Alpine village and valley, Bern canton, south central Switzerland. The village is scattered on the slopes of the Lutschine Valley (Lutschental), part of the Grindelwald Valley in the Bernese Oberland ...
French actor-manager and playwright, best known as a writer of soties (satirical farces) for Les Enfants Sans Souci, a famous medieval guild of comic actors of which Gringore was for ...
Lithuanian patriot and statesman who was active in the struggle for independence from Russia and served as prime minister (1920-23) and president (1926) of the republic during the period of ...
city, Poweshiek county, east-central Iowa, U.S., about 50 miles (80 km) east-northeast of Des Moines. It was founded by Josiah Bushnell Grinnell, a Congregational clergyman, abolitionist, congressman, and railway promoter ...
private, coeducational institution of higher learning in Grinnell, Iowa, U.S. It is a liberal arts college that awards the bachelor of arts degree only. Students can study abroad in a ...
politician who initiated and guided Sweden's transition to a capitalist economy. He also played a decisive part in turning Sweden away from a Pan-Scandinavian foreign policy in the 1860s.
19th-century people, of mixed Khoekhoe and European ancestry, who occupied the region of central South Africa just north of the Orange River. In 1848 they were guaranteed some degree of ...
historical region of South Africa that now lies within interior southwestern KwaZulu/Natal province and adjacent areas of Eastern province. In 1861 Adam Kok III, the chief of the Griqua people ...
historical and contemporary region in Northern Cape province, South Africa. The region lies directly northwest of the juncture of the Vaal and Orange rivers. It is an arid plateau settled ...
painting technique by which an image is executed entirely in shades of gray and usually severely modeled to create the illusion of sculpture, especially relief. This aspect of grisaille was ...
character of romance in medieval and Renaissance Europe, noted for her enduring patience and wifely obedience. She was the heroine of the last tale in the Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio, ...
drug produced by the molds Penicillium griseofulvum and P. janczewski and used in the treatment of ringworm, including athlete's foot and infections of the ...
Italian ballerina of the Romantic era who was a muse to the choreographer and dancer Jules Perrot and to the poet Theophile Gautier; she created the title role in
(Spanish: "ferret"), either of two weasellike carnivores of the genus Galictis (sometimes Grison), family Mustelidae, found in most regions of Central and South America; sometimes tamed when young. These animals ...
second U.S. astronaut to travel in space and the command pilot of the ill-fated Apollo 1 crew. He and his fellow astronauts Edward H. White and Roger B. Chaffee were ...
legal case, decided by the U.S. Supreme Court on June 7, 1965, that found in favour of the constitutional right of married persons to use birth control.
American journalist, critic, anthologist, and editor who worked with Edgar Allan Poe on Graham's Magazine and succeeded him as assistant editor (1842-43).
battle cry of the Mexican War of Independence from Spain, first uttered by Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla, parish priest of Dolores (now Dolores Hidalgo, Guanajuato state), on Sept. 16, 1810.
Cypriot patriot who helped bring Cyprus independence in 1960. His goal was enosis (union) with Greece, and in this he failed; indeed, he was a fugitive at the time of ...
traditional name given to brown bears (Ursus arctos) of North America. Grizzly bears of the northern Rocky Mountains (U. arctos horribilis) are classified as ...
Dutch Protestant political leader and religious thinker to whose influence can be traced one of the religious parties active in Dutch politics in the later 19th century.
German general and politician who helped prevent a communist revolution in Germany after World War I by throwing army support to the moderate Social Democratic government of Friedrich Ebert.
Soviet foreign minister (1957-85) and president (1985-88) of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the U.S.S.R. Although never strongly identified with any particular policy or political faction, he served ...
gemeente (municipality) and capital, Groningen provincie (province), northern Netherlands, at the junction of the canalized Drentsche Aa and Hunze rivers and several canals. Although it probably existed in the 9th ...
provincie, northern Netherlands, drained by numerous short rivers and canals, including the Ems (Eems), the Hoen, the Reit, and the Winschoten canals. The province occupies an area of 906 square ...
island in the Gulf of Carpentaria, 25 mi (40 km) across Warwick Channel off the northeast coast of Northern Territory, Australia. It has an area of 950 sq mi (2,460 ...
large estate-named for its original building, a "large barn"-established in 1657 on the slopes of Devil's Peak directly southeast of Cape Town, S.Af. After undergoing numerous subdivisions and changes of ...
