Good Hope – Grange
Good Hope
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Goodwin
MAUD WILDER, an American writer; born in Ballston Spa, N. Y., in 1856. Her novels include "The Colonial Cavalier"; "White Aprons"; "Sir Christopher"; "Veronica Playfair."
She wrote "Dutch and English on the Hudson," and was a co-editor of "Historic New York."
Goodwin
WILLIAM WATSON, an American educator; born in Concord, Mass., May 9, 1831; was graduated at Harvard College in 1851; became Professor of Greek Literature in Harvard in 1860-1901. He is the author of "Syntax of the Moods and Tenses of the Greek Verb"; "Greek Grammar"; etc. He died in 1912.
Goonass Pass
a pass in Bussahir, across the S. range of the Himalaya, 16,000 feet above the sea.
Gordon Bennett
MOUNT (named from James Gordon Bennett), a mountain seen in Africa by Stanley in 1875. It lies S. of Albert Nyanza, a little N. of the equator and E. of lon. 30° E.
It is a truncated cone, probably an extinct crater, and rises 14,000 or 15,000 feet in height. It is sometimes covered with snow.
Goslarite
an orthorhombic, white, reddish, bluish, transparent or translucent, brittle mineral of vitreous luster and nauseous taste. Called aslo gallitzenite.
Governor's Island
a small island at the main entrance of Boston Harbor; Fort Winthrop is built on it.
Also an island in New York harbor; Fort Williams, the headquarters of the Military Department of the East, U. S.
A., is built on it.
Grafton
a town in Worcester co., Mass.; on the New York, New Haven and Hartford railroad; 6 miles S. E. of Worcester. It contains several villages, high school and a public library; manufactures cotton goods, emery, thread, shoes, soap, etc. Pop. (1910) 5,705; (1920) 6,887.
Graham Island
or FERDINAN- DEA, a volcanic island which in July, 1831, rose up in the Mediterranean, about 30 miles S. W. of Sciacca, in Sicily.
It attained a height of 200 feet, with a circuit of 3 miles, but disappeared in August. It reappeared for a short time in 1863.
Graham's Land
an island of the Antarctic Ocean, discovered by Biscoe in 1832 between 65° and 67° S. lat. In front, toward the N., are a number of islets, called Biscoe's Chain.
GRAIN ELEVATOR Andrew's College, a public library, etc.
Pop. (1918) 7,087.
Grand Prix De Rome
a prize given annually by the Academy of Fine Arts in Paris to the most successful competitor in painting, music, sculpture, etc. The winners of the prize become the charge of the government for four years and are sent to Rome to reside.
Grange
see HUSBANDRY, PATRONS GRANICUS (gra-nē'kus), a river of Bithynia, famous for a battle fought on its banks between the troops of Alexander the Great and those of Darius, 334 B. c., when 600,000 Persians were defeated by 30,000 Macedonians.