When the longtime president of Togo, Gen. Gnassingbe Eyadema, died in February 2005, the military named his son Faure Gnassingbe his successor. International leaders denounced the move as a coup, ... [6 Related Articles]
any member of several species of small flies that bite and annoy humans. Several nonbiting insects, such as the midges, which resemble mosquitoes, are also sometimes known as gnats. In ... [1 Related Articles]
any of about 11 species of small insect-eating New World birds in the family Polioptilidae (order Passeriformes). (Many authorities treat the genus as a subfamily of the Old World warbler ...
(from the article "gnateater") any of certain bird species (genus Conopophaga) usually classified with the antbirds. See antbird; antpipit.classificationConopophagidae...and Corythopsis) wer
(from the article "amphipod") The sexes are separate, males often being characterized by enlarged gnathopods (claws on the second thoracic segment) used to grasp females during copulation. The male presumably emits sperm, or spermatophores ...
(from the article "acarid") ...by the lack of body segmentation, although it is secondarily developed in a few families. This is a characteristic shared only with the spiders among the arachnids. An anterior region ...
(from the article "circulation") Although clearly related to its mode of life, the blood system of a species also reflects its evolutionary history. The most significant change that occurred during early vertebrate evolution was ...
(from the article "rodent") All rodents possess constantly growing rootless incisors that have a hard enamel layer on the front of each tooth and softer dentine behind. The differential wear from gnawing creates perpetually ...
Prussian field marshal and reformer, one of the key figures in rebuilding and reorganizing the Prussian army shattered by Napoleon in 1806 and the architect of its victory during the ... [3 Related Articles]
metamorphic rock that has a distinct banding, which is apparent in hand specimen or on a microscopic scale. Gneiss usually is distinguished from schist (q.v.) by its foliation and schistosity; ... [9 Related Articles]
liberal German jurist, legal reformer, legislator, and political theoretician whose teachings and publications, based on studies of the English system of government, exercised a profound influence on the development of ...
(from the article "Lutheranism") The two factions involved in these debates were the Philippists, followers of Melanchthon, and the Gnesio-Lutherans (Genuine Lutherans), led by Matthias Flacius Illyricus, a forceful and uncompromising theologian who accused ...
(from the article "Hebrew literature") The writers of this generation were known as the emigre writers. Their work was pessimistic, as the rootlessness without hope of Uri Nissan Gnessin and Joseph Hayyim Brenner exemplified. The ...
a family of tropical gymnosperms in the order Gnetales (division Gnetophyta), composed of one genus, Gnetum, with 30 or more species. Trees predominate among the African species; most of the ... [1 Related Articles]
(from the article "gnetophyte") ...small leaves with 2 or 3 veins; mature cones often become fleshy and brightly coloured; 1 family, Ephedraceae; 1 genus, Ephedra, with 65 species.Mostly vines, but a few trees; ...
any member of the division Gnetophyta, a small group of gymnospermous vascular plants that are represented by three living genera: Ephedra, Gnetum, and Welwitschia. ... [6 Related Articles]
(from the article "gnetophyte") Mostly vines, but a few trees; large flat leaves that have reticulate venation; seeds may be brightly coloured; 1 family, Gnetaceae; 1 genus, Gnetum, with about 30 species.2 immense, ...
(from the article "Gnetaceae") ...Gnetophyta), composed of one genus, Gnetum, with 30 or more species. Trees predominate among the African species; most of the Asian varieties are woody vines, but among the exceptions is ...
(from the article "Poland") Internationally Poland began to engage more in affairs of significance, both religious and political. "The Europe of Dialogue," the sixth Gniezno Congress held in Poland's historic first capital in September, ...
in European folklore, dwarfish, subterranean goblin or earth spirit who guards mines of precious treasures hidden in the earth. He is represented in medieval mythologies as a small, physically deformed ...
aphoristic verse containing short, memorable statements of traditional wisdom and morality. The Greek word gnome means "moral aphorism" or "proverb." Its form may be either imperative, as in the famous ... [1 Related Articles]
(from the article "number game") The gnomons include all of the odd numbers; these can be represented by a right angle, or a carpenter's square, as illustrated in Figure 3. Gnomons were extremely useful to ...
(from the article "sundial") The first device for indicating the time of day was probably the gnomon, dating from about 3500 BC. It consisted of a vertical stick or pillar; the length of the ...
