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 Giron, Don Pedro ... Glamorganshire Canal Giron, Don Pedro (from the article "Padilla, Juan de") The junta soon alienated the nobility by its popular demands, and Charles cleverly moved to ... Girona provincia (province) in the Catalonia comunidad autonoma (autonomous community), ... Girona city, capital of Girona provincia (province), in the Catalonia [1 Related Articles] Gironde (from the article "Aquitaine") region of France encompassing the southwestern departements of Dordogne, ... Gironde estuary on the Bay of Biscay, in Gironde departement, Aquitaine region, southwestern France, formed by ... [1 Related Articles] Girondin a label applied to a loose grouping of republican politicians, some of them originally from ... [15 Related Articles] Gironella, Alberto Mexican painter who was an important member of a generation of Mexican artists that drew ... [1 Related Articles] Gironella, Jose Maria Spanish author best remembered for his long historical novel Los cipreses creen ... [2 Related Articles] Girouard v. United States (from the article "Stone, Harlan Fiske") ...court upheld a state ruling that children who were Jehovah's Witnesses must join in saluting ... Giroud, Francoise French journalist (b. Sept. 21, 1916, Geneva, Switz.-d. Jan. 19, 2003, Neuilly-sur-Seine, France), cofounded and ... Giroux, Robert American editor and publisher introduced and guided many of the top authors of the 20th ... Girtin, Thomas British artist who at the turn of the 19th century firmly established the aesthetic autonomy ... Girton College (from the article "coeducation") Antagonism to coeducation in England and on the European continent diminished more rapidly in higher ... Giry, Arthur French historian noted for his studies of the French Middle Ages. Giryama (from the article "art, African") ...wood carving (especially of doors), silversmithing and other metalworking, and finely plaited polychrome mats. Farther ... GIS computer system for performing geographical analysis. GIS has four interactive components: an input subsystem for ... [1 Related Articles] gisant in sepulchral sculpture, a recumbent effigy representing the person dying or in death. The typical ... Gisborne unitary authority, east-central North Island, New Zealand. The authority includes the eastern side of East ... Gisborne city ("district") and port on Poverty Bay, east coast of North Island, New Zealand. The ... Giscard d'Estaing, Valery French political leader, who served as the third president of the Fifth Republic of France ... [6 Related Articles] Gisela (from the article "Conrad II") ...he matured early. Prudent and firm, he often displayed great chivalry as well as a ... Giselbert (from the article "Henry I") Henry defeated Giselbert, king of Lotharingia, in 925, and that region, which had become independent ... Gish, Dorothy American actress who, like her sister Lillian, was a major figure in silent films, particularly ... [1 Related Articles] Gish, Lillian American actress who, like her sister Dorothy, was a major figure in the early motion ... [3 Related Articles] Gisla saga an Icelandic saga set in northwestern Iceland and written probably before the middle of the ... [1 Related Articles] Gislebertus French sculptor who made major contributions to the Cathedral of Saint-Lazare in Autun and to ... [1 Related Articles] gismondine rare mineral in the zeolite family. Many specimens have been found in Ireland and Iceland ... Gisors market town, Eure departement, Haute-Normandie region, northwestern France. It lies in the valley of the ... Gisors, Treaty of (from the article "Philip II") When the Count of Flanders allied himself with the Champagne faction, there followed a serious ... Gissar Range (from the article "Asia") ...as a result of fractures at great depths, of which the Kopet-Dag and Fergana ranges ... Gissey, Henri (from the article "stage design") Berain and Henri Gissey were attached to the Royal Cabinet of Louis XIV. Gissey is ... Gissing, George English novelist, noted for the unflinching realism of his novels about the lower middle class. Gist, Christopher American colonial explorer and military scout who wrote highly informative journals describing his experiences. [1 Related Articles] Gisu (from the