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Gê (people)
South American Indian peoples who speak languages of the Macro-Ge group. They inhabit eastern and southern Brazil and part of northern Paraguay. The Ge peoples include the Northwestern Ge (Timbira, Northern and Southern Kayapó, and Suyá), the Central Ge (Xavante, Xerente, and Akroá), the Jeikó, th...
GE (American corporation)
major American corporation and one of the largest and most diversified corporations in the world. Its products include electrical and electronic equipment, aircraft engines, and financial services. Headquarters are in Fairfield, Conn....
Ge (people)
South American Indian peoples who speak languages of the Macro-Ge group. They inhabit eastern and southern Brazil and part of northern Paraguay. The Ge peoples include the Northwestern Ge (Timbira, Northern and Southern Kayapó, and Suyá), the Central Ge (Xavante, Xerente, and Akroá), the Jeikó, th...
GE 645 (computer)
...with a new time-sharing-oriented operating system. AT&T dropped out after the project was well under way, but GE went ahead, and the result was the Multics operating system running on the GE 645 computer. GE 645 exemplified the time-shared computer in 1965, and Multics was the model of a time-sharing operating system, built to be up seven days a week, 24 hours a day....
Ge Chaofu (Chinese author)
Another member of the Ge family was responsible for the second great Daoist scriptural tradition. Ge Chaofu began composing the Lingbaojing (“Classic of the Sacred Jewel”) c. 397 ce. He claimed that they had been first revealed to his own ancestor, the famous Ge Xuan, early in the 3rd century. In these works the Dao is personified in a series of “ce...
Ge Hinnom (Judaism)
...to have been written between the 2nd century bc and the 2nd century ad, Sheol was composed of three divisions, to which the dead would be assigned according to their moral deserts. The real Ge Hinnom (“Valley of Hinnom”), where the early Israelites were said to have sacrificed their children to Moloch (and in which later biblical generations incinerated...
Ge Hong (Chinese alchemist)
in Chinese Daoism, perhaps the best-known alchemist, who tried to combine Confucian ethics with the occult doctrines of Daoism....
Ge kiln (pottery)
kiln known for the wares it produced during the early Song dynasty (960–1162), probably in the Zhejiang province in China. Scholars are uncertain of the kiln’s exact location. Legends recorded in documents of the Ming dynasty...
Ge languages
a group of about 10 South American Indian languages that extend through inland eastern Brazil as far as the Uruguayan border. Most linguists classify the Ge languages with a number of smaller groups (most of which were located closer to the Atlantic coast and are now extinct) in a Macro-Ge grouping....
Ge, Nikolay Nikolayevich (Russian artist)
...sign of qualities that were to become characteristic of modern painting. Though exceptional, it was not unique; in Italy during the 1860s the Russian painter of historical and scriptural themes, Nikolay Nikolayevich Ge, produced sketches with loose, expressive brushwork sometimes resembling Cézanne’s....
Ge Shuhan (Chinese general)
...in the narrow pass up the Huang He (Yellow River) leading into Shaanxi province. For six months the rebels were unable to advance. There was great suspicion and rivalry between Yang Guozhong and Ge Shuhan, the general in charge of the defense of the eastern approaches to Chang’an (present-day Xi’an), the main Tang capital. Fearing a coup against himself, Yang Guozhong goaded Ge Sh...
Ge Xuan (Chinese Daoist)
Among these personages was a certain Ge Xuan (3rd century ce), who was said to have been initiated into an ancient alchemical tradition. His great-nephew Ge Hong in the next century became one of the most celebrated writers on the various technical means for attaining immortality. In his major work, the Baopuzi (“He Who Holds to Simplicity”), Ge Hong expounded th...
Ge yao (pottery)
kiln known for the wares it produced during the early Song dynasty (960–1162), probably in the Zhejiang province in China. Scholars are uncertain of the kiln’s exact location. Legends recorded in documents of the Ming dynasty...
Geagea, Samir (Lebanese politician)
...June, after the parliament passed motions allowing two Christian leaders to participate in them. The first of these pardoned Gen. Michel Aoun, who was living in exile in Paris; the second released Samir Geagea, who had served 11 years in prison. The opposition, led by Jumblatt and Hariri’s son Saad, won the majority of seats and nominated Fouad Siniora as prime minister, but the minority...
