GIST, CHRISTOPHER

gĭst, c.1706–1759, American frontiersman, b. Maryland. Commissioned by the Ohio Company to explore their western lands. In 1750 he descended the Ohio River, explored E Kentucky, and crossed to Roanoke, N.C.; he thus penetrated the Kentucky region 18 years before the more celebrated Daniel Boone. The next season he more carefully traversed and mapped the Ohio watershed in western Virginia. He accompanied George Washington in 1753–54 on his historic trip to order the French out of the Ohio valley and on the journey twice saved Washington's life. On Gen. Edward Braddock's expedition (1755) against Fort Duquesne, Gist served as a guide. He died of smallpox in the Cherokee country, where he had gone to enlist the Native Americans' aid against the French. An expert woodsman and surveyor, he was highly regarded by his contemporaries.

See his journals ed. by W. M. Darlington (1893).

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Christopher Marlowe and Richard Baines: Journeys through the Elizabethan Underground
Book by Roy Kendall; Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2003
Subjects: Baines, Richard--Ca. 1556-1594 Or 1610, Dramatists, English--Early Modern, 1500-1700--Biography, Marlowe, Christopher--1564-1593, Marlowe, Christopher--1564-1593--Friends And Associates, Marlowe, Christopher--1564-1593--Religion
Christopher Marlowe and Richard Baines Christopher Marlowe and Richard Baines Journeys through the Elizabethan...Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Kendall, Roy, 1943 Christopher Marlowe and Richard Baines : journeys through the Elizabethan...
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Sir Christopher Wren
Book by Lena Milman; Duckworth, 1908
Subjects: Wren, Christopher--Sir--1632-1723
...for, the very year before Christophers appointment to the Gresham...weak and ye are strong," the gist of which sermon Evelyn thus...the new acquaintances whom Christopher Wren owed to his London appointment...Kings cause. One day, when Christopher Wren was dining with the Claypoles...
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The Irony of Identity: Self and Imagination in the Drama of Christopher Marlowe
Book by Ian McAdam; University of Delaware Press, 1999
Subjects: Drama--Psychological Aspects, Identity (Psychology) In Literature, Imagination, Irony In Literature, Marlowe, Christopher--1564-1593--Knowledge--Psychology, Psychoanalysis And Literature--England, Self In Literature
...and Imagination in the Drama of Christopher Marlowe Ian McAdam DELAWARE Newark...self and imagination in the drama of Christopher Marlowe / Ian McAdam. p. cm. Includes...0-87413-665-2 (alk. paper) 1. Marlowe, Christopher, 1564-1593-Knowledge-Psychology 2...
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Christopher Marlowe
Book by Michel Poirier; Chatto & Windus, 1951
Subjects: Marlowe, Christopher--1564-1593
...Palladis Tamia 1598 : "Christopher Marlowe was stabd to death...very probably contain the gist of the statements made by...he was in the service of Christopher Blount, whose brother Charles...Devereux, Sidneys Stella. Christopher Blount, a convert to Roman...
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Jackdaw Jiving: Selected Essays on Poetry & Translation
Book by Christopher Middleton; Carcanet, 1998
Subjects: Middleton, Christopher--Aesthetics, Poetics, Translating And Interpreting
...colludes with the cultivated lyric word in its bare bones as eccentric witness to the pain and disenchantment that are historys gist. During the past two decades, pioneering in the arts generally has taken such a downturn that we might, without lapsing into...
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journal articles on: Gist Christopher  - 137 results

