Nikolay Stepanovich Gumilyov was a Russian poet and theorist who founded and led the Acmeist movement in Russian poetry in the years before and after World War I. The son of a naval surgeon, Gumilyov was educated at a gymnasium (secondary school) in Tsarskoye Selo (now Pushkin), where he was

Judy Garland was an American singer and actress whose exceptional talents and vulnerabilities combined to make her one of the most enduringly popular Hollywood icons of the 20th century. Frances Gumm was the daughter of former vaudevillians Frank Gumm and Ethel Gumm, who operated the New Grand

Gumma, landlocked ken (prefecture), east-central Honshu, Japan. Maebashi, the prefectural capital, is in south-central Gumma. Most of the prefecture’s area is mountainous, with two-thirds of the land above 1,650 feet (500 metres) in elevation and volcanic peaks towering over 6,560 feet (2,000

gumma, soft, granulomatous, tumourlike mass, sometimes appearing during the late stages of syphilis, that occurs most often beneath the skin and mucous membranes but that may also be found in the bones, nervous system, and other organs and tissues. See also

Gumel, town and traditional emirate, northern Jigawa state, northern Nigeria. The emirate was founded about 1750 by Dan Juma of Kano city (75 miles [121 km] southwest) and his followers of the Manga (Mangawa) tribe. Shortly after his death in 1754, it became a tributary state of the Bornu kingdom.

ballad: Theories: …led by two American scholars F.B. Gummere (1855–1919) and G.L. Kittredge (1860–1941), argued at first that ballads were composed collectively during the excitement of dance and song festivals. Under attack the communalists retreated to the position that although none of the extant ballads had been communally composed, the prototypical ballads…

sugarcane: Diseases: Gumming disease (important in New South Wales, Australia) is characterized by gummosis, the pathological production of gummy exudates as a result of cell degeneration; it is caused by the bacterium Xanthomonas vasculorum. Fiji disease, a virus disease first reported from the Fiji islands, is characterized…

gummite, mixture of natural uranium oxides, representing the final oxidation and hydration stages of uraninite, that usually occurs as dense masses and crusts in many of the known uraninite localities. It varies widely in physical properties, appearance, and chemical composition; it usually

gum: …gums by a process called gummosis, possibly as a protective mechanism, either after mechanical damage to the bark or after a bacterial, insect, or fungal attack upon it. The Acacia senegal tree yields the greatest amount of gum acacia when it is in an unhealthy condition, and good culture methods…

Ludwig Gumplowicz was a sociologist and legal philosopher who was known for his disbelief in the permanence of social progress and for his theory that the state originates through inevitable conflict rather than through cooperation or divine inspiration. The son of Jewish parents, Gumplowicz

mollusk: Size range and diversity of structure: …60 centimetres; among placophores the gumshoe, or gumboot chiton (Cryptochiton), achieves a length up to 30 to 43 centimetres; and, among solenogasters, Epimenia reaches a length of 15 to 30 centimetres. Finally, gastropods of the family Entoconchidae, which are parasitic in echinoderm sea cucumbers, may reach a size of almost…

Gomati River, tributary of the Ganges (Ganga) River, central Uttar Pradesh state, northern India. It rises in northern Uttar Pradesh about 32 miles (51 km) east of Pilibhit and is intermittent for the first 35 miles (56 km) of its course, becoming perennial after its junction with the Joknai. Below

Gümüşhane, city, northeastern Turkey. It lies along the Harşit River at an elevation of 5,000 feet (1,500 metres), about 40 miles (65 km) southwest of Trabzon. The origin and history of the ancient settlement are obscure. The silver (Turkish: gümüş) mines from which the city’s name is derived were

Gümüşhane, city, northeastern Turkey. It lies along the Harşit River at an elevation of 5,000 feet (1,500 metres), about 40 miles (65 km) southwest of Trabzon. The origin and history of the ancient settlement are obscure. The silver (Turkish: gümüş) mines from which the city’s name is derived were

Ragıp Gümüşpala was a Turkish general and founder of the Justice Party (JP). A career army officer, Gümüşpala served as the chief of the General Staff after the military coup of May 27, 1960, but was forcibly retired by the new government shortly thereafter. In February 1961 Gümüşpala formed the JP

gun, weapon consisting essentially of a metal tube from which a missile or projectile is shot by the force of exploding gunpowder or some other propellant. In military science, the term is often limited to cannon larger than a howitzer or mortar, although these latter two types, like all tube-fired

