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ginseng
  • n  aromatic root of ginseng plants
  • n  Chinese herb with palmately compound leaves and small greenish flowers and forked aromatic roots believed to have medicinal powers
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ginzo
  • n  (ethnic slur) offensive term for a person of Italian descent
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gioacchino pecci
  • n  Italian pope from 1878 to 1903 who was interested in the advancement of learning and who opened the Vatican secret archives to all scholars
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giordano bruno
  • n  Italian philosopher who used Copernican principles to develop a pantheistic monistic philosophy; condemned for heresy by the Inquisition and burned at the stake (1548-1600)
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giorgio de chirico
  • n  Italian painter (born in Greece) whose deep shadows and barren landscapes strongly influenced the surrealists (1888-1978)
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giorgio vasari
  • n  Italian painter and art historian (1511-1574)
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giosue carducci
  • n  Italian poet considered the national poet of modern Italy (1835-1907)
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giotto
  • n  Florentine painter who gave up the stiff Byzantine style and developed a more naturalistic style; considered the greatest Italian painter prior to the Renaissance (1267-1337)
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giotto di bondone
  • n  Florentine painter who gave up the stiff Byzantine style and developed a more naturalistic style; considered the greatest Italian painter prior to the Renaissance (1267-1337)
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giovanni angelo braschi
  • n  Italian pope from 1775 to 1799 who served during the French Revolution; Napoleon attacked the Papal States and in 1797 Pius VI was taken to France where he died (1717-1799)
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giovanni battista cibo
  • n  Italian pope from 1484 to 1492 who was known as a nepotist and was attacked by Savonarola for his worldliness (1432-1492)
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giovanni battista montini
  • n  Italian pope from 1963 to 1978 who eased restrictions on fasting and on interfaith marriages (1897-1978)
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