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Galíndez Galíndez is a novel by Manuel Vázquez Montalbán, published in 1991 that centres on a real, dramatic and dark episode of spanish history: the kidnapping, torturing and murdering of Jesús de Galíndez in 1956, representative of the Basque government in the exile before the U.S.
Galáctico Galáctico (or superstar) is a term used to describe a world-famous football player who has been signed by Spanish club Real Madrid. It is mostly associated with the tenure of Florentino Pérez's presidency, where he purchased at least one galáctico in the summer of every year.
Galápagos fauna The Galápagos archipelago is famous as a home to animal species unique in the universe. One of these, and perhaps the best known, is the giant tortoise known as the Galápagos tortoise, which lives on seven of the islands.
Galápagos Penguin The Galápagos Penguin (Spheniscus mendiculus) is a penguin endemic to the Galápagos Islands. It is the only penguin to live on the equator and can survive due to the cool temperatures resulting from the Humboldt Current and cool waters from great depths brought up by the Cromwell Current.
Galápagos Petrel The Galápagos Petrel (Pterodroma phaeopygia) is a large, long-winged gadfly petrel. The species was once known as the Dark-rumped Petrel, although recent taxonomic changes have eliminated that name from current use.
Galbally, County Limerick Galbally (Gall Bhaile in Irish) is a village in east County Limerick, Republic of Ireland, on the border with County Tipperary. It is located on the foothills of the Galtee Mountains and at the western approach to the Glen of Aherlow.
Galbatron Galbatron was an electronic music group based in Holland. The band, consisting of Eppo Schaap (a magazine editor, music teacher and translator) and Loek van Kooten (a translator), started making music in 1994, when they launched their first album called Sophistication.
Galbi Galbi or kalbi is a Korean dish made from beef short ribs, though it can also be made with pork ribs. It can be seasoned or unseasoned, and in the seasoned variety, the ribs are marinated in a sauce made from fruit juice (generally Asian pear juice), rice wine, soy sauce, garlic, sesame seed oil and sugar.
Galbraith Lowry-Corry, 7th Earl Belmore Galbraith Armar Lowry-Corry, 7th Earl Belmore (April 14, 1913 - July 20, 1960) was an Irish nobleman and the son of Major Adrian Lowry-Corry, himself the son of Admiral the Hon. Armar Lowry-Corry (the second son of Armar Lowry-Corry, 3rd Earl Belmore).
Galbraith plot A Galbraith plot is used to determine the amount of heterogeneity present in a meta-analysis. It is usually ploitted as the z statistic (y axis) against 1/Standard Error (x axis), such that larger studies (with small SE and larger 1/SE) aggregate away from the origin.
Galbulimima Galbulimima is a genus of flowering plants and the sole genus of the family Himantandraceae. Members of the family are found in the tropical zones of eastern Malaysia, the Moluccas, the Celebes, New Guinea, northern Australia and the Solomon Islands.
Galdan Galdan (1644-1697) was the fourth son of Erdeni Baatur, Khong Taiji (Supreme Chief) of the Dzungars, a confederation of Oirat (West Mongolian) tribes. As a youth, Galdan was sent to Lhasa to be educated as a lama under the 5th Dalai Lama.
Galdr Galdr (plural galdrar) is one Old Norse word for "spell, incantation" (compare Old English: gealdor or galdor, derived from which is Modern English yell and Old High German: Galstar from which is Modern German Galsterei (Witchcraft) and Galsterweib (Witch) ).
Gale Cincotta Gale Cincotta, a community activist from the Austin neighborhood of Chicago, led the national fight for the US federal Community Reinvestment Act (CRA). The CRA requires banks and savings and loans to offer credit throughout their entire market areas and prohibits them from targeting only wealthier neighborhoods with their lending and services, a practice known as redlining.
Gale Force Sailing Gale Force Sailing is a subsidiary of Gale Force Ventures that is dedicated to providing top level instruction and coaching to a myriad of sailing clients. In addition to Gale Force's unique coaching techniques Gale Force Sailing provides inovative team and leadership development programs on sailboats.
