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GTV-9 GTV-9 is the Melbourne, Australia station in the Nine television network and was one of the first two commercial TV stations in Melbourne. It began test transmissions on 27 September 1956, shortly after the commencement of transmission of TCN-9 Sydney.
Gu Gu Gu Gu is a six year old male Giant Panda at the Beijing Zoo. He has recently come to fame in national and international news for an incident on September 19, 2006 in which he bit a Chinese man who had jumped into his enclosure.
Gu Yong-Ju Gu Yong-Ju (born July 17, 1955) is a retired boxer from North Korea, who won the gold medal in the bantamweight (– 54 kg) division at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, Canada. In the final he defeated US-boxer Charles Mooney.
Gu Yue Gu Yue () (1937 or 1939 - July 2, 2005), originally named Hu Shixue (胡诗学), was a Chinese actor. Noted for his uncanny resemblance to Mao Zedong, he played the former Chinese leader 84 times from 1978 until his death.
Gu Zhun Gu Zhun 顾准 （1915-1974) was an intellectual, economist and pioneer of post-Marxist Chinese liberalism. A victim of "anti-Rightist" purges he spent his later life in prisons and reeducation centres.
Gu, Prince Imperial Hoeun Gu, Prince of Korea (aka Yi Ku, I Gu, Lee Gu) (29 December 1931 – 16 July 2005) was a claimant to the throne of Korea, contested twenty-ninth head of the Korean Imperial Household, and the grandson of Gojong of the Korean Joseon Dynasty.
GuaĂ­ba River The GuaĂ­ba River is a waterway in Rio Grande do Sul state of southern Brazil. The GuaĂ­ba is an extension of the Lagoa dos Patos, a huge coastal lagoon to the south, and although commonly referred to as a river, the GuaĂ­ba is a brackish water estuary, and is also referred to as a bay, lake, or lagoon.
Guaco (band) Tropical music band from Venezuela formed in Maracaibo, Zulia in 1960. Having begun as a regular Gaita band (a folkloric Zulian rhythm with a heavy use of drums and percussion), during the 70s Guaco diverged from the traditional way of playing the genre by integrating it with elements of Salsa music (like complex horn arrangements), violins and electric guitars (very unusual instruments in a Gaita band).
Guadalajara (province) Guadalajara the name is derived from the original name Wādī al-Hijārah (Arabic وادي الحجارة), the stony river. is a province of central Spain, in the northern part of the autonomous community of Castile-La Mancha.
Guadalajara Cartel The Guadalajara Cartel was a Mexican drug cartel which was formed in the 1980's by Rafael Caro Quintero and Miguel Ángel Félix Gallardo in order to ship heroin and marijuana to the United States. Among the first of the Mexican drug trafficking groups to work with the Colombian cocaine mafias, the Guadalajara cartel prospered from the cocaine trade, eventually broadening into a group known as the Federation.
Guadalajara Metropolitan Area The Guadalajara Metropolitan Area (Spanish: Área Metropolitana de Guadalajara) is the most populous metropolitan area of the Mexican state of Jalisco and the second largest in the country after Mexico City. It includes the main municipality (municipio) of Guadalajara and the surrounding municipalities of Zapopan, Tlaquepaque, and Tonalá on a de jure basis.
Guadalajara Orchestra Jalisco Philarmonic Orchestra was established during the 1915 by José Rolón as the Guadalajara Symphonic Orchestra in Guadalajara, Jalisco in Mexico. The Orchestra resides at Teatro Degollado located in the historic district of Guadalajara.
Guadalcanal campaign The Guadalcanal campaign, also known as the Battle of Guadalcanal, was fought between August 7, 1942 and February 9, 1943 in the Pacific theatre of World War II. This campaign, fought on the ground, at sea, and in the air, pitted Allied forces against Imperial Japanese forces, and was a decisive campaign of World War II.
Guadalcanal Diary (book) Guadalcanal Diary is a memoir written by war correspondent Richard Tregaskis. The book recounts the author's time with the United States Marine Corps on Guadalcanal in the early stages of the pivotal months-long battle there in 1942.
