Gazi (from the article "Danishmend dynasty") Danishmend's son and successor, Gazi, intervened in dynastic struggles among the sons of Qilij Arslan ...
Gaziantep city, south-central Turkey. It is situated near the Sacirsuyu, a tributary of the Euphrates River, ...
gazista (from the article "cacos") ...Matias Delgado and Pedro Molina, liberals who demanded independence under a federalist, anticlerical constitution. They ...
gazpacho cold soup of Spanish cuisine, especially that of Andalusia. It is an ancient dish mentioned ...
Gazprom (from the article "Belarus") The year 2007 began in Belarus with a fractious dispute with Russia over natural gas ...
Gbagbo, Laurent African politician who became president of Cote d'Ivoire in 2000. During his presidency, he grappled ... [7 Related Articles]
Gbagyi language (from the article "Benue-Congo languages") The largest of the approximately 17 Nupoid languages are Nupe (1,000,000), Gbagyi (700,000), and Ebira ...
Gbari (from the article "African dance") ...with face masks and elaborate headpieces of embroidered cloth, which allow for a dance that ...
Gbarnga city, north-central Liberia, West Africa, at the intersection of roads from Monrovia and northern Sierra ...
Gbaya a people of southwestern Central African Republic, east-central Cameroon, northern Congo (Brazzaville), and northwestern Congo ...
Gbaya language (from the article "Gbaya") ...of southwestern Central African Republic, east-central Cameroon, northern Congo (Brazzaville), and northwestern Congo (Kinshasa). Numbering ...
gbekre (from the article "art, African") ...and human masks, the latter reported to be portraits used in commemorating the dead, are ...
Gcaleka (from the article "Xhosa") a cluster of related peoples living primarily in Eastern Cape province, South Africa, and forming ...
gcod esoteric Tibetan Buddhist rite that aims at "cutting off" the human ego and thus destroying ...
Gdansk city, capital of Pomorskie wojewodztwo (province), north-central Poland, situated at the mouth ... [7 Related Articles]
Gdansk, Gulf of southern inlet of the Baltic Sea, bordered by Poland on the west, south, and southeast ... [1 Related Articles]
Gdynia city, Pomorskie wojewodztwo (province), north-central Poland. It lies along the Gulf of ...
Ge South American Indian peoples who speak languages of the Macro-Ge group. They inhabit eastern and ... [1 Related Articles]
GE 645 (from the article "computer") ...with a new time-sharing-oriented operating system. AT&T dropped out after the project was well under ...
Ge Fei (from the article "Literature") Another notable novel to appear in China during the year was Shanhe ru meng ("Shadow ...
Ge Hinnom (from the article "death") ...to have been written between the 2nd century BC and the 2nd century AD, Sheol ...
Ge kiln kiln known for the wares it produced during the early Song dynasty (960-1162), probably in ... [2 Related Articles]
Ge languages a group of about 10 South American Indian languages that extend through inland eastern Brazil ... [4 Related Articles]
Ge Shuhan (from the article "An Lushan") ...in the narrow pass up the Huang He (Yellow River) leading into Shaanxi province. For ...
ge'ez (from the article "Ethiopian chant") ...a specific melodic formula, or serayu. In performance, a formula is embellished with improvised melodic ...
Ge'ez language liturgical language of the Ethiopian church. Ge'ez is a Semitic language of the Southern Peripheral ... [7 Related Articles]
Ge, Nikolay Nikolayevich (from the article "painting, Western") ...sign of qualities that were to become characteristic of modern painting. Though exceptional, it was ...
Geagea, Samir (from the article "Lebanon") ...June, after the parliament passed motions allowing two Christian leaders to participate in them. The ...
gear machine component consisting of a toothed wheel attached to a rotating shaft. Gears operate in ... [7 Related Articles]
gear oil (from the article "petroleum refining") In gear lubrication the oil separates metal surfaces, reducing friction and wear. Extreme pressures develop ...
gear pump (from the article "pump") The most common type of gear pump is illustrated in Figure 1. One of the ...
gear shaper (from the article "machine tool") ...such as making screws, and it presaged the momentous developments of the 20th century. Various ...
gear wheel (from the article "gear") machine component consisting of a toothed wheel attached to a rotating shaft. Gears operate in ...
gear-cutting machine (from the article "machine tool") Three basic cutting methods are used for machining gears: (1) form cutting, (2) template cutting, ...
gear-generating method (from the article "machine tool") Most cut gears produced in large lots are made on machines that utilize the gear-generating ...
gear-hobbing machine (from the article "machine tool") Gear-hobbing machines use a rotating, multiple-tooth cutting tool called a hob for generating teeth on ...
