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Golden Gate Baptist Theological Seminary Golden Gate Baptist Theological Seminary (GGBTS) is one of six official Southern Baptist seminaries. The main campus is located in Mill Valley, California, and the seminary enjoys beautiful views of the San Francisco Bay and the mild weather of southern Marin County.
Golden Gate Capital Partners Golden Gate Capital Partners is a venture-capital firm in San Francisco, California. It seeks investments less than $100 million that have possible rapid gains in equity, with a significant possibility of liquidity.
Golden Gate Derby The Golden Gate Derby is a race for thoroughbred horses run each year at Golden Gate Fields at a distance of one and one sixteenth of a mile and open to three-year-olds. A Grade III event, also known as the California Derby, it offers a purse of $100,000.
Golden Gate Hotel and Casino The Golden Gate Hotel & Casino is located at One Fremont Street in Las Vegas, Nevada, in the United States. A part of the Fremont Street Experience, it is Las Vegas' oldest hotel and the smallest hotel (106 rooms) on Fremont.
Golden Gate International Exposition Golden Gate International Exposition (1939 and 1940) was held in San Francisco, California to celebrate two newly-built bridges. The San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge was dedicated in 1936 and the Golden Gate Bridge was dedicated in 1937.
Golden Gate Railroad Museum The Golden Gate Railroad Museum is a non-profit heritage railway established in 1975 and dedicated to the preservation of steam and passenger railroad equipment, and the interpretation of local railroad history.
Golden Gate Transit Golden Gate Transit is a public transportation system in the San Francisco Bay Area in California, United States. It mainly serves Marin and Sonoma Counties, but limited service is provided to San Francisco and Contra Costa County.
Golden Gate University School of Law The Golden Gate University School of Law was founded in 1901 as the YMCA Evening Law School, a component of the San Francisco Central YMCA Evening College. Like other YMCA Law Schools across the nation, it was established to provide people who worked full-time the opportunity to attend law school at night.
Golden Gate Yacht Club The Golden Gate Yacht Club (GGYC) was founded in 1939, when members built a clubhouse on a barge in the San Francisco Marina. After the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake severely damaged the club, members pulled together and rebuilt it into the showcase facility that now exists.
Golden Gate, Oakland, California The Golden Gate neighborhood of Oakland, California is located in the northwest corner of the city, east of Emeryville and south of Berkeley. It includes the Golden Gate Shopping District, the stretch of San Pablo Avenue roughly between the Golden Gate branch of the Oakland Public Library at 56th Street on the south, and the Oakland-Berkeley border at 67th street to the north.
Golden Generation Golden Generation is a term first coined by the Portuguese sports media to refer to a group of exceptionally gifted teenage Portuguese soccer players. This group of players, spearheaded by "Golden Boy" Luis Figo, won several Football World Youth Championships in 1989 and 1991.
Golden Ghetto Golden Ghetto is an informal name for a neighborhood north and south of Devon Avenue on the North Side of Chicago stretching from about 2200 west to the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal at about 3200 west. It is bounded on the north by Warren Park and Pratt Avenue and on the south by Peterson Avenue.
Golden Glades Interchange The Golden Glades Interchange, located in Miami Gardens, Florida, USA, is the confluence of five major roads serving eastern and southern Florida: Florida's Turnpike Mainline (hidden Florida DOT designation SR 91), Interstate 95 (hidden designations SR 9 north of it and SR 9A south of it), U.S.
Golden Globe Award The Golden Globe Awards are American awards for motion pictures and television programs, given out each year during a formal dinner. Run since 1944 by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA), the awards are a major part of the film industry's "awards season" which culminates each year with the Oscars and Screen Actors Guild Awards.
Golden Globe Award for Best Actor - Motion Picture Drama The Golden Globe Award for Best Actor - Motion Picture - Drama was first awarded by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association as a separate category in 1951. Previously, there was a single award for "Best Actor in a Motion Picture" but the splitting allowed for recognition of it and the Best Actor - Musical or Comedy.
Golden Globe Award for Best Actor - Motion Picture Musical or Comedy The Golden Globe Award for Best Actor - Motion Picture Musical or Comedy was first awarded by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association as a separate category in 1951. Previously, there was a single award for "Best Actor in a Motion Picture" but the splitting allowed for recognition of it and the Best Actor - Drama.
Golden Globe Award for Best Actress - Motion Picture Drama The Golden Globe Award for Best Actress - Motion Picture - Drama was first awarded by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association as a separate category in 1951. Previously, there was a single award for "Best Actress in a Motion Picture" but the splitting allowed for recognition of it and the Best Actress - Musical or Comedy.
Golden Globe Award for Best Actress - Motion Picture Musical or Comedy The Golden Globe Award for Best Actress - Motion Picture Musical or Comedy was first awarded by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association as a separate category in 1951. Previously, there was a single award for "Best Actress in a Motion Picture" but the splitting allowed for recognition of it and the Best Actress - Drama.
Golden Globe Award for Best Animated Feature Film The Golden Globe Award for Best Animated Feature Film was awarded for the first time in 2007 at the 64th Annual Golden Globe Awards to the Pixar film Cars. The Hollywood Foreign Press Association has been awarding Golden Globe Awards since 1944.
Golden Globe Award for Best Documentary Film The Golden Globe Award for Best Documentary Film was only awarded between 1972 and 1977. Prior to the award, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association awarded the film A Queen is Crowned a special award for "Best Documentary Film of Historical Interest" in 1954, but that has not been awarded since then.
Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award The Cecil B. DeMille Award for lifetime achievement in motion pictures has been given annually since 1952 by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association at the Golden Globe Award ceremonies in Hollywood, California.
Golden Gloves The Golden Gloves is the name given to annual competitions for amateur boxing in the United States. The Golden Gloves is often the term used to refer to the National Golden Gloves competition, but it also can represent several other amateur tournaments, including regional golden gloves tournaments and other notable tournaments such as the Intercity Golden Gloves, the Chicago Golden Gloves, and the New York Golden Gloves.
Golden Goose The Golden Goose (Die goldene Gans) is a fairy tale collected by the Brothers Grimm (Tale 64). Several elements in its narrative structure follow formulaic elements in the methodology that was formulated by Antti Aarne and his translator Stith Thompson (the Aarne-Thompson method) and by the earlier, more generalized method of Vladimir Propp, who used Russian folk tales Other familiar irreducible narrative myth elements ("mytheme]s") will be quickly recognized.
Golden Grove (ship) The Golden Grove was a First Fleet storeship built at Whitby in 1780. Her master was William Sharp, while the Fleet's chaplain Richard Johnson and his wife and servant also travelled to New South Wales on this ship.
Golden Grove High School Golden Grove High school is a public secondary school (8-12) located with Pedare Christian College and Gleeson College private schools in Golden Grove, South Australia. The school was built as part of the Delfin Golden Grove development as part of a planned community.
Golden Gryphon Press Golden Gryphon Press is an independent publishing company, specializing in science fiction, fantasy, dark fantasy and cross-genre novels. It was founded in 1997 by Jim Turner, former editor at Arkham House, and is currently run by his brother Gary and his wife, Geri Turner.
