These 10 listings are so strange that each appears in only one of the 7 encyclopedias we compared. They include such classics as Galactides or Galaricides, Galahad, Galapagos.
Perhaps a species of emerald. It is greatly valued by magicians, its property being to make magical writings heard, and ghosts appear, to return answers. It promotes love and friendship.
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Sir, in British legend, the purest and noblest of King Arthur's knights, the only one to whom a vision of the Holy Grail was granted. The character of Sir Galahad is believed to have been added to the Arthurian legends by Walter de Map, a Welsh poet at the court of Henry II in the latter part of the twelfth century. According to his account Galahad was the son of Sir Lancelot and Elaine; in other legends he is represented as created by enchantment. In all the various tales based upon King Arthur and his round table Galahad is ever a type of ideal knighthood. He appears in Tennyson's Idylls of the King . Tennyson has also a well known poem entitled Sir Galahad. See Idylls Of The King ; Arthur ; King; Holy Grail My good blade carves the casques of men My tough lance thrusteth sure, My strength is as the strength of ten, Because my heart is pure.
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ga-lap a-gos, a group of volcanic islands in the Pacific Ocean. The name is Spanish, meaning tortoises. The group is situated on the equator, 600 miles from the mainland of Ecuador, to which country the islands belong. The greatest altitude is about 4,000 feet. Area, 2,400 square miles. Population, 400. There are over 2,000 extinct craters in the group. The summits of the islands are clothed with ferns and coarse grasses, nourished by moisture from low-hanging clouds. The coasts are arid, and almost rainless. The bed of the ocean between the group and the mainland is so deep that there appears to have been little communication. It is a little world by itself. Quite a number of plants and animals, Mr. Darwin says the greater number, are not found elsewhere. He collected twenty-five species of land birds that have not been found in any other country. The tortoise of these islands is noted. It reaches a weight commonly of 200 pounds, sometimes twice that. Its flesh is much esteemed for food. It is strong enough to carry a man on its back with ease. The springs are situated in the rainy or elevated portions of the island. Broad paths, well beaten by tortoises, lead from them toward the coast in every direction. There are no palm trees here, something unusual for a tropical region. The climate is cooler than that of any other equatorial land at sea level.
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the chief seat in Scotland of the Scoth tweed manufacture. It occupies 2½ miles of the valley of the Gala, immediately above the junction of that river with the Tweed, 3312 miles S. S. E. of Edinburgh, and 4 W. N. W. of Melrose. Its tower, demolished about 1814, was occupied in the 15th century by the Douglases. As early as 1581 wool was here manufactured into cloth. The town has also the largest skinnery in Scotland. Pop. about 13,000.
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A sea nymph, daughter of Nereus and Doris . She was loved by Polyphemus, the Cyclops, whom she treated with disdain, while she was in love with Acis, a shepherd of Sicily.
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in Greek mythology, a sea nymph, daughter of Nereus and Doris. She was wooed by the Cyclops Polyphemus, who received scorn and ridicule in return. Galatea's affection was won, however, by Acis, a handsome shepherd whom Polyphemus slew in a fit of jealous rage. He would have slain Galatea also, had she not excaped into the sea. Galatea is often called the queen of the sea. A celebrated fresco by Raphael in the Villa Farnesina represents Galatea drawn over the sea by dolphins accompanied by sea nymphs and sea gods. In the air above are cupids shooting arrows at Galatea's attendants. This work of art is called the Triumph of Galatea. Handel has written an opera entitled Acis and Galatea. For an account of another Galatea, see PYGMALION.
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a native, or inhabitant of Galatia. St. Paul's Epistle to the Galatians, a New Testament epistle, stated in ch. i: 1 to have been written by the Apostle Paul, a claim admitted by the nearly all the ablest modern critics.
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a town of Italy, 13 miles S. W. of Lecce. It has a church, erected in 1384, with antique sculptures and fine tombs of the Balzo Orsini family. Pop. 12,500.
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or GALACZ (gä'läch), a river port of Moldavia, the center of the commerce of Rumania, situated on the left bank of the Danube, 3 miles below the influx of the Sereth, and 85 from the Sulina mouth of the Danube, by rail 166 N. E. of Bucharest, and 259 S. W. of Odessa. It occupies the slope of a hill overlooking the river, and is divided into an Old and a New Town, the former consisting of irregularly streets, the latter built more after the fashion of western Europe. Prior to the World War the chief objects of industry were iron, copper, wax candles, and soap. The exports consist of maize, wheat, wheat flour, barley, rye, and timber. Galatz has frequently been taken in the wars between the Russians and Turks since 1789. It ceased to be a free port in 1883. Pop. about 74,000. GALA (gälä) WATER, a stream of Edinburgh, Selkirk, and Roxburgh shires, Scotland, rising among the Moorfoot Hills, and winding 21 miles S. S. E. past Stow and Galashiels, till, after a total descent of 800 feet, it falls into the Tweed, a little below Abbotsford, and 2½ miles W. of Melrose.
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in astronomy, the Milky Way. It constitutes nearly a great circle inclined to the equinoctial at an angle of about 63°, and cutting that circle in right ascension Oh. 47' and 12h. 47', so that the N. and S. poles are situated, the one on right ascension 12h. 47', declination N. 27°, and right ascension Oh. 47', declination S. 27°. The milky appearance of the great belt or zone now described arises from the blended light of countless multitudes of stars, each doubtless a sun to some system of planets. Sir William Herschel estimated that at one portion of the Milky Way 116,000 stars passed through the field of the telescope in a quarter of an hour, and on another occasion 258,000 stars in 41 minutes. Here and there the Milky Way divides, especially at one spot, where there is a separation into two portions, somewhat resembling the projecting sides of a fish tail.
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