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GotFrag GotFrag was founded in 2002 as a professional eSports coverage website that would provide news and updates for the growing gaming community. It provided gamers with a place to look up information and current happening about their favorite teams and/or players.
Goth Opera Goth Opera is an original Doctor Who novel, published by Virgin Publishing in their Missing Adventures range of Doctor Who novels. It was the first book in that series and a sequel to the New Adventure book Blood Harvest, but it can be read separately.
Goth slang Members of the goth subculture use a variety of terms that are particular to their subculture. There a range of slang terms for those within the community and their particular interests, or the particular "type" of goth they are.
Gothabilly Gothabilly is a portmanteau which refers to the fusion of rockabilly music and the Goth culture. Gothabilly bands' lyrics include various dark themes sometimes including, but not limited to: Horror, the Supernatural/Paranormal, Vampires, The Occult, plus the standard rock fare of Dark Love songs, Sadness, violence,etc.
Gothador Gothador is a web-based MMORPG (Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game) involving thousands of people worldwide in a shared online experience. Drawing from fantasy sources both generically familiar and original, players participate as adventurers seeking fame, prestige and fortune in a series of interconnected realms.
Gotham Gotham (gŏth´əm) is a village in Nottinghamshire, England. It is also a sobriquet for New York City first used by Washington Irving in the Salmagundi Papers (1807), as a satirical reference to the tales of the "Wise fools of Gotham" told about the English village.
Gotham (magazine) Gotham Magazine is a regional magazine that is published by Niche Media, LLC Niche Media Official Website since 2001 and primarily targets New York's most affluent residents and visitors. According to a survey commissioned by the company, 56% of Gotham Magazine readers are male, with 51% married, and some two-thirds within the age group of 36 and 60 years old.
Gotham (typeface) Gotham is a family of geometric sans serif typefaces designed by American type designer Tobias Frere-Jones in 2000. Gotham's letterforms are inspired by a form of architectural signage that achieved popularity in the mid-twentieth century, and are especially popular throughout New York City.
Gotham Awards IFP/New York is a 25-year-old, not-for-profit membership and advocacy organization serving the independent film community as a source for networking and support while promoting film as a vital and influential public art form.
Gotham Bowl The Gotham Bowl was a post-season college football bowl game that was played in New York City, United States in 1961 and 1962. The 1961 game was played in the Polo Grounds while the 1962 game was played in Yankee Stadium.
Gotham Central Gotham Central was a police procedural comic book series that was published by DC Comics. It focused on the Gotham City Police Department and the difficulties of its officers living and working in Gotham City, home of Batman.
Gotham City Police Department The Gotham City Police Department (GCPD) is a fictional police department servicing the city of Gotham City in the DC Universe. Acting as both ally and opponent of Batman, the superhero long-established in Gotham, the GCPD has long been steeped in corruption, with numerous officers both high-and-low ranking involved in bribery and even more serious offences such as drug-trafficking and murder.
Gotham Entertainment Group Gotham Entertainment Group LLC is a US based company established in 1997 to establish a leadership position in the South Asian comic magazine and children's book market. The Company was established by a number of media luminaries, including the former CEO of Time-Life, the former President of Warner Music Media and former President of Bertelsmann Music Group (BMG) Direct and the former Regional Creative Director of J.
Gotham Gazette The Gotham Gazette is a publication of the Citizens Union Foundation of the City of New York, a good government group focussing on issues confronting New York City. Its purpose is four-fold: it reports daily on New York City news, it provides a digest of news items relevant to New York City, it researches and recommends policies considered by the New York City Government, and it provides reference tools for students of the civic activities of New York.
Gotham Girls Gotham Girls is an American animated Flash cartoon series created and produced jointly by Warner Brothers and Noodle Soup Productions about the females of Gotham City. Episodes starred Harley Quinn, Poison Ivy, Batgirl and Catwoman in short stories of varying length about the daily lives of the characters (from the DC comics universe).
Gotham Knights Gotham Knights RFC is New York's recent entry to the growing worldwide ranks of multiethnic and non-discriminatory rugby union teams worldwide. Following in the tradition of International Gay Rugby and Board teams like King Cross Steelers in England in 1995 and the San Francisco Fog and the Washington Renegades in 2000, recent part-time New York City business owner and resident, Mark Bingham, met with local rugby player, Scott Glaessgen, to form a New York team.
Gotham, Inc Gotham, Inc is an advertising agency based in New York City. Gotham was established as a startup agency by the global marketing services holding company Interpublic Group in 1994, and it continues to operate as an independent agency of Interpublic.
Gotham, Nottinghamshire Gotham (pronounced "goat-um") is a village in Nottinghamshire, England, south of Nottingham and north-east of Kegworth. It is administered as part of the Rushcliffe district of Nottingham, and has a parish council.
GothCon GothCon is an annual gaming convention held in Gothenburg, Sweden every year around Easter. Its focus lies primarily on role-playing games (pen-and-paper as well as freeform and live-action), card games, board games and miniature wargames.
Gothelo II, Duke of Lower Lorraine Gothelo II, also Gozelo (1008 – 1046), variously called the Coward, the Sluggard, the Indolent, or the Lazy (Latin ignavus), was the duke of Lower Lorraine from the death of his father Gothelo I, duke of both Lower and Upper Lorraine, to his own death two years later.
Gothenburg Gothenburg (Swedish: ) ) is a city and municipality in the province Västergötland on the west-coast of Sweden. As of 2005, the population amounted to 487,000 in the actual city and 879,000 in the metropolitan area making it the second largest city in Sweden, after Stockholm.
Gothenburg and Bohus County Gothenburg and Bohus County, or Göteborgs och Bohus län, was a County of Sweden until December 31, 1998 when it was merged with the counties of Skaraborg and Älvsborg to form the county of Västra Götaland. The county was named after the City of Gothenburg, and the historical Province of Bohuslän (Bohus Castle).
Gothenburg Museum of Art The Göteborg Museum of Art at Götaplatsen, Gothenburg, is renowned for its collection of Nordic art from around the close of the 19th century. A must see is the lavisciously decorated Fürstenberg Gallery, named after a leading Gothenburg art donor, Pontus Fürstenberg and his wife Göthilda.
Gothenburg School of Economics and Commercial Law The School of Business, Economics and Law at Göteborg University or Handelshögskolan vid Göteborgs universitet is a business school in Gothenburg, Sweden. It was founded in 1923 and is a part of Göteborg University.
Gothenburg tram The Gothenburg tram network (Swedish: Göteborgs spårvägar) is part of the public transport system organised by Göteborgs Spårvägar AB, controlled by Västtrafik in the Swedish city Gothenburg. The tram network has a length of around 190 km on a total track length of 80 km — making the Gothenburg tram the largest tram network in Scandinavia — used by around 200 trams which as of 2006 are serving the twelve day-time and five night-time lines currently in use.
