Gorstian Stage, first of two stages of the Ludlow Series, made up of all rocks deposited during the Gorstian Age (427.4 million to 425.6 million years ago) of the Silurian Period. In 1980 the International Commission on Stratigraphy established the Global Stratotype Section and Point (GSSP)

Neil Gorsuch associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 2017. Gorsuch was nominated by Republican President Donald J. Trump in January 2017. After Democratic senators filibustered his nomination in April, the Senate’s Republican majority changed the Senate’s rules regarding

Neil Gorsuch associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 2017. Gorsuch was nominated by Republican President Donald J. Trump in January 2017. After Democratic senators filibustered his nomination in April, the Senate’s Republican majority changed the Senate’s rules regarding

The Day the Earth Stood Still: …Rennie) and his robot servant Gort (Lock Martin). Klaatu is shot shortly after landing and is taken to an army hospital. Klaatu tells the president’s secretary that he wants to meet the leaders of Earth but soon is told that an agreement on a meeting site has proved impossible to…

Herman Gorter was an outstanding Dutch poet of the 1880 literary revival, a movement nourished by aesthetic and “art for art’s sake” ideals. Gorter’s early poetry, with its sensuous imagery and alluring air of spontaneity, embodies and often transcends the aesthetic ideals of the movement. In 1889

cretons, a cold pork spread with a texture that varies from smooth to chunky. The pâté-like dish is common in the cuisine of Quebec and first gained popularity with French Canadians. It is made by cooking ground pork and pork fat with water or milk, bread crumbs, onions, and spices. Cretons is a

Warwick: …made at Shawomet (1642) by Samuel Gorton. Later the colony was named for Robert Rich, 2nd earl of Warwick, who supported Gorton’s quest to gain protection of a royal charter against the Massachusetts Bay colony. Town (township) government was organized in 1647. After the widespread destruction caused by King Philip’s…

Sir John Grey Gorton was a statesman who, as prime minister of Australia (1968–71), maintained his country’s military commitment in Vietnam and expanded the role of the federal government in education, science, and taxation. After distinguished service as a pilot in the Royal Australian Air Force

Maria Cantwell: Slade Gorton and unseated him by the narrowest of margins, winning 48.7 percent of the vote against Gorton’s 48.6 percent. She entered the Senate in 2001.

Gortyn, ancient Greek city toward the western end of the southern plain (Mesara) of Crete (near modern Áyioi Dhéka). Although unimportant in Minoan times, Gortyn displaced Phaestus as the dominant city in the Mesara. It shared or disputed control of the island with Knossos until the Roman

Greek law: The law code of Gortyn, which is itself the revised version of an older code, is the only one that comes close to being fully preserved.

Gortyn, ancient Greek city toward the western end of the southern plain (Mesara) of Crete (near modern Áyioi Dhéka). Although unimportant in Minoan times, Gortyn displaced Phaestus as the dominant city in the Mesara. It shared or disputed control of the island with Knossos until the Roman

Georg Heinrich, baron von Görtz was a German statesman who was a key financial and diplomatic adviser to King Charles XII of Sweden. In the service of the dukes of Holstein-Gottorp from 1698, Görtz was responsible for maintaining the separate states of Schleswig and Holstein when they were in

Gamburtsev Mountains, subglacial range in the central part of eastern Antarctica, extending 750–800 miles (1,200–1,300 km). The mountains attain their greatest height at 11,120 feet (3,390 metres). Completely buried under more than 1,970 feet (600 metres) of the Antarctic ice cap, they were

Putoran Mountains, deeply dissected range on the northwestern edge of the Central Siberian Plateau in Krasnoyarsk kray (region), central Russia. The mountains are the highest part of the plateau, rising to 5,581 feet (1,701 m) in Mount Kamen. They have been much affected by volcanic action and

Świętokrzyskie Mountains, mountain range, part of the Little Poland Uplands, in south-central Poland, surrounding the city of Kielce. The highest peaks are Łysica (2,008 feet [612 m]) and Łysa Mountain (1,946 feet [593 m]), both in the Łysogóry range. The Świętokrzyskie Mountains take their name,

Goryeo dynasty, in Korean history, dynasty that ruled the Korean peninsula as the Goryeo kingdom from 935 to 1392 ce. During this period the country began to form its own cultural tradition distinct from the rest of East Asia. It is from the name Goryeo that the Western name Korea is derived. The

Japanese art: Jōmon period: …black polished pottery type called Goryo has been found in central Kyushu. Some scholars suggest that this may in some way be imitative of Chinese black Longshan pottery (c. 2200–1700 bce).