Geastrales (from the article "fungus") ...puffballs; included in subclass Agaricomycetidae; example genera include Boletus , Scleroderma , Coniophora , and Rhizopogon . Order Geastrales Found ...
Geastrum (from the article "Lycoperdaceae") Another genus is Geastrum (Geaster ), consisting of about 50 widespread species of earthstars with an ...
Geb in ancient Egyptian religion, the god of the earth, the physical support of the world. ... [3 Related Articles]
Geba River (from the article "Oio") ...concelhos (municipalities) of Farim, Bissora, and Mansoa in the mid-1970s. Oio's border with the Quinara ...
Gebel, Matthes (from the article "medal") ...the greatest sensitivity in capturing individual character in his portraits. Friedrich Hagenauer, active in Munich ...
Gebel-Williams, Gunther German-born American circus animal trainer (b. Sept. 12, 1934, Schweidnitz, Ger. [now Swidnica, Pol.]-d. July ... [1 Related Articles]
Geber unknown author of several books that were among the most influential works on alchemy and ... [2 Related Articles]
Gebhard (from the article "Germany") ...for power in Europe among the Habsburg dynasties, France, England, and the Netherlands-was likely to ...
Gebrauchsmusik music intended, by virtue of its simplicity of technique and style, primarily for performance by ... [1 Related Articles]
Gebroeders Jurgens (from the article "Unilever") ...companies founded in the 19th century. In The Netherlands the Jurgens family had been in ...
Gebrselassie, Haile (from the article "Track and Field Sports (Athletics)") On September 30 in Berlin, Ethiopian Haile Gebrselassie broke the marathon world record with a ...
Gebruder Thonet (from the article "Thonet, Michael") His representative works shown at the Great Exhibition, London (1851), were a huge success. In ...
Gecarcinus lateralis (from the article "land crab") ...fields, swamps, and mangrove thickets. Some penetrate inland as far as 8 km (about 5 ...
gecko any lizard of the family Gekkonidae, which contains over 100 genera and nearly 1,000 species. ... [6 Related Articles]
Ged, William Scottish goldsmith who invented (1725) stereotyping, a process in which a whole page of type ...
Gedaliah (from the article "Jeremiah") When Jerusalem finally fell, Jeremiah was released from prison by the Babylonians and offered safe ...
Gedaliah, fast of a minor Jewish observance (on Tishri 3) that mournfully recalls the assassination of Gedaliah, Jewish ... [2 Related Articles]
Gedda, Luigi (from the article "Pius XII") ...high point in the 1950s when Pius's failing health left the power of the Vatican ...
Geddes, James American civil engineer, lawyer, and politician who played a leading role in the construction of ...
Geddes, Norman Bel American theatrical designer whose clean, functional decors contributed substantially to the trend away from naturalism ... [2 Related Articles]
Geddes, Sir Patrick Scottish biologist and sociologist who was one of the modern pioneers of the concept of ...
Gede, Mount (from the article "Major volcanoes of the world") The landscape of Jawa Barat is dominated by a chain of volcanoes, both active and ...
Gedge, Ernest (from the article "Elgon, Mount") ...slopes. Elgonyi was the Masai name for the mountain. The Scottish explorer Joseph Thomson visited ...
Gedhun Choekyi Nyima (from the article "Panchen Lama") Following the death of the 10th Panchen Lama, a search was undertaken to discover his ...
Gedik Pasa Theatre (from the article "Islamic arts") The Gedik Pasa Theatre, which is named for the area in Istanbul where it was ...
