Colombia: Cultural institutions: The Gold Museum in Bogotá possesses the world’s finest and largest collection of worked gold, the product of extraordinarily skilled craftsmen, whereas the Bogotá Museum of Colonial Art has a rich collection of criollo (Creole) religious sculpture and painting. The National Museum displays treasures and relics…

money: The gold standard: …limits were known as the gold points.

gold processing, preparation of the ore for use in various products. For thousands of years the word gold has connoted something of beauty or value. These images are derived from two properties of gold, its colour and its chemical stability. The colour of gold is due to the electronic structure of

Monashee Mountains, southwesternmost range of the Columbia Mountain system, in southeastern British Columbia, Canada, extending for 200 miles (320 km) north from the Washington (U.S.) boundary between the Interior Plateau (west) and the Selkirk Trench (east), in which flows the Columbia River.

Thomas Baines: …people were published posthumously in The Gold Regions of South-Eastern Africa (1877).

gold reserve, a fund of gold bullion or coin held by a government or bank, as distinguished from a private hoard of gold held by an individual or nonfinancial institution. In the past, reserves were accumulated by rulers and governments primarily to meet the costs of waging war, and in most eras

gold rush, rapid influx of fortune seekers to the site of newly discovered gold deposits. Major gold rushes occurred in the United States, Australia, Canada, and South Africa in the 19th century. The first major gold strike in North America occurred near Dahlonega, Georgia, in the late 1820s. It

The Gold Rush, American silent film comedy, released in 1925, that starred Charlie Chaplin and was set amid the Alaskan gold rush of the late 1890s. The tale follows the adventures of Chaplin’s legendary Tramp character as he prospects for gold, fighting off wild animals and greedy competitors. As

A gold standard is a “monetary system in which the standard unit of currency is a fixed quantity of gold or is kept at the value of a fixed quantity of gold. The currency is freely convertible at home or abroad into a fixed amount of gold per unit of currency,” according to Encyclopædia Britannica.

gold standard, monetary system in which the standard unit of currency is a fixed quantity of gold or is kept at the value of a fixed quantity of gold. The currency is freely convertible at home or abroad into a fixed amount of gold per unit of currency. (Read Milton Friedman’s Britannica entry on

Free Silver Movement: …majority in Congress enacted the Gold Standard Act, which made gold the sole standard for all currency.

palliative care: Developments in palliative care: …the Dying Patient and the Gold Standards Framework in the United Kingdom and by groups such as the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization in the United States, Palliative Care Australia, and the Indian Association of Palliative Care in India. The Liverpool Care Pathway is used by health care professionals…

Cindy Sheehan: …lost children in Iraq established Gold Star Families for Peace, an antiwar group for the families of fallen service men and women.

Gold Star Studios and the “Wall of Sound”: Phil Spector brought the role of producer to public attention for the first time with a string of hits by the Ronettes, the Crystals, and the Righteous Brothers featuring his signature wall of sound, all recorded from 1962 through 1965 for his Philles label at…

Phil Spector brought the role of producer to public attention for the first time with a string of hits by the Ronettes, the Crystals, and the Righteous Brothers featuring his signature wall of sound, all recorded from 1962 through 1965 for his Philles label at Gold Star. Opened in 1950 at 6252

Gold State Coach, ornate enclosed carriage that transports the British monarch to special events, especially coronations. An empty coach is also occasionally used during pageants. The Gold State Coach was built in 1762 by Samuel Butler, using a design by William Chambers. When not in use it is on

physical culture: Aerobics and health clubs: Setting the trend was Gold’s Gym, the most famous fitness franchise in the world. It was opened in 1965 by Joe Gold, an original member of Mae West’s troupe, in Venice, California. It attracted Schwarzenegger and other Weider stars and eventually spread to more than 500 facilities in more…

On the Beach: Ernest Gold’s score, which offered frequent nods to the Australian ballad “Waltzing Matilda,” earned an Academy Award nomination and is integral to the emotional impact of the film’s final scenes.

Julius Rosenberg and Ethel Rosenberg: …turned over this information to Harry Gold, a Swiss-born courier for the espionage ring, who then passed it to Anatoly A. Yakovlev, the Soviet Union’s vice-consul in New York City.