Guadalcanal Diary (film) Guadalcanal Diary is a film directed by Lewis Seiler in 1943, based on a book by Richard Tregaskis. The movie starred William Bendix, Richard Conte, Anthony Quinn, and John Archer and marks the film debut of Richard Jaeckel.
Guadalete River The Guadalete River is a small stream located in the Spanish province of Cádiz, arising in the Grazalema Mountains at an elevation of about 1000 m, and running for 172 km into the Bay of Cádiz at El Puerto de Santa Maria, south of the city of Cádiz. The name of the River came from Arab "River of Forgetness"
Guadalhorce The Guadalhorce is a river in, and sub-division of, Málaga province in Andalucia in Southern Spain. The river is 166km long, rising in the Sierra de Alhama in Granada province and flowing out into the Mediterranean sea to the west of Málaga city.
Guadalupe González del Pino Guadalupe González del Pino (Pili) was the wife of Mexican composer Francisco González Bocanegra. While Pili and Gonzalez were still engaged to be married, there was a contest to compose the lyrics to the Mexican national anthem.
Guadalupe Island Guadalupe Island, or Isla Guadalupe, () is a volcanic island located 241 kilometers (150 miles) off the west coast of Mexico's Baja California peninsula and some 400 kilometers (250 miles) southwest of the border city of Tijuana in Baja California state, in the Pacific Ocean. The two other Mexican island groups in the Pacific Ocean that are not on the continental shelf are Revillagigedo Islands and Rocas Alijos.
Guadalupe Larriva Guadalupe Larriva (Cuenca, July 28, 1956 - Manta – January 24 2007) was an Ecuadorian politician. She was the head of the Ecuadorian Socialist Party-Broad Front, as well as the country's Defense Minister under President Rafael Correa.
Guadalupe Loaeza Guadalupe Loaeza is a contemporary Mexican writer, author of books such as Las Niñas Bien, Las Reinas de Polanco, and Compro, Luego Existo, in which she ironizes about the Mexican upper class. Some of her books are compilations of her articles published in newspapers such as Unomasuno and La Jornada.
Guadalupe Mountains The Guadalupe Mountains are a mountain range located in western Texas and southeastern New Mexico. The range includes the highest summit in Texas, Guadalupe Peak, and the "signature peak" of West Texas, El Capitan.
Guadalupe Mountains National Park Guadalupe Mountains National Park is located in the Guadalupe Mountains of West Texas and contains Guadalupe Peak, the highest point in Texas at 8,749 feet (2,667 m) in elevation. It also contains El Capitan, long used as a landmark by people traveling along the old route later followed by the Butterfield Overland Mail stagecoach line.
Guadalupe River (California) The Guadalupe River is a short river in California that runs from the Santa Cruz Mountains flowing north through San Jose, California, and emptying into the San Francisco Bay at Alviso. The river's course is contained completely in Santa Clara County.
Guadalupe Spiny Softshell Turtle The Guadalupe Spiny Softshell Turtle (Apalone spinifera guadalupensis) is a subspecies of softshelled turtle native to the United States, in the state of Texas. Their range is limited only to the Nueces and Guadalupe rivers, and their immediate tributaries.
Guadalupe Union School District Guadalupe School District is a school district in Guadalupe, California, in northwestern Santa Barbara County. The district is comprised of two schools, Mary Buren School (K-5), Kermit McKenzie Junior High School (6-8) and there are 1157 students enrolled in this school district.
Guadalupe-Nipomo Dunes The Guadalupe-Nipomo Dunes is an ecosystem along the Central California coast, both in San Luis Obispo County and in extreme northwestern Santa Barbara County. The Guadalupe-Nipomo Dunes Preserve accounts for 18 miles along the San Luis Obispo County coast, and includes a variety of dune habitats, as well as several endangered and threatened species.
Guadalupe-Reyes Marathon Guadalupe-Reyes Marathon is the informal name given in Mexico to the vacational period from December 12 (Day of the Virgin of Guadalupe) to January 6 (Kings' ("Reyes") Day (Epiphany)). Between these period there are several holidays: the 9 Posadas parties, Christmas and New Year, thus creating a "marathon" of festivities.
