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Go Deep
"Go Deep" is the fourth single from R&B singer Janet Jackson's sixth studio album, The Velvet Rope.


Go-around
A go-around is an aborted landing of an aircraft which is on traffic pattern.


Goa
Goa is India's second smallest states and territories of India in terms of area after Delhi and the fourth smallest in terms of population after Sikkim, Mizoram and Arunachal Pradesh. It is located on the west coast of India, in the region known as the Konkan, and is bounded by the state of Maharashtra to the north, and Karnataka to the east and south.


Goad
Description An ox goad is traditionally a wooden stick or pole with a pointed tip. Some are reported to been 8 to 10 feet long, others 5 to 7 feet. The goad is cited as the origin of two units of measurement: the rod, which is 16.5 feet; and the goad, which is 4.5 feet. Some were 2 inches in diameter at the thickest end; others were 6 inches.


Goal
Goal may refer to: * Objective, synonym of goal ** Goal, a desired state of affairs of a person or of a system ** Goal in systemics and cognition engineering, a state of the domain of activity of an intelligent entity which she/he/it try to achieve; * Goal, the result of a score and the physical structure that defines when a score has occurred


Goalkeeper
In many team sports, a goalkeeper is a designated player that is charged with directly preventing the opposite team from scoring by defending the goal. Such positions exist in football, Gaelic football, International Rules Football, team handball, field hockey, netball, water polo, lacrosse, floorball and a number of other sports.


Goaltender
The goaltender in ice hockey is the player who defends his team's goal net by stopping shot of the Hockey puck from entering his team's net, thus preventing the opposing team from scoring. The goalie usually plays in or near the area in front of the net called the goal crease.


Goat antelope
A goat antelope is any of the species of mostly medium-sized bovids that make up the subfamily Caprinae or the single species in subfamily Pantholopinae. The domestic sheep and domestic goat are both part of the goat antelope group, and the group itself is part of the family Bovidae, which in other branches contains the antelopes and domestic cattle.


Goat Willow
The Goat Willow, also known as the Pussy Willow or Great Sallow, is a common species of willow native to Europe and northwestern Africa. It is a deciduous shrub or small tree, reaching a height of 6-14 m, rarely to 20 m. The Leaf are 5-12 cm long and from 3-8 cm wide, broader than most other willows.


Goatee
A goatee is a beard formed by a tuft of hair on the chin. The goatee underwent a renaissance in the 1990s, when a close-cropped variant with an integrated moustache was popularized by the musicians, actors and sports heroes of the day. Like the beard, the goatee is most commonly seen in combination with a moustache.


Goatfish
Goatfishes are tropical marine perciform fish of the family Mullidae. Seldom found in brackish waters, goatfish are most associated with the reefs of the Atlantic Ocean, Indian Ocean, and Pacific Oceans. Within the family are approximately six genera and 55 species.


Goatherd
A goatherd or a goatherder is a person who herds goats for a living. Similar to a shepherd who tends sheep for a living, the drover here herds goats. Goatherds are popular in countries where goat populations are natively high; for instance, in Africa and South Asia. Herding a goat is much more difficult than herding sheep as, unlike sheep, goats do not have a herd mentality and each goat will tend to stray farther in search of better foliage and grass.


Gobbles
GOBBLES Security made their first appearance on the Bugtraq mailinglist in November 2001 with an advisory on a vulnerability in the Berkeley finger daemon. With their broken English, their sarcasm and irony they continued to ridicule the whole security industry during the next years. Due to their sometimes obscene language, some of their posts to SecurityFocus mailinglists Bugtraq and Vuln-Dev were denied by moderators Dave Ahmad and the Blue Boar.


Gobi Desert
The Gobi is a large desert region in northern China and southern Mongolia. The desert basins of the Gobi are bounded by the Altay Mountains and the grasslands and steppes of Mongolia on the north, by the Tibetan Plateau to the southwest, and by the North China Plain to the southeast.


