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12775 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%20Frideric%20Handel | George Frideric Handel | George Frideric (or Frederick) Handel (; baptised , ; 23 February 1685 – 14 April 1759) was a German-British Baroque composer well known for his operas, oratorios, anthems, concerti grossi, and organ concertos. Handel received his training in Halle and worked as a composer in Hamburg and Italy before settling in London... |
12776 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giovanni%20Pierluigi%20da%20Palestrina | Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina | Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina ( 1525 – 2 February 1594) was an Italian Renaissance composer of sacred music and the best-known 16th-century representative of the Roman School of musical composition. He had a long-lasting influence on the development of church and secular music in Europe, especially on the developmen... |
12778 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Group%20velocity | Group velocity | The group velocity of a wave is the velocity with which the overall envelope shape of the wave's amplitudes—known as the modulation or envelope of the wave—propagates through space.
For example, if a stone is thrown into the middle of a very still pond, a circular pattern of waves with a quiescent center appears in th... |
12780 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glitnir | Glitnir | Glitnir (meaning "one who shines") is the hall of Forseti, the Norse god of law and justice, and the seat of justice amongst gods and men. It is also noted to have been a place of dwelling for Balder, Forseti's father in Norse and Germanic mythologies. Glitnir is symbolic of the importance of discussion rather than vio... |
12781 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Group%20action | Group action | In mathematics, a group action on a space is a group homomorphism of a given group into the group of transformations of the space. Similarly, a group action on a mathematical structure is a group homomorphism of a group into the automorphism group of the structure. It is said that the group acts on the space or structu... |
12783 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gzip | Gzip | gzip is a file format and a software application used for file compression and decompression. The program was created by Jean-loup Gailly and Mark Adler as a free software replacement for the compress program used in early Unix systems, and intended for use by GNU (the "g" is from "GNU"). Version 0.1 was first publicly... |
12786 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General%20anaesthetic | General anaesthetic | General anaesthetics (or anesthetics, see spelling differences) are often defined as compounds that induce a loss of consciousness in humans or loss of righting reflex in animals. Clinical definitions are also extended to include an induced coma that causes lack of awareness to painful stimuli, sufficient to facilitate... |
12787 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoffrey%20Chaucer | Geoffrey Chaucer | Geoffrey Chaucer (; – 25 October 1400) was an English poet, author, and civil servant best known for The Canterbury Tales. He has been called the "father of English literature", or, alternatively, the "father of English poetry". He was the first writer to be buried in what has since come to be called Poets' Corner, i... |
12789 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald%20Gardner%20%28Wiccan%29 | Gerald Gardner (Wiccan) | Gerald Brosseau Gardner (13 June 1884 – 12 February 1964), also known by the craft name Scire, was an English Wiccan, as well as an author and an amateur anthropologist and archaeologist. He was instrumental in bringing the Contemporary Pagan religion of Wicca to public attention, writing some of its definitive religio... |
12792 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gavin%20MacLeod | Gavin MacLeod | Gavin MacLeod () (born Allan George See; February 28, 1931 – May 29, 2021) was an American actor best known for portraying Merrill Stubing, the ship's captain, on ABC's The Love Boat and Murray Slaughter on The Mary Tyler Moore Show. A Christian television host and author whose career spanned six decades, he also appea... |
12794 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gopher%20%28protocol%29 | Gopher (protocol) | The Gopher protocol is a communication protocol designed for distributing, searching, and retrieving documents in Internet Protocol networks. The design of the Gopher protocol and user interface is menu-driven, and presented an alternative to the World Wide Web in its early stages, but ultimately fell into disfavor, y... |
12795 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General%20election | General election | A general election is a political voting election where generally all or most members of a given political body are chosen. These are usually held for a nation, state, or territory's primary legislative body, and are different from by-elections (only one electorate goes to election).
