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12406 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gioachino%20Rossini | Gioachino Rossini | Gioachino Antonio Rossini (29 February 1792 – 13 November 1868) was an Italian composer who gained fame for his 39 operas, although he also wrote many songs, some chamber music and piano pieces, and some sacred music. He set new standards for both comic and serious opera before retiring from large-scale composition whi... |
12407 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gibberish | Gibberish | Gibberish, also called jibber-jabber or gobbledygook, is speech that is (or appears to be) nonsense. It may include speech sounds that are not actual words, or language games and specialized jargon that seems nonsensical to outsiders.
"Gibberish" is also used as an imprecation to denigrate or tar ideas or opinions the... |
12408 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gnaeus%20Julius%20Agricola | Gnaeus Julius Agricola | Gnaeus Julius Agricola (; 13 June 40 – 23 August 93) was a Roman Italo-Gallic general responsible for much of the Roman conquest of Britain. Written by his son-in-law Tacitus, the De vita et moribus Iulii Agricolae is the primary source for most of what is known about him, along with detailed archaeological evidence f... |
12417 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guanosine | Guanosine | Guanosine (symbol G or Guo) is a purine nucleoside comprising guanine attached to a ribose (ribofuranose) ring via a β-N9-glycosidic bond. Guanosine can be phosphorylated to become guanosine monophosphate (GMP), cyclic guanosine monophosphate (cGMP), guanosine diphosphate (GDP), and guanosine triphosphate (GTP). These ... |
12420 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6del%27s%20ontological%20proof | Gödel's ontological proof | Gödel's ontological proof is a formal argument by the mathematician Kurt Gödel (1906–1978) for the existence of God. The argument is in a line of development that goes back to Anselm of Canterbury (1033–1109). St. Anselm's ontological argument, in its most succinct form, is as follows: "God, by definition, is that for ... |
12422 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20gymnasts | List of gymnasts | Gymnasts are people who participate in the sport of gymnastics. This sport contains disciplines that include, but are not limited to:
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acrobatic gymnastics
aerobic gymnastics<ref name="FIGAerobics">{{cite web|url=http://www.fig-gymnastics.com/vsite/vnavsite/page/directory/0,10853,5187-188... |
12424 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetic%20programming | Genetic programming | In artificial intelligence, genetic programming (GP) is a technique of evolving programs, starting from a population of unfit (usually random) programs, fit for a particular task by applying operations analogous to natural genetic processes to the population of programs.
The operations are: selection of the fittest pr... |
12425 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustav%20Klimt | Gustav Klimt | Gustav Klimt (July 14, 1862 – February 6, 1918) was an Austrian symbolist painter and one of the most prominent members of the Vienna Secession movement. Klimt is noted for his paintings, murals, sketches, and other objets d'art. Klimt's primary subject was the female body, and his works are marked by a frank eroticism... |
12426 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groucho%20Marx | Groucho Marx | Julius Henry "Groucho" Marx (; October 2, 1890 – August 19, 1977) was an American comedian, actor, writer, stage, film, radio, and television star. He is generally considered to have been a master of quick wit and one of America's greatest comedians.
He made 13 feature films as a team with his siblings the Marx Brothe... |
12430 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game%20Boy%20Advance | Game Boy Advance | The (GBA) is a 32-bit handheld game console developed, manufactured and marketed by Nintendo as the successor to the Game Boy Color. It was released in Japan on March 21, 2001, in North America on June 11, 2001, in the PAL region on June 22, 2001, and in mainland China as iQue Game Boy Advance on June 8, 2004. The GBA... |
12431 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google%20Search | Google Search | Google Search (also known simply as Google), is a search engine provided by Google. Handling more than 3.5 billion searches per day, it has a 92% share of the global search engine market. It is also the most-visited website in the world.
The order of search results returned by Google is based, in part, on a priority r... |
12432 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genius | Genius | A genius is a person who displays exceptional intellectual ability, creative productivity, universality in genres, or originality, typically to a degree that is associated with the achievement of new discoveries or advances in a domain of knowledge. Geniuses may be polymaths who excel across many diverse subjects or ma... |
12434 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grain%20%28disambiguation%29 | Grain (disambiguation) | Grains are the seeds of arable crops or the crops bearing them.
