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Hazard, Ebenezer

(Encyclopedia)Hazard, Ebenezer, 1744–1817, American public official and historian, b. Philadelphia. He became a publisher in New York City. He was appointed (1775) first postmaster of the city under the Continent...

Hedge, Frederic Henry

(Encyclopedia)Hedge, Frederic Henry, 1805–90, American Unitarian clergyman and author, b. Cambridge, Mass., educated in Germany and at Harvard. He held several New England pastorates. In 1836 he joined Emerson an...

Freising

(Encyclopedia)Freising frīˈzĭng [key], city, Bavaria, S Germany, on the Isar River. Manufactures include ...

Green, Theodore Francis

(Encyclopedia)Green, Theodore Francis, 1867–1966, American politician, b. Providence, R.I. After studying law at Harvard and in Europe, he was admitted to the bar (1892) and practiced in Providence. Active in Dem...

Good, James Isaac

(Encyclopedia)Good, James Isaac, 1850–1924, American clergyman of the German Reformed Church, b. York, Pa. He held pastorates in York, Philadelphia, and Reading, Pa., and in 1890 he became professor in the School...

Ghudamis

(Encyclopedia)Ghudamis or Ghadames both: gədäˈmĕs [key], town, W Libya, in an oasis in the Sahara, near the borders with Algeria and Tunisia. It was long an important caravan center on the route from Tripoli to...

Guastalla

(Encyclopedia)Guastalla gwästälˈlä [key], town, Emilia-Romagna, N Italy, on the Po River. It is an agri...

American Philosophical Society

(Encyclopedia)American Philosophical Society, first scientific society in America, founded (1743) in Philadelphia. It was an outgrowth of the Junto formed (1727) by Benjamin Franklin. Franklin was the first secreta...

Fort Meigs

(Encyclopedia)Fort Meigs mĕgz [key], American fortification on the Maumee River, near Perrysburg, N central Ohio; est. Feb., 1813, by Gen. William Henry Harrison across the river from British Fort Miami (see Maume...

Gardena

(Encyclopedia)Gardena gärdēˈnə [key], city (2020 pop. 61,027), Los Angeles co., SW Calif., an industrial ...