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Gleicheniaceae: the forking fern family, containing 6 genera and about 125 species, in the division Pteridophyta (the lower vascular plants). This relatively primitive family has a long fossil history dating back ... [1 Related Articles]
Gleig, George: (from the article "Encyclopaedia Britannica") The third edition was still longer, appearing in parts forming 18 volumes of 14,579 pages (1788-97). It was edited by Macfarquhar until his death in 1793, after which it was ...
Gleim, Johann Wilhelm Ludwig: German Anacreontic poet. [2 Related Articles]
Glemp, Jozef Cardinal: (from the article "Poland") ...regime realized that broad reforms were unavoidable and that a revived Solidarity had to be part of them. The roundtable negotiations under the auspices of the church-Jozef Cardinal Glemp succeeded ...
glen: (from the article "Northern Ireland") ...an elevation of 1,817 feet (554 metres) at Trostan, with the plateau terminating in an impressive cliff coastline of basalts and chalk that is broken by a series of the ...
Glen Canyon Dam: (from the article "Colorado River") Many additional projects have since been undertaken. In the mid-1960s Glen Canyon Dam was completed, impounding Lake Powell. The dam was a controversial project: opposition to its construction helped shift ...
Glen Coe massacre: (from the article "William III") The revolution in England had been accomplished almost without bloodshed, but in Scotland and Ireland there was armed resistance. This collapsed in Scotland in 1689, but the country remained troubled ...
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 Within the glen are the remains of Gleneagles Castle (14th century), which was superseded in 1624 ...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 Grey Act: (from the article "Rhodes, Cecil") ...were sensible and effective. In native policy he had to move cautiously. His Franchise and Ballot Act (1892) was passed, limiting the native vote by financial and educational qualifications. The ...
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 ... [1 Related Articles]
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 ... [2 Related Articles]
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 ...
Glendenin, L. E.: (from the article "promethium") ...the periodic table not detected in nature. Conclusive chemical proof of the existence of promethium, the last of the rare-earth elements to be discovered, was obtained (1947) by J.A. Marinsky, ...
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 ... [7 Related Articles]
Glendower, Owen: (from the article "Henry IV, Part 1") ...Part 1 begins, Henry IV, wearied from the strife that has accompanied his accession to the throne, is renewing his earlier vow to make a pilgrimage to the Holy Land. ...
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. ...
Glenelg, Lord: (from the article "South Africa") ...of the Gcaleka-Xhosa as well; the Gcaleka chief, Hintsa, invited to hold discussions with British military officials, was held hostage and died trying to escape. The British colonial secretary, Lord ...
Glenfinnan Monument: (from the article "Shiel, Loch") ...into Loch Moidart, a sea loch. The upper reaches of Loch Shiel, toward Glenfinnan, are bounded by wild and rough scenery, with steep mountains reaching elevations of about 3,000 feet ...
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 L. Martin Co. Aircraft Assembly Building: (from the article "building construction") ...first built in 1922 with a span of 79 metres (262 feet), the second in 1942 with a span of 100 metres (328 feet). The flat truss was used also, ...
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 ... [3 Related Articles]
Glennan, T. Keith: U.S. government official (b. Sept. 8, 1905, Enderlin, N.D.--d. April 11, 1995, Mitchellville, Md.), as the first director (1958-61) of NASA, coordinated and incorporated the spaceflight efforts of the various ...
Glennie, Alick: (from the article "computer") Then, in September 1952, Alick Glennie, a student at the University of Manchester, England, created the first of several programs called Autocode for the Manchester Mark I. Autocode was the ...
glenohumeral joint: (from the article "scapula") ...socket. The lateral apex of the triangle is broadened and presents a shallow cavity, the glenoid cavity, which articulates with the head of the bone of the upper arm, the ...
glenoid cavity: (from the article "scapula") ...that articulates with the clavicle, or collarbone, in front and helps form the upper part of the shoulder socket. The lateral apex of the triangle is broadened and presents a ...
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 ...
gley: (from the article "Japan") Kuroboku soils (black soils rich in humus content) are found on terraces, hills, and gentle slopes throughout Japan, while gley (sticky, blue-gray compact) soils are found in ...
Gleyre, Charles: (from the article "Monet, Claude") ...of illness, and again painted the sea with Boudin, while also meeting the Dutch marine painter Johan Barthold Jongkind. Later that year he continued to study in Paris, this time ...
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 ...
gliadin: (from the article "Amino acid content of some proteins") an amino acid, the monoamide of glutamic acid, and an abundant constituent of proteins. First isolated from gliadin, a protein present in wheat (1932), glutamine is widely distributed in plants; ...
Glick, Thomas F.: (from the article "Intelligent Design-Scientific Concept or Religious View?") In 2006, in the wake of a U.S. court case that rejected the argument that intelligent design (ID) had a place in American public-school science classrooms, the debate between ID ...
