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Garbage Pail Kids Garbage Pail Kids is a series of humorous trading cards produced by the Topps Company, originally released in 1985 and designed to parody the Cabbage Patch Kids dolls created by Xavier Roberts, which were immensely popular at the time. Each sticker card featured a Garbage Pail Kid character, with some comical abnormality or suffering some terrible fate, and a humorous, wordplay-rich character name.
Garbage Pail Kids (TV series) Garbage Pail Kids is an American animated television series which was produced in 1987 and 1988, based on the popular Garbage Pail Kids bubble gum cards, produced and directed by Bob Hathcock and co-written and developed by Flint Dille. The series stars the characters Split Kit, Elliot Mess, Terri Cloth, Patty Putty, and Clogged Duane as normal kids who can transform into gross looking kids with abilities to help others.
Garbage time Garbage time, also known as "junk time", is a term used in American sports (most commonly, basketball and football) parlance to refer to the period of time at the end of a timed sporting event when the outcome of the game has already been decided, and the coaches of one or both teams will decide to replace their best players with substitutes. This serves to give those substitutes playing time experience in an actual game situation, as well as to protect the best players from the possibility of injury.
Garbage: Live at Eagles Ballroom 2002 Garbage: Live at Eagles Ballroom 2002 is a long-form live video DVD by rock band Garbage from the North American leg of their beautifulgarbage tour. Recorded on May 11, 2002 at Eagle's Ballroom on the band's featured stop in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, it was planned to be released on DVD in late 2002.
Garbuna Group The Garbuna Group of volcanoes consists of three volcanic peaks, Krummel, Garbuna, and Welcker. The volcano is located at the southern end of the Willaumez Peninsula, just to the west of the town of Kimbe, in West New Britain, Papua New Guinea.
GarcĂ­ Manuel de Carbajal Don GarcĂ­ Manuel de Carbajal was a Spanish lieutenant and occasional soldier who founded the city of Arequipa in Peru on August 15, 1540, calling it "La Villa Hermosa de Arequipa." Like many of the Spanish conquistadors who came to the Americas, he was born in Extremadura, Spain.
GarcĂ­a de Silva Figueroa Don GarcĂ­a de Silva Figueroa (December 1550 - July 22, 1624) was a Spanish diplomat, and the first Western traveller to correctly identify the ruins of Takht-e Jamshid in Persia as the location of Persepolis, the ancient capital of the Achaemenid Empire and one of the great cities of antiquity.
García Hurtado de Mendoza, Marquis of Cañete García Hurtado de Mendoza y Manrique, Marquis of Cañete (Spanish: García Hurtado de Mendoza y Manrique, marqués de Cañete) (Cuenca, July 21, 1535 - Madrid, 1609) was a Spanish soldier, governor of Chile, and viceroy of Peru (from January 8, 1590 to July 24, 1596). He is often known simply as "Marquis of Cañete".
García I Jiménez of Gascony García I Jiménez (Basque: Gartzia Semeno, Gascon: Gassia Semen, French: Garsias and Garsie Siguin) was the Duke of Gascony as leader of the Gascons from 816 to his death in 818. His father, Seguin I, was deposed by Louis the Pious in 816 and García was elected to replace him.
García II Sánchez of Gascony García II Sánchez (Basque: Gartzia Antso, French: Garsie-Sanche le Tors or le Courbé, Gascon: Gassia Sans, Latin: Garsia Sancius Corvum; died circa 930), called the Bent, was the duke of Gascony from sometime before 887 to his death.
García IV of Pamplona García IV Sánchez (died 1000), called the Trembling, the Tremulous, or the Trembler (in Spanish, el Temblón), was the king of Pamplona and count of Aragón from 994 until his death. He was the son of King Sancho II and Urraca Fernández.
García Sarmiento de Sotomayor, 2nd conde de Salvatierra García Sarmiento de Sotomayor, 2nd Count of Salvatierra and Marquis of Sobroso (Spanish: García Sarmiento de Sotomayor, segundo Conde de Salvatierra y Marqués de Sobroso) (c. 1595, Spain—June 26, 1659, Lima) was a Spanish viceroy of New Spain (November 23, 1642 to May 13, 1648) and of Peru (1648 to 1655).
