Horatio Gates was an English-born American general in the American Revolution (1775–83) whose victory over the British at the Battle of Saratoga (1777) turned the tide of victory in behalf of the Revolutionaries. Gates first served in North America in the French and Indian War (1754–63), emerged as

John Warne Gates was an American financier and steel magnate who leveraged an $8,000 investment in a barbed-wire plant into the $90,000,000 American Steel & Wire Co. Dissatisfied with his partnership in a country hardware store at the age of 19 and impressed with the possibilities of a new product

Melinda Gates is an American businesswoman and philanthropist who—with her then husband, Microsoft Corporation cofounder Bill Gates—established (2000) the charitable Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, which became one of the largest philanthropic organizations in the world. In May 2024 Gates

New York Rens: The world’s best team: In 1938 William (“Pop”) Gates and Clarence (“Puggy”) Bell were added to a roster of talented players that already included John (“Boy Wonder”) Isaacs, Charles (“Tarzan”) Cooper, William (“Wee Willie”) Smith, Eyre (“Bruiser”) Saitch, Zach Clayton, and player-manager Clarence (“Fat”) Jenkins.

United States: Sessions’s resignation, choosing a new attorney general, and the ongoing Mueller investigation: …others who were indicted included Rick Gates, who worked with Manafort and was a senior aide on Trump’s inauguration committee, and Roger Stone, a longtime friend and adviser of Trump. Michael Cohen, Trump’s former personal lawyer, pled guilty to lying to Congress and to charges related to his involvement in…

Robert M. Gates is a U.S. government official who served as director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA; 1991–93) under Pres. George H.W. Bush and as secretary of defense (2006–11) in the administrations of Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama. Gates studied European history at the

Robert M. Gates is a U.S. government official who served as director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA; 1991–93) under Pres. George H.W. Bush and as secretary of defense (2006–11) in the administrations of Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama. Gates studied European history at the

Jamestown Colony: First years (1607–09): The company determined that Thomas Gates would hold that position for the first year of the new charter. He sailed for Virginia in June with a fleet of nine ships and hundreds of new colonists. The fleet was caught in a hurricane en route, however, and Gates’s ship was…

Jennifer Johnston: … (1972), was actually written after The Gates (1973); both novels feature the Anglo-Irish setting of a decaying manor house. Johnston’s third novel, How Many Miles to Babylon? (1974), concerns the complex and tragic friendship of two young men who are sentenced to death during World War I. Shadows on Our…

Christo and Jeanne-Claude: Notable works: The Gates was unveiled in 2005. Stretching across 23 miles (37 km) of walkway in Central Park, the work featured 7,503 steel gates that were 16 feet (5 metres) high and decorated with saffron-coloured cloth panels. The Gates was on display for 16 days and…

Theaster Gates American community activist and artist whose work—which included multimedia projects, installations, and performance art—questioned issues of racial and economic inequality. Gates grew up in a working-class family on Chicago’s West Side. After earning (1996) a B.S. degree in urban

New York Rens: The world’s best team: In 1938 William (“Pop”) Gates and Clarence (“Puggy”) Bell were added to a roster of talented players that already included John (“Boy Wonder”) Isaacs, Charles (“Tarzan”) Cooper, William (“Wee Willie”) Smith, Eyre (“Bruiser”) Saitch, Zach Clayton, and player-manager Clarence (“Fat”) Jenkins.

Emiliano Zapata: Agrarian reforms: envoy, William Gates, visited Zapata and then published a series of articles in the United States; he contrasted the order of the Zapata-controlled zone with the chaos of the constitutional zone and said that “the true social revolution can be found among the Zapatistas.” When these…

Bill Gates is an American computer programmer and entrepreneur who cofounded Microsoft Corporation, the world’s largest personal-computer software company. Gates wrote his first software program at the age of 13. In high school he helped form a group of programmers who computerized their school’s

Gateshead, town and metropolitan borough, metropolitan county of Tyne and Wear, historic county of Durham, northeastern England. It was initially a small settlement that developed at the southern end of a medieval bridge across the River Tyne, opposite the fortress (later city) of Newcastle upon

Gateshead: metropolitan borough, metropolitan county of Tyne and Wear, historic county of Durham, northeastern England.

