly, architecture, sculpture, and walled gardens came to be regarded as part of a complex (but not unified) whole. In the Villa Giulia (c. 1550-55), the most significant secular project ...
- Giuliani, Giovanni
- (from the article "Western sculpture") Among sculptors in Austria the forces of Classicism were stronger; and the weak north Italian late Baroque styles of Giovanni Giuliani and Lorenzo Mattielli were supplanted by the cool elegance ...
- Giuliani, Rudolph W.
- American lawyer and politician who was mayor of New York City from 1994 to 2002. [5 Related Articles]
- Giulini, Carlo Maria
- Italian conductor esteemed for his skills in directing both grand opera and symphony orchestras. [1 Related Articles]
- Giulio Romano
- late Renaissance painter and architect, the principal heir of Raphael, and one of the initiators of the Mannerist style. [10 Related Articles]
- Giunta Pisano
- Italian painter, a native of Pisa and a pioneer who, coming from Tuscany to Assisi, influenced the development of Umbrian art.
- Giurgiu
- 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, ...
- Giurgiu
- 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 ... [1 Related Articles]
- Giusti, Giuseppe
- 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 ... [1 Related Articles]
- Giv'atayim
- 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 ...
- give-and-go
- (from the article "Lapchick, Joe") ...Invitational Tournaments (nit; 1943-44, 1959, 1965). From 1947 to 1956 he was coach of the National Basketball Association New York Knickerbockers. Lapchick popularized the give-and-go play in ...
- giveaway
- (from the article "Native American religions") Generosity, in the Native American tradition, is a religious act as well as a social one. The value of generosity is perhaps most dramatically figured in the northern practice known ...
- given name
- (from the article "name") ...later in America), normally at Baptism. This is called either simply the name, the baptismal or Christian name, or the forename; in the United States and Canada it is usually ...
- Givenchy, Hubert de
- French fashion designer noted for his couture and ready-to-wear designs, especially those he created for the actress Audrey Hepburn.
- Givens, Robin
- (from the article "Tyson, Mike") ...promoter Don King. He made 10 successful defenses of his world heavyweight title, including victories over former champions Larry Holmes and Michael Spinks. In 1988 Tyson married actress Robin Givens, ...
- Giverny
- (from the article "Monet, Claude") In 1883 Monet, Hoschede, her children, and Monet's sons, Jean and Michel, settled at Giverny, a hamlet near Vernon, 52 miles (84 km) from Paris, on the tiny Epte River. ...
- Givetian Stage
- uppermost of the two standard worldwide divisions of Middle Devonian rocks and time. Givetian time spans the interval between 391.8 million and 385.3 million years ago. It was named for ... [1 Related Articles]
- Giyani
- town, Limpopo province, South Africa. It was the capital of Gazankulu, a former nonindependent Bantustan. Giyani is located on the northern bank of the Klein (Little) Letaba River west of ...
- Giza, Pyramids of
- three 4th-dynasty (c. 2575-c. 2465 BCE) pyramids erected on a rocky plateau on the west bank of the Nile River near Al-Jizah (Giza) in northern Egypt. In ancient times they ... [7 Related Articles]
- Gizenga, Antoine
- (from the article "Congo, Democratic Republic of the") Area: 2,344,858 sq km (905,355 sq mi) | Population (2007 est.): 62,636,000 | Capital: Kinshasa | Head of state: President Joseph Kabila | Head of government:Prime Minister Antoine Gizenga ...
- Gizikis, Gen. Phaedon
- Greek army officer who briefly served as the figurehead president of Greece after a military coup in 1973 overthrew the junta led by Pres. Georgios Papadopoulos (q.v.); within months Gizikis, ...
- gizzard
- 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 ... [1 Related Articles]
- gizzard shad
- (from the article "shad") The gizzard shads (Dorosoma), of both marine waters and freshwaters, have a muscular stomach and filamentous last dorsal fin rays. The Atlantic species (D. cepedianum), also called hickory shad and ...
- Gjallarhorn
- (from the article "Heimdall") ...the rainbow bridge. He required less sleep than a bird, could see 100 leagues, and could hear grass growing in the meadows and wool growing on sheep. Heimdall kept the ...
- Gjellerup, Karl Adolph
- Danish poet and novelist who shared the 1917 Nobel Prize for Literature with his compatriot Henrik Pontoppidan.