Gobiesocidae
Clingfishes are fishes of the family Gobiesocidae. Most species are marine, being found in shallow waters of the Atlantic Ocean, Pacific Ocean and Indian Oceans. They are bottom-dwelling fishes; some species shelter in sea urchins or crinoids. In most species the pelvic fins are modified into a sucking disc.


Goby
The gobies form the family Gobiidae, which is one of the largest families of fish, with more than 2,000 species in more than 200 genera. Most are relatively small, typically less than 10 cm in length. Gobies include some of the smallest vertebrates in the world, like species of the genera Trimmaton and Pandaka, which are under 1 cm long when fully grown.


God
God is the deity believed by Monotheism to be the supreme reality. He is believed variously to be the creator, emanator, substance or at least the sustainer, of the universe. Richard Swinburne "God" in Ted Honderich.The Oxford Companion to Philosophy, Oxford University Press, 1995.


Godchild
Godchild, also known as Count Cain, is the gothic shojo manga by Kaori Yuki. Count/Earl Cain was originally serialized in Hana to Yume and became popular through online scanlation in the U.S. The series is divided into two parts. The original manga was completed up to volume 5 where Kaori Yuki placed it on hiatus in order to complete her other manga Angel Sanctuary.


Goddess
A goddess is a female deity, in contrast with a male deity known as a "god ". A great many cultures have goddesses, sometimes alone, but more often as part of a larger wiktionary:pantheon that includes both of the conventional genders and in some cases even hermaphroditic deities.


GODIVA
GODIVA is a heavy metal music band from Switzerland. Originally formed in early 2001 as a cover band. By the summer of 2001, the band recorded their first 3-track-demo and within the next year GODIVA supported numerous bands such as Freedom Call, Shakra, Primal Fear and Dokken.


Godwit
The godwits and their allies are a group of large, long-billed, long-legged and strongly bird migration wader birds. They form large flocks on coasts and estuaries in winter. They can be distinguished from the related curlews by their straight or slightly upturned bills, and from the dowitchers by their longer legs.


Goethite
Goethite is an iron bearing oxide mineral found in soil and other low temperature environments. Named for the Germany polymath Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Goethite has been well known since prehistoric times for its use as a pigment. Evidence has been found of its use in paint pigment samples taken from the Lascaux in France.


Gog and Magog
The tradition of Gog and Magog begins in the Bible with the reference to Magog, son of Japheth, in the Book of Genesis and continues in cryptic prophecies in the Book of Ezekiel, which are echoed in the Book of Revelation. The ambiguity of this tradition cannot be overstated.


Goggles
Goggles and safety glasses are forms of protective eyewear that usually enclose or protect the eye area in order to prevent particulates or chemicals from striking the eyes. They are used in chemistry laboratories and in woodworking. They are often used in snow sports as well, and in swimming.


Going Under
"Going Under" was the second single from rock band Evanescence's first commercial album, Fallen. It was meant to be the first single, but the success from Bring Me to Life eclipsed the initial decision. The song is about Amy Lee's relationship with an abusive boyfriend.


Golan Heights
The Golan Heights or Golan, formerly also known as the Syrian Heights, , is a plateau on the border of Israel, Lebanon, Jordan and Syria. The name "Golan" is a polyseme that refers to the historical name of a geographic region, and in contemporary usage may serve as a political designation applying to territory annexed to Israel from Syria.


Gold
Gold is a highly sought-after precious metal that for many centuries has been used as money, a store of value and in jewellery. The metal occurs as gold nugget or grains in rocks and in alluvial deposits and is one of the coinage metals. It is a soft, shiny, yellow, dense, malleable, and ductile transition metal.