García V of Navarre García V of Nájera (in Spanish, García V El de Nájera), was king of Navarre from 1035 to 1054. He was the eldest legitimate son and heir of Sancho the Great, thus he succeeded in his father's inheritance of Navarre.
GarcĂ­a VI of Navarre GarcĂ­a VI RamĂ­rez (died 21 November 1150, Lorca), called the Restorer (Spanish: el Restaurador), was lord of MonzĂłn, and in 1134 became King of Navarre. He was born in the 1110s, the great-grandson of GarcĂ­a V of Navarre.
Garci Rodríguez de Montalvo Garci Rodríguez de Montalvo (or Garci Ordóñez de Montalvo) (died 1504) was a Spanish author who arranged the modern version of the chivalric romance Amadis of Gaul, written in three books in the 14th century by an unknown author. Montalvo added a fourth book of his own and also wrote a sequel, Las Sergas de Esplandián (The Exploits of Esplandian) (oldest known printing, 1510), in which he tells the life and wandering of Amadis' eldest son.
Garcia de Nodal expedition What in modern times is known as The GarcĂ­a de Nodal expedition was chartered in 1619 by King Philip II of Spain to reconnoitre the passage between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, south of Tierra del Fuego, just discovered by the Dutch merchants Jacob Le Maire and Willem Schouten. It was an outstandingly successful expedition, as all its goals were reached, neither lives nor ships were lost and the whole was done in a very remarkably short time; all of what had no equal in any of the XVth to XVIIIth centuries expeditions.
Garcia II of Kongo Garcia Afonso II Nkanga a Lukeni a Nzenze a Ntumba ruled the Kingdom of Kongo from 23 January 1641-1661 sometimes considered Kongo's greatest king for his religious piety and his near expulsion of the Portuguese from Angola.
Garcia Pereira AntĂłnio Pestana Garcia Pereira is a Portuguese lawyer and politician, and the current leader of the maoist PCTP/MRPP. He was a candidate in the 2006 presidential election, where placed sixth and last with 0,44 per cent of the vote.
Garcia Plays Dylan This album is composed of various live performances featuring Jerry Garcia playing covers of Bob Dylan songs. It is culled from performances from 1973-1995, and features Garcia playing with the Grateful Dead, Legion of Mary, Jerry Garcia Band, and Garcia-Saunders.
Garcibuey Garcibuey is a village and municipality in the province of Salamanca, western Spain, part of the autonomous community of Castile-Leon. It is located 82 kilometres from the provincial capital city of Salamanca and has a population of 232 people.
Garcihernández Garcihernández is a village and municipality in the province of Salamanca, western Spain, part of the autonomous community of Castile-Leon. It is located 30 kilometres from the provincial capital city of Salamanca and has a population of 590 people.
Garcinia Garcinia is a plant genus of the family Clusiaceae native to Asia, Australia, tropical and southern Africa, and Polynesia. The genus, with between 50-300 species of evergreen trees and shrubs, is dioecious and several of its elements are apomictic.
Garcirrey Garcirrey is a village and large municipality in the province of Salamanca, western Spain, part of the autonomous community of Castile-Leon. It is located 46 kilometres from the provincial capital city of Salamanca and has a population of 108 people.
Gard Agdi Gard Agdi (Old Norse GarĂ°r AgĂ°i) appears in the legendary genealogies of Hversu Noregr byggdist as one of the three sons of NĂłr, the legendary first king of Norway, and as ruler and ancestor of rulers over southwestern Norway. The surname Agdi may refer to Agdir (AgĂ°ir), the southernmost region of Norway, represented today by the counties of Aust-Agder and Vest-Agder.
Garda Muda Penegak Integrasi The Garda Muda Penegak Integrasi (English:Youth guard for upholding integration), sometimes shortened to Gadapaksi, is an Indonesian paramilitary group Parliament Library of Australia - "The Future of East Timor: Major Current Issues".