Horace L. Gold was a Canadian-born American science fiction editor and author who, as founder and editor of the magazine Galaxy Science Fiction, published many of the most prominent science fiction stories of the 1950s. Gold sold his first short story, “Inflexure,” to Astounding Stories in 1934

Horace L. Gold was a Canadian-born American science fiction editor and author who, as founder and editor of the magazine Galaxy Science Fiction, published many of the most prominent science fiction stories of the 1950s. Gold sold his first short story, “Inflexure,” to Astounding Stories in 1934

physical culture: Aerobics and health clubs: …was opened in 1965 by Joe Gold, an original member of Mae West’s troupe, in Venice, California. It attracted Schwarzenegger and other Weider stars and eventually spread to more than 500 facilities in more than 25 countries. In 1977, after selling his business, Gold established World Gym International in Santa…

American literature: Lyric fictionists: …Side before World War I: Michael Gold’s harsh Jews Without Money (1930) and Henry Roth’s Proustian Call It Sleep (1934), one of the greatest novels of the decade. They followed in the footsteps of Anzia Yezierska, a prolific writer of the 1920s whose passionate books about immigrant Jews, especially

Thomas Gold was an Austrian-born British astronomer who promulgated the steady-state theory of the universe, holding that, although the universe is expanding, a continuous creation of matter in intergalactic space is gradually forming new galaxies, so that the average number of galaxies in any part

pottery: Porcelain: …Sèvres superseding it in the gold-anchor period. Wares marked with either the raised or the red anchor are the most highly valued; the painting of these is excellent in quality. Some of the best wares were painted by an Irish miniaturist, Jeffrey Hamet O’Neal. The gold-anchor-marked wares are noted for…

jinbi shanshui, style of Chinese landscape painting during the Sui (581–618) and Tang (618–907) dynasties. In this style, a rich decorative effect was achieved by the application of two mineral colours, azurite blue and malachite green, together with gold, to a fine line drawing. Among the early

gold-exchange standard, monetary system under which a nation’s currency may be converted into bills of exchange drawn on a country whose currency is convertible into gold at a stable rate of exchange. A nation on the gold-exchange standard is thus able to keep its currency at parity with gold

international payment and exchange: The function of gold: …was known as the “gold-export point.” There was also a “gold-import point” determined on similar lines.

leafbird: The golden-fronted leafbird (C. aurifrons) is a popular cage bird.

Western painting: Roman paintings: …are the portraits done on gold-glass medallions, which in the exquisite refinement of their treatment may be compared to 16th-century European miniatures. A medallion in the Museum of Christian Antiquities, Brescia, dating from the 3rd century and carrying a portrait group, is a veritable masterpiece.

mineral: Metals: … are members of the same group (column) in the periodic table of elements and therefore have similar chemical properties. In the uncombined state, their atoms are joined by the fairly weak metallic bond. These minerals share a common structure type, and their atoms are positioned in a simple cubic closest-packed…

international payment and exchange: The function of gold: …There was also a “gold-import point” determined on similar lines.

cultured pearl: …Pteria penguin in Japan and Pinctada maxima in Australia) are reserved in barrels until maturation (2 to 3 years) and, when the shells reach certain size, are implanted with a tiny polished sphere of mother-of-pearl. The implanted oysters are suspended in wire nets from floating rafts or contained in some…

Gold. Silver. Platinum. Palladium. They’re called precious metals because they’re scarce, durable, and hard to fake—and because, for thousands of years, humans have agreed they’re worth something. Some shine because they’re beautiful. Others matter because they’re useful in industry. And gold, in

cat snake: …most spectacular species is the black-and-yellow mangrove snake, or gold-ringed cat snake (B. dendrophila), a shiny black snake with a yellow crossbar pattern on its body. It ranges from the Malay Peninsula to the Philippines and can reach 2.5 metres (about 8 feet) in length.