GEAR (South African economic plan)
...South Africa was then faced with the problem of integrating the previously disenfranchised and oppressed majority into the economy. In 1996 the government created a five-year plan—Growth, Employment, and Redistribution (GEAR)—that focused on privatization and the removal of exchange controls. GEAR was only moderately successful in achieving some of its goals but was......
gear (mechanics)
machine component consisting of a toothed wheel attached to a rotating shaft. Gears operate in pairs to transmit and modify rotary motion and torque (turning force) without slip, the teeth of one gear engaging the teeth on a mating gear. If the teeth on a pair of mating gears are arranged on circles, i.e., if the gears are toothed whee...
gear oil
In gear lubrication the oil separates metal surfaces, reducing friction and wear. Extreme pressures develop in some gears, notably those in the rear axles of cars, and special additives must be employed to prevent the seizing of the metal surfaces. These oils contain sulfur compounds that form a resistant film on the surfaces, preventing actual metal-to-metal contact....
gear pump (mechanics)
The most common type of gear pump is illustrated in Figure 1. One of the gears is driven and the other runs free. A partial vacuum, created by the unmeshing of the rotating gears, draws fluid into the pump. This fluid is then transferred to the other side of the pump between the rotating gear teeth and the fixed casing. As the rotating gears mesh together, they generate an increase in pressure......
gear shaper (tool)
...such as making screws, and it presaged the momentous developments of the 20th century. Various gear-cutting machines reached their full development in 1896 when F.W. Fellows, an American, designed a gear shaper that could rapidly turn out almost any type of gear....
gear wheel
machine component consisting of a toothed wheel attached to a rotating shaft. Gears operate in pairs to transmit and modify rotary motion and torque (turning force) without slip, the teeth of one gear engaging the teeth on a mating gear. If the teeth on a pair of mating gears are arranged on circles, i.e., if the gears are toothed wheels, the ratios of the rotary speeds and torques of......
gear-cutting machine
Three basic cutting methods are used for machining gears: (1) form cutting, (2) template cutting, and (3) generating. The form-cutting method uses a cutting tool that has the same form as the space between two adjacent teeth on a gear. This method is used for cutting gear teeth on a milling machine. The template-cutting method uses a template to guide a single-point cutter on large bevel-gear......
gear-generating method (machinery)
Most cut gears produced in large lots are made on machines that utilize the gear-generating method. This method is based on the principle that two involute gears, or a gear and rack, with the same diametral pitch will mesh together properly. Therefore, a cutting tool with the shape of a gear or rack may be used to cut gear teeth in a gear or rack blank. This principle is applied in the design......
gear-hobbing machine
Gear-hobbing machines use a rotating, multiple-tooth cutting tool called a hob for generating teeth on spur gears, worm gears, helical gears, splines, and sprockets. More gears are cut by hobbing than by other methods because the hobbing cutter cuts continuously and produces accurate gears at high production rates. In gear-making machines gears can be produced by cutting, grinding, or a......
Geash (Nigeria)
town, capital of Plateau state, on the Jos Plateau (altitude 4,250 feet [1,295 metres]) of central Nigeria, on the Delimi River and near the source of the Jamaari River (called the Bunga farther downstream). Formerly the site of Geash, a village of the Birom people, the town developed ra...
Geaster (genus of fungi)
Another genus is Geastrum (Geaster), consisting of about 50 widespread species of earthstars with an expanded starlike base. They are found among dead leaves in woods in summer and autumn....
Geastrales (order of fungi)
Annotated classification...
Geastrum (genus of fungi)
Another genus is Geastrum (Geaster), consisting of about 50 widespread species of earthstars with an expanded starlike base. They are found among dead leaves in woods in summer and autumn....
Geb (Egyptian god)
in ancient Egyptian religion, the god of the earth, the physical support of the world. Geb constituted, along with Nut, his sister, the second generation in the Ennead (group of nine gods) of Heliopolis. In Egyptian art Geb, as a portrayal of the earth, was often depic...
Gêba River (river, Africa)
...concelhos (municipalities) of Farim, Bissorã, and Mansôa in the mid-1970s. Oio’s border with the Quinará region, its neighbour to the south, is formed by the Gêba River, which flows east-west. The Mansôa River flows east-west through the southern half of the region, and the Farim River (called the Cacheu River in its lower course)...
