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12193 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transport%20in%20Guinea-Bissau | Transport in Guinea-Bissau | Transport infrastructure in Guinea-Bissau is basic, with most roads outside the capital Bissau being unpaved.
Railways
There are no railways in Guinea-Bissau. At the Port of Bissau, there was a small cargo railway working from the late 19th century into the 1940s.
In 1998 an agreement was signed between Portugal and... |
12194 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military%20of%20Guinea-Bissau | Military of Guinea-Bissau | The Revolutionary Armed Forces of the People () or FARP are the national military of Guinea-Bissau. They consist of an Army, Navy, Air Force and paramilitary forces. A 2008 United Nations Development Programme census estimated that there were around 4,000 personnel in the Armed Forces. An earlier CIA World Fact Book f... |
12199 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politics%20of%20Guyana | Politics of Guyana | The politics of Guyana takes place in a framework of a Parliamentary representative democratic republic, whereby the President of Guyana is the head of government and of a multi-party system. Executive power is exercised by the President, advised by a cabinet. Legislative power is vested in both the President and the N... |
12202 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transport%20in%20Guyana | Transport in Guyana | The transport sector comprises the physical infrastructure, docks and vehicle, terminals, fleets, ancillary equipment and service delivery of all the various modes of transport operating in Guyana. The transport services, transport agencies providing these services, the organizations and people who plan, build, maintai... |
12204 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign%20relations%20of%20Guyana | Foreign relations of Guyana | After independence in 1966, Guyana sought an influential role in international affairs, particularly among Third World and non-aligned nations. It served twice on the UN Security Council (1975–76 and 1982–83). Former Vice President, Deputy Prime Minister, and Attorney General Mohamed Shahabuddeen served a 9-year term o... |
12207 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geology | Geology | Geology (from the Ancient Greek γῆ, gē ("earth") and -λoγία, -logia, ("study of", "discourse")) is a branch of Earth science concerned with both the liquid and solid Earth, the rocks of which it is composed, and the processes by which they change over time. Geology can also include the study of the solid features of an... |
12209 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene%20Kelly | Gene Kelly | Eugene Curran Kelly (August 23, 1912 – February 2, 1996) was an American actor, dancer, singer, filmmaker, and choreographer. He was known for his energetic and athletic dancing style, his good looks, and the likable characters that he played on screen. He starred in, choreographed, or co-directed some of the most well... |
12212 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gangsta%20rap | Gangsta rap | Gangsta rap or gangster rap, initially called reality rap, emerged in the mid- to late 1980s as a controversial hip hop subgenre whose lyrics assert the culture and values typical of American street gangs and street hustlers. Many gangsta rappers flaunt associations with real street gangs, like the Crips and the Bloods... |
12213 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gleichschaltung | Gleichschaltung | (), or in English, co-ordination, was in Nazi terminology the process of Nazification by which Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party successively established a system of totalitarian control and coordination over all aspects of German society and societies occupied by Nazi Germany "from the economy and trade associations to ... |
12216 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georg%20Cantor | Georg Cantor | Georg Ferdinand Ludwig Philipp Cantor ( , ; – January 6, 1918) was a German mathematician. He created set theory, which has become a fundamental theory in mathematics. Cantor established the importance of one-to-one correspondence between the members of two sets, defined infinite and well-ordered sets, and proved tha... |
12218 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University%20of%20Gothenburg | University of Gothenburg | The University of Gothenburg () is a university in Sweden's second largest city, Gothenburg.
The university is the third-oldest of the current Swedish universities and with 37,000 students and 6000 staff members it is one of the largest universities in the Nordic countries.
About
With its eight faculties and 38 depa... |
12221 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Film%20genre | Film genre | A film genre is a stylistic or thematic category for motion pictures based on similarities either in the narrative elements, aesthetic approach, or the emotional response to the film.