Dutch priest and educator whose establishment of a centre for manuscript copiers led to the formation of the Brethren of the Common Life, a teaching order that was a major ...
town, northeastern Namibia. The town lies 36 miles (60 km) southeast of the copper- and lead-mining centre of Tsumeb and 210 air miles northeast of Windhoek, the national capital, in ...
German architect and educator who, particularly as director of the Bauhaus (1919-28), exerted a major influence on the development of modern architecture. His works, many executed in collaboration with other ...
(French: "Big Bellies"), name applied to two distinct North American Indian groups: (1) the Hidatsa (q.v.), or Gros Ventres of the Missouri; and (2) the Atsina (q.v.), or Gros Ventres ...
any of several finchlike birds belonging to the subfamilies Cardinalinae and Carduelinae of the family Fringillidae. Their most distinctive characteristic is an exceptionally large conical bill. Most grosbeaks are seedeaters.
total market value of the goods and services produced by a nation's economy during a specific period of time. It includes all final goods and services-that is, those that are ...
total market value of the final goods and services produced by a nation's economy during a specific period of time (usually a year), computed before allowance is made for the ...
American physicist who, with H. David Politzer and Frank Wilczek, was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics in 2004 for discoveries regarding the strong force-the nuclear force that binds together ...
small Nazi concentration camp established in August 1940 near the German town of Striegau in Lower Silesia (now Strzegom, Poland) that sent many prisoners to a killing centre for the ...
name applied to five exclusive northeastern residential communities of Detroit, Wayne county, southeastern Michigan, U.S. On the southwestern shore of Lake St. Clair and known as the "Gold Coast," they ...
West German glider pilot who on April 25, 1972, set the world record for straight-line distance soaring by flying 1,460.5 km (907.7 miles) from the Baltic Sea to the Spanish ...
(German: "Great Playhouse"), theatre that is the former Zirkus Schumann in Berlin, as redesigned for Max Reinhardt in 1919 by architect Hans Poelzig. It combines a normal stage with a ...
(German: "Great Complete Universal Lexicon"), large German encyclopaedia published from 1732 to 1750 by the Leipzig bookseller Johann Heinrich Zedler. It is noted for its accuracy and its biographical and ...
English bishop and scholar who introduced into the world of European Christendom Latin translations of Greek and Arabic philosophical and scientific writings. His philosophical thinking-a somewhat eclectic blend of Aristotelian ...
city, capital of Grosseto provincia, Toscana (Tuscany) regione, central Italy. It lies on a low-lying coastal plain near the Ombrone River southwest of Siena. The plain, the Maremma, was a ...
highest peak (12,457 feet [3,797 m]) in Austria and in the Hohe Tauern (range of the Eastern Alps). It lies astride the border between Bundeslander (federal states) Tirol and Karnten. ...
a calcium aluminum garnet that sometimes resembles the gooseberry fruit. It can be colourless (when pure), white, yellow, brown, red, or green. Massive greenish grossular, though only superficially resembling jade, ...
in architecture and decorative art, fanciful mural or sculptural decoration involving mixed animal, human, and plant forms. The word is derived from the Italian grotteschi, referring to the grottoes in ...
Dutch jurist and scholar, whose legal masterpiece, De Jure Belli ac Pacis (1625; On the Law of War and Peace), was one of the first great contributions to modern international ...
city and town (township), New London county, southeastern Connecticut, U.S., on the east bank of the Thames River, opposite New London. In 1649 a trading post was established in the ...
town (township), Middlesex county, Massachusetts, U.S. It is located on the Nashua and Squannacook rivers, about 35 miles (56 km) northwest of Boston. Settled and incorporated in 1655, it was ...
international leader of the experimental theatre who became famous in the 1960s as the director of productions staged by the Polish Laboratory Theatre of Wroclaw. A leading exponent of audience ...
