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Guillermo Meneses Guillermo Meneses was born in Caracas, December 15, 1911, and dies in Porlamar, Nueva Esparta, December 29, 1978, venezuelan writer, author of La Balandra Isabel llegĂł esta tarde and Campeones, They were his parents Olegario Meneses and Matilde Amitesarove, he attended primary in the Chaves school and the San Pablo institute, and the secondary in the San Ignacio school of Caracas. From very young begins his passion for the literature, like collaborator of the Elite magazine (1930).
Guillermo Mordillo Guillermo Mordillo (known simply as Mordillo) is a cartoonist who is internationally famous for his humorous, colorful, and wordless depictions of love, sports (specially football (soccer) and golf), long-necked animals and various curious aspects of life.
Guillermo Portabales Guillermo Portabales (6 April 1911 – 25 October 1970) was a Cuban singer-songwriter and guitarist who popularized that guajira style of Cuban music from the 1930s through the 1960s. His languid, melancholy, intensely lyrical guajiras and his elegant, stylish singing made him greatly popular throughout Latin America, where he is still revered.
Guillermo RamĂ­rez Guillermo "Pando" RamĂ­rez Ortega (born March 26, 1978 in Livingston, Guatemala) is a Guatemalan football midfielder who plays for CSD Municipal in the Guatemala National League, which he joined in 1996 at the age of eighteen.
Guillermo Rigondeaux Ortiz Guillermo Rigondeaux Ortiz (born September 30, 1980 in La Prueba) is a Cuban boxer, who competed in the bantamweight (54 kg) division at the 2000 and 2004 Summer Olympics and won the gold medal on both occasions. He is also World Champion from 2001.
Guillermo RodrĂ­guez General Guillermo RodrĂ­guez Lara, a graduate of the United-States-run School of the Americas, was the dictator of Ecuador from February 6, 1972 to January 11, 1976. He was born on November 4, 1924 in PujilĂ­, in the province of Cotopaxi and married to Mrs.
Guillermo Sanguinetti Oscar Guillermo Sanguinetti Giordano (born June 21, 1966 in Montevideo) is a retired football defender and midfielder from Uruguay, who was nicknamed "Topo". Having made his debut on May 5, 1991 against the United States (0-1), he obtained a total number of twenty international caps for his national team, scoring one goal, in the 1990s.
Guillermo Saputo Guillermo Javier Saputo (born May 1, 1977 in José C. Paz Partido, Buenos Aires) is a light middleweight boxer from Argentina, who represented his native country at two consecutive Summer Olympics, starting in 1996 in Atlanta, Georgia.
Guillermo Sevilla Sacasa Guillermo Sevilla Sacasa was Nicaraguan Ambassador to the United States from 1943 until 1979, when President Anastasio Somoza Debayle was ousted from Nicaragua. Because of his long service as ambassador to Washington, he was the Dean of the Diplomatic Service.
Guillermo Schulenburg Guillermo Schulenburg Prado, often referred to simply as Guillermo Schulenburg, was the abbot of the Basilica of Guadalupe in Mexico City from 1963 to 1996. He was the subject of a scandal in 1996, during the beatification of St.
Guillermo Valencia Guillermo Valencia (born October 29, 1873, Popayán, Colombia; died July 8, 1943, Popayán) was a Colombian poet and translator. He was the father of Guillermo León Valencia Muñóz (1909-1971), Colombian president during 1962-1966.
Guillermo Zúñiga Martínez Guillermo Héctor Zúñiga Martínez (b. December 18, 1942 in Jalapa, Veracruz) is a Mexican politician and member of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) who served in the Mexican House of Representatives.
Guilloché The guilloche interlace pattern (illustrated, right), a conventional enriched moulding in classical architecture, may enclose empty space or be rosetted as it is here; the result is a moulding that could be said to be guilloché. Bands of guillloche, picked up from Roman and Renaissance practice, became a widely-used motif of Neoclassicism.
Guillotine (album) Guillotine was a 10-inch New Wave sampler released by Virgin Records. As well as containing eight songs by some of Virgin's leading performers of the time, it was also notable for containing sleeve notes that were apparently Richard Branson's publishing debut.