goryō, in Japanese religion, vengeful spirits of the dead. In the Heian period (ad 794–1185) goryō were generally considered to be spirits of nobility who had died as a result of political intrigue and who, because of their ill will for the living, brought about natural disasters, diseases, and

Hakodate: Goryokaku, a Western-style fort later converted to a park, was built soon after Hakodate opened to international trade in the 19th century. Russians built a Byzantine-style church in 1859.

orchid: Sexual deception: …by the wasps Trielis and Gorytes, and the bee Eucera induce the insects to attempt copulation with the apex of the lip. Those orchids pollinated by Andrena appear, for the most part, to stimulate the bee to reverse its position and copulate with the base of the lip. In the…

Gorizia, town, Friuli–Venezia Giulia regione, northeastern Italy, on the Isonzo River north of Trieste. From the 11th century Gorizia was the seat of the independent county of Gorizia until it passed to Austria in 1500. A noted cultural centre under Austrian rule, it was the capital of the Habsburg

Gorzów Wielkopolski, city, one of two capitals (with Zielona Góra) of Lubuskie województwo (province), northwestern Poland, on the Warta River. Gorzów Wielkopolski began as a castle in the Wielkopolska, or Great Poland, region that was overcome by the margraves of Brandenburg in 1257. The town

economic planning: The Gorbachev reform agenda: …by the system of so-called gos-zakazy (state orders), and these could cover the major part of the output of many enterprises. There were, moreover, serious problems of ideology (the enhanced role of the market came into conflict with traditional Marxist views) and bureaucratic resistance. Deeper reforms that were proposed threatened…

Vallabhacharya: …birth anniversaries of Vallabha and Vitthala. Participation in the highest form of bhakti (devotion) is attainable only through divine grace (pushti, literally “nourishment”); personal efforts such as good deeds or religious observances are not essential.

Xixabangma, one of the world’s highest mountains, reaching an elevation of 26,286 feet (8,012 metres) above sea level. It rises in the Himalayas in the southern part of the Tibet Autonomous Region, southwestern China, near the Nepal border. The Trisuli River cuts a gorge to the west of the

akriyāvāda: …Pūraṇa Kāśyapa, a radical antinomian; Gośāla Maskarīputra, a fatalist; Ajita Keśakambalin, the earliest-known materialist in India; and Pakudha Kātyāyana, an atomist. Gośāla’s followers formed the Ājīvika sect, which enjoyed some acceptance during the Maurya period (3rd century bc) and then dwindled.

akriyāvāda: …Pūraṇa Kāśyapa, a radical antinomian; Gośāla Maskarīputra, a fatalist; Ajita Keśakambalin, the earliest-known materialist in India; and Pakudha Kātyāyana, an atomist. Gośāla’s followers formed the Ājīvika sect, which enjoyed some acceptance during the Maurya period (3rd century bc) and then dwindled.

civil service: Civil servants and communism: …compulsory arbitration operated through the State Arbitration Tribunal (known as Gosarbitrazh) under the Council of Ministers and through arbitration tribunals responsible to the councils of ministers in each of the republics. It settled all disputes concerning contracts, quality of goods, and other property disputes between various state enterprises. The system…

George Joachim Goschen, 1st Viscount Goschen was a British economist and administrator, who worked for both Liberal and Conservative governments in the late 19th century. The son of William Henry Goeschen (or Göschen), a London banker of German origin, he was educated in Saxony, at Rugby, and at

René Goscinny was a French writer who is best known for the comic strip “Astérix”, which he created with illustrator Albert Uderzo. Goscinny was reared and educated in Buenos Aires and later worked on children’s books in New York City. In 1954 he returned to Paris to direct a press agency and soon

Gosden and Correll, American comedic duo, best known for creating the Amos ’n’ Andy radio program. Freeman F. Gosden (b. May 5, 1899, Richmond, Va., U.S.—d. Dec. 10, 1982, Los Angeles, Calif.) and Charles J. Correll (b. Feb. 2, 1890, Peoria, Ill., U.S.—d. Sept. 26, 1972, Chicago, Ill.) performed

Gosden and Correll: In 1929 Gosden and Correll, both white, broadened their appeal by devising a larger cast of characters for a new nightly radio program, Amos ’n’ Andy, thus creating one of the first situation comedies. As Amos the cab driver and his sidekick, Andy, they became the mainstays…

