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Guyon, Jeanne-Marie Bouvier de La Motte, Madame du Chesnoy (French mystic)
French mystic and writer, a central figure in the theological debates of 17th-century France through her advocacy of quietism, an extreme passivity and indifference of the soul, even to eternal salvation, wherein she believed that one became an agent of God....
Guyon, Madame (French mystic)
French mystic and writer, a central figure in the theological debates of 17th-century France through her advocacy of quietism, an extreme passivity and indifference of the soul, even to eternal salvation, wherein she believed that one became an agent of God....
guyot (geology)
isolated submarine volcanic mountain with a flat summit more than 200 metres (660 feet) below sea level. Such flat tops may have diameters greater than 10 km (6 miles). (The term derives from the Swiss American geologist Arnold Henry Guyot.)...
Guyot, A. H. (mathematician)
...with “entertaining mathematical and poetical parts.” On the Continent there appeared several writers, including: Christian Pescheck, Abat Bonaventura, the Dutch writer Paul Halcken, and A.H. Guyot’s four volumes of Nouvelles Récréations physiques et mathématiques, etc. (1769, 1786). But by far the outstanding work was that of Jacques Ozanam, the ...
Guyot, Arnold Henry (American geologist)
Swiss-born American geologist, geographer, and educator whose extensive meteorological observations led to the founding of the U.S. Weather Bureau. The guyot, a flat-topped volcanic peak rising from the ocean floor, is named after him....
Guyotat, Pierre (French author)
...political resonance. History proved able to accommodate a vast range of fiction, from popular romance and fictionalized biography to the linguistic and narrative experiments of writers such as Pierre Guyotat, whose Éden, Éden, Éden (1970; Eden, Eden, Eden), a novel about war, prostitution, obscenity, and atrocity, set......
Guys and Dolls (work by Runyon)
American journalist and short-story writer, best known for his book Guys and Dolls, written in the regional slang that became his trademark....
Guys and Dolls (film by Mankiewicz [1955])
American musical film, released in 1955, that was adapted from the triumphant stage hit of the same name, which was based on writings by Damon Runyon....
Guys and Dolls (musical by Loesser)
Ewan McGregor returned to the stage as Sky Masterson in the 1950 classic musical Guys and Dolls, directed by Michael Grandage against a bare black brick wall that evoked the Donmar Warehouse space (the Donmar Warehouse production company was co-producer with Howard Panter’s Ambassador Theatre Group and Clear Channel Entertainment). McGregor’s insinuating charm almost made up f...
Guys, Constantin (French journalist)
cartoonist and comic illustrator who depicted the fashionable world of the French Second Empire (1852–70). A fighter for Greek independence in his youth, Guys reported the Crimean War (1853–56) for The Illustrated London News...
Guy’s Hospital (hospital, London, United Kingdom)
founder of Guy’s Hospital, London....
Guyton, Arthur Clifton (American medical researcher)
American medical researcher and educator (b. Sept. 8, 1919, Oxford, Miss.—d. April 3, 2003, Jackson, Miss.), wrote one of the most widely used medical textbooks in the world, Textbook of Medical Physiology (1956), which was in its 10th edition and had been translated into 15 languages; he also contributed greatly to the understanding of hypertension. As a surgical resident at Massach...
Guyton de Morveau, Louis Bernard (French chemist and educator)
French chemist who played a major part in the reform of chemical nomenclature....
Güyük (Mongol emperor)
grandson of Genghis Khan and eldest son and successor of Ögödei, the first khagan, or great khan, of the Mongols....
Güzelhisar (Turkey)
city, southwestern Turkey, near the Menderes River (the ancient Maeander). It is an important trading centre on the Afyon-İzmir highway and rail line. Nearby is the site of ancient Tralles, said to have been founded by the Argives. Aydın was called Güzelhisar (“Beautiful Castle”) under the Turkmen Menteşe emirs in the ...