Gediminas grand duke of Lithuania, the strongest contemporary ruler of eastern Europe. [6 Related Articles]
Gedling borough (district), administrative and historic county of Nottinghamshire, east-central England. The district takes its name ...
Gedrosia historic region west of the Indus River, in what is now the Baluchistan region of ... [1 Related Articles]
Gee (from the article "air warfare") From late 1943 the RAF used two radar-beam systems called Gee and Oboe to guide ...
Gee, Kenneth English rugby player, a member of the powerful Wigan club that won the Rugby League ...
Gee, Maurice novelist best known for his realistic evocations of New Zealand life. He also wrote popular ... [2 Related Articles]
Geel commune , Antwerp province , northern Belgium, in the Kempenland (Campine) Plateau, east of Antwerp. Renowned for ... Geel, Jacob (from the article "Dutch literature") Although Jacob Geel's essays in Onderzoek en phantasie (1838; "Inquiry and Fantasy") set a new ...
geeldikopp (from the article "radiation") ...animals result from ingestion of plants having photodynamic pigments. For example, St. Johnswort's disease is ...
Geelong second largest city of Victoria, Australia, and a major port on Corio Bay (an extension ... [1 Related Articles]
Geelong Cats (from the article "AFL Grand Final") ...as the AFL) in 1982 with the Hawthorn Football Club, where he played in only ...
Geelvink Bay (from the article "art and architecture, Oceanic") The Geelvink Bay area, including several offshore islands, is located at the northwestern end of ...
geer (from the article "Rajasthan") The typical folk dance of Rajasthan is the ghoomar , which is performed on festive occasions ...
Geer, Dirk Jan de conservative statesman and prime minister of The Netherlands (1926-29, 1939-40) who was disgraced for attempting ...
Geertgen Tot Sint Jans Dutch painter of religious subjects, notable for his harmonious fusion of the elements of the ...
Geertz, Clifford American cultural anthropologist, a leading rhetorician and proponent of symbolic anthropology and interpretive anthropology. [5 Related Articles]
Geesink, Anton Dutch athlete who was the first non-Japanese to win a world championship in judo. [1 Related Articles]
Geestmunde (from the article "Bremerhaven") ...the Weser. It became a municipality by the amalgamation of three separate towns: Bremerhaven, founded ...
Gefaller, Georg (from the article "skibobbing") ...was patented in the United States in 1892 and an Austrian device in 1902. Swiss ...
Geffen, David (from the article "Spielberg, Steven") Spielberg was also the executive producer of many television series, documentaries, and films by other ...
Geffrard, Fabre (from the article "Haiti") ...and became particularly repressive; however, his regime was in some ways a return to power ...
Geg (from the article "Albania") The two main subgroups of Albanians are the Gegs (Ghegs) in the north and the ...
Geg (from the article "Albania") ...family. Influenced by centuries of rule by foreigners, the Albanian vocabulary has adopted many words ...
Gegenbaur, Karl German anatomist who demonstrated that the field of comparative anatomy offers important evidence in support ...
gegenschein oval patch of faint luminosity exactly opposite to the Sun in the night sky. The ... [1 Related Articles]
Gehenna abode of the damned in the afterlife in Jewish and Christian eschatology (the doctrine of ... [2 Related Articles]
Gehlen Organization (from the article "BND") (German: "Federal Intelligence Service"), foreign intelligence agency of the West German government. Created in April ...
Gehlen, Reinhard (from the article "BND") ...foreign intelligence agency of the West German government. Created in April 1956, it absorbed the ...
gehlenite (from the article "gehlenite") mineral composed of calcium aluminum silicate, Ca2 Al2 SiO7 , one end-member of the melilite mineral series (see ...
Gehrig, Lou one of the most durable players in American professional baseball and one of its great ... [4 Related Articles]
Gehry, Frank O. American architect and designer whose original, sculptural, often audacious work won him worldwide renown. [6 Related Articles]
Geibel, Emanuel German poet who was the centre of a circle of literary figures drawn together in ... [1 Related Articles]
Geigenwerck (from the article "keyboard instrument") ...1610. These instruments had a series of rosined wheels that rubbed the strings when they ...
