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Garnier, Charles ... Gasconade River

Garnier, Charles French architect of the Beaux-Arts style, famed as the creator of the Paris Opera House. He was admitted to the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in 1842 and was awarded the Grand Prix de Rome in 1848 to study in Italy. Garnier, Francis French naval officer, colonial administrator, and explorer. Garnier, Jean-Pierre French scientist and business executive who oversaw the merger of two of the world's largest pharmaceutical companies, SmithKline Beecham PLC and Glaxo Wellcome PLC. Garnier, Robert outstanding French tragic dramatist of his time. Garnier, Tony a forerunner of 20th-century French architects, notable for his Cite Industrielle, a farsighted plan for an industrial city. He is also remembered, along with Auguste Perret, for the pioneering use of reinforced concrete. Garnier-Pages, Louis-Antoine republican political figure prominent in the opposition to France's monarchical regimes from 1830 to 1870. garnish an embellishment added to a food to enhance its appearance or taste. Simple garnishes such as chopped herbs, decoratively cut lemons, parsley and watercress sprigs, browned breadcrumbs, sieved hardcooked eggs, and broiled tomatoes are appropriate to a wide variety of foods; their purpose is to provide contrast in colour, texture, ... garnishment (from Middle French garnir, meaning "to warn"), a process by which a creditor can obtain satisfaction of an indebtedness of the debtor by initiating a proceeding to attach property or other assets. A common form of garnishment involves a creditor attaching the wages of an employee owed to him by ... Garo Hills physiographic region, western Meghalaya state, northeastern India. It comprises the western margin of the Shillong Plateau and rises to a top elevation of about 4,600 feet (1,400 metres). Drained by various tributaries of the Brahmaputra River, it has extremely high rainfall and is heavily forested. The region has an agricultural ... Garofalo, Benvenuto Italian painter, one of the most prolific 16th-century painters of the Ferrarese school. Garonne River most important river of southwestern France, rising in the Spanish central Pyrenees and flowing into the Atlantic by way of the estuary called the Gironde. It is 357 miles (575 km) long, excluding the Gironde Estuary (45 miles in length). Formed by two headstreams in the Maladeta Massif (mountainous mass) ... Garoua town located in northeastern Cameroon. The town lies along the right bank of the Benue River, north-northeast of Yaounde, the national capital. It is situated at the junction of the Maroua-Ngaoundere road and the Benue waterway and is the chief commercial centre of the region. The town was founded by ... Garrett county, extreme western Maryland, U.S., lying between West Virginia to the west and south and Pennsylvania to the north. Parklands and lakes occupy one-fifth of the county area. Waterways such as the Casselman, Savage, and Youghiogheny rivers as well as Deep Creek Lake, the state's largest freshwater lake, line the ... Garrett, Joao Baptista da Silva Leitao de Almeida, Visconde (viscount) De Almeida Garrett writer, orator, and statesman who was one of Portugal's finest prose writers, an important playwright, and chief of the country's Romantic poets. Garrett, Mary Smith; and Garrett, Emma American educators who, in the contemporary debate over whether to teach sign language or speech and lipreading to deaf children, were prominent advocates of teaching speech. Garrett, Pat Western U.S. lawman known as the man who killed Billy the Kid (q.v.). Garrick, David English actor, producer, dramatist, poet, and comanager of the Drury Lane Theatre. Garrincha Brazilian football (soccer) player considered by many to be the best right winger in the history of the sport. An imaginative and skillful dribbler, he starred along with Pele and Didi on the Brazilian national teams that won two World Cup Championships (1958, 1962). Garriott, Owen K. American astronaut, selected by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) as one of the first scientist-astronauts. Garriott, Richard British-born American computer-game developer who became the sixth space tourist and the first second-generation American to go into space. Garrison, William Lloyd American journalistic crusader who published a newspaper, The Liberator (1831-65), and helped lead the successful abolitionist campaign against slavery in the United States. Garrod, Dorothy Annie Elizabeth English archaeologist who directed excavations at Mount Carmel, Palestine (1929-34), uncovering skeletal remains of primary importance to the study of human evolution. Garros, Pey de Provencal poet whose work raised the Gascon dialect to the rank of a literary language in 16th-century France. garrote device used in strangling condemned persons. In one form it consists of an iron collar attached to a post. The victim's neck is placed in the collar, and the collar is slowly tightened by a screw until asphyxiation occurs. Another form of garrote is a length of wire with wooden ... Garryales small order of flowering plants consisting of 18 species in 2 families, Garryaceae and Eucommiaceae. Members of the order are woody, with distinct male and female plants. Garshin, Vsevolod Mikhaylovich Russian short-story writer whose works helped to foster the vogue enjoyed by that genre in Russia in the late 19th century. Garson, Greer motion-picture actress whose classic beauty and screen persona of elegance, poise, and maternal virtue made her one of the most popular and admired Hollywood