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Georgia: Year In Review 1994
A republic of Transcaucasia, Georgia borders Russia on the north and northeast, Azerbaijan on the southeast, Armenia and Turkey on the south, and the Black Sea on the west. Area: 69,700 sq km (26,900 sq mi). Pop. (1994 est.): 5,503,000. Cap.: Tbilisi. Monetary unit: Georgian coupon (transitional currency), with (Sept. 27, 1994) a free rate of 2,478,000 coupons = U.S. $1 (3,864,000 coupons = ...
Georgia: Year In Review 1995
A republic of Transcaucasia, Georgia borders Russia on the north and northeast, Azerbaijan on the southeast, Armenia and Turkey on the south, and the Black Sea on the west. Area: 69,492 sq km (26,831 sq mi). Pop. (1995 est.): 5,514,000. Cap.: T’bilisi. Monetary unit: lari, with (Oct. 4, 1995) a free rate of 1.30 lari = U.S. $1 (2.07 lari = £1 sterling); the lari replaced the Georgian...
Georgia: Year In Review 1996
A republic of Transcaucasia, Georgia borders Russia on the north and northeast, Azerbaijan on the southeast, Armenia and Turkey on the south, and the Black Sea on the west. Area: 69,492 sq km (26,831 sq mi). Pop. (1996 est.): 5,361,000. Cap.: T’bilisi. Monetary unit: lari, with (Oct. 14, 1996) an official rate of 1.27 lari = U.S. $1 (2.01 lari = £ 1 sterling). President in 1996, Edua...
Georgia: Year In Review 1997
Area: 69,492 sq km (26,831 sq mi)...
Georgia: Year In Review 1998
Area: 69,492 sq km (26,831 sq mi)...
Georgia: Year In Review 1999
Georgia’s pro-Western orientation and zeal for reform were rewarded in 1999 by acceptance in April into full membership of the Council of Europe and by a visit in November by Pope John Paul II....
Georgia: Year In Review 2000
Political stability and solutions to Georgia’s conflicts in Abkhazia and South Ossetia remained elusive throughout 2000. Of 17 would-be candidates, only 7 succeeded in registering to contest the April 9 presidential election, which the incumbent president, Eduard Sh...
Georgia: Year In Review 2001
Reformist members of the majority Citizens’ Union of Georgia (SMK) criticized Pres. Eduard Shevardnadze repeatedly during the first half of the year for failing to crack down on corruption within the government. In late August, after Shevardnadze rejected a bill drafted by Justice Minister ...
Georgia: Year In Review 2002
Three new opposition parties—the New Rights, former justice minister Mikhail Saakashvili’s National Movement, and former Parliament speaker Zurab Zhvania’s United Democrats—made a strong showing in the June 2, 2002, local elections, thrashing the former ruling Union of Citizens of Georgia (SMK) in T’bilisi. Disputes over alleged fraud, however, necessitated a rec...
Georgia: Year In Review 2003
Following disagreements among the Georgian leadership in January 2003 over the optimum approach to resolving the Abkhaz conflict, the opposition National Movement and New Rights Party claimed in early February that senior government officials were planning to oust Pres. Eduard Shevardnadze, who rejected those allegations as ...
Georgia: Year In Review 2004
Mikhail Saakashvili (see Biographies), who led the “Rose Revolution” that culminated in the ouster of Pres. Eduard Shevardnadze in November 2003, was elected Georgian president on Jan. 4, 2004, with over 96% of the vote in a ballot deemed fair by the international community. The parliament immediately scheduled for M...
Georgia: Year In Review 2005
Georgia’s Prime Minister Zurab Zhvania was found dead at a friend’s apartment early on Feb. 3, 2005; his family rejected the official verdict, endorsed by the Georgian Federal Bureau of Investigation, of accidental asphyxiation from a malfunctioning gas heater. On February 17 Pres. Mikheil Saakashvili appointed Finance Minister Zurab Nogaideli as Zhvania’s successor. Accusatio...