Guzhangian Stage (geology)
last of three internationally defined stages of the Series 3 epoch of the Cambrian Period, encompassing all rocks deposited during the Guzhangian Age (approximately 503 million to 499 million years ago)....
guzheng (musical instrument)
Chinese plucked board zither roughly 47 inches (120 cm) long and 12 inches (30 cm) wide. Its resonator is galley-shaped, and in cross section the top is curved and the bottom flat. The strings are stretched over the surface, fastened at the left end and at the right where there are pegs for tuning. A movea...
Guzikov, Michal Jozef (Polish musician)
...him. Carillonneurs in Flanders and the Netherlands often used a keyboard version as a practice instrument. About 1830 it became immensely popular through the concerts of the touring Polish virtuoso Michal Jozef Guzikov, who used the then common “four-street” instrument (having four staggered rows, tuned chromatically—i.e., to a 12-note scale). It became a fashionable solo a...
Guzmán, Alonso Pérez de (Spanish admiral)
commander in chief of the Spanish Armada of 1588....
Guzmán, Antonio Leocadio (Venezuelan journalist)
...period of Conservative Party domination was an era of political stability, economic progress, and responsible administration. An opposition movement began to develop in 1840, however, when Antonio Leocadio Guzmán, the leading spokesman for dissident merchants and professional men, founded the Liberal Party. Guzmán’s new liberal newspaper, El......
Guzmán Blanco, Antonio (president of Venezuela)
Venezuelan president and typical Latin American caudillo (military leader or dictator) of his era....
“Guzmán de Alfarache” (work by Alemán)
...Christians in 16th-century Spain. His most important literary work, Guzmán de Alfarache (1599; a second part, 1604; Eng. trans., The Spanish Rogue, 1622, 1924), which brought him fame throughout Europe but little profit, is one of the earliest picaresque novels. The first part ran through many editions, almost all......
Guzmán, Eugénia María de Montijo de (empress of France)
wife of Napoleon III and empress of France (1853–70), who came to have an important influence on her husband’s foreign policy....
Guzmán family (Spanish nobility)
...and especially Andalusia—that is, those provinces most recently reconquered from the Muslims—were the domain of the great nobility. There the Enríquez, the Mendoza, and the Guzmán families and others owned vast estates, sometimes covering almost half a province. They had grown rich as a result of the boom in wool exports to Flanders during the 15th-century, when......
Guzmán Fernández, Antonio (president of Dominican Republic)
the president of the Dominican Republic from May 1978 to July 1982....
Guzmán Fernández, Silvestre Antonio (president of Dominican Republic)
the president of the Dominican Republic from May 1978 to July 1982....
Guzmán, Fernando de (Spanish explorer)
...the headwaters of the Amazon River. Upon reaching the headwaters, Aguirre incited a rebellion in which Ursúa was killed. He then killed Fernando de Guzmán, who had succeeded Ursúa, and took command of the expedition....
Guzmán, Jacobo Arbenz (president of Guatemala)
soldier, politician, and president of Guatemala (1951–54) whose nationalistic economic and social reforms alienated conservative landowners, conservative elements in the army, and the U.S. government and led to his overthrow....
Guzmán, Martín Luis (Mexican writer)
novelist who was one of the finest writers of the revolutionary period in Mexico....
Guzmán, Nuño de (Spanish conquistador)
Between 1530 and 1536 Jalisco and other Pacific coast regions were conquered by Nuño de Guzmán. The Indians of Jalisco rebelled in 1541 but were suppressed after hard fighting in an episode known as the Mixton War. In order to complete the subjugation of the indigenous peoples, the Spaniards began to move into Zacatecas, where in 1546 they found immensely valuable silver mines.......
Guzmán Reynoso, Abimael (Peruvian revolutionary)
...ware. Ayacucho can be reached by highway from Lima, Huancayo, and Cuzco, as well as by air. Ayacucho has been the site of terrorist acts and campaigns by the revolutionary organization Shining Path. Abimael Guzmán Reynoso, a philosophy professor at the National University of San Cristóbal de Huamanga in Ayacucho, founded the movement in 1970 as an offshoot of the ......
Guzmán, Santo Domingo de (Spanish priest)
founder of the Order of Friars Preachers (Dominicans), a religious order of mendicant friars with a universal mission of preaching, a centralized organization and government, and a great emphasis on scholarship....