Glidden, Joseph Farwell: American inventor of the first commercially successful barbed wire, which was instrumental in transforming the Great Plains of western North America. [1 Related Articles]
glide bomb: (from the article "rocket and missile system") ...bombs. This had the effect of flattening the trajectory, extending the range, and increasing velocity at impact, useful against concrete bunkers and hardened targets. These weapons were called glide bombs, ...
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 ...
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 ... [11 Related Articles]
gliding: (from the article "bird") The types of flight found in birds vary considerably, and different types of wings correlate with different types of flight. At least two major types of modifications for gliding or ...
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 ... [1 Related Articles]
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.
Gliese 229 B: (from the article "brown dwarf") ...dwarfs in the 1980s and 1990s found several candidates; however, none could be definitively identified as a brown dwarf. In 1995 astronomers at Palomar Observatory and Johns Hopkins University found ...
Gliese 581c: (from the article "Physical Sciences") ...a density greater than that of Earth. The combination was puzzling, since giant planets were thought to be gaseous like Jupiter and therefore of relatively low density. Another notable discovery ...
Gliese, Wilhelm: (from the article "Milky Way Galaxy") In the vicinity of the Sun, stellar density can be determined from the various surveys of nearby stars and from estimates of their completeness. For example, Wilhelm Gliese's catalog of ...
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 ... [1 Related Articles]
Glinka, Mikhail: the first Russian composer to win international recognition, and the acknowledged founder of the Russian nationalist school. [5 Related Articles]
Glinn, Burton Samuel: American photographer cemented his reputation as an eminent photographer with his 1959 images of Cuban revolutionary Fidel Castro marching into Havana on the heels of fleeing dictator Fulgencio Bastista and ...
glioblast: (from the article "nervous system, human") ...tube-that is, the layer of neuroepithelial cells lining the central cavity of the tube. These cells differentiate and proliferate into neuroblasts, which are the precursors of neurons, and glioblasts, from ...
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 ... [1 Related Articles]
Glischrochius fasciatus: (from the article "sap beetle") ...beetles are about 12 mm (0.5 inch) or less in length and oval or elongated in shape. In some species the elytra (wing covers) cover the abdomen, while in others ...
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.
glitch: (from the article "star") Modern observations have recorded sudden changes in the rotation rates of pulsars. The Vela pulsar, for instance, has abruptly increased its spin rate several times. Such a period change or ...
Glitter Mountain: one of the highest peaks of the Scandinavian Peninsula, in the Jotunheim Mountains (Jotunheimen), south-central Norway. Rising to 8,084 feet (2,464 metres), it has a permanent glacial icecap about 65 ... [2 Related Articles]
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 ...
Gliwice Canal: (from the article "Gliwice") ...foundry became famous for specialized artistic castings. Other important economic activities include chemical production, food processing, and automobile manufacturing. The city's inland port on the Gliwice Canal, Poland's busiest port, ...
global analysis: (from the article "analysis") ...simply numbers, as input) defined on the Banach space, and the methods of analysis can be used to determine the minimum. This approach can be generalized even further, leading to ...
Global Commission on International Migration: organization established in December 2003 to promote global discussion and cooperation on issues related to the international movement of persons. Formed by then United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan and the ... [2 Related Articles]
global conference: (from the article "United Nations") Global conferences have a long history in multilateral diplomacy, extending back to the period after World War I, when conferences on disarmament and economic affairs were convened by the League ...
Global Counter-Terrorism Strategy: (from the article "United Nations") Terrorism continued to occupy an important place on the global agenda. On September 8, UN member states adopted a United Nations Global Counter-Terrorism Strategy, which included a resolution and associated ...
Global Digital Seismographic Network: (from the article "earthquake") ...of digital seismographic stations now in operation are the Seismic Research Observatories in boreholes 100 metres (330 feet) deep and modified high-gain, long-period surface observatories. The Global Digital Seismographic Network ...
Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria: (from the article "United Nations") To complement UNAIDS, the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (GFATM) had been established in 2002 to mobilize, generate, and disperse additional funds to fight the pandemic. In ...
Global Initiative to Combat Nuclear Terrorism: (from the article "Palau") ...in 2007. The country vowed to join the United States and Russia in the fight against nuclear terrorism. After a meeting in Ankara, Tur., in February, Palau approved the statutory ...
global logistics: (from the article "logistics") Because the leading military powers did not directly fight each other during the decades after World War II, none of them had to deal with the classic logistic problem of ...
Global Malaria Eradication Campaign: (from the article "malaria") In 1955 the World Health Organization (WHO) inaugurated its Global Malaria Eradication Campaign, to be based mainly on the spraying of insecticide in designated "malarious areas" of the world. The ...