Georgia: Year In Review 2006
Georgia’s national security apparatus was in a state of disarray in 2006. Pres. Mikheil Saakashvili dismissed his close associate, hawkish Defense Minister Irakli Okruashvili, on November 10, appointing him economy minister to succeed Irakli Chogovadze, but Okruashvili resigned his new post on November 17. Interior Minister Vano Merabishvili, was harshly criticized following the murder in l...
Georgia: Year In Review 2007
Antagonism between the Georgian leadership and the opposition worsened in 2007. In early September the opposition rejected as “a collection of toasts” the new government program unveiled by Prime Minister Zurab Nogaideli following a minor cabinet reshuffle....
Georgia: Year In Review 2008
In a preterm presidential ballot held in Georgia on Jan. 5, 2008, Mikheil Saakashvili of the United National Movement (UNM) defeated six rival candidates to win reelection, garnering 53.47% of the vote. Second-place finisher Levan Gachechiladze of the nine-party opposition National Council claimed that the official results were rigged....
Georgia: Year In Review 2009
Political tensions intensified in Georgia in 2009. In late January, 11 opposition parties called on Pres. Mikheil Saakashvili to resign and appealed for free and fair preterm parliamentary and presidential elections. On April 9 the opposition launched a series of demonstrations, but Saakashvili still refused to step down. On May 11 Saakashvili met with opposition representatives...
Georgiadis, Nicholas (Greek artist and stage designer)
Greek-born stage designer, artist, and teacher (b. Sept. 14, 1923, Athens, Greece—d. March 10, 2001, London, Eng.), applied his training in both painting and architecture to the evocative, atmospheric sets and costumes he devised for theatre and ballet. Although Georgiadis created designs for ...
Georgian (people)
...are located—the capital, Sokhumi, Ochʾamchʾire, and the resort centres of Gagra and Novy Afon. Prior to a separatist rebellion in the early 1990s led by ethnic Abkhaz, ethnic Georgians had made up almost half of Abkhazia’s population, while ethnic Abkhaz had accounted for less than one-fifth; Armenians and Russians made up the remainder. In 1993, however, most Georgi...
Georgian alphabet (writing system)
...New Georgian literary language is based on an East Georgian dialect and originated in the secular literature of the 12th century; it became fully established in the middle of the 19th century. Old Georgian was used for religious purposes until the beginning of the 19th century....
Georgian Bay (bay, Ontario, Canada)
bay, northeastern arm of Lake Huron, south-central Ontario, Canada. It is sheltered from the lake by Manitoulin Island and the Bruce (or Saugeen) Peninsula. The bay is 120 miles (190 km) long and 50 miles (80 km) wide, and the depth (generally 100–300 feet [30–90 m]) reaches a maximum of 540 feet (165 m) near the Main Channel, which leads to Lake Huron....
Georgian Bay Islands National Park (park, Ontario, Canada)
national park consisting of picturesque islands and a small mainland area, south-central Ontario, Canada, northwest of Toronto. Established in 1929, the park, divided into two sections, with a total land area of 512 square miles (14 square km), consists of some 40 islands or parts of island...
Georgian House (museum, Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom)
...George Street is the parish church of St. Andrew, an oval building with a fine plaster ceiling and an elegant spire. On the north side of Charlotte Square, the Georgian House, managed as a museum by the National Trust for Scotland, is completely furnished from kitchen to bedrooms with all the appurtenances of late 18th-century Edinburgh elegance....
Georgian language (language)
official language of the Republic of Georgia, whose spoken form has many dialects, usually divided into East Georgian and West Georgian groups. These, together with the related Mingrelian (Megrelian), Laz (Chan), and Svan languages, make up the Kartvelian, or South Cauca...
Georgian literature
the body of written works in the Georgian language....
