Golconda
Golconda, India, A Fortress And Ruined City Of The Hyderabad State, Situated On A Granite Ridge, Five Miles West Of Hyderabad, India. In Its Immediate Neighborhood Are The Ruins Of An Ancient City, Once The Metropolis Of The Powerful Kingdom Of Gol Conda, Which Reached Its Height At The Close ...
Gold Bug
Gold-bug, The. The Gold-bug,' By Edgar Allan Poe, Belongs To The Group Which The Author Called Tales Of Ratiocination. This Type Of Story Which Was Virtually Created By Poe And Which Is Exemplified In The Many Detective Stories Written Since His Day, Deals With The Solution Of A Mystery, And ...
Gold Coast Colony
Gold Coast Colony, A British Crown Colony On The Gulf Of Guinea, West Africa, Bounded On The East By Togoland (german) And On The West By The Ivory Coast (french). Its Coast Line Is About 350 Miles; Its Area, In Clusive Of Adausi, Ashanti And The Northern Territories, Is About ...
Gold Coinage In The
Gold Coinage In The United States. The Constitution Having Assigned To The Federal Government Exclusively The Right Of Coinage, The Secretary Of The Treas Ury (hamilton) In 1791 Reported A Plan For The Establishment Of A Mint, And The Mint Act Was Passed 2 April 1792. In That Act Provi ...
Gold Lace
Gold Lace, A Kind Of Lace Made Of Gold Wire, Flattened Between Two Polished Steel Roll Ers Into A Ribbon Which Is Twisted Round A Core Of Silk. In India '
Gold Mining And Metallurgy
Gold Mining And Metallurgy. Gold Is Found In Nearly All Parts Of The World And Small Amounts Occur In Ocean Water And In Many Rocks. It Is Mostly In Such Minute Proportions, However, That It Cannot Be Profit Ably Extracted And Only The More Concentrated Deposits Can Be Utilized And ...
Gold Standard And Gold
Gold Standard And Gold Pro Duction. The Metal Gold Is The Only Sub Stance Of Which The Earth Is Composed That Is Freely Accepted In Return For All Services And In Exchange For All Other Kinds Of Property By Every Race In The World. In Other Words, It Is The ...
Goldbbating
'gold.bbating, The Art. Of ' Hammering Gold' Ipto Leaves. Of :extreme Thinness 'for The Purposes Of . Ornamental Gilding. For This Pun. ' • Pose Pure Gold Is Alloyed With Small Quantities Of Other Metals According To The Color Re Quired. Ten Colors Are Recognized: Red, Pale Red, Deep-red, Orange, ...
Golden Ass
Golden Ass, The. The Phoses' Of Apuleius, Or The Golden Ass,' As They Are Popularly Called, Are The Most Famous, If Not The Best, Of The Milesian Tales—collec Tions Of Stories Which Were Intended To Tickle The Fancy With Voluptuous Pictures By Being Re Lated In A Brief, Witty Manner. ...
Golden Bull
Golden Bull, A Name Given To Several State Documents; The Principal Ones Are As Fol Lows: 1. Of Hungary, 1222, Wrung From King An Drew Ii By His Nobles, Just As Magna Charta Was Extorted From John Of England. Andrew Ii Of Hungary, Surnamed Was A Feeble, Self-willed, Worthless King, ...
Golden Fleece
Golden Fleece, Order Of, A Cele Brated Order Of Knighthood In Austria And Spain, Founded By Philip The Good, Duke Of Burgundy And The Netherlands, At Bruges, 10 Jan. 1429, On The Occasion Of His Marriage With Isabella, Daughter Of King John I Of Portugal. The Order Was Instituted For ...
Golden Legend
Golden Legend, Collection Of Legend Ary Lives Of Saints, Written By Jacobus De Voragine, Archbishbp Of Genoa. The Work Was Entitled 'legenda Sanctorum' By The Author But Was Popularly Christened 'legenda Aurea' Or 'golden Legend' Because Of Its Estimated Worth. It Was Called 'lombardica Historia' In Some Early Editions, Due ...
Golden Treasury
Golden Treasury, The, A Collection Of English Poetry Published In 1861. The Book Was Dedicated To Tennyson, With Whom Pal Grave Had Long Discussed His Plan. In The Course Of 30 Years The Original Form Was En Larged To Include Other Poems Of Importance And Rearranged To Conform More To ...
Goldfinch 1
Goldfinch. (1) The Familiar North American Black-winged Or Ewild Canaries" Of The Genus Spinus, The Best Known Of Which Is The Eastern Thistle-bird Or Lettuce-bird (s. Trislis), Whose Wave-like Flight Across The Fields, Each Male Singing Sweetly In Its Course, Forms One Of The Most Pleasing In Cidents Of A ...