- Gjirokaster
- town, 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. The ... [1 Related Articles]
- Glaber, Radulfus
- 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.
- Glabrio, Manius Acilius
- (from the article "Cato, Marcus Porcius") ...(Lex Oppia). Then, in an extensive and bitter military campaign, he stamped out an insurrection in Spain and organized the province of Nearer Spain. In 191 Cato served with distinction ...
- Glace Bay
- former 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 ...
- glaceed fruit
- (from the article "food preservation") Candied and glaceed fruits are made by slow impregnation of the fruit with syrup until the concentration of sugar in the tissue is sufficiently high to prevent growth of spoilage ...
- glacial control theory
- (from the article "Daly, Reginald Aldworth") ...he became professor of geology at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, in 1907, his travels took him to Hawaii and Samoa. From his studies of those islands came his theory ...
- glacial earthquake
- (from the article "Earth Sciences") ...rather than millennia. In the second report Goran Ekstrom of Harvard University and colleagues studied the motion of glaciers in Greenland by means of global seismic records of "glacial earthquakes," ...
- glacial erosion
- (from the article "Quaternary") ...left a distinctive imprint on modern landscapes and surface environments. The most distinguishing characteristics of the Quaternary in middle and high latitudes are glacial sediments and evidence of glacial erosion.
- glacial geology
- (from the article "geology") Glacial geology can be regarded as a branch of geomorphology, though it is such a large area of research that it stands as a distinct subdiscipline within the geologic sciences. ...
- glacial groove
- (from the article "glacial landform") ...cross sections are often semicircular to parabolic, and their walls are commonly striated parallel to their long axis, indicating that ice once flowed in them. Straight P-forms are frequently called ...
- glacial lake
- (from the article "Lake Clark National Park and Preserve") Lake Clark is more than 40 miles (65 km) long and is the largest of more than a score of glacial lakes on the rim of the Chigmit Mountains, a ...
- glacial landform
- 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, ...
- glacial pothole
- (from the article "lake") ...formed by water movement in tunnels beneath the ice masses, and lake basins formed by thawing in permafrost. An interesting example of glacial action is the formation of giant's kettles; ...
- glacial quarrying
- (from the article "glacial landform") Several other processes of glacial erosion are generally included under the terms glacial plucking or quarrying. This process involves the removal of larger pieces of rock from the glacier bed. ...
- glacial scour
- (from the article "lake") Ice sheets moving over relatively level surfaces have produced large numbers of small lake basins through scouring in many areas. This type of glacial rock basin contains what are known ...
- glacial stage
- 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 ... [2 Related Articles]
- glacial stairway
- (from the article "river") Other features that may result from glaciation include glacial potholes and glacial steps. The former are thought to originate principally as a result of the plastic flow of ice at ...
- glacial valley
- stream valley that has been glaciated, usually to a typical catenary, or U-shaped, cross section. U-shaped valleys occur in many parts of the world and are characteristic features of mountain ... [1 Related Articles]
- glaciation
- (from the article "Glaciations and interglaciations") 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, ...
- glaciation limit
- (from the article "glacial landform") In the cold, or periglacial (near-glacial), areas adjacent to and beyond the limit of glaciers, a zone of intense freeze-thaw activity produces periglacial features and landforms. This happens because of ...
- glacier
- 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. [26 Related Articles]
- Glacier Bay
- 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 ... [1 Related Articles]
- Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve
- 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, ... [1 Related Articles]
- glacier breeze
- (from the article "breeze") ...valley (mountain breeze). Usually light, a mountain breeze may become a violent, gusty wind when it is funnelled through a narrow gorge into which cold air has drained from many ...
- glacier cave
- (from the article "cave") These are long tunnels formed near the snouts of glaciers between the glacial ice and the underlying bedrock. Meltwater from the surface of a glacier drains downward through crevasses, which ...
- glacier flood
- (from the article "glacier") Glacier outburst floods, or jokulhlaups, can be spectacular or even catastrophic. These happen when drainage within a glacier is blocked by internal plastic flow and water is stored in or ...
- glacier flow
- (from the article "glacier") In the accumulation area the mass balance is positive year after year. Here the glacier would become thicker and thicker were it not for the compensating flow of ice away ...