Gothia Cup Gothia Cup is a youth football (soccer) tournament held annually in Gothenburg, Sweden, open for both boys and girls of ages 11 to 19 years. With respect to the number of participants, it is the world's largest football tournament: in 2004, a total of 32,100 players and team leaders from 1525 teams and 61 nations participated.
Gothic alphabet The Gothic alphabet is an alphabetic writing system attributed by Philostorgius to Wulfila, used exclusively for writing the ancient Gothic language. Before its creation in the fourth century, Gothic was possibly written in runes.
Gothic architecture Gothic architecture is a style of architecture, particularly associated with cathedrals and other churches, which flourished in Europe during the high and late medieval period. Beginning in twelfth century France, it was known as "the French Style" (Opus Francigenum) during the period, with the term Gothic first appearing in the Reformation era as a stylistic insult.
Gothic Beauty Gothic Beauty is a magazine that covers numerous aspects of underground culture including fashion, music, events and various forms of entertainment. Along with many articles on DIY fashion, each issue also features interviews with fashion designers, musicians, bands and icons of the gothic and alternative subcultures, and myriad music reviews.
Gothic double In literature, the term Gothic double refers to an essential duality within a single character on the further presumption that this duality centers on the polarity of good and evil. An example of this could be Robert Louis Stevenson's The Strange Case of Dr.
Gothic fashion Gothic fashion is a dark, sometimes morbid, eroticized fashion and style of dress. Typical gothic fashion for women includes gowns, corsets, veils, teased hair, eyeliner, black fingernails, fishnets, and styles borrowed from the Elizabethans and Victorians.
Gothic fiction Gothic fiction began in England with The Castle of Otranto (1764) by Horace Walpole. It depended for its effect on the pleasing terror it induced in the reader, a new extension of literary pleasures that was essentially Romantic.
Gothic Hilted British Infantry Swords (1822, 1827, 1845, 1854 and 1892 Patterns) The gothic hilted swords were a family of swords carried by officers and some NCOs of the British Army between 1822 and the present day. They were primarily infantry swords, although they were also regulation pattern for some other officers such as surgeons and staff officers.
Gothic Chapel (Peterhof) Gothic Chapel in Peterhof is the most imposing of Gothic Revival structures situated in the Alexandria Park of Peterhof, Russia. It was designed at the request of Nicholas I of Russia by the fashionable architect Karl Friedrich Schinkel in 1829.
Gothic Christianity Gothic Christianity refers to the Christian religious beliefs of the Eastern Germanic, or Gothic tribes that overran the Western Roman Empire in the Fifth Century. The tribes included the Ostrogoths, Visigoths, Burgundians and Vandals.
Gothic Kabbalah Gothic Kabbalah is a title of Therion's album released in January 12, 2007 in Europe and scheduled to be released in February 6, 2007 in United States. This double album was produced by Stefan Glaumann who already contributed with many popular bands including Rammstein, Evergrey, Europe and Def Leppard.
Gothic language Gothic (*gutiska razda, *đŚ˛đŚżđŤ„đŚąđŤđŚşđŚ° đŤ‚đŚ°đŚ¶đŚłđŚ° [Runic: ᚷᚢᛏá›á›Šáš˛áš¨ ᚱᚨᛉᛞᚨ], *) is an extinct Germanic language that was spoken by the Goths and specifically by the Visigoths. It is known primarily from Codex Argenteus dating from the 4th century, and is the only East Germanic language with a sizeable corpus.
Gothic Line The Gothic Line, also known as Linea Gotica, formed Field Marshal Albert Kesselring's last major line of defence in the final stages of World War II along the summits of the Apennines during the fighting retreat of Nazi Germany's forces in Italy against the Allied Armies in Italy commanded by General Sir Harold Alexander .
Gothic Lolita Gothic Lolita or "GothLoli" (ă‚´ă‚ąăăŞ, gosurori; sometimes alternatively "Loli-Goth") is a subcategory of the Lolita fashion, a street fashion among Japanese female teenagers and, to a lesser extent, men and young women.
Gothic Protestant Church of Avas The Gothic Protestant Church of Avas is the oldest building in the downtown of the city of Miskolc, Northern Hungary. It was built in the 13th century as a small, Romanesque style church, later it was expanded to a larger Gothic style church.
Gothic rock Gothic rock (also called goth rock or goth) is a genre of rock music that originated during the late 1970s. Originally a label designating a handful of punk rock/post-punk bands, goth began to be defined as a separate movement in the early 1980s.
Gothic runic inscriptions Very few Elder Futhark inscriptions in the Gothic language have been found in the territory historically settled by the Goths (Wielbark culture, Chernyakhov culture). This is due to the early Christianization of the Goths, with the Gothic alphabet replacing runes by the mid 4th century.
Gothic Revival architecture The Gothic Revival was an architectural movement which originated in mid-18th century England. In the nineteenth century, increasingly serious and learned neo-Gothic styles sought to revive medieval forms, in distinction to the classical styles which were prevalent at the time.
Gothic Revival architecture in Canada Gothic Revival architecture in Canada is an historically influential style, with many prominent examples. The Gothic Revival was imported to Canada from Britain and the United States in the early nineteenth century, and rose to become the most popular style for major projects throughout the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Gothic Rock Volume 2: 80's Into 90's Gothic Rock Volume 2: 80's Into 90's is the second of a trio of double-disc Gothic Rock compilations produced by Cleopatra Records. The album also features an article on the development of the Gothic Rock movement by Mick Mercer.
Gothic science fiction Gothic science fiction is a subgenre of science fiction that, as the name suggests, also involves gothic conventions. Some of the more obvious examples of the subgenre feature vampires explained in a science fiction context, commonly that vampires are aliens or those infected by an alien disease (Richard Matheson's novel I am Legend), or products of parallel evolution (George R.
Gothic War (377–382) The Gothic War is the name given to a series of Gothic battles and plunderings of the eastern Roman Empire in the Balkans between about 376/377 and 382. The war, and in particular the Battle of Adrianople was a major turning point in the history of the Roman Empire, the first barbarian invasion in a series of events over the next century that would see the collapse of the Western Roman Empire.
Gothic War (535–552) The Gothic War, was a war fought in Italy in 535-552. It was the result of Justinian's decision in 535 to reverse the course of events of the past century in the West and win back for the Byzantine Empire the provinces of Italy that had been lost, first to Odoacer and then to the Ostrogoth Theodoric the Great.
Gothika Gothika , a 2003 horror / supernatural thriller movie directed by Mathieu Kassovitz and written by Sebastian Gutierrez is the story of psychologist(played by Halle Berry) in a women's prison who wakes up one day to find herself on the other side of the bars, accused of having murdered her husband.
Gothminister Gothminister are a gothic/industrial band from Norway. Formed in 1999, they have released two albums and have had success in Germany, playing many German music festivals, including WGT, the Dark Storm Festival, the M'era Luna Festival, and performing for over 10,000 people at the Schattenreich Festival.
