Graptolites
Graptolites, A Group Of Organisms Now Extinct, From The Fossil Remains Of Which It Is Impossible To State With Cer Tainty What They Were, Though It Is Usually Considered That They Were Coelenterata (q.v.). The Remains Are Found, Often In Great Abundance, In Palaeozoic Rocks. They Begin In The Cambrian ...
Grasmere
Grasmere, Village, Urban District, And Lake Of Westmor Land, In The Heart Of The English Lake District. Pop. (i 93i ) 988. The Village Lies Near The Head Of The Lake, On The River Rothay And The Keswick-ambleside Road, 122 M. From Keswick And 4 From Ambleside. The Scenery Is ...
Grass And Grassland
Grass And Grassland. Since The Grasses (q.v.) Constitute One Of The Most Widespread Of Flowering Plants On Most Farms, The Land Not Actually Cultivated Will Either Be In Grass Or Will Revert Naturally To Grass In Time If Left Alone. This Pasture Land Has Always Been An Important Part Of ...
Grass Of Parnassus
Grass Of Parnassus, In Botany, A Small Herbaceous Plant, Parnassia Palustris (family Saxifragaceae), Found On Wet Moors And Bogs In Great Britain But Less Common In The South. The White Regular Flower Is Ren Dered Very Attractive By A Circlet Of Scales, Opposite The Petals, Each Of Which Bears A ...
Grass Valley
Grass Valley, A City Of Nevada County, California, U.s.a., Served By The Nevada County Narrow Gauge Railroad, Which Connects At Colfax (15m. S.e.) With The Southern Pacific Lines. It Is In A Gold-mining District In The Eastern Part Of The State, Is The Gateway To Summer Playgrounds In The Sierra ...
Grasse
Grasse, Capital Of An Arrondissement, Department Of Alpes Maritimes (till 1860 In That Of Var), France, 121 M. By Rail N.n.w. Of Cannes. Pop. (193 I) 13,372. From I 244 (when The See Was Transferred Hither From Antibes) To 1790 It Was An Episcopal See, But Was Then Included In ...
Grasses
Grasses, A Group Of Plants Possessing Certain Characters In Common And Constituting A Family (gramineae) Of The Class Monocotyledons. It Is One Of The Largest And Most Widespread And, From An Economic Point Of View, The Most Important Family Of Flowering Plants. No Plant Is Correctly Termed A Grass Which ...
Grasshopper
Grasshopper, A Name Applied To Insects Belonging To The Families Tettigoniidae And Acridiidae Of The Order Orthoptera (q.v.). They Are Especially Remarkable For Their Leaping Powers, Due To The Great Development Of The Hind Legs, And Also For Their Stridulation Which Is Generally, But Not Always, A Function Of The ...
Grassquit
Grassquit, The Name Ap Plied To Small Finches Of The Gen Era Sporophila And Tiaris Com Mon In Tropical And Sub-tropical America And The West Indies. One Species, S. Snorelleti, Offi Cially Named Sharpe's Seed-eater, Ranges Into The United States As Far As South-eastern Texas, And Two Others, T. Bicolor ...
Gratian
Gratian (flavius Gratianus Augustus), Roman Em Peror 375-383, Son Of Valentinian I. By Severa, Was Born At Sirmium In Pannonia, On April 18 Or May 23, 359. On Aug. 24, 367, He Received From His Father The Title Of Augustus. On The Death Of Valentinian (nov. 17, 375) The Troops ...
Grattius Faliscus
Grattius [ Faliscus ] , Roman Poet, Of The Age Of Augustus, Author Of A Poem On Hunting (cynegetica), Of Which Hexameters Remain. He Was Possibly A Native Of Falerii. The Only Reference To Him In Any Ancient Writer Is Incidental (ovid, Ex Ponto, Iv. 16. 33). He Describes Various ...
Gravamen
Gravamen, A Complaint Or Grievance, The Ground Of A Legal Action, And Particularly The More Serious Part Of A Charge Against An Accused Person. In English The Term Is Used Chiefly In Ecclesi Astical Cases, Being The Technical Designation Of A Memorial Pre Sented From The Lower To The Upper ...