(from the article "map") ...from a point at the centre of the Earth, on the opposite side of the Earth's surface, or from a point far out in space. If the perspective is from ...
(from the article "Clement of Alexandria, Saint") ...was saved by faith, which was to be demonstrated in legalistic and moral terms), Clement held that faith was the basis of salvation; but, unlike them, he claimed that faith ...
philosophical and religious movement prominent in the Greco-Roman world in the 2nd century AD. While Gnosticism drew from and influenced in turn many traditional religions, its effect was most clearly ... [44 Related Articles]
(from the article "germfree life") biological condition characterized by the complete absence of living microorganisms. Gnotobiology comprises the study of germfree plants and animals, as well as living things in which specific microorganisms, added by ...
(from the Greek meaning "known life"), condition of life in which only known kinds of organisms are present. Gnotobiotic organisms are of two major types: germfree, that is, free of ...
(from the article "gnotobiosis") ..."known life"), condition of life in which only known kinds of organisms are present. Gnotobiotic organisms are of two major types: germfree, that is, free of all known contaminants; and ...
(from the article "computer") ...it provided that use of the new version is not restricted. Linux is protected by the Free Software Foundation's "GNU General Public License," like all the other software in the ...
(from the article "cribbage") ...card(s) in his hand that may be added without exceeding 31. The last to play in each sequence scores a "go"-two points for reaching exactly 31 or one for any ...
board game for two players. Of East Asian origin, it is popular in China, Korea, and especially Japan, the country with which it is most closely identified. Go, probably the ... [1 Related Articles]
(from the article "Canada") ...1980s, government subsidies were cut and many passenger routes discontinued. Most of Canada's railway passenger service is concentrated in the densely populated corridor from Windsor to Quebec city. GO Transit, ...
(from the article "Celtic literature") ...Tangi Malemanche was a prolific playwright but gained little recognition. Per-Jakez Helias as poet, playwright, and radio script writer has been both prolific and popular. The reminiscences of Yeun ar ...
(from the article "family law") ...and bridegroom was almost always formally required, it may be questioned how real the consent was in the case of a child bride or in marriages between parties who did ...
(from the article "Go-go") Go-go, a style of funk heavy on bass and percussion, originated in Washington, D.C., in the late 1970s. Go-go bands were large ensembles with multiple percussionists who could maintain a ...
(from the article "arts, East Asian") ...like those of the early Christian traditions, served primarily as memory aids with which an initiate could recall the details of a given melody. The most influential system was the ...
(from the article "karting") driving and racing miniature, skeleton-frame, rear-engine automobiles called karts, or GoKarts. The sport originated in the United States in the 1950s after the kart had been devised from unwanted lawn-mower ...
state of India. Comprising a mainland district on the country's western coast and an offshore island, it is located 250 miles (400 kilometres) south of Bombay. It is bounded by ... [9 Related Articles]
Indian people of the Guajira Peninsula in northern Colombia and adjacent Venezuela. Numbering about 127,000 in the late 20th century, they speak an Arawakan language and are linguistically and culturally ... [2 Related Articles]
(from the article "Australian rules football") ...the ground. Two shorter posts, called behind posts, rise to a minimum height of 3 metres (10 feet), with each one placed at the side of a goalpost at a ...
(from the article "football (soccer)") ...wear jerseys with numbers, shorts, and socks that designate the team for whom they are playing. Shoes and shin guards must be worn. The two teams must wear identifiably different ...
(from the article "basketball") ...the ball when it was in the basket or on its rim (basket interference), and in 1944-45 it became illegal for any defending player to touch the ball on its ...
town, central Bangladesh. It is situated near the confluence of the Padma and Jamuna rivers. Goalundo Ghat is linked by road with Faridpur and Kushtia and is an important river-steamer ...
(from the article "furniture") The Indo-Portuguese group includes a northern Indian, or provincial Mughal, style and a southern, or so-called Goanese, style. The former is artistically the more interesting and includes a variety of ...
any ruminant and hollow-horned mammal belonging to the genus Capra. Related to the sheep, the goat is lighter of build, has horns that arch backward, a short tail, and straighter ... [11 Related Articles]
goatlike mammals of the subfamily Caprinae (family Bovidae, order Artiodactyla). Goat antelopes owe their name to their physical characteristics, which are intermediate between those of the stockily built goats (subfamily ...