In most systems, a general electio... |
12796 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genotype | Genotype | The genotype of an organism is its complete set of genetic material. Genotype can also be used to refer to the alleles or variants an individual carries in a particular gene or genetic location. The number of alleles an individual can have in a specific gene depends on the number of copies of each chromosome found in t... |
12797 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerard%20Hengeveld | Gerard Hengeveld | Gerard Hengeveld (December 7, 1910 in Kampen – October 28, 2001 in Bergen, North Holland) was a Dutch classical pianist, music composer and educationalist. He is especially known for his compositions of study material for piano. Other compositions include two piano concertos, a violin sonata, and a sonata for cello. He... |
12798 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%20William%2C%20Elector%20of%20Brandenburg | George William, Elector of Brandenburg | George William (; 13 November 1595 – 1 December 1640), of the Hohenzollern dynasty, was margrave and elector of Brandenburg and duke of Prussia from 1619 until his death. His reign was marked by ineffective governance during the Thirty Years' War. He was the father of Frederick William, the "Great Elector".
Biography
... |
12799 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphic%20design | Graphic design | Graphic design is the profession and academic discipline whose activity consists in projecting visual communications intended to transmit specific messages to social groups, with specific objectives. As opposed to art, whose aim is merely contemplation, design is based on the principle of "form follows a specific funct... |
12800 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great%20Rift%20Valley | Great Rift Valley | The Great Rift Valley is a series of contiguous geographic trenches, approximately in total length, that runs from Lebanon in Asia to Mozambique in Southeast Africa. While the name continues in some usages, it is rarely used in geology as it is considered an imprecise merging of separate though related rift and fault ... |
12804 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grigori%20Rasputin | Grigori Rasputin | Grigori Yefimovich Rasputin (; ; – ) was a Russian mystic and self-proclaimed holy man who befriended the family of Nicholas II, the last Emperor of Russia, and gained considerable influence in late Imperial Russia.
Rasputin was born to a peasant family in the Siberian village of Pokrovskoye in the Tyumensky Uyezd o... |
12806 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gemstone | Gemstone | A gemstone (also called a fine gem, jewel, precious stone, or semiprecious stone) is a piece of mineral crystal which, in cut and polished form, is used to make jewelry or other adornments. However, certain rocks (such as lapis lazuli and opal) and occasionally organic materials that are not minerals (such as amber, je... |
12807 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerard%20David | Gerard David | Gerard David (c. 1460 – 13 August 1523) was an Early Netherlandish painter and manuscript illuminator known for his brilliant use of color. Only a bare outline of his life survives, although some facts are known. He may have been the Meester gheraet van brugghe who became a master of the Antwerp guild in 1515. He was v... |
12808 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GSM | GSM | The Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM) is a standard developed by the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) to describe the protocols for second-generation (2G) digital cellular networks used by mobile devices such as mobile phones and tablets. It was first deployed in Finland in December 19... |
12810 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garry%20Kasparov | Garry Kasparov | Garry Kimovich Kasparov (Russian: Гарри Кимович Каспаров, Russian pronunciation: [ˈɡarʲɪ ˈkʲiməvʲɪtɕ kɐˈsparəf], born Garik Kimovich Weinstein, Гарик Кимович Вайнштейн; 13 April 1963) is a Russian chess grandmaster, former World Chess Champion, writer, political activist and commentator. His peak rating of 2851, achiev... |
12815 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag%20of%20Greenland | Flag of Greenland | The flag of Greenland (, ) was designed by Greenland native Thue Christiansen. It features two equal horizontal bands of white (top) and red with a large disk slightly to the hoist side of centre. The top half of the disk is red, the bottom half is white. The top half of the flag bears a slight resemblance to the Flag ... |
12816 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustav%20Radbruch | Gustav Radbruch | Gustav Radbruch (21 November 1878 – 23 November 1949) was a German legal scholar and politician. He served as Minister of Justice of Germany during the early Weimar period. Radbruch is also regarded as one of the most influential legal philosophers of the 20th century.
Life
Born in Lübeck, Radbruch studied law in Muni... |
12821 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gate | Gate | A gate or gateway is a point of entry to or from a space enclosed by walls. The word derived from old Norse "gat" meaning road or path; But other terms include yett and port. The concept originally referred to the gap or hole in the wall or fence, rather than a barrier which closed it. Gates may prevent or control the ... |
12822 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek%20fire | Greek fire | Greek fire was an incendiary weapon used by the Byzantine Empire beginning . Used to set fire to enemy ships, it consisted of a combustible compound emitted by a flame-throwing weapon. Some historians believe it could be ignited on contact with water, and was probably based on naphtha and quicklime. The Byzantines typi... |
12823 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garbage%20in%2C%20garbage%20out | Garbage in, garbage out | In computer science, garbage in, garbage out (GIGO) is the concept that flawed, or nonsense (garbage) input data produces nonsense output. Rubbish in, rubbish out (RIRO) is an alternate wording.