Grave Creek Mound
Grave Creek Mound, A Prehistoric Earthwork, Near Moundsville, Marshall County, West Virginia, Known Since As Appears From The Date Cut In A Tree Growing From Its Summit. It Is The Largest Of The Conical Type Of Mounds In The United States, Having A Basal Diameter Of 32o Feet, A Height ...
Grave I
Grave. (i) A Place Dug Out Of The Earth In Which A Body Is Laid For Burial (see Dead, Disposal Of The; Burial). The Verb "to Grave," Is Used Of The Making Of Incisions In A Hard Surface (see Engraving). (2) A Title, Now Obsolete, Of A Local Administrative Official ...
Gravel Or Pebble Beds
Gravel Or Pebble-beds, The Name Given To Deposits Of Rounded Or Sub-angular, Waterworn Stones, Mingled With Finer Material Such As Sand Or Clay. The Word "gravel" Is Adapted From The O.fr. Gravele, Mod. Gravelle, Dim. Of Grave, Coarse Sand, Sea Shore, Mod. Fr. Grave. In Petrology, The Word Is Used ...
Gravelines
Gravelines (fleur. Gravelinghe), A Seaport Town Of Northern France, In The Department Of Nord And Arrondissement Of Dunkerque, Near The Mouth Of The Aa, 15 M. S.w. Of Dunkirk On The Railway To Calais. Pop. (1931) 1,826. The Canalization Of The Aa By A Count Of Flanders About The Middle ...
Gravelotte
Gravelotte, A Village Of Lorraine Near Metz, Famous As The Scene Of The Battle Of Aug. 18, 187o, Between The Germans Under King William Of Prussia And The French Under Marshal Bazaine (see Metz And Franco-german War). The Battlefield Extends From The Woods Which Border The Moselle Above Metz To ...
Graves Wines Of
Graves: Wines Of. The Wines Of Graves Are Those Made From Grapes Grown In The Vineyards Of The Graves District Of Bordeaux. This District, Which Owes Its Name To Its Gravel Soil, Begins Just Outside Bordeaux; It Extends About Five And A Half Miles West Of That City And Thirteen ...
Gravesend
Gravesend, Municipal Borough, River-port And Market Town Of Kent, England, On The Thames Opposite Tilbury Fort, 22 M. E. By S. Of London By The S.r. Pop. 35,49o. In The Domesday Survey "gravesham" Is Among The Bishop Of Bayeux's Lands, And A "hythe" Or Landing-place Is Mentioned. In 1401 Henry ...
Gravies
Gravies. A Gravy Is A Sauce Made From The Juices And Fats Extracted From Meats In Cooking. The Term Is Also Applied To The Thickened Liquid Of Stews. Ordinary Meat Gravies Are Dis Tinguished From Sauces By Their Predominating Element (osma Zome), Which Gives Them Their Characteristic Meat Flavour. A ...
Gravina
Gravina, A Town And Episcopal See Of Apulia, Italy, In The Province Of Bari, 36 M. S.w. From Bari By Rail (29 M. Direct), 1,148 Ft. Above Sea-level. Pop. (1931) 19,923 (town), 20,765 (commune). The Town Perhaps Occupies The Site Of The Ancient Blera, A Post Station On The Via ...
Graving Dock
Graving Dock, A Narrow Basin, Closed By Gates Or By A Caisson, In Which A Vessel May Be Placed And From Which The Water May Be Pumped Or Let Out, Leaving The Vessel Supported On Blocks. In This Way The Ship Is Left Dry And Accessible For The Purposes Of ...
Gravitation
Gravitation, In Physical Science Is That Mutual Action Between Masses Of Matter By Virtue Of Which Every Such Mass Tends Toward Every Other With A Force Varying Directly As The Product Of The Masses And Inversely As The Square Of Their Distances Apart. Although The Law Was First Clearly And ...
Gray
Gray, A Town Of Eastern France, Capital Of An Arrondisse Ment In The Department Of Haute-saone, Situated On The Bank Of The Saone, 36 M. W.s.w. Of Vesoul By Rail. Pop. 5,577. Gray Was Founded In The 7th Century. Its Fortifications Were De Stroyed By Louis Xiv. It Gave Its ...
Grayling
Grayling, The Name For Fishes Of The Genus Thymallus, Of The Family Salmonidae, Distinguished By Rather Large Scales, A Small Mouth With Feeble Teeth, And A Long Dorsal Fin, With 20 To 24 Rays. Six Species Are Known From The Rivers Of Europe, Siberia And Northern North America. They Are ...