Georgian Orthodox church (Christianity)
autocephalous (independent) church of the Orthodox communion in Georgia. The church is one of the most ancient Christian communities in the world. The Georgians adopted Christianity through the ministry of a woman, St. Nino, early in the 4th century. Thereafter, Georgia remained in the ecclesiastical sphere of Antioch and also under the influence of neighbouring Armenia. Its autocephaly was proba...
Georgian Planet (planet)
seventh planet in distance from the Sun and the least massive of the solar system’s four giant, or Jovian, planets, which also include Jupiter, Saturn, and Neptune. At its brightest, Uranus is just visible to the unaided eye as a blue-green point of light. It is designated by the symbol ♅....
Georgian poetry (British literary group)
a variety of lyrical poetry produced in the early 20th century by an assortment of British poets, including Lascelles Abercrombie, Hilaire Belloc, Edmund Charles Blunden, R...
Georgian style (architecture)
the various styles in the architecture, interior design, and decorative arts of Britain during the reigns of the first four members of the house of Hanover, between the accession of George I in 1714 and the death of ...
georgic (poetry)
a poem dealing with practical aspects of agriculture and rural affairs. The model for such verse in postclassical literature was Virgil’s Georgica, itself modeled on a now lost Geōrgika (Greek: “agricultural things”) by the 2nd-century bc Greek poet Nicander of Colophon. ...
Georgics (work by Virgil)
...a countryman, would be most intensely aware—was the depopulation of rural Italy. The farmers had been obliged to go to the war, and their farms fell into neglect and ruin as a result. The Georgics, composed between 37 and 30 bc (the final period of the civil wars), is a superb plea for the restoration of the traditional agricultural life of Italy. In form it is didac...
Georgiev, Kimon (Bulgarian leader)
...dire economic situation and stem a rising tide of labour unrest. On the night of May 18–19, 1934, the Military League carried out a peaceful coup d’état that installed as prime minister Kimon Georgiev, a participant in the 1923 coup. Similar to Italian fascism, the ideology of the new regime was supplied by an elitist group called Zveno (“A Link in a Chain”), ...
Georgievsk, Treaty of (Russia-Georgia [1783])
(July 24, 1783), agreement concluded by Catherine II the Great of Russia and Erekle II of Kartalinia-Kakhetia (eastern Georgia) by which Russia guaranteed Georgia’s territorial integrity and the continuation of its reigning Bagratid dynasty in return for prerogatives in the conduct of Georgian foreign...
Georgina River (river, Australia)
...Goyder Lagoon in South Australia, draining a basin of 61,000 square miles (158,000 square km). In times of flood, the Diamantina River and the Georgina River (from the north) merge to drain along the channel of Warburton Creek southwestward to Lake Eyre. The Diamantina’s principa...
Georgios I (king of Greece)
king of Greece, whose long reign (1863–1913) spanned the formative period for the development of Greece as a modern European state. His descendants occupied the throne until the military coup d’état of 1967 and eventual restoration of the republic in 1973....
Georgios Pisides (Byzantine poet)
Byzantine epic poet, historian, and cleric whose classically structured verse was acclaimed as a model for medieval Greek poetry, but whose arid, bombastic tone manifested Hellenism’s cultural decline....
Georgiu-Dezh (Russia)
city and administrative centre of Liski rayon (sector), Voronezh oblast (region), western Russia, situated on the banks of the Don River. It is a main railway junction, with shops for servicing locomotives; its food industries include meat-packing and flour milling. It became a city in 1937 a...
Georgium Sidus (planet)
seventh planet in distance from the Sun and the least massive of the solar system’s four giant, or Jovian, planets, which also include Jupiter, Saturn, and Neptune. At its brightest, Uranus is just visible to the unaided eye as a blue-green point of light. It is designated by the symbol ♅....
