A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z 0-9 Gela ... General Certificate of Education Gela town, southern Sicily, Italy, on the Gulf of Gela (of the Mediterranean Sea) with a ... [2 Related Articles] gelada large baboonlike monkey that differs from true baboons in having the nostrils some distance from ... [4 Related Articles] Gelaohui (from the article "China") ...collecting funds from the overseas Chinese, as well as in attracting secret-society members on the ... Gelasius I, Saint pope from 492 to 496. [3 Related Articles] Gelasius II pope from 1118 to 1119. [2 Related Articles] Gelassenheit (from the article "Amish") ...faceless. Musical instruments are also forbidden by the Old Order Amish, as playing these, they ... gelatin animal protein substance having gel-forming properties, used primarily in food products and home cookery, also ... [8 Related Articles] gelatin process photographic process in which gelatin is used as the dispersing vehicle for the light-sensitive silver ... [1 Related Articles] gelatinization (from the article "cereal processing") The gelatinization of starch that occurs in hot water is an important characteristic, and the ... gelatinous dynamite (from the article "Nobel, Alfred Bernhard") ...and he formed a web of corporations to produce and market his explosives. He also ... Gelb, Ignace (from the article "writing") The Polish American Assyriologist Ignace Gelb distinguished four stages in this evolution, beginning with picture ... Gelb, Peter (from the article "Performing Arts") ...of Puccini's Gianni Schicchi; another film director, William Friedkin (The Exorcist), would direct the other ... Gelbakh, Igor (from the article "Literature") ...in the journal Znameni; Yevgeny Grishkovets's Rubashka ("The Shirt"), a brief, lively novel about one ... Gelber, Jack American playwright known for The Connection (performed 1959, published 1960), and for ... [2 Related Articles] Gelber, Noah (from the article "Performing Arts") ...centenary of the birth of composer Dmitry Shostakovich. The Mariinsky troupe featured a new version ... geld (from the article "United Kingdom") William made the most of the financial system he had inherited. In addition to customary ... Geld Valley line (from the article "World War II") ...and by noon on May 12 they were in the outskirts of Rotterdam. North of ... Gelder, Aert de the only Dutch artist of the late 17th and early 18th century to paint in ... [1 Related Articles] Gelderland provincie, eastern and central Netherlands; it occupies an area (1,935 square miles [5,011 square km]) ... [4 Related Articles] gelding (from the article "horse") A mature male horse is called a stallion, the female a mare. A stallion used ... gelechiid moth any of more than 4,500 species of moths (order Lepidoptera), some of which are important ... [1 Related Articles] Gelechioidea (from the article "lepidopteran") ...day-flying moths that often mimic butterflies and other colourful moths such as the Arctiidae; larvae ... Gelede (from the article "African dance") ...is no clear distinction between ritual celebration and social recreation in dance performances; one purpose ... Gelernter, David (from the article "computer") ...all over the world. Distributed computing promises to make better use of computers connected to ... Gelfond's theorem (from the article "Gelfond, Aleksandr Osipovich") ...proved that ab is transcendental if a is an algebraic number not equal to 0 ... Gelfond, Aleksandr Osipovich Russian mathematician who originated basic techniques in the study of transcendental numbers (numbers that cannot ... [1 Related Articles] Gelimer last Vandal king (ruled 530-534) of the area called by the Romans "Africa" (roughly, modern ... Gelinas, Gratien Canadian actor, director, producer, and playwright whose creation of the street urchin character Fridolin in ... [1 Related Articles] Gelisol one of the 12 soil orders of the U.S. Soil Taxonomy. Gelisols are perennially frozen ... [1 Related Articles] Gell-Mann, Murray American physicist, winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics for 1969 for his work pertaining ... [6 Related Articles] Gellar, Sarah Michelle In recent years a number of American television shows that catered to the youth market ... Gellert in Welsh tradition, the trusted hound of Prince Llewellyn the Great of Wales. Having been ... Gellert Hill (from the article "Budapest") To the south of Castle Hill rises the higher Gellert Hill (771 feet), a steep ... Gellert, Christian Furchtegott poet and novelist, a prominent representative of the German Enlightenment whose works were, for a ... Gellert, Hans-Georg (from the article "Ziegler, Karl") Between 1952 and 1953, Ziegler and Hans-Georg Gellert, one of his former students from Halle, ... Gellhorn, Martha Ellis American journalist and novelist (b. Nov. 8, 1908, St. Louis, Mo.