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Église d'Auteuil (Paris Metro)
Église d'Auteuil is a station of the Paris Metro, serving Line 10 (westbound service only). History This station was named Wilhem until May 15, 1921. Wilhem was the pseudonym of French novelist Guillaume-Louis Bocquillon. However, a municipal councillor became convinced that the station was actua..
Église de la Madeleine
L'église de la Madeleine, or L'église Sainte-Marie-Madeleine (or simply "La Madeleine"), is a church in a commanding position in the 8th arrondissement of Paris, in its present form designed as a temple to the glory of Napoleon's army. History The site of this edifice, centered at the end of ..
Église de la Madeleine/Temp
L'église de la Madeleine, or L'église Sainte-Marie-Madeleine (or simply "La Madeleine"), is a church in a commanding position in the 8th arrondissement of Paris, in its present form designed as a temple to the glory of Napoleon's army. History The site of this edifice, centered at the end of ..
Église de Pantin (Paris Metro)
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Église Saint-Eustache, Paris
Wikimedia Commons has media related to: [Special] L'église Saint-Eustache is a church in the first arrondissement of Paris, built between 1532 and 1632. Situated at the entrance to Paris’ ancient markets (Les Halles) and the beginning of the famous rue Montorgueuil, the Egli..
Église Sainte-Geneviève, Montréal
Église Sainte-Geneviève, Montréal - Holy Genevieve Church Location Sainte-Geneviève, Québéc Affiliation Roman Catholic Parish priest Abbot Robert Sirois Architectual description Architectual type Parish church Architectual style Barogue and Spanish revivalist Directio..
G-line
G-line may refer to: Goubou line, a single-wire transmission line or waveguidePermanent network ban on Internet Relay Chat This is a [disambiguationdisambiguation] page: a list of articles associated with the same title. If an referred you to this page, you may wish to change the link t..
G. Lindsey Davis
G. Lindsey Davis is an American Bishop of the United Methodist Church, elected in 1996. He was born 5 April 1948 in Durham, North Carolina. He married Jennifer Mink of Pineville, Kentucky on 20 May 1972. They have two adult children: Laura Ellen Davis Miller, an elementary school teacher in Lexi..
Gália
Galia is a municipality in the state of São Paulo in Brazil. Its coordinates are [22°17′29″S, 49°33′10″W]. The population in 2004 is 7,364, the area is 356.73 km² The elevation is 561 m. ..
GLI
GLI is an abbreviation for: Great Lakes Invitational, a college hockey tournament.Grand luxe injection, used on some automobiles. Also see GLE.Global Learning Initiative, an international rights and licensing event especially for primary and secondary educational publishing - Bologna Children's Boo..
Gli1
This article or section is in need of attention from an expert on the subject.Please help recruit one, or improve this page yourself}} if you can. See [discussion page] for details. Gli1 is a protein originally isolated in human glioblastoma (Kinzler KW et al Science. 1987). Conte..
Gli2
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Gli3
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Gliadel
The GLIADEL® Wafer is a small wafer that contains the chemotherapeutic drug carmustine, or BCNU. After a specific brain tumor called a high-grade malignant glioma is surgically removed, up to 8 GLIADEL® Wafers are implanted in the cavity the tumor once occupied, slowly delivering BCNU directly ..
Gliadin
Gliadin is a glycoprotein, present in wheat and some other cereals, best known for its role, along with glutenin, in the formation of gluten. It is around 60 percent soluble in ethanol and sports only intramolecule disulfide links. Some people are sensitive to gliadin due to disorders such as celia..
Gliadorphin
This does not cite its [[Opentopia:Citing sources|references or sources]]. You can [[Opentopia:WikiProject Fact and Reference Check|help]] Wikipedia by introducing appropriate citations. Gliadorphin is an opioid peptide which is formed during digestion of the gliadin component of the gluten protei..
Glial cell
Neuroglia of the brain shown by Golgi's method. Section of central canal of medulla spinalis, showing ependymal and neuroglial cells. Glial cells, commonly called neuroglia or simply glia, are non-neuronal cells that provide support and nutrition, maintain homeostasis, form myelin, and p..
Glial cell line-derived neurotrophic factor
GDNF Glial cell line-Derived Neurotrophic Factor (GDNF) is a small protein that potently promotes the survival of many types of neurons. The most prominent feature of GDNF is its ability to support the survival of dopaminergic and motorneurons. These neuronal populations die in the course of Parkins..
Glial fibrillary acidic protein
Glial fibrillary acidic protein or GFAP is a type III protein of the intermediate filament exclusively found in astrocytic cells of the central nervous system. It is related to vimentin and undergoes post-translational modification when the astrocytes are dying. Upon cell-death, the protein get citr..
GLib
GLib is a cross-platform utility library. It started life as part of the GTK+ project, but is now used by other applications. While it was originally a convenient library to collect low-level code in, it has since expanded into offering wrapper functions for functionality that is typically different..