Grain or grains may also refer to:
Material structures
Grain (textile), the orientation of a woven textile used in a garment
Grain (unit), a unit of mass equal to 64.79891 milligrams, of an avoirdupois pound
Grains per gallon, a unit of water hardness
... |
12435 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grass%20%28disambiguation%29 | Grass (disambiguation) | Grass refers to the many species of plants in the family Poaceae.
Grass may also refer to:
Plants
Grass is also commonly used in the names of other plants, some but not all with narrow leaves, including:
Blue-eyed grasses, Sisyrinchium in the family Iridaceae
China grass, Boehmeria nivea, a nettle grown for fibre, i... |
12436 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grape | Grape | A grape is a fruit, botanically a berry, of the deciduous woody vines of the flowering plant genus Vitis.
Grapes can be eaten fresh as table grapes, used for making wine, jam, grape juice, jelly, grape seed extract, vinegar, and grape seed oil, or dried as raisins, currants and sultanas. Grapes are a non-climacteric ... |
12437 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetic%20disorder | Genetic disorder | A genetic disorder is a health problem caused by one or more abnormalities in the genome. It can be caused by a mutation in a single gene (monogenic) or multiple genes (polygenic) or by a chromosomal abnormality. Although polygenic disorders are the most common, the term is mostly used when discussing disorders with a ... |
12439 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guanine | Guanine | Guanine () (symbol G or Gua) is one of the four main nucleobases found in the nucleic acids DNA and RNA, the others being adenine, cytosine, and thymine (uracil in RNA). In DNA, guanine is paired with cytosine. The guanine nucleoside is called guanosine.
With the formula C5H5N5O, guanine is a derivative of purine, con... |
12441 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genocide | Genocide | Genocide is the intentional destruction of a people, usually defined as an ethnic, national, racial, or religious group. Raphael Lemkin coined the term in 1944, combining the Greek word (, "race, people") with the Latin suffix ("act of killing").
In 1948, the United Nations Genocide Convention defined genocide as a... |
12442 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%20Clinton | George Clinton |
George Clinton may refer to:
Music
George Clinton (clarinettist) (1850–1913), British clarinettist
George Clinton (funk musician) (born 1941), American funk musician
George S. Clinton (born 1947), American musician
Politics
George Clinton (Royal Navy officer) (1686–1761), British colonial governor of Newfoundland an... |
12446 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germanic%20peoples | Germanic peoples | The Germanic peoples were a historical group of people living in Central Europe and Scandinavia. Since the 19th century, they have traditionally been defined by the use of ancient and early medieval Germanic languages and are thus equated at least approximately with Germanic-speaking peoples, although different academi... |
12448 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ganges | Ganges | The Ganges ( ) (in India: Ganga ( ); in Bangladesh: Padma ( )) is a trans-boundary river of Asia which flows through India and Bangladesh. The river rises in the western Himalayas in the Indian state of Uttarakhand. It flows south and east through the Gangetic plain of North India, where it receives the right-bank tri... |
12449 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile%20Suit%20Gundam%20Wing | Mobile Suit Gundam Wing | Mobile Suit Gundam Wing, also known in Japan as , is a 1995 Japanese mecha anime series directed by Masashi Ikeda and written by Katsuyuki Sumizawa. It is the sixth installment in the Gundam franchise, taking place in the "After Colony" timeline. As with the original series, the plot of Gundam Wing centers on a war in... |
12450 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6del%27s%20completeness%20theorem | Gödel's completeness theorem | Gödel's completeness theorem is a fundamental theorem in mathematical logic that establishes a correspondence between semantic truth and syntactic provability in first-order logic.
The completeness theorem applies to any first order theory: If T is such a theory, and φ is a sentence (in the same language) and any mod... |
12451 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global%20Boundary%20Stratotype%20Section%20and%20Point | Global Boundary Stratotype Section and Point | A Global Boundary Stratotype Section and Point (GSSP) is an internationally agreed upon reference point on a stratigraphic section which defines the lower boundary of a stage on the geologic time scale. The effort to define GSSPs is conducted by the International Commission on Stratigraphy, a part of the International... |
12454 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gough%20Whitlam | Gough Whitlam | Edward Gough Whitlam (; 11 July 191621 October 2014) was the 21st prime minister of Australia, serving from 1972 to 1975. The longest-serving leader of the Australian Labor Party (ALP), he was removed as prime minister after controversially being dismissed by the governor-general of Australia, Sir John Kerr, at the cl... |
12457 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geri%20and%20Freki | Geri and Freki | In Norse mythology, Geri and Freki (Old Norse, both meaning "the ravenous" or "greedy one") are two wolves which are said to accompany the god Odin. They are attested in the Poetic Edda, a collection of epic poetry compiled in the 13th century from earlier traditional sources, in the Prose Edda, written in the 13th cen... |
12458 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ginnungagap | Ginnungagap | In Norse mythology, Ginnungagap (Old Norse: ; "gaping abyss", "yawning void") is the primordial void mentioned in the Gylfaginning, the Eddaic text recording Norse cosmogony.