Gale Gordon Gale Gordon (February 20, 1906 – June 30, 1995) was an American character actor. Remembered best as Lucille Ball's longtime television foil — and particularly as cantankerously combustible, tightfisted bank executive Theodore J.
Gale Raregroove (Groove Adventure Rave) Gale Raregroove, or more commonly known as King, is a character from the anime and manga Groove Adventure Rave. He was the former ruler of the fictional terrorist organization known as Demon Card, and it's most powerful warrior.
Gale Sayers Gale Eugene Sayers (born May 30, 1943 in Wichita, Kansas), also known as "The Kansas Comet", was a professional football player in the National Football League who spent his entire career with the Chicago Bears.
Gale Schisler Gale Schisler was born Darwin Gale Schisler on a farm in Knox County Illinois on March 2, 1933. He graduated from Abingdon High School in 1952, served in the United States Air Force from 1952-1955, and graudated from Western Illinois University in 1959.
Gale Virtual Reference Library Gale Virtual Reference Library is an electronic database of encyclopedias, almanacs, and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research. The Library currently subscribes to: Nonfiction Classics for Students 5v, 2001 Gale Encyclopedia of Cancer 2v, 2002, Gale Encyclopedia of Genetic Disorders 2v, 2002, Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine 2nd ed.
Gale warning A gale warning is an advisory or warning issued by the local competent authority in maritime countries about the existence of winds of gale force or above or the imminent occurrence of gales at sea. The purpose of gale warnings is to allow shipping to take precautionary actions to ensure their safety at sea.
Gale Zoë Garnett Gale Zoë Garnett, born on July 17, 1942, in Auckland, New Zealand, is best known for her Grammy-winning folk hit "We'll Sing in the Sunshine." Gale Garnett has since carved out a career as a writer and actress.
Galeazzo Alessi Galeazzo Alessi (1512- December 30, 1572) was an Italian architect born and died at Perugia, and trained by Giovan Battista Caporali. He was an enthusiastic student of ancient architecture, and his style gained for him a European reputation.
Galega officinalis Galega officinalis (also known as Goat's Rue, French Lilac, Italian Fitch or Professor-weed) is a plant from the Galega genus of the Faboideae. Its name derives from gale (milk) and ega (to bring on), as Galega has been used as a galactologue in small domestic animals (hence the name "Goat's rue").
Galeş Galeş (Hungarian: Szebengálos) is a village under the administration of the town of Sălişte in Sibiu County, Transylvania, Romania, in the Cindrel Mountains, 24 km west of the county capital Sibiu, in the Mărginimea Sibiului ethnographical area.
Galen Galen (Greek: Γαληνός, Galinos; Latin: Claudius Galenus; AD 129 – 200) of Pergamum was an ancient Roman physician. The forename "Claudius" is absent in Roman texts; it was first documented in texts from the Renaissance.
Galen (crater) Galen is a small lunar impact crater that lies in the rugged region between the Montes Apenninus range to the west and the Montes Haemus in the east. It is located to the south-southeast of Aratus crater, a slightly larger formation.
Galen Center The Galen Center is the USC Trojans basketball and USC Volleyball facility for the University of Southern California Trojans. Located at the southeast corner of Jefferson Boulevard and Figueroa Street in the Exposition Park area of Los Angeles, it is right across the street from the campus and near the Shrine Auditorium.
Galen Clark Galen Clark (March 28,1814 – March 24,1910) is known for his discovery of the Mariposa Grove of Giant Sequoia trees and for his role as Guardian of Yosemite National Park for 21 years. In 1853, Clark had a severe lung infection that was diagnosed as consumption, as tuberculosis was called in Clark's time.
