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Guangxi (autonomous region, China)
Autonomous region (pop., 2002 est.: 48,220,000), southern China....
Guangxi Clique (Chinese political group)
...Party. Following the rise of Chiang Kai-shek (Jiang Jieshi) to power in 1927, the Guangxi leaders (notably Li Zongren and Li Jishen) formed the Guangxi Clique in opposition to Chiang. The group did much to modernize Guangxi and maintained a defiant posture against the central government...
Guangxi Zhuangzu Zizhiqu (autonomous region, China)
Autonomous region (pop., 2002 est.: 48,220,000), southern China....
Guangxi-Guizhou railroad (railway, China)
...that connects with the Beijing-Guangzhou railroad and, south of Pingxiang, with the Vietnamese railroad system. A branchline runs from Litang to the port city of Zhanjiang in Guangdong province. The Guangxi-Guizhou railroad links Liuzhou with Guiyang (Guizhou province) and, along with the Liuzhou-Zhicheng line (opened 1978), has been an impetus to the development of northern Guangxi. A newer......
Guangxia (Chinese scholar)
Chinese scholar, a leader of the Reform Movement of 1898 and a key figure in the intellectual development of modern China. During the last years of the empire and the early years of the republic he sought to promote Confucianism as an antidote against “moral degeneration” and indiscriminate Westernization....
Guangxu (emperor of Qing dynasty)
reign name (nianhao) of the ninth emperor (reigned 1874/75–1908) of the Qing dynasty (1644–1911/12), during whose reign the empress dowager Cixi (1835–1908) totally dominated the government and thereby prevented the young empe...
Guangyun (Chinese dictionary)
...certainly exceeds that which it was or ever became necessary to know offhand. Still, a great proliferation of characters took place at special times and for special purposes. The Guangyun dictionary of 1008 had 26,194 characters (representing 3,877 different syllables in pronunciation). The Kangxi zidian, a dictionary of 1716, contains 40,545......
Guangzhou (China)
City (pop., 2003 est.: 4,653,131), capital of Guangdong province, China....
Guangzhou Municipal People’s Council (government body, Guangzhou, China)
...Party—that extends from the national organization, through the provincial apparatus, to the municipal and, ultimately, neighbourhood levels. The principal responsibilities of the Guangzhou Municipal People’s Congress, the major decision-making body, include issuing administrative orders, determining the budget, and implementing economic plans. A ......
Guangzong (emperor of Song dynasty)
After the death of Gaozong in 1187, Xiaozong followed the precedent of abdicating. The international peace was kept during the brief reign of his son, Guangzong (reigned 1190–94), but it was broken again in 1205, during the reign of his grandson, Ningzong (reigned 1195–1224). The 40-year span of continuous peace dimmed the memory of difficulties in waging war. A new generation,......
guanhua
the most widely spoken form of Chinese. Mandarin Chinese is spoken in all of China north of the Yangtze River and in much of the rest of the country and is the native language of two-thirds of the population....
Guanhumara (legendary queen of Britain)
wife of Arthur, legendary king of Britain, best known in Arthurian romance through the love that his knight Sir Lancelot bore for her. In early Welsh literature, one Gwenhwyvar was “the first lady of this island”; in Ge...
guanidine hydrochloride (drug)
...botulinum antitoxin is given in large doses intravenously, but it is doubtful that antitoxin can do anything to dislodge the toxin once it has reached the nerve fibrils. A chemical, guanidine hydrochloride, counteracts the action of C. botulinum toxin on nerve endings and has been used successfully in treatment, but it is itself a ......