Guadalupe, Nuevo LeĂłn (municipality) The Municipality of Guadalupe is one of the 51 subdivisions of the State of Nuevo LeĂłn. Municipalities are named after its municipal seat, hence the municipal seat of the Municipality of Guadalupe is the City of Guadalupe.
Guadalupian The Guadalupian is the second of the three epoches of the Permian, it lasted from about 270 to 260 million years ago. This epoch saw coral reefs flourishing in shallow seas, and on land the replacement of the Pelycosaurs by early Therapsids.
Guadarrama National Park Guadarrama National Park (in Spanish: Parque Nacional de Guadarrama) is a project in which it is tried to protect approximately 37,000 hectares of the most valuable zone of the Mountain range of Guadarrama (Sistema Central), located in the provinces of Madrid, Segovia and Ávila (Spain). This National Park would be fourteenth of the country in antiquity and quarter in extension.
Guadeloupe Communist Party The Guadeloupe Communist Party (Parti Communiste Guadeloupéen) is a political party in the French département d'outre-mer of Guadeloupe. The party has one seat in the French National Assembly in the group of the Socialist Party.
Guadeloupe Fund The Guadeloupe Fund (Swedish: Guadeloupefonden) was established by Sweden's Riksdag of the Estates in 1815 for the benefit of Crown Prince and Regent Charles XIV John of Sweden, also known as Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte, and his heirs.
Guacharaca Guacharaca is a scraping musical instrument made out of cane. It consists of two parts; the guacharaca itself, which is rugged, and a fork made out of hard wire and wooden handle, used to scrape the guacharaca's rugged surface.
Guaiazulene Guaiazulene, also azulon or 1,4-dimethyl-7-isopropylazulene, is a dark blue crystalline hydrocarbon and a derivative of azulene. Specifically, it is a bicyclic sesquiterpene that occurs naturally as a constituent of some essential oils, mainly oil of guaiac and chamomile oil, which also serve as its commercial sources.
Guaifenesin Guaifenesin (gwi fen' É™ sin) (INN) or guaiphenesin (former BAN) is an expectorant drug usually taken orally to assist the expectoration ("bringing up") of phlegm from the airways in acute respiratory tract infections.
Guaifer of Benevento Guaifer (also Waifer, Waifar, or Gaideris) was the prince of Benevento from 878, the death of his uncle Adelchis, to his own death a short three years later, in 881. Guaifer was the son of Radelgar, but he was too young to succeed on his father's death in 854 and so had to await the death of his uncle first.
Guaimar II of Amalfi Guaimar II was the duke of Amalfi, ruling alongside his father, Manso II, and under the suzerainty of his namesake, Guaimar IV of Salerno, from 1047, when his father first associated him, to his and his father's deposition in 1052 by his uncle, John II, after the assassination of the prince of Salerno.
Guaimar II of Salerno Guaimar II (also Waimar, Gaimar, or Guaimario) (died 4 June 946), sometimes called Gybbosus, meaning the Hunchback, was the prince of Salerno from 901, when his father retired (or was retired) to a monastery, to his death. His father was Guaimar I and his wife Itta.
Guajiboan languages Guajiboan (also Guahiban, WahĂ­voan, Guahiboan) is a language family spoken in the Orinoco River region in eastern Colombia and southwestern Venezuela, which is a savannah-like area known in Colombia as the llanos.
Guajira (music) Punto Guajiro (also called Punto Cubano), with its Andalucian origins, has been evolving in Cuba since the 1700s, is the country music from the Western and Central provinces of Cuba. This style began to become popular around the end of the 18th century.
Gualberto Castro Gualberto Antonio Castro (born July 12, 1934, in Mexico City) is a Mexican entertainer best known for singing with Los Hermanos Castro ("The Castro Brothers") and for hosting the television program La Carabina de Ambrosia.
Gualberto Villarroel Gualberto Villarroel LĂłpez (December 15, 1908-July 21, 1946) was the head of state of Bolivia from December 20, 1943 to July 21, 1946. A reformist, he is nonetheless remembered for his alleged fascist sympathies, and is sometimes compared with Argentina's Juan Domingo PerĂłn.
Guale Guale was a Native American chiefdom that became part of Spanish Florida's missionary system in the late 16th century. The Guale spoke a Muskogean language, unlike the many Timucuan speaking Native Americans in Spanish Florida.
