Mac: Usually -Gil- here is giolla, “follower” or “devotee” (usually associated with Christ or with the name of some saint—e.g., Gilchrist or Gilmartin). It is rare with O but frequent with Mac, as, for example, in MacElroy, MacIlwaine, MacLennan, MacClellan. There are numerous modern anglicized forms of…

Guy de Maupassant: Mature life and works of Guy de Maupassant: …for Le Gaulois and the Gil Blas. Many of his stories made their first appearance in the latter newspaper. The 10 years from 1880 to 1890 were remarkable for their productivity; he published some 300 short stories, six novels, three travel books, and his only volume of verse.

Gil Blas, picaresque novel by Alain-René Lesage, published in four volumes—the first two in 1715, the third in 1724, and the fourth in 1735. Considered one of literature’s first realistic novels, Gil Blas takes an ordinary man through a series of adventures in high and low society. The work helped

Juan Gil de Hontañón was a celebrated Spanish architect who was the maestro mayor (official architect) of the Segovia cathedral and who designed in a late medieval style. Gil de Hontañón worked in Burgos with Simon of Cologne, one of a family of German architects who were responsible for many

Rodrigo Gil de Hontañón was a celebrated Spanish architect who is perhaps best known for his treatise on architecture. He also designed several notable buildings in the Spanish style known as Plateresque. Gil de Hontañón’s father, Juan, was the maestro mayor (official architect) of the Segovia

Gilberto Gil is a Brazilian multi-instrumentalist, singer, and songwriter who was one of the leading names in Brazilian music and an originator of the movement known as Tropicália (or Tropicalismo). Gil, who was the son of a doctor and an elementary-school teacher, grew up mostly in Ituaçu, a small

José María Gil Robles was a Catholic politician and leader during the Second Spanish Republic (1931–36). Gil Robles, a lawyer, led the Catholic party Acción Popular in the anticlerical first phase of the republic and then formed a coalition called the CEDA (Confederación Española de Derechas

Spanish literature: The Romantic movement: …Señor de Bembibre (1844) by Enrique Gil y Carrasco, reflects Gil’s carefully researched history of the Templars in Spain. Other important novels are Mariano José de Larra’s El doncel de Don Enrique el doliente (1834; “The Page of King Enrique the Invalid”) and Espronceda’s Sancho Saldaña (1834).

Gilberto Gil is a Brazilian multi-instrumentalist, singer, and songwriter who was one of the leading names in Brazilian music and an originator of the movement known as Tropicália (or Tropicalismo). Gil, who was the son of a doctor and an elementary-school teacher, grew up mostly in Ituaçu, a small

Gila Bend, town, Maricopa county, southwestern Arizona, U.S., 50 miles (80 km) southwest of Phoenix. The Gila River makes a sweeping 90° bend westward at this point, hence the name. The city is near a pre-Columbian Hohokam village first visited in 1699 by Father Eusebio Kino. It had been a

Gila Cliff Dwellings National Monument, archaeological site in southwestern New Mexico, U.S., in the Gila National Forest near the headwaters of the Gila River. The name Gila is derived from the Yuma Indian term hahquahssael, meaning “salty water running.” The monument lies in rugged country about

Gila monster, (Heloderma suspectum), one of two species of North American venomous lizards in the genus Heloderma of the family Helodermatidae. The Gila monster (H. suspectum) was named for the Gila River basin and occurs in the southwestern United States and northern Mexico. It grows to about 50

Gila Cliff Dwellings National Monument: , in the Gila National Forest near the headwaters of the Gila River. The name Gila is derived from the Yuma Indian term hahquahssael, meaning “salty water running.” The monument lies in rugged country about 30 miles (50 km) north of Silver City. It contains groups of small…

Gila River, river rising in southwestern New Mexico, U.S., in the Elk Mountains, near the Gila Cliff Dwellings National Monument. The river, draining 58,100 sq miles (150,500 sq km), flows 630 miles (1,015 km) west and southwest over desert land to the Colorado River at Yuma, Arizona. Its chief

Gīlān, province, northwestern Iran, bounded by the Caspian Sea and the Republic of Azerbaijan on the north, Ardabīl province on the west, Zanjān province on the southwest, Qazvīn province on the south, and Māzandarān province on the east. The capital is Rasht. Gīlān was within the sphere of

Caspian Sea: Shoreline features: …sediments of the Länkäran and Gīlān-Māzanderān lowlands, with the high peaks of the Talish and Elburz ranges rearing up close inland. The eastern shore of the southern Caspian is low, formed partly by sediments derived from the erosion of the cliffs along the sea. The shoreline there is broken sharply…