Gebal (ancient city, Lebanon)
ancient seaport, the site of which is located on the coast of the Mediterranean Sea, about 20 miles (30 km) north of the modern city of Beirut, Lebanon. It is one of the oldest continuously inhabited towns in the world. The name Byblos is Greek; papyrus received its early Greek name (...
Gebel, Matthes (German artist)
...the greatest sensitivity in capturing individual character in his portraits. Friedrich Hagenauer, active in Munich and in Augsburg (1527–32), produced more than 230 medals. In Nürnberg, Matthes Gebel (active 1525–54) and his follower Joachim Deschler (active 1540–69) were the principal medalists. Ludwig Neufahrer worked mainly in Nürnberg and the Austrian Habs...
Gebel-Williams, Gunther (American animal trainer)
German-born American circus animal trainer (b. Sept. 12, 1934, Schweidnitz, Ger. [now Swidnica, Pol.]—d. July 19, 2001, Venice, Fla.), was one of the most celebrated circus entertainers in history. As animal trainer for the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus, he was particularly known for his work wit...
Geber (Spanish alchemist)
unknown author of several books that were among the most influential works on alchemy and metallurgy during the 14th and 15th centuries....
Gebhard (archbishop of Cologne)
...for power in Europe among the Habsburg dynasties, France, England, and the Netherlands—was likely to lead to a general war. A series of incidents moved events toward the brink. In 1582 the archbishop-elector of Cologne, having converted to Calvinism, challenged the Ecclesiastical Reservation of the 1555 Augsburg treaty by holding on to his title, thus threatening to give the majority......
Gebhard of Dollnstein-Hirschberg (pope)
pope from 1055 to 1057....
Gebhart v. Belton (law case)
...been deprived of equal protection because the schools they attended were comparable to the all-white schools or would become so upon the completion of improvements ordered by the district court. In Gebhart v. Belton (1952), however, the Delaware Court of Chancery, also relying on Plessy, found that the plaintiffs’ right to equal protection had been violated because t...
Gebrauchsmusik (music)
music intended, by virtue of its simplicity of technique and style, primarily for performance by the talented amateur rather than the virtuoso. Gebrauchsmusik is, in fact, a modern reaction against the intellectual and technical complexities of much 19th- and 20th-century music, complexities that exalt the professional virtuoso and exclude the amateur from active participation. The purpose ...
Gebroeders Jurgens (Netherlands company)
...companies founded in the 19th century. In the Netherlands the Jurgens family had been in the dairy business for some 50 years when in 1854 two brothers, Anton and Johannes, formed a partnership, Gebroeders Jurgens, at Oss and began concentrating on butter export, chiefly to Britain. The heavy demand for increasingly expensive butter, however, led the company in 1871 to start producing the......
Gebrselassie, Haile (Ethiopian athlete)
World-record holder Haile Gebrselassie of Ethiopia dropped out of the New York Marathon with a knee injury and abruptly announced his retirement. A week later Gebrselassie changed his mind and said that he would continue running through the 2012 London Olympic Games....
Gebrüder Thonet (German corporation)
His representative works shown at the Great Exhibition, London (1851), were a huge success. In 1853 he incorporated with his sons, renaming his firm Gebrüder Thonet. By 1856 he had perfected the bending by heat of solid beechwood into curvilinear shapes, and he was ready for mass production, exporting as far as South America. Factories were later established in Hungary and Moravia.......
“Geburt der Tragödie aus dem Geiste der Musik, Die” (work by Nietzsche)
book by German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, first published in 1872 as Die Geburt der Tragödie aus dem Geiste der Musik. A speculative rather than exegetical work, The Birth of Tragedy examines the origins and development of poetry, specifically Greek tragedy. Nietzsche argues that Greek tragedy arose out of the fusi...
Gécamines (African company)
...of Conakat (Confédération des Associations Tribales du Katanga), a political party that was supported by Tshombe’s ethnic group, the powerful Lunda, and by the Belgian mining monopoly Union Minière du Haut Katanga, which controlled the province’s rich copper mines. At a conference called by the Belgian government in 1960 to discuss independence for the Congo, ...
Gecarcinidae (invertebrate)
any crab of the family Gecarcinidae (order Decapoda of the class Crustacea), typically terrestrial, square-bodied crabs that only occasionally, as adults, return to the sea. They occur in tropical America, West Africa, and the Indo-Pacific region. All species feed on both animal and ...