African art: Fon: …example is the sculpture of Gu, the god of iron and war, made from sheets of metal. The thrones of Fon kings are similar in form to Asante stools but are much taller and are preserved as the focus of reverence for ancestral kings. Small figures cast in brass, often…

Da Yu: …extraordinary birth: a man called Gun was given charge of controlling a great deluge. To dam the water, he stole from heaven what seems to have been a piece of magic soil. Angered by the theft, the Lord on High (Shangdi) issued an order for his execution. After three years…

Benin: Ethnic groups: …the vicinity of Porto-Novo, the Goun (Gun) and the Yoruba (known in Pobé and Kétou as Nago, or Nagot) are so intermixed as to be hardly distinguishable. Among other southern groups are various Adja peoples, including the Aizo, the Holi, and the Mina.

Japan: Traditional regions: …and economic unit and the gun (district) as the smallest political unit to be governed by the central government. The gun were grouped to form more than 60 kuni (provinces), the largest political units, which were ruled by governors appointed by the central government. Each kuni was composed of maritime…

artillery: Carriages and mountings: In 1850 carriages were broadly of two types. Field pieces were mounted on two-wheeled carriages with solid trails, while fortress artillery was mounted either on the “garrison standing carriage,” a boxlike structure on four small wheels, or on the platform-and-slide mounting previously…

gun control, politics, legislation, and enforcement of measures intended to restrict access to, the possession of, or the use of arms, particularly firearms. Gun control is one of the most controversial and emotional issues in many countries, with the debate often centring on whether regulations on

Gun control laws are just as old or older than the Second Amendment (ratified in 1791). Some examples of gun control throughout colonial America included criminalizing the transfer of guns to Catholics, enslaved people, indentured servants, and Native Americans; regulating the storage of gun powder

Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives: …1968, as well as the Gun Control Act of 1968, federal firearms legislation was overhauled, and the scope of the agency expanded. These laws also empowered the ATTD to enforce laws against criminal use of explosives.

Joseph H. Lewis: …to United Artists to make Gun Crazy (also known as Deadly Is the Female), a tale of sexual obsession and the thrill of violence. The classic B-film, which was considered ahead of its time, was based on the exploits of Bonnie and Clyde and featured a script cowritten by Dalton…

Raoul Walsh: Last films: Gun Fury (also 1953) was originally shot in 3-D, but even without that novelty, its story of a cowboy (Hudson) tracking down the gang that kidnapped his bride-to-be (Donna Reed), complemented by stunning Arizona location photography, made this more than an ordinary western. Saskatchewan (1954)…

military aircraft: Bombers: Gun turrets for defensive machine guns had already been pioneered by Machines Motrices in France, and a license-built version of their turret had appeared on the British Boulton Paul Overstrand bomber in 1934. Meanwhile, the U.S. Army Air Corps claimed that its highly secret Norden…

Gun War, (1880–81), Southern African war in which the Sotho (also Basuto or Basotho) people of Basutoland (present-day Lesotho) threw off the rule by the Cape Colony. It is one of the few examples in Southern African history of Black Africans’ winning a conflict with colonial powers in the 19th

nuclear weapon: Gun assembly, implosion, and boosting: In order to produce a nuclear explosion, subcritical masses of fissionable material must be rapidly assembled into a supercritical configuration. The simplest weapon design is the pure fission gun-assembly device, in which an explosive propellant is used to fire one…

Gun-Free School Zones Act, U.S. gun control legislation signed into law by Pres. George H.W. Bush on November 29, 1990. The law makes it a crime to possess or discharge a firearm in a school zone, with some exceptions (e.g., police officers). On April 26, 1995, the Supreme Court ruled in United

military aircraft: Fighters: …in the form of an interrupter gear, or gun-synchronizing device, designed by the French engineer Raymond Saulnier. This regulated a machine gun’s fire so as to enable the bullets to pass between the blades of the spinning propeller. The interrupter itself was not new: a German patent had been taken…

nuclear weapon: Selecting a weapon design: …of 1943 was on the gun method of assembly, in which the projectile, a subcritical piece of uranium-235 (or plutonium-239), would be placed in a gun barrel and fired into the target, another subcritical piece. After the mass was joined (and now supercritical), a neutron source would be used to…

Indian philosophy: The concept of the three qualities (gunas): A striking feature of this account is the conception of guna: nature is said to consist of three gunas—originally in a state of equilibrium and subsequently in varying states of mutual preponderance. The karikas do not say much about whether the gunas are to…

