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Green Mountain Boys: patriot militia in the American Revolution. The Green Mountain Boys began in 1770 at present-day Bennington, Vermont, as an unauthorized militia organized to defend the property rights of local residents ...
Green Mountains: part of the Appalachian Mountain system, U.S., extending for 250 miles (402 km) from north to south through the centre of Vermont and having a maximum width of 36 miles ...
Green Park: royal park in the borough of Westminster, London. Located north of Buckingham Palace, east of Hyde Park, and west of the neighbourhood of St. James, it covers about 53 acres ...
Green Party: political party founded in 1981 to promote an environmental agenda in the Republic of Ireland.
Green Party of Germany: German environmentalist political party. It first won representation at the national level in 1983, and from 1998 to 2005 it formed a coalition government with the Social Democratic Party (SPD).
Green River: river in the western United States, rising on the Continental Divide in the Wind River Range in west-central Wyoming. It flows generally south through southwestern Wyoming, where it is dammed ...
Green River: river rising near Kings Mountain in Lincoln county, central Kentucky, U.S., and flowing for 360 miles (580 km) generally westward through a well-defined gorge, then northwestward to the Ohio River, ...
Green River: city, Grand and Emery counties, central Utah, U.S. Located on the banks of the Green River between Gray and Labyrinth canyons, the city was founded in 1878 near the site ...
Green River: city, seat (1875) of Sweetwater county, southwestern Wyoming, U.S., 13 miles (21 km) west of Rock Springs. Surrounded by rock formations at an elevation of 6,600 feet (2,000 metres), it ...
green snake: any of several species belonging to the family Colubridae, named for their colour. The North American green snakes are the two species of the genus Opheodrys. These docile, slender, harmless ...
green theatre: planting, usually of evergreens, designed to provide accommodation for outdoor theatrical entertainment. Intimate theatres included in 17th-century Italian gardens were often elaborate architectural and sculptural complexes not necessarily intended for ...
Green, Al: American singer-songwriter who was the most popular performer of soul music in the 1970s.By further transforming the essential relationship in soul music between the sacred and the secular, Green followed ...
Green, Alice Stopford: nee Alice Sophia Amelia Stopford Irish historian, supporter of Irish independence.
Green, Anna Katharine: American writer of detective fiction who helped to make the genre popular in America by creating well-constructed plots based on a good knowledge of criminal law.
Green, Anne Catherine Hoof: early American printer who distinguished herself in her profession in the formative days of the United States.
Green, Bartholomew: British American printer and journalist who published the Boston News-Letter, America's first successful newspaper, from 1704 to 1707 and again from 1711 to 1732. Refusing to take ...
Green, Charles: English balloonist whose outstanding achievement was his flight with two companions in 1836 from Vauxhall Gardens, London, to Weilburg, Ger., a distance of 480 miles. Green's 18-hour trip set a ...
Green, Duff: U.S. political journalist, and an influential member of Pres. Andrew Jackson's inner advisory circle, the "kitchen cabinet."
Green, George: English mathematician who was first to attempt to devise a theory of electricity and magnetism. This work heralded the beginning of modern mathematical physics in Great Britain.
Green, Henry: novelist and industrialist whose sophisticated satires mirrored the changing class structure in post-World War II English society. After completing his education at Eton and Oxford, he entered the family business, ...
Green, Hetty: financier who was reputedly the wealthiest woman of her time in the United States.
Green, Julian: French-American writer of sombre psychological novels that show a preoccupation with violence and death. Green was the first person of American parentage to be elected to the Academie Francaise (1971).
Green, Paul: U.S. novelist and playwright whose characteristic works deal with North Carolina folklore and regional themes; he was one of the first white playwrights to write perceptively about the problems of ...
Green, T H: English educator, political theorist, and Idealist philosopher of the so-called Neo-Kantian school. Through his teaching, Green exerted great influence on philosophy in late 19th-century England. Most of his life centred ...
Green, William: labour leader who was president of the American Federation of Labor (AFL) from 1924 until his death.
Greenaway, Kate: English artist and book illustrator known for her original and charming children's books.
Greenback movement: (c. 1868-88), in U.S. history, the campaign, largely by persons with agrarian interests, to maintain or increase the amount of paper money in circulation. Between 1862 and 1865, the U.S. ...
