copernicium: In 1996 scientists at the Institute for Heavy Ion Research (Gesellschaft für Schwerionenforschung [GSI]) in Darmstadt, Ger., announced the production of atoms of copernicium from fusing zinc-70 with lead-208. The atoms of copernicium had an atomic weight of 277 and decayed after 0.24 millisecond by emission of an alpha particle…

Tankred Dorst: His 1960 drama Gesellschaft im Herbst (“Party in Autumn”), about a crafty businessman who fools the owner of an ancestral castle into thinking that the castle holds buried treasure, is a satire on contemporary German society’s obsession with romantic myths. During the mid- to late 1960s, Dorst introduced…

Wilhelm Gesenius was a German biblical critic and an important figure in Hebrew and other Semitic language studies. He was a pioneer of critical Hebrew lexicography and grammar. Educated at Helmstedt and at Göttingen, in 1811 Gesenius became professor of theology at Halle. Though accused of

Wilhelm Gesenius was a German biblical critic and an important figure in Hebrew and other Semitic language studies. He was a pioneer of critical Hebrew lexicography and grammar. Educated at Helmstedt and at Göttingen, in 1811 Gesenius became professor of theology at Halle. Though accused of

Paul Kammerer: …in the scientific community, was Das Gesetz der Serie (1919; “The Law of Seriality”), an attempt to explain coincidence as the manifestation of a natural principle operating independently of known physical causation laws.

Nürnberg Laws: ” The other, the Gesetz zum Schutze des Deutschen Blutes und der Deutschen Ehre (“Law for the Protection of German Blood and German Honour”), usually called simply the Blutschutzgesetz (“Blood Protection Law”), forbade marriage or sexual relations between Jews and “citizens of German or kindred blood.” These measures were…

David Levy: In 1995 Levy founded the Gesher (“Bridge”) party, with a secular Sephardic base, and in 1999 he was named minister of foreign affairs and deputy prime minister in Benjamin Netanyahu’s cabinet. He resigned both posts the following year over differences with Netanyahu but in 2002 served briefly as minister without…

Ivan Evstatiev Geshov was a Bulgarian statesman and founder of the Bulgarian National Bank. He was prime minister from March 1911 to July 1913. After being educated at Robert College in Constantinople (modern Istanbul) and Owens College in Manchester, Eng., Geshov took an active part in the

Tammuz: His sister, Geshtinanna, eventually finds him, and the myth ends with Inanna decreeing that Tammuz and his sister may alternate in the netherworld, each spending half of the year among the living.

kerosene: Abraham Gesner in the late 1840s, kerosene was initially manufactured from coal tar and shale oils. However, following the drilling of the first oil well in Pennsylvania by E.L. Drake in 1859, petroleum quickly became the major source of kerosene. Because of its use in…

Conrad Gesner was a Swiss physician and naturalist best known for his systematic compilations of information on animals and plants. Noting his learning ability at an early age, his father, an impecunious furrier, placed him for schooling in the household of a great-uncle, who augmented his income

botanical garden: History: In the early 1800s Jean Gesner, a Swiss physician and botanist, noted that by the end of the 18th century there were 1,600 botanical gardens in Europe. During the 18th and 19th centuries, the science of botany took form, and many of the important botanists of the period were…

Johann Sebastian Bach: Nonmusical duties: …tact of the new rector, Johann Matthias Gesner, who admired Bach and had known him at Weimar; but Gesner stayed only until 1734 and was succeeded by Johann August Ernesti, a young man with up-to-date ideas on education, one of which was that music was not one of the humanities…

Conrad Gesner was a Swiss physician and naturalist best known for his systematic compilations of information on animals and plants. Noting his learning ability at an early age, his father, an impecunious furrier, placed him for schooling in the household of a great-uncle, who augmented his income

Gesneriaceae, one of 23 families in the flowering plant order Lamiales, consisting of 147 genera and about 3,200 species of mostly tropical and subtropical herbaceous or slightly woody plants. Many are of economic importance as horticultural ornamentals. Among these are the African violets

Gesneriaceae, one of 23 families in the flowering plant order Lamiales, consisting of 147 genera and about 3,200 species of mostly tropical and subtropical herbaceous or slightly woody plants. Many are of economic importance as horticultural ornamentals. Among these are the African violets

Ulrich von Hutten: …translated into German in his Gesprächbüchlein (1522; “Little Conversation Book”).