Georgius Florentius (Frankish scholar)
bishop and writer whose Ten Books of Histories (often wrongly called The History of the Franks) is the major 6th-century source for studying the Merovingian kingdom of the Franks....
Georgius, Frater (Hungarian cardinal)
Hungarian statesman and later cardinal who worked to restore and maintain the national unity of Hungary....
Georgius Trapezuntius (Byzantine humanist)
Byzantine humanist, Greek scholar, and Aristotelian polemist. His academic influence in Italy and within the papacy, his theories on grammar and literary criticism, and his Latin translations of ancient Greek works, although at times strongly criticized, contributed substantially to Italian humanism and the Renaissance....
Georgofili, Accademia dei (Italian academy)
...laissez-faire economics and on the belief that land is the source of all wealth—characterized Tuscany under the leadership of Peter Leopold (later Leopold II), who ruled from 1765 to 1790. The Accademia dei Georgofili, founded in 1753, exercised a wide influence on a range of issues touching on agrarian reform. Legislation confirmed....
georgoi (Greek social class)
class of citizens in ancient Greek society. In 7th-century-bc Attic society, geōmoroi were freemen, generally peasant farm holders, lower on the social and political scale than the eupatridae, the aristocracy, but above the dēmiourgoi, the artisans. The geōmoroi were ineligible for any major political or religious post but had the right to at...
Geosat (satellite)
A typical modern GEO satellite, such as the Intelsat series, has more than a hundred separate microwave transponders that service a number of simultaneous users based on a time-division multiple access (TDMA) protocol. (The principles of TDMA are described in telecommunication: Multiple access.) Each transponder consists of a receiver tuned to a specific channel in the uplink......
geosphere (Earth science)
...sulfide, and water vapour. It was a hostile and barren planet. This strictly inorganic state of the Earth is called the geosphere; it consists of the lithosphere (the rock and soil), the hydrosphere (the water), and the atmosphere (the air). Energy from the Sun relentlessly bombarded the surface of the primitive......
Geospiza scandens (bird)
...below 1.0 indicates a decrease in population, any number above indicates an increase. In the example provided in the table, the net reproductive rate is 2.101, which means that the population of the Galapagos cactus finch (Geospiza scandens) can double its size each generation....
Geospizinae (bird group)
distinctive group of birds whose radiation into several ecological niches in the competition-free isolation of the Galapagos Islands and on Cocos Island gave the English naturalist Charles Darwin...
geostationary orbit
a circular orbit 35,785 km (22,236 miles) above Earth’s Equator in which a satellite’s orbital period is equal to Earth’s rotation period of 23 hours and 56 minutes. A spacecraft in this orbit appears to an observer on Earth to be stationary in the sky. This particular orbit is used for meteorological ...
Geostationary Space Launch Vehicle (Indian launch vehicle)
...Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) was then developed; it used a mixture of solid- and liquid-fueled stages. The first PSLV launch took place in 1993. During the 1990s India developed the liquid-fueled Geostationary Space Launch Vehicle (GSLV), which used cryogenic fuel in its upper stage. The GSLV was first launched in 2001. Both the PSLV and GSLV remain in service....
geostress (geology)
Also important is the geostress—i.e., the state of stress existing in situ prior to tunneling. Though conditions are fairly simple in soil, geostress in rock has a wide range because it is influenced by the stresses remaining from past geologic events: mountain building, crustal movements, or load subsequently removed (melting of glacial ice or erosion of former sediment cover).......
geostrophic balance (atmospheric science)
...frictional forces are of minor importance, and the equation of motion for horizontal forces can be expressed as a simple balance of horizontal pressure gradient and Coriolis force. This is called geostrophic balance....
geostrophic current (hydrology)
...Hemisphere this direction is such that the high pressure is to the right when looking in current direction, while in the Southern Hemisphere it is to the left. This type of current is called a geostrophic current. The simple equation given above provides the basis for an indirect method of computing ocean currents. The relief of the sea surface also defines the streamlines (paths) of the......