Grays Thurrock Or Grays
Grays Thurrock Or Grays, An Urban District Of Essex, England, On The Thames, 20 M. E. By S. From London By The L.m.s. Railway. Pop. (1931) 18.172. The Church Of St. Peter And St. Paul Retains Some Norman Work. The Gray Family Held The Manor For Three Centuries From 1149. ...
Graz
Graz, The Capital Of The Austrian Province Of Styria, Pic Turesquely Situated On Both Banks Of The Mur, At The Opening Of This Valley Into The Broad And Fertile Basin Known As The Grazer Feld. The Town (pop., Is Enclosed On Three Sides By Forested Heights Of The Styrian Alps, ...
Grazier
Grazier. One Who Grazes Or Pastures And Rears Cattle For The Market. (see Agriculture: Grass And Grassland; Cat Tle.) ...
Greasewood
Greasewood, A North American Shrub (sarcobatus Vermiculatus) Of The Goosefoot Family (chenopodiaceae), And A Characteristic Plant Of Strongly Alkaline And Saline Soils In The High Plains Of The Rocky Mountain Region From Montana To Mexico. It Is A Much Branched, Somewhat Spiny Shrub, 2 Ft. To 1 O Ft. High, ...
Great Awakening
Great Awakening, A Remarkable Religious Revival Centring In New England In 174o-43, But Covering All The Ameri Can Colonies By 175o. Its Way Was Prepared By Jonathan Ed Wards (q.v.) Who, In 1734, Inaugurated At Northampton The Revival That, In 1740-41, Was Taken Up By George Whitefield (q.v.) In Massachusetts ...
Great Barrington
Great Barrington, A Town Of Berkshire County, Mass., U.s.a., On The Housatonic River In The Southern Berkshire Hills. It Is Served By The New York, New Haven And Hartford Railroad. The Area Is 45 Sq.m., And The Population In 193o Was 5,934. Mountains, Forests, Meadows, Lakes And Streams Make The ...
Great Bear Lake
Great Bear Lake, An Extensive Sheet Of Fresh Water In The North-west Of Canada, Between 65° And 67° N., And 117° And 123° W. It Is Of Very Irregular Shape, Has An Estimated Area Of I I , 200 Sq.m., A Depth Of 2 70 Ft., And Is Upwards Of ...
Great Bend
Great Bend, A City Of Central Kansas, U.s.a., On The Arkansas River And Federal Highway 5on, At An Altitude Of 1,843 Ft.; The County Seat Of Barton County. It Is Served By The Missouri Pacific And The Santa Fe Railways. The Population In 93o Federal Census Was 5,548. It Has ...
Great Britain
Great Britain, The Official Title Of The Political Unity Of England, Wales And Scotland. The Name Was Formally Adopted In 1707 At The Date Of The Union Of The Crowns Of England And Scotland ; But It Had Been Used Informally By Many Writers For A Long Time Previous To ...
Great Circle
Great Circle. The Circle In Which A Sphere Is Cut By A Plane Is Called A "great Circle," When The Cutting Plane Passes Through The Centre Of Sphere. Treating The Earth As A Sphere, The Meridians Of Longitude Are All Great Circles. Of The Parallels Of Latitude, The Equator Only ...
Great Dividing Range
Great Dividing Range, A Name Given To The East Ern And South-eastern Highlands Of Australia. It Is Applicable In So Far As It Forms The Main Water-shed Between Coastwards And Inward-flowing Drainage On These Sides, But Misleading In That The Highlands In Question Are A Belt Of Plateaux Rather Than ...
Great Falls
Great Falls, The Second Largest City Of Montana, U.s.a., Isom. N.e. Of Helena, At An Altitude Of 3,3ooft., On The Missouri River, Opposite The Mouth Of The Sun River, Iom. Above The Falls Of The Missouri (92ft. High) From Which It Derives Its Name; A Port Of Entry And The ...
Great Harwood
Great Harwood, Urban District, Clitheroe Parliamen Tary Division, Lancashire, England, 4.i M. N.e. Of Blackburn, On The L.m.s. Railway. Pop. (1931), 12,787. The Inhabitants Are Employed In Cotton Mills And Collieries In The Vicinity. ...
