Domestic Geese
Domestic Geese. The Domestication Of The Goose Was Very Easy, And Doubtless Began As Soon As Men Began To Remain In Fixed Settlements. They Are Among The Animals Figured On The Oldest Ertyptian And Asiatic Monuments, And The Orien Tal Breeds Were No Doubt Derived From Local Wild Species, Especially ...
Domestic Goats
Domestic Goats. It Is Probable That The Native Asiatic Goats Were Among The First Animals Brought Under The Subjection Of Man, And There Is No Doubt That The Main Stock Of Those Now In Domestication Was Derived From The Persian Pasang (see Above). They Must Have Been Of Peculiar Value ...
Earthquakes
Earthquakes. The Eruption Of Volcanoes Is Frequently Accompanied By A Shaking Of The Earth; And The Rising Of Lava Into The Crust And The Movements Of The Lava Before An Eruption Also Cause Earth Jars. Likewise, A Breaking Of The Rocks, Or A Movement Of The Strata Along A Fault ...
Economic Fungi
Fungi, Economic. Species Of Fungi That May Directly Or Indirectly Affect Man's Welfare. Of Those That Affect Man Directly, The Edible And Poisonous Species And Some Parasites, Such As Barber's Itch, Etc., May Be Mentioned As Examples (see Fitnor, Edible And Poisonous ; Mushroom ; Truffle) ; Of Those That ...
Economic Geography
Geography, Economic. A New Phrase, Peculiar To The United States. Although A Result Of The Development Of Geography As A Science In Germany. As Yet It Is Loosely Used, And Indicates An Appreciation On The Part Of American Geog Raphers Of The Work Done In The Old Nvorld To Connect ...
Edible Fungi
Edible Fungi. More Than 700 Species Have Been Found To Be Safe, And Many Are Considered Very Nutritious. (see Musiiimom.) Perhaps The Principal Reason That Fungi Are Not More Generally Eaten Is Not So Much That Their Value Is Unknown, As That People Are Afraid Even To Touch The Plants ...
Edmund 1669 1748 Gibson
Gibson, Edmund (1669-1748), Bishop Of London, And An Authority Upon Canon Law. He Was Born In 1669; Entered Queen's College, Ox Ford, In 1686; And In 1692 Published An Edition Of The Saxon Chronicle, With A Latin Translation, Indices, And Notes. This Was Followed In 1693 By An Annotated Edition ...
Education
Education. The Unsatisfactory State Of Edu Cation Which Has Long Existed In Georgia Has Been Incidental To The Unsettled And Changing Industrial Conditions, And The Strained Social Situation, Complicated By The Race Problem. The Rural Problem In Education, Difficult Of Solution In States More Fortunately Conditioned, Is Es Pecially Aggravated ...
Education_2
Education. From Almost The Beginning Of Modern Times Germany Has Held The Primacy In Educational Rank. It Has Been Distinguished Both For The General Diffusion Of Knowledge And For The Superiority Of Its Specialists In The Various Fields Of Learning. Many Of The Names Most Prominent In The Pedagogical World ...
Education_3
Education. There Has Been A Very Marked Contrast Between The Development Of The Educa Tional System In England And Wales And Its Development In Scotland. In The Former Kingdom There Was No Public-school System Until The Nine Teenth Century Was Well Advanced, And Its Devel Opment Then Was Very Slow, ...
Education_4
Education. During The Fifth And Fourth Cen Turies B.c. The Education Of The Greek Boy Was Divided Into Three Branches. (1) Gymnastics (ytyamartm"), Including All Forms Of Physical Training, Wrestling, Running, Leaping, Etc., Taught By A Trainer (nyaborpiflyc), At A Palcestra. (2) Grammar (ypannaranj), Including Reading, Writ Ing, And The ...
Edward 1737 94 Gibbon
Gibbon, Edward (1737-94). The Historian Of The Roman Empire, Eldest Son Of Edward Gib Bon And Judith Porten. He Was Born At Putney On The Thames; April 27 (o. S.), 1737. Of His Five Brothers And One Sister None Survived Infancy. The Story Of His Life Gibbon Told In His ...
Edward Everett Hale
Hale, Edward Everett ( 1823— ). An American Author, Clergyman, And Philanthropist, Born Of A Well-known Family In Boston, Mass., April 3, 1823. He Was Educated At The Boston Latin School, Graduated At Harvard In 1839, And Received An Honorary Degree Forty Years Later. After A Short Period Of Tutoring ...