Goldie
Goldie, Sni George Dashwood Vaub Man, British Administrator: B. The Nunnery. Isle Of Man, 20 May 1846. He Was Educated At The Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, And Entered The Royal Engineers With Rank Of Lieu Tenant, Remaining There For Two Years. He Then Engaged In Traveling And Exploring In Africa ...
Goldoni
Goldoni, Gol-do'ne, Carlo, The Founder Of Modern Italian Comedy Of Comedies: B. Venice, 1707; D. Paris, 6 Feb. 1793. He Early Showed A Taste For Theatrical Representations, Reading Every Dramatic Production Of Which He Could Obtain Possession, Especially The Works Of The Popular Comic Poet, Cicognini, And When Scarcely Eight ...
Goldsmith
Goldsmith, Oliver, Irish Poet And Mis Cellaneous Writer : B. Ireland,* 10 Nov. 1728; D. At 2 Brick Court, Middle Temple, London, 4 April 1774. Goldsmith, Like Richardson, "flow Ered Late?' The Son Of A Poor Clergyman Of The Established Church, His Childhood Was Spent At Lissoy, A Hamlet In ...
Goldsmithing
Goldsmithing. Strictly, The Art Of Working In Gold. More Broadly, The Term Is Used To Include The Working In The Precious Metals (gold, Silver, Platinum, Etc.). In A Still Broader Sense, The Jeweler Is Often Termed A Goldsmith Although His Product Consists Largely Of Pieces Of Personal Adornment In Which ...
Golf
Golf, Anciently Known As Goff, Gouff Or Gowff, A Game Of Dutch Origin, But Generally Identified With Scotland, Where As Early As 1457 The Local Parliament Inveighed Against Its Abuse. The Edinburgh Town Council In 1592 Forbade The Playing Of The Game On The Sabbath And Offenders Were Severely Punished. ...
Goliad
Goliad, Tex., City, County-seat Of Goliad County, On The San Antonio River And The Southern Pacific Railroad, About 45 Miles From The Gulf And 168 Miles Southwest Of Galveston. There Are Interesting Ruins Of The Ancient Span Ish Mission, A Courthouse And A Public Library. The City Contains Several Cotton ...
Goltz
Goltz, Grits, Kolmar, Baron Von Der, German Soldier And Military Author: B. Bielkeu Feld East. Prussia, 1843; D. Asiatic Turkey, 19 April 1916. He Was Educated At The Berlin Military Academy, Had Seen Extensive Military Service, Having Fought In The Austrian Cam Paign And Having Been On The Staff Of ...
Goltzius
Goltzius, Hendrik, Dutch Painter And Engraver: B. Miilebrecht, Duchy'of Jfilich, 1558; D. Haarlem, 29 Dec. 1616. He Came Of A Family Of Artists. He Was Taught To Paint On Glass By His Father And His Work As A Steel Engraver Was Begun Under Coornheert, Whose Limited Ability Goltzius Soon Surpassed. ...
Gomarus
Gomarus, Francis, Dutch Theologian And The Most Eminent Opponent Of Arminius: B. Bruges, 13 Jan. 1563; D. Groningen, 11 Jan. 1641. His Parents, Upon Embracing The Re Formed Faith, Removed To The Palatinate In 1578 And Francis Was Sent To Be Educated At Strassburg. In 1580 He Removed To Neustadt ...
Gomez Y Baez
Gomez Y Baez, E Ba'h, Maximo, Cuban Soldier: B. Bani, Santo Domingo, 1831; D. Havana, Cuba, 17 June 1905. When Santo Domingo Revolted Against Spam He Served As Lieutenant Of Cavalry In The Spanish Army; And When The Freedom Of The Island Was De Clared He Went With The Spanish ...
Gompers
Gompers, Samuel, American Labor Leader: B. London, England, 27 Jan. 1850. He Came To America With His Parents And Other. Relatives In 1863 And Became An American Citizen At The Age Of 21. A Cigarmaker By Trade, He Has Been Known As A Zealous Worker In The Cause Of The ...
Gonaives
Gonaives, Ger-ria-ev, Haiti, Town On The West Coast On The Bay Of The Same Name, 65 Miles North-northwest Of Port Au Prince. It Has An Excellent Harbor, A Naval And Military Hospital And A Mineral Spring. The Exports Are Cotton, Coffee, Logwood, Salt And Mahog Any. On 1 Jan. 1804 ...