(from the article "Arran") Arran is called "Scotland in miniature" because of the beauty and variety of its scenery. The north of the island includes the most dramatic scenery, dominated by Goat Fell, with ...
(from the article "carpenter moth") The carpenterworm moth (Prinoxystus robiniae) has a wingspan of about 5 cm (2 inches) and is the most familiar North American cossid. The mahogany-coloured larvae of the goat moth (Cossus ...
(species Aruncus dioicus or A. sylvester), herbaceous perennial plant, of the rose family (Rosaceae), native to the North Temperate Zone. It occurs most commonly in rich woods, especially in mountainous ...
(from the article "salsify") Salsify has purple flowers and narrow, often keeled leaves whose bases usually clasp the stem. Goatsbeard, or meadow salsify (T. pratensis), is a weedy European species, naturalized in North America, ...
(from the article "gnome") ...guards mines of precious treasures hidden in the earth. He is represented in medieval mythologies as a small, physically deformed (usually hunchbacked) creature resembling a dry, gnarled old man. Gob, ...
town, eastern Namibia. It lies on the edge of the Kalahari (Desert) on the intermittent Black Nossob River at an elevation of 4,740 feet (1,445 metres). It is a rail ...
(from the article "Katsina") ...Gajere, a sword with a 13th-century Arabic inscription that was used in the overthrow of the Kumayo-Durbawa dynasty in the early 14th century. Associated with the town's large central mosque ...
Swiss politician, administrator, philanthropist, and author, cowinner of the Nobel Prize for Peace in 1902. He shared the prize with Elie Ducommun (d. 1906), whom he succeeded as director of ...
(from the article "Baumgartner, Bruce") Baumgartner followed his NCAA championship with a gold medal at the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles. At the 1986 world championships in Hungary, Baumgartner defeated the top Soviet wrestler, ...
archbishop of Paris whose resignation doomed him to association with the Hebertists, followers of the extremist journalist Jacques-Rene Hebert, who, during the French Revolution, pursued an anti-Christian policy in a ...
French family of dyers and clothmakers whose factory became world-famous for its tapestries. Jehan Gobelin who ran a factory in the Faubourg Saint-Marcel just southeast of Paris, discovered a scarlet ...
(from the article "Gobelin Family") ...His descendants seem to have given up dyeing by the end of the 16th century; some of them bought titles of nobility and offices in the financial administration or in ...
American sculptor and installation artist known for his eerie and evocative reconsiderations of everyday objects. His common motifs include the human body and domestic objects, with which he examined, often ... [1 Related Articles]
great desert and semidesert region of Central Asia. The Gobi (from Mongolian gobi, meaning "waterless place") stretches across huge portions of both Mongolia and China. Contrary to the perhaps romantic ... [3 Related Articles]
(from the article "Mongolia") ...The main range-the only one in the country where contemporary glaciation has developed-is the Mongolian Altai Mountains, and a lesser range splitting off to the southeast is known as the ...
French diplomat, writer, ethnologist, and social thinker whose theory of racial determinism had an enormous influence upon the subsequent development of racist theories and practices in western Europe. [5 Related Articles]
(from the article "western Africa, history of") Usman was the leading Fulani cleric in Gobir, the northernmost and most militant of the Hausa kingdoms (see map). This was in a disturbed state in the 17th and 18th ...
(from the article "digestive system, human") ...The villi usually vary from 0.5 to 1 mm in height. Their diameters vary from approximately one-eighth to one-third their height. The villi are covered by a single layer of ...
in Western folklore, a wandering sprite that is usually mischievous but often malicious. Goblins supposedly live in grottoes but attach themselves to households, where they are believed to bang upon ...
rare species of shark belonging to the family Mitsukurinidae (order Lamniformes). Only one extant species (Mitsukurina owstoni) is known, on the basis of a few specimens, although fossils of extinct ...
any of the more than 2,200 species of fishes of the suborder Gobioidei (order Perciformes). Gobies are carnivorous, usually small in size, and found throughout the world. Especially abundant in ... [3 Related Articles]
(from the article "Ardashir I") Ardashir was the son of Babak, who was the son or descendant of Sasan and was a vassal of the chief petty king in Persis, Gochihr. After Babak got Ardashir ...