Guna, city, northern Madhya Pradesh state, central India. It lies on the Madhya Bharat Plateau, just west of the Sind River. Guna rose to prominence in the mid-19th century when it became a military station for the Gwalior Cavalry. The presiding Hindu deity of Guna is Hanuman, whose temples are

Kathmandu: …was founded in 723 by Raja Gunakamadeva. Its early name was Manju-Patan; the present name refers to a wooden temple (kath, “wood”; mandir, “temple” or “edifice”) said to have been built from the wood of a single tree by Raja Lachmina Singh in 1596. A building, supposedly the original, still…

gunasthana, in the Indian religion Jainism, any of the 14 stages of spiritual development through which a soul passes on its way to moksha (spiritual liberation). The progression is seen as one of decreasing sinfulness and increasing purity, which frees the individual from the bonds of karma (merit

Buddhism: Malaysia and Indonesia: …the help of the monk Gunavarman and other Indian missionaries, Buddhism gained a firm foothold on Java well before the 5th century ce. Buddhism was also introduced at about this time in Sumatra, and by the 7th century the king of Srivijaya on the island of Sumatra was a Buddhist.…

military aircraft: Fighters: …of this machine, the Vickers F.B.5 Gunbus, entered service in early 1915 as the first production aircraft designed from the outset with air-to-air armament. The French armed similarly configured Voisin pushers with machine guns (one had shot down a German aircraft as early as October 5, 1914), but, burdened with…

Christian Friedrich Schönbein: …was the first to describe guncotton (nitrocellulose). His teaching posts included one at Epsom, England, before he joined the faculty at the University of Basel, Switzerland (1828), where he was appointed professor of chemistry and physics in 1835.

Drew Barrymore: Personal struggles and career revival: …and violent Anita Minteer in Guncrazy (1992), for which she earned another Golden Globe nomination; and the lead in The Amy Fisher Story (1993), a television movie that was based on the true story of a teenage girl who shot her lover’s wife. In 1995 Barrymore’s career shifted with the…

Gundagai, town, southeastern New South Wales, Australia. It lies on the Murrumbidgee River. The site of Gundagai, originally a sheep run called Willia Ploma, was surveyed in 1838, and the town, a former riverport, derived its present name from an Aboriginal term meaning “going upstream.” A

Gunther was a Burgundian king who was the hero of medieval legends. The historical Gunther led the Burgundians across the Rhine in the early 5th century, establishing a kingdom at Worms. He supported the imperial usurper Jovinus (411) and fell in battle against the Huns in 437. Gunther (called

Gunder Hägg was a Swedish middle-distance runner who broke a total of 15 world records during his career. He set 10 of them within a three-month period in 1942. Hägg, the son of a lumberjack, gained attention as a runner in 1938, when he was second in the 3,000-metre steeplechase in the Swedish

Bettina von Arnim: …with Karoline von Günderode (Die Günderode, 1840), and with her brother Clemens Brentano (Clemens Brentanos Frühlingskranz, 1844; “Clemens Brentano’s Spring Garland”). The result of her editing is a peculiar blend of documentation and fiction, written in a brilliantly vivid, uninhibited style. Her mother, Maximiliane, née von La Roche, and…

golf: The Ladies Professional Golf Association (LPGA): …following decade include Jan Stephenson, Jo-Anne Carner, Amy Alcott, and Judy Rankin. The most notable player to emerge during the ’70s was Nancy Lopez, who, by winning nine tournaments (including a record five straight) during her first full season on the tour (1978), was a major force in increasing the…

Cernunnos: …to be portrayed on the Gundestrup Caldron, a silver vessel found at Gundestrup in Jutland, Denmark, and dating to about the 1st century bce.

gundi, (family Ctenodactylidae), any of five North African species of rodents distinguished by its comblike rows of bristles on the inner two toes of each hindfoot. Gundis have a large head, blunt nose, big eyes, and short, rounded ears. The body is 16 to 24 cm (6.3 to 9.4 inches) long, and there

Gundobad was a barbarian general during the last days of the Roman Empire in the west, and king of the Burgundians (c. 474–516). The nephew of the barbarian emperor-maker Ricimer, Gundobad briefly held the supreme military command in the Roman service. In 473 he emulated his uncle when he himself

Gunther was a Burgundian king who was the hero of medieval legends. The historical Gunther led the Burgundians across the Rhine in the early 5th century, establishing a kingdom at Worms. He supported the imperial usurper Jovinus (411) and fell in battle against the Huns in 437. Gunther (called

