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Giant granadilla The Giant Granadilla or Badea (Spanish: ), Passiflora quadrangularis, is the largest of the passionfruits, plants of the genus Passiflora. It is a perennial native of tropical America, having smooth, cordate, ovate or acuminate leaves; petioles bearing from 4 to 6 glands; an emetic and narcotic root; scented flowers; and a large, oblong fruit, containing numerous seeds, imbedded in a subacid edible pulp.
Giant grenadier The giant grenadier, Albatrossia pectoralis , is a very large rattail, the only member of the genus Albatrossia, found in the north Pacific from northern Japan to the Okhotsk and Bering seas, east to the Gulf of Alaska, and south to northern Baja California in Mexico, at depths of between 140 and 3,500 m. Its length is up to 2.
Giant grouper The giant grouper (Epinephelus lanceolatus), also known as the brindle bass , bumblebee grouper and as the Queensland grouper in Australia, is the largest bony fish found in coral reefs, and the aquatic emblem of Queensland, Australia. It is found throughout the Indo-Pacific region, with the exception of the Persian Gulf.
Giant hatchetfish The giant hatchetfish, Argyropelecus gigas, a marine hatchetfish of the genus Argyropelecus, is found in deep tropical and subtropical waters of all oceans, except the north Pacific. Its length is between 8 and 12 cm, and it is the largest fish in its family.
Giant Horned Lizard The giant horned lizard (Phrynosoma asio) can be found on the Pacific coast in southern Mexico. They are considered the largest horned lizard and are also the most slender (they have a typical lizard-like appearance).
Giant Hummingbird The Giant Hummingbird (Patagona gigas) is the largest member of the hummingbird family, weighing 18-20 g (6/10 - 7/10 of an ounce). It measures eight and a half inches in length (~23cm), which is about the length of a starling or an American catbird.
Giant impact hypothesis The giant impact hypothesis (Big Splash or Big Whack) is the now-dominant scientific theory for the formation of the Moon, which is thought to have formed as a result of a collision between the young Earth and a Mars-sized body (or Trojan planet) often called Theia and occasionally called Orpheus.
Giant insect (Dungeons & Dragons) In the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game, giant insects have been a frequent motif dating back to the original edition of the game. Oversized counterparts of regular, real-life insects are vermin present in many settings.
Giant isopod A giant isopod may be one of approximately nine species of large isopods (crustaceans related to the shrimps and crabs) in the genus Bathynomus. They are thought to be abundant in cold, deep waters of the Atlantic and Pacific Ocean.
Giant Ibis The Giant Ibis (Thaumatibis gigantea), the only species in the monotypic genus Thaumatibis, is a wading bird of the ibis family, Threskiornithidae. It is confined to northern Cambodia, with a few birds surviving in extreme southern Laos.
Giant Koala The Giant Koala (Phascolarctos stirtoni) was an arboreal marsupial which existed in Australia during the Pleistocene epoch. The Giant Koala was about one third larger than the contemporary Koala, and was a part of the Australian megafauna.
Giant Mine The Giant Mine was a large gold mine located at Yellowknife, Northwest Territories. Gold was discovered on the property in 1935 by Johnny Baker, but the true extent of the gold deposits were not known until 1944 when a massive gold-bearing shear zone was uncovered beneath the dift-filled Baker Creek Valley.
Giant Mine (film) Giant Mine was a Canadian television film, which dramatized the events of the 1992 Giant Mine labour dispute and the subsequent bomb explosion which killed nine replacement workers. The film, written by John Hunter and Martin O'Malley and directed by Penelope Buitenhuis, aired on CBC Television in 1996.
Giant order In Classical architecture, a giant order is an order whose columns or pilasters span two (or more) stories. At the same time, smaller orders may feature in arcades or window and door framings within the storeys that are embraced by the giant order.
Giant Orchid The Giant Orchid, Grammatophyllum speciosum, also called Tiger Orchid, Sugar Cane Orchid or Queen of the Orchids, is the world's largest orchid. It is native to New Guinea, Indonesia and Malaysia, growing in crotches of large trees on exposed areas of the lowland tropical rainforest.
Giant Otter Shrew The Giant Otter Shrew (Potamogale velox) is an insectivore that inhabits the Dzanga-Sangha tropical rainforest of Cameroon, where it lives along streams and in swamps. It is the only member of the genus Potamogale.
Giant Over Soul Giant Over Soul is a technique used by some protagonists of the anime Shaman King, by Hiroyuki Takei. The manga version of Shaman King does not have this technique, though certain protagonists develop oversouls similar to the anime Giant Oversoulds.