--d. Feb. 15, 1998, London, ... Gelligaer community formerly known for mining, Caerphilly county borough, historic county of Glamorgan (Morgannwg), Wales, lying ... Gellius, Aulus Latin author remembered for his miscellany Noctes Atticae ("Attic Nights"), in which many fragments of ... [3 Related Articles] Gellner, Ernest Andre Czech-born British philosopher, social anthropologist, and director of the Centre for the Study of Nationalism ... Gelman, Juan At a ceremony in Spain in 2008 during which the Argentine poet Juan Gelman received ... [2 Related Articles] Gelmirez, Diego Spanish bishop and archbishop of Santiago de Compostela, site of the supposed shrine of St. ... Gelon tyrant of the cities of Gela (491-485) and Syracuse (485-478) in Sicily. [2 Related Articles] Gelosi, Compagnia dei (Italian: "Company of Jealous Ones"), one of the earliest and most famous of the commedia ... [3 Related Articles] Gelpcke v. City of Dubuque (from the article "Swayne, Noah H.") ...at the urging of his predecessor John McLean and of the Ohio congressional delegation. He ... Gelre (from the article "Gelderland") The province's history began with the countship of Gelre, or Geldern, established in the 11th ... Gelsemiaceae (from the article "Gentianales") Gelsemiaceae is a small family of 2 shrubby or lianoid genera and 11 species that ... Gelsenkirchen city, North Rhine-Westphalia Land (state), western Germany. It lies just north of ... Geltzer, Yekaterina Vasilyevna prima ballerina of the Moscow Bolshoi Theatre who, during the period of disorder following the ... [1 Related Articles] gem cutting (from the article "jewelry") Until the 15th century, stones were only polished or the part to be left visible ... gem engraving (from the article "gemstone") In addition to unfaceted stones being cabochon cut, some are engraved. High-speed, diamond-tipped cutting tools ... gem setting (from the article "jewelry") The evolution of techniques of setting has followed that of stonecutting. The insertion of gems ... gem-dithiol (from the article "organosulfur compound") ...which in some cases can be isolated. Thioenolization of thioacetone would give 2-propenethiol, CH3C(SH)&doublehorzbond;CH2. Thioketones ... Gemara (from the article "Gemara") a rabbinic commentary on and interpretation of the collection of Jewish law known as the ... gematria the substitution of numbers for letters of the Hebrew alphabet, a favourite method of exegesis ... [1 Related Articles] Gemayel Family Maronite Christian family prominent in Lebanese politics before and after the start of that country's ... Gemayel, Amin (from the article "Gemayel Family") Bashir's older brother, Amin Gemayel (b. 1942, Bikfaya), was elected president of Lebanon a week ... Gemayel, Bashir (from the article "Gemayel Family") Pierre's youngest son, Bashir Gemayel (b. Nov. 10, 1947, Bikfaya-d. Sept. 14, 1982, Beirut), emerged ... Gemayel, Pierre (from the article "Gemayel Family") Pierre Gemayel (b. Nov. 1/6, 1905, Bikfaya?, Leb.-d. Aug. 29, 1984, Bikfaya) was born into ... Gembloux, Battle of (from the article "Farnese, Alessandro, duke of Parma and Piacenza") ...freed him from inactivity when, in 1577, Don Juan, by then the Spanish governor-general, charged ... gemeen (from the article "Low Countries, history of") ...the homines novi, a new class of up-and-coming merchants, tried to become part of the ... Gemeinde (from the article "Germany") ...(counties). Larger communities enjoy the status of what in the United Kingdom was formerly the ... gemeines Recht (from the article "German Civil Code") The concept of law embodied in the code was the gemeines Recht, the common law ... Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft ideal types of social organizations that were systematically elaborated by German sociologist Ferdinand Tonnies in ... [3 Related Articles] gemilut hesed ("bestowing kindnesses"), in Judaism, an attribute of God said to be imitated by those who ... geminal dihalide (from the article "organohalogen compound") Treatment of a geminal dihalide (both halogens on the same carbon) or a vicinal dihalide ... Geminga isolated pulsar (a rapidly rotating neutron star) about 500 light-years from Earth in the constellation ... Gemini (Latin: "Twins"), in astronomy, zodiacal constellation lying between Cancer and Taurus, at about 7 hours ... [1 Related Articles] Gemini any of a series of 12 two-man spacecraft launched into orbit around the Earth by ... [21 Related Articles] Geminiani, Francesco Italian composer, violinist, teacher, writer on musical performance, and a leading figure in early 18th-century ... Geminid meteor shower (from the article "Principal nighttime meteor showers") ...within the perihelion distance of 0.31 AU for Mercury, the innermost planet. By contrast, Phaethon's ... Gemistus Plethon, George Byzantine philosopher and humanist scholar whose clarification of the distinction between Platonic and Aristotelian thought ... [3 Related Articles] gemma (from the article "fern") ...growth and fragmentation, but this does not spread the gametophyte very far. Some ferns (Vittaria, ... Gemma Augustea sardonyx cameo depicting the apotheosis of Augustus. He is seated next to the goddess Roma, ... [1 Related Articles] gemmail in stained glass, technique employing fused layers of coloured glass fragments illuminated from behind, creating ... Gemmell, David British fantasy novelist (b. Aug. 1, 1948, London, Eng.-d. July 28, 2006, Udimore, East Sussex, ... Gemmingen, Uriel von (from the article "Grunewald, Matthias") ...or Aschaffenburg. By about 1509 Grunewald had become court painter and later the leading art ... gemmulation (from the article "sponge") Asexual reproduction also occurs in sponges in various ways; the best known method is called ... gemmule (from the article "sponge") ...of cells, mostly archaeocytes, which, when they become laden with reserve food granules become isolated ... Gempei War (1180-85), final struggle in Japan between the Taira and Minamoto clans that resulted in the ... [3 Related Articles] gemsbok (from the article "oryx") The beisa and gemsbok, subspecies of O. gazella, inhabit eastern and southern Africa, respectively. The ... gemstone any of various minerals highly prized for beauty, durability, and rarity. A few noncrystalline materials ... [13 Related Articles] Genazino, Wilhelm (from the article "Literature") Wilhelm Genazino, who had won the Georg Buchner Prize in 2004, published his novel Die ... Gencer, Leyla Turkish soprano performed more than 70 roles throughout her 35-year operatic career. Known as the ... Genda Minoru Japanese naval officer and air strategist who was chosen by Admiral Yamamoto Isoroku to draft ... gendai mono (from the article "Noh theatre") ...the third, katsura mono ("wig play"), has a female protagonist; the fourth ... gendai-geki (from the article "motion picture, history of the") ...period films set before 1868 (the year marking the beginning of the Meiji Restoration, 1868-1912, ... gendarmerie (from the article "France") ...was still considered a noble pursuit par excellence. The core of Charles's army that marched ... Gendarmes, Corps of (from the article "Third Department") ...prisons for "state criminals." It was also responsible for prosecuting counterfeiters of money and official ... gender in language, a phenomenon in which the words of a certain part of speech, usually ... [13 Related Articles] gender (from the article "percussion instrument") ...a trough metallophone depicted as early as about AD 800 on the Borobudur stupa (Buddhist ... gender identity an individual's self-conception as being male or female, as distinguished from actual biological sex. For ... [3 Related Articles] gender identity disorder (from the article "mental disorder") In gender identity disorder a person feels a discrepancy between his anatomical sex and the ... gender study (from the article "Shakespeare, William") Gender studies such as those of Bruce R. Smith and Valerie Traub also dealt importantly ... gene unit of hereditary information that occupies a fixed position (locus) on a chromosome. Genes achieve ... [31 Related Articles] gene conversion (from the article "nucleic acid") ...products of replication will not be true reciprocal events, but rather one of the original ... gene deletion (from the article "radiation") Chromosome breaks often heal spontaneously, but a break that fails to heal may cause the ... gene disruption (from the article "recombinant