Great Mother Of The
Great Mother Of The Gods, The Ancient Oriental Greek-roman Deity Commonly Known As Cybele (q.v.) In Greek And Latin Literature From The Time Of Pindar. She Was Also Known Under Many Other Names, Some Of Which Were Derived From Famous Places Of Worship : As Dindymene From Mt. Dindymon. Cybele ...
Great Northern Railway Company
Great Northern Railway Company. The Great Northern's Genealogy Began In 1857 With The Chartering Of The Minnesota And Pacific Railway By The State Of Minnesota, A Road That Was Soon Taken Over By The St. Paul And Pacific Railway. Ten Miles Of Actual Railroad Were Then Built Between St. Paul ...
Great Rebellion
Great Rebellion (1642-52), A Generic Name For The Civil Wars In England And Scotland, Which Began With The Raising Of King Charles I.'s Standard At Nottingham On Aug. 22, 1642, And Ended With The Surrender Of Dunottar Castle To The Parlia Ment's Troops In May 1652. It Is Usual To ...
Great Salt Lake
Great Salt Lake, A Large Body Of Shallow, Briny Water In North-western Utah, U.s.a., Situated About 4,20o Ft. Above Sea-level. The Lake Was First Accurately Described By John C. Fremont In 1845, And Was Carefully Surveyed In 1849 And 185o By Capt. Howard Stansbury. The Lake And The Surrounding Region ...
Great Serpent Mound
Great Serpent Mound. A Remarkable Prehistoric Earthwork, So Called From Its Shape, On A Narrow Crescentic Spur, About Zoo Ft. High, Flanked By Brush Creek And East Creek, In Adams County, Ohio. Commencing With The Partly Obliterated Head, At The Very Point Of The Spur, And Proceeding To The Tail, ...
Great Slave Lake
Great Slave Lake (athapuscow), A Lake Of Mac Kenzie District, Canada. It Is Situated Between Bo° 5o' And 62° 55' N. And Io8° 4o' And I17° W., At An Altitude Of 391 Ft. Above The Sea. It Is 325 M. Long, From 15 To 5o M. Wide, And Includes An ...
Great Southern Ocean
Great Southern Ocean, The Name Given To The Belt Of Water Which Extends Almost Continuously Round The Globe Be Tween The Parallel Of 40° S. And The Antarctic Circle (66z° S.). The Fact That The Southern Extremity Of South America Is The Only Land Extending Into This Belt Gives It ...
Great Western Railway Company
Great Western Railway Company. A British Railway Company. Which Was Incorporated In 1835 To Construct A Line Of Railway Between Bristol And London, Now Serves The Territory Embraced Within A Triangle Bounded By Lines Drawn From London To Liverpool Liverpool To Penzance, And Penzance To London. Its Headquarters Are At ...
Grebe
Grebe, The Name For Aquatic Birds Of The Family Podi Cipedidae, Containing Several Genera Including Podiceps And Centropelma. Grebes Are Distinguished By The Rudimentary Tail, The Legs Placed Far Back On The Body For Diving, The Flattened Tarsi To Diminish Water Resistance. And The Elongated Toes Fur Nished With Broad ...
Greece
Greece, In The Modern Sense, Is A State Which Obtained Its Independence From Turkey By Force Of Arms In The Earlier Part Of The 19th Century, And Was Declared A Kingdom In 183o. Initially It Consisted Of A Small Area Within The Narrowed And Dissected Tongue Of Land Which Prolongs ...
Greek Archaeology
Greek Archaeology. The Liberation Of Greece (1821-29) Made The Scientific And Thorough Exploration Of Her Ancient Remains Possible To Many Such Scholars As Bockh And Foucart, The Epigraphists; Newton, The Discoverer Of The Mauso Leum ; Penrose And Dorpf Eld Who Revealed The Wonders Of Athe Nian Architecture; Brunn And ...
Greek Architecture
Greek Architecture. To The Greeks Fell The Role Of Inventing The Grammar Of Conventional Forms On Which All Sub Sequent European Architecture Was Based. The Materials At Their Disposal, Wood And Stone As Well As Mud, Induced Them To Adopt A Post-and-lintel System, As In Egypt (see Egyptian Architec Ture), ...
