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- (from the article "Spanish literature") ...The reputed author of more than 100 works, Maria del Pilar Sinues y Navarro made women her primary subjects, treating marriage, motherhood, domestic life, and women's education. Ana Garcia de ...
- Garcia Granados, Miguel
- (from the article "Guatemala") In 1871 a revolution headed by Miguel Garcia Granados and Justo Rufino Barrios overthrew Gen. Vicente Cerna, Carrera's conservative successor in office, and inaugurated a period of liberal ascendancy that ...
- Garcia Gutierrez, Antonio
- dramatist whose play El trovador (1836; "The Troubadour") was the most popular and successful drama of the Romantic period in Spain. It formed the basis for the Italian composer Giuseppe ...
- Garcia I
- (from the article "Kings and queens regnant of Spain") The apparent weakness of Islamic Spain and the growth of the Asturian kingdom encouraged Garcia I (910-914) to transfer the seat of his power from Oviedo southward to the city ...
- Garcia I (or II) Sanchez
- king of Pamplona (Navarre) from 925 to 970, son of Sancho I Garces and Queen Toda Aznar. He owed his throne to the support of his cousin 'Abd ar-Rahman III, ...
- Garcia II
- king of Galicia from 1065 to 1071. His father, Ferdinand I the Great, divided his lands among his three sons: Alfonso VI received Leon; Sancho II received Castile; and Garcia ...
- Garcia II (or III)
- king of Pamplona (Navarre) and of Aragon from about 994 to about 1000, son of Sancho II Garces. Coming to the aid of besieged Castile, Garcia fought against the Muslim ...
- Garcia II Nkanga a Lukeni
- (from the article "Kongo") ...(a Kongo territory) and create the Portuguese colony that became Angola. Relations with Angola soon soured and then worsened when Angola's governor briefly invaded southern Kongo in 1622. Later, Garcia ...
- Garcia III (or IV)
- king of Pamplona (Navarre) from 1035 to 1054. Following an old custom, Sancho III the Great divided his Spanish lands among his four sons: Ferdinand I received Castile; Gonzalo received ... [2 Related Articles]
- Garcia IV (or V)
- king of Pamplona (Navarre) from 1134 to 1150, grandson of Sancho IV and son of El Cid's daughter Cristina and Ramiro Sanchez, lord of Monzon. [1 Related Articles]
- Garcia Lorca, Federico
- Spanish poet and playwright who, in a career that spanned just 19 years, resurrected and revitalized the most basic strains of Spanish poetry and theatre. He is known primarily for ... [9 Related Articles]
- Garcia Marquez, Gabriel
- Colombian novelist and one of the greatest writers of the 20th century, who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982 (see Nobel Lecture: "The Solitude of Latin America"), ... [5 Related Articles]
- Garcia Meza, Luis
- (from the article "Bolivia") ...during which one of the country's most acclaimed authors and political leaders, Marcelo Quiroga Santa Cruz, was murdered. Over the next 13 months an extremist military government led by General ...
- Garcia Moreno, Gabriel
- initiator of a church-oriented dictatorship in Ecuador (1861-75). His rule, oppressive but often effective in its reformist aims, eventually cost him his life. [2 Related Articles]
- Garcia Ponce, Juan
- Mexican man of letters (b. Sept. 22, 1932, Merida, Mex.-d. Dec. 27, 2003, Mexico City, Mex.), wrote more than 40 imaginative works noted for their lush descriptions. Three of these ...
- Garcia Robles, Alfonso
- Mexican diplomat and advocate of nuclear disarmament, corecipient with Alva Myrdal of Sweden of the Nobel Prize for Peace in 1982.
- Garcia, Alan
- Peruvian politician who served as president of Peru (1985-90; 2006- ). [5 Related Articles]
- Garcia, Carlos Polestico
- fourth president of the Republic of the Philippines. After graduating from law school in 1923, he became, successively, a schoolteacher, representative in the Philippine Congress, governor of his province (Bohol), ... [1 Related Articles]
- Garcia, Cristina
- (from the article "American literature") ...nonetheless had a subtle understanding of both the old and the new culture. These included the Cuban American writers Oscar Hijuelos (The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love [1989]) and ...