Guillotine lock A guillotine lock is a type of canal lock. The lock itself operates on the same principle as any normal pound lock, but is unusual in that its gate is a single piece, usually of steel, that slides vertically upwards when opened to allow a boat to traverse underneath.
Guillotine Motion A Guillotine Motion is the common name for an Allocation of Time Motion which is a British House of Commons procedure that can be used to restrict the time set aside for debate during the passage of a bill through the House.
Guilt (law) In criminal law, guilt is entirely externally defined by the state, or more generally a “court of law.” Being “guilty” of a criminal offense, means one has committed a violation of criminal law, or performed all the elements of the offense set out by a criminal statute.
Guilt offering A guilt offering (Hebrew: ashamot), also referred to as a trespass offering, is a type of Biblical sacrifice, specifically a sacrifice made as a compensation paymentPeake's commentary on the Bible. Such compensation usually took the form of an unblemished ram, as a penalty, in addition to the victim being given restitution of the loss, plus an additional 20% of the value of the lossibid.
Guilt society A guilt society is one in which the primary method of social control is the inculcation of feelings of guilt for behaviors that the society defines as undesirable. It involves an implicit judgment on the being (rather than just the behavior) of the individual: "You are an evil person if you would do such-and-so.
Guilty (Barbra Streisand album) Guilty is an album released by Barbra Streisand in 1980. After the success of the Bee Gees in 1977/1978 there was some time to perform songwriting for other artists and Barbra Streisand asked Barry Gibb to write an album for her.
Guilty by Suspicion Guilty by Suspicion is a 1991 film about the Hollywood blacklist and associated activities stemming from McCarthyism and the House Un-American Activities Committee. It starred Robert DeNiro, Annette Bening, and George Wendt.
Guilty Gear (series) Guilty Gear is a series of sprite-based fighting games designed by artist Daisuke Ishiwatari and Arc System Works. It is popular with fans for its detailed anime-style graphics, original characters, hard rock/heavy metal soundtrack, unique gameplay, and its numerous references to Rock and Heavy metal music.
Guilty Chinese Scholartree The Guilty Chinese Scholartree, a specimen of Pagoda Tree (Styphnolobium japonicum) located in Beijing's Jingshan park, is a famous tree and national landmark on which the last Ming Chongzhen Emperor hanged himself after a group of peasants (led by Li Zicheng) successfully stormed the Forbidden City.
Guilty Without Trial Guilty Without Trial: Women in the Sex trade in Calcutta, by Carolyn Sleightholme and Indrani Sinha (published in 1996 by STREE books in India and in 1997 by Rutgers University Press in the United States, ISBN 978-0-8135-2381-1) is a look into the lives of sex workers in Calcutta, focusing particularly on the red light district of Sonagachi. The authors interview a number of women in order to gain an insight into the dynamics and the standards and conditions that drive the sex trade in Calcutta and nearby areas in India.
Guimba the Tyrant Guimba the Tyrant (French: Guimba, un tyrant, une Ă©poque) is a 1995 Malian film in the Bambara language (with some Fula language components), directed by noted Malian director Cheick Oumar Sissoko. The movie shows the rise and fall of a cruel and despotic village chief Guimba, and his son Jangine in a fictional village in the Sahel of Mali.
Guin Saga Guin Saga is the title of a famous Japanese heroic fantasy novel series by author Kaoru Kurimoto, in continuous publication since 1979. A record 100 volumes were originally planned, but as of 2007 the total stands at 111 volumes.
Guinée Forestière Guinée Forestière is a forested mountain range in south eastern Guinea, flowing into north eastern Sierra Leone. It is known for its large wild mammals, diverse human population, and for its large number of refugees from the Sierra Leone Civil War, Liberian Civil War and Côte d'Ivoire Civil War.
Guindy National Park The Guindy National Park, the smallest national park of India, and one of the very few national parks situated inside a metro, is located in Chennai, South India. The park is an extension of the grounds that surrounds the official residence of governor of Tamilnadu, India.
