Encyclopedia > G > 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69, 70, 71, 72, 73, 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, 79, 80, 81, 82, 83, 84, 85, 86, 87, 88, 89, 90, 91, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99, 100, 101, 102, 103, 104, 105, 106, 107, 108, 109, 110, 111, 112, 113, 114, 115, 116, 117, 118, 119, 120, 121, 122, 123, 124, 125, 126, 127, 128, 129, 130, 131, 132, 133, 134, 135, 136, 137, 138, 139, 140, 141, 142, 143, 144, 145, 146, 147, 148, 149, 150, 151, 152, 153, 154, 155, 156, 157, 158, 159, 160, 161, 162, 163, 164, 165, 166, 167, 168, 169, 170, 171, 172, 173, 174, 175
Gazeta Sporturilor Gazeta Sporturilor (Romanian for "The Sports Gazette") is a daily newspaper in Romania, and the country's largest and most read sports-related publication. It is owned by the Intact Group, which also publishes Jurnalul NaĹŁional and owns the Antena 1 television network.
Gazette (band) , is an indies Japanese rock band of the visual kei variety. The band was formed in early 2002 and is currently signed to PS Company, a notable production company that has also served the likes of é›…-miyavi-, alice nine.
Gazette van Detroit Gazette van Detroit ("Newspaper of Detroit") is a Belgian newspaper in Dutch and English, published in the United States since 13 August 1914. This newspaper has Flemish immigrants in the USA and Canada as targeted readers.
Gazetteer A gazetteer is a geographical dictionary, an important reference for information about places and place-names (see: toponomy), used in conjunction with an atlas. It typically contains information concerning the geographical makeup of a country, region or continent, the social statistics and physical features, such as mountains, waterways, or roads.
Gazetteer for Scotland The Gazetteer for Scotland is an encyclopaedia covering the geography, history and people of Scotland. It was conceived in 1995 by Bruce Gittings of the University of Edinburgh and David Munro of the Royal Scottish Geographical Society, and contains 13,500 entries as of January 2007, making it one of the largest Scottish-based web sites.
Gazetteer of Australia The Gazetteer of Australia is a register of the location and spelling of geographical names across Australia. It is complied by the Intergovernmental Committee on Surveying and Mapping (ICSM) and derived from state, territory, and Australian government agencies.
Gazi Ashraf Gazi Ashraf Hossain () is a former Bangladeshi cricketer who played and captained the Bangladeshi cricket team in its first 7 ODIs, two in the Asia Cup in 1986, three in the Asian Cup in 1988, and two in the Australia-Asia Cup to 1990.
Gazi Evrenos Gazi Evrenos Bey (Gazi Evrenos Beg or Hadji Gazi Evrenos) (1288- 17 November 1417) Evrenos Bey, born in Balıkesir, Turkey, was the ancestor of the famous Evrenosoğulları (Evrenosogullari), a Turcoman family who served under Karesi Beyliği (Principality) between 1302 and 1361. After Orhan Gazi conquered Karesi, Evrenos Bey started to serve under Ottoman becoming one of the four ancient families of the Ottoman warrior nobility, the other three being the Mihaloğulları Mihailogullari), the Malkoçoğulları (Malkocogullari) and the Turahanoğulları (Turahanogullari or Turhanogullari).
Gazi Husrev-beg Gazi Husrev-beg (1480 – 1541) was a beg in the Ottoman Empire during the first half of the 16th century. He was an effective military strategist, and the greatest donor and builder of Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Gazi Husrev-beg's Mosque The Gazi Husrev-Beg Mosque, often referred to as the Beg's Mosque for short, is a mosque in the city of Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. It is considered the most important Islamic structure in the country and one of the world's finest examples of Ottoman Architecture.
Gazi, Crete Gazi or sometimes Gazio (Greek Γάζι(ο)), Crete is a municipality 6 km west of Heraklion, on the north coast of Crete. Since 1999, it has included the area of the former Local Authorities of Gazi (including Kalessa, merged in 1994), Ahlada, Rodia, and Fodele.
Gaziantep Gaziantep (informally, Antep) is the capital city of Gaziantep Province in Turkey. With a population of 853,512 in the year 2000, it is the sixth largest city of Turkey and it is the largest city in Turkey's Southeastern Anatolia region.
Gaziosmanpasha University Gaziosmanpasha University (Turkish: GaziosmanpaĹźa Ăśniversitesi) is a public university established in 1992 and primarily located in Tokat, Turkey. The university took its name from the famous Turkish commander Gazi Osman PaĹźa, who born in Tokat.
Gazpacho Gazpacho soup, also known as gazpacho, is a cold, Spanish soup that is popular in warmer areas and during the summer. Gazpacho descends from an ancient Andalusian concoction based on a combination of stale bread, garlic, olive oil, salt, and vinegar — a cold breadsoup.
Gazprom Neft Gazprom Neft (Russian: Газпром нефть), until 2005 called Sibneft (Russian: Сибнефть), is Russia's fifth largest oil producing and refining company. It was created by presidential decree in 1995 and privatised through a series of auctions in the subsequent two years.
Gazumping The verb "gazump" means to refuse to formalise a sale agreement at the last minute in order to accept a higher offer. The word is thought to have come from the Yiddish word gazumph meaning to swindle or overcharge, which became gangster slang in the 1920s.
Gazzarri's Gazzari's was a world-famous nightclub on the Sunset Strip in Hollywood, California. It reached it's peak of popularity in the mid-1970's through the late 1980's, and was owned and operated by the "Godfather of Rock and Roll", Bill Gazzarri.
GAA All Stars Awards The All Stars Awards, currently sponsored by Vodafone, are given annually since 1971 by the Gaelic Athletic Association to the best player in each of the fifteen positions in Gaelic football, Hurling, Ladies football, and Camogie in Ireland. Additionally, one player in each code is selected as the player of the year.
GAA All Stars Awards Past Winners (Football) This is a list of all past winners of the official GAA All Stars Awards since the first awards in 1971. As an insight to the prominent players of the 1960s, it also includes the unofficial "Cuchulainn" awards presented from 1963 to 1967 under the auspices of Gaelic Weekly magazine.
GAA All Stars Awards Past Winners (Hurling) This is a list of all past winners of the official GAA All Stars Awards since the first awards in 1971. As an insight to the prominent players of the 1960s, it also includes the unofficial "Cuchulainn" awards presented from 1963 to 1967 under the auspices of Gaelic Weekly magazine.
GAA All Stars Awards Past Winners (Ladies Football) GAA All Stars Awards have been presented in Ladies Football since the 1980s. Patricia O'Brien from Cavan who won awards in 1981 and 1982 appears under her married name Patricia Mimna when she won awards with London 1992, 1993 and 1994.
GAA county GAA county or a county board of the Gaelic Athletic Association is a geographic region of control within the GAA, based on the counties of Ireland as they were in 1884. While the counties of Ireland have changed since the foundation of the GAAm the GAA counties remain unchanged.