- Garcia, Diego
- (from the article "Argentina") In 1528 Cabot met another expedition from Spain under Diego Garcia, commander of a ship from the Solis expedition. Both Cabot and Garcia had planned to sail for the Moluccas ...
- Garcia, Jerome John
- ("JERRY"), U.S. musician (b. Aug. 1, 1942, San Francisco, Calif.--d. Aug. 9, 1995, Forest Knolls, Calif.), personified the hippie counterculture for three decades as the mellow leader of the rock ... [1 Related Articles]
- Garcia, Manuel
- the most renowned European teacher of singing in the 19th century. [1 Related Articles]
- Garcia, Manuel del Popolo
- Spanish tenor and composer, one of the finest singers of his time. [1 Related Articles]
- Garcia, Sergio
- (from the article "Golf") ...a double bogey and a bogey. Harrington led as a result, but on the 18th he twice went into the stream known as the Barry Burn, and his double-bogey six ...
- Garcilaso de la Vega
- one of the great Spanish chroniclers of the 16th century, noted as the author of distinguished works on the history of the Indians in South America and the expeditions of ... [3 Related Articles]
- Garcilaso de la Vega
- the first major poet in the Golden Age of Spanish literature (c. 1500-1650). [3 Related Articles]
- Garcinia
- genus in the family Clusiaceae, with 240 species of trees and shrubs found throughout the tropics, but especially in the Paleotropics. . The best known of these species is a ... [1 Related Articles]
- Gard
- (from the article "Languedoc-Roussillon") region of France encompassing the southern departements of Lozere, Gard, Herault, Aude, and Pyrenees-Orientales and roughly coextensive with the former province of Languedoc. Languedoc-Roussillon ...
- Gard, Pont du
- (French: "Bridge of the Gard"), giant bridge-aqueduct, a notable ancient Roman engineering work constructed about 19 BC to carry water to the city of Nimes over the Gard River in ... [2 Related Articles]
- Garda, Lake
- the largest (area 143 square miles [370 square km]) of the Italian lakes, bordering Lombardy (southwest and west), Veneto (east and southeast), and Trentino-Alto Adige (north). It is surpassed in ... [3 Related Articles]
- Gardam, Jane
- (from the article "Literature") ...postpartum depression, and what happens when one woman's obsession with politics blinds her to the plight of her teenage daughter. A favourite with bookmakers was Old Filth (2004) by Jane ...
- Gardar
- (from the article "Husavik") ...Bay, northeast of Akureyri, and is the oldest settlement in Iceland. According to legend, Husavik ("Bay of the Houses") was so named because a Swedish seafarer, Gardar, blown off course, ...
- Gardasil
- trade name of human papillomavirus (HPV) quadrivalent (types 6, 11, 16, and 18) vaccine, recombinant, the first HPV vaccine used primarily to prevent cervical cancer in women. Developed by Australian ... [3 Related Articles]
- Gardel, Carlos
- Argentine singer and actor, celebrated throughout Latin America for his espousal of tango music.
- garden
- (from the article "garden and landscape design") the development and decorative planting of gardens, yards, grounds, parks, and other types of areas. Gardening and landscape design is used to enhance the settings for buildings and public areas ...
- garden and landscape design
- the development and decorative planting of gardens, yards, grounds, parks, and other types of areas. Gardening and landscape design is used to enhance the settings for buildings and public areas ... [11 Related Articles]
- garden balsam
- (from the article "Impatiens") Impatiens balsamina, the garden balsam, is native to the tropics of Asia but has long been cultivated in temperate regions of the world. In its many horticultural forms it is ...
- garden beet
- (from the article "beet") ...form of the plant Beta vulgaris of the goosefoot family (Chenopodiaceae), one of the most important vegetables. Four distinct types are cultivated for four different purposes: (1) the garden beet, ...
- garden carpet
- floor covering designed as a Persian garden seen from directly above. The design consists of a central watercourse, with tributary canals of various sizes, interrupted by islands or by ponds ... [3 Related Articles]
- garden centipede
- (from the article "symphylan") Symphylans occur worldwide but chiefly in the tropics. Most live in and eat decaying plant matter, although some feed on dead insects and the tender parts of living plants. The ...
