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Frederick the Fair

(Encyclopedia)Frederick the Fair, c.1286–1330, German antiking (1314–26), duke of Austria, son of Albert I, German king. On the death of Henry VII, Holy Roman emperor and German king, the split between the supp...

Frederick the Great

(Encyclopedia)Frederick the Great: see Frederick II, king of Prussia. ...

Frederick the Warlike

(Encyclopedia)Frederick the Warlike: see Frederick I, elector of Saxony. ...

Frederick the Wise

(Encyclopedia)Frederick the Wise: see Frederick III, elector of Saxony. ...

Golden Ass, The

(Encyclopedia)Golden Ass, The: see Apuleius, Lucius. ...

Golden Bough, The

(Encyclopedia)Golden Bough, The: see Frazer, Sir James George. ...

Golden Legend, The

(Encyclopedia)Golden Legend, The, collection of saints' lives written in the 13th cent. by Jacobus da Varagine. Originally entitled Legenda sanctorum [readings in the lives of the saints], it soon came to be called...

Geoffroy the Elder

(Encyclopedia)Geoffroy the Elder: see Geoffroy, Étienne François. ...

Eric the Red

(Encyclopedia)Eric the Red, fl. 10th cent., Norse chieftain, discoverer and colonizer of Greenland according to the sagas. He left (c.950) Norway with his exiled father and settled in Iceland. A feud resulting in m...

Juilliard School, The

(Encyclopedia)Juilliard School, The jo͞olˈyärd [key], in New York City; school of music, drama, and dance; coeducational; est. 1905 as the Institute of Musical Art, chartered 1926 as the Juilliard School of Musi...