Galen Hall Galen Samuel Hall (born August 14, 1940 in Williamsburg, Pennsylvania) is an American football coach. Hall was offensive coordinator at the University of Oklahoma from 1966 through 1983, offensive coordinator at the University of Florida in 1984, head coach at Florida from 1985 through 1989, head coach of the Orlando Thunder in 1992, and head coach of the Rhein Fire from 1995 through 2000.
Galen Kord In the fictional Transformers (comic) universe, Galen Kord was the political leader on the world of Nebulos when the Transformers made first contact with the planet. After initial misunderstandings he formed an alliance with the Autobots who were led by Fortress Maximus.
Galen Rupp Galen Rupp (born May 8 1986) is an American cross-country and track and field athlete. He is one of the nation's top young distance runners, having set important junior national and American high school records while competing for Portland, Oregon's Central Catholic High School.
Galen Strawson Galen John Strawson (born 1952) is a British philosopher and literary critic who works primarily on philosophy of mind, metaphysics (including free will, panpsychism, the mind-body problem, and the self), Locke, Hume and Kant.
Galen Weston Willard Gordon Galen Weston, OC, OOnt, (born October 29, 1940) is a Canadian businessman and descendant of George Weston of the George Weston Bakeries Limited. Weston is the son of Willard Garfield Weston and grandson of the founder George Weston.
Galena and Chicago Union Railroad The Galena and Chicago Union Railroad (G&CU) was a railroad running west from Chicago to Clinton, Iowa and Freeport, Illinois, never reaching Galena, Illinois. Incorporated in 1836, the G&CU became the first railroad built to Chicago.
Galena Park ISD Stadium Galena Park ISD Stadium is a stadium situated on Galena Park ISD Sports Complex property in Houston, Texas. It is primarily used for American football, and is the home field of North Shore High School, Galena Park High School, and the Houston Cardinals.
Galena River (Illinois) The Galena River (originally known as Fever River) is a river which flows through the northwestern portion of the United States state of Illinois; it runs past the city of Galena, Illinois (originally named "Fever River Point" after the tributary) and four miles from Galena, it empties into the Mississippi River; thus Galena served as a port town on the Mississippi River. The river's original name is believed to have been due to the "fever 'n' ague" or malaria suffered by pioneers in the area.
Galena Summit Galena Summit (altitude 8,701 feet [2,652 meters]), a peak in the Sawtooth Mountains, is located 29 miles (47 km) north of Ketchum, Idaho. It marks the divide between the Wood River and Salmon River drainage areas.
Galenic formulation Galenic formulation deals with the principles of preparing and compounding medicines in order to optimize their absorption. The formulation of a medicine has an impact on the pharmacokinetics, pharmacodynamics and safety profile of a drug.
Galeran V de Beaumont, Comte of Meulant Galeran de Meullent (or de Meulan) was the eldest son and associate count of Robert II of Meulan. He died at the siege of Acre in 1191 during the Third Crusade in the service of his overlord Richard I of England.
GalerĂ­a de la Raza GalerĂ­a de la Raza (GDLR) is a non-profit art gallery and artist collective that serves the heavily-Latino population of San Francisco's Mission District. GDLR mounts exhibitions, hosts poetry readings, workshops, and celebrations, sells works of art, and sponsors youth and artist-in-residence programs.
GalerĂ­a OMR OMR was founded on 1983 by Patricia Ortiz Monasterio and Jaime Riestra, the actual owners and directors. The gallery is located in a spacious early-twentieth-century house in the heart of the Roma district in Mexico City.
GalerĂ­as Valle Oriente GalerĂ­as Valle Oriente is a shopping mall in Monterrey, Mexico, located in the limits with San Pedro Garza GarcĂ­a, in the Lazaro Cardenas Avenue, close to the Valle Oriente upscale development district. The mall takes its name from the district.