Etymology
Ginnunga- is usually interpreted as deriving from a verb meaning "gape" or "yawn", but no such word occurs in Old Norse except in vers... |
12460 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green | Green | Green is the color between cyan and yellow on the visible spectrum. It is evoked by light which has a dominant wavelength of roughly 495570 nm. In subtractive color systems, used in painting and color printing, it is created by a combination of yellow and cyan; in the RGB color model, used on television and computer sc... |
12461 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gradient | Gradient | In vector calculus, the gradient of a scalar-valued differentiable function of several variables is the vector field (or vector-valued function) whose value at a point is the vector whose components are the partial derivatives of at . That is, for , its gradient is defined at the point in n-dimensional space as t... |
12462 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gauss%20%28unit%29 | Gauss (unit) | The gauss, symbol (sometimes Gs), is a unit of measurement of magnetic induction, also known as magnetic flux density. The unit is part of the Gaussian system of units, which inherited it from the older CGS-EMU system. It was named after the German mathematician and physicist Carl Friedrich Gauss in 1936. One gauss is... |
12463 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glacier | Glacier | A glacier (; ) is a persistent body of dense ice that is constantly moving under its own weight. A glacier forms where the accumulation of snow exceeds its ablation over many years, often centuries. Glaciers slowly deform and flow under stresses induced by their weight, creating crevasses, seracs, and other distinguish... |
12464 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gylfaginning | Gylfaginning | Gylfaginning (Old Norse: 'The Beguiling of Gylfi' or 'The Deluding of Gylfi'; c. 20,000 words; 13th century Old Norse pronunciation ) is the first part of the 13th century Prose Edda after the Prologue. The Gylfaginning deals with the creation and destruction of the world of the Æsir and many other aspects of Norse myt... |
12466 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glorious%20Revolution | Glorious Revolution | The Glorious Revolution of November 1688 (; ; ), the invasion also known as the Glorieuze Overtocht or Glorious Crossing by the Dutch, was the deposition of James II and VII, king of England, Scotland and Ireland and replacement by his daughter Mary II and her husband, William III of Orange, stadtholder and de facto ru... |
12468 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great%20Lakes%20Colleges%20Association | Great Lakes Colleges Association | The Great Lakes Colleges Association (GLCA) is a consortium of 13 liberal arts colleges located in the states around the Great Lakes. The 13 schools are located in Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Indiana. It was chartered in the state of Michigan and incorporated as a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization in 1962. Its s... |
12469 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goidelic%20languages | Goidelic languages | The Goidelic or Gaelic languages (; ; ) form one of the two groups of Insular Celtic languages, the other being the Brittonic languages.
Goidelic languages historically formed a dialect continuum stretching from Ireland through the Isle of Man to Scotland. There are three modern Goidelic languages: Irish (), Scottish... |
12471 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gnosticism | Gnosticism | Gnosticism (from , , 'having knowledge') is a collection of religious ideas and systems which coalesced in the late 1st century AD among Jewish and early Christian sects. These various groups emphasised personal spiritual knowledge (gnosis) above the orthodox teachings, traditions, and authority of religious institutio... |
12472 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregor%20Aichinger | Gregor Aichinger | Gregor Aichinger (c. 1565 – 21 January 1628) was a German composer.
