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Giuseppe Bernardino Bison Giuseppe Bernardino Bison (Palmanova, 16 june 1762 - Milan, 1844) was an Italian painter, known mainly for his history pieces, genre depictions, and whimsical and imaginary landscapes, including veduta di fantasia or capprici.
Giuseppe Biancani Giuseppe Biancani (in Latin, Josephus Blancanus) (1566-1624) was an Italian Jesuit astronomer, mathematician, and selenographer, after whom the Blancanus crater, on the Moon, is named. He was a native of Bologna.
Giuseppe Bossi Giuseppe Bossi (August 11, 1777 - 15 November 1815) was an Italian painter, arts administrator and writer on art. He ranks among the foremost figures of Neoclassical culture in Lombardy, along with Ugo Foscolo, Giuseppe Parini, Andrea Appiani or Manzoni
Giuseppe Calò Giuseppe 'Pippo' Calò (born September 30, 1931 in Palermo) is a member of the Sicilian Mafia. He was referred to as the "Mafia's Cashier" because he was heavily involved in the financial side of organized crime, primarily money laundering.
Giuseppe Calì Giuseppe Calì (Valletta, August 14, 1846 - Valletta, March 1, 1930) was a Maltese painter, born of Neapolitan parents and educated at the Accademia delle Belle Arti in Naples under Giuseppe Mancinelli. He was a prolific artist: almost every church of any consequence in Malta boasts a work of his, and according to one of his grandsons, was nicknamed ix-xitan tal-pinzell ("the Devil with the brush").
Giuseppe Calderone Giuseppe “Pippo” Calderone (Catania, November 1, 1925 – Palermo, September 30, 1978) was an influential Sicilian mafioso from Catania. He became the ‘secretary’ of the interprovincial Sicilian Mafia Commission, formed around 1975 on his instigation.
Giuseppe Cardinal Albani Giuseppe (Andrea) Cardinal Albani (born September 13, 1750, Rome, Italy; died December 3, 1834, Pesaro, Italy) was a powerful Roman Catholic churchman during the first three decades of the nineteenth century. Although never a candidate for the Papacy, his role in the election of Leo XII, Pius VIII and Gregory XVI is well-known to Papal historians.
Giuseppe Cardinal Caprio Giuseppe Cardinal Caprio (November 15, 1914 - October 15, 2005), was an Italian cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. He held the post of President of the Prefecture for the Economic Affairs of the Holy See before he retired in 1990.
Giuseppe Caspar Mezzofanti Giuseppe Caspar Mezzofanti (17 September 1774 – 15 March 1849) was an Italian Catholic cardinal and famed linguist and hyperpolyglot. Born and educated in Bologna, he completed his theological studies before he had reached the minimum age for ordination as a priest; he was ordained in 1797.
Giuseppe Colosi Giuseppe Colosi (March 29, 1892 – October 20, 1975) was an Italian zoologist specialized in the study of crustaceans and mysids in particular. From 1920 to 1924, he taught in Turin, and he was the head of the zoological institute of the University of Florence from 1940 to 1962.
Giuseppe D'Urso Giuseppe D'Urso (born 1969) is a former Italian 800 metres runner who won a silver medal at the 1993 World Championships in Stuttgart. In addition he won a silver medal at the 1996 European Indoor Championships.
Giuseppe Di Cristina Giuseppe Di Cristina (Riesi, April 22, 1923 — Palermo, May 30, 1978) was a powerful mafioso from Riesi in the province of Caltanissetta. Di Cristina, nicknamed “la tigre’’ (the tiger), was born into a traditional Mafia family, his father Francesco Di Cristina and his grandfather were men of honour as well.
Giuseppe Di Stefano The Italian tenor Giuseppe Di Stefano (born 24 July 1921) is a famous opera singer whose career spanned from the late 1940s to the early 1970s. He is best known for his long association with Maria Callas, with whom he performed and recorded many times and with whom he was briefly romantically involved.