Galeries Royales Saint-Hubert The Sint-Hubertusgalerij (French: Galeries Royales Saint-Hubert) (also known as Koninginnegalerij; French: Galerie de la Reine) in Brussels is a glazed shopping arcade that preceded the more famous Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II in Milan and The Passage in St Petersburg. Like them it has twin regular façades with distant origins in Vasari's long narrow street-like courtyard of the Uffizi, Florence, with glazed arcaded shopfronts separated by pilasters and two upper floors, all in an Italianate Cinquecento style, under a lightly arched glass-paned roof with a delicate cast-iron framework.
Galerion the Mystic Galerion the Mystic is the fictional Altmer founder of the Mages' Guild in the fictional role-playing video game series, The Elder Scrolls. He is never met face-to-face in any of the games, but he is highly revered by mages, and many consider him the greatest mage who ever lived.
Galerkin method In mathematics, in the area of numerical analysis, the Galerkin method is a means for converting a differential equation to a problem of linear algebra or a high dimensional linear system of equations, which may then be projected to a lower dimensional system. It relies on the weak formulation of an equation and works in principle by restricting the possible solutions as well as the test functions to a smaller space than the original one (see below for more details).
Galesauridae Galesauridae, along with the family Thrinaxodontidae, and the great infraorder, Eucynodontia - which includes the mammals, make up the unranked taxon called Epicynodontia. They appeared in the very latest Permian period, just a million years or even a thousand years before the greatest extinction of all time, the Permian-Triassic extinction event.
Galfred de Liberatione Galfredus or Galfred de Liberatione was Bishop of Dunkeld and Bishop-postulate of St Andrews. He was a clerk to King Alexander II of Scotland as early as 1219, as well as being a canon of Dunkeld and precentor of Glasgow.
Galgate Galgate is a small village in northern England, just south of Lancaster University, and about half a mile south of Lancaster itself in the county of Lancashire. The name Galgate is from Old English Gal-gata, meaning the road to Scotland.
Galgo Español The Galgo Español (Spanish Galgo) or Spanish Greyhound is an ancient breed of dog, specifically a member of the sighthound family. The Galgo was named for the Gauls, who inhabited the Iberian Peninsula 400–600 B.
GalGael Trust The GalGael Trust is a Scottish trust created in 1997 by the Scottish Executive as well as Scotland Against Drugs. It was originally created with support from Alastair McIntosh, who is now the Treasurer and non-executive director.
Gali Atari Avigail "Gali" Atari (born December 29, 1953 in Rehovot, Israel) is an Israeli actress and singer, who won the 1979 Eurovision Song Contest with the song Halleluya. She is a sister of Yona Atari, a singer and actress and Shosh Atari, currently a radio host and TV personality.
Gali paranthe walee Gali paranthe walee (literally "the lane of fried bread") is the name of a narrow street in the Chandni Chowk area of Delhi, India. It is famous, and has been for centuries, for mouth watering fresh food at dirt cheap prices.
Galičica Galičica (Галичица) mountain is situated in the Republic of Macedonia and one part in Albania. There is a National park on the Macedonian side of the mountain, situated between the two biggest lakes in Republic of Macedonia: Lake Ohrid and Lake Prespa.
Galib Jafarov Galib Jafarov (born 9 May 1978) is a boxer from Kazakhstan. He is competing in the Featherweight (– 57kg) division, and won a silver medal at the 2001 World Amateur Boxing Championships and a gold medal at the 2003 World Amateur Boxing Championships.
Galibi The Galibi were a Cariban-speaking people who lived in the Lesser Antilles and northern South America at the time of European settlement. They are believed to have co-existed with the Island Caribs on the islands of Grenada and Tobago and may have also lived further up the islands.
Galice, Oregon Galice is a small community in southwest Oregon, US, with a unique history and significant relevance to the unfolding events of the 21st century. Galice has a small, eccentric population of outdoor aficionados and survivalists and a history of placer mining.
Galicia class landing platform dock The Galicia class built in Ferrol, are a class of Landing Platform Dock or LPD amphibious warfare ships with a large helicopter deck and a dock for large landing craft. The result of a joint initiative with the Netherlands and Spain and similar to the Royal Netherlands Navy Rotterdam (L800).
