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Gal Gadot

Gal Gadot is a former Miss Israel pageant champ and the star of the 2017 box office hit, Wonder Woman. Besides being 2004's Miss Israel, Gadot spent two years in the Israeli Defense Forces, teaching…

Uzi Gal 2002 Deaths

Uzi GalAge: 79 Israeli arms expert who, in the 1950s, invented the Uzi, a 9-millimeter submachine gun. He moved to the United States in the 1970s after retiring from an Israeli weapons-…

Galuppi, Baldassare

(Encyclopedia) Galuppi, BaldassareGaluppi, Baldassarebäldäs-säˈrā gäl&oomacr;pˈpē [key], 1706–85, Italian composer. A pupil of Lotti, he developed the opera buffa style in the period between…

Voyager, airplane

(Encyclopedia) Voyager, the first airplane to circumnavigate the earth nonstop on a single load of fuel. Designed by Burt Rutan and flown by Dick Rutan and Jeana Yeager, Voyager took off from…

Galle

(Encyclopedia) GalleGallegäl [key], city (1995 est. pop. 87,000), capital of Southern prov., extreme S Sri Lanka, on the Indian Ocean. An agricultural market center, it exports tea, rubber, coconut…

Kelly, Gene

(Encyclopedia) Kelly, Gene, 1912–96, American dancer, choreographer, movie actor, and director, b. Pittsburgh as Eugene Curran Kelly. Kelly started dancing on Broadway in 1938 and first gained fame…

Cilicia

(Encyclopedia) CiliciaCiliciasĭlĭshˈə [key], ancient region of SE Asia Minor, in present S Turkey, between the Mediterranean and the Taurus range. It included a high and barren plateau, Cilicia…

Villepin, Dominique de

(Encyclopedia) Villepin, Dominique de (Dominique Marie François René Galouzeau de Villepin)Villepin, Dominique dedômēnēkˈ märēˈ fräNswäˈ rənāˈ gäl&oomacr;zōˈ də vēlpănˈ [key], 1953–, French…

water supply

(Encyclopedia) water supply, process or activity by which water is provided for some use, e.g., to a home, factory, or business. The term may also refer to the supply of water provided in this way.…

Sexy Beast

Director:Jonathan GlazerWriters:Louis Mellis, David ScintoFox Searchlight; R; 91minutesRelease:7/01Cast:Ray Winstone, Ben Kingsley, Amanda Redman Ben Kingsley roars in the title role of Sexy…