Drawing heavily from the theories of literary-genre criticism, film genres are usually delineated by "conventions, iconography, setting... |
12223 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great%20man%20theory | Great man theory | The great man theory is a 19th-century idea according to which history can be largely explained by the impact of great men, or heroes; highly influential and unique individuals who, due to their natural attributes, such as superior intellect, heroic courage, extraordinary leadership abilities or divine inspiration, hav... |
12224 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great%20Pyramid%20of%20Giza | Great Pyramid of Giza | The Great Pyramid of Giza (also known as the Pyramid of Khufu or the Pyramid of Cheops) is the oldest and largest of the pyramids in the Giza pyramid complex bordering present-day Giza in Greater Cairo, Egypt. It is the oldest of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, and the only one to remain largely intact.
Egypto... |
12228 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GURPS | GURPS | The Generic Universal RolePlaying System, or GURPS, is a tabletop role-playing game system designed to allow for play in any game setting. It was created by Steve Jackson Games and first published in 1986 at a time when most such systems were story- or genre-specific.
Players control their in-game characters verbally ... |
12229 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government | Government | A government is the system or group of people governing an organized community, generally a state.
In the case of its broad associative definition, government normally consists of legislature, executive, and judiciary. Government is a means by which organizational policies are enforced, as well as a mechanism for dete... |
12230 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary%20Coleman | Gary Coleman | Gary Wayne Coleman (February 8, 1968 – May 28, 2010) was an American actor and comedian. Coleman is regarded as one of the greatest child actors of all time, and was the highest-paid adolescent on television throughout the late 1970s and 1980s. He was rated first on a list of VH1's "100 Greatest Kid Stars".
Coleman w... |
12231 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garth%20Brooks | Garth Brooks | Troyal Garth Brooks (born February 7, 1962) is an American country music singer and songwriter. His integration of pop and rock elements into the country genre has earned him popularity, particularly in the United States with success on the country music single and album charts, multi-platinum recordings and record-bre... |
12232 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustave%20Eiffel | Gustave Eiffel | Alexandre Gustave Eiffel (born Bonickhausen dit Eiffel; ; ; 15 December 1832 – 27 December 1923) was a French civil engineer. A graduate of École Centrale des Arts et Manufactures, he made his name with various bridges for the French railway network, most famously the Garabit viaduct. He is best known for the world-fam... |
12233 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenpeace | Greenpeace | Greenpeace is an independent global campaigning network. The network comprises 26 independent national/regional organisations in over 55 countries across Europe, the Americas, Africa, Asia and the Pacific, as well as a co-ordinating body, Greenpeace International, based in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Greenpeace was fou... |
12234 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%20Whipple | George Whipple | George Hoyt Whipple (August 28, 1878 – February 1, 1976) was an American physician, pathologist, biomedical researcher, and medical school educator and administrator. Whipple shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1934 with George Richards Minot and William Parry Murphy "for their discoveries concerning li... |
12235 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6kt%C3%BCrks | Göktürks | The Göktürks, Celestial Turks or Blue Turks (; ) were a nomadic confederation of Turkic peoples in medieval Inner Asia. The Göktürks, under the leadership of Bumin Qaghan (d. 552) and his sons, succeeded the Rouran Khaganate as the main power in the region and established the First Turkic Khaganate, one of several noma... |
12236 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GDP%20%28disambiguation%29 | GDP (disambiguation) | GDP or gross domestic product is the basic measure of a country's overall economic output.
GDP may also refer to:
GDP (chemotherapy), a chemotherapy treatment regimen
GDP (musician), an American hip hop musician from New Jersey
Giant depolarizing potentials, the first type of electrical activity of developing brain... |
12239 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guilt%20%28emotion%29 | Guilt (emotion) | Guilt is a moral emotion that occurs when a person believes or realizes—accurately or not—that they have compromised their own standards of conduct or have violated universal moral standards and bear significant responsibility for that violation.
Guilt is closely related to the concept of remorse, regret, as well as sh... |
12240 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gold | Gold | Gold is a chemical element with the symbol Au (from ) and atomic number 79, making it one of the higher atomic number elements that occur naturally. It is a bright, slightly orange-yellow, dense, soft, malleable, and ductile metal in a pure form. Chemically, gold is a transition metal and a group 11 element. It is one ... |
12241 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gallium | Gallium | Gallium is a chemical element with the symbol Ga and atomic number 31. Discovered by French chemist Paul-Émile Lecoq de Boisbaudran in 1875, Gallium is in group 13 of the periodic table and is similar to the other metals of the group (aluminium, indium, and thallium).
