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GONZO
GONZO is a Japan anime studio, owned by GDH group. In June 2006, it signed a long-term output deal with the anime television network, Animax, which will see Animax broadcasting all of GONZO's anime titles across all of its networks around the world, including Japan, Asia, the Indian Subcontinent, and Latin America.' - Animax press release, Anime News Network, June 21, 2006.


Good
Good may mean: * Good, as in Goodness and evil * Good , a useful object or service * Product , anything that can be offered for sale to a market * Good , the 2001 album by the New Zealand band Goodshirt * Good , the 1992 album by the American band Morphine * I. J. Good , a British statistician


Good Friday
Good Friday is a liturgical year celebrated by most Christianity on the Friday before Easter or Pascha. It commemorates the crucifixion of Jesus at Calvary. Special prayer services are often held on this day with readings from the Gospel accounts of the events leading up to the crucifixion.


Good Humor
Good Humor is an American brand of ice cream once sold from the back of refrigeration ice cream vans with bells to announce their presence. The "Good Humor Man" was a fixture in popular culture for many decades. At its peak, the company operated 200 trucks in 1961.


Good ol' boy
Good ol' boy is a slang term used, mainly positively, either to self-identify as or to refer to a male, usually Caucasian and of Northern/Western-European descent, who lives in a rural area and/or subscribes to a traditionally "rural" lifestyle. The term is generally thought to originate in the rural areas of the southern and southwestern U.S.


Good Times
Good Times was an United States Situation comedy that was originally broadcast from February 1, 1974 until August 1, 1979 on the CBS television network. The program was a spin-off of the sitcom Maude. Like those two other series, Good Times was developed by producer Norman Lear.


Goodeniaceae
The family Goodeniaceae is distributed mostly in Australia, except for the genus Scaevola which is pantropical. Its species are found across most of Australia, being especially common in arid and semi-arid climates.


Goof
A goof in film making is an error made during film production which finds its way into the final released picture. Depending upon the film and the actual scene, the goof may have different effects: a loss in realism, an annoyance, or it could just be funny. It is usually a type of Continuity error.


Goofy
Goofy is a fictional character from the Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse universe. He is an anthropomorphic dog and is one of Mickey Mouse's best friends. His original concept name was "Dippy Dawg" in cartoon shorts created during the 1930s; then his name was given as "George Geef" and "G.G.


Google
Google Inc. is an United States public company, first Incorporation as a Privately held company on 7 September 1998, that designed and manages the Internet's most used search engine. The company has approximately 8,000 employees and is based in Mountain View, California.


Goose
Goose is the general English name for a considerable number of birds, belonging to the family Anatidae. This family also includes swans, most of which are larger than geese, and ducks, which are smaller.


Goose bumps
Goose bumps, also called goose pimples, goose flesh, chicken skin, or cutis anserina, are the bumps on a person's skin at the base of body hairs which involuntarily develop when a person is cold or experiences strong emotions like fear or awe. The reflex of producing goose bumps is known as horripilation, piloerection, or the pilomotor reflex.


Gooseberry
The gooseberry Ribes uva-crispa (synonymy R. grossularia) is a species of Ribes, native to Europe, northwestern Africa and southwestern Asia. It is one of several similar species in the subgenus Grossularia; for the other related species (e.g. North American Gooseberry Ribes hirtellum), see the genus page Ribes.


Goosebumps
Tagline:"They're a real scream!" Goosebumps is a formerly popular series of children's horror fiction novellas created and authored by R. L. Stine. List of Goosebumps books were published under the Goosebumps umbrella title from 1992 to 1997, the last one being Monster Blood IV.


Goosefish
Goosefishes are a family, Lophiidae, of anglerfishes. They are found in the Arctic, Atlantic, Indian Ocean and Pacific Oceans where they live on sandy and muddy bottoms of the continental shelf and continental slope, at depths in excess of 1,000 m. Like most other anglerfishes, they have a very large head with a large mouth that bears long, sharp, recurved teeth.


Gooseneck
The gooseneck is the swivel connection on a sailboat by which the Boom attaches to the Mast. The boom moves from side to side and up and down by swiveling on the gooseneck. The gooseneck may be a two axis swivel as pictured. Having an integrated shackle for the Parts of a sail#the corners is common.


Gooseneck barnacle
Gooseneck barnacles are filter feeding crustaceans that lives attached to hard surfaces of rocks and flotsam in the ocean intertidal zone. They are easily recognizable by their distinctive long and muscular stalk, which is edible and is considered a delicacy in several Mediterranean countries..