GAA county colours The GAA county colours of a GAA county in Ireland are the colours of the kit worn by that county's representative team in the Gaelic Athletic Association's inter-county competitions, the most important of which are the All-Ireland Senior Football Championship and the All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship. Flags and banners of these colours are waved by supporters at these matches; in the build-up to a major match, flags and bunting are flown or hung from buildings, telegraph poles, and other fixtures across the county, especially in those regions where GAA support is strong.
GAA Competitions GAA Competitions or Gaelic Athletic Association Competitions are competitive events which are organised either by the Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA) on its own or in association with other organisations in which Gaelic Games or a set of compromised rules are played
GABA C receptor The GABAC receptor is also linked to chloride channels, with distinct physiological and pharmacological properties. In contrast to the fast and transient responses elicited from GABAA receptors, GABAC receptors mediate slow and sustained responses.
GABRIELA GABRIELA, the General Assembly Binding Women for Reforms, Integrity, Equality, Leadership, and Action, is a Filipino organization that advocates women's issues. GABRIELA was founded in April 1984 and named in honor of Gabriela Silang, who led a revolt against Spain in the second half of the 18th century.
GADEROS GADEROS (Galileo Demonstrator for Railway Operation System) is a study sponsored by the European Commission. The purpose is to make use of the Galileo Global Navigation Satellite System (GNNS) when it becomes functional in 2008.
GAF Materials Corporation GAF Materials Corporation is a company based in Wayne, New Jersey that has roots dating back to the late 19th Century. The company has historically been primarily focused on manufacturing of roofing materials.
GAF Nomad The GAF Nomad is a twin-engined high-winged STOL aircraft built by the Australian Government Aircraft Factory (GAF). The aircraft was featured in the television series The Flying DoctorsIMDb entry for The Flying Doctors which in turn was based on the Royal Flying Doctor Service of Australia.
GAFFER GAFFER (Goals And Footballs For East africa Region) is a grassroots soccer organisation which aims to provide good quality community-owned sporting infrastructure (equipment and training) to schools and villages in rural areas of East Africa.
GAG line The GAG line was a famous ice hockey line for the New York Rangers in the late 1960s and early 1970s. It consisted of Jean Ratelle at center, Rod Gilbert on right wing and Vic Hadfield (also the Rangers team captain) on the left side.
GAGAN The GPS and GEO Augmented Navigation system (GAGAN) is an implementation of a Satellite Based Augmentation System (SBAS) in India. It is a technology to improve the accuracy of GPS-Receivers by providing reference signals.
GAIT (wireless) GAIT (an acronym for the GSM-ANSI-136 Interoperability Team) is a wireless standard developed in 1999 that allows cross-operation of mobile telephone technologies. Phones compliant with the GAIT standard can operate on either contemporary GSM networks, or the legacy TDMA and AMPS networks found extensively throughout North America.
GAKIC GAKIC is a name for formulations comprised of the glycine and L-arginine salt of alpha-ketoisocaproic acid calcium, and is a registered trademark. Clinical studies in humans demonstrate that oral consumption of GAKIC enhances muscle performance and recovery from fatigue by sustaining muscle force and work output during intense anaerobic exercise.
GALA Choruses The Gay and Lesbian Association of Choruses ("GALA Choruses") is an international association of GLBT choruses founded in 1982. Its goal is to foster artistic and organizational development within its member choruses.
GALEX The Galaxy Evolution Explorer is an orbiting ultraviolet space telescope that was launched on April 28, 2003. A Pegasus rocket placed GALEX into a nearly circular orbit at an altitude of 697 km (432 miles) and an inclination to the Earth's equator of 29 degrees.
GALSI GALSI is a planned Algeria-Sardinia-Italy natural gas pipeline. The pipeline will start from the Hassi R'mel field in Algeria and the 640 kilometers long first section will run to El Kala at the coast of Mediterranean Sea.
GAMCO Investors GAMCO Investors, Inc formely known as Gabelli Asset Management Company is a provider of investment advice and brokerage services to mutual funds, institutional and select investors. It is listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol GBL.
GAMESS GAMESS is a computational chemistry software program and stands for General Atomic and Molecular Electronic Structure System. The original code of GAMESS split in 1981 and now the two version differ considerably:
GAMESS (UK) GAMESS (UK) is a computational chemistry software program that stands for General Atomic and Molecular Electronic Structure System. The original code split in 1981 into GAMESS (US) and GAMESS (UK) variants, which now differ significantly.
GAMESS (US) GAMESS (US) is a computational chemistry software program that stands for General Atomic and Molecular Electronic Structure System. The original code split in 1981 into GAMESS (US) and GAMESS (UK) variants, which now differ significantly.
GAMSAT GAMSAT stands for the Graduate Australian Medical School Admissions Test - It is used to select candidates applying to study medicine, dentistry and veterinary science at Medical schools with so-called Graduate Entry Programmes (candidates must have a recognised Bachelor degree completed prior to commencement of the medical degree).
GANEFO The Games of the New Emerging Forces (GANEFO) were games were set up by Indonesia in late 1962 as a counter to the Olympic Games. Established for the athletes of the so-called "emerging nations" (mainly newly independent socialist states), GANEFO made it clear in its constitution that politics and sport were intertwined; this ran against the doctrine of the International Olympic Committee, which strove to separate politics from sport.
GANGgajang GANGgajang are an Australian band who formed in 1984. The three principal figures in the original lineup were former Riptides frontman Mark "Cal" Callaghan and two former members of popular Australian hard rock band The Angels, bassist Chris Bailey and drummer Buzz Bidstrup.
GAO Human Capital Reform Act The GAO Human Capital Reform Act of 2004 (, ) is a United States federal law designed to provide new human capital flexibilities with respect to the Government Accountability Office, and for other purposes. The most visible provision of the law was to change the name of the organization from the General Accounting Office, which it had been known as since its founding in 1921, to the Government Accountability Office.
GAP computer algebra system GAP (Groups, Algorithms and Programming) is a computer algebra system for computational discrete algebra with particular emphasis on, but not restricted to, computational group theory. GAP was developed at Lehrstuhl D fĂĽr Mathematik (LDFM), RWTH Aachen, Germany from 1986 to 1997.
GAR building The Grand Army of the Republic (GAR) Building is a historic building in downtown Detroit. It was designed by architect Julian Hess, and constructed at 1942 West Grand River and Cass as an appropriate structure for meetings and other GAR related activities.
GAR Hall The GAR Hall in Litchfield, Minnesota is one of many original and authentic Grand Army of the Republic Halls remaining in the United States, there are 4 remaining in Minnesota. The one in Litchfield is the best of the ones in Minnesota.
GARNET CROW GARNET CROW is a four-piece Japanese band consisting of a vocalist, two keyboardists and a guitarist. The unique composition of the band, along with Yuri Nakamura's deeper vocals than her contemporaries, makes this band stand out from other Japanese bands.
GARNOME GARNOME is a build utility for the GNOME Desktop. It began as a project to allow users to build the GNOME desktop, without falling victim to the depravities of CVS, non-standard build tools and other forms of co-dependence.