Guzmán y Pimental, Gaspar de (prime minister of Spain)
prime minister (1623–43) and court favourite (valido) of King Philip IV of Spain. He attempted to impose a strong centralizing policy and eventually provoked rebellion and his own fall....
Guzmania (plant genus)
genus of about 85 species of tropical American and West Indian epiphytes (plants that are supported by other plants and have aerial roots exposed to the humid atmosphere) and terrestrial plants of the ...
Gvadányi, József (Hungarian author)
Spurred on by new ideas, but basically traditionalists, József Gvadányi and András Dugonics produced amusing works that were both of some literary merit and popular. Gvadányi’s best work, Egy falusi nótáriusnak budai utazása (1790; “The Journey to Buda of a Village Notary”), is a defense of national and traditional values...
GVFI (international organization)
...on the transmission of viruses closely related to human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) between nonhuman primates and bushmeat hunters in Africa. Wolfe also played a central role in establishing the Global Viral Forecasting Initiative (GVFI), a program designed to monitor the transmission of viruses from animals to humans in countries worldwide....
GVHD (pathology)
condition that occurs following a bone marrow transplant, in which cells in the donor marrow (the graft) attack tissues of the recipient (the host). This attack is mediated by T cells, a type of white blood cell normally occurring in the ...
Gvozdena Vrata (gorge, Europe)
the last gorge of the Ðerdap gorge system on the Danube River, dividing the Carpathian and Balkan mountains and forming part of the boundary between Serbia and Romania. It is about 2 miles (3 km) long and 530 feet (162 metres) wide, with towering rock cliffs that make it one of the most dramatic natural wonders of Europe. Near the tow...
Gvozdeva, Ostrova (islands, Bering Sea)
two small islands in the Bering Strait, lying about 2.5 miles (4 km) apart and separated by the U.S.–Russian boundary, which coincides with the International Date Line. The larger island, Big Diomede (Russian: Ostrov Ratmanova [Ratmanov Island]), has an area of 4 square miles (10 square km) and is p...
GVW rating
Trucks are organized for regulatory purposes in the United States by their fully loaded capacity, or gross vehicle weight (GVW) rating. Light trucks have GVW ratings that do not exceed 10,000 pounds (4.5 metric tons); GVWs of less than 8,500 pounds (3.9 metric tons) are classified as work trucks. These vehicles generally have more in common......
Gwadar (Pakistan)
town and seaport, southwestern Balochistan province, southwestern Pakistan. Located on the sandy Nuh headland that juts southward into the Arabian Sea, the town is an important fishing (sardines and sharks) and trade centre. The main industrial concern is a fish-processing factory; salt is obtained by the evaporation of seawa...
Gwādar Bay (bay, Arabian Sea)
inlet of the Arabian Sea indenting the sandy Makran coast at the Iran–Pakistan border. It is about 20 miles (32 km) long and 10 miles (16 km) wide. The Dashtīārī River flows into it from the northwest, and the Dasht from the northeast. The town of Gwādar, Pak., lies on the Arabian Sea coast ...
Gwaith Dafydd ab Edmwnd (works of Dafydd)
...at the Carmarthen eisteddfod, or poets’ assembly, about 1451). A master of bardic forms, he wrote elegant and technically perfect love lyrics, eulogies, and elegies. His works are collected in Gwaith Dafydd ab Edmwnd (ed. by Thomas Roberts, 1914)....
Gwaith Guto’r Glyn (works of Guto’r Glyn)
Welsh bard whose praise poems represent one of the high points of the classical bardic tradition. Gwaith Guto’r Glyn (“The Works of Guto’r Glyn,” first published in 1939) was collected by J.Ll. Williams and edited by Sir Ifor Williams. Guto’r Glyn lived at Glynceiriog and spent his last years at the abbey of Valle Crucis, Denbighshire....
Gwala, Harry (South African leader)
South African communist and a leader of the African National Congress who never accepted the more conciliatory approach taken by the ANC after Nelson Mandela’s release from prison (b. July 30, 1920--d. June 20, 1995)....