Galicia national football team The Galician national football team is a representative team of the autonomous community of Galicia, which is not a member of FIFA nor UEFA and does not take part in international tournaments. The first recent match was a 3-2 win over Uruguay on December 29, 2005.
Galician cuisine Galician cuisine refers to the typical dishes and ingredients found in the cuisine of the Galicia region of Spain. These include shellfish, empanadas, polbo á feira (a dish made of octopus), the cheese queixo de tetilla, the ribeiro and albariño wines and orujo liquor.
Galician language Galician (Galician: galego, IPA: ) is a language of the Western Ibero-Romance branch, spoken in Galicia, an autonomous community with the constitutional status of "historic nationality," located in northwestern Spain and small bordering zones in neighbouring autonomous communities of Asturias and Castilla y LeĂłn.
Galician people The Galician people (Pobo Galego) are the ethnic group or nation native to the Spanish autonomous community of Galicia, in the Iberian peninsula of southwest Europe. The Galician language, which is similar to Portuguese, is their native language (even if Spanish is quite widespread) and Roman Catholicism is their predominant religion.
Galician Revolutionary Students Galician Revolutionary Students (in Galician: Estudantes Revolucionarios Galegos) was a leftwing nationalist students organization in Galicia, Spain. ERGA functioned as the students wing of the Galician People's Union (UPG).
Galician Statute of Autonomy of 1981 The Galician Statute of Autonomy (Estatuto de Galiza in Galician), is the institutional norm of Galicia. The Spanish Constitution of 1978, the Galician Statute of Autonomy, recognized the condition of history nationality to this autonomous autonomy.
Galician Writers Association Galician Writers Association (AELG) (Asociación de Escritores en Lingua Galega) is an official entity depending on Xunta de Galicia formed by writers in galician language. It was founded in by a group of writers: Álvaro Cunqueiro, Rafael Dieste, Ánxel Fole, Ricardo Carballo Calero, Antón Avilés de Taramancos, and others.
Galician-Portuguese Galician-Portuguese (also known as galego-português or galaico-português in Portuguese and as galego-portugués or galaico-portugués in Galician) was a West Iberian Romance language spoken in the Middle Ages, in the northwest area of the Iberian Peninsula. It was spoken at first from the Bay of Biscay to the Douro River, but it expanded South with the Christian Reconquest.
Galicnik Galičnik (Macedonian: Галичник) is a village in the Republic of Macedonia. It is located on the slopes of the Bistra mountain, in the heart of the region of the Mijaci tribe, about 10 km from the artificial lake of Mavrovo and the winter resort of Zare Lazareski.
Galictis The genus Galictis includes two species of grisĂłn, a weasellike mammal, also known as hurĂłn in Spanish and furĂŁo in Portuguese. The lesser grisĂłn (Galictis cuja) and the greater grisĂłn (Galictis vittata) are both found in South America, with the latter's range extending through Central America to southern Mexico as well.
Galidiinae Galidiinae is a a small sub-family of Malagasy carnivores comprising of 5 genera and 6 species. In 2006, the galidiines were reclassified in the family Eupleridae, having previously been considered members of the family Herpestidae.
Galichnik Wedding Festival The Galichnik Wedding Festival (GaliÄŤka Svadba in Macedonian) is an annual Macedonian festival held in the Macedonian village of Galicnik near the city of Debar in which a selected couple gets married in the traditional "Galichka" style wedding. Traditionally the wedding lasted for 5 days with the main activities on St.
Galilean Galileans (or Galilæans) were members of a fanatical sect (Zealots), followers of Judas of Galilee, who fiercely resented the taxation of the Romans, and whose violence contributed to induce the latter to vow the extermination of the whole race.
Galilean invariance Galilean invariance or Galilean relativity is a principle of relativity which states that the fundamental laws of physics are the same in all inertial frames. Galileo Galilei first described this principle in 1632 in his Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems using the example of a ship traveling at constant speed, without rocking, on a smooth sea; any observer doing experiments below the deck would not be able to tell whether the ship was moving or stationary.
