I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm. Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I love you.". Don't let anybody walk trough your mind with dirty feet. Victory a...

The name Mahatma Gandhi is known around the world and still bears great weight some fifty plus years after his death. He influenced the likes of such humanitarians as Martin Luther King Jr. and even Albert Einstein. He will always be re...

Poet, prose-fiction writer, essayist, and playwright, Sergei Gandlevsky was one of the key figures of literary life in the Soviet Union and Russia during the 1980s and 1990s. His path as a poet is highly characteristic for this pivotal epo...

Colors, Letters and Numbers. The three things that have been with us from infancy, to adolescence until now. No one ever thought that the symbols that were on our building blocks would symbolize what they do today. The movie Colors glorifie...

The Indus River dolphin (Platanista minor), known in Pakistan as the susu, is sometimes called the "blind dolphin" because its eyes lack lenses. This virtual blindness, scientists speculate, is due to the high silt content of...

Aggregate of nerve-cell bodies outside the central nervous system (CNS). The spinal ganglion contains the nerve-cell bodies of the nerve fibres that carry impulses toward the CNS (afferent neurons in dorsal root ganglia) or away from it (e...

Bill the Butcher was the ideal "bad guy" for a movie. He was a stubborn individual who would not change his ways of thinking for anyone. If you came off a boat and tried to settle in the United States you were automatically hated by Mr. Cu...

Town (pop., 2001: 29,354), capital of Sikkim state, northeastern India. At an elevation of 5,600 ft (1,700 m), it overlooks the Ranipool River. It was the governmental seat of the kingdom of Sikkim until the monarchy was abolished (1975) a...

City (pop., 1997 est.: 291,900), western Azerbaijan. It lies along the Gäncä River. A town was founded nearby in the 5th century &AD;, was destroyed by earthquake in 1139, and was rebuilt on the present site. Taken by the Mongols...

Province (pop., 2002 est.: 25,930,000), north-central China. It is bordered by Mongolia, the autonomous regions of Xinjiang, Inner Mongolia, and Ningxia, and the provinces of Shaanxi, Sichuan, and Qinghai. It has an area of 141,500 sq mi (...

(born January 4, 1940, Ganzhou, Jiangxi province, China) Chinese émigré novelist, playwright, and critic who in 2000 was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature “for an oeuvre of universal validity, bitter insights and l...

Vicente Gaos belonged to the first generation of post--Spanish Civil War poets. Although his collections of poetry were published to critical acclaim, in his later years he often appeared to be forgotten or overlooked in his native Spain. ...

The Gap casual apparel stores have become a ubiquitous fixture in malls and urban shopping districts around the world. Their high-quality, classic designs have remained wardrobe staples for youthful customers, older shoppers, and their chi...

Garbage is a Scottish/American rock group formed in Madison, Wisconsin, in 1994. The band members are Duke Erikson, Shirley Manson , Steve Marker and Butch Vig. Contents 1 Unsourced 1.1 Comprehension 2 Need 3 Deepness 4 Cruelty 5 Tears 6 F...

The study of garbage, through either archaeological excavation of landfills or analysis of fresh garbage, to determine what the composition of municipal solid waste says about the society that generated it. The term is associated with the ...

Amadís de Gaula was the first prose chivalric romance of the Spanish-speaking world. The work is thought to have been first published in 1508 as Los quatro libros del Virtuoso cauallero Amadís de Gaula (The Four Books of the ...

Cristina García is one of several late-twentieth-century Cuban American writers whose work represents the experiences and issues of a generation of Cuban-born children who immigrated with their families to the United States after th...

As a young poet Richard García was several years ahead of his time. His first book, Selected Poetry (1973), charted a new direction for Chicano poetry when hardly anyone was listening. Throughout the late 1960s and early 1970s Chica...

"The kid plays like he's been here before."--Baseball legend Ted Williams, describing Nomar Garciappara. Many baseball players have had a great rookie season, but few can match that of Boston Red Sox shortstop Nomar Garciappara in 1997. He...

Stand-up comedy and serious literature rarely stem from the same source, yet Jonas Gardell has successfully established himself as one of the most prominent contributors to each of these cultural arenas in Sweden. The shift in public perce...

Garden of Allah can refer to: A nickname for the Sahara desert The Garden of Allah (novel), a 1905 novel by Robert Smythe Hichens The Garden of Allah (film), a 1936 film based on the novel Garden of Allah (cabaret), a cabaret that opened in...

The struggle for power in the world, in life, in jobs or in relationships has been an ongoing theme in humanity. Many philosophers and thinkers have explored humanity's desire to be in control. Hemingway was one author to explore woman's de...

The Garden of Rama (1991) is a novel by Gentry Lee and Arthur C. Clarke. It is the third book in the four-book Rama series: Rendezvous with Rama, Rama II, The Garden of Rama, and Rama Revealed, and follows on from where Rama II left off....

She discovered this place accidentally, but now it has become her own personal haven. Her sanctuary. It was like a ritual now. Every night at 10:30 sharp, she would walk out of her house and down an alley. Cautiously she would cross the roa...