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G
The letter G is the seventh letter in the Latin alphabet. Its name in English language is gee .


G-string
A G-string, thong, or string tanga is a narrow piece of cloth or even leather that passes between the legs, usually between the buttocks, and is attached to a band around the hips, worn as a bikini bottom or as underwear by both men and women.


G. K. Chesterton
Gilbert Keith Chesterton was an influential England writer of the early 20th century. His prolific and diverse output included journalism, poetry, biography and Christian apologetics, but today he is probably best remembered for his Father Brown short stories.


GA
GA may refer to: *Gauge, an abbreviation for gauge, an engineering term *Georgia *Genetic algorithm, Genetic algorithm *General availability release, General Availability *General Assembly, General Assembly **Specifically the United Nations General Assembly


Gabardine
Gabardine is a tough, tightly woven fabric used to make suits, overcoats and trousers, or a garment made from the material. The fibre used to make the fabric is traditionally worsted, but may also be cotton, synthetic or mixed. The fabric is smooth on one side and has a diagonally ribbed surface on the other.


Gabbro
Gabbro is a dark, coarse-grained, intrusive igneous rock chemically equivalent to basalt. It is a Intrusive rock, formed when molten magma is trapped beneath the Earth's surface and cools into a crystalline mass. The vast majority of the Earth's surface is underlain by gabbro within the oceanic crust, produced by basalt magmatism at mid-ocean ridges.


Gable
A gable is the generally triangular portion of a wall between the lines of a sloping roof. The shape of the gable and how it is detailed depends on the structural system being used and aesthetic concerns. Thus the type of roof enclosing the volume dictates the shape of the gable. In Classic Architecture of Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome architecture, the analogous feature is called the tympanum.


Gabon
Gabon, officially the Gabonese Republic, is a country in west central Africa. It borders on Equatorial Guinea, Cameroon, Republic of the Congo and the Gulf of Guinea. Since its independence from France on August 17, 1960, the Republic has been ruled by only two Autocracy Presidents; the incumbent Omar Bongo has been in power since 1967 and is currently Africa's longest-serving Head of State.


Gabor
Gabor is a List of James Bond villains in the James Bond film The World Is Not Enough. He was portrayed by John Seru.


Gaborone
Gaborone , estimated population 208,411 , is the capital of Botswana. Gaborone is located at . One of Africa's fastest-growing cities, Gaborone lies in the flat valley between Kgale and Oodi hills, on the Notwane River in the south eastern corner of Botswana, and 15 km from the South African border.


Gabriel
In Abrahamic religions, Gabriel is an archangel who is thought to serve as a messenger from God. He first appears in the Book of Daniel in the Hebrew Bible. He was also referred to as the "Left Hand of God". Christianity believe him to have foretold the births of John the Baptist and Jesus.


Gabriel Lippmann
Gabriel Jonas Lippmann was awarded the 1908 Nobel Prize in Physics for his method of reproducing colours photographically based on the phenomenon of interference, known as the Lippmann plate. He was born to a Jewish family in Hollerich, Luxemburg. He is remembered for the innovations that resulted from his search for a direct colour-sensitive medium in photography.


Gadget
A gadget or gazza is a device that has a useful specific practical purpose and function. Gadgets tend to be more unusual or cleverly designed than normal technology. In some circles the distinction between a gadget and a gizmo is that a gizmo has moving parts, whereas a gadget need not have them.


Gadidae
Gadidae is a family of marine fish, included in the order Gadiformes. It includes the cod, haddock, whiting , and pollock. Some other forms once included here have since been removed to other families; on the other hand, the tadpole cod family Ranicipitidae has now been absorbed into Gadidae .


Gadiformes
Gadiformes is an order of ray-finned fish, also called the Anacanthini, that includes the cod and its allies. Many major food fish are in this order. Common characteristics include the positioning of the pelvic fins , below or anterior to the pectoral fins. The fins are spineless, and the gas bladder does not have a pneumatic duct.


Gadolinium
Gadolinium is a chemical element in the periodic table that has the symbol Gd and atomic number 64.


Gaétan Vestris
Gaetano Appolino Baldassare Vestris, France ballet dancer, was born in Florence and made his debut at the opera in 1749. Born of an Italian theatrical family, he studied dance with Louis Dupr at the Royal Academy in Paris, later joining the Paris Opra where he served as dancing master to Louis XVI.


Gaetano Donizetti
Domenico Gaetano Maria Donizetti was an Italy opera composer. His most famous work is Lucia di Lammermoor . Donizetti, along with Vincenzo Bellini and Gioacchino Rossini, was a leading composer of bel canto opera.


Gaggle
A flock of geese, if not in flight, is sometimes called a gaggle.


