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 Gagauz ... Galba Gagauz (from the article "Moldova") ...were formed. The Moldovan majority took the lead in severing ties with Moscow: sovereignty was ... Gagauz People's Party (from the article "Moldova") ...Following independence a variety of political parties emerged, many of them later to divide or ... Gage Building (from the article "Holabird, William") ...identified with the Chicago School, such as the so-called Chicago School windows, which resulted in ... Gage, Frances Dana Barker American social reformer and writer who was active in the antislavery, temperance, and women's rights ... Gage, Matilda Joslyn American women's rights advocate who helped to lead and publicize the suffrage movement in the ... [3 Related Articles] Gage, Thomas British general who successfully commanded all British forces in North America for more than 10 ... 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Gaghan, Stephen (from the article "2000: Other Winners") Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen: Cameron Crowe for Almost FamousScreenplay Based on Material Previously ... Gagliano, Marco da one of the earliest composers of Italian opera. Gagliardi, John (from the article "Robinson, Eddie") ...View A&M in Dallas. At the end of the 1997 season, he retired with a ... Gagnan, Emile (from the article "underwater diving") Attempts to construct diving apparatus go back to the 19th century, but the sport of ... Gagnoa town, southern Cote d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast). It is the chief collecting point for a forest ... Gagnon, Madeleine (from the article "Canadian literature") ...embedded in the semantic and syntactic conventions of language as well as in the conventions ... Gaguin, Robert (from the article "humanism") Erasmus' associates in France included the influential humanists Robert Gaguin (1433-1501), Jacques Lefevre d'Etaples (c. ... gagum (from the article "Mesopotamia, history of") ...of the sun god of Sippar furnish a particularly striking example of the fusion of ... Gahadavala Dynasty one of the many ruling families of North India on the eve of the Muslim ... [1 Related Articles] Gahal party (from the article "Weizman, Ezer") ...to the post of chief of staff. When he learned in 1969 that Prime Minister ... Gahanbar in Zoroastrianism, any of six festivals, occurring at irregular intervals throughout the year, which celebrate ... [1 Related Articles] gahapati (from the article "India") The institutional development within these oligarchies suggests a stabilized agrarian economy. Sources mention wealthy householders ... Gahn, Johan Gottlieb Swedish mineralogist and crystallographer who discovered manganese in 1774. His failure to win fame may ... [3 Related Articles] gahnite (from the article "gahnite") the mineral zinc aluminum oxide, a member of the spinel (q.v.) series.TABLEcommon oxides Gaho (from the article "Hayashi Razan") Gaho, Hayashi's third son (also called Harukatsu), became his father's successor as chief official scholar; ... Gai Jatra (from the article "Kathmandu") Festivals in Kathmandu include, in spring, the Shivaratri and the Machendra Jatra with its procession ... gai saber the art of composing love poetry; especially the art of the Provencal troubadours as set ... Gaia hypothesis (from the article "Green Architecture: Building for the 21st Century") This "whole Earth" concept also became the basis of Lovelock's Gaia theory. Named after the ... Gaidar, Yegor (from the article "Russia") ...1990s, hundreds of parties were founded, but most were short-lived, as the appeal of many ... Gaiety (from the article "Horniman, Annie") In 1908 she began her own repertory theatre, the Gaiety, in Manchester. Good plays-from Greek ... Gailhard, John English author of an educational treatise on proper training for the English nobility that is ... [1 Related Articles] Gaillard Cut (from the article "Panama Canal") ...covers an area of 425 square km (164 square miles). The channel through the lake ... Gaillard, Chateau (French: "Saucy Castle"), 12th-century castle built by Richard the Lion-Heart on the Andelys cliff overlooking ... [1 Related Articles] Gaillard, Eugene (from