- Gorj (county, Romania)
Gorj, judeƫ (county), southwestern Romania, occupying an area of 2,163 square miles (5,602 square km). The Transylvanian Alps (Southern Carpathians) and the sub-Carpathians rise above settlement areas in the valleys and lowlands. The county is drained southward by the Jiu River and its tributaries.
- Gorkaya sudbina (play by Pisemsky)
Aleksey Feofilaktovich Pisemsky: Pisemsky’s tragedy Gorkaya sudbina (1859; “A Bitter Lot”), is one of the masterpieces of the Russian theatre. Pisemsky was further estranged from his colleagues and public by a novel satirizing the radical younger generation, Vzbalamuchennoye more (1863; “The Stormy Sea”). The critical attacks directed against him by…
- Gorkha (Nepal)
Gurkha, town, central Nepal. It is located on a hill overlooking the Himalayas. The town is famous for its shrine of Gorakhnath, the patron saint of the region. There is also a temple to the Hindu goddess Bhavani (Devi). The ancestral home of the ruling house of Nepal, Gurkha was seized in 1559 by
- Gorkha earthquake
Nepal earthquake of 2015, severe earthquake that struck near the city of Kathmandu in central Nepal on April 25, 2015. About 9,000 people were killed, many thousands more were injured, and more than 600,000 structures in Kathmandu and other nearby towns were either damaged or destroyed. The
- Gorkha Patra (Nepali newspaper)
Nepal: Cultural life: Gorkha Patra, published by the government, occupies a commanding position in the Nepalese press. Nepalese newspaper readers rely on the foreign press, particularly Indian newspapers, which are flown daily into Kathmandu, for more sophisticated coverage of world and national news.
- Gorkhali language
Nepali language, member of the Pahari subgroup of the Indo-Aryan group of the Indo-Iranian division of the Indo-European languages. Nepali is spoken by more than 17 million people, mostly in Nepal and neighbouring parts of India. Smaller speech communities exist in Bhutan, Brunei, and Myanmar.
- Gorki, Maksim (Russian writer)
Maxim Gorky was a Russian short-story writer and novelist who first attracted attention with his naturalistic and sympathetic stories of tramps and social outcasts and later wrote other stories, novels, and plays, including his famous The Lower Depths. Gorky’s earliest years were spent in
- Gorkić, Milan (Yugoslavian political leader)
Josip Broz Tito: Communist organizer: …agile leadership in exile of Milan Gorkić. Gorkić summoned Broz to the CPY’s Vienna headquarters, where he attempted to secure his cooperation by bringing him into the CPY Politburo. It was at this time that Broz assumed the pseudonym Tito, one of many that he used in underground party work.…
- Gorky (oblast, Russia)
Nizhegorod, oblast (region) in western Russia, in the middle of the Volga River basin. Nizhegorod oblast is bisected by the Volga River. The northern half of the oblast is a low plain, mostly in dense coniferous forest of spruce, pine, and fir, while lower parts are often swampy. Its soils are
- Gorky (Russia)
Nizhny Novgorod, city and administrative center of Nizhegorod oblast (region), western Russia. The city lies at the confluence of the Volga and Oka rivers, 260 miles (420 km) east of Moscow. Although some authorities give an earlier date, the city was founded, according to a major chronicle, in
- Gorky Colony (settlement, Russia)
Anton Makarenko: …the 1920s he organized the Gorky Colony, a rehabilitation settlement for children who had been made homeless by the Russian Revolution and who roamed the countryside in criminal gangs. In 1931 he was appointed head of the Dzerzhinsky Commune, a penal institution for young offenders.
- Gorky Park (film by Apted [1983])
Brian Dennehy: …early 1990s, his work included Gorky Park (1983), Silverado (1985), Cocoon (1985), F/X (1986), Legal Eagles (1986), and Presumed Innocent (1990).