GARP The Generic Attribute Registration Protocol was defined by the IEEE to provide a generic framework so bridges (or other devices) could register and de-register attribute values, such as VLAN identifiers and multicast group membership. GARP defines the architecture, rules of operation, state machines and variables for the registration and de-registration of attribute values.
GASCD GASCD, an initialism standing for Governments Accountable to Society & Citizens = Democracy, is a Canadian compilation album, released in 2001. A double album inspired by the activist protests at the Quebec City Summit of the Americas, GASCD collects political songs and spoken word segments by both Canadian and international musicians and activists.
GAT-X105 Strike Gundam The GAT-X105 Strike are a series of fictional weapons from the Cosmic Era timeline of the anime measeries Gundam. They are one of the most extensively modeled mobile suits from Gundam SEED, with 24 model kits and 13 action figures.
GATEPAC GATEPAC (Grupo de Artistas y TĂ©cnicos Españoles Para la Arquitectura Contemporánea) was a group of architects assembled during the Second Spanish Republic. Its most important members were: Fernando GarcĂa Mercadal, Josep LluĂs Sert, Josep Torres ClavĂ©, and Antoni Bonet Castellana.
GATOR mine system The GATOR mine system is a US] system of air-dropped anti-tank and anti-personnel mines, that was developed in the 1980s to be compatible with existing cluster dispensers. It is used with two dispenser systems - the Navy 500 lb CBU-78/B and the Air Force 1,000 lb CBU-89/B.
GAU-12 Equalizer The General Electric GAU-12 Equalizer is a six-barrel 25 mm Gatling gun-style rotary cannon while the GAU-12/U is the five barrel version which can fire over 3,600 rounds per minute. The GAU-12 is used by the United States, the UK, and several other NATO nations, which mount the weapon in their fighter jets (e.
GAU-13/A 30mm GAU-13/A four-barrel derivative of the seven-barrel GAU-8/A cannon used by the A-10A, and 353 rounds of ammunition carried by the dedicated CAS F-16. This weapon role is use against a variety of battlefield targets, including armor.
GAU-7 cannon The Ford-Philco GAU-7/A was an abortive program initiated by United States Air Force in the late 1960s to develop a new cannon to replace the M61 Vulcan on the then-upcoming McDonnell Douglas F-15 Eagle. The GAU-7/A was a 25-mm Gatling gun using telescoped ammunition with a combustable case.
GAU-8 Avenger The General Electric GAU-8/A Avenger is a 30 mm, seven-barrel Gatling-type rotary cannon that is mounted on the United States Air Force's A-10 Thunderbolt II. It is the largest, heaviest and most powerful aircraft cannon in the United States military.
GAUSS (software) GAUSS is a matrix programming language for mathematics and statistics, developed and marketed by Aptech Systems. Its primary purpose is the solution of numerical problems in the following areas: statistics, econometrics, time-series, optimization and 2D- and 3D-visualization.
GAUSSIAN GAUSSIAN is a computational chemistry software program, first written by John Pople. The name originates from Pople's use of Gaussian orbitals to speed up calculations compared to those using Slater-type orbitals.
GAZ GAZ or Gorkovsky Avtomobilny Zavod (Russia, Nizhny Novgorod), translated as Gorky Automobile Plant (), started in 1929 as NNAZ, a cooperation between Ford and the Soviet Union. The name changed when the city was renamed after Maxim Gorky.
GĂsl In Norse mythology, GĂsl is a horse, listed in the poems GrĂmnismál and Gylfaginning, among the steeds ridden by the gods each day when they go to make judgements at Yggdrasil. However, in both poems GĂsl is not assigned to any specific deity.
GĂ idhealtachd The GĂ idhealtachd (Eng: Gaeldom), sometimes known as A' GhĂ idhealtachd (Eng: the GĂ idhealtachd), usually refers to the Scottish highlands and islands, and especially the Scottish Gaelic culture of the area. This is in contrast to Irish Gaelic where an Irish speaking area is known as a Gaeltacht (itself a loanword from Scottish Gaelic).
GĂĄrda Business Cente GĂĄrda Business Center also knows as the Canon building (swe:Canonhuset) is a high-rise office building in the GĂĄrda district in Gothenburg. The 17-floor, 59 meters (195 feet) high building was completed in 1989.
Gåshaga brygga Gåshaga brygga (Gåshaga quay) is the eastern terminus of the Lidingöbanan light rail in Lidingö east of central Stockholm, Sweden. It is possible to interchange with the Waxholmsbolaget archipelago boats at this stop.
GĂĽĂmar GĂĽĂmar is the name of a municipality, town, and valley in the eastern part of the Spanish island of Tenerife, one of the Canary Islands, and part of the province of Santa Cruz de Tenerife. The municipality is located in the southeastern end of the island, and extends for 1,029 square kilometers (0.
GĂĽira A gĂĽira [] is a percussion instrument from the Dominican Republic that sounds like a maraca but in fact is a sheet of metal-- in practice, often from a five gallon oil can-- evenly perforated with a nail, shaped into a cylinder, and played with a stiff brush, similar to the gĂĽiro. In merengue, the gĂĽira is brushed steadily on the downbeat with a "and-a" thrown in at certain points, or played in more complex patterns that generally mark the time.
Gül Gölge Gül Gölge (born September 28 1981 in İzmir,Turkey) is the well known host of the program "Canlı Canlı" which is aired on Kanal D. She is a model and actress as well, having acted in several dramas and soaps.
Güler Sabancı Güler Sabancı (born 1955) is a third-generation female member of the renowned Sabancı family, and currently the chairperson of the family-controlled Sabancı Holding, the second-biggest industrial and financial conglomerate of Turkey.
GĂĽlgöze, Mardin GĂĽlgöze (in Syriac: <Big> ܥܝܢÜÜŞÜ•Ü - Iwardo or Inwardo, Ayinwarda, Ainwardo) – is a village that lies very high, east of the city Midyat, in the Mardin Province of Turkey, and can be reached from Midyat on foot in 2 hours. The village was founded some time around the 10th century.
Güllü Agop Agop Vartovyan, better known as Güllü Agop, (took later the name Mehmet Yakup), (1840, Istanbul - 1902, Istanbul) was a Turkish-Armenian theatre director as well as occasional actor. He is considered to have laid the bases for today's nationally renowned İstanbul City Theatres (İstanbul Şehir Tiyatroları) institution.
Gülşen Bubikoğlu Gülşen Bubikoğlu (1954, İstanbul -) is a Turkish actress, one of the leading ladies of Turkish cinema in the 1970s and into the early 1980s. She studied at Fatih Kız Lisesi and was a fashion model for a time.
Gümüşhane Province Gümüşhane Province is a province in north Turkey, bordering Bayburt to the east, Trabzon to the north, Giresun and Erzincan to the west. It covers an area of 6,575 km² and has a population of 186,953 (2000 census).
GĂĽnter Baum GĂĽnter Baum (born 1960) is the founder of the German organization Zwischenraum, which helps gay and lesbian people holding evangelical theological beliefs to reconcile these two often conflicting parts of their identities.