Guaniguanico, Cordillera de (hills, Cuba)
low range of hills in Pinar del Río province, western Cuba. It extends about 40 mi (64 km) northeast from Mantua and comprises the Sierra de los Órganos and the Sierra del Rosario, which rises 2,293 ft (699 m) at El Pan de Guajaibón. The Sierra del Rosario exhibits a multitude of knolls formed of different rock materials, whereas steep limestone cones tower in the Sierra de lo...
guanine (chemical compound)
an organic compound belonging to the purine group, a class of compounds with a characteristic two-ringed structure, composed of carbon and nitrogen atoms, and occurring free or combined in such diverse natural sources as guano (the accumulated excrement and dead bodies of birds, bats, and seals), ...
guano (excrement)
accumulated excrement and remains of birds, bats, and seals, valued as fertilizer. Bird guano comes mainly from islands off the coasts of Peru, Baja (Lower) California, and Africa heavily populated by cormorants, pelicans, and gannets. Bat guano is found in caves throughout the world. Seal guano has accumulated to great depths on the Isla Lobos de Tierra and Islas Lobos de Afuera (Lobos Islands),...
Guano (island, Pacific Ocean)
one of the Phoenix Islands, part of Kiribati, in the west-central Pacific Ocean, about 1,650 miles (2,660 km) southwest of Hawaii. Its lagoon is shallow and brackish. The coral island has an area of 2.5 square miles (6.5 square km). The atoll was dis...
Guano Act (United States [1856])
...atoll once produced guano and, more recently, copra. Sighted by Europeans in 1801, it was claimed by the United States in 1856 under the Guano Act. Coconut palms (for copra) were planted in the 1870s and soon replaced most of the native flora. The export of guano ended by 1893. Flint Island became a part of the Gilbert and ......
Guanoco Lake (lake, Venezuela)
...oils that is left after the lighter, more volatile components of a crude-oil seepage have evaporated. An example is Guanoco Lake in Venezuela, which covers more than 445 hectares (1,100 acres) and contains an estimated 6,000,000 tons of asphalt. It was used as a commercial source of asphalt from 1891 to 1935.......
guanosine diphosphate (chemical compound)
...from the enzyme surface; an unstable, high-energy compound called an acid anhydride, it transfers a high-energy phosphate to ADP, directly or via guanosine diphosphate (GDP) [43]....
guanosine triphosphate (chemical compound)
Guanosine triphosphate (GTP) is used by the body to form the guanylic acid units in ribonucleic acids (RNA’s)....
Guantánamo (Cuba)
city, eastern Cuba, lying in the mountains 21 miles (34 km) north of strategic Guantánamo Bay. Founded in 1819, the settlement was called Santa Catalina del Saltadero del Guaso until 1843. French refugees from Haiti aided in the colonization of the area, and many cultural characte...
Guantánamo Bay (bay, Cuba)
inlet of the Caribbean Sea, indenting southeastern Cuba. A large and well-sheltered bay, it has a narrow entrance to a harbour approximately 6 miles (10 km) wide and 12 miles (19 km) long and capable of accommodating large vessels. Guantánamo Bay is served by the ports of Caimanera and Boquerón, which are linked by railroad and highway to the cit...
Guantánamo Bay detention camp (United States detention facility, Cuba)
U.S. detention facility on the Guantánamo Bay Naval Base, located on the coast of Guantánamo Bay in southeastern Cuba. Constructed in stages starting in 2002, the Guantánamo Bay detention camp (often called Gitmo, which is also a name for the naval base) was used to house Muslim milita...
guante (glove)
...of rubber to Europe from South America permitted players to speed up the game. The next step, it is thought, was the introduction of the guante, a simple leather glove worn on the right hand, which in turn led to the use of a flat wooden bat, or pala. A cartoon for a tapestry by Goya in the Prado museum, Madrid,......
Guanting Reservoir (reservoir, China)
Large-scale water-conservation projects were begun in the early 1950s to provide more water for the expanding urban area. Notable are the large Miyun Reservoir, northeast of the city, and the Guanting Reservoir, which impounds the Yongding in the northwestern mountains beyond the Great Wall. These regulate the flow of the rivers upstream, storing water at times of heavy discharge and then......