the article "furniture") ...and Crafts movement in England (established by the English poet and decorator William Morris to ... Gaillardia genus of leafy, branching herbs of the family Asteraceae, native to North America. Several summer-blooming ... Gaiman, Neil In the eight years since the conclusion of his groundbreaking Sandman series for DC Comics, ... Gaimar V (from the article "William de Hauteville") ...He served as a captain of the Norman army that joined the Lombards in invading ... gain (from the article "amplifier") ...control and measuring instruments, radar, and countless other devices all depend on this basic process ... Gaines, Ernest J. American writer whose fiction, as exemplified by The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman (1971), his ... [2 Related Articles] Gaines, John Ryan (from the article "Equestrian Sports") Hall of Fame jockey Ted Atkinson died on May 5 at age 88. (See Gaines, Steve (from the article "Lynyrd Skynyrd") ...(b. July 19, 1952-d. Jan. 23, 1990Jacksonville), Steve Gaines (b. Sept. 14, 1949Seneca, Mo.-d. Oct. ... Gaines, William Maxwell American publisher who launched Mad magazine (1952), an irreverent monthly with humorous ... Gainesville city, seat (1853) of Alachua county, north-central Florida, U.S., about 70 miles (115 km) southwest ... Gainesville city, seat (1823) of Hall county, northeastern Georgia, U.S., about 50 miles (80 km) northeast ... Gainsborough town, West Lindsey district, administrative and historic county of Lincolnshire, England. It stands on the ... [1 Related Articles] Gainsborough (foaled 1915), English racehorse (Thoroughbred) who won the British Triple Crown, consisting of the Two ... Gainsborough chair type of English armchair made in the mid-18th century. A wide chair with a high ... Gainsborough, Battle of (from the article "Cromwell, Oliver") ...to prevent the penetration of Yorkshire Royalists into the eastern counties and decided to counterattack. ... Gainsborough, Thomas portrait and landscape painter, the most versatile English painter of the 18th century. Some of ... [3 Related Articles] Gainza Paz, Alberto editor of the influential Buenos Aires daily La Prensa whose opposition to ... Gairdner, Lake largest of a group of shallow depressions west of Lake Torrens in central South Australia, ... Gairy, Sir Eric Matthew Grenadan politician (b. Feb. 18, 1922, St. Andrew's Parish, Grenada--d. Aug. 23, 1997, Grand Anse, ... [2 Related Articles] Gaiseric king of the Vandals and the Alani (428-477) who conquered a large part of Roman ... [7 Related Articles] gait (from the article "horsemanship") The natural gaits of the horse are the walk, the trot, the canter or slow ... Gaitan, Jorge Eliecer political leader who was considered a champion of the Colombian people and was revered as ... [1 Related Articles] Gaitskell, Hugh British statesman, leader of the British Labour Party from December 1955 until his sudden death ... [4 Related Articles] Gaitskill, Mary (from the article "American literature") ...Shipping News (1993) and Close Range: Wyoming Stories (1999) and Andrea Barrett in Ship Fever ... Gaius Roman jurist whose writings became authoritative in the late Roman Empire. The Law of Citations ... Gaius, Saint pope from 283 (possibly December 17) to 296. Nothing about him is known with certainty. ... Gaj, Ljudevit (from the article "Croatia") ...Croatian resistance took shape in the Illyrian movement of the 1830s and '40s. The Illyrianists-primarily ... Gajabahu (from the article "India") ...Among them, Nedunjeral Adan is said to have attacked the Yavana ships and held the ... Gajah Mada prime minister of the Majapahit Empire and a national hero in Indonesia. He is believed ... [3 Related Articles] Gajdusek, D. Carleton American physician and medical researcher, corecipient (with Baruch S. Blumberg) of the 1976 Nobel Prize ... [1 Related Articles] Gajraj, Ronald (from the article "Guyana") In January 2004 the Guyanese opposition People's National Congress (PNC) launched a national signature campaign ... Gakko (from the article "arts, East Asian") ...of Japanese sculpture extant. Known as the Yakushi Triad, the work consists of the seated ... gaku-so (from the article "arts, East