Guinea (British coin) The guinea coin of 1663 was the first British machine-struck gold coin. The coin was originally worth one pound, which was twenty shillings; but rises in the price of gold caused the value of the guinea to increase, at times as high as thirty shillings.
Guinea at the Olympics Guinea (GUI) has sent athletes to every Summer Olympic Games held since 1968 except for 1976, although the country has never won an Olympic medal. No athletes from Guinea have competed in any Winter Olympic Games.
Guinea Pig (film series) The Guinea pig films (from the Japanese "ginipiggu") were a series of 1980s Japanese horror films with extremely detailed special effects. According to Snopes, the films became infamous when Charlie Sheen mistook one for a snuff film and contacted the FBI to report it.
Guinea Pig Club The Guinea Pig Club was formed of patients of Archibald McIndoe at Queen Victoria Hospital, East Grinstead, Sussex who underwent reconstructive plastic surgery during the World War II generally after receiving burn injuries in aircraft.
Guinea Pork Guinea pork (sometimes wrongly referred to as Guinea Ham) is the cooked meat of a Guinea pig. It is a delicacy in Peru, where it can be found in several traditional dishes, these dishes include pork o'latra and a peru civilian favorite guinea de letai this consists of the freshly cooked guinea pig being maranated in herbs and wild plants often found in the woodlands of peru.
Guinea-Bissau at the Olympics Guinea-Bissau (GBS) has sent athletes to every Summer Olympic Games held since 1996, although the country has never won an Olympic medal. No athletes from Guinea-Bissau have competed in any Winter Olympic Games.
Guinea-Bissau legislative election, 2004 Legislative elections were held in Guinea-Bissau, in west Africa, on March 28, 2004. The elections had been repeatedly postponed due to political and financial chaos in the country, and due to the coup d'etat which overthrew President Kumba Yala in September 2003.
Guinea-Bissau presidential election, 2005 Guinea-Bissau held a presidential election on 19 June 2005, and a second round run-off vote was held on 24 July. The election marks the end of a transition to democratic rule after the previously elected government was overthrown in a September 2003 military coup led by General VerĂ­ssimo Correia Seabra.
Guinean forest-savanna mosaic The Guinean forest-savanna mosaic is an ecoregion of West Africa, consisting of interlaced forest, savanna, and grassland, which divides the tropical moist forests near the coast from the West Sudanian savanna of the interior. The Guinean forest-savanna mosaic covers an area of 673,600 square kilometers (260,100 square miles), extending from western Senegal to eastern Nigeria, and including portions of Gambia, Guinea Bissau, Guinea, Sierra Leone, CĂ´te d'Ivoire, Ghana, Togo, and Benin.
Guinean Forests of West Africa The Guinean forests of West Africa is a biodiversity hotspot designated by Conservation International, which includes the belt of tropical moist broadleaf forests along the coast of West Africa, running from Sierra Leone and Guinea in the west to the Sanaga River of Cameroon in the east. The Dahomey Gap, a region of savanna and dry forest in Togo and Benin, divides the Guinean forests into the Upper Guinean forests and Lower Guinean forests.
Guinean hip hop Guinea is a West African country, not much known internationally for any variety of popular music. Nevertheless, there is a local hip hop music scene, which has produced one crew with an international reputation, Kill Point, which has toured across West Africa.
Guinevere Guinevere was the queen consort of King Arthur. The name Guinevere may be an epithet—the Welsh form Gwenhwyfar can be translated The White Fay or White Ghost (Proto-Celtic *vindo-siabraid "white phantom", Brythonic *vino-hibirā; see also Ishara).
Guinevere (1994 film) Guinevere is a TV movie, a take off on the usual Arthurian cycle, but from Guinevere's point of view, presenting her as the driving force behind the success of Camelot. As a feminist send off of the Arthurian saga, related to The Mists of Avalon.
Guinevere Jones Guinevere Jones is a Canadian/Australian fantasy television series and a series of four novels. It revolves around the adventures of the title character as she uses magic to fight evil, while at the same time dealing with problems and difficulties of high school.