Gaillardia
Gaillardia is a genus of drought-tolerant Annual plant and perennial plants from the sunflower family, native to North America. It was named after M. Gaillard de Charentonneau, an 18th-century French magistrate who was a patron of botany. Bold textItalic text


Gaillardia pulchella
Gaillardia pulchella, is a short-lived annual flowering plant native to the central United States. The branching stem of this plant is hairy and upright, growing to 60 cm tall. The leaf are alternate, mostly basal, 4-8 cm long, with edges smooth to coarsely toothed or lobed.


Gain
In electronics, gain is usually taken as the mean ratio of the Signalling of a system to the Signalling of the system. A gain of five would imply that either the voltage or Electric power is increased by a factor of five. It has wide application in electronic amplifier.


Gain Ground
Gain Ground is an arcade game that was porting to the Sega Master System and Sega Mega Drive/Sega Genesis. In 2004, it was rereleased in Radica Games' TVPlay Legends Vol. II TV Games compilation. It was remade in the PlayStation 2 title Sega Ages 2500 Series Vol.


Gaius Caesar
Gaius Julius Caesar Vipsanianus, most commonly known as Gaius Caesar, was the oldest son of Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa and Julia the Elder. Gaius was adopted along with his brother Lucius Caesar when Agrippa died in 12 BC by their maternal grandfather, the Roman Emperor Augustus, who named the two boys his heirs.


Galactic
Galactic is a funk and jazz group from New Orleans. Originally formed in 1994 as an octet and including singer Chris Lane and guitarist Rob Gowen, the group was soon pared down to an instrumental sextet comprised of: guitarist Jeff Raines, bassist Robert Mercurio, drummer Stanton Moore, saxophonist Ben Ellman and Hammond organist Rich Vogel, later adding Theryl DeClouet on vocals.


Galactose
Galactose is a type of sugar found in dairy products, in sugar beets and other gums and mucilages. It is also synthesis by the body, where it forms part of glycolipids and glycoproteins in several Biological tissues. It is considered a nutritive sweetener because it has food energy.


Galago
Galagos, also known as bushbabies, bush babies or nagapies , are small, nocturnal primates native to continental Africa, and make up the family Galagidae. They are sometimes included as a subfamily within the Lorisidae or Loridae. The name bush baby may come either from the animals' cries, or from their appearance.


Galahad
Sir Galahad is a Knights of the Round Table of King Arthur's Round Table and one of the three achievers of the Holy Grail in Arthurian legend. He is the bastard son of Lancelot and Elaine#Elaine of Carbonek, and is renowned for his gallantry and purity.


Galangal
Galangal , is a rhizome with culinary and medicinal uses, best known in the west today for its appearance in Thai cuisine but also common in recipes from medieval Europe. It resembles ginger root in appearance. However, it tastes little like ginger; in its raw form, it has a soapy, earthy aroma and a pine-like flavor with a faint hint of citrus.


Galápagos Islands
The Galpagos Islands are an archipelago made up of 13 main Island#Volcanic islands, 6 smaller islands, and 107 rocks and islets. The very first island is thought to have formed between 5 and 10 million years ago, a result of tectonic activity. The youngest islands, Isabela Island and Fernandina Island, are still being formed, with the most recent volcanic eruption in 2005.


Galatia
Ancient Galatia was an area in the highlands of central Anatolia in modern Turkey. Galatia was bounded on the north by Bithynia and Paphlagonia, on the east by Pontus, on the south by Lycaonia and Cappadocia, and on the west by the remainder of Phrygia, the eastern part of which the Gauls had invaded.


Galaxy
A galaxy is a huge gravitation system of stars, interstellar medium, plasma , and unseen dark matter. Typical galaxies contain ten million to one trillion stars, all orbiting a common center of gravity. In addition to single stars and a tenuous interstellar medium, most galaxies contain a large number of Star system#Multiple_star_systems and star clusters as well as various types of nebulae.


Galbanum
Galbanum is an aromatic gum resin, the product of certain Persian plant species, chiefly Ferula and Ferula rubricaulis. Galbanum-yielding plants grow plentifully on the slopes of the mountain ranges of northern Iran. It occurs usually in hard or soft, irregular, more or less translucent and shining lumps, or occasionally in separate tears, of a light-brown, yellowish or greenish-yellow colour, and has a disagreeable, bitter taste, a peculiar, somewhat musky odour, and a


Galega officinalis
Galega officinalis is a plant from the Galega genus of the Faboideae. Its name derives from gale and ega, as Galega has been used as a galactologue in small domestic animals. Galega bicolor is a synonym. It is a hardy perennial that blooms in the summer months.


Galen
Greek language: Ga?????, Latin language: Claudius Galenus of Pergamum , better known in English language as Galen, was an ancient Greeks physician. The forename "Claudius" is absent in Greek texts; it was first documented in texts from the Renaissance.