Gateshead: …and the site of the Gateshead Millennium Bridge (2001), a tilting bridge for pedestrians and bicyclists in the shape of two intersecting parabolas. Besides the town of Gateshead, the metropolitan borough includes the towns of Felling, Dunston, and Blaydon, suburban areas, and open countryside and woodland. Area metropolitan borough, 55…

Frederik Pohl: …Nebula Award-winning Man Plus (1976); Gateway (1977), which won both the Hugo and the Nebula Award for best novel; Jem (1980), the first and only novel to capture a National Book Award for science fiction (hardcover), bestowed only in 1980; Chernobyl (1987); and All the Lives He Led (2011). The…

information processing: Information searching and retrieval: …accomplished by routing through so-called gateways capable of protocol translation. The architecture of a typical networked information system is illustrated in Figure 5. Several representative clients are shown: a “dumb” terminal (i.e., one with no internal processor), a personal computer (PC), a Macintosh (Mac), and a NeXT machine. They have…

Artemis: …Artemis missions would dock at Gateway, an international space station in lunar orbit from which astronauts would descend to the Moon’s surface. Gateway’s first two modules, the Power and Propulsion Element (PPE) and the Habitation and Logistics Outpost (HALO), are scheduled to be launched together, uncrewed, in 2025. The ESA…

Gateway Arch, monument in St. Louis, Missouri, that sits along the west bank of the Mississippi River. The Gateway Arch takes its name from the city’s role as the “Gateway to the West” during the westward expansion of the United States in the 19th century. The gleaming archway, part of Gateway Arch

Eero Saarinen: Life: …1948 prizewinning design for the Jefferson National Expansion Memorial (later Gateway Arch National Park) in St. Louis, Missouri, was completed in 1965. The Gateway Arch is a graceful and spectacular arch of stainless steel with a span and height of 630 feet (190 metres). It conveys a sense of ceremony…

Compaq: Building IBM PC clones: …as Dell Computer Corporation and Gateway Computer Corporation, Compaq’s veteran staff gave the company an aura of reliability that helped to woo corporate purchases away from IBM.

Huari: …on Huari pottery is the Doorway God, a stylized, anthropomorphic figure often represented in front view with a rectangular face and rayed headdress. This motif is also found at Tiwanaku. Huari architecture features large enclosures constructed of stone masonry. Monumental temple sculpture is naturalistic and depicts both male and female…

Gateway of India, an arch monument built in the early 20th century in Mumbai to commemorate the December 2, 1911, landing of King George V and Queen Mary at Apollo Bunder (now Wellington Pier) on the Arabian Sea, on their way to the Delhi Durbar. It is believed that the royal couple saw just a

Tiwanaku: …the Kalasasaya is the monolithic Gateway of the Sun, which is adorned with the carved central figure of a staff-carrying Doorway God and other subsidiary figures, sometimes referred to as angels or winged messengers. A great number of freestanding carved stone figures have also been found at the site. Characteristic…

Gath, one of the five royal cities of the Philistines, the exact location of which in modern Israel has not been determined. The name occurs several times in the Hebrew Bible, especially in connection with the history of David. Goliath, the Philistine champion, came from Gath. The records of Sargon

Avestan language: …older being that of the Gāthās, which reflects a linguistic stage (dating from c. 600 bc) close to that of Vedic Sanskrit in India. The greater part of the Avesta is written in a more recent form of the language and shows gradual simplification and variation in grammatical forms. When…

aṅgā: Gāthā (“verse”), works in poetic form. Udāna (“inspired utterance”), special sayings of the Buddha in prose or verse (also the name of a work in the Pāli Khuddaka Nikāya [“Short Collection”]). Itivuttaka (“thus it is said”), sayings of the Buddha introduced by these words; many…

Muammar al-Qaddafi was the de facto leader of Libya (1969–2011). Qaddafi had ruled for more than four decades when he was ousted by a revolt in August 2011. After evading capture for several weeks, he was killed by rebel forces in October 2011. The son of an itinerant Bedouin farmer, Qaddafi was

Gondophernes was an Indo-Parthian king in the areas of Arachosia, Kabul, and Gandhara (present Afghanistan and Pakistan). Some scholars recognize the name of Gondophernes through its Armenian form, Gastaphar, in Gaspar, the traditional name of one of the Magi (Wise Men) who came from the East to

Alice Walker: Later work and controversies: …2022 Walker chose to publish Gathering Blossoms Under Fire, a deeply intimate collection of her journals, telling The New York Times, “I want the journals to be used so that people can see this working through of disappointment, anger, sorrow, regret. So in that sense, it’s a medicine book.”