Giuseppe Di Vittorio Giuseppe Di Vittorio, also known under the pseudonym Nicoletti (August 12 1892, Cerignola—November 3 1957, Lecco), was an Italian syndicalist trade unionist and communist politician, one of the most influential leaders of the labor movement after World War I.
Giuseppe Fava Giuseppe Fava also known as Pippo, (Palazzolo Acreide, September 15, 1925 - Catania, January 5, 1984) was a Sicilian writer, investigative journalist, playwright and Antimafia activist who was killed by the Mafia. His motto in life was: "is there any use in living if you don't have the courage to fight?
Giuseppe Ferlini Giuseppe Ferlini (1800-1870) of Bologna, Italy was an Italian doctor turned explorer and archaeologist who excavated over 40 pyramids in a quest for treasure in the 1820s in Egypt and Sudan. He excavated Meroë in Sudan in 1834.
Giuseppe Gargani Giuseppe Gargani (born April 23, 1935 in Morra de Sanctis) is an Italian Member of the European Parliament, and a lawyer. He was elected on the Forza Italia ticket and sits with the European People's Party group.
Giuseppe Garibaldi Giuseppe Garibaldi (July 4, 1807 – June 2, 1882) was an Italian patriot and soldier of the Risorgimento. He personally led many of the military campaigns that brought about the formation of a unified Italy.
Giuseppe Garibaldi Trophy The Giuseppe Garibaldi Trophy - also known simply as the Garibaldi Trophy, Trofeo Garibaldi in Italian and Trophée Garibaldi in French - is a rugby union trophy awarded to the winner of the annual Six Nations Championship match between France and Italy.
Giuseppe Gentile Giuseppe Gentile (born 4 September 1943 in Rome) is a retired Italian triple jumper, who won a bronze medal at the 1968 Summer Olympics. He would later appear opposite Maria Callas in the film version of MedeaWallechinsky, David (1984).
Giuseppe Guarneri Giuseppe Guarneri del GesĂą (August 21, 1698 - October 17, 1744), more commonly known in English as Joseph Guarneri, is the only violin maker to rival Antonio Stradivari in the respect accorded to his instruments, and has been called the finest violin maker of the Amati line.
Giuseppe Guerini Giuseppe Guerini (born February 14, 1970 in Gazzaniga, Bergamo Province, Lombardy) is an Italian professional road bicycle racer. He rides with the T-Mobile Team and has done so since 1999 (though the team was then called Team Telekom).
Giuseppe Lanza Giuseppe Lanza, Duke of Camastra was 17th century, Sicilian nobleman who in his capacity as Viceroy of Sicily representing the Spanish rulers of Sicily oversaw the reconstruction of many Sicilian towns and cities following the earthquake of 1693.
Giuseppe Meazza Giuseppe Meazza (August 23 1910 – August 21 1979) was an Italian footballer playing mainly for Inter in the 1930s, scoring 243 goals in 361 games for the club. He is still considered by many to be one of the greatest Italian players of all-time.
Giuseppe Nicolini Giuseppe Nicolini was an Italian poet, literary critic, and politician active in the risorgimento, the nineteenth century nationalist movement that led to the creation of Italy as a unified nation. Nicolini wrote for the progressive periodical Il Conciliatore, composed poetry, and published prose as well.
Giuseppe Peano Giuseppe Peano (August 27, 1858 – April 20, 1932) was an Italian mathematician, whose work was of exceptional philosophical value. The author of over 200 books and papers, he was a founder of mathematical logic and set theory, to which he contributed much notation.
Giuseppe Pella Giuseppe Pella (April 18 1902 – May 31, 1981) was an Italian Christian Democratic politician who served as Prime Minister of Italy from 1953 to 1954. He was also President of the European Parliament from 1954 to 1956 after the death of Alcide De Gasperi.
Giuseppe Perrucchetti Giuseppe Domenico Perrucchetti, creator of the Alpini corp, was born in Cassano d'Adda, in the Milan province in Lombardy, on 13 july 1839. He studied architecture in the university of Pavia, but when he was 20 he fled from Lombardy (at the time under Austrian domination) to enroll in the Piedmont army.