Gualeguay River The Gualeguay River is one of the major rivers of the Mesopotamic province of Entre Ríos, Argentina. It is born in the north of the province, in the region between the cities of Federación and San José de Feliciano, and meanders in a general south-southwestward direction across the center of the province for about 350–375 km, receiving a large number of tributary streams.
Gualeguay, Entre Ríos Gualeguay is a city in the province of Entre Ríos, Argentina, on the Gualeguay River, about 226 km from the provincial capital Paraná and 234 km north-west from Buenos Aires. It has a population of about 39,000 inhabitants as per the .
GualeguaychĂş Department The GualeguaychĂş Department (in Spanish, Departamento GualeguaychĂş) is an administrative subdivision (departamento) of the province of Entre RĂ­os, Argentina. It is located in the south-east of the province, beside the Uruguay River.
GualeguaychĂş River The GualeguaychĂş River is a river in the province of Entre RĂ­os, Argentina. It is born in the center-east of the province, within the ColĂłn Department, and flows south, passing by the city of GualeguaychĂş and then emptying into the Uruguay River.
GualeguaychĂş, Entre RĂ­os GualeguaychĂş is a city in the , on the left bank of the GualeguaychĂş River (a tributary of the Uruguay River). It is located on the south-east of the province, approximately 190 km (120 miles) north-west of Buenos Aires.
Gualichu Gualichu In the Mapuche mythology and mainly in the Tehuelche culture, was an evil spirit or demon, comparable but not similar to the Devil. As the Araucanians had not a properly called god of evil, Gualichu was not worshipped but feared.
Gualtiero Negrini Gualtiero Negrini ("Wally") (born 1961) is known mostly as an Italian-American tenor who has performed leading roles with Lyric Opera of Chicago, Washington Opera and many others. His great uncle, the tenor Carlo Negrini, created the role of Gabriele Adorno for Giuseppe Verdi himself, in the opera Simon Boccanegra in Venice in 1857.
Guam Highway 1 Guam Highway 1 is one of the primary automobile routes in the United States territory of Guam. Named Marine Corps Drive throughout its length (it was known as simply Marine Drive until the road was rededicated in 2004 ), it runs from the main gate of Naval Base Guam in the western community of Santa Rita, past a junction with Guam Highway 2A, in a general northeasterly direction to the main gate of Andersen Air Force Base in the community of Yigo, where it meets Guam Highway 9.
Guam national rugby union team The Guam national rugby union team represents Guam in international rugby union. They are considered a tier three nation by the International Rugby Board (IRB), and have yet to make their debut at the Rugby World Cup, though they have attempted to qualify for the World Cup.
Guam Organic Act of 1950 The Guam Organic Act of 1950, ( et seq.) is a United States federal law that redesignated the island of Guam as an unincorporated territory of the United States, established executive, legislative, and judicial branches, and transferred Federal jurisdiction from the United States Navy to the Department of the Interior.
Guan (instrument) The guan ([pinyin]: guÇŽn; literally "pipe" or "tube") is a Chinese [[double reed wind instrument. Unlike instruments in the shawm family such as the Western oboe or Chinese suona, the guan has a cylindrical bore, giving it a clarinet-like tone.
Guan dao A guan dao or kwan dao is a type of Chinese pole weapon that is currently used in some forms of Chinese martial arts (wushu). In Chinese it is properly called a Yanyue dao (偃月刀) which translates as reclining moon blade).
Guan Hai In the historic novel, Romance of the Three Kingdoms by Luo Guanzhong, Guan Hai was an officer belonging to the Yellow Turban Rebellion that happened in the Han Dynasty. During a battle, Guan Hai challenged Guan Yu (no relation) to a duel.
Guan Hanqing Considered one of the Four Great Yuan Playwrights, Guan Hanqing (關漢卿) (circa 1241-1320), sobriquet "the Oldman of the Studio" (齋叟 Zhāisǒu), was born in the capital city of the Yuan Empire, Dadu (the part that is Anguo, Hebei, China now) and produced about 65 plays, mostly in Vernacular Chinese of the time. Fourteen survived, including:
Guan Jing Guan Jing was an officer of the Three Kingdoms Period that served under Gongsun Zan. After Gongsun Zan committed suicide by being surrounded by the whole army of Yuan Shao, Guan Jing nobly rushed into the army of Yuan Shao for the sake of Gongsun Zan, and died for his sake.