Elemental gallium is a soft, silvery metal in stan... |
12242 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germanium | Germanium | Germanium is a chemical element with the symbol Ge and atomic number 32. It is a lustrous, hard-brittle, grayish-white metalloid in the carbon group, chemically similar to its group neighbors silicon and tin. Pure germanium is a semiconductor with an appearance similar to elemental silicon. Like silicon, germanium natu... |
12243 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gadolinium | Gadolinium | Gadolinium is a chemical element with the symbol Gd and atomic number 64. Gadolinium is a silvery-white metal when oxidation is removed. It is only slightly malleable and is a ductile rare-earth element. Gadolinium reacts with atmospheric oxygen or moisture slowly to form a black coating. Gadolinium below its Curie poi... |
12244 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German%20Unity%20Day | German Unity Day | German Unity Day () is the National Day in Germany, celebrated on 3 October as a public holiday. It commemorates German reunification in 1990 when the Federal Republic of Germany (West Germany) and the German Democratic Republic (East Germany) were unified, so that for the first time since 1945 there existed a single G... |
12246 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alliance%2090/The%20Greens | Alliance 90/The Greens | Alliance 90/The Greens (, ), often simply referred to as the Greens ( ), is a green political party in Germany. It was formed in 1993 as the merger of The Greens, formed in West Germany in 1980, and Alliance 90, formed in East Germany in 1990. The Greens had itself merged with the East German Green Party after German r... |
12248 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gheorghe%20Zamfir | Gheorghe Zamfir | Gheorghe Zamfir (; born April 6, 1941) is a Romanian nai (pan flute) musician.
Zamfir is known for playing an expanded version of normally 20-pipe nai, with 22, 25, 28 or even 30 pipes, to increase its range, and obtaining as many as eight overtones (additional to the fundamental tone) from each pipe by changing his e... |
12250 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georg%20Henrik%20von%20Wright | Georg Henrik von Wright | Georg Henrik von Wright (; 14 June 1916 – 16 June 2003) was a Finnish philosopher.
Biography
G. H. von Wright was born in Helsinki on 14 June 1916 to Tor von Wright and his wife Ragni Elisabeth Alfthan.
On the retirement of Ludwig Wittgenstein as professor at the University of Cambridge in 1948, von Wright was electe... |
12253 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaudy%20Night | Gaudy Night | Gaudy Night (1935) is a mystery novel by Dorothy L. Sayers, the tenth featuring Lord Peter Wimsey, and the third including Harriet Vane.
The dons of Harriet Vane's alma mater, the all-female Shrewsbury College, Oxford (based on Sayers' own Somerville College), have invited her back to attend the annual Gaudy celebrati... |
12255 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G | G | G, or g, is the seventh letter of the ISO basic Latin alphabet. Its name in English is gee (pronounced ), plural gees.
History
The letter 'G' was introduced in the Old Latin period as a variant of 'C' to distinguish voiced from voiceless .
The recorded originator of 'G' is freedman Spurius Carvilius Ruga, who adde... |
12257 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamma | Gamma | Gamma (uppercase , lowercase ; gámma) is the third letter of the Greek alphabet. In the system of Greek numerals it has a value of 3. In Ancient Greek, the letter gamma represented a voiced velar stop . In Modern Greek, this letter represents either a voiced velar fricative or a voiced palatal fricative (while /g/... |
12265 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goitre | Goitre | A goitre, or goiter, is a swelling in the neck resulting from an enlarged thyroid gland. A goitre can be associated with a thyroid that is not functioning properly.
Worldwide, over 90% of goitre cases are caused by iodine deficiency. The term is from the Latin gutturia, meaning throat. Most goitres are of a benign nat... |
12266 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetics | Genetics | Genetics is a branch of biology concerned with the study of genes, genetic variation, and heredity in organisms.