Goncharof
Goncharof, Ivan Alek Sandrovitch, Russian Novelist: B. 18 June 1812, At Simbirsk, On The Volga River; D. Saint Petersburg, 27 Sept. 1891. His Father Was A Member Of The Merchant Class, But Died At An Early Age, Leaving The Three-year-old Boy•in The Charge Of His Mother, A Woman Of Unusual ...
Goncourt
Goncourt, De, De Ga-koor, Edmond Louis Atimixe Huoi: B. Nancy, 26 May 1822; D. 16 July 1896; And Jules Alfred Huot De: B. Paris, 17 Dec. 1830; D. Auteuil, 20 June 1870; French Novelists. The Goncourt Brothers Were Not Men Of Letters But Artists Primarily, And In 1849 They Set ...
Gonds
Gonds, An Aboriginal Race Of British In Dia, A Remnant Of The Dravidians Who Were Driven Out Of The Plains By An Early Aryan In Vasion. They Took Refuge In Gondawana, A Territory Almost Identical With What Are Now Called The Central Provinces. Here Their Seat Was The Satpura Plateau, ...
Gongora
Gongora, Luis De Gfingora Y Argote, Gon'et-ra E Ir-geeta Gon'go-ri, Spanish Lyric Poet: B. Cordova, 11 July 1561; D. There, 24 May 1627. About 1614 He Entered The Church And Became A Prebendary Of The Cathedral At Cordova, And Eventually Chaplain To Philip Iii. Gifingora's Earlier Writings — Sonnets On ...
Gonorrhea
Gonorrhea Is Perhaps The Most Uni Versal And Widespread Of All Diseases That Affect The Human Race. Competent Authorities Have Computed That Fully Three-fourths Of The Adult Male Population And From One-sixth To One-third Of The Adult Female Population Have Contracted This Disorder. The Great Majority Of Women Who Have ...
Gonzaga Family
Gonzaga Family, A Noted Italian Family Which Held The Supremacy In Mantua 1328-1707. On 14 Aug. 1328 Lunovtco (or Luigi Gonzaga) Assumed The Sovereignty After His Sons Had Driven Out The Bonacors: Family And Taken Possession Of Mantua. He Died 1360, Aged 93. Among His Descendants, Gian Fran Cesco Gonzaga, ...
Gonzalo De Berceo
Gonzalo De Berceo, Di Bar-tha'o, Who Flourished During The First Half Of The 13th Century, Was A Secular Priest Of San Milian Monastery, Spain, And An Innovator In Spanish Poetry. Little Is Definitely Known Of His Life; But From Internal Evidence In His Works, He Probably Died About 1260 At ...
Good Cousins
Good Cousins, The Name By Which The Members Of The Carbonari Society Were Known Among Themselves In Germany And France. The Society Of The Charcoal-burners (carbonari) Is Undoubtedly One Of The Oldest In Europe. Some Writers On The Subject Have Claimed That Its Originator Was Philip Of Macedon, Father Of ...
Good Friday
Good Friday (god's Friday), The Name Applied By The Church Of England To The Friday Before Easter, Sacred As Commemorating The Crucifixion Of Our Lord; The Great And Holy Parasceve Is The Greek Title Of It, And It Is Called In The Roman Missal The Parasceve. This Day Was Kept ...
Good Roads Movement
Good Roads Movement, The. The Country Road Is Coming Into Its Own In The Recent And Current Egood Roads Movement? The Importance Of The Rural Highways Of The Nation Has Been Long Neglected, In Comparison Es Pecially With The Railroad. Canals And Water Ways— The Other Great Natural Means Of ...
Good Templars
Good Templars, A Temperance Society Which Combines The Principles Of Teetotalism With Certain Mystic Rites, Imitated Less Or More From Freemasonry, Having Secret Signs, Pass Words And Insignia Peculiar To Itself. It Origi Nated In Utica, N. Y., Where It Was Organized By Daniel Cady And Others, In 1851, And ...
Goodrich
Goodrich, Frank Boot (di= 'firm), American Writer: B. Boston, Mass., 14 Dec. 1826; D. Morristown, N. J., 1894. He First Became Known By His Paris Letters To The New York Times. He Was The Author Of 'court Of Napoleon: Or, Society Under The First Empire' (1857); (women Of Beauty And ...
Gooseberry
Gooseberry, Various Spiny Shrubs Of The Genus Grossularia, Family' Grossulariacem, Mostly Natives Of The Northern Hemisphere, Especially Of North America; Some Species Are Valued For Their Fruit (berries), Others For Their Flowers. Of The Half Dozen Spe Cies Cultivated, The European Gooseberry (g. Grossularia), Which Appeared In Gardens Dur Ing ...