Guan Pinghu Guan Pinghu (1897-1967), was a Chinese] player of the [[guqin, a Chinese 7-string bridgeless zither. Born in Suzhou, Jiangsu Province, Guan came from an artistic family, and started to learn the guqin from his father, Guan Nianci.
Guan Sheng Nicknamed the 'Great Sword' (大刀), the Water Margin's Guan Sheng (关胜) bore an uncanny resemblance to Guan Yu - simply because he was a direct descendant of the famous general of the Shu Kingdom. Brandishing a halberd, majestic in appearance and skilful in the art of war, it is little wonder that Song Jiang was eager to have the imperial general on board.
Guan Yu Guan Yu (關羽) (160–219) was a military general under the warlord Liu Bei during the late Eastern Han Dynasty and Three Kingdoms period in ancient China. He played a significant role in the civil war that led to the collapse of the Han Dynasty and the establishment of the Kingdom of Shu, of which Liu Bei was the first emperor.
Guan-zi The Guanzi () is an encyclopedic compilation of Chinese philosolphical materials named after the 7th century BCE philosopher Guan Zhong, Prime Minister to Duke Huan of Qi. The Han Dynasty scholar Liu Xiang edited the received Guanzi text circa 26 BCE, largely from sources associated with the 4th century BCE "Jixia Academy" (稷下, Chi-hsia) in the Qi capital of Linzi.
Guanabara Bay In Portuguese, BaĂ­a da Guanabara is an oceanic bay located in southeastern Brazil in the state of Rio de Janeiro. In its southwest shore is the city of Rio de Janeiro and in its southeast shore the city of NiterĂłi.
Guanabara Confession of Faith The Guanabara Confession of Faith was the first Protestant writing in the Americas in 1559. It was written by the French Huguenots Jean du Bourdel, Matthieu Verneuil, Pierre Bourdon e André la Fon, who were taken under arrest by Villegaignon.
Guanabara State The State of Guanabara (in Portuguese: Estado da Guanabara), was the name given to the municipality of Rio de Janeiro (now the city with the same name), after the moving of the national capital to BrasĂ­lia in 1960. It was named after the Guanabara bay, which borders its Eastern coast.
Guanabo Guanabo is a town in the Ciudad de la Habana Province of Cuba. It is located within the municipality of Habana del Este halfway between the centre of Havana and Santa Cruz del Norte, at the mouth of the Guanabo River, between the Atlantic Ocean coast and the Sierra del CanchĂłn (mountain range).
Guanacaste (tree) The Guanacaste (Enterolobium cyclocarpum) is a large evergreen or briefly deciduous canopy tree found along the coasts of Central America and on certain Caribbean islands. It is known for its large proportions, its expansive, often spherical crown, and its curiously shaped seed pods.
Guanacaste Conservation Area Guanacaste Conservation Area is an administrative area which is managed by SINAC for the purposes of conservation in the northwestern part of Costa Rica. It contains three National Parks, as well as wildlife refuges and other nature reserves.
Guanacaste National Park (Belize) Guanacaste National Park is a fifty acre (200,000 m²) park in central Belize. It is named after a huge Guanacaste tree that escaped being logged because its trunk divided in two near its base, reducing its value as timber.
Guanacaste National Park (Costa Rica) Guanacaste National Park, in Spanish , is part of the Area de ConservaciĂłn Guanacaste World Heritage Site, is a National Park in the northern part of Costa Rica, from the slopes of the OrosĂ­ and Cacao volcanoes west to the Interamerican Highway where it is adjacent to the Santa Rosa National Park. It was created in 1989, partially due to the campaigning and fund-raising of Dr.
Guanacastepene A Guanacastepene A, or ((1R,2R,6S,8aR,10aR,E)-5-formyl-6-hydroxy-1-isopropyl-8a,10a-dimethyl-3-oxo-1,2,3,6,7,8,8a,9,10,10a-decahydrobenzo[f]azulen-2-yl acetate), is a compound showing promising antibiotic activity. It was extracted with hexane from a Costa Rican fungus (CR115), found on the branches of Daphnopsis Americana tree and purified by chromatography.