Goths The Goths (Gothic: Unicode: đŚ˛đŚżđŤ„đŚ°đŚ˝đŤ, Gutans) were an East Germanic tribe who according to their own traditions left Scandinavia, settled close to the Vistula mouth (in present day Poland), and from the 2nd century settled Scythia, Dacia and Pannonia. In the 3rd and 4th centuries, they harried the Roman Empire and later adopted Arianism.
Gothstock Gothstock is a 2 day festival held in Hartford, CT showcasing industrial, black metal, gothic, and other related genre musical groups. The event consists of 2 stages, with 40 bands, which have included international acts such as The Genitorturers and The CrĂĽxshadows.
Gotcha A gotcha refers to a detrimental condition (usually of a contract or agreement) that is designed to sneak past the other party. For example, many "free" Credit Report sites have "gotchas" that automatically sign you up for a monthly credit report service unless you explicitly cancel.
Gotcha Force Gotcha Force is a game for the Nintendo GameCube. Poor reviews from professional critics plagued the game, as well as lack of advertising, but many gamers disagree with professional opinion, having given the game high user ratings.
Gotcha journalism Gotcha journalism is a term often used to refer to techniques primarily used in certain versions of broadcast journalism to represent a specific person or group of people in a specifically desired manner through manipulation of images and quotes, or through editing of interviews.
Gotland is a county, province and municipality of Sweden and the largest island in the Baltic Sea. Its is 3,140 square kilometers in area, making it the largest island of Sweden, though less than one percent of Sweden's total land area.
Gotland Basin The Gotland Basin is the large central basin in the Baltic Sea between Sweden and the Baltic countries. It is subdivided into the Gdansk Deep (or Gdansk Basin), the Western Gotland Basin and the Eastern Gotland Basin.
Gotland class submarine The Gotland class submarines of the Swedish Navy are modern conventional submarines. They are the first submarines in the world to feature a Stirling engine air-independent propulsion (AIP) system, which extends their underwater endurance from a few days to two weeks.
Gotland Ring Gotland Ring is a racetrack and multi-functional motorsport facility on the Swedish island of Gotland, the most popular tourist resort in Sweden. In April 2004, Allt Om Resor (a travel magazine) voted the island the number-one island destination in the world.
Gotlands infanteriregemente Gotlands infanteriregemente (Gotlandia Infantry Regiment), also I 18 or I 27, was a Swedish Army infantry regiment located in the province of Gotland that traced its origins back to the 19th Century. It was reorganized into an armoured regiment in 1963.
GotĹŤ Shimpei Count , (24 July, 1857-13 April, 1929) was a Japanese statesman. He served as the head of civilian affairs of Taiwan under Japanese rule, the first director of the South Manchuria Railway, the seventh mayor of Tokyo, the first Chief Scout of Japan, the first director of NHK, the third principal of Takushoku University, and the Home Minister and Foreign Minister of Japan.
GotNap GotNap is a fully automated database for maintaining an OpenNAP / SlavaNap network. Similar to previous OpenNAP/SlavaNap databases like Napigator, GotNap allows server owners to be in full control over their server and their network and allow users to find and connect to fresh and new servers.
Goto Islands The Goto Islands (五島ĺ—島 GotĹŤ rettĹŤ, literally: "five islands island chain") are Japanese islands in the East China Sea, off the western coast of KyĹ«shĹ«. The islands are a part of Nagasaki Prefecture, Japan.
Goto Takaaki a warlord over the Japanese province of Hizen during the Sengoku Period of the 16th century. Takaaki was the son of Omura Sumisaki, but ended up being adopted into the Goto clan when Sumisaki adopted Arima Sumitada.
Gotov je Gotov je (je is pronounced like English colloquial "yeah" for yes - Serbian: Готов Ńе, meaning He is finished!) was a slogan created by Otpor (Resistance), a Serbian based student group formed in 1998, as the key symbol for the overthrow of Slobodan Milošević on October 5, 2000.
Gotse Delchev Gotse Delchev or Goce Delčev (Гоце Делчев; 1872-1903) was an important 19th century revolutionary figure in Ottoman Macedonia region and Thrace. He was one of the the leaders of what is nowadays commonly referred to as the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization (IMRO).
Gotsta Go "Gotsta Go" is an R&B song, that was written for Kelly Rowland's sophomore album "My Story: Kelly Rowland but has changed to Miss Kelly (2007). The song was expected to be the lead single for the album in late 2006, but this information is subject to change, as Rowland has gone back into the studio to record more songs for her upcoming album.
Gotsumon Gotsumon is the name of several fictional characters from the Digimon franchise, and is a rock-type Digimon. Though normally mischievous with a cheerful personality, Gotsumon tends to be little selfish with a temper as dangerous as an erupting volcano.
Gott erhalte Franz den Kaiser Gott erhalte Franz den Kaiser ("God Save Emperor Francis") was an anthem to Francis II, Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire and later of Austria. Lorenz Leopold Haschka (1749-1827) wrote the lyrics, and Joseph Haydn composed the melody.
Gott Mit Uns Gott Mit Uns (meaning God With Us) was a motto of the Prussian emperor; it was later used by German armies in World War I. During Hitler's reign, the traditional crest was replaced by the Nazi swastika and eagle, however the religious inscription remained unaltered.
Gottenheim Gottenheim is an independent village at the norther tip of the Tuniberg, 15 km west of Freiburg im Breisgau. It is located in the administrative region Breisgau-Hochschwarzwald in the federal state of Baden-WĂĽrttemberg, Germany.
Gottfrid Svartholm Per Gottfrid Svartholm Warg (born 17 October 1984) is a Swedish computer specialist. Gottfrid Svartholm, alias Anakata is the co-owner of the web hosting company PRQ and co-founder of the Swedish BitTorrent site The Pirate Bay.
Gottfried Benn Gottfried Benn (May 2, 1886 – July 7, 1956) was a German essayist, novelist and expressionist poet. A doctor of medicine, he became an early admirer, and later a critic, of the National Socialist revolution.
Gottfried de Purucker Gottfried de Purucker (January 15, 1874, Suffern, New York - September 27, 1942) was an author and Theosophist who joined the Theosophical Society on August 16, 1893. At one time he was the leader of the Theosophical_Society_Pasadena.
Gottfried Duden Gottfried Duden was a German writer from the 19th century. He traveled in the United States and wrote of his experiences in many of them (especially Missouri) in his famous book Bericht ĂĽber eine Reise nach den westlichen Staaten Nordamerika's ("Report of a journey to the western states of North America").
Gottfried Graf von Bismarck-Schönhausen Gottfried Graf von Bismarck-Schönhausen (9 March 1901 - 14 September 1949), German politician and German Resistance figure, was a grandson of the Chancellor Otto von Bismarck. He was a member of the Nazi Party and in 1933 he was elected to the Reichstag as a Nazi member.