- Garden City
- city, seat (1883) of Finney county, southwestern Kansas, U.S. It lies on the Arkansas River. Founded in 1878, it acquired its name through the suggestion of a visitor who admired ...
- Garden City
- residential village, town (township) of Hempstead, Nassau county, New York, U.S. It is located on western Long Island. One of the nation's first planned communities, it was the aspiration of ... [1 Related Articles]
- garden city
- the ideal of a planned residential community, as devised by the English town planner Ebenezer Howard (q.v.) and promoted by him in Tomorrow: A Peaceful Path to Social Reform (1898). ... [4 Related Articles]
- garden cress
- (from the article "cress") ...is a hardy creeping perennial plant, native to Europe but extensively naturalized elsewhere in streams, pools, and ditches. Fresh watercress is used as a salad green and sandwich filling. Common ...
- garden fleahopper
- (from the article "plant bug") The garden fleahopper (Halticus bractatus) is a small, shiny black jumping bug about 2 mm long. The forewings of this short-winged leaf bug lack a membrane and resemble the hard ...
- Garden Grove
- city, Orange county, southern California, U.S. Adjacent to the cities of Santa Ana (southeast) and Anaheim (northeast), Garden Grove is 25 miles (40 km) southeast of Los Angeles. The area ...
- garden heliotrope
- (from the article "heliotrope") ...or temperate, mostly herbaceous plants that make up the genus Heliotropium (family Boraginaceae) and are distributed throughout the world. The genus has many weedy species. The best known is garden ...
- Garden Island
- Australian island in the Indian Ocean, just off the southwest coast of Western Australia, 30 mi (48 km) southwest of Perth. With Green and Penguin islands, it shelters Cockburn Sound ...
- Garden Key
- (from the article "Dry Tortugas") ...for the tortoises (Spanish tortugas) that abounded there. Later mariners added the accurate adjective dry. A lighthouse was constructed on Garden Key in 1825, ...
- garden mignonette
- (from the article "mignonette") ...leaf blades are typically pinnately lobed. Mignonettes bear long spikes-technically racemes-of small white or yellowish green flowers that have orange anthers (pollen sacs). The popular garden mignonette (R. odorata) assumes ...
- Garden of Students
- (from the article "Dewantoro, Ki Hadjar") original name Raden Mas (Lord) Suwardi Surjaningrat founder of the Taman Siswa (literally "Garden of Students") school system, an influential and widespread network of schools that encouraged modernization but also ...
- Garden of the Master of the Nets
- (from the article "arts, East Asian") ...preserved today, the Liu Garden in Su-chou offers the finest general design and the best examples of garden rockery and latticed windows, while the small and delicate Garden of the ...
- garden pansy
- (from the article "pansy") ...under such diverse conditions and in such a variety of forms that their origin is uncertain. The numerous forms, with their striking variations in colour, are the product of domestication. ...
- garden pea
- (from the article "Pea plants with dominant and recessive characters obtained by Mendel in the second generation of hybrids") ...species, comprising hundreds of varieties, of herbaceous annual plants belonging to the family Leguminosae, grown virtually worldwide for their edible seeds. Pisum sativum is the common garden pea of the ...
- Garden Peninsula
- (from the article "Green Bay") ...miles (37 km) at its widest point, opposite Rock Island Passage (the main entrance to the bay), located between Rock and St. Martin islands. The bay is partially sheltered from ...
- Garden Ring
- (from the article "Moscow") In the remainder of the central part of Moscow, within the Garden Ring, are buildings representative of every period of Moscow's development from the 15th century to the present day. ...
- garden sculpture
- (from the article "metalwork") An extension of the use of lead took place with the introduction of lead garden sculpture-figures, vases, and urns-in the late 17th century. An example of this work is a ...
- garden sorrel
- (from the article "sorrel") ...pungent, sour leaves are used as a vegetable, as a flavouring in omelets and sauces, and as the chief ingredient of creamed sorrel soup. The young leaves are used in ...