amorphous solid: Melt quenching: …for a binary (two-component) system, gold-silicon. Here x specifies the fraction of atoms that are silicon atoms, and Au1 - xSix denotes a particular material in this family of materials. (Au is the chemical symbol for gold, Si is the symbol for silicon, and, for example, Au0.8Si0.2 denotes a material…

history of Europe: The term and concept before the 18th century: The political theorist and historian Melchior Goldast appears to have coined the variation medium aevum (“a middle age”) in 1604; shortly after, in a Latin work of 1610, the English jurist and legal historian John Selden repeated medium aevum, Anglicizing the term in 1614 to middle times and in 1618…

Goldbach conjecture, in number theory, assertion (here stated in modern terms) that every even counting number greater than 2 is equal to the sum of two prime numbers. The Russian mathematician Christian Goldbach first proposed this conjecture in a letter to the Swiss mathematician Leonhard Euler

Christian Goldbach was a Russian mathematician whose contributions to number theory include Goldbach’s conjecture. In 1725 Goldbach became professor of mathematics and historian of the Imperial Academy at St. Petersburg. Three years later he went to Moscow as tutor to Tsar Peter II, and from 1742

lily: Physical description: philadelphicum) and goldband lily (L. auratum). The flowers of some species are quite fragrant, and they occur in a wide variety of colours. Plants of most species range in height from 30 to 120 cm (1 to 4 feet); plants of certain species, however, exceed 2.5 metres…

Albert Goldbarth is an American poet whose erudition and wit found expression in compulsively wordy but dazzling compositions. Educated at the University of Illinois at Chicago (B.A., 1969), the University of Iowa (M.F.A., 1971), and the University of Utah (graduate study, 1973–74), Goldbarth

mask: Funerary and commemorative uses: …tombs of about 1400 bce, beaten gold portrait masks were found. Gold masks also were placed on the faces of the dead kings of Cambodia and Siam (now Thailand).

Glenn Gould: Bach’s Goldberg Variations (released 1956) enjoyed an unusual popular success.

Glenn Gould: Bach’s Goldberg Variations (released 1956) enjoyed an unusual popular success.

Nancy Huston: …novel, Les Variations Goldberg (1981; The Goldberg Variations), was short-listed for the Prix Femina. The ease with which Huston moved between French and English characterized much of her career, and in 1993 she was awarded the Governor General’s Award for best French-language novel for Cantique des plaines (1993). However, her…

computer: The graphical user interface: …at PARC, Alan Kay and Adele Goldberg, published a paper in the early 1970s describing a vision of a powerful and portable computer they dubbed the Dynabook. The prototypes of this machine were expensive and resembled sewing machines, but the vision of the two researchers greatly influenced the evolution of…

Arthur J. Goldberg was a labor lawyer who served as an associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1962–65) and U.S. representative to the United Nations (1965–68). The son of Russian immigrants, Goldberg passed the Illinois bar examination at the age of 20, practiced law in Chicago from 1929 to

Arthur J. Goldberg was a labor lawyer who served as an associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1962–65) and U.S. representative to the United Nations (1965–68). The son of Russian immigrants, Goldberg passed the Illinois bar examination at the age of 20, practiced law in Chicago from 1929 to

Marina City: …1968, it was designed by Bertrand Goldberg as an urban experiment to draw middle-class Chicagoans back to the city after more than a decade of suburban migration, and its success spawned a renewed interest nationwide in urban residential development. The twin corncoblike residential towers, each with 64 floors, are icons…

Nora Bayes was an American singer in vogue in the early 1900s in musical revues, notably the Ziegfeld Follies. Bayes began her career in Chicago in 1899 and made her Broadway debut in 1901. She was identified with the songs “Down Where the Wurzburger Flows” (1902) and “Shine on, Harvest Moon”

Frank Gehry was a Canadian American architect and designer whose original, sculptural, often audacious work won him worldwide renown. In 1947 Gehry and his family immigrated to Los Angeles, where he soon began taking night classes at Los Angeles City College. He then studied architecture at the

Seth Rogen: Early life and first roles: …Rogen, along with childhood friend Evan Goldberg, landed jobs writing for the Sacha Baron Cohen showcase Da Ali G Show. Rogen also surfaced in an episode of the teen-centered drama Dawson’s Creek.