Gottfried Heinrich Bach Gottfried Heinrich Bach (b Leipzig 26 Feb 1724; d Naumberg, buried 12 Feb 1763) was the firstborn son of the second marriage of Johann Sebastian Bach. He became "feeble-minded" (mentally handicapped in some way) at an early age, but he played the keyboard well and CPE Bach is quoted as saying that he showed "a great genius, which however failed to develop".
Gottfried Heinrich Graf zu Pappenheim Gottfried Heinrich Graf zu Pappenheim (May 29, 1594 – November 17, 1632), field marshal of the Holy Roman Emperor in the Thirty Years' War, was born at the little town of Pappenheim on the Altmühl, in Bavaria, the seat of a free lordship of the empire, from which the ancient family to which he belonged derived its name.
Gottfried Lindauer Gottfried Lindauer, also known as Gottfried or Bohumir Lindaur, was a New Zealand artist famous for his portraits. Many prominent Maori chiefs commissioned his work, and it accurately records their facial tattoos, clothing, ornaments and weapons.
Gottfried Ochshorn Gottfried Ochshorn (6 April 1915 — 23 October 1943) was a communist student activist during the Spanish Civil War. At the end of the Spanish Republic he went to France where he worked as a translator for German troops while also active in forging papers to aid the French Resistance.
Gottfried Reiche Gottfried Reiche (February 5, 1667 - October 6, 1734) was a German trumpet player and composer of the Baroque era. He is best known for having been Johann Sebastian Bach's chief trumpeter at Leipzig from Bach's arrival there in 1723 until Reiche's death.
Gottfried Semper Gottfried Semper (November 29 1803 - May 15 1879) was a German architect, art critic, and professor of architecture, who designed and built the Semper Oper in Dresden between 1838 and 1841. In 1849 he took part in the May Uprising in Dresden and was put on the government's wanted list.
Gottfried Silbermann Gottfried Silbermann (January 14, 1683-August 4, 1753) was an influential German constructor of keyboard instruments. He built harpsichords, clavichords, organs, and pianos; his modern reputation rests mainly on the latter two.
Gottfried van Swieten Baron Gottfried van Swieten (1733- March 29, 1803) was a minor aristocrat of the Habsburg Monarchy during the eighteenth century. He is remembered today for his friendship and collaboration with several great composers of the Classical era, including Joseph Haydn, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, and Ludwig van Beethoven.
Gottfried von der Goltz Gottfried (Graf) von der Goltz (born 1 June 1964 in WĂĽrzburg, Germany) is a German-Norwegian violinist and conductor, specialising in the baroque repertoire. His first teachers were his parents, Georg Conrad von der Goltz and Kirsti Hjort.
Gottfried von Strassburg Gottfried von Strassburg (died c. 1210) is the author of the Middle High German courtly romance Tristan, which is regarded, alongside Wolfram von Eschenbach's Parzival and the Nibelungenlied, as one of great narrative masterpieces of the German Middle Ages.
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize The Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize (complete German title "Förderpreis für deutsche Wissenschaftler im Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz-Programm der Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft") is a research prize awarded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft every year since 1985 to scientists working in Germany. This highest German research prize consists of a research grant of 1.
Gotthard Fritzsche Gotthard Daniel Fritzsche (20 July 1797 – October 26, 1863) was one of the first founding pastors of Lutheranism to emigrate to Australia. He was born in Liebenwerde, Germany, migrated to Australia in 1841, and died and was buried at Lobethal, South Australia.
Gotthard Kettler Gotthard Kettler (1517 – 17 May1587) became the last master of the Livonian Order - a branch of the Teutonic order in 1559, but when the Order came under increasing pressure from Russian tsar Ivan IV ("Ivan the Terrible") during the Livonian war (1558 – 1582), Gotthard Kettler secularised the order and converted to the Lutheran church. On the basis of the Wilno Pact, he created the Duchy of Courland and Semigallia in 1561 as a vassal state of both Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania that soon merged into the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.
Gotthard Rail Tunnel The first Gotthard Tunnel, a 15 km long railway tunnel, is the summit of the Gotthardbahn and connects Göschenen with Airolo through the Gotthard massif. It is built as one double-track, standard gauge tunnel.
Gotthardbahn Gotthardbahn was the name of a private Swiss railway company which operated the railway line from Immensee (canton of Schwyz) to Chiasso (Italian border). Nowadays this term usually does not refer to that company, but to the railway line itself.
Gotthelf Bergsträsser Gotthelf Bergsträsser (1886 - 1933, Berchtesgaden) was a Semitic linguist, usually considered to be one of the greatest of the twentieth century. Bergsträsser was first a teacher of the Classical languages and then decided to learn the Semitic languages.
Gotthilf Heinrich Ernst Muhlenberg Gotthilf Heinrich Ernst Muhlenberg (1753-1815) was an American clergyman and botanist, son of Heinrich Melchior Muhlenberg, born at Trappe, Pennsylvania He was educated at Halle and traveled in Germany and in England. He was ordained a Lutheran minister and became a pastor of a Lutheran church in Philadelphia.
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (22 January, 1729 – 15 February, 1781) was a German writer, philosopher, publicist, and art critic, was one of the most outstanding representatives of the Enlightenment era. With his plays and his theoretical writings he substantially influenced the development of German literature.
Gotti Gotti was a movie made for TV by HBO in 1996 starring Armand Assante (as the famous Mafia Boss John Gotti) as well as many of the actors who would later play mob men on The Sopranos. The film was the highest rated original telefilm in HBO history at that time.
Gottlieb Daimler Gottlieb Wilhelm Daimler (17 March, 1834 - March 6, 1900) was an engineer, industrial designer and industrialist, born in Schorndorf in what is now Germany. He was a pioneer of internal-combustion engines and automobile development.
Gottlieb Graf von Haeseler Count Gottlieb Ferdinand Albert Alexis von Haeseler (January 19 1836 in Potsdam - October 25 1919 in Harnekop), was a German military officer of the Imperial Wilhelmine period, with final rank of Generalfeldmarschall.
Gottlieb Viehe Gottlieb Viehe; full name Friedrich Wilhelm Gottlieb Viehe (March 27, 1839 - January 1, 1901) was a German Missionary of the Rheinische Missionsgesellschaft (Rhenish Missionary Society) and an early settler in present-day Namibia.
Gottlieb Von Boorian Gottlieb Von Boorian credited with founding the town of Burien, Washington immigrated from Germany to Seattle, Washington in 1880 and found interest in a small settlement called Sunnydale. He built a log cabin on the southeast corner of Lake Burien which was given his name although it has been misspelled over the years to give us the name Burien.
Gottlob Frege Friedrich Ludwig Gottlob Frege (8 November 1848, Wismar – 26 July 1925, Bad Kleinen, ) was a German mathematician who became a logician and philosopher. He helped found both modern mathematical logic and analytic philosophy.