Global Nitrogen Enrichment Programme: (from the article "The Environment") Scientists met in London in February to mark the completion of the five-year, £7 million (about $13 million) Global Nitrogen Enrichment (GANE) Programme to map the worldwide effects of excess ...
Global Polio Eradication Initiative: (from the article "Health and Disease") The Global Polio Eradication Initiative, begun in 1988 (when about 350,000 people in 125 countries had the crippling viral disease), did not meet its revised goal of ridding the world ...
Global Skyship Industries: (from the article "aerospace industry") ...to obviate the need for a large ground crew. Following bankruptcy of Airship Industries and a series of ownership changes and amalgamations in the 1990s, the company's blimp operations passed ...
Global Sprint Challenge: (from the article "Equestrian Sports") The Asian Mile Challenge, which involved one race in Hong Kong and one in Japan, was introduced in 2005. Races in Australia and Dubai (U.A.E.) were scheduled to be added ...
global system for mobile communications: (from the article "telephone and telephone system") ...more countries in the following years. All of them were incompatible with one another. In 1988 a group of government-owned public telephone bodies within the European Community announced the digital ...
global warming: the phenomenon of increasing average air temperatures near the surface of Earth over the past one to two centuries. Since the mid-20th century, climate scientists have gathered detailed observations of ... [47 Related Articles]
Global Weather Experiment: (from the article "weather forecasting") Numerical forecasts have improved steadily over the years. The vast Global Weather Experiment, first conceived by Charney, was carried out by many nations in 1979 under the leadership of the ...
Global Women's Action Network for Children: (from the article "Jordan") In June, Jordanian Queen Rania launched the Global Women's Action Network for Children with a three-day conference attended by activists, politicians, journalists, and artists from across the globe. The group's ...
globalization, cultural: a phenomenon by which the experience of everyday life, as influenced by the diffusion of commodities and ideas, reflects a standardization of cultural expressions around the world. Propelled by the ...
Globalization-Why All the Fuss?: In 2000 the media were full of references to globalization of the economy, communications-even politics and military affairs. Large crowds turned out to protest meetings such as that of the ... [14 Related Articles]
Globar lamp: (from the article "spectroscopy") For the near-infrared region a tungsten-filament lamp (6,000-25,000 cm⁻¹) serves as a source. In the middle region the standard source is a Globar (50-6,000 cm⁻¹), a silicon carbide cylinder that ...
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: 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 ... [2 Related Articles]
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 ... [3 Related Articles]
Globe and Mail, The: daily newspaper published in Toronto, the most prestigious and influential journal in Canada. [1 Related Articles]
globe candytuft: (from the article "candytuft") any of about 40 species of Eurasian plants of the genus Iberis, of the mustard family (Brassicaceae). Most species are native to the Mediterranean region. Globe candytuft (I. umbellata), widely ...
Globe Theatre: famous London theatre in which after 1599 the plays of William Shakespeare were performed. [7 Related Articles]
globe thistle: (from the article "thistle") ...(Cirsium arvense) is a troublesome weed in agricultural areas of North America, and more than 10 species of sow thistle (Sonchus) are widespread throughout Europe. Some species of globe thistle ...
globe valve: (from the article "valve") In the globe valve shown in the Figure (far left), the movable element M may be a tapered plug or a disk that fits a seat on the valve body; ...
globeflower: any of about 20 species of perennial herbaceous plants constituting the genus Trollius of the buttercup family, Ranunculaceae, native mostly to North Temperate Zone wetlands.
globigerina ooze: (from the article "foraminiferan") ...to the foramina (openings or apertures) between adjacent chambers after a new chamber envelops a previous one. When the foraminiferans die, their empty calcareous tests sink and form the so-called ...
globin: (from the article "hemoglobin") Each hemoglobin molecule is made up of four heme groups surrounding a globin group, forming a tetrahedral structure. Heme, which accounts for only 4 percent of the weight of the ...
globular actin: (from the article "muscle") ...myofilaments, is the major component of the thin filaments in muscle. An individual molecule of actin is a single protein chain coiled to form a roughly egg-shaped unit. Actin in ...
globular cluster: (from the article "globular cluster") any large group of old stars that are closely packed in a symmetrical, somewhat spherical form. See star cluster.FIGUREdistributionDistribution of open and globular star clusters in the
globular protein: (from the article "protein") ...plate, forming a pattern of spots. This method reveals that peptide chains can assume very complicated, apparently irregular shapes. Two extremes in shape include the closely folded structure of the ...
globular texture: (from the article "mineral") ...blade; fibrous, an aggregate of slender fibres, parallel or radiating; acicular, slender, needlelike crystals; radiating, individuals forming starlike or circular groups; globular, radiating individuals forming small spherical or hemispherical groups; ...
globulin: one of the major classifications of proteins, which may be further divided into the euglobulins and the pseudoglobulins. The former group is insoluble in water but soluble in saline solutions ... [3 Related Articles]