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Glasgow University Magazine The first issue of Glasgow University Magazine (GUM) was published on 5 February 1889, aiming to keep students informed of news and events within the University, and to provide an outlet for student writing and illustrations.
Glasgow University Scottish Nationalist Association The Glasgow University Scottish Nationalist Association (GUSNA) was formed in 1927 by students at the University of Glasgow who supported Scottish independence. The principal mover in the formation of GUSNA was John MacCormick who had previously been involved in the Glasgow University Labour Club.
Glasgow University Student Television Glasgow University Student Television or GUST, is the student television station at the University of Glasgow. Founded in 1964, it is the oldest student TV station in the UK and the second oldest in the world Ithaca College Television in the United States was founded six years earlier in 1958..
Glasgow University Students' Representative Council Glasgow University Students' Representative Council was founded on March 9 1886 and recognised as the legal representative body for University of Glasgow students by the Universities (Scotland) Act 1889. Unlike in other Scottish universities, student representation to the university is not the function of a Students' Association.
Glasgow University Union Glasgow University Union (GUU) is one of the students' unions operating at the University of Glasgow. Unlike the other Scottish universities, Glasgow does not operate with a Students Association, and consequently has various bodies that co-ordinate different aspects of student life at the university.
Glasgow Warriors The Glasgow Warriors, formerly Glasgow Rugby, is one of three professional rugby union teams in Scotland, Edinburgh and Border Reivers being the other two. Up until December 2005, the Warriors played at Hughenden (capacity 5,500), but they have since moved to Firhill Stadium, home of Partick Thistle Football Club.
Glasgow's miles better Glasgow's miles better was a campaign in the 1980s to promote the city of Glasgow for tourism and as a location for industry. Glasgow had previously suffered from a reputation as a hard-drinking, gang-ridden, working-class town.
Glasgow's public statues Glasgow's public statues display the wealth and history of the city of Glasgow, Scotland. The most prominent are those erected by the municipality or by public subscription, but others adorn the facades of the great commercial buildings.
Glasgow, Barrhead and Kilmarnock Joint Railway The Glasgow, Barrhead and Kilmarnock Joint Line was a railway co-owned by Caledonian Railway and Glasgow and South Western Railway and was an amalgation of two different lines: the Glasgow, Barrhead and Neilston Direct Railway and the Glasgow and Kilmarnock Joint Railway.
Glasgow, Dumfries and Carlisle Railway The Glasgow, Dumfries and Carlisle Railway was a company, in Scotland, which built and ran what is now known as the Glasgow South Western Line. The line was authorised on 13 August 1846 and was constructed between 1846 and 1850.
Glasgow, Paisley and Johnstone Canal The Glasgow, Paisley and Ardrossan Canal was a canal in the west of Scotland running between Glasgow, Paisley and Johnstone which later became a railway. Despite the name, the canal was never completed down to Ardrossan, the termini being Port Eglinton in Glasgow and Thorn Brae in Johnstone.
Glashaus Glashaus is a German musical band, consisting of lead singer Cassandra Steen, songwriter and rapper Moses Pelham and producer Martin Haas. The trio is best known for their mixture of R&B, Soul and Pop music with lyrics in German language.
Glashütten Glashütten is a small community in the Hochtaunuskreis. This community in the Taunus, which is made up of the three formerly independent communities of Glashütten, Schloßborn and Oberems, lies in the Hochtaunus Nature Park, not far from Königstein im Taunus.
Glashtyn The Glashtyn is the Manx version of the water horse, numerous examples of which are found in Celtic tradition and folklore, especially in Scotland and Wales. This particular creature often appears as a dark, splendidly handsome young man, with flashing eyes and curly hair.
Glasite The Glasites were a Christian sect founded in about 1730 in Scotland by John Glas. It was spread by his son-in-law Robert Sandeman into England and America, where they were called Sandemanians, but is now practically extinct.
Glasnevin Glasnevin (Glas NaĂ­on in Irish) is a residential neighbourhood on the Northside of the city of Dublin. It is bordered to the northwest by Ballygall, northeast by Ballymun, Whitehall to the east, Phibsboro and Drumcondra to the south and Cabra to the west.
Glasnost ( IPA: ) was one of Mikhail Gorbachev's policies introduced to the Soviet Union in 1985.Gorbachev's Glasnost: The Soviet Media in the First Phase of Perestroika by Joseph Gibbs The term is a Russian word for "publicity," or "openness.