Tillie Olsen: Early life and influences: …was the second child of Ida Goldberg and Sam Lerner, who had been members of the Bund, a largely Jewish and socialist self-defense league founded in 1897 that sought to end injustice and the brutal pogroms of tsarist Russia. Both lived in what is today Minsk voblasts (province), Belarus, and…

Pete Hegseth: Confirmation and early tenure, including Signal controversy: The accusations were made by Jeffrey Goldberg, editor-in-chief of The Atlantic magazine who had accidentally been added to the chat; it was unclear who included him. After Hegseth denied sharing classified information on Signal, The Atlantic released text messages in which the defense secretary noted the launch times for military…

Janet Evanovich: …which was largely written with Lee Goldberg, centres on a female FBI agent and a dashing con artist; it began with The Heist (2013), and later installments included The Chase (2014), The Pursuit (2016), and The Bounty (2021). Evanovich also wrote Curious Minds (2016; with Phoef Sutton) and Dangerous Minds…

Rube Goldberg was an American cartoonist who satirized the American preoccupation with technology. His name became synonymous with any simple process made outlandishly complicated. Rube Goldberg was born the son of a San Francisco police and fire commissioner, who guided him into engineering at the

Rube Goldberg was an American cartoonist who satirized the American preoccupation with technology. His name became synonymous with any simple process made outlandishly complicated. Rube Goldberg was born the son of a San Francisco police and fire commissioner, who guided him into engineering at the

Whoopi Goldberg is an American comedian, actress, and producer who was an accomplished performer with a repertoire that ranged from dramatic leading roles to controversial comedic performances. She also garnered attention as a cohost of the TV talk show The View. Goldberg was the first Black woman

Anne Bancroft: …productions, including the comedy series The Goldbergs, and in a number of grade-B or C movies. Dissatisfied with the roles she was finding, Bancroft moved to New York City. Her Broadway debut in the two-character drama Two for the Seesaw (1958), brought her wide recognition for the depth of her…

Okwui Enwezor: …work of South African photographer David Goldblatt in 2000. A frequent lecturer and member of many art juries, Enwezor also coedited, along with Olu Oguibe, Reading the Contemporary: African Art from Theory to the Marketplace (1999).

Geena Davis: Early life and roles: Chase, and Transylvania 6-5000, with Jeff Goldblum (both 1985), before her breakthrough role opposite Goldblum in David Cronenberg’s horror film The Fly (1986).

Michael Todd was an American showman with a flair for the flamboyant who is remembered as Elizabeth Taylor’s third husband and as a film producer for Around the World in Eighty Days (1956). In his book The Nine Lives of Michael Todd (1958), Todd’s friend Art Cohn recounts a conversation in which

goldcrest, European species of kinglet

KPop Demon Hunters: Music and soundtrack: … Hot 100’s top 10—with “Golden” at number 1, “Your Idol” at number 4, “Soda Pop” at number 5, and “How It’s Done” at number 10. “Golden” stayed at the top for multiple weeks as it gained traction on radio, while the album held the number-2 spot on the Billboard…

Golden Retriever dog, breed of sporting dog developed in Scotland in the 19th century as a gundog and water retriever to assist hunters in recovering game birds. It is a strong and hardy all-around dog and an excellent swimmer. Its thick coat is long on the neck, thighs, tail, and back of the legs

Kylie Minogue: … and Sia, among others, and Golden (2018) is flavored with country music. Minogue returned to dance-pop for DISCO (2020), and with that release she became the first female artist to reach the top position on the British album chart in each of five consecutive decades. In 2024 she collected her…

Golden, city, seat (1861) of Jefferson county, north-central Colorado, U.S. It lies on Clear Creek at an elevation of 5,675 feet (1,730 metres) at the foot of Lookout Mountain, just west of Denver, and it is separated from the metropolitan area by the Table Mountains plateau. Founded as a mining

Netherlands: Dutch civilization in the Golden Age (1609–1713): The century from the conclusion of the Twelve Years’ Truce in 1609 until either the death of Prince William III in 1702 or the conclusion of the Peace of Utrecht in 1713 is known in Dutch history as the “Golden Age.” It…

