The Pocket Guide to World History

Gounod, Charles. 1818-93. French composer: Faust 1859. [Read more ...]

Government of India Act. 1858. India Act. [Read more ...]

Gower, John. -1408. English poet. Confessio Amantis 1393. Vox Clamantis 1384. [Read more ...]

Gowon, Yakubu. 1934-. Ruled Nigeria 1966-75. Defeated Biafra. Reunited country. [Read more ...]

Goya, Francisco. 1746-1828. Spanish painter and engraver of macabre. Horrors of War 1811. [Read more ...]

GPU. 1922-23. Russian Secret Police. OGPU. [Read more ...]

Gracchus, Tiberius. c163-133BC. Roman tribune 133, reformer. Killed in riot. Scipio. [Read more ...]

Graces. Three beautiful attendants of Aphrodite. Aglaia, brightness. Euphrosyne, joy. Thalia, bloom. [Read more ...]

Gräfe, Albrecht. 1828-70. German ophthalmologist. Glaucoma, 1857. Cataract treatment, 1867. [Read more ...]

Graham, Billy. 1918-. US evangelist. [Read more ...]

Gramme, Zénobe. 1826-1901. Belgian inventor of the dynamo 1869. [Read more ...]

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