article "Elgon, Mount") The Bantu-speaking Gishu (Gisu), cultivators of coffee, bananas, millet, and corn (maize), occupy the western ... gisu (from the article "elopiform") ...are fast-swimming predators with adult lengths of up to 2.5 metres (approximately eight feet) in ... Gisulph II prince of Salerno, the last important Lombard ruler to oppose the Norman conquest of southern ... [1 Related Articles] Gitagovinda (Sanskrit: "The Poem in which the Cowherd Is Sung"), lyrical poem celebrating the romance of ... [3 Related Articles] Gitano (from the article "Spain") The one ethnic minority of long standing in Spain is the Roma (Gypsies), who are ... Gitega town, central Burundi. The town lies about 40 miles (65 km) east of the national ... Githmark, Linn (from the article "Curling") ...junior curling championship held in March in Trois-Rivieres, Que., Niklas Edin edged Switzerland's Stefan Rindlisbacher ... Githongo, John (from the article "Kenya") ...was still subject to bribery. Early in the year Sir Edward Clay, the U.K. high ... Gitksan (from the article "Athabaskan language family") ...and h&schwa;da 'moose' were borrowed from the Carrier kw'&schwa;ts'&schwa;zda ... gitoxin (from the article "steroid") The most important cardiac glycosides, medicinally, are those occurring in foxglove (Digitalis): digitoxin, gitoxin, and ... gittern either of two medieval stringed musical instruments, the guitarra latina and the guitarra morisca. The ... Giuffre, Jimmy American jazz woodwind player and composer experimented with jazz sounds and structures and, with a ... Giulia, Via (from the article "Bramante, Donato") About 1508, when Julius II's new city plan for Rome began to be put into ... Giulia, Villa (from the article "Western architecture") Increasingly, architecture, sculpture, and walled gardens came to be regarded as part of a complex ... Giuliani, Giovanni (from the article "Western sculpture") Among sculptors in Austria the forces of Classicism were stronger; and the weak north Italian ... Giuliani, Rudolph W. American lawyer and politician who was mayor of New York City from 1994 to 2002. [5 Related Articles] Giulini, Carlo Maria Italian conductor esteemed for his skills in directing both grand opera and symphony orchestras. [1 Related Articles] Giulio Romano late Renaissance painter and architect, the principal heir of Raphael, and one of the initiators ... [10 Related Articles] Giunta Pisano Italian painter, a native of Pisa and a pioneer who, coming from Tuscany to Assisi, ... Giurgiu judet (county), southeastern Romania, occupying an area of 1,471 square miles (3,810 square km) bounded ... Giurgiu city, capital of Giurgiu judet (county), southern Romania. It is situated on the left (north) ... [1 Related Articles] Giusti, Giuseppe northern Italian poet and satirist, whose satires on Austrian rule during the early years of ... [1 Related Articles] Giv'atayim city, eastern suburb of Tel Aviv-Yafo, west-central Israel, on the Plain of Sharon. The city ... give-and-go (from the article "Lapchick, Joe") ...Invitational Tournaments (nit; 1943-44, 1959, 1965). From 1947 to 1956 he was ... giveaway (from the article "Native American religions") Generosity, in the Native American tradition, is a religious act as well as a social ... given name (from the article "name") ...later in America), normally at Baptism. This is called either simply the name, the baptismal ... Givenchy, Hubert de French fashion designer noted for his couture and ready-to-wear designs, especially those he created for ... Givens, Robin (from the article "Tyson, Mike") ...promoter Don King. He made 10 successful defenses of his world heavyweight title, including victories ... Giverny (from the article "Monet, Claude") In 1883 Monet, Hoschede, her children, and Monet's sons, Jean and Michel, settled at Giverny, ... Givetian Stage uppermost of the two standard worldwide divisions of Middle Devonian rocks and time. Givetian time ... [1 Related Articles] Giyani town, Limpopo province, South Africa. It was the capital of Gazankulu, a former nonindependent Bantustan. ... Giza, Pyramids of three 4th-dynasty (c. 2575-c. 2465 BCE) pyramids erected on a rocky plateau on the west ... [7 Related Articles] Gizenga, Antoine (from the article "Congo, Democratic Republic of