Gecarcinus lateralis (crustacean)
...fields, swamps, and mangrove thickets. Some penetrate inland as far as 8 km (about 5 miles). Adults weigh about 0.5 kg (18 ounces) and measure about 11 cm (4 inches) across the carapace, or back. Gecarcinus lateralis, occurring from Bermuda to Guyana, is 9 cm wide. Like Cardisoma, it may live a considerable distance from the ocean....
Gecko (missile)
The SA-8 Gecko, first deployed in the mid-1970s, was a fully mobile system mounted on a novel six-wheeled amphibious vehicle. Each vehicle carried four canister-launched, semiactive radar homing missiles, with a range of about 7.5 miles, plus guidance and tracking equipment in a rotating turret. It had excellent performance but, in Syrian hands during the 1982 conflict in Lebanon, proved......
gecko (reptile)
any lizard of the family Gekkonidae, which contains over 100 genera and nearly 1,000 species. Geckos are mostly small, usually nocturnal reptiles with a soft skin. They also possess a short stout body, a large head, and typically well-developed limbs. The ends of each limb are often equipped with digits possessing adhesive pads. Most species are 3 to 15 cm (1....
Ged, William (Scottish goldsmith)
Scottish goldsmith who invented (1725) stereotyping, a process in which a whole page of type is cast in a single mold so that a printing plate can be made from it. His work was opposed by typefounders and compositors, and the process was abandoned until the early 1800s....
Gedaliah (governor of Judah)
When Jerusalem finally fell, Jeremiah was released from prison by the Babylonians and offered safe conduct to Babylonia, but he preferred to remain with his own people. So he was entrusted to Gedaliah, a Judaean from a prominent family whom the Babylonians appointed as governor of the province of Judah. The prophet continued to oppose those who wanted to rebel against Babylonia and promised the......
Gedaliah, Fast of (Judaism)
a minor Jewish observance (on Tishri 3) that mournfully recalls the assassination of Gedaliah, Jewish governor of Judah and appointee of Nebuchadrezzar, the Babylonian king. Gedaliah, a supporter of Jeremiah, was slain by Ishmael, a member of the former royal family of Judah. When the remaining Jews fled to Egypt, Jewish self-rule was thus effectively ended. Liturgically, the fast of Gedaliah foll...
“Gedancken über die Nachahmung der griechischen wercke in der Mahlerey und Bildhauer-Kunst” (essay by Winckelmann)
...that he came into contact with the world of Greek art. There he wrote the formative essay, Gedanken über die Nachahmung der griechischen Werke in der Malerei und Bildhauerkunst (1755; Reflections on the Painting and Sculpture of the Greeks, 1765), in which he maintained, “The only way for us to become great, or even inimitable if possible, is to imitate the......
“Gedanken über die Nachahmung der griechischen Werke in der Malerei und Bildhauerkunst” (essay by Winckelmann)
...that he came into contact with the world of Greek art. There he wrote the formative essay, Gedanken über die Nachahmung der griechischen Werke in der Malerei und Bildhauerkunst (1755; Reflections on the Painting and Sculpture of the Greeks, 1765), in which he maintained, “The only way for us to become great, or even inimitable if possible, is to imitate the......
Gedanken über Tod und Unsterblichkeit (work by Feuerbach)
...theological studies to become a student of philosophy under G.W.F. Hegel for two years at Berlin. In 1828 he went to Erlangen to study natural science, and two years later his first book, Gedanken über Tod und Unsterblichkeit (“Thoughts on Death and Immortality”), was published anonymously. In this work Feuerbach attacked the concept of personal immortality and......
Gedankenexperiment (physics)
term used by German-born physicist Albert Einstein to describe his unique approach of using conceptual rather than actual experiments in creating the theory of relativity....
Gedaref, El- (Sudan)
town, southeastern Sudan, situated about 120 miles (200 km) southwest of Kassala town. Located at an elevation of 1,975 feet (608 metres), it is a commercial centre for the cotton, cereals, sesame seeds, and fodder produced in the surrounding area. The Gash Irrigation Project is located to the northeast of Al-Qaḍārif. Light industries include cotton ginning and spi...