Giuseppe Persiani Giuseppe Persiani (born circa 1799-1805, died in Paris 13 August, 1869) was an Italian opera composer. His wife was the celebrated soprano Fanny Tacchinardi, however it was Maria Malibran who created the role of Ines de Castro in his most famous opera of the same name.
Giuseppe Pisanu Giuseppe Pisanu (born January 22, 1937 in Ittiri, Sassari) is an Italian politician, longtime member of the Chameber of Deputies for the Christian Democracy (1972-92) and then for Forza Italia (1994-2006). From 2006 he sits in the Senate.
Giuseppe Pitrè Giuseppe Pitrè (December 21, 1841 – April 10, 1916) was an Italian folklorist credited with extending the realm of folklore to include all the manifestations of popular life. He was also a forerunner in the field of medical history.
Giuseppe Sammartini Giuseppe Sammartini (born January 6 1695 in Milan - died November 1750 in London) was an Italian composer and an oboist who, together with his brother Giovanni Battista Sammartini, moved to London. He had started playing the oboe in Milan and in London took up the post of oboist in the Opera orchestra in 1727.
Giuseppe Sanmartino Giuseppe Sanmartino (1720 – 1793) was a Neapolitan Rococo sculptor. His first dated (1753) work is The Veiled Christ or Christ lying under the Shroud, commissioned initially from the Venetian sculptor Antonio Corradini who did not live to complete the work.
Giuseppe Saragat Giuseppe Saragat ['sa:ragat] (September 19, 1898, Turin - June 11, 1988, Rome) was the foreign minister of Italy from 1963 to 1964, and the President of the Italian Republic from 1964 to 1971. He was a moderate socialist, who split from the Italian Socialist Party in 1947, out of concern over its close (at the time) alliance with the Communists, to found the Italian Socialist Workers' Party, which would soon become the Italian Democratic Socialist Party.
Giuseppe Serembe Giuseppe Serembe (March 6, 1844-1901), Italo-Albanian lyric poet, known in Albanian as Zef Serembe, was a restless soul destined to bear the heavy burden of human suffering. The atmosphere of despair and tragedy that haunted him throughout his life surfaces time and time again in his verse.
Giuseppe Taddei Giuseppe Taddei (born June 26, 1916) was an Italian baritone known for his work in Italian opera, particularly the works of Giuseppe Verdi, as well as for his work in Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's and Richard Wagner's operas.
Giuseppe Tarantino Philosopher Giuseppe Tarantino (1857-1950), Rector at the University of Pisa, Italy, helped introduce American and European philosophy to the Italian educational system. Tarantino was mostly forgotten after his death, until a collection of his writings on philosophy and pedagogy was published by Levante in 1995.
Giuseppe Terragni Giuseppe Terragni (april 18, 1904 - july 19, 1943) was an Italian architect who worked primarily under the fascist regime of Mussolini and pioneered the Italian modern movement under the rubric of Rationalism. One of his more famous works is the Casa del Fascio which was begun in 1932 and completed in 1936; it was originally built in accordance with the International Style of architecture in Como, a town of Northern Italy.
Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa (December 23 1896 - July 23 1957), was an Italian writer. He is most famous for his only novel, Il Gattopardo (ISBN 88-07-81028-X, first published posthumously in 1958, translated as The Leopard, ISBN 0-679-73121-0) which is set in Sicily during the Risorgimento.
Giuseppe Torelli Giuseppe Torelli (April 22, 1658 - February 8, 1709) was an Italian violist and violinist, pedagogue and composer, who ranks with Arcangelo Corelli among the developers of the Baroque concerto and concerto grosso.
Giuseppe Valentini Giuseppe Valentini (1681 - 1753) was an Italian violinist, painter, poet, and composer, though he is known chiefly as a composer of inventive instrumental music. Though during his lifetime overshadowed by the likes of Corelli, Vivaldi, and Locatelli, his contribuition to Italian baroque music is noteworthy, and many of his works were published throughout Europe.
