Godwin-Austen
MOUNT, a peak of the W. Himalayas supposed to be the second highest in the world. Its height is 28,250 feet.
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Single-source entries: G (40)
Each of these 14 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.
Godwit
a wading bird, Limosa melanura, and the genus Limosa generally. They undergo a double moult, having red plumage when young, and then, after moulting, black with a base of white; on the wings also is a white spot. The female is larger than the male. The godwit occurs in Europe, also in Africa and India.
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Goemot
or GOEMAGOT (-em'a-got), the giant who dominated GODWIN, PARKE, an American over the W. horn of England, slain by Corineus, one of the companions of Brute. Staphylinidæ. G. olens, which is some-
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Goerius
a genus of beetles, family times called the Devil's coach-horse, is now Ocypus olens.
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Goff
NATHAN, United States senator from West Virginia, born in Clarksburg, W. Va., in 1843. He was educated at Georgetown College and at the University of the City of New York. During the Civil War he served in the Union Army, rising to the rank of major. He was admitted to the bar in 1866 and in the following year he was elected to the West Virginia House of Representatives. He was an unsuccessful candidate for governor of the State in 1876. President Hayes appointed him Secretary of the Navy in 1881. He was United States district attorney in the following year, and was a member of Congress from 1883 to 1889. From 1892 to 1911 he was United States circuit judge, and was judge of the United States Circuit Court of Appeals in 1912-1913. In the latter year he was elected United States senator for the term ending 1919. He died in the latter year.
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Goffe
WILLIAM, an English parliamentary soldier, one af the judges of Charles I.; born about 1605. He became a major-general in the Parliamentary army, sat in the House of Commons and in Cromwell's "other house," and was one of the judges who signed Charles I.'s death-warrant. In 1660, with his father-in-law, Edward Whalley, he fled to America; they lay in hiding about New Haven from 1661 to 1664, when they went to Hadley, Mass. There they lived for many years in seclusion. According to tradition, when the townsmen were called from the meeting-house to repel an Indian attack, and were standing irresolute, Goffe put himself at their head and drove off the redskins, and then disappeared as suddenly as he had come. He died in Hadley, Mass., in 1679. Vol. IV-Cyc-W GOG and MAGOG, names several times used in the Bible, and given to the famous figures of giants in the Guildhall, London. Magog is spoken of by the writer of Genesis as a son of Japhet; Ezekiel speaks of Gog, Prince of Magog, as a terrible ruler in the far N., united with the Persians, Armenians, and Cimmerians against Israel; Gog and Magog in the Apocalypse appear as co-ordinate terms comprehending all future enemies of the kingdom of God. The name Magog was often applied generally to all the unknown races N. of the Caucasus.
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Gog and Magog
in the book of Ezekiel, a king and his nation, probably representing the northern peoples who were to invade western Asia. In British legend, Gog and Magog were two giants. As told by Caxton, the story runs that the Emperor Diocletian had thirty-three daughters. These women all murdered their husbands, and, as punishment, were cast adrift in a ship. They finally reached Britain and here became the mothers of a race of giants, the fathers of whom were demons. Brut, the first king of the Britons, slew most of these giants, but Gog and Magog were brought in chains to Brut's palace on the site of Guildhall, London. The effigies of these giants were long preserved in Guildhall. It is known that, as early as 1415, they were brought forth and used in preparing the city to welcome Henry V. They were destroyed in the great fire of 1666. The statues in Guildhall at the present time were erected in 1708. See Brut
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Gogol
NIKOLAI (gō'gol), a Russian novelist and miscellaneous writer; born in the government of Poltawa, March 31 (N. S.), 1809. He is the author of the " novels Dead Souls" and "Taras Bulba"; of a comedy entitled "The Revisor," and two collections of short tales illustrative of rural life in Little Russia, his native country. His works found great favor in Russia, and in translation in Europe and the United States. He died in Moscow, March 4 (N. S.), 1852.
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Gogol, Nikolai Vassilievitch
Nikolai Vassilievitch (1809-1852), a Russian dramatist and novelist. He received his education at the public gymnasium at Pultowa and was later a teacher of history at the Patriotic Institution and in the University of St. Petersburg. His principal work is Dead Souls, a novel treating of the relations between Russian proprietors and serfs and the government.
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Gogra
or GHAGRA (ghäg rä), one of the largest affluents of the Ganges, joining that river from the N. at the town of Chapra, after a generally S. E. course of 600 miles. It rises in the higher Himalayas, passes through Nepal, and after reaching the level land becomes the great waterway of the Northwest provinces and Oudh. Its principal tributary is the Rapti, also of commercial importance.
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Goil
LOCH, a small but highly picturesque loch in Argyllshire, Scotland, a branch of Loch Long, ng, 6 miles in length and less than 1 mile in breadth. Its shores are for the most part wild and rugged. The mountains in the neighborhood rise to the height of more than 2,000 feet. Lochgoilhead is a favorite watering-place.
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Going Barrel
A barrel having teeth around its circumference for driving the train. All American watches are of the going barrel type.
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Going Fusee
A fusee having the maintaining power attachment. All modern fusees have a maintaining power which drives the train while the fusee is being wound. Examples of old fusees are, however, occasionally met with which have no maintaining power and the watch is stopped during the operation of winding.
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Gojam
a province of Abyssinia, lying S. of Lake Dembea; lat. 10° to 11° N., lon. 37° to 38° E. The surface is, in many portions, mountainous; in others it is diversified by hill and dale, affording good pastures, which are well watered by the various affluents of the Abai river.
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