GĂĽnter Brus GĂĽnter Brus (born September 27, 1938, Ardning, Styria) is an Austrian painter, graphic artist and writer. Co-founder in 1964 of Wiener Aktionismus (Viennese Actionism) together with Otto Muehl, Hermann Nitsch and Rudolf Schwarzkogler.
Günter Guillaume Günter Guillaume (February 1, 1927 – April 10, 1995), was an intelligence agent of East Germany's secret service, the Stasi. Guillaume emigrated with his wife, Christel to West Germany 1956 with orders to penetrate the West German political system and report on it.
GĂĽnter Hermann GĂĽnter Hermann (born December 5, 1960) was a German footballer, World Champion with West Germany in 1990 FIFA World Cup despite not being used a single time by coach Franz Beckenbauer in the tournament. In Germany, Hermann's presence in the World Cup winning squad is hardly remembered, although other members, that also not kicked a ball in the tournament, (such as striker Frank Mill) are rather easily identified as part of the World Cup winning squad.
GĂĽnter Reimann GĂĽnter Reimann or Guenter Reimann (November 13 1904, AngermĂĽnde, Germany - February 5 2005 New York) born Hans Steinicke was a member of the German Communist Party and at the forefront of the underground resistance to Hitler within Germany.
GĂĽnter Wand GĂĽnter Wand (born January 7, 1912 in Elberfeld, Germany; died February 14, 2002 in Ulmiz near Bern, Switzerland) was one of the outstanding German orchestra conductors of the 20th century. He was also a composer.
Günter Wächtershäuser Günter Wächtershäuser, a chemist turned patent lawyer, is mainly known for his groundbreaking and influential work on the origin of life, and in particular his iron-sulfur world theory, a theory that life on Earth had hydrothermal origins. The theory is consistent with the hypothesis that life originated near seafloor hydrothermal vents.
GĂĽnther Blumentritt GĂĽnther Blumentritt (February 10, 1897 - October 12, 1967) was a German general during the Second World War, he was instrumental in planning the 1939 German invasion of Poland, he served throughout the war, mostly on the western front, and after the war was called as a witness at the Nuremburg Trials, though he never testified.
GĂĽnther Csar GĂĽnther Csar (born March 7, 1966) is a former Austrian nordic combined skier who competed during the late 1980's and early 1990's. He won a bronze medal in the 3 x 10 km team event at the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary and also won a gold medal in the 3 x 10 km team event at the 1991 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships in Val di Fiemme.
GĂĽnther Enderlein GĂĽnther Enderlein (born 7 July 1872 in Leipzig; died 11 August 1968 in Wentdorf near Hamburg) was a German zoologist, entomologist and later a manufacturer of pharmaceutical products near Hamburg. Enderlein got some international fame because of his research about insects, but in Germany he became famous because of his concept of pleomorphism of microorganism and his hypotheses about the origins of cancer, based on former work of other scientists.
GĂĽnther Gerszo GĂĽnther Gerzso Wendland (June 17, 1915 - April 21, 2000), although relatively unknown outside the art cognoscenti, is viewed by some critics as comparable to Pablo Picasso and Joaquin Torres Garcia. He is "one of the greatest Latin American painters," according to Octavio Paz, the Nobel Prize-winning Mexican author.
GĂĽnther Huber GĂĽnther Huber (born 28 October 1965) is an Italian bobsledder who competed in the two-person event. Together with teammate Stefano Ticci, he finished fifth at the 1992 Winter Olympics and third at the 1994 Winter Olympics.
Günther Prien Korvettenkapitän Günther Prien (16 January 1908 – 7 March 1941) was one of the outstanding German U-boat aces of the first part of the Second World War, and the first U-boat commander to win the Knight's Cross. Under Prien's command, the submarine U-47 sank over 30 Allied ships totaling about 200,000 tons.
GĂĽnther Quandt GĂĽnther Quandt (28 July 1881 - 30 December 1954) was a German industrialist who founded an industrial empire that today includes BMW, Altana (pharmaceuticals) and VARTA (batteries). Eight of the hundred currently richest Germans are among his relatives.
GĂĽnther Schmieder Gunter Schmieder is an East German nordic combined skier who competed from 1976 to 1984. He won a gold medal in the 3 x 10 km team event at the 1982 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships in Oslo and finished fifth in the 15 km individual at the world championships in 1978 and 1982.
GĂĽnther Stranner GĂĽnther Stranner was an Austrian ski jumper who competed from 1984 to 1991. He won a silver in the team large hill event at the 1985 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships in Seefeld and earned his best individual finish of 39th in the large hill event at the 1989 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships in Lahti.
Günzburg Günzburg is a Große Kreisstadt and capital of the district of Günzburg in Swabia, Bavaria. This district was constituted in 1972 by combining the city of Günzburg—which had not previously been assigned to a Kreis (district)—with the district of Günzburg and the district of Krumbach.
Günzburg (district) Günzburg is a district in Bavaria, Germany. It is bounded by (from the north and clockwise) the districts of Dillingen, Augsburg, Unterallgäu and Neu-Ulm, and by the state of Baden-Württemberg (districts Alb-Donau and Heidenheim).
Güzelçamlı Güzelçamlı is a sea-side town with own municipality in the district of Kuşadası in Turkey's Aydın Province, and a rising resort for tourists. It is situated at a distance of 25 kilometers following the shoreline south to the internationally famous tourism center of Kuşadası and the town of Güzelçamlı borders on the Dilek Peninsula - Menderes Delta National Park.
Gómez Dávila Nicolás Gómez Dávila (born 18 May 1913 in Bogotá, Colombia, died 17 May 1994 in Bogotá) was a Colombian writer and thinker who is considered one of the most intransigent political theologians of the twentieth century.
GĂłntia GĂłntia (Guntia, Candida, Fortuna), was a Celtic moon goddess; her name comes from the Welsh word canda (shining white) and the Celtic condate (confluence). She was said to bring good luck, and was the goddess of the river GĂĽnz, near GĂĽnzburg in Germany.
GĂłra County GĂłra County (in Polish powiat gĂłrowski) is a unit of territorial administration and local government in the Lower Silesian Voivodship in Poland, created on 1 January 1999 as a result of the Local Government Reorganization Act of 1998.
GĂłsol, BerguedĂ GĂłsol is a village and municipality located in the northwest of the comarca of BerguedĂ in Catalonia (The Pyrenees). It is located in the natural park of "CadĂ-MoixerĂł," and the municipality also includes the village of Sorribes.
GĂŞ GĂŞ are the people who spoke Ge languages of the northern South American Caribbean coast and Brazil, their society is or was highly egalitarian and anti-authoritarian, because of which they resisted the Incas as well as the Spaniards. In Brazil the GĂŞ were found in Rio de Janeiro, Minas Gerais, Bahia, Piaui, Mato Grosso, Goias, Tocantins, Maranhao, and as far south as Paraguay.
Gândul Gândul (, "The Thought") is a Romanian daily newspaper published in Bucharest. It was founded in May 2005 by Mircea Dinescu, who used to write a daily editorial called "Vorba lu' Dinescu", and Cristian Tudor Popescu, who is also the editor-in-chief.