Guineys Guineys (or Micheal Guineys) is a discount department store chain in the Republic of Ireland with stores in Dublin, Limerick, Waterford, Tralee and Cork. It is well known for having its three Dublin stores within sight of each other - one on North Earl Street and two on Talbot Street, which run directly into each other off O'Connell Street.
Guinn Williams (actor) Guinn "Big Boy" Williams (26 April 1899 – 6 June 1962) was an American actor who appeared in memorable westerns such as Dodge City (1939), Santa Fe Trail (1940), and The Comancheros (1961). He was nicknamed "Big Boy" as he was 6' 2" and muscular from years of working on ranches and playing semi-pro and pro baseball.
Guinness Book of British Hit Singles Guinness World Records - British Hit Singles & Albums is a music reference book published in the United Kingdom by Hit Entertainment, the company that also owns such children's entertainment 'brands' as Bob the Builder and Thomas the Tank Engine. The current editor is David Roberts and the book's chart consultant is Dave McAleer.
Guinness share-trading fraud The Guinness share-trading fraud was a famous British business scandal of the 1980s. It involved an attempt to manipulate the stock market on a massive scale to inflate the price of Guinness shares and thereby assist a ÂŁ2.
Guinness World Records Primetime Guinness World Records Primetime was based on the Guinness Book of World Records, and aired on the FOX television network from July 1998 to October 2001. It was hosted by Cris Collinsworth and Mark Thompson and reported on existing record-holders, or on new record attempts.
Guinness Yeast Extract Guinness Yeast Extract, commonly known by its initials GYE, was a popular Irish savoury spread, made from yeast extract. It was a by-product of the Guinness beer brewing process and produced by Arthur Guinness Son & Co.
Guinsa Guinsa, located near Danyang in Chungcheongbuk-do, South Korea, is the headquarters of the Korean Cheontae sect of Buddhism. Although the architecture of Guinsa follows that of many other Buddhist temples in Korea, it is also markedly different in that the structures are several stories tall, instead of the typical one or two stories that structures in many other Korean temples have.
Guinsaugon Guinsaugon is a barangay in the municipality of Saint Bernard, Southern Leyte, Philippines that was almost completely destroyed by the 2006 Southern Leyte mudslide. The landslide was caused by ten days of incessant rain that softened the soil in the mountains.
Guiomar Novaes Guiomar Novaes (February 28, 1895 – March 7, 1979) was a legendary Brazilian pianist. Her individuality of tone and phrasing, her extraordinary singing line, and the subtle and nuanced approach to her interpretations mark her as one of the outstanding pianists of the twentieth century.
Guion Bluford Guion "Guy" Bluford, Junior (born November 22, 1942) is a retired Colonel, from the United States Air Force and a former NASA Astronaut. He participated in four flights of Space Shuttle between 1983 and 1992.
Guise Dancing Guise dancing (sometimes known as goose or geese dancing) is a folk practice celebrated between Christmas Day and Twelfth Night (traditionally also Plough Monday, and some parish feasts) in Cornwall, UK. The principal activity associated with the guise dancing was the performance of a 'traditional' Christmas play with the players were dressed in a disguise to hide their identity allowing them to perform in an outlandish or mischievous manner in the hope of receiving payment of food or money.
Guiseley Guiseley is a small town in Metropolitan Borough of Leeds in the county of West Yorkshire, England, near Otley. The town's claim to fame is Harry Ramsden, who sold his fish and chips from a small shed next to the tram stop.
Guiseley railway station Guiseley railway station is a railway station in Guiseley, West Yorkshire, England. On the Wharfedale Line between Ilkley and Leeds City station/Bradford Forster Square, it is served by Class 333 electric trains run by Northern Rail, who also manage the station.
Guitar The guitar is a musical instrument with ancient roots, used in a wide variety of musical styles, and it is also a solo classical instrument. It is most recognized as the primary instrument in blues, country, flamenco, rock music and many forms of pop.