- glacier fluctuation
- (from the article "glacier") ...flow propagates down-glacier, taking some finite amount of time. When the change arrives at the terminus, it causes the margin of the glacier to extend farther downstream. The result is ...
- Glacier National Park
- 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 ...
- Glacier National Park
- 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 ... [2 Related Articles]
- glaciolacustrine deposit
- (from the article "glacial landform") Glacial and proglacial lakes are found in a variety of environments and in considerable numbers. Erosional lake basins have already been mentioned, but many lakes are formed as streams are ...
- glaciology
- 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 ... [3 Related Articles]
- glacis
- (from the article "military technology") ...for protection against escalade, were dropped into the ground behind a ditch and protected from battery by gradually sloping earthen ramparts beyond. A further refinement was the sloping of the ...
- Glackens, William J.
- 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. [1 Related Articles]
- Gladbeck
- 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 ...
- Gladden, Washington
- American Congregational minister, crusading journalist, author, and prominent early advocate of the Social Gospel movement.
- gladiator
- 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 ... [3 Related Articles]
- gladiator bug
- any of approximately 15 species of insects found only in certain regions of Africa, the common name of which is derived from their stout appearance and predatory behaviour. These insects ...
- Gladiatorial War
- (from the article "Spartacus") leader in the Gladiatorial War (73-71) against Rome.
- Gladiolus
- 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, ... [2 Related Articles]
- gladius
- (from the article "military technology") ...to be relatively short, at first because they were made of bronze and later because they were rarely called upon to penetrate iron armour. The blade of the classic Roman ...
- Gladkov, Fyodor Vasilyevich
- 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 ... [1 Related Articles]
- Gladstone
- 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 ...
- Gladstone Committee
- (from the article "Ruggles-Brise, Sir Evelyn") Appointed prison commissioner in 1895 (a position he held until 1921), he had the duty of applying the recommendations of the Gladstone Committee. The committee held that offenders between 16 ...
- Gladstone, Herbert John Gladstone, 1st Viscount
- English statesman, son of William Ewart Gladstone; he was the first governor general and high commissioner of the Union of South Africa.
- Gladstone, William Ewart
- statesman and four-time prime minister of Great Britain (1868-74, 1880-85, 1886, 1892-94). [27 Related Articles]
- Gladwyn, Hubert Miles Gladwyn Jebb
- BARON, British diplomat (b. April 25, 1900, Firbeck Hall, Yorkshire, Eng.--d. Oct. 24, 1996, Halesworth, Suffolk, Eng.), helped draft the Charter of the United Nations and in 1950 became Great ...
- Gladys Porter Zoo
- 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 ...
- Glagolitic alphabet
- 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 ... [4 Related Articles]
- Glaisher, James
- (from the article "weather forecasting") ...in estimating surface atmospheric pressure patterns undoubtedly caused 19th-century forecasters to seek information about the upper atmosphere for possible explanations. The British meteorologist Glaisher made a series of ascents by ...
- glam rock
- 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 ... [2 Related Articles]
- Glamis
- 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, ...
- Glamis, Sir Thomas Lyon, Master of
- (from the article "Angus, Archibald Douglas, 8th Earl of, Earl Of Morton") ...fell in 1581 Angus was declared guilty of high treason for supporting him and fled to London. After a brief reconciliation with James VI he joined the rebellion of the ...
- Glamorgan
- 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 ... [2 Related Articles]
- Glamorganshire Canal
- (from the article "Cardiff") Cardiff's expansion stemmed from the development of coal and iron ore mines around Merthyr Tydfil, to the north, beginning in the second half of the 18th century. In 1794 the ...
- glance pitch
- (from the article "Bitumens") Asphaltites are commonly classified into three groups: Gilsonite (or uintaite), glance pitch (or manjak), and grahamite. These substances differ from one another basically in terms of specific gravity and temperature ...
- gland
- 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 ... [6 Related Articles]
- glanders
- 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 ... [4 Related Articles]
- glang-ma
- (from the article "Tibet") ...tree that grows mainly in hilly regions), 'om-bu (a bushlike tree with red flowers that grows near water), khres-pa (a strong durable forest tree used to make food containers), glang-ma ...
- Glans
- 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 ...
- glans clitoridis
- (from the article "clitoris") ...sexual excitement, the corpora cavernosa become engorged with blood, causing erection. The body of the clitoris is suspended from the pubic bone by a short ligament and emerges to form ...
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