Asian") ...school of koto music from the courtly tradition to the present time involves changes in ... Gakusei (from the article "education") ...he outlined a strategy for acquiring the best features of Western education. He assigned commissioners, ... gal unit of acceleration, named in honour of the Italian physicist and astronomer Galileo Galilei (1564-1642) ... [1 Related Articles] Gal Oya river, eastern Sri Lanka. It rises in the hill country east of Badulla and flows ... Gal Oya National Park (from the article "Gal Oya") ...Sri Lanka, at Bintenne. The project has opened up 100,000 acres (40,000 hectares) of land ... Gal Oya project (from the article "Senanayake, D S") ...respect from Ceylon's Sinhalese, Tamil, and European communities and was able to maintain the morale ... Gal, Uziel Israeli army officer and inventor (b. Dec. 15, 1923, Germany-d. Sept. 7, 2002, Philadelphia, Pa.), ... [1 Related Articles] Gala, Antonio (from the article "Spanish literature") Antonio Gala, a multitalented, original, and commercially successful playwright, debunked historical myths while commenting allegorically ... galactic cannibalism (from the article "galaxy") ...that have captured smaller cluster members because of their dominating gravitational fields and have absorbed ... galactic centre (from the article "galactic coordinate") in astronomy, galactic latitude or longitude. The two coordinates constitute a useful means of locating ... galactic coordinate in astronomy, galactic latitude or longitude. The two coordinates constitute a useful means of locating ... [1 Related Articles] galactic equator (from the article "galactic coordinate") ...of the Milky Way Galaxy. Galactic latitude (denoted by the symbol b) is measured in ... galactic halo in astronomy, nearly spherical volume of thinly scattered stars, globular clusters of stars, and tenuous ... [2 Related Articles] galactic latitude (from the article "galactic coordinate") ...poles and equator were redefined, with a change of less than 2° in the positions ... galactic longitude (from the article "galactic coordinate") Galactic longitude (denoted by the symbol l) is measured in degrees eastward of an imaginary ... galactic mass (from the article "Milky Way Galaxy") The total mass of the Galaxy, which had seemed reasonably well established during the 1960s, ... galactic pole (from the article "galactic coordinate") At the same time, the positions of the galactic poles and equator were redefined, with ... galactic recession (from the article "astronomy") The second method for galactic distance measurements makes use of the observation that the distances ... Galaction, Gala (from the article "Romanian literature") ...periodicals and wrote plays, poetry, and criticism; the geographer S. Mehedinti (Soveja) edited a periodical ... galactokinase (from the article "metabolism") ...reactions must occur before the other sugars can enter the catabolic routes. Galactose, for example, ... galactolipid (from the article "photosynthesis") ...and proteins. About one-fourth of the lipid portion of the lamellae consists of pigments and ... galactorrhea excessive flow of milk from the breast, or lactation that is not associated with childbirth ... galactose a member of a group of carbohydrates known as simple sugars (monosaccharides). It is usually ... [6 Related Articles] galactose 1-phosphate (from the article "metabolism") ...can enter the catabolic routes. Galactose, for example, is phosphorylated in a manner analogous to ... galactosemia a hereditary defect in the metabolism of the sugar galactose, which is a constituent of ... [3 Related Articles] galah (from the article "cockatoo") The most widespread and numerous cockatoo species is the 35-cm (14-inch) galah (Eolophus roseicapillus). It ... Galahad the pure knight in Arthurian romance, son of Lancelot du Lac and Elaine (daughter of ... [4 Related Articles] galaktotrophousa (from the article "Madonna") ...the Baptist appear as intercessors on either side of Christ. In addition to these rather ... Galamian, Ivan Persian-born violinist and teacher who stressed attention to technical detail and mental control in his ... Galan (from the article "Andes Mountains") Northward, to latitude 18° S, the peaks of El Condor, Sierra Nevada, Llullaillaco, Galan, and ... Galan, Antonio Jose Spanish bullfighter (b. Nov. 19, 1948, Bujelance, Spain-d. Aug. 12, 2001, Burgos, Spain), as one ... Galan, Jose Antonio (from the article "Comunero Rebellion") ...reasserted control, took prisoners, and executed some rebel leaders. Roman Catholic clergy even threatened divine ... Galan, Julio Mexican painter (b. Dec. 5, 1958, Muzquiz, Coahuila, Mex.