Gedda, Luigi (Italian politician)
...high point in the 1950s when Pius’s failing health left the power of the Vatican increasingly in the hands of conservative cardinals, including Alfredo Ottaviani, head of the Holy Office. In 1952 Luigi Gedda, president of Catholic Action, fearing that the Christian Democrats might lose the municipal elections in Rome, proposed a Christian Democratic coalition with the parties of the righ...
Geddes, James (American engineer, lawyer, and politician)
American civil engineer, lawyer, and politician who played a leading role in the construction of the Erie Canal, one of the first great engineering works in North America....
Geddes, Norman Bel (American theatrical designer)
American theatrical designer whose clean, functional decors contributed substantially to the trend away from naturalism in 20th-century stage design. As an important industrial designer he helped popularize “streamlining” as a distinct modern style....
Geddes, Norman Melancton (American theatrical designer)
American theatrical designer whose clean, functional decors contributed substantially to the trend away from naturalism in 20th-century stage design. As an important industrial designer he helped popularize “streamlining” as a distinct modern style....
Geddes, Sir Patrick (Scottish biologist and sociologist)
Scottish biologist and sociologist who was one of the modern pioneers of the concept of town and regional planning....
Gede, Mount (mountain, Indonesia)
The landscape of Jawa Barat is dominated by a chain of volcanoes, both active and extinct, that from west to east includes Mounts Sanggabuwana, Gede, Pangrango, Kendang, and Tjereme. The highest of these peaks rise to elevations of about 10,000 feet (3,000 metres). A series of these volcanoes cluster together to form a great tangle of upland that also includes the Priangar Plateau, which has an......
Gedenklider (book by Glatstein)
...in which Glatstein renounces Western civilization and defiantly turns back to the Jewish ghetto. As the destruction of eastern European Jews was taking place, Glatstein published Gedenklider (1943; “Memorial Poems”). A persona poem, Der bratslaver tsu zayn soyfer (“The Bratslav Rebbe to His Scribe”), in the voice of...
Gedeon (biblical figure)
a judge and hero-liberator of Israel whose deeds are described in the Book of Judges. The author apparently juxtaposed two traditional accounts from his sources in order to emphasize Israel’s monotheism and its duty to destroy idolatry. Accordingly, in one account Gideon led his clansmen of the tribe of Manasseh in sl...
Gedge, Ernest (British explorer)
...slopes. Elgonyi was the Masai name for the mountain. The Scottish explorer Joseph Thomson visited the southern side of Elgon in 1883; in 1890 Frederick (later Sir Frederick) Jackson and Ernest Gedge traversed the caldera from north to south....
Gedhun Choekyi Nyima (Tibetan Buddhist)
Following the death of the 10th Panchen Lama, a search was undertaken to discover his reincarnation. In 1995 the Dalai 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....
Gedicht eines Skalden (work by Gerstenberg)
...He left the service and spent the next 12 years in Copenhagen, where he became a friend of Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock, the leading writer of the German Enlightenment. During that time he wrote Gedicht eines Skalden (1766; “Poems of an Old Norse Bard”), in which he introduced bardic poetry into German literature with the use of material and themes from Norse antiquity. His...
Gedichte (collection of poetry)
...to a young novelist, Levin Schücking (1814–83), for whom, despite their difference in age, she developed a deep, suppressed, and unreciprocated passion. Her first collection of poetry, Gedichte (1838; “Poems”), included poems of a deeply religious nature. Between 1829 and 1839 she wrote a cycle of religious poems, Das geistliche Jahr (1851; “The....
“Gedichte 1853 und 1854” (work by Heine)
...(1851), is full of heartrending laments and bleak glosses on the human condition; many of these poems are now regarded as among his finest. A final collection, Gedichte 1853 und 1854 (Poems 1853 and 1854), is of the same order. After nearly eight years of torment, Heine died and was buried in the Montmartre Cemetery....
Gedichte aus den hinterlassenen Papieren eines reisenden Waldhornisten (poetry by Müller)
Müller’s reputation was established by the Gedichte aus den hinterlassenen Papieren eines reisenden Waldhornisten, 2 vol. (1821–24; “Poems from the Posthumous Papers of a Traveling Bugler”), folk lyrics that attempt to display emotion with complete simplicity, and Lieder der Griechen (1821–24; “Songs of the Greeks”), a collectio...
