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Garibaldi, Giuseppe: Italian patriot and soldier of the Risorgimento, a republican who, through his conquest of Sicily and Naples with his guerrilla Redshirts, contributed to the achievement of Italian unification under the ...
Garibaldi, Mount: peak in southern British Columbia, Canada, in the Coast Mountains east of the Cheakamus River. Glacier-capped, it is 8,787 ft (2,678 m) high and is the focus of Garibaldi Provincial ...
Garis, Howard R: author, creator of the Uncle Wiggily series of children's stories, who began his career as a newspaperman on the Newark Evening News in 1896. Shortly after, he began writing a ...
Garissa: town, east-central Kenya. The town is a market centre situated on the Tana River, and its industries process food, beverages, and tobacco products; manufactures include plastic containers. It is located ...
Garland: city, Dallas county, northern Texas, U.S. Adjacent to Dallas (west), it was founded in 1887, when two rival railroad communities, Duck Creek and Embree, were consolidated by an act of ...
garland: a band, or chain, of flowers, foliage, and leaves; it may be joined at the ends to form a circle (wreath), worn on the head (chaplet), or draped in loops ...
Garland, Hamlin: American author perhaps best remembered for his short stories and his autobiographical "Middle Border" series of narratives.
Garland, John: also called Johannes De Garlandia English grammarian and poet whose writings were important in the development of medieval Latin. Though much of his life was spent in France, his works ...
Garland, Judy: American singer and actress whose exceptional talents and vulnerabilities combined to make her one of the most enduringly popular Hollywood icons of the 20th century.
garlic: (species Allium sativum), bulbous perennial plant of the lily family (Liliaceae). The plant's bulbs are used as a flavouring. A classic ingredient in many national cuisines, garlic has a powerful, ...
garment industry: the manufacture of clothing. See dress; textile.
Garmisch-Partenkirchen: market town, Bavaria Land (state), southern Germany. It lies at the junction of the deep Loisach and Partnach valleys, in the Bavarian Alps at the foot of ...
Garneau, Francois-Xavier: first outstanding French-Canadian historian, known as the father of Canadian historiography.
Garneau, Hector de Saint-Denys: poet who was the cofounder of the important French-Canadian literary journal La Releve (1934; "The Relief"). His intense and introspective verse, filled with images of death and suicide, set him ...
Garner, Alan: British writer whose works, noted for their somewhat idiosyncratic style, appeal primarily to young readers.
Garner, John Nance: 32nd vice president of the United States (1933-41) in the Democratic administration of President Franklin D. Roosevelt. He maintained his conservatism despite his prominent position in Roosevelt's New Deal administration.
Garnerin, Andre-Jacques: French aeronaut, the first person to use a parachute regularly and successfully. He perfected the parachute and made jumps from greater altitudes than had been possible before.
garnet: any member of a group of common silicate minerals that have similar crystal structures and chemical compositions. They may be colourless, black, and many shades of red and green.
Garnet, Henry Highland: leading African American abolitionist and clergyman.
Garnett, Constance: nee Black English translator who made the great works of Russian literature available to English and American readers in the first half of the 20th century. The first to render ...
Garnett, David: English novelist, son of Edward and Constance Garnett, who was the most popularly acclaimed writer of this literary family.
Garnett, Edward: influential English critic and publisher's reader who discovered, advised, and tutored many of the great British writers of the early 20th century.
Garnett, Henry: English Jesuit superior implicated in the Gunpowder Plot, an abortive conspiracy to destroy the Protestant king James I of England and Parliament while in assembly on Nov. 5, 1605, in ...
Garnett, Richard: English writer, librarian, and the head of the Garnett family, which exerted a formative influence on the development of modern British writing. From the age of 15 until his retirement ...
Garnier, Charles: French architect of the Beaux-Arts style, famed as the creator of the Paris Opera House. He was admitted to the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in 1842 and was awarded the Grand ...
Garnier, Francis: French naval officer, colonial administrator, and explorer.