Gold Digger
"Gold Digger" is a 2005 number one Single recorded by Kanye West. It features Jamie Foxx and was released by Roc-a-Fella Records. As the second single from West's second album, Late Registration, "Gold Digger" peaked at number one on the Billboard Hot 100 in the United States, becoming West's and Foxx's second number one single after 2003's "Slow Jamz" with Twista.


Gold medal
A gold medal generally represents the highest award for achievement in a non-military field, with no restriction on eligibility. The concept comes from the military, initially with a simple recognition of military rank, and later decorations for admission to military orders dating back to medieval times.


Gold rush
A gold rush is a period of feverish migration of workers into the area of a dramatic discovery of commercial quantities of gold. Several gold rushes took place throughout the 19th century in the United States, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and South Africa. Gold rushes helped spur permanent non-indigenous settlement of new regions and define a significant part of the culture of the North American and Australian frontiers.


Gold standard
The 'gold standard' is a monetary system in which the standard economics unit of account is a fixed weight of gold. Under the gold standard currency is either in coins struck with a known amount of gold, or in notes which the issuers guarantee to redeem in gold, ideally for an amount fixed in advance.


Golda Meir
Golda Meir was one of the founders of the State of Israel. Meir served as the Minister of Labor, Foreign Minister, and then as the fourth Prime Minister of Israel from March 17, 1969 to June 31974. As BBC put it, Golda Meir was the "Iron Lady" of Israeli politics years before the epithet was coined for Margaret Thatcher.


Goldcrest
The Goldcrest Regulus regulus is a very small passerine bird in the kinglet family, resembling the Firecrest but with a plainer face. It breeds in most of temperate Europe and Asia but is partly bird migration and northern birds winter south of the breeding range.


Golden calf
In the Hebrew Bible, the golden calf was an idolatry made by Aaron for the Israelites during Moses' unexpectedly long absence. In Hebrew language, the incident is known as "Chet ha'Egel" or "The Sin of the Calf". It is first mentioned in Exodus . Among the Hebrews' neighbors in the Ancient Near East and the Aegean Sea, the Aurochs, the wild bull, was widely worshipped, often as the Bull and as El.


Golden Delicious
The Golden Delicious is a cultivar of apple with a yellow color. It is not related to the Red Delicious apple.


Golden Eagle
The Golden Eagle is one of the best known bird of prey in the Northern Hemisphere. Like all eagles, it belongs to the family Accipitridae. There are five subspecies of the Golden Eagle: * Eurasian Golden Eagle * American Golden Eagle * Spanish Golden Eagle


Golden Fleece
In Greek mythology, the Golden Fleece is that of the winged ram Chrysomallos. It figures in the tale of Jason and his band of Argonauts, who set out on a quest for the Fleece in order to place Jason rightfully on the throne of Iolcus in Thessaly. The story is of great antiquity it was current in the time of Homer and consequently it survives in various forms, among which details vary.


Golden Gate
The Golden Gate is the strait connecting the San Francisco Bay to the Pacific Ocean. Since the 1930s it has been spanned by the Golden Gate Bridge. Great tidal flows added with the combined flows of the Sacramento River and the San Joaquin River have scoured a channel several hundred feet deep through the strait.


Golden Gate Bridge
The Golden Gate Bridge is a suspension bridge bridge spanning the Golden Gate, the opening into the San Francisco Bay from the Pacific Ocean. It connects the city of San Francisco, California on the northern tip of the San Francisco Peninsula and a portion of the south-facing Marin County, California Marin Headlands near the small bayside town of Sausalito, California, and is located at .


Golden Hamster
The Syrian Hamster or Golden Hamster, Mesocricetus auratus, is the best known member of the rodent subfamily Cricetinae, the hamsters. They may now be extinct in the wild, but are popular as housepets and scientific research animals. Adults grow from 5 to 7 inches in length, and will usually have a lifespan of 2 to 3 years.


Golden Horde
The Golden Horde was a Tatar-Mongol state established in parts of present-day Russia, Ukraine, and Kazakhstan after the break up of the Mongol Empire in the 1240s.


