Gorgons. Three mythical Greek monsters. Medusa.

Gorky, Maxim. 1868-1936. Russian writer. Childhood 1913-14.

Goshen. Biblical region of lower Egypt. 1882-4 Boer Republic.

Gotham. English villagers, to avoid expense of entertaining King John, pretended to be fools.

Gothic Architecture. 12-15C. Began with French cathedrals and spread over N Europe. Pointed arches, rib vaulting, flying buttresses. Stability achieved with balance rather than mass. Airy lightness. St. Denis 1140. Notre Dame Cathedral. Tudor.

Gothic Art. 13C-. Church sculpture, illuminated manuscripts. Less idealized than Classical. Emotions portrayed.

Goths. Germanic people of S Scandinavia. Invaded Europe, 3-4C. Visigoths and Ostrogoths.

Gottfried von Strassbourg. 13C. German poet. Tristan and Isolde.

Gottwald, Klement. 1896-1953. Czech Communist President 1948-. Overthrew Beneš in coup.

Goujon, Jean. 1510-68. French sculptor. Fontaine des Innocents 1548/9.

Gounod, Charles. 1818-93. French composer: Faust 1859.

Government of India Act. 1858. India Act.

Gower, John. -1408. English poet. Confessio Amantis 1393. Vox Clamantis 1384.

Gowon, Yakubu. 1934-. Ruled Nigeria 1966-75. Defeated Biafra. Reunited country.

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

GPU. 1922-23. Russian Secret Police. OGPU.

Gracchus, Tiberius. c163-133BC. Roman tribune 133, reformer. Killed in riot. Scipio.

Graces. Three beautiful attendants of Aphrodite. Aglaia, brightness. Euphrosyne, joy. Thalia, bloom.

Gräfe, Albrecht. 1828-70. German ophthalmologist. Glaucoma, 1857. Cataract treatment, 1867.

Graham, Billy. 1918-. US evangelist.

Gramme, Zénobe. 1826-1901. Belgian inventor of the dynamo 1869.

Gran Colombia. 1819-30. Bolivar’s independent republic of former Spanish colonies. Colombia, Panama, Venezuela, Ecuador. New Granada.

Granada. 745-1492 Moors. Last Moslem kingdom in Spain. Alhambra.

Granadine Confederation. 1858-63. = Colombia.

Granados, Enrique. 1867-1916. Spanish Nationalist composer. 7 Operas. Set of Tonadillas. Dances. Goyescas 1911-13.

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