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Gilles Le Breton
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gills
gills external respiratory organs of most aquatic animals. In fishes the gills are located in gill chambers at the rear of the mouth (pharynx). Water is taken in through the mouth, is forced through openings called gill slits, and then passes through the gill clefts, spaces between the ranks of... Read more |
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branchial
branchial Of or relating to the gills. Most fish possess five pairs of branchial arches, skeletal supports for the gills, which are contained in a cavity known as the branchial chamber. Water is drawn into the branchial chamber through narrow gill slits (or branchial clefts) in the wall of the... Read more |
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Gilles Binchois
Gilles Binchois , c.1400-1460, Flemish composer. From about 1430 until his death Binchois served Philip the Good of Burgundy. His secular chansons are considered his best work. The 15th-century theorist Tinctoris ranked him with Dufay and Dunstable.... Read more |
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Eric Rowland Gill
Eric Rowland Gill 1882-1940, English sculptor, wood engraver, typographer, and writer. His sculpture includes Stations of the Cross (Westminster Cathedral, London); Prospero and Ariel (Broadcasting House, London); and the war memorial at the Univ. of Leeds. Gill illustrated many books for the... Read more |
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Johnny Gill
Johnny Gill 1966— Singer From 1988 to 1991 Johnny Gill was a regular at the number one slot on the rhythm-and-blues (R&B) music charts. His group New Edition had a number one album, Heart Break, in 1988. His 1990 solo release, Johnny Gill, produced three number one singles on its way to... Read more |
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Gilles de Rais
Gilles de Rais (1404-1440) Lord of Rais (or Retz) and marshal of France, the "Blue-beard" of nursery legends, and a famous sorcerer. He was born Gilles de Laval in September or October 1404 at Machecoul to one of the most outstanding families of Brittany. His father, Guy de Montmorency-Laval, died... Read more |
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Madge Gill
Gill, Madge (d. 1961) British psychic and London housewife who practiced automatic drawing and painting and produced work claimed to be inspired by spirit guidance. Gill's mediumship began after the death of her eight-year-old son. She said she felt "impelled to execute drawings on a large scale... Read more |
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Vince Gill
Vince Gill Singer, songwriter, guitarist For the Record… Selected discography Sources Vince Gill worked at the very edges of success for more than a decade before breaking through to country music superstardom in 1990. For many years Gill’s vocal and instrumental talents were put to... Read more |
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James McGill Buchanan
James McGill Buchanan 1919-, American economist, b. Murfreesboro, Tenn., Ph.D. Univ. of Chicago, 1948. A professor at Virginia Polytechnic Institute (1969-83) and George Mason Univ. (1983-), he was awarded the 1986 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for his "public choice" theory that... Read more |
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New Yorker, The
...contributors have included Pauline Kael, Wolcott Gibbs, Brendan Gill, Edmund Wilson, and John Updike. Not...include Thurber's The Years with Ross (1959) and Brendan Gill's Here at The New Yorker (1975). Since 1992, under... |
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Animal Kingdom, The
...houseman, “I'm going back to my wife.” Of course, he means Daisy. In his preface to Barry's collected plays, Brendan Gill wrote that The Animal Kingdom “is a comedy simple in theme and economic in plot . . . the dialogue is at once the... |
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Holiday
...intellectual defense of the hedonism of the 1920s to an Edith Whartonish satire on society, Barry's modern editor, Brendan Gill, viewed it as “an embodiment of Barry's continued preoccupation with the relations between outsiders and insiders... |
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Tribute to Brendan Gill
...night to pay tribute to Brendan Gill, the legendary writer...every turn." BLOCK: And Gill was colliding everywhere...CORRESPONDENT, NEW YORK TIMES: Brendan spoke in song, and in...Goldberger said only Brendan Gill could ... |
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Brendan Gill Dies at 83; Writer for the New Yorker
Brendan Gill, 83, the cosmopolitan literary stylist...about it, died Dec. 27 in New York. Mr. Gill joined the magazine 51 years ago and became...We are all absolutely devastated by Brendan's sudden death," New Yorker Editor Tina... |
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WRITER BRENDAN GILL LED DRIVE FOR NYC'S GRAND CENTRAL...
Byline: Reuter Brendan Gill, a writer and historic preservation...83, the magazine said Monday. Mr. Gill died Saturday at a Manhattan hospital...We are all absolutely devastated by Brendan's sudden death,'' New Yorker editor... |
 "The Buffalo News (Buffalo, NY)")
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BRENDAN GILL DIES; 61-YEAR WRITER FOR NEW YORKER
Brendan Gill, a leading advocate for preservation of...said Susan Woldenburg, a close friend of Gill's. Although Gill wrote extensively about...In 1988, the society created the annual Brendan Gill Prize, which is awarded to an ... |
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Brendan Gill appointed secretary to the jury for the Pritzker Architecture...
...CHICAGO, Nov. 30 /PRNewswire/ -- Brendan Gill, well-known author and Broadway...the international award in 1979. Gill is chairman emeritus of the Landmarks...novels, short stories and verse, Gill said, "Although fiction is my chief... |
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SOPHOMORE BRENDAN GILL SELECTED TO LITTLE EAST CONFERENCE LACROSSE ALL-STAR TEAM
...following press release: Sophomore Brendan Gill of Chelmsford, MA has been selected...the Little East Conference (LEC). Gill, who helped lead the Vikings to the...first season playing at the college. Gill posted all six of the Vikings wins... |
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Brendan Gill, magazine writer
NEW YORK Brendan Gill, a staff writer for the New Yorker magazine since 1936 and a leading preservationist for city landmarks, has died at 83. Although Mr. Gill, who died Saturday, wrote extensively about architecture, especially... |
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Brendan Charles Gill
Brendan Charles Gill, 22, of Mountville, died Monday, January...parents: Jeffrey L. husband of Carol Gill, Lancaster and Jean Cleary, Mountville...Robert and Phyllis Keck, Mountville. Brendan was a member of Wayside Presbyterian Church... |
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MEMORIES OF PAULINE KAEL, BRENDAN GILL, "TNY"...AND THE SOUND OF MUSIC.(Brief...
...Award), but it turned out that Kael had a soulmate in TNY's Gill. Take a look at his March 6, 1965, Sound of Music review...Julie Andrews (announced last week) did not hurt the eclectic Gill, who wrote about nearly everything during 61 years at TNY that... |
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Quote by Gill, Brendan on Seriousness.(Quotation)
QUOTE: "Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious." --Gill, Brendan SUBJECT: Seriousness |
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