Gâteaux derivative In mathematics, the Gâteaux derivative is a generalisation of the concept of directional derivative in differential calculus. Named after René Gâteaux, a French mathematician who died young in World War I, it is defined for locally convex topological vector spaces, contrasting with the derivative on Banach spaces, the Fréchet derivative.
Gazette (band) , is an indies Japanese rock band of the visual kei variety. The band was formed in early 2002 and is currently signed to PS Company, a notable production company that has also served the likes of é›…-miyavi-, alice nine.
Gazette van Detroit Gazette van Detroit ("Newspaper of Detroit") is a Belgian newspaper in Dutch and English, published in the United States since 13 August 1914. This newspaper has Flemish immigrants in the USA and Canada as targeted readers.
Gazetteer A gazetteer is a geographical dictionary, an important reference for information about places and place-names (see: toponomy), used in conjunction with an atlas. It typically contains information concerning the geographical makeup of a country, region or continent, the social statistics and physical features, such as mountains, waterways, or roads.
Gazetteer for Scotland The Gazetteer for Scotland is an encyclopaedia covering the geography, history and people of Scotland. It was conceived in 1995 by Bruce Gittings of the University of Edinburgh and David Munro of the Royal Scottish Geographical Society, and contains 13,500 entries as of January 2007, making it one of the largest Scottish-based web sites.
Gazetteer of Australia The Gazetteer of Australia is a register of the location and spelling of geographical names across Australia. It is complied by the Intergovernmental Committee on Surveying and Mapping (ICSM) and derived from state, territory, and Australian government agencies.
Gazi Ashraf Gazi Ashraf Hossain () is a former Bangladeshi cricketer who played and captained the Bangladeshi cricket team in its first 7 ODIs, two in the Asia Cup in 1986, three in the Asian Cup in 1988, and two in the Australia-Asia Cup to 1990.
Gazi Evrenos Gazi Evrenos Bey (Gazi Evrenos Beg or Hadji Gazi Evrenos) (1288- 17 November 1417) Evrenos Bey, born in Balıkesir, Turkey, was the ancestor of the famous Evrenosoğulları (Evrenosogullari), a Turcoman family who served under Karesi Beyliği (Principality) between 1302 and 1361. After Orhan Gazi conquered Karesi, Evrenos Bey started to serve under Ottoman becoming one of the four ancient families of the Ottoman warrior nobility, the other three being the Mihaloğulları Mihailogullari), the Malkoçoğulları (Malkocogullari) and the Turahanoğulları (Turahanogullari or Turhanogullari).
Gazi Husrev-beg Gazi Husrev-beg (1480 – 1541) was a beg in the Ottoman Empire during the first half of the 16th century. He was an effective military strategist, and the greatest donor and builder of Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Gazi Husrev-beg's Mosque The Gazi Husrev-Beg Mosque, often referred to as the Beg's Mosque for short, is a mosque in the city of Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. It is considered the most important Islamic structure in the country and one of the world's finest examples of Ottoman Architecture.
Gazi, Crete Gazi or sometimes Gazio (Greek Γάζι(ο)), Crete is a municipality 6 km west of Heraklion, on the north coast of Crete. Since 1999, it has included the area of the former Local Authorities of Gazi (including Kalessa, merged in 1994), Ahlada, Rodia, and Fodele.
Gaziantep Gaziantep (informally, Antep) is the capital city of Gaziantep Province in Turkey. With a population of 853,512 in the year 2000, it is the sixth largest city of Turkey and it is the largest city in Turkey's Southeastern Anatolia region.
Gaziosmanpasha University Gaziosmanpasha University (Turkish: GaziosmanpaĹźa Ăśniversitesi) is a public university established in 1992 and primarily located in Tokat, Turkey. The university took its name from the famous Turkish commander Gazi Osman PaĹźa, who born in Tokat.
Gazpacho Gazpacho soup, also known as gazpacho, is a cold, Spanish soup that is popular in warmer areas and during the summer. Gazpacho descends from an ancient Andalusian concoction based on a combination of stale bread, garlic, olive oil, salt, and vinegar — a cold breadsoup.
Gazprom Neft Gazprom Neft (Russian: Газпром нефть), until 2005 called Sibneft (Russian: Сибнефть), is Russia's fifth largest oil producing and refining company. It was created by presidential decree in 1995 and privatised through a series of auctions in the subsequent two years.
Gazumping The verb "gazump" means to refuse to formalise a sale agreement at the last minute in order to accept a higher offer. The word is thought to have come from the Yiddish word gazumph meaning to swindle or overcharge, which became gangster slang in the 1920s.
Gazzarri's Gazzari's was a world-famous nightclub on the Sunset Strip in Hollywood, California. It reached it's peak of popularity in the mid-1970's through the late 1980's, and was owned and operated by the "Godfather of Rock and Roll", Bill Gazzarri.
GAA All Stars Awards The All Stars Awards, currently sponsored by Vodafone, are given annually since 1971 by the Gaelic Athletic Association to the best player in each of the fifteen positions in Gaelic football, Hurling, Ladies football, and Camogie in Ireland. Additionally, one player in each code is selected as the player of the year.
GAA All Stars Awards Past Winners (Football) This is a list of all past winners of the official GAA All Stars Awards since the first awards in 1971. As an insight to the prominent players of the 1960s, it also includes the unofficial "Cuchulainn" awards presented from 1963 to 1967 under the auspices of Gaelic Weekly magazine.
GAA All Stars Awards Past Winners (Hurling) This is a list of all past winners of the official GAA All Stars Awards since the first awards in 1971. As an insight to the prominent players of the 1960s, it also includes the unofficial "Cuchulainn" awards presented from 1963 to 1967 under the auspices of Gaelic Weekly magazine.
GAA All Stars Awards Past Winners (Ladies Football) GAA All Stars Awards have been presented in Ladies Football since the 1980s. Patricia O'Brien from Cavan who won awards in 1981 and 1982 appears under her married name Patricia Mimna when she won awards with London 1992, 1993 and 1994.
GAA county GAA county or a county board of the Gaelic Athletic Association is a geographic region of control within the GAA, based on the counties of Ireland as they were in 1884. While the counties of Ireland have changed since the foundation of the GAAm the GAA counties remain unchanged.
GAA county colours The GAA county colours of a GAA county in Ireland are the colours of the kit worn by that county's representative team in the Gaelic Athletic Association's inter-county competitions, the most important of which are the All-Ireland Senior Football Championship and the All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship. Flags and banners of these colours are waved by supporters at these matches; in the build-up to a major match, flags and bunting are flown or hung from buildings, telegraph poles, and other fixtures across the county, especially in those regions where GAA support is strong.
GAA Competitions GAA Competitions or Gaelic Athletic Association Competitions are competitive events which are organised either by the Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA) on its own or in association with other organisations in which Gaelic Games or a set of compromised rules are played
GABA C receptor The GABAC receptor is also linked to chloride channels, with distinct physiological and pharmacological properties. In contrast to the fast and transient responses elicited from GABAA receptors, GABAC receptors mediate slow and sustained responses.