Golden Guide The Golden Guides are a series of pocket-sized books that were created by Western Publishing and published under their "Golden Press" line (mostly used for children's books at the time) beginning in 1949. Intended for Grade to High-School level, the series began as field guides with such titles as Birds, Mammals and Flowers, and expanded to a wider range of subjects that weren't strictly identification guides.
Golden Guitar The Golden Guitar is a one of the many "big" attractions that can be found around Australia. Located in Tamworth, New South Wales, this monument is one of the best-known points of interest in Western NSW.
Golden Gumboot The Golden Gumboot is a competition between the Far North Queensland towns of Tully, Innisfail and Babinda in Australia for the wettest town of Australia. These towns exist in the Wet Tropics and on land that was previously covered by rainforest.
Golden hammer A golden hammer is any tool, technology, paradigm, snake oil, buzzword or similar whose proponents enthusiastically sing its praises. They predict that it will solve multiple problems, including some for which it is obviously not suitable.
Golden handshake A golden handshake is a clause in an executive employment contract that provides the executive with a significant severance package in the case that the executive loses their job through firing, restructuring, or even scheduled retirement. This can be in the form of cash, equity, and other benefits, and is often accompanied by an accelerated vesting of stock options.
Golden hat Four tall conical golden hats dating to between 1400 BC and 800 BC, have been found in Central Europe: one find in 1835 near Schifferstadt near Speyer dated to 1400-1300, one fragmentary find in 1844 near Avanton near Poitiers, one at Ezelsdorf near NĂĽrnberg in 1953, dated to 1000-900, and one find of unknown origin, probably from Switzerland or Swabia, bought in 1996 by the National Museum of Berlin, dated to 1000-800. The tallest of these is the Ezelsdorf one, measuring 90 cm.
Golden hour (medicine) In emergency medicine the golden hour is the first sixty minutes after the occurrence of major multi-system trauma. It is widely believed that the victim's chances of survival are greatest if he or she receives definitive care in the operating room within the first hour.
Golden Hamster The Syrian Hamster or Golden Hamster, Mesocricetus auratus, is the best known member of the rodent subfamily Cricetinae, the hamsters. In the wild they are now considered endangered Listed as Endangered (EN B1+2c v2.
Golden Hill Fort Golden Hill Fort was a defensible barracks built as part of the Palmerston defences by the 1859 Royal Commission on the Defence of the United Kingdom to provide manpower to man the defences at the western end of the Isle of Wight, England. The Fort is a local landmark which is in a very prominent position overlooking much of the land looking south towards Afton Down.
Golden Hill Paugussett Indian Nation The Golden Hill Paugussets are a group of Native Americans living in Colchester, Connecticut. They are a source of a great deal of controversy in the area, due to their continual and unsuccessful quest to get federal recognition, which is generally denied due to a claimed failure on their part to accurately show lineage to the original Golden Hill Paugussett nation.
Golden Hill State Park Golden Hill State Park is located in the northeast corner of the Town of Somerset in Niagara County, New York, USA. The park is on the south shore of Lake Ontario, north of Lower Lake Road near Thirty-mile Point Lighthouse.
Golden Hind The Golden Hind was an English galleon best known for its global circumnavigation between 1577 and 1580, captained by Sir Francis Drake. She was originally known as the Pelican, and was renamed by Drake in mid-voyage in 1577, as he prepared to enter the Straits of Magellan.
Golden Hockey Stick (Czech Republic) The Czech Golden Hockey Stick is an ice hockey award given annually to the top player from the Czech Republic. It has been awarded since the 1993-94 season, after Czechoslovakia split into the Czech Republic and Slovakia.
Golden Hockey Stick (Czechoslovakia) The CSSR Golden Hockey Stick was an award given to the top ice hockey player in the Czechoslovak Elite League from the 1968-69 season until 1992-93. It continued to be awarded in the Czech Extraliga (Czech Elite League) after the Czech Republic and Slovakia became separate countries in 1993.
Golden Hope Golden Hope Plantations Berhad (GHPB) was established in 1844 under the name Harrison and Crossfield (H&C). The group was renamed to GHPB in 1990 to reflect the changed in management when Permodalan Nasional Berhad (PNB) took majority equity of the company.
Golden Horde The Golden Horde (Turkish: Altın Ordu)was a predominantly Turkic state established in parts of present-day Russia, Ukraine, and Kazakhstan after the break up of the Mongol Empire in the 1240s. At its peak the Golden Horde's territory included most of European Russia from the Urals to the Carpathian Mountains, extending east deep into Siberia.
Golden Horseshoe The Golden Horseshoe is a densely populated and industrialized region at the west end of Lake Ontario in Southern Ontario, Canada. Although it is a geographically named sub-region of Southern Ontario, "Golden Horseshoe" is more frequently used to describe the metropolitan region that stretches across the area.
Golden Horseshoe Junior B Hockey League The Golden Horseshoe Junior B Hockey League is a Junior "B" ice hockey league in Ontario, Canada, sanctioned by the Ontario Hockey Association. The league's playoff champion will compete with the champions of the Midwestern Junior B Hockey League and Western Junior B Hockey League for the Sutherland Cup, the Provincial Championship.
Golden Horseshoe Saloon The Golden Horseshoe Saloon (referred to as Pecos Bill's Golden Horseshow Saloon during construction) ]]", opened in 1955 with several other original attractions at Disneyland Park. Over the years it has now housed multiple entertainment venues, currently showing Billy Hill and the Hillbillies seven days a week.
Golden Charter of Bern The Golden Charter of Bern (also: Golden Bull, in German: Goldene Handfeste or Berner Handfeste) is a medieval charter purporting to have been issued by Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II. It establishes the town privileges of Berne (now the capital of Switzerland), making it an Imperial Free City and, effectively, an independent state.
Golden Checkerboard Golden Checkerboard (1965) is a biographical novel by Ed Ainsworth; its subject matter concerns the mid-20th century economic conditions of the Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians of Palm Springs, California and the history of the 99-year lease law which enabled them to commercially develop tribal owned lands. The book portrays Indio Superior Court Judge Hilton McCabe as a "Great White Father,"1 recalling steps purportedly taken by him to secure legislation that would endow the tribe with investment opportunities and economic self-sufficiency.
Golden Jackal Golden Jackals (Canis aureus), also called Asiatic or Common Jackals, are small jackals native to northern and central Africa and southern Asia. Golden Jackals live 7 to 9 years in the wild, but have been known to live up 16 years in captivity.
Golden Jubilee of Elizabeth II The Golden Jubilee of Elizabeth II marked the fiftieth anniversary of Queen Elizabeth II's accession to the throne. It was celebrated with large-scale events throughout London, the capital of the United Kingdom, in June of 2002, as well as in her other Realms, as she and Prince Philip toured them throughout the year.
Golden Jubilee Stakes The Golden Jubilee Stakes is a Group 1 flat horse race in the United Kingdom for three-year-old and above thoroughbreds run over a distance of 6 furlongs (1,207 metres) at Ascot Racecourse during the Royal Ascot meeting in June.