Giuseppe Verdi Giuseppe Fortunino Francesco Verdi (either October 9 or 10, 1813 – 27 January, 1901) was an Italian Romantic composer, mainly of opera. He was one of the most influential composers of Italian opera in the 19th century, although went well beyond the work of Bellini, Donizetti, and Rossini.
Giuseppi Logan Giuseppi Logan (born May 22, 1935) was a jazz musician from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania who taught himself to play piano and drums before switching to reeds at age 12. At the age of 15 he began playing with Earl Bostic and later studied at the New England Conservatory.
Giuseppina Morlacchi Giuseppina Morlacchi (1846 - July 25, 1886) was an Italian ballerina and dancer, who introduced the Can can to the American stage, and married the scout and actor Texas Jack Omohundro. She was born in Milan, she attended dance school at La Scala.
Giuseppina Strepponi Clela Maria Josepha (Giuseppina) Strepponi (September 8, 1815 – November 14, 1897) was a Lombard soprano of great renown in her era. She is often credited with having been responsible for the success of Giuseppe Verdi, as she was the star of many of his early works, among which was Nabucco.
Giustiniani Giustiniani is the name of a prominent Italian family which originally belonged to Venice, but also established itself subsequently in Genoa, and at various times had representatives in Naples, Corsica and several of the islands of the Archipelago.
Giustiniani Hestia The Giustiniani Hestia is a finely-executed marble sculpture, a perhaps Hadrianic Roman copy of a Greek bronze of about 470 BCE, now in the Torlonia collection, Rome, but named for its early owner, marchese Vincenzo Giustiniani. It is the only known Early Classical bronze that was reproduced at full size in marble for a Roman collection: Roman taste ran more towards the Hellenistic baroque.
Giustiniano Participazio Giustiniano Participazio (also Partecipazio or Particiaco, English Justinian) (died 829) was the eleventh (traditional) or ninth (historical) Doge of Venice briefly from 827 to his death. His two years on the ducal throne were very eventful.
Giustino Durano Giustino Durano (May 5, 1923 in Brindisi, Italy - February 18, 2002 in Bologna, Italy) was a long lasting movie actor who is best known for his work as the uncle of Giudo Orefice (Roberto Benigni) in the 1997 film, Life is Beautiful.
Giusto Catania Giusto Catania (born on 10 June 1971 in Palermo) is an Italian politician and Member of the European Parliament for North-West with the Partito della Rifondazione Comunista (PRC), part of the European Left and sits on the European Parliament's Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs.
Giv'at Shmuel Giv'at Shmuel is a town (local council) in Israel surrounded by the major cities Ramat Gan, Bnei Brak, Kiryat Ono and Petah Tikva. It is located in Gush Dan and has a population of about 17,400 people (end of 2004).
Giv'at Ze'ev Giv'at Ze'ev () is a large Local council within the borders of the Mateh Binyamin Regional Council, just to the northwest of Jerusalem. It is one of the largest Israeli settlements with a 2004 population of 10,635.
Givat Halfon Eina Ona Giv'at Halfon Eina Ona () also credited as Halfon Hill Doesn't Answer, is a classic comedy film produced in 1976 in Israel. This is a good-hearted satire movie on the Israel Defense Forces which tells the story of a reserves company, watching the Egyptian border in Sinai.
Givat Shaul Givat Shaul (, lit. Saul's Hill) is an almost exclusively Orthodox Jewish neighborhood in western Jerusalem, Israel, which was named after the biblical ruler's capital, believed to be located northwest of the city.
Give 'Em the Boot Give 'Em the Boot is a series of compilation albums released by Hellcat Records. The first release came in 1998, and there has been a new release every other year, except for the gap between the second and third releases, which had two years in between.
Give a Little Bit "Give a Little Bit" is a song with writing credits given to Rick Davies and Roger Hodgson, members of Supertramp, although it is generally acknowledged to be a Hodgson composition. It is the opening track on Supertramp's 1977 album Even in the Quietest Moments...