Life
He was organist to the Fugger family of Augsburg in 1584. In 1599 he went for a two-year visit to Rome for musical, rather than religious reasons, although he had taken holy orders before his appointment under the Fuggers. Proske, in the preface ... |
12474 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gospel%20of%20Barnabas | Gospel of Barnabas | The Gospel of Barnabas is a book depicting the life of Jesus, which claims to be by the biblical Barnabas who in this work is one of the twelve apostles. Two manuscripts are known to have existed, both dated to the late 16th or early 17th centuries, with one written in Italian and the other in Spanish, its text survivi... |
12475 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgius%20Agricola | Georgius Agricola | Georgius Agricola (; born Georg Pawer or Georg Bauer; 24 March 1494 – 21 November 1555) was a German Humanist scholar, mineralogist and metallurgist. Born in the small town of Glauchau, in the Electorate of Saxony of the Holy Roman Empire, he was broadly educated, but took a particular interest in the mining and refini... |
12478 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germanicus | Germanicus | Germanicus Julius Caesar (24 May 15 BC – 10 October AD 19) was a popular and prominent Roman general, known for his campaigns in Germania. The son of Nero Claudius Drusus and Antonia the Younger, Germanicus was born into an influential branch of the patrician gens Claudia. The agnomen Germanicus was added to his full n... |
12479 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giulio%20Alberoni | Giulio Alberoni | Giulio Alberoni (30 May 1664 OS – 26 June NS 1752) was an Italian cardinal and
statesman in the service of Philip V of Spain. He is known also for being a remarkable soldier and great gourmet who advised the Spanish court on table manners and menus.
Early years
He was born near Piacenza, probably at the village of Fio... |
12480 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gil%20%C3%81lvarez%20Carrillo%20de%20Albornoz | Gil Álvarez Carrillo de Albornoz | Gil Álvarez Carrillo de Albornoz more commonly Gil de Albornoz (; – 23 August 1367), was a Spanish cardinal, archbishop, Chancellor of Toledo and ecclesiastical leader. He was a descendant of the kings of León and Aragón and founder of the Collegio di Spagna, an academic institution of Bologna.
Biography
Early year... |
12481 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giovanni%20Aldini | Giovanni Aldini | Giovanni Aldini (10 April 1762 – 17 January 1834) was an Italian physician and physicist born in Bologna. He was a brother of the statesman Count Antonio Aldini (1756–1826).
He became professor of physics at Bologna in 1798, in succession to his uncle Luigi Galvani (1737–1798). His scientific work was chiefly concern... |
12482 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Girolamo%20Aleandro | Girolamo Aleandro | Girolamo Aleandro (also Hieronymus Aleander; 13 February 14801 February 1542) was an Italian cardinal, and .
Life
Aleandro was born on 13 February 1480 in Motta di Livenza, in the province of Treviso, part of the Republic of Venice. He studied in Venice, where he became acquainted with Erasmus and Aldus Manutius, and ... |
12483 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galeazzo%20Alessi | Galeazzo Alessi | Galeazzo Alessi (1512 – 30 December 1572) was an Italian architect from Perugia, known throughout Europe for his distinctive style based on his enthusiasm for ancient architecture. He studied drawing for civil and military architecture under the direction of Giovanni Battista Caporali.
For a number of years he lived i... |
12484 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giulio%20Alenio | Giulio Alenio | Giulio Aleni (; 1582– 10 June 1649), in Chinese , was an Italian Jesuit missionary and scholar. He was born in Leno near Brescia in Italy, at the time part of the Republic of Venice, and died at Yanping in China. He became a member of the Society of Jesus in 1600 and distinguished himself in his knowledge of mathemati... |
12485 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German%20cuisine | German cuisine | The cuisine of Germany () is made up of many different local or regional cuisines, reflecting the country's federal history. Germany itself is part of a larger cultural region, Central Europe, sharing many traditions with neighbouring countries such as Poland and the Czech Republic. Southern regions, like Bavaria and S... |
12486 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek%20cuisine | Greek cuisine | Greek cuisine (Greek: Ελληνική Κουζίνα) is the cuisine of Greece and the Greek diaspora. In common with many other cuisines of the Mediterranean, it is founded on the triad of wheat, olive oil, and wine. It uses vegetables, olive oil, grains, fish, and meat, including pork, poultry, veal and beef, lamb, rabbit, and goa... |
12490 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gospel%20of%20Mark | Gospel of Mark | The Gospel according to Mark (), also called the Gospel of Mark or simply Mark, is the second of the four canonical gospels and of the three synoptic Gospels. It tells of the ministry of Jesus from his baptism by John the Baptist to his death, burial, and the discovery of his empty tomb. There is no miraculous birth or... |