DNA technology") Another version of in vitro mutagenesis is gene disruption, or gene knockout. Here, the resident ... gene flow the introduction of genetic material (by interbreeding) from one population of a species to another, ... [4 Related Articles] gene frequency (from the article "evolution") Processes of gene-frequency changeheredityChanges in ... gene pool (from the article "Amazon River") The unique gene pool of the Amazon Rainforest, with perhaps two-thirds of the known organisms ... gene regulation (from the article "heredity") Not all genes in a cell are active in protein production at any given time. ... gene splicing (from the article "heredity") ...the 5' end of the mRNA, a modified guanine nucleotide, called a cap, is added. ... gene targeting (from the article "Nobel Prizes") ...their development of a technique for introducing modified genes into mice. The technique, which involved ... gene therapy (from the article "cancer") Knowledge about the genetic defects that lead to cancer suggests that cancer can be treated ... gene-for-gene coevolution (from the article "community ecology") In some interactions between parasites and hosts, coevolution can take a specific form called gene-for-gene ... Genealogical Office (from the article "heraldry") ...authorities. Photostat copies were made of the records and sent to the College of Arms, ... genealogy the study of family origins and history. Genealogists compile lists of ancestors, which they arrange ... [6 Related Articles] genecentre any of a number of areas on the Earth from which arose important crop plants ... Genee, Dame Adeline dancer, choreographer, and teacher who was founder-president of the Royal Academy of Dancing. Geneen, Harold American business executive who built the International Telephone and Telegraph Corp. (ITT) into a worldwide ... [1 Related Articles] Genentech Inc. (from the article "South San Francisco") ...industrialized, with meatpacking, steel and other metal fabrication, chemical processing, and other manufacturing. The city ... general title and rank of a senior army officer, usually one who commands units larger than ... [1 Related Articles] general account (from the article "government budget") The budget is prepared on a fiscal-year basis by the budget division of the Ministry ... general adaptation syndrome (from the article "motivation") This three-part mechanism for coping with a stressor is called the general adaptation syndrome and ... General Administration of Civil Aviation of China (from the article "China") Chinese civil air efforts were carried out solely by the state-run General Administration of Civil ... General Agreement (from the article "Mexico") Even before Mexico entered the war, it supplied vital raw materials to the United States. ... General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade set of multilateral trade agreements aimed at the abolition of quotas and the reduction of ... [11 Related Articles] general anesthetic (from the article "drug") Anesthetics are drugs that induce a temporary inability to perceive any sensory stimuli. They achieve ... General Arrangements to Borrow (from the article "international payment and exchange") ...to the countries that happened to be in credit at that time but was extended ... General Assembly (from the article "South Carolina") ...and commissioner of agriculture. The governor, although able to veto bills and specific items in ... General Assembly, United Nations one of the six principal organs of the United Nations (UN) and the only body ... [7 Related Articles] General Association of Regular Baptist Churches association of independent conservative Baptist churches in the United States, organized in 1932 after 22 ... [1 Related Articles] general average (from the article "average") ...by the perils of the sea. An average may be particular or general. A particular ... general average clause (from the article "insurance") The general average clause in ocean marine insurance obligates the insurers of various interests to ... General Bathymetric Chart of the World (from the article "map") ...Hydrographic Bureau was founded in 1921 in Monaco, where it has been headquartered through the ... General Certificate of Education (from the article "secondary education") Those students seeking university entrance must successfully complete a series of examinations that result in ...

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