geostrophic motion (atmospheric science)
fluid flow in a direction parallel to lines of equal pressure (isobars) in a rotating system, such as the Earth. Such flow is produced by the balance of the Coriolis force (caused by the Earth’s rotation) and the pressure-gradient force. The velocity of the flow is proportional to the gradient of th...
geostrophic wind (meteorology)
...pressure, and x and y the distances toward the east and north, respectively. This simple non-accelerating flow is known as geostrophic balance and yields a motion field known as the geostrophic wind. Equation (1) expresses, for both the x and y directions, a balance between the force created by horizontal differences in pressure (the horizontal pressure-gradient......
geosynchronous orbit
a circular orbit 35,785 km (22,236 miles) above Earth’s Equator in which a satellite’s orbital period is equal to Earth’s rotation period of 23 hours and 56 minutes. A spacecraft in this orbit appears to an observer on Earth to be stationary in the sky. This particular orbit is used for meteorological ...
geosynchronous overlay
Yet another augmentation technique is known as geosynchronous overlays. Geosynchronous overlays employ GPS payloads “piggybacked” aboard commercial communication satellites that are placed in geostationary orbit some 35,000 km (22,000 miles) above the Earth. These relatively small payloads broadcast civilian C/A-code pulse......
geosyncline (geology)
linear trough of subsidence of the Earth’s crust within which vast amounts of sediment accumulate. The filling of a geosyncline with thousands or tens of thousands of feet of sediment is accompanied in the late stages of deposition by folding, crumpling, and faulting of the deposits. Intrusion of crystalline ...
GeoSystems Global Corporation (American company)
American Web-based, wireless mapping service owned by AOL (formerly known as America Online). MapQuest is headquartered in Lancaster, Pa., and Denver, Colo....
geotaxis (biology)
...provided if these reflexes are abolished after surgical elimination of both statocysts. Many animals exhibit locomotion that is gravitationally directed vertically down or up (positive or negative geotaxis, respectively). Geotactic behaviour may be experimentally altered by whirling the animal in a centrifuge to change the direction and to increase the intensity of the force exerted on the......
geotechnical engineering
the scientific discipline concerned with the application of geological knowledge to engineering problems—e.g., to reservoir design and location, determination of slope stability for construction purposes, and determination of earthquake, flood, or subsidence danger in areas considered for roads, pipelines, or other engineering works....
geotectonics
...strain of rocks in response to stresses is called rock mechanics. When the scale of the deformation is extended to large geologic structures in the crust of the Earth, the field of study is known as geotectonics....
geotherm (geology)
In general, temperatures increase with depth within the Earth along curves referred to as geotherms. The specific shape of the geotherm beneath any location on Earth is a function of its corresponding local tectonic regime. Metamorphism can occur either when a rock moves from one position to another along a single geotherm or when the geotherm itself changes form. The former can take place when......
geothermal energy (physics)
power obtained by using heat from the Earth’s interior. Most geothermal resources are in regions of active volcanism. Hot springs, geysers, pools of boiling mud, and fumaroles (vents of volcanic gases and heated groundwater) are the most easily exploited sources of such energy. The ancient Romans used ...
geothermal gradient (geology)
...transport of hot or cold rocks at rates faster than those needed to maintain thermal equilibrium with the surrounding rocks. The temperature gradient at any location in the Earth, known as the geothermal gradient, is the increase in temperature per unit distance of depth; it is given by the tangent to the local geotherm. The magnitude of the geothermal gradient thus varies with the shape......
geothermometry (Earth science)
...species that results from the influence of differences in mass of molecules containing different isotopes. Measurements of the proportions of various isotopic species can be used as a form of geologic thermometer. The ratio of oxygen-16 to oxygen-18 in calcium carbonate secreted by various marine organisms from calcium carbonate in solution in seawater is influenced by the temperature of......