12491 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gospel%20of%20Luke | Gospel of Luke | The Gospel according to Luke (), also called the Gospel of Luke or simply Luke, tells of the origins, birth, ministry, death, resurrection, and ascension of Jesus Christ. Together with the Acts of the Apostles, it makes up a two-volume work which scholars call Luke–Acts, accounting for 27.5% of the New Testament. The c... |
12492 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gospel%20of%20Matthew | Gospel of Matthew | The Gospel according to Matthew (), also called the Gospel of Matthew or simply Matthew, is the first book of the New Testament and one of the three synoptic Gospels. It tells how Israel's Messiah, Jesus, comes to his people and forms a community of disciples, of how he taught the people through such events as the Serm... |
12493 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gospel%20of%20John | Gospel of John | The Gospel according to John (), also known as the Gospel of John or simply John, is the fourth of the four canonical gospels. It contains a highly schematic account of the ministry of Jesus, with seven "signs" culminating in the raising of Lazarus (foreshadowing the resurrection of Jesus) and seven "I am" discourses (... |
12495 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grover%20Cleveland | Grover Cleveland | Stephen Grover Cleveland (March 18, 1837June 24, 1908) was an American lawyer and politician who served as the 22nd and 24th president of the United States from 1885 to 1889 and from 1893 to 1897. Cleveland is the only president in American history to serve two nonconsecutive terms in office. He won the popular vote fo... |
12499 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregorio%20Allegri | Gregorio Allegri | Gregorio Allegri (17 February 1652) was a Roman Catholic priest and Italian composer of the Roman School and brother of Domenico Allegri; he was also a singer. He was born and died in Rome. He is chiefly known for his Miserere for two choirs.
Life
He studied music as a puer (boy chorister) at San Luigi dei Francesi, u... |
12500 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodness%20%28band%29 | Goodness (band) | Goodness was an American rock band from Seattle, Washington, led by Carrie Akre, formerly of Hammerbox and now primarily a solo artist. Goodness featured Akre (vocals), Danny Newcomb (lead guitar), Garth Reeves (guitar), Fiia McGann (bass), and Chris Friel (drums). Akre, Friel, and Newcomb later joined Mike McCready o... |
12501 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoff%20Hurst | Geoff Hurst | Sir Geoffrey Charles Hurst (born 8 December 1941) is an English former professional footballer. A striker, he remains the only man to score a hat-trick in a World Cup final, when England recorded a 4–2 victory over West Germany at Wembley Stadium in 1966.
Hurst began his career with West Ham United, where he scored 2... |
12504 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giovanni%20d%27Andrea | Giovanni d'Andrea | Giovanni d'Andrea or Johannes Andreæ (1270 1275 – 1348) was an Italian expert in canon law, the most renowned and successful canonist of the later Middle Ages. His contemporaries referred to him as iuris canonici fons et tuba ("the fount and trumpet of canon law"). Most important among his works were extensive commen... |
12505 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galilean%20moons | Galilean moons | The Galilean moons (or Galilean satellites) are the four largest moons of Jupiter—Io, Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto. They were first seen by Galileo Galilei in December 1609 or January 1610, and recognized by him as satellites of Jupiter in March 1610. They were the first objects found to orbit a planet other than th... |
12507 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great%20Schism | Great Schism | Great Schism may refer to:
East–West Schism, between the Eastern Orthodox Church and the Catholic Church, beginning in 1054
Western Schism, a split within the Roman Catholic Church that lasted from 1378 to 1417
See also
Schism, a division between people, usually belonging to an organization, movement, or religious... |
12509 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gloria%20Gaynor | Gloria Gaynor | Gloria Gaynor (née Fowles; born September 7, 1943) is an American singer, best known for the disco era hits "I Will Survive" (1978), "Let Me Know (I Have a Right)" (1979), "I Am What I Am" (1983), and her version of "Never Can Say Goodbye" (1974).
Early life
Gaynor was born Gloria Fowles in Newark, New Jersey, to Dani... |
12511 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald%20Schroeder | Gerald Schroeder | Gerald Lawrence Schroeder is an Orthodox Jewish physicist, author, lecturer and teacher at College of Jewish Studies Aish HaTorah's Discovery Seminar, Essentials and Fellowships programs and Executive Learning Center, who focuses on what he perceives to be an inherent relationship between science and spirituality.