Robin Wall Kimmerer: Gathering Moss: While in college Kimmerer had her first encounter with bryology (the study of mosses, liverworts, and hornworts), which would become her area of specialization and the subject of her first published book, Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses (2003). As…

Louis-Léopold Boilly: Such paintings as Gathering of Artists in the Studio of Isabey (1798), The Arrival of the Stagecoach (1803), The Studio of Houdon (1804), and Departure of the Conscripts (1808) show his considerable skill at handling crowd scenes. In 1823 Boilly produced his first lithographs, a humorous series entitled…

Russia: Ivan III: The “gathering of the Russian lands,” as it has traditionally been known, became under Ivan a conscious and irresistible drive by Moscow to annex all East Slavic lands, both the Russian territories, which traditionally had close links with Moscow, and the Belarusian and Ukrainian regions, which…

hippie: Be-ins, music festivals, and other public gatherings: The first “be-in,” called the Gathering of the Tribes, was held in San Francisco in 1967. It initiated the Summer of Love, wherein up to 100,000 members of the counterculture traveled across the United States and converged in the Haight-Ashbury district of that city. Many came for the Monterey International…

education: Organization of education: …contained several study circles (ḥalqah), so named because the teacher was, as a rule, seated on a dais or cushion with the pupils gathered in a semicircle before him. The more advanced a student, the closer he was seated to the teacher. The mosque circles varied in approach, course…

hunter-gatherer, any person who depends primarily on wild foods for subsistence. Until about 12,000 to 11,000 years ago, when agriculture and animal domestication emerged in southwest Asia and in Mesoamerica, all peoples were hunter-gatherers. Their strategies have been very diverse, depending

Albert Finney: …Churchill in the television movie The Gathering Storm (2002) won him an Emmy Award, among other honours.

Carolyn Forché: Her first collection of poetry, Gathering the Tribes (1976), evokes her childhood, her Slovak ancestry, and reflections on sexuality, family, and race.

Gathorne Gathorne-Hardy, 1st earl of Cranbrook was an English Conservative politician who was a strong proponent of British intervention in the Russo-Turkish conflict of 1877–78. Called to the bar in 1840, Hardy entered Parliament in 1856, earning a reputation as a skilled debater and a staunch

Buddhism: Mythic figures in the Three Worlds cosmology: …includes a set of six gatis (“destinies”) that have played an important role as a setting for mythology in virtually all Buddhist traditions in Asia. The highest of these six destinies is that of the devatas (though both gods and goddesses are included among the devatas, the goddesses generally have…

Gatineau, city, Outaouais region, southwestern Quebec province, Canada. It is situated on the north bank of the Ottawa River, opposite Ottawa, straddling the mouth of the Gatineau River. The city derives its name from the river, which itself was named for Nicolas Gatineau, a fur trader who

Gatineau River, river in Outaouais region, southwestern Quebec province, Canada. The river rises in a chain of lakes north of Baskatong Reservoir and flows generally southward for 240 miles (390 km) to join the Ottawa River at Hull. It was named for Nicolas Gatineau, a fur trader who is reputed to

Gatlinburg, city, Sevier county, eastern Tennessee, U.S. It lies about 30 miles (50 km) southeast of Knoxville, at the northwestern entrance to Great Smoky Mountains National Park. English and Scotch-Irish settlers began to arrive along the Little Pigeon River about 1795; by 1835 the settlement was

Gatling gun, hand-driven machine gun, the first to solve the problems of loading, reliability, and the firing of sustained bursts. It was invented about 1862 by Richard Jordan Gatling during the American Civil War. After early experiments with a single barrel using paper cartridges (which had to

Richard Jordan Gatling was an American inventor best known for his invention of the Gatling gun, a crank-operated, multibarrel machine gun, which he patented in 1862. Gatling’s career as an inventor began when he assisted his father in the construction and perfecting of machines for sowing cotton

Latin American dance: The Southern Cone: …dances include the chacarrera and gato (couple dances based on the fandango) and malambo (a man’s solo dance with improvised footwork).

submarine: World War II: …was waged mainly with the Gato- and Balao-class submarines. These were approximately 311.5 feet long, displaced 1,525 tons, and had diesel-electric machinery for 20-knot surface and nine-knot underwater speeds. The principal difference between the two designs was the 300-foot operating depth for the Gato class and 400-foot depth for the…

Kadoma, town, central Zimbabwe. Named for nearby Kadoma (Gatooma) Hill, it was constituted a village in 1907 and received municipal status in 1917. Located in a fertile area and on the main road and railway between Harare (formerly Salisbury) and Bulawayo, the town is a commercial centre for

Quaker Oats Company: …Stokley–Van Camp, the maker of Gatorade sport drink, in 1983 and of Snapple, a bottler of iced teas and fruit drinks, in 1994. Although lagging sales caused Quaker to sell the Snapple business in 1997, the company continued to expand the Gatorade brand by introducing nutritional drinks and snacks.