Goth Opera Goth Opera is an original Doctor Who novel, published by Virgin Publishing in their Missing Adventures range of Doctor Who novels. It was the first book in that series and a sequel to the New Adventure book Blood Harvest, but it can be read separately.
Goth slang Members of the goth subculture use a variety of terms that are particular to their subculture. There a range of slang terms for those within the community and their particular interests, or the particular "type" of goth they are.
Gothabilly Gothabilly is a portmanteau which refers to the fusion of rockabilly music and the Goth culture. Gothabilly bands' lyrics include various dark themes sometimes including, but not limited to: Horror, the Supernatural/Paranormal, Vampires, The Occult, plus the standard rock fare of Dark Love songs, Sadness, violence,etc.
Gothador Gothador is a web-based MMORPG (Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game) involving thousands of people worldwide in a shared online experience. Drawing from fantasy sources both generically familiar and original, players participate as adventurers seeking fame, prestige and fortune in a series of interconnected realms.
Gotham Gotham (gŏth´əm) is a village in Nottinghamshire, England. It is also a sobriquet for New York City first used by Washington Irving in the Salmagundi Papers (1807), as a satirical reference to the tales of the "Wise fools of Gotham" told about the English village.
Gotham (magazine) Gotham Magazine is a regional magazine that is published by Niche Media, LLC Niche Media Official Website since 2001 and primarily targets New York's most affluent residents and visitors. According to a survey commissioned by the company, 56% of Gotham Magazine readers are male, with 51% married, and some two-thirds within the age group of 36 and 60 years old.
Gotham (typeface) Gotham is a family of geometric sans serif typefaces designed by American type designer Tobias Frere-Jones in 2000. Gotham's letterforms are inspired by a form of architectural signage that achieved popularity in the mid-twentieth century, and are especially popular throughout New York City.
Gotham Awards IFP/New York is a 25-year-old, not-for-profit membership and advocacy organization serving the independent film community as a source for networking and support while promoting film as a vital and influential public art form.
Gotham Bowl The Gotham Bowl was a post-season college football bowl game that was played in New York City, United States in 1961 and 1962. The 1961 game was played in the Polo Grounds while the 1962 game was played in Yankee Stadium.
Gotham Central Gotham Central was a police procedural comic book series that was published by DC Comics. It focused on the Gotham City Police Department and the difficulties of its officers living and working in Gotham City, home of Batman.
Gotham City Police Department The Gotham City Police Department (GCPD) is a fictional police department servicing the city of Gotham City in the DC Universe. Acting as both ally and opponent of Batman, the superhero long-established in Gotham, the GCPD has long been steeped in corruption, with numerous officers both high-and-low ranking involved in bribery and even more serious offences such as drug-trafficking and murder.
Gotham Entertainment Group Gotham Entertainment Group LLC is a US based company established in 1997 to establish a leadership position in the South Asian comic magazine and children's book market. The Company was established by a number of media luminaries, including the former CEO of Time-Life, the former President of Warner Music Media and former President of Bertelsmann Music Group (BMG) Direct and the former Regional Creative Director of J.
Gotham Gazette The Gotham Gazette is a publication of the Citizens Union Foundation of the City of New York, a good government group focussing on issues confronting New York City. Its purpose is four-fold: it reports daily on New York City news, it provides a digest of news items relevant to New York City, it researches and recommends policies considered by the New York City Government, and it provides reference tools for students of the civic activities of New York.
Gotham Girls Gotham Girls is an American animated Flash cartoon series created and produced jointly by Warner Brothers and Noodle Soup Productions about the females of Gotham City. Episodes starred Harley Quinn, Poison Ivy, Batgirl and Catwoman in short stories of varying length about the daily lives of the characters (from the DC comics universe).
Gotham Knights Gotham Knights RFC is New York's recent entry to the growing worldwide ranks of multiethnic and non-discriminatory rugby union teams worldwide. Following in the tradition of International Gay Rugby and Board teams like King Cross Steelers in England in 1995 and the San Francisco Fog and the Washington Renegades in 2000, recent part-time New York City business owner and resident, Mark Bingham, met with local rugby player, Scott Glaessgen, to form a New York team.
Gotham, Inc Gotham, Inc is an advertising agency based in New York City. Gotham was established as a startup agency by the global marketing services holding company Interpublic Group in 1994, and it continues to operate as an independent agency of Interpublic.
Gotham, Nottinghamshire Gotham (pronounced "goat-um") is a village in Nottinghamshire, England, south of Nottingham and north-east of Kegworth. It is administered as part of the Rushcliffe district of Nottingham, and has a parish council.
GothCon GothCon is an annual gaming convention held in Gothenburg, Sweden every year around Easter. Its focus lies primarily on role-playing games (pen-and-paper as well as freeform and live-action), card games, board games and miniature wargames.
Gothelo II, Duke of Lower Lorraine Gothelo II, also Gozelo (1008 – 1046), variously called the Coward, the Sluggard, the Indolent, or the Lazy (Latin ignavus), was the duke of Lower Lorraine from the death of his father Gothelo I, duke of both Lower and Upper Lorraine, to his own death two years later.
Gothenburg Gothenburg (Swedish: ) ) is a city and municipality in the province Västergötland on the west-coast of Sweden. As of 2005, the population amounted to 487,000 in the actual city and 879,000 in the metropolitan area making it the second largest city in Sweden, after Stockholm.
Gothenburg and Bohus County Gothenburg and Bohus County, or Göteborgs och Bohus län, was a County of Sweden until December 31, 1998 when it was merged with the counties of Skaraborg and Älvsborg to form the county of Västra Götaland. The county was named after the City of Gothenburg, and the historical Province of Bohuslän (Bohus Castle).
Gothenburg Museum of Art The Göteborg Museum of Art at Götaplatsen, Gothenburg, is renowned for its collection of Nordic art from around the close of the 19th century. A must see is the lavisciously decorated Fürstenberg Gallery, named after a leading Gothenburg art donor, Pontus Fürstenberg and his wife Göthilda.
Gothenburg School of Economics and Commercial Law The School of Business, Economics and Law at Göteborg University or Handelshögskolan vid Göteborgs universitet is a business school in Gothenburg, Sweden. It was founded in 1923 and is a part of Göteborg University.
Gothenburg tram The Gothenburg tram network (Swedish: Göteborgs spårvägar) is part of the public transport system organised by Göteborgs Spårvägar AB, controlled by Västtrafik in the Swedish city Gothenburg. The tram network has a length of around 190 km on a total track length of 80 km — making the Gothenburg tram the largest tram network in Scandinavia — used by around 200 trams which as of 2006 are serving the twelve day-time and five night-time lines currently in use.