The principle also applies more generally to all analysis and logic, in that arguments are unsound if their premises are fla... |
12828 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GATT%20%28disambiguation%29 | GATT (disambiguation) | GATT or the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade is a legal agreement between many countries, whose overall purpose was to promote international trade.
Gatt or GATT may also refer to:
Gatt (surname)
Gatt Gatt the Bat, a nickname given to Mike Gatting, an English cricketer
Generic Attribute Profile, a data exchang... |
12830 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gipsy | Gipsy | Gipsy or GIPSY may refer to:
Literature
Gipsy (comics), a graphic novel series
Transport
Austin Gipsy, a British off-road vehicle produced 1958–1967
de Havilland Gipsy, a British aircraft engine designed in 1927
HMS Gipsy, the name of several Royal Navy ships
Gipsy-class destroyer, a Royal Navy ship class
Musi... |
12831 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General%20Agreement%20on%20Tariffs%20and%20Trade | General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade | The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) is a legal agreement between many countries, whose overall purpose was to promote international trade by reducing or eliminating trade barriers such as tariffs or quotas. According to its preamble, its purpose was the "substantial reduction of tariffs and other trade ba... |
12832 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%20protein-coupled%20receptor | G protein-coupled receptor | G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs), also known as seven-(pass)-transmembrane domain receptors, 7TM receptors, heptahelical receptors, serpentine receptors, and G protein-linked receptors (GPLR), form a large group of evolutionarily-related proteins that are cell surface receptors that detect molecules outside the cell... |
12833 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GTPase | GTPase | GTPases are a large family of hydrolase enzymes that bind to the nucleotide guanosine triphosphate (GTP) and hydrolyze it to guanosine diphosphate (GDP). The GTP binding and hydrolysis takes place in the highly conserved P-loop "G domain", a protein domain common to many GTPases.
Functions
GTPases function as molecula... |
12835 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galla%20Placidia | Galla Placidia | Galla Placidia (388–89 / 392–93 – 27 November 450), daughter of the Roman emperor Theodosius I, was a mother, tutor, and advisor to emperor Valentinian III, and a major force in Roman politics for most of her life. She was queen consort to Ataulf, king of the Visigoths from 414 until his death in 415, briefly empress ... |
12837 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galicia%20%28Spain%29 | Galicia (Spain) | Galicia (; or ; ; ) is an autonomous community of Spain and historic nationality under Spanish law. Located in the northwest Iberian Peninsula, it includes the provinces of A Coruña, Lugo, Ourense and Pontevedra.
Galicia is located in Atlantic Europe. It is bordered by Portugal to the south, the Spanish autonomous ... |
12841 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%20protein | G protein | G proteins, also known as guanine nucleotide-binding proteins, are a family of proteins that act as molecular switches inside cells, and are involved in transmitting signals from a variety of stimuli outside a cell to its interior. Their activity is regulated by factors that control their ability to bind to and hydrol... |
12848 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary%20Gygax | Gary Gygax | Ernest Gary Gygax ( ; July 27, 1938 – March 4, 2008) was an American game designer and author best known for co-creating the pioneering role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons (D&D) with Dave Arneson.
In the 1960s, Gygax created an organization of wargaming clubs and founded the Gen Con gaming convention. In 1971, he hel... |
12850 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Governor%20of%20New%20South%20Wales | Governor of New South Wales | The governor of New South Wales is the viceregal representative of the Australian monarch, Queen Elizabeth II, in the state of New South Wales. In an analogous way to the governor-general of Australia at the national level, the governors of the Australian states perform constitutional and ceremonial functions at the st... |
12851 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Governor%20of%20Victoria | Governor of Victoria | The governor of Victoria is the representative of the monarch, Queen Elizabeth II, in the Australian state of Victoria. The governor is one of seven viceregal representatives in the country, analogous to the governors of the other states, and the governor-general federally.