Gedichte eines Lebendigen (work by Herwegh)
...literary career as a journalist. Called up for military duty, he tactlessly insulted an officer and was forced to flee to Switzerland. There he found a publisher for his best-known collection, Gedichte eines Lebendigen (1841, 1843; “Poems of One Living”), political poems expressing the aspirations of German youth. Although the book was confiscated, it made his reputation......
Gedichten (poetry by Ostaijen)
...a poetic system of his own. He set out this principle in the profound essay Gebruiksaanwijzing der lyriek (1927; “Lyrical Poetry: Directions for Use”) and embodied it in Gedichten (1928; “Poems”), a collection of evocative fragments of exceptional sensibility and haunting musicality that represents his best and most original poems....
Gedichten, 1904–1938 (work by Nijlen)
...“The Phoenix Bird”), and Geheimschrift (1934; “Secret Writing”). He gained a wider audience when in 1938 he at last published a one-volume selection from his poems, Gedichten, 1904–1938. Subsequent publications included De Dauuwtrapper (1947; “The Dew Trapper”) and Te laat voor deze wereld (1957; “Too Late for T...
Gedik Paşa Theatre (theatre, Istanbul, Turkey)
The Gedik Paşa Theatre, which is named for the area in Istanbul where it was located, was the first theatre in which Turkish plays were produced by native actors speaking in Turkish. The actors received a salary, and local writers presented their own plays. Originally built for foreign companies, the theatre was reconstructed in 1867 and reopened in 1868 for a Turkish company headed by......
Gediminas (grand duke of Lithuania)
grand duke of Lithuania, the strongest contemporary ruler of eastern Europe....
Gedling (district, England, United Kingdom)
borough (district), administrative and historic county of Nottinghamshire, east-central England. The district takes its name from the former village of Gedling, which was engulfed in the expansion of the eastern suburbs of the city of Nottingham. The district extends from the ...
Gedrosia (historical region, Pakistan)
historic region west of the Indus River, in what is now the Baluchistan region of Pakistan. In 325 bc Alexander the Great’s forces suffered disastrous losses there from the effects of the desert, supply shortages, and monsoons. They captured the area, but after Alexander’s deat...
Gedung Kesenian Jakarta (arts centre, Jakarta, Indonesia)
...theatrical works that typically fuse Indonesian and international idioms. In 1987 the Indonesian government completed the renovation of colonial Schouwburg Weltevreden (1821) theatre to become the Jakarta Arts Building (Gedung Kesenian Jakarta); this institution also hosts major musical and theatrical productions from across the globe. Both institutions sponsor an array of international......
Gedymin (grand duke of Lithuania)
grand duke of Lithuania, the strongest contemporary ruler of eastern Europe....
Gee (British radar-beam system)
From late 1943 the RAF used two radar-beam systems called Gee and Oboe to guide its Lancaster and Halifax bombers to cities on the Continent. In addition, the bombers carried a radar mapping device, code-named H2S, that displayed reasonably detailed pictures of coastal cities such as Hamburg, where a clear contrast between land and water allowed navigators to find the target areas.......
Gee, Kenneth (British athlete)
English rugby player, a member of the powerful Wigan club that won the Rugby League (RL) Challenge Cup in 1948. He was also vital as forward in Wigan’s RL championship wins of 1945–46, 1946–47, and 1949–50 and the Challenge Cup victory of 1951....
Gee, Maurice (New Zealand author)
novelist best known for his realistic evocations of New Zealand life. He also wrote popular books for juveniles....
Geechee (language)
English-based creole vernacular spoken primarily by African Americans living on the seaboard of South Carolina and Georgia (U.S.), who are also culturally identified as Gullahs or Geechees (see also...
Geechee (people)
...grew rich. Meanwhile, the island’s black population, brought to the island to work the plantations, contributed to the development of the region’s creole language and culture that came to be called Gullah. In 1861 Union forces attacked and occupied the island, which was then used as a fueling station for ships blockading the Confederate coast during the American Civil War....
Geel (Belgium)
commune, Flanders Region, northern Belgium, located in the Kempenland (Campine) Plateau, east of Antwerp. Renowned for its unique system of family care for the mentally ill, it is linked with the Irish martyr St. Dymphna. According to tradition, in the 7th century she was beheaded there by her demented father after she refused to marry him, ...