Galena
Galena is a lead ore. This article describes Galena's mineral properties. In its chemically purified form, galena is known as lead sulfide; refer to that article for chemical and industrial uses. Galena is one of the most abundant and widely distributed sulfide minerals, and is the most common ore of lead.


Galeras
Galeras is a volcano in Colombia, near the city of Pasto. Its summit lies 14,029 feet above sea level. It has erupted frequently since the Spanish conquest, and in 1993, an eruption killed nine people, including five scientists who had descended into the volcano's crater to sample gases .


Galilee
The Galilee , meaning "circuit", is a large region overlapping with much of the North District of Israel. It is traditionally divided into three regions: * The Upper Galilee * The Lower Galilee * The Western Galilee


Galileo Galilei
Galileo Galilei was an Italian people 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, the Newton's laws of motion#Newton's First Law: Law of Inertia and Newton's laws of motion#Newton's Second Law: Fundamental Law of Dynamics laws of motion, and effective support for Nicolaus Copernicus.


Galina Ulanova
Galina Sergeyevna Ulánova Ulanova studied in Petrograd under Agrippina Vaganova and her own mother, a ballerina of the Imperial Russian Ballet. When she joined the Mariinsky Theatre in 1928, the press found in her "much of Marina Semenova's style, grace, the same exceptional plasticity and a sort of captivating modesty in her gestures""Rabochii i teatr", 1926, #9, p.


Galium
Galium is a large genus of Annual plant and perennial herbaceous plants in the family Rubiaceae, with about 400 species occurring in the temperate zones of both the Northern Hemisphere and Southern Hemispheres. The species are variously known as bedstraw, Galium aparine, cleavers and woodruff.


Galium aparine
Galium aparine is a herbaceous annual plant of the family Rubiaceae. It is native to North America and Eurasia. It has several common names, including Cleavers, Goosegrass, Stickywilly, Catchweed, and Coachweed. The long stems of this climbing plant sprawl over the ground and other plants, reaching heights of 1-1.5 m, occasionally 2 m.


Galium verum
Galium verum is a herbaceous annual plant of the family Rubiaceae, native to Europe and Asia. It is a low scrambling plant, with the stems growing to 60-120 cm long, frequently rooting where they touch the ground. The leaf are 1-3 cm long and 2 mm broad, shiny dark green, hairy underneath, borne in whorls of 8-12.


Gall
Galls or plant galls are proliferations and modifications of plant cells and can be caused by various parasites, from fungi and bacterium, to insects and mites. Galls are often very organised structures and because of this, the cause of the gall can often be determined without the actual agent being identified.


Gall wasp
Gall wasps, also called Gallflies, are a family of the order Hymenoptera and are classified with the Apocrita suborder of wasps in the superfamily Cynipoidea. About 1300 species of this generally very small creature are known worldwide, with about 360 species of 36 different genera in Europe and some 800 species in North America.


Gallamine
Gallamine is a non-depolarising muscle relaxant. It acts by combining with the cholinergic receptor sites in muscle and competitively blocking the transmitter action of acetylcholine. Gallamine has a parasympatholytic effect on the cardiac vagus nerve which causes tachycardia and occasionally hypertension. Very high doses cause histamine release.


Gallbladder
The gallbladder is a pear-shaped Organ that stores about 50 mL of bile until the body needs it for digestion. The gallbladder is about 7-10cm long in humans and is dark green in appearance due to its contents, not its tissue. It is connected to the liver and the duodenum by the biliary tract.


Galleon
A galleon was a large, multi-decked sailing ship used primarily by the nations of Europe from the 16th century to 18th century centuries. Whether used for war or commerce, they were generally armed with cannons. Galleons were an evolution of the caravel and carrack, for the new great ocean going voyages.


Gallery
Gallery may refer to: * An Art gallery * Gallery Project, an open-source package for creating and managing image galleries on web sites * Gallery, a 1970s musical group headed by Jim Gold who are famous for their 1972 song "(It's So) Nice To Be With You" * The Gallery a band in Ireland


Galley
The term galley can refer to any ship propelled primarily by man-power, using oars. Oars are known from at least the time of the Egyptian Old Kingdom. This definition excludes almost all human-powered ships in the Chinese cultural area. There, first yulohs and then, treadmill-operated paddle wheels dominated warship propulsion.


Gallic acid
Gallic acid is an organic acid, also known as 3,4,5-trihydroxybenzoic acid, found in gallnuts, sumac, witch hazel, tea leaves, oak bark, and other plants. The chemical formula is carbon6hydrogen2(oxygen)3CO2H.


Galliformes
The Galliformes is an order of birds containing the turkey, grouse, quails and pheasants. About 256 species are found worldwide. These birds vary in size from the diminutive Asian Rain Quails at 12.5 cm long and weighing 28 to 40 g to the largest extant Galliform species, is the North American Wild Turkey, wild specimens of which may weigh as much as 14 kilograms and may exceed 120 cm.