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Cognitive Technologies for Gist Processing
Journal article by Christopher R. Wolfe; Behavior Research Methods, Vol. 38, 2006
Subjects: Data collection, Design, Disaster relief, Face, Genetic algorithms, Police lineups, Research, Society, Year 2000
Cognitive Technologies for Gist Processing by Christopher R. Wolfe The State of the...ignore. Researchers such as Christopher Myers (Myers Schoelles, 2005...be possible to run automatic gist extractions of two types, first...
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Kelly, Christopher. Rousseau as Author: Consecrating One's Life to the Truth
Journal article by Damjan De Krnjevic-Miskovic; The Review of Metaphysics, Vol. 57, 2004
Subjects: Books--Book reviews, Rousseau as Author: Consecrating One's Life to the Truth (Book)--Book reviews
...serious and accomplished Rousseau scholar. Christopher Kellys previous efforts have resulted...Rousseaus motto, which elegantly describes the gist of Rousseaus now commonly practiced ideas...living outside his patria (p. 116). The gist of it is that only a man living outside...
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The Efficacy of a Web-based Counterargument Tutor
Journal article by Christopher R. Wolfe, M. Anne Britt, Melina Petrovic, Michael Albrecht, Kristopher Kopp; Behavior Research Methods, Vol. 41, 2009
Subjects: College students, Colleges & universities, Experiments, Research & development--R&D, Skills, University students
...The participants responses were scored for gist using different words but capturing the same...scoring, identifying the claim predicate using gist scoring, identifying the counterargument theme using gist scoring, identifying the response predicate...
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False Recognition across Meaning, Language, and Stimulus Format: Conceptual Relatedness and the Feeling of Familiarity
Journal article by Tedra Fazendeiro, Piotr Winkielman, Chun Luo, Christopher Lorah; Memory & Cognition, Vol. 33, 2005
Subjects: Cognition & reasoning, False identification, Language, Memory
...Piotr Winkielman , Chun Luo , Christopher Lorah Memory illusions capture...al., 2002), generation of a gist trace (Brainerd, Reyna, Wright...allowed greater use of semantic gist traces. Remember/know judgments...can be based on verbatim or gist traces encoded during the study...
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Self or Group? Cultural Effects of Training on Self-Efficacy and Performance
Journal article by P. Christopher Earley; Administrative Science Quarterly, Vol. 39, 1994
Subjects: Management training--Psychological aspects, Occupational training--Social aspects, Self-efficacy (Psychology)--Research
...and performance by P. Christopher Earley REFERENCES Bandura...attributional effect (Garland, 1985; Gist and Mitchell, 1992). A persons...people with low self-efficacy (Gist and Mitchell, 1992). A simplified...version of the model described by Gist and Mitchell (1992) illustrates...
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FRIENDS OF WORLD WATCH: Many Thanks to the Thousands of People Who Recognized the Urgency of Our Work and Supported Worldwatch in 2007, Allowing Us to Reach Decision Makers and Concerned Citizens in over 100 Countries
Magazine article by Christopher Flavin; World Watch, Vol. 21, July 2008
...Bjarni Gislasan Stefan Gislason Morse Gist Helen Gjessing Sharon Glassman Nathan...Greenberg John Griffin, III Shirley Griffin Christopher Grigg Sylvie Grizzle David Groeneveld...Kei-Iirihro Maeda Richard Maguire Charles Maher Christopher Maiuri Merja Helena Makela Reinhold Mankau...
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Adventures of a Sometime McGovernite
Magazine article by Christopher Clausen; Queen's Quarterly, Vol. 112, Fall 2005
Subjects: Democratic Party (United States)--Officials and employees, McGovern, George--Political activity, Presidential candidates--Political activity, Presidential elections--Analysis, Presidents--Analysis, Presidents--Elections
...Adventures of a Sometime McGovernite. by Christopher Clausen The late 1960s and early...interviews with the 82-year-old McGovern. The gist of the resulting article was that the...ILLUSTRATION OMITTED CHRISTOPHER CLAUSEN is professor of English at Pennsylvania...
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One of Our Whales Is Missing: In Which Rick Renard, PR Hustler Par Excellence, Sets out to Save Grimland's Gentle Giants of the Deep. A Short Story
Magazine article by Christopher Buckley; The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 296, September 2005
Subjects: Whaling--Evaluation, Whaling--Personal narratives
