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Glaire
Glaire is a commune in the Ardennes department in northern France.-Population:

Glam
Glam is a shortened form of the word glamour.Glam or GLAM may also refer to:* GLAM , an acronym for Galleries, Libraries, Archives, and Museums, the cultural heritage institutions* Glam Media, a life-style related Web company

Glam (album)
Glam is an album by German electronica group Mouse on Mars, released in 1998. It was going to be a soundtrack for a film of the same name but both the film and the soundtrack were rejected by the studio.

Glamor (comics)
Glamor is a fictional character in the Marvel Universe.-Publication history:Glamor first appeared in The Vision and the Scarlet Witch #4 , and was created by Steve Englehart and Richard Howell

Glamorous
Glamorous may refer to:* Glamour * Beautiful* Stylish ;* Glamorous , a song by Fergie;* Glamorous , a song by Natalia & En Vogue;* Glamorous , a 2005 album by Denise Ho.-See also:

Glamorous (Natalia song)
"Glamorous" is the second single of Natalia's third studio-album Everything & More. The single is written by Australian singer Jade McRae and fellow Australian Adrian Newman

Glamour
Glamour may refer to:* Glamour , an appearance of enhanced attractiveness* Glamour photography, photography that emphasises the allure of the model* Glamour , a magazine for women* The Glamour, an album by The Comsat Angels

Glamour (film)
Glamour is a 2000 Hungarian film directed by Frigyes Gödrös. It was Hungary's submission to the 73rd Academy Awards for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, but was not accepted as a nominee.-See also:*Cinema of Hungary

Glance
Glance may refer to:* Glance Networks, an American software company, developers of the web-conferencing software Glance* Eye contact, a behavioral event related to vision* USS Glance , a Union Navy steamship during the American Civil War

Gland
A gland is an organ in an animal's body that synthesizes a substance for release of substances such as hormones or breast milk, often into the bloodstream or into cavities inside the body or its outer surface .- Types :

Glande
Glande was the leader of Sambians, one of the Prussian clans, during the Great Prussian Uprising against the papal crusades undertaken by the Teutonic Knights

Glanders
Glanders is an infectious disease that occurs primarily in horses, mules, and donkeys. It can be contracted by other animals such as dogs, cats and goats

Glans
The glans is a vascular structure located at the tip of the penis in men or a homologous genital structure of the clitoris in women.-Structure:

Glans penis
The glans penis is the sensitive bulbous structure at the distal end of the penis. The glans penis is anatomically homologous to the clitoral glans of the female

Glare
Glare may refer to:* Glare is difficulty seeing in the presence of very bright light* A glare is a facial expression of squinted eyes and look of contempt* A call collision in telecommunications* GLARE, an advanced aerospace material

Glare (vision)
Glare is difficulty seeing in the presence of bright light such as direct or reflected sunlight or artificial light such as car headlamps at night. Because of this, some cars include mirrors with automatic anti-glare functions.

Glasgow
Glasgow is the largest city in Scotland and third most populous in the United Kingdom. The city is situated on the River Clyde in the country's west central lowlands

Glasgow (Amtrak station)
Glasgow, Montana is an Amtrak station in Glasgow, Montana. The station is served by Amtrak's daily Empire Builder. The station, platform, and parking are owned by BNSF Railway.

Glasgow (European Parliament constituency)
Prior to its uniform adoption of proportional representation in 1999, the United Kingdom used first-past-the-post for the European elections in England, Scotland and Wales

Glasgow kiss
Glasgow kiss may refer to:* British slang for a headbutt* "Glasgow Kiss", an instrumental from the John Petrucci album Suspended Animation

Glasnost
Glasnost was the policy of maximal publicity, openness, and transparency in the activities of all government institutions in the Soviet Union, together with freedom of information, introduced by Mikhail Gorbachev in the second half of the 1980s

Glass
Glass is an amorphous solid material. Glasses are typically brittle and optically transparent.The most familiar type of glass, used for centuries in windows and drinking vessels, is soda-lime glass, composed of about 75% silica plus Na2O, CaO, and several minor additives