Glibenclamide
Glibenclamide (INN), also known as glyburide (USAN), is an anti-diabetic drug in a class of medications known as sulfonylureas, used in the treatment of type II diabetes. The drug works by inhibiting ATP-sensitive potassium channels in pancreatic beta cells. This inhibition causes cell membrane dep..
Glicério
Glicério is a municipality in the state of São Paulo in Brazil. Its coordinates are [21°22′34″S, 50°12′21″W]. The population in 2004 is 4,528 and the area is 274.83 km² The elevation is 400 m. ..
Gliclazide
Gliclazide is an oral hypoglycemic (anti-diabetic drug) and is classified as a sulfonylurea. It is marketed as Diamicron®. Oral antidiabetic drugs (A10B) [http://encycl.opentopia.com/ edit] A10BA - Biguanide - A10BB - Sulfonylureas - A10BF - Alpha-glucosidase inhi..
Glico Morinaga case
The Glico-Morinaga case, also known by its official designation Metropolitan Designated Case 114, was a famous extortion case in Japan, primarily directed at the Japanese industrial confectionaries Ezaki Glico and Morinaga, and currently remains unsolved. The entire case spanned 17 months from the i..
Glidden, Iowa
Glidden is a city in Carroll County, Iowa, United States. The population was 1,253 at the 2000 census. The town is named in honor of Joseph Farwell Glidden (1813-1906) of DeKalb, Illinois, who invented barbed wire in 1873 - patent issued in 1874. Glidden is the birthplace of Merle Hay, one of the..
Glidden Tour
The Glidden Tours were promotional events held during the automotive Brass Era by the American Automobile Association (AAA). The AAA, a proponent for safer roads, acceptance of the automobile and automotive-friendly legislation, started the tour to promote public acceptance and bring awareness of t..
Glide
Glide can mean: Glide API, a 3D graphics interfaceGlide language, a fictional language from the novel The Maze GameGlide, OregonGlide is a musical synthesizer parameter, equivalent to portamentoGlides are semivowels in linguistics and phonologyGlidingGlide (band), a solo side project of Will Sergea..
Glide, Oregon
Glide is a census-designated place (CDP) in Douglas County, Oregon, United States. The population was 1,690 at the 2000 census. Geography Glide is located at [43°19′9″N, 123°4′1″W] (43.319078, -123.066926)[Geographic references#1GR1]. According to the United States Ce..
Glideascope
Glideascope is a London based downtempo/trip-hop artist and producer, who has a pioneered a direction in the genre of downtempo music which he terms 'Audio Cinematography'. With heavy use of cinematic undertones, blissful melodies and lo-fi beats. November 2003 witnessed the debut release from Gli..
Glidepath
"Glide-path" typically refers to the descent profile during the final phase of an aircraft’s approach for landing at an airport’s runway. As an example, for an aircraft to safely land on a runway lets say that it is recommended that the aircraft approach a runway at an angle of three degrees a..
Glider
For other uses, see (disambiguation)}}}. Gliders are heavier-than-air aircraft primarily intended for unpowered flight. A single-seat high performance fiberglass Glaser-Dirks DG-808 over the Lac de Serre Ponçon in the French Alps Contents 1 Terminology2 History3 Launch meth..
Gliders (Elfquest)
The Gliders are a fictional tribe of elves in the comic book series Elfquest. They were closer to the High Ones in looks and magic abilities than all other tribes encountered. Their home were the artfully shaped insides of Blue Mountain, and they were worshipped by a human tribe. [Spoiler warn..
Glider (Conway's Life)
The evolution and movement of a "glider". The glider is a pattern in Conway's Game of Life. It was first discovered by Richard K. Guy. It is the smallest spaceship, and it travels diagonally at a speed of c/4. The glider is often produced from randomly-generated starting configurations. The g..
Glider (disambiguation)
Gliders are heavier-than-air aircraft primarily intended for unpowered flightA paraglider is a free-flying, foot-launched aircraft.In Conway's Game of Life a glider is a certain small structure that moves indefinitely in one direction. In cellular automata in general, such features are known as spac..
Glider (EP)
Glider is an EP by My Bloody Valentine, released in April 1990 by Creation Records. The EP was also the group's first release on the Sire Records label in the USA. The lead track, "Soon", was later included on the Loveless album. Contents 1 Track listing1.1 7-inch1.2 First 12-inc..
Glider Badge
Glider Badge The Glider Badge was a decoration of the United States Army which was first created in June 1944. The award was originally intended to recognize those members of the Army who had been trained in glider assault tactics and was presented upon completion of a combat glider flight i..
Glider Competition Classes
Competition classes in gliding, as in other sports, are created as a means to promote the development of the sport. Classes may be created to further a sporting policy or as an answer to popularity, market and technology trends. Class policy in gliding mostly seeks to promote fairness in competitio..