...Giants of the Deep. A Short Story. by Christopher Buckley It had been quite a week...her halting English, Harpa gave me the gist of the article. The device attached to...have a whole new respect for blubber. Christopher Buckley is the author of eleven books...
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Euan Macdonald
Magazine article by Christopher Miles; Artforum International, Vol. 39, March 2001
Subjects: MacDonald, Euan--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Painting, Modern--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
EUAN MACDONALD by Christopher Miles ROBERTS TILTON Euan Macdonalds drawings and paintings...either emanating from or shooting into its brain. Theres the basic gist of it--now you add meaning. Outshining the drawings, but equally...
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Minority Report
Magazine article by Christopher Hitchens; The Nation, Vol. 247, October 31, 1988
Subjects: Brenneke, Richard--Testimony, Iran Hostage Crisis, 1979-1981--Political aspects, Reagan, Ronald--International relations
Minority Report. by Christopher Hitchens In judging a regime," Palmiro Togliatti once remarked...questioned by Assistant U.S. Attorney Thomas ORourke: OROURKE: The gist of your testimony about the several meetings-three meetings in...
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FOUR YEARS FOR DRUNKEN BIKER WHO KILLED PAL; JAILED: Court Told Defendant 'Only Had a Gist of Riding a Motorbike'
Newspaper article; Coventry Evening Telegraph (England), May 26, 2006
Subjects: Motorcycles--Casualties
...Court Told Defendant Only Had a Gist of Riding a Motorbike...into a car, a court heard. Christopher Pickstock, of Kingswood Road...admitted he had "only had a gist" of how to drive a motorbike...friends." BANNED AND JAILED...Christopher Pickstock had consumed about...
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Clinton Controls Release of Spy Study: China Said to Take Nuclear Designs
Newspaper article by Andrew Cain; The Washington Times, April 29, 1999
Subjects: China, Cox, Christopher, Dicks, Norman D.
...a spokesman for the House select committee headed by Rep. Christopher Cox, California Republican. It would be illegal for Congress...Clinton at the White House. Mr. Dicks told reporters the gist of the report already is public because of press leaks...
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Now, Where Was I?
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), July 28, 2007
Subjects: Richards, Keith
Now, Where Was I? Byline: Christopher Sandford THEY SAY that if you can remember...started yelling insults at them. The gist of their remarks was thatthe five longhaired...recall the details of an incredible past. Christopher Sandfords biography of Keith Richards...
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Births
Newspaper article; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), December 19, 2007
...Great-grandparents: Alvinia Enger, Doris Johnson, Minneapolis, Minn.; Lattie Gist, Camden, Tenn. - Jayla LaRee Hamby, Oct. 28 to Harold Hamby...Philippines; Phyllis Zahn, Gurnee. Lake Forest Hospital - Hans Christopher Strobach, Oct. 29 to Chad and Brenda Strobach, Lindenhurst...
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Filmfest Movies to Watch or Catch Up With
Newspaper article; Manila Bulletin, January 5, 2006
Subjects: Film festivals
...and co-hosts of "SOP" expressed delight and support to the singer-host. "Itas what youave always wanted so go for it," was the gist of her friends Ogie Alcasid and Janno Gibbs, among othersa message of support. Of course Jayaas mom also supports her daughteras...
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encyclopedia articles on: Gist Christopher  - 3 results

 
 
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Gist, Christopher
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
GIST, CHRISTOPHER gist, c.1706 1759, American frontiersman, b. Maryland. Commissioned by the...life. On Gen. Edward Braddocks expedition (1755) against Fort Duquesne, Gist served as a guide. He died of smallpox in the Cherokee country, where...
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Ohio Company
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...charter (1749) granted the members 200,000 acres around the forks of the Ohio River, and in 1750 the company employed Christopher Gist to explore the Ohio valley. The first organized group to develop the region W of the Alleghenies, the company embarked...
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Kentucky , State, United States
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...eastern mountain region in 1750 for the Loyal Land Company. Walker was soon followed by hunters and scouts including Christopher Gist. Further exploration was interrupted by the last conflict (1754 63) of the French and Indian Wars between the...


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