Gosford, city, east-central New South Wales, Australia. It is situated at the north end of the Brisbane Water branch of Broken Bay. Gosford was surveyed and founded in 1839 and named for Archibald Acheson, 2nd earl of Gosford. It was merged in 1886 with the privately owned village of East Gosford

Robert Altman: Final years: Gosford Park (2001), a hybrid of murder mystery and comedy of manners that was set on an English country estate in the early 1930s, earned Altman the last Academy Award nomination of his career for best director. The film was also nominated as best picture.…

Archibald Acheson, 2nd earl of Gosford was the governor-in-chief of British North America in 1835–37, who alienated English- and French-speaking colonists in Canada. Acheson entered politics in 1798 as member for Armagh in the Irish Parliament. After the union of Great Britain and Ireland (1800),

goshawk, any of the more powerful accipiters, or true hawks (i.e., belonging to the genus Accipiter), primarily short-winged, forest-dwelling bird catchers, of which the northern goshawk (Accipiter gentilis) is best known. Originally called “goose hawk,” perhaps because of its size and its finely

Goshen, city, seat (1831) of Elkhart county, northern Indiana, U.S., on the Elkhart River, 23 miles (37 km) east-southeast of South Bend. Settled in 1828–30 and probably named for Goshen, New York, the home of one of its early settlers, it has a large Amish and Mennonite community. Goshen is a

Hambletonian Stakes: It was later moved to Goshen, New York, in 1957 to Du Quoin, Illinois, and in 1981 to Meadowlands (New Jersey) Racetrack. To win the Hambletonian, a horse must win two one-mile heats. The race was named for Hambletonian (Rysdyk’s Hambletonian), the foundation sire of most modern trotting horses in…

Goshen College, private, coeducational institution of higher learning in Goshen, Ind., U.S. It is a Mennonite liberal arts college that offers bachelor of arts degree programs in fine arts, humanities, sciences, Bible and religion, business, computer and information science, Hispanic ministries,

Yamagata Aritomo: Early career: …power, he proposed forming an Imperial Force (Goshimpei). In early 1871, when a force of about 10,000 men drawn from the feudal armies was organized, Yamagata was promoted to vice minister of military affairs. This Imperial Force was later renamed the Imperial Guard (Konoe), and Yamagata became its commander.

Gosiute, ethnolinguistic group of Western Shoshone Indians formerly living west of the Great Salt Lake in the arid region of the North American Great Basin. They were often reported in the 19th century to have lived wretched lives, subsisting with difficulty in the desert wasteland; the reports

Gosho Heinosuke was a Japanese motion-picture director and writer famous for films concerning the everyday lives of middle-class people. He is also noted for adapting Japanese literary works to the screen and for his creative use of silence in sound pictures, subtle pictorial symbols, and rapid

Shijō school: …by his pupils, among them Matsumura Gekkei, called Goshun, from whose residence on Fourth Street (Shijō), in Kyōto, the movement took its name. Among the most important artists associated with the school were Matsumura Keibun and Okamoto Toyohiko.

Gosiute, ethnolinguistic group of Western Shoshone Indians formerly living west of the Great Salt Lake in the arid region of the North American Great Basin. They were often reported in the 19th century to have lived wretched lives, subsisting with difficulty in the desert wasteland; the reports

Gosiute, ethnolinguistic group of Western Shoshone Indians formerly living west of the Great Salt Lake in the arid region of the North American Great Basin. They were often reported in the 19th century to have lived wretched lives, subsisting with difficulty in the desert wasteland; the reports

Goslar, city, Lower Saxony Land (state), north-central Germany. It lies at the northern foot of the Harz Mountains, south of Braunschweig. Founded in 922 to protect rich silver mines discovered in the Rammelsberg mountain, it became a favourite residence of the early Holy Roman emperors. The scene

Wawrzyniec Goślicki was a Roman Catholic bishop and diplomat whose political writings were precursory to Catholic liberalism. In 1569 he joined the royal chancery and served two Polish kings, Sigismund II Augustus and Stephen Báthory. Successively appointed bishop of Kamieniec Podolski (1586),

Minnesota Twins: Johnson was joined by slugger Goose Goslin in 1921, and the two led the Senators to their first pennant win and the World Series championship in 1924, a title that was won in dramatic fashion over the New York Giants in the 12th inning of the seventh game of the…

Ryan Gosling is a Canadian actor who went from appearing on television shows as a child to being one of the biggest movie stars of the early 21st century. Adept at both comedy and drama, he has starred in such films as The Notebook (2004), Half Nelson (2006), La La Land (2016), and Barbie (2023).

