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 gimlet ... Girodias, Maurice gimlet (from the article "hand tool") ...hole may be drilled or bored; awls, gimlets, and augers also produce holes. An awl ... Gimpl, Stefan (from the article "Skiing") ...Cup, as Dominique Maltais (who finished third in Turin, behind Switzerland's Tanja Frieden and American ... Gimson, Ernest English designer of furniture, one of the Cotswold school of designers who sought to combine ... [1 Related Articles] gin (from the article "measurement system") ...of one great mina of water. The qa was a subdivision of ... gin flavoured, distilled, colourless to pale yellow liquor made from purified spirits usually obtained from a ... Gin Act (from the article "United Kingdom") The Gin Act of 1751 was designed to reduce consumption of raw spirits, regarded by ... gin and tonic (from the article "gin") ...types, sometimes called London dry, may be served unmixed or may be combined with other ... gin rummy card game of the rummy family that became an American fad in the 1940s. [1 Related Articles] Ginastera, Alberto a leading 20th-century Latin-American composer, known for his use of local and national musical idioms ... [2 Related Articles] Giner de Los Rios, Francisco Spanish philosopher, literary critic, and educator who became the most influential exponent of krausismo, a ... ginger (Zingiber officinale), herbaceous perennial plant of the family Zingiberaceae, probably native to southeastern Asia, or ... ginger ale (from the article "Comparison of energy, carbohydrates, and alcohol in some common beverages") ...citric acid may also be added. Ginger beer is bottled before fermentation is complete. It ... ginger beer beverage, once popular in the United Kingdom, made by fermenting a mixture of ginger, water, ... ginger lily any ornamental plant of the genus Hedychium, of the ginger family (Zingiberaceae). About 50 species ... gingerbread in architecture and design, elaborately detailed embellishment, either lavish or superfluous. Although the term is ... gingerbread (from the article "baking") ...in that the devil's food batter is adjusted to an alkaline level with sodium bicarbonate; ... gingham plain-woven fabric, originally made completely of cotton fibres but later also of man-made fibres, which ... gingivitis inflammation of the gums (gingivae). Symptoms include tender, sometimes swollen, gums that bleed easily. Areas ... [1 Related Articles] Gingold, Josef Russian-born U.S. violinist and teacher (b. Oct. 28, 1909--d. Jan. 11, 1995). Gingoog city and port, northern Mindanao, Philippines. It lies at the head of Gingoog Bay, which ... Gingrich, Arnold (from the article "Esquire") American monthly magazine, founded in 1933 by Arnold Gingrich. It began production as an oversized ... Gingrich, Newt American politician, who served as speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives (1995-98). He was ... [1 Related Articles] Gini Coefficient (from the article "China") ...previous administration, the government began to take active measures to ease rural poverty. The widening ... Gini, Corrado Italian statistician and demographer. ginkgo (Ginkgo biloba), tree that is the only living representative of the order Ginkgoales (division Ginkgophyta). ... [6 Related Articles] Ginkgo Petrified Forest State Park (from the article "Ellensburg") ...edge of the high desert, is also known for its dude ranches. Sheep and cattle ... Ginkgoaceae (from the article "ginkgophyte") ...leaves borne mainly on spur (short) branches; male and female trees; seeds with a fleshy ... Ginkgoales (from the article "ginkgophyte") ...especially in fossil forms; leaves borne mainly on spur (short) branches; male and female trees; ... ginkgolide B (from the article "Corey, Elias James") ...important molecules, the prostaglandins, and in the 1970s he followed with the leukotrienes, a group ... ginkgophyte any member of the division Ginkgophyta, a group of gymnospermous plants of particular interest to ... [3 Related Articles] Ginnie Mae (from the article "Fannie Mae") ...Mac were authorized to buy and sell conventional mortgages as well as those insured by ... Ginnungagap (from the article "Germanic religion and mythology") ...appears to be the most rational description of the cosmogony. The story is told by ... Ginori, Lorenzo (from the article "Doccia porcelain") ...with surrounding flowers; and a range of polychrome or white-figured reliefs of mythological subjects often ... Ginori, Marchese Carlo (from the article "Doccia porcelain") porcelain produced at a factory near Florence founded by Marchese Carlo Ginori in 1735; until ... Ginsberg, Allen American poet whose epic poem Howl (1956) is considered to be one of the most ... [6 Related Articles] Ginsberg, Harold Samuel American microbiologist (b. May 27, 1917, Daytona Beach, Fla.