Rashid Ali al-Gaylani was an Iraqi lawyer and politician who was prime minister of Iraq (1933, 1940–41, 1941) and one of the most celebrated political leaders of the Arab world during his time. The scion of an aristocratic Sunni family, Gaylani studied law at Baghdad Law School. After several years

Yousaf Raza Gilani is a Pakistani politician who was the prime minister of Pakistan (2008–12). Gilani was born into a prominent family of landowners from the Punjab province, many of whom were involved in politics, including his father, who was a provincial minister during the 1950s. After studying

Yousaf Raza Gilani is a Pakistani politician who was the prime minister of Pakistan (2008–12). Gilani was born into a prominent family of landowners from the Punjab province, many of whom were involved in politics, including his father, who was a provincial minister during the 1950s. After studying

Gilbert & George, British collaborative team made up of Gilbert Proesch (b. September 17, 1943, Dolomites, Italy) and George Passmore (b. January 8, 1942, Plymouth, Devon, England), whose dynamic and often humorous insertion of themselves into their art proved an important chapter in postwar

Gilbert and Ellice Islands, former British colony, west-central Pacific Ocean. The colony consisted of the Gilbert Islands, Tuvalu (formerly Ellice Islands), the northern Line Islands, and the Phoenix Islands. First visited by Europeans by the early 19th century, the group was proclaimed a British

Arthur Sullivan was a composer who, with W.S. Gilbert, established the distinctive English form of the operetta. Gilbert’s satire and verbal ingenuity were matched so well by Sullivan’s unfailing melodiousness, resourceful musicianship, and sense of parody that the works of this unique partnership

W.S. Gilbert was an English playwright and humorist best known for his collaboration with Arthur Sullivan in comic operas. Gilbert began to write in an age of rhymed couplets, puns, and travesty; his early work exhibits the facetiousness common to writers of extravaganza. But he turned away from

Gilbert Crispin was an English cleric, biblical exegete, and proponent of the thought of St. Anselm of Canterbury. Of noble birth, Gilbert was educated and later became a monk at the monastery of Bec, in Normandy, where Anselm was abbot. Gilbert served as abbot of Westminster Abbey from about 1085

digestive system disease: Unconjugated jaundice: Gilbert disease, a fairly common hereditary deficiency in the hepatic transport protein ligandin and the conjugating enzyme glucuronyl transferase, results in a harmless lifelong tendency to mild degrees of unconjugated jaundice, especially during periods of fasting or fatigue.

Gilbert Foliot was an Anglo-Norman Cluniac monk who became bishop of Hereford and later of London; he was an unsuccessful rival of Thomas Becket for the archbishopric of Canterbury and afterward was Becket’s opponent in ecclesiastical and secular politics. Gilbert’s appointment in 1139 as abbot of

Gilbert Islands, group of 16 coral islands and atolls, part of Kiribati, in the west-central Pacific Ocean 2,800 miles (4,500 km) northeast of Australia. The low-lying islands—Makin, Butaritari, Marakei, Abaiang, Tarawa, Maiana, Abemama, Kuria, Aranuka, Nonouti, Tabiteuea, Beru, Nikunau, Onotoa,

Linda Gilbert: The Gilbert Library and Prisoners’ Aid Society (1876–83) was of genuine, if limited, service; prison libraries were supported, small personal items were distributed to prisoners, and support and sometimes employment were offered to released prisoners.

Saint Gilbert of Sempringham ; canonized 1202; feast day February 4, feast day in Northampton and Nottingham February 16) was an English priest, prelate, and founder of the Ordo Gilbertinorum Canonicorum or Ordo Sempringensis (Order of Gilbertine Canons, or Sempringham Order), commonly called

rat kangaroo: A closely related species, Gilbert’s potoroo (P. gilbertii), of southwestern Australia, was long thought to be extinct, but in the 1990s a tiny population was rediscovered near Albany, Western Australia. Another Western Australian species, the broad-faced potoroo (P. platyops), has been listed as an extinct species on the IUCN…

Alan Gilbert is an American conductor who is known for programming contemporary music along with the traditional repertoire and for his ability to communicate with and engage audiences. Gilbert was the son of violinists Michael Gilbert and Yoko Takebe, both of whom eventually joined the New York

