// The elements of the glossary

// You must sort this alphabetically by keyword if you want the results
// to be displayed alphabetically
Gloss = new Array();

Gloss["aluminum "] = "Silver-white metallic element, light in weight, ductile, malleable, and not readily corroded or tarnished, occurring combined in nature in igneous rock, shale, clay, and most soil: used in alloys and for lightweight utensils, castings, airplane parts. ";
Gloss["anthracite"] = "Also, hard coal. A very hard, high-carbon coal. It burns much more cleanly than bituminous coal but is much rarer. Found in eastern Pennsylvania. ";
Gloss["aquifer"] = "An underground stratum of permeable sand or rock that holds water. ";
Gloss["arch"] = "A curved structure that spans an opening by supporting loads from above. ";
Gloss["barter"] = "To exchange goods or services in trade, as one commodity for another, rather than purchasing with currency. ";
Gloss["beam"] = "A horizontal structural member of wood, stone, or steel that spans an opening and supports weight from above. ";
Gloss["Beatles"] = "British rock group that changed the course of rock and roll, then inspired the psychedelic movement of the 1960s. No band has yet equaled The Beatles's popularity and influence. ";
Gloss["bending"] = "A force that combines compression on the top of a structural member and tension at the bottom. ";
Gloss["berm"] = "The raised towpath along the side of a canal where mules, horses, or oxen would walk while harnessed to a canal boat. ";
Gloss["bessemer"] = "The first method for mass-producing steel, developed in England by Henry Bessemer. It involves blowing a blast of air into molten pig iron to separate the impurities as slag. ";
Gloss["bituminous"] = "Also, soft coal. An abundant form of coal that has a high carbon content (and heat value), but also creates air pollution because it also contains high levels of sulfur. Common in western Pennsylvania. ";
Gloss["blast furnace"] = "A furace that produces pig iron by blowing air through iron ore, coke, and limestone. ";
Gloss["Braddock"] = "General Edward Braddock (1695Ð1755). British general in the French and Indian War. His immediate objective was the French stronghold at the forks of the Ohio, aka PittsburghÕs Golden Triangle. ";
Gloss["Bunyan"] = "Paul Bunyan. A legendary giant lumberjack, an American folk hero. ";
Gloss["canal"] = "An artificial waterway used for navigation or irrigation. ";
Gloss["cantilever"] = "A beam supported only at one end. ";
Gloss["capitalist"] = "A person who has capital, especially extensive capital, invested in business enterprises. Discontent members of the working classes would sometimes use this word synonymous with greed. ";
Gloss["Carnegie"] = "Andrew Carnegie (1835-1919). Carnegie immigrated with his family from Scotland to Pittsburgh in 1848, worked for the Pennsylvania Railroad, and became a world-renown industrialist by developing ways to make huge quantities of steel cheaply. After retiring, Carnegie wrote books espousing the social responsibility of the wealthy, and spent his final years giving away his substantial fortune to benefit the public with projects such as Carnegie Hall in New York, the Carnegie Institute in Pittsburgh, and over 2,800 libraries. "; 
Gloss["catenary"] = "The curve fromed when a cable is hung from two towers. ";
Gloss["channel"] = "The deepest part of a river or harbor. ";
Gloss["Civil Rights Movement"] = "Organized social and political actions by Blacks in the 1960Õs to achieve rights to full legal, social, and economic equality. ";
Gloss["cladding"] = "The skin of a framed structure that protects the interior from them elements. Cladding can be wood, stone, brick, glass, or almost any building material. ";
Gloss["coal"] = "A black or dark-brown combustible mineral substance consisting of carbonized vegetable matter, used as a fuel. ";
Gloss["coke"] = "A fuel used in blast furnaces to make iron, created by heating bituminous coal to a high temperature to drive off almost almost every impurity except carbon. ";
Gloss["column"] = "A vertical building member that resists compression to support weight from above. ";
Gloss["compression"] = "A crushing, squashing force exerted on building materials. ";
Gloss["contoured"] = "To build in conformity with the shape of the land. ";
Gloss["Crockett"] = "Davy Crockett (1786Ð1836). U.S. frontiersman, politician, and folklore hero. ";