-d. Aug. 4, 2006, en route to ... Galapagos cactus finch (from the article "population ecology") ...below 1.0 indicates a decrease in population, any number above indicates an increase. In the ... Galapagos finch distinctive group of birds whose radiation into several ecological niches in the competition-free isolation of ... [4 Related Articles] Galapagos fur seal (from the article "fur seal") ...about 14,000 South American fur seals (A. australis) were being harvested annually. Other species, including ... Galapagos Islands island group of the eastern Pacific Ocean, administratively a province of Ecuador. The Galapagos consist ... [8 Related Articles] Galapagos mockingbird (from the article "mockingbird") Other species of Mimus range from Central and South America to Patagonia, and the blue ... Galapagos penguin (from the article "penguin") ...The majority of the 17 species do not live in Antarctica but rather between latitudes ... Galapagos tortoise (from the article "Galapagos Islands") The archipelago is renowned for its unusual animal life. Its giant tortoises are thought to ... Galar (from the article "Kvasir") ...they performed the ancient peace ritual of spitting into a common vessel. He wandered around ... Galashiels town, Scottish Borders council area, southeastern Scotland. It is on Gala Water near its junction ... Galata (from the article "Istanbul") ...who were not citizens of the empire were restricted to this quarter. Around palatial embassies ... Galata Bridge (from the article "Istanbul") The Galata and Ataturk bridges cross the Golden Horn to Beyoglu. Each day before dawn ... Galatasaray Lycee (from the article "Ekrem, Recaizade Mahmud") ...scholar, Ekrem was apprenticed to a number of government offices after his formal education. Later ... Galatea (from the article "Acis") in the Greek mythology of Ovid, the son of Faunus (Pan) and the nymph Symaethis. ... Galatea (from the article "Moons of Neptune") ...named Courage, Liberte, Egalite 1, Egalite 2, and Fraternite. They range in length from about ... Galati judet (county), eastern Romania, bounded on the east by Moldova. The county is bordered in ... Galati city, capital of Galati judet (county), southeastern Romania. An inland port about 120 miles (190 ... Galatia ancient district in central Anatolia that was occupied early in the 3rd century BC by ... [3 Related Articles] Galatians, The Letter of Paul to the New Testament writing addressed to Christian churches (exact location uncertain) that were disturbed by a ... [6 Related Articles] Galawdewos (from the article "Ahmad Gran") ...and later soundly defeated by Ahmad Gran, who had meanwhile been able to obtain Turkish ... galaxite (from the article "spinel") ...ruby spinel (q.v.) or magnesia spinel; other members include hercynite (iron aluminum oxide, FeAl2O4), gahnite ... galaxy any of the systems of stars and interstellar matter that make up the cosmos. Many ... [19 Related Articles] galaxy cluster (from the article "galaxy") Galaxies tend to cluster together, sometimes in small groups and sometimes in enormous complexes. Most ... Galaxy Evolution Explorer (from the article "ultraviolet astronomy") ...medium. EUVE was succeeded in 1999 by NASA's Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer (FUSE), which discovered ... Galaxy I (from the article "Hughes Electronics Corporation") The fastest-growing business of Hughes in the 1980s and '90s was its satellite and telecommunications ... Galaxy, Khaosai Thai professional boxer, world junior bantamweight (115 pounds) champion from 1984 to 1991. Galaxy is ... Galba Roman emperor for seven months (AD 68-69), whose administration was priggishly upright, though his advisers ... [6 Related Articles]

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