Glass (album)
Glass is the second solo album by John Illsley, former member of Dire Straits.-Track listing:#High Stakes#I Want to See the Moon#Papermen#All I Want Is You#World Is Made of Glass#Red Turns to Blue#Let's Dance#She Wants Everything#Star for Now

Glass (band)
Glass is a progressive rock trio from the Pacific Northwest who play complex original instrumental symphonic jazz-rock. The group consists of Greg Sherman on keyboards, vibes & Mellotron, his brother Jeff Sherman on bass guitar, guitar, bass pedals and keyboards, and their childhood friend Jerry Cook Glass is a progressive rock trio from the Pacific Northwest who play complex original instrumental symphonic jazz-rock. The group consists of Greg Sherman (born 1954) on keyboards, vibes & Mellotron, his brother Jeff Sherman (b. 1952) on bass guitar, guitar, bass pedals and keyboards, and their childhood friend Jerry Cook Glass is a progressive rock trio from the Pacific Northwest who play complex original instrumental symphonic jazz-rock. The group consists of Greg Sherman (born 1954) on keyboards, vibes & Mellotron, his brother Jeff Sherman (b. 1952) on bass guitar, guitar, bass pedals and keyboards, and their childhood friend Jerry Cook (b

Glass (film)
Glass is a 1958 Dutch short documentary film by director and producer Bert Haanstra. The film won the Academy Award for Documentary Short Subject in 1959. The entire film is about the glass bottle industry.-External links:*

Glass ceiling
In economics, the term glass ceiling refers to "the unseen, yet unbreachable barrier that keeps minorities and women from rising to the upper rungs of the corporate ladder, regardless of their qualifications or achievements." Initially, the metaphor applied to barriers in the careers of women but was quickly extended to refer to obstacles hindering the advancement of minority men, as well

Glasses
Glasses, also known as eyeglasses , spectacles or simply specs , are frames bearing lenses worn in front of the eyes. They are normally used for vision correction or eye protection. Safety glasses are a kind of eye protection against flying debris or against visible and near visible light or radiation

Glasses (Who Needs 'Em?)
Glasses is a children's picture book written and illustrated by Lane Smith. It was originally released in 1991 by Viking Books. Summary: A boy is unhappy about having to wear glasses, until his doctor provides an imaginative list of well adjusted eyeglass wearers.

Glasshouse
Glasshouse or Glasshouses may refer to:*Greenhouse, a building where plants are cultivated*Glasshouse , a 2006 novel by Charles Stross*Glasshouse , term for a military prison in the British Army

Glasshouse (British Army)
A Glasshouse, or The Glasshouse was the term for a military prison in the British Army. The first military prisons were established in 1844. The term Glasshouse originated at the military prison at Aldershot, which had a glazed roof. Over time, the sobriquet came to be applied to all British Army prisons

Glasshouse (novel)
Glasshouse is a science fiction novel by British author Charles Stross, first published in 2006. The novel is set in the twenty seventh century aboard a spacecraft adrift in interstellar space. Robin, the protagonist, has recently had his memory erased

Glassine
Glassine is a very thin and smooth paper that is air and water resistant. It is translucent unless dyes are added to color it or make it opaque

Glassware
This list of glassware includes drinking vessels , tableware, such as dishes, and flatware used to set a table for eating a meal, general glass items such as vases, and glasses used in the catering industry whether made of glass or plastics such as polystyrene and polycarbonate.-Drinkware:Drinkware, beverageware is a

Glasswort
The common name glasswort came into use in the 16th century to describe plants growing in England whose ashes could be used for making soda-based glass. The glassworts are succulent, annual "halophytes", or plants that thrive in saline environments, such as seacoasts and salt marshes

Glastonbury (disambiguation)
Glastonbury is a small town in Somerset, England.Glastonbury can also refer to:*Glastonbury Festival, a music and performing arts festival founded in 1970 near the English town*Glastonbury , a documentary about the modern English festival