Terrence McNally: …on Broadway in 2007, and Golden Age, which followed in 2012. In his play Mothers and Sons (2014), McNally examined a mother coming to terms with her late son’s homosexuality and with society’s evolving understanding of what constitutes a family. Fire and Air (2018) is about the Ballets Russes and…

Golden Age, in Latin literature, the period, from approximately 70 bc to ad 18, during which the Latin language was brought to perfection as a literary medium and many Latin classical masterpieces were composed. The Golden Age can be subdivided into two major sections, the Ciceronian period (q.v.;

Jane Smiley: Early Warning and Golden Age (both 2015), the second and third volumes, were similarly expansive narratives about subsequent generations of the Langdon clan.

Golden Age, the period of Spanish literature extending from the early 16th century to the late 17th century, generally considered the high point in Spain’s literary history. The Golden Age began with the partial political unification of Spain about 1500. Its literature is characterized by patriotic

Golden Age of American radio, period lasting roughly from 1930 through the 1940s, when the medium of commercial broadcast radio grew into the fabric of daily life in the United States, providing news and entertainment to a country struggling with economic depression and war. During American radio’s

Marilyn Manson: Marilyn Manson, the band: …the Valley of Death) (2000), The Golden Age of Grotesque (2003), and We Are Chaos (2020), were relatively less successful.

Franklin J. Schaffner: …became known as TV’s “golden age.” He made his directorial debut in 1949, helming episodes for the TV show Wesley. He later directed more than 150 live dramas for such notable anthology series as The Ford Theatre Hour, Playhouse 90, and Studio One in Hollywood. For the latter program,…

Luis Buñuel: Life and work: …second film, L’Age d’or (1930; The Golden Age), an assault on the repression of sex by organized religion. In one of its most-controversial scenes, Christ is seen leaving an orgy orchestrated by the Marquis de Sade. Before its release, MGM put both Buñuel and the film’s star, Lya Lys, under…

golden algae, (class Chrysophyceae), class of about 33 genera and some 1,200 species of algae (division Chromophyta) found in both marine and fresh waters. The group is fairly diverse in form, and its taxonomy is contentious. Most golden algae are single-celled biflagellates with two specialized

angel’s trumpet: Species: The species Brugmansia arborea, golden angel’s trumpet (B. aurea), B. insignis, red angel’s trumpet (B. sanguinea), B. versicolor, and B. vulcanicola were variously distributed in the Andes region of South America, ranging from Colombia to northern Chile.

Pietro Antonio Cesti: …opera, Il pomo d’oro (1667; The Golden Apple); his masterpiece, Dori (1661); and his most popular opera, Orontea, appear in modern editions. He is said to have written about 100 operas, but only 15 are extant. Christ Church, Oxford, Eng., possesses an important manuscript collection of 18 secular and three…

The Golden Apples, collection of short stories by Eudora Welty, published in 1949 and considered one of her finest works. The stories had all been published previously, and Welty added one novella-length story, “Main Families in Morgana.” Symbolism from Greek mythology unifies the stories, all of

When independence was being planned by British Guiana in the early 1960s, a competition elicited many proposals for a new national flag, including one developed by an American, Whitney Smith, who later became a prominent vexillologist (flag historian). His pattern combined a red background, green

The Golden Ass, prose narrative of the 2nd century ce by Lucius Apuleius, who called it Metamorphoses. In all probability Apuleius used material from a lost Metamorphoses by Lucius of Patrae, which is cited by some as the source for an extant Greek work on a similar theme, the brief Lucius, or the

List of Ballon d’Or Winners: The Ballon d’Or is an annual award for football (soccer) players presented by the French magazine France Football, a monthly publication covering football news. First awarded in 1956, it quickly became one of the sport’s most prestigious individual honors. The Ballon d’Or is awarded to football…

ball cactus: …ball cactus (Parodia scopa) and golden ball cactus (P. leninghausii), which are especially valued for their woolly appearance.

barrel cactus: The golden barrel cactus (E. grusonii) is a common desert ornamental, noted for its striking golden spines; the plant is an endangered species in the wild.