Glasnost Bowl The Glasnost Bowl was an attempt to stage an American college football game in Moscow, USSR at the beginning of the 1989 season. The game was named after the policy of glasnost ("openness") introduced by Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev in 1985.
Glasnost Defence Foundation Glasnost Defense Foundation is a non-profit organization with the stated goals are the defense of journalists, journalism, and the freedom of expression in Russia. Its president is Alexei Simonov, a member of Moscow Helsinki Group and a recipient of National Endowment for Democracy award.
Glaspalast (Munich) The Glaspalast (Glass Palace) was a glass and iron exhibition building in Munich modeled after The Crystal Palace in London. The Glaspalast opened for the Erste Allgemeine Deutsche Industrieausstellung (First General German Industrial Exhibition) on July 15, 1854.
Glaspaleis The Glaspaleis (in English: Glass Palace or Crystal Palace) is the name of former fashion house and department store Schunck in Heerlen, The Netherlands, built in 1935, which is now the cultural centre of the city. The original name is Modehuis Schunck (Schunck Fashion House), but it was soon nicknamed Glaspaleis, which is now the official name.
Glass Glass is a uniform material of arguable phase, usually produced when the viscous molten material cools very rapidly to below its glass transition temperature, without sufficient time for a regular crystal lattice to form. The most familiar form of glass is the Silica-based material used for household objects such as light bulbs and windows.
Glass and Ashes Glass and Ashes are a four piece punk rock band from Ventura, California. They released their debut album "Aesthetic Arrest" in October 2004 on No Idea Records, a Florida based independent record label founded by Var Thelin.
Glass art Glass art includes the creation of stained glass, working glass in a torch flame (lampworking), glass beadmaking, glass casting, glass fusing, and the making of glass shapes through glass blowing. It dates back to prehistoric times, was extensively developed in Egypt and Assyria, brought to the fore by the Romans, and had its greatest triumphs in European cathedral building in stained glass rose-windows.
Glass bottomed boat A glass-bottomed boat is a sexual act in which one partner places himself below a glass tabletop or other transparent surface and the other partner releases feces on the surface. This creates for the partner engaging in defecation, the illusion of being in a glass-bottomed boat.
Glass brick Glass brick, also known as glass block, is often used as an architectural element in underground parking garages, washrooms, municipal swimming baths, and other areas where privacy or visual obscuration is desired, while admitting light.
Glass ceiling The term glass ceiling most commonly refers to the condition in which top-level management in businesses is dominated by men. A "ceiling" is suggested because women are limited in how far they can advance up organizational ranks; the ceiling is "glass" (transparent) because the limitation is not immediately apparent.
Glass cloth Glass cloth is a textile material, the name of which indicates the use for which it was originally intended. The cloths are in general woven with the plain weave, and the fabric may be all white, striped or checked with red, blue or other colored threads; the checked cloths are the most common.
Glass code A glass code is a method of classifying glasses for optical use, such as the manufacture of lenses and prisms. There are many different types of glass with different compositions and optical properties, and a glass code is used to distinguish between them.
Glass container industry Glass containers are a common part of everyday life - we enjoy beverages such as water, soft drink, juice, beer, wine, spirit from bottles - jams and spreads from jars. The glass container's manufacture often involves a far greater level of complexity, automation and involvement than the products they contain.
Glass Casket Glass Casket is a death metal influenced metalcore (deathcore) band from Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Dusty Waring and Blake Richardson are also currently members of deathcore/mathcore outfit Between the Buried and Me.
Glass databases Since the beginning of scientific glass research in the 19th century thousands of glass property-composition datasets were published in the scientific literature, in patents, and other sources. The first attempt to summarize all those data systematically was the publication of the monograph "Glastechnische Tabellen" (engl.
Glass Databases Since the beginning of scientific glass research in the 19th century thousands of glass property-composition datasets were published in the scientific literature, in patents, and other sources. The first attemt to summarize all thouse data systematically was the publication of the monograph "Glastechnische Tabellen" (engl.
Glass Dragons The use of the weapon in the first book has led to storms that sweep the planet and make travel by sea nearly impossible. A group of magicians thinks it has the way to stop the storms: Dragonwall, a device that will drain the storms' energy.
