Alexander Garden, an opponent of religious enthusiasm, is known for his arguments with the charismatic instigator of the Great Awakening, George Whitefield. In his office as commissary of the Church of England, Garden represented the eccle...

Where the American settler had wilderness at his or her doorstep, the contemporary American has created the lawn, a buffer of pseudo-nature between the public and private domain. Tending this landscape ornament has grown into an American p...

They say golf is like life, but don't believe them. Golf is more complicated than that. They say golf is like life, but don't believe them. Golf is more complicated than that....

Gareth Jenkins (born 11 September 1951 ) is a former Welsh rugby union footballer, and former head coach of the Welsh national team . After a long and distinguished career at Llanelli RFC , Jenkins was appointed Wales coach in 2006, succee...

Garfield (also known as Garfield: The Movie ) is a 2004 in film live-action movie based on the Jim Davis comic strip Garfield . In this movie, Garfield the cat was created with computer-generated imagery, though all other animals were real...

To the Western world, Southern Rhodesian prime minister Garfield Todd (born 1908) was seen in the 1960s and 1970s as an enlightened white African hero, who took up the cause of independence and freedom for blacks. In Southern Rhodesia (now...

Gargoyles (1994-1996) was a Disney animated television series. Contents 1 Goliath's narration during opening credits: 2 Season 1 2.1 Awakening 2.2 Thrill of the Hunt 2.3 Temptation 2.4 Deadly Force 2.5 Enter Macbeth 2.6 The Edge 2.7 Long W...

GARIFUNA RELIGION. The Garifuna are an ethnic group numbering roughly 300,000 with communities in some 40 villages dotting the Caribbean coasts of Nicaragua, Honduras, Guatemala, and Belize. Their traditional ancestor-focused religion pres...

Poet, composer, singer, and playwright, Michel Garneau derives his originality from two features rarely found among the contemporary avant-garde: his thoroughly affirmative outlook on life and the highly poetic quality of his drama. Conven...

The Garo are a tribal people of India, about half a million of whom live in the Garo Hills of Meghalaya, northeastern India. Others live in neighboring West Bengal, Assam, Nagaland, and Tripura. In Meghalaya they are the major Scheduled Tr...

John Arthur Garraty has long been one of America's leading historians. His contributions have been particularly strong in economic history, biography, the Gilded Age, and the Progressive era. Combining an able prose style with balanced jud...

A pioneer inventor, Garrett A. Morgan (1877-1963) was responsible for the creation of such life-saving inventions as the gas mask and traffic lights. In a long and productive career that spanned over forty years, Garret A. Morgan worked di...

1911-1996 American algebraist and applied mathematician whose most important work is his theory of lattices, which influenced the development of quantum mechanics. Birkhoff believed strongly in applying mathematical concepts and had much s...

Trained as a biologist (University of Chicago undergraduate degree; Ph.D. from Stanford in 1942 in microbial ecology) Garrett Hardin spent most of his career at the University of California at Santa Barbara, where his title was Professor o...

Garrigou-Lagrange, RÉginald Marie(1877–1964) Réginald Marie Garrigou-Lagrange notably influenced the revival of Thomism in some European and American philosophical circles. He was born Gontran-Marie Garrigou-Lagrange at...

Garrison Keillor (born 1942), host of public radio's popular A Prairie Home Companion and author of the best-selling Lake Wobegon Days, has made a career of telling stories about the fictional Minnesota town of Lake Wobegon and the lives o...

Garry Kimovich Kasparov (Га́рри Ки́мович Каспа́ров, pronounced with stress falling on the second syllable: kas-PA-rov) (born April 13 , 1963 ) is a chess grandmaster and one of the strongest chess players in history....

"I was mediocre journalist, a mediocre musician, a mediocre actor, a mediocre athlete. I had to find something I could do well."1 A surprising beginning for a man who, on the night of January 28, 1979, had created the three toprated shows ...

For Garry Wills, reading is a political act, a complicated, historically embedded performance that re-imagines--simultaneously reinforcing and revising--the political and ethical structures that shape community. Trained as a classical scho...

In the closing line of Helmbrecht (circa 1265-1280) the narrator and implied poet identifies himself as Wernher der Gartenaere (the Gardener). This name has been accepted by scholars, even though the last twelve lines of the poem appear on...

Garth Marenghi's Darkplace (2004) is a comedy series shown on Channel 4 . Created by Matthew Holness and Richard Ayoade, it is a parody of the horror genre and revolves around the character of Garth Marenghi himself, a writer of pulp ficti...

Garth Williams has worked for almost forty years as an illustrator of children's books; his bibliography includes some of the most distinguished titles published in this century, among them the already-classic Charlotte's Web (1952) and St...