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Gustave Courbet
Language; Encyclopedias
French painter, born at Ornans; took to landscape-painting; was head of the Realistic school; joined the Commune in 1871; his property and pictures were sold to pay the damage done, and especially to ...
Grover Cleveland
Language; Encyclopedias
President of the United States, born in New Jersey, son of a Presbyterian minister; bred for the bar; became President in the Democratic interest in 1885; unseated for his free-trade leaning by ...
Grace Darling
Language; Encyclopedias
A young maiden, daughter of the lighthouse keeper of one of the Farne Islands, who with her father, amid great peril, saved the lives of nine people from the wreck of the Forfarshire, on Sept. 7, ...
Gordon Cumming
Language; Encyclopedias
The African lion-hunter, of Celtic origin; served for a time in the army; wrote an account of his hunting exploits in his "Five Years of a Hunter's Life" (1820-1866).
Grand climacteric
Language; Encyclopedias
The 63rd year of a man's life, and the average limit of it; a climacteric being every seven years of one's life, and reckoned critical.
Giuseppe Crespi
Language; Encyclopedias
An Italian painter; copied the works of Correggio, Caracci, and other masters (1665-1747).
Gulf of Darien
Language; Encyclopedias
An inlet of the Caribbean Sea, NW. of S. America. For isthmus of, see Panama.