Gwalchmai ap Meilyr (Welsh poet)
one of the earliest Welsh court poets (gogynfardd) at the court of Owain Gwynedd at Aberffraw, Anglesey. His extant poems include traditional eulogies to the Welsh princes Owain Gwynedd and Madog ap Maredudd and a “boasting poem,” Gorhoffedd, celebrating his prowess in war and w...
Gwalchmei (Celtic mythology)
...Welsh literature, including the Mabinogion and a Welsh translation of Geoffrey’s Historia, Gawain appears as Gwalchmei. In several of the romances and in Malory, Gawain’s strength waxed and waned with the sun, raising the possibility of a connection with a Celtic ......
Gwalior (district, India)
...Welsh literature, including the Mabinogion and a Welsh translation of Geoffrey’s Historia, Gawain appears as Gwalchmei. In several of the romances and in Malory, Gawain’s strength waxed and waned with the sun, raising the possibility of a connection with a Celtic .........
Gwalior (India)
city, northern Madhya Pradesh state, central India. It is situated about 75 miles (120 km) south of Agra. Gwalior is on a major national highway and is a railway junction. It is a cultural, industrial, and political centre and takes its name from the historic rock fortress that forms the centre of the city. Gwalior has been referred to as Go...
Gwanda (Zimbabwe)
town, southern Zimbabwe. Gwanda was founded in 1900, and its name derives from that of a nearby hill known as Jahunda. It is located on the Bulawayo-Beitbridge road and the railway that runs south to West Nicholson. The town is the chief centre for southwestern Zimbabwe’s cattle district and also trades in agricultural produce. There are gold, asbestos, and chrome mines i...
Gwandu (Nigeria)
town and traditional emirate, Kebbi state, northwestern Nigeria. It lies near a branch of the Zamfara River, a tributary of the Sokoto....
Gwandu (emirate, Nigeria)
...He made his brother Abdullahi dan Fodio emir of Gwandu and overlord of the western and southern emirates (1809) and placed Bello in charge of the eastern emirates. From 1815 Abdullahi maintained Gwandu as one of the two capitals of the Fulani empire....
Gwangju (South Korea)
city and provincial capital, South Chŏlla (South Jeolla) do (province), southwestern South Korea. It has the status of a metropolitan city under the direct control of the central government, with administrative status equal to that of a province. An old city on the edge of ...
Gwari (people)
...masks and elaborate headpieces of embroidered cloth, which allow for a dance that accelerates into a climax of rapid, abrupt movement. The Nago and Akakayi ancestral masqueraders of the Gwari wear close-fitting head and body coverings, which permit rapid, staccato movements while dancing at the “second burial” (i.e., the post-burial celebrations) of a leader o...
Gwathmey, Charles (American architect)
June 19, 1938Charlotte, N.C.Aug. 3, 2009New York, N.Y.American architect who was celebrated for his geometric-inspired Modernist architecture. Early in his career Gwathmey gained prominence as the youngest of five New York City-based architects (together with Michael Graves, Peter Eisenman,...
Gwawl (Celtic mythology)
...the name Pwyll Pen Annwn (“Head of Annwn”). With the aid of the goddess Rhiannon, who loved him, Pwyll won her from his rival, Gwawl. She bore him a son, Pryderi, who was abducted by Gwawl. Pryderi was later restored to his parents and succeeded Pwyll as ruler both in Dyfed and Annwn. In ......
Gweithiau Barddonol Eben Fardd (works of Eben Fardd)
...which won at Llangollen (1858). In addition to his eisteddfodic compositions, he wrote many hymns, a collection of which was published in 1862. His complete works appeared under the title Gweithiau Barddonol Eben Fardd (1875; “Poetic Works of Eben Fardd”). From 1827 he conducted a school at Clynnog, Caernarvonshire....
Gweledigaetheu y Bardd Cwsc (work by Wynne)
clergyman and author whose Gweledigaetheu y Bardd Cwsc (1703; “Visions of the Sleeping Bard”) is generally considered the greatest Welsh prose classic. An adaptation of Sir Roger L’Estrange’s translation of the Spanish satirist Quevedo’s Sueños (1627; “Visions”), savage pictures of contemporary evils, it followed its original cl...
