Gunnison
a river in Colorado, a tributary of the Grand river, and which passes through a remarkable cañon 15 miles in length.
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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 Gunnison, Gunny, Gunter.
Gunny
a sort of cloth made from jute. It is much used in the manufacture of sacks called gunny bags. The bags are made in large numbers in India. The exports for a single year reach nearly 100,000,000 bags. In the United States they are used chiefly for the covering of cotton bales and for bags in which to ship grain. They are light and strong, but rot quickly on exposure to moisture. They are not sufficiently durable for farm use. See Jute
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Gunter
ARCHIBALD CLAVER- ING, an American author; born in Liverpool, England, Oct. 25, 1847. When five years old he was taken to California by his parents. He was a mining and civil engineer in the West from 1867 until 1874, when he became a stock broker. In 1877 he removed to New York, where he devoted himself to writing plays and novels. The best known of the former are: "Prince Karl"; and "The Deacon's Daughter." His most popular novels are: "Mr. Barnes of New York" (1887); and "Mr. Potter of Texas" (1888): both successfully dramatized; "That Frenchman" (1889); "Miss Nobody of Nowhere" (1890); "Baron Montez of Panama and Paris" (1893); "A Florida Enchantment" and "The Man Behind the Door" (1904). He died Feb. 23, 1907.
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Guntown
a village in Lee co., Miss.; where on June 10, 1864, a National force of 12,000 men, commanded by General Sturgis, was utterly routed by the Confederates, under General Forrest, losing about 3,500 men, and everything except arms.
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Gurges
or GORGES, in heraldry, a charge meant to represen represent a whirlpool. It takes up the whole field; and when borne properly, is azure and argent.
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Gurney
JOSEPH JOHN, an English philanthropist; born in Earlham Hall, England, Aug. 2, 1788; became a Quaker clergyman. He was very active in prison reform, and was closely identified with Wilberforce and Clarkson in the anti-slavery movement. He was the author of "Notes on Prison Dicipline" (1819); "Evidences, Etc., of Christianity" (1827); etc. He died in Earlham, England, Jan. 4, 1847.
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Gurney, Edmund
A distinguished psychologist and student of psychic science. He was born at Horsham in 1847, and educated at Blackheath and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he obtained a fellowship. He devoted himself thereafter to the study of medicine and passed the second M.B. Cambridge examination in 1880. Thus equipped, he turned to the investigation of psychical research , seeking, in common with most psychical researchers, to find evidence for the survival of consciousness and personality after death. He chose for exploration the region of unconscious or subconscious activity-what Mr. Myers, himself a worker in the same field, has designated the subliminal consciousness." From 1874 to 1878 Gurney and Myers worked with professional mediums, getting but poor results, but on the founding of the Society for Psychical Research experiments of a more scientific nature were made. These resulted in two volumes of Phantasms of the Living, by Messrs. Myers, Podmore, and Gurney, which went some way towards establishing telepathy on a sound basis. To the same end were directed Mr. Gurney's careful hypnotic 66 experiments between 1885 and 1888, and his contributions to the Proceedings of the S.P.R. He was, indeed, an ideal student of psychic research, acute, patient, exact, logical, and entirely disinterested. Besides his psychological works he wrote The Power of Sound (1880), an essay on music, and a collection of essays entitled Tertium Quid (1887). He died in June, 1888, from an overdose of narcotic medicine.
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Gustavus
the name of four Swedish sovereigns.
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Gustavus Adolphus College
a coeducational institution in St. Peter, Minn .; founded in 1862 under the auspices of the Lutheran Church; reported at the close of 1919: Professors and instructors, 25; students, 361. a UTENBERG, JOHANNES, or HENNE (gö'ten-berg), German printer; born in Mainz, about 1400. In 1434 he was living in Strassburg, and seems to have been well known as a man of considerable mechanical skill, who taught stone cutting, mirror polishing, and similar arts. When and where he made his first attempts in the art of printing cannot with certainty be ascertained. Some time between 1444 and 1448 he returned to Mainz, where, in 1449 or 1450, he entered into partnership with Johannes Fust or Faust, a wealthy goldsmith, who furnished the money required to set up a printing press. This partnership was, however , dissolved after the lapse of a few years, Fust bringing an action at law against Gutenberg to recover the sums he had advanced. In consequence of the legal verdict, Fust retained the printing concern, and carried it on in conjunction junction with Peter Schöffer of Gernsheim. Gutenberg, with the assistance of a Dr. Homery, afterward set up another printing press. He is considered the inventor of movable type. He died in Mainz, Feb. 24, 1468.
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GUSTAVUS I
the founder of the family, is known in history as Gustavus Vasa. He was born at Lindholmen, May 12, 1496, and died at Stockholm, September 29, 1560. He studied at Upsala. He is a heroic figure in history. Since the Union of Calmar in 1397 Sweden had been subject to Denmark. Vasa placed himself at the head of a Swedish party. After various strokes of fortune and misfortune, during one period of which he worked, disguised as a laborer, in the mines of Dalecarlia, he secured the independence of his country. He was elected king in 1523. He was of the party that carried Sweden into the Lutheran church.
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Guthrie
THOMAS ANSTEY, an English humorist.
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Guthrie (City until State capital)
a city, until 1911 State capital of Oklahoma, and countyseat of Logan co .; on the Cottonwood river and the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railroad . It contains St. Joseph's Academy, a high school, several denominational schools, waterworks, electric lights , ats, 2 National banks, cotton gins, flour and planing mills, furniture and carriage factories, etc. Pop. (1910) 11,- 654; (1920) 11,757. a
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Guthrie (THOMAS clergyman born)
THOMAS, clergyman; born in Brechin, Forfar- Scottish shire, July 5 , 1803; educated at the Unicame minister of Free St. John's, Edinburgh. The work with which his name is chiefly identified in Scotland was ragged school system. His "Plea for the introduction into Edinburgh of the most celebrated of his productions. He Ragged Schools" (1847) is one of the became editor of the "Sunday Magazine" Gospel in Ezekiel" (1855); "A Plea in 1864. His chief works are, "The for Drunkards" (1856); "Christ and the Inheritance of the Saints" (1858); etc. He died in St. Leonard's, Feb. 24, 1873. pseudonym F. Anstey,
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