town, eastern Afghanistan, located on a high plain at an elevation of 7,550 feet (2,300 m), near the Jolgeh-ye Janubi River. Gardeyz is a trade centre for lumber produced in the area and is connected by roads with Kabul, the ...
city, Kennebec county, southwestern Maine, U.S., on the Kennebec River (head of navigation) just south of Augusta and bounding the towns of Farmingdale, West Gardiner, and Richmond. Founded in 1754 by Sylvester Gardiner as Gardinerstown Plantation, it was set off ...
English bishop and statesman, a leading exponent of conservatism in the first generation of the English Reformation. Although he supported the antipapal policies of King Henry VIII (ruled 1509-47), Gardiner rejected Protestant doctrine and ultimately backed the severe Roman Catholicism ...
home and art collection, located in Fenway Court, Boston, Mass., U.S. The building, designed in the style of a 15th-century Venetian palace and built between 1899 and 1903, houses a collection that includes Oriental art and Classical, medieval, and Renaissance ...
American author and lawyer who wrote nearly 100 detective and mystery novels that sold more than 1,000,000 copies each, making him easily the best-selling American writer of his time. His best-known works centre on the lawyer-detective Perry Mason.
eclectic American socialite and art collector, a patron of many arts, remembered largely for the distinctive collection of European and Asian artworks that she assembled in Boston.
20th president of the United States (March 4-September 19, 1881), who had the second shortest tenure in presidential history. When he was shot and incapacitated, serious constitutional questions arose concerning who should properly perform the functions of the presidency. (For ...
American first lady (March 4-September 19, 1881), the wife of James A. Garfield, 20th president of the United States. Although first lady for only a few months, she was one of the most interesting women to have held that job, ...
mountainous promontory jutting into the Adriatic Sea from the east coast of Italy, in Foggia province, Puglia (Apulia) region. Called the "spur" of the Italian "boot" (peninsula), it is 40 miles (65 km) long and 25 miles (40 km) at ...
cave in southern France containing important examples of Late Paleolithic mural art, paintings and engravings dating from the Aurignacian Period, the oldest phase of European Stone Age art. The cave and its decoration were discovered in 1887. Many "macaroni," or ...
in architecture, waterspout designed to drain water from the parapet gutter. Originally the term referred only to the carved lions of classical cornices or to terra-cotta spouts, such as those found in the Roman structures at Pompeii. The word later ...
Italian patriot and soldier of the Risorgimento, a republican who, through his conquest of Sicily and Naples with his guerrilla Redshirts, contributed to the achievement of Italian unification under the royal House of Savoy.
peak in southern British Columbia, Canada, in the Coast Mountains east of the Cheakamus River. Glacier-capped, it is 8,787 ft (2,678 m) high and is the focus of Garibaldi Provincial Park (area 760 sq mi [1,968 sq km]), established in ...
author, creator of the Uncle Wiggily series of children's stories, who began his career as a newspaperman on the Newark Evening News in 1896. Shortly after, he began writing a daily bedtime story about Uncle Wiggily-a rabbit hero-and his friends. ...
town, east-central Kenya. The town is a market centre situated on the Tana River, and its industries process food, beverages, and tobacco products; manufactures include plastic containers. It is located about 215 miles (350 km) east of Nairobi and is ...
city, Dallas county, northern Texas, U.S. Adjacent to Dallas (west), it was founded in 1887, when two rival railroad communities, Duck Creek and Embree, were consolidated by an act of the U.S. Congress and named for Attorney General Augustus H. ...
a band, or chain, of flowers, foliage, and leaves; it may be joined at the ends to form a circle (wreath), worn on the head (chaplet), or draped in loops (festoon or swag). Garlands have been a part of religious ...
also called Johannes De Garlandia English grammarian and poet whose writings were important in the development of medieval Latin. Though much of his life was spent in France, his works were influential mainly in England.
American singer and actress whose exceptional talents and vulnerabilities combined to make her one of the most enduringly popular Hollywood icons of the 20th century.
(species Allium sativum), bulbous perennial plant of the lily family (Liliaceae). The plant's bulbs are used as a flavouring. A classic ingredient in many national cuisines, garlic has a powerful, onionlike aroma and pungent taste; its wide use in the ...
market town, Bavaria Land (state), southern Germany. It lies at the junction of the deep Loisach and Partnach valleys, in the Bavarian Alps at the foot of the Zugspitze (9,718 feet [2,962 metres]), which is the highest ...
poet who was the cofounder of the important French-Canadian literary journal La Releve (1934; "The Relief"). His intense and introspective verse, filled with images of death and suicide, set him apart from the prevailing regionalism of Canadian literature and strongly ...
32nd vice president of the United States (1933-41) in the Democratic administration of President Franklin D. Roosevelt. He maintained his conservatism despite his prominent position in Roosevelt's New Deal administration.
French aeronaut, the first person to use a parachute regularly and successfully. He perfected the parachute and made jumps from greater altitudes than had been possible before.
any member of a group of common silicate minerals that have similar crystal structures and chemical compositions. They may be colourless, black, and many shades of red and green.
nee Black English translator who made the great works of Russian literature available to English and American readers in the first half of the 20th century. The first to render Dostoyevsky and Chekhov into English, she also translated the complete ...
English Jesuit superior implicated in the Gunpowder Plot, an abortive conspiracy to destroy the Protestant king James I of England and Parliament while in assembly on Nov. 5, 1605, in retaliation for stricter penal laws against Roman Catholics.
English writer, librarian, and the head of the Garnett family, which exerted a formative influence on the development of modern British writing. From the age of 15 until his retirement in 1899 he was in the employ of the British ...
French architect of the Beaux-Arts style, famed as the creator of the Paris Opera House. He was admitted to the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in 1842 and was awarded the Grand Prix de Rome in 1848 to study in Italy.
a forerunner of 20th-century French architects, notable for his Cite Industrielle, a farsighted plan for an industrial city. He is also remembered, along with Auguste Perret, for the pioneering use of reinforced concrete.