Giant pangasius The Giant pangasius or Chao Phraya giant catfish (Pangasius sanitwongsei) is a species of freshwater fish in the shark catfish family (family Pangasiidae) of order Siluriformes, native to mainland Southeast Asia.
Giant paw The Ancient Order of the Giant Paw was a secret society formed in London during the 1880s A contemporary of the ' Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn ' , it was based around an icon which was believed to be the severed paw of a she-demon.
Giant puffball The Giant puffball (Calvatia gigantea) is a puffball mushroom commonly found in meadows, fields, and deciduous forests worldwide usually in late summer and autumn. Most giant puffballs grow to be 10 to 70 cm in diameter, although occasionally some can reach diameters up to 150 cm and weights of 20 kg.
Giant rat A giant rat is a rat that is substantially larger than its other rodent cousins. Rats of startling size do appear in nature such as the Gambian Pouched Rat, Cricetomys gambianus, adult specimens of which have been known to attain upwards of 3 feet (91 cm) in size from nose to base of tail; and the caviomorphs of South America regularly top the scales at over 200 lb (90 kg) in weight.
Giant Records (independent label) Giant Records was a independent record label, under the Dutch East India Trading umbrella (whose most popular and influential label was Homestead Records, based in Long Island, New York. Giant was dedicated to punk rock groups, such as Dag Nasty.
Giant Robo , is a tokusatsu, anime and manga series created by Mitsuteru Yokoyama. It is similar to his famous manga/anime series, Tetsujin 28 (the OVA version of Giant Robo features characters from Tetsujin 28), only Giant Robo has more fantastic elements.
Giant Robot (magazine) Giant Robot is a bi-monthly magazine of Asian American popular culture founded by Eric Nakamura and Martin Wong in 1994. It was initially created as a small, punk-minded magazine that featured Asian pop culture and Asian-American alternative culture, including such varied subject matter as history, art, music, film, books, toys, technology, food, and skateboarding.
Giant Robot Week Giant Robot Week was a week-long event that aired on Cartoon Network's Toonami afternoon block during the last week of February 2003 as part of a promotion for several ADV-licensed series. It marked the first time Neon Genesis Evangelion, Martian Successor Nadesico, and Dai-Guard have been by a nationwide television audience as well as the first time the original black and white episodes of Gigantor since its initial broadcast run back in the 60s.
Giant salvinia Giant salvinia (Salvinia molesta) is an aquatic fern, native to south-eastern Brazil. It is a free floating plant that does not attach to the soil, but instead remains buoyant on the surface of a body of water.
Giant sea bass The giant sea bass (Stereolepis gigas), also known as the black sea bass, is a fish native to the northern Pacific Ocean. With its conspicuous size and a curious nature, it is surprising that relatively little is known about its behavior and biology.
Giant space hamster Giant space hamsters are fictional creatures originating in the Spelljammer campaign setting for the Dungeons and Dragons roleplaying game. These creatures have achieved popularity among D&D fans due in part to their basis as such a humorous and ridiculous concept.
Giant spider In the Dungeons and Dragons fantasy role-playing game, giant spiders are vermin, quite simply enormous versions of regular spiders. Existing in various types, there is no way to singularly describe their appearance; think of various types of spiders only enlarged to be as large as a dog to as large as a house.
Giant squid Giant squid, once believed to be mythical creatures, are squid of the Architeuthidae family, represented by as many as eight species of the genus Architeuthis. They are deep-ocean dwelling animals that can grow to a tremendous size: recent estimates put the maximum size at 10 m (33 ft) for males and 13 m (43 ft) for females from caudal fin to the tip of the two long tentacles (second only to the colossal squid at an estimated 14 m (46 ft), one of the largest living organisms).
Giant squid in culture The Giant squid's elusive nature and fearsome appearance have long made it a popular subject of legends and folk tales. Its popularity as an image continues today with references and depictions in literature, film, television, and video games.
Giant sucking sound The "giant sucking sound" was United States Presidential candidate Ross Perot's colorful phrase for what he believed would be the negative effects of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), which he opposed. The phrase, coined during the 1992 U.
Giant Sable Antelope The Giant Sable Antelope, Hippotragus niger variani also known in Portuguese as the Palanca Negra is a rare species of large Sable Antelope native and endemic to the region between Cuango and Luando Rivers in Angola.