GABRIELA GABRIELA, the General Assembly Binding Women for Reforms, Integrity, Equality, Leadership, and Action, is a Filipino organization that advocates women's issues. GABRIELA was founded in April 1984 and named in honor of Gabriela Silang, who led a revolt against Spain in the second half of the 18th century.
GADEROS GADEROS (Galileo Demonstrator for Railway Operation System) is a study sponsored by the European Commission. The purpose is to make use of the Galileo Global Navigation Satellite System (GNNS) when it becomes functional in 2008.
GAF Materials Corporation GAF Materials Corporation is a company based in Wayne, New Jersey that has roots dating back to the late 19th Century. The company has historically been primarily focused on manufacturing of roofing materials.
GAF Nomad The GAF Nomad is a twin-engined high-winged STOL aircraft built by the Australian Government Aircraft Factory (GAF). The aircraft was featured in the television series The Flying DoctorsIMDb entry for The Flying Doctors which in turn was based on the Royal Flying Doctor Service of Australia.
GAFFER GAFFER (Goals And Footballs For East africa Region) is a grassroots soccer organisation which aims to provide good quality community-owned sporting infrastructure (equipment and training) to schools and villages in rural areas of East Africa.
GAG line The GAG line was a famous ice hockey line for the New York Rangers in the late 1960s and early 1970s. It consisted of Jean Ratelle at center, Rod Gilbert on right wing and Vic Hadfield (also the Rangers team captain) on the left side.
GAGAN The GPS and GEO Augmented Navigation system (GAGAN) is an implementation of a Satellite Based Augmentation System (SBAS) in India. It is a technology to improve the accuracy of GPS-Receivers by providing reference signals.
GAIT (wireless) GAIT (an acronym for the GSM-ANSI-136 Interoperability Team) is a wireless standard developed in 1999 that allows cross-operation of mobile telephone technologies. Phones compliant with the GAIT standard can operate on either contemporary GSM networks, or the legacy TDMA and AMPS networks found extensively throughout North America.
GAKIC GAKIC is a name for formulations comprised of the glycine and L-arginine salt of alpha-ketoisocaproic acid calcium, and is a registered trademark. Clinical studies in humans demonstrate that oral consumption of GAKIC enhances muscle performance and recovery from fatigue by sustaining muscle force and work output during intense anaerobic exercise.
GALA Choruses The Gay and Lesbian Association of Choruses ("GALA Choruses") is an international association of GLBT choruses founded in 1982. Its goal is to foster artistic and organizational development within its member choruses.
GALEX The Galaxy Evolution Explorer is an orbiting ultraviolet space telescope that was launched on April 28, 2003. A Pegasus rocket placed GALEX into a nearly circular orbit at an altitude of 697 km (432 miles) and an inclination to the Earth's equator of 29 degrees.
GALSI GALSI is a planned Algeria-Sardinia-Italy natural gas pipeline. The pipeline will start from the Hassi R'mel field in Algeria and the 640 kilometers long first section will run to El Kala at the coast of Mediterranean Sea.
GAMCO Investors GAMCO Investors, Inc formely known as Gabelli Asset Management Company is a provider of investment advice and brokerage services to mutual funds, institutional and select investors. It is listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol GBL.
GAMESS GAMESS is a computational chemistry software program and stands for General Atomic and Molecular Electronic Structure System. The original code of GAMESS split in 1981 and now the two version differ considerably:
GAMESS (UK) GAMESS (UK) is a computational chemistry software program that stands for General Atomic and Molecular Electronic Structure System. The original code split in 1981 into GAMESS (US) and GAMESS (UK) variants, which now differ significantly.
GAMESS (US) GAMESS (US) is a computational chemistry software program that stands for General Atomic and Molecular Electronic Structure System. The original code split in 1981 into GAMESS (US) and GAMESS (UK) variants, which now differ significantly.
GAMSAT GAMSAT stands for the Graduate Australian Medical School Admissions Test - It is used to select candidates applying to study medicine, dentistry and veterinary science at Medical schools with so-called Graduate Entry Programmes (candidates must have a recognised Bachelor degree completed prior to commencement of the medical degree).
GANEFO The Games of the New Emerging Forces (GANEFO) were games were set up by Indonesia in late 1962 as a counter to the Olympic Games. Established for the athletes of the so-called "emerging nations" (mainly newly independent socialist states), GANEFO made it clear in its constitution that politics and sport were intertwined; this ran against the doctrine of the International Olympic Committee, which strove to separate politics from sport.
GANGgajang GANGgajang are an Australian band who formed in 1984. The three principal figures in the original lineup were former Riptides frontman Mark "Cal" Callaghan and two former members of popular Australian hard rock band The Angels, bassist Chris Bailey and drummer Buzz Bidstrup.
GAO Human Capital Reform Act The GAO Human Capital Reform Act of 2004 (, ) is a United States federal law designed to provide new human capital flexibilities with respect to the Government Accountability Office, and for other purposes. The most visible provision of the law was to change the name of the organization from the General Accounting Office, which it had been known as since its founding in 1921, to the Government Accountability Office.
GAP computer algebra system GAP (Groups, Algorithms and Programming) is a computer algebra system for computational discrete algebra with particular emphasis on, but not restricted to, computational group theory. GAP was developed at Lehrstuhl D fĂĽr Mathematik (LDFM), RWTH Aachen, Germany from 1986 to 1997.
GAR building The Grand Army of the Republic (GAR) Building is a historic building in downtown Detroit. It was designed by architect Julian Hess, and constructed at 1942 West Grand River and Cass as an appropriate structure for meetings and other GAR related activities.
GAR Hall The GAR Hall in Litchfield, Minnesota is one of many original and authentic Grand Army of the Republic Halls remaining in the United States, there are 4 remaining in Minnesota. The one in Litchfield is the best of the ones in Minnesota.
GARNET CROW GARNET CROW is a four-piece Japanese band consisting of a vocalist, two keyboardists and a guitarist. The unique composition of the band, along with Yuri Nakamura's deeper vocals than her contemporaries, makes this band stand out from other Japanese bands.
GARNOME GARNOME is a build utility for the GNOME Desktop. It began as a project to allow users to build the GNOME desktop, without falling victim to the depravities of CVS, non-standard build tools and other forms of co-dependence.
GARP The Generic Attribute Registration Protocol was defined by the IEEE to provide a generic framework so bridges (or other devices) could register and de-register attribute values, such as VLAN identifiers and multicast group membership. GARP defines the architecture, rules of operation, state machines and variables for the registration and de-registration of attribute values.
GASCD GASCD, an initialism standing for Governments Accountable to Society & Citizens = Democracy, is a Canadian compilation album, released in 2001. A double album inspired by the activist protests at the Quebec City Summit of the Americas, GASCD collects political songs and spoken word segments by both Canadian and international musicians and activists.