Johann Peter Eckermann: von Goethe; his Gespräche mit Goethe in den letzten Jahren seines Lebens, 1823–32, 3 vol. (1836–48; “Conversations with Goethe in the Last Years of His Life”), is comparable in importance with James Boswell’s Life of Johnson.

Romolo Gessi was an Italian soldier and explorer who served in the Egyptian Sudan under Gen. Charles George Gordon (governor general of the Sudan) and participated in the final stages of the exploration of the Nile River. By becoming the first person to circumnavigate and map Lake Albert Nyanza (in

Otto Gessler was a German minister of war during the Weimar Republic who was instrumental in rebuilding the country’s armed forces after World War I. A student of law, Gessler became mayor of Regensburg (1910–11) and Nürnberg (1913–19). After the German revolution of November 1918, he helped found

Otto Gessler was a German minister of war during the Weimar Republic who was instrumental in rebuilding the country’s armed forces after World War I. A student of law, Gessler became mayor of Regensburg (1910–11) and Nürnberg (1913–19). After the German revolution of November 1918, he helped found

Conrad Gesner was a Swiss physician and naturalist best known for his systematic compilations of information on animals and plants. Noting his learning ability at an early age, his father, an impecunious furrier, placed him for schooling in the household of a great-uncle, who augmented his income

Joy Adamson was an Austrian-born conservationist who pioneered the movement to preserve African wildlife. She is best known for authoring the best-selling book, Born Free (1960), which chronicled her experience of raising a captive lioness named Elsa and was made into an Oscar-winning film. She

Conrad Gesner was a Swiss physician and naturalist best known for his systematic compilations of information on animals and plants. Noting his learning ability at an early age, his father, an impecunious furrier, placed him for schooling in the household of a great-uncle, who augmented his income

Salomon Gessner was a Swiss writer, translator, painter, and etcher, known throughout Europe for literary works of pastoral themes and rococo style. Gessner was a town councillor and a forestry superintendent who also ran an important publishing house, from which he published his books with his own

gesso, fluid white coating, composed of plaster of paris, chalk, gypsum, or other whiting mixed with glue, applied to smooth surfaces such as wood panels, plaster, stone, or canvas to provide the ground for tempera and oil painting or for gilding and painting carved furniture and picture frames. In

gest, a story of achievements or adventures. Among several famous medieval collections of gests are Fulcher of Chartres’s Gesta Francorum, Saxo Grammaticus’s Gesta Danorum, and the compilation known as the Gesta Romanorum. The term was also used to refer to a romance in verse. The word is

John Of Fordun: …of book 5 is his Gesta annalia (Scotland, 1153–1363). These were all completed by 1363; thereafter John travelled until 1383, wrote books 1–3 (legendary) and book 4 (814–1057), and brought the Gesta annalia down to 1384. Walter Bower’s Scotichronicon, completed 1447, is in part an expansion and continuation of John’s…

St. Augustine: Controversial writings: …most effectively, but the stenographic Gesta Collationis Carthaginensis (411; “Acts of the Council of Carthage”) offers a vivid view of the politics and bad feelings of the schism.

Hamlet: …story is narrated in the Gesta Danorum, Saxo Grammaticus’s late 12th-century history of Denmark. But the character’s famous hesitation—his reluctance or unreadiness to avenge his father’s murder—is central and peculiar to Shakespeare’s conception of Hamlet. This hesitation has fascinated critics, but none of the explanations offered, such as unconscious Oedipal…

Jacques Bongars, seigneur de Bauldry et de La Chesnaye: …by the far more important Gesta Dei per Francos (“God’s Work Through the Franks”), a collection of contemporary accounts of the Crusades. An edition of his letters, in Latin, appeared in 1647, a French translation in 1668–70. His diary of his journey to Constantinople was printed in 1874.

Fulcher Of Chartres: His Gesta Francorum Jherusalem peregrinantium (written in three installments, 1101, 1106, and 1124–27) is a vivid and reliable account of the First Crusade, Baldwin’s journey to Jerusalem, and the kingdom of Jerusalem to 1127.