Giant Sand Giant Sand, originally The Giant Sandworms, is an American rock band, based in Tucson, Arizona (although Los Angeles, California was its home for many years). Overseen by singer-songwriter-guitarist-pianist Howe Gelb, its membership has shifted over the years -- at times with each album -- though for a long while the drum and bass duties were handled by John Convertino and Joey Burns, who went on to form Calexico.
Giant Steps (composition) "Giant Steps" is the first track on the album of the same name by John Coltrane, and is 4 minutes and 49 seconds long. It is characterized by an extremely rapid progression of chord changes (see Coltrane changes).
Giant Swing The Giant Swing (Thai: เสาชิงช้า, Sao Ching Cha) is a structure in Bangkok, Thailand, Phra Nakhon district, located in front of the temple Wat Suthat. It dates back to an old Brahmin ceremony, and is one of Bangkok's visitor attractions.
Giant tortoise Giant tortoises are characteristic of certain reptilian tropical island wildlife. They occur (some species are now extinct) in such places as Madagascar, the Seychelles, Mauritius, Réunion, the Galápagos Islands, Sulawesi, Timor, Flores and Java, often reaching enormous size — they can weigh as much as 300kg (or the weight of 3-4 grown men).
Giant triplefin The giant triplefin, Blennodon dorsale, is a triplefin of the family Tripterygiidae, the only member of the genus Blennodon, found around the coast of New Zealand in deeper rock pools and exposed reefs. It length is up to 15 cm, and it is the largest known triplefin species.
Giant tube worm Giant tube worms are marine invertebrates in the phylum Annelida (formerly grouped in phylum Pogonophora) related to tubeworms commonly found in the intertidal and pelagic zones. Riftia pachyptila lives over a mile deep on the floor of the Pacific Ocean near black smokers and can tolerate extremely high temperatures and sulfur levels.
Giant Tiger Giant Tiger Stores Limited is a discount store in Canada and the United States founded on May 13, 1961, by Gordon Reid, who served as the Chairman and CEO. Reid opened his first store in Ottawa, the capital of Canada.
Giant water bug Giant water bugs are members of the family Belostomatidae within the order Hemiptera, colloquially known as toe-biters. They occur worldwide, with most of the species in North America, South America and East Asia.
Giant Wheel (Hersheypark) The Giant Wheel is a ride that existed in Hersheypark between 1973 and 2004. It was built by Intamin AG which has also built several other rides for Hersheypark, including Storm Runner and Canyon River Rapids.
Giant's Causeway The Giant's Causeway is an area of 40,000 interlocking basalt columns resulting from a volcanic eruption. It is located about 2 miles (3 km) north of the town of Bushmills in County Antrim, Northern Ireland along the northeast coast of Ireland.
Giants Challenge The Giants Challenge is a tough one-day mountain-bike marathon held in April in the rugged and picturesque Giants Cup area of South Africa's Drakensberg Mountains. The course is 75 kilometres of tough and stunningly beautiful terrain through the Ukahlamba Drakensberg National Park, a world heritage site, and is widely regarded as one of the toughest of South Africa's MTB marathons.
Giants kettle Giants kettle, also known as giants cauldrons or potholes, are cavities or holes which appear to have been drilled in the surrounding rocks by eddying currents of water-bearing stones, gravel and other detrital matter.
Giants Ring, Belfast The Giant's Ring is a henge monument at Ballynahatty, near Shaw's Bridge, Belfast, Northern Ireland. It consists of a circular enclosure, 200 m in diameter, surrounded with an 4 m high earthwork bank with five entrances, and a small neolithic passage grave slightly off-centre.
Giants Stadium Giants Stadium, also called The Meadowlands, is the home stadium for the New York Giants and New York Jets football teams of the NFL, and the Red Bull New York soccer team of the MLS. It is located in East Rutherford, New Jersey in the Meadowlands Sports Complex, which also hosts the Meadowlands Racetrack and the Continental Airlines Arena.
Giardia lamblia Giardia lamblia (formerly also Lamblia intestinalis and also known as Giardia duodenalis and Giardia intestinalis) is a flagellated protozoan parasite that infects the gastrointestinal tract and causes giardiasis.
Giardini Botanici Hanbury The Giardini Botanici Hanbury (18 hectares), also known as Villa Hanbury, are major botanical gardens operated by the University of Genoa. They are located at Corso Montecarlo 43, Mortola Inferiore, several km west of Ventimiglia, Italy, and are open daily.