Glass Flowers The Glass Flowers, formally The Ware Collection of Blaschka Glass Models of Plants, is a famous collection of highly-realistic glass botanical models at the Harvard Museum of Natural History at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Glass house effect Glass House Effect (or GHE), is the resulting phenomenon brought on by an awareness that one is subject to ubiquitous surveillance. In corporate environments, the transparency is considered a good idea, as it is believed this discourages corporate crime and other misfeasance.
Glass Hammer Glass Hammer is a progressive rock band from Chattanooga, Tennessee. They formed in 1992 when multi-instrumentalists Steve Babb (then known as "Stephen DeArqe") and Fred Schendel began to write and record Journey of the Dunadan, a concept album based on the story of Aragorn from J.
Glass House The Glass House or Johnson house, built in 1949 in New Canaan, Connecticut, was an important project for architect Philip Johnson and his associate Richard Foster, and for modern architecture. It was also the place of Philip Johnson's passing in January of 2005.
Glass House (Budapest) During the Holocaust Swiss diplomat Carl Lutz helped Jews in Budapest in many ways, including protection at the legendary Glass House (Üvegház). At one time about 3,000 Jews found refuge from large numbers of Hungarian fascist and antisemitic murderers and the Germans at the Glass House and in a neighboring building.
Glass House Mountains National Park Glass House Mountains is a national park in Queensland (Australia), 70 km northeast of Brisbane. It consists of a flat plain punctuated by volcanic plugs, the cores of extinct volcanoes that formed 25 million to 27 million years ago.
Glass House Point Glass House Point in James City County, Virginia is the northern terminus of the Jamestown Ferry, which was relocated there as part of the development of Jamestown for the celebration the 350th anniversary in 1957. The state-operated ferry service crosses the James River to Scotland in Surry County.
Glass Chain The Glass Chain or Crystal Chain sometimes known as the "Utopian Correspondence" (German:Die Gläserne Kette) was a chain letter that took place between November 1919 and December 1920. It was a correspondence of architects that formed a basis of expressionist architecture in Germany.
Glass lizard The Glass Lizards or glass snakes, genus Ophisaurus, are a group of reptiles that resemble snakes, but are actually lizards. Although most species have no legs, their head shape and the fact that they have movable eyelids and external ear openings make it obvious that they are lizards.
Glass marimba The glass marimba is a crystallophone that is similar to the marimba, but has bars of glass instead of wood. The bars, which the performer strikes with padded mallets, are perched on a glass box to provide the necessary resonance.
Glass microsphere Glass microspheres are spheres of glass technically manufactured with a diameter in the micrometer range (from 1 to 1000 (microns))although the term is also used for a wider range of 100] [[1 E-9 m|nanometres to 5 millimetres. Hollow glass microspheres, sometimes termed microballoons, have diameters ranging from 10 to 300 micrometers (microns)uses of solid spheres are: calibrating] measuring systems, sieve and [[Filter (chemistry)|filter calibration, reflective markings, abrasives, binder spacings.
Glass of antimony Glass of antimony, vitrum antimonii, is a transparent glass created from a preparation of antimony, historically used as an emetic. It was created using crude antimony, ground and calcined by a vehement fire, in an earthen crucible, till it no longer fumed, indicating that its sulfur was evaporated.
Glass Onion "Glass Onion" is a Beatles song from The Beatles (also known as The White Album). The song, which is primarily written by John Lennon (albeit credited to Lennon-McCartney) provides a dissection of many famous Beatles songs.
Glass Packs A Glass Pack is a silencer (muffler in USA) of a car that is filled with a candy floss like mass of glass fibres rather than the usual metal baffles. The result is less back pressure in the exhaust system which results in more power from the engine.
Glass Palace Chronicle The Glass Palace Chronicle (; ) is a historical work written in Burmese commissioned by King Bagyidaw (1819-1837) in 1829, and compiled by scholars to consolidate and compile all works of the history of Burmese rulers. The Glass Palace Chronicle is not completely factual, containing many mythical and legendary stories; however, many portions of the chronicle are historically accurate and factual.
Glass tiles Glass tiles are pieces of glass formed into consistent shapes. Glass was used in mosaics as early as 2500 BC, but it took until the 3rd Century BC before innovative artisans in Greece, Persia and India created glass tiles.
Glass transition temperature The glass transition temperature is the temperature, below which the physical properties of amorphous materials vary in a manner similar to those of a crystalline phase (glassy state), and above which amorphous materials behave like liquids (rubbery state).
