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gravity. By their experiments 

 with gliders, Lilienthal, Charm te, 

 the Wrights, and other pioneers 

 opened up the way to the power- 

 driven aeroplane. See Aeronautics ; 

 Lilienthal ; Wright, 0. & W. 



Gliding. Action of an aeroplane 

 in the air when descending with 

 the engine stopped. An aeroplane 

 travels and maintains its hori- 

 zontal course in the air by virtue 

 of the thrust of the propeller. 

 When the engine is stopped the 

 machine becomes a glider, and it 

 follows a sloping path towards the 

 earth. In the widest sense of the 

 term any object may be said to 

 glide through the air when it de- 

 scends not vertically, but along a 

 sloping path. The angle this path 

 makes with the horizon is called 

 the gliding angle of the machine, 

 and is determined theoretically by 

 the ratio of the lift to the drag or 

 resistance. 



Globe (Lat. globus). Spherical 

 body, the whole of the surface of 

 which, is equidistant from the 

 centre. The word is used in the 

 singular to signify the earth. A 

 sphere on the surface of which is 

 drawn a map or representation ot 

 the earth or heavens, is termed a 

 terrestrial or celestial globe respec- 

 tively. See Earth. 



Globe, THE. London evening 

 newspaper. It was first published 

 Jan. 1, 1803, as The Globe or Lite- 

 rary Advertiser, largely as a book- 

 sellers' organ. In turn The True 

 Briton, The Nation, The Evening 

 Statesman, The Argus, and The 

 Evening Chronicle were amalga- 

 mated with it, and on Dec. 30, 1822, 

 a commercial travellers' organ, The 

 Traveller, was absorbed and the 

 double title, The Globe and 

 Traveller, thereafter adopted. 

 Long an official organ of the 

 Whigs, The Globe was acquired 

 by the Tories in 1866. 



Sir George Armstrong (1836- 

 1907) edited it from 1871, and was 

 proprietor from 1875 unt il his death. 

 From 1908-11 it was owned by 

 Hildebrand Harmsworth, a brother 

 of Viscount Northcliffe. It was 

 absorbed in the Pall Mall Gazette 

 in Feb., 1921, and with the latter 

 in The Evening Standard, 1923. 



Globe Amaranth (Gomphrenn 

 fjlobosa). Annual herb of the 

 natural order Amarantaceae. A 

 native of India, it has doAvny, op- 

 posite, oblong leaves. The flower- 

 heads are globular, about 1 in. 

 across and dark red. 



Globe Artichoke. Perennial 

 plant supposed to be a cultivated 

 variety of the cardoon (q.v.), 



Globe Case, THE. Temporary 

 suppression of the London evening 

 newspaper, The Globe, during the 



Great War. In Nov., 1915, The 

 Globe published a statement that it 

 was the intention of the govern- 

 ment not to allow Lord Kitchener, 

 who had started that week for a 

 tour of inspection on Gallipoli, to 

 return to his position as Secretary 

 of State for War in Whitehall. Al- 

 leging that this quite unauthorised 

 statement was calculated to cause 

 dismay among the Allies, the 

 government enforced disciplinary 

 measures against the journal under 

 regulations 50 and 51 A of the De- 

 fence of the Realm Act. 



On Nov. 6 agents from Scotland 

 Yard blockaded the premises, 

 seized the issue, searched the 

 offices, and put the machinery out 

 of action by removing essential 

 parts. Within a fortnight The 

 Globe, under a new editor, was 

 allowed to resume publication. 



Globe Fish. Marine fish of the 

 Diodontidae and Tetrodontidac 

 families. They are found in the 



Globe Fish. The lesser spotted variety 

 with distended body 



tropic seas, and have the power 

 of distending their bodies with air 

 till they assume a more or less 

 globular appearance. At other 

 times they have the usual shape of 

 a round-bodied fish. The largest 

 species are about 2 ft. in length, 

 and most are beautifully coloured. 

 Globe-flower (Trollius euro- 

 paeus). Perennial herb of the 

 natural order Ranunculaceae. It is 

 a native of Europe. The leaves are 

 round in general outline, but di- 

 vided into five toothed lobes. The 

 fine yellow flowers are globular, and 



their rich appearance is due to the 

 numerous sepals, which are petal- 

 like, while the true petals are small 

 and narrow. 



Globe Tavern. Model refresh- 

 ment house. Erected in 1917 by 

 the Central Control Board at Long- 

 town, near Carlisle, it took the 

 place of an old hotel of the same 

 name. The tavern, an entirely new 

 structure, was one of several ex- 

 periments in state ownership of the 

 liquor traffic in the Carlisle area 

 during the Great War. See Carlisle ; 

 Central Control Board ; Gretna. 



Globe Theatre, THE. Famous 

 London playhouse, built on the 

 Bankside, Southwark, in 1599, by 



Globe-flower. Leaves and flowers 

 of this European herb 



Globe Theatre, the old London play- 

 bouse associated with Shakespeare 



From an engraving e. 1612 



the Burbages, Shakespeare, and 

 four other actors. A circular build- 

 ing, the " wooden O " of the play 

 King Henry the Fifth, it held 1,200 

 spectators, and was partly open to 

 the sky. Shakespeare acted and 

 had shares in this theatre. It was 

 destroyed by fire, June 29, 1613 ; 

 and its successor, opened June 30, 

 1614, Jasted until April 15, 1644. 

 It has been conclusively shown 

 that the playhouse of Shakespeare's 

 time was on the S. side of Park 

 Street, Southwark, and the position 

 of the frontage has been located to 

 within a foot. (See The Site of The 

 Globe Theatre, G. Hubbard, 1909 : 

 The Site of The Globe Playhouse, 

 L.C.C., 1921.) 



The third London theatre of this 

 name was opened in Newcastle 

 Street, Strand, Nov. 28, 1868, and 

 had a chequered existence until its 

 disappearance with much adjoin- 

 ing property in 1902. Here Jennie 

 Lee first appeared in J. P. Burnett's 

 Jo, Feb. 21, 1876; Tennyson's 

 The Promise of May failed, 1882 ; 

 Penley brought Charley's Aunt 