Giardiniera Giardiniera is a condiment consisting of serrano peppers, bell peppers, crushed red peppers, celery, carrots, cauliflower and green olives in vegetable oil. Italian giardiniera, the godfather of American giardiniera, contains no peppers, and is simply pickled vegetables in vinegar.
Giasone Giasone (Jason) is an opera in three acts and a prologue with music by Francesco Cavalli and a libretto by Giacinto Andrea Cicognini. It was premiered at the Teatro San Cassiano during the Venetian carnival season of 1649.
Gibb River Road The Gibb River Road stretches some 660 kilometers between the Western Australian town of Derby and the Kununurra and Wyndham junction of the Great Northern Highway. The majority of the road is unsealed and should be attempted only with a 4WD vehicle.
Gibbard-Satterthwaite theorem The Gibbard–Satterthwaite theorem is a result about voting systems designed to choose a single winner from the preferences of certain individuals, where each individual ranks all candidates in order of preference. It states that, for three or more candidates, one of the following three things must hold for every voting rule:
Gibberellin Gibberellins are plant growth substances (phytohormones) involved in promotion of stem elongation, mobilisation of food reserves in seeds and other processes. Its absence results in the dwarfism of some plant varieties.
Gibbering mouther In the Dungeons and Dragons fantasy role-playing game, a gibbering mouther is a horrible aberration seemingly drawn from a lunatic's nightmares. It resembles a writhing mass of grey flesh covered with dozens of randomly placed eyes and mouths, of different sizes and shapes.
Gibberish Gibberish is a generic term in English for talking that sounds like speech, but has no actual meaning (such as "the mave's rint ist slanpehed up uthep yongrish"). This meaning has also been extended to meaningless text or gobbledygook, such as "hogtdkypopgjifgjdfgyfkk".
Gibbon's Tennis Court Gibbon's Tennis Court was a building off Vere Street and Clare Market, near Lincoln's Inn Fields in London, England. Originally built as a real tennis court, it was used as a playhouse from 1660 to 1663, shortly after the English Restoration.
Gibbons Creek Reservoir Gibbons Creek Reservoir is a power plant cooling reservoir on Gibbons Creek in the Navasota River basin, 20 miles (32 km) east of College Station, Texas, USA. The dam and lake are managed by Texas Municipal Power Agency, who use the reservoir as a cooling pond for a power plant that generates electricity for the cities of Bryan, Denton, Garland, and Greenville.
Gibbons Ruark Gibbons Ruark (born 1941) is a contemporary American Poet. Known for his deeply personal often elegiac lyrics about his native North Carolina and beloved Ireland, Ruark has had poetry in such publications as The New Yorker, The New Republic, and Poetry His collections include Rescue the Perishing, Small Rain, Keeping Company, Reeds, A Program for Survival, and, most recently, Passing Through Customs: New and Selected Poems.
Gibbons-Hawking-York boundary term The Einstein-Hilbert action is the basis for the most elementary variational principle from which the field equations of general relativity can be defined. However, it must be noted that use of the Einstein-Hilbert action is appropriate only when the underlying spacetime manifold mathcal{M} is closed, i.
Gibborim (biblical) The Gibborim, whose Hebrew name translates as "Mighty Men of Renown," are mentioned in chapter six, verse four of Genesis, the first book of the Bible. Some believe that these Gibborim were the offspring of angels and human women.
Gibborim (comics) The Gibborium are a fictional group of six-fingered giants who have the goal of wiping the Earth clean of humanity. They first appeared in the pages of the comic book series Runaways, published by Marvel Comics.
Gibbs algorithm In statistical mechanics, the Gibbs algorithm, first introduced by J. Willard Gibbs in 1878, is the injunction to choose a statistical ensemble (probability distribution) for the unknown microscopic state of a thermodynamic system by minimising the average log probability
Gibbs Brothers Medal The Gibbs Brothers Medal is awarded by the US National Academy of Sciences for "outstanding contributions in the field of naval architecture and marine engineering". It was established by a gift from William Francis Gibbs and Frederic H.
Gibbs College Gibbs College is the name of each of the for-profit colleges operating under the Gibbs Division of the Career Education Corporation. The Gibbs Colleges and the Katharine Gibbs Schools offer career preparation through associate degree and certificate programs in several areas including allied health, business and casino operations, criminal justice, computer technology, design and office administration.
Gibbs free energy In thermodynamics, the Gibbs free energy is a thermodynamic potential which measures the "useful" work obtainable from an isothermal, isobaric thermodynamic system. Technically, the Gibbs free energy is the maximum amount of non-pV work which can be extracted from a closed system, and this maximum can only be attained in a completely reversible process.