- Gorky Prospekt (street, Moscow, Russia)
Moscow: The inner city: Many streets were widened—in particular, Tverskaya Prospekt (called Gorky Prospekt, for Russian novelist Maxim Gorky, from 1932 to 1992), one of Moscow’s principal radial roads, which is lined with large shops, hotels, and offices. The Garden Ring itself has been widened to form a broad highway with multiple lanes in…
- Gorky, Arshile (American painter)
Arshile Gorky was an American painter, important as the direct link between the European Surrealist painters and the painters of the American Abstract Expressionist movement. Gorky’s early life was disrupted when his father abandoned Turkey, his wife, and his family in order to avoid service in the
- Gorky, Maksim (Russian writer)
Maxim Gorky was a Russian short-story writer and novelist who first attracted attention with his naturalistic and sympathetic stories of tramps and social outcasts and later wrote other stories, novels, and plays, including his famous The Lower Depths. Gorky’s earliest years were spent in
- Gorky, Maxim (Russian writer)
Maxim Gorky was a Russian short-story writer and novelist who first attracted attention with his naturalistic and sympathetic stories of tramps and social outcasts and later wrote other stories, novels, and plays, including his famous The Lower Depths. Gorky’s earliest years were spent in
- Görlitz (Germany)
Görlitz, city, Saxony Land (state), extreme eastern Germany. It lies along the Neisse River, opposite the Polish town of Zgorzelec (which before 1945 was part of Görlitz), east of Dresden. It originated as the Slav settlement of Gorelić (first mentioned in 1071) and was chartered in 1303, when it
- Gorlo Strait (Russia)
White Sea: …inflowing currents, prevail in the Gorlo Strait, Voronka, and the Mezen mouth. The sea’s chief hollow is separated from the Barents Sea by a sill 130 feet deep, which restricts deepwater exchange between the two bodies of water.
- Gorlovka (Ukraine)
Horlivka, city, eastern Ukraine. It lies in the centre of the Donets Basin industrial area on the headwaters of the small Korsun River. Horlivka was founded in 1867 as a mining settlement beside the newly constructed railway from Kharkiv to Taganrog on the Sea of Azov. Several other small mining
- Gorman, Amanda (American poet)
Amanda Gorman is a poet and activist who gained international fame when she read her poem “The Hill We Climb” at the 2021 inauguration of U.S. Pres. Joe Biden. She is known for works that address Black identity, feminism, marginalization, and climate change. Her star has continued to rise. Gorman
- Gorman, Marvin (American televangelist)
Jimmy Swaggart: Indeed, another rival televangelist, Marvin Gorman, whom Swaggart had also accused of having one or more extramarital affairs and who was subsequently defrocked, provided photographs of Swaggart at a Baton Rouge motel with a local prostitute. Despite his tearful on-air apology in February 1988, Swaggart was defrocked by the…
- Gormenghast (novel by Peake)
Mervyn Peake: …a literary prize, together with Gormenghast. Peake also wrote a play, The Wit to Woo (performed 1957).