Edward Gay
Gay, Edward (1837— ). An American Paint Er, Born In Dublin, Ireland. He Studied Under James Hart At Albany, N. Y., And Afterwards In Germany, First Under Schirmer At Karlsruhe, And Then Under Lessing At Diisseldorf. His Well Known Landscape "broad Acres" Was Awarded A Prize Of $2000 By The ...
Edwin Lawrence 1831 1902godkin
God'kin, Edwin Lawrence ( 1831-1902). An American Editor And Publicist, Born In Moyne, County Wicklow, Ireland. He Graduated At Queen's College, Belfast, In 1851, And During The Crimean War (1854-56) Was Correspondent Of The London Daily News In Turkey And Russia. In 1856 He Came To The United States, Where ...
Effects Of Glaciation
Effects Of Glaciation. The General Configu Ration Of Continental Lands Has Not Changed Ap Preciably Since The Opening Of The Glacial Period. The Mountain Systems Had Acquired Their Eleva Tion Before That Time, And, In A General Way, The Drainage Was Directed Toward The Same Chan Nels That Now Carry ...
Elements And Minerals Of
Elements And Minerals Of The Earth's Crust. Relatively Few Of The Seventy Or More Elements Form An Important Percentage Of The Crust. Oxygen, The Most Abundant Element Of The Outer Portion Of The Earth, Constitutes 86 Per Cent. Of The Ocean, 21 Per Cent. Of The Air, And 47 Per ...
Elizabeth Of Gordon
Elizabeth Of Gordon, The Only Daughter And Heiress Of Sir Adam, Married Alexander Seton, Who Afterwards Was Given The Title Of Lord Gor Don. Her Son Alexander Assumed The Family Name Of Gordon, And Was Made Earl Of Huntly In 1449, And Lord Of Badenoch Soon Afterwards. By Marriage He ...
Etc Peculiar Customs
Peculiar Customs, Etc. The Gypsy. Wherever He Lives. Inclines Naturally To Sonic Occupations Rather Than Others, And Especially To Those That Admit Of A Roving Life, Or. At Least, Of A Life In The Open Air. He Is Universally It Mender Of Pots And Pans, And In The East, Where ...
Ethnology
Ethnology. In Racial Characteristics The Greeks Belong To The Mediterranean Race, And Are Akin To The Iberian Of Spain And The Ligurian Of Italy. They Are Above The Average In Height (1.65 Mm., Or 5 Feet 6 Inches), Dolichocephalic (index 75.7 To 83 According To Mixture), With Dark Skin, Hair, ...
Etienne Maurice Gerard
Gerard, Etienne Maurice, Count (1773 1852). A Marshal Of France, Born At Damvil Hers, In Lorraine. As A Volunteer Of 1792, He Served Under Dumouriez And And After The Peace Of Campo-formio (1797) Went To Vien Na With Bernadotte, Whose Chief Of Staff He Became In 1805. His Gallantry At ...
Extraction By Washing
Extraction By Washing. Extraction Of Gold By Washing Alone Is Possible Only In The Case Of Ores Carrying Native Gold. The Process Is Not Exten Sively Used In Civilized Countries, On Account Of The Heavy Losses Of Gold Entailed By It, Which May Amount To 50 Per Cent. In Combination ...
Factors Concerned In Growth
Factors Concerned In Growth. These Are Chiefly External, Such As Abundance Of Food And Other Conditions Of Existence, As Heat, Light, Etc. Hatschek Assumes That In Growth The Simple Molecule Of Living Proteid Continually Attracts Elements To Itself From The Food. Growth Is More Rapid In A Well-fed Animal Or ...
Factors On Which Growth
Factors On Which Growth Is Dependent. The Conditions Of Growth Arc Four: First, An Adequate Supply Of Constructive Materials, Which Are Necessary For The Formation Of A New Organic Substance, Protoplasm, Cell-wall, Etc.; Second, An Adequate Supply Of Water, Which Is Necessary For The Enlargement Of The Cells; Third, Access ...
Fauna
Fauna. Germany, By Its Northerly Situation, Exposed To Cold Airs Of The North And Cut Off From The South By Lofty Mountains, Has A Decidedly Northern Fauna, And The Fastnesses Of The Harz And The Mountains Of Bavaria. Saxony, And Silesia Have Preserved Several Wild Forms Ex Tinct Or Nearly ...