Greek Art
Greek Art. It Is Proposed In The Present Article To Give A Brief Account Of The History Of Greek Art And Of The Principles Embodied In That History. The Products Of The Various Arts Prac Tised By A People Constitute An Objective And Most Important Record Of The Spirit Of ...
Greek Fire
Greek Fire, The Name Applied To Inflammable And Destruc Tive Compositions Used In Warfare During The Middle Ages And Particularly By The Byzantine Greeks At The Sieges Of Constanti Nople. The Employment Of Liquid Fire Is Represented On Assyrian Bas-reliefs. At The Siege Of Plataea (429 B.c.) The Spartans Attempted ...
Greek Language
Greek Language. This Term Is Commonly Applied To The Tongues Of Both Ancient And Modern Greece. These, However, Differ So Much That It Is Necessary To Deal With Them In Separate Sections. Of Both The Alphabet Is As Follows: Greek, One Of The Indo-european Languages, Was Spoken In One Or ...
Greek Law
Greek Law. The Basis For The Development Of Greek Law Was Laid By The Rise In Greece Of City-states (poleis) . Primitively All Greeks Were Tribal; Or, To Use Their Own Term, Ethnic. But Between 1200 And Soo B.c. Among Those Of Them Who Had En Tered The Area Of ...
Greek Literature
Greek Literature. The Literature Of Greece Is Doubly Unique Among Those Of Europe. In The First Place, It Developed, Up To Quite Modern Times, Mainly From Within, Foreign Influences Being Almost If Not Entirely Absent ; All Other European Nations Have Been Influenced, More Or Less Profoundly, From Without. In ...
Greek Religion
Greek Religion. The Religion Of The Greeks, Now No Longer Absurdly Abused Nor Foolishly Idealized Can, In The Light Of Modern Scholarship, Be Seen For What It Really Was. It Comprises Elements—savage, Barbarous, And Civilized, Although The First Two Have Been Somewhat Exaggerated. It Developed Without Any Authoritative Sacred Writing, ...
Greeley
Greeley, A City Of Colorado, U.s.a., 52m. N. By E. Of Denver, On The South Platte River, At An Elevation Of 4,567ft.; The County Seat Of Weld County. It Is On Federal Highways 38 And 85 ; Is Served By The Colorado And Southern And The Union Pacific Railways; And ...
Green Bay
Green Bay, A City Of Eastern Wisconsin, U.s.a., At The South End Of Green Bay (lake Michigan) Where The Fox River Empties Into It, 114m. N. Of Milwaukee; A Port Of Entry And The County Seat Of Brown County. It Is On Federal Highways 41 And 141, Has An Airport, ...
Green Dragon
Green Dragon (arisaema Dracontium), A North Ameri Can Plant Of The Arum Family (araceae), Found Chiefly In Low Woods From Maine To Ontario And Minnesota And Southward To Florida And Texas. It Is A Somewhat Fleshy Perennial Rising From A Cluster Of Acrid Corms And Bearing A Single Large Leaf, ...
Green Monkey
Green Monkey, A West African Representative Of The Guenon Monkeys, Technically Known As Cercopithecus Callitrichus. It Is Olive Green Above, With White Whiskers And Belly. ...
Green Mountains
Green Mountains Are A Part Of The Appalachian Sys Tem Of North America Extending From The Massachusetts Border Northwards Through The Centre Of The State Of Vermont To The Canadian Line. For Two-thirds Of The Length Of The State The Range Is Only Slightly Broken, Forming A Water-parting Between The ...
Greenback Party
Greenback Party, The Name For The American Inde Pendent National Party, Which Held Its First National Convention In 1874. Its Earliest Appearance In A Presidential Campaign Was In 1876, When Its Candidate, Peter Cooper, Received 81,740 Votes. It Advocated Increasing The Volume Of Greenbacks (q.v.), Forbidding Bank Issues, And The ...
Greenbacks
Greenbacks, A Form Of Paper Currency In The United States, So Named From The Green Colour Used On The Backs Of The Notes. They Are Treasury Notes, And Were First Issued By The Government In 1862, "as A Question Of Hard Necessity," To Pro Vide For The Expenses Of The ...
Greencastle
Greencastle, A City Of Indiana, U.s.a., On The Big Wal Nut River, Half Way Between Indianapolis And Terre Haute; The County Seat Of Putnam County. It Is Served By The Chicago, Indi Anapolis And Louisville, The Big Four And The Pennsylvania Rail Ways. The Population Was 3,78o In 1920 (95% ...