Gallium
|- | colspan="2" align="center" | nbsp; Gallium is a chemical element that has the symbol Ga and atomic number 31. A rare, soft silvery metallic poor metal, gallium is a brittle solid at low temperatures but liquefies slightly above room temperature and indeed will melt in the hand.


Gallop rhythm
A gallop rhythm refers to a rhythm of the heart on auscultation. The normal heart rhythm contains two audible sounds, called S1 and S2, giving the well-know "lub-dub" rhythm. They are caused by the closing of Heart valve in the heart. A gallop rhythm contains another sound, called S3 or S4, dependent upon where in the cycle this added sound comes; it can also contain both of these sounds.


Galloway
Galloway today refers to the former counties of Wigtownshire and the Stewartry of Kirkcudbright in southwest Scotland, but has fluctuated greatly in size over history. It is part of the Dumfries and Galloway council area of Scotland. The name is also given to a hardy breed of black, hornless beef Galloway native to the region.


Gallows
A gallows is a frame, typically wooden, used for execution by hanging, and hence a metaphor for that capital punishment. A gallows can take several forms. The simplest resembles an inverted 'L', with a single upright and a horizontal beam to which the rope noose would be attached.


Galosh
Galoshes, also known as gumshoes, dickersons, or overshoes, are a type of rubber boot that one slips over shoes to keep shoes from getting muddy or wet. The term originally referred to a wooden shoe or patten, or merely a wooden sole fastened to the foot by a strap or cord.


Galvanic cell
The Galvanic cell, named after Luigi Galvani, consists of two metals connected by a salt bridge between the individual half-cells. It is also known as a voltaic cell and an electrochemical cell.


Galvanic skin response
Galvanic skin response, also known as electrodermal response, psychogalvanic reflex, or skin conductance response, is a method of measuring the electrical resistance of the skin. There has been a long history of electrodermal activity research, most of it dealing with spontaneous fluctuations.


Galvanism
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Galvanization
Galvanization or galvanisation refers to any of several electrochemistry processes named after the Italian scientist Luigi Galvani. # Originally, galvanization was the administration of electric shocks . It stemmed from Galvani's induction of twitches in severed frogs' legs, by his accidental generation of electricity.


Galvanometer
A galvanometer is an instrument for detecting and measuring electric current. It is an electromechanical transducer that produces a rotary deflection, through a limited arc, in response to electric current flowing through its coil. The name galvanometer has been applied to devices used in measuring, recording, and positioning equipment.


Galveston Island
Galveston Island is a barrier island on the Texas Gulf coast in the United States, about 50 miles south of Houston, Texas. The entire island, with the exception of the little Jamaica Beach, Texas, is within the city limits of the City of Galveston, Texas.


Galway
Galway is the main city in the province of Connacht in Ireland and capital of County Galway. The city is located on the west coast of Ireland. In Irish, Galway is also called Cathair na Gaillimhe. The city takes its name from the Gaillimh river that formed the western boundary of the earliest settlement, which was called Dn Bhun na Gaillimhe, or the fort at the mouth of the Gaillimh.


Galway Bay
Galway Bay is a large Headlands and bays/sea loch on the west coast of Ireland, between County Galway in the province of Connacht to the north and the district of Burren in County Clare in the province of Munster to the south. Galway is located on the north-east side of the bay.


Gamal Abdel Nasser
Gamal Abdel Nasser was the leader of Egypt from 1954 until his death in 1970. He is considered one of the most important Arab politicians in modern times, and is especially well-known for his Arab nationalist and anticolonialism foreign policy. The pan-Arabism ideology named after him, Nasserism, won a large following throughout the Arab world in the 1950s and 1960s, and though its importance declined after his death, he is still seen throughout the Arab World as a symb


Gamba
Historically, Gamba was a port lying on the Ndogo Lagoon that grew up to todays small town in the southwestern part of Gabon. With a population of about 8000 people, Gamba remains one of the major oil hubs of Gabon. The town grew around Shell oil fields. For that reason, many residents are engineers and professionals.


Gambas
Gambas is a programming language for Linux which attempts to mimic the ease of use of Visual Basic while improving on its functionality. Although Gambas is not source code compatible with Visual Basic, it is a BASIC programming language Interpreter with object-oriented extensions.


Gambelia
---- Gambelia is the genus name for the leopard lizards in the family Crotaphytidae. One difference between the genus Gambelia and genus Crotaphytus is that the former has fracture planes in their tails. Classification of the genus Gambelia Genus Gambelia *Gambelia copeii


Gambling
Gambling has had many different meanings depending on the cultural and historical context in which it is used. Currently, in western society, it has an economic definition, referring to "wagering money or something of material value on an event with an uncertain outcome with the primary intent of winning additional money or material goods".


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