Fauna_2
Fauna. As The British Isles, Until Geologically Recent Times, Were An Integral Part Of The Conti Nent, They Partake Of The General Fauna Of West Ern Europe, And Present Few Differences Except Such As Are Due To Man. All The Larger Animals Were Long Ago Exterminated (see Extinct Ani Mals ...
Feeding Value Of Grass
Feeding Value Of Grass. Grasses Of Many Kinds Are Used For Pastur Age, For Soiling, And For Hay. They Constitute A Very Important Group Of Feeding Stuff For All Farm Animals.. The Feeding Value Of Grasses Commonly Used For Forage Is Shown By The Aver Age Percentage Composition Of The ...
Felix 1777 1840 Grundy
Grun'dy, Felix ( 1777-1840). An Ameri Can Lawyer And Politician, Born In Berkeley Coun Ty, Va. In 1779 His Father Removed With His Family To Western Pennsylvania, And In The Fol Lowing Year To Kentucky, Where Felix, One Of Seven Brothers, Was Brought Up Amid The Perils And Privations Of ...
Fifth Period
Fifth Period (from Opitz To Klopstock, 1624 1748). The Recreation Of Literature After The Thirty Years' War Was Begun In The Pedantic Spirit Of Opitz By A Literary Society Of University Men, Chiefly At First In Hamburg And Leipzig. The Names That Emerge From The General Mediocrity Are Those Of ...
Finances
Finances. The Finances Of The Empire Re Semble, In A General Way, Those Of The United States In That They Embrace Comparatively Few Items Of Revenue And Expenditure. The Imperial Government Cannot Levy Any Taxes Except Cus Toms And Excise Duties. The Bulk Of Its Revenues Is, Therefore, Derived From ...
Fishes
Fishes. The Following Remarks Are Condensed From Professor Owen's Anatomy Of The Verte Brates (london, 1866-68). In The Cyclostomi, Which, If We Except The Lancelet, Constitute The Lowest Order Of Fishes, And Include' The Hag And Lamprey, The Gills Are Sacciform, With External Openings, And Six Or Seven In Number ...
Flint Glass
Flint Glass Broadly Includes All The Myriad Forms Of Glass Except Window-panes And Dark Bottles. The Lead, Which The True Flint Glass Alone Contains, Gives It A Characteristic Brilliancy And Weight. The Pure English Flint Is The French `crystal.' It Rings Like Metal, Is Heavier Than Any Other Glass, And ...
Flora
Flora. In Early Days Germany Was Full Of Swamps And Largely Covered With Forests. Most Of The Swamps Have Now Been Turned Into Fields And Pastures; But A Fourth Of The Empire Is Still Covered With Forests Which Are Cared For As As Siduously As Any Field Crop. A Third ...
Flora Climate
Climate, Flora, And Fauna. Lying Wholly Within The Tropics. Guatemala Would Have A Uni Formly Warm, Moist Climate If It Were Not For The Great Diversity Of Its Surface In The Central And Southern Parts. Here The Differences In Topog Raphy Reach Their Maximum, With Important Effect Upon Climate, While ...
Foreign Rule
Foreign Rule. From The Completion Of The Roman Conquest By The Capture Of Corinth In B.c. 146 Until The Outbreak Of The Mithradatic Wars In B.c. 88 Greece Enjoyed A Just And Wise Adminis Tration Under The Romans, And The Country Pros Pered. The Nationalist Revolt Which Followed The First ...
Forms Of Government
Forms Of Government. In Respect Of Its Na Ture A Government May Be Either Autocratic, As Wherever The Essential Power Of The State Is, Under Whatever Form, Directed By An Individ Ual Or By A Select Class Of Persons Constitut Ing A Minority Of The State; Or It May Be ...
Fourth Period 1300 1624
Fourth Period ( 1300-1624). In Germany As In France The Fourteenth Century Shows A Shift Ing In Political Life That Is Reflected In Literature. Its Beginning Is Distinctively Aristocratic; At Its Close It Is As Distinctively Bourgeois, Though Arti Ficial Still. This Shifting Is Marked By The Rise Of The ...
Fram01s De Lorraine
Fram:01s De Lorraine, Second Duke Of Guise, Son Of The Preceding, And Known As La Balafre, The Scarred, Was Born February 17, 1519. He Won World-wide Renown As A Brave And Skillful Soldier, Distinguishing Himself At Montini;dy (1542), Landrecies (1543), Saint-dizier (1544), And At Boulogne (1545), And By His Successful ...