Gwelo (Zimbabwe)
town, central Zimbabwe, on the Gweru River. The original Matabele settlement was named iKwelo (“The Steep Place”), after the river’s high banks. The modern town, founded in 1894 as a military outpost, developed as an agricultural centre and became a municipality in 1914. Situated along the road and railway between Harare (formerly Salisbury) and Bulawayo and...
Gwenhwyvar (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...
Gwenn, Edmund (British-American actor)
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...
gwersiou (poetic form)
narrative ballad in the Breton language that dramatically describes local events, history, legends, and folklore. One of two major types of Breton folk poetry, the gwersiou was first published in an authenticated collection by François-Marie Luzel in Gwersiou Breiz-Izel, 2 vol. (1868...
Gwersiou Breiz-Izel (collection by Luzel)
...Barzaz Breiz led to a renaissance of Breton writing and stimulated Luzel to collect authentic folk songs and publish Gwerziou Breiz-Izel (2 vol., 1868–74; “Ballads of Lower Brittany”) and, in collaboration with Anatole Le Braz, Soniou Breiz-Izel (2 vol., 1890; “Folk Songs of Lower......
Gweru (Zimbabwe)
town, central Zimbabwe, on the Gweru River. The original Matabele settlement was named iKwelo (“The Steep Place”), after the river’s high banks. The modern town, founded in 1894 as a military outpost, developed as an agricultural centre and became a municipality in 1914. Situated along the road and railway between Harare (formerly Salisbury) and Bulawayo and...
Gwich’in (people)
a group of Athabaskan-speaking North American Indian tribes inhabiting the basins of the Yukon and Peel rivers in eastern Alaska and Yukon—a land of coniferous forests interspersed with open, barren ground. The name Gwich’in, meaning “people,”...
Gwijde van Dampierre (count of Flanders)
count of Flanders (from 1278) and margrave of Namur (Namen). He was the son of Margaret, countess of Flanders and Hainaut....
Gwinnett, Button (American statesman)
American merchant, patriot, and signer of the Declaration of Independence, known chiefly because his autographs are of extreme rarity and collectors have forced their value to a high figure. (In 2001 one of his 36 autographs sold at public auction for $110,000.)...
“Gwreans an bys” (work by Jordan)
...themes are salvation, the nature of evil, and the relationship of church and state. Gwreans an bys (The Creation of the World) is the latest surviving medieval religious play in Cornish, perhaps composed about 1550. Some 180 of its lines also appear in Origo mundi,.....
Gwydion (Celtic deity)
in the Welsh Mabinogion, a son of the goddess Dôn, a master of magic and poetry and a somewhat dubious character. He assisted in raping a virgin servant girl of his uncle, King Math; for his punishment he was made to live as a stag, a sow, and a wolf with the rapist as his counterpart—the two producing children together. Later, however, he was th...
Gwyn, Eleanor (English actress)
English actress and mistress of Charles II, whose frank recklessness, generosity, invariable good temper, ready wit, infectious high spirits, and amazing indiscretions appealed irresistibly to a generation that welcomed in her the living antithesis of Puritanism....
Gwyn, Nell (English actress)
English actress and mistress of Charles II, whose frank recklessness, generosity, invariable good temper, ready wit, infectious high spirits, and amazing indiscretions appealed irresistibly to a generation that welcomed in her the living antithesis of Puritanism....
Gwyn, Sandra (Canadian journalist)
Canadian journalist (b. May 17, 1935, St. John’s, Nfd.—d. May 26, 2000, Toronto, Ont.), passionately championed her native province of Newfoundland in writings for Saturday Night magazine that heralded the work of its sons and daughters; Gwyn also gained critical acclaim as a social historian with two insightful books: The Private Capital: Ambition and Love in the Age of Ma...
Gwynedd (county, Wales, United Kingdom)
county of northwestern Wales, extending from the Irish Sea in the west to the mountains of Snowdonia in the east. It encompasses most of the historic counties of Caernarvonshire and Merioneth....
Gwynedd of Dwyfor, Viscount (prime minister of United Kingdom)
British prime minister (1916–22) who dominated the British political scene in the latter part of World War I. He was raised to the peerage in the year of his death....