(from the article "Zalaegerszeg") ...the Gocsej Museum, with a rich historical and ethnographic collection; the twin-spired Baroque parish church (1750-60); and the County Council House Chapel (1761-77). The open-air Gocsej Village Museum is on ...
(from the article "Vistula River") ...Vistula"), which then flows northward. Some 25 miles farther on, the river gradient decreases suddenly to some 0.04 percent; from there, after turning eastward, the Vistula enters Lake Goczalkowice, an ...
(from the article "Africa") In most of the rest of sub-Saharan Africa the people practice a variety of traditional religions, which have certain common features. All of those known include the notion of a ...
(from the article "Descartes, Rene") ...a part of one material substance. The mind or soul is immortal, because it is unextended and cannot be broken into parts, as can extended bodies. Descartes also advances a ...
Christian fellowship that considers itself a "reformation movement" among Christians and not a church or sect; it accepts its title for identification purposes only. Its members believe that they have ... [1 Related Articles]
religious sect founded in 1896 by Prophet William S. Crowdy. He passed his mantle of leadership to Bishop William Plummer, who announced himself as "Grand Father Abraham." This group believes ...
one of the two national anthems of New Zealand (the other being God Save the Queen, national anthem of the United Kingdom). The words to the anthem were written in ...
(from the article "pre-Columbian civilizations") ...Feathered Serpent, known to the Maya as Kukulcan (and to the Toltecs and Aztecs as Quetzalcoatl). Probably the most ubiquitous of all is the being known as Bolon Tzacab (first ...
British royal and national anthem. The origin of both the words and the music is obscure. The many candidates for authorship include John Bull (c. 1562-1628), Thomas Ravenscroft (c. 1583-c. ... [2 Related Articles]
(from the article "Christianity") On the basis of their religious experiences, the mystics of Christianity of all eras have concurred in the belief that one can make no assertions about God, because God is ...
(from the article "Christianity") Dogmatic teachings about the figure of Jesus Christ go back to the faith experiences of the original church. The faithful of the early church experienced and recognized the incarnate and ...
(from the article "Egypt, ancient") ...of a new dynasty because he was the native ruler who reunified Egypt. Continuing a recently inaugurated practice, he married his full sister Ahmose-Nofretari. The queen was given the title ...
any of several Pentecostal churches that developed in the U.S. South from the late 19th- and early 20th-century Latter Rain revival, based on a belief that a second rain of ...
(from the article "Augustine, Saint") ...church. During the next 15 years, working meticulously through a lofty architecture of argument, he outlined a new way to understand human society, setting up the City of God over ...
in Christianity, the spiritual realm over which God reigns as king, or the fulfillment on Earth of God's will. The phrase occurs frequently in the New Testament, primarily used by ... [17 Related Articles]
a movement led by the medieval church, and later by civil authorities, to protect ecclesiastical property and women, priests, pilgrims, merchants, and other noncombatants from violence from the 10th to ... [5 Related Articles]
a measure by the medieval Roman Catholic Church to suspend warfare during certain days of the week and during the period of certain church festivals and Lent. [3 Related Articles]
(from the article "number game") For example, in "God greet you, all you 30 companions," someone says: "If there were as many of us again and half as many more, then there would be 30 ...
(from the article "Iceland") ...of the pagan gods in Iceland, although Odin is thought to have been the highest in rank. It appears that heathen worship was organized around a distinct class of chieftains ...
pilgrimage centre, western Madhya Pradesh state, central India. It lies along the Narmada River southeast of Indore. Godarpura has noted Saivite, Vaisnavite, and Jaina temples, mostly of the 14th and ...
sacred river of central India. It rises in the Western Ghats 50 miles (80 km) from the Arabian Sea and flows generally eastward across the Deccan Plateau, along the Maharashtra-Andhra ... [7 Related Articles]
(from the article "Literature") The year 2006 was marked by the literary old guard jockeying for position with the younger generation. Stalwart filmmaker and novelist Jacques Godbout, who predicted that Quebec cultural identity would ...
(from the article "Goddard Family") The son of Daniel Goddard, a house carpenter in Massachusetts, John Goddard (1723/ 24-85) moved with his family in the 1740s to Newport, where he and his younger brother James ...
(from the article "Goddard Family") The son of Daniel Goddard, a house carpenter in Massachusetts, John Goddard (1723/ 24-85) moved with his family in the 1740s to Newport, where he and his younger brother James ...