Germanic religion and mythology: Early medieval records: …Gesta Hammaburgensis ecclesiae pontificum (History of the Archbishops of Hamburg-Bremen), which included a description of the lands in the north, then part of the ecclesiastical province of Hamburg. Adam’s work is particularly rich in descriptions of the festivals and sacrifices of the Swedes, who were still largely pagan in…

Innocent III: Early pontificate: …registers and in a chronicle, Gesta Innocentii III (“The Deeds of Innocent III”), written about 1208 by an anonymous member of Innocent’s curia who apparently knew the pope very well. In one of his first letters, Innocent ordered King Philip Augustus of France to take back his wife, whom the…

Charlemagne legend: A Gesta Karoli magni, written by the monk Notker of St. Gall (in Switzerland) in 884–887, seems to owe as much to popular anecdotes and oral tradition as to Charlemagne’s biographer, Einhard. By the 12th century, lives of Charlemagne were attributing miracles to him before and…

Rigord: The first section of the Gesta Philippi Augusti (1196; “The Deeds of Philip Augustus”) began with Philip’s coronation in 1179 and showed enthusiastic partiality toward him. An addition to the work, continuing to 1207, marked a shift in Rigord’s attitude to one of rather severe censure, probably a result of…

Gervase Of Canterbury: A second history, the Gesta regum, traces in less detail the political and military fortunes of Britain from the 1st century bc to 1209 or 1210. The earlier portions of both works are derivative, but Gervase is an independent authority for events from 1188 or 1189.

Gesta Romanorum, Latin collection of anecdotes and tales, probably compiled early in the 14th century. It was one of the most popular books of the time and the source, directly or indirectly, of much later literature, including that of Chaucer, John Gower, Thomas Hoccleve, Shakespeare, and many

Gestalt psychology, school of psychology founded in the 20th century that provided the foundation for the modern study of perception. Gestalt theory emphasizes that the whole of anything is greater than its parts. That is, the attributes of the whole are not deducible from analysis of the parts in

Gestalt therapy, a humanistic method of psychotherapy that takes a holistic approach to human experience by stressing individual responsibility and awareness of present psychological and physical needs. Frederick (“Fritz”) S. Perls, a German-born psychiatrist, founded Gestalt therapy in the 1940s

Gestapo, the political police of Nazi Germany. The Gestapo ruthlessly eliminated opposition to the Nazis within Germany and its occupied territories and, in partnership with the Sicherheitsdienst (SD; “Security Service”), was responsible for the roundup of Jews throughout Europe for deportation to

gestation, in mammals, the time between conception and birth, during which the embryo or fetus is developing in the uterus. This definition raises occasional difficulties because in some species (e.g., monkeys and man) the exact time of conception may not be known. In these cases the beginning of

gestational age, length of time that a fetus grows inside the mother’s uterus. Gestational age is related to the fetus’s stage of growth as well as its cognitive and physical development. The gestational age of a fetus is particularly important when determining the potential negative effects of a

gestational diabetes mellitus, temporary condition in which blood sugar (glucose) levels increase during pregnancy and return to normal after delivery. A healthy pregnancy is characterized by increased nutrient utilization, increased insulin resistance, and increased insulin secretion. Blood

preeclampsia and eclampsia, hypertensive conditions that are induced by pregnancy. Preeclampsia, also called gestational edema-proteinuria-hypertension (GEPH), is an acute toxic condition arising during the second half of the gestation period or in the first week after delivery and generally occurs

gestational trophoblastic disease, any of a group of rare conditions in which tumours develop in the uterus from the cells that normally would form the placenta during pregnancy. The main types of gestational trophoblastic disease include choriocarcinoma, epithelioid trophoblastic tumour,

gest, a story of achievements or adventures. Among several famous medieval collections of gests are Fulcher of Chartres’s Gesta Francorum, Saxo Grammaticus’s Gesta Danorum, and the compilation known as the Gesta Romanorum. The term was also used to refer to a romance in verse. The word is

epic: Chansons de geste: The so-called Cycle of the Revolted Knights groups those poems that tell of revolts of feudal subjects against the emperor (Charlemagne or, more usually, his son, Louis). The Cycle of the King consists of the songs in which Charlemagne himself is a principal figure.