Guanto, Giusto da (Flemish painter)
painter who introduced the Flemish style into Urbino. He has been identified with Joos van Wassenhove, a master of the painters’ guild at Antwerp in 1460 and at Ghent in 1464....
Guanwei (historical region, China)
Historical region, northeastern China....
Guanxiu (Chinese painter)
Tang dynasty Chan (in Japanese, Zen) painter known for his paintings of lohans (arhats). The best known of the lohan paintings that are attributed to him are a series of 16 in the Tokyo National Museum....
Guanyin (Avalokiteshvara)
in Chinese Buddhism, the bodhisattva of infinite compassion and mercy. See Avalokiteśvara....
Guanyin (bodhisattva)
the bodhisattva (“Buddha-to-be”) of infinite compassion and mercy, possibly the most popular of all Buddhist deities, beloved throughout the Buddhist world. He supremely exemplifies the bodhisattva’s resolve to postpone his own Buddhahood until he has helped every being on earth achieve emancipation....
Guanyin (Avalokiteshvara)
in Chinese Buddhism, the bodhisattva of infinite compassion and mercy. See Avalokiteśvara....
Guanyin Hall (ancient hall, China)
The style of the 10th century is exemplified in the Guanyin Hall of the Dule Temple at Jixian, Hebei province, built in 984 in Liao territory. A two-story structure with a mezzanine that projects to an outer balcony, the hall is effectively constructed of three tiers of supporting brackets. It houses a 16-metre- (52-foot-) high, 11-headed clay sculpture of the bodhisattva Guanyin, the largest......
Guanzhong (region, China)
...grain and provisions from the eastern plains and the Yangtze River valley. The capital remained in Shaanxi largely because the area (known as Guanzhong—literally “Within the Passes”) was easily defended and was of crucial importance as a frontier with China’s neighbours. However, after the sack of Chang’an...
“Guanzhuibian” (work by Qian Zhongshu)
...revised and enlarged in 1983), Songshi xuanzhu (1958; “Selected and Annotated Poems of the Song Dynasty”), and the four-volume Guanzhuibian (1979; Limited Views, a partial translation). The latter work contains comparative studies in literature and culture in general, many of which involve several languages and a good number of authors......
guanzi (musical instrument)
double-reed Chinese wind instrument, having a cylindrical body with seven frontal finger holes and one thumb hole. The northern version is made of wood, and the southern of bamboo. The instrument’s range is about two and one-half octaves. The length of the guan varies from 7 to ...
Guanzi (Chinese text)
In the several Daoist chapters of the Guanzi (book of “Master Guan”), another text of uncertain date, emphasis is placed on “the art of the heart (mind)”; the heart governs the body as the chief governs the state. If the organs and senses submit to it, the heart can achieve a desirelessness and emptiness that make it a pure receptacle of the “heart.....
Guap (archipelago, Micronesia)
archipelago of the western Caroline Islands, Federated States of Micronesia. The archipelago comprises the islands of Gagil-Tamil, Maap, Rumung, and Yap (also called Rull, Uap, and Yapa), within a coral reef. Yap, the largest island, has a central range of hills rising to Taabiywol, 568 ...
Guaporé, Rio (river, South America)
river flowing through west central Brazil. The river rises in the Serra (mountains) dos Parecis in Mato Grosso state, Brazil, and loops southward, westward, and then north-northwestward past Mato Grosso city. After receiving the Rio Verde, it continues northwestward, forming the border between Bolivia and Brazil and emptying...
Guaporé River (river, South America)
river flowing through west central Brazil. The river rises in the Serra (mountains) dos Parecis in Mato Grosso state, Brazil, and loops southward, westward, and then north-northwestward past Mato Grosso city. After receiving the Rio Verde, it continues northwestward, forming the border between Bolivia and Brazil and emptying...
guar (plant)
river flowing through west central Brazil. The river rises in the Serra (mountains) dos Parecis in Mato Grosso state, Brazil, and loops southward, westward, and then north-northwestward past Mato Grosso city. After receiving the Rio Verde, it continues northwestward, forming the border between Bolivia and Brazil and emptying...
