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SOURCE: Ker, W. P. “The Old French Epic (Chansons de geste.)” In Epic and Romance: Essays on Medieval Literature, pp. 287-320. London: Macmillan, 1922. In the following excerpt, originally published in 1896, Ker compares Garin le Lohera...
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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...
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One of the most popular British generals of the nineteenth century, Garnet Wolseley (1833-1913) is little known today outside of military and academic circles. Recognized in his own time for resourcefulness, bravery, and strong organizatio...
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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...
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Lewis H. Garrard's niche in Western American literature is founded on a single book, Wah-to-yah, and the Taos Trail: or Prairie Travel and Scalp Dances, with a Look at Los Rancheros from Muleback and the Rocky Mountain Campfire (1850), whi...
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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...
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The Irish taoiseach or prime minister Garret FitzGerald (born 1926) was deeply committed to religious and cultural tolerance and reconciliation in Northern Ireland and the Irish Republic and to constitutional and structural changes serving...
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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...
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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...
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Garrett Elsden Fort (June 5, 1900 - October 26, 1945) was an American screenwriter. Have you never wanted to do anything that was dangerous? Where should we be if nobody tried to find out what lies beyond? You never wanted to look b...
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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...
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The historian and professor Garrett Mattingly (1900-1962) was a student of 16th-century Europe who wrote the novel-like histories Catherine of Aragon and The Armada. Born on May 6, 1900, in Washington, D.C., Garrett Mattingly was the son o...
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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...
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This people article needs cleanup. Please review , especially the standard format of people articles , to determine how to edit this article to conform to the current standard . Manoel Francisco dos Santos ( 28 October 1933 - 20 January 19...
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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...
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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....
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"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 ...
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Garretson Beekman (Garry) Trudeau (born 1948) was a comic-strip cartoonist, Pulitzer Prize-winning creator of "Doonesbury," playwright, and animated cartoon-maker for film and television. Garry Trudeau was born in New York to parents of Ca...
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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...
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Actor, director, dramatist, and screenwriter, as well as author of several novels and memoirs, Garson Kanin is remembered today primarily for a single play, Born Yesterday (1946), the first and most successful of his works for the stage. B...
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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...
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Garth Brooks, the best-selling recording artist of all time, symbolizes the evolution of "new wave" country music in the late twentieth century. Brooks was popular in the late 1980s and throughout the 1990s with a blend of co...
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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...
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Australian writer Garth Nix was weaned on fantasy novels; it is no coincidence he grew up to write such popular titles as Sabriel and Shade's Children. "My mother was reading The Lord of the Rings when she was pregnant with me," Nix told A...
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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...
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Garve, Christian(1742–1798) Christian Garve, the German "popular philosopher," was born in Breslau. After studying at Frankfurt an der Oder, Halle, and Leipzig, he became extraordinary professor of philosophy at Leipzig...
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Paul Winterton, British journalist and author, has written forty crime and suspense novels since 1938 under the pseudonyms Roger Bax, Paul Somers, and Andrew Garve, the name by which he is best known. He has amazed critics and reviewers by...
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Gary Geddes's poetry focuses on marginal figures in society, especially those who are caught in an ethical bind. Geddes is interested in people who are pulled between an instinctive sense of what is eternally, morally right and a desire, w...
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We can try to avoid making choices by doing nothing, but even that is a decision....
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Worry about being better; bigger will take care of itself. Think one customer at a time and take care of each one the best way you can. Worry about being better; bigger will take care of itself. Think one customer at a time and take care o...
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Gary Cooper (1901-1961) possessed a distinctive screen image that mirrored much that was worthy in the American character. By box office figures, Cooper was the most popular male film star of the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s. Although he had gr...
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Gary Edward Daniels (b. Surrey , England , May 9, 1963) is a British kickboxer, martial artist, and martial arts actor. Attributed I think you have to have the warrior spirit within you,...to get in the ring. On kickboxing career External ...
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Gary Fisher (born 1950 ) is an American cyclist, most famous for beeing one of the inventors of the mountain bike . Attributed Anyone who rides a bike is a friend of mine. External links Fisher Bikes website Charlie Kelly Website Gary Fish...
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Gary Mark Gilmore ( 1940-12-04 – 1977-01-17 ) was an American criminal who gained international notoriety, following two murders in Utah, for demanding that his death sentence be fulfilled (which Utah authorities had no intention of doin...
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God is more concerned about who you are than what you do, and He is more concerned about what you do than where you do it....
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Ernest Gary Gygax ( 27 July 1938 - 4 March 2008 ) was an American writer and game designer famous for designing the fantasy role playing game , Dungeons & Dragons , with co-creator Dave Arneson . Contents 1 Sourced 2 Unsourced 3 Quotes...
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Gary W. Hart (born 1936) came to national attention as a political campaign organizer, a two-term U.S. senator, and a presidential candidate. Gary Warren Hart was born on November 28, 1936, in Ottawa, Kansas, an agricultural community wher...
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Gary Lawrence Francione (b. 1954) is an American legal academic well known for his writings on animal rights theory and animals and the law. Sourced Veganism The most important form of incremental change is the decision by the individual t...
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Gary Larson grew up in Tacoma, Washington, along the shores of Puget Sound. His mother was a secretary for the American Plywood Association, his father was a Chrysler dealer, and his brother was a distant cousin to Count Dracula. "I was hi...
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Gary Winston Lineker , OBE (born 30 November , 1960 in Leicester ) is a former English international footballer , playing as a striker for Leicester City , Everton , FC Barcelona , Tottenham Hotspur , and Nagoya Grampus Eight . Subsequentl...
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Gary Heidnik died by lethal injection in 1997 for the murders of two women in his North Philadelphia home. When he was captured, police found other women being held captive in his basement. Heidnik was born in 1944 and raised in Ohio, but ...
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Death is the only inescapable, unavoidable, sure thing. We are sentenced to die the day we're born....
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Gary Michael Null (born 1945) is a talk radio host and author on alternative and complementary medicine and nutrition in the United States. He is also a social critic of psychiatry and conventional medicine. Unsourced We went through the r...
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