Glider infantry
Glider infantry (sometimes referred to as Airlanding infantry) were a short-lived innovation in military tactics, used during World War II. Contents 1 Early history2 Tactics and Uses3 Later History3.1 Sicily3.2 Normandy3.3 Arnhem3.4 Rhine Crossing3.5 Fa..
Glider Infantry Regiment
The Glider Infantry Regiments were specialised airborne regiments unique to World War II. The concept of deploying infantrymen and materiel into combat using gliders was initially developed by the Germans, however it was the Allies who applied it to a greater degree. The gliders which were most wid..
Glider pilot license
For other uses of "GPL", see GPL (disambiguation). In most countries it is required to obtain a glider pilot license (GPL) before acting as pilot of a glider. The requirements vary from country to country. In many countries the licensing takes the same form as licensing for power planes. Training ..
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Glider PRO
Glider PRO is an Apple Macintosh game first published by Casady & Greene in 1991. It is the final installment of the Glider series as of early 2006. When Casady & Greene went bankrupt, the rights to the series reverted to the author, John Calhoun, who opted to give a few versions of the game away f..
Glideway
The Glideway is the next step transportation up From trails to roads on to highways then In 1956 when interstates highways started the old circumvented highways became our by-ways - So in our future we will sing about highways by-ways and glideways. On till we have beam me up Scotty Logic dictates ..
Glide API
Glide was a proprietary 3D graphics API developed by 3dfx used on their Voodoo graphics cards. It was dedicated to gaming performance, supporting geometry and texture mapping primarily, in data formats identical to those used internally in their cards. The Voodoo cards were the first to offer perfor..
Glide bomb
A glide bomb is an aerial bomb that is modified with aerodynamic surfaces to modify its flight path from a purely ballistic one, to a flatter, gliding, one. This extends the range between the launch aircraft and the target. Glide bombs are often fitted with control systems, allowing the controlling ..
Glide Foundation
The Glide Foundation is a charity organization based in San Francisco. It is known for working with investor Warren Buffett who has donated the proceeds from his eBay "Power Lunch with Warren Buffett" auctions to Glide. The winning bid in 2006 was $620,100.[link] Glide Foundation's Miss..
Glide language
The Glide language, or simply Glide, is a highly-abstract visual constructed language created by Diana Reed Slattery and features prominently in her science fiction novel The Maze Game. It exists in both the novel and the real world as a written form and as a gestured language. Due to its use in a w..
Glide Path
Glide Path is a novel by Arthur C. Clarke, published in 1963. Clarke's only non-science fiction novel, it is set during World War II, and tells a fictionalized version of the development of the radar-based ground-controlled approach (called "ground-controlled descent" in the novel) aircraft landin..
Glide plane
In crystallography, a glide plane is symmetry operation describing how a reflection in a plane, followed by a translation parallel with that plane, may leave the crystal unchanged. Glide planes are noted by a, b or c, depending on which axis the glide is along. There is also the n glide, which is..
Glide ratio
Glide ratio is an aviation term that refers to the distance an aircraft will move forward for any given amount of lost altitude (the cotangent of the downward angle). Alternatively it is also the forward speed divided by sink speed (unpowered aircraft): [==\over v_}] The terms glide rat..
Glide reflection
Example of a glide reflection In geometry, a glide reflection is a type of isometry of the Euclidean plane: the combination of a reflection in a line and a translation along that line. Reversing the order of combining gives the same result. Depending on context, we may consider a reflection a ..
Glide step
Glide step is a form of walking used by marching bands to minimize upper body movement enabling musicians to play their instruments and march without air-stream interruptions. Glide stepping requires that each step is planted heel first with the toe pointed at a 90 degree angle to the leg. Then, t..
Gliding
Gliding (or soaring) is a recreational activity and competitive sport where pilots fly un-powered aeroplanes known as gliders or sailplanes. Properly, the term gliding refers to descending flight of a heavier-than-air craft, whereas soaring is the correct term to use when the craft gains altitude ..
Gliding action
redirect [[Template:POV-check]] Explanation Gliding action describes the way the foreskin may move during sexual intercourse. The foreskin covers the glans penis but may move back and forth over the glans (see illustration). The gliding movement of the foreskin may reduce friction during sexual in..
Gliding ant
Gliding ants are arboreal ants of many different genera, each having developed the ability to guide its descent when falling from a tree, in order to land on the trunk before reaching the (potentially flooded, disorienting, or dangerous) ground. Every single species of ant tested in the genus Ceph..
Gliding Bird
Before she met mentor Gram Parsons and before she became a famous country singer, Emmylou Harris began singing folk music. Gliding Bird was the obscure début album by Harris. There were a couple of singles released from the album, but neither made any of the Billboard Music Charts. The title son..
Gliding Federation of Australia
The Gliding Federation of Australia (GFA) is the governing body for the sport of gliding in Australia. It was founded in 1950. The GFA is responsible to Civil Aviation Safety Authority for the conduct of safe gliding operations in Australia. This includes the setting and maintenance of flying stan..