Galilean transformation The Galilean transformation is used to transform between the coordinates of two reference frames which differ only by constant relative motion within the constructs of Newtonian physics. This is the passive transformation point of view.
Galileo (horse) Galileo is a thoroughbred racehorse foaled in 1998, who won the 2001 Epsom Derby, Irish Derby Stakes, and King George VI & Queen Elizabeth Diamond Stakes. He is a son of Coolmore Stud's Sadler's Wells and Arc heroine Urban Sea.
Galileo affair The Galileo affair, in which Galileo Galilei came into conflict with the Catholic Church over his support of Copernican astronomy, is often considered a defining moment in the history of the relationship between religion and science.
Galileo Academy of Science and Technology Galileo Academy of Science and Technology (formerly Galileo High School) is a public secondary school located in San Francisco's Russian Hill and Marina District neighborhoods. The school is a part of the San Francisco Unified School District.
Galileo Galilei Galileo Galilei (15 February 1564 – 8 January 1642) was an Italian physicist, astronomer, astrologer, and philosopher who is closely associated with the scientific revolution. His achievements include improvements to the telescope, a variety of astronomical observations, and effective support for Copernicanism.
Galileo Galilei (play) Galileo Galilei is a play by the Turkish author Mehmet Murat Ä°ldan, first published (in Turkish) in Ankara by the Republic of Turkey Ministry of Culture and Tourism in 2001 and first translated into English by Yurdanur Salman, a well-known linguist in Istanbul.
Galileo positioning system The Galileo positioning system, referred to simply as Galileo, is a proposed Global Navigation Satellite System, to be built by the European Union as an alternative to the United States operated Global Positioning System (GPS) and the Russian GLONASS.
Galileo's Leaning Tower of Pisa experiment Vivani's early biography of Galileo informs us of the story that Galileo dropped two objects of different mass from the top of the Leaning Tower of Pisa. He did so as an experiment to disprove Aristotle's theory of gravity, which states that objects fall at a speed relative to their mass.
Galileo's ship Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems considers all the common arguments against the idea that the Earth moves. One of these is that if the Earth is spinning on its axis, then we are all moving to the east at hundreds of miles an hour; hence, a ball dropped from a tower, moving straight down, will fall to the west of the tower, which has moved some distance east in the interim.
Galina Dyuragin Galina Dyuragin (1898-1991) was a Russian author and child psychologist. She is known for her diaries, published under the pen name Alexandra or Ajla Rachmanova, which describe her childhood, studies and marriage under the Russian revolution, and life as a refugee in Wien.
Galina Efremenko Galina Efremenko (née Maniachenko) is a Ukrainian figure skater. She was a successful pair skater on the junior level with Evgeni Gilgurski and the pair won the bronze medal at the 1994 World Junior Figure Skating Championships.
Galina Kulakova Galina Alexeyevna Kulakova () (born April 29 1942 in Logachi village, Votkinsky District, Udmurt ASSR) is a female Soviet former cross country skier, arguably the best skier on distances shorter than 10 km in the early 1970s. Kulakova trained at Trud Voluntary Sports Society.
Galina Piljushenko Galina Piljushenko is a former Soviet cross country skier who competed in the late 1960's and early 1970's. She won a silver medal in the 5 km at the 1970 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships in Vysoké Tatry and finished 6th in the 10 km event at those same championships.
Galina Sergeyeva Galina Ermolayevna Sergeyeva also Sergeeva (Russian: Гали́на Ермола́евна Серге́ева, born February 2, 1914 died August 1, 2000) was a Russian actress, Emeritus Artist of Russian Soviet Socialist Republic.
Galina Shamrai Galina Yakovlevna Shamrai (Russian: Галина Яковлевна Шамрай) (also known as Galina Rud'ko, Galina Il'ina after marriages; born October 5 1931, Tashkent, USSR) is a retired Soviet gymnast and the first women's all-around World Champion from the USSR.