Give a man a job Give a Man a Job was a short film produced in 1933 in conjunction with the National Recovery Administration in which audience members were encouraged to offer jobs to the unemployed in the midst of the Great Depression. The film featured Jimmy Durante explaining to an audience through a comic song how they could generate employment.
Give Girls a Chance Give Girls a Chance is a Canadian registered fundraising initiative devoted to the education of women and girls who face obstacles to education. It is a fund of Tides-Canada Foundation and promotes the principles of the United Nations Girls’ Education Initiative.
Give It a Name Give It a Name, sometimes abbreviated to GIAN, is an annual British rock music festival, held on or around the May Day Bank Holiday. The first festival took place on May 2 2005 at Alexandra Palace, North London.
Give It Away "Give It Away" is a song by the Red Hot Chili Peppers released in 1991 on the album Blood Sugar Sex Magik. A four-minute forty-two second ode to selflessness, "Give It Away" was the first of five singles from the album and achieved fame around the world, quickly becoming the defining song of the Chili Peppers' distinct funk-influenced sound.
Give Kids The World Give Kids The World Village is a nonprofit resort in Kissimmee, Florida for children with life-threatening illnesses and their families. Wish-granting organizations coordinate transportation to Central Florida, while Give Kids The World provides accommodations at its whimsical resort, meals for a weeklong vacation and donated tickets to local attractions such as Walt Disney World Resort, SeaWorld and Universal Orlando Resort.
Give Love on Christmas Day "Give Love on Christmas Day" was a Christmas classic soul original by Motown family quintet The Jackson 5. Released to R&B radio in 1970, the song, written by the famed label's songwriting-producing team, The Corporation, was an ode to everybody to "give love on Christmas" because "no greater gift is better than love.
Give Me a Future Give Me a Future is the name of a 2005 album released by The Everly Brothers, and is the sequel to the similar release of the same year, Too Good To Be True. Like its predecessor, it contains a wealth of previously unheard songs recorded by the group in the early stages of their career.
Give Me Immortality or Give Me Death Give Me Immortality or Give Me Death is a comedy album by The Firesign Theatre that was released in 1998 on Rhino Records. It represented an important comeback for the legendary troupe and was widely praised as a complete return to form.
Give Me Love (Give Me Peace on Earth) "Give Me Love (Give Me Peace on Earth)" is a song by George Harrison and is the lead track on his 1973 album Living in the Material World. The song was released as a single in May 1973, hitting number one in the U.
Give Me Novacaine "Give Me Novacaine" is a song by Green Day, the seventh track from their latest album, American Idiot. Lead singer Billie Joe Armstrong is reported as saying "My wife Adrienne told me to put this song on the record" and suggested he wasn't sure it was a good idea.
Give My Head Peace Give My Head Peace is a satirical television comedy series on BBC Northern Ireland that pokes fun at political parties, paramilitary groups and the sectarian divide in Northern Ireland. The programme is written and performed by a Northern Ireland comedy troupe known as the Hole in the Wall Gang.
Give or Keep Give or Keep was a pricing game on the American television game show, The Price Is Right. Lasting from December 27, 1972 to October 22, 1990, it was played for a large prize worth more than $1,000, and used small prizes.
Give Peace a Chance "Give Peace a Chance" was a hit song written by John Lennon and originally credited to Lennon-McCartney. However, when Lennon's live album with Yoko Ono and Elephant's Memory, Live in New York City (recorded in 1972), was reissued in the 1990s, "Give Peace a Chance" was credited solely to Lennon.
Give Something Back Business Products Give Something Back Business Products (GSB) is an Oakland, California based, for-profit business, was established in 1993 by Mike Hannigan and Sean Marx to sell business products for less while donating a significant share of profits back to the community in the form of charitable contributions. GSB has strong catalog and e-commerce operations, which cater to small businesses and corporate clients.