Utrera, city, Sevilla provincia (province), in the comunidad autónoma (autonomous community) of Andalusia, southwestern Spain. It lies southeast of the city of Sevilla on the Arroyo de la Antigua, which is a tributary of the Guadalquivir River. The site has been occupied since prehistoric times and

Jay Gatsby, fictional character, the rich, mysterious protagonist of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel The Great Gatsby

General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), set of multilateral trade agreements aimed at the abolition of quotas and the reduction of tariff duties among the contracting nations. When GATT was concluded by 23 countries at Geneva, in 1947 (to take effect on Jan. 1, 1948), it was considered an

Ethan Hawke: …Thurman in the sci-fi thriller Gattaca; the couple married in 1998 and divorced in 2004. Hawke’s other films in the 1990s include Great Expectations (1998), a modern take on the classic novel by Charles Dickens; Linklater’s The Newton Boys (1998), about the adventures of a gang of bank robbers in…

Gattamelata, bronze statue of the Venetian condottiere Erasmo da Narni (popularly known as Gattamelata, meaning “honeyed cat”) by the 15th-century Italian Renaissance sculptor Donatello. It was completed between 1447 and 1450 but was not installed on its pedestal in the Piazza del Santo in front of

historiography: Johann Christoph Gatterer and the Göttingen scholars: Until the beginning of the 19th century, the history of historiography could be represented in a list of great and near-great individuals. Group efforts like those of the Bollandists or the Benedictines of St. Maur were the exception; almost…

Dardenne brothers: …of Jean-Pierre’s teachers, French director Armand Gatti, provided the brothers’ inspiration to use videotape to document the lives and struggles of working-class Belgians. It also determined their signature camera style: use of the handheld camera and a preference for improvised dialogue. Beginning in the 1970s they made a number of…

Arturo Gatti was an Italian-born Canadian boxer who held two world titles during his 16-year professional career (1991–2007)—the International Boxing Federation (IBF) super featherweight (junior lightweight; 1995–97) and the World Boxing Council (WBC) junior welterweight (2004–05). Gatti’s

Martin Luther: Excommunication: Charles’s adviser Mercurino Gattinara, mindful of the need for good relations with the estates (the three main orders of society—clergy, nobility, and townspeople), repeatedly urged the emperor not to issue an edict against Luther without their full consent. Gattinara’s caution was justified, because in February the estates…

Gatton, town, southern Queensland, Australia. It lies along Lockyer Creek, about 60 miles (100 km) west of Brisbane. Likely named for the village of Gattonside in the Borders region of Scotland or for the parish of Gatton in Surrey, England, it was gazetted as the site for a village in 1855 and by

The Leopard, novel by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, published in 1958 as Il gattopardo. The novel is a psychological study of Don Fabrizio, prince of Salina (called the Leopard, after his family crest), who witnesses with detachment the transfer of power in Sicily from the old Bourbon aristocracy

Wiley Post: Post, accompanied by navigator Harold Gatty, made his first around-the-world flight from June 23 to July 1, 1931, in a Lockheed Vega named Winnie Mae (now part of the Smithsonian Institution’s collection), completing the voyage in 8 days, 15 hours, 51 minutes; later that year their account of the…

Chagres River: …Gatún Lake, created by the Gatún Dam (1912) with which are associated locks and a hydroelectric plant. The Chagres there leaves the canal and flows into the Caribbean Sea west of Limón Bay. Originally characterized by rapids throughout, the river is navigable only in its canalized portions. The river supplies…

Gatun Lake, long artificial lake in Panama, constituting part of the Panama Canal system; its area is 166 square miles (430 square km). It was formed by damming the Chagres River and its smaller affluents at Gatun at the north end of the lake. Its dam (completed 1912) and spillway, a key structure