France
France. The Factories Of Poictiers Were Active During The Roman And Frankish Periods, Sur Vived The Norman Invasion, And Were Left A Legacy To The Gentlemen Workers Of The Middle Ages. Ruins Of Glass Vases Abound In The Poictiers Ter Ritory, And Such Town Names As Vieille, Verrieres, Voirie, Verrines, ...
France_2
France. It Originated In France, In The Region About Paris, The Region Of The Free Communes, Where There Were No Hampering Traditions. It Connected Itself With The Romanesque Schools Of Normandy, Lombardy, And Picardy. The Ile De-france Alone Shows All The Preparatory Stages, Between 1100 And 1140, From Morienval To ...
France_3
France. The School Of The Ile-de-france, Which Originated Gothic Architecture, Also Began The Use In The Lower Portals Of Statues, At First Severely Stiff. About 1210-20 Statues Of This Character Became Freer And More Artistic, Though Remaining Part Of The Architecture. Among The Best Early Examples Are The Portals Of ...
Francis 1792 1868 Granger
Granger, Francis ( 1792-1868 ) . An American Politician, Born At Suffield, Conn.. The Son Of Gideon Granger (q.v.). He Graduated At Yale In 1811, And In 1814 Began The Practice Of Law With His Father In Canandaigua, N. Y. In 1825 He Was Elected From Ontario County To The ...
Francis Galton
Galton, Francis ( 1822—). An English Man Of Science, Born At Birmingham, England, The Third Son Of S. T. Calton And Violetta, Eld Est Daughter Of Erasmus Darwin. He Was Edu Cated At King Edward's School, Birmingham, At The Birmingham General Hospital, At King's College, London, And At Trinity College, ...
Frederick 1833 86 Guthrie
Guthrie, Frederick (1833-86). An Eng Lish Physicist. He Was Born At Bayswater, Eng Land, And Was Educated At University School And College, London. He Then Studied Chemistry At Heidelberg And At Marburg, Where He Received The Degree Of Ph.d. He Subsequently Occupied Posi Tions At Owens College, Manchester, University Of ...
Frederick Funston
Fun'ston, Frederick (1865—). An Ameri Can Soldier, Born At New Carlisle, Clark County, Ohio. He Studied For Two Years At The Kansas State University (lawrence, Kan.) ; Was A Mem Ber Of The Reportorial Staff Of The Kansas City Journal; Became Connected With The United States Department Of Agriculture, In ...
Friedrich 1807 62gauermann
Gauermann, Friedrich ( 1807 62). An Austrian Genre, Landscape, And Animal Painter, Born At Miesenbach, Lower Austria, September 20, 1807. He Was A Son Of The Land Scape Painter Jakob Gauermann. Under His Father's Direction He Began Studies In Landscape, And He Also Diligently Copied The Etchings Of The Chief ...
Fulmerton
Fulmerton, Lady Georgiana (1812-85). An English Novelist And Philanthropist, (laughter Of The First Earl Of Granville. She Was Born At Tixall Hall. Staffordshire, And In 1833 Married Alexander Fullerton. In 1844 She Published Her First Novel. Ellen Middleton, Which Was Reviewed By Gladstone. Her Second Work, Grantlcy Manor, Setts, Or ...
Function
Function. A Mathematical Term Due To Leibnitz (1692), But First Defined In Its Present Sense By Johann Bernoulli (1718). In This Sense A Function Is A Quantity Whose Value Depends Upon That Of Another Quantity. E.g. In The For Mula For The Circumference Of A Circle, C= 2vr, C Depends ...
Function Change
Function Change. The Disuse Of An Or Gan For One Function, And Its Modification For The Performance Of Another; Thus An Organ May Be Transformed Into Another Homologous With It, But Performing A Different Function, Serving A Quite Different Use. It Originates In A Series Of Func Tions Performed By ...
Fundamental Principles Of Geology
Fundamental Principles Of Geology. Geo Logical Work Is So Slow, And The Evidence Of Vast Changes In The Past So Clear, That, So Long As It Was Held That The Age Of The Earth Was To Be Reckoned In A Period Of A Few Thousand Years, No Other Conclusion Was ...