Though heredity had been observed for millennia, Gregor Mendel, Moravian scientist and Augustinian friar working in the 19th century in Brno, was the first to study genetics scientifically. Mendel studied "... |
12272 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%20Pappas | George Pappas | George Sotiros Pappas (born 1942) is a professor of philosophy at Ohio State University. Pappas specializes in epistemology, the history of early modern philosophy, philosophy of religion and metaphysics. He is of Greek and English origin.
He is the author of the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy entry on "Internal... |
12274 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guy%20de%20Maupassant | Guy de Maupassant | Henri René Albert Guy de Maupassant (, ; ; 5 August 1850 – 6 July 1893) was a 19th-century French author, remembered as a master of the short story form, as well as a representative of the Naturalist school, who depicted human lives, destinies and social forces in disillusioned and often pessimistic terms.
Maupassant ... |
12276 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gheorghe%20Hagi | Gheorghe Hagi | Gheorghe Hagi (; born 5 February 1965) is a Romanian professional football manager and former player, who is currently the owner and manager of Liga I club Farul Constanța. Deployed as an attacking midfielder, Hagi was considered one of the best players in the world during the 1980s and '90s, and is regarded by many as... |
12277 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon%20Banks | Gordon Banks | Gordon Banks (30 December 1937 – 12 February 2019) was an English professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper. He made 679 appearances during a 20-year professional career, and won 73 caps for England, highlighted by starting every game of the nation's 1966 World Cup victory.
Banks joined Chesterfield in March... |
12278 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ganglion | Ganglion | A ganglion is a group of neuron cell bodies in the peripheral nervous system. In the somatic nervous system this includes dorsal root ganglia and trigeminal ganglia among a few others. In the autonomic nervous system there are both sympathetic and parasympathetic ganglia which contain the cell bodies of postganglionic ... |
12281 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gottfried%20Wilhelm%20Leibniz | Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz | Gottfried Wilhelm (von) Leibniz ( – 14 November 1716) was a German polymath active as a mathematician, philosopher, scientist, and diplomat. He is a prominent figure in both the history of philosophy and the history of mathematics. He wrote works on philosophy, theology, ethics, politics, law, history, and philology. L... |
12283 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamma%20World | Gamma World | Gamma World is a science fantasy role-playing game, originally designed by James M. Ward and Gary Jaquet, and first published by TSR in 1978. It borrowed heavily from Ward's earlier game, Metamorphosis Alpha.
Setting
Gamma World takes place in the mid-25th century, more than a century after a second nuclear war had d... |
12284 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grimoire | Grimoire | A grimoire ( ) (also known as a "book of spells" or a "spellbook") is a textbook of magic, typically including instructions on how to create magical objects like talismans and amulets, how to perform magical spells, charms and divination, and how to summon or invoke supernatural entities such as angels, spirits, deitie... |
12285 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand%20Guignol | Grand Guignol | Le Théâtre du Grand-Guignol (: "The Theatre of the Great Puppet") – known as the Grand Guignol – was a theatre in the Pigalle district of Paris (at 20 bis, ). From its opening in 1897 until its closing in 1962, it specialised in naturalistic horror shows. Its name is often used as a general term for graphic, amoral hor... |
12286 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great%20Plague%20of%20London | Great Plague of London | The Great Plague of London, lasting from 1665 to 1666, was the last major epidemic of the bubonic plague to occur in England. It happened within the centuries-long Second Pandemic, a period of intermittent bubonic plague epidemics that originated in Central Asia in 1331 (the first year of the Black Death), included rel... |
12293 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphical%20user%20interface | Graphical user interface | The graphical user interface (GUI or ) is a form of user interface that allows users to interact with electronic devices through graphical icons and audio indicator such as primary notation, instead of text-based user interfaces, typed command labels or text navigation. GUIs were introduced in reaction to the percei... |
12295 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamete | Gamete | A gamete (/ˈɡæmiːt/; from Ancient Greek γαμετή gamete from gamein "to marry") is a haploid cell that fuses with another haploid cell during fertilization in organisms that reproduce sexually. Gametes are an organism's reproductive cells, also referred to as sex cells. In species that produce two morphologically distinc... |
12296 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20German%20proverbs | List of German proverbs | German proverbs
Proverbs |
12300 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%20R.%20R.%20Martin | George R. R. Martin | George Raymond Richard Martin (born George Raymond Martin; September 20, 1948), also known as GRRM, is an American novelist, screenwriter, television producer and short story writer. He is the author of the series of epic fantasy novels A Song of Ice and Fire, which were adapted into the Emmy Award-winning HBO series G... |
12301 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A%20Song%20of%20Ice%20and%20Fire | A Song of Ice and Fire | A Song of Ice and Fire is a series of epic fantasy novels by the American novelist and screenwriter George R. R. Martin. He began the first volume of the series, A Game of Thrones, in 1991, and it was published in 1996. Martin, who initially envisioned the series as a trilogy, has published five out of a planned seven ... |
12302 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World%20of%20A%20Song%20of%20Ice%20and%20Fire | World of A Song of Ice and Fire | The fictional world in which the A Song of Ice and Fire novels by George R. R. Martin take place is divided into several continents, known collectively as The Known World.