Golden Key International Honour Society The Golden Key International Honour Society is an Atlanta, Georgia-based non-profit organization founded in 1977 to recognise academic achievement among college and university students in all disciplines. The Society currently has nearly 350 chapters at colleges and universities in six countries: Australia, Canada, Malaysia, New Zealand, South Africa and the United States.
Golden Kite Award The Golden Kite Awards are given annually by the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators or SCBWI to recognize excellence in children’s literature. Instituted in 1972, the Golden Kite Awards are the only children’s literary award judged by a jury of peers.
Golden Kiwi Lottery The Golden Kiwi lotteries began in 1961 based on earlier philanthropic art union lotteries held for many decades prior in New Zealand. Golden Kiwi lotteries ended in 1989 following the introduction of Lotto (1987) and Instant Kiwi scratch card lotteries (1989).
Golden Knights (chess) The Golden Knights is the United States open correspondence chess championship. It is held annually by the United States Chess Federation (USCF), and is open to all members of the USCF residing in the continental United States or Hawaii, or who have an APO or FPO address.
Golden line The golden line is a type of Latin dactylic hexameter frequently mentioned in Latin classrooms in English speaking countries and in contemporary scholarship written in English. The golden line is variously defined, but most uses of the term conform to the oldest known definition from Burles' Latin grammar of 1652:
Golden Landmarks Association Golden Landmarks Association is a nonprofit historic preservation group that strives to preserve the historic landmarks of Golden, Colorado. Founded on November 17, 1971 and incorporated on February 14, 1972, GLA is the second-oldest nonprofit preservation group in the state of Colorado.
Golden Legend The Golden Legend (Latin: Legenda Aurea) by Jacobus de Voragine (Jacopo da Varagine) is a collection of fanciful hagiographies, lives of the saints, that became a late mediaeval bestseller. It was probably compiled around 1260.
Golden Liberty Golden Liberty (Latin: Aurea Libertas; Polish: Złota Wolność, sometimes used in the plural: this phenomenon can also be referred to as "Golden Freedoms," "Nobles' Democracy" or "Nobles' Commonwealth" — Polish: Rzeczpospolita Szlachecka) refers to a unique aristocratic political system in the Kingdom of Poland and later, after the Union of Lublin (1569), in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. Under that system, all nobles (szlachta) were equal and enjoyed extensive rights and privileges.
Golden Light Sutra The Golden Light Sutra (金光ćŽç¶“; Chinese: jin1 guang1 ming2 jing1; Japanese: KonkĹŤmyĹŤ KyĹŤ), an important Buddhist text, was originally written in India (Sanskrit romanization: Suvarnaprabhasa-sutra), and was translated several times into Chinese. Now almost forgotten in China, it became one of the most important sutras in Japan because of its fundamental message, which teaches that the Four Guardian Gods (四天王) protect the ruler who governs his country in the proper manner.
Golden Lion The Golden Lion () is the name of the highest prize given to a film at the Biennale Venice Film Festival. The prize was introduced in 1954 by the organizing committee and is now regarded as one of the film industry's most distinguished prizes.
Golden Llamas The Golden Llamas awards originated in 2002 as an attempt to celebrate the best films in the rapidly-developing hobby of creating video clips that showcase competitive games. The awards are given out by The Global Gaming League.
Golden mask In the beginning of the new century, the famous Bulgarian archeologist Georgi Kitov discovered a 673g golden mask of a Thracian king near Shipka, Central Bulgaria. It is a very fine piece of workmanship made out of massive gold, unlike other masks discovered in the Balkans (3 in Macedonia, now kept in the National Archaeological Museum in Sofia and two in Greece).
Golden Meteorite Press Golden Meteorite Press was formed in 1989 in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada by Austin Mardon for the purpose of publishing books. As of 2006 it has published over 40 books on a variety of topics many relating to Alberta history.
Golden Mile (Belfast) The Golden Mile is the name given to the stretch of Great Victoria Street between the City Hall and the university area in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Both the Crown Liquor Saloon and the Grand Opera House are on this stretch of road, as are a large number of pubs, bars and restaurants.
Golden Mile, Durban The Golden Mile is a stretch of beach with golden sands in Durban South Africa stretching from the uShaka marine world in the south, to the newly constructed Suncoast Casino and Entertainment World in the north. It is one of the main tourist attractions in the Durban area and provides many locations for sun worshippers to lounge, play games and enjoy the restaurants scattered along the mile.
Golden Mile, Puerto Rico The Golden Mile (Spanish: Milla de Oro) is a one mile stretch portion of the Ponce de León Avenue in Hato Rey, San Juan, Puerto Rico. The stretch is famous for the abundance of local, federal and international bank and financial company headquarters and buildings, usually side by side of one another, which have led some to call it the "mini Wall Street of the Caribbean" "Eatin’ Where The Cows Used To Roam: Hato Rey Dining At Its Best" by Brenda A.
Golden Miller The race horse Golden Miller is the only horse to have won both of the United Kingdom's premier steeplechase races - the Cheltenham Gold Cup and the Grand National - in the same year (1934), setting a new course record for Aintree in the National. The 1934 win was the middle of five consecutive Gold Cup victories, a Gold Cup record.
Golden numbers The golden numbers (sometimes capitalized) are numbers assigned to each year in sequence to indicate the year's position in a 19-year Metonic cycle. They are used in the computus, the calculation of the date of Easter and also in the Runic calendar.
Golden North Salmon Derby The Golden North Salmon Derby is an annual salmon fishing competition held in Juneau, Alaska in August. The object of the event is to catch the largest Chinook or Coho salmon over a period of three days; pink and chum salmon are not accepted.
Golden Nugget Atlantic City The Golden Nugget Atlantic City was built, owned and operated by Golden Nugget Companies before selling it to Bally's Entertainment Corporation, which changed the name to Bally's Grand Casino/Hotel. The sale was prompted by founder Steve Wynn's frustration with gaming regulators in New Jersey.
Golden Nugget Casino DS Golden Nugget Casino DS is a 2005 video game released by Majesco Entertainment for the Nintendo DS. The game, named for the Las Vegas casino of the same name, is the first Golden Nugget themed game released for the DS.
Golden Nugget Pancake House The Golden Nugget Pancake House is a chain of family restaurants originally launched in Florida but now operating exclusively in Chicago, Illinois. The restaurants serve breakfast 24 hours a day, and their decor generally has a Western motif.
Golden Oak Ranch The Walt Disney Company’s Golden Oak Ranch is an outdoor ranch that serves as an interior and exterior filming site. The ranch on Placerita Canyon Road in Newhall, California, less than an hour north of Los Angeles.
Golden Oriole The Golden Oriole, Oriolus oriolus, is the only member of the oriole family of passerine birds to breed in northern hemisphere temperate regions. It is a summer migrant to Europe and western Asia, wintering in the tropics.
Golden parachute A golden parachute is a clause (or several) in an executive's employment contract specifying that they will receive certain large benefits if their employment is terminated. Sometimes it is only in the case that the company is acquired and the executive's employment is terminated as a result, but not always.
Golden Panda Party Golden Panda Party are a band, based in Manchester, UK, who play a varied and eclectic style of music. Formed around 3 core members, Michael Ashford, Chris "Jonah" Jones and Calum Esmonde, Golden Panda Party have been around, in various guises, for around 3 years.
Golden Party Badge The Golden Party Badge was a special badge of the Nazi Party. It was worn by the first one hundred thousand members of the party (these were denoted by the party members' number stamped on the reverse), and by other individuals at the discretion of Adolf Hitler (these badges had the initials 'A.
Golden Pass (Disney) The Golden Pass is an exclusive ticket which allows the holder access to all nine of the theme parks owned and operated by The Walt Disney Company. First awarded to Dave MacPherson in 1955, the first member of the public to become a paying guest at Disneyland, the Pass is awarded to all Disney Legends, has been handed to countless dignitaries and heads of state, and all directors of the board of the company hold one.
Golden Path The Golden Path is Leto II's strategy to prevent humanity's destruction in Frank Herbert's fictional Dune universe. The Golden Path is an important theme in the novels Children of Dune, God Emperor of Dune, Heretics of Dune and Chapterhouse: Dune.
Golden Pelydryn The Golden Pelydryn is a fictional magical object in Lloyd Alexander's "Chronicles of Prydain" series.It is owned by the young enchantress Princess Eilonwy and is used by her to light her way through darkness.
Golden Pheasant The Golden Pheasant or Chinese Pheasant, (Chrysolophus pictus) is a gamebird of the order Galliformes (gallinaceous birds) and the family Phasianidae. It is native to forests in mountainous areas of western China but feral populations have been established in the United Kingdom and elsewhere.
Golden Plates The Golden Plates, also called the Gold Plates or the Golden Bible,Use of the terms Golden Bible and Gold Bible by believers and non-believers dates from the late 1820s. See, for instance, (use of the term Gold Bible by Martin Harris in 1827); (use of the term gold Bible in 1827–29 by believing Palmyra neighbors); (stating that by 1829 the plates were "generally known and spoken of as the 'Golden Bible'").
Golden Quadrilateral The Golden Quadrilateral (GQ) is the largest express highway project in India launched under the rule of Sri Atal Bihari Vajpayee, former prime minister of India. It is the first phase of the National Highways Development Project (NHDP), and consists of building 5,846 kilometres of four/six lane express highways connecting Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata and Chennai (thus forming a quadrilateral of sorts), at a cost of Rs.
Golden raisin Golden raisins are Thompson Seedless raisins that have been treated with sulfur dioxide and flame-dried. They are similar in appearance and taste to sultanas, although the latter come from a different variety of grape than do typical dark raisins.
Golden ratio The golden ratio, usually denoted varphi, expresses the relationship that the sum of two quantities is to the larger quantity as the larger is to the smaller. The golden ratio is the following algebraic irrational number with its numerical approximation:
Golden redhorse The golden redhorse, Moxostoma erythrurum, is a species of freshwater fish endemic to Ontario and Manitoba in Canada and the Midwestern, southern, and eastern United States. It lives in calm, often silty or sandy waters in creeks, small to large rivers, and lakes.
Golden rice Golden rice is a variety of rice (Oryza sativa) produced through genetic engineering to biosynthesize the precursors of beta-carotene (pro-vitamin A) in the edible parts of rice. The scientific details of the rice were first published in Science in 2000.
Golden rivet In naval folklore there is a tale that every ship is built containing a single, commemorative "golden rivet"— an idea doubtless adapted from the golden spike that was temporarily driven at the completion of the transcontinental railroad in 1869. The rivet's location is allegedly different for each ship and undisclosed, known only to the crew.
Golden Raspberry Awards The Golden Raspberry Awards or Razzies were created by John Wilson in 1980, intended to complement the Academy Awards by dishonoring the worst acting, screenwriting, songwriting, directing, and films that the film industry had to offer. Current awards are voted upon by the membership of the Golden Raspberry Award Foundation (GRAF).
Golden Road Golden Road is a pricing game on the American television game show The Price Is Right. Debuting on August 19, 1975, it is played for three prizes – a three-digit prize (worth between $400 and $1,000); a four-digit prize (worth between $1,000 and $10,000) and a five-digit prize (usually worth more than $50,000 nowadays).
Golden Rod Stakes The Golden Rod Stakes is an American race for Thoroughbred horses held at Churchill Downs in Louisville, Kentucky each year. The race is open to two-year-old fillies willing to race one and one-sixteenth miles on the dirt.
Golden Rose The Golden Rose is a precious and sacred ornament made of pure gold by skilled artificers, which the popes of the Roman Catholic Church have been accustomed for centuries to bless each year; they occasionally conferred the extants specimen as a lasting token of reverence, esteem and paternal affection. Recipients have included illustrious churches and sanctuaries, Catholic kings or queens, princes or princesses, renowned generals or other distinguished personages and governments or cities conspicuous for their Catholic spirit and loyalty to the Holy See.
Golden Rule (fiscal policy) The Golden Rule is a fiscal rule adopted by Chancellor of the Exchequer, Gordon Brown for HM Treasury in the UK to provide a guideline for the operation of fiscal policy. The Golden Rule states that over the economic cycle, the Government will borrow only to invest and not to fund current spending.
Golden Rule savings rate In economics, the Golden Rule savings rate is the rate of savings which maximizes steady state growth consumption in the Solow growth model. It is a term attributed to Edmund Phelps who wrote in 1961 that the Golden Rule "do unto others as you would have them do unto you" could be applied inter-generationally inside the model to arrive at some form of "optimum".
Golden section search The golden section search is a technique for finding the extremum (minimum or maximum) of a mathematical function, by successively narrowing brackets by upper bounds and lower bounds. The technique derives its name from the fact that the most efficient bracket ratios are in a golden ratio.
Golden sombrero In baseball, the golden sombrero is a slang term used to describe a player's dubious feat of striking out four times in a single game. The "Olympic Rings" or platinum sombrero applies to a player striking out five times in a game, while a horn or titanium sombrero is bestowed upon a player who strikes out six times in a single game.
Golden spike The term "golden spike" generally refers to the last, ceremonial spike driven specifically to mark the completion of a railroad line. The practice originated with the First Transcontinental Railroad, when Leland Stanford officially joined the Central Pacific and Union Pacific railroads on May 10, 1869 at Promontory, Utah.
Golden syrup Golden syrup is a thick, amber-colored form of inverted sugar syrup, made in the process of refining sugar cane juice into sugar, or by treatment of a sugar solution with acid. It is used in a variety of baking recipes and desserts.
Golden Sands Golden Sands (Bulgarian: Златни пяŃъци, Zlatni pyasatsi; German: Goldstrand, Russian: Золотые пеŃки, Zolot'ie peski; Romanian: Nisipurile de aur; Polish: ZĹ‚ote piaski; Czech: ZlatĂ© PĂsky) is a resort town on the northern Bulgarian Black Sea Coast located about 17 km north of downtown Varna, the third largest city in Bulgaria. It is a popular tourist destination, drawing many visitors from Germany, the United Kingdom, Russia, Eastern Europe, and various other countries, attracted by the favourable climate, scenic landscape, and reasonable prices.
Golden Security Bank Golden Security Bank (金安銀行) is a overseas Chinese bank in the United States. Headquartered in Rosemead, California, with a branch office in Alhambra, California, this privately-held community bank was first established on August 27, 1982.
Golden Gate Capital Partners Golden Gate Capital Partners is a venture-capital firm in San Francisco, California. It seeks investments less than $100 million that have possible rapid gains in equity, with a significant possibility of liquidity.
Golden Gate Derby The Golden Gate Derby is a race for thoroughbred horses run each year at Golden Gate Fields at a distance of one and one sixteenth of a mile and open to three-year-olds. A Grade III event, also known as the California Derby, it offers a purse of $100,000.
Golden Gate Hotel and Casino The Golden Gate Hotel & Casino is located at One Fremont Street in Las Vegas, Nevada, in the United States. A part of the Fremont Street Experience, it is Las Vegas' oldest hotel and the smallest hotel (106 rooms) on Fremont.
Golden Gate International Exposition Golden Gate International Exposition (1939 and 1940) was held in San Francisco, California to celebrate two newly-built bridges. The San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge was dedicated in 1936 and the Golden Gate Bridge was dedicated in 1937.
Golden Gate Railroad Museum The Golden Gate Railroad Museum is a non-profit heritage railway established in 1975 and dedicated to the preservation of steam and passenger railroad equipment, and the interpretation of local railroad history.
Golden Gate Transit Golden Gate Transit is a public transportation system in the San Francisco Bay Area in California, United States. It mainly serves Marin and Sonoma Counties, but limited service is provided to San Francisco and Contra Costa County.
Golden Gate University School of Law The Golden Gate University School of Law was founded in 1901 as the YMCA Evening Law School, a component of the San Francisco Central YMCA Evening College. Like other YMCA Law Schools across the nation, it was established to provide people who worked full-time the opportunity to attend law school at night.
Golden Gate Yacht Club The Golden Gate Yacht Club (GGYC) was founded in 1939, when members built a clubhouse on a barge in the San Francisco Marina. After the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake severely damaged the club, members pulled together and rebuilt it into the showcase facility that now exists.
Golden Gate, Oakland, California The Golden Gate neighborhood of Oakland, California is located in the northwest corner of the city, east of Emeryville and south of Berkeley. It includes the Golden Gate Shopping District, the stretch of San Pablo Avenue roughly between the Golden Gate branch of the Oakland Public Library at 56th Street on the south, and the Oakland-Berkeley border at 67th street to the north.
Golden Generation Golden Generation is a term first coined by the Portuguese sports media to refer to a group of exceptionally gifted teenage Portuguese soccer players. This group of players, spearheaded by "Golden Boy" Luis Figo, won several Football World Youth Championships in 1989 and 1991.
Golden Ghetto Golden Ghetto is an informal name for a neighborhood north and south of Devon Avenue on the North Side of Chicago stretching from about 2200 west to the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal at about 3200 west. It is bounded on the north by Warren Park and Pratt Avenue and on the south by Peterson Avenue.
Golden Glades Interchange The Golden Glades Interchange, located in Miami Gardens, Florida, USA, is the confluence of five major roads serving eastern and southern Florida: Florida's Turnpike Mainline (hidden Florida DOT designation SR 91), Interstate 95 (hidden designations SR 9 north of it and SR 9A south of it), U.S.
Golden Globe Award The Golden Globe Awards are American awards for motion pictures and television programs, given out each year during a formal dinner. Run since 1944 by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA), the awards are a major part of the film industry's "awards season" which culminates each year with the Oscars and Screen Actors Guild Awards.
Golden Globe Award for Best Actor - Motion Picture Drama The Golden Globe Award for Best Actor - Motion Picture - Drama was first awarded by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association as a separate category in 1951. Previously, there was a single award for "Best Actor in a Motion Picture" but the splitting allowed for recognition of it and the Best Actor - Musical or Comedy.
Golden Globe Award for Best Actor - Motion Picture Musical or Comedy The Golden Globe Award for Best Actor - Motion Picture Musical or Comedy was first awarded by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association as a separate category in 1951. Previously, there was a single award for "Best Actor in a Motion Picture" but the splitting allowed for recognition of it and the Best Actor - Drama.
Golden Globe Award for Best Actress - Motion Picture Drama The Golden Globe Award for Best Actress - Motion Picture - Drama was first awarded by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association as a separate category in 1951. Previously, there was a single award for "Best Actress in a Motion Picture" but the splitting allowed for recognition of it and the Best Actress - Musical or Comedy.
Golden Globe Award for Best Actress - Motion Picture Musical or Comedy The Golden Globe Award for Best Actress - Motion Picture Musical or Comedy was first awarded by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association as a separate category in 1951. Previously, there was a single award for "Best Actress in a Motion Picture" but the splitting allowed for recognition of it and the Best Actress - Drama.
Golden Globe Award for Best Animated Feature Film The Golden Globe Award for Best Animated Feature Film was awarded for the first time in 2007 at the 64th Annual Golden Globe Awards to the Pixar film Cars. The Hollywood Foreign Press Association has been awarding Golden Globe Awards since 1944.
Golden Globe Award for Best Documentary Film The Golden Globe Award for Best Documentary Film was only awarded between 1972 and 1977. Prior to the award, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association awarded the film A Queen is Crowned a special award for "Best Documentary Film of Historical Interest" in 1954, but that has not been awarded since then.
Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award The Cecil B. DeMille Award for lifetime achievement in motion pictures has been given annually since 1952 by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association at the Golden Globe Award ceremonies in Hollywood, California.
Golden Gloves The Golden Gloves is the name given to annual competitions for amateur boxing in the United States. The Golden Gloves is often the term used to refer to the National Golden Gloves competition, but it also can represent several other amateur tournaments, including regional golden gloves tournaments and other notable tournaments such as the Intercity Golden Gloves, the Chicago Golden Gloves, and the New York Golden Gloves.
Golden Goose The Golden Goose (Die goldene Gans) is a fairy tale collected by the Brothers Grimm (Tale 64). Several elements in its narrative structure follow formulaic elements in the methodology that was formulated by Antti Aarne and his translator Stith Thompson (the Aarne-Thompson method) and by the earlier, more generalized method of Vladimir Propp, who used Russian folk tales Other familiar irreducible narrative myth elements ("mytheme]s") will be quickly recognized.
Golden Grove (ship) The Golden Grove was a First Fleet storeship built at Whitby in 1780. Her master was William Sharp, while the Fleet's chaplain Richard Johnson and his wife and servant also travelled to New South Wales on this ship.
Golden Grove High School Golden Grove High school is a public secondary school (8-12) located with Pedare Christian College and Gleeson College private schools in Golden Grove, South Australia. The school was built as part of the Delfin Golden Grove development as part of a planned community.
Golden Gryphon Press Golden Gryphon Press is an independent publishing company, specializing in science fiction, fantasy, dark fantasy and cross-genre novels. It was founded in 1997 by Jim Turner, former editor at Arkham House, and is currently run by his brother Gary and his wife, Geri Turner.
Golden Guide The Golden Guides are a series of pocket-sized books that were created by Western Publishing and published under their "Golden Press" line (mostly used for children's books at the time) beginning in 1949. Intended for Grade to High-School level, the series began as field guides with such titles as Birds, Mammals and Flowers, and expanded to a wider range of subjects that weren't strictly identification guides.
Golden Guitar The Golden Guitar is a one of the many "big" attractions that can be found around Australia. Located in Tamworth, New South Wales, this monument is one of the best-known points of interest in Western NSW.
Golden Gumboot The Golden Gumboot is a competition between the Far North Queensland towns of Tully, Innisfail and Babinda in Australia for the wettest town of Australia. These towns exist in the Wet Tropics and on land that was previously covered by rainforest.
Golden hammer A golden hammer is any tool, technology, paradigm, snake oil, buzzword or similar whose proponents enthusiastically sing its praises. They predict that it will solve multiple problems, including some for which it is obviously not suitable.
Golden handshake A golden handshake is a clause in an executive employment contract that provides the executive with a significant severance package in the case that the executive loses their job through firing, restructuring, or even scheduled retirement. This can be in the form of cash, equity, and other benefits, and is often accompanied by an accelerated vesting of stock options.
Golden hat Four tall conical golden hats dating to between 1400 BC and 800 BC, have been found in Central Europe: one find in 1835 near Schifferstadt near Speyer dated to 1400-1300, one fragmentary find in 1844 near Avanton near Poitiers, one at Ezelsdorf near NĂĽrnberg in 1953, dated to 1000-900, and one find of unknown origin, probably from Switzerland or Swabia, bought in 1996 by the National Museum of Berlin, dated to 1000-800. The tallest of these is the Ezelsdorf one, measuring 90 cm.
Golden hour (medicine) In emergency medicine the golden hour is the first sixty minutes after the occurrence of major multi-system trauma. It is widely believed that the victim's chances of survival are greatest if he or she receives definitive care in the operating room within the first hour.
Golden Hamster The Syrian Hamster or Golden Hamster, Mesocricetus auratus, is the best known member of the rodent subfamily Cricetinae, the hamsters. In the wild they are now considered endangered Listed as Endangered (EN B1+2c v2.
Golden Hill Fort Golden Hill Fort was a defensible barracks built as part of the Palmerston defences by the 1859 Royal Commission on the Defence of the United Kingdom to provide manpower to man the defences at the western end of the Isle of Wight, England. The Fort is a local landmark which is in a very prominent position overlooking much of the land looking south towards Afton Down.
Golden Hill Paugussett Indian Nation The Golden Hill Paugussets are a group of Native Americans living in Colchester, Connecticut. They are a source of a great deal of controversy in the area, due to their continual and unsuccessful quest to get federal recognition, which is generally denied due to a claimed failure on their part to accurately show lineage to the original Golden Hill Paugussett nation.
Golden Hill State Park Golden Hill State Park is located in the northeast corner of the Town of Somerset in Niagara County, New York, USA. The park is on the south shore of Lake Ontario, north of Lower Lake Road near Thirty-mile Point Lighthouse.
Golden Hind The Golden Hind was an English galleon best known for its global circumnavigation between 1577 and 1580, captained by Sir Francis Drake. She was originally known as the Pelican, and was renamed by Drake in mid-voyage in 1577, as he prepared to enter the Straits of Magellan.
Golden Hockey Stick (Czech Republic) The Czech Golden Hockey Stick is an ice hockey award given annually to the top player from the Czech Republic. It has been awarded since the 1993-94 season, after Czechoslovakia split into the Czech Republic and Slovakia.
Golden Hockey Stick (Czechoslovakia) The CSSR Golden Hockey Stick was an award given to the top ice hockey player in the Czechoslovak Elite League from the 1968-69 season until 1992-93. It continued to be awarded in the Czech Extraliga (Czech Elite League) after the Czech Republic and Slovakia became separate countries in 1993.
Golden Hope Golden Hope Plantations Berhad (GHPB) was established in 1844 under the name Harrison and Crossfield (H&C). The group was renamed to GHPB in 1990 to reflect the changed in management when Permodalan Nasional Berhad (PNB) took majority equity of the company.
Golden Horde The Golden Horde (Turkish: Altın Ordu)was a predominantly Turkic state established in parts of present-day Russia, Ukraine, and Kazakhstan after the break up of the Mongol Empire in the 1240s. At its peak the Golden Horde's territory included most of European Russia from the Urals to the Carpathian Mountains, extending east deep into Siberia.
Golden Horseshoe The Golden Horseshoe is a densely populated and industrialized region at the west end of Lake Ontario in Southern Ontario, Canada. Although it is a geographically named sub-region of Southern Ontario, "Golden Horseshoe" is more frequently used to describe the metropolitan region that stretches across the area.
Golden Horseshoe Junior B Hockey League The Golden Horseshoe Junior B Hockey League is a Junior "B" ice hockey league in Ontario, Canada, sanctioned by the Ontario Hockey Association. The league's playoff champion will compete with the champions of the Midwestern Junior B Hockey League and Western Junior B Hockey League for the Sutherland Cup, the Provincial Championship.
Golden Horseshoe Saloon The Golden Horseshoe Saloon (referred to as Pecos Bill's Golden Horseshow Saloon during construction) ]]", opened in 1955 with several other original attractions at Disneyland Park. Over the years it has now housed multiple entertainment venues, currently showing Billy Hill and the Hillbillies seven days a week.
Golden Charter of Bern The Golden Charter of Bern (also: Golden Bull, in German: Goldene Handfeste or Berner Handfeste) is a medieval charter purporting to have been issued by Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II. It establishes the town privileges of Berne (now the capital of Switzerland), making it an Imperial Free City and, effectively, an independent state.
Golden Checkerboard Golden Checkerboard (1965) is a biographical novel by Ed Ainsworth; its subject matter concerns the mid-20th century economic conditions of the Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians of Palm Springs, California and the history of the 99-year lease law which enabled them to commercially develop tribal owned lands. The book portrays Indio Superior Court Judge Hilton McCabe as a "Great White Father,"1 recalling steps purportedly taken by him to secure legislation that would endow the tribe with investment opportunities and economic self-sufficiency.
Golden Jackal Golden Jackals (Canis aureus), also called Asiatic or Common Jackals, are small jackals native to northern and central Africa and southern Asia. Golden Jackals live 7 to 9 years in the wild, but have been known to live up 16 years in captivity.
Golden Jubilee of Elizabeth II The Golden Jubilee of Elizabeth II marked the fiftieth anniversary of Queen Elizabeth II's accession to the throne. It was celebrated with large-scale events throughout London, the capital of the United Kingdom, in June of 2002, as well as in her other Realms, as she and Prince Philip toured them throughout the year.
Golden Jubilee Stakes The Golden Jubilee Stakes is a Group 1 flat horse race in the United Kingdom for three-year-old and above thoroughbreds run over a distance of 6 furlongs (1,207 metres) at Ascot Racecourse during the Royal Ascot meeting in June.
Golden Key International Honour Society The Golden Key International Honour Society is an Atlanta, Georgia-based non-profit organization founded in 1977 to recognise academic achievement among college and university students in all disciplines. The Society currently has nearly 350 chapters at colleges and universities in six countries: Australia, Canada, Malaysia, New Zealand, South Africa and the United States.
Golden Kite Award The Golden Kite Awards are given annually by the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators or SCBWI to recognize excellence in children’s literature. Instituted in 1972, the Golden Kite Awards are the only children’s literary award judged by a jury of peers.
Golden Kiwi Lottery The Golden Kiwi lotteries began in 1961 based on earlier philanthropic art union lotteries held for many decades prior in New Zealand. Golden Kiwi lotteries ended in 1989 following the introduction of Lotto (1987) and Instant Kiwi scratch card lotteries (1989).
Golden Knights (chess) The Golden Knights is the United States open correspondence chess championship. It is held annually by the United States Chess Federation (USCF), and is open to all members of the USCF residing in the continental United States or Hawaii, or who have an APO or FPO address.
Golden line The golden line is a type of Latin dactylic hexameter frequently mentioned in Latin classrooms in English speaking countries and in contemporary scholarship written in English. The golden line is variously defined, but most uses of the term conform to the oldest known definition from Burles' Latin grammar of 1652:
Golden Landmarks Association Golden Landmarks Association is a nonprofit historic preservation group that strives to preserve the historic landmarks of Golden, Colorado. Founded on November 17, 1971 and incorporated on February 14, 1972, GLA is the second-oldest nonprofit preservation group in the state of Colorado.
Golden Legend The Golden Legend (Latin: Legenda Aurea) by Jacobus de Voragine (Jacopo da Varagine) is a collection of fanciful hagiographies, lives of the saints, that became a late mediaeval bestseller. It was probably compiled around 1260.
Golden Liberty Golden Liberty (Latin: Aurea Libertas; Polish: Złota Wolność, sometimes used in the plural: this phenomenon can also be referred to as "Golden Freedoms," "Nobles' Democracy" or "Nobles' Commonwealth" — Polish: Rzeczpospolita Szlachecka) refers to a unique aristocratic political system in the Kingdom of Poland and later, after the Union of Lublin (1569), in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. Under that system, all nobles (szlachta) were equal and enjoyed extensive rights and privileges.
Golden Light Sutra The Golden Light Sutra (金光ćŽç¶“; Chinese: jin1 guang1 ming2 jing1; Japanese: KonkĹŤmyĹŤ KyĹŤ), an important Buddhist text, was originally written in India (Sanskrit romanization: Suvarnaprabhasa-sutra), and was translated several times into Chinese. Now almost forgotten in China, it became one of the most important sutras in Japan because of its fundamental message, which teaches that the Four Guardian Gods (四天王) protect the ruler who governs his country in the proper manner.
Golden Lion The Golden Lion () is the name of the highest prize given to a film at the Biennale Venice Film Festival. The prize was introduced in 1954 by the organizing committee and is now regarded as one of the film industry's most distinguished prizes.
Golden Llamas The Golden Llamas awards originated in 2002 as an attempt to celebrate the best films in the rapidly-developing hobby of creating video clips that showcase competitive games. The awards are given out by The Global Gaming League.
Golden mask In the beginning of the new century, the famous Bulgarian archeologist Georgi Kitov discovered a 673g golden mask of a Thracian king near Shipka, Central Bulgaria. It is a very fine piece of workmanship made out of massive gold, unlike other masks discovered in the Balkans (3 in Macedonia, now kept in the National Archaeological Museum in Sofia and two in Greece).
Golden Meteorite Press Golden Meteorite Press was formed in 1989 in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada by Austin Mardon for the purpose of publishing books. As of 2006 it has published over 40 books on a variety of topics many relating to Alberta history.
Golden Mile (Belfast) The Golden Mile is the name given to the stretch of Great Victoria Street between the City Hall and the university area in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Both the Crown Liquor Saloon and the Grand Opera House are on this stretch of road, as are a large number of pubs, bars and restaurants.
Golden Mile, Durban The Golden Mile is a stretch of beach with golden sands in Durban South Africa stretching from the uShaka marine world in the south, to the newly constructed Suncoast Casino and Entertainment World in the north. It is one of the main tourist attractions in the Durban area and provides many locations for sun worshippers to lounge, play games and enjoy the restaurants scattered along the mile.
Golden Mile, Puerto Rico The Golden Mile (Spanish: Milla de Oro) is a one mile stretch portion of the Ponce de León Avenue in Hato Rey, San Juan, Puerto Rico. The stretch is famous for the abundance of local, federal and international bank and financial company headquarters and buildings, usually side by side of one another, which have led some to call it the "mini Wall Street of the Caribbean" "Eatin’ Where The Cows Used To Roam: Hato Rey Dining At Its Best" by Brenda A.
Golden Miller The race horse Golden Miller is the only horse to have won both of the United Kingdom's premier steeplechase races - the Cheltenham Gold Cup and the Grand National - in the same year (1934), setting a new course record for Aintree in the National. The 1934 win was the middle of five consecutive Gold Cup victories, a Gold Cup record.
Golden numbers The golden numbers (sometimes capitalized) are numbers assigned to each year in sequence to indicate the year's position in a 19-year Metonic cycle. They are used in the computus, the calculation of the date of Easter and also in the Runic calendar.
Golden North Salmon Derby The Golden North Salmon Derby is an annual salmon fishing competition held in Juneau, Alaska in August. The object of the event is to catch the largest Chinook or Coho salmon over a period of three days; pink and chum salmon are not accepted.
Golden Nugget Atlantic City The Golden Nugget Atlantic City was built, owned and operated by Golden Nugget Companies before selling it to Bally's Entertainment Corporation, which changed the name to Bally's Grand Casino/Hotel. The sale was prompted by founder Steve Wynn's frustration with gaming regulators in New Jersey.
Golden Nugget Casino DS Golden Nugget Casino DS is a 2005 video game released by Majesco Entertainment for the Nintendo DS. The game, named for the Las Vegas casino of the same name, is the first Golden Nugget themed game released for the DS.
Golden Nugget Pancake House The Golden Nugget Pancake House is a chain of family restaurants originally launched in Florida but now operating exclusively in Chicago, Illinois. The restaurants serve breakfast 24 hours a day, and their decor generally has a Western motif.
Golden Oak Ranch The Walt Disney Company’s Golden Oak Ranch is an outdoor ranch that serves as an interior and exterior filming site. The ranch on Placerita Canyon Road in Newhall, California, less than an hour north of Los Angeles.
Golden Oriole The Golden Oriole, Oriolus oriolus, is the only member of the oriole family of passerine birds to breed in northern hemisphere temperate regions. It is a summer migrant to Europe and western Asia, wintering in the tropics.
Golden parachute A golden parachute is a clause (or several) in an executive's employment contract specifying that they will receive certain large benefits if their employment is terminated. Sometimes it is only in the case that the company is acquired and the executive's employment is terminated as a result, but not always.
Golden Panda Party Golden Panda Party are a band, based in Manchester, UK, who play a varied and eclectic style of music. Formed around 3 core members, Michael Ashford, Chris "Jonah" Jones and Calum Esmonde, Golden Panda Party have been around, in various guises, for around 3 years.
Golden Party Badge The Golden Party Badge was a special badge of the Nazi Party. It was worn by the first one hundred thousand members of the party (these were denoted by the party members' number stamped on the reverse), and by other individuals at the discretion of Adolf Hitler (these badges had the initials 'A.
Golden Pass (Disney) The Golden Pass is an exclusive ticket which allows the holder access to all nine of the theme parks owned and operated by The Walt Disney Company. First awarded to Dave MacPherson in 1955, the first member of the public to become a paying guest at Disneyland, the Pass is awarded to all Disney Legends, has been handed to countless dignitaries and heads of state, and all directors of the board of the company hold one.
Golden Path The Golden Path is Leto II's strategy to prevent humanity's destruction in Frank Herbert's fictional Dune universe. The Golden Path is an important theme in the novels Children of Dune, God Emperor of Dune, Heretics of Dune and Chapterhouse: Dune.
Golden Pelydryn The Golden Pelydryn is a fictional magical object in Lloyd Alexander's "Chronicles of Prydain" series.It is owned by the young enchantress Princess Eilonwy and is used by her to light her way through darkness.
Golden Pheasant The Golden Pheasant or Chinese Pheasant, (Chrysolophus pictus) is a gamebird of the order Galliformes (gallinaceous birds) and the family Phasianidae. It is native to forests in mountainous areas of western China but feral populations have been established in the United Kingdom and elsewhere.
Golden Plates The Golden Plates, also called the Gold Plates or the Golden Bible,Use of the terms Golden Bible and Gold Bible by believers and non-believers dates from the late 1820s. See, for instance, (use of the term Gold Bible by Martin Harris in 1827); (use of the term gold Bible in 1827–29 by believing Palmyra neighbors); (stating that by 1829 the plates were "generally known and spoken of as the 'Golden Bible'").
Golden Quadrilateral The Golden Quadrilateral (GQ) is the largest express highway project in India launched under the rule of Sri Atal Bihari Vajpayee, former prime minister of India. It is the first phase of the National Highways Development Project (NHDP), and consists of building 5,846 kilometres of four/six lane express highways connecting Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata and Chennai (thus forming a quadrilateral of sorts), at a cost of Rs.
Golden raisin Golden raisins are Thompson Seedless raisins that have been treated with sulfur dioxide and flame-dried. They are similar in appearance and taste to sultanas, although the latter come from a different variety of grape than do typical dark raisins.
Golden ratio The golden ratio, usually denoted varphi, expresses the relationship that the sum of two quantities is to the larger quantity as the larger is to the smaller. The golden ratio is the following algebraic irrational number with its numerical approximation:
Golden redhorse The golden redhorse, Moxostoma erythrurum, is a species of freshwater fish endemic to Ontario and Manitoba in Canada and the Midwestern, southern, and eastern United States. It lives in calm, often silty or sandy waters in creeks, small to large rivers, and lakes.
Golden rice Golden rice is a variety of rice (Oryza sativa) produced through genetic engineering to biosynthesize the precursors of beta-carotene (pro-vitamin A) in the edible parts of rice. The scientific details of the rice were first published in Science in 2000.
Golden rivet In naval folklore there is a tale that every ship is built containing a single, commemorative "golden rivet"— an idea doubtless adapted from the golden spike that was temporarily driven at the completion of the transcontinental railroad in 1869. The rivet's location is allegedly different for each ship and undisclosed, known only to the crew.
Golden Raspberry Awards The Golden Raspberry Awards or Razzies were created by John Wilson in 1980, intended to complement the Academy Awards by dishonoring the worst acting, screenwriting, songwriting, directing, and films that the film industry had to offer. Current awards are voted upon by the membership of the Golden Raspberry Award Foundation (GRAF).
Golden Road Golden Road is a pricing game on the American television game show The Price Is Right. Debuting on August 19, 1975, it is played for three prizes – a three-digit prize (worth between $400 and $1,000); a four-digit prize (worth between $1,000 and $10,000) and a five-digit prize (usually worth more than $50,000 nowadays).
Golden Rod Stakes The Golden Rod Stakes is an American race for Thoroughbred horses held at Churchill Downs in Louisville, Kentucky each year. The race is open to two-year-old fillies willing to race one and one-sixteenth miles on the dirt.
Golden Rose The Golden Rose is a precious and sacred ornament made of pure gold by skilled artificers, which the popes of the Roman Catholic Church have been accustomed for centuries to bless each year; they occasionally conferred the extants specimen as a lasting token of reverence, esteem and paternal affection. Recipients have included illustrious churches and sanctuaries, Catholic kings or queens, princes or princesses, renowned generals or other distinguished personages and governments or cities conspicuous for their Catholic spirit and loyalty to the Holy See.
Golden Rule (fiscal policy) The Golden Rule is a fiscal rule adopted by Chancellor of the Exchequer, Gordon Brown for HM Treasury in the UK to provide a guideline for the operation of fiscal policy. The Golden Rule states that over the economic cycle, the Government will borrow only to invest and not to fund current spending.
Golden Rule savings rate In economics, the Golden Rule savings rate is the rate of savings which maximizes steady state growth consumption in the Solow growth model. It is a term attributed to Edmund Phelps who wrote in 1961 that the Golden Rule "do unto others as you would have them do unto you" could be applied inter-generationally inside the model to arrive at some form of "optimum".
Golden section search The golden section search is a technique for finding the extremum (minimum or maximum) of a mathematical function, by successively narrowing brackets by upper bounds and lower bounds. The technique derives its name from the fact that the most efficient bracket ratios are in a golden ratio.
Golden sombrero In baseball, the golden sombrero is a slang term used to describe a player's dubious feat of striking out four times in a single game. The "Olympic Rings" or platinum sombrero applies to a player striking out five times in a game, while a horn or titanium sombrero is bestowed upon a player who strikes out six times in a single game.
Golden spike The term "golden spike" generally refers to the last, ceremonial spike driven specifically to mark the completion of a railroad line. The practice originated with the First Transcontinental Railroad, when Leland Stanford officially joined the Central Pacific and Union Pacific railroads on May 10, 1869 at Promontory, Utah.
Golden syrup Golden syrup is a thick, amber-colored form of inverted sugar syrup, made in the process of refining sugar cane juice into sugar, or by treatment of a sugar solution with acid. It is used in a variety of baking recipes and desserts.
Golden Sands Golden Sands (Bulgarian: Златни пяŃъци, Zlatni pyasatsi; German: Goldstrand, Russian: Золотые пеŃки, Zolot'ie peski; Romanian: Nisipurile de aur; Polish: ZĹ‚ote piaski; Czech: ZlatĂ© PĂsky) is a resort town on the northern Bulgarian Black Sea Coast located about 17 km north of downtown Varna, the third largest city in Bulgaria. It is a popular tourist destination, drawing many visitors from Germany, the United Kingdom, Russia, Eastern Europe, and various other countries, attracted by the favourable climate, scenic landscape, and reasonable prices.
Golden Security Bank Golden Security Bank (金安銀行) is a overseas Chinese bank in the United States. Headquartered in Rosemead, California, with a branch office in Alhambra, California, this privately-held community bank was first established on August 27, 1982.
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