Gibbs Hill Lighthouse The Gibbs Hill Lighthouse is the taller of two lighthouses on Bermuda, and the first of only a few lighthouses in the world to be made of cast-iron. This is because at that time, steel still was not able to be bent.
Gibbs isotherm Gibbs isotherm is an equation which could be considered an adsorption isotherm that connects surface tension of a solution with the concentration of the solute. Substances can have different effects on surface tension:
Gibbs Island (South Shetland Islands) Gibbs Island () 20 km southwest of Elephant Island in the South Shetland Islands. James Weddell, Master, Royal Navy, whose chart of the islands appeared in 1825, seems first to have used the present name, which is now established in international usage.
Gibbs measure In statistical mechanics, a Gibbs measure is a probability measure that relates the probabilities of the various possible states of a system to the energies associated to them. Although the precise definition requires some care (particularly in the case of infinite systems), the main characteristic of a Gibbs measure is that the probability of the system assuming a given state ω with associated energy E(ω) at inverse temperature β is proportional to
Gibbs paradox In statistical mechanics, a simple derivation of the entropy of an ideal gas, based on the Boltzmann distribution yields an expression for the entropy which is not an extensive variable as it must be, leading to an apparent paradox known as the Gibbs paradox. The difficulty is resolved by requiring the particles be indistinguishable which results in "correct Boltzmann counting".
Gibbs phenomenon In mathematics, the Gibbs phenomenon (also known as ringing artifacts), named after the American physicist J. Willard Gibbs is the peculiar manner in which the Fourier series of a piecewise continuously differentiable periodic function f behaves at a jump discontinuity: the nth partial sum of the Fourier series has large oscillations near the jump, which might increase the maximum of the partial sum above that of the function itself.
Gibbs sampling In mathematics and physics, Gibbs sampling is an algorithm to generate a sequence of samples from the joint probability distribution of two or more random variables. The purpose of such a sequence is to approximate the joint distribution (as with a histogram), or to compute an integral (such as an expected value).
Gibbs state A Gibbs state in probability theory and statistical mechanics is an equilibrium probability distribution which remains invariant under future evolution of the system (for example, a stationary or steady-state distribution of a Markov chain, such as that achieved by running a Markov chain Monte Carlo iteration for a sufficiently long time).
Gibbs' inequality In information theory, Gibbs' inequality is a statement about the mathematical entropy of a discrete probability distribution. Several other bounds on the entropy of probability distributions are derived from Gibbs' inequality, including Fano's inequality.
Gibbs' phase rule In chemistry, Gibbs' phase rule describes the possible number of degrees of freedom (F) in a closed system at equilibrium, in terms of the number of separate phases (P) and the number of chemical components (C) in the system. It was deduced from thermodynamic principles by Josiah Willard Gibbs in the 1870s.
Gibbs-Donnan effect The Gibbs-Donnan effect (also known as the Donnan effect, Donnan law, or Gibbs-Donnan equilibrium) is a name for the behavior of charged particles near a semi-permeable membrane to sometimes fail to distribute evenly on either side of the membrane. http://www.
Gibbs-Helmholtz equation The Gibbs-Helmholtz equation is a thermodynamic equation useful for calculating changes in the Gibbs energy of a system as a function of temperature. It is named after Josiah Willard Gibbs and Hermann von Helmholtz:
Gibbs-Thomson effect The Gibbs-Thomson effect (not to be confused with the Thomson effect) relates surface curvature to vapor pressure and chemical potential. It is named after Josiah Willard Gibbs and three Thomsons: James Thomson, William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin, and Sir Joseph John Thomson.
GibbsCAM GibbsCAM is a computer-aided manufacturing (CAM) program developed by Gibbs and Associates (Moorpark, CA). GibbsCAM specializes in providing a powerful range of CNC programming functionality that is easy to learn and use.
Gibbsite Gibbsite, Al(OH)3, is an important ore of aluminium and is one of three minerals that make up the rock bauxite. Bauxite is often thought of as a mineral but is really a rock composed of aluminium oxide and hydroxide minerals such as gibbsite, boehmite (AlO(OH)), and diaspore (HAlO2), as well as clays, silt, and iron oxides and hydroxides.
Gibe region The Gibe region is used to indicate a historic region in modern southwestern Ethiopia, to the west of the Gibe and Omo Rivers, and north of the Gojeb. It was the location of the former Oromo and Sidama kingdoms of Gera, Gomma, Garo, Gumma, Jimma, and Limmu-Ennarea.