Garnier, Robert: outstanding French tragic dramatist of his time.
Garnier, Tony: a forerunner of 20th-century French architects, notable for his Cite Industrielle, a farsighted plan for an industrial city. He is also remembered, along with Auguste Perret, for the pioneering use ...
Garnier-Pages, Louis-Antoine: republican political figure prominent in the opposition to France's monarchical regimes from 1830 to 1870.
garnish: an embellishment added to a food to enhance its appearance or taste. Simple garnishes such as chopped herbs, decoratively cut lemons, parsley and watercress sprigs, browned breadcrumbs, sieved hardcooked eggs, ...
garnishment: (from Middle French garnir, meaning "to warn"), a process by which a creditor can obtain satisfaction of an indebtedness of the debtor by initiating a proceeding to attach property or ...
Garo Hills: physical region, western Meghalaya state, northeastern India. It comprises the western margin of the Shillong Plateau (q.v.) and rises to an elevation of 4,600 feet (1,400 m). Drained by various ...
Garofalo: Italian painter who was the most prolific 16th-century painter of the Ferrarese school.
Garonne River: most important river of southwestern France, rising in the Spanish central Pyrenees and flowing into the Atlantic by way of the estuary called the Gironde. It is 357 miles (575 ...
Garoua: town, northeastern Cameroon, west central Africa. The town lies along the right bank of the Benue (Benoue) River, north-northeast of Yaounde, the national capital. It is situated at the junction ...
Garrett: county, extreme western Maryland, U.S., lying between West Virginia to the west and south and Pennsylvania to the north. Parklands and lakes occupy one-fifth of the county area. Waterways such ...
Garrett, Joao Baptista da Silva Leitao de Almeida, Visconde De Almeida Garrett: writer, orator, and statesman who was one of Portugal's finest prose writers, an important playwright, and chief of the country's Romantic poets.
Garrett, Mary Smith; and Garrett, Emma: American educators who, in the contemporary debate over whether to teach sign language or speech and lipreading to deaf children, were prominent advocates of teaching speech.
Garrett, Pat: Western U.S. lawman known as the man who killed Billy the Kid (q.v.).
Garrick, David: English actor, producer, dramatist, poet, and comanager of the Drury Lane Theatre.
Garrincha: Brazilian football (soccer) player considered by many to be the best right winger in the history of the sport. An imaginative and skillful dribbler, he starred along with Pele and ...
Garrison, William Lloyd: American journalistic crusader who published a newspaper, The Liberator (1831-65), and helped lead the successful abolitionist campaign against slavery in the United States.
Garrod, Dorothy Annie Elizabeth: English archaeologist who directed excavations at Mount Carmel, Palestine (1929-34), uncovering skeletal remains of primary importance to the study of human evolution.
Garros, Pey de: Provencal poet whose work raised the Gascon dialect to the rank of a literary language in 16th-century France.
garrote: device used in strangling condemned persons. In one form it consists of an iron collar attached to a post. The victim's neck is placed in the collar, and the collar ...
Garrya: genus of about 15 species of shrubs or small trees, constituting the family Garryaceae, and native to the western United States and Mexico, with one species occurring in the West ...
Garshin, Vsevolod Mikhaylovich: Russian short-story writer whose works helped to foster the vogue enjoyed by that genre in Russia in the late 19th century.
Garson, Greer: motion-picture actress whose classic beauty and screen persona of elegance, poise, and maternal virtue made her one of the most popular and admired Hollywood stars of the World War II ...
Garstang, John: English archaeologist who made major contributions to the study of the ancient history and prehistory of Asia Minor and Palestine.
garter snake: any of more than a dozen species of nonvenomous snakes having a striped pattern suggesting a garter: typically, one or three longitudinal yellow to red stripes, between which are checkered ...
Garter, The Most Noble Order of the: English order of knighthood founded by King Edward III in 1348, ranked as the highest British civil and military honour obtainable. Because the earliest records of the order were destroyed ...