Guaragna, Salvatore (American artist)
American songwriter who, by his own estimate, produced 300 to 400 songs from 1922 through 1960, many for Hollywood films and Broadway musical productions....
guarana (plant)
(Paullinia cupana), woody, climbing plant, of the soapberry family (Sapindaceae), native to the Amazon Basin. It has...
Guaranda (Ecuador)
city, central highland Ecuador, on a headstream of the Chimbo River in the Cordillera (mountains) de Guaranda of the Andes. It is about 15 mi (24 km) southwest of Mt. Chimborazo. As an agricultural centre for the surrounding area, the city trades in cinchona (a source of quinine), wheat, corn (maize), and timber. Its slight industrial ...
Guaraní (people)
South American Indian group living mainly in Paraguay and speaking a Tupian language also called Guaraní. Smaller groups live in Argentina, Bolivia, and Brazil. Modern Paraguay still claims a strong Guaraní heritage, and more Paraguayans speak and understand Guaraní ...
Guaraní language
...spoken along the Atlantic coast at the time of discovery, became important in a modified form as a lingua franca, and the closely related Guaraní became the national language in Paraguay, being one of the few Indian languages that does not seem to yield under the influence......
Guarani, O (work by Alencar)
...de Alencar, considered the Romantic writer par excellence, was also an Indianist, a trait evident in his historical novel O guaraní (1857; “The Guaraní”). A historical work set in Brazil and modeled on the novels of James Fenimore......
guarantee (business)
...remedies as those for nondelivery, including a suit for transfer of ownership. But in most countries the seller’s obligation is limited to warranting “quiet possession”—that is, guaranteeing enjoyment of the goods undisturbed by claims of third parties. In some countries the warranty of quiet possession entitles the buyer who is sued by a ......
Guarantee Photo Studio (American company)
In 1916 VanDerZee and his second wife, Gaynella Greenlee, launched the Guarantee Photo Studio in Harlem. His business boomed during World War I, and the portraits he shot from this period until 1945 have demanded the majority of critical attention. Among his many renowned subjects were poet Countee Cullen, dancer Bill......
guaranteed income stream (labour)
In 1982 the Ford Motor Company and the United Automobile Workers union negotiated a new model for such plans. Known as the guaranteed income stream (GIS), this plan was designed to guarantee employees 50 percent of their hourly rate of pay until age 62. GIS programs were widely used during the economic slump of the early 1980s, when many labour settlements used it to provide income stability to......
guaranteed minimum income (tax law)
The idea of a negative income tax has been considered in the United States as a method of providing very-low-income families with a stable subsistence level of income in the form of government payments geared into the individual income tax structure. It is viewed as a possible substitute for public assistance or as an alternative to family......
guaranteed wage plan (business)
system by which an employer ensures a minimum annual amount of employment or wages (or both) to employees who have been with the employer for a required minimum period of time. The United States has had more experience than other countries with such plans, which are meant to eliminate the adverse effects of fluctuating employment on living stand...
Guarantees, Law of (Italy [1871])
(May 13, 1871), attempt by the Italian government to settle the question of its relationship with the pope, who had been deprived of his lands in central Italy in the process of national unification. The first section of the law sought to ensure the freedom of the pope to fulfill his spiritual functions despite the loss of his temporal power. It gave the pope special status as a sovereign person, ...
guaranty (law)
in law, assumption of liability for the obligations of another. In modern usage the term guaranty has largely superseded suretyship....
Guaranty Building (building, Buffalo, New York, United States)
...which the vertical elements are stressed and the horizontals, being recessed, are minimized. These vertical rhythms are capped by a deep decorative frieze and a projecting cornice. The 16-story Guaranty (now Prudential) Building in Buffalo by Adler and Sullivan is similar except that its surface is sheathed in decorative terra-cotta instead of red brick. Both buildings are among the best of......