Glatt
Glatt may refer to:*Glatt , a river in Switzerland*Glatttalbahn, a modern rapid-transit system in the canton of Zürich*Glatt Valley, the river valley of the river Glatt and a region in the canton of Zürich in Switzerland

Glatt (Rhine)
Glatt is the name of a lesser affluent to the High Rhine in the Unterland of the canton of Zurich, Switzerland. It is long and flows out from the Greifensee thru the Glatt Valley, discharging into the Rhine by Glattfelden

Glaucoma
Glaucoma is an eye disorder in which the optic nerve suffers damage, permanently damaging vision in the affected eye and progressing to complete blindness if untreated. It is often, but not always, associated with increased pressure of the fluid in the eye

Glaucous
Glaucous is used to describe the pale grey or bluish-green appearance of the surfaces of some plants, as well as in the names of birds, such as the Glaucous Gull , Glaucous-winged Gull , Glaucous Macaw , and Glaucous

Glaze
Glaze or glazing is a thin shiny coating, or the act of applying the coating; it may refer to:In materials or engineering:* Architectural glass, a building material typically used as transparent glazing material in the building envelope

Glazer
Glazer is a surname that is derived from the occupation of the glazier, or glass cutter. Some notable people with this name include:* Avram Glazer* Benjamin Glazer* Bryan Glazer* Eugene Robert Glazer, American actor* Joel Glazer* Jonathan Glazer, director

Glazier
A Glazier is a construction professional who selects, cuts, installs, replaces, and removes residential, commercial, and artistic glass. Glaziers also install aluminum storefront frames and entrances, glass handrails and balustrades, shower enclosures, curtain wall framing and glass and mirror walls.An apprentice glazier can work on both commercial job sites and residential ones

Glazier (disambiguation)
A glazier is a construction professional that selects, cuts, installs, replaces, and removes residential, commercial, and artistic glass.Glazier may also refer to:* Alan Glazier , retired English darts player* Kenneth MacLean Glazier, Sr

Gleaning (birds)
Gleaning is a term for a feeding strategy by birds in which they catch invertebrate prey, mainly arthropods, by plucking them from foliage or the ground, from crevices such as rock faces and under the eaves of houses, or even, as in the case of ticks and lice, from living animals. This behavior is contrasted with hawking insects from the air or chasing after moving insects such as ants

Gleanings (album)
Gleanings is a 1977 album by jazz musician John Coltrane.-Track listing:Original LP release Gleanings .# "Big Nick” - 4:15# "Vilia” - 4:35# "Dear Old Stockholm” - 10:35# "Nature Boy” - 8:48# "One Up One Down” - 12:28

Gleba
Gleba is the fleshy spore-bearing inner mass of fungi such as the puffball or stinkhorn.The gleba is a solid mass of spores, generated within an enclosed area within the sporocarp. The continuous maturity of the sporogenous cells leave the spores behind as a powdery mass that can be easily blown away

Glebe
Glebe Glebe Glebe (also known as Church furlong or parson's closes is an area of land within a manor and parish used to support a parish priest.-Medieval origins:

Glebe (disambiguation)
-Church property:*Glebe, a church property, primarily land.*Glebe terrier, a document listing these properties.-Australia:*Glebe, Tasmania, suburb of Hobart, Tasmania*Glebe, New South Wales, suburb of Sydney, New South Wales

Glee
Glee may refer to:* Glee , an English type of song music* Glee , an American musical comedy-drama TV series, and related media* Glee * Glee

GLEE
The OpenGL Easy Extension library automatically links OpenGL extensions and core functions at initialisation time. This saves programmers the effort of manually linking every required extension.

Glee (album)
Glee is the first album from Canadian music collective Bran Van 3000. The Canadian version was released in 15 April, 1997, through Audiogram Records and the international version was released in 17 March, 1998 through Capitol Records, with some changes from the original

Gleed
Gleed may refer to:*Gleed, Washington.Gleed may also refer to:*Gleed, a fictional character in the World of Greyhawk campaign setting for the Dungeons & Dragons roleplaying game.

Glen
A glen is a valley, typically one that is long, deep, and often glacially U-shaped; or one with a watercourse running through such a valley. Whittow defines it as a "Scottish term for a deep valley in the Highlands" that is "narrower than a strath."