Most of the story takes place on the continent of Westeros and in a large political entity known as the Seven Kingdoms. Those kingdoms are spread a... |
12304 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grandmaster%20%28chess%29 | Grandmaster (chess) | Grandmaster (GM) is a title awarded to chess players by the world chess organization FIDE. Apart from World Champion, Grandmaster is the highest title a chess player can attain. Once achieved, the title is held for life, though exceptionally it has been revoked for cheating.
The title of Grandmaster, along with the le... |
12305 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gotthold%20Ephraim%20Lessing | Gotthold Ephraim Lessing | Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (, ; 22 January 1729 – 15 February 1781) was a German writer, philosopher, dramatist, publicist and art critic, and an outstanding representative of the Enlightenment era. His plays and theoretical writings substantially influenced the development of German literature. He is widely considered b... |
12306 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geotechnical%20engineering | Geotechnical engineering | Geotechnical engineering, also known as geotechnics, is the branch of civil engineering concerned with the engineering behavior of earth materials. It uses the principles of soil mechanics and rock mechanics for the solution of its respective engineering problems. It also relies on knowledge of geology, hydrology, geop... |
12307 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustave%20Flaubert | Gustave Flaubert | Gustave Flaubert ( , , ; 12 December 1821 – 8 May 1880) was a French novelist. Highly influential, he has been considered the leading exponent of literary realism in his country. According to the literary theorist Kornelije Kvas, "in Flaubert, realism strives for formal perfection, so the presentation of reality tends... |
12308 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregory%20Chaitin | Gregory Chaitin | Gregory John Chaitin ( ; born 25 June 1947) is an Argentine-American mathematician and computer scientist. Beginning in the late 1960s, Chaitin made contributions to algorithmic information theory and metamathematics, in particular a computer-theoretic result equivalent to Gödel's incompleteness theorem. He is conside... |
12309 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goran%20Bregovi%C4%87 | Goran Bregović | Goran Bregović (; born 22 March 1950) is a recording artist from Bosnia and Herzegovina. He is one of the most internationally known modern musicians and composers of the Slavic-speaking countries in the Balkans, and is one of the few former Yugoslav musicians who has performed at major international venues such as Car... |
12312 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gestation | Gestation | Gestation is the period of development during the carrying of an embryo, and later fetus, inside viviparous animals (the embryo develops within the parent). It is typical for mammals, but also occurs for some non-mammals. Mammals during pregnancy can have one or more gestations at the same time, for example in a multip... |
12316 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamma%20function | Gamma function | In mathematics, the gamma function (represented by , the capital letter gamma from the Greek alphabet) is one commonly used extension of the factorial function to complex numbers. The gamma function is defined for all complex numbers except the non-positive integers. For any positive integer ,
Derived by Daniel Bern... |
12317 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georges%20Braque | Georges Braque | Georges Braque ( , ; 13 May 1882 – 31 August 1963) was a major 20th-century French painter, collagist, draughtsman, printmaker and sculptor. His most notable contributions were in his alliance with Fauvism from 1905, and the role he played in the development of Cubism. Braque's work between 1908 and 1912 is closely ass... |
12318 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilbert%20Cesbron | Gilbert Cesbron | Gilbert Cesbron (13 January 1913, Paris – 13 August 1979, Paris) was a French novelist.