Guaratinguetá (Brazil)
city, eastern São Paulo estado (state), Brazil. It lies in the Mantiqueira Mountains at 1,785 feet (544 metres) above sea level at the confluence of the Guaratinguetá Stream an...
Guarauno (people)
nomadic South American Indians speaking a language of the Macro-Chibchan group and, in modern times, inhabiting the swampy Orinoco River delta in Venezuela and areas eastward to the Pomeroon River of Guyana. Some Warao also live in Suriname. The tribe ...
guard (security system)
Guard-force training, supervision, and motivation are other important aspects of the personnel-administration approach to security. The use of operational personnel to attain security objectives is still another. Examples include engineers, production workers, and clerical staff applying government security regulations for the safeguarding......
guard band (electronics)
...overlap, recovery of each of the FDM signals is possible at the receiving end. In order to prevent overlap of the signals and to simplify filtering, each of the modulated signals is separated by a guard band, which consists of an unused portion of the available frequency spectrum. Each user is assigned a given frequency band for all time....
guard cell (plant anatomy)
...water vapour, carbon dioxide, and oxygen through this cuticle barrier. Dispersed throughout the epidermis are paired, chloroplast-containing guard cells, and between each pair is formed a small opening, or pore, called a stoma (plural: stomata). When the two guard cells are turgid (swollen with water), the stoma is open, and, when the two.....
guard hair (anatomy)
Most mammals have three distinct kinds of hairs. Guard hairs protect the rest of the pelage from abrasion and frequently from moisture, and they usually lend a characteristic colour pattern. The thicker underfur is primarily insulative and may differ in colour from the guard hairs. The third common hair type is the vibrissa, or whisker, a stiff, typically elongate hair that functions in......
Guard of Honor (work by Cozzens)
...critical acclaim because of his conservative views. Acclaim did come, however; he received the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1949 for Guard of Honor and the Howells Medal of the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1960 for By Love Possessed. The latter was also Cozzens’ greatest popular success. His later works......
Guarda (Portugal)
city, north-central Portugal. Lying on the northeast side of the Estrela Mountains (Serra da Estrela) at an elevation of 3,465 ft (1,056 m), it is Portugal’s highest city....
Guarda (Switzerland)
Some villages, such as Guarda in the lower Engadin and Grimentz in the Val d’Anniviers of Valais, are renowned for their picturesque beauty, and others, such as Crans-Montana on the slopes above the Rhône valley in Valais canton and Wengen in the Berner......
Guarda Nacional Repúblicana (Portuguese police)
The Portuguese police are divided into four categories. The Public Security Police (Polícia de Segurança Pública; PSP) and the Republican National Guard (Guarda Nacional Republicana; GNR) are under the control of the Ministry of Internal Administration. The GNR includes the road police and has jurisdiction over rural areas. The PSP patrols urban areas and directs city......
Guardado, Facundo (Salvadoran politician and guerrilla leader)
...divided between contenders from two factions—one from its orthodox Marxist wing and the other from its modern, or “renovator,” wing. The final selection was former guerrilla leader Facundo Guardado, who was supported mainly by the “renovators.” Guardado did not fare well, winning only 29 percent of the vote. In 2000 the FMLN won the largest number of seats in ...
“guardagujas, El” (work by Arreola)
...Borges, Arreola cultivated the hybrid subgenre of the essay-story, a combination that lends authority to quite outlandish propositions. El guardagujas (The Switchman) is Arreola’s most anthologized piece. It is without question his most representative. A stranded railroad traveler waits for months to board a train that never arrives, on...
Guardi, Francesco (Venetian painter)
one of the outstanding Venetian landscape painters of the Rococo period....
Guardi, Gianantonio (Venetian painter)
painter of the 18th-century Venetian school....