- Gormley, Antony (British sculptor and draftsman)
Antony Gormley is a British sculptor and draftsman best known for his work with human forms, which he created chiefly from casts of his own naked body. In these artworks, he examined aspects of the human presence in the world, often employing more than one figure placed within a landscape or
- Gormley, Antony Mark David (British sculptor and draftsman)
Antony Gormley is a British sculptor and draftsman best known for his work with human forms, which he created chiefly from casts of his own naked body. In these artworks, he examined aspects of the human presence in the world, often employing more than one figure placed within a landscape or
- Gorno-Altaisk (Russia)
Gorno-Altaysk, city and administrative centre of Altay republic, southern Russia. It lies in the foothills of the Altai Mountains, along the Mayma River near its confluence with the Katun. Gorno-Altaysk is an agricultural centre and has a woodworking industry and cloth factories. Teacher-training
- Gorno-Altajsk (Russia)
Gorno-Altaysk, city and administrative centre of Altay republic, southern Russia. It lies in the foothills of the Altai Mountains, along the Mayma River near its confluence with the Katun. Gorno-Altaysk is an agricultural centre and has a woodworking industry and cloth factories. Teacher-training
- Gorno-Altay (republic, Russia)
Altay, republic, southern Russia, in the Altai Mountains. It s bounded on the south by Mongolia and China. It embraces a complex series of ranges and high plateaus, divided by deep valleys and broad basins, that attain a maximum height of 14,783 feet (4,506 metres) in Mount Belukha. Steppe
- Gorno-Altaysk (Russia)
Gorno-Altaysk, city and administrative centre of Altay republic, southern Russia. It lies in the foothills of the Altai Mountains, along the Mayma River near its confluence with the Katun. Gorno-Altaysk is an agricultural centre and has a woodworking industry and cloth factories. Teacher-training
- Gorno-Badachsan (oblast, Tajikistan)
Badakhshān: …this Pamir region became the Gorno-Badakhshān autonomous oblast, part of the Tadzhik S.S.R. (Tajikistan after 1991). In the 1979 Soviet military intervention, the Afghan towns of Feyẕābād and Eshkāshem were captured from Afghan guerrillas, and in 1980 the Soviets established a military command at Feyẕābād.
- Gorno-Badakhshan (oblast, Tajikistan)
Badakhshān: …this Pamir region became the Gorno-Badakhshān autonomous oblast, part of the Tadzhik S.S.R. (Tajikistan after 1991). In the 1979 Soviet military intervention, the Afghan towns of Feyẕābād and Eshkāshem were captured from Afghan guerrillas, and in 1980 the Soviets established a military command at Feyẕābād.
- Gorny Badakhshan (oblast, Tajikistan)
Badakhshān: …this Pamir region became the Gorno-Badakhshān autonomous oblast, part of the Tadzhik S.S.R. (Tajikistan after 1991). In the 1979 Soviet military intervention, the Afghan towns of Feyẕābād and Eshkāshem were captured from Afghan guerrillas, and in 1980 the Soviets established a military command at Feyẕābād.
- Gorodets-on-the-Oka (Mongol khanate)
history of Central Asia: Mongol rule: The khanate of Kasimov was to be a thorn in Kazan’s flesh until the latter’s extinction in 1552. Kasimov itself survived as a political fiction until about 1681, by which time the last khans had abandoned Islam for Christianity.
- Goroka (Papua New Guinea)
Goroka, town, east-central Papua New Guinea, southwestern Pacific Ocean. Goroka is a centre of European settlement in the central highlands and a commercial and transportation hub for the region. It has an airport and also lies on the Highlands Highway, an important truck route leading 110 miles
- Goron Dutse Hill (hill, Nigeria)
Kano: … (1,753 feet [534 metres]) and Goron Dutse Hill (1,697 feet [517 metres]) dominate the old city, which has lowland pools and borrow pits, source of the mud for building its square, flat-roofed houses. The population is mostly Hausa, mainly Kano (Kanawa), but also includes the Abagagyawa, who claim descent from…
- Gorong Islands (islands, Indonesia)
Ceram: …are included Ceram Laut, the Gorong (or Goram) Islands, and the Watubela group, all southeast of Ceram. None has hills of more than 1,300 feet (400 metres), and most are thickly wooded. Ceram is covered with tropical forests, the result of a hot climate and heavy rainfall, and excellent timber…
- Gorontalese (people)
Celebes: Geography: The Gorontalese, in the west and south-central part of the northeastern peninsula, are Muslims.
- Gorontalo (province, Indonesia)
Gorontalo, propinsi (or provinsi; province), in the centre of the northern peninsula of the island of Celebes (Sulawesi), Indonesia. It is bounded to the north by the Celebes Sea, to the east by the province of North Sulawesi (Sulawesi Utara), to the south by the Gulf of Tomini, and to the west by
- Gorontalo macaque (primate)
crested black macaque: A closely related species, the Gorontalo macaque (Macaca nigrescens), lives just southwest of Minahasa, and at least five other species of macaques live in other parts of Sulawesi.