-d. Feb. 2, 2003, Woods Hole, Mass.), ... Ginsburg, Charles P. (from the article "magnetic recording") In 1956 Charles P. Ginsburg and Ray Dolby of Ampex Corporation, a U.S. electronics firm, ... Ginsburg, Christian David Hebrew and biblical scholar who was the foremost authority in England on the Masorah (authoritative ... [1 Related Articles] Ginsburg, Ruth Bader associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1993. She was only ... [3 Related Articles] ginseng ("root of heaven"), either of two herbs of the family Araliaceae, Panax quinquefolium and P. ... 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Oct. 28, 1929, New York, N.Y.-d. July 6, 2006, ... Ginzburg, Vitaly Lazarevich Russian physicist and astrophysicist, who won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 2003 for his ... [2 Related Articles] Gioberti, Vincenzo Italian philosopher, politician, and premier of Sardinia-Piedmont (1848-49), whose writings helped bring about the unification ... [1 Related Articles] Giocondo, Fra Giovanni Italian humanist, architect, and engineer, whose designs and written works signal the transition in architectural ... [1 Related Articles] Giocosa, La (from the article "education") ...boarding schools at Padua and Venice and, most importantly, from 1423 to 1446 one at ... Gioia del Colle town, Puglia (Apulia) regione, southern Italy. It has machinery, textile, distilling, and cheese-making industries. Giolitti, Giovanni statesman and five times prime minister under whose leadership Italy prospered. He had many enemies, ... [4 Related Articles] giolittismo (from the article "Giolitti, Giovanni") statesman and five times prime minister under whose leadership Italy prospered. He had many enemies, ... Giolla Coluim mac an Ollaimh (from the article "Celtic literature") ...Scotland or Ireland. The Scottish Gaelic poems date from about 1310 to 1520. The bard ... Gion-matsuri (from the article "Kyoto") The three major festivals (matsuri)-Aoi in May, Gion in July, and Jidai in October-are almost ... Giono, Jean French novelist, a celebrant of nature whose works are set in Provence and whose rich ... [1 Related Articles] Giordani, Pietro (from the article "Italian literature") ...della Crusca (1817-26; "Proposal for Some Corrections and Additions to the Crusca Dictionary"), which attacked ... Giordano, Gus American jazz dancer and choreographer was one of the pioneers of the style known as ... Giordano, Luca the most celebrated and prolific Neapolitan painter of the late 17th century. His nickname Luca ... Giordano, Umberto Italian opera composer in the verismo, or "realist," style, known for his opera Andrea Chenier. [1 Related Articles] Giorgi International System of Measurement (from the article "Giorgi, Giovanni") ...at the University of Rome and also held appointments at the universities of Cagliari and ... Giorgi, Giovanni Italian physicist who proposed a widely used system for the definition of electrical, magnetic, and ... Giorgione extremely influential Italian painter who was one of the initiators of a High Renaissance style ... [7 Related Articles] Giorgis, House of (from the article "Lalibela") ...carved from a single rock hill. House of Medhane Alem ("Saviour of the World") is ... Giot, P. R. (from the article "archaeology") ...a road got his stone from a neighbouring prehistoric cairn (burial mound) and, in so ... Giotto European space probe that came within 596 km (370 miles) of the nucleus of Halley's ... 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Giovannino de' Grassi (from the article "painting, Western") ...drawings), and a famous sketchbook (c. 1395) containing a large number of drawings of animals ... Gipkens, Julius (from the article "graphic design") ...primarily used magazine illustrators versed in realistic narrative images for their own propaganda posters. The ... gipon tunic worn under armour in the 14th century and later adapted for civilian use. At ... [1 Related Articles] Gipp, George American gridiron football player at the University of Notre Dame (1917-20) who became a school ... [1 Related Articles] Gippius, Zinaida Nikolayevna Russian Symbolist poet who wrote in a metaphysical vein. [2 Related Articles] Gippsland region of southeastern Victoria, Australia, extending northeast from Western Port (near Melbourne) to the New ... Gippsland Lakes (from the article "ocean") ...ones may occur where river estuaries flood behind barriers. This occurs on the east coast ... Gir Forest National Park national park in Gujarat state, west-central India, located about 37 miles (60 km) south-southwest of ... [2 Related Articles] Gir Range low mountain range in western Gujarat state, west-central India, on the southern Kathiawar Peninsula. The ... [1 Related Articles] giraffe long-necked, cud-chewing hoofed mammal of Africa, with long legs and a