Gloss["curator"] = "A person in charge of a museum or art collection. ";
Gloss["dam"] = "Barrier to obstruct the flow of water, especially one of earth, masonry, etc., built across a stream or river. ";
Gloss["deck"] = "The roadway on a bridge,which bears the moving load. ";
Gloss["demographic"] = "Science of vital and social statistics. ";
Gloss["desegregation"] = "To eliminate the separation of different groups based upon race. ";
Gloss["diversity"] = "Many different kinds, likes, forms, etc., and in reference to people, the state of many different cultures, creeds, ethnicities, etc. ";
Gloss["dome"] = "A half-sphere structure ususally used as a roof. Domes, which evolved from arches, can span wide spaces without any supporting columns. ";
Gloss["elevation"] = "An architectural scale drawing of the side or front of a building or site. ";
Gloss["erosion"] = "The process by which the surface of the earth is worn away by the action of water, glaciers, winds, waves, etc. ";
Gloss["facade"] = "The front of a building, usually given special architectural treatment. ";
Gloss["Ferris"] = "George Ferris (d. 1896). Pittsburgh bridge engineer who invented the Ferris Wheel for the Chicago World's Exposition in 1893. ";
Gloss["ferry"] = "Boat providing passage over a river, lake, or other body of water for passengers, vehicles, or freight, usually for a fee. ";
Gloss["folk art"] = "Artistic works, such as paintings, sculpture, basketry, dance, music, etc., produced typically by artisans that are isolated either spatially or culturally from mainstream, accepted art forms. ";
Gloss["foodways"] = "Term used by academics to reference the traditional foods and eating rituals ascribed to a particular culture or ethnic group. ";
Gloss["Foster"] = "Stephen Foster (1826Ð64). American song writer and composer, born in Lawrenceville, PA. Although he wrote many songs that are still popular, including Camptown Races and Oh, Susannah, he had little aptitude for business, and he spent his last years in poverty. ";
Gloss["frame"] = "A structure in which the weight is supported by a skeleton of columns and beams instead of its walls. Frames can be of wood for smaller buildings or steel for larger buildings. ";
Gloss["French and Indian War"] = "The war in America in which France and its Indian allies opposed England 1754Ð60: ended by Treaty of Paris in 1763. ";
Gloss["Frick"] = "Henry Clay Frick (1849-1919). Pittsburgh industrialist who started out mining and processing coke, then played a key role in the 1889 re-organization of the Carnegie Steel Company,  managing it until it became the U.S. Steel Corporation. Frick also served Pittsburghers as a philanthropist. His Point Breeze home Clayton has been restored as a museum. ";
Gloss["Fulton"] = "Robert Fulton (1765Ð1815). American inventor, engineer, and painter, b. near Lancaster, Pa. While others had built steam-powered ships before Fulton, his paddlewheel design was the first to be commercially successful in American waters. ";
Gloss["gargoyle"] = "A rainspout in the form of a fanciful or grotesque carved human or animal figure. ";
Gloss["Golden Gloves"] = "National association governing amateur boxers and ranked matches. ";
Gloss["Great Depression"] = "The economic crisis and period of low business activity in the U.S. and other countries, roughly beginning with the stock-market crash in October, 1929, and continuing through most of the 1930s. ";
Gloss["Great Migration"] = "The period of US history in the first half of the 1900Õs when Blacks from the south moved to northern states to escape oppression and seek work. ";
Gloss["Harlem"] = "Section of New York City, in the NE part of Manhattan, traditionally recognized for cultural amenities, most notably music, by Black contributors. ";
Gloss["Heinz"] = "Henry John Heinz (1844-1919). Pittsburgh native who started the H & J Heinz Company in Pittsburgh in 1876, producing pickles and condiments. The factory still operates at its North Side location. ";
Gloss["Homestead Grays"] = "A local team that gained popularity in the Negro Baseball League. ";
Gloss["homogenized"] = "To make uniform or similar, as in composition or function. ";
Gloss["Hornbostel"] = "Henry Hornbostel (1867-1961). Prominent Pittsburgh architect who designed the Arrott Building, The City-County Building, the Smithfield United Church, and Rodef Shalom, among many other buildings. ";