Garda Síochána Garda Síochána na hÉireann (pronounced ; Irish for "Peace Guard of Ireland", often rendered as "The Guardians of the Peace of Ireland") is the police force of the Republic of Ireland. The force is headed by the Garda Commissioner who is appointed by the Irish Government.
Garda Síochána College Garda Síochána College (or Garda College) located at McCann Barracks, Templemore, County Tipperary, Ireland is the place at which members of An Garda Síochána (Irish police) receive formal education and training before commencing their duties as members of the force. The college has been located in Templemore since 1964, previously sited in Phoenix Park, Dublin.
Garda Síochána Reserve The Garda Síochána Reserve is the volunteer reserve section of An Garda Siochana - the police force of Ireland. It was created in 2006 and reported by RTÉ news that the first 36 Reserves graduated on 15th December 2006 at the Garda College, in Templemore.
Gardberg site The Gardberg site (No:Gardbergfeltet) is an archaeological site in Vestre Slidre, Oppland, Norway. The site consists of several burial cairns and clearance cairns as well as areas of early industry and farming.
Garde du Corps (Prussia) The Garde du Corps was the personal bodyguard of the king of Prussia and after 1871, the German emperor (in German: Kaiser). It was founded in 1740 by Frederick the Great with Friedrich von Blumenthal as its first commander.
Garde manger Garde manger , a French term meaning "keeping to eat" or "keeper of the food", refers to the task of preparing and presenting cold foods. These typically include such food items as salads, hors d'oeuvres, cold soups, aspics, and charcuterie.
Garde Mobile During the crises that led up to the Franco-Prussian War, Adolphe Niel, Minister of War for France under Louis-Napoleon attempted to bolster French military might by bringing into existence a service which would provide reserves to be added to the French army. Although there was conscription into the army, not only was it not universal, but middle-class people could purchase exemptions for their sons.
Garde-moi la dernière danse (album) This is the eighth album of Dalida, which all of the songs were hits, except for "10 000 bulles bleues", "Parlez-moi d'amour" and "Je me sens vivre" (even if "Je me sens vivre" was her successful performance in her 1961's Olympia live recital).
Gardelegen (war crime) On April 13, 1945 (less than a month from the end of the Second World War), German SS and Luftwaffe troops, retreating from the Allied advance, murdered 1016 political and military prisoners near the German town of Gardelegen. The crime was discovered two days later by F Company, 2d Battalion, 405th Regiment, U.
Garden centipede Snake centipedes or garden centipedes are the pale red or brownish Geophilus and Haplophilus, which have very narrow and elongated bodies up to 7 cm long, 30 legs when fully grown, born with 15. They are found in soil and leaf litter, often exposed when turning-over garden soil.
Garden centre A garden centre is a retail firm that sells plants and products related to gardens as its primary business. It has a physical business location that is open to the public with appropriate facilities to properly care for and display plants.
Garden city movement The garden city movement was founded by Ebenezer Howard in England in 1898 as an approach to urban planning. Garden cities were to be planned, self-contained communities surrounded by greenbelts, and containing carefully balanced areas of residences, industry, and agriculture.
Garden conservatory A garden conservatory is usually a small conservatory usually attached to a private house. In this context, a conservatory is distinguished from a greenhouse in having a role as a living space as well as being used to grow plants.
Garden cress Garden cress (Lepidium sativum) is a fast-growing, edible plant botanically related to watercress and mustard and sharing their peppery, tangy flavor and aroma. In some regions garden cress is known as garden pepper cress, pepper grass or pepperwort.
Garden Carpet The Garden Carpet (Xanthorhoe fluctuata) is a moth of the family Geometridae. It is an abundant and familiar species across its huge range which covers the whole Palearctic region, the Near East and North Africa.