Fundamentals Of Christian Doc
Fundamentals Of Christian Doc Trin•. A Term Much Used In Protestant Theo Logical Discussion. But Very Difficult To Define. It Has Been Said That The Fundamental Christian Doc Trines Are Those Which It Is Necessary To Believe In Order To Attain Salvation. But This Logically Involves Conclusions Concerning The Condemnation ...
Fungi
Fungi, Ftinit (lat., Mushrooms; Connected With Gk. Aohyor, Sphongos, Eirhyos, Spongos, Sponge). A Group Of Non-chlorophyll-bearing Plants. They Constitute The Second Division Of The Thallophytes (the Lowest Primary Division Of Plants), And Because They Lack ,the Green Color Ing Matter, Chlorophyll, Or Pigments Related To Chlorophyll, They Are Forced To ...
Fungicide
Fungicide, Fithil-sid (from Lat. Fungus, Mushroom + Etrdere, To Kill). Any Material That Will Destroy Fungi Or Prevent The Germination Of Their Spores. Fortunately For Agriculture, There Are A Number Of Substances Which May Bo Employed For This Purpose. On Account Of Their Destructive Influence, Copper Salts, Which Form The ...
Fur Seal
Fur-seal. See Seal. Etirst, Aust. .tut.tra (1805-73). A Distin Guished German Orientalist. Born Of Jewish Par Entage, At Zerkow. Posen. He Was Educated For The Rabbinical Profession, And Displayed At A Very Early Age A Remarkable Power Of Acquiring Knowl Edge. He Studied At A Gymnasium In Berlin. And Entered ...
Fur And The Fur
Fur And The Fur Trade. (of. Force, Fuerre, It. Fodero, Case, Sheath, From Goth. Nit., As. Fodder, Oiig. Fuotar, Ger. Putter, Sheath). Many Species Of Animals, Especially Those Living In Cold Cli Mates, Have A Soft, Silky Covering Called Fur, Which In Some Animals Is Mixed With A Covering Entirely ...
Furca Et Flagellum
Fur'ca Et Flagellum (lat., Gallows And Whip). In Feudal Relations, The Lowest Of Servile Tenures, In Which The Bondman Was En Tirely At The Lord's Mercy, Both In Life And Limb. Furetitre, Fnetyar', Antoine (1620-88). A Noted French Philologist, Lexicographer, And Novelistic Satirist. He Was Born In Paris, Was Trained ...
Furnace
Furnace (from Of. Fornais, Fr. Fournaise, It. Fornace, From Lat. Fornax, Furnace, From For Nus, Oven; Connected With Lat. Form Us, Gk. &p Ubs, Thermos, Skt. Gharma, Hot, Eng. Warm). A Structure In Which To Make And Maintain A Fire, The Heat Of Which Is Used For Heating, Generating Steam, ...
Furnaces And Fuel
Furnaces And Fuel. The Furnaces Used For Melting Glass Are Of Two General Types, Pot Fur Naces And Tank Furnaces. The Traditional Fur Nace, Still The Type Of Pot Furnace For Flint-glass Melting, Is Round, With From Eight To Twelve `monkey Pots' In A Circle Around The Central Fire, At ...
Furniture
Furniture. Properly. That Which Fur• Nishes. Of Whatever Nature It May Be; And In This Sense We Speak Of Horse Furniture, Table Furniture, Church Furniture; And Until Very Modern Times • The Term Included The Fixed Woodwork Of A House Or The Like. Much The More General Application Of The ...
Fusan
Fusan, Man', Or Pusan. The Chief Sea Port Of The Populous Province Of Kiung-sang, In Southeastern Korea, Seven Miles From The Mouth Of Nan-tong River, In Latitude 35° 6' N., Longi Tude 129° 3' E., And The Terminus Of The Rail Way From Seoul, Of Which The First Section To ...
Fusible Metal
Fusible Metal. A Term Applied To Cer Tain Metallic Alloys Characterized By The Rela Tively Low Temperatures At Which They Melt. Among The More Important Of These Alloys Are D'arcet's Metal, Rose's Metal, Wood's Metal, And Lipowitz's Metal. D'arcet's Metal Consists Of 8 Parts Of Bismuth, 8 Parts Of Lead, ...
Fusion
Fusion (lat. Fusio, Fusion, From Fundere, To Pour). A Concept Which Has Played A Large Part In Recent Psychological Discussion, But The Mean Ing Of Which Cannot Be Said To Be Finally And Pre Cisely Settled. It Denotes A Connection Of Sense Elements Of An Extremely Intimate Kind—a Con Nection ...