Anne Jane Hartley Gilbert was an American dancer and actress, popular on the 19th-century stage for her character roles. Anne Hartley grew up in London. At age 12 she began studying dance in the ballet school of Her Majesty’s Theatre, Haymarket. She danced in the corps at Her Majesty’s and Drury

Cass Gilbert was an architect, designer of the Woolworth Building (1908–13) in New York City and of the United States Supreme Court Building (completed 1935) in Washington, D.C. Conscientious and prosperous, he was an acknowledged leader of the architectural profession in the United States during a

Torsten Wiesel: …collaborative partnership with American neurobiologist Charles Gilbert, who was studying the interactions of neurons in the primary visual cortex. Their studies led to the elucidation of fundamental neuronal connections in the visual cortex and revealed information about the responses of cells in the visual receptive fields. From 1991 to 1998…

Sir Humphry Davy: Early life: ” He was befriended by Davies Giddy (later Gilbert; president of the Royal Society, 1827–30), who offered him the use of his library in Tradea and took him to a chemistry laboratory that was well equipped for that day. There he formed strongly independent views on topics of the moment,…

Lola Montez was an Irish adventuress and “Spanish” dancer who achieved international notoriety through her liaison with King Louis I (Ludwig I) of Bavaria. Elizabeth (“Eliza”) Gilbert spent much of her girlhood in India but was educated in Scotland and England. At age 19 she eloped with Lieutenant

Lola Montez was an Irish adventuress and “Spanish” dancer who achieved international notoriety through her liaison with King Louis I (Ludwig I) of Bavaria. Elizabeth (“Eliza”) Gilbert spent much of her girlhood in India but was educated in Scotland and England. At age 19 she eloped with Lieutenant

chess: Women in chess: An American woman, Ellen Gilbert, defeated a strong English amateur, George Gossip, twice in an international correspondence match in 1879—announcing checkmate in 21 moves in one game and in 35 moves in the other. Edith Winter-Wood composed more than 2,000 problems, 700 of which appeared in a book…

history of Europe: Renaissance thought: …tragedy by the American historian Felix Gilbert, for it demonstrates how, out of stupidity and weakness, people make mistakes that gradually narrow the range of their freedom to choose alternative courses and thus to influence events until, finally, they are trapped in the web of fortune. This view of history…

Muncie: …was founded in 1827 when Goldsmith C. Gilbert, a trader, donated land for the county seat. The first railroad (1852) and the discovery of natural gas (first exploited 1886) contributed to the city’s growth. Although gas production failed in the early 1900s, the city continued to grow as a manufacturing…

Grove Karl Gilbert was a U.S. geologist, one of the founders of modern geomorphology, the study of landforms. He first recognized the applicability of the concept of dynamic equilibrium in landform configuration and evolution—namely, that landforms reflect a state of balance between the processes

Humphrey Gilbert was an English soldier and navigator who devised daring and farseeing projects of overseas colonization. Although he was brilliant and creative, his poor leadership was responsible for his failure to establish the first permanent English colony in North America. He succeeded,

tropical cyclone: Naming systems: …not be used again include Gilbert, a 1988 category 5 hurricane that had the lowest central atmospheric pressure (888 millibars) ever recorded in the Atlantic. Also retired is Mitch, the name of a category 5 hurricane that stalled off the coast of Honduras for two days in 1998 before slowly…

John Gilbert was a romantic leading man of the silent era of film, known as the “Great Lover.” In retrospect, his acting career has been overshadowed by his identification as the tragic star who failed to make the transition to sound. (Read Lillian Gish’s 1929 Britannica essay on silent film.) The

You Only Live Twice: Production notes and credits:

Linda Gilbert was an American welfare worker whose efforts to provide library and other services to prison inmates met with limited success. Gilbert grew up in Chicago from the age of five. In childhood her daily path to convent school took her past the Cook County Jail. She eventually developed an

Pete Seeger: Ronnie Gilbert, and Fred Hellerman—which achieved considerable success on college campuses, in concert, and on several records. Shortly after the group achieved national fame, however, a great deal of controversy was stirred up concerning Seeger’s previous activities in left-wing and labor politics, and the Weavers…

Rufus Henry Gilbert was a U.S. surgeon and transit expert who played a major role in the development of rapid transit in New York City. Gilbert attended the College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York City and then served as a surgeon in the Federal Army in the Civil War, attaining the rank of

Pete Seeger: Ronnie Gilbert, and Fred Hellerman—which achieved considerable success on college campuses, in concert, and on several records. Shortly after the group achieved national fame, however, a great deal of controversy was stirred up concerning Seeger’s previous activities in left-wing and labor politics, and the Weavers…

Western sculpture: 19th-century sculpture: …the end of the century, Alfred Gilbert, creator of the most remarkable metropolitan fountain since the Renaissance (the Eros in Piccadilly Circus), also became the first sculptor of the foremost rank since Cellini to devote himself wholeheartedly to the art of the goldsmith.

