Glacier Lake
a lake produced temporarily or permanently by a glacier. It is noteworthy that glacier lands like Switzerland are also lands abounding in lakes. GLACIER, NATIONAL PARK. See NATIONAL PARKS.
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These 11 listings are so strange that each appears in only one of the 7 encyclopedias we compared. They include such classics as Glacier Lake, Glacis, Gladbach.
Glacis
in fortifications, the superior slope of the rampart of the covered way, or, where the rampart does not exist, the declivity immediately in front of the ditch of a work, forming a gentle slope toward the country, and protecting the revetment of the escarp from the fire of an enemy.
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Gladbach
or MÜNCHEN (mün' chen) GLADBACH, a town of Rhenish Prussia, 16 miles W. of Düsseldorf. It is the center of the Rhenish cotton-spinning industry and has manufactures of silk, wool, linen, and paper, cotton printing works, dye works, bleachfields, iron foundries, machine shops, breweries, and brickworks. Gladbach, which has been a town since 1366, was formerly the seat of an important linen trade; the cotton industry was introduced in the end of the 18th century. The town possesses a church dating from the 12th and 13th centuries, the crypt from the 8th. Pop. about 65,000. AGLADDEN; WASHINGTON author; born in an Pottsgrove, Pa., Feb., 11, 1836; was graduated at Williams' College in 1859; ordained in the Congregational Church, and became pastor of the First Congregational Church in Columbus, O., in 1882. His publications include "Plain Thoughts on the Art of Living" (1868); "Workingmen and Their Employers" (1876); "The Young Men and the Churches" (1885); "Burning Questions" (1889); "Social Facts and Forces" (1897); "The Christian Pastor" (1898); "Where Does the Sky Begin?" (1904); "The New Idolatry" (1905); "The Church and Modern Life" (1908); "Recollections" 1909); "Live and Learn" (1914); "Commencement Days" (1917). He died in 1918.
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Gladden, Washington
Washington (1836-), an American clergyman and author. He was born at Pottsgrove, Pennsylvania. He received his education at Williams College, and was ordained in the Congregational church. In 1882 he became pastor of the First Congregational church of Columbus, Ohio. He wrote many books on social reforms and other subjects. Among them may be mentioned, Who Wrote the Bible, Plain Thoughts on the Art of Living, Burning Questions, Art and Morality, The Christian Pastor, How Much is Left of the Old Doctrine, Workingmen and Their Employers. Mr. Gladden was a firm believer in the independence and influence of the American pulpit. He said: I do not believe that there is any place of influence in the world in which a man can be as free as in the Christian pulpit. . . . Unquestionably there is cowardice and subserviency in the pulpit, as everywhere else. But there need not be. . . . I have been saying things, with no sense of restraint, during the last fifty years, that I should not have been so likely to say if I had been a journalist or a college professor. . . . I doubt if any other kind of work would have given me so large an opportunity as my churches in North Adams and Springfield and Columbus have given me to speak my deepest thought.
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Gladen, The Root of
Regarded as a remedy for a disease called the "Elf cake," which causes a hardness of the side. The following is the prescription given in A Thousand Notable Things for the making up of the medicine :-" Take a root of gladen, and make powder thereof, and give the diseased party half a spoonful thereof, to drink in white wine, and let him eat thereof so much in his pottage at one time, and it will help him within awhile."
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Gladsheim
in Scandinavian mythology, the most splendid palace in Asgard. The word means "house of gladness" or "region of joy." It is mentioned sometimes as the home of Odin, but Gladsheim contained, besides Odin's throne, a throne for each of the twelve Aesir or great gods. Odin's throne rose higher than any of the others. The great banquet hall of Gladsheim was called Valhalla. Here Odin gathered his warriors. That valiant men might not be lacking on the day of the last great battle, which must surely come, Odin sent forth his messengers, the Valkyrior, to every earthly battlefield to choose those who should be slain, that they might be brought to Valhalla. The word Valhalla means "hall of the slain."
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Gladstone
HERBERT JOHN, 1st VISCOUNT, an English statesman,_son of William E. Gladstone, born at London, in 1854. He was educated at Oxford and from 1877 to 1880 was lecturer on history at Keble College. In 1880-1881 he was private secretary to his and in the latter year was appointed Lord of the Treasury. He was successively Financial Secretary of War, Under-Secretary of the Home Office, and First Commissioner of Works. From 1899 to 1906 he was Chief Whip to the Liberal Party, and from 1905 to 1910 was Secretary of State for Home Affairs. He was a member of Parliament from Leeds from 1880 to 1909. In the latter year he was appointed First Governor- General of South Africa, serving until 1914.
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Glammis
a village of Scotland, five miles S. W. of Forfar. Near it is Glammis Castle, in which is still shown the chamber in which Malcolm II. was assassinated in 1034. It was one of the castles of Macbeth, and gave him his hereditary title of Thane of Glammis.
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Glamorganshire
a county of Wales, in the southernmost part. Its chief industries are the mining of iron and coal. It has also extensive agricultural and cattle raising interests. The chief towns are Cardiff, the capital, Merthyr-Tydfil, and Swansea. The county has an area of 809 square miles. Pop. about 1,200,000.
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Glamourie
The state of mind in which witches beheld apparitions and visions of many kinds. Of the same nature as phantasy.
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Glanyil, Joseph
(1636-1680) An English philosopher who wrote several works dealing with occult affairs, was born at Plymouth, and became a Church of England clergyman with charges at Frome Selwood and Streat and Walton. In 1666 he was appointed to the Abbey Church, Bath, was made a prebendary of Worcester Cathedral, and was chaplain in ordinary to Charles II. from 1672. In his scepsis Scientifica (1665) his Sorcerers and Sorcery (1666) and his Sadducismus Triumphatus (printed 1681) he undertook the defence of the belief in the supernatural, and supplied many illustrations in support of his theory.
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