Ryan Gosling is a Canadian actor who went from appearing on television shows as a child to being one of the biggest movie stars of the early 21st century. Adept at both comedy and drama, he has starred in such films as The Notebook (2004), Half Nelson (2006), La La Land (2016), and Barbie (2023).

political science: Developments in the United States: …Chicago school was Merriam and Harold F. Gosnell’s Non-voting, Causes and Methods of Control (1924), which used sampling methods and survey data and is illustrative of the type of research that came to dominate political science after World War II. Merriam’s approach was not entirely new; in 1908 the British…

Bartholomew Gosnold was an English explorer and colonizer. The eldest son of an English country squire, Bartholomew Gosnold attended Cambridge University before marrying and settling at Bury St. Edmunds in the late 1590s. In 1602 the Earl of Southampton defrayed most of the expenses for fitting out

Gospel, any of four biblical narratives covering the life and death of Jesus Christ. Written, according to tradition, respectively by St. Matthew, St. Mark, St. Luke, and St. John (the four evangelists), they are placed at the beginning of the New Testament and make up about half the total text.

biblical literature: Gospels: …few papyrus fragments come from gospels not known by name (e.g., Egerton papyrus 2, Oxyrhynchus papyrus 840, Strasbourg papyrus 5–6). There are also the Gospel produced in the 2nd century by Marcion (a “semi-gnostic” heretic from Asia Minor), who removed what he regarded as interpolations from the Gospel According to…

biblical literature: Meaning of the term gospel: From the late 40s ce and until his martyrdom in the 60s, Paul wrote letters to the churches that he founded or guided. These are the earliest Christian writings that the church has, and in them he refers to “the gospel” (euangelion). In Romans,…

José Saramago: …evangelho segundo Jesus Cristo (1991; The Gospel According to Jesus Christ), which posits Christ as an innocent caught in the machinations of God and Satan. The outspoken atheist’s ironic comments in The Gospel According to Jesus Christ were deemed too cutting by the Roman Catholic Church, which pressured the Portuguese…

Pier Paolo Pasolini: …Il Vangelo secondo Matteo (1964; The Gospel According to Saint Matthew), is an austere, documentary-style retelling of the life and martyrdom of Jesus Christ. The comic allegory Uccellacci e Uccellini (1966; The Hawks and the Sparrows) was followed by two films attempting to re-create ancient myths from a contemporary viewpoint,…

Norman Mailer: …intertwined religion and historical figures: The Gospel According to the Son (1997) is a first-person “memoir” purportedly written by Jesus Christ, and The Castle in the Forest (2007), narrated by a devil, tells the story of Adolf Hitler’s boyhood.

Alfred Firmin Loisy: Loisy’s L’Évangile et l’Église (1902; The Gospel and the Church) became the cornerstone of Modernism. Ostensibly a reply to the rationalist approach to religion of the German Protestant historian Adolf von Harnack, whose theories were antithetical to those of Loisy, the book was actually a reinterpretation of the Catholic faith.…

Leo Baeck: Baeck’s philosophy: …figure and his view in The Gospel as a Document of Jewish Religious History (1938) that the Gospels belonged with the contemporary works of rabbinical literature. Christians, on the other hand, felt challenged by his definition of Judaism as the “classic” rational faith confronting a “romantic” Christianity of emotion, in…

Ludwig Wittgenstein: …in part by Leo Tolstoy’s The Gospel in Brief (1883), which he bought at the beginning of the war and subsequently carried with him at all times, reading and rereading it until he knew it practically by heart. Wittgenstein spent the first two years of the war behind the lines,…

Western painting: Ottonian Germany: …the earliest Ottonian books, the Gospel Lectionary (a book of Gospel lessons for the church year) of Gero (c. 960), were copied line for line from a manuscript of Charlemagne’s Court school. The dominant figure in the late 10th century was an artist known as the Master of the Registrum…

gospel music, genre of American Protestant music, rooted in the religious revivals of the 19th century, which developed in different directions within the white (European American) and Black (African American) communities of the United States. Over the decades both the white and Black traditions

Ramakrishna: Final years and legacy: …Sri Sri Ramakrishna Kathamrita (1902–32; The Nectar-Speech of the Twice-Blessed Ramakrishna), best known to English readers as The Gospel of Ramakrishna.

Dionne Warwick: Early life: …she formed a group called the Gospelaires with her sister, Dee Dee. The group enjoyed relative success, singing backup for a number of musicians in local venues and on recordings.

