Gabriel Cramer labored in the shadow of his more well-known mathematical contemporaries. Cramer added to mathematical knowledge in the areas of analysis, determinants, and geometry. Both Cramer's ruleand Cramer's paradox, discussed below, ...

The French composer Gabriel Urbain Fauré (1845-1924) is best known for his songs and his typically French exquisiteness of taste. Gabriel Fauré was born on May 12, 1845, in the provincial town of Pamiers, where his father was...

The work of Gabriel Garcia Marquez owes much of its popularity to the seemingly easy access it offers to readers and to the way it departs from the highly intellectualized, self-reflective mode that characterizes other Latin-American ficti...

Widow of a King-people, but still queen of the world....

Mere longevity is a good thing for those who watch Life from the side lines. For those who play the game, an hour may be a year, a single day's work an achievement for eternity....

Jesus' moral teaching does not consist of a universal scheme of ethics, a series of precepts which would be universally valid, by whomever they had been spoken. They are to be heard as His word, spoken by Him, with the impact of His person...

Gabriel Knight is a computer game series about Gabriel Knight, an American writer and his assistant Grace trying to figure out mysteries while watching out for their own fate. The Gabriel Knight games were written and designed by Jane Jens...

Gabriel Lippmann had a distinguished career as an inventor, theoretician and academic. At the Faculty of Sciences, a laboratory in Paris, France, he became professor of mathematical physics in 1883, a professor of experimental physics in 1...

He who excuses himself accuses himself. He who excuses himself accuses himself. He who excuses himself, accuses himself....

There can be no church in which the demon will not have his chapel. It is not about the pasture of the sheep, but about their wool. [Lat., Non est de pastu ovium quaestio, sed de lana.]...

Nothing baffles the schemes of evil people so much as the calm composure of great souls....

Gabriela Mistral (1889-1957) was a Chilean poet and educator. Her poetry earned her the Nobel Prize for literature in 1945. Gabriela Mistral was born Lucila Godoy Alcaya on April 6, 1889, at Vicuña, a small town in northern Chile. H...

1445-1505 Italian physician, anatomist, and medical philosopher, also known as Gabriele Zerbi or Gabriello Zerbus. He wrote the first printed book on geriatrics (Gerontocomia, 1489), the first on medical ethics (De cautelis medicorum, c. 1...

Gabriele Münter (1877 - 1962) was a German Expressionist painter who was at the forefront of the Munich avant-garde in the early 20th century. Unsourced After a brief period of torment I made a great leap... from copying nature, more or l...

In 1945 novelist Gabrielle Roy helped create a new direction for francophone literature in Canada with Bonheur d'occasion (translated as The Tin Flute, 1947), a frank and uncompromising examination of urban misery. Her subsequent works of ...

GADJERI. The name Gadjeri (Gadjari, Kadjeri) is known over a wide area of northern Australia. It means "old woman," implying status and not necessarily age. Gadjeri is also the "sacred mother," or "mother...

You can't aim a duck to death. You will get good attention and people will be more inclined to listen to you if you can make a statement whereby their response is, "No Shit!" or at least, "No kidding!"....

Assurance is two-thirds of success. More than we use is more than we want. There is no greater fraud than a promise not kept. Evil thoughts often come from idleness. See that your own hearth is swept before you lift your neighbor's ashes. ...

(born April 1, 1958, Palermo, Sicily, Kingdom of the Two Sicilies—died Nov. 8, 1941, Rome, Italy) Italian political theorist. Educated at the University of Palermo, he taught constitutional law there (1885–88) and at the Univer...

The cough reflex is a coordinated neural and muscular response to the irritation of the respiratory system. As a reflex action, coughing does not require conscious direction or control. Coughing is a nociceptive reflex, designed to protect...

Madeleine Gagnon was born in 1938 to Jean-Baptiste and Jeanne Beaulieu Gagnon at Amqui, Quebec. One of ten children, she grew up in the countryside of the Gaspé region of Quebec. She received her B.A. in literature from the Universi...

Greek personification of the Earth as a goddess. Mother and wife of Uranus (Heaven), from whom the Titan Cronus, her last-born child by him, separated her, she was also mother of the other Titans, the Gigantes, the Erinyes, and the Cyclope...

Even though the short story "Winter Dreams" was written by F. Scott Fitzgerald in 1922, most of the events that take place in it predate the 1920's. Fitzgerald was a modernist writer who sought to capture the essence of modern life in both...

Fairy tales are real. Just ask Gail Carson Levine, author of Ella Enchanted and Dave at Night. Levine was fifty when she published her first novel. A welfare administrator for much of her adult life, she spent nine long years gathering rej...