Give Us A Clue Give Us A Clue is a televised version of charades hosted at different times by Michael Aspel 1979-1983 and Michael Parkinson 1983-1991, with two teams: one captained by Lionel Blair and the other by Una Stubbs. Later versions of the show had Liza Goddard as captain of the girls' team.
Give-away shop Give-away shops, freeshops, or free stores are second-hand stores that are starting to appear in Northern European towns and cities, especially in the Netherlands and Germany. They are similar to charity shops, only everything is available free at no cost.
Give-n-Take Give-n-Take was an American game show based on Blackjack that starred Jim Lange and aired on CBS in the fall of 1975. The show – dominated by LED displays and buzzers — was considered a time filler until CBS was ready to unveil its hour-long The Price is Right format.
Given name A given name is a name which specifies and differentiates between members of a group of individuals, especially a family, all of whose members usually share the same family name. A given name is a name given to a person, as opposed to an inherited one – such as a family name"A name given to a person at birth or at baptism, as distinguished from a surname.
Givens rotation In numerical linear algebra, a Givens rotation is a rotation in the plane spanned by two coordinates axes. Givens rotations are named after Wallace Givens who introduced them to numerical analysts in the 1950s while he was working at Argonne National Laboratory.
Givers Gain Givers Gain is a belief that when people set goals to help others and honestly work to achieve these goals, they usually gained the most out of the experience. Though this philosophy has been adopted by many different types of organizations throughout the world, the main focus of this philosophy resides in two main areas, religion/personal spirituality and entrepreneurship/small business networking.
Givin' Yourself Away Givin' Yourself Away is a song written and recorded by glam metal band Ratt. It would mark the final single released featuring the original line-up as co-lead guitarist Robbin Crosby left just after work on the Detonator album was completed.
Giving Circles Giving Circles are a form of philanthropy consisting of groups of individuals who pool their funds to donate to their communities and seek to increase their awareness and engagement in the process of giving. Through this process, they seek to impact their own communities or larger areas - possibly to global impacts.
Giving the Devil His Due Giving the Devil His Due is a 2003 compilation album of remixes and previously released songs by the nu metal band Coal Chamber. "Blisters" and "Wishes" had been on soundtrack albums prior to this album.
Giving You Up "Giving You Up" is a dance–pop song co-written and performed by Australian singer Kylie Minogue for her second greatest hits album, Ultimate Kylie (2004). The song was produced by Brian Higgins and received mixed reviews from music critics.
Giyani Giyani is a town in the Limpopo Province in northern South Africa, and former capital of the Gazankulu bantustan. Giyani is located on the northern bank of the Klein (Little) Letaba River west of Kruger National Park.
Giygas is the villain in the Famicom RPG game Mother, and the Super Nintendo RPG EarthBound (Mother 2 in Japan). Known as both the "Embodiment of Evil" and the "Universal Cosmic Destroyer," Giygas is an evil alien that intends to sentence all of reality to the horror of infinite darkness.
Giza Giza, or Gizah (Arabic, الجيزة, transliterated al-Gīzah; pronounced in the Cairene dialect of Egyptian Arabic eg-Gīza; also sometimes rendered in English as Gizeh, Ghizeh, or Geezeh) is a town in Egypt on the west bank of the Nile river, some 20 km southwest of central Cairo and now part of the greater Cairo metropolis. It is the capital of the Al Jizah Governorate, and is located near the northeast border of this governorate in coordinates .
Giza pyramid complex The Giza Necropolis (coordinates ) stands on the Giza Plateau, on the outskirts of Cairo, Egypt. This complex of ancient monuments is located some eight kilometres (5 mi) inland into the desert from the old town of Giza on the Nile, some 25 kilometres (12.
Gizil-Agach State Reserve Gyzylaghadj State Reserve or Gizil-Agach State Reserve meaning golden forest; was established on the area of 88.4 thousand hectares south-west of the Caspian Sea shore for the purpose of protecting, creating conditions for wintering and nesting of migrant, swamp and wild birds in 1929.