Gosplan, central board that supervised various aspects of the planned economy of the Soviet Union by translating into specific national plans the general economic objectives outlined by the Communist Party and the government. Established in February 1921, Gosplan was originally an advisory council

Montenegro: Modernization and statehood: …he assumed the title of gospodar (prince) and, by making it a hereditary office, separated the leadership of state from the episcopal office. Danilo also introduced a new and modernized legal code, and the first Montenegrin newspaper appeared in 1871.

Montenegro: Modernization and statehood: …he assumed the title of gospodar (prince) and, by making it a hereditary office, separated the leadership of state from the episcopal office. Danilo also introduced a new and modernized legal code, and the first Montenegrin newspaper appeared in 1871.

Gosport, port town and borough (district), administrative and historic county of Hampshire, England. It lies on a peninsula between Portsmouth Harbour and The Solent, opposite the Isle of Wight. Gosport prospered from the 16th century with the rising importance of the Royal Navy. Primarily a

Goss v. Board of Education of Knoxville, Tennessee, case in which the U.S. Supreme Court on June 3, 1963, ruled (9–0) that a Tennessee school board’s desegregation plan that included a transfer provision, which would have permitted segregated schools, was a violation of the Fourteenth Amendment’s

Goss v. Lopez, case in which the U.S. Supreme Court on January 22, 1975, ruled that, under the Fourteenth Amendment’s due process clause, public-school students facing suspensions are entitled to notice and a hearing. The case centred on Dwight Lopez and eight other students from various public

Porter Goss is an American Republican politician who served in the U.S. House of Representatives (1989–2004) and as director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA; 2004–06). Goss was educated at the Hotchkiss School in Lakeville, Connecticut, and at Yale University, where he earned a B.A. in

Porter Goss is an American Republican politician who served in the U.S. House of Representatives (1989–2004) and as director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA; 2004–06). Goss was educated at the Hotchkiss School in Lakeville, Connecticut, and at Yale University, where he earned a B.A. in

Kevin Rudd: Early life and education: …staff for Queensland opposition leader Wayne Goss—a position he retained after Goss became premier of Queensland in 1989. Rudd served as director general of the state cabinet office from 1992 to 1995. Entering the private sector, he worked for two years as a senior consultant for the accounting firm KPMG…

Jan Gossart was a Netherlandish painter who was one of the first artists to introduce the style of the Italian Renaissance into the Low Countries. Gossart is most likely to be identified with Jennyn van Hennegouwe, who is registered as a master in the Guild of St. Luke at Antwerp in 1503. His most

George Brett: Career: …Stadium off New York closer Goose Gossage in the seventh inning of game three of the ALCS. It was the decisive blow in Kansas City’s victory, which gave the Royals a series sweep and their first pennant. The Royals lost the World Series in six games to the Philadelphia Phillies,…

George Brett: Career: …Stadium off New York closer Goose Gossage in the seventh inning of game three of the ALCS. It was the decisive blow in Kansas City’s victory, which gave the Royals a series sweep and their first pennant. The Royals lost the World Series in six games to the Philadelphia Phillies,…

Paul Beattie MacCready: …more streamlined MacCready plane, the Gossamer Albatross, was pedaled and piloted by Allen from near Folkestone, Kent, Eng., to Cape Gris-Nez, Fr., a distance of 23 miles (37 km), in 2 h 49 min, on June 12, 1979. This flight won the £100,000 Kremer Prize for the first man-propelled flight…

Paul Beattie MacCready: , MacCready’s Gossamer Condor, pedaled and piloted by 137-pound (62-kilogram) Bryan Allen, a bicyclist and hang-glider enthusiast, completed the course required to win the Kremer Prize of £50,000 ($95,000), clearing a 10-foot- (3-metre-) high start-and-finish line while making a figure-eight flight around two pylons set half a…

Japanese literature: Prose: Kagerō nikki (The Gossamer Years) describes the life between 954 and 974 of the second wife of Fujiwara Kaneie, a prominent court official. The first volume, related long after the events, is in the manner of an autobiographical novel; even the author confesses that her remembrances are…

gossamer-winged butterfly, (family Lycaenidae), any of a group of small, often brightly coloured butterflies (order Lepidoptera) that includes several hundred species commonly called coppers, blues, hairstreaks, harvesters, and metal marks. All are small to medium-sized butterflies (wingspan 1–3 cm

gossan, rust-coloured oxide and hydroxide minerals of iron and manganese that cap an ore deposit. Gossans form by the oxidation of the sulfide minerals in an ore deposit and they thus may be used as clues to the existence of subsurface ore deposits, especially if distinctive boxworks are present.