Guitar as Orchestra The Guitar as Orchestra (1995) was originally intended to be the first in a series of Experimental Guitar albums created by Adrian Belew, mostly as a means of expressing the musical concepts that would otherwise not be released by conventional recording labels. All ten compositions--performed on a custom Fender Stratocaster and utilizing such technical elements as Roland guitar synthesizers, Korg guitar processors, and Roland delays (to name a handful of production components--could be categorized as "difficult listening music" (to use a term created by performance artist and Belew-contemporary Laurie Anderson).
Guitar Battle A guitar battle (or guitar duel) is where two or more guitar players take turns soloing, either with or without a rhythm section. The purpose of the guitar battle is to determine who among each of the guitar players present is the most proficient on the instrument.
Guitar comedy Guitar comedy is a recent form of stand-up comedy in which acoustic guitar (with other possible accompaniments) is used to accentuate the humor of a comedy routine. Content and originality varies by performer, with some comedians writing original songs, others performing song parodies, and some doing a mix of both.
Guitar Craft Guitar Craft (GC) is a series of guitar and personal development classes, founded and often presented by Robert Fripp, who is best known for his work with King Crimson. The Introduction to Guitar Craft (2004) describes GC as three things:
Guitar effects Guitar effects are electronic devices that modify the tone, pitch, or sound of an electric guitar. Effects can be housed in effects pedals, guitar amplifiers, guitar amplifier simulation software, and rackmount preamplifiers or processors.
Guitar fiddle The Guitar fiddle or Troubadour Fiddle is a modern name bestowed retrospectively upon certain precursors of the violin possessing characteristics of both guitar and fiddle. The name guitar fiddle is intended to emphasize the fact that the instrument in the shape of the guitar, which during the middle ages represented the most perfect principle of construction for stringed instruments with necks, adopted at a certain period the use of the bow from instruments of a less perfect type, the rebab and its hybrids.
Guitar Hero Guitar Hero is a music video game developed by Harmonix Music Systems and published by RedOctane for the PlayStation 2 video game console. It features a guitar-shaped peripheral (resembling a miniature Gibson SG) as the primary controller to simulate the playing of an electric guitar.
Guitar moves Guitar moves are moves or stunts, which are done involving (most commonly) an electric guitar or bass guitar. These moves exist as pieces of stage flair used by band members to either emphasize a climax to a song or as a piece of visual entertainment to impress the audience.
Guitar principles The Guitar Principles are a set of fundamental exercises and 'Understandings' concerning the process of learning how to play guitar, by Jamie Andreas. The most important ones of them are described thoroughly in her book The Principles of Correct Practice for Guitar.
Guitar Pro Guitar Pro is a computer software which serves the purpose of making it simpler for musicians to compose music, editing directly into a tablature and/or musical partiture, and study music by offering advanced playback capabilities. It can also be used as a MIDI sequencer.
Guitar solo The guitar is often used to provide rhythmic and harmonic accompaniment to a voice or other instrument, or is used as an integral part of an ensemble. However, solo parts for the guitar are commonly found in a number of different musical styles.
Guitar Shorty Guitar Shorty, born David Kearney on September 8, 1939, is an American blues guitarist. Due to both his musical talents and performing stage antics such as somersaults and back flips, he has been considered "among the leading live acts on the blues scene.
Guitar Slim Eddie "Guitar Slim" Jones (December 10, 1926 – February 7, 1959) is a New Orleans blues guitar player from the 1940s and 1950s best known for the million-selling song produced by Johnny Vincent at Specialty Records, "The Things That I Used to Do", a song that is listed in The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's 500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll.
Guitar technician A guitar technician is a crew person with a specialized skill set (like many crew people must have these days); but unlike many crew members, a Guitar technician (or Guitar tech for short), interacts directly with the artist/musician they are working for, which many crew members do not.
Guitar tuning Guitar tuning refers to the pitch adjustments carried out on the individual strings of a guitar in order to achieve a prescribed arrangement of notes from the open (unfretted) strings. Many such arrangements are used, of which the most popular are detailed below.