Gothia Cup Gothia Cup is a youth football (soccer) tournament held annually in Gothenburg, Sweden, open for both boys and girls of ages 11 to 19 years. With respect to the number of participants, it is the world's largest football tournament: in 2004, a total of 32,100 players and team leaders from 1525 teams and 61 nations participated.
Gothic alphabet The Gothic alphabet is an alphabetic writing system attributed by Philostorgius to Wulfila, used exclusively for writing the ancient Gothic language. Before its creation in the fourth century, Gothic was possibly written in runes.
Gothic architecture Gothic architecture is a style of architecture, particularly associated with cathedrals and other churches, which flourished in Europe during the high and late medieval period. Beginning in twelfth century France, it was known as "the French Style" (Opus Francigenum) during the period, with the term Gothic first appearing in the Reformation era as a stylistic insult.
Gothic Beauty Gothic Beauty is a magazine that covers numerous aspects of underground culture including fashion, music, events and various forms of entertainment. Along with many articles on DIY fashion, each issue also features interviews with fashion designers, musicians, bands and icons of the gothic and alternative subcultures, and myriad music reviews.
Gothic double In literature, the term Gothic double refers to an essential duality within a single character on the further presumption that this duality centers on the polarity of good and evil. An example of this could be Robert Louis Stevenson's The Strange Case of Dr.
Gothic fashion Gothic fashion is a dark, sometimes morbid, eroticized fashion and style of dress. Typical gothic fashion for women includes gowns, corsets, veils, teased hair, eyeliner, black fingernails, fishnets, and styles borrowed from the Elizabethans and Victorians.
Gothic fiction Gothic fiction began in England with The Castle of Otranto (1764) by Horace Walpole. It depended for its effect on the pleasing terror it induced in the reader, a new extension of literary pleasures that was essentially Romantic.
Gothic Hilted British Infantry Swords (1822, 1827, 1845, 1854 and 1892 Patterns) The gothic hilted swords were a family of swords carried by officers and some NCOs of the British Army between 1822 and the present day. They were primarily infantry swords, although they were also regulation pattern for some other officers such as surgeons and staff officers.
Gothic Chapel (Peterhof) Gothic Chapel in Peterhof is the most imposing of Gothic Revival structures situated in the Alexandria Park of Peterhof, Russia. It was designed at the request of Nicholas I of Russia by the fashionable architect Karl Friedrich Schinkel in 1829.
Gothic Christianity Gothic Christianity refers to the Christian religious beliefs of the Eastern Germanic, or Gothic tribes that overran the Western Roman Empire in the Fifth Century. The tribes included the Ostrogoths, Visigoths, Burgundians and Vandals.
Gothic Kabbalah Gothic Kabbalah is a title of Therion's album released in January 12, 2007 in Europe and scheduled to be released in February 6, 2007 in United States. This double album was produced by Stefan Glaumann who already contributed with many popular bands including Rammstein, Evergrey, Europe and Def Leppard.
Gothic language Gothic (*gutiska razda, *đŚ˛đŚżđŤ„đŚąđŤđŚşđŚ° đŤ‚đŚ°đŚ¶đŚłđŚ° [Runic: ᚷᚢᛏá›á›Šáš˛áš¨ ᚱᚨᛉᛞᚨ], *) is an extinct Germanic language that was spoken by the Goths and specifically by the Visigoths. It is known primarily from Codex Argenteus dating from the 4th century, and is the only East Germanic language with a sizeable corpus.
Gothic Line The Gothic Line, also known as Linea Gotica, formed Field Marshal Albert Kesselring's last major line of defence in the final stages of World War II along the summits of the Apennines during the fighting retreat of Nazi Germany's forces in Italy against the Allied Armies in Italy commanded by General Sir Harold Alexander .
Gothic Lolita Gothic Lolita or "GothLoli" (ă‚´ă‚ąăăŞ, gosurori; sometimes alternatively "Loli-Goth") is a subcategory of the Lolita fashion, a street fashion among Japanese female teenagers and, to a lesser extent, men and young women.
Gothic Protestant Church of Avas The Gothic Protestant Church of Avas is the oldest building in the downtown of the city of Miskolc, Northern Hungary. It was built in the 13th century as a small, Romanesque style church, later it was expanded to a larger Gothic style church.
Gothic rock Gothic rock (also called goth rock or goth) is a genre of rock music that originated during the late 1970s. Originally a label designating a handful of punk rock/post-punk bands, goth began to be defined as a separate movement in the early 1980s.
Gothic runic inscriptions Very few Elder Futhark inscriptions in the Gothic language have been found in the territory historically settled by the Goths (Wielbark culture, Chernyakhov culture). This is due to the early Christianization of the Goths, with the Gothic alphabet replacing runes by the mid 4th century.
Gothic Revival architecture The Gothic Revival was an architectural movement which originated in mid-18th century England. In the nineteenth century, increasingly serious and learned neo-Gothic styles sought to revive medieval forms, in distinction to the classical styles which were prevalent at the time.
Gothic Revival architecture in Canada Gothic Revival architecture in Canada is an historically influential style, with many prominent examples. The Gothic Revival was imported to Canada from Britain and the United States in the early nineteenth century, and rose to become the most popular style for major projects throughout the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Gothic Rock Volume 2: 80's Into 90's Gothic Rock Volume 2: 80's Into 90's is the second of a trio of double-disc Gothic Rock compilations produced by Cleopatra Records. The album also features an article on the development of the Gothic Rock movement by Mick Mercer.
Gothic science fiction Gothic science fiction is a subgenre of science fiction that, as the name suggests, also involves gothic conventions. Some of the more obvious examples of the subgenre feature vampires explained in a science fiction context, commonly that vampires are aliens or those infected by an alien disease (Richard Matheson's novel I am Legend), or products of parallel evolution (George R.
Gothic War (377–382) The Gothic War is the name given to a series of Gothic battles and plunderings of the eastern Roman Empire in the Balkans between about 376/377 and 382. The war, and in particular the Battle of Adrianople was a major turning point in the history of the Roman Empire, the first barbarian invasion in a series of events over the next century that would see the collapse of the Western Roman Empire.
Gothic War (535–552) The Gothic War, was a war fought in Italy in 535-552. It was the result of Justinian's decision in 535 to reverse the course of events of the past century in the West and win back for the Byzantine Empire the provinces of Italy that had been lost, first to Odoacer and then to the Ostrogoth Theodoric the Great.
Gothika Gothika , a 2003 horror / supernatural thriller movie directed by Mathieu Kassovitz and written by Sebastian Gutierrez is the story of psychologist(played by Halle Berry) in a women's prison who wakes up one day to find herself on the other side of the bars, accused of having murdered her husband.
Gothminister Gothminister are a gothic/industrial band from Norway. Formed in 1999, they have released two albums and have had success in Germany, playing many German music festivals, including WGT, the Dark Storm Festival, the M'era Luna Festival, and performing for over 10,000 people at the Schattenreich Festival.