Garden City Breeders' Cup Handicap The Garden City Breeders' Cup Handicap is a race for three-year-old Thoroughbred fillies held at Belmont Park on Long Island, New York. It's run at a distance of one and one-eighth miles on the turf and is a minor prep to both the Breeders' Cup Distaff and the Breeders' Cup Filly & Mare Turf.
Garden City Bus Station, Brisbane The Garden City Bus Station, at Westfield Garden City, is serviced by TransLink bus routes. It is part of the Garden City Shopping Centre and is a major interchange, connecting to the Upper Mount Gravatt Busway Station immediately below it on the South-East Busway.
Garden City Skyway The Garden City Skyway is a major high-level bridge located in St. Catharines and Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, Canada, that allows the Queen Elizabeth Way (QEW) to cross the Welland Canal without the interruption of a lift bridge.
Garden City, Booragoon Garden City Shopping Centre, usually known simply as Garden City, is a major regional shopping centre in the city of Perth, Western Australia, located at the corner of Marmion Street and Riseley Street in the southern suburb of Booragoon.
Garden design Garden design is the process of designing the layout and planting of domestic gardens. Garden owners became increasingly involved in garden design during the twentieth century and there was also a sizable expansion in the employment of professional garden designers.
Garden District (play) Garden District is the collective title given to a double-bill of the two one-act plays by Tennessee Williams, Something Unspoken and Suddenly Last Summer. They are both set in New Orleans' Garden District and both deal with the theme of homosexuality.
Garden District, Baton Rouge The Garden District is a residential neighborhood located in Baton Rouge's Mid-City area where Park Boulevard intersects Government Street. The Garden District is an established historic area with many upscale homes.
Garden District, Toronto The Garden District is a neighbourhood in downtown Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The name was selected by the Toronto East Downtown Residents Association (TEDRA) in recognition of Allan Gardens, an indoor botanical garden located nearby at the intersection of Carlton and Jarvis Streets.
Garden eel The garden eel, Heteroconger cobra, is a conger of the family Congridae, found in the western Central Pacific from Honiara, the Solomon Islands and Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea. They occur in colonies, on sloping sand bottoms.
Garden Emerald The Garden Emerald (Chlorostilbon assimilis) is a small hummingbird that is an endemic resident breeder in Costa Rica and western Panama. It was formerly considered to be a subspecies of the Fork-tailed or Canivet’s Emerald.
Garden Gnome Liberation Front The Garden Gnome Liberation Fronts (GGLF) are international organizations that stand for the liberation of garden gnomes. These so-called "liberation groups"—which can be seen as cults or simply groups of practical jokers—attempt to rid the world of "unjust" imprisonment of gnomes.
Garden Grove Playhouse The Garden Grove Playhouse is a non-profit community theater organization located near the western edge of the city of Garden Grove in Orange County, California. The organization was originally called the Garden Grove Community Theatre, but the name changed in 1995 by a vote of the Board of Directors and the general membership.
Garden Grove Unified School District The Garden Grove Unified School District (GGUSD) is the third largest district in Orange County, and the twelth largest in the State of California. GGUSD's enrollment boundaries allow the district to serve students in many central and northern Orange County communities, including: Anaheim, Cypress, Fountain Valley, Garden Grove, Santa Ana, Stanton, and Westminster
Garden hotels Many hotels have gardens designed by famous garden designers. This came about because of democratisation of society: large mansions were built for aristocratic families and in most parts of the world the idea of a large extended family living under one roof has, to say the least, fallen from popularity.
Garden Hills Elementary School Built in 1938, the Garden Hills Elementary School is on the National Register of Historic Places. The brick school building is nestled among the older homes and stately trees of Atlanta’s historic Garden Hills neighborhood.
Garden Home Community Library The Garden Home Community Library (GHCL) is a public library located in the unincorporated Washington county area of Garden Home-Whitford, Oregon. A current Washington County library card is all that is needed to check out materials from the Garden Home Community Library.
Garden Home-Whitford, Oregon Garden Home-Whitford is a census-designated place (CDP) consisting of the neighborhoods of Garden Home and the smaller Whitford area in Washington County, Oregon, United States. They are located in the southwest hills of Portland, near Beaverton.