coat pattern of irregular ... [2 Related Articles] giraffe piano (from the article "keyboard instrument") ...to right, and the case above the keyboard took the form of a tall isosceles ... Giraffidae (from the article "artiodactyl") ...into sub-Saharan Africa, although they have reached the Americas. There are about 30 species, the ... Giralda (from the article "Sevilla") ...the city's principal mosque, which had been built by the Almohads in 1180-1200 on the ... Giraldi, Giambattista Italian poet and dramatist who wrote the first modern tragedy on classical principles to appear ... [3 Related Articles] Giraldus Cambrensis archdeacon of Brecknock, Brecknockshire (1175-1204), and historian, whose accounts of life in the late 12th ... [2 Related Articles] girandole elaborate wall bracket incorporating one or more candleholders and frequently a mirror to reflect the ... [1 Related Articles] Girard, Albert (from the article "Leonardo Pisano") ...sequence (in which the relation between two or more successive terms can be expressed by ... Girard, Rodolphe (from the article "Canadian literature") ...grudgingly accepted by the Quebecois at first, quickly became an important classic very much in ... Girard, Stephen American financier and philanthropist whose purchase of government bonds during the War of 1812 provided ... Girardelli, Marc An Austrian-born Alpine ski racer who represented Luxembourg could justly claim to be the most ... Girardi, Joe (from the article "Baseball") ...for relief pitchers held by Lee Smith. Jim Thome of the Chicago White Sox was ... Girardin, Brigitte (from the article "Dependent States") Brigitte Girardin, the French minister for overseas territories, visited Mayotte on January 24-25. Discussions during ... Girardin, Emile de popular French journalist, called the Napoleon of the press for his success in publishing inexpensive ... [1 Related Articles] Girardin, Marquis de (from the article "Rousseau, Jean-Jacques") ...Rousseau does seem to have recovered his peace of mind in his last years, when ... Girardon, Francois the most representative sculptor employed on the great sculptural project of decorating Versailles during the ... [2 Related Articles] Girardot river port, central Colombia, at the confluence of the upper Magdalena (there bridged) and Bogota ... Giraud, Henri army officer and one of the leaders, in World War II, of the French Committee ... [5 Related Articles] Giraud, Jean (from the article "comic strip") ...on better paper and was flashier in style, and it was made into a book ... Giraudoux, Jean French novelist, essayist, and playwright who created an impressionistic form of drama by emphasizing dialogue ... [1 Related Articles] GIRD (from the article "space exploration") ...Glushko carried out pioneering work on rocket engines. Meanwhile, other rocket enthusiasts in the Soviet ... girder (from the article "girder") in building construction, a horizontal main supporting beam that carries a vertical concentrated load. See ... girdle (from the article "corset") During the 20th century the corset was gradually replaced as everyday wear by the brassiere ... girdle (from the article "lepidopteran") ...of some sulfur butterflies (family Pieridae), swallowtails (family Papilionidae), and gossamer-winged butterflies (family Lycaenidae), is ... girdle tie in Egyptian religion, protective amulet formed like a knot and made of gold, carnelian, or ... girdle-tailed lizard any of various south and east African and Madagascan lizards belonging to the family Cordylidae. ... girdling (from the article "brilliant cut") ...a finished gem with the maximum fire and brilliancy. It is the most popular style ... girdling (from the article "angiosperm") ...century. By the early 19th century, it had been established that water ascends from roots ... Giresun city and seaport, northeastern Turkey. It lies along the Black Sea about 110 miles (175 ... Girgrah, Isra (from the article "Yemen") ...1992. Two Yemeni boxers living abroad enjoyed great success: Naseem Hamed, a British boxer of ... giri (from the article "Japan") ...(domestic dramas focusing on urban society), both for joruri. He also wrote more than 30 ... Giri, Varahagiri Venkata statesman, president of India from 1969 to 1974. [1 Related Articles] Giridharadaja (from the article "Harishchandra") ...the prosperous banker whose intrigues against his master, the Nawab of Bengal, and deception by ... Giridih town, Bihar state, northeastern India. It lies 72 miles (115 km) northeast of Hazaribagh town, ... girl groups primarily American female vocal groups popular from the early to the mid-1960s, the period between ... [1 Related Articles] Girl Scouts worldwide organization for girls, dedicated to training them in citizenship, good conduct, and outdoor activities. ... 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