stars of the World War II era. Garstang, John English archaeologist who made major contributions to the study of the ancient history and prehistory of Asia Minor and Palestine. garter snake any of more than a dozen species of nonvenomous snakes having a striped pattern suggesting a garter: typically, one or three longitudinal yellow to red stripes, between which are checkered blotches. Forms in which the stripes are obscure or lacking are often called grass snakes. Authorities differ as to the ... Garter, The Most Noble Order of the English order of knighthood founded by King Edward III in 1348, ranked as the highest British civil and military honour obtainable. Because the earliest records of the order were destroyed by fire, it is difficult for historians to be certain of its original purposes, the significance of its emblem, and ... Gartok town, western Tibet Autonomous Region, western China. It is located at an elevation of 14,630 feet (4,460 metres) at the foot of the Kailas Range (Gangdisi Shan) on the Gar River, which is one of the headwaters of the Indus River (in Tibet Sindhu, or Yindu, River). Gartok is an ... Garuda in Hindu mythology, the bird and the vahana (mount) of the god Vishnu. In the Rigveda (a collection of Vedic hymns) the sun is compared to a bird in its flight across the sky, and the association of the kitelike Garuda with Vishnu is taken by scholars as another indication ... Garvey, Marcus charismatic black leader who organized the first important American black nationalist movement (1919-26), based in New York City's Harlem. Gary city, Lake county, extreme northwest Indiana, U.S. It lies at the southern end of Lake Michigan, east of Chicago. In 1906 the town-named for Elbert H. Gary, chief organizer of the United States Steel Corporation-was laid out as an adjunct of the company's vast new manufacturing complex. The site was ... Gary, Elbert Henry U.S. jurist and chief organizer of the United States Steel Corporation. Gary, Romain Lithuanian-born French novelist whose first work, L'Education europeenne (1945; Forest of Anger), won him immediate acclaim. Humanistic and optimistic despite its graphic depictions of the horrors of World War II, the novel was later revised and reissued in English as Nothing Important Ever Dies (1960). Garzon Real, Baltasar Spanish judge famous for his high-profile investigations into crimes against humanity. gas one of the three fundamental states of matter, with distinctly different properties from the liquid and solid states. gas burner heating device in which natural gas is used for fuel. Gas may be supplied to the burner prior to combustion at a pressure sufficient to induce a supply of air to mix with it; the mixture passes through several long narrow openings or a nozzle to mix with additional air ... gas chamber method of executing condemned prisoners by lethal gas. gas chromatography in analytical chemistry, technique for separating chemical substances in which the sample is carried by a moving gas stream through a tube packed with a finely divided solid that may be coated with a film of a liquid. Because of its simplicity, sensitivity, and effectiveness in separating components of mixtures, ... Gas Hills district rich in uranium deposits, east-southeast of Riverton, central Wyoming, U.S. Uranium was first discovered there by Neil and Maxine McNeice in 1953 on a knoll, now called Discovery Hill, and since then the area has been the object of intense mineral exploration. The uranium-rich soil is scraped up by ... gas laws Laws that relate the pressure, volume, and temperature of a gas. Boyle's law-named for Robert Boyle-states that, at constant temperature, the pressure P of a gas varies inversely with its volume V, or PV = k, where k is a constant. Charles's law-named for J.-A.-C. Charles (1746-1823)-states that, at constant ... gas mask breathing device designed to protect the wearer against harmful substances in the air. The typical gas mask consists of a tight-fitting facepiece that contains filters, an exhalation valve, and transparent eyepieces. It is held to the face by straps and can be worn in association with a protective hood. The ... gas meter device for measuring the quantity or rate of flow of a gas. Types of gas meters (by operating principles) include displacement, velocity, head, thermal, acoustic, and tracer. gas plant ornamental, gland-covered perennial herb, of the rue family (Rutaceae), native to Eurasia. The flowers (white or pink) and the leaves give off a strong aromatic vapour which can be ignited, hence the names gas plant and burning bush. gas reservoir in geology and natural gas production, a naturally occurring storage area, characteristically a folded rock formation such as an anticline, that traps and holds natural gas. The reservoir rock must be permeable and porous to contain the gas, and it has to be capped by impervious rock in order to ... gas-turbine engine any internal-combustion engine employing a gas as the working fluid used to turn a turbine. The term also is conventionally used to describe a complete internal-combustion engine consisting of at least a compressor, a combustion chamber, and a turbine. Gascoigne, George English poet and a major literary innovator. Gascon, Jean Canadian actor and director, cofounder of the Theatre du Nouveau Monde (1951) and cofounder of the National Theatre School (1960). Gasconade River river in south-central Missouri, U.S. It rises in the Ozark Mountains and flows northeast into the Missouri River near Hermann, in north Gasconade county. The 250-mile (400-km) river, noted for its fishing, has dams at Richland and Vienna.