Tasman: …west of Separation Point in Golden Bay. His encounter there with the Māori was a tragic one, and Tasman sailed away naming the area Murderers’ Bay. In 1770 Capt. James Cook sailed past Golden Bay beyond Separation Point into Tasman Bay/Te Tai-o-Aorere; the latter appeared landlocked, and Cook named it…

Berlin International Film Festival: Martay was awarded a Golden Bear (Goldener Bär), the festival’s top prize, for his work in bringing the Berlinale to reality. Other prizes awarded at the first Berlinale included a Golden Bear for best music film to Cinderella (1951), which also won the festival’s audience-choice prize, the Big Bronze…

Jack Nicklaus is an American professional golfer, a dominating figure in world golf from the 1960s to the ’80s. (Read Jack Nicklaus’s Britannica entry on the U.S. Open.) While a student at Ohio State University, Nicklaus won the U.S. Amateur Championship in 1959 and again in 1961. Also in 1961

forsythia, (genus Forsythia), genus of about seven species of flowering plants in the olive family (Oleaceae) native to eastern Europe and East Asia. Several are cultivated as low-maintenance fast-growing ornamental shrubs. Forsythia plants are deciduous shrubs. In some species the yellow

Rabindranath Tagore: Life in East Bengal and literary maturity: …published several poetry collections, notably Sonar Tari (1894; The Golden Boat), and plays, notably Chitrangada (1892; Chitra). Tagore’s poems are virtually untranslatable, as are his more than 2,000 songs, which achieved considerable popularity among all classes of Bengali society.

Antonio de Guevara: by Lord Berners, The Golden Boke of Marcus Aurelius, 1535, and by Sir Thomas North, The Diall of Princes, 1557, frequently reprinted through the 20th century), an attempt to invent a model for rulers, became one of the most influential books of the 16th century. Well received outside…

The Golden Bough, a study of comparative religion by Sir James Frazer. It was originally published in two volumes in 1890 with the subtitle A Study in Comparative Religion and was enlarged and republished with the subtitle A Study in Magic and Religion (12 volumes, 1911–15). Aftermath, a Supplement

The Golden Bough, a study of comparative religion by Sir James Frazer. It was originally published in two volumes in 1890 with the subtitle A Study in Comparative Religion and was enlarged and republished with the subtitle A Study in Magic and Religion (12 volumes, 1911–15). Aftermath, a Supplement

The Golden Bough, a study of comparative religion by Sir James Frazer. It was originally published in two volumes in 1890 with the subtitle A Study in Comparative Religion and was enlarged and republished with the subtitle A Study in Magic and Religion (12 volumes, 1911–15). Aftermath, a Supplement

bowerbird: The golden bowerbird (Prionodura newtoniana) makes a rooflike bridge from tower to tower. Male gardeners, any of the four species of the genus Amblyornis, plant a lawn of tree moss around the maypole and embellish it with flowers, berries, and other objects. The brown, or crestless,…

Ruth Prawer Jhabvala: …(1979), The Bostonians (1984), and The Golden Bowl (2000).

The Golden Bowl, novel by Henry James, published in 1904. Wealthy American widower Adam Verver and his daughter Maggie live in Europe, where they collect art and relish each other’s company. Through the efforts of the manipulative Fanny Assingham, Maggie becomes engaged to Amerigo, an Italian

Golden Boy, drama in three acts by Clifford Odets, produced and published in 1937. It traces the downfall of Joe Bonaparte, a gifted young musician who becomes corrupted by money and brutality when he chooses to become a prizefighter rather than a classical

Rouben Mamoulian: Films of the 1930s: …very well received, nor was Golden Boy (1939), Mamoulian’s adaptation of Clifford Odets’s proletarian drama of the same name, which had been a smash for the Group Theatre in 1937. William Holden (in his screen debut) starred in it as a boxing violinist torn between the inimical demands of his…

Paul Hornung was a glamorous star of the Green Bay Packers’ championship teams of the 1960s whose versatile on-field performance and off-field reputation as a fun-loving, hard-drinking carouser and playboy mark him as a symbol of an increasingly distant era of American sports and cultural life.