The governor is appointed by the monarch on ... |
12855 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%20Bernard%20Shaw | George Bernard Shaw | George Bernard Shaw (26 July 1856 – 2 November 1950), known at his insistence simply as Bernard Shaw, was an Irish playwright, critic, polemicist and political activist. His influence on Western theatre, culture and politics extended from the 1880s to his death and beyond. He wrote more than sixty plays, including majo... |
12858 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galvanization | Galvanization | Galvanization or galvanizing (also spelled galvanisation or galvanising) is the process of applying a protective zinc coating to steel or iron, to prevent rusting. The most common method is hot-dip galvanizing, in which the parts are submerged in a bath of molten hot zinc.
Protective action
Galvanizing protects the un... |
12859 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden%20Rule | Golden Rule | The Golden Rule is the principle of treating others as one wants to be treated. It is a maxim that is found in most religions and cultures. It can be considered an ethic of reciprocity in some religions, although different religions treat it differently.
The maxim may appear as a positive or negative injunction govern... |
12861 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Governor%20of%20New%20York | Governor of New York | The governor of New York is the head of government of the U.S. state of New York. The governor is the head of the executive branch of New York's state government and the commander-in-chief of the state's military forces. The governor has a duty to enforce state laws and the power to either approve or veto bills passed ... |
12862 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glasnevin | Glasnevin | Glasnevin (, also known as Glas Naedhe, meaning "stream of O'Naeidhe" after a local stream and an ancient chieftain) is a neighbourhood of Dublin, Ireland, situated on the River Tolka. While primarily residential, Glasnevin is also home to the National Botanic Gardens, Glasnevin Cemetery, the National Meteorological Of... |
12863 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%20Abbot%20%28author%29 | George Abbot (author) | George Abbot or Abbott (1604 — 2 February 1649) was an English lay writer, known as "The Puritan", and a politician who sat in the House of Commons in two periods between 1640 and 1649. He is known also for his part in defending Caldecote House against royalist forces in the early days of the English Civil War.
Life
A... |
12866 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Globular%20cluster | Globular cluster | A globular cluster is a spherical collection of stars. Globular clusters are very tightly bound by gravity, with a high concentration of stars towards their centers. Their name is derived from Latin —a small sphere. Globular clusters are occasionally known simply as globulars.
Although one globular cluster, Omega Cent... |
12867 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%20Vancouver | George Vancouver | Captain George Vancouver (22 June 1757 – 10 May 1798) was a British officer of the Royal Navy best known for his 1791–95 expedition, which explored and charted North America's northwestern Pacific Coast regions, including the coasts of what are now the Canadian province of British Columbia as well as the US states of A... |
12872 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great%20Vowel%20Shift | Great Vowel Shift | The Great Vowel Shift was a series of changes in the pronunciation of the English language that took place primarily between 1400 and 1700, beginning in southern England and today having influenced effectively all dialects of English. Through this vowel shift, the pronunciation of all Middle English long vowels was cha... |
12874 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilbert%20Arthur%20%C3%A0%20Beckett | Gilbert Arthur à Beckett | Gilbert Arthur à Beckett (April 7, 1837 – October 15, 1891) was an English writer.
Biography
Beckett was born at Portland House Hammersmith, on 7 April 1837, the eldest son of the civil servant and humorist Gilbert Abbott à Beckett and the composer Mary Anne à Beckett, daughter of Joseph Glossop, clerk of the cheque ... |
12875 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glaucus%20%28disambiguation%29 | Glaucus (disambiguation) | In Greek mythology, Glaucus was a Greek prophetic sea-god.
Glaucus, often transliterated to Glafkos, may also refer to:
People
Glaucus of Messenia, A mythological king of Messenia, a Heraclid and a son of Aepytus
Glaucus of Carystus, an Ancient Greek athlete
Glaucus of Chios (c. 7th century BCE), Greek sculptor in... |
12878 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%20Gordon%2C%201st%20Earl%20of%20Aberdeen | George Gordon, 1st Earl of Aberdeen | George Gordon, 1st Earl of Aberdeen (3 October 163720 April 1720), was a Lord Chancellor of Scotland.