Gliding joint
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Gliding mammal
There are a number of gliding mammals, including the Colugo or flying lemur, the flying mouse, and the Wrist-winged gliders which are a family of gliding possums (including the Squirrel Glider and the Sugar Glider) ..
Gliding New Zealand
Gliding New Zealand (GNZ) controls the sport of gliding in New Zealand for those clubs and other organisations that are affiliated to it. It was established after the Second World War to: Liaise with government agencies in particular with the Civil Aviation Authority and Airways Corporation of New ..
Glidoler
The Glidoler is a type of Zoid, a race of mechanical lifeforms from the fictional Zoids universe. Glidoler Contents 1 Overview2 Battle Story appearances3 Media appearances3.1 UK Zoids Comic3.2 Video games4 Models4.1 Original model kit4.2 Original Europ..
Gliechen
Gliechen was a provincial electoral district in Alberta, Canada. The district was created in 1905 when Alberta first became a province. The riding merged with Drumheller in 1963 to form Drumheller-Gliechen. The district was named after the town of Gliechen Alberta, that is situated on the Siksika ..
Glienicke/Nordbahn
Statistics State: Brandenburg District: Oberhavel Geographic Position: 52°38' N 13°20' Altitude: 39 m Area: 4,6 km² Population: 8,929 (End 2003) pop. density: 1,941 Inhabitants per km² German Postal Code: 16548 Telephone Prefix: 033056 Address of Town H..
Glienicke bridge
The famous Glienicke bridge in Berlin, used for exchange of spies during the cold war The Glienicke bridge is a bridge in Berlin which spans the Havel River to connect the cities of Berlin and Potsdam. Because the Soviet Union and the United States used it three times to exchange captured spi..
Glienicke Palace
Glienicke Palace is located on the Island of Wannsee, near the Glienicke Bridge, on the B1 across from the Glienicke Hunting Lodge. It was designed by Karl Friedrich Schinkel for Prince Carl of Prussia in 1826, The building, originally merely a cottage, was turned into a summer palace in the la..
Gliese
Gliese may refer to: Rochus Gliese, a German actor, director, production designer, and art directorWilhelm Gliese, a German astronomerGliese Catalogue of Nearby Stars This is a [disambiguationdisambiguation] page: a list of articles associated with the same title. If an referred you to t..
Gliese 229
Image of Gliese 229 A and B. Gliese 229 (also written as Gl 229 or GJ 229) is a cool, red dwarf star about 19 light years away in the constellation Lepus. The star is known to be a flare star. In 1995 a substellar companion was found: Gliese 229B is a brown dwarf orbiting the star; although ..
Gliese 436
Gliese 436 (Gl 436), is a dim 11th magnitude red dwarf star about 30 light years from Earth in the constellation of Leo. It is orbited by a low-mass planet. Contents 1 Gliese 436 b2 See also3 References4 External links Gliese 436 b The planet, Gliese 436 b was discovered ..
Gliese 570
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Gliese 581
Gliese 581 is an M2.5V red dwarf star located 20.40 ly away in the constellation Libra. It has the variable star designation HO Librae. In 2005, an exoplanet was found around the star. Planetary system Gliese 581 b is a Neptune-mass planet. It was the fifth planet to be discovered around a red dw..
Gliese 581 b
|- | colspan="2" | Discoverer(s) | |- | colspan="2" | Detection method | |- | colspan="2" | Discovery status | |} Gliese 581 b is an extrasolar planet orbiting the star Gliese 581. It was the fifth planet found around a red dwarf star (after Gliese 876's planets and Gliese 436 b). Also like ..
Gliese 623
Gliese 623 is a dim double star lying 25 light years from Earth. It was photographed by the Hubble Space Telescope's Faint Object Camera in 1994. The main star is 200 million miles from its neighbour, Gliese 623b which may be either a red or brown dwarf star. See also binary system External link ..
Gliese 667
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Gliese 673
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Gliese 710
Gliese 710 is a red dwarf star in the constellation Serpens Cauda, with visual magnitude 9.66 and a mass of 0.4–0.6 solar masses. It is about 63.0 light years from Earth, but is notable because its proper motion, distance, and radial velocity indicate that it will approach within 1.1 light ye..
Gliese 747AB
A red dwarf star located in Lyra near 17 Lyrae (19h 05m 43.7s +32º 26' 42"); also named 17 Lyr C or Kuiper 90, really is a binary system with a period of 5 years, and a small angular separation (0.35"). External links [Study of 17 Lyrae (in Spanish)][17 Lyrae in color][..
Gliese 777
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Gliese 783
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Gliese 876
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Gliese 876 b
Gliese 876 b is a gas giant twice the size of Jupiter. Its orbit sometimes brings it within the outer edges of the star's habitable zone, but water would normally be frozen on the surface of its moons. References ..
Gliese 876 c
Gliese 876 c is a gas giant half the size of Jupiter, discovered in 2001. It orbits within the star's habitable zone, a region in which the temperature is right for water to be liquid. This means that the planet itself may have an atmosphere of water clouds. In addition, if the planet has any larg..