Guitar Wolf The band Guitar Wolf, founded in Japan in 1987, are known for their piercing vocals and extremely loud style of garage punk that emphasized heavy distortion. They coined the phrase "Jett Rock 'n' Roll", which they also used to describe their musical style — an energetic cross between The Ramones, rockabilly, classic punk, and noise rock.
Guitar zither The guitar zither is a musical instrument consisting of a soundbox, with two sets of unstopped strings. One set of strings is tuned to the diatonic scale and the other set is tuned to make the various chords in the key of the diatonic strings.
Guitar/synthesizer A guitar/synthesizer (also guitar synthesizer, guitar/synth, g-synth, synth guitar,or guitar synth) is any one of a number of systems originally conceived to allow a guitar player to play synthesizers. MIDI guitar is often used as a synonym for the field of guitar/synthesis or for a guitar/synthesizer, but MIDI is not involved in every case.
GuitarFreaks GuitarFreaks (alternately GUITARFREAKS, abbreviated GF) is a 1998 arcade game created by Konami that is part of the Bemani series. The player uses a simulated guitar controller to play the notes of a chosen song's guitar part as they are displayed on the screen.
Guitarrón The guitarrón (literally "large guitar" in Spanish, the suffix "-ón" denoting "large") is a very large, deep-bodied Mexican 6-string acoustic bass played in mariachi bands. Although obviously similar to the guitar, it is not a derivative of that instrument, but was independently developed from the sixteenth-century Spanish bajo de uña.
Guitartronica Guitartronica is a term used to describe a type of music made by guitar players using digital Music sequencers that were traditionally used by Electronica artists. This type of music making has been made possible by advances in inexpensive digital recording software or Digital Audio Workstations, (DAWs).
Guittard Chocolate Company The Guittard Chocolate Company is an American-based chocolate maker which produces premium-quality coverture chocolate using original formulas and traditional French methods. The chocolate is produced in syrups, blocks, large chips, and powders for pastry chefs, home cooks, and wholesale customers like See's Candies, Kellogg's and Baskin-Robbins, as well as chocolatiers like Recchiuti Confections and Garrison Confections.
Guizhou cuisine Guizhou cuisine (Chinese: 黔菜 or 贵州菜) is derived from the native cooking styles of the Guizhou region in China. Guizhou cuisine is similar to Szechuan cuisine and Hunan cuisine, but it's unique in that its dishes emphasize on the mixed taste of sour and spicy.
Guizi lai le Guizi lai le (鬼子来了, literally The devils have arrived; English title Devils on the Doorstep) is a 2000 film by Jiang Wen. Set during the Japanese occupation of China in the 1940s, the film was the winner of the Grand Prix in the 2000 Cannes Film Festival.
Guizotia abyssinica Guizotia abyssinica or noog (Ethio-Semitic ኑግ nūg) is an erect, strout, branched annual herb, grown for its edible oil and seed, originated in the Ethiopian highlands. Common names include niger, niger seed, and niger pea.
Gujarat Agricultural University Gujarat Agricultural University, (GAU) was founded in 1972 as one of the prestigious State Agricultural Universities in India. It was located at approximately 30 km from the town of Palanpur in the Banaskantha District of Gujarat.
Gujarat cricket team The Gujarat cricket team is one of three Ranji Trophy cricket teams representing the state of Gujarat (the other two being the Baroda cricket team and Saurashtra cricket team). It is in the Elite Group of the Ranji Trophy although it has had very little success.
Gujarat National Law University This University is based in the city of Gandhinagar, which is the capital of Gujarat and is located 30 kilometers north to the metropolitan city of Ahmedabad. The University started its official functioning in the year 2004 and has three batches of 160 students each, currently under training.
Gujarat Sabha The Gujarat Sabha was a public political organization formed and based in the Indian state of Gujarat. Most of its membership were Gujarati lawyers and civic leaders, including men like Vallabhbhai Patel, Narhari Parikh, Ravi Shankar Vyas and Mohanlal Pandya, who would become famous freedom fighters and political leaders.