Gloss["incline"] = "Also, inclined plane. A special form of transport up grades too steep for standard locomotive to maintain traction. Two cars on tracks are attached by cables so that they counterbalance each other: when one goes down the slope, it helps pull the other car up. Inclines were instrumental in transporting people and freight up and down many of PittsburghÕs hillsides. ";
Gloss["infrastructure"] = "The fundamental facilities and systems serving a country, city, or area, as transportation and communication systems, power plants, and schools. ";
Gloss["Jazz"] = "Musical form developed in the latter part of the 19th century from Black work songs, field shouts, sorrow songs, hymns, widely considered to be the most significant form of musical expression of African-American culture. ";
Gloss["lintel"] = "A horizontal beam supporting a wall of brick or stone. ";
Gloss["lock"] = "A gate on a canal or canalized river that allows boats to navigate around dams. It raises or lowers water levels to move boats up or down a level to the next pool of the river or canal. ";
Gloss["masonry"] = "Construction of stone, brick, clay, or concrete. ";
Gloss["Mazeroski"] = "Bill Mazeroski. Baseball player with a career .260 hitting record, who won the 1960 World Series for the Pittsburgh Pirates with a lead-off HR in the bottom of the 9th inning of Game 7. "; 
Gloss["menorah"] = "Candelabrum having seven branches, as used in the Biblical tabernacle or the Temple in Jerusalem, or any number of branches, as used in modern synagogues. ";
Gloss["mixed media"] = "Artistic media, as pen and ink, chalk, and graphite, used in combination. ";
Gloss["Modern Art"] = "Art created from the 19th century to the present day whose artists have veered away from the traditional concepts and techniques of painting, sculpture, and other fine arts that had been practiced since the Renaissance. ";
Gloss["moniker"] = "A person's name, esp. a nickname or alias. ";
Gloss["Negro Baseball League"] = "Sports league founded for Black athletes prevented by segregation from playing baseball in the white professional leagues. The league was put together in 1919, and succeeded throughout the roaring '20s but the early 193oÕs, in the midst of the Great Depression, it was wiped out. ";
Gloss["nomadic"] = "Without permanent habitation; moving from place to place based as availability of food, employment, shelter, etc. ";
Gloss["Osterling"] = "Frederick Osterling (1865-1934). One of Pittsburgh's busiest architects of the 1900s, who designed the Union Trust Building, Clayton, the Times (Magee), the Arrott Building, the Armstrong Cork Building, among many others. ";
Gloss["Pennsylvania Turnpike"] = "The first state-wide super highway in the country. Its four lanes, smooth grades, and limited access made high-speed travel possible. ";
Gloss["Picasso"] = "Pablo Picasso (1881Ð1973). Spanish painter, sculptor, graphic artist, and ceramist, who worked in France. Generally considered to be the foremost figure in 20th-century art. ";
Gloss["pier"] = "A large vertical structural member that widens at its base and rests on bedrock to support the tremendous loads of bridges and skyscrapers. ";
Gloss["Pitt"] = "William Pitt (1708-1778). Prime Minister of England during the conflict between the British and the French that was called the Hundred Years War in Europe and the French and Indian War in America. ";
Gloss["Pittsburgh Crawfords"] = "Local baseball team in the Negro Baseball League. ";
Gloss["Pittsburgh Pirates"] = "Professional baseball team of Pittsburgh. ";
Gloss["plan"] = "An architectural scale drawing done from above: as if the roof of the building were removed for a floor plan or as if from a birds-eye view for a site plan. ";
Gloss["pool"] = "The body of water that forms behind a dam. ";
Gloss["post-and-lintel"] = "The basis of most door and window openings, using two uprights (posts) to support a horiztonal beam (lintel). ";
Gloss["Post-Modern"] = "Period after 1960, first noted in the writings of Robert Venturi, when architects became more concerned with context, tradition, and ornament. ";
Gloss["rendering"] = "An architectural drawing that attempts to show how a finished building will look on its site. ";
Gloss["reservoir"] = "Natural or artificial place where water is collected and stored for use, esp. water for supplying a community, irrigating land, furnishing power, etc. ";