Gopher
Gopher, A Name Given By The Early French Settlers In The United States To Various Animals Which Honeycomb (fr. Gaufre) The Ground By Burrowing In It. In The Central States The Name Refers To The Too Common °striped° Gopher, Or Ground-squirrel (spermoph Ilus Tridecemlineatus), A Troublesome Little Animal About 10 ...
Gordon
Gordon, Charles George Or English Soldier: B. Woolwich, 28 Jan. 1833; D. Khartum, Africa, 27 Jan. 1885. He Entered The Royal Engineers As Second Lieutenant In 1852, And Served In The Crimean War And During The Taiping Rebellion, With The Permission Of The English Military Au Thorities, Assumed The Command ...
Gordon_2
Gordon, John Brown, American Soldier: B. Upson County, Ga., 6 July 1832; D. Near Miami, Fla., 9 Jan. 1904. He Was Of Scotch Ancestry, His Grandfather Being One Of Seven Brothers Who All Fought For American Inde Pendence In The War Of The Revolution. He Was Graduated At The State ...
Gore
Gore, Christopher, American Statesman: B. Boston, 21 Sept. 1758• D. Waltham, 1 March 1827. He Was Graduated At Harvard College In 1776, And Studying Law, Was Soon Engaged In Good Practice. In 1789 He Was Appointed The First United States District Attorney For Massa Chusetts; In 1796 Was Chosen One ...
Gorges
Gorges, Gortez, Sit Ferdinando, Colonial Proprietor Of Maine, "the Father Of •english Colonization In America": B. Ashton, Somerset Shire, About 1565; D. 1647. He Served In The Low Countries And Against The Spanish Armada, And In 1596 Was Appointed Governor Of The Forts And Islands Of Plymouth. He Was A ...
Gorilla
Gorilla, The Largest Of The Anthropoid Apes. This Term Is Derived From The °peri Plus° Of The Carthaginian Navigator, Hanno, Who Described, 500 Years Before Christ, An Is Land On The West Coast Of Africa As Full Of Wild Men, Which His Interpreter Called Gorilloi. When, Therefore, Dr. Thomas Savage ...
Gorky
Gorky, Maxim, Pen Name Of Alexei Maximovitch Pyeshkoff, Russian Author: B. 14 March 1868. He Was Orphaned At Nine, Ran Away And Served On A Volga River Steamer, And Was Successively A Painter Of Ikons, Scullery Boy, Gardener, Watchman, Baker, Porter, Vendor Of Apples And Lawyer's Clerk. At 19 In ...
Gorton
Gorton, Samuel, New England Enthusi Ast And First Settler Of Warwick, R. I.: B. Gor Ton, England, About 1600; D. Rhode Island, November Or December 1677. He Did Business In London As A Clothier Until 1636, When He Embarked For New England And Settled At Bos Ton. Religious Disputes Induced ...
Goschen
Goschen, Ashen, George Joachim, Viscourir, English Statesman : B. London, 10 Aug. 1831; D. Hawkhurst, Kent, 7 Feb. 1907. He Was Educated At Oxford, Became A Director Of The Bank Of England At The Age Of 27 And Entered Parliament As A Liberal For The City Of London In 1863, ...
Gosnold
Gosnold, Gos'nold, Bartholomew, Eng Lish Voyager To America: D. Jamestown, Va., 22 Aug. 1607. He Joined Raleigh In His Attempt To Colonize Virginia, And After The Failure Of That Enterprise Was Placed In Command Of An Expedi Tion Fitted Out At The Cost Of The Earl Of South Ampton And ...
Gospel Of
Gospel Of. It Is Now Generally Recognized That The °two Document" Theory Gives Plausible Answer To Most Of The Questions Involved In The "synoptic Problem," And Consequently Scholars Are Rest Ing On It With Increasing Unanimity And Confi Dence. At The Same Time There Is No Such General Agreement As ...
Gospels
Gospels, Apocryphal. These Are Some Times Called The Uncanonical Gospels Because They Were Not Included In The New Testament Canon. They Are Also Called Pseudepigraphal Gospels, Because Of The Lack Of Authenticity For Their Contents. Some Are Probably Lost En Tirely And Others Have Descended To Us In Fragments Only. ...
Gossen
Gossen, Gos'sen, Herman Heinrich, Ger Man Economist: B. Diiren, 1810; D. 1858. His Father And Grandfather Were Government Offi Cials, And He Followed The Same Career, With A Want Of Success Which Is Attributed To His Predilection For Abstract Studies. He Is De Scribed As Amiable And Unpractical. He Re ...