Sir Henry Gilbert was an English chemist whose most important contribution was his study of nitrogen fertilizers and their effects on crops. In 1843 Gilbert joined Sir John Bennet Lawes as codirector of agricultural research at the newly founded Rothamsted Experimental Station, Hertfordshire, the

Humphrey Gilbert was an English soldier and navigator who devised daring and farseeing projects of overseas colonization. Although he was brilliant and creative, his poor leadership was responsible for his failure to establish the first permanent English colony in North America. He succeeded,

Sir John Gilbert was an English Romantic painter and illustrator of literary classics, especially remembered for his woodcut illustrations for the works of Shakespeare (1858–60) and Scott. He preferred medieval chivalric subjects, and such pictures as Sir Lancelot du Lake (1887) earned him the

Sir Henry Gilbert was an English chemist whose most important contribution was his study of nitrogen fertilizers and their effects on crops. In 1843 Gilbert joined Sir John Bennet Lawes as codirector of agricultural research at the newly founded Rothamsted Experimental Station, Hertfordshire, the

W.S. Gilbert was an English playwright and humorist best known for his collaboration with Arthur Sullivan in comic operas. Gilbert began to write in an age of rhymed couplets, puns, and travesty; his early work exhibits the facetiousness common to writers of extravaganza. But he turned away from

W.S. Gilbert was an English playwright and humorist best known for his collaboration with Arthur Sullivan in comic operas. Gilbert began to write in an age of rhymed couplets, puns, and travesty; his early work exhibits the facetiousness common to writers of extravaganza. But he turned away from

Walter Gilbert is an American molecular biologist who was awarded a share (with Paul Berg and Frederick Sanger) of the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1980 for his development of a method for determining the sequence of nucleotide links in the chainlike molecules of nucleic acids (DNA and RNA).

William Gilbert was a pioneer researcher into magnetism who became the most distinguished man of science in England during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I. Educated as a physician, Gilbert settled in London and began to practice in 1573. His principal work, De Magnete, Magneticisque Corporibus, et

Linda Gilbert was an American welfare worker whose efforts to provide library and other services to prison inmates met with limited success. Gilbert grew up in Chicago from the age of five. In childhood her daily path to convent school took her past the Cook County Jail. She eventually developed an

Saint Gilbert of Sempringham: …or Sempringham Order), commonly called Gilbertines, the only medieval religious order of English origin.

Ituri Forest: Plant and animal life: In the south and west Gilbertiodendron deweverei dominates and can constitute 90 percent of the standing vegetation. The regions of the forest dominated by only a few plant species have less abundant and diverse animal life than the other, more botanically mixed areas, such as in the north and east.…

Astrud Gilberto was a Brazilian singer who became a star overnight with the international hit “The Girl from Ipanema.” The single propelled the bossa nova movement—a musical style that combines Brazilian samba rhythms and jazz—to the international stage. Gilberto was born Astrud Evangelina Weinert,

bossa nova: …Carlos Jobim and the guitarist João Gilberto may be considered the founders of this style, which was considered particularly characteristic of Brazilian culture and which in the mid-1960s began to be associated with movements of social protest. Instrumentation is varied and purposely simple, limited to a few rhythm instruments—e.g., guitar,…

Montdory was the first outstanding French actor, whose presentations of the works of Corneille were especially notable. Montdory began his theatrical career in 1612 in a troupe led by Valleran Le-Comte, a company specializing in the tragicomedies of Alexandre Hardy. A member of the company of the

Frank Bunker Gilbreth was an American engineer who, with his wife, Lillian Gilbreth, developed the method of time-and-motion study, as applied to the work habits of industrial employees, to increase their efficiency and hence their output. Gilbreth ended his formal education after high school and

Lillian Evelyn Gilbreth was an American psychologist and engineer who, with her husband, Frank Bunker Gilbreth, developed methods to increase the efficiency of industrial employees, most notably time-and-motion study. Moller received bachelor’s and master’s degrees in literature from the University