- Gorowa (people)
Tanzania: Ethnic groups: The Iraqw, the Mbugu, the Gorowa, and the Burungi have Cushitic origins. About 500 ce, iron-using Bantu agriculturalists arriving from the west and south started displacing or absorbing the San hunters and gatherers; at roughly the same time, Nilotic pastoralists entered the area from the southern Sudan.
- Görres Society (Catholic society)
Joseph von Görres: In 1876 the Görres Society was founded in his honour to advance Roman Catholic studies.
- Görres, Johann Joseph von (German writer)
Joseph von Görres was a German Romantic writer who was one of the leading figures of Roman Catholic political journalism. Görres was sympathetic to the ideals of the French Revolution and published a republican journal, Das rote Blatt (“The Red Page”; renamed Rübezahl), in 1799. After an
- Görres, Joseph von (German writer)
Joseph von Görres was a German Romantic writer who was one of the leading figures of Roman Catholic political journalism. Görres was sympathetic to the ideals of the French Revolution and published a republican journal, Das rote Blatt (“The Red Page”; renamed Rübezahl), in 1799. After an
- Gorrie, John (American physician)
John Gorrie was an American physician who discovered the cold-air process of refrigeration as the result of experiments to lower the temperature of fever patients by cooling hospital rooms. In 1842 Gorrie designed and built an air-cooling apparatus for treating yellow-fever patients. His basic
- Gorrio, Tobia (Italian composer)
Arrigo Boito was an Italian poet and composer acclaimed for his opera Mefistofele (1868; for which he composed both libretto and music) and his librettos after William Shakespeare for Giuseppe Verdi’s Otello (1887) and Falstaff (1893). The son of an Italian painter of miniatures and a Polish
- Gorris, Marleen (Dutch director and writer)
- gorse (plant)
gorse, Any of several related plants of the genera Ulex and Genista. Common gorse (U. europaeus) is a spiny, yellow-flowered leguminous shrub native to Europe and naturalized in the Middle Atlantic states and on Vancouver Island. The large green spines and green twigs of Spanish gorse (G.
- Gorshkov, Aleksandr (Soviet ice dancer)
Innsbruck 1976 Olympic Winter Games: …favoured Soviets Lyudmila Pakomova and Aleksandr Gorshkov won the gold.
- Gorshkov, Sergey Georgyevich (Soviet admiral)
Sergey Georgyevich Gorshkov was a Soviet admiral, commander in chief of the Soviet navy (1956–85), who transformed the small coastal fleet into a world sea power. Gorshkov joined the Soviet navy at the age of 17, graduated from Frunze Naval College (1931), and spent most of his early career
- Gorsky, Aleksandr (Russian dancer and choreographer)
Aleksandr Gorsky was a Russian dancer, choreographer, and influential director of the Bolshoi Ballet. He trained in St. Petersburg and joined the Mariinsky Theatre, where he became a soloist in 1895. He directed several ballets before moving to Moscow in 1900 as lead dancer and stage manager of the
- Gorsky, Aleksandr Alexeyevich (Russian dancer and choreographer)
Aleksandr Gorsky was a Russian dancer, choreographer, and influential director of the Bolshoi Ballet. He trained in St. Petersburg and joined the Mariinsky Theatre, where he became a soloist in 1895. He directed several ballets before moving to Moscow in 1900 as lead dancer and stage manager of the
- Gorst, Sir Eldon (British official)
Egypt: ʿAbbās Ḥilmī II, 1892–1914: Sir Eldon Gorst, who succeeded Cromer, had served in Egypt from 1886 to 1904 and brought a fresh mind to bear on the problems of the occupation. He reached an understanding with the khedive and sought to diminish the growing power and numbers of the…
- Gorst, Sir John Eldon (British lawyer and politician)