Guardi, Giovanni Antonio (Venetian painter)
painter of the 18th-century Venetian school....
guardia alla luna, La (work by Bontempelli)
...a nord-ovest (published 1919, performed 1923; “Barrier to the Northwest”) and Nostra dea (performed 1925; “Our Goddess”). A particularly striking play is La guardia alla luna (performed 1916; “Watching for the Moon”), the story of a woman who blames the moon for her child’s death and climbs a mountain to try to kill it...
Guardia Civil (Spanish police)
paramilitary national police force of Spain, engaged primarily in maintaining order in rural areas and in patrolling the frontiers and the highways. The Civil Guard is commanded by a lieutenant general of the army but is part of the Ministry of the Interior. It was created in 1844, and its first accomplishment was the suppression of brigandage in southern Spain....
Guardia Nacional (military organization, Nicaragua)
The Marines withdrew upon the inauguration of Sacasa, and Sandino submitted to his government. A Nicaraguan National Guard, trained by the U.S. Marines and commanded by Gen. Anastasio Somoza García, was now responsible for maintaining order in the country. In 1934 high-ranking officers led by Somoza met and agreed to the assassination of Sandino. Somoza then deposed Sacasa with the......
Guardia Nobile (Vatican City police)
...they shared jurisdiction with the long-established Swiss Guards (responsible for the personal security of the pope) and the largely ceremonial Palatine Honour Guard (Guardia Palatina d’Onore) and Noble Guard (Guardia Nobile)....
Guardia Palatina d’Onore (Vatican City police)
...Vatican City. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries they shared jurisdiction with the long-established Swiss Guards (responsible for the personal security of the pope) and the largely ceremonial Palatine Honour Guard (Guardia Palatina d’Onore) and Noble Guard (Guardia Nobile)....
Guardia, Ricardo Adolfo de la (president of Panama)
...form of cash and the transfer to Panama of various properties. While in Havana, Cuba, on a private visit, he was removed from office by the national police (Panama had no army) in October 1941, and Ricardo Adolfo de la Guardia became president. After the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, on December 7, 1941, Panama transferred the......
Guardia Rural (Mexican federal police)
In 1926 a new force, the Rural Defense Force (Guardia Rural), was created out of a number of volunteer forces that had developed after 1915 for local self-protection. Though this corps still exists as an army reserve, by the late 20th century it was being phased out, and its forces dropped from more than 100,000 in the early 1970s to fewer than 15,000 by the early 21st century. Volunteers do......
Guardia Svizzera
corps of Swiss soldiers responsible for the safety of the pope. Often called “the world’s smallest army,” they serve as personal escorts to the pontiff and as watchmen for Vatican City and the pontifical villa of Castel Gandolfo....
Guardia, Tomás (dictator of Costa Rica)
Material progress came to Costa Rica during the era of Gen. Tomás Guardia, who dominated the country from 1870 until 1882. His government curtailed liberty and added to the debt, but it also brought increases in coffee and sugar exports as well as widespread construction of schools. A new constitution, adopted in 1871, remained in effect, except for a brief interlude (1917–19),......
guardian
person legally entrusted with supervision of another who is ineligible to manage his own affairs—usually a child. Guardians fulfill the state’s role as substitute parent. Those for whom guardianships are established are called wards. Guardianships for others than children are usually established by courts for the property or persons of the insane or those otherwise incapable of hand...
guardian angel (religion)
...as the movers of the stars and controlled the four elements—earth, air, fire, and water. Many angels are believed to be guardians over individuals and nations. The view that there are guardian angels watching over children has been a significant belief in the popular piety of Roman Catholicism. Angels are also regarded as the......
Guardian Council (Iranian government)
in Iranian government, a council empowered to vet legislation and oversee elections....
Guardian of the Cause of God (Bahāʾī faith)
...which in turn will elect the nine members of the national group from among all Bahāʾīs in the country. World leadership of the faith was held by Shoghi Effendi Rabbani as Guardian of the Cause of God until his death in 1957; since 1963 it has been assumed by the highest spiritual assembly, the Universal House of Justice, a body elected by the national spiritual......
guardian spirit
supernatural teacher, frequently depicted in animal form, who guides an individual in every important activity through advice and songs; the belief in guardian spirits is widely diffused among the North American Indians....