Greenfield
Greenfield, A City Of Central Indiana, U.s.a., 2im. E. Of Indianapolis, On Federal Highway 4o, The Pennsylvania Railroad, And A Branch Of The Blue River; The County Seat Of Hancock County. The Population In 192o Was 4,168; 193o It Was 4,188. It Is Surrounded By Fertile Farmlands, And Has Canning ...
Greenfield_2
Greenfield, A Town Of Massachusetts, U.s.a., On The Connecticut River; County Seat Of Franklin County. It Is The Eastern Terminus Of The Mohawk Trail, And Is Served By The Boston And Maine Railroad. It Has An Area Of 20 Sq. M., And A Population In 1925 Of 15,246, 15,50o In ...
Greenfield_3
Greenfield, A Village Of Highland County, Ohio, U.s.a., 47m. S. By W. Of Columbus; Served By The Baltimore And Ohio And The Detroit, Toledo And Ironton Railways. The Population Was 4,344 In 1920 (94% Native White) And Was 3,871 In 193o By The Federal Census. There Are Large Stone Quarries ...
Greenfinch Or Green Linnet
Greenfinch Or Green Linnet, Ligurinus Chloris, Is A Common European Bird. The Cock, In His Plumage Of Yellowish-green And Yellow, Is Finely Coloured But Heavily Built, And His Song Is Hardly To Be Commended. The Hen Is Less Brightly Tinted. The Species Pervades Almost The Whole Of Europe, And In ...
Greenheart
Greenheart, One Of The Most Valuable Of Timbers, The Produce Of Nsctandra Rodiaei, Family Lauraceae, A Large Tree, Native Of Tropical South America And The West Indies. From Its Bark And Fruits Is Obtained The Febrifuge Principle Bibirine. Green Heart Wood Is Of A Dark-green Colour, Sap Wood And Heart ...
Greenland
Greenland, A Large Island, The Greater Portion Of Which Lies Within The Arctic Circle, While The Whole Is Arctic In Char Acter. It Is Not Connected With Any Portion Of Europe Or America Except By Suboceanic Ridges ; But In The Extreme North It Is Sepa Rated Only By A ...
Greenlaw
Greenlaw (a "grassy Hill"), A Village Of Berwickshire, Scotland. Pop. (1931) 528. It Is Situated On The Blackadder, 624 M. S.e. Of Edinburgh By The L.n.e. Railway. Rebuilt In The 17th Century, It Takes The Place Of An Older Settlement A Mile To The South-east. It Was The County Town ...
Greenock
Greenock (gren'ok), Municipal Burgh And Seaport, Ren Frewshire, Scotland, On The S. Shore Of The Firth Of Clyde, 23 M. W. By N. Of Glasgow By The L.m.s.r. (f Our Stations), 21 M. By The River And Firth. Pop. (1931) 78,948. The Town Has A Water Front Age Of Nearly ...
Greenockite
Greenockite, A Rare Mineral Composed Of Cadmium Sul Phide, Cds, Occurring As Small, Brilliant, Honey-yellow Crystals Or As A Canary-yellow Powder. Crystals Are Hexagonal With Hemimor Phic Development, Being Differently Terminated At The Two Ends; They Are Translucent To Transparent, And Have An Adamantine To Resinous Lustre; Hardness 3-3 I ...
Greenore
Greenore, A Seaport And Watering Place On Carlingford Lough, Co. Louth, Ireland. Pop. (1926), 337. Passenger Steamers Cross Regularly To And From Holyhead, Wales. A Steam Ferry Crosses The Lough. In The Vicinity Is A Raised Beach, Some I O Ft. Above The Present Sea-level. ...
Greens
Greens. The Formation And Maintenance Of Fine Turf For Putting Greens Has Been The Subject Of Systematic Research In America Since 1919. This Article Is A Summary Of The Chief Results That Have Been Published In The Bulletin Of The U.s. Golf Asso Ciation Green Section (washington, D.c.) The Finest ...
Greensand
Greensand. A Geological Term Having A Double Signifi Cance. Among The Sedimentary Rocks (q.v.) It Is Used To Indicate A Sand Or Sandstone With Abundant Grains Of Glauconite. Strati Graphically The Name Is Used For Several Sub-divisions Of The Cretaceous System (q.v.). ...