Gliese 876 d
|- ! style="background-color: #A0B0FF;" colspan="3" | Parent star |- | colspan="2" | Star | Gliese 876 |- | colspan="2" | Constellation | Aquarius |- | Right ascension | style="text-align: center" |(α) | 22h 53m 16.7s |- | Declination | style="text-align: center" |(δ) | -14° 1..
Gliese 892
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Glifted
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Gligar
Gligar (グライガー Gliger in Japanese, Skorgla in German and Scorplane in French) is a fictional character of the Pokémon franchise. The name "Gligar" is probably derived from the words glider and gargoyle. Contents 1 Appearance2 Biology3 In the video games4 Animé5&..
Glima
Glíma is Icelandic wrestling. There are four points that differentiate it from other forms of wrestling: The opponents must always stand erect.The opponents step clockwise around each other (looks similar to a waltz). This is to create opportunities for offense and defense, and to prevent a ..
Glimepiride
Glimepiride is a medium-to-long acting sulfonylurea anti-diabetic drug. It is marketed as Amaryl® by Aventis. Oral antidiabetic drugs (A10B) [http://encycl.opentopia.com/ edit] A10BA - Biguanide - A10BB - Sulfonylureas - A10BF - Alpha-glucosidase inhibitor - A1..
Glimfeather
Glimfeather was an owl in the land of Narnia in the Chronicles of Narnia. Glimfeather lived in the reign of Caspian X and carried Jill Pole and Eustace Scrubb to the Parliament of Owls in the ruined tower of Old Cair Paravel. ..
Glimmer
GLIMMER stands for Gene Locator and Interpolated Markov ModelER. GLIMMER was the first bioinformatics system for finding genes that used the interpolated Markov model formalism. It is very effective at finding genes in bacteria, archaea, and viruses, typically finding 98-99% of all protein-coding ..
Glimmerglass Opera
Glimmerglass Opera is an opera company which was founded in 1975 and presents an annual season of operas at the Alice Busch Opera Theater on the lake eight miles north of Cooperstown, New York. The summer-only season usually consists of four operas performed in rotating repertory. Glimmerglass i..
Glimmerglass State Park
Glimmerglass State Park is located near Cooperstown, New York on the shore of Otsego Lake, which is the "Glimmerglass" of the Leatherstocking Tales of James Fenimore Cooper. The park is open year-round. The park offers a beach, picnic tables with pavilions, a playground, recreation programs, a nat..
Glimmer (She-Ra)
Glimmer Statistics Name Glimmer Secret Identity None Status Alive Affiliations She-Ra, The Great Rebellion Notable Relatives King Micah, Queen Angella Notable powers or abilities Like her mother the ability to fly and fire energy blasts from her palms, and unique to her is the pow..
Glimmer Train
Glimmer Train is an American literary journal founded in 1990. It is published quarterly. Past contributors to Glimmer Train include: Brad BarkleyNoy Holland ..
Glimmingehus
Glimmingehus is a medieval castle in Simrishamn Municipality in Sweden. It was build in the 15th century. Wikimedia Commons has media related to: [Special] ..
GLIMPSE
GLIMPSE is a text indexing and retrieval software program originally developed at the University of Arizona by Udi Manber, Sun Wu, and Burra Gopal. A web server version called WebGlimpse is now being maintained under a pay per line licence. Neither project could be considered open source although th..
Glimpses of World History
Glimpses of World History, a book written by Jawaharlal Nehru in 1934, is a panoramic sweep of the history of humankind. It is a collection of 196 letters written between 1930-1933, as an introduction to the world history to his daughter Indira, then thirteen years old. The letters, written in a sp..
Glina
Glina is a word of Slavic origin, meaning "clay". It may refer to the following placenames: Glina, RomaniaGlina river, CroatiaGlina, Croatia This is a [disambiguationdisambiguation] page: a list of articles associated with the same title. If an referred you to this page, you may wish to..
Glina, Croatia
Glina is a small town in central Croatia, located southwest of Petrinja and Sisak. The population of Glina is 3,116, with a total of 9.868 in the municipality (census 2001). History During World War II, it is said that more than two thousand Serbs were murdered on August, 1941. The victims ( Orth..
Glina, Ilfov
Glina is a commune in the south-east of Ilfov county, Romania. Its name is derived from Slavic Glina, meaning "clay". Localities in Ilfov county Towns: Bragadiru | Buftea | Măgurele | Otopeni | Pantelimon | Popeşti-Leordeni | Voluntari Communes: Periş | Ciolpan | Gruiu | Nuci | Snagov..
Glinda
Glinda (or Glinda the Good Witch) is a fictional character in the Land of Oz created by American author L. Frank Baum. She is the most powerful sorceress of Oz, ruler of the Quadling Country south of the Emerald City, and protector of Princess Ozma. The classic books Baum's beloved 1900 novel Th..