Gloss["Richardson"] = "Henry Hobson Richardson (1838-1886). A major representative of romanticism in American architecture and noted for his revival of Romanesque design in the mid-1800Õs. He exerted a great influence upon the building arts of the period, especially in the young, growing cities, including Pittsburgh, where his works include the great Allegheny County Jail and Courthouse. ";
Gloss["Roebling"] = "John Roebling (1806-1869). Suspension bridge pioneer who started in Saxonburg, PA and went on to build the Brooklyn Bridge. ";
Gloss["Roosevelt"] = "Nicholas Roosevelt. Partner of Robert Fulton in manufacturing the New Orleans, first steamboat on the inland rivers. ";
Gloss["Scheibler"] = "Frederick Scheibler (1872-1958). A Pittsburgh architect of the 1910s and 1920s who pioneered many progressive ideas in his house and apartment designs, mostly in the East End. ";
Gloss["segregation"] = "The separation of different groups based upon race. ";
Gloss["skyscraper"] = "A building type, usually over five stories high, that uses a steel frame to support non-weight-bearing walls. ";
Gloss["source"] = "The point of origin of a stream or river, often a spring. ";
Gloss["spillway"] = "Passageway through which surplus water escapes from a reservoir, lake, or the like. ";
Gloss["spires"] = "High, tapering structure crowning a tower and having a general pyramidal outline. ";
Gloss["stagecoach"] = "Heavy, closed vehicle on wheels, drawn by horses, formerly used to transport passengers and goods overland. The great period of the coaches ended in the early 19th century as railroads were built. ";
Gloss["steel"] = "An alloy of iron and carbon resulting in great strength and hardness. Steel is a building material that is equally strong in compression and tension. ";
Gloss["suspension"] = "A bridge whose roadway is hung from overhead cables. ";
Gloss["tableau"] = "A representation of a picture, statue, scene, etc., by one or more persons suitably costumed and posed. ";
Gloss["tectonic plates"] = "Theory of global tectonics in which the rocky crust of the earth is divided into a number of plates, each of which more or less independently, allowing them to collide with, slide under, or move past adjacent plates. ";
Gloss["tension"] = "A stretching, stretching force exerted on building materials. ";
Gloss["towboat"] = "A steamboat moving barges beside or in front of it. ";
Gloss["trolley"] = "Small, self-propelled railroad car that operates on tracks running through city streets and is powered by an underground or overhead electrical wire. ";
Gloss["truss"] = "A structural frame that functions as a beam or cantilever for supporting bridges, roofs, etc. Most trusses' get their strength from the stability of the triangle. ";
Gloss["Underground Railroad"] = "Before the abolition of slavery, a secret system for helping fugitive slaves to escape from the South into Canada or other places of safety. ";
Gloss["vault"] = "An series of arches arranged in parallel to create a roof over a large space. ";
Gloss["Walcott"] = "Jersey Joe Walcott (1914Ð1994) Boxer who held the distinction of being the oldest heavyweight, at age 37, to ever win the championship. He lost four championship bouts before knocking out Ezzard Charles in the seventh round in 1951. ";
Gloss["Warhol"] = "Andy Warhol (1928-1987). Pittsburgh native who, in the early 1960Õs, became a famous artist and filmmaker, and the founder of the pop culture movement. ";
Gloss["Washington"] = "George Washington (1731-1799). First President of the United States, who served his first military duty in western Pennsylvania during the French and Indian War, scouted the site for the future town of Pittsburgh, and aided Gen. Edward Braddock in the disastrous campaign against Ft. Duquesne. ";
Gloss["Westinghouse"] = "George Westinghouse (1846Ð1914). American inventor and manufacturer. Among his inventions in the railroad field were the air brake in 1868, and automatic signal devices. The Westinghouse Air Brake Company was organized in 1869 and the Union Switch and Signal Company in 1882 in Pittsburgh. ";


// You can have images to go with your definitions too
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GlossImg["Column"] = "<img src=../units/build/img/columns30.gif>";
GlossImg["Frame"] = "<img src=../units/build/img/frame2.gif>";
GlossImg["Truss"] = "<img src=../units/build/img/truss.gif>";


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