Gauntlet II is the 1986 sequel to the arcade game Gauntlet which was released the previous year. Announcer Welcome! Green Elf, your life force is running out! Red Wizard needs food badly! Blue Warrior is about to die! Yellow Valkyrie, all ...

The years 1630 to 1650 were a period of great fermentation in the development of French literature, as writers responded to the far-reaching ethical and ideological changes taking place in their world. Playwrights constructed plots around ...

Suffering from an abusive childhood, Luis Alfredo Gavarito grew up to be an alcoholic who molested and murdered children. Police officials in Bogota, Columbia, said Gavarito's crimes were unprecedented in the history of that South American...

The Scottish poet, prelate, and courtier Gavin Douglas (ca. 1475-1522) is best known for his vigorous translation of Virgil's Aenied into Scots, the English of the lowlands of Scotland. He is sometimes listed among the Scottish Chaucerians...

Feast of Benedict of Nursia, Father of Western Monasticism, c.550 It might help us in our thinking if we drew a distinction between preaching, which the New Testament talks about as a continuing activity in society at large, and sermonisin...

The name of Gavin Maxwell will be forever linked with his Ring of Bright Water (1960), a narrative of his experiences in keeping otters on the remote northwest coast of Scotland. Maxwell managed to infuse his account of his difficult, isol...

It would have been incomprehensible, at the turn of the nineteenth century, to believe that the actions of one man could set in motion a series of events that would reverberate through history for the next nine decades. Yet when Gavrilo Pr...

hero of Arthurian legend and romance. A nephew and loyal supporter of King Arthur, Gawain appeared in the earliest Arthurian literature as a model of knightly perfection, against whom all other knights were measured. In the 12th-century Hi...

While homosexuality has been documented in most cultures throughout history, the modern American gay male community began to form itself in the early 1900s. The word "gay," once widely used in the nineteenth century to descri...

Gay, John(1699 s Enquiry into the Idea of Space, Time, Etc. (London, 1734). For critical discussion, see Ernest Albee, A History of English Utilitarianism (New York: Macmillan, 1902)....

Gay Talese is known for his daring pursuit of "unreportable" stories, for his exhaustive research, and for his formally elegant style. These qualities, arguably, are the touchstones of the finest literary journalism. Talese is often cited ...

Though not one of the best-known of contemporary black writers, Gayl Jones can claim distinction as the teller of the most intense tales. Her stories are powerful depictions of madness and violence in the lives of black people, especially ...

One of the first and most effective environmentalists elected to the U.S. Senate, Gaylord Nelson is considered the father of Earth Day and sponsored many of the important environmental laws passed by Congress in the 1960s and 1970s. As gov...

City (pop., 2000: 853,513), south-central Turkey. Located north of Aleppo, it was strategically situated near ancient trade routes and has been inhabited since the early 4th millennium &BC;. Known as Hamtap, it was an important stronghold ...

This article or section should be merged with Douglas Hofstadter . is a Pulitzer Prize-winning book by Douglas Hofstadter , first published in 1979. Reality includes creating every real connection and reference. Attributed "I realized that...

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Gears of War is a 2006 horror/sci-fi 3rd-person shooter game developed by Epic Games . The story takes place on a planet known as Sera , where a war-torn human civilization fights against overwhelming numbers of subterranean creatures bent...

The Prussian field marshal Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher (1742-1819) commanded the Prussian armies in the war against Napoleon, 1813-1815. He became a leading hero of the Germans in the struggle to end foreign domination of their land...

Lalibela (reigned ca. 1181-ca. 1221) was an Ethiopian king and saint to whom are attributed the famous monolithic churches of northern Ethiopia. The life of Lalibela is clouded in myth. Almost no documents survive from his life, and we mus...

Tests of General Educational Development (Ged) Measures literacy and computational skills compared to most high school graduates. The Tests of General Education Development are a battery of tests designed to measure an individuar s literac...

In the twentieth century, the secularists, still living off the spiritual capital of Christianity, often pretended to chide Christians for having invented the term "secularist," a term which, they said, was devoid of meaning. Their leaders...

Geddy Lee (born Gary Lee Weinrib , 28 July 1953 ) is a Canadian musician best known as the lead vocalist, bassist, and keyboardist for the Canadian rock group Rush . Contents 1 Sourced 1.1 Global Bass interview (2000) 2 Unsourced 3 Externa...

Maggie Gee's importance as a novelist rests on her stylistic innovations and choices of subject matter, which is often political: Gee is, for example, a fierce opponent of nuclear armament. Gee is also known for writing about characters wh...