Glass Tower The Glass Tower is a fictional skyscraper featured in the 1974 Irwin Allen disaster film The Towering Inferno. The tower is 138 stories tall and sheathed with large floor-to-ceiling gold-tinted windows; exterior columns are clad in gold-colored metal panels.
Glass Veal Group Glass Veal Group were a surrealist art group founded in Tuscaloosa, Alabama which later continued in Birmingham. The group met to partake in a wide array of art forms including visual (automatic writing, painting, and drawing) and audial (surrealist poetry and theatre).
Glass with Embedded Metal and Sulfides Glass with Embedded Metal and Sulfides (GEMS) are tiny spheroids in cosmic dust particles with bulk compositions that are approximately chondritic. They form the building blocks of anhydrous interplanetary dust particles (IDPs) in general, and cometary IDPs, in particular.
Glassan Glassan, also spelled Glasson (Irish: Glasán meaning: Streamlet), is a small village of 216 inhabitants (2002 census) situated in rural County Westmeath, Ireland, 7 miles north of Athlone, not far from the shores of Lough Ree. A small river known as the River Tullaghan flows through the northern end of the village and then flows south to Killinure Lough, a part of Lough Ree.
Glasses Glasses, spectacles, or eyeglasses are frames bearing lenses worn below the forehead and in front of the human eyes, normally for vision correction or eye protection or for protection from UV rays. Special glasses are used for viewing three-dimensional images from two-dimensional displays or experiencing virtual reality.
Glasses Malone Glasses Malone or G-Malone for short, (born in 1979) is a West Coast rapper and known Crip from the Watts District of Los Angeles, California. Traditionally associated with The Black Wall Street Records despite the fact that most the artist on the record label were Bloods, Malone signed with Sony Records for 1.
Glasshouses Glasshouses is a small village in Nidderdale, North Yorkshire, England. It lies about 1 mile south east of Pateley Bridge on the east side of Nidderdale and has a recently rebuilt river bridge across the river Nidd.
Glassing Glassing is an extremely violent attack carried out as part of a physical altercation between two people. Glass attacks are most often carried out at bars or pubs where alcohol is being served, and hence a beer or wine glass or bottle is readily available to be used as an offensive weapon.
Glassmanor, Maryland Glassmanor is an unincorporated community in Prince George's County in the State of Maryland in the United States of America. Because it is not formally incorporated, it has no official boundaries, but the United States Census Bureau has defined a census-designated place consisting of Glassmanor and the adjacent community of Oxon Hill, designated Oxon Hill-Glassmanor, for statistical purposes.
Glassmen Drum and Bugle Corps The Glassmen Drum and Bugle Corps is a Division I drum and bugle corps based out of Toledo, Ohio that was founded in 1961. Originally founded as the Maumee Suns by corps members of the senior corps the Maumee Demons, the Glassmen were known as the Glass City Optimists before adopting their current name in 1971 to reflect Toledo's standing as "the glass capital of the world".
Glasspack A glasspack, sometimes called cherry bomb (a popular brand of glasspack), is a kind of automobile muffler in which the exhaust gas passes straight through the center of the muffler. Packed fiberglass surrounds the exhaust channel and absorbs some of the high-frequency sound.
Glassport, Pennsylvania Glassport is a borough in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, approximately 10 miles (16 km) (direct) from the confluence of the Monongahela and Allegheny rivers where they meet and form the Ohio river. Glassport lies alongside the Monongahela river in the "Mon valley".
Glassroots Glassroots are a Blues and Southern Rock band from Manchester, England, and Lafayette, Louisiana, consisting of members Dustan Chiasson (Lead vocals, Guitar); Leon Taylor (Lead Guitar, vocals); Ben Harrop (Bass); and Chris Halkyard (Drums).
Glassy carbon Glassy carbon, also called vitreous carbon, is a non-graphitizing carbon which combines glassy and ceramic properties with those of graphite. The most important properties are high temperature resistance, extreme resistance to chemical attack and impermeability to gases and liquids.
Glastex The Glastex Company, founded in Tinley Park, Illinois, produced a range of fiberglass products including fiberglass fibers for industrial use. Beginning in 1953, Glastex began to manufacture fiberglass boats, making it one of the earliest builders of molded fiberglass boats in the United States.
Glastonbury Abbey Glastonbury Abbey in Glastonbury, Somerset, England, now presents itself as "traditionally the oldest above-ground Christian church in the World" situated "in the mystical land of Avalon" by dating the founding of the community of monks at AD 63, the legendary visit of Joseph of Arimathea, who was supposed to have brought the Holy Grail and planted the Glastonbury Thorn.
