Glendalough
in Leister, Wicklow co., Ireland, about 24 miles S. of Dublin; the vicinity is celebrated for its scenery and ruins.
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Each of these 11 subjects appears in only one of the 6 encyclopedias on this shelf. None is long enough to carry a page by itself, so they are gathered here by letter. Anything that grows moves out to a page of its own.
Glenfinnan
a Highland glen in Inverness-shire, Scotland; 18 miles W. of Fort William. Here, on Aug. 19, 1745, the clans gathered under Prince Charles Edward's banner, and here in 1815 was erected to his memory a tower bearing an inscription in Gaelic, Latin, and English.
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Glenroy
a valley in the Highlands of Scotland, paralled to Glenmore in Lochaber, Inverness-shire. It is nearly 14 miles in length, and little more than 1½ mile in breadth, and is celebrated for its so-called Parallel Roads which are three parallel terraces running along either side of the glen. Not only do the lines on the same side run parallel to each other, but on both sides they respectively occupy the same horizontal level. These terraces project, at some parts only a few feet from the hillside, and at others widen out so as to be a number of yards in breadth. The lowest terrace is 850 to 862 feet above the sea-level; the middle, 1,062 to 1,077 feet; and the high- 1,155 feet. Their origin was est 1,144 to 1,18 much disputed, but according to Macculloch, Agassiz, Buckland, and Geikie, the roads are shore-lines of glacier lakes.
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Glens Falls
a village in Warren co., N. Y., on the Hudson river, and on the Delaware and Hudson railroad; 54 miles N. of Albany. The river, here flowing through a ravine, descends 50 feet over a precipice 900 feet long, from which the place derives its name, and The supplies enormous water power. city has extensive marble and limestone quarries, lime works, sawmills, shirt, paper, and collar factories, and lath and planing mills. There are a Union High School, Crandell Public Library, a summer school for teachers, Glens Falls Academy, electric lights and street railroads, waterworks, daily and weekly newspapers, and National banks. Pop. (1910) 15,243; (1920) 16,638.
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Glentilt
a valley in Perthshire, Scotland; the deep narrow glen of the Tilt, which issues from Loch Tilt and runs 16 miles S. W. receiving the larger Tarf Water and Fender Burn, until at Blair- Glentilt is Athole it falls into the Garry. ry. classic ground to the geologist, as having furnished evidence for the Huttonian or denudation theory.
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Glinka
MICHAEL IVANOVITCH, a Russian composer; born in Smolensk, under John Field May 20, 1804; studi studied in St. Petersburg. Several songs and the operas "Life for the Czar" and "Russian and Ludmilla," all in Russian, have received high praise from critics. He died in Berlin, Feb. 15, 1857. SERGIUS NICOLAIE- GLINKA, VICH, a Russian poet; born in Smolensk in 1774. He entered the military service and rose to the rank of major, when he retired. His literary work was devoted mainly to the young and their training. ry of "Readings for Children," "History Russia for the Use of Boys and Girls," and similar books, are highly esteemed. He also composed a few plays in verse, edited the "Russian Messenger," and translated Young's "Night Thoughts." He died in Moscow in 1847. Vol. IV-Cyc-V
GREGORY ANDRÉEVICH, a Russian author; born near Smolensk in 1774. He was in boyhood a page at the imperial court. He entered upon a distinguished career as an educator, and accompanied Alexander I.'s brothers their Continental tour in 1811. His works include: "The Ancient Religion of the in Prose and Slavs"; "Miscellanies in Verse" and a play, "The Daughters of Love." He died in Moscow in 1818.
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Glisson's Capsule
in anatomy, a sheath of areolar tissue surrounding the branches of the portal vein, the hepatic artery and the hepatic duct; first pointed out by Glisson.
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Globe
a sphere, round solid body, which may be conceived to be generated by the revolution of a semicircle about its diameter. An artificial globe in geography and astronomy, is a globe of metal, plaster, paper, pasteboard, etc., on the surface of which is drawn a map, or representation of either the earth or the heavens, with the several circles which are conceived upon them, the former being called the terrestrial globe, and the latter the celestial globe. In the terrestrial globe the wire on which it turns represents the earth's axis, the extremities of it representing the poles. The brazen meridian is a vertical circle in which the artificial globe turns, divided into 360 degrees, each degree being divided into minutes and seconds. The brass meridian receives the ends of the axis on which the globe revolves. At right angles to this, and consequently horizontal, is a broad ring of wood or brass representing the horizon; that is, the true horizon of the earth which lies in a plane containing the earth's center.
a city of Arizona, the countyseat of Gila co. It is on the Arizona Eastern railroad. In the neighborhood is the great Roosevelt reservoir, which was erected at a cost of over $8,000,000. It has a park, a library, and other public buildings. It is the center of an important mining region and its chief industry is the smelting of copper. Pop. (1910) 7,083; (1920) 7,044.
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Globe Fishes
the family Gymnodontidæ, of which the chief genera are Diodon and Tetraodon. They are so called because by taking air into a large dsac, extending over the whole of the abdomen beneath the skin, they became nearly globular as a result of this inflation. GLOBIGERINA (-īnā) MUD, in geology, a light-colored calcareous mud in places in the Atlantic 3,000 fathoms deep, and abounding in Globigerinæ, rich in supporting a siliceous sponges, and often ften varied fauna of Mollusca, Crustacea, and Echinoderms.
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Globulin
crystallin, or vitellin, vite an albuminous substance first obtained from the crystalline lens of the eye. Globulin thus obtained is a yellowish transparent mass, which swells up and dissolves in water; the solution becomes opaline at 73° and coagulates at 93°. It can be obtained by treating the yolks of egg with ether, and treating the residue chloride of sodium solution and precipitating with water.
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Glockerite
a brown, ocher-yellow, brownish-black, pitch-black, or dullgreen mineral; massive, sparry, or earthy and stalactitic. Found in Hanover; also at Modum, in Norway.
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