Sir John Eldon Gorst was a lawyer and politician whose reorganization of the British Conservative Party at the local level greatly facilitated the party’s victory in the 1874 general election, the first decisive Conservative triumph since 1841. He was better known later, however, as a member of
- Gorstian Stage (geology and stratigraphy)
Gorstian Stage, first of two stages of the Ludlow Series, made up of all rocks deposited during the Gorstian Age (427.4 million to 425.6 million years ago) of the Silurian Period. In 1980 the International Commission on Stratigraphy established the Global Stratotype Section and Point (GSSP)
- Gorsuch, Neil (United States jurist)
Neil Gorsuch associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 2017. Gorsuch was nominated by Republican President Donald J. Trump in January 2017. After Democratic senators filibustered his nomination in April, the Senate’s Republican majority changed the Senate’s rules regarding
- Gorsuch, Neil McGill (United States jurist)
Neil Gorsuch associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 2017. Gorsuch was nominated by Republican President Donald J. Trump in January 2017. After Democratic senators filibustered his nomination in April, the Senate’s Republican majority changed the Senate’s rules regarding
- Gort (fictional robot character)
The Day the Earth Stood Still: …Rennie) and his robot servant Gort (Lock Martin). Klaatu is shot shortly after landing and is taken to an army hospital. Klaatu tells the president’s secretary that he wants to meet the leaders of Earth but soon is told that an agreement on a meeting site has proved impossible to…
- Gorter, Herman (Dutch poet)
Herman Gorter was an outstanding Dutch poet of the 1880 literary revival, a movement nourished by aesthetic and “art for art’s sake” ideals. Gorter’s early poetry, with its sensuous imagery and alluring air of spontaneity, embodies and often transcends the aesthetic ideals of the movement. In 1889
- gorton (Quebec cuisine)
cretons, a cold pork spread with a texture that varies from smooth to chunky. The pâté-like dish is common in the cuisine of Quebec and first gained popularity with French Canadians. It is made by cooking ground pork and pork fat with water or milk, bread crumbs, onions, and spices. Cretons is a
- Gorton, Samuel (American colonial minister)
Warwick: …made at Shawomet (1642) by Samuel Gorton. Later the colony was named for Robert Rich, 2nd earl of Warwick, who supported Gorton’s quest to gain protection of a royal charter against the Massachusetts Bay colony. Town (township) government was organized in 1647. After the widespread destruction caused by King Philip’s…
- Gorton, Sir John Grey (prime minister of Australia)
Sir John Grey Gorton was a statesman who, as prime minister of Australia (1968–71), maintained his country’s military commitment in Vietnam and expanded the role of the federal government in education, science, and taxation. After distinguished service as a pilot in the Royal Australian Air Force
- Gorton, Slade (United States senator)
Maria Cantwell: Slade Gorton and unseated him by the narrowest of margins, winning 48.7 percent of the vote against Gorton’s 48.6 percent. She entered the Senate in 2001.
- Gortyn (ancient city, Greece)
Gortyn, ancient Greek city toward the western end of the southern plain (Mesara) of Crete (near modern Áyioi Dhéka). Although unimportant in Minoan times, Gortyn displaced Phaestus as the dominant city in the Mesara. It shared or disputed control of the island with Knossos until the Roman
- Gortyn, code of (ancient Greece)
Greek law: The law code of Gortyn, which is itself the revised version of an older code, is the only one that comes close to being fully preserved.