Greenbelt: city, Prince George's county, central Maryland, U.S., a suburb of Washington, D.C. The original town was built between 1935 and 1937, when the first residents moved in, by the Federal ...
Greenberg, Joseph H.: American anthropologist and linguist specializing in African languages and in language universals. Greenberg was the first to present a unified classification of African languages.
Greenberg, Uri Zvi: Hebrew and Yiddish poet whose strident, Expressionist verse exhorts the Jewish people to redeem their historical destiny; he warned of the impending Holocaust in such poems as "In malkhus fun ...
Greene: county, extreme southwestern Pennsylvania, U.S. It consists of a hilly region on the Allegheny Plateau bordered by West Virginia to the west and south, the Monongahela River to the east, ...
Greene: county, southeastern New York state, U.S., bordered by the Hudson River to the east. The rolling, hardwood-covered hills of the Hudson valley in the east rise to the Catskill Mountains ...
Greene, Belle da Costa: American librarian and bibliographer, the moving force in organizing and expanding the collection of J.P. Morgan as the Morgan Library.
Greene, Charles Sumner; and Greene, Henry Mather: American architects, brothers who pioneered the influential California bungalow (a one-storied house with a low-pitched roof).
Greene, Graham: English novelist, short-story writer, playwright, and journalist whose novels treat life's moral ambiguities in the context of contemporary political settings.
Greene, Nancy: Canadian Alpine skier who was the winner of the inaugural women's World Cup (1967-68).
Greene, Nathanael: American general in the American Revolution (1775-83).
Greene, Robert: one of the most popular English prose writers of the later 16th century and Shakespeare's most successful predecessor in blank-verse romantic comedy. He was also one of the first professional ...
Greener, William: U.S. gunmaker and inventor who developed an early self-expanding rifle bullet, a predecessor of the later widely used Minie projectile.
Greeneville: town, seat (1783) of Greene county, northeastern Tennessee, U.S., near the Nolichucky River, in the foothills of the Great Smoky Mountains, about 70 miles (115 km) northeast of Knoxville. Originally ...
Greenfield: city, Hancock county, central Indiana, U.S., 14 miles (23 km) east of Indianapolis. Founded in 1828 as the county seat, it was incorporated in 1850 and was probably named for ...
Greenfield: town (township), Franklin county, northwestern Massachusetts, U.S. It lies on the Connecticut River, 36 miles (58 km) north of Springfield and about 12 miles (19 km) south of the Vermont ...
Greenfield Village: collection of nearly 100 historic buildings on a 200-ac (80-ha) site in Dearborn, southeastern Michigan, U.S. Established in 1933 by Henry Ford (who relocated or reconstructed buildings there from throughout ...
Greenfield, Elizabeth Taylor: American singer whose exceptional voice made her a popular performer in Great Britain.
greenfinch: any of several small greenish birds, with yellow in the wings and tail, of the genus Carduelis (some formerly in Chloris), belonging to the songbird family Carduelidae (q.v.). Greenfinches are ...
Greengard, Paul: American neurobiologist who, along with Arvid Carlsson and Eric Kandel, was awarded the 2000 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for his discovery of how dopamine and other neurotransmitters work ...
greenheart: valuable South American timber tree of the laurel family (Lauraceae). A large tree, it grows to a height of 40 m (130 feet) and is native to the Guianas. The ...
greenhood: (genus Pterostylis), any of almost 100 species of orchids (family Orchidaceae) native to Australasia. Greenhoods have dull-coloured, hooded flowers that trap insects. The lip of the flower is hinged and ...
greenhouse: building designed for the protection of tender or out-of-season plants against excessive cold or heat. In the 17th century greenhouses were ordinary brick or timber shelters with a normal proportion ...
greenhouse effect: a warming of the Earth's surface and troposphere (the lowest layer of the atmosphere), caused by the presence of water vapour, carbon dioxide, methane, and certain other gases in the ...
Greenhow, Rose O'Neal: Confederate spy whose social position and shrewd judgment cloaked her espionage for the South during the American Civil War.
Greenland: the world's largest island, lying in the North Atlantic Ocean. It is a dependency of Denmark. Noted for its vast tundra and immense glaciers, Greenland has long intrigued adventurers and ...
Greenland Current: surface oceanic current, a combination of polar sea surface drift, return flow of the North Atlantic Current, and Irminger Current waters. The East Greenland Current flows south along Greenland's east ...