Panama Canal: The canal: …the Atlantic side through the Gatún Locks to a point in the widest portion of Gatún Lake; it then turns sharply toward the east and follows a course generally to the southeast until it reaches the Bay of Panama, on the Pacific side. Its terminus near Balboa is some 25…

history of the Low Countries: Government: …had control of counties, or gauen (pagi), some of which corresponded to Roman civitates. Among these counties in the Low Countries were the pagus Taruanensis (centred on Thérouanne), pagus Mempiscus, pagus Flandrensis (around Brugge), pagus Turnacensis (around Tournai), pagus Gandensis (Ghent), pagus Bracbatensis (between the Schelde and the Dijle rivers),…

Santa Maria, largest of the Banks Islands in Vanuatu, southwestern Pacific Ocean. The island, with an area of 132 square miles (342 square km), is rugged and rises to Garet, an active volcano (2,615 feet [797 metres]) that contains a lake in its caldera at 1,404 feet (428 metres). The volcano has

Saint Walburga ; feast day February 25) was an abbess and missionary who, with her brothers Willibald of Eichstätt and Winebald of Heidenheim, was important in St. Boniface’s organization of the Frankish church. Walburga was a Benedictine at the monastery of Wimborne, Dorsetshire, when Winebald

Gaucher disease, rare inherited metabolic disorder characterized by anemia, mental and neurologic impairment, yellowish pigmentation of the skin, enlargement of the spleen, and bone deterioration resulting in pathological fractures. Gaucher disease was initially described in 1882 by French

Gaucher disease, rare inherited metabolic disorder characterized by anemia, mental and neurologic impairment, yellowish pigmentation of the skin, enlargement of the spleen, and bone deterioration resulting in pathological fractures. Gaucher disease was initially described in 1882 by French

Cartel des Gauches, (French: “Coalition of the Left”), in the French Third Republic (1870–1940), a coalition of left-wing parties in the Chamber of Deputies (lower house of the legislature). It governed France from 1924 to 1926. The Socialist Party, which usually disdained association with the

Steely Dan: Difficulties in completing Gaucho (1980) persuaded Becker and Fagen to give the group a rest, and they pursued separate careers for many years. Fagen’s first solo album, The Nightfly (1982), recaptured many of Steely Dan’s strengths; Becker produced albums for various artists. In the early 1990s they each…

gaucho, the nomadic and colourful horseman and cowhand of the Argentine and Uruguayan Pampas (grasslands), who flourished from the mid-18th to the mid-19th century and has remained a folk hero similar to the cowboy in western North America. The term also has been used to refer to cowhands and other

Latin American dance: The Southern Cone: …Grande do Sul, 22 documented gaucho dances are re-created by more than 1,000 performance groups within gaucho community centres (centros de tradicoes gaúchas). In Argentina the gaucho dances include the chacarrera and gato (couple dances based on the fandango) and malambo (a man’s solo dance with improvised footwork).

gaucho literature, Spanish American poetic genre that imitates the payadas (“ballads”) traditionally sung to guitar accompaniment by the wandering gaucho minstrels of Argentina and Uruguay. By extension, the term includes the body of South American literature that treats the way of life and

Argentina: Cultural life: …in the national epic poem El gaucho Martin Fierro (1872) by José Hernández, in Ricardo Güiraldes’s fictional classic Don Segunda Sombra (1926), and in works by Domingo Faustino Sarmiento and Benito Lynch.

matador: Even a nun, Doña María de Gaucín, supposedly left a convent to become a bullfighter. According to Havelock Ellis in The Soul of Spain (1908), this matadora

Germany: The Merkel administration: Joachim Gauck was elected president of Germany in March 2012, becoming the third person to hold that office in as many years. Unaffiliated with any political party, Gauck was a popular choice for the largely ceremonial role because of his history as a pro-democracy dissident…

Gauda: In literature, the poetic style Gauda or Gaudi, also known as Pracya (Eastern), is described by Dandin in his work on poetics, Kavyadarsha (“Mirror of Poetry”).

Gauda, a city, a country, and a literary style in ancient India. The city is better known under its Anglicized name, Gaur. Its first recorded reference is by the grammarian Panini (5th century bce), and its location may be inferred to have been in eastern India. The name Gauda, in Sanskrit

India: Successor states: …eulogized in the Prakrit poem Gauda-vadha (“The Slaying of [the King of] Gauda”) by Vakpati. Yashovarman came into conflict with Lalitaditya, the king of Kashmir of the Karkota dynasty, and appears to have been defeated.