- Gortyna (ancient city, Greece)
Gortyn, ancient Greek city toward the western end of the southern plain (Mesara) of Crete (near modern Áyioi Dhéka). Although unimportant in Minoan times, Gortyn displaced Phaestus as the dominant city in the Mesara. It shared or disputed control of the island with Knossos until the Roman
- Görtz, Georg Heinrich, Baron von (German statesman)
Georg Heinrich, baron von Görtz was a German statesman who was a key financial and diplomatic adviser to King Charles XII of Sweden. In the service of the dukes of Holstein-Gottorp from 1698, Görtz was responsible for maintaining the separate states of Schleswig and Holstein when they were in
- Gory Gamburtseva (mountains, Antarctica)
Gamburtsev Mountains, subglacial range in the central part of eastern Antarctica, extending 750–800 miles (1,200–1,300 km). The mountains attain their greatest height at 11,120 feet (3,390 metres). Completely buried under more than 1,970 feet (600 metres) of the Antarctic ice cap, they were
- Gory Putorana (mountains, Russia)
Putoran Mountains, deeply dissected range on the northwestern edge of the Central Siberian Plateau in Krasnoyarsk kray (region), central Russia. The mountains are the highest part of the plateau, rising to 5,581 feet (1,701 m) in Mount Kamen. They have been much affected by volcanic action and
- Góry Świętokrzyskie (mountains, Poland)
Świętokrzyskie Mountains, mountain range, part of the Little Poland Uplands, in south-central Poland, surrounding the city of Kielce. The highest peaks are Łysica (2,008 feet [612 m]) and Łysa Mountain (1,946 feet [593 m]), both in the Łysogóry range. The Świętokrzyskie Mountains take their name,
- Goryeo dynasty (Korean history)
Goryeo dynasty, in Korean history, dynasty that ruled the Korean peninsula as the Goryeo kingdom from 935 to 1392 ce. During this period the country began to form its own cultural tradition distinct from the rest of East Asia. It is from the name Goryeo that the Western name Korea is derived. The
- goryō (Japanese religion)
goryō, in Japanese religion, vengeful spirits of the dead. In the Heian period (ad 794–1185) goryō were generally considered to be spirits of nobility who had died as a result of political intrigue and who, because of their ill will for the living, brought about natural disasters, diseases, and
- Goryo (pottery style)
Japanese art: Jōmon period: …black polished pottery type called Goryo has been found in central Kyushu. Some scholars suggest that this may in some way be imitative of Chinese black Longshan pottery (c. 2200–1700 bce).
- Goryokaku (fort, Hakodate, Japan)
Hakodate: Goryokaku, a Western-style fort later converted to a park, was built soon after Hakodate opened to international trade in the 19th century. Russians built a Byzantine-style church in 1859.
- Gorytes (wasp genus)
orchid: Natural history: …by the wasps Trielis and Gorytes, and the bee Eucera induce the insects to attempt copulation with the apex of the lip. Those orchids pollinated by Andrena appear, for the most part, to stimulate the bee to reverse its position and copulate with the base of the lip. In the…
- Görz (Italy)
Gorizia, town, Friuli–Venezia Giulia regione, northeastern Italy, on the Isonzo River north of Trieste. From the 11th century Gorizia was the seat of the independent county of Gorizia until it passed to Austria in 1500. A noted cultural centre under Austrian rule, it was the capital of the Habsburg
- Gorzów Wielkopolski (Poland)
Gorzów Wielkopolski, city, one of two capitals (with Zielona Góra) of Lubuskie województwo (province), northwestern Poland, on the Warta River. Gorzów Wielkopolski began as a castle in the Wielkopolska, or Great Poland, region that was overcome by the margraves of Brandenburg in 1257. The town
- gos-zakazy (Soviet economics)
economic planning: The Gorbachev reform agenda: …by the system of so-called gos-zakazy (state orders), and these could cover the major part of the output of many enterprises. There were, moreover, serious problems of ideology (the enhanced role of the market came into conflict with traditional Marxist views) and bureaucratic resistance. Deeper reforms that were proposed threatened…
- Gosāinjī (Hindu leader)
Vallabhacharya: …birth anniversaries of Vallabha and Vitthala. Participation in the highest form of bhakti (devotion) is attainable only through divine grace (pushti, literally “nourishment”); personal efforts such as good deeds or religious observances are not essential.