French literature: The chansons de geste: Dominating the Geste de Garin de Monglane is Garin’s great-grandson, Guillaume d’Orange, whose historical prototype was the count of Toulouse and Charlemagne’s cousin. His dogged loyalty to an unworthy monarch (Charlemagne’s son Louis) is the subject of a group of poems that include the Chanson de Guillaume…

French literature: The chansons de geste: Dominating the Geste de Garin de Monglane is Garin’s great-grandson, Guillaume d’Orange, whose historical prototype was the count of Toulouse and Charlemagne’s cousin. His dogged loyalty to an unworthy monarch (Charlemagne’s son Louis) is the subject of a group of poems that include the Chanson de Guillaume…

Jean d’Outremeuse: La Geste de Liège is an account—partly in prose, partly in verse—of the mythical history of his native city, Liège. Ly Myreur des histors (“The Mirror of History”) is more ambitious, purporting to be a history of the world from the Flood up to the…

epic: Chansons de geste: The Cycle of the King consists of the songs in which Charlemagne himself is a principal figure.

Beau Geste, fictional character, the English protagonist of the novel Beau Geste (1924) by Percival C. Wren. The work is probably best known through its three film adaptations and a BBC television

chanson de geste, any of the Old French epic poems forming the core of the Charlemagne legends. More than 80 chansons, most of them thousands of lines long, have survived in manuscripts dating from the 12th to the 15th century. They deal chiefly with events of the 8th and 9th centuries during the

Spain: The Rajoy administration: …de la Reestructuración Bancaria (SAREB) became operational in November 2012 with the stated mission of managing and disposing of up to €90 billion (about $120 billion) of nonperforming real-estate loans over a period of 15 years. In the months following SAREB’s creation, Spain’s nationalized and partially nationalized banks transferred…

therapeutics: Hormones: Progestins combined with estrogens constitute the oral contraceptives that inhibit ovulation by affecting the hypothalamus and pituitary. Progestin-only pills and injections are also effective contraceptives; they work by forming a thick cervical mucus that is relatively impenetrable to sperm. The

Severo Sarduy: Sarduy’s first novel, Gestos (1963; “Gestures”), is about a young woman involved in terrorist activities against the Batista regime in the Cuba of the 1950s. It was well received. His most important book, however, was the highly experimental novel De donde son los cantantes (1967; From Cuba with…

Christianity: New liturgical forms and antiliturgical attitudes: …kinds and preserves the liturgical gestures of the early church. The Orthodox worshippers pray while standing (because they stand throughout the service), with arms hanging down, crossing themselves at the beginning and ending of the prayer.

Severo Sarduy: Sarduy’s first novel, Gestos (1963; “Gestures”), is about a young woman involved in terrorist activities against the Batista regime in the Cuba of the 1950s. It was well received. His most important book, however, was the highly experimental novel De donde son los cantantes (1967; From Cuba with…

Gesù, mother church in Rome of the Jesuit order, designed by Giacomo da Vignola in 1568. The facade, which was the work of Giacomo della Porta, was added in 1575. The Gesù—a single-aisle, Latin-cross-plan church with side chapels and a dome over the crossing of the nave and the transepts—became the

Naples: Via Toledo: …Calata Trinità Maggiore rises to Piazza del Gesù Nuovo, a principal means of access to Spaccanápoli.

Carlo Gesualdo, principe di Venosa, conte di Conza was an Italian composer and lutenist. Until the late 20th century his fame rested chiefly on his dramatic, unhappy, and often bizarre life. Since the late 20th century, however, his reputation as a musician has grown, based on his highly individual

get, Jewish document of divorce written in Aramaic according to a prescribed formula. Orthodox and Conservative Jews recognize it as the only valid instrument for severing a marriage bond. Rabbinic courts outside Israel, recognizing the need to comply with civil laws regulating divorce and

get, Jewish document of divorce written in Aramaic according to a prescribed formula. Orthodox and Conservative Jews recognize it as the only valid instrument for severing a marriage bond. Rabbinic courts outside Israel, recognizing the need to comply with civil laws regulating divorce and

Jessica Mauboy: …2010 Mauboy released the album Get ’Em Girls, featuring pop, R&B, and dance music tracks. The album, which included songs featuring Ludacris and Snoop Dogg, sold well. Get ’Em Girls peaked at number six on the ARIA Charts, and four of the album’s singles achieved platinum status. Beautiful (2013) offered…

Aerosmith: The band followed with Get a Grip (1993), an album that generated a pair of Grammys for the singles “Livin’ on the Edge” and “Crazy.” During this time, Aerosmith was a constant presence on MTV, and the group won numerous music video awards. The band’s next release, Nine Lives…

Nadine Gordimer: Gordimer addressed environmental issues in Get a Life (2005), the story of a South African ecologist who, after receiving thyroid treatment, becomes radioactive and hence dangerous to others. Her final novel, No Time like the Present (2012), follows veterans of the battle against apartheid as they deal with the issues…

Charlie Kaufman: …the quirky television situation comedy Get a Life (1990), which starred Chris Elliott as a 30-year-old paperboy.