Born in Paris, Cesbron attended what is now known as Lycée Condorcet. In 1944, he published his first novel, Les innocents de Paris ("The Innocent of Paris"), in Switzerland. He first came into wide public acclaim with the release ... |
12323 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU%20Compiler%20Collection | GNU Compiler Collection | The GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) is an optimizing compiler produced by the GNU Project supporting various programming languages, hardware architectures and operating systems. The Free Software Foundation (FSF) distributes GCC as free software under the GNU General Public License (GNU GPL). GCC is a key component of th... |
12326 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galen | Galen | Aelius Galenus or Claudius Galenus (; September 129 – c. AD 216), often Anglicized as Galen () or Galen of Pergamon, was a Greek physician, surgeon and philosopher in the Roman Empire. Considered to be one of the most accomplished of all medical researchers of antiquity, Galen influenced the development of various scie... |
12327 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speaking%20in%20tongues | Speaking in tongues | Speaking in tongues, also known as glossolalia, is a practice in which people utter words or speech-like sounds, often thought by believers to be languages unknown to the speaker. One definition used by linguists is the fluid vocalizing of speech-like syllables that lack any readily comprehended meaning, in some cases ... |
12332 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustav%20Kirchhoff | Gustav Kirchhoff | Gustav Robert Kirchhoff (; 12 March 1824 – 17 October 1887) was a German physicist who contributed to the fundamental understanding of electrical circuits, spectroscopy, and the emission of black-body radiation by heated objects.
He coined the term black-body radiation in 1862. Several different sets of concepts are ... |
12333 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G.%20K.%20Chesterton | G. K. Chesterton | Gilbert Keith Chesterton (29 May 1874 – 14 June 1936) was an English writer, philosopher, lay theologian, and literary and art critic. He has been referred to as the "prince of paradox". Time magazine observed of his writing style: "Whenever possible Chesterton made his points with popular sayings, proverbs, allegori... |
12334 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/God%20Save%20the%20Queen | God Save the Queen | "God Save the Queen", alternatively "God Save the King" (dependent on the gender of the reigning monarch), is the national or royal anthem in most Commonwealth realms, their territories, and the British Crown dependencies. The author of the tune is unknown, and it may originate in plainchant, but an attribution to the ... |
12336 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gladiator | Gladiator | A gladiator (, "swordsman", from , "sword") was an armed combatant who entertained audiences in the Roman Republic and Roman Empire in violent confrontations with other gladiators, wild animals, and condemned criminals. Some gladiators were volunteers who risked their lives and their legal and social standing by appear... |
12338 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GMO%20%28disambiguation%29 | GMO (disambiguation) | A GMO is a genetically modified organism.
GMO may also refer to:
Genetically modified food
Gell-Mann–Okubo mass formula in particle physics
Generalised molecular orbital theory, in chemistry
Gulf, Mobile and Ohio Railroad, a U.S. railroad carrier corporation
U.S. Bank Championship in Milwaukee (formerly Greater M... |
12339 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetically%20modified%20organism | Genetically modified organism | A genetically modified organism (GMO) is any organism whose genetic material has been altered using genetic engineering techniques. The exact definition of a genetically modified organism and what constitutes genetic engineering varies, with the most common being an organism altered in a way that "does not occur natura... |
12341 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghent | Ghent | Ghent ( ; Dutch: Gent ; French: Gand ; traditional English: Gaunt) is a city and a municipality in the Flemish Region of Belgium. It is the capital and largest city of the East Flanders province, and the third largest in the country, exceeded in size only by Brussels and Antwerp. It is a port and university city.
The... |
12343 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guadeloupe | Guadeloupe | Guadeloupe (; ; , ) is an archipelago and overseas department and region of France in the Caribbean. It consists of six inhabited islands—Basse-Terre, Grande-Terre, Marie-Galante, La Désirade and the two inhabited Îles des Saintes—as well as many uninhabited islands and outcroppings. It is south of Antigua and Barbuda ... |
12345 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics%20of%20Guadeloupe | Demographics of Guadeloupe | Guadeloupe has a population of 375,693 (2021).