Edu... |
12514 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghost | Ghost | In folklore, a ghost is the soul or spirit of a dead person or animal that can appear to the living. In ghostlore, descriptions of ghosts vary widely from an invisible presence to translucent or barely visible wispy shapes, to realistic, lifelike forms. The deliberate attempt to contact the spirit of a deceased person ... |
12521 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geneva | Geneva | Geneva ( ; officialy ) is the second-most populous city in Switzerland (after Zürich) and the most populous city of Romandy, the French-speaking part of Switzerland. Situated where the Rhône exits Lake Geneva, it is the capital of the Republic and Canton of Geneva.
The municipality (ville de Genève) has a population ... |
12523 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerard%20Manley%20Hopkins | Gerard Manley Hopkins | Gerard Manley Hopkins (28 July 1844 – 8 June 1889) was an English poet and Jesuit priest, whose posthumous fame placed him among leading Victorian poets. His prosody – notably his concept of sprung rhythm – established him as an innovator, as did his praise of God through vivid use of imagery and nature. Only after hi... |
12528 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cis%E2%80%93trans%20isomerism | Cis–trans isomerism | Cis–trans isomerism, also known as geometric isomerism or configurational isomerism, is a term used in chemistry that concerns the spatial arrangement of atoms within molecules. The prefixes "cis" and "trans" are from Latin: "this side of" and "the other side of", respectively. In the context of chemistry, cis indicate... |
12529 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gr%C3%ADmnism%C3%A1l | Grímnismál | Grímnismál (Old Norse: ; 'The Lay of Grímnir') is one of the mythological poems of the Poetic Edda. It is preserved in the Codex Regius manuscript and the AM 748 I 4to fragment. It is spoken through the voice of Grímnir, one of the many guises of the god Odin. The very name suggests guise, or mask or hood. Through an e... |
12531 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%20Peppard | George Peppard | George Peppard (; October 1, 1928 – May 8, 1994) was an American actor. He is best remembered for his role as struggling writer Paul Varjak in the 1961 film Breakfast at Tiffany's, and for playing commando leader Lt.Col./Col. John "Hannibal" Smith in the 1980s television series The A-Team.
Peppard secured a major role... |
12533 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geocaching | Geocaching | Geocaching is an outdoor recreational activity, in which participants use a Global Positioning System (GPS) receiver or mobile device and other navigational techniques to hide and seek containers, called "geocaches" or "caches", at specific locations marked by coordinates all over the world.
A typical cache is a small... |
12534 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geographical%20mile | Geographical mile | The geographical mile is a unit of length determined by 1 minute of arc along the Earth's equator. For the international ellipsoid 1924 this equalled 1855.4 metres. The American Practical Navigator 2017 defines the geographical mile as . Greater precision depends more on choice of ellipsoid than on more careful measur... |
12535 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden%20Heroes | Golden Heroes | Golden Heroes is a superhero role-playing game that was originally written and published on an amateur basis in 1982. Games Workshop then published a more complete version in 1984. It was written by Simon Burley and Peter Haines and was illustrated by a group of artists who were working for 2000 AD at the time.
Descr... |
12537 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guangzhou | Guangzhou | Guangzhou (, ; ; or ; ), also known as Canton and alternatively romanized as Kwongchow or Kwangchow, is the capital and the largest city of Guangdong province in southern China. Located on the Pearl River about north-northwest of Hong Kong and north of Macau, Guangzhou has a history of over 2,200 years and was a ma... |
12539 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genitive%20case | Genitive case | In grammar, the genitive case (abbreviated ) is the grammatical case that marks a word, usually a noun, as modifying another word, also usually a noun—thus indicating an attributive relationship of one noun to the other noun. A genitive can also serve purposes indicating other relationships. For example, some verbs ma... |
12541 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gematria | Gematria | Gematria (; or gimatria , plural or , gimatriot) is the practice of assigning a numerical value to a name, word or phrase according to an alphanumerical cipher. A single word can yield several values depending on the cipher which is used.