Goths The Goths (Gothic: Unicode: đŚ˛đŚżđŤ„đŚ°đŚ˝đŤ, Gutans) were an East Germanic tribe who according to their own traditions left Scandinavia, settled close to the Vistula mouth (in present day Poland), and from the 2nd century settled Scythia, Dacia and Pannonia. In the 3rd and 4th centuries, they harried the Roman Empire and later adopted Arianism.
Gothstock Gothstock is a 2 day festival held in Hartford, CT showcasing industrial, black metal, gothic, and other related genre musical groups. The event consists of 2 stages, with 40 bands, which have included international acts such as The Genitorturers and The CrĂĽxshadows.
Gotcha A gotcha refers to a detrimental condition (usually of a contract or agreement) that is designed to sneak past the other party. For example, many "free" Credit Report sites have "gotchas" that automatically sign you up for a monthly credit report service unless you explicitly cancel.
Gotcha Force Gotcha Force is a game for the Nintendo GameCube. Poor reviews from professional critics plagued the game, as well as lack of advertising, but many gamers disagree with professional opinion, having given the game high user ratings.
Gotcha journalism Gotcha journalism is a term often used to refer to techniques primarily used in certain versions of broadcast journalism to represent a specific person or group of people in a specifically desired manner through manipulation of images and quotes, or through editing of interviews.
Gotland is a county, province and municipality of Sweden and the largest island in the Baltic Sea. Its is 3,140 square kilometers in area, making it the largest island of Sweden, though less than one percent of Sweden's total land area.
Gotland Basin The Gotland Basin is the large central basin in the Baltic Sea between Sweden and the Baltic countries. It is subdivided into the Gdansk Deep (or Gdansk Basin), the Western Gotland Basin and the Eastern Gotland Basin.
Gotland class submarine The Gotland class submarines of the Swedish Navy are modern conventional submarines. They are the first submarines in the world to feature a Stirling engine air-independent propulsion (AIP) system, which extends their underwater endurance from a few days to two weeks.
Gotland Ring Gotland Ring is a racetrack and multi-functional motorsport facility on the Swedish island of Gotland, the most popular tourist resort in Sweden. In April 2004, Allt Om Resor (a travel magazine) voted the island the number-one island destination in the world.
Gotlands infanteriregemente Gotlands infanteriregemente (Gotlandia Infantry Regiment), also I 18 or I 27, was a Swedish Army infantry regiment located in the province of Gotland that traced its origins back to the 19th Century. It was reorganized into an armoured regiment in 1963.
GotĹŤ Shimpei Count , (24 July, 1857-13 April, 1929) was a Japanese statesman. He served as the head of civilian affairs of Taiwan under Japanese rule, the first director of the South Manchuria Railway, the seventh mayor of Tokyo, the first Chief Scout of Japan, the first director of NHK, the third principal of Takushoku University, and the Home Minister and Foreign Minister of Japan.
GotNap GotNap is a fully automated database for maintaining an OpenNAP / SlavaNap network. Similar to previous OpenNAP/SlavaNap databases like Napigator, GotNap allows server owners to be in full control over their server and their network and allow users to find and connect to fresh and new servers.
Goto Islands The Goto Islands (五島ĺ—島 GotĹŤ rettĹŤ, literally: "five islands island chain") are Japanese islands in the East China Sea, off the western coast of KyĹ«shĹ«. The islands are a part of Nagasaki Prefecture, Japan.
Goto Takaaki a warlord over the Japanese province of Hizen during the Sengoku Period of the 16th century. Takaaki was the son of Omura Sumisaki, but ended up being adopted into the Goto clan when Sumisaki adopted Arima Sumitada.
Gotov je Gotov je (je is pronounced like English colloquial "yeah" for yes - Serbian: Готов Ńе, meaning He is finished!) was a slogan created by Otpor (Resistance), a Serbian based student group formed in 1998, as the key symbol for the overthrow of Slobodan Milošević on October 5, 2000.
Gotse Delchev Gotse Delchev or Goce Delčev (Гоце Делчев; 1872-1903) was an important 19th century revolutionary figure in Ottoman Macedonia region and Thrace. He was one of the the leaders of what is nowadays commonly referred to as the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization (IMRO).
Gotsta Go "Gotsta Go" is an R&B song, that was written for Kelly Rowland's sophomore album "My Story: Kelly Rowland but has changed to Miss Kelly (2007). The song was expected to be the lead single for the album in late 2006, but this information is subject to change, as Rowland has gone back into the studio to record more songs for her upcoming album.
Gotsumon Gotsumon is the name of several fictional characters from the Digimon franchise, and is a rock-type Digimon. Though normally mischievous with a cheerful personality, Gotsumon tends to be little selfish with a temper as dangerous as an erupting volcano.
Gott erhalte Franz den Kaiser Gott erhalte Franz den Kaiser ("God Save Emperor Francis") was an anthem to Francis II, Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire and later of Austria. Lorenz Leopold Haschka (1749-1827) wrote the lyrics, and Joseph Haydn composed the melody.
Gott Mit Uns Gott Mit Uns (meaning God With Us) was a motto of the Prussian emperor; it was later used by German armies in World War I. During Hitler's reign, the traditional crest was replaced by the Nazi swastika and eagle, however the religious inscription remained unaltered.
Gottenheim Gottenheim is an independent village at the norther tip of the Tuniberg, 15 km west of Freiburg im Breisgau. It is located in the administrative region Breisgau-Hochschwarzwald in the federal state of Baden-WĂĽrttemberg, Germany.
Gottfrid Svartholm Per Gottfrid Svartholm Warg (born 17 October 1984) is a Swedish computer specialist. Gottfrid Svartholm, alias Anakata is the co-owner of the web hosting company PRQ and co-founder of the Swedish BitTorrent site The Pirate Bay.
Gottfried Benn Gottfried Benn (May 2, 1886 – July 7, 1956) was a German essayist, novelist and expressionist poet. A doctor of medicine, he became an early admirer, and later a critic, of the National Socialist revolution.
Gottfried de Purucker Gottfried de Purucker (January 15, 1874, Suffern, New York - September 27, 1942) was an author and Theosophist who joined the Theosophical Society on August 16, 1893. At one time he was the leader of the Theosophical_Society_Pasadena.
Gottfried Duden Gottfried Duden was a German writer from the 19th century. He traveled in the United States and wrote of his experiences in many of them (especially Missouri) in his famous book Bericht ĂĽber eine Reise nach den westlichen Staaten Nordamerika's ("Report of a journey to the western states of North America").
Gottfried Graf von Bismarck-Schönhausen Gottfried Graf von Bismarck-Schönhausen (9 March 1901 - 14 September 1949), German politician and German Resistance figure, was a grandson of the Chancellor Otto von Bismarck. He was a member of the Nazi Party and in 1933 he was elected to the Reichstag as a Nazi member.