Geothlypis (genus of bird)
The yellowthroats, any of the eight species of the genus Geothlypis, live in marshes and wet thickets. The male of the common yellowthroat (G. trichas)—often called the Maryland yellowthroat in the United States—is yellow with a black mask; his song, a strong repeated “wicheree,” is heard from Alaska and Newfoundland to Mexico. Other yellowthroat species.....
Geothlypis trichas (bird)
The yellowthroats, any of the eight species of the genus Geothlypis, live in marshes and wet thickets. The male of the common yellowthroat (G. trichas)—often called the Maryland yellowthroat in the United States—is yellow with a black mask; his song, a strong repeated “wicheree,” is heard from Alaska and Newfoundland to Mexico. Other yellowthroat species.....
geotropism (botany)
...root system and an adventitious root system. The most common type, the primary system, consists of a taproot (primary root) that grows vertically downward (positive geotropism). From the taproot are produced smaller lateral roots (secondary roots) that grow horizontally or diagonally. These secondary roots further produce their own smaller lateral roots......
Geotrupes (insect genus)
...that is used during feeding or for depositing eggs. The aphodian dung beetle is small (4 to 6 mm, or about 15 inch) and usually black with yellow wing covers. The earth-boring dung beetle (e.g., Geotrupes) is about 14 to 20 mm (about 12 to 34 inch) long and brown or black in colour......
Geougen (people)
Central Asian people of historical importance. Because of the titles of their rulers, khan and khagan, scholars believe that the Juan-juan were Mongols or Mongol-speaking peoples. The empire of the Juan-juan lasted from the beginning of the 5th century ad to the middle of the 6th century, embracing a wide belt north of China from Manchuria to Turkistan. They were allies...
GEPH (medicine)
hypertensive conditions that are induced by pregnancy. Preeclampsia, also called gestational edema-proteinuria-hypertension (GEPH), is an acute toxic condition arising during the second half of the gestation period or in the first week after delivery and generally occurs in young women during a first pregnancy. It is marked by elevated blood pressure...
Gepidae (people)
a Germanic tribe that lived on the southern Baltic coast in the 1st century ad, having migrated there from southern Sweden some years earlier. The Gepidae again migrated during the 2nd century and were reported in the mountains north of Transylvania by the end of the 3rd century. They united with other tribes in an assault on the Roman Empire but were crushed in 269 in a battle near...
ger (shelter)
tentlike Central Asian nomad’s dwelling, erected on wooden poles and covered with skin, felt, or handwoven textiles in bright colours. The interior is simply furnished with brightly coloured rugs (red often predominating) decorated with geometric or stylized animal patterns. The knotted pile rug, first known from a nomad burial at the foot of the ...
Gera (Germany)
city, Thuringia Land (state), east-central Germany. It lies along the Weisse Elster River, southwest of Leipzig. First mentioned in 995 and by 1237 referred to as a town, it became part of the principality of Meissen in 1547. Passing to the Reuss family in 1562, it became their residence and capital fro...
Gera Bond (German history)
Joachim established the rule of primogeniture for the Hohenzollern electorate by a family agreement known as the Gera Bond (1598), which confirmed the practice begun by Albert III Achilles whereby Brandenburg formed the inheritance of the elector’s eldest son. By the death of George Frederick of Prussia, Joachim became regent of the duch...
Geraint and Enid (Welsh tale)
...(“rhetorics”), which were in part parodies of the Mabinogion. Three of the Mabinogion tales, “Owain” (or “The Lady of the Fountain”), “Geraint and Enid,” and “Peredur Son of Efrawg,” represented a transition from purely native tales to those composed under Norman influence. These romances correspond to the......
Gerakan Aceh Merdeka (political organization, Indonesia)
...importance. The December 2006 Aceh election was the culmination of the peace agreement signed in 2005, bringing an end to decades of bloody conflict between pro-independence insurgents of the Free Aceh Movement (GAM) and the Indonesian military. Though some observers had warned of violence, the campaign was largely without incident. GAM candidates won a large minority of district and......
