…a unit of magnetic induction, equal to one ten-thousandth of a tesla…
…a thermodynamic quantity equal to the enthalpy (of a system or process) minus the product of the entropy and the absolute temperature…
…the constant in Newton’s law of gravitation relating gravity to the masses and separation of particles, equal to 6.67 × 1011N m2 kg2…
…a sensitive area of the anterior wall of the vagina believed by some to be highly erogenous and capable of ejaculation…
…a garment with pressurized pouches that are inflatable with air or fluid, worn by fighter pilots and astronauts to enable them to withstand high forces of acceleration…
…a garment consisting of a narrow strip of cloth that covers the genitals and is attached to a waistband, worn as underwear or by striptease performers…
…(1848–1915), English cricketer; full name William Gilbert Grace. In a first-class career that lasted until 1908, he made 126 centuries, scored 54,896 runs, and took 2,864 wickets. He twice captained England in Test matches against Australia (1880 and 1882)…
…(1873–1958), English moral philosopher and member of the Bloomsbury Group; full name George Edward Moore…
…(1866–1946), English novelist; full name Herbert George Wells. He wrote some of the earliest science-fiction novels, such as The War of the Worlds (1898), which combined political satire with warnings about the powers of science…
…(1930–2009), British novelist and short-story writer; full name James Graham Ballard. Notable works: The Drowned World (1962), Crash (1973), and Empire of the Sun (1984)…
…(1935–79), English novelist; full name James Gordon Farrell. Notable works: The Siege of Krishnapur (1973) and The Singapore Grip (1978)…
…(1874–1936), English essayist, novelist, and critic; full name Gilbert Keith Chesterton. His novels include The Napoleon of Notting Hill (1904) and a series of detective stories featuring Father Brown, a priest with a talent for crime detection…
…(b.1927), New Zealand chemist, naturalized as an American citizen. He is noted for his work on the discovery and development of conductive polymers, for which with Alan J. Heeger (b.1936) and Hideki Shirakawa (b.1936) he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Chemistry (2000)…
…(1893–1972), US actor, born in Romania; born Emanuel Goldenberg. He appeared in a number of gangster movies in the 1930s, beginning with Little Caesar (1930). He later played the father in Arthur Miller’s All My Sons (1948)…
…(1818–93), Confederate army officer; full name Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard. He served as superintendent of the US Military Academy at West Point, but resigned in 1861 to join the Confederacy. He commanded the Confederate attack on Fort Sumter, which officially began the Civil War…
…(1881–1975), English writer; full name Pelham Grenville Wodehouse. His best-known works are humorous stories of the upper-class world of Bertie Wooster and his valet Jeeves, the first of which appeared in 1917…
…the state or condition in which there is no apparent force of gravity acting on a body, either because the force is locally weak, or because both the body and its surroundings are freely and equally accelerating under the force…
…a herbaceous plant with small, lightly perfumed, white or yellow flowers and whorls of slender leaves. It was formerly used for stuffing mattresses…
…a tall, long-legged, long-necked bird, typically with white or gray plumage and often with tail plumes and patches of bare red skin on the head. Cranes are noted for their elaborate courtship dances…
…a very large tortoise with a long lifespan, occurring on several tropical oceanic islands…
…a large diving waterbird with a sleek black or gray head, a straight pointed bill, and short legs set far back under the body. Loons breed by lakes in northern latitudes and have wailing calls…
…a toothed whale that has black skin with a gray anchor-shaped marking on the chin, a low dorsal fin, and a square bulbous head…
…a heavily built short-legged carnivorous mammal with a shaggy dark coat and a bushy tail, native to the tundra and forests of arctic and subarctic regions…
…a garment with pressurized pouches that are inflatable with air or fluid, worn by fighter pilots and astronauts to enable them to withstand high forces of acceleration…
…(1856–1950), Irish playwright and writer. His best-known plays combine comedy with a questioning of conventional morality and thought; they include Candida (1897), Man and Superman (1903), Major Barbara (1905), Pygmalion (1913), and St. Joan (1923). Nobel Prize for Literature (1925)…
…a plant of the rose family, typically having serrated, divided leaves and seeds bearing small hooks. Several kinds are grown in gardens…
…a small squirrel that has skin joining the fore and hind limbs for gliding from tree to tree…
…a Eurasian poppy with grayish-green lobed leaves, large flowers, and a long curved seed capsule…
…a southern Asian game bird related to the domestic fowl, typically frequenting forested country…
…the widely distributed plant of the pea family from which licorice is obtained…
…a plant of the lily family with star-shaped flowers that typically have green stripes on the outer surface, native to the temperate regions of the Old World…
…a small grayish slender-bodied shark, occurring chiefly in inshore waters…
…(1854–1941), Scottish anthropologist. In The Golden Bough (1890–1915) he proposed an evolutionary theory of the development of human thought, from the magical and religious to the scientific…
…(1828–82), English painter and poet; full name Gabriel Charles Dante Rossetti. A founder of the Pre-Raphaelite brotherhood 1848, he is best known for his idealized images of women, including Beata Beatrix (circa 1863) and The Blessed Damozel (1871–79). He was the brother of Christina Rossetti…