William Johnson: In Gilchrist v. Collector of Charleston (1808), Johnson, while holding federal circuit court, allowed clearance from the port of Charleston to a ship detained under Jefferson’s Embargo Act of 1807, a measure intended to preserve U.S. neutrality in the Napoleonic Wars. In Supreme Court cases Johnson…

Buffalo Bills: …Kemp and punishing running back Cookie Gilchrist during the 1962 season helped turn around the franchise’s fortunes. That year Gilchrist was named the AFL’s Player of the Year, and in 1963 he set a league record by rushing for 243 yards in a game. Also in 1963, in his first…

Percy Gilchrist was a British metallurgist who, with his better-known cousin Sidney Gilchrist Thomas, devised in 1876–77 a process (thereafter widely used in Europe) of manufacturing in Bessemer converters a kind of low-phosphorus steel known as Thomas steel. In the Thomas-Gilchrist process the

Percy Gilchrist was a British metallurgist who, with his better-known cousin Sidney Gilchrist Thomas, devised in 1876–77 a process (thereafter widely used in Europe) of manufacturing in Bessemer converters a kind of low-phosphorus steel known as Thomas steel. In the Thomas-Gilchrist process the

guild, an association of craftsmen or merchants formed for mutual aid and protection and for the furtherance of their professional interests. Guilds flourished in Europe between the 11th and 16th centuries and formed an important part of the economic and social fabric in that era. The medieval

Rudolph Maté: …My Favorite Wife (1940), and Gilda (1946).

Gildas was a British historian of the 6th century. A monk, he founded a monastery in Brittany known after him as St. Gildas de Rhuys. His De excidio et conquestu Britanniae (“The Overthrow and Conquest of Britain”), one of the few sources for the country’s post-Roman history, contains the story of

Gilded Age, period of gross materialism and blatant political corruption in U.S. history during the 1870s that gave rise to important novels of social and political criticism. The period takes its name from the earliest of these, The Gilded Age (1873), written by Mark Twain in collaboration with

Julian Fellowes: Two years later The Gilded Age debuted on HBO. The TV show, which was set in the late 19th century and centred on New York high society, was cocreated and cowritten by Fellowes.

Mark Twain: Literary maturity of Mark Twain: The Gilded Age (1873) was remarkably well received, and a play based on the most amusing character from the novel, Colonel Sellers, also became quite popular.

Wesley Ruggles: Later films: and Fred MacMurray: The Gilded Lily and The Bride Comes Home. Next was Valiant Is the Word for Carrie (1936), an unusual assignment, considering that Ruggles’s strength lay in comedy. However, he did a creditable job with that unabashed tearjerker, which featured Gladys George in an Oscar-nominated performance…

the Flying Burrito Brothers: The Burritos’ first album, The Gilded Palace of Sin (1969), also displayed Parsons’s guiding hand: he contributed most of the songs and shaped its combination of classic country and western—punctuated by Kleinow’s pedal-steel guitar—and hard-driving southern California rock. Even after Parsons left the Burritos in 1970 (replaced by Roberts),…

Jeannette Leonard Gilder was an American editor and writer, a prolific and influential figure in popular journalism, particularly in the arts, in the latter half of the 19th century. Gilder grew up in Flushing, New York, and Bordentown, New Jersey. In 1864 she went to work to help support her large

textual criticism: Emendation: …defined by the American scholar B.L. Gildersleeve as “the appeal from manuscripts we have to a manuscript that has been lost.” Theoretically this definition is acceptable, if we interpret “manuscript” as “source,” but in practice the making of conjectures, as distinct from testing them, is intelligent guesswork.

Harold Peary was an American actor. He created the colourful, arrogant character Throckmorton P. Gildersleeve on the hit radio comedy series Fibber McGee and Molly in 1937. He starred in his own popular serial, The Great Gildersleeve (1941–50), considered the first spin-off created from another

gilding, the art of decorating the whole or parts of wood, metal, plaster, glass, or other objects with gold in leaf or powder form. The term also embraces the application of silver, palladium, aluminum, and copper alloys. The ancient Egyptians were master gilders, as evidenced by the overlays of

Gildo was a Moorish potentate who rebelled against Rome in 397–398. In 375 Gildo helped the Romans crush his brother Firmus, who was attempting to carve out an independent kingdom from a portion of Rome’s African provinces. As a reward, the Romans appointed him count of Africa and master of the

Gildas was a British historian of the 6th century. A monk, he founded a monastery in Brittany known after him as St. Gildas de Rhuys. His De excidio et conquestu Britanniae (“The Overthrow and Conquest of Britain”), one of the few sources for the country’s post-Roman history, contains the story of