GAT-X105 Strike Gundam The GAT-X105 Strike are a series of fictional weapons from the Cosmic Era timeline of the anime measeries Gundam. They are one of the most extensively modeled mobile suits from Gundam SEED, with 24 model kits and 13 action figures.
GATEPAC GATEPAC (Grupo de Artistas y TĂ©cnicos Españoles Para la Arquitectura Contemporánea) was a group of architects assembled during the Second Spanish Republic. Its most important members were: Fernando GarcĂa Mercadal, Josep LluĂs Sert, Josep Torres ClavĂ©, and Antoni Bonet Castellana.
GATOR mine system The GATOR mine system is a US] system of air-dropped anti-tank and anti-personnel mines, that was developed in the 1980s to be compatible with existing cluster dispensers. It is used with two dispenser systems - the Navy 500 lb CBU-78/B and the Air Force 1,000 lb CBU-89/B.
GAU-12 Equalizer The General Electric GAU-12 Equalizer is a six-barrel 25 mm Gatling gun-style rotary cannon while the GAU-12/U is the five barrel version which can fire over 3,600 rounds per minute. The GAU-12 is used by the United States, the UK, and several other NATO nations, which mount the weapon in their fighter jets (e.
GAU-13/A 30mm GAU-13/A four-barrel derivative of the seven-barrel GAU-8/A cannon used by the A-10A, and 353 rounds of ammunition carried by the dedicated CAS F-16. This weapon role is use against a variety of battlefield targets, including armor.
GAU-7 cannon The Ford-Philco GAU-7/A was an abortive program initiated by United States Air Force in the late 1960s to develop a new cannon to replace the M61 Vulcan on the then-upcoming McDonnell Douglas F-15 Eagle. The GAU-7/A was a 25-mm Gatling gun using telescoped ammunition with a combustable case.
GAU-8 Avenger The General Electric GAU-8/A Avenger is a 30 mm, seven-barrel Gatling-type rotary cannon that is mounted on the United States Air Force's A-10 Thunderbolt II. It is the largest, heaviest and most powerful aircraft cannon in the United States military.
GAUSS (software) GAUSS is a matrix programming language for mathematics and statistics, developed and marketed by Aptech Systems. Its primary purpose is the solution of numerical problems in the following areas: statistics, econometrics, time-series, optimization and 2D- and 3D-visualization.
GAUSSIAN GAUSSIAN is a computational chemistry software program, first written by John Pople. The name originates from Pople's use of Gaussian orbitals to speed up calculations compared to those using Slater-type orbitals.
GAZ GAZ or Gorkovsky Avtomobilny Zavod (Russia, Nizhny Novgorod), translated as Gorky Automobile Plant (), started in 1929 as NNAZ, a cooperation between Ford and the Soviet Union. The name changed when the city was renamed after Maxim Gorky.
GĂsl In Norse mythology, GĂsl is a horse, listed in the poems GrĂmnismál and Gylfaginning, among the steeds ridden by the gods each day when they go to make judgements at Yggdrasil. However, in both poems GĂsl is not assigned to any specific deity.
GĂ idhealtachd The GĂ idhealtachd (Eng: Gaeldom), sometimes known as A' GhĂ idhealtachd (Eng: the GĂ idhealtachd), usually refers to the Scottish highlands and islands, and especially the Scottish Gaelic culture of the area. This is in contrast to Irish Gaelic where an Irish speaking area is known as a Gaeltacht (itself a loanword from Scottish Gaelic).
GĂĄrda Business Cente GĂĄrda Business Center also knows as the Canon building (swe:Canonhuset) is a high-rise office building in the GĂĄrda district in Gothenburg. The 17-floor, 59 meters (195 feet) high building was completed in 1989.
Gåshaga brygga Gåshaga brygga (Gåshaga quay) is the eastern terminus of the Lidingöbanan light rail in Lidingö east of central Stockholm, Sweden. It is possible to interchange with the Waxholmsbolaget archipelago boats at this stop.
GĂĽĂmar GĂĽĂmar is the name of a municipality, town, and valley in the eastern part of the Spanish island of Tenerife, one of the Canary Islands, and part of the province of Santa Cruz de Tenerife. The municipality is located in the southeastern end of the island, and extends for 1,029 square kilometers (0.
GĂĽira A gĂĽira [] is a percussion instrument from the Dominican Republic that sounds like a maraca but in fact is a sheet of metal-- in practice, often from a five gallon oil can-- evenly perforated with a nail, shaped into a cylinder, and played with a stiff brush, similar to the gĂĽiro. In merengue, the gĂĽira is brushed steadily on the downbeat with a "and-a" thrown in at certain points, or played in more complex patterns that generally mark the time.
Gül Gölge Gül Gölge (born September 28 1981 in İzmir,Turkey) is the well known host of the program "Canlı Canlı" which is aired on Kanal D. She is a model and actress as well, having acted in several dramas and soaps.
Güler Sabancı Güler Sabancı (born 1955) is a third-generation female member of the renowned Sabancı family, and currently the chairperson of the family-controlled Sabancı Holding, the second-biggest industrial and financial conglomerate of Turkey.
GĂĽlgöze, Mardin GĂĽlgöze (in Syriac: <Big> ܥܝܢÜÜŞÜ•Ü - Iwardo or Inwardo, Ayinwarda, Ainwardo) – is a village that lies very high, east of the city Midyat, in the Mardin Province of Turkey, and can be reached from Midyat on foot in 2 hours. The village was founded some time around the 10th century.
Güllü Agop Agop Vartovyan, better known as Güllü Agop, (took later the name Mehmet Yakup), (1840, Istanbul - 1902, Istanbul) was a Turkish-Armenian theatre director as well as occasional actor. He is considered to have laid the bases for today's nationally renowned İstanbul City Theatres (İstanbul Şehir Tiyatroları) institution.
Gülşen Bubikoğlu Gülşen Bubikoğlu (1954, İstanbul -) is a Turkish actress, one of the leading ladies of Turkish cinema in the 1970s and into the early 1980s. She studied at Fatih Kız Lisesi and was a fashion model for a time.
Gümüşhane Province Gümüşhane Province is a province in north Turkey, bordering Bayburt to the east, Trabzon to the north, Giresun and Erzincan to the west. It covers an area of 6,575 km² and has a population of 186,953 (2000 census).
GĂĽnter Baum GĂĽnter Baum (born 1960) is the founder of the German organization Zwischenraum, which helps gay and lesbian people holding evangelical theological beliefs to reconcile these two often conflicting parts of their identities.
GĂĽnter Brus GĂĽnter Brus (born September 27, 1938, Ardning, Styria) is an Austrian painter, graphic artist and writer. Co-founder in 1964 of Wiener Aktionismus (Viennese Actionism) together with Otto Muehl, Hermann Nitsch and Rudolf Schwarzkogler.
Günter Guillaume Günter Guillaume (February 1, 1927 – April 10, 1995), was an intelligence agent of East Germany's secret service, the Stasi. Guillaume emigrated with his wife, Christel to West Germany 1956 with orders to penetrate the West German political system and report on it.