- Gosainthan (mountain, China)
Xixabangma, one of the world’s highest mountains, reaching an elevation of 26,286 feet (8,012 metres) above sea level. It rises in the Himalayas in the southern part of the Tibet Autonomous Region, southwestern China, near the Nepal border. The Trisuli River cuts a gorge to the west of the
- Gośāla Maskarīputra (Indian ascetic)
akriyāvāda: …Pūraṇa Kāśyapa, a radical antinomian; Gośāla Maskarīputra, a fatalist; Ajita Keśakambalin, the earliest-known materialist in India; and Pakudha Kātyāyana, an atomist. Gośāla’s followers formed the Ājīvika sect, which enjoyed some acceptance during the Maurya period (3rd century bc) and then dwindled.
- Gosalo Makkhaliputto (Indian ascetic)
akriyāvāda: …Pūraṇa Kāśyapa, a radical antinomian; Gośāla Maskarīputra, a fatalist; Ajita Keśakambalin, the earliest-known materialist in India; and Pakudha Kātyāyana, an atomist. Gośāla’s followers formed the Ājīvika sect, which enjoyed some acceptance during the Maurya period (3rd century bc) and then dwindled.
- Gosarbitrazh (Soviet law)
civil service: Civil servants and communism: …compulsory arbitration operated through the State Arbitration Tribunal (known as Gosarbitrazh) under the Council of Ministers and through arbitration tribunals responsible to the councils of ministers in each of the republics. It settled all disputes concerning contracts, quality of goods, and other property disputes between various state enterprises. The system…
- Goschen, George Joachim Goschen, 1st Viscount (British economist)
George Joachim Goschen, 1st Viscount Goschen was a British economist and administrator, who worked for both Liberal and Conservative governments in the late 19th century. The son of William Henry Goeschen (or Göschen), a London banker of German origin, he was educated in Saxony, at Rugby, and at
- Goscinny, René (French writer)
René Goscinny was a French writer who is best known for the comic strip “Astérix”, which he created with illustrator Albert Uderzo. Goscinny was reared and educated in Buenos Aires and later worked on children’s books in New York City. In 1954 he returned to Paris to direct a press agency and soon
- Gosden and Correll (American comedic duo)
Gosden and Correll, American comedic duo, best known for creating the Amos ’n’ Andy radio program. Freeman F. Gosden (b. May 5, 1899, Richmond, Va., U.S.—d. Dec. 10, 1982, Los Angeles, Calif.) and Charles J. Correll (b. Feb. 2, 1890, Peoria, Ill., U.S.—d. Sept. 26, 1972, Chicago, Ill.) performed
- Gosden, Freeman F. (American comedian)
Gosden and Correll: In 1929 Gosden and Correll, both white, broadened their appeal by devising a larger cast of characters for a new nightly radio program, Amos ’n’ Andy, thus creating one of the first situation comedies. As Amos the cab driver and his sidekick, Andy, they became the mainstays…
- Gosford (New South Wales, Australia)
Gosford, city, east-central New South Wales, Australia. It is situated at the north end of the Brisbane Water branch of Broken Bay. Gosford was surveyed and founded in 1839 and named for Archibald Acheson, 2nd earl of Gosford. It was merged in 1886 with the privately owned village of East Gosford
- Gosford Park (film by Altman [2001])
Robert Altman: Final years: Gosford Park (2001), a hybrid of murder mystery and comedy of manners that was set on an English country estate in the early 1930s, earned Altman the last Academy Award nomination of his career for best director. The film was also nominated as best picture.…
- Gosford, Archibald Acheson, 2nd earl of (governor of British North America)
Archibald Acheson, 2nd earl of Gosford was the governor-in-chief of British North America in 1835–37, who alienated English- and French-speaking colonists in Canada. Acheson entered politics in 1798 as member for Armagh in the Irish Parliament. After the union of Great Britain and Ireland (1800),
- goshawk (bird)