Population
According to INSEE Guadeloupe had an estimated population of 403,977 on January 1, 2012. Life expectancy at birth is 77.0 years for males, and 83.5 for females (figures for 2011).
Languages
French is the official language, taught in the school system. Antillea... |
12349 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telecommunications%20in%20Guadeloupe | Telecommunications in Guadeloupe | As an overseas department and region of France, Guadeloupe has a developed telecommunication system.
Internet
In 2019, there were 170,000 active high speed internet broadband subscriptions in Guadeloupe. 3 Internet Service Providers (ISPs) service the region: Orange Caraïbes, Mediaserv, and Outremer Telecom.
In 2019... |
12350 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transport%20in%20Guadeloupe | Transport in Guadeloupe | As an archipelago, Guadeloupe depends on several systems of public transport. The two islands that make up Guadeloupe proper - Grande-Terre and Basse-Terre - have an extensive road network, while water and air transportation connects to the outer islands as well as international destinations.
Road transport
Guadeloupe... |
12353 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glagolitic%20script | Glagolitic script | The Glagolitic script (, , glagolitsa) is the oldest known Slavic alphabet. It is generally agreed to have been created in the 9th century by Saint Cyril, a monk from Thessaloniki. He and his brother, Saint Methodius, were sent by the Byzantine Emperor Michael III in 863 to Great Moravia to spread Christianity among th... |
12354 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greatest%20common%20divisor | Greatest common divisor | In mathematics, the greatest common divisor (GCD) of two or more integers, which are not all zero, is the largest positive integer that divides each of the integers. For two integers x, y, the greatest common divisor of x and y is denoted . For example, the GCD of 8 and 12 is 4, that is, .
In the name "greatest common... |
12357 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gazpacho | Gazpacho | Gazpacho (; ) or Gaspacho (), also called Andalusian gazpacho, is a cold soup made of raw, blended vegetables. It originated in the southern regions of the Iberian peninsula and spread into other areas. Gazpacho is widely eaten in Spain and Portugal, particularly during hot summers, since it is refreshing and cool.
Al... |
12359 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gopher%20%28disambiguation%29 | Gopher (disambiguation) | A gopher, also known as a "pocket gopher" (family Geomyidae), is a burrowing rodent native to North America and Central America.
Gopher may also refer to:
Nature
Some species of ground squirrels (tribe Marmotini) of North America, particularly those formerly classified as Spermophilus, are informally referred to as ... |
12361 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gnome | Gnome | A gnome, gnomus, gnomo, or Lutin is a mythological creature and diminutive spirit in Renaissance magic and alchemy, first introduced by Paracelsus in the 16th century and later adopted by more recent authors including those of modern fantasy literature. Its characteristics have been reinterpreted to suit the needs of ... |
12365 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Googolplex | Googolplex | A googolplex is the number 10, or equivalently, 10 or 1010,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,00,000,000 . Written out in ordinary decimal notation, it is 1 followed by 10100 zeroes; that is, a 1 followed by a googol zeroes.
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12366 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphite | Graphite | Graphite (), archaically referred to as plumbago, is a crystalline form of the element carbon with its atoms arranged in a hexagonal structure. It occurs naturally in this form and is the most stable form of carbon under standard conditions. Under high pressures and temperatures it converts to diamond. Graphite is used... |
12367 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garry%20Trudeau | Garry Trudeau | Garretson Beekman Trudeau (born July 21, 1948) is a Pulitzer Prize winning American cartoonist, best known for creating the Doonesbury comic strip. Trudeau is also the creator and executive producer of the Amazon Studios political comedy series Alpha House.