Gunther was a Burgundian king who was the hero of medieval legends. The historical Gunther led the Burgundians across the Rhine in the early 5th century, establishing a kingdom at Worms. He supported the imperial usurper Jovinus (411) and fell in battle against the Huns in 437. Gunther (called

Saint Clotilda: Clotilda was the granddaughter of Gundioc, king of Burgundy, who was related to the Visigothic kings and shared their Arian Christian faith. At Gundioc’s death his kingdom was divided between his four sons, Gundobad, Godegesil, Chilperic, and Gundomar. Clotilda’s father Chilperic and her mother were murdered by Gundobad, and Clotilda…

Domingo Gundisalvo was an archdeacon of Segovia, philosopher and linguist whose Latin translations of Greco-Arabic philosophical works contributed to the Latin West’s knowledge of the Eastern Aristotelian and Neoplatonic traditions and advanced the integration of Christian philosophy with the

Gundlakamma River, river, east-central Andhra Pradesh state, southern India. The Gundlakamma rises in the Nallamalla Range of the Eastern Ghats. After crossing the mountains, it enters the plains and flows in a northeasterly direction past Markapur to the Coromandel Coast of the Bay of Bengal, into

Gundobad was a barbarian general during the last days of the Roman Empire in the west, and king of the Burgundians (c. 474–516). The nephew of the barbarian emperor-maker Ricimer, Gundobad briefly held the supreme military command in the Roman service. In 473 he emulated his uncle when he himself

Gundobad: …two codes of law, the Lex Gundobada, applying to all his subjects, and, somewhat later, the Lex Romana Burgundionum, applying to his Roman subjects.

Ivan Gundulić was a Croatian poet and dramatist whose epic poem Osman (the oldest existing copy is dated approximately 1651; it was first published in 1826; Eng. trans. Osman) was the outstanding achievement of the Renaissance and Baroque flowering of art and literature that gave Dubrovnik the name

Ivan Gundulić was a Croatian poet and dramatist whose epic poem Osman (the oldest existing copy is dated approximately 1651; it was first published in 1826; Eng. trans. Osman) was the outstanding achievement of the Renaissance and Baroque flowering of art and literature that gave Dubrovnik the name

Kirill I is the Russian Orthodox Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia from 2009. Gundyaev took the monastic name Kirill in 1969 while a seminarian. He graduated in 1970 from Leningrad Theological Academy, where he served as lecturer in dogmatic theology for one year. In 1971 Kirill was appointed

Gunfight at the O.K. Corral, American western film, released in 1957, that was loosely based on the shootout (1881) that made mythical heroes of Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday. The film begins in Fort Griffin, Texas, where lawman Wyatt Earp (played by Burt Lancaster) first encounters Doc Holliday

The Gunfighter, American western film, released in 1950, that is credited with introducing the “psychological western,” a subgenre that favoured character studies over action. Jimmy Ringo (played by Gregory Peck) is haunted by his unwanted reputation as the fastest gunslinger in the West. A

algae: Evolution and paleontology of algae: …Porphyridium are known from the Gunflint Iron Formation of North America (formed about 1.9 billion years ago). Fossils that resemble modern tetraspores are known from the Amelia Dolomites of Australia (formed some 1.5 billion years ago). The best characterized fossils are the coralline red algae represented in fossil beds since…

algae: Evolution and paleontology of algae: …Porphyridium are known from the Gunflint Iron Formation of North America (formed about 1.9 billion years ago). Fossils that resemble modern tetraspores are known from the Amelia Dolomites of Australia (formed some 1.5 billion years ago). The best characterized fossils are the coralline red algae represented in fossil beds since…

Gunflint microfossils, assemblage of microscopic fossils uncovered in the Gunflint Iron Formation, a rock layer about two billion years old exposed in western Ontario, Canada. The fossils include filamentous structures resembling blue-green algae (e.g., Gunflintia, Entosphaeroides, and Animikiea),

Patti Smith: …Peace and Noise (1997) and Gung Ho (2000). Smith continued releasing new records in the 21st century, among them Banga (2012). If anything, that late work showed her stronger than before, full of the old fire but purged of her more extreme excesses. She later collaborated with the international sound-art…

Michael Keaton: Comedy hits: Night Shift, Mr. Mom, and Beetlejuice: Mom (1983), Johnny Dangerously (1984), Gung Ho (1986), and the Tim Burton horror-comedy Beetlejuice (1988), in which Keaton costarred with Alec Baldwin, Geena Davis, and Winona Ryder and appeared in the title role as an obnoxious mischievous ghost.