Early life
Gordon, born on 3 October 1637, the second son of Sir John Gordon, 1st Baronet, of Haddo, Aberdeenshire, (executed in 1644);
and his wife, Mary Forbes. He graduated MA, and was chosen professor at King's C... |
12879 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%20Hamilton-Gordon%2C%204th%20Earl%20of%20Aberdeen | George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen | George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen, (28 January 178414 December 1860), styled Lord Haddo from 1791 to 1801, was a British statesman, diplomat and landowner, successively a Tory, Conservative and Peelite politician and specialist in foreign affairs. He served as Prime Minister from 1852 until 1855 in a coalit... |
12880 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GnuCash | GnuCash | GnuCash is an accounting program that implements a double-entry bookkeeping system. It was initially aimed at developing capabilities similar to Intuit, Inc.'s Quicken application, but also has features for small business accounting. Recent development has been focused on adapting to modern desktop support-library requ... |
12881 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%20Robert%20Aberigh-Mackay | George Robert Aberigh-Mackay | George Robert Aberigh-Mackay (25 July 184812 January 1881), Anglo-Indian writer, was the son of the Reverend James Aberigh-Mackay D.D., B.D. and his first wife Lucretia Livingston née Reed. He was educated at Magdalen College School, Oxford and St. Catherine's College, Cambridge. Entering the Indian education departmen... |
12882 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gallon | Gallon | The gallon is a unit of volume in imperial units and United States customary units. Three different versions are in current use:
the imperial gallon (imp gal), defined as , which is or was used in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Canada, Australia and some Caribbean countries;
the US gallon (US gal) defined as 231 cubic i... |
12883 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gini%20coefficient | Gini coefficient | In economics, the Gini coefficient ( ), also the Gini index and the Gini ratio, is a measure of statistical dispersion intended to represent the income inequality or the wealth inequality within a nation or a social group. The Gini coefficient was developed by statistician and sociologist Corrado Gini.
The Gini coeffi... |
12884 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GCHQ | GCHQ | Government Communications Headquarters, commonly known as GCHQ, is an intelligence and security organisation responsible for providing signals intelligence (SIGINT) and information assurance (IA) to the government and armed forces of the United Kingdom. Based at "The Doughnut" in the suburbs of Cheltenham, GCHQ is the ... |
12888 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis%20Gary%20Powers | Francis Gary Powers | Francis Gary Powers (August 17, 1929 – August 1, 1977) was an American pilot whose Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Lockheed U-2 spy plane was shot down while flying a reconnaissance mission in Soviet Union airspace, causing the 1960 U-2 incident.
He later worked as a helicopter pilot for KNBC in Los Angeles and died... |
12890 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gospel%20of%20James | Gospel of James | The Gospel of James (or the Protoevangelium of James) is a 2nd-century infancy gospel telling of the miraculous conception of the Virgin Mary, her upbringing and marriage to Joseph, the journey of the couple to Bethlehem, the birth of Jesus, and events immediately following. It is the earliest surviving assertion of th... |
12891 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene%20therapy | Gene therapy | Gene therapy is a medical field which focuses on the genetic modification of cells to produce a therapeutic effect or the treatment of disease by repairing or reconstructing defective genetic material. The first attempt at modifying human DNA was performed in 1980, by Martin Cline, but the first successful nuclear gene... |
12893 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galatea | Galatea | Galatea is an ancient Greek name meaning "she who is milk-white".
Galatea, Galathea or Gallathea may refer to:
In mythology
Galatea (Greek myth), three different mythological figures
In the arts
Aci, Galatea e Polifemo, cantata by Handel
Galatea (Raphael), or The Triumph of Galatea, a 1512 fresco of Ovid's sea-ny... |
12896 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulf%20of%20Oman | Gulf of Oman | The Gulf of Oman or Sea of Oman ( khalīj ʿumān; daryâ-ye omân), also known as Gulf of Makran or Sea of Makran ( khalīj makrān; daryâ-ye makrān), is a gulf that connects the Arabian Sea with the Strait of Hormuz, which then runs to the Persian Gulf. It borders Iran and Pakistan on the north, Oman on the south, and the... |
12898 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grammatical%20case | Grammatical case | A grammatical case is a category of nouns and noun modifiers (determiners, adjectives, participles, and numerals), which corresponds to one or more potential grammatical functions for a nominal group in a wording. In various languages, nominal groups consisting of a noun and its modifiers belong to one of a few such ca... |
12899 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gestapo | Gestapo | The (), abbreviated Gestapo (; ), was the official secret police of Nazi Germany and in German-occupied Europe.