Gwynn, Anthony Keith (American baseball player)
American professional baseball player. Noted as one of the sport’s all-time best singles hitters, he threw and batted from the left side....
Gwynn, Tony (American baseball player)
American professional baseball player. Noted as one of the sport’s all-time best singles hitters, he threw and batted from the left side....
Gwynne, Fred (American actor and writer)
U.S actor and writer (b. July 10, 1926, New York, N.Y.--d. July 2, 1993, Taneytown, Md.), possessed a lanky and towering physique, which, coupled with his distinctive high forehead and long-jawed, dour face, made him a natural to portray the Frankensteinian Herman Munster, a lugubrious funeral director and patriarch of the ghoulish yet kindly family on the hit television series "The Munsters" (196...
Gwynne, Frederick Hubbard (American actor and writer)
U.S actor and writer (b. July 10, 1926, New York, N.Y.--d. July 2, 1993, Taneytown, Md.), possessed a lanky and towering physique, which, coupled with his distinctive high forehead and long-jawed, dour face, made him a natural to portray the Frankensteinian Herman Munster, a lugubrious funeral director and patriarch of the ghoulish yet kindly family on the hit television series "The Munsters" (196...
Gŵyr (peninsula, Wales, United Kingdom)
peninsula in Swansea city and county, historic county of Glamorgan (Morgannwg), Wales, extending southwest into the Bristol Channel. The old Welsh province of Gŵyr, from which the name is derived, also included extensive tracts...
Gy (physics)
unit of absorbed dose of ionizing radiation, defined in the 1980s by the International Commission on Radiation Units and Measurements. One gray is equal approximately to the absorbed dose delivered when the energy per unit mass imparted to matter by ionizing radiation is one joule per kilogram...
Gy, Pierre (French chemist)
The most comprehensive sampling theory was formulated by French chemist Pierre Gy in the second half of the 20th century. Gy defined two types of material heterogeneity: constitution heterogeneity, which is the intrinsic heterogeneity of the material’s components, and distribution heterogeneity, which is the heterogeneity that derives from the spatial mixing of the components. While this......
Gyalzing (India)
town, southwestern Sikkim state, northern India. Gezing lies just west of the Rangit River on the Rathong-Kalet interfluve. The town has a hospital, a rest house, a higher secondary school, and a small hydroelectric project. Pop. (2001) 828....
Gyana Bhandar (library, Jaisalmer, India)
...of the Rajputs (the warrior rulers of the historic region of Rajputana). The fort, on a hill that overlooks the town, houses the royal palace, several ancient Jaina temples, and a library called the Gyana Bhandar (“Store of Knowledge”), which contains old Sanskrit and Prakrit manuscripts....
Gyancain Norbu (Tibetan Buddhist)
...Lama recognized six-year-old Gedhun Choekyi Nyima as the 11th Panchen Lama, but this choice was rejected by the Chinese government, which took the boy into custody. The Chinese government appointed Gyancain Norbu the 11th Panchen Lama in late 1995....
Gyandzha (Azerbaijan)
city, western Azerbaijan. It lies along the Gäncä River. The town was founded sometime in the 5th or 6th century, about 4 miles (6.5 km) east of the modern city. That town was destroyed by earthquake in 1139 and rebuilt on the present site. Gäncä became an important centre of trade, but in 1231 it was again leveled, this time by the Mongols...
Gyanendra (king of Nepal)
last monarch (2001–08) of Nepal, who ascended to the throne after the assassination of King Birendra (reigned 1972–2001) and the subsequent suicide of Crown Prince Dipendra, who had committed the murder....
Gyanendra Bir Bikram Shah Dev (king of Nepal)
last monarch (2001–08) of Nepal, who ascended to the throne after the assassination of King Birendra (reigned 1972–2001) and the subsequent suicide of Crown Prince Dipendra, who had committed the murder....
gyangu (Japanese organized crime)
in Japan, gangster, a member of a bōryokudan, or gang of racketeers. The word yakuza, which has come to mean “good for nothing,” is derived from a worthless hand in a Japanese card game similar to blackjack: the cards ya-ku-za (“eight-nine-three”), wh...