Glastonbury Canal The Glastonbury Canal ran just over 14 miles through two locks from Glastonbury to Highbridge where it entered the Bristol Channel. The canal gained it Act of Parliament in 1827 and opened in 1834 one of the key promoters was Richard Prat the town clerk of Glastonbury.
Glastonbury Fayre (album) Glastonbury Fayre is a triple album released in 1972, comprised of performances by acts who had appeared at the Glastonbury Festival in 1971. The album came in a foldout poster sleeve in a printed PVC outer sleeve, with a 32 page illustrated booklet and a foldout Silver Pyramid.
Glastonbury chair Glastonbury chair is a 19th century term for a late 16th century wooden folding chair, usually of oak, possibly based on a chair made for the last Abbot of Glastonbury, England. It was devised for use in churches before pews became common.
Glastonbury Tor Glastonbury Tor is a teardrop-shaped hill at Glastonbury, Somerset, England, with its only standing architectural feature the roofless St Michael's Tower of the former church. Tor is a local word of Celtic origin meaning 'conical hill'.
Glasya In many campaign settings for the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game, Glasya is a Princess of Hell (Baator in later editions of the game), daughter of the Overlord of the Hells himself, Asmodeus, and his deceased queen, Bensozia. She is noted to be one of the most powerful and influential of the female devils.
Glasya-Labolas In demonology, Glasya-Labolas is a mighty President (and Earl to other authors) of Hell who commands thirty-six legions of demons. He teaches all arts (and sciences to some authors), just in an instant according to some demonologists.
Glathricon Glathricon is a gaming convention that was run in Evansville, Indiana beginning in 1982. The convention promoted role playing gaming by bringing in guest game designers, adventure authors, and game masters, and ran many of the early RPGA events.
Glauber Glauber is a discovery system type of artificial intelligence that is used to discover new chemical theories based on empirical evidence and the systematic measurement of related data. It is named after Johann Rudolph Glauber, a chemist in the 18th century whose work helped to develop acid-base theory.
Glauber (crater) Glauber is a small lunar crater that is located just to the north of the large Mendeleev walled-plain, on the Moon's far side. This crater lies just outside the irregular rim of Mendeleev, but well within the outer skirt of ejecta.
Glauberg The Glauberg is a hill near the village of Glauburg in the Wetteraukreis, some 30 km. northeast of Frankfurt am Main that is made notable by the discovery there of earthworks and elite burials of early La Tène culture, mid-5th century BCE.
Glaucium Glaucium (Horned Poppy) is a genus of about 25 species of annual, biennial or perennial herbaceous flowering plants in the family Papaveraceae, native to Europe, north Africa, and southwest and central Asia. The species commonly occur in saline habitats, including coasts and salt pans.
Glauco Ortolano Glauco Ortolano is an American-Brazilian writer, scholar and translator born in 1959 in the city of Americana, Brazil. He is the co-founder of the Utah Translators and Interpreters Association (a Chapter of ATA) and the AsociaciĂłn Iberoamericana de Escritores.
Glaucoma surgery Glaucoma is a group of diseases affecting the optic nerve that results in vision loss and is frequently characterized by raised intraocular pressure (IOP). There are many glaucoma surgeries, and variations or combinations of those surgeries, that facilitate the escape of excess aqueous humor from the eye to lower intraocular pressure, and a few that lower IOP by decreasing the production of aqueous.
Glaucophyte The glaucophytes, also referred to as glaucocystophytes or glaucocystids, are a tiny group of freshwater algae. They are distinguished mainly by the presence of cyanelles, primitive chloroplasts which closely resemble cyanobacteria and retain a thin peptidoglycan wall between their two membranes.
Glaucous Gull The Glaucous Gull, Larus hyperboreus is a large gull which breeds in the arctic regions of the northern hemisphere and the Atlantic coasts of Europe. It is migratory, wintering from in the North Atlantic and North Pacific oceans as far south as the British Isles and northernmost states of the USA, also on the Great Lakes.
Glaucous-winged Gull The Glaucous-winged Gull, Larus glaucescens, is a large, white-headed gull residing from the Aleutians to the western coast of Alaska to the coast of Washington. It also breeds on the northwest coast of Alaska.
Glaucus atlanticus Glaucus atlanticus, also known as the blue sea slug, is a nudibranch of the family Glaucidae, the only member of the genus Glaucus. Its distribution is throughout the world's oceans in temperate and tropical waters.