Advaita: …beginning with the 7th-century-ce thinker Gaudapada, author of the Mandukya-karika, a commentary in verse form on the Mandukya Upanishad.

Joseph Victor von Scheffel: …a book of verse; and Gaudeamus! (1868), a collection of student songs. Scheffel’s writings eventually fell out of favour with the critics, who viewed them as cloying and trivial.

two-step flow model of communication: Lazarsfeld, Bernard Berelson, and Hazel Gaudet in the book The People’s Choice, after research into voters’ decision-making processes during the 1940 U.S. presidential election. It stipulates that mass media content first reaches “opinion leaders,” people who are active media users and who collect, interpret, and diffuse the meaning of…

Advent: …Sunday of Advent, known as Gaudete Sunday, is commonly marked by the use of rose-colored vestments and candles.

Gauda: In literature, the poetic style Gauda or Gaudi, also known as Pracya (Eastern), is described by Dandin in his work on poetics, Kavyadarsha (“Mirror of Poetry”).

Antoni Gaudí was a Catalan architect, whose distinctive style is characterized by freedom of form, voluptuous colour and texture, and organic unity. Gaudí worked almost entirely in or near Barcelona. Much of his career was occupied with the construction of the Expiatory Temple of the Holy Family

Antoni Gaudí was a Catalan architect, whose distinctive style is characterized by freedom of form, voluptuous colour and texture, and organic unity. Gaudí worked almost entirely in or near Barcelona. Much of his career was occupied with the construction of the Expiatory Temple of the Holy Family

Antoni Gaudí was a Catalan architect, whose distinctive style is characterized by freedom of form, voluptuous colour and texture, and organic unity. Gaudí worked almost entirely in or near Barcelona. Much of his career was occupied with the construction of the Expiatory Temple of the Holy Family

Henri Gaudier-Brzeska was a French artist who was one of the earliest abstract sculptors and an exponent of the Vorticist movement. He was instrumental in introducing modern art to England during the early years of the 20th century. Gaudier-Brzeska initially studied business before taking up

Henri Gaudier-Brzeska was a French artist who was one of the earliest abstract sculptors and an exponent of the Vorticist movement. He was instrumental in introducing modern art to England during the early years of the 20th century. Gaudier-Brzeska initially studied business before taking up

Lucien Gaudin was a French fencer. One of the great classical fencers of the 20th century, Gaudin was once described as “poetry in motion” for his seemingly effortless control of his blade through “finger play.” The left-handed Gaudin was a top world competitor in foil and épée throughout the

Martin-Michel-Charles Gaudin, duke de Gaëte was the French finance minister throughout the French Consulate and the First Empire (1799–1814) and founder of the Bank of France (1800). From 1773 Gaudin worked in those bureaus of the Contrôle Générale des Finances that handled the collection of taxes,

the Four Seasons: September 21, 2020, Henderson, Nevada), Bob Gaudio (b. November 17, 1942, New York, New York), and Nick Massi (original name Nicholas Macioci; b. September 19, 1935, Newark—d. December 24, 2000, West Orange, New Jersey).

history of the Low Countries: Government: …had control of counties, or gauen (pagi), some of which corresponded to Roman civitates. Among these counties in the Low Countries were the pagus Taruanensis (centred on Thérouanne), pagus Mempiscus, pagus Flandrensis (around Brugge), pagus Turnacensis (around Tournai), pagus Gandensis (Ghent), pagus Bracbatensis (between the Schelde and the Dijle rivers),…

Coco Gauff is a professional tennis player who, at age 19 in 2023, became only the third American teenager to win the U.S. Open women’s title. She rose to prominence in the sport by beating Venus Williams, one of her childhood idols, at the Wimbledon Championships when Gauff was just 15 years old.

Coco Gauff is a professional tennis player who, at age 19 in 2023, became only the third American teenager to win the U.S. Open women’s title. She rose to prominence in the sport by beating Venus Williams, one of her childhood idols, at the Wimbledon Championships when Gauff was just 15 years old.

Battle of Gaugamela, (October 1, 331 bce) clash between the forces of Alexander the Great of Macedonia and Darius III of Persia that decided the fate of the Persian Achaemenian Empire. From his accession in 336 bce at age 20, Alexander had set his mind on the conquest of Persia. Indeed, he had

gauge, in manufacturing and engineering, a device used to determine, either directly or indirectly, whether a dimension is larger or smaller than another dimension that is used as a reference standard. Some devices termed gauges may actually measure the size of the object to be gauged, but most