Golden Oriole
The Golden Oriole, Oriolus oriolus, is the only member of the oriole family of Perching bird birds to breed in northern hemisphere temperate regions. It is a summer bird migration to Europe and western Asia, wintering in the tropics. It is a bird of tall deciduous trees in woodland, orchards or parks.


Golden Pheasant
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Golden Retriever
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Golden shiner
The golden shiner, Notemigonus crysoleucas, is a cyprinid fish native to eastern North America and introduced throughout the continent. It is the sole member of its genus. The golden shiner's back is a green to olive shade, and the belly a silvery white, but its golden or silvery sides are what gets noticed.


Golden Shower Tree
The Golden Shower Tree Dok Khuen in Thailand, is a flowering plant in the family Fabaceae, native to southern Asia, from southern Pakistan east through India to Myanmar and south to Sri Lanka. It is a medium-sized tree growing to 10-20 m tall with fast growth.


Golden syrup
Golden syrup is a thick, amber-colored form of inverted sugar syrup, made in the process of refining sugar cane juice into sugar, or by treatment of a sugar solution with acid. It is used in a variety of baking recipes and desserts. It has an appearance and taste similar to honey, and is often used as a substitute for people who cannot eat honey and those who choose not to.


Golden Wattle
Golden Wattle is Australia's floral emblem. It is a small tree, ranging from 4 to 8 Metre#Conversions tall. The mature trees do not have Leaf but have long, sickle-shaped, Photosynthesis stalks called phyllodes. The trees flower in spring producing fragrant fluffy golden flowers.


Golden-beard Penstemon
The Golden-beard Penstemon, also known as the Beardlip Penstemon, is a flowering plant native to the western United States, one of the genus Penstemon. The plant has spikes of clustered, tubular, scarlet blossoms with yellow hairs on their lower lip; the flowers are attractive to hummingbirds.


GoldenEye
GoldenEye is the seventeenth James Bond film and the first to star Pierce Brosnan as Ian Fleming's United Kingdom Secret Intelligence Service, James Bond. Made by Albert R. Broccoli's EON Productions, it was the second official James Bond film not produced by Broccoli himself.


Goldenrod
The goldenrod is a flowering plant in the Family Asteraceae. About 80 perennial species make up the genus Solidago, most being found in the meadows and pastures, along roads, ditches and waste areas in North America, and a few from Europe that were introduced some 250 years ago.


Goldenseal
Goldenseal is a perennial herb in the buttercup family Ranunculaceae, native to southeastern Canada and the northeastern United States. It may be distinguished by its thick, yellow knotted rootstock as well as its large, rounded leaves. Goldenseal is often used as a multi-purpose remedy, having many different medicinal properties.


Goldfish
The Goldfish was one of the earliest fish to be domestication, and is still one of the most commonly kept List of freshwater aquarium fish species. A relatively small member of the Cyprinidae family , the goldfish is a domesticated version of a dark-gray/olive/brown carp native to east Asia that was introduced to Europe in the late 17th century.


Goldsmith
A goldsmith is a metalworker who specializes in working with precious metals, usually to make jewelry. Goldsmiths must be skilled in forming metal, through file, soldering, forging, casting and polishing metal. Traditionally these skills are passed along through apprenticeships, however some schools have more recently begun offering courses in goldsmithing.


Golf
Golf is a sport where individual players or teams hit a golf ball into a hole using various golf club , and is one of the few ball games that does not use a fixed standard playing area. It is defined in the rules of golf as "playing a ball with a club from the teeing ground into the hole by a stroke or successive strokes in accordance with the Rules."


Golf ball
A golf ball is a ball designed for use in the game of golf. An appendix to the "Rules of Golf" defines that a golf ball must not weigh more than 45.93 gram, that its diameter must not be less than 42.67 millimetre, and that its shape may not differ significantly from a symmetric sphere.