Glinda of Oz
Cover of Glinda of Oz. Glinda of Oz is the fourteenth Land of Oz book written by children's author L. Frank Baum. Baum started the book, but it was completed and published in 1920 based on notes he had left after his death in May 1919. Critics generally agree that Glinda is the darkest of ..
Glinde
Glinde may refer to several places in Germany: Glinde (Stormarn), a town in Schleswig-HolsteinGlinde, Saxony-Anhalt, part of the Verwaltungsgemeinschaft Elbe-Saale, district of Schönebeck, Saxony-Anhalta part of the village Oerel, itself part of the Samtgemeinde Geestequelle, district of Rotenbur..
Glinde (Stormarn)
Glinde is a town in Germany in Schleswig-Holstein, ca. 20 km East of Hamburg History The Name Glinde is found in an Document from March 25 1229 the first time. In the document Graph, Adolf IV. of Schauenburg and Holstein gave the village to Cistercians-convent. (The convent moved to the today's To..
Gline
Gline (sometimes written as G-line or G:Line) is an IRC-related term. It refers to permanently banning a client from an IRC-network. Glines - originally G:Lines - are often stored in the configuration file of the IRCd(s), although some networks, who handle lines through the services, prefer to have ..
Gling-Gló
Gling-Gló, released in 1990, is the only album by Björk Guðmundsdóttir & Tríó Guðmundar Ingólfssonar, consisting of Guðmundur Ingólfsson on piano, Guðmundur Steingrímsson on drums, and Þórður Högnason on bass. Gling-Gló is an Icelandic onomatopoeia whose English equivalent is "Ding..
Gling gling
Gling gling is a play on the phrase bling bling and is short for "geek bling bling", first coined by science fiction writer and poet Christopher Vera. Gling gling are those small items geeks carry in their possession, sometimes on a lanyard, including but not limited to, pocket protectors, calculat..
Gliński's hexagonal chess
Gliński's hexagonal chess is a chess variant played on a hexagonal board. It was invented in 1936 by Władysław Gliński. This is the most popular game of hexagonal chess variants. At one point of time there were more than half-a-million players of this game, and more then 130.000 board sets ha..
Gliński Coat of Arms
Gliński Battle cry: - Details Alternative names - Earliest mention unknown Towns none Families Daszkowicz, Gliński, Hliński, Lichodziejewski, Lichodziejski, Mamaj Gliński - is a Polish Coat of Arms. It was used by several szlachta families in the times of the Polish..
Glioblastoma multiforme
Glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) also known as grade 4 astrocytoma is the most common and aggressive type of primary brain tumor, accounting for 52 percent of all primary brain tumor cases and 20% of all intracranial tumors. Despite being the most prevalent form of primary brain tumor, GBM's occur at ..
Glioma
A glioma is a type of primary central nervous system (CNS) tumor that arises from glial cells. The most common site of involvement of a glioma is the brain, but they can also affect the spinal cord, or any other part of the CNS, such as the optic nerves. Contents 1 Classification1.1 B..
Gliosis
Gliosis is a proliferation of astrocytes in damaged areas of the central nervous system (CNS). Astrocytes are relatively large glial cells and are the connective tissue cells of the CNS. Astrocytes have various functions, including accumulating in areas where nerve cells (neurons) have been damaged...
Glipizide
Glipizide is an oral medium-to-long acting anti-diabetic drug from the sulfonylurea class. It is classified as a second generation Sulfonylurea, which means that it undergoes enterohepatic circulation. The structure on the R2 group is a much larger cyclo or aromatic group compared to the 1st genera..
Glires
Glires, also called Myochonta is a clade consisting of rodents and lagomorphs (rabbits, hares, and pikas). This hypothesis that these form a monophyletic group has been long debated based on morphological evidence. Recent data (2001) based on nuclear DNA support Glires as a sister of Euarchonta t..
Glirodon
Glirodon is a genus of extinct mammal from the Upper Jurassic. It was a relatively early member of the also-extinct order of Multituberculata, suborder "Plagiaulacida". These mammals lived in North America during the Mesozoic, also known as the "age of the dinosaurs". The genus Glirodon has been..
Glis
For the genus Glis, see Edible Dormouse Glis, named after glissando, is an EBM/synthpop/industrial band from Seattle. The band was started in 2001 by Andrea Ashdown and Shaun Frandsen. They released their debut album, Extract, in 2002, and were signed to Alfa Matrix records. In September of 2003..
Glish
Glish is a scripting language and accompanying C++ library. Using these two elements it is very easy to develop distributed, loosely coupled, applications. The C++ library implements a "software bus" which allows applications to easily be distributed across a heterogenious network. The scripting la..
Glissade
Glissade is the usually voluntary act of descending a steep slope of snow in a controlled manner either for the sheer thrill of the ride and/or to bypass tedious scree. Glissading is an alternative to plunge stepping and also cuts down on descent time. Contents 1 Types1.1 Sitting glissa..