Gibibit Note: the term "gibibit" is a theoretical word based on constructions found in the IEC binary prefix naming scheme. Though intended to be morphologically parallel to "gibibyte" the word "gibibit" has no known practical application.
Gibilrossa Gibilrossa is a small town part of the commune of Misilmeri, in the province of Palermo (northern Sicily, Italy). It is located at some 400 meters of altitude: the name derives from Arabic and means "great mountain".
Gibraltar (song) "Gibraltar" is a song about the controversial events on March 6, 1988 when three members of the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) were shot and killed by the Special Air Service during Operation Flavius on the British Territory of Gibraltar. The three were suspected of planning to bomb a military parade.
Gibraltar Football Association The Gibraltar Football Association (GFA) was formed as the Gibraltar Civilian Football Association in 1895, changing to its current name in later years. It is one of the oldest football associations in the world.
Gibraltar House of Assembly The Gibraltar House of Assembly is the legislature of the British territory of Gibraltar, located at the northern side of the Strait of Gibraltar which is the passage between the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea.
Gibraltar Labour Party The Gibraltar Labour Party was a political party in Gibraltar. They described themselves as a progressive socialist organisation and stated that their formation was prompted by the need for a strong opposition to the government.
Gibraltar national football team The Gibraltar national football team represents Gibraltar in football competitions and is controlled by the Gibraltar Football Association. It is not a member of FIFA or UEFA and is therefore not eligible to enter the World Cup or the European Championship.
Gibraltar of the North The 'Gibraltar of the North' (, ) is an historical nickname for Luxembourg City, the capital and first city of Luxembourg. It refers to the city's coveted former fortifications, and the fortress' importance to the control of the Left Bank of the Rhine and the approaches between France and Germany.
Gibraltar telecom dispute This article describes restrictions on access of the Gibraltar telephone network from Spain which has imposed artificial controls on Gibraltar's ability to expand and modernise its telecommunications network. The dispute is part of a wider issue surrounding Spain's wish to end British sovereignty in Gibraltar and claim the territory for itself.
Gibran Hamdan Gibran Hamdan (born February 8, 1981 in San Diego, California) is an NFL Quarterback. He was drafted in the 7th round of the 2003 NFL Draft by the Washington Redskins after impressing then-coach Steve Spurrier in a pre-draft workout.
Gibrat's law Gibrat's law, sometimes called Gibrat's rule of proportionate growth is a rule defined by Robert Gibrat (1904-1980) stating that the size of a firm and its growth rate are independent. Gibrat's law is also applied to cities size and growth rate as well, where proportionate growth process may give rise to a distribution of city sizes satisfying Zipf's law.
Gibril Wilson Gibril Donald Wilson (born November 12, 1981 in San Jose, California) is an American football safety for the New York Giants of the National Football League. He was selected with the fourth pick of the fifth round of the 2004 NFL Draft out of the University of Tennessee.
Gibs In computer games, gibs , short for giblets, are the little bits of internal organs, flesh, and bone, generally smaller than entire limbs but bigger than golf balls, left when a person or creature is obliterated. id Software's Adrian Carmack is credited with coining the term.
Gibson (LIRR station) Gibson is a station on the Long Island Rail Road's Far Rockaway Branch in the Gibson section of Valley Stream, in Nassau County, New York, United States. The station is located at Gibson Boulevard and Munro Boulevard, South of Sunrise Highway, and is 18.
Gibson Amphitheatre The Gibson Amphitheatre (formerly Universal Amphitheatre) is a theater located in Universal City, California, USA. It was originally built in 1972 as an outdoor venue, but was remodeled and converted into an indoor theater in 1982.
Gibson Appliance Gibson appliances are a brand of Electrolux, part of the Frigidaire operating unit. Gibson was founded by Joshua Hall in Belding, Michigan in 1877 as the Belding-Hall Company selling cabinets that housed blocks of ice (ice-boxes).
Gibson Corvus The Gibson Corvus was a short-lived series of guitars produced by the Gibson Guitar Corporation in the mid-80's. It featured a solid body with an offset V-cut at the tail, which colloquially became known as the "can opener" guitar.
Gibson ES-135 The Gibson ES-135 is a semi-hollow body electric guitar first made by the Gibson Guitar Corporation in 1956. Featuring two humbucker pickups, it became popular with jazz and blues musicians until its discontinuation in 1958.

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