Greenland Ice Sheet: single ice cap or glacier covering about 80 percent of the island of Greenland and the largest ice mass in the Northern Hemisphere, second only in size to the Antarctic ...
Greenland Sea: outlying portion of the Arctic Ocean, with an area of 465,000 square miles (1,205,000 square km). It lies south of the Arctic Basin proper and borders Greenland (west), Svalbard (east), ...
Greenland shark: (Somniosus microcephalus), member of the spiny dogfish family Squalidae (class Selachii). This large shark, which can reach a length of 7 m (24 feet) and a weight of 1,025 kg ...
Greenleaf, Ralph: world champion American pocket-billiards (pool) player from 1919 through 1924 and intermittently from 1926 to 1937. His great skill and colourful personality made him a leading American sports figure of ...
greenlet: any of several tropical birds of the vireo family, Vireonidae. See vireo.
greenling: any of a number of marine fish of the family Hexagrammidae (order Scorpaeniformes). Greenlings are characterized, as a group, by such features as small scales, long dorsal fins, and strong ...
Greenock: industrial burgh (town) and port in Inverclyde council area, historic county of Renfrewshire, Scotland, on the southern shore of the Firth of Clyde west of Glasgow. Hemmed in by hills, ...
greenockite: cadmium sulfide (CdS), the only mineral containing an appreciable amount of cadmium. It forms coatings on sphalerite and other zinc minerals. It forms yellow, orange, or deep red crystals that ...
Greenough, Horatio: Neoclassical sculptor and writer on art. He was the first known American artist to pursue sculpture as an exclusive career and one of the first to receive a national commission.
Greenpeace: international organization dedicated to preserving endangered species of animals, preventing environmental abuses, and heightening environmental awareness through direct confrontations with polluting corporations and governmental authorities. Greenpeace was founded in 1971 ...
Greens, the: any of various environmentalist or ecological-oriented political parties formed in European countries and various countries elsewhere beginning in 1979. An umbrella organization known as the European Greens was founded in ...
Greensboro: city, Guilford county, north-central North Carolina, U.S. Situated about 25 miles (40 km) east of Winston-Salem, Greensboro forms a triangular metropolitan area, the Piedmont Triad, with that city and High ...
Greensburg: city, seat of Westmoreland county, southwestern Pennsylvania, U.S., 30 miles (48 km) southeast of Pittsburgh. The opening of the Pennsylvania state road in 1784 stimulated development in the region, and ...
greenschist facies: one of the major divisions of the mineral facies classification of metamorphic rocks, the rocks of which formed under the lowest temperature and pressure conditions usually produced by regional metamorphism. ...
greenshank: (species Tringa nebularia), Old World shorebird of the family Scolopacidae (order Charadriiformes). Greenshanks are gray birds with greenish legs and a white rump. Rather slender, about 30 cm (12 inches) ...
Greenspan, Alan: American economist and chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, whose chairmanship (1987-2006) continued through the administrations of four American presidents.
Greenville: county, northwestern South Carolina, U.S. The northern section, which is bordered by North Carolina, lies in the Blue Ridge Mountains of the Appalachian chain, while most of the county lies ...
Greenville: city, seat (1797) of Greenville county, northwestern South Carolina, U.S., on the Reedy River, in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains. First called Pleasantburg when the area was settled ...
Greenville: city, seat (1787) of Pitt county, on the Tar River in eastern North Carolina, U.S., about 85 miles (140 km) east of Raleigh. It was incorporated in 1771 as Martinsborough ...
Greenville: city, seat (1821) of Butler county, south-central Alabama, U.S., about 45 miles (70 km) southwest of Montgomery. Settled in 1819 by pioneers from Greenville, South Carolina, and originally called Buttsville ...
Greenville: city, seat (1809) of Darke county, western Ohio, U.S., on Greenville Creek, 35 miles (56 km) northwest of Dayton. Laid out in 1808, it was the site of Fort Greenville, ...
Greenville: city, seat (1846) of Hunt county, northeastern Texas, U.S., on the Sabine River, 52 miles (84 km) northeast of Dallas. McQuinney Howell Wright donated the land for the site of ...
Greenville: city, seat (1827) of Washington county, west-central Mississippi, U.S. It is a port on the Mississippi-Yazoo River plain, 115 miles (185 km) northwest of Jackson. Old Greenville, named for the ...