Fustic
Fustic (from Fr. Fustoc; Ultimately Connected With Lat. Fustis, Stick). A Name Given To Two Kinds Of Dye-wood Used For Producing A Yellow Color, And, With Chemical Additions, Other Colors, Such As Brown, And Green. The Name In France (fustic) Seems To Be Connected With Fustet, Name Of The Venice ...
Futa Iallon
Futa-iallon, Fn'tal Zlittion', Or Foota Jallon. A Mountainous Region In West Afri Ca, A Part Of French Guinea, And Bordered By S6n6gal On The North And Portuguese Guinea On The West. Its Area Is About 42,500 Square Miles. Owing Mainly To The Elevation, Which Is About 4000 Feet, The Climate ...
Future Estate
Future Estate. An Estate In Lands Which Is Limited To Come Into Possession And En Joyment At Seine Time In The Future. By The Common Law Of England The Number Of Such Estates Was Strictly Limited, Being Confined To Reversions And Remainders. These Had The Com Mon Characteristic Of Fitting ...
Fyrd
Fyrd, F6rd. See Militia. Fyt, Fit, Jan (c.1609-61). A Flemish Painter And Etcher, Born In Antwerp. He Was A Pupil Of Jan Van Berch. In 1629 He Became Member Of The Guild Of Saint Luke, And In 1650 He Was Elected Member Of The Guild Of The Romftnists, Becoming Dean ...
Ga This
Ga.' This, Gtifthitz (av. Go0a,skt., Pali G&ha, Song). The Name Applied To Certain Metrical Com Positions,both In The Avesta And In Sanskrit Brah Manic And Buddhistic Literature. The Gathas Of The Avesta Comprise 17 Hymns (yasna 28-34, 43-51, 53), Which Contain 232 Stanzas, Besides Three In Yasna 27..13-14 And Yasna ...
Gable Of
Gable (of., Fr. Gable, From Ohg. Gabala, Jabal, Ger. Gabel, Fork, As. Geafl, Fork, From Ir. Gabul, Gobul, Welsh Gafl, Bret. Gavl, Gaol, Fork). The Triangular Part Of An Exterior Wall At The End Of A Building 'having A Roof Sloping Both Ways From A Longitudinal Ridge, Between The Top ...
Gabriel
Gabriel (heb., Man Of God). In The Jew Ish Angelology, One Of The Seven Archangels. His Function Seems To Be Especially To Reveal God's Will And Purposes. He Appears In The Book Of Daniel As The Interpreter Of The Prophet's Vision Regarding The Ram And The He-goat (viii. 16), And ...
Gachard
Gachard, Ga'shile, Louis Prosper (1800 85). A Belgian Archivist And Historian. He Was Born In Paris, Removed To Belgium In 1830, And Became A Belgian Subject In 1831. In The Same Year He Was Made Keeper Of The Public Records. He Was A Member Of The Belgian Academy, Secre Tary ...
Gadara
Gad'ara. The Modern Umm Keis, Or Mkes, Once A Prominent City Of Palestine, Now In Ruins. It Was On The Western Extremity Of A Ridge Of The Bashan Plateau, Six And One-half Miles East Of The Jordan, And Six Miles Southeast Of The Sea Of Galilee. The Site, 1194 Feet ...
Gaddi
Gaddi, Giidtde. A Family Of Florentine Paint Ers. The Founder Was Gaddo Gaddi (e.1259 1332), And Famous Especially For His Mosaic Pic Tures, Especially The "coronation Of The Vir Gin" Over The Door Of The Cathedral Of Florence, The "assumption" In The Cathedral Of Pisa, And Part Of The Mosaics ...
Gadwall
Gadwall (of Doubtful Etymolow; Hardly From Gad, To Run About + Teen, As The Variant Spelling Gadtcell, Influenced By Popular Etymology, Implies), Or Gray Duck. A Fresh-water Duck (chaulelasmus Strepera), Not Quite So Large As The Mallard, Nor Often Seen In The Eastern United States, But Common In The Interior ...
Gaekwar
Gaekwar, Gh'kwiir ( Marath I, Herdsman ) , Or Guikowar., Gela5-witr. The Designation Of The Mahratta Ruler Of Baroda (q.v.), One Of The Native States In India. The Gaekwar Originally Was An Officer In The' Establishment Of The Rajahs Of Satara, Who Were Nominally The Supreme Rulers Of The Mabrattas ...