Glissando
Glissando (plural: glissandi) is a musical term that refers to either a continuous sliding from one pitch to another (a "true" glissando), or an incidental scale played while moving from one melodic note to another (an "effective" glissando). True glissandi Musical instruments with can effect a ..
Glissando illusion
The glissando illusion was first reported and demonstrated by Diana Deutsch in Musical Illusions and Paradoxes, 1995. An auditory illusion, it is created when a sound with a fixed pitch, such as a synthesized oboe tone, is played together with a sine wave gliding up and down in pitch, and they are b..
Glister
Glister is a fictional animal derived from a series of books known as the Edge Chronicles. The seeds of life that were blown in from open sky, usually ended up in Riverrise, flowing through its waters and blossoming into different forms of life. But when Old Sanctaphrax floated up into the sky, s..
Glisy
Glisy is a commune of the Somme département, in France. ..
Glitch
For other uses, see (disambiguation)}}}. Glitch City, a Pokémon programming error that creates a jumble of pixels. A glitch is a short-lived fault in a system. The term is particularly common in the computing and electronics industries, and in circuit bending, as well as among players of vid..
Glitch (astronomy)
Glitch is a sudden increase in the rotational frequency of a rotation-powered pulsar. ..
Glitch (disambiguation)
Glitch may refer to one of the following: Glitch - a short-lived fault in a system.Glitch (music) - a genre of electronic music that became popular in the late 1990sGlitch (astronomy) - a sudden increase in the rotational frequency of a rotation-powered pulsarGlitch - an electronic monster that tran..
Glitch (music)
Glitch (also known as Clicks and Cuts from a representative compilation series by the German record label Mille Plateaux) is a genre of electronic music that became popular in the late 1990s with the increasing use of digital signal processing, particularly on computers. Often considered a sub-gen..
Glitch City
Screenshot of the Glitch City accessed through the Cinnabar Coast (the moment that the player comes out of the Safari Building) Glitch City is a term used by Pokémon gamers to refer to a hidden fictional city caused by a bug that occurs in the Pokémon video game Red, Blue and Yellow versio..
Glitiškės
Glitiškės (Polish: ) is village in Vilnius region, on the eastern bank of lake Širvys. The village is infamous for murder of few dozens of local people by Lithuanian Police in 1944. Massacre On 20 June 1944 thirty seven, mostly Polish, villagers were killed by Nazi subordinated Lithuanian polic..
Glitnir
Glitnir ("shining") is the hall of Forseti, the Norse god of law and justice, and the seat of justice amongst gods and men. Glitnir is symbolic of the importance of discussion rather than violence as a means of resolution of conflict within the Norse tradition. It has pillars of gold and is roofed..
Glitnir (bank)
Glitnir is a leading financial group that offers universal banking. The bank has a branch in London in UK and in Copenhagen in Denmark. Glitnir is the sole owner of banks and finance institutions in Luxembourg and Norway (BNbank and Glitnir bank, Glitnir Securities and Glitnir Fondsforvaltning, th..
Glitter
For other uses, see (disambiguation)}}}. Glitter is the word used to describe an assortment of very small (roughly 1 mm²) pieces of paper, glass or plastic, used for various functions in art, craft, and design. These are painted in various colours, including metallic, neon and iridescent vari..
Glitterary
Glitterary is office-speak for excessive use of buzzwords, clichés, or catchy phrases in a body of work. Generally, a work is glitterary when these word and phrases are used as fluff in a generally pointless body of work. Resumes are usually perfect examples of a glitterary document. Glitterary ..
Glitterati
Glitterati is a 2005 film directed by Roger Avary assembled from the 70 hours of video footage shot for the European sequence of The Rules of Attraction in October of 2002, just after the events of 9/11. It serves to expand upon the very minimally detailed and rapidly recapped story told by the char..
Glitterhouse Records
Glitterhouse Records is a Beverungen, Germany based independent record label specialising in Alternative Country. They are home to US-Bands such as 16 Horsepower, The Walkabouts, Willard Grant Conspiracy and Hazeldine. They also have a mailorder department. See also List of record labels External ..
Glittering generality
Glittering generalities are emotionally appealing words so closely associated with highly valued concepts and beliefs that they carry conviction without supporting information or reason. They appeal to emotions such as love of country, home; desire for peace, freedom, glory, honor, etc. They ask for..
Glittering Prize 81/92
Glittering Prize is the first compilation album by Simple Minds, released in 1992. Love Song was re-issued for this release. The US release had a different tracklisting. Track listing Glittering Prize 81/92 (October 1992. Virgin Records) UK #1 WaterfrontDon't You Forget About Me (7" Edit)Alive..
Glittertind
Glittertind Elevation: 2,452 m (8,045 feet) Coordinates: ..
Glitter (disambiguation)
Glitter is an arts and crafts product. Glitter may also refer to: Glitter, the album by Gary GlitterGlitter, the album by Mariah CareyGlitter, the film starring Mariah CareyGlitter the TV series This is a [disambiguationdisambiguation] page: a list of articles associated with the same ti..