Gosta Berling
Gosta Berling, Yes'ta Barging, The Story Of, A Novel By Selma Lagerlof, Appeared About Christmas-time 1891. In The Summer Of 1890 A Swedish Magazine, The Idun, Had Of Fered A Prize For The Best Novel Of A Certain Length. Selma Lagerlof Entered The Contest With A Few Chapters From (golista ...
Gothenburg
Gothenburg (gotln-boorg) Sys Tem, A System Of Regulating The Sale Of Spirituous Liquors Which Had Its Origin In 1865, In Gothenburg, Sweden. A Company Is Granted A Monopoly Of The Retail And Bar Sale Of Those Liquors In The Town (brandy Is The National Drink) ; But The Sale Of ...
Gothic Architecture
Gothic Architecture. The Name Applied To A Style Of Architecture Is A Misnomer, Since The Goths Never Created Any Architecture Of Their Own. It Has, However, Come Into General Use To Designate Comprehen Sively The Medieval Architecture Of Northern And Western Europe Of The Period From 1150 To 1500, Because ...
Gothic Art
Gothic Art. The Art Of The Times And The Countries In Which Gothic Architecture Flour Ished. The Term Is A Misnomer, Because Even If The Architectural Style Were Rightly Designated The Wall-paintings, Metal Work, Etc., Of The Time Are Not Properly So Described. Still No Other Term Exists For Those ...
Gothic Language And Litera
Gothic Language And Litera Ture. The Language Of The Goths Is The Oldest Member Of The Teutonic Branch Of The Indo-european Family. It Is Known Through A Visigothic Bible Translation Of The 4th Century A.d. The Earliest Historical Indications Con Cerning The Home Of The Goths Place Them Along The ...
Goths
Goths, An Ancient Teutonic Tribe, Whose Earliest Known Home Was The Shores Of The Bal Tic, Between The Vistula And The Oder, Where They Were Living In The 1st Century After Christ. Thence They Migrated In The 3d Century To The Regions Adjoining The Black Sea. Many Other Tribes Were ...
Gottenburg
Gottenburg, Goeten-boorg, Gothen Burg, Or Goteborg (swedish Goteborg, Or Gotheborg; Latin, Gothoburgum), Sweden, Seaport, The Second In The Kingdom In Respect To Population And Trade, 25 Per Cent Of The Foreign Trade Of The Country Being Done Here, Capital Of The County Of The Same Name; Situated On The Gota, ...
Gould
Gould, Jay, American Financier: B. Rox Bury, N. Y., 27 May 1836; D. New York, 2 Dec. 1892. He Was Brought Up To Labor On His Father's Farm; And Was For A Short Time A Student At Hobart College. Here He Learned Surveying. After Making Surveys Of Ulster, Albany And ...
Gounod
Gounod, Goo'no', Charles Francois, French Composer: B. Paris, 17 June 1818; D. Saint Cloud, 18 Oct. 1893. He Began His Studies In The Paris Conservatory Under Halevy, Le Sueur And Paer, And Carried The Rome Prize With His Cantata 'fernando' In 1849. While In Rome He Made Italian Church Music ...
Gourgand
Gourgand, Gooigiie, Gaspard, Baron De, French General : B. Versailles, 14 Sept. 1783; D. 25 July 1852. Entering The Army As Lieutenant Of Artillery In 1802, He Distinguished Himself In Several Important Battles, And In The Battle Of Brienne Saved Napoleon's Life From The Cos Sacks. He Subsequently Became Napoleon's ...
Government
Government Is The Term Used To De Scribe The Mechanism Or Ensemble Of Agencies Through Which A Body-pblitic Formulates And Executes Its Will. Governments De Facto And De Since They Act Only As The Agents Of The Sovereign Political Power, Governmental Agents In Order Legally To Exercise The Functions Of ...
Government Pawnshops In France
Government Pawnshops In France. Historical—we Must Go Back To The Middle Ages To Find The First French Banks Loaning Money On Pledges. The Jews, Who Controlled These Establishments, Carried On This Form Of Business On Lines In Which Usury Played A Prominent Part. They Demanded The Deposit Of Pledges Representing ...
Government Printing Office
Government Printing Office, United States, Established In 1861 As The Official Printing And Publishing Plant Of The United States Government, Occupies A Seven-story Fire Ploof Brick Building In Washington, D. C., Built For It In 1902. Its Frontage Is 408 By 175 Feet On Two Streets And It Has An ...