Gujarat Sahitya Sabha Gujarat Sahitya Sabha, originally called the Social and Literary Association is a literary institution for the promotion of Gujarati literature located in the city of Ahmedabad, India. It was founded by Ranjitram Vavabhai Mehta in 1898.
Gujarat Secondary and Higher Secondary Education Board The Gujarat Secondary and Higher Secondary Education Board or GSEB is a government of Gujarat body responsible for determining the policy-related, administrative, cognitive, and intellectual direction the state's higher educational system takes.
Gujarat Vidhya Sabha Gujarat Vidhya Sabha, originally called The Gujarat Vernacular Society is a literary institution for the promotion of Gujarati literature located in the city of Ahmedabad, India. It was founded by a British judge Alexander Forbes in 1948.
Gujarati grammar The grammar of the Gujarati language (ગુજરાતી વ્યાકરણ Gujarātī Vyākaraṇ) is the study of the word order, case marking, verb conjugation, and other morphological and syntactic structures of the Gujarati language, an Indo-European language native to the Indian state of Gujarat, also spoken abroad where Gujaratis have carried it, such as in South Africa, Uganda, Tanzania, Kenya, Pakistan, Australia, New Zealand, Fiji, Canada, the UK, and the US.
Gujarati language is an Indo-Aryan language, part of the greater Indo-European language family. It is one of the 22 official languages and 14 regional languages of India, and one of the minority languages of neighboring Pakistan.
Gujarati script The Gujarati script (ગુજરાતી લિપિ Gujarātī Lipi), which like all Nāgarī writing systems is strictly speaking an abugida rather than an alphabet, is used to write the Gujarati and Kutchi languages. It resembles Devanāgarī script without the characteristic horizontal line running above the letters.
Gujarati Sahitya Parishad Gujarati Sahitya Parishad (Gujarati Literature Council) is a literary institution for the promotion of Gujarati literature located in the city of Ahmedabad, India. It was founded by Ranjitram Mehta with an aim of creating literature appealing to all classes of the society and cultivate a literary sense among the people.
Gujaratis in Fiji Unlike the bulk of Fiji's Indian population, who are descendents of Indian indentured labourers brought to Fiji between 1879 and 1916, the Gujaratis came to Fiji as free immigrants. While the indentured labourers, on becoming free generally took up farming, the Gujaratis were traders and craftsmen.
Guji Guji, in reference to Gujeratis, is just a common "friend to friend" talk however if used incorrectly can be seen as racist or cultural offence. Guji used by a pure Guji, either from the state of Gujerat or from the high-powered casinos of Boroda and whether their religious background is still content on Hinduism, this is seen as acceptable.
Gujin Gujin is a boot loader for personal computers. It is free software distributed under the GNU General Public License that is written in the C programming language, and is designed to be compiled with the GNU C Compiler and GNU Binary Utilities.
Gujjar Gujars (also Gujjar, Gurjar, or Gurjara), are members of one of the many groups, or castes, of the subcontinent, mainly inhabiting Punjab (Pakistan), Jammu & Kashmir, Punjab (India) and Gujarat, with some groups in Rajasthan and Haryana. Gujjars belong to the Kshatriya castes.
Gukjagam The Gukjagam, known at times as Gukhak or Seonggyungwan, was the highest educational institution of the Korean Goryeo dynasty. It was located at the capital, Gaegyeong (modern-day Kaesong), and provided advanced training in the Chinese classics.
Guknaesong Guknaesong (Korean: 국내성) was the second capital city of the ancient Korean empire of Goguryeo. It was chosen to become the capital city by the empire's second Emperor, Yuri of Goguryeo during the 10th month of the year 3 AD.
Gul Ahmed The primary concerns of the Gul Ahmed Group include Gul Ahmed Textile Mills Limited, Gul Ahmed Energy Limited, and Metropolitan Bank Limited. More recently, a chain of retail outlets has been founded under the name "Ideas by Gul Ahmed".
Gul Evek Gul Evek is a character in Star Trek, a Cardassian officer, played by Richard Poe. Evek appeared in three episodes of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, two episodes of Star Trek: The Next Generation and one of Star Trek: Voyager.

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