Gottfried Heinrich Bach Gottfried Heinrich Bach (b Leipzig 26 Feb 1724; d Naumberg, buried 12 Feb 1763) was the firstborn son of the second marriage of Johann Sebastian Bach. He became "feeble-minded" (mentally handicapped in some way) at an early age, but he played the keyboard well and CPE Bach is quoted as saying that he showed "a great genius, which however failed to develop".
Gottfried Heinrich Graf zu Pappenheim Gottfried Heinrich Graf zu Pappenheim (May 29, 1594 – November 17, 1632), field marshal of the Holy Roman Emperor in the Thirty Years' War, was born at the little town of Pappenheim on the Altmühl, in Bavaria, the seat of a free lordship of the empire, from which the ancient family to which he belonged derived its name.
Gottfried Lindauer Gottfried Lindauer, also known as Gottfried or Bohumir Lindaur, was a New Zealand artist famous for his portraits. Many prominent Maori chiefs commissioned his work, and it accurately records their facial tattoos, clothing, ornaments and weapons.
Gottfried Ochshorn Gottfried Ochshorn (6 April 1915 — 23 October 1943) was a communist student activist during the Spanish Civil War. At the end of the Spanish Republic he went to France where he worked as a translator for German troops while also active in forging papers to aid the French Resistance.
Gottfried Reiche Gottfried Reiche (February 5, 1667 - October 6, 1734) was a German trumpet player and composer of the Baroque era. He is best known for having been Johann Sebastian Bach's chief trumpeter at Leipzig from Bach's arrival there in 1723 until Reiche's death.
Gottfried Semper Gottfried Semper (November 29 1803 - May 15 1879) was a German architect, art critic, and professor of architecture, who designed and built the Semper Oper in Dresden between 1838 and 1841. In 1849 he took part in the May Uprising in Dresden and was put on the government's wanted list.
Gottfried Silbermann Gottfried Silbermann (January 14, 1683-August 4, 1753) was an influential German constructor of keyboard instruments. He built harpsichords, clavichords, organs, and pianos; his modern reputation rests mainly on the latter two.
Gottfried van Swieten Baron Gottfried van Swieten (1733- March 29, 1803) was a minor aristocrat of the Habsburg Monarchy during the eighteenth century. He is remembered today for his friendship and collaboration with several great composers of the Classical era, including Joseph Haydn, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, and Ludwig van Beethoven.
Gottfried von der Goltz Gottfried (Graf) von der Goltz (born 1 June 1964 in WĂĽrzburg, Germany) is a German-Norwegian violinist and conductor, specialising in the baroque repertoire. His first teachers were his parents, Georg Conrad von der Goltz and Kirsti Hjort.
Gottfried von Strassburg Gottfried von Strassburg (died c. 1210) is the author of the Middle High German courtly romance Tristan, which is regarded, alongside Wolfram von Eschenbach's Parzival and the Nibelungenlied, as one of great narrative masterpieces of the German Middle Ages.
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize The Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize (complete German title "Förderpreis für deutsche Wissenschaftler im Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz-Programm der Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft") is a research prize awarded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft every year since 1985 to scientists working in Germany. This highest German research prize consists of a research grant of 1.
Gotthard Fritzsche Gotthard Daniel Fritzsche (20 July 1797 – October 26, 1863) was one of the first founding pastors of Lutheranism to emigrate to Australia. He was born in Liebenwerde, Germany, migrated to Australia in 1841, and died and was buried at Lobethal, South Australia.
Gotthard Kettler Gotthard Kettler (1517 – 17 May1587) became the last master of the Livonian Order - a branch of the Teutonic order in 1559, but when the Order came under increasing pressure from Russian tsar Ivan IV ("Ivan the Terrible") during the Livonian war (1558 – 1582), Gotthard Kettler secularised the order and converted to the Lutheran church. On the basis of the Wilno Pact, he created the Duchy of Courland and Semigallia in 1561 as a vassal state of both Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania that soon merged into the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.
Gotthard Rail Tunnel The first Gotthard Tunnel, a 15 km long railway tunnel, is the summit of the Gotthardbahn and connects Göschenen with Airolo through the Gotthard massif. It is built as one double-track, standard gauge tunnel.
Gotthardbahn Gotthardbahn was the name of a private Swiss railway company which operated the railway line from Immensee (canton of Schwyz) to Chiasso (Italian border). Nowadays this term usually does not refer to that company, but to the railway line itself.
Gotthelf Bergsträsser Gotthelf Bergsträsser (1886 - 1933, Berchtesgaden) was a Semitic linguist, usually considered to be one of the greatest of the twentieth century. Bergsträsser was first a teacher of the Classical languages and then decided to learn the Semitic languages.
Gotthilf Heinrich Ernst Muhlenberg Gotthilf Heinrich Ernst Muhlenberg (1753-1815) was an American clergyman and botanist, son of Heinrich Melchior Muhlenberg, born at Trappe, Pennsylvania He was educated at Halle and traveled in Germany and in England. He was ordained a Lutheran minister and became a pastor of a Lutheran church in Philadelphia.
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (22 January, 1729 – 15 February, 1781) was a German writer, philosopher, publicist, and art critic, was one of the most outstanding representatives of the Enlightenment era. With his plays and his theoretical writings he substantially influenced the development of German literature.
Gotti Gotti was a movie made for TV by HBO in 1996 starring Armand Assante (as the famous Mafia Boss John Gotti) as well as many of the actors who would later play mob men on The Sopranos. The film was the highest rated original telefilm in HBO history at that time.
Gottlieb Daimler Gottlieb Wilhelm Daimler (17 March, 1834 - March 6, 1900) was an engineer, industrial designer and industrialist, born in Schorndorf in what is now Germany. He was a pioneer of internal-combustion engines and automobile development.
Gottlieb Graf von Haeseler Count Gottlieb Ferdinand Albert Alexis von Haeseler (January 19 1836 in Potsdam - October 25 1919 in Harnekop), was a German military officer of the Imperial Wilhelmine period, with final rank of Generalfeldmarschall.
Gottlieb Viehe Gottlieb Viehe; full name Friedrich Wilhelm Gottlieb Viehe (March 27, 1839 - January 1, 1901) was a German Missionary of the Rheinische Missionsgesellschaft (Rhenish Missionary Society) and an early settler in present-day Namibia.
Gottlieb Von Boorian Gottlieb Von Boorian credited with founding the town of Burien, Washington immigrated from Germany to Seattle, Washington in 1880 and found interest in a small settlement called Sunnydale. He built a log cabin on the southeast corner of Lake Burien which was given his name although it has been misspelled over the years to give us the name Burien.
Gottlob Frege Friedrich Ludwig Gottlob Frege (8 November 1848, Wismar – 26 July 1925, Bad Kleinen, ) was a German mathematician who became a logician and philosopher. He helped found both modern mathematical logic and analytic philosophy.
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