Geral Mountains (mountains, Brazil)
mountain escarpment of the southern and eastern reaches of the Paraná Plateau. It constitutes the principal mountain relief of interior southern Brazil. Stretching east-west across northern Rio Grande do Sul state to the great escarpment in Santa Catarina state, it then turns and runs north-northwestward through cen...
Geral Scarp (mountains, Brazil)
mountain escarpment of the southern and eastern reaches of the Paraná Plateau. It constitutes the principal mountain relief of interior southern Brazil. Stretching east-west across northern Rio Grande do Sul state to the great escarpment in Santa Catarina state, it then turns and runs north-northwestward through cen...
Geral, Serra (mountains, Brazil)
mountain escarpment of the southern and eastern reaches of the Paraná Plateau. It constitutes the principal mountain relief of interior southern Brazil. Stretching east-west across northern Rio Grande do Sul state to the great escarpment in Santa Catarina state, it then turns and runs north-northwestward through cen...
Gerald (German monk)
...Ekkehard IV, that Ekkehard I—while still in abbey school—composed a Vitam Waltharii manu fortis as a school exercise for his master Geraldus. That an individual named Geraldus, or Gerald, dedicated the work to Bishop Erkanbald of Strasbourg is clear; scholars now tend to attribute the entire 1,456-line Waltharius epic to......
Gerald of Wales (Welsh clergyman)
archdeacon of Brecknock, Brecknockshire (1175–1204), and historian, whose accounts of life in the late 12th century stand as a valuable historical source. His works contain vivid anecdotes about the Christian church, particularly in Wales, about the growing universities of Paris and Oxford, and about notable clerics and laymen....
Geraldine League (Irish federation)
...by Manus O’Donnell, who on the death of Hugh Dubh in July 1537 was inaugurated The O’Donnell. Conn O’Neill was a relative of Gerald Fitzgerald, and this event accordingly led to the formation of the Geraldine League, a federation which combined the O’Neills, the O’Donnells, the O’Briens of Thomond, and other powerful clans; its primary object was to res...
Geraldo (American television show)
...a year later. It quickly became a hit. Imitations began appearing, and the competition grew so fierce that many programs began to feature increasingly outrageous subject matter. Geraldo (syndicated, 1987–98), hosted by sensationalist journalist Geraldo Rivera, featured prostitutes, transsexuals, white supremacists, and other groups seldom given voice on TV......
Gerald’s Game (novel by King)
...perception and telekinesis, biological warfare, and even a malevolent automobile. In his later fiction, exemplified by Gerald’s Game and Dolores Claiborne, King departed from the horror genre to work instead at providing sharply detailed psychological portraits of his major ch...
Geraldton (Western Australia, Australia)
town and Indian Ocean port, southwestern Western Australia. It lies along Champion Bay, across Geelvinck Channel from the Houtman Abrolhos (islands). Surveyed in 1850, Geraldton originated as a military post for the nearby Murchinson goldfield and was declared a town in 1871. During ...
Geraldton wax plant
The Geraldton wax plant (Chamelaucium uncinatum), in the myrtle family (Myrtaceae), from Australia, is a heathlike shrub with waxy white, pink, or lilac flowers. Plants sometimes called wax flower include Anthurium (q.v.) and Stephanotis....
Geraldus (German monk)
...Ekkehard IV, that Ekkehard I—while still in abbey school—composed a Vitam Waltharii manu fortis as a school exercise for his master Geraldus. That an individual named Geraldus, or Gerald, dedicated the work to Bishop Erkanbald of Strasbourg is clear; scholars now tend to attribute the entire 1,456-line Waltharius epic to......