- garden spider
- a member of the orb weaver family Araneidae (order Araneida) characterized by white marks arranged in the form of a cross on the abdomen. A fairly common species, the garden ... [1 Related Articles]
- garden warbler
- (from the article "migration") ...true celestial navigation is involved because the birds determine their latitude and longitude by the position of the stars. In a planetarium in Germany, blackcaps (Sylvia atricapilla) and garden warblers ...
- Garden, Mary
- soprano famous for her vivid operatic portrayals. She was noted for her acting as well as her singing and was an important figure in American opera.
- Garden, The
- (from the article "Epicurus") When Epicurus and his followers came to Athens in 306, he bought a house and, in the garden, established a school, which came to be known as Ho Kepos (The ...
- gardener
- (from the article "bowerbird") ...type consists of a tower of twigs erected around one or more saplings in a cleared court. The golden bowerbird (Prionodura newtoniana) makes a rooflike bridge from tower to tower. ...
- Gardener, Helen Hamilton
- American writer, reformer, and public official, a strong force in the service of woman suffrage and of feminism generally.
- Gardenia
- genus of ornamental shrubs and trees of the madder family (Rubiaceae), containing about 60 species native to tropical and subtropical Africa and Asia. Gardenias have white or yellow tubular flowers, ...
- gardening
- the laying out and care of a plot of ground devoted partially or wholly to the growing of plants such as flowers, herbs, or vegetables. [14 Related Articles]
- gardening
- (from the article "Moon") ...bombardment and of the Moon's thermal, particulate, and radiation environments. In the ancient past the stream of impacting bodies, some of which were quite large, turned over-or "gardened"-the lunar surface ...
- Gardeyz
- town, eastern Afghanistan, located on a high plain at an elevation of 7,550 feet (2,300 m), near the Jolgeh-ye Janubi River. Gardeyz is a trade centre for lumber produced in ...
- Gardiner
- city, Kennebec county, southwestern Maine, U.S., on the Kennebec River (head of navigation) just south of Augusta and bounding the towns of Farmingdale, West Gardiner, and Richmond. Founded in 1754 ...
- Gardiner, James Garfield
- Canadian politician who twice served as premier of Saskatchewan (1926-29 and 1934-35).
- Gardiner, Samuel Rawson
- English historian, whose career was dedicated to the study of the English Civil Wars. [1 Related Articles]
- Gardiner, Sir Alan
- (from the article "Sinaitic inscriptions") ...As yet not satisfactorily deciphered, the small number of different Sinaitic symbols appear to indicate that the writing system was alphabetic rather than ideographic. In 1916 British Egyptologist Sir Alan ...
- Gardiner, Stephen
- English bishop and statesman, a leading exponent of conservatism in the first generation of the English Reformation. Although he supported the antipapal policies of King Henry VIII (ruled 1509-47), Gardiner ... [2 Related Articles]
- Gardini, Raul
- Italian entrepreneur (b. June 7, 1933, Ravenna, Italy--d. July 23, 1993, Milan, Italy), turned a provincial, family-owned agribusiness into Italy's second-largest company and made himself into one of the country's ...
- Gardner Museum
- home and art collection, located in Fenway Court, Boston, Mass., U.S. The building, designed in the style of a 15th-century Venetian palace and built between 1899 and 1903, houses a ... [1 Related Articles]
- Gardner, Alexander
- photographer of the American Civil War and of the American West during the latter part of the 19th century. [3 Related Articles]
- Gardner, Ava
- American film actress of the 1940s and '50s who, despite her renowned beauty and sensuality, successfully resisted being typecast as a sex symbol. [1 Related Articles]
- Gardner, Beatrix Tugendhut
- Austrian-born U.S. psychologist who with her husband, R. Allan Gardner, taught a chimpanzee sign language (b. July 13, 1933--d. June 5, 1995).
- Gardner, Carl
- (from the article "Coasters, the") American rhythm-and-blues and rock-and-roll vocal quartet, one of the most popular of the 1950s. The principal members were Carl Gardner (b. April 29, 1928Tyler, Texas, U.S.), Bobby Nunn (b. June ...
- Gardner, David and Tom
- U.S. entrepreneurs David and Tom Gardner, co-founders of the Motley Fool: The Online Investment Forum for the Individual Investor, emerged in 1996 as investment gurus of the '90s. Utilizing ...