Garden in the Woods Garden in the Woods is a 45 acres large (182,000 m²) woodland botanical garden located at 180 Hemenway Road, in Framingham, Massachusetts, USA (see map). It is the headquarters of the New England Wild Flower Society, and open to visitors between April 15 and October 31.
Garden In The City Garden In The City is a Melanie album released by Buddha Records in 1972. Marketed as an album of new recordings; it was actually 'leftover' songs from Melanie's time at the label and released (without the artist's consent) after she had left to form her own label.
Garden Island State Recreation Area Garden Island State Recreation Area is a 734 acre member of the Minnesota state park system in the Lake of the Woods, 19 nautical miles (35 km) from Zippel Bay State Park, near the northernmost part of Minnesota, the Northwest Angle.
Garden leave Garden leave (or gardening leave) describes the practice of giving an employee notice but telling them to stay away from work during their notice period. The practice is often used to prevent employees working for the employer's competitors for a period of time.
Garden of Allah (cabaret) The Garden of Allah was a mid-20th century gay cabaret that opened in 1946 in the basement of the Arlington Hotel in Seattle's Pioneer Square. It was the subject of the book An Evening at the Garden of Allah: A Gay Cabaret in Seattle by Don Paulson (Columbia University Press, 1996, ISBN 0-231-09698-4).
Garden of Eden The Garden of Eden (from Hebrew Gan Ēden, "גַּן עֵדֶן") (Arabic jannato aden جنة عدن) is described in the Book of Genesis as being the place where the first man, Adam, and the first woman, Eve, lived after they were created by God. The past physical existence of this garden forms part of the creation belief of the Abrahamic religions.
Garden of Eden Creation Kit The Garden of Eden Creation Kit is a MacGuffin-like device in the computer game series Fallout. It is mentioned as an advertisement in the back of the first game's manual, and is the tool the main character in the second game seeks.
Garden of Eden pattern In the study of cellular automata, Garden of Eden patterns are configurations that cannot be reached from any other starting configuration. They are named after the biblical Garden of Eden because they have no predecessor configurations—they must be created as such.
Garden of Forgiveness The Garden of Forgiveness, also known as Hadiqat As-Samah (in Arabic), is a garden under development in the ancient heart of Beirut, Lebanon, where it straddles the Green Line, once the battle line where much of the heaviest fighting took place during the Lebanese Civil War (1975-1990).
Garden of Kama The Garden of Kama is a book published in 1901 and written by Adela Florence Nicolson under the pseudonym Laurence Hope, and illustrated by Byam Shaw. The poems in the book were passed off as translations of Indian poets by a man, and thus the book received much more attention that they would likely have done if she had published them under her own name.
Garden of Remembrance (Dublin) The Garden of Remembrance is an Irish memorial garden, created in Dublin to commemorate all those killed in the Anglo-Irish War (also known as the Irish War of Independence) between 1919 and 1922. It also commemorates those who died in other conflicts in the struggle for Irish freedom, notably
Garden of the Gods Garden of the Gods is a public park located in Colorado Springs. It contains conglomerate sandstone hogback formations belonging geologically to the Fountain Formation, similar to the Red Rocks west of Denver.
Garden Of Eden (song) "Garden Of Eden" is a song by hard rock band Guns N' Roses (written by Axl Rose and Slash), which appears on the album Use Your Illusion I. The song has less of a hard rock sound than the usual Guns N' Roses songs, and is more thrash metal in musical style than anything else.
Garden path sentence Garden path sentences are used in psycholinguistics to illustrate that human beings process language one word at a time. The name comes from the saying "to be led down the garden path" meaning "to be misled".
Garden Party (Rick Nelson) "Garden Party" was a 1972 hit song for Rick Nelson from his album Garden Party. It tells of his being booed off the stage at Madison Square Garden, seemingly because he was playing his newer, country-tinged music instead of the 1950s-era rock that he had been successful with earlier, and his realization that "you can't please everyone, so you've got to please yourself".