goshawk, any of the more powerful accipiters, or true hawks (i.e., belonging to the genus Accipiter), primarily short-winged, forest-dwelling bird catchers, of which the northern goshawk (Accipiter gentilis) is best known. Originally called “goose hawk,” perhaps because of its size and its finely
- Goshen (Indiana, United States)
Goshen, city, seat (1831) of Elkhart county, northern Indiana, U.S., on the Elkhart River, 23 miles (37 km) east-southeast of South Bend. Settled in 1828–30 and probably named for Goshen, New York, the home of one of its early settlers, it has a large Amish and Mennonite community. Goshen is a
- Goshen (New York, United States)
Hambletonian Stakes: It was later moved to Goshen, New York, in 1957 to Du Quoin, Illinois, and in 1981 to Meadowlands (New Jersey) Racetrack. To win the Hambletonian, a horse must win two one-mile heats. The race was named for Hambletonian (Rysdyk’s Hambletonian), the foundation sire of most modern trotting horses in…
- Goshen College (college, Goshen, Indiana, United States)
Goshen College, private, coeducational institution of higher learning in Goshen, Ind., U.S. It is a Mennonite liberal arts college that offers bachelor of arts degree programs in fine arts, humanities, sciences, Bible and religion, business, computer and information science, Hispanic ministries,
- Goshimpei (Japanese military group)
Yamagata Aritomo: Early career: …power, he proposed forming an Imperial Force (Goshimpei). In early 1871, when a force of about 10,000 men drawn from the feudal armies was organized, Yamagata was promoted to vice minister of military affairs. This Imperial Force was later renamed the Imperial Guard (Konoe), and Yamagata became its commander.
- Goshiute (people)
Gosiute, ethnolinguistic group of Western Shoshone Indians formerly living west of the Great Salt Lake in the arid region of the North American Great Basin. They were often reported in the 19th century to have lived wretched lives, subsisting with difficulty in the desert wasteland; the reports
- Gosho Heinosuke (Japanese director)
Gosho Heinosuke was a Japanese motion-picture director and writer famous for films concerning the everyday lives of middle-class people. He is also noted for adapting Japanese literary works to the screen and for his creative use of silence in sound pictures, subtle pictorial symbols, and rapid
- Goshun (Japanese painter)
Shijō school: …by his pupils, among them Matsumura Gekkei, called Goshun, from whose residence on Fourth Street (Shijō), in Kyōto, the movement took its name. Among the most important artists associated with the school were Matsumura Keibun and Okamoto Toyohiko.
- Goshute (people)
Gosiute, ethnolinguistic group of Western Shoshone Indians formerly living west of the Great Salt Lake in the arid region of the North American Great Basin. They were often reported in the 19th century to have lived wretched lives, subsisting with difficulty in the desert wasteland; the reports
- Gosiute (people)
Gosiute, ethnolinguistic group of Western Shoshone Indians formerly living west of the Great Salt Lake in the arid region of the North American Great Basin. They were often reported in the 19th century to have lived wretched lives, subsisting with difficulty in the desert wasteland; the reports
- Goslar (Germany)
Goslar, city, Lower Saxony Land (state), north-central Germany. It lies at the northern foot of the Harz Mountains, south of Braunschweig. Founded in 922 to protect rich silver mines discovered in the Rammelsberg mountain, it became a favourite residence of the early Holy Roman emperors. The scene
- Goślicki, Wawrzyniec (Polish bishop)
Wawrzyniec Goślicki was a Roman Catholic bishop and diplomat whose political writings were precursory to Catholic liberalism. In 1569 he joined the royal chancery and served two Polish kings, Sigismund II Augustus and Stephen Báthory. Successively appointed bishop of Kamieniec Podolski (1586),