The force was created by Hermann Göring in 1933 by combining the various political police agencies of Prussia into one organisation. On 20 April 1934, oversight of the Gestapo passed to the head of the SS, ... |
12900 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grammatical%20conjugation | Grammatical conjugation | In linguistics, conjugation () is the creation of derived forms of a verb from its principal parts by inflection (alteration of form according to rules of grammar). For instance, the verb break can be conjugated to form the words break, breaks, broke, broken and breaking. While English has a relatively simple conjugati... |
12902 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gomoku | Gomoku | Gomoku, also called Five in a Row, is an abstract strategy board game. It is traditionally played with Go pieces (black and white stones) on a Go board. It is played using a 15×15 board while in the past a 19×19 board was standard. Because pieces are typically not moved or removed from the board, gomoku may also be pla... |
12903 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gegenschein | Gegenschein | Gegenschein (; ; ) is a faintly bright spot in the night sky centered at the antisolar point. The backscatter of sunlight by interplanetary dust causes this optical phenomenon, also called counterglow.
Explanation
Like zodiacal light, gegenschein is sunlight scattered by interplanetary dust. Most of this dust orbits ... |
12904 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glyph | Glyph | The term glyph is used in typography, architecture and archaeology. Broadly, the term means any kind of purposeful mark, such as a simple vertical line incised on a building, a single letter in a script, or a carved symbol.
Etymology
The term has been used in English since 1727, borrowed from glyphe (in use by French... |
12905 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goth%20subculture | Goth subculture | Goth is a subculture that began in the United Kingdom during the early 1980s. It was developed by fans of Gothic rock, an offshoot of the post-punk music genre. The name Goth was derived directly from the genre. Notable post-punk artists who presaged the Gothic rock genre and helped develop and shape the subculture inc... |
12908 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global%20warming%20potential | Global warming potential | Global warming potential (GWP) is the heat absorbed by any greenhouse gas in the atmosphere, as a multiple of the heat that would be absorbed by the same mass of carbon dioxide (). GWP is 1 for . For other gases it depends on the gas and the time frame.
Carbon dioxide equivalent (e or eq or -e) is calculated from GWP.... |
12910 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grothendieck%20topology | Grothendieck topology | In category theory, a branch of mathematics, a Grothendieck topology is a structure on a category C that makes the objects of C act like the open sets of a topological space. A category together with a choice of Grothendieck topology is called a site.
Grothendieck topologies axiomatize the notion of an open cover. U... |
12913 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greens | Greens | Greens may refer to:
Leaf vegetables such as collard greens, mustard greens, spring greens, winter greens, spinach, etc.
Politics
Supranational
Green politics
Green party, political parties adhering to Green politics
Global Greens
European Green Party
Established parties
Green Party (disambiguation)
The Greens... |
12914 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghost%20in%20the%20Shell | Ghost in the Shell | is a Japanese cyberpunk media franchise based on the seinen manga series of the same name written and illustrated by Masamune Shirow. The manga, first serialized in 1989 under the subtitle of The Ghost in the Shell, and later published as its own tankōbon volumes by Kodansha, told the story of the fictional counter-cyb... |
12916 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gauss%E2%80%93Legendre%20algorithm | Gauss–Legendre algorithm | The Gauss–Legendre algorithm is an algorithm to compute the digits of . It is notable for being rapidly convergent, with only 25 iterations producing 45 million correct digits of . However, the drawback is that it is computer memory-intensive and therefore sometimes Machin-like formulas are used instead.
The method is... |
12917 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great%20Internet%20Mersenne%20Prime%20Search | Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search | The Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search (GIMPS) is a collaborative project of volunteers who use freely available software to search for Mersenne prime numbers.