Gunga Din, American action-adventure film, released in 1939, that was inspired by Rudyard Kipling’s famous 1892 poem of the same name. The story traces the adventures of a trio of maverick British sergeants—Cutter (played by Cary Grant), MacChesney (Victor McLaglen), and Ballantine (Douglas

Barrack-Room Ballads: …verses as “Danny Deever,” “Gunga Din,” and “Mandalay.” The book was a popular success and made Kipling a power among contemporary poets.

Dilip Kumar: Critical and commercial success: …Madhumati (1958) and Nitin Bose’s Gunga Jumna (1961). He played the dual role of identical twins separated at birth in Ram Aur Shyam (1967; “Ram and Shyam”), creating the template for a Bollywood trope that would later be successfully repeated in films such as Seeta Aur Geeta (1972; “Seeta and…

Joseph Gungl was an Austro-Hungarian bandmaster and composer of more than 300 popular dances and marches in the light Viennese style. Gungl was an oboist and later a bandmaster in the Austrian army. In 1843 he formed a celebrated light orchestra in Berlin. In 1849 he toured the United States and in

Gungunhana was a Southern African king who ruled the last great independent African kingdom, Gaza, which from 1885 until 1889 was located on the Sabi River (also called Save) in what is now eastern Zimbabwe; after 1889 it was located on the lower Limpopo River in what is now southern Mozambique. He

history of Mesopotamia: Political fragmentation: …ruler of the latter dynasty, Gungunum (ruled c. 1932–c. 1906), conquered Ur and established himself as the equal and rival of Isin; at this stage—the end of the 20th century bce—if not before, Ur had certainly outlived itself. From Gungunum until the temporary unification of Mesopotamia under Hammurabi, the political…

Gungunhana was a Southern African king who ruled the last great independent African kingdom, Gaza, which from 1885 until 1889 was located on the Sabi River (also called Save) in what is now eastern Zimbabwe; after 1889 it was located on the lower Limpopo River in what is now southern Mozambique. He

shotcrete, concrete applied by spraying. Shotcrete is a mixture of aggregate and portland cement, conveyed by compressed air to the nozzle of a spray gun, where water is added. The wet mixture is then sprayed in place and may be carved or troweled almost immediately. For structural uses, shotcrete

Japan: The ritsuryō system: …by officials known as kokushi, gunji, and richō, respectively. The posts of kokushi were filled by members of the central bureaucracy in turn, but the posts of gunji and richō were staffed by members of prominent local families.

Ha Island, abandoned coal-mining centre some 3 miles (5 km) offshore, Nagasaki prefecture, northwestern Kyushu, Japan. The island, nicknamed Battleship Island (Gunkan-jima) because its silhouette resembles a battleship, was bought and developed by the Mitsubishi Mining Company in 1890. It closed in

Hermann Gunkel was a German Old Testament scholar who was one of the first to develop the method of biblical criticism known as form criticism. Educated at the University of Göttingen, Gunkel taught there and at Halle, Berlin, and Giessen. A leading member of the History of Religions school, he

Hermann Gunkel was a German Old Testament scholar who was one of the first to develop the method of biblical criticism known as form criticism. Educated at the University of Göttingen, Gunkel taught there and at Halle, Berlin, and Giessen. A leading member of the History of Religions school, he

Japanese literature: Kamakura period (1192–1333): …of the period is the gunki monogatari, or war tale. The most famous, Heike monogatari (The Tale of the Heike), was apparently first written at the court about 1220, probably by a nobleman who drew his materials from the accounts recited by priests of the warfare between the Taira (Heike)…

Peter Cornelius: …play by Pierre Corneille) and Gunlöd (libretto adapted from the Edda), which was completed after his death by Carl Hoffbauer and Eduard Lassen and produced in 1891.

Phil Karlson: Film noirs: Karlson ended the decade with Gunman’s Walk (1958), a western starring Van Heflin as a rancher having problems with his sons (played by James Darren and Tab Hunter).

Javier Bardem: …that also starred Cruz, and The Gunman (2015), an action film centred on mineral conflicts in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

gunmetal, variety of bronze, formerly used for ordnance. Modern admiralty gunmetal is composed of 88 percent copper, 10 percent tin, and 2 percent zinc and is used for gears and bearings that are to be subjected to heavy loads and low speeds. It withstands atmospheric, steam, and seawater corrosion

Gunn effect: …in a solid-state device, the Gunn diode, to produce short radio waves called microwaves. The effect was discovered by J.B. Gunn in the early 1960s. It has been detected only in a few materials.

