Garnier, Gilles
A werwolf, condemned at Dôle, under Louis XIII ., for having devoured a number of children. He was burned alive, and his body, after being reduced to ashes, was scattered to the winds.
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Single-source entries: G (15)
These 11 listings are so strange that each appears in only one of the 7 encyclopedias we compared. They include such classics as Garonne, Garoo, Garrison.
Garonne
HAUTE, a department in the S. of France, embracing portions of ancient Gascony and Languedoc; area 2,457 square miles, Pop. about 432,000. It is watered throughout by the Garonne, from which it derives its name, and with in the basin of which it wholly lies. Occupied in the S. by a branch of the Pyrenean range, the slope of the department and the course of its streams are toward the N. and N. E. Apart from this S. mountainous region, the department is hilly and fertile. The soil in the valleys is remarkably productive, and bears heavy crops of wheat, maize, flax, hemp, potatoes, and rape seed. Orchard fruits and chestnuts are produced in abundance, and the annual yield of wine is over 20,000,000 gallons, two-thirds of which is exported. The chief manufactures are woolen and cotton fabrics, paper and hardware. Capital, Toulouse.
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Garoo
a trading station of the Chinese empire, near a source of the Indus, 16,000 feet above sea-level; lat. 31° 40′ N., lon. 80° E. Here an active commerce is carried on in exchanging Chinese and Tibetan commodities for those of India and Kashmir.
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Garrick, David
David (1717-1779), an eminent English actor. He was descended from a Huguenot family that fled from Bordeaux to England on the revocation of the Edict of Nantes. David's father was an army officer. His mother resided at Lichfield, where the lad attended the grammar school kept by Samuel Johnson. In later London days, when Garrick was the greatest actor of his age, and Johnson was the recognized authority on literary matters, Garrick used to amuse his friends by relating anecdotes of Johnson and mimicking his eccentricities. His reputation was made chiefly at Drury Lane Theater, where he acted many of Shakespeare's characters, among others Hamlet, King Lear , and King Richard. He was the first of the great English actors who have made Shakespeares plays classic. His remains were buried in Westminster Abbey near the Poets' Corner. See Drama ; Actor
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Garrison
LINDLEY MILLER, an American lawyer and public official. He was born in Camden, N. J., in 1864, and was educated at Phillips Exeter and Harvard University. After graduating from Harvard he studied law in Philadelphia, being admitted to the bar in 1886. After building up a considerable practice he became in 1904 vicechancellor of New Jersey, and in 1913 President Wilson appointed him Secre- Mr. Lundy, a Quaker, he then started tary of War. In Feb., 1916, he resigned from the cabinet because of a serious difference with the President on the question of the new "Preparedness" program. LINDLEY M. GARRISON He again resumed the practice of law in New York City as a member of the firm of Hornblower, Miller, Garrison, and Potter.
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Garrison (II)
MABEL, (MRS. American GEORGE SIEMONN), an opera singer, born in Baltimore, Md. She graduated from the Western Maryland College and studied music at the Peabody Conservatory of Music, in Baltimore. She first attracted attention as a choir singer in that city. Her first appearance as an opera singer was made in "Mignon" at the Boston Opera House, in 1912. She was at once successful and in 1914 joined the Metropolitan Opera House. She appeared frequently in concerts and also as a soloist with the leading orchestras.
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Garrison (III)
WILLIAM LLOYD, an American reformer; born in Newburyport, Mass., Dec. 12, 1805. He was apprenticed to a shoemaker, but eventually became a compositor on the Newburyport "Herald." In 1827 he became editor of the "National Philanthropist," the first American temperance journal, and afterward on a journal in support of the election of John Quincy Adams. With the paper called the "Genius of Universal Emancipation" (1829), his denunciations of slave-traders leading to his imprisonment for libel. On his release he commenced lecturing in Boston, started the "Liberator" (1831). In 1832 appeared his "Thoughts on African Colonization," and in the same year he established the American Anti-Slavery Society. He subsequently visited England, where he was welcomed by Wilberforce, Brougham, Buxton, etc. In 1835 he was saved with difficulty from a Boston mob; but his principles made steady progress till 1865, when the Anti-Slavery Society was dissolved with its work accomplished. A volume of sonnets (1843) and one of selections (1852) bear his name. He died in New York City, May 24, 1879.
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Garrison (Military term signifying)
a military term signifying a body of troops stationed in a fort or fortified place to defend it from the enemy, or to keep the people around in subjection; also a fort or fortified place manned with soldiers, guns, etc.; also the state of being stationed in a fort or fortified place for its defense, a doing duty in a garrison; winter quarters for troops.
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Garrote
or GARROTTE, a Spanish instrument of execution. The victim, usually in a sitting posture, is fastened by an iron collar to an upright post, and a knob operated by a screw or lever dislocates the spinal column, or a small blade severs the spinal cord at the base of the brain.
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Garry
a river in Scotland, county of Perth, joining the Tummel after a course of 20 miles. It is celebrated for its picturesque scenery. GÁRSHIN, VSEVOLOD MICHAILO- VICH (gär'shin), Russian novelist; born in Bachmut, Yekaterinoslav, Feb. 14, 1855. He took part in the Russo-Turkish war, and was wounded at Charkow. He soon after finished his great work, "Four Days." "A Very Little Story," "The Night," and several more novels, came from his pen during the next few years. He developed a tendency to melancholy (occasionally developing into insanity), traces of which are to be found in "Attalea Princeps" and "Night," and in the psychiatrical study of "The Red Flower." He died in St. Petersburg, April 5, 1888.
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Garter
Order of the, the highest order of British knighthood. The order was established by Edward III about 1344-1350. The garter is a blue velvet ribbon, edged with gold, and having a gold buckle. It is worn on the left knee, or, if the sovereign be a woman, on the left arm. Other insignia are the badge known as the Great George, the Lesser George, the star of eight points, and the vesture, consisting of a blue velvet mantle, a crimson hood and surcoat, a hat of black velvet set off with a plume of white ostrich feathers, and a tuft of black heron feathers. The king and the Prince of Wales are members; farther membership was once elective, but it is now a mere social honor extended by the king. The honor may be conferred on foreign sovereigns. The whole order numbers about fifty knights. The motto of the order is, "Honi soit qui mal y pense."
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