Guardian, The (British newspaper)
influential daily newspaper published in London and Manchester, generally considered one of the United Kingdom’s leading newspapers....
Guardian, The (American newspaper)
...African American journalist and vocal advocate of racial equality in the early 20th century. From the pages of his weekly newspaper, The Guardian, he criticized the pragmatism of Booker T. Washington, agitating for civil rights among blacks. Along with W.E.B. ......
Guardians, Council of (Iranian government)
in Iranian government, a council empowered to vet legislation and oversee elections....
Guardians of the Peace (civic guard, Ireland)
The year saw continuing concern about the performance of the national police service, the Garda Siochana (Guardians of the Peace). A series of judicial reports condemned corruption and a lack of discipline, while another inquiry criticized Garda’s handling of a siege in which an armed mentally ill man was shot....
guard’s van
One type of vehicle that is fast disappearing in North America and virtually extinct in Europe is the caboose, or brake-van. With modern air-braking systems, the security of a very long train can be assured by fixing to its end car’s brake pipe a telemetry device that continually monitors pressure and automatically transmits its findings to the locomotive cab....
Guare, John (American author)
American playwright known for his innovative and often absurdist dramas....
Guarea (plant genus)
...(80 species) from Indo-Malaysia to the islands of the Pacific; Turraea (60 species) in tropical and southern Africa to Australia; Chisocheton (50 species) in Indo-Malaysia; and Guarea (50 species) in tropical America and tropical Africa....
Guarentigie, Legge delle (Italy [1871])
(May 13, 1871), attempt by the Italian government to settle the question of its relationship with the pope, who had been deprived of his lands in central Italy in the process of national unification. The first section of the law sought to ensure the freedom of the pope to fulfill his spiritual functions despite the loss of his temporal power. It gave the pope special status as a sovereign person, ...
Guareschi, Giovanni (Italian journalist and novelist)
(May 13, 1871), attempt by the Italian government to settle the question of its relationship with the pope, who had been deprived of his lands in central Italy in the process of national unification. The first section of the law sought to ensure the freedom of the pope to fulfill his spiritual functions despite the loss of his temporal power. It gave the pope special status as a sovereign person, ...
Guárico (state, Venezuela)
estado (state), north-central Venezuela, bounded north by the central highlands and south by the Orinoco River. It has an area of 25,091 sq mi (64,986 sq km). Until the 1960s life in the Llanos (plains) state was dominated by cat...
Guárico River (river, South America)
...meanders eastward over gently sloping plains. Shoals and alluvial islands are abundant; some of the islands are large enough to divide the channel into narrow passages. Tributaries include the Guárico, Manapire, Suatá (Zuata), Pao, and Caris rivers, which enter on the left bank, and the Cuchivero and Caura rivers,......
Guarine (people)
Indian tribe of northern Venezuela at the time of the Spanish conquest (16th century). The Palenque were closely related to the neighbouring Cumanagoto; their language probably belonged to the Arawakan family. They were a tropical-forest people known to eat human flesh, to be warlike, and to live in settlements surrounded by palisades (palenques). The Patá...
Guarini, Battista (Italian poet)
Renaissance court poet who, with Torquato Tasso, is credited with establishing the form of a new literary genre, the pastoral drama....
Guarini, Camillo (Italian architect, priest, mathematician, and theologian)
Italian architect, priest, mathematician, and theologian whose designs and books on architecture made him a major source for later Baroque architects in central Europe and northern Italy....
Guarini, Giovanni Battista (Italian poet)
Renaissance court poet who, with Torquato Tasso, is credited with establishing the form of a new literary genre, the pastoral drama....
Guarini, Guarino (Italian scholar)
Italian humanist and Classical scholar, one of the pioneers of Greek studies in Renaissance western Europe and foremost teacher of humanistic scholars....

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