Glawn Glawn or gaun (Thai กลอน) is a verse form used in the poetry and song of the Lao people; it is the most common text in traditional mor lam. It is made up of four-line stanzas, each with seven basic syllables (although sung glawn often includes extra, unstressed syllables).
Glay (band) GLAY （グレイ）is a rock/pop band from Hakodate, Hokkaidō, Japan formed by guitarist TAKURO and vocalist TERU during high school in 1988. GLAY primarily composes songs in the rock and pop genres, but they have also composed songs using elements of different styles such as reggae and gospel.
Glay Global Communication GLAY Global Communication was an 11 episode, thirty minute, television series aired on the Fuji Television Networks hosted by the Japanese rock band, GLAY. The show ran from April 18th, 2001 to June 27, 2001, every Wednesday at 1:55am.
Glaze3D Glaze3D was a family of graphics cards announced by BitBoys Oy on August 2, 1999 that would have produced substantially better performance than other products available at the time. The family, which would have come in the Glaze3D 1200, Glaze3D 2400 and Glaze3D 4800 models, was supposed to offer full support for DirectX 7, OpenGL 1.
Glazier-Higgins-Woodward Tornadoes The Glazier-Higgins-Woodward Tornadoes were a system of related tornadoes that swept through Texas, Oklahoma, and Kansas on April 9, 1947. The event was similar to the Tri-State Tornado two decades before, in that it appeared to observers to be a single, very long-lived tornado.
GlĂĽckel of Hameln GlĂĽckel of Hameln (also spelled Gluckel or Glikl of Hamelin) (1646, Hamburg - September 19, 1724, Metz) was a Jewish businesswoman and diarist, whose account of her life provides scholars with an intimate picture of Jewish life in Germany in the late-seventeenth-early eighteenth century. Written in Yiddish, her diaries were originally intended for her descendants.
GlĂĽckstadt GlĂĽckstadt, a town of Germany in Schleswig-Holstein, on the right bank of the Elbe river, at the confluence of the small river Rhin, and 28 miles NW of Altona, on the railway from Itzehoe to Elmshorn. GlĂĽckstadt is a part of the Hamburg Metropolitan Region (Metropolregion Hamburg).
Glénan islands The Glénan islands are an archipelago located off the coast of France. They are located in the south of Finistère, near Concarneau and Fouesnant, and comprise seven major islands: Saint-Nicolas, the 'Loch', Penfret, Cigogne, Drenec, Bananec, and Brunec.
Glær In Norse mythology, Glær or Glenr is a horse listed in both Grímnismál and Gylfaginning among the steeds ridden by the gods each day when they go to make judgements at Yggdrasil. However, in both poems Glær is not assigned to any specific deity.
Gløshaugen Gløshaugen is a location in Trondheim, Norway where the main campus and buildings of the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) is located. It was the location of the Norwegian Institute of Technology (NTH) had before it became a part of the NTNU merger.
Gldani-Varketili Line The Gldani-Varketili Line (officially Akhmeteli-Varketili; formerly known as Didube-Samgori line) is a line of the Tbilisi Metro. The line was part of the first stage of the Metro and currentely cuts the city on a north-south axis.
Gleadless Valley Gleadless Valley ward—which includes the districts of Gleadless Valley, Heeley, Hemsworth, Herdings, Lowfield, and Meersbrook—is one of the 28 electoral wards in City of Sheffield, England. It is located in the southern part of the city and covers an area of 4.
Gleaming the Cube Gleaming the Cube (also known as A Brother's Justice and Skate or Die) is an American movie released in 1989. It featured Christian Slater as a teenage skateboarder investigating the death of his adopted Vietnamese brother.
Gleaner The Gleaner Company, established in 1834 by Joshua and Jacob deCordova, is a newspaper publishing enterprise in Jamaica. Its best-known product is the Daily Gleaner first published 13 September,1834, a morning broadsheet published six days each week.
Gleaning Gleaning is the collection of leftover crops from farmers' fields after they have been mechanically harvested or on fields where it is not economically profitable to harvest. Often gleaning is practiced by humanitarian groups which distribute the gleaned food to the poor and hungry.
Gleason Corporation Gleason Corporation/Gleason Works is a prominent machine-tool company based in Rochester, New York. It has manufacturing plants in the United Staes, Britain, India and Germay, and sales offices in those and additional countries.

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