Pearl Jam: …vocalist Eddie Vedder, rhythm guitarist Stone Gossard, bassist Jeff Ament, lead guitarist Mike McCready, and drummer Dave Krusen.

Jan Gossart was a Netherlandish painter who was one of the first artists to introduce the style of the Italian Renaissance into the Low Countries. Gossart is most likely to be identified with Jennyn van Hennegouwe, who is registered as a master in the Guild of St. Luke at Antwerp in 1503. His most

Jan Gossart was a Netherlandish painter who was one of the first artists to introduce the style of the Italian Renaissance into the Low Countries. Gossart is most likely to be identified with Jennyn van Hennegouwe, who is registered as a master in the Guild of St. Luke at Antwerp in 1503. His most

Philip Henry Gosse was an English naturalist who invented the institutional aquarium. In 1827 Gosse became a clerk in a seal-fishery office at Carbonear, Nfd., Can., where he spent much of his free time investigating natural history. After an unsuccessful interlude of farming in Canada he traveled

Sir Edmund Gosse was an English translator, literary historian, and critic who introduced the work of Henrik Ibsen and other continental European writers to English readers. Gosse was the only child of the naturalist Philip Henry Gosse. His mother having died when he was young, he was taken by his

Musgrave Ranges: …1873 by the English explorer William C. Gosse and crossed in that year by Gosse and Ernest Giles, the hills were named for Sir Anthony Musgrave, then lieutenant governor of South Australia. In the mid-1980s much of the area was the subject of an Aboriginal land-rights claim, the ranges having…

François-Joseph Gossec was one of the principal composers of 18th-century France, whose symphonies and chamber works helped shape the orchestral forms of the Classical period in France. Gossec went to Paris in 1751 and in 1754 succeeded Jean-Philippe Rameau as director of the orchestra of the

utility and value: Cost-of-production analysis: …theory of utility, developed by H.H. Gossen in Germany (1854), Karl Menger in Austria (1871), Léon Walras in France (1874–77), and W.S. Jevons in England (1871).

André Gill was a French caricaturist who used a style of enlarged heads dwarfing undersized bodies, often copied by later cartoonists. After studying at the Academy of Fine Arts in Paris, Gill pursued a career as an illustrator, becoming famous for portrait caricatures of his illustrious

Louis Gossett, Jr. was an actor who made history as the first African American man to win an Academy Award for best supporting actor. He was recognized for his portrayal of tough-hearted drill sergeant Emil Foley in An Officer and a Gentleman (1982). Gossett also earned acclaim for his work in

Thomas Keneally: His well-received Gossip from the Forest (1975) examines the World War I armistice through the eyes of a thoughtful, humane German negotiator. He was also praised for his treatment of the American Civil War in Confederates (1979). His later novels included A Family Madness (1985), To Asmara…

Blake Lively: Gossip Girl, The Town, and A Simple Favor: …appearing in the TV series Gossip Girl. The drama, which ran for six seasons, follows a group of conniving teenagers at an elite private school in New York City. Hugely popular, the show made Lively a star.

insurance: Russia: …offered by a single agency, Gosstrakh, and insurance on foreign risks by a companion company, Ingosstrakh. Ingosstrakh continues to insure foreign-owned property in Russia and Russian-owned property abroad. It accepts reinsurance from foreign insurers. However, following the movement toward a free market economy (perestroika) after 1985 and the breakup of…

cotton: …of plants of the genus Gossypium, widely cultivated for their seed-hair fibers. One of the world’s leading agricultural crops with a long history of use, cotton can be made into a variety of biodegradable fabrics. Although conventional cotton cultivation often requires significant agrochemical inputs, such as fertilizers and pesticides, organically…

evolution: Hybrid breakdown: Hybrids between the cotton species Gossypium barbadense, G. hirsutum, and G. tomentosum appear vigorous and fertile, but their progenies die in seed or early in development, or they develop into sparse, weak plants.

evolution: Hybrid breakdown: the cotton species Gossypium barbadense, G. hirsutum, and G. tomentosum appear vigorous and fertile, but their progenies die in seed or early in development, or they develop into sparse, weak plants.

evolution: Hybrid breakdown: hirsutum, and G. tomentosum appear vigorous and fertile, but their progenies die in seed or early in development, or they develop into sparse, weak plants.