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Group of Eight

(Encyclopedia) Group of Eight: see under Group of Seven.

Group of Seven

(Encyclopedia) Group of Seven (G7), international organization officially established in 1985 to facilitate economic and commercial cooperation among the world's largest industrial nations, including…

Group of Twenty

(Encyclopedia) Group of Twenty (G20): see under Group of Seven.

Andrusov, Treaty of

(Encyclopedia) Andrusov, Treaty ofAndrusov, Treaty ofănˈdr&oobreve;sŏfˌ, Rus. əndr&oomacr;ˈsəf [key], 1667, signed by Poland and Russia at the village of Andrusov, Russia (present-day…

Guelph, University of

(Encyclopedia) Guelph, University of, at Guelph, Ont., Canada; provincially supported; nondenominational; coeducational; founded 1964. It has a faculty of graduate studies and schools of hotel and…

Guibert of Ravenna

(Encyclopedia) Guibert of RavennaGuibert of Ravennagwĭbˈərt, gēbĕrˈ [key], d. 1100, Italian churchman, antipope (1080–1100) Clement III, b. Parma. As imperial chancellor of Italy (1057–63), he…

Guido of Siena

(Encyclopedia) Guido of SienaGuido of Sienasēĕnˈə [key], fl. 13th cent., Italian painter. All that is known of him is an inscription on a large and almost completely repainted Virgin and Child…

George of Podebrad

(Encyclopedia) George of PodebradGeorge of Podebradpôdˈyĕbrät [key], 1420–71, king of Bohemia (1458–71). A Bohemian nobleman, he became leader of the Utraquists, or the moderate Hussites, in the wars…