Garden Peach Tomato Garden Peach Tomatoes are a native South American fruit mainly from Peru, where they are known as Cucunas. Studies have shown they may lower cholesterol when eaten or drinking its juice regularly, similar to oranges or orange juice, but with a greater effect.
Garden Railways Garden Railways is an American magazine specializing in the hobby of G Scale model railroading, also known as Garden Railroading. It was founded in Denver, Colorado in the 1980s and was later purchased by Kalmbach Publishing.
Garden Reach Shipbuilders and Engineers Garden Reach Shipbuilders & Engineers Ltd (GRSE) is a hundred year old company and one of India's leading shipyards which is owned by the Government of India. It builds and repairs a wide range of vessels from warships for the Indian Navy to merchant shipping vessels.
Garden Route The Garden Route is a popular and scenic stretch of the southern coast of South Africa. It stretches from Mossel Bay in the Western Cape to the Storms River which is crossed along the N2 coastal highway over the Paul Sauer Bridge in the extreme eastern reach of the Western Cape.
Garden spa Outdoor bathing obviously has a longer history than indoor bathing and private outdoor open space is known to have been used for bathing since ancient times. stepwells were used for this purpose in Ancient India.
Garden state mortgage Founded in 1991 Garden State Mortgage® is a mortgage lender based in New Jersey that is also licensed to lend in New York, Connecticut, Pennsylvania and Florida. The company has a branch office in Allentown Pennsylvania and in Kissimmee Florida.
Garden State Bowl The Garden State Bowl was an annual post-season college football bowl game played at Giants Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey, from 1978-1981. Freezing temperatures and a lack of successful local college teams contributed to its demise.
Garden State Life Insurance Company Garden State Life Insurance Company is a small direct life insurance company located in League City, Texas. The company celebrated its 50-year anniversary in 2006, but has not been located in New Jersey, nicknamed the garden state, in many years.
Garden State National Bank Garden State National Bank ("Garden State") was a mid-size commercial bank located in northern New Jersey that enjoyed success in the increasingly wealthy New Jersey suburbs of New York City during the 1970's. The significant media coverage it received during that period was more due to the various M&A transactions considered by its colorful CEO, Charles A.
Garden State Park Garden State Park is a former thoroughbred racecourse at Cherry Hill, Camden County, New Jersey. The Park's 225 acres are now the site of a high-end 'mixed use' town center development of stores, restaurants, apartments, townhouses, and condominiums.
Garden Strawberry Garden Strawberry (Fragaria x ananassa and related cultivars) is the most common variety of strawberry cultivated worldwide. Like all strawberries, it is in the family Rosaceae; its fruit is more technically known as an accessory fruit, in that the fleshy part is derived not from the plant's ovaries (achenes) but from the peg at the bottom of the bowl-shaped hypanthium that holds the ovaries.
Garden tourism Garden tourism is a type of niche tourism involving visits or travel to botanical gardens and places which are significant in the history of gardening. Garden tourists often travel individually in countries with which they are familiar but often prefer to join organized garden tours in countries where they might experience difficulties with language, travel or finding accommodation in the vicinity of the garden.
Garden trellis A garden trellis is a structure used to support plants, either by tying the plants to the trellis or by allowing climbers to bind themselves to the structure. A trellis can be made of horizontal, vertical or diagonal bars, usually spaced and arranged to form a decorative structure.
Garden Village F.C. Garden Village Football Club are a football football team, based in Swansea, and play in the Second Division of the Welsh Football League. The club affiliated to the Football Association of Wales (FAW), West Wales Football Association (WWFA), Welsh Football League and the Carmarthenshire Association Football League.
Garden Wall The Garden Wall is a steep alpine area within Glacier National Park well known during the summer months to be heavily covered in dozens of species of flowering plants and shrubs. Located along the west side of the Continental divide and extending northward from Logan Pass, the Garden Wall can be traversed via the popular Highline Trail and for a distance of over 5 miles (8 km) to the Granite Park Chalet.