Galina Shugurova Galina Shugurova (Russian: Галима Шугурова) is a Soviet Individual Rhythmic Gymnast born in Omsk, Russia in 1955. She was the third Soviet Rhythmic Gymnast to become World All-Around champion and the first ever European All-Around champion in 1978.
Galina Starovoitova Galina Vasilyevna Starovoitova (Галина Васильевна Старовойтова) (17 May 1946, Chelyabinsk - November 20, 1998 St Petersburg) was a Russian politician and ethnographer known for her work to protect ethnic minorities and promote democratic reforms in Russia. She was shot to death in her apartment building in 1998.
Galina Ustvolskaya Galina Ivanovna Ustvolskaya, also Ustwolskaja or Oustvolskaia (Russian: Гали́на Ива́новна Уство́льская, born June 17, 1919, Petrograd, died December 22, 2006 St Petersburg) was a Russian composer of classical music.
Galina Zmievskaya Galina Zmievskaya is a figure skating coach, formerly based in Ukraine. Her students have included Olympic champions Viktor Petrenko and Oksana Baiul, 1986 World Junior champion Vladimir Petrenko, American skater Scott Davis, and Italian champion Silvia Fontana.
Galindo y Perahuy Galindo y Perahuy is a village and municipality in the province of Salamanca, western Spain, part of the autonomous community of Castile-Leon. It is located 22 kilometres from the provincial capital city of Salamanca and has a population of 447 people.
Galinduste Galinduste is a village and municipality in the province of Salamanca, western Spain, part of the autonomous community of Castile-Leon. It is located 41 kilometres from the provincial capital city of Salamanca and has a population of 553 people.
Galinha Ă  Portuguesa Galinha Ă  Portuguesa ("Portuguese-style Chicken") is a dish of Macanese cuisine. Despite its name, Galinha Ă  Portuguesa did not originate from Portugal as such; rather it came from Macau, a Special Administrative Region of China formerly under Portuguese rule, where the dish was given the "Portuguese" name to enhance its status.
Galinheiros Galinheiros (Capeverdean Crioulo, ALUPEC or ALUPEK and Fogo Crioulo (Djarfogo): Galinhéraf), is a village located approximately 20 km east northeast of the island capital of Sao Filipe, and near Cova Figueira in the island of Fogo, Cape Verde. Curral Grande is linked with branch of the road encircling the island.
Galinstan Galinstan is an eutectic alloy of gallium, indium, and tin which is liquid at room temperature, typically freezing at -20 °C (-4 °F). Due to the low toxicity of its component metals, it finds use as a non-toxic replacement for many applications which currently employ liquid mercury or sodium-potassium alloy (NaK).
Galip Hassan Kuscuoglu Galib Hassan Kuscuoglu, the sheikh of Galibi Order , was born in March 27, 1919 in Çorum. He is related to the famous Sage of Fatih Sultan Mehmet era, namely Ali Kuşçu who is a descendant of Caliph Omar, Galip Kuşçuoğlu has also kinship relation to the Prophet through his maternal kinship relation to Caliph Ali.
Galipot Galipot is an organic compound, referring specifically to an impure resin of turpentine. It is obtained from pine trees by evaporation of the essential oil and once purified is called yellow pitch, white pitch or Burgundy pitch.
Galisancho Galisancho is a village and municipality in the province of Salamanca, western Spain, part of the autonomous community of Castile-Leon. It is located 30 kilometres from the provincial capital city of Salamanca and has a population of 532 people.
Galite Islands The Galite Islands (Arabic Jazirat Jalitah) are a rocky group of islands of volcanic origin that belong to Tunisia. They are located 38 km northwest of Cape Serrat, the closest point of the Tunesian mainland coast, from which they are separated by Galite Channel, and almost 80 km NNE of the city of Tabarka, and 150 km south of Cape Spartivento in the south of Sardinia.

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