Golgi apparatus
In cell biology, the Golgi apparatus is an organelle found in most eukaryote cells, including those of plants, animals, and fungus. The name comes from Italy anatomy Camillo Golgi, who identified it in 1898. The primary function of the Golgi apparatus is to process proteins targeted to the plasma membrane, lysosomes or endosomes, and those that will be formed from the cell, and sort them within vesicle .


Goliard
The Goliards were a group of clergy who wrote bibulous, satire Latin poetry in the twelfth century and thirteenth century. They were mainly clerical students at the university of France, Germany, Italy, and England who protested the growing contradictions within the Church, such as the failure of the crusades and financial abuses, expressing themselves through song, poetry and performance.


Golliwogg
The Golliwogg is a rag doll-like, children's literary character created by Florence Kate Upton in the late 19th century. The Golliwogg was inspired by a blackface Minstrel show Upton had as a child in United States of America. Historically very popular in Europe, the doll has become the subject of a great deal of controversy — particularly with ever-increasing ethnic diversity of the resident European population — over whether it should be preserved and passed on as a cherishe


Goma
Goma located at is a city of 160,000 in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo. Located in the Western Rift of the Great Rift Valley, Goma neighbors the active Nyiragongo Volcano directly to its north, and hugs the coast of Lake Kivu to its south. The city lies next to the Virunga National Park and has a small airport.


Gomphothere
The Gomphotheres are a diverse group of extinct elephant-like animals that were widespread in North America during the Miocene and Pliocene epochs, 12-1.6 million years ago. Some also lived in parts of Eurasia and Beringia. Gomphotheres differed from elephants in their tooth structure, particularly the chewing surfaces on the molar teeth.


Gomphrena
Gomphrena is a genus of plants in the family Amaranthaceae. Species include: Gomphrena globosa - Globe amaranth Gomphrena haageana - Strawberry globe amaranth


Gomphrena globosa
Gomphrena globosa is commonly known as globe amaranth. It is an annual plant that grows up to 24 inches in height. The true species has magenta bracts, and cultivars have colors such as purple, red, white, pink, and lilac. It's native range is in Brazil, Panama and Guatemala.


Gondola
A gondola is a traditional Venice rowing boat. Gondolas were for centuries the chief means of transportation within Venice and still have a role in public transport, serving as traghetti over major canals. The gondola is propelled by an oarsman who stands facing the bow and pushes, rather than pulls, a single oar.


Gong
A gong is any one of a wide variety of metal percussion instrument instruments. The term is Malay-Javanese in origin but widespread throughout Asia. The instrument itself appears to have origins in the bronze drums of China, cymbals of central Asia, and perhaps even in European Bell-casting techniques.


Gongora
Gongora is a member of the Orchid family. It consists of 65 species known from Central America, Trinidad, and tropical South America. Most are found in Colombia. They grow in wide geographical range from wet forests at sea level to mountainous regions in the Andes, as high as 1,800 m.


Goniometer
A goniometer is an instrument that either measures angles or allows an object to be rotated to a precise angular position. The term goniometry is derived from two Greek words, gonia, meaning angle and metron, meaning Measurement. There are many types, each specialised for its particular application.


Gonne
The gonne, hand gonne or hand cannon, as it was called, was the first handheld, portable firearm. The gonne was invented around 1300 and was used until at least the 1520s in Europe, and until modern times in the Far East. However, where it was invented remains an area of intense controversy.


Gonorrhoea
Gonorrhoea, is among the most common curable Sexually transmitted diseases in the world and is caused by the Gram-negative Bacteria Neisseria gonorrhoeae. Infection with gonorrhoea increases the risk of passing on or becoming infected with HIV.


Gonzo
Gonzo is a style of journalism, filmmaking, or any form of multimedia production in which the reporter, filmmaker or author is intrinsically enmeshed with the subject action, popularized by Hunter S. Thompson.


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