Gizmachi Gizmachi is a metalcore/post-nu metal band from New York, formed in 1999. They are the first band to be signed to Big Orange Clown Records, an independent label owned by Shawn Crahan, one of the drummers for the popular nu metal band Slipknot.
Gizmo (comic book) Gizmo is a black and white comic book series created by Michael Dooney and published by Mirage Studios in May of 1986. It tells about the story of two space adventurers: Gizmo Sprocket, a robot with a cool attitude and Fluffy Brockleton, a dog-like character.
Gizmo (comics) Gizmo (also known as Mikron O’Jeneus) is a fictional character, a supervillain from DC Comics. He was created by George Perez and Marv Wolfman, and he first appeared in The New Teen Titans #3 (January 1981) as a founding member of the Fearsome Five, a supervillain team that frequently fought the Teen Titans and the Outsiders.
Gizmo key The gizmo key is a key commonly found on the B foot joint of certain models of flute that closes the low B tone hole without closing the low C or C# hole. This facilitates the performance of a fourth octave C.
Gizmodgery Gizmodgery is an album by Self released in 2000 by Spongebath Records. Although Self's previous release, Breakfast with Girls, met with mixed critical response and a poor commercial showing, this follow-up repeated the success of Self's first album, Subliminal Plastic Motives.
Gizmos & Gadgets Gizmos & Gadgets is an educational science computer game designed by The Learning Company. It is intended to teach children introductory mechanics, namely simple machines, magnets, basic electronics, and forms of energy.
Gizo [map of Gizo Island]Gizo is the capital of the Western province in the Solomon Islands. It is situated on an island approximately 380 kilometers west-northwest of the capital, Honiara, and is just southwest of the larger island of Kolombangara.
Gizzard The gizzard is a specially-adapted stomach that is found in birds, reptiles, earthworms, some insects, mollusks, and other creatures that is used for grinding up food. It has a thick, muscular wall in many invertebrate animals, enabling a powerful crushing and pulverizing action.
GIANT AntiSpyware GIANT AntiSpyware is a spyware detection and removal application developed by GIANT Company Software, Inc. The original version of GIANT AntiSpyware, then renamed to Microsoft AntiSpyware was written by Andrew Newman and Ron Franczyk.
GIANTmicrobes GIANTmicrobes is a toy company based in Wilmington, Delaware and headquartered in Chicago, Illinois that manufactures plush toys resembling microbes, including a number of clinically important human pathogens. The toys, also referred to as GIANTmicrobes, are available via Internet and are also typically found at medical facilities, pharmacies and other health-related locations.
GIAT BM92-G1 (PAMAS-G1) The PAMAS-G1 (Pistolet Automatique de la Manufacture d'Armes de Saint-Étienne, "Automatic Pistol of the Saint Etienne Manufacture") is a modified Beretta 92F pistol used by, and designed for, the French army. The PAMAS-G1 was manufactured under licence from Beretta in France by GIAT.
GIDEON-Global Infectious Disease Epidemiology Network GIDEON (Global Infectious Diseases Epidemiology Network) is a web-based program for decision support and informatics in the fields of Infectious Diseases and Geographic Medicine. As of 2005, more than 300 generic infectious diseases occur haphazardly in time and space and are challenged by over 250 drugs and vaccines.
GIF GIF (Graphics Interchange Format) is an 8-bit-per-pixel bitmap image format using a palette of up to 256 distinct colours from the 24-bit RGB colour space. The format was introduced by CompuServe in 1987 and has since come into widespread usage on the World Wide Web due to its wide support and portability.
GIFT (Gnu) GIFT, the GNU Image Finding Tool, is a Content Based Image Retrieval System (CBIRS). The GIFT is based on Viper, the result of a research effort at the Vision Group at the computer science center of the University of Geneva.
GIK Institute Clock Tower GIKI Clock Tower also known as LoGIK is located in Ghulam Ishaq Khan Institute of Engineering Sciences and Technology, Topi, North-West Frontier Province, Pakistan. It is the tallest building in the area, visible from many miles around.

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