Guanahani Guanahani was the name the natives gave to the island that Columbus called San Salvador when he first arrived at the Americas. Columbus reached the island on 12 October 1492, the first island he sighted and visited in the Americas.
Guanajay Guanajay is a town La Habana Province in western Cuba, about 36 miles southwest of Havana. The town lies among hills and has an excellent climate; in colonial times it was an acclimatization station for newly-arrived troops from Spain.
Guanaqueros, Chile Guanaqueros is a small town in Chile's Coquimbo Region, located 12 kilometers from Tongoy and belonging to the commune of Coquimbo. It is a fishermen's cove, which spreads along the eastern rim of the Cerro Guanaqueros ("Guanaqueros Hills"), and with its houses built facing to the north in the direction of the Pacific Ocean.
Guanín (bronze) It is a common misconception that pre-Colombian Americas lacked bronze and thus were not able to deploy hardened copper alloys. Copper alloys are reported as ‘guanín’ by Colombus This misconception may well arise because tin], the common component of Eurasian bronze (although common in [[Bolivia), is rare in the Caribbean basin.
GuanĂ­n (Taino) In the Taino culture of the Antilles, a guanĂ­n was a badge of tribal leadership, worn by the Cacique (chief). It was a disc of pure gold, made from flakes of gold extracted from rivers; these flakes were pounded with rocks until they melted together into a small disc which the Cacique could wear around his neck.
Guanes The Guanes were a South American people that lived mainly in the area of Santander and north of Boyacá, both modern departments of Colombia. They were farmers cultivating cotton, pineapple and other crops, and skilled artisans working in cotton textiles.
Guang Ming Guang Ming Daily () was previously known as Sin Pin Daily (Chinese : 星檳日報), Sin Pin Daily was founded by the Aw brothers which have also started Sin Chew Daily. Sin Pin Daily was headquartered in Penang but unfortunately it has to stop publishing in 1986 after some major changes in management.
Guangdong Business College Guangdong Business College (also known as Guangdong Commercial College) is a college in the Chinese province of Guangdong and was established in 1983, and it locates near to the Guangzhou International Meeting and Exhibition Center (where part of the Canton Fair is held every year). Although it is called "college", it is a public university.
Guangdong Development Bank Guangdong Development Bank (, abbreviated: 广发行) is a bank based in Guangzhou, Guangdong, People's Republic of China. As was announced in December 2005, Guangdong Development Bank is going to be the first public bank in China which is going to be acquired by a foreign bank.
Guangdong Dian Tai Yinyue Ji Sheng Guangdong Dian Tai Yinyue Ji Sheng (Chinese: 广东电台音乐之声), translated as "The Sound of Radio Guangdong", which has an English moniker "Music FM", is a music radio station on 99.3 FM in Guangdong, China.
Guangdong music (genre) Guangdong music, also known as Cantonese music (广东音乐 Guǎngdōng yīnyuè) is a style of traditional Chinese instrumental music from Guangzhou and surrounding areas. The name of the music is not an accurate description because the Guangdong music is not the the music of the Guangdong area.
Guangdong Nuclear Power Station Guangdong Nuclear Power Station consists of two 984 MW pressurised water reactor generating units located at Daya Bay in Guangdong province. The plant was completed in 1994 and provides power to the province, as well as power to Hong Kong's China Light and Power.
Guangdong Romanization Guangdong Romanization refers to the four romanization schemes published by the Guangdong Provincial Education Department in 1960 for transliterating the Standard Cantonese, Teochew, Hakka, and Hainanese spoken varieties of Chinese. The schemes utilized similar elements with some differences in order to adapt to their respective spoken varieties.
Guangdong Southern Tigers Guangdong Hongyuan Southern Tigers (广东宏远宝玛仕华南虎) or Guangdong Southern Tigers or Guangdong Hongyuan are the basketball team owned by the Guangdong Hongyuan Group playing in the South Division of the Chinese Basketball Association, based in Dongguan, Guangdong.