Gaelic League
Gaelic League. An Organization De Voted To The Preservation, Cultivation, And Ex Tension Of The Gaelic Language, Particularly In Ireland. From The Time Of The Statute Of Kil Kenny In 1367, When Laws Were Enacted Forbidding The Use Of The Irish Language, Dress, Or Surnames Within The Limits Of The ...
Gaeta
Gaeta, Get-teti. A City And Seaport, And One Of The Strongest Fortresses In Italy, On The Gulf Of Gaeta (q.v.), 74 Miles By A Winding Railway Northwest Of Naples (map: Italy, H 6). The Promontory Of Gaeta, On Which It Is Situated, Looks From The Distance Like A Tumulus, And ...
Gag Rules
Gag Rules. In American History, The Name Applied To Certain Rules Passed By The National Congress, In Disregard Of The First Amendment To The Federal Constitution, For The Abridgment Of The Right Of Petition With Reference To The Aboli Tion Or Restriction Of Slavery. After The Begin Ning Of The ...
Gagarin
Gagarin, Gil-ga'ren. A Princely Family Of Russia. Some Of Its Most Prominent Members Were Matvei Petrovitch, Governor Of Siberia, Who Suffered Death In 1721 By Order Of Peter The Great On Suspicion Of Aspiring To An Independent Sov Ereignty. Alexander Ivanovitch (died 1857) Was A Distinguished Soldier Of The Crimean ...
Gagern
Gagern, Git/gern, Heinrich Wilhelm Au Gust, Baron Von (1799-1880). A German States Man. He Was The Second Son Of The Well-known Politician Hans Christopher Gagern (1766-1852), And Was Born At Bayreuth, August 20, 1799. He Was Educated At The Military School Of Munich, And On Napoleon's Return From Elba Entered ...
Gailen
Gailen (gk. Raxnv6s, Galenos), Or Claudius Galenus (130-201?). A Celebrated Physician, Born At Pergamus, In Mysia. He First Studied Medicine At Pergamus, Afterwards At Smyrna, Corinth, And Alexandria. He Returned To His Native City In His Twenty-ninth Year, And Was At Once Appointed Physician To The School Of Gladi Ators. ...
Gaissin
Gaissin, G,i's1n. The Capital Of A District In The Russian Government Of Podolia, Situated On The Sobi, A Tributary Of The Bug, 180 Miles East Of Kamenetz-podolsk (map: Russia, C 5). The Chief Occupation Of The Inhabitants Is Agri Culture, The Manufacturing Industries Of The Town Being Insignificant. Population, In ...
Gal Geel
Geel, Gal Jakon (1789-1862). A Distin Guished Dutch Scholar, Born At Amsterdam. And Educated At The Athenreum Of That City, Princi Pally Under Van Lennep. After Living At The Hague From The Year 1811 As A Family Tutor, He Became Second Librarian At Leyden In 1823, And In 1833 Head ...
Galapagos Islands
Ga'lapa'gos Islands (sp. Pron. Litlxl-gos), (sp., Tortoise). A Group Of Small Vol Canic Islands In The Pacific Ocean, Crossed By The Equator And Extending From About Longitude 89° To 92° W., About 600 Miles West Of Ecuador, To Which It Belongs (map: Ecuador, A 8). It Con Sists Of The ...
Galatia
Galatia, Ga-lfilshl-a. (lat., From Gk. Raxa Tla). The Ancient Name Of A Portion Of Asia Minor ; So Called From The Gauls (gk. Rcadral) Who Set Tled There. Early In The Third Century N.c. Celtic Armies Appeared In The Balkan Peninsula, And Though Driven From Greece By Their Defeat At ...
Galatians
Galatians, Gil-lit'sliabz, Epistle To The. One Of The Letters Of Paul In The New Testa Ment. It Is Addressed, Most Probably, To The Churches Visited By Himself And Barnabas On The First Mission Tour (spring A.d. 47-fall 48), Which Were Situated In The Southern Part Of The Large Roman Province ...
Galaxy
Galaxy (from Lat. Galaxias, Gk. Yanaelas, Galaxias, Milky Way, From 7dxa, Gala, Milk), Or Milky Way. The Luminous Band, Seen At Night, Which Forms A Zone Encircling The Sphere Almost In A Great Circle. At One Part Of Its Course It Opens Up Into Two Branches, One Faint And Interrupted, ...