GIMPS was founded in 1996 by George Woltman, who also wrote the Prime95 client and its Linux port MPrime. Scott Kurowski wrote the back end PrimeNet server t... |
12919 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game.com | Game.com | The Game.com is a fifth-generation handheld game console released by Tiger Electronics on September 12, 1997. A smaller version, the Game.com Pocket Pro, was released in mid-1999. The first version of the Game.com can be connected to a 14.4 kbit/s modem for Internet connectivity, hence its name referencing the top leve... |
12920 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General%20Packet%20Radio%20Service | General Packet Radio Service | General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) is a packet oriented mobile data standard on the 2G and 3G cellular communication network's global system for mobile communications (GSM). GPRS was established by European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) in response to the earlier CDPD and i-mode packet-switched cellula... |
12922 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gnosis | Gnosis | Gnosis is the common Greek noun for knowledge (γνῶσις, gnōsis, f.). The term was used among various Hellenistic religions and philosophies in the Greco-Roman world. It is best known for its implication within Gnosticism, where it signifies a spiritual knowledge or insight into humanity's real nature as divine, leading ... |
12923 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgian | Georgian | Georgian may refer to:
Common meanings
Anything related to, or originating from Georgia (country)
Georgians, an indigenous Caucasian ethnic group
Georgian language, a Kartvelian language spoken by Georgians
Georgian scripts, three scripts used to write the language
Georgian (Unicode block), a Unicode block containing... |
12924 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgian%20architecture | Georgian architecture | Georgian architecture is the name given in most English-speaking countries to the set of architectural styles current between 1714 and 1830. It is named after the first four British monarchs of the House of Hanover—George I, George II, George III, and George IV—who reigned in continuous succession from August 1714 to J... |
12926 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goshen%2C%20Indiana | Goshen, Indiana | Goshen ( ) is a city in and the county seat of Elkhart County, Indiana, United States. It is the smaller of the two principal cities of the Elkhart-Goshen Metropolitan Statistical Area, which in turn is part of the South Bend-Elkhart-Mishawaka Combined Statistical Area. It is located in the northern part of Indiana n... |
12929 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gallipoli | Gallipoli | The Gallipoli peninsula (; ; , ) is located in the southern part of East Thrace, the European part of Turkey, with the Aegean Sea to the west and the Dardanelles strait to the east.
Gallipoli is the Italian form of the Greek name (), meaning 'beautiful city', the original name of the modern town of Gelibolu. In antiq... |
12935 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gram%20stain | Gram stain | Gram stain or Gram staining, also called Gram's method, is a method of staining used to classify bacterial species into two large groups: Gram-positive bacteria and Gram-negative bacteria. The name comes from the Danish bacteriologist Hans Christian Gram, who developed the technique in 1884.
Gram staining differentiat... |
12936 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gram-positive%20bacteria | Gram-positive bacteria | In bacteriology, gram-positive bacteria are bacteria that give a positive result in the Gram stain test, which is traditionally used to quickly classify bacteria into two broad categories according to their type of cell wall.
Gram-positive bacteria take up the crystal violet stain used in the test, and then appear to ... |
12937 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gram-negative%20bacteria | Gram-negative bacteria | Gram-negative bacteria are bacteria that do not retain the crystal violet stain used in the Gram staining method of bacterial differentiation. They are characterized by their cell envelopes, which are composed of a thin peptidoglycan cell wall sandwiched between an inner cytoplasmic cell membrane and a bacterial outer ... |
12938 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greyhound | Greyhound | The English Greyhound, or simply the Greyhound, is a breed of dog, a sighthound which has been bred for coursing game and greyhound racing. Since the rise in large-scale adoption of retired racing Greyhounds, the breed has seen a resurgence in popularity as a family pet.
Greyhounds are defined as a tall, muscular, smo... |
12939 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geometric%20algebra | Geometric algebra | In mathematics, the geometric algebra (GA) of a vector space is an algebra over a field, noted for its multiplication operation called the geometric product on a space of elements called multivectors, which contains both the scalars and the vector space .
Mathematically, a geometric algebra may be defined as the Clif... |
12942 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetic | Genetic | Genetic may refer to:
Genetics, in biology, the science of genes, heredity, and the variation of organisms
Genetic, used as an adjective, refers to genes
Genetic disorder, any disorder caused by a genetic mutation, whether inherited or de novo
Genetic mutation, a change in a gene
Heredity, genes and their mutations bei... |
12945 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%20Benson | George Benson | George Washington Benson (born March 22, 1943) is an American guitarist, singer, and songwriter. He began his professional career at the age of 19 as a jazz guitarist.
A former child prodigy, Benson first came to prominence in the 1960s, playing soul jazz with Jack McDuff and others. He then launched a successful solo... |
12946 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grigory%20Barenblatt | Grigory Barenblatt | Grigory Isaakovich Barenblatt (; 10 July 1927 – 22 June 2018) was a Russian mathematician.