Geel, Jacob (Dutch writer)
Although Jacob Geel’s essays in Onderzoek en phantasie (1838; “Inquiry and Fantasy”) set a new standard in philological and philosophical criticism in Dutch literature, Geel’s liberal rationalism was almost swept aside by the growing wave of Romanticism. Simultaneously, the freethinking born of the Enlightenment roused the militancy of the Calvinists, who realize...
geeldikopp (veterinary science)
...animals result from ingestion of plants having photodynamic pigments. For example, St. Johnswort’s disease is caused by the plant Hypericum. Fagopyrism results from eating buckwheat. In geeldikopp (“yellow thick head”), the photodynamic agent is produced in the animal’s own intestinal tract from chlorophyll derived from plants. In humans the heritable conditio...
Geelong (Victoria, Australia)
second largest city of Victoria, Australia, and a major port on Corio Bay (an extension of Port Phillip Bay). Founded in 1837, its name is a derivation of the Aboriginal word jillong, which means “the place of the native companion,” referring to a long-legged water bird...
Geelong and Dutigalla Association (Tasmanian settler organization)
(1836–39), organization of settlers from Van Diemen’s Land (Tasmania) formed to purchase and develop the grazing land of the unsettled Port Phillip District (later the colony of Victoria) of southeastern Australia; its efforts precipitated the large-scale colonization of the area....
Geelong Cats (Australian football team)
Geelong won its second Australian Football League (AFL) premiership in three years with a hard-fought 12.8 (80)–9.14 (68) victory over St. Kilda in the Grand Final at the Melbourne Cricket Ground on Sept. 26, 2009. A crowd of 99,251 braved cold and wet conditions to see the favourites come from behind at three-quarter time to snatch victory in a thrilling last quarter. The title was......
Geelong Football Club (Australian football team)
Geelong won its second Australian Football League (AFL) premiership in three years with a hard-fought 12.8 (80)–9.14 (68) victory over St. Kilda in the Grand Final at the Melbourne Cricket Ground on Sept. 26, 2009. A crowd of 99,251 braved cold and wet conditions to see the favourites come from behind at three-quarter time to snatch victory in a thrilling last quarter. The title was......
Geelvink Bay (bay, New Guinea)
The Geelvink Bay area, including several offshore islands, is located at the northwestern end of New Guinea between the Indonesian provinces of Papua and West Papua. Its style of sculpture seems closely related to those of such eastern Indonesian islands as Tanimbar and Leti, probably as a result of relatively recent influences. The most famous works from the area are the korwar figures,......
geer (Indian dance)
...typical dance of Rajasthan is the ghoomar, which is performed on festive occasions only by women. Other well-known dances include the geer, which is performed by men and women; the panihari, a graceful dance for women; and the kacchi ghori, in.....
Geer, Dirk Jan de (prime minister of the Netherlands)
conservative statesman and prime minister of the Netherlands (1926–29, 1939–40) who was disgraced for attempting to negotiate a peace settlement between Great Britain and Nazi Germany in 1940....
Geer, Gerhard Jakob, Friherre De (Swedish geologist)
Swedish geologist, originator of the varve-counting method used in geochronology....
Geer, Will (American actor)
Rock Hudson (Antiochus [“Tony”] Wilson)Salome Jens (Nora Marcus)John Randolph (Arthur Hamilton)Will Geer (Old Man)Jeff Corey (Mr. Ruby)...
geeraar (style of poetry)
...types include the gabay, usually chanted, the jiifto, also chanted and usually moody, the geeraar, short and dealing with war, the buraambur, composed by women, the heello, or ......
Ge’ermu (China)
city, central Qinghai sheng (province), western China. Golmud is an important highway centre, standing at the intersection of two ancient routes that more recently have become highways. One links Xining in Qinghai and Lanzhou in Gansu province in the east with the western Qaidam Basin...
Geertgen tot Sint Jans (Dutch painter)
Dutch painter of religious subjects, notable for his harmonious fusion of the elements of the landscape....
Geertz, Clifford (American anthropologist)
American cultural anthropologist, a leading rhetorician and proponent of symbolic anthropology and interpretive anthropology....
Geertz, Clifford James (American anthropologist)
American cultural anthropologist, a leading rhetorician and proponent of symbolic anthropology and interpretive anthropology....
Geesink, Anton (Dutch judoka)
Dutch athlete who was the first non-Japanese competitor to win a world championship in judo....