the") Area: 2,344,858 sq km (905,355 sq mi) | Population (2007 est.): 62,636,000 | Capital: Kinshasa ... Gizikis, Gen. Phaedon Greek army officer who briefly served as the figurehead president of Greece after a military ... gizzard in many birds, the hind part of the stomach, especially modified for grinding food. Located ... [1 Related Articles] gizzard shad (from the article "shad") The gizzard shads (Dorosoma), of both marine waters and freshwaters, have a muscular stomach and ... Gjallarhorn (from the article "Heimdall") ...the rainbow bridge. He required less sleep than a bird, could see 100 leagues, and ... Gjellerup, Karl Adolph Danish poet and novelist who shared the 1917 Nobel Prize for Literature with his compatriot ... Gjirokaster town, southern Albania. Lying southeast of the Adriatic port of Vlore, Gjirokaster overlooks the Drin ... [1 Related Articles] Glaber, Radulfus medieval monk and chronicler whose works, though lacking critical sense and order, are useful as ... Glabrio, Manius Acilius (from the article "Cato, Marcus Porcius") ...(Lex Oppia). Then, in an extensive and bitter military campaign, he stamped out an insurrection ... Glace Bay former town, Cape Breton county, northeastern Nova Scotia, Canada. It lies on the eastern shore ... glaceed fruit (from the article "food preservation") Candied and glaceed fruits are made by slow impregnation of the fruit with syrup until ... glacial control theory (from the article "Daly, Reginald Aldworth") ...he became professor of geology at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, in 1907, his travels ... glacial earthquake (from the article "Earth Sciences") ...rather than millennia. In the second report Goran Ekstrom of Harvard University and colleagues studied ... glacial erosion (from the article "Quaternary") ...left a distinctive imprint on modern landscapes and surface environments. The most distinguishing characteristics of ... glacial geology (from the article "geology") Glacial geology can be regarded as a branch of geomorphology, though it is such a ... glacial groove (from the article "glacial landform") ...cross sections are often semicircular to parabolic, and their walls are commonly striated parallel to ... glacial lake (from the article "Lake Clark National Park and Preserve") Lake Clark is more than 40 miles (65 km) long and is the largest of ... glacial landform any product of flowing ice and meltwater. Such landforms are being produced today in glaciated ... glacial pothole (from the article "lake") ...formed by water movement in tunnels beneath the ice masses, and lake basins formed by ... glacial quarrying (from the article "glacial landform") Several other processes of glacial erosion are generally included under the terms glacial plucking or ... glacial scour (from the article "lake") Ice sheets moving over relatively level surfaces have produced large numbers of small lake basins ... glacial stage in geology, a cold episode during an ice age, or glacial period. An ice age ... [2 Related Articles] glacial stairway (from the article "river") Other features that may result from glaciation include glacial potholes and glacial steps. The former ... glacial valley stream valley that has been glaciated, usually to a typical catenary, or U-shaped, cross section. ... [1 Related Articles] glaciation (from the article "Glaciations and interglaciations") any product of flowing ice and meltwater. Such landforms are being produced today in glaciated ... glaciation limit (from the article "glacial landform") In the cold, or periglacial (near-glacial), areas adjacent to and beyond the limit of glaciers, ... glacier any large mass of perennial ice that originates on land by the recrystallization of snow ... [26 Related Articles] Glacier Bay scenic indentation, about 50 miles (80 km) long, on the coast of southeastern Alaska, U.S., ... [1 Related Articles] Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve national park and preserve in southeastern Alaska, U.S., on the Gulf of Alaska. It was ... [1 Related Articles] glacier breeze (from the article "breeze") ...valley (mountain breeze). Usually light, a mountain breeze may become a violent, gusty wind when ... glacier cave (from the article "cave") These are long tunnels formed near the snouts of