Geiger counter (from the article "Geiger counter") type of ionization chamber (q.v. ) especially effective for counting individual particles of radiation.Geiger counter
Geiger discharge (from the article "radiation measurement") ...can breed another, spreading throughout the entire volume of the gas-multiplication region around the anode ...
geiger tree (from the article "Cordia") The leaves of the tropical American geiger tree, aloewood, or sebesten plum (C. sebestena ) are ...
Geiger, Abraham German-Jewish theologian, author, and the outstanding leader in the early development of Reform Judaism. [3 Related Articles]
Geiger, Arno (from the article "Literature") In 2005 the Federation of German Booksellers awarded its German Book Prize, with a first ...
Geiger, Hans German physicist who introduced the first successful detector (the Geiger counter) of individual alpha particles ... [6 Related Articles]
Geiger, Moritz (from the article "Phenomenology") ...the co-editors, Alexander Pfander contributed chiefly to the development of phenomenological psychology and pure logic ...
Geiger, Rudolf Oskar Robert Williams German meteorologist, one of the founders of microclimatology, the study of the climatic conditions within ...
Geiger, Theodor Julius German sociologist and first professor of sociology in Denmark, whose most important studies concerned social ...
Geiger-Muller tube (from the article "Table 5: Applications of Radiation Interactions in Detectors") ...strength required for additional avalanches to form, and the Geiger discharge ceases. In the process ...
Geiger-Nuttall law (from the article "radioactivity") ...German physicist Johannes Wilhelm Geiger, together with the British physicist John Mitchell Nuttall, noted the ...
Geigy, Johann Rudolf (from the article "Novartis AG") Geigy dates to 1758, when Johann Rudolf Geigy set up shop in Basel as a ...
Geijer, Erik Gustaf Swedish poet, historian, philosopher, and social and political theorist who was a leading advocate, successively, ...
Geikie, Sir Archibald British geologist who became the foremost advocate of the fluvial theories of erosion. His prolific ...
Gein, Ed American serial killer whose gruesome crimes inspired popular books and films in the second half ...
Geiranger Fjord (from the article "The Environment") The World Heritage Committee inscribed seven new sites on the World Heritage list in July. ...
Geisel, Ernesto army general who was president of Brazil from 1974 to 1979. [3 Related Articles]
Geisel, Theodor Seuss American writer and illustrator of immensely popular children's books. [1 Related Articles]
geisha a member of a professional class of women in Japan whose traditional occupation is to ...
Geissler discharge tube (from the article "electric discharge lamp") ...to glow. The French astronomer Jean Picard observed (1675) a faint glow in a mercury-barometer ...
Geissler, Heinrich German glassblower for whom the Geissler (mercury) pump and the Geissler tube are named. [2 Related Articles]
Geissois racemosa (from the article "Cunoniaceae") ...in the order Oxalidales, comprising 26 genera of shrubs and trees, native primarily to tropical ...
Geist (from the article "aesthetics") ...to the spirit by articulating in concrete form its inner tensions and resolutions. For Hegel, ...
Geitel, Hans (from the article "thermionic power converter") ...Alexandre-Edmond Becquerel reported that only a few volts were required to drive electric current through ...
Gejiu city, southern Yunnan sheng (province), China. It lies near the Vietnamese border ... [2 Related Articles]
Gekkoninae (from the article "lizard") ...mode. They live in southwestern North America, Central America, southern Asia, and Africa south of ...
Gekkota (from the article "lizard") An early split within Scleroglossa produced the Gekkota (geckos) and the Autarchoglossa (snakes, skinks, and ...
gekokujo (from the article "arts, East Asian") ...Ashikaga ascendancy took the political and cultural revolution initiated by the Minamoto clan back to ...
gel coherent mass consisting of a liquid in which particles too small to be seen in ... [2 Related Articles]
gel chromatography in analytical chemistry, technique for separating chemical substances by exploiting the differences in the rates ... [3 Related Articles]
gel sieving (from the article "separation and purification") Proteins can also be electrophoretically separated by gel sieving. In this technique, the protein is ...
gel spinning (from the article "fibre, man-made") Gel spinning is an old technique that has come into use commercially only since the ...
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