Education
Barenblatt graduated in 1950 from Moscow State University, Department of Mechanics and Mathematics. He received his Ph.D. in 1953 from Moscow State University under the supervision of A. N. Kolmogorov.
Career and rese... |
12947 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grammatical%20tense | Grammatical tense | In grammar, tense is a category that expresses time reference. Tenses are usually manifested by the use of specific forms of verbs, particularly in their conjugation patterns.
The main tenses found in many languages include the past, present, and future. Some languages have only two distinct tenses, such as past and ... |
12948 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grammatical%20aspect | Grammatical aspect | Aspect is a grammatical category that expresses how an action, event, or state, denoted by a verb, extends over time. Perfective aspect is used in referring to an event conceived as bounded and unitary, without reference to any flow of time during ("I helped him"). Imperfective aspect is used for situations conceived a... |
12950 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glucose | Glucose | Glucose is a simple sugar with the molecular formula . Glucose is the most abundant monosaccharide, a subcategory of carbohydrates. Glucose is mainly made by plants and most algae during photosynthesis from water and carbon dioxide, using energy from sunlight, where it is used to make cellulose in cell walls, the most ... |
12955 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%20P%C3%B3lya | George Pólya | {{Infobox scientist
| name = George Pólya
| image = George Pólya ca 1973.jpg
| image_size = 200px
| caption = George Pólya, circa 1973
| birth_date =
| birth_name = György Pólya
| birth_place = Budapest, Kingdom of Hungary, Austria-Hungary
| death_date =
| death_place = Palo Alto, California, U.S.
| nationality = Hun... |
12956 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenGL%20Utility%20Toolkit | OpenGL Utility Toolkit | The OpenGL Utility Toolkit (GLUT) is a library of utilities for OpenGL programs, which primarily perform system-level I/O with the host operating system. Functions performed include window definition, window control, and monitoring of keyboard and mouse input. Routines for drawing a number of geometric primitives (both... |
12957 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giovanni%20Boccaccio | Giovanni Boccaccio | Giovanni Boccaccio (, , ; 16 June 1313 – 21 December 1375) was an Italian writer, poet, correspondent of Petrarch, and an important Renaissance humanist. Born in the town of Certaldo, he became so well known as a writer that he was sometimes simply known as "the Certaldese" and one of the most important figures in the ... |
12958 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giuseppe%20Verdi | Giuseppe Verdi | Giuseppe Fortunino Francesco Verdi (; 9 or 10 October 1813 – 27 January 1901) was an Italian composer best known for his operas. He was born near Busseto to a provincial family of moderate means, receiving a musical education with the help of a local patron. Verdi came to dominate the Italian opera scene after the era ... |
12960 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German%20Navy | German Navy | The German Navy (, ) is the navy of Germany and part of the unified Bundeswehr (Federal Defense), the German Armed Forces. The German Navy was originally known as the Bundesmarine (Federal Navy) from 1956 to 1995, when Deutsche Marine (German Navy) became the unofficial name with respect to the 1990 incorporation of th... |
12961 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%89ANT | GÉANT | GÉANT is the pan-European data network for the research and education community. It interconnects national research and education networks (NRENs) across Europe, enabling collaboration on projects ranging from biological science, to earth observation, to arts and culture. The GÉANT project combines a high-bandwidth, hi... |
12962 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamma-Hydroxybutyric%20acid | Gamma-Hydroxybutyric acid | gamma-Hydroxybutyric acid (or γ-Hydroxybutyric acid (GHB), also known as 4-hydroxybutanoic acid) is a naturally occurring neurotransmitter and a psychoactive drug. It is a precursor to GABA, glutamate, and glycine in certain brain areas. It acts on the GHB receptor and is a weak agonist at the GABAB receptor. GHB has ... |
12963 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giordano%20Bruno | Giordano Bruno | Giordano Bruno (; ; ; born Filippo Bruno, January or February 1548 – 17 February 1600) was an Italian Dominican friar, philosopher, mathematician, poet, cosmological theorist, and Hermetic occultist. He is known for his cosmological theories, which conceptually extended the then novel Copernican model. He proposed that... |
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