Greensboro
Greensboro, A City In The Piedmont Section Of North Carolina, U.s.a., 8om. N.w. Of Raleigh ; The County Seat Of Guil Ford County. It Is On Federal Highways 7o And 17o ; Is Served By The Atlantic And Yadkin And The Southern Railways; And Has A Municipal Airport. The Population ...
Greensburg
Greensburg, A City Of South-eastern Indiana, U.s.a., On A Branch Of Sand Creek; The County Seat Of Decatur County. It Is Served By The Big Four Railroad. The Population In 1920 Was 5,345; 193o It Was 5,702. It Is Situated In A Farming And Stock Raising District; There Are Stone ...
Greensburg_2
Greensburg, A City Of Pennsylvania, U.s.a., 3om. E. By S. Of Pittsburgh, On The Lincoln Highway And The Pennsylvania Railroad, At An Altitude Of I,000–i,2ooft.; The County Seat Of Westmoreland County. The Population Was 15,033 In 1920; 193o It Was 16,508. Including The Adjacent Suburbs, The Local Estimate For 1928 ...
Greenshank
Greenshank (tringa Nebularia), One Of The Largest Of The Sandpipers. The Long Olive-coloured Legs Of This Species Dis Tinguish It From Two Allied Species (t. Totanus And T. Erythropus) Having Red Legs And Called Redshanks. The Greenshank Is A Native Of The Northern Parts Of The Old World, But In ...
Greenstone
Greenstone, In Geology, An Old Term Used By Many Of The Earlier Writers To Indicate Fine-grained Dark Coloured And Often Considerably Decomposed And Altered Basic Igneous Rocks, Either Intrutive Or Extrusive. It Is Still—like "felsite" (q.v.)—a Useful Word In Descriptive Field Geology, Since It Indicates The Appearance And General Character ...
Greenville
Greenville, A City Of Montcalm County, Michigan, U.s.a., 35 M. N.e. Of Grand Rapids; On The Grand Trunk And The Pere Marquette Railways. The Population Was 4,304 In 192o (90% Native White) And Was 4,73o In 193o By The Federal Census. It Is An Important Potato Market, And Has Refrigerator ...
Greenville_2
Greenville, A City Of Western Mississippi, U.s.a., On The Mississippi River, 75m. Above Vicksburg, At The Centre Of The Yazoo Delta; The County Seat Of Washington County. It Is Served By The Columbus And Greenville And The Yazoo And Mississippi Valley Railways, And By River Steamers And Barges. The Population ...
Greenville_3
Greenville, A City Of Eastern North Carolina, U.s.a., On The Tar River; The County Seat Of Pitt County. It Is Served By The Atlantic Coast Line And The Norfolk Southern Railways. The Population Was In 1920 (49% Negroes) And Was 9,194 In 193o By The Federal Census. It Is A ...
Greenville_4
Greenville, A City Of Western Ohio, U.s.a., 36m. N.w. Of Dayton, On Greenville Creek, At An Altitude Of I .o5of T. ; The County Seat Of Darke County. It Is Served By The Baltimore And Ohio, The Big Four And The Pennsylvania Railways. The Population Was 7,104 In 192o; 193o ...
Greenville_5
Greenville, A Borough Of Mercer County, Pa., U.s.a., 8om. N. Of Pittsburgh, On The Shenango River. It Is Served By The Bessemer And Lake Erie, The Erie And The Pennsylvania Rail Ways. The Population Was 8,1oi In 192o; 193o Was 8,628. It Has Railroad Repair Shops, And Its Manufactures Include ...
Greenville_6
Greenville, A City Of North-western South Carolina, U.s.a., On The Reedy River; The County Seat Of Greenville County. It Is On Federal Highways 25, 29 And 76; Has A Municipal Airport; And Is Served By The Charleston And Western Carolina, The Pied Mont And Northern (electric), And The Southern Railways. ...
Greenville_7
Greenville, A City Of North-eastern Texas, U.s.a., 48m. N.e. Of Dallas, Near The Head-waters Of The Sabine River; The County Seat Of Hunt County. It Is On Federal Highway 67, And Is Served By The Louisiana Railway And Navigation Company, The Missouri-kansas-texas, The St. Louis Southwestern And The Texas Midland ...