Hebrew alphanumeric ciphers were probably used in biblical times, and were lat... |
12542 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grateful%20Dead | Grateful Dead | The Grateful Dead was an American rock band formed in 1965 in Palo Alto, California. The band is known for its eclectic style, which fused elements of rock, folk, country, jazz, bluegrass, blues, rock and roll, gospel, reggae, world music, and psychedelia; for live performances of lengthy instrumental jams that typical... |
12543 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groupoid | Groupoid | In mathematics, especially in category theory and homotopy theory, a groupoid (less often Brandt groupoid or virtual group) generalises the notion of group in several equivalent ways. A groupoid can be seen as a:
Group with a partial function replacing the binary operation;
Category in which every morphism is invertibl... |
12544 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galliard | Galliard | The galliard (; ; ) was a form of Renaissance dance and music popular all over Europe in the 16th century. It is mentioned in dance manuals from England, Portugal, France, Spain, Germany, and Italy.
Dance form
The galliard is not an improvised dance, but rather, it consists of choreographed patterns of steps, which oc... |
12545 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General%20surgery | General surgery | General surgery is a surgical specialty that focuses on abdominal contents including the esophagus, stomach, small intestine, large intestine, liver, pancreas, gallbladder, appendix and bile ducts, and often the thyroid gland. They also deal with diseases involving the skin, breast, soft tissue, trauma, peripheral arte... |
12546 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gorilla | Gorilla | Gorillas are herbivorous, predominantly ground-dwelling great apes that inhabit the tropical forests of equatorial Africa. The genus Gorilla is divided into two species: the eastern gorilla and the western gorilla, and either four or five subspecies. The DNA of gorillas is highly similar to that of humans, from 95 to ... |
12549 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GURPS%20Supers | GURPS Supers | GURPS Supers is a superhero roleplaying game written by Loyd Blankenship and published by Steve Jackson Games. The first edition was published in 1989.
Contents
GURPS Supers is a supplement of rules for comic-book superhero characters and campaigns for GURPS. The first edition book includes new combat rules, 24 superp... |
12550 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gallifrey | Gallifrey | Gallifrey () is a fictional planet in the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. It is the original home world of the Time Lords, the civilisation to which the main protagonist, the Doctor belongs. It is located in a binary star system 250 million light years from Earth.
It was first shown ... |
12551 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gymnastics | Gymnastics | Gymnastics is a sport that includes physical exercises requiring balance, strength, flexibility, agility, coordination,dedication and endurance. The movements involved in gymnastics contribute to the development of the arms, legs, shoulders, back, chest, and abdominal muscle groups. Gymnastics evolved from exercises us... |
12552 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great%20auk | Great auk | The great auk (Pinguinus impennis) is a species of flightless alcid that became extinct in the mid-19th century. It was the only modern species in the genus Pinguinus. It is not closely related to the birds now known as penguins, which were discovered later by Europeans and so named by sailors because of their physica... |
12553 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glorantha | Glorantha | Glorantha is a fantasy world created by Greg Stafford. It was first introduced in the board game White Bear and Red Moon (1975) by Chaosium and then in a number of other board, roleplaying and computer games, including RuneQuest and HeroQuest, as well as several works of fiction and the computer strategy game King of D... |
12555 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gram%20%28disambiguation%29 | Gram (disambiguation) | Gram is a unit of mass.
Gram may also refer to:
Mythology and fiction
Gram (mythology), a sword in Norse mythology
Gram of Denmark, a legendary king
Mount Gram (Middle-earth), a fictional place in Tolkien's writings
The lance of Gallantmon in the Japanese anime television series Digimon Tamers
People
Gram (s... |
12556 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garnet%20Bailey | Garnet Bailey | Garnet Edward "Ace" Bailey (June 13, 1948 – September 11, 2001) was a Canadian professional ice hockey player and scout who was a member of Stanley Cup and Memorial Cup winning teams. He died at the age of 53 while aboard United Airlines Flight 175, which crashed into the South Tower of the World Trade Center in New Yo... |
12557 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilles%20Deleuze | Gilles Deleuze | Gilles Deleuze (; ; 18 January 1925 – 4 November 1995) was a French philosopher who, from the early 1950s until his death in 1995, wrote on philosophy, literature, film, and fine art. His most popular works were the two volumes of Capitalism and Schizophrenia: Anti-Oedipus (1972) and A Thousand Plateaus (1980), both co... |
12558 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galaxy | Galaxy | A galaxy is a gravitationally bound system of stars, stellar remnants, interstellar gas, dust, and dark matter. The word is derived from the Greek (), literally 'milky', a reference to the Milky Way galaxy that contains the Solar System. Galaxies range in size from dwarfs with just a few hundred million () stars to gi... |
