Gail Devers is one of the fastest women in the world. In 1992 she achieved fame by winning the 100-meter sprint at the Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain, then became only the second woman to repeat as champion in the event as she won aga...

One is taught by experience to put a premium on those few people who can appreciate you for what you are. Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre. You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almos...

Every person is responsible for all the good with the scope of his abilities, and for no more, and none can tell whose sphere is the largest. Gail Hamilton , Every person is responsible for all the good within the scope of his abilities, a...

SOURCE: Hassenger, Robert. Review of Passages, by Gail Sheehy. New Republic 175, no. 12 (18 September 1976): 30-1. In the following review, Hassenger observes that Sheehy addresses several important issues in Passages, but fails to offer wo...

On 17 December 1740, fourteen-year-old Hugh Gaine was taken by his father to the print shop at the sign of the Crown and Bible in Belfast's Beaver Street, where he was apprenticed to the printers Samuel Wilson and James Magee. For young Ga...

In 25 B.C., the Roman emperor Augustus sent Aelius Gallus, prefect of Egypt, on a military expedition to the Arabian Peninsula. His aim was to extend Roman control throughout Arabia, and to gain control of the wealthy spice-producing stat...

Gaius Marius (ca. 157-86 BC) was a Roman general and popular politician. His military reforms and great commands led to the growing involvement of the army in politics and the eventual collapse of the republican system. Born near Arpinum i...

(d. 1364), Javanese military leader. The Hindu-Javanese kingdom of Majapahit, established in 1293 by the East Javanese king Vijaya (d. 1328), experienced its golden age in the fourteenth century CE, owing to the military prowess and politi...

In Ernesto Galarza there is a confluence of lyric poet, labor organizer, veteran educator, international economist, and renowned scholar. Although best known as "the loudest and, surely, most unusual of the voices that have been raised to ...

Let us not grow weary in well-doing, for in due season we shall reap if we do not lose heart. -Galatians....

GALAXIES Nearly all the matter in the universe is concentrated in galaxies. A galaxy is a gigantic mass of stars held together by gravity. The largest contain millions of stars. The smallest have just a few million, but even small galaxies...

Galaxy Quest is a 1999 film : a parody of Star Trek and the cult following and conventions it has spawned. The movie is about the washed-up stars of a fictional 1978–1982 TV series called Galaxy Quest and an alien race (the Thermians) wh...

Chicago Bears running back Gale Sayers (born 1943) was the youngest player ever to be enshrined in the Pro Football Hall of Fame. Sayers earned the nickname of "Gallopin' Gale" for his exceptional ability to elude defensive attackers. The ...

Galen (130-200), Greek physician, anatomist, physiologist, philosopher, and lexicographer, was probably the most influential physician of all time. Throughout his life Galen was a prolific writer, producing his first books, Three Commentar...

A - B - C - D - E - F - G - H - I - L - M - N - Ñ - O - P - Q - R - S - T - U - V - X - Z A A capar apréndese cortando collons (to castrate -pigs- is learnt by cutting balls) Aproveitar o farelo é tirar a fariña (to use the bran is to ...

The Italian scientist Galileo Galilei (1564-1642) is renowned for his epoch-making contributions to astronomy, physics, and scientific philosophy. Galileo was born in Pisa on Feb. 15, 1564, the first child of Vincenzio Galilei, a merchant ...

The Russian ballerina Galina Ulanova (1910-1998) was hailed as one of the greatest dancers of all time. She won international recognition for her lyricism and purity of technique and for her powerfully dramatic performances. Galina Sergeye...

Gallagher (born Leo Anthony Gallagher on July 24 , 1946 at Fort Bragg, North Carolina ) is an American comedian and prop comic , most popularly known for smashing watermelons as part of his act. Unsourced "LADIES AND GENTLEMEN! I did not c...

William Davis Gallagher was one of the most important promoters of literary culture in the trans-Appalachian West in the first half of the nineteenth century. Himself a poet and essayist of considerable repute, he edited and published a se...

In the world during the 19th century many wars marked history, people chose to die for their country and their religion. The two movies chosen were "No Man's Land" and "Gallipoli." The first movie was "No Man's Land" which took place in Bo...

Dubbed the "Godfather of YA short stories" by Chris Crowe in the English Journal, Don Gallo has edited numerous award-winning anthologies dealing with themes from the moral development of teenagers to athletics and multiculturalism. His gr...

The term Gallowglass or Galloglass is an Anglicisation of the Irish, Gallóglaigh ("foreign soldiers"), incorporating the Celtic word Óglach, which is derived from oac, the Old Irish for "youths", but later meaning "soldier"....

Reason can in general do more than blind force....