Gilead, area of ancient Palestine east of the Jordan River, corresponding to modern northwestern Jordan. The region is bounded in the north by the Yarmūk River and in the southwest by what were known in ancient times as the “plains of Moab”; to the east there is no definite boundary. Sometimes

Marilynne Robinson: Later fiction: …from fiction, Robinson returned with Gilead (2004), a novel set in the fictional town of Gilead, Iowa, during the 1950s. The ailing Reverend John Ames chronicles his family’s history in a series of daily letters addressed to his young son for him to read as an adult. In doing so,…

Canada balsam: …greenish liquid exuded by the balsam fir of North America, Abies balsamea. It is actually a turpentine, belonging to the class of oleoresins (natural products consisting of a resin dissolved in an essential oil), and not a balsam.

poplar: Common species: The buds of the balm of Gilead poplar (P. ×jackii), which is similar, are used to make an ointment. The western balsam poplar, also called black cottonwood (P. trichocarpa), grows some 60 metres (195 feet) tall and is one of the largest deciduous trees of northwestern North America.

balm: Balm of Gilead, or balm of Mecca, is the myrrhlike resin from Commiphora gileadensis of the Arabian Peninsula. The balsam fir (Abies balsamea) is sometimes called balm fir, or balm of Gilead fir, and the balm of Gilead poplar (Populus X jackii) is related to…

Emil Gilels was a Soviet concert pianist admired for his superb technique, tonal control, and disciplined approach. Gilels began piano studies at age 6 and gave his first public concert in 1929 at age 13. In 1933 he gained top honours in the first All-Union Musicians Contest. After graduating from

Emil Gilels was a Soviet concert pianist admired for his superb technique, tonal control, and disciplined approach. Gilels began piano studies at age 6 and gave his first public concert in 1929 at age 13. In 1933 he gained top honours in the first All-Union Musicians Contest. After graduating from

Giles Goat-Boy, satiric allegorical novel by John Barth, published in 1966. The book is set in a vast university that is a symbol for the world. The novel’s protagonist, Billy Bockfuss (also called George Giles, the goat-boy), was raised with herds of goats on a university farm after being found as

Giles Goat-Boy, satiric allegorical novel by John Barth, published in 1966. The book is set in a vast university that is a symbol for the world. The novel’s protagonist, Billy Bockfuss (also called George Giles, the goat-boy), was raised with herds of goats on a university farm after being found as

Giles of Rome was a Scholastic theologian, philosopher, logician, archbishop, and general and intellectual leader of the Order of the Hermit Friars of St. Augustine. Giles joined the Augustinian Hermits in about 1257 and in 1260 went to Paris, where he was educated in the house of his order. While

Great Victoria Desert: …party led by the explorer Ernest Giles, who named it the Great Victoria Desert. It is crossed by the Laverton–Warburton Mission Track, which links the mission station in the Warburton Range, in Western Australia, with Laverton, 350 miles (560 km) southwest. It is also tracked for the recovery of missiles…

H.A. Giles was an English scholar of Chinese language and culture, who helped to popularize the Wade-Giles system for the romanization of the Chinese languages. Educated at Charterhouse school, London, Giles joined the consular service and spent the years 1867–92 in various posts in China. Upon his

Sophia B. Packard: …partnership with her longtime companion, Harriet E. Giles, Packard taught at the Connecticut Literary Institution in Suffield (1859–64). From 1864 to 1867 she was coprincipal of the Oread Collegiate Institute in Worcester, Massachusetts. She then moved to Boston, where she secured in 1870 the unusual position of pastor’s assistant under…

H.A. Giles was an English scholar of Chinese language and culture, who helped to popularize the Wade-Giles system for the romanization of the Chinese languages. Educated at Charterhouse school, London, Giles joined the consular service and spent the years 1867–92 in various posts in China. Upon his

King Crimson: Fripp on guitar and keyboards; Michael Giles on drums and vocals; Greg Lake on bass, guitar, and vocals; Ian McDonald on keyboard, Mellotron, vibraphone, woodwind instruments, and vocals; and Peter Sinfield as lyricist and spoken-word artist. Over the years, however, many musicians performed as

Elbridge Gerry: …the legislative session, thus preventing William Giles, a senator from Virginia and an advocate of peace with Britain, from becoming president pro tempore of the Senate and thereby second in line (after the vice president) to succeed the president under the Presidential Succession Act of 1792. Gerry suffered a hemorrhage…