Gunn effect, high-frequency oscillation of electrical current flowing through certain semiconducting solids. The effect is used in a solid-state device, the Gunn diode, to produce short radio waves called microwaves. The effect was discovered by J.B. Gunn in the early 1960s. It has been detected

Gunn effect: …in a solid-state device, the Gunn diode, to produce short radio waves called microwaves. The effect was discovered by J.B. Gunn in the early 1960s. It has been detected only in a few materials.

Breaking Bad: Premise and characters: …his pregnant wife, Skyler (Anna Gunn), and teenage son Walt Jr. (RJ Mitte) with financial security before his death, White partners with his ne’er-do-well former student Jesse Pinkman (Aaron Paul) to make and sell methamphetamine. Their laboratory is a used recreational vehicle parked in the desert. Their product is…

Australian literature: Nationalism and expansion: …of the times—proprietary, as in Mrs. Aeneas Gunn’s The Little Black Princess (1905) for young readers and in her autobiographical We of the Never-Never (1908), about her experiences on a station in the Northern Territory, the last region of Australia to attract European expansion. It still regards itself as the…

Neil Miller Gunn was a Scottish author whose novels are set in the Highlands and in the seaside villages of his native land. Gunn entered the civil service at age 15, working for Customs and Excise from 1911 to 1937. His first novel, The Grey Coast, was published in 1926. His third book, Morning

Thom Gunn was an English poet whose verse is notable for its adroit, terse language and counterculture themes. The son of a successful London journalist, Gunn attended University College School in London and Trinity College in Cambridge, where he received a B.A. (1953) and M.A. (1958). In 1954 he

Thom Gunn was an English poet whose verse is notable for its adroit, terse language and counterculture themes. The son of a successful London journalist, Gunn attended University College School in London and Trinity College in Cambridge, where he received a B.A. (1953) and M.A. (1958). In 1954 he

Japan: The maturity of Edo culture: …extreme example, an uprising in Gunnai district of Kai province (Yamanashi prefecture), then under direct bakufu control, eventually attracted more than 50,000 participants and for a time reduced the center of Kai to anarchy. The depth of the bakufu’s shock can be gauged from the fact that they sentenced 562…

Icelandic literature: The Icelanders’ sagas: …endowed with prophetic gifts, and Gunnar, who is young and inexperienced. Njáll embodies traditional Norse ideals of loyalty and bravery yet faces his death by burning with the resignation of a Christian martyr.

Gunther was a Burgundian king who was the hero of medieval legends. The historical Gunther led the Burgundians across the Rhine in the early 5th century, establishing a kingdom at Worms. He supported the imperial usurper Jovinus (411) and fell in battle against the Huns in 437. Gunther (called

Gunnar Gunnarsson was an Icelandic novelist and short-story writer who, like many Icelanders of the 20th century, chose to write in Danish to reach a larger public. Gunnarsson belonged to a family of parsons and farmers. Having published two collections of verse in Icelandic before he was 17, he

Gunnbjørn Mountain, mountain in southeastern Greenland, 40 miles (65 km) inland from the Blosseville Coast. The highest point in Greenland (12,139 feet [3,700 m]), it is located in a belt of mountains exceeding 7,000 feet (2,000 m) that extends 500 miles (800 km) down the Blosseville Coast. It was

Gunnbjørn Mountain, mountain in southeastern Greenland, 40 miles (65 km) inland from the Blosseville Coast. The highest point in Greenland (12,139 feet [3,700 m]), it is located in a belt of mountains exceeding 7,000 feet (2,000 m) that extends 500 miles (800 km) down the Blosseville Coast. It was

Gunnedah, town, east-central New South Wales, Australia. It is situated at the junction of the Conadilly and Namoi rivers, in the centre of the Liverpool Plains district. What was the eventual site of Gunnedah was discovered in 1818 by the explorer John Oxley and remained undeveloped until easier

gunnel, any of the long, eellike fishes of the family Pholidae (order Perciformes). Gunnels have a long, spiny dorsal fin running the length of the body and pelvic fins that, if present, are very small. About eight species are found in the northern regions of the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. They

Gunnerales: …each with just one genus—respectively, Gunnera (40–50 species) and Myrothamnus (2 species).

Gunnerales: … flowering plants containing two families, Gunneraceae and Myrothamnaceae, each with just one genus—respectively, Gunnera (40–50 species) and Myrothamnus (2 species).