Gyangzê (China)
town, southern Tibet Autonomous Region, western China. It is situated on the Nianchu River some 53 miles (86 km) southeast of Xigazê and about halfway between Lhasa (capital of Tibet) and the town of Yadong (Xarsingma) on the frontiers with India and Bhutan. Gyangzê is an important route centre for traffic from Lhasa to India, ...
Gyaring, Lake (lake, China)
...at an elevation above 15,000 feet (4,600 metres) in the Bayan Har Mountains, in the eastern Plateau of Tibet. In its upper reaches the river crosses two large bodies of water, Lakes Ngoring and Gyaring. These shallow lakes, each covering an area of about 400 square miles (1,000 square km), are rich in fish and freeze over in winter. The Huang He in this region flows generally from west to......
Gyarmati, Deszö (Hungarian athlete)
Hungarian water polo player and coach. Widely regarded as one of the greatest water polo players of all time, Gyarmati starred for the Hungarian teams that dominated international water polo competition in the 1950s. He is the only athlete to have won medals in five consecutive ...
gyascutus (legendary animal)
an imaginary, large, four-legged beast with legs on one side longer than those on the other, for walking on hillsides. Humorous references to this creature, whose name has countless local variants, first appeared in American newspapers during the 1840s. It has continued to play a minor role in American folklore since then. The word was apparently coined to mimic the Latin taxonomic names of real a...
Gyaurov, Nikolay Georgiev (Bulgarian opera singer)
Bulgarian opera singer (b. Sept. 13, 1929, Velingrad, Bulg.—d. June 2, 2004, Modena, Italy), enraptured audiences worldwide with his commanding onstage presence and his tremendous bass voice. Considered one of the 20th century’s greatest bass vocalists, Ghiaurov was perhaps best known for his portrayal of Mephistopheles in Gounod’s Faust, singing the role in several lan...
Gyavira, Saint (Ugandan saint)
...who was bludgeoned by his own father, the pages were burned alive on June 3, 1886: Saints Ambrose Kibuka, Anatole Kiriggwajjo, Achilles Kiwanuka, Mugagga, Mukasa Kiriwawanvu, Adolphus Mukasa Ludigo, Gyavira, and Kizito. The soldiers and officials Saints Bruno Serunkuma, James Buzabaliawo, and Luke Banabakintu were martyred with them....
Gyda Peninsula (peninsula, Russia)
peninsula, northern Russia. It is a northern extension of the West Siberian Plain reaching into the Kara Sea and situated between the bays of Ob and Tazovsky to the west and the estuary of the Yenisey River to the east. The peninsula is about 250 miles...
Gydan Peninsula (peninsula, Russia)
peninsula, northern Russia. It is a northern extension of the West Siberian Plain reaching into the Kara Sea and situated between the bays of Ob and Tazovsky to the west and the estuary of the Yenisey River to the east. The peninsula is about 250 miles...
Gydansky Poluostrov (peninsula, Russia)
peninsula, northern Russia. It is a northern extension of the West Siberian Plain reaching into the Kara Sea and situated between the bays of Ob and Tazovsky to the west and the estuary of the Yenisey River to the east. The peninsula is about 250 miles...
Gyeongbok Palace (palace, Seoul, South Korea)
...of the Koryŏ the building of pagodas virtually came to a halt. One exception is the 10-story (12-metre) marble pagoda built in 1348 for the Wŏngak Temple in Kaesŏng (now in the Kyŏngbok Palace, Seoul). The pagoda stands on a cross-shaped, three-tiered platform. Every architectural detail from roof tiles to the bracket system is painstakingly reproduced, and numerous....
Gyeonggi (province, South Korea)
do (province), northwestern South Korea. It is bounded by the truce line (demilitarized zone) with North Korea (north), by the provinces of Kangwŏn (east) and North Kyŏngsangk and South Ch’ungch’ŏng (south), and by the ...
Gyeongju (South Korea)
city, North Kyŏngsang do (province), southeastern South Korea. It is 17 miles (28 km) inland from the coast of the East Sea (Sea of Japan) and 34 miles (55 km) east of the provincial capital, Taegu....

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