Gay Head
a promontory and lighthouse on the S. W. extremity of Martha's Vineyard, Mass.
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These 13 listings are so strange that each appears in only one of the 7 encyclopedias we compared. They include such classics as Gay Head, Gaya, Gaynor.
Gay-Lussac
JOSEPH LOUIS (gā-lü-säk'), a French physicist; born in St. Leonard, Haute-Vienne, France, Dec. 6, 1778. In 1804 he was the first to make balloon ascensions for purposes of scientific investigation; became a member of the society of Arcueil, and was introduced to Humboldt, with whom he prosecuted an investigation of the polarization of light and other subjects. To him we are indebted for the discovery of the hydro-sulphuric and oxy-chloride acids. In 1830 he became a member of the Chamber of Deputies, and in 1839 was created a peer of France. He was Professor of Chemistry at the Jardin du Roi. He died in Paris, May 9, 1850.
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Gaya
the chief town of Gaya district, in Bengal, India, on the Phalgu, 57 miles S. of Patna. It is a place of the greatest sanctity, from its associations with the founder of BUDDHISM (q. v.), and is annually visited by about 100,000 Hindu pilgrims, who, under the guidance of the Brahman priests, pray for the souls of their ancestors at the 45 sacred 1 shrines within and without the walls. Pop. about 50,000.
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Gaynor
WILLIAM JAY, an American lawyer and public official; born at Whitestown, Oneida co., N. Y., in 1851; educated in the local seminary and at the Christian Brothers' College, St. Louis, Mo. Employed for a time as a teacher in Boston, he subsequently removed to Brooklyn, N. Y., became a reporter and studied law. In 1875 he was admitted to practice and quickly identified himself with the reform party in Flatbush. Elected Police Commissioner of that village, his activities against corrupt politics soon made him a prominent figure in municipal affairs. After serving two terms as Supreme Court Justice, he was elected Mayor of New York City in 1909, with the support of Tammany Hall. Shot, Aug. 9, 1910, while boarding an ocean liner, he never fully recovered from the wound and succumbed to the strain of his campaign for re-election, Sept. 10, 1913.
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Gaza
one of the five chief cities of the ancient Philistines, situated in the S. W. of Palestine, about 3 miles from the sea, on the borders of the desert which separates Palestine from Egypt. It is often mentioned in the history of Samson, and was the scene of constant struggles between the Israelites and the Philistines. In 333 B. c. it was taken after a five months' siege by Alexander the Great, and from that time down to 1790, when the French under Kleber captured it, it witnessed the victories of the Maccabees, the Calif Abubekr, the Templars, and the heroic Saladin. Constantine the Great, who rebuilt the town, made it the seat of a bishop. The modern Guzzeh is a collection of mere villages. It was occupied by British forces Nov. 7, 1917, in the advance on Palestine.
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Gazaland
a district in the Portuguese possession in east Africa, lying to the eastward of the Transvaal and watered by the Limpopo river. The Portuguese obtained their first foothold here in 1830. In 1833 they were almost driven out by an uprising of the natives, all their trading posts being captured. Gradually the country was securely occupied and the district enlarged, notably in 1884, after the death of the friendly chieftain, Umzila. In 1890 a war was waged with the forces of the British South African Company, with the final result of a boundary settlement in the interior in favor of the Portuguese. After 1906 the Portuguese occupation was more firmly established by the death of the chief of the unruly elements among the natives, Gungunyana.
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Gear
in machinery, the furniture, rigging, tackle (jeers), apparatus, and appurtenances of an implement: e. g., expansion sion gear, valve gear, pump gear, plow gear; the working parts of a locomotive; the rigging of a spar or sail; the running parts of a wheeled vehicle, as the fore gears, hind gears, referring to the fore axle and its wheels, the hind axle and its wheels. To the former is attached the tongue and fore hounds, to the latter the hind hounds. Each carries its bolster. The term is also applied to other mechanical devices by which motion is transmitted; as change gear, chain gear, back gear, overhead gear; or by which parts are operated, as hoisting gear.
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Geared Ladle
A pouring ladle provided with mechanism for tipping, invented by James Nasmyth, England. Makers of geared ladles, now very numerous, mount them with every conceivable variety of suitable gearing, from the simple wheel and pinion, spur or worm, to the more elaborate ones that are double-geared, or with mitre-wheels in addition to the worm-gearing. See LADLE.
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Gearing
a train or series of wheels with cogs for transmitting motion; the parts in machinery by which motion is communicated. In spur gearing the teeth are arranged round either the concave or convex surface of a cylindrical wheel in the direction of radii from the center of the wheel, and are of equal depth throughout. In beveled gearing the teeth are placed upon the exterior periphery of a conical wheel in a direction converging to the apex of the cone, and the depth of the teeth gradually diminishes from the base.
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Geashill
a parish of Ireland, in Kings county; about 8 miles N. W. of Portarlington. It contains the ruins of a castle heroically defended during the civil war of 1641 by Lady Digby.
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Geaster
or GEASTRUM (so called from the stellate appearance of the species when burst and lying on the ground), in botany, earth stars; a genus of gasteromycetous fungi, sub-order Trichogastres. It was formed by Micheli to include the puffballs, having a stellated volva. They are small fungi, often of a brown color. G. hygrometricus, as the name implies, readily absorbs and retains moisture.
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Geba
a Levitical town of Benjamin, situated 6 or 7 miles from Jerusalem, and not far from the N. border of the kingdom of Judah. Near Geba David defeated the Philistines (II Sam. v: 25).
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Geddes
SIR AUCKLAND CAMP- BELL, a British statesman. He was born in 1879 and received his preliminary education at George Watson's College, Edinburgh. He studied medicine at Edinburgh University, London Hospital, and Freiburg, and after graduating became demonstrator and assistant professor of anatomy at Edinburgh University. Later he was professor of anatomy at the Royal College of Surgeons, Dublin, and also at McGill University, Canada. He served in the war against the Boer republic and also in the World War, 1914-16. During 1916-17 he was Director of Recruiting in the War Office, and in 1917, 1918, and 1919 was Minister of National Service, becoming also, in 1917, Unionist member in Parliament for the Basingstoke and Andover division of Hampshire. He was knighted in 1917, became President of the Local Government Board in 1918, and President of the Board of Trade and Minister of Reconstruction in 1919. In the beginning of 1920 he became British Ambassador in Washington.
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