- Gardner, David and Tom
- U.S. entrepreneurs David and Tom Gardner, co-founders of the Motley Fool: The Online Investment Forum for the Individual Investor, emerged in 1996 as investment gurus of the '90s. Utilizing ...
- Gardner, Erle Stanley
- American author and lawyer who wrote nearly 100 detective and mystery novels that sold more than 1,000,000 copies each, making him easily the best-selling American writer of his time. His ...
- Gardner, Ernest Arthur
- (from the article "Naukratis") The site of Naukratis was discovered in 1884 by W.M. Flinders Petrie and excavated by Petrie and Ernest Gardner (1884-86) and by D.G. Hogarth (1899, 1903). They uncovered dedications to ...
- Gardner, Gerald Brousseau
- (from the article "witchcraft") ...No cult of the "Goddess" played a significant role in Western culture between late antiquity and the mid-20th century. Wicca, in fact, originated about 1939 with an Englishman, Gerald Gardner, ...
- Gardner, Helen
- American art historian and educator whose exhaustive, standard-setting art history textbook remained widely read for many years.
- Gardner, Herbert George
- American playwright (b. Dec. 28, 1934, Brooklyn, N.Y.-d. Sept. 24, 2003, New York, N.Y.), featured eccentric characters struggling against conformity in comedies that included A Thousand Clowns (1962; filmed 1965), ...
- Gardner, Howard
- (from the article "genius") ...ability, creativity, mastery of a domain, and other personality traits such as autonomy and capacity for endurance. One important contemporary perspective, developed by the American psychologist Howard Gardner, is the ...
- Gardner, Isabella Stewart
- eclectic American socialite and art collector, a patron of many arts, remembered largely for the distinctive collection of European and Asian artworks that she assembled in Boston.
- Gardner, John
- American novelist and poet whose philosophical fiction reveals his characters' inner conflicts.
- Gardner, John Edmond
- British writer was the author of more than 50 thrillers but was best known for his 16 books that continued Ian Fleming's James Bond series. Gardner's first published book, Spin ...
- Gardner, John William
- American social and political activist (b. Oct. 8, 1912, Los Angeles, Calif.-d. Feb. 16, 2002, Palo Alto, Calif.), had a more than half-century-long career of public service highlighted by his ...
- Gardner, Percy
- English archaeologist who was noted for his contributions to the study of Greek numismatics.
- Gardner, Rulon
- (from the article "Wrestling") ...division. Ibrahim scored a 12-1 technical superiority win over Ramaz Nozadze of Georgia to give Egypt its first Olympic gold medal since 1948. In the superheavyweight competition, American Rulon Gardner, ...
- Gardnerella
- (from the article "vaginitis") Among the microorganisms that commonly cause vaginitis are Candida albicans, a common yeast that is the cause of candidiasis; Gardnerella bacteria; and Trichomonas vaginalis, ...
- Gare du Nord
- (from the article "Western architecture") ...the Classical style. Jacques-Ignace Hittorff was typical of those architects who combined the practice of modern classicism with archaeological investigation into Greek and Roman architecture. His Gare du Nord, Paris ...
- Garfield
- American newspaper comic strip featuring a fat, lazy cat with a dry sense of humour. Garfield became the most widely syndicated comic strip of its era.
- Garfield, James A.
- 20th president of the United States (March 4-September 19, 1881), who had the second shortest tenure in presidential history. When he was shot and incapacitated, serious constitutional questions arose concerning ... [4 Related Articles]
- Garfield, John
- American film and stage actor who is best known for his intense portrayals of rebels and antiheroes.
- Garfield, Leon
- (from the article "children's literature") ...(pseudonym of Ronald O. Felton), C. Walter Hodges, Hester Burton, Mary Ray, Naomi Mitchison, and K.M. Peyton, whose "Flambards" series is a kind of Edwardian historical family chronicle. Leon Garfield, ...
- Garfield, Lucretia
- American first lady (March 4-September 19, 1881), the wife of James A. Garfield, 20th president of the United States. Although first lady for only a few months, she was one ...
- garfish
- (from the article "garfish") European species of needlefish (q.v.).for more general content related to this topicneedlefish
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