Guangdong University of Foreign Studies *The University was created in June 1995 by merging the then existing Guangzhou Institute of Foreign Languages and Guangzhou Institute of Foreign Trade. The former was established in 1965, then one of the three institutes of foreign languages under the direct jurisdiction of the Ministry of Education.
Guanghua Temple Guanghua Temple (廣化寺) is Buddhist, built in Northern Wei Dynasty as one of the eight temples around the Longmen Stone Cave (龍門石窟), in the Fujian province of China. Guanghua is 500 metres south of the cave.
Guangshen Railway Corporation (Guangzhou-Shenzhen Section) Guangshen Railway Corporation (Guangzhou-Shenzhen Section) is a Chinese railway connecting Guangzhou with Shenzhen. Originally the Chinese section of the Kowloon Canton Railway, the line ceased to part of the KCR after 1949.
Guangua Guangua is one of the 105 woredas in the Amhara Region of Ethiopia. Part of the Agew Awi Zone, Guangua is bordered on the south by the Abay River which separates it from the Oromia Region, on the west by the Benishangul-Gumaz Region, on the north by Dangila, on the northwest by Faggeta Lekoma, and on the east by Ankesha.
Guangxi Guangxi (Zhuang: Gvangjsih; old orthography: Gvaŋзsiƅ; ; Postal map spelling: Kwangsi), full name Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region (Zhuang: Gvangjsih Bouxcuengh Swcigih; old orthography: Gvaŋзsiƅ Bouчcueŋƅ Sɯcigiƅ; ) is a Zhuang autonomous region of the People's Republic of China.
Guangxi Zhuang national football team The Guangxi Zhuang national football team was the team of the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region of the People's Republic of China. Between 1956 to 1982 it played only four international matches as an individual team, namely, with Laos, Burundi, North Vietnam and Nepal.
Guangxu Emperor The Guangxu Emperor (August 14, 1871–November 14, 1908), born Zaitian (載湉), was the tenth emperor of the Manchu Qing dynasty, and the ninth Qing emperor to rule over China proper. His reign lasted from 1875 to 1908, but in practice he ruled from 1889 to 1898.
Guangyun The Guangyun (; literally "Broad/Extensive Rimes") is a Chinese rime dictionary that was compiled from 1007 to 1011 under the auspices of Emperor Zhenzong of Song. Chen Pengnian (陳彭年, 961-1017) and Qiu Yong (邱雍) were the chief editors.
Guangzhou International Women's Open The Guangzhou International Women's Open is a tennis tournament held in Guangzhou, People's Republic of China. Held since 2004, the inaugural tournament had Li Na as the first ever Chinese singles title winner.
Guangzhou Metro The Guangzhou Metro (廣州地鐵 Guǎngzhōu dìtiě) is a metro system in the city of Guangzhou in Guangdong Province of the People's Republic of China. It is the fourth city in China to build an underground railway system after Beijing, Tianjin and Shanghai.
Guangzhou Military Region The Guangzhou Military Region is a military administrative region located in the south of the People's Republic of China, covering Guangdong Province, Guangxi Autonomous Region, Hunan Province, Hubei Province, Hainan Province, Hong Kong, and Macao (Hubei, Hunan, Guangxi, Guangdong, and Hainan Military Districts and the Hong Kong and Macao garrisons).
Guangzhou TV & Sightseeing Tower Located in the city of Guangzhou, China, Guangzhou TV & Sightseeing Tower will be the tallest communication and observation tower in the world after its completion in 2009], surpassing the [[CN Tower and the U/C Jakarta Tower, which will also open almost the same time as the tower. Inside the sightseeing tower there is a group of climate floors with gardens.
Guanche language Guanche is an extinct language, which used to be spoken by the Guanches of the Canary Islands until the 16th or 17th century. It is only known today through a few sentences and individual words recorded by early travellers, supplemented by several placenames, as well as some words assimilated into the Canary Islanders' dialects of Spanish.
Guanidinium thiocyanate Guanidinium thiocyanate is a chemical compound that can be used to deactivate a virus, such as the influenza virus that caused the 1918 "Spanish flu" so that it can be studied safely. Note: this compound may also be recognized as guanidine thiocyanate.

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