Gopher Snake
Gopher snakes are found in a wide variety of habitats including desert flats, coastal dunes and coniferous forests, but preferring grasslands and open brush areas. Members of the Colubridae family, the common, large, gopher snake is usually between 36 and 96 inches long. Gopher snakes range in color from cream-yellow to green-gray to tan, with large black, brown or reddish blotches on their back and smaller ones along their sides.


Gopherus
Gopherus is a genus of tortoises commonly referred to as gopher tortoises. Gopher tortoises are found through the southern United States and in northern Mexico. Gopher tortoises are so named because of their ability to dig large, deep burrows. Their burrows are also used by a number of other species, which is what makes gopher tortoises so important to the ecosystem.


Gordian Knot
The Gordian Knot is a legend associated with Alexander the Great. It is often used as a metaphor for an intractable problem, solved by a bold stroke.


Gordie Howe
Gordon "Gordie" Howe, Order of Canada was a Canada ice hockey player in the National Hockey League who played for the Detroit Red Wings and Hartford Whalers. He is often referred to as Mr. Hockey and is generally regarded as one of the greatest players of all time.


Gordon Setter
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Gore Vidal
Eugene Luther Gore Vidal , known as Gore Vidal, is a prolific and versatile United States writer of novels, stage stage play, screenplays, and essays and has been a public and often controversial figure on both the American literary and political scenes for nearly sixty years.


Gorgeous
Gorgeous is a 1999 Hong Kong movie, directed by Vincent Kuk. It is a martial arts/romance film starring Jackie Chan and Shu Qi in the two leading roles.


Gorget
A gorget is a steel collar designed to protect the throat. It is a feature of older types of armor, designed to protect against swords and other non-projectile weapons. Most medieval versions of gorgets were simple neck protectors that were worn under the breastplate and backplate set.


Gorgon
In Greek mythology, the Gorgons were vicious, mostly female monsters with sharp fangs and hair of living, venomous snakes.


Gorilla
The gorilla, the largest of the living primates, is a ground-dwelling herbivore that inhabits the forests of Africa. Gorillas are divided into two species and either four or five subspecies. With 92-98% of its DNA being identical to that of a human, it is the next closest living relative to humans after the two chimpanzee species.


Gorse
Gorse comprises a genus of about 20 species of evergreen shrubs in the subfamily Faboideae of the pea family Fabaceae, native to western Europe and northwest Africa, with the majority of species in Iberian Peninsula. Other common names for gorse include whin and furze.


Goshawk
The Goshawk is a medium large bird of prey in the family Accipitridae which also includes many other diurnal Bird of preys such as eagles, buzzards and harriers. It is a widespread species throughout the temperate parts of the northern hemisphere. In North America it is named as the Northern Goshawk.


Gospel
In Christianity, gospel means "good news ". Received opinion holds that the word gospel derives from the Old English language god "good", and spell "news", a translation of the Greek language word e?a???????, euangelion . However, the word corresponding to "good" in Old English had a long vowel, and would normally develop into a MnE *goospel, leading some scholars to hold that the Old English term was not a translation of the Greek "good news," but rather a fresh coinage, "


Gossip
Gossip consists of casual or idle talk of any sort, sometimes slander and libel and/or devoted to discussing others. While gossip forms one of the oldest and the most common means of spreading and sharing facts and views, it also has a reputation for the introduction of errors and other variations into the information thus transmitted.


Gossypium
Gossypium is a genus of 39-40 species of shrubs in the family Malvaceae, native to the tropical and subtropical regions of both the Old World and the New World. The cotton plants, sources of commercial cotton fabric, are included in this genus. Cotton shrubs can grow up to 3 m high.


Gothenburg
Gothenburg ) is a City status in Sweden and Municipalities of Sweden in the province Vstergtland on the west-coast of Sweden. As of 2005, the population amounted to 487,000 in the actual city and 879,000 in the Metropolitan Gothenburg making it the second largest city in Sweden, after Stockholm.


Gothic architecture
Gothic architecture is a style of architecture, particularly associated with cathedrals and other churches, which flourished in Europe during the high and late Middle Ages. Beginning in 12th century France, it was known as "the French Style" during the period, with the term Gothic first appearing in the Reformation era as a stylistic insult.


Goths
The Goths were an East Germanic tribe who from the 2nd century settled Scythia, Dacia and Pannonia. In the 3rd and 4th centuries, they harried Byzantium and later adopted Arianism. In the 5th and 6th centuries, split into the Visigoths and the Ostrogoths, they established powerful follower-states of the Roman Empire in Iberian peninsula and Italy.


Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing was a German writer, philosopher, publicist, and art critic, was one of the most outstanding representatives of the Enlightenment era. With his plays and his theoretical writings he substantially influenced the development of German literature.


Gottlieb