Garden Worm The Gardenworm is a life form created for the speculative Discovery Channel TV series The Future Is Wild. It is a 2-3 meter long wormlike creature with a symbiotic algae in its milti-branched limbs; when it spreads these limbs to the sun, the algae feeds the gardenworm through photosynthesis.
Garden Writers' Guild The British Garden Writers' Guild, or GWG, is a trade organisation for garden writers, photographers, broadcasters and members of allied trades. The Guild was established in 1991 to improve the quality of garden writing, photography and broadcasting by improving links between the gardening mass media and the horticultural industry.
Gardener A gardener is any person involved in the growing and maintenance of plants, notably in a garden. The terms encompasses persons from different walks of life involved in gardening, arguably the oldest profession, from the hobbyist in a residential garden, the homeowner supplementing the family food with a small vegetable garden or orchard, to a worker engaged in maintaining greenery for money or the head gardener in a large estate.
Gardenesque The term 'gardenesque' was introduced by John Claudius Loudon to describe a style of planting design in accordance with his Principle of Recognition. He was worried that picturesque planting could be mistaken for natural growth and argued that for a planting design to be recognizable as a work of art only exotic plants should be used.
Gardenia augusta *Gardenia augusta (also G. jasminoides; common names: Common Gardenia, Cape Jasmine or Cape Jessamine; Kuchinashi (Japanese) and Zhi zi (Chinese 梔子)), fragrant flower growing in Southern China, Taiwan and Japan.
Gardening (cryptanalysis) In cryptanalysis, gardening was a term used at Bletchley Park during World War II for schemes to entice the Germans to include known plaintext, which they called cribs, in their encrypted messages. It is claimed to have been most effective against messages produced by the German Navy's Enigma machines.
Gardens at Heather Farm The Gardens at Heather Farm 6 acres (24,000 m²) are a relatively new set of gardens located in Walnut Creek, California, USA, with sweeping view of Mount Diablo, and open to the public 7 days a week during daylight hours. Its gardens currently include:
Gardens by the Bay The Gardens by the Bay (Chinese: 滨海湾花园) is a working name for the planned development of three major parks around the Marina Bay in downtown Singapore. First announced to the general public in the National Day Rally by the Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong in August 2005, it will allocate 94 hectares of prime waterfront land for park space, including a conservatory and serving as Singapore's second botanical garden.
Gardens of Adonis During the ancient Greek festival for Adonis, young women, particularly those of questionable character, would plant disposable Gardens of Adonis in baskets and pots of wheat, barley, lettuces, fennel, and various kinds of flowers. The plants grew rapidily, but also died quickly due to their shallow root systems, and were discarded at the end of eight days, often with other images of the god.
Gardens of Lucullus The Gardens of Lucullus (Horti Lucullani) on the Pincian Hill on the edge of Rome were laid out by Lucius Licinius Lucullus about 60 BCE. The Villa Borghese gardens still cover 17 acres (69,000 m²) of green on the site, now in the heart of Rome, above the Spanish Steps.
Gardens of Sallust The Gardens of Sallust (Latin: Horti Sallustiani) were Roman gardens developed by the Roman historian Sallust in the 1st century BC using his wealth extorted as governor of the province of Africa Nova (newly conquered Numidia). The landscaped pleasure gardens occupied a large area in the northwestern sector of Rome, in what would become Region VI, between the Pincian and Quirinal hills, near the Via Salaria and later Porta Salaria.
Gardens of the Fox Cities Gardens of the Fox Cities (35 acres) are nonprofit botanic gardens and an arboretum located in Appleton Memorial Park at 1313 Witzke Boulevard, Appleton, Wisconsin. They are open daily from dawn to dusk without charge.
Gardens of the World with Audrey Hepburn Gardens of the World with Audrey Hepburn was a nine-episode documentary television series first broadcast in 1993, debuting on January 21, 1993. It was the last project completed by actress Audrey Hepburn, who died the day before the first episode of the series aired on PBS in the United States.

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