glaciers between the glacial ice and ... glacier flood (from the article "glacier") Glacier outburst floods, or jokulhlaups, can be spectacular or even catastrophic. These happen when drainage ... glacier flow (from the article "glacier") In the accumulation area the mass balance is positive year after year. Here the glacier ... glacier fluctuation (from the article "glacier") ...flow propagates down-glacier, taking some finite amount of time. When the change arrives at the ... Glacier National Park park in southeastern British Columbia, Canada, lying in the heart of the Selkirk Mountains, within ... Glacier National Park national park set in a scenic Rocky Mountain wilderness in northwestern Montana, U.S., adjoining the ... [2 Related Articles] glaciolacustrine deposit (from the article "glacial landform") Glacial and proglacial lakes are found in a variety of environments and in considerable numbers. ... glaciology scientific discipline concerned with all aspects of ice on landmasses. It deals with the structure ... [3 Related Articles] glacis (from the article "military technology") ...for protection against escalade, were dropped into the ground behind a ditch and protected from ... Glackens, William J. American artist whose paintings of street scenes and middle-class urban life rejected the dictates of ... [1 Related Articles] Gladbeck city, North Rhine-Westphalia Land (state), western Germany. It lies in the Ruhr ... Gladden, Washington American Congregational minister, crusading journalist, author, and prominent early advocate of the Social Gospel movement. gladiator professional combatant in ancient Rome. The gladiators originally performed at Etruscan funerals, no doubt with ... [3 Related Articles] gladiator bug any of approximately 15 species of insects found only in certain regions of Africa, the ... Gladiatorial War (from the article "Spartacus") leader in the Gladiatorial War (73-71) against Rome. Gladiolus genus of about 300 species of flowering plants of the iris family (Iridaceae) native to ... [2 Related Articles] gladius (from the article "military technology") ...to be relatively short, at first because they were made of bronze and later because ... Gladkov, Fyodor Vasilyevich Russian writer best known for Tsement (1925; Cement, 1929), the first postrevolutionary novel to dramatize ... [1 Related Articles] Gladstone city, eastern Queensland, eastern Australia, on Port Curtis, an inlet of the Coral Sea. Originally ... Gladstone Committee (from the article "Ruggles-Brise, Sir Evelyn") Appointed prison commissioner in 1895 (a position he held until 1921), he had the duty ... Gladstone, Herbert John Gladstone, 1st Viscount English statesman, son of William Ewart Gladstone; he was the first governor general and high ... Gladstone, William Ewart statesman and four-time prime minister of Great Britain (1868-74, 1880-85, 1886, 1892-94). [27 Related Articles] Gladwyn, Hubert Miles Gladwyn Jebb BARON, British diplomat (b. April 25, 1900, Firbeck Hall, Yorkshire, Eng.--d. Oct. 24, 1996, Halesworth, ... Gladys Porter Zoo zoological park in Brownsville, Texas, U.S., which has one of the world's finest reptile collections. ... Glagolitic alphabet script introduced into the Slavic-speaking Balkan communities in the late 9th century AD, together with ... [4 Related Articles] Glaisher, James (from the article "weather forecasting") ...in estimating surface atmospheric pressure patterns undoubtedly caused 19th-century forecasters to seek information about the ... glam rock musical movement that began in Britain in the early 1970s and celebrated the spectacle of ... [2 Related Articles] Glamis castle and village in the council area and historic county of Angus, eastern Scotland. The ... Glamis, Sir Thomas Lyon, Master of (from the article "Angus, Archibald Douglas, 8th Earl of, Earl Of Morton") ...fell in 1581 Angus was declared guilty of high treason for supporting him and fled ... Glamorgan historic county, southern Wales, extending inland from the Bristol Channel coast between the Rivers Loughor ... [2 Related Articles] Glamorganshire Canal (from the article "Cardiff") Cardiff's expansion stemmed from the development of coal and iron ore mines around Merthyr Tydfil, ...

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