Geraniaceae (plant family)
...flowering plants, belonging to the basal Rosid group of the core eudicots. It consists of 5 families, 17 genera, and nearly 850 species, most of these belonging to Geraniaceae. Members are mainly herbs with some woody shrubs or small trees. Leaves are simple or compound, usually stipulate, and typically possess gland-tipped leaf margins. Flowers are arranged in......
geranial (chemical compound)
a pale yellow liquid, with a strong lemon odour, that occurs in the essential oils of plants. It is insoluble in water but soluble in ethanol (ethyl alcohol), diethyl ether, and mineral oil. It is used in perfumes and flavourings and in the manufacture of other chemi...
Geraniales (plant order)
the geranium order of dicotyledonous flowering plants, belonging to the basal Rosid group of the core eudicots. It consists of 5 families, 17 genera, and nearly 850 species, most of these belonging to Geraniaceae. Members are mainly herbs with some woody shrubs or small trees. Leaves are simple or compound,...
geraniol (plant substance)
...monoterpene derivatives include the terpene alcohol citronellol and the corresponding aldehyde citronellal, both of which occur in oil of citronella, as well as citral, found in lemongrass oil, and geraniol, which occurs in Turkish geranium oil....
geranium (genus Geranium)
any of a group of about 300 species of perennial herbs or shrubs in the family Geraniaceae, native mostly to subtropical southern Africa. Geraniums are among the most popular of bedding and greenhouse plants. The closely related genus Pelargonium contains some 280 species of annual, biennial, and perennial ...
geranium (genus Pelargonium)
any of a group of about 300 species of perennial herbs or shrubs in the family Geraniaceae, native mostly to subtropical southern Africa. Geraniums are among the most popular of bedding and greenhouse plants. The closely related genus Pelargonium contains some 280 species of annual, biennial, and perennial ......
geranium family (plant family)
...flowering plants, belonging to the basal Rosid group of the core eudicots. It consists of 5 families, 17 genera, and nearly 850 species, most of these belonging to Geraniaceae. Members are mainly herbs with some woody shrubs or small trees. Leaves are simple or compound, usually stipulate, and typically possess gland-tipped leaf margins. Flowers are arranged in......
Geranium maculatum (plant)
...flowering plants, belonging to the basal Rosid group of the core eudicots. It consists of 5 families, 17 genera, and nearly 850 species, most of these belonging to Geraniaceae. Members are mainly herbs with some woody shrubs or small trees. Leaves are simple or compound, usually stipulate, and typically possess gland-tipped leaf margins. Flowers are arranged in.........
geranium oil
Several African Pelargonium species are commercially important for geranium oil, an essential oil used in perfumery. Geranium oil, which is also called pelargonium oil, or rose-geranium oil, is colourless to pale yellow-brown or greenish and has an odour like that of roses. It is......
geranium order (plant order)
the geranium order of dicotyledonous flowering plants, belonging to the basal Rosid group of the core eudicots. It consists of 5 families, 17 genera, and nearly 850 species, most of these belonging to Geraniaceae. Members are mainly herbs with some woody shrubs or small trees. Leaves are simple or compound,...
Geranium viscosissimum (plant)
the geranium order of dicotyledonous flowering plants, belonging to the basal Rosid group of the core eudicots. It consists of 5 families, 17 genera, and nearly 850 species, most of these belonging to Geraniaceae. Members are mainly herbs with some woody shrubs or small trees. Leaves are simple or compound,...
Geranospiza nigra (bird)
The African harrier hawk (Polyboroides typus) and the crane hawk (Geranospiza nigra) of tropical America are medium-sized gray birds resembling the harriers but having short, broad wings....
geranyl pyrophosphate (chemical compound)
The formation of geranyl pyrophosphate, the precursor of the monoterpenes, from two molecules of IPPP requires that one of them be transformed to dimethylallyl pyrophosphate (DMAPP). In the equations below, only the covalent bonds of the carbon skeletons are shown, and PP stands for the pyrophosphate group....

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