Greenwich
Greenwich, A South-eastern Metropolitan Borough Of London, England, Bounded North By The River Thames, East By Woolwich, South By Lewisham And West By Deptford. Pop. 100,879. It Is First Noticed In The Reign Of Ethelred, When It Was A Station Of The Danish Fleet (1 O I I–i 014) . ...
Greenwich_2
Greenwich, A Town Of Fairfield County, Conn., U.s.a., On Long Island Sound, In The Extreme South-west Of The State, 28 M. N.e. Of New York City. It Contains A Borough Of The Same Name And Nine Villages, Including Cos Cob, Riverside And Sound Beach, And Is Served By The New ...
Greenwood
Greenwood, A City Of Western Mississippi, U.s.a., On The Yazoo River, 115m. S. By W. Of Memphis; The County Seat Of Leflore County. It Is Served By The Columbus And Greenville And The Yazoo And Mississippi Valley Railways. The Population Was 7,793 In 192o (52% Negroes) And Was, In 1930, ...
Greenwood_2
Greenwood, A City In The Piedmont Section Of Western South Carolina, U.s.a., At An Altitude Of 67of T. ; The County Seat Of Greenwood County. It Is On Federal Highway 25, And Is Served By The Charleston And Western Carolina, The Georgia And Florida, The Piedmont And Northern (electric), The ...
Gregarina
Gregarina. Parasitic Single-celled Animals (protozoa), Which Occur Chiefly In The Intestines, And Sometimes Also In The Body-cavity Of Various Animals, And Are Characterized Chiefly By Their Manner Of Reproduction. Almost All Of Them Are Harmless. (see Protozoa.) ...
Gregorian Calendar Or New
Gregorian Calendar Or New Style, The Calendar Substituted For The Ancient Church Calendar—founded On Two Erroneous Suppositions, Namely, That The Year Contains 365i Days And That 235 Lunations Are Exactly Equal To Nineteen Solar Years—in March 1582 By Pope Gregory Xiii. It Was Introduced Into Spain, Portugal And Part Of ...
Gregorian Music
Gregorian Music. The Most Famous Division Of The Ecclesiastical Monodic Music Of The Early And Mediaeval Church, Which Is Comprehensively Known As Plainsong Or Plainchant. This Is So Called Because Of The Part Which Pope Gregory I. (d. 604) Took In Reforming And Standardizing It. See Gregory, St. ; Music ...
Gregory Ii
Gregory Ii., Pope From 715 To 731, Succeeded Constantine I. Whom He Accompanied To Constantinople In 71o. To Spread Christianity In Germany, Gregory Gave Special Encouragement To The Mission Of St. Boniface, Whom He Consecrated Bishop In 722. He Was A Staunch Adherent Of The East Roman Empire, Which Still ...
Gregory Iii
Gregory Iii., Pope From 731 To 741, Condemned The Iconoclasts At A Council Convened At Rome In 731, And, Like His Predecessor Gregory Ii., Stimulated The Missionary Labours Of St. Boniface, On Whom He Conferred The Pallium. ...
Gregory Iv
Gregory Iv., Pope From 827 To 844. His Name Is Chiefly Asso Ciated With The Quarrels Between Lothair And Louis The Pious, In Which He Espoused The Cause Of The Former, For Whom, In The Campus Mendacii (liigenfeld, Field Of Lies), As It Is Usually Called (833), He Secured By ...
Gregory Ix
Gregory Ix. (ugolino Conti De Segni), Pope From March 19, 1227, To Aug. 22, 1241, Was A Nobleman Of Anagni And Probably A Nephew Of Innocent Iii. He Studied At Paris And Bologna, And, Having Been Successively Archpriest Of St. Peter's, Papal Chaplain, Cardinal-deacon Of Sant' Eustachio, Cardinal-bishop Of Ostia, ...
Gregory The Illuminator
Gregory The Illuminator The Reputed Founder Of The Armenian Church, Was According To Legend, The Son Of Anak, Head Of The Parthian Clan Of Suren, Who Was Bribed By The Sassanid King Of Persia To Assassinate The Armenian King, Chosroes. Anak Was Slain By His Victim's Soldiers; Gregory Was Rescued ...