Let It Be: …Got a Feeling,” and “Get Back.”

the White Stripes: …another Grammy for their album Get Behind Me Satan (2005), and the song “Icky Thump,” from their album of the same name (2007), became the band’s first Top 40 hit on the Billboard singles chart. In addition, Icky Thump was the White Stripes’ third recording to earn the Grammy for…

Michael Caine: …appeared in the cult classic Get Carter (1971) and received another best actor Oscar nomination for Joseph L. Mankiewicz’s Sleuth (1972), in which he starred opposite Laurence Olivier. He followed these successes with such popular films as John Huston’s The Man Who Would Be King (1975) and John Sturges’s

the Pretenders: Later work: Get Close was released in 1986 to moderate success, and it included the singles “My Baby” and “Don’t Get Me Wrong,” two songs that topped Billboard’s mainstream rock chart in the United States. Chambers returned to the group during the recording sessions for Last of…

Keith Urban: He followed it with Get Closer (2010), Fuse (2013), Ripcord (2016), Graffiti U (2018), and The Speed of Now Part 1 (2020). Urban’s cross-genre appeal was further solidified when he joined the cast (2013–16) of the reality singing-competition show American Idol as one of its judges.

Baz Luhrmann: …TV, creating the Netflix series The Get Down, an exploration of the origins of hip-hop in the 1970s. He also directed several episodes of the musical drama, which cost a reported $120 million to produce. The show was canceled after one season. Luhrmann returned to the big screen with Elvis…

Elvis Costello: Forming the Attractions: … (1978), Armed Forces (1979), and Get Happy!! (1980)—Costello and Lowe developed a distinctive guitar and keyboard mix that was influenced by a variety of 1960s artists, including Booker T. and the MG’s. The most notable work of this early period—rockers such as “This Year’s Girl” and “Lip Service,” deceptively upbeat…

Will Ferrell: Step Brothers and Anchorman 2: In the racially charged satire Get Hard (2015), Ferrell played a hedge-fund manager who, after being framed for insider trading, looks to a black employee (Kevin Hart) for assistance on learning how to survive in prison. He played a hapless stepfather whose relationship with his stepchildren is challenged by the…

Sean Combs: Acting credits: …record executive in the comedy Get Him to the Greek (2010) and a sports agent in the football drama Draft Day (2014). His television credits include the 2008 adaptation of Lorraine Hansberry’s play A Raisin in the Sun and guest appearances on various shows. In 2016 he served as an…

Henry Rollins: … for best spoken-word album for Get in the Van: On the Road with Black Flag (1994). He also published a memoir with the same title that year. His popular Harmony in My Head radio show, which debuted in 2004, served as an outlet for his eclectic taste in music, and…

T. Rex: …including the chart-topping hits “Get It On” (1971), “Telegram Sam” (1972), and “Metal Guru” (1972). “Bang a Gong (Get It On)” reached number 10 in the United States.

John Legend: …produced was Legend’s major-label debut, Get Lifted, released in the final week of 2004. Buoyed by the ballad “Ordinary People,” the album rose up European and American popular-music and rhythm-and-blues charts. It garnered eight Grammy Award nominations and won for best R&B album and best male R&B vocal performance. In…

Robert Duvall: …in the whimsical Depression-era comedy Get Low (2009). He portrayed a sagacious rancher in the inspirational golf drama Seven Days in Utopia (2011), a shooting-range owner in the action movie Jack Reacher (2012), and a judge accused of vehicular homicide in The Judge (2014). Duvall received his fourth Academy Award…