12561 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene%20Hackman | Gene Hackman | Eugene Allen Hackman (born January 30, 1930) is an American retired actor and novelist. In a career that has spanned more than six decades, Hackman has won two Academy Awards, four Golden Globes, one Screen Actors Guild Award, and two BAFTAs. Upon the death of Sidney Poitier in 2022, Hackman became the oldest living an... |
12562 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregor%20Mendel | Gregor Mendel | Gregor Johann Mendel (; ; 20 July 1822 – 6 January 1884) was a meteorologist, mathematician, biologist, Augustinian friar and abbot of St. Thomas' Abbey in Brno, Margraviate of Moravia. Mendel was born in a German-speaking family in the Silesian part of the Austrian Empire (today's Czech Republic) and gained posthumous... |
12564 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grappling | Grappling | Grappling, in hand-to-hand combat, describes sports that consist of gripping or seizing the opponent. Grappling is used at close range to gain a physical advantage over an opponent, either by imposing a position or causing injury. Grappling is a broad term that encompasses many disciplines. These various martial arts c... |
12566 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%20Mason%20University | George Mason University | George Mason University (Mason or GMU) is a public research university in Fairfax County, Virginia. The university was originally founded in 1949 as a northern branch of the University of Virginia. Named after Founding Father of the United States George Mason in 1959, it became an independent university in 1972. The sc... |
12569 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grammar | Grammar | In linguistics, the grammar of a natural language is its set of structural constraints on speakers' or writers' composition of clauses, phrases, and words. The term can also refer to the study of such constraints, a field that includes domains such as phonology, morphology, and syntax, often complemented by phonetics, ... |
12570 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gigabyte | Gigabyte | The gigabyte () is a multiple of the unit byte for digital information. The prefix giga means 109 in the International System of Units (SI). Therefore, one gigabyte is one billion bytes. The unit symbol for the gigabyte is GB.
This definition is used in all contexts of science (especially data science), engineering, b... |
12571 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galaxy%20groups%20and%20clusters | Galaxy groups and clusters | Galaxy groups and clusters are the largest known gravitationally bound objects to have arisen thus far in the process of cosmic structure formation. They form the densest part of the large-scale structure of the Universe. In models for the gravitational formation of structure with cold dark matter, the smallest structu... |
12572 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grus%20%28constellation%29 | Grus (constellation) | Grus (, or colloquially ) is a constellation in the southern sky. Its name is Latin for the crane, a type of bird. It is one of twelve constellations conceived by Petrus Plancius from the observations of Pieter Dirkszoon Keyser and Frederick de Houtman. Grus first appeared on a celestial globe published in 1598 in Ams... |
12573 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gia%20%28disambiguation%29 | Gia (disambiguation) | Gia is a 1998 film about Gia Marie Carangi.
GIA or Gia may also refer to:
People
Gia (name), a given name (including a list of people with the name)
Aviation
Gan International Airport, Maldives
Garuda Indonesian Airways, former name of Garuda Indonesia, the national airline of Indonesia
Ghana International Airl... |
12576 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galba | Galba | Galba (; born Servius Sulpicius Galba; 24 December 3 BC – 15 January AD 69) was a Roman emperor who ruled from AD 68 to 69. He was the first emperor in the Year of the Four Emperors and assumed the position following emperor Nero's suicide.
Born into a wealthy family, Galba held at various times the positions of praet... |
12577 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giga- | Giga- | Giga ( or ) is a unit prefix in the metric system denoting a factor of a short-scale billion or long-scale milliard (109 or ). It has the symbol G.
Giga is derived from the Greek word (gígas), meaning "giant." The Oxford English Dictionary reports the earliest written use of giga in this sense to be in the Reports of... |
12578 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%20Stephenson | George Stephenson | George Stephenson (9 June 1781 – 12 August 1848) was an English civil engineer and mechanical engineer. Renowned as the "Father of Railways", Stephenson was considered by the Victorians a great example of diligent application and thirst for improvement. Self-help advocate Samuel Smiles particularly praised his achievem... |
12579 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grapheme | Grapheme | In linguistics, a grapheme is the smallest functional unit of a writing system.
The word grapheme, coined in analogy with phoneme, is derived and the suffix -eme by analogy with phoneme and other names of emic units. The study of graphemes is called graphemics.
The concept of graphemes is abstract and similar to the ... |
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