Glitter (film)
Glitter is a 2001 drama film produced by Twentieth Century Fox (see 2001 in film), starring Mariah Carey, centering on the life and times of a struggling singer from the early club music scene. Largely panned by critics and audiences alike, it performed poorly in theatres after being labelled a va..
Glitter (Gary Glitter album)
Glitter was released in 1972 by British Rock star, Gary Glitter on Bell Records. It featured his huge hits Rock N Roll and also, I Didn't Know I Loved You ('Til I Saw You Rock N Roll), both were top 40 successes in the UK and USA. As well as the hit singles, the album also featured other songs th..
Glitter (Mariah Carey album)
This does not cite its [[Opentopia:Citing sources|references or sources]]. You can [[Opentopia:WikiProject Fact and Reference Check|help]] Wikipedia by introducing appropriate citations. Glitter is a soundtrack album and the seventh studio album by American singer Mariah Carey, recorded for the f..
Glitter (TV series)
Glitter is an American television soap opera screened on the ABC network during the 1984-1985 season. The series was created and produced by Aaron Spelling and was set behind the scenes of a top entertainment magazine, "Glitter", attempting to combine the urgency of journalism and business politics..
Glitter and Be Gay
Glitter and Be Gay is an aria from the operetta Candide, sung by the character of Cunegonde. It was written by Leonard Bernstein. The tune of the up-tempo section ("Ha ha, ha ha ha ha") is well-known from its prominence in the show's overture as well as from its use for years as the theme music of..
Glitter Boy
A USA-G10 Glitter Boy In the Rifts role-playing game, a Glitter Boy is a suit of power armor known for both its highly reflective laser-resistant armor, and the powerful railgun that is the signature weapon of the original model. It is used as a name for the pilots who wear the armor as well..
Glitter boy clothing
Please [Glossary#Wwikify] (format) this article or section as suggested in the [Guide to layoutGuide to layout] and the [Manual of StyleManual of Style]. Remove this template after wikifying. This article has been tagged since July 2006. Glitter Boy Clothing was a ..
Glitter Gulch (EP)
Glitter Gulch is the name of an EP released by the British group Nine Black Alps in 2006 on Island Records. These are all b-sides from the singles released from their debut album, Everything Is, except for Coldhearted which is a Black session recording. Track listing "Over The Ocean" - 2:20 (Cosm..
Glitter lamp
A glitter lamp is a novelty item typically used for decoration rather than illumination. The stuff inside it suggests the flowing of glitter. ..
Glitz
Look up [[wiktionary:|}}}]] in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Glitz is an OpenGL image compositing library. Glitz provides Porter/Duff compositing of images and implicit mask generation for geometric primitives including trapezoids, triangles, and rectangles. The semantics of glitz are desig..
Glivenko-Cantelli
In the theory of machine learning a concept class (hypothesis class) H is said to be Glivenko-Cantelli learnable, if [\forall \epsilon>0 \ \forall \delta > 0 \ \exists m_0 \in \mathbb \ \forall m > m_0 \ \forall P \quad\Pr_\left[forall h in H |mathrm^S(h) - mathrm^P(h)| > epsilon right&..
Glivenko-Cantelli class
Consider a set S with a sigma algebra of Borel subsets A. For a class of subsets, [=\] and a probability measure P on (S,A) define a statistics (compare with empirical processes indexed by [\mathcal] and KS statistics) [\|P_n-P\|_=\sup_} |P_n(C)-P(C)|] where [P_n(..
Gliwice
Gliwice (pronounce: [[gli'viʦε]] in Polish, German: Gleiwitz), is an industrial city in southern Poland with 200,361 inhabitants (2004) over the Kłodnica River, about 20 km to the west from Katowice. While it was situated in the Katowice Voivodship from 1975-1998, Gliwice..
Gliwice Radio Tower
300px The Gliwice Radio Tower is the transmission tower of the Gliwice, Poland, radio station, situated at 50°18'48.2 N and 18°41'20 E on Tarnogórska Road in Gliwice. It is an 118-metre high construction of larch wood framework; after the demolition of the wooden radio tower of Ismaning on..
Gliz
Gliz is the mascot at the 2006 Winter Olympics. He's an ice cube. ..
Gli Ebrei hanno volute questa Guerra
A work by Italian esoteric writer Julius Evola in collaboration with A. Luchini, P. Pellicano and G. Preziosi. Published in 1942 by La Vita Italiana. Works by Julius Evola Arte Astratta, Posizione Teoretica | Le Parole Oscure du Paysage Interieur | Saggi sull'idealismo magico | Teoria dell'In..
G Line (RTD)
The G Line will be a future light rail line, part of the light rail system operated by the Regional Transportation District in the Denver-Aurora Metropolitan Area in Colorado. The line will be added to the system to coincide with the completion of the Southeast Corridor project (the ["T-Rex Pro..
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