GĂĽnter Hermann GĂĽnter Hermann (born December 5, 1960) was a German footballer, World Champion with West Germany in 1990 FIFA World Cup despite not being used a single time by coach Franz Beckenbauer in the tournament. In Germany, Hermann's presence in the World Cup winning squad is hardly remembered, although other members, that also not kicked a ball in the tournament, (such as striker Frank Mill) are rather easily identified as part of the World Cup winning squad.
GĂĽnter Reimann GĂĽnter Reimann or Guenter Reimann (November 13 1904, AngermĂĽnde, Germany - February 5 2005 New York) born Hans Steinicke was a member of the German Communist Party and at the forefront of the underground resistance to Hitler within Germany.
GĂĽnter Wand GĂĽnter Wand (born January 7, 1912 in Elberfeld, Germany; died February 14, 2002 in Ulmiz near Bern, Switzerland) was one of the outstanding German orchestra conductors of the 20th century. He was also a composer.
Günter Wächtershäuser Günter Wächtershäuser, a chemist turned patent lawyer, is mainly known for his groundbreaking and influential work on the origin of life, and in particular his iron-sulfur world theory, a theory that life on Earth had hydrothermal origins. The theory is consistent with the hypothesis that life originated near seafloor hydrothermal vents.
GĂĽnther Blumentritt GĂĽnther Blumentritt (February 10, 1897 - October 12, 1967) was a German general during the Second World War, he was instrumental in planning the 1939 German invasion of Poland, he served throughout the war, mostly on the western front, and after the war was called as a witness at the Nuremburg Trials, though he never testified.
GĂĽnther Csar GĂĽnther Csar (born March 7, 1966) is a former Austrian nordic combined skier who competed during the late 1980's and early 1990's. He won a bronze medal in the 3 x 10 km team event at the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary and also won a gold medal in the 3 x 10 km team event at the 1991 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships in Val di Fiemme.
GĂĽnther Enderlein GĂĽnther Enderlein (born 7 July 1872 in Leipzig; died 11 August 1968 in Wentdorf near Hamburg) was a German zoologist, entomologist and later a manufacturer of pharmaceutical products near Hamburg. Enderlein got some international fame because of his research about insects, but in Germany he became famous because of his concept of pleomorphism of microorganism and his hypotheses about the origins of cancer, based on former work of other scientists.
GĂĽnther Gerszo GĂĽnther Gerzso Wendland (June 17, 1915 - April 21, 2000), although relatively unknown outside the art cognoscenti, is viewed by some critics as comparable to Pablo Picasso and Joaquin Torres Garcia. He is "one of the greatest Latin American painters," according to Octavio Paz, the Nobel Prize-winning Mexican author.
GĂĽnther Huber GĂĽnther Huber (born 28 October 1965) is an Italian bobsledder who competed in the two-person event. Together with teammate Stefano Ticci, he finished fifth at the 1992 Winter Olympics and third at the 1994 Winter Olympics.
Günther Prien Korvettenkapitän Günther Prien (16 January 1908 – 7 March 1941) was one of the outstanding German U-boat aces of the first part of the Second World War, and the first U-boat commander to win the Knight's Cross. Under Prien's command, the submarine U-47 sank over 30 Allied ships totaling about 200,000 tons.
GĂĽnther Quandt GĂĽnther Quandt (28 July 1881 - 30 December 1954) was a German industrialist who founded an industrial empire that today includes BMW, Altana (pharmaceuticals) and VARTA (batteries). Eight of the hundred currently richest Germans are among his relatives.
GĂĽnther Schmieder Gunter Schmieder is an East German nordic combined skier who competed from 1976 to 1984. He won a gold medal in the 3 x 10 km team event at the 1982 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships in Oslo and finished fifth in the 15 km individual at the world championships in 1978 and 1982.
GĂĽnther Stranner GĂĽnther Stranner was an Austrian ski jumper who competed from 1984 to 1991. He won a silver in the team large hill event at the 1985 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships in Seefeld and earned his best individual finish of 39th in the large hill event at the 1989 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships in Lahti.
Günzburg Günzburg is a Große Kreisstadt and capital of the district of Günzburg in Swabia, Bavaria. This district was constituted in 1972 by combining the city of Günzburg—which had not previously been assigned to a Kreis (district)—with the district of Günzburg and the district of Krumbach.
Günzburg (district) Günzburg is a district in Bavaria, Germany. It is bounded by (from the north and clockwise) the districts of Dillingen, Augsburg, Unterallgäu and Neu-Ulm, and by the state of Baden-Württemberg (districts Alb-Donau and Heidenheim).
Güzelçamlı Güzelçamlı is a sea-side town with own municipality in the district of Kuşadası in Turkey's Aydın Province, and a rising resort for tourists. It is situated at a distance of 25 kilometers following the shoreline south to the internationally famous tourism center of Kuşadası and the town of Güzelçamlı borders on the Dilek Peninsula - Menderes Delta National Park.
Gómez Dávila Nicolás Gómez Dávila (born 18 May 1913 in Bogotá, Colombia, died 17 May 1994 in Bogotá) was a Colombian writer and thinker who is considered one of the most intransigent political theologians of the twentieth century.
GĂłntia GĂłntia (Guntia, Candida, Fortuna), was a Celtic moon goddess; her name comes from the Welsh word canda (shining white) and the Celtic condate (confluence). She was said to bring good luck, and was the goddess of the river GĂĽnz, near GĂĽnzburg in Germany.
GĂłra County GĂłra County (in Polish powiat gĂłrowski) is a unit of territorial administration and local government in the Lower Silesian Voivodship in Poland, created on 1 January 1999 as a result of the Local Government Reorganization Act of 1998.
GĂłsol, BerguedĂ GĂłsol is a village and municipality located in the northwest of the comarca of BerguedĂ in Catalonia (The Pyrenees). It is located in the natural park of "CadĂ-MoixerĂł," and the municipality also includes the village of Sorribes.
GĂŞ GĂŞ are the people who spoke Ge languages of the northern South American Caribbean coast and Brazil, their society is or was highly egalitarian and anti-authoritarian, because of which they resisted the Incas as well as the Spaniards. In Brazil the GĂŞ were found in Rio de Janeiro, Minas Gerais, Bahia, Piaui, Mato Grosso, Goias, Tocantins, Maranhao, and as far south as Paraguay.
Gândul Gândul (, "The Thought") is a Romanian daily newspaper published in Bucharest. It was founded in May 2005 by Mircea Dinescu, who used to write a daily editorial called "Vorba lu' Dinescu", and Cristian Tudor Popescu, who is also the editor-in-chief.
Gâteaux derivative In mathematics, the Gâteaux derivative is a generalisation of the concept of directional derivative in differential calculus. Named after René Gâteaux, a French mathematician who died young in World War I, it is defined for locally convex topological vector spaces, contrasting with the derivative on Banach spaces, the Fréchet derivative.
Information are taken from Wikipedia, the open encyclopedia, to which contribute many volunteers from around the whole world. Texts are available under the following conditions GNU Free Documentation License.
Encyklopedie (cz) Encyklopédia (sk) Enzyklopädie (de)