Gartok: town in the Tibetan autonomous ch'u (region), western China. It is located at an elevation of 14,630 feet (4,460 m) at the foot of the Kailas Range on the Gar ...
Garuda: in Hindu mythology, the bird and the vahana (mount) of the god Vishnu. In the Rgveda (a collection of Vedic hymns) the sun is compared to a bird in its ...
Garvey, Marcus: charismatic black leader who organized the first important American black nationalist movement (1919-26), based in New York City's Harlem.
Gary: city, Lake county, extreme northwest Indiana, U.S. It lies at the southern end of Lake Michigan, east of Chicago. In 1906 the town (named for Elbert H. Gary, chief organizer ...
Gary, Elbert Henry: U.S. jurist and chief organizer of the United States Steel Corporation.
Gary, Romain: original name Romain Kacew French novelist whose first work, L'Education europeenne (1945; Forest of Anger, 1944), won him immediate acclaim. Humanistic and optimistic despite its graphic depictions of the horrors ...
gas: one of the three fundamental states of matter, with distinctly different properties from the liquid and solid states.
gas burner: heating device in which natural gas is used for fuel. Gas may be supplied to the burner prior to combustion at a pressure sufficient to induce a supply of air ...
gas chamber: method of executing condemned prisoners by lethal gas. It was first used in the U.S. state of Nevada in 1924 in an effort to provide a more humane form of ...
gas chromatography: in analytical chemistry, technique for separating chemical substances in which the sample is carried by a moving gas stream through a tube packed with a finely divided solid that may ...
Gas Hills: district rich in uranium deposits, east-southeast of Riverton, central Wyoming, U.S. Uranium was first discovered there by Neil and Maxine McNeice in 1953 on a knoll, now called Discovery Hill, ...
gas mask: breathing device designed to protect the wearer against harmful substances in the air. The typical gas mask consists of a tight-fitting facepiece that contains filters, an exhalation valve, and transparent ...
gas meter: device for measuring the quantity or rate of flow of a gas. Types of gas meters (by operating principles) include displacement, velocity, head, thermal, acoustic, and tracer.
gas plant: ornamental, gland-covered perennial herb, of the rue family (Rutaceae), native to Eurasia. The flowers (white or pink) and the leaves give off a strong aromatic vapour which can be ignited, ...
gas reservoir: in geology, naturally occurring storage area, characteristically a folded rock formation such as an anticline, that traps and holds natural gas. The reservoir rock must be permeable and porous to ...
gas-turbine engine: any internal-combustion engine employing a gas as the working fluid used to turn a turbine. The term also is conventionally used to describe a complete internal-combustion engine consisting of at ...
Gascoigne, George: English poet and a major literary innovator.
Gascon, Jean: Canadian actor and director, cofounder of the Theatre du Nouveau Monde (1951) and cofounder of the National Theatre School (1960).
Gascony: historical and cultural region encompassing the southwestern French departements of Landes, Gers, and Hautes-Pyrenees and parts of Pyrenees-Atlantiques, Lot-et-Garonne, Tarn-et-Garonne, Haute-Garonne, and Ariege and coextensive with the historical region of ...
Gascoyne River: ephemeral river of west-central Western Australia. It rises in the northeastern Robinson Ranges west of the Gibson Desert, flows generally westward for 475 miles (760 km) through gold-mining and sheep-raising ...
Gascoyne, David: English poet deeply influenced by the French Surrealist movement of the 1930s.
Gash River: river rising in southern Eritrea, near Asmara. After flowing southward, it turns west and forms the border between Eritrea (north) and Ethiopia (south) along its middle course. It then continues ...
Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn: nee Stevenson English novelist, short-story writer, and first biographer of Charlotte Bronte.
gasoline: mixture of volatile, flammable liquid hydrocarbons derived from petroleum and used as fuel for internal-combustion engines. It is also used as a solvent for oils and fats. Originally a by-product ...
gasoline engine: any of a class of internal-combustion engines that generate power by burning a volatile liquid fuel with ignition initiated by an electric spark.