Daft Punk: Aided by the pop hit “Get Lucky,” which featured vocals by Pharrell Williams and rhythm guitar by Nile Rodgers (of the influential disco group Chic), the album sold millions of copies worldwide. In the United States, where sales of Daft Punk’s previous releases had not been as strong…

the Rolling Stones: First original hits: (I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction and Get Off of My Cloud: …Black,” “19th Nervous Breakdown,” “Get Off of My Cloud,” “Have You Seen Your Mother, Baby,” and “Lady Jane,” but the era of art-pop and psychedelia, which coincided with the Beatles’ creative peak, represented a corresponding trough for the Stones. The fashions of the era of whimsy and flower power…

Ossie Davis: … (1997), the Spike Lee films Get on the Bus (1996) and She Hate Me (2004), and a recurring character in 2004–05 on the series The L Word. The recipients of numerous honours, Davis and Dee were jointly awarded the National Medal of Arts in 1995 and a Kennedy Center Honor…

Chadwick Boseman: …music legend James Brown in Get On Up (2014). Boseman’s evocation of Brown was widely hailed as riveting and unforgettable.

Get Out, American film, released in 2017, that was written, coproduced, and directed by comedian Jordan Peele in his directorial debut. Although it is frequently characterized as a horror movie, Peele describes his film as a “social thriller,” a phrase he uses to categorize movies in which society

interest group: Common characteristics and the importance of interest groups: …canvassing neighbourhoods door-to-door, and organizing get-out-the-vote efforts on election day.

Zoe Saldaña: …series of teen flicks, including Get Over It (2001) and the Britney Spears vehicle Crossroads (2002), and then had a supporting role in the higher-profile movie Drumline (2002). Saldaña had a small but memorable part as a female pirate in the surprise hit movie Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse…

Joy Division/New Order: …recording, New Order returned with Get Ready (2001), a solid collection of guitar-driven tracks that eschewed the dance anthem model that had typified their later releases. Less well-received was Waiting for the Sirens’ Call (2005), an unremarkable return to the disco sound of the mid-1990s. Bassist Hook, who had drifted…

hip-hop: American hip-hop in the 21st century: …achieved multiplatinum status with 2003’s Get Rich or Die Tryin’. However, Dr. Dre remained mostly silent for the remainder of the decade, working on technology for a new brand of headphones. Those efforts would come to fruition with Beats Electronics, a consumer electronics company that Dr. Dre founded with Interscope…

Deadmau5: …released his debut full-length album, Get Scraped, under the name Deadmau5 through the San Francisco-based ZOOLOOK records in 2005. His second album, Vexillology (2006), featured a glitchy sound inspired by 8-bit video games and an approach reminiscent of 1990s electronica.

James Gandolfini: … (1994), Crimson Tide (1995), and Get Shorty (1995).

Ray Romano: …a washed-up movie producer in Get Shorty (2017– ). His first comedy special in over two decades, Ray Romano: Right Here, Around the Corner, premiered on Netflix in 2019. That same year Romano was cast in the movie Paddleton, playing a bachelor whose similarly unmarried friend is diagnosed with a…

Get Shorty, crime novel and Hollywood satire written by American master of the literary thriller Elmore Leonard and published in 1990. In an irony worthy of Leonard himself, the 1995 movie version of Get Shorty, a story about the stupidity and vacuity of Hollywood filmmakers, became the best and

Alan Arkin: …of the 1965–70 TV series Get Smart, and the sentimental dog movie Marley & Me (2008). Arkin was nominated for another Oscar for his turn as the brash studio executive tasked with concocting a convincing fake movie in Argo (2012).

Mel Brooks: Early life and work: …and Buck Henry then created Get Smart (1965–70), a television situation comedy spoofing the espionage genre popularized by the James Bond films.

the Rolling Stones: Sticky Fingers and Exile on Main St.: …Fingers (1971) plus the in-concert Get Yer Ya-Ya’s Out! (1970) gave them the repertoire and image that still defines them and on which they have continued to trade ever since: an incendiary blend of sex, drugs, Satanism, and radical politics delivered with their patented fusion of Jagger’s ironic distance and…

Investing in foreign companies and markets is a common way to build some diversification into your portfolio. It spreads investment risk, allows you to participate in growth opportunities outside of the U.S., and provides exposure to emerging markets that can sometimes grow faster than developed

dress: Japan: …slippers, and wooden clogs (geta) worn with the tabi, a sock with a separate section for the big toe.