Glen (disambiguation)
A glen is a valley, typically one that is long, deep, and often glacially U-shaped.Glen may also refer to:-Places:Australia*Yarra Glen, VictoriaCanada*Glen Island, Nunavut*Glen Norman, Ontario*Glen River *Glen Sutton, Quebec

Glenda (given name)
Glenda is a given name, and may refer to:*Glenda Adams , Australian author*Glenda Collins, British pop singer*Glenda Farrell , American actress*Glenda Gilmore, American historian of the American South

Glengarry
The glengarry bonnet is a traditional boat-shaped hat without a peak made of thick-milled woollen material with a toorie on top, a rosette cockade on the left, and ribbons hanging down behind

Glengarry (disambiguation)
A Glengarry is a boat-shaped cap without a peak made of thick-milled woollen material.Glengarry may also refer to any of the following:-In Australia:*Glengarry, New South Wales, an opal mining field.*Glengarry, Tasmania

Glenn (name)
Glenn is a surname derived from the Irish/Scottish Gaelic word gleann. In the 19th century, Glenn also became common as a given name in English speaking cultures.

Glenn Albrecht
Glenn Albrecht is Professor of Sustainability at Murdoch University in Western Australia.In 2008 Albrecht finished as the Associate Professor in Environmental Studies in University of Newcastle in New South Wales.

GLib
GLib is a cross-platform software utility library that began as part of the GTK+ project. However, before releasing version 2 of GTK+, the project's developers decided to separate non-GUI-specific code from the GTK+ platform, thus creating GLib as a separate product

Glide
Glide may refer to:* Glide , early 20th century American automobile company* Glide , to fly without thrust* Glide , synonym for semivowel* Glide, Oregon, census-designated place in the United States

Glider
Unpowered aircraft are a group of aerial vehicles that can fly without onboard propulsion. They can be classified as gliders, balloons and kites. In this instance, 'flight' means a trajectory that is not merely a vertical descent such as a parachute. In the case of kites, the flight is obtained by tethering to a fixed or moving object, perhaps another kite

Gliding
Gliding is a recreational activity and competitive air sport in which pilots fly unpowered aircraft known as gliders or sailplanes using naturally occurring currents of rising air in the atmosphere to remain airborne. The word soaring is also used for the sport.Gliding as a sport began in the 1920s

GLIM
GLIM or Glim may refer to:* Glim, a neighborhood in Alexandria, Egypt* GLIM , a statistical software program for fitting generalized linear models* Jonas Glim, a DC Comics character

GLIM (software)
GLIM is a statistical software program for fitting generalized linear models .It was developed by the Royal Statistical Society'sWorking Party on Statistical Computing

Glimmen
Glimmen is a village that is part of the municipality of Haren, which lies in the province Groningen in the Netherlands. It is 10 kilometres to the city of Groningen and 5 kilometre to Haren. Glimmen has about 1700 inhabitants

Glimmer
GLIMMER was the first bioinformatics system for finding genes that used the interpolated Markov model formalism. It is very effective at finding genes in bacteria, archaea, and viruses, typically finding 98–99% of all protein-coding genes. The GLIMMER software is open source and can be found at the links below

Glimmer
Glimmer may refer to:*GLIMMER, a gene prediction software package* Glimmer , a character from the television cartoon program She-Ra*The Glimmer Twins, a nickname given to Mick Jagger and Keith Richards of The Rolling Stones

GLIMPSE
GLIMPSE is a text indexing and retrieval software program originally developed at the University of Arizona by Udi Manber, Sun Wu, and Burra Gopal. A web server version called WebGlimpse is now being maintained under a pay per line licence. Neither project could be considered open source although there are some similarities.GLIMPSE stands for GLobal IMPlicit SEarch

Glimpse
Glimpse may refer to:* Glimpse , an album by SONICFLOOd* Glimpse EP, an album by Trapt* A Glimpse of Tiger, a novel by Herman RaucherGLIMPSE may refer to: