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Gordonville, Pennsylvania Gordonville, Pennsylvania is an unincorporated place or village in Leacock Township in eastern Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, USA. The village is located about nine miles east of the county seat of Lancaster, two miles southwest of the village of Intercourse, one mile north of Paradise, and about three miles southeast of Bird-in-Hand.
Gordoon "Le Clown Gordoon" is a New American Circus-styleclown character created and portrayed by Jeff Gordon. He has performed most notably with the Big Apple Circus but has also appeared with Cirque du Soleil, Ringling Bros.
Gordoservon In records from the year 680 in Bithynia, the city of Gordoservon is mentioned. The name is derived from the Serbs resettled in Asia Minor by Byzantine Emperor Constans II, who came from the areas around river Vardar.
Gore (surveying) A gore (or, sometimes, a grant), in parts of the northeastern United States (mainly northern New England), is an unincorporated portion of a county that is not part of any town and has limited self-government (if any, as many are uninhabited).
Gore Canyon Gore Canyon is a short isolated canyon on the upper Colorado River in southwestern Grand County, Colorado in the United States. The steep and rugged canyon, approximately 3 miles (5 km) long, was carved by the river as it passed the southern end of the Gore Range southwest of Kremmling.
Gore Creek (Colorado) Gore Creek is a tributary of the Eagle River, approximately 12 miles (19 km) long, in Eagle County in central Colorado in the United States. It drains a rugged area of the Rocky Mountains at the south end of the Gore Range at the upper end of the Eagle Valley in the vicinity of Vail, which sits along the creek.
Gore Gore Girls Gore Gore Girls are a garage rock band from Detroit, Michigan, formed in 1997. Their music is strong influenced by the guitar based underground movement pioneered by The White Stripes and the DIY lo-fi sounds of the riot grrl movement.
Gore Hill, New South Wales Gore Hill is an urban locality close to St Leonards, in Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. It is most well known for being where the Gore Hill Freeway from Lane Cove to the Sydney Harbour Bridge starts and ends, and also for being the location of the ABC's Sydney television transmission tower.
Gore Island (Queensland) Gore Island is an island about 1 km South East of Cape Grenville in the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Queensland, Australia, in Temple Bay about 200km North East of Iron Range National Park and Lockhart River in the Cape York Peninsula.
Gore Range The Gore Range (elevation approximately 12,000 ft) is a mountain range in the Rocky Mountains of northwest Colorado in the United States. The range runs for approximately 60 miles (100 km) northwest-to-southeast, through western Grand and Summit counties, and southern Routt counties.
Gore Vidal Eugene Luther Gore Vidal (born October 3 1925) (pronounced , occasionally , , etc) is an American author of novels, stage plays, screenplays, and essays. For nearly sixty years he has been a public, often controversial, figure in both the American literary and political scenes.
Gore Vidal: The Man Who Said No Gore Vidal: The Man Who Said No is a documentary film directed, produced, and edited by Gary Conklin. The film follows famed American writer and political gadfly Gore Vidal in his quixotic campaign against incumbent California Governor Jerry Brown for the Democratic nomination for the United States Senate in 1982.
Gore, Ethiopia Gore is a town in the southwestern part of the Oromia region (or kilil) of Ethiopia. Located south of Metu in the Illubabor Zone of the Oromia Region, this town has a latitude and longitude of and an elevation of 2085 meters.
Gorean In the most general use of the word, Gorean means anything characteristic of the Gor science fiction novels by John Norman. In these novels, the word "Gorean" is used to refer to the fictional counter-earth, to its inhabitants and social customs, and to the particular language which is the most widely-spoken lingua franca in the known inhabited regions of Gor (though other languages are also spoken on the planet).
Goregrind Goregrind, also known as grindgore, is a subgenre of grindcore, which is related to music styles such as death metal, thrash metal, and crust punk. The main features that musically distinguish goregrind from grindcore can be narrowed down to two main aspects:
Gorellik In many campaign settings for the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game, Gorellik is the gnoll deity of hunting, hyenas, and hyaenodons. Gorellik was the original patron god of gnolls, until the demon lord Yeenoghu began stealing their worship and devotion for himself.
Goreng sagu Goreng sagu is a European-Malay snack often served at funerals because the ingredients are cheap and readily obtained. The cooking method requires the Sago beads to be mixed eith grated coconut, egg and sugar, then made into patties and fried.
Gorenje Gorenje is a domestic appliance manufacturer based in Velenje, Slovenia. From its beginnings in the 1950s, the Gorenje Group has grown to a joint-stock holding company encompassing together 47 integrated enterprises, 33 of them outside Slovenia.
Gorenstein ring In commutative algebra, a Gorenstein local ring is a Noetherian commutative local ring R with finite injective dimension, as an R-module. There are many equivalent conditions, some of them listed below, most dealing with some sort of duality condition.
Gorevision films Gorevision is a film production and distribution company from Argentina founded by Germán Magariños in 2001. The company produces low budget independent movies, many of which have developed cult followings around the world.
Gorey Gorey (Irish: Guaire) (Population (2002) 3,090), is a market town, in north County Wexford, Ireland, situated on the main N11 Dublin to Wexford road. The town is also connected to the railway network along the same route.
Gorezone Magazines Gorezone Magazine UK is a monthly magazine published (13'000 UK) in the United Kingdom. It is Britain's newest horror publication and its rival's are Shivers and Dark Side ( Dark Side was blamed for over 235 confirmed thefts in March 2005 of online and print material: - http://www.
Gorgan (Star Trek) In Star Trek, Gorgan, often known as Gorgan the friendly angel is an entity whose full history is not known. He appeared in one Star Trek episode, "And the Children Shall Lead", where he instigated generational strife to cause the adults of the Starnes expedition on Triacus to commit suicide and lead the children to another, heavily populated, planet where he could cause more strife.
Gorgany Gorgany () is a mountain range in Western Ukraine in Outer Eastern Carpathians, adjacent to Chornohora range. The highest peak of Gorgany is Syvulia (1,836 m) with the other high peaks including Ihrovyshche, Vysoka and Grofa.
Gorge of Eternal Peril The Gorge of Eternal Peril was featured in Monty Python and the Holy Grail, past which King Arthur and his knights would supposedly reach the Holy Grail.To cross the bridge, one had to answer an old man (The Bridgekeeper, also the old man from Scene 24; played by Terry Gilliam) three questions.
Gorgeted Wood Quail The Gorgeted Wood-Quail, Odontophorus strophium, is a small ground-dwelling bird, on the verge of extinction. This tiny member of the New World Quail Family has been sited in the larger oak forest remnants in the eastern Cordillera (Serrania de Yariguies and NorAndino Oak Forest Corridor) section of Colombia.
Gorgias (dialogue) Gorgias is an important dialogue in which Plato sets the rhetorician, whose specialty is persuasion, in opposition to the philosopher, whose specialty is dissuasion, or refutation. The art of persuasion was necessary for political and legal advantage in classical Athens, and rhetoricians promoted themselves as teachers of this fundamental skill.
Gorgon (Dungeons & Dragons) In the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game, the gorgon is a magical beast that resembles a bull, covered in dusky metallic scales. It can breathe out a cone of vapor that turns creatures to stone.
Gorgonops Gorgonops (Gorgon (the mythological creature) and -ops, from Greek meaning 'face') is the name given to an extinct genus of synapsid which lived about 260 million years ago, during the late Permian Period. It was a typical representative of the Gorgonopsia, the dominant predators of their day, which in the largest forms grew to over 4 meters long and had evolved canine teeth, as well as other traits associated with its mammalian descendants.
Gorgora Gorgora (Ge'ez: ጎርጎራ Gōrgōrā, also Gʷargʷarā, modern prononciation Gʷergʷerā) is a town and peninsula in northwestern Ethiopia. Located south of Gondar on the north shore of Lake Tana, in the Semien Gondar Zone of the Amhara Region, this town has a longitude and latitude of .
Gorgosaurus Gorgosaurus, meaning "fierce lizard" (from the Greek: gorgos/γορργος meaning 'terrible' or 'fierce' and saurus/σαυρος meaning 'lizard') is a genus of carnivorous dinosaur that reached 7 to 8 metres (27 to 30 feet) in length, with an estimated weight of 2.5 tonnes (2.
Gorham (CDP), Maine Gorham CDP is a census district that comprises the central settlement area in the town of Gorham, in Cumberland County, Maine, United States. These statistics are included in the aggregate numbers reported for the town as a whole.
Gorchakov Gorchakov, or Gortchakoff () is a Russian princely family of Rurikid stock, descended from the Rurikid sovereigns of Peremyshl, Russia. The best remembered representative of the family is Prince Alexander Mikhailovich (1798–1883), chancellor of the Russian Empire during the reign of Alexander II.
Gori Region, Georgia Gori (Georgian: გორი) is a district (Raioni) in Georgia's Shida Kartli region. After abolishment of former South Ossetian Autonomous Oblast, the Gori District included the territory of former Tskhinvali District.
Goria Puja The Baba Goria is the universal God of all indigenous Tripuris. Goria Ter (Ter is the word for festival in Kokborok language) is observed for seven days commencing from last day of Chaitra proceeded by Hari Buisu.
Gorilla Adventure Gorilla Adventure is a 1969 children's book by the Canadian-born American author Willard Price featuring his "Adventure" series characters, Hal and Roger Hunt. It depicts an expedition to capture a giant mountain gorilla for a zoo.
Gorilla Monsoon Robert Otto Marella (June 4, 1937 – October 6, 1999), better known by his stage name of Gorilla Monsoon, was an American professional wrestler, play-by-play announcer, and booker. He is a legend in the business, famous for his run as one of the great super-heavyweights, and later as the voice of the World Wrestling Federation as announcer, on-screen President, and backstage manager during the 1980s and 1990s.
Gorilla-Man Gorilla-Man is the name of three fictional characters appearing in the Marvel Comics universe. Ken Hale first appeared in Men's Adventures #26 (March 1954), while Arthur Nagan first appeared in Mystery Tales #21 (September 1954), and Franz Radzik first appeared in Tales to Astonish #28 (February 1962).
Gorillas in popular culture With other primates like Orangutans representations of the Gorilla are common in popular culture in the United States of America - with the full range of electronic media having gorillas as mascots, gorillas behaving like humans, and humans behaving like gorillas.
Gorillaz Gorillaz is a British virtual band, composed of four fictional animated band members: 2D, Murdoc, Noodle and Russel. The band was created by Damon Albarn from the Brit-pop band Blur, and Jamie Hewlett, the co-creator of the comic book Tank Girl.
Goring & Streatley railway station Goring & Streatley railway station is a railway station serving the twin villages of Goring-On-Thames, Oxfordshire, and Streatley, Berkshire, on the boundary between the counties of Berkshire and Oxfordshire in England. The station is actually situated in Goring, some five minutes walk from Goring and Streatley Bridge which connects the two villages across the River Thames.
Goring and Streatley Goring and Streatley are twin villages, in the English counties of Oxfordshire and Berkshire respectively, separated by the River Thames and joined together by Goring and Streatley Bridge. The villages are sometimes treated as one (for example in the naming of the local railway station), and sometimes as separate entities.
Goring and Streatley Bridge Goring and Streatley Bridge is a road bridge across the River Thames in England. The bridge links the twin villages of Goring-On-Thames, in the county of Oxfordshire, and Streatley, in the county of Berkshire, and is adjacent to Goring Lock.
Goring Lock Goring Lock is a lock and weir situated on the River Thames in England. The lock is located between the twin villages of Goring-On-Thames, in the county of Oxfordshire, and Streatley, in the county of Berkshire, and is adjacent to Goring and Streatley Bridge.
Goripalayam Mosque Goripalayam Mosque is a large mosque in Goripalayam (Part of Madurai City) containing two tombs of two Delhi Sultans of the Madurai sultanate. The amazing thing about it is that the dome which is 70 feet in diameter and 20 feet in height is made of a single block of stone.
Gorizia and Gradisca Gorizia and Gradisca (; ; Slovenian: Goriška in Gradiščanska; Friulian: Gurize e Gardiscje) was a county in what is now a multilingual border area of Italy and Slovenia. It was named for its two major urban centers, Gorizia and Gradisca d'Isonzo.
Gorjanski Garay or Garai (Croatian: Gorjanski) were a noble family in the Kingdom of Hungary, a brancs of the Dorozsma clan, with notable members in the 14th and 15th centuries. The name means of Gara / Gorja, their estate.
Gork and Mork The Gods of the Orkoid species in the Warhammer 40,000 and Orc in the Warhammer Fantasy fictional universes are referred to only as Gork and Mork, also as the constantly quarreling brothers. Often, which one is being referred to is ambiguous and the action is stated to be the work of Gork (or possibly Mork).
Gorka Larrea GarcĂ­a Gorka Larrea GarcĂ­a aka Gorka Larrea (born 7 April 1984 in Donostia, Basque Country) is Spanish football player who currently plays for UD AlmerĂ­a of the Spanish Segunda DivisiĂłn on loan from Real Sociedad. His usual demarcation is Midfielder.
Gorkha District Gorkha district, a part of Gandaki zone, is one of the seventy-five districts of Nepal, a landlocked country of South Asia. The district, with Gorkha as its district headquarters, covers an area of 3,610 sq km and has a population (2001) of 288,134.
Gorkha regiments (India) Gorkha regiments have been serving in the Indian Army ever since independence in 1947, when the Tripartite Agreement was signed. The regiments have served gallantly under the Indian Army and have continued in the highest of traditions established under the British Indian Army prior to independence.
Gorkhaland Gorkaland is the name given to the area around Darjeeling and the Duars in north West Bengal in India. Residents of the area, mostly Gorkhas have long demanded a separate state for themselves to preserve their Nepali identity and to improve their socio-economic conditions.
Gorki Leninskiye Gorki Leninskiye () is an urban-type settlement located in the Leninsky District of the Moscow Oblast, 10 km south of the Moscow, Russia, city limits & the MKAD, at . Population: 1,729 Russian Census (2002)
Gorkon In the film Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country, Gorkon was the Chancellor of the Klingon Empire and leader of its High Council in the late 23rd Century, until his assassination. The character was played by actor David Warner.
Gorky 17 Gorky 17 is a turn-based strategy computer game created by Polish developer Metropolis Software and published by Monolith Productions for Windows in 1999. The game was later ported to Linux by Hyperion Entertainment and published by Linux Game Publishing in 2006.
Gorky Film Studio Gorky Film Studio (in Russian, Киностудия имени Горького) is a film studio in Moscow, Russian Federation. By the end of the Soviet Union, Gorky Film Studio had produced more than 1,000 films.
Gorky Park (film) Gorky Park, the 1983 movie based on the novel Gorky Park by Martin Cruz Smith, was directed by Michael Apted from the screenplay by Dennis Potter (for which he won a 1984 Edgar Award). The main stars of the film are William Hurt as Arkady Renko, Lee Marvin as Jack Osborne, Joanna Pacula as Irina Asanova, Rikki Fulton as Major Pribluda, Brian Dennehy as William Kirwill and Ian Bannen as Prosecutor Iamskoy.
Gorky Park (novel) Gorky Park is a 1981 crime novel written by Martin Cruz Smith set in the Soviet Union. It follows Arkady Renko, a chief investigator for the Militsiya, who is assigned to a case involving three corpses dug up in Gorky Park, an amusement park in Moscow, who have had their faces and fingertips cut off by the murderer to prevent identification.
Gorlice Gorlice is a town in southern Poland with 28,707 inhabitants (2004). It is positioned south of Kraków between Jasło and Nowy Sącz in the Lesser Poland Voivodship (since 1999), previously in Nowy Sącz Voivodship (1975-1998).
Gorlice-TarnĂłw Offensive The Gorlice-TarnĂłw Offensive during World War I started as a minor German offensive to relieve Russian pressure on the Austro-Hungarians to their south on the Eastern Front, but resulted in the total collapse of the Russian lines and their retreat far into Russia. The continued series of actions lasted the majority of the campaigning season for 1915, starting in early May and only ending due to bad weather in October.
Gorlois In the legendary tales of King Arthur, Gorlois was the Duke of Cornwall and Igraine's first husband before her marriage to Uther Pendragon. Later versions of the legend give him a number of children, the most famous of which are Elaine, Morgause or Anna, and Morgan le Fay.
Gorō Miyazaki Gorō Miyazaki (宮崎吾朗, Miyazaki Gorō) was born on January 21, 1967 in Tokyo, Japan, the son of Japanese animation director Hayao Miyazaki. He has been reluctant his whole life to follow in his father's footsteps, choosing to work in landscaping rather than animationBut after producer Toshio Suzuki] persuaded him to work on the [[Ghibli Museum he began to be involved in Studio Ghibli.
Gorman polar form Gorman polar form is a functional form for indirect utility functions in economics. Imposing this form on utility allows the researcher to treat a society of utility-maximizers as if it consisted of a single individual.
Gorman Thomas James Gorman Thomas III (born December 12, 1950 in Charleston, South Carolina) is a former Major League Baseball center fielder and right-handed slugger who played in the American League with the Milwaukee Brewers (1973-76, 1978-83, 1986), Cleveland Indians (1983) and Seattle Mariners (1984-86).
Gorman, California Gorman, California, is an unincorporated community in northwestern Los Angeles County just west of the Antelope Valley, where three mountain ranges meet: The Sierra Pelonas, Tehachapis and the San Emigdios. Interstate 5 runs past Gorman and CA Route 138 connects to Interstate 5 a few miles south of the community.
Gormania, West Virginia Gormania is an unincorporated community along the North Branch Potomac River in Grant County, West Virginia. Gormania lies on the Northwestern Turnpike (US 50), which crosses the North Branch into Gorman, Maryland via Gormania Bridge.
Gormanston College Gormanston College, is a private, fee-paying, coeducational Catholic secondary school under the trusteeship of the Franciscan Province of Ireland. The College is located at Gormanston Castle (built 1786) in County Meath, about 32 kilometres (20 miles) north of Dublin, Ireland.
Gormanston, Tasmania Gormanston is a town in Tasmania on the slopes of Mount Owen, above the town of Queenstown in Tasmania's West Coast. It lies at the shoulder between Mount Lyell and Mount Owen and is south or 'up the hill' from an equally abandoned community, the remains of the townsite of Linda which is at the northern side of the Linda Valley.
Gormflaith Gormflaith was born in Naas, County Kildare, Ireland, around AD 960. She was the daughter of Murchad MacFinn, King of Leinster, sister of his successor, Mael Mordha, and widow of Olaf Cuaran, the Viking king of Dublin and York.
Gormglaith (novel) Gormglaith (2007) by Heidi Wyss is a hard science fiction novel set in a radical feminist separatist world of the future. The tale follows its protagonist Gormglaith as she copes with the outcome of her own rashness throughout five life-shifting days and nights.
Gorn Confederation This is an article about the Gorn as they exist in the Star Fleet Universe and not as they appear in various canon Star Trek sources. If you are seeking information about mainstream Star Trek, see the above link.
Gorna Oryahovitsa Gorna Oryahovitsa () is a town in northern Bulgaria, situated in Veliko Tarnovo Province, between the towns of Veliko Tarnovo and Dolna Oryahovitsa. The nearby village of Arbanasi is an architectural reserve with a large number of historical monuments, such as medieval churches and examples Bulgarian National Revival architecture.
Gornemant Gornemant was Percival's mentor in Arthurian legend. He is mentioned in a few early romances, but achieves prominence in Chrétien de Troyes' Perceval, the Story of the Grail, where he instructs the young hero in the ways of knighthood.
Gornja Radgona Gornja Radgona is one of the municipalities of Slovenia. Once it was a defensive stronghold for today's regional centre Bad Radkersburg on the other side of the river Mura in Austria, the towns split apart in 1919 when the state of Styria was divided between Austria and Slovenia.
Gornje Obrinje massacre The Gornje Obrinje massacre (Albanian: Masakra në Abri të Epërme) is the name generally used to refer to the killing of Albanians allegedly committed by Serbian forces in the central Kosovo village of Gornje Obrinje on 26th September 1998, during operations against the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) predating the Kosovo war. The Yugoslav Army and Serbian police had been deployed in the area for several months in a major offensive against the KLA, which had assumed loose control of an estimated one-third of the province.
Gornji Hrašćan Gornji Hrašćan is a village in Međimurje County in northern Croatia. It is located six kilometres west from the county seat Čakovec, approximately on the half of the way between this city and the Croatian-Slovenian border-crossing point in Trnovec.
Gornji Vakuf Gornji Vakuf - Uskoplje is a town and municipality in central Bosnia and Herzegovina, located between Bugojno, Prozor, Kupres, Novi Travnik and Konjic. It is under the administration of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Province Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Province (GBAP) (Tajik: Вилояти Мухтори Кҳистони Бадахшон/Viloyati Mukhtori Kuhistoni Badakhshon) is a mountainous province of Tajikistan. It makes up 40% of the land area of the country.
Goro Goro Iki A long running popular Japanese cartoon, Goro Goro Iki became a television phenomenon in the early nineties. The episodes starred the main protagonist, Hiragama Iki, who was on a constant quest to find the killer of his parents.
Goro, SNNPR (woreda) Goro is one of the 77 woredas in the Southern Nations, Nationalities and Peoples' Region of Ethiopia. Part of the Gurage Zone, Goro is bordered on the south by Cheha, on the west and north by the Oromia Region, on the farther east by Kokir Gedebano Gutazer, and on the southeast by Ezhana Wolene.
Goroawase Goroawase is a linguistic technique in Japanese whereby homophonous words are associated with a given series of letters, numbers or symbols, in order to associate a new meaning with that series. The new words can be used to express a superstition about certain letters or numbers.
Gorodets Gorodets () is a town in Nizhny Novgorod Oblast, Russia, located on the left bank of the Volga River 53 km north-west of Nizhny Novgorod. In the past, the town was also sometimes referred to as Gorodets-Radilov ((), or simply Radilov.
Goroka Goroka is the capital of the Eastern Highlands province of Papua New Guinea. It is a town of approx 25,000 and lies on the "Highlands Highway" approx 285km from Lae in Morobe province and 90km from nearby town of Kainantu also in the Eastern Highlands.
Gorp (film) Gorp is a 1980 film starring Michael Lembeck and Dennis Quaid, and featuring early acting work of Roseanna Arquette and Fran Drescher in supporting roles. Directed by Joseph Ruben, with both story & screenplay by Jeffrey Konvitz & A.
Gorp (Netherlands) Gorp is a hamlet in the municipality of Hilvarenbeek, which is situated in the south of the Netherlands, along the border with Belgium. Once historically separate from the town of Hilvarenbeek, it has become a de facto neighborhood of this larger town.
Gorras Blancas The Gorras Blancas (Spanish for "White Caps") was a group active in the American Southwest in the late 1880s. The group believed in Mexican reclamation of land taken by Anglo farmers and used intimidation and raids to accomplish their goals.
Gorsafawddacha'idraigodanheddogleddollĂ´npenrhynareurdraethceredigion Gorsafawddacha'idraigodanheddogleddollĂ´npenrhynareurdraethceredigion is the former name of a station on the Fairbourne Railway in Gwynedd in North Wales. The name was contrived by the railway for publicity and to outdo Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch.
Gorse Gorse (Ulex) comprises a genus of about 20 species of evergreen shrubs in the subfamily Faboideae of the pea family Fabaceae, native to western Europe and northwest Africa, with the majority of species in Iberia. Other common names for gorse include furse, whin and furze.
Gorse Hill City Farm Gorse Hill City Farm is a city farm and community project practising humane farming based in Leicester. The site is a popular destination for field trips from local schools particularly due to the handling area for small farm animals.
Gorsedd stones Gorsedd Stones are integral to the main Druidic ceremonies of the National Eisteddfod of Wales. The stones can be found as commemortive structures across all of Wales and are the hallmark of the National Eisteddfod having visited a community.
Gorseinon College Coleg Gorseinon College was established in 1955 as a mining college for the local area, by 1982 the college became a tertiary college and was incorporated in 1993. The college is situated to the west of Swansea, in the suburb of upper Loughor in Gorseinon.
Gort (letter) Gort is the Irish name of the twelfth letter of the Ogham alphabet, , meaning "field", which is related to Welsh garth 'garden' and Latin hortus. Its Proto-Indo-European root was * 'to enclose, enclosure'.
Gortavoy Bridge Gortavoy Bridge is located in Shanmaghery near Pomeroy a rural part of County Tyrone, Northern Ireland. The main road linking Pomeroy to Donaghmore (B43) runs through it and also links the villages of Rock and Galbally.
Gorton Monastery The Church and Friary of St Francis (known locally as Gorton Monastery) is a 19th century former Franciscan Friary in Gorton, in east-Manchester, England. The Franciscans arrived in Gorton in December 1861 and built their Friary between 1863 and 1867.
Gortyn Gortyn (Greek Γορτυς/Gortys, also Γορτύν/Gortun or Γόρτυνα/Gortuna) is a town in the Greek island of Crete, 45 km away from the capital Heraklion. It was a very important city during the age of the Minoan civilization.
Gortyna, Arcadia Karytaina (Greek: Καρύταινα, also written as Karitena), is a town located in the western part of the prefecture of Arcadia in the central Peloponnese. It is the seat of the municipality of Gortyna (Γορτυνα).
Gorur Ramaswamy Iyengar Gorur Ramaswamy Iyengar (1904 - 1991), affectionately known as Gorur was an eminent Kannada writer; well known for his humor and satire. He was one of the two iconic Iyengar writers of Kannada literature along with the great Masti Venkatesh Iyengar.
Gory Guerrero Salvador "Gory" Guerrero Quesada (January 11, 1921 – April 18, 1990) was one of the premier Hispanic professional wrestlers in the early days of Lucha Libre when most wrestlers were imported from outside of Mexico.
Goryachy Klyuch Goryachy Klyuch, also known as Psekups () is a town and a balneological resort in Krasnodar Krai, Russia, located on the Psekups River (Kuban's tributary) some 65 km south of Krasnodar. Population: 27,693 (2002 Census); 20,000 (1970).
Goryu Asada Goryu Asada (麻田剛立) (1734 – 1799) (gôr´yoo äsä´dä) was a Japanese astronomer who helped to introduce modern astronomical instruments and methods into Japan. Asada spent much of his career in the flourishing commercial city of Osaka, where he practiced medicine for a living.

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