Background and education
Trudeau was born in New York City, t... |
12369 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guild | Guild | A guild is an association of artisans and merchants who oversee the practice of their craft/trade in a particular area. The earliest types of guild formed as organizations of tradesmen, belonging to: a professional association, a trade union, a cartel, and/or a secret society. They sometimes depended on grants of le... |
12372 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gradius%20%28video%20game%29 | Gradius (video game) | is a side-scrolling shooter video game developed and published by Konami. The first game in the Gradius series, it was originally released as a coin-operated arcade game in 1985. The player maneuvers a spacecraft known as the Vic Viper that must defend itself from the various alien enemies. The game uses a power-up sys... |
12373 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamemaster | Gamemaster | A gamemaster (GM; also known as game master, game manager, game moderator, referee, or storyteller) is a person who acts as an organizer, officiant for regarding rules, arbitrator, and moderator for a multiplayer role-playing game. They are more common in co-operative games in which players work together than in compet... |
12383 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetic%20engineering | Genetic engineering | Genetic engineering, also called genetic modification or genetic manipulation, is the direct manipulation of an organism's genes using biotechnology. It is a set of technologies used to change the genetic makeup of cells, including the transfer of genes within and across species boundaries to produce improved or novel ... |
12384 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gettysburg%20Address | Gettysburg Address | The Gettysburg Address is a speech that U.S. President Abraham Lincoln delivered during the American Civil War at the dedication of the Soldiers' National Cemetery in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, on the afternoon of November 19, 1863, four and a half months after the Union armies defeated those of the Confederacy at the B... |
12385 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetic%20code | Genetic code | The genetic code is the set of rules used by living cells to translate information encoded within genetic material (DNA or mRNA sequences of nucleotide triplets, or codons) into proteins. Translation is accomplished by the ribosome, which links proteinogenic amino acids in an order specified by messenger RNA (mRNA), us... |
12386 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden%20ratio | Golden ratio | In mathematics, two quantities are in the golden ratio if their ratio is the same as the ratio of their sum to the larger of the two quantities. Expressed algebraically, for quantities and with
where the Greek letter phi or ) represents the golden ratio. It is an irrational number that is a solution to the quadrat... |
12388 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genome | Genome | In the fields of molecular biology and genetics, a genome is all genetic information of an organism. It consists of nucleotide sequences of DNA (or RNA in RNA viruses). The genome includes both the genes (the coding regions) and the noncoding DNA, as well as mitochondrial DNA and chloroplast DNA. The study of the genom... |
12393 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaia%20philosophy | Gaia philosophy | Gaia philosophy (named after Gaia, Greek goddess of the Earth) is a broadly inclusive term for related concepts that living organisms on a planet will affect the nature of their environment in order to make the environment more suitable for life. This set of hypotheses holds that all organisms on a life-giving planet r... |
12395 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenhouse%20effect | Greenhouse effect | The greenhouse effect is a process that occurs when energy from a planet's sun goes through its atmosphere and warms the planet's surface, but the atmosphere prevents the heat from returning directly to space, resulting in a warmer planet. Light arriving from our Sun passes through Earth's atmosphere and warms its surf... |
12396 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Group%20homomorphism | Group homomorphism | In mathematics, given two groups, (G, ∗) and (H, ·), a group homomorphism from (G, ∗) to (H, ·) is a function h : G → H such that for all u and v in G it holds that
where the group operation on the left side of the equation is that of G and on the right side that of H.
From this property, one can deduce that h maps t... |
12397 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Group%20isomorphism | Group isomorphism | In abstract algebra, a group isomorphism is a function between two groups that sets up a one-to-one correspondence between the elements of the groups in a way that respects the given group operations. If there exists an isomorphism between two groups, then the groups are called isomorphic. From the standpoint of group ... |
12398 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geographic%20information%20system | Geographic information system | A geographic information system (GIS) is a type of database containing geographic data (that is, descriptions of phenomena for which location is relevant), combined with software tools for managing, analyzing, and visualizing those data. In a broader sense, one may consider such a system to also include human users and... |
12401 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graph%20theory | Graph theory | In mathematics, graph theory is the study of graphs, which are mathematical structures used to model pairwise relations between objects. A graph in this context is made up of vertices (also called nodes or points) which are connected by edges (also called links or lines). A distinction is made between undirected graphs... |
12405 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gumby | Gumby | Gumby is an American clay animation franchise, centered on the titular green clay humanoid character created and modeled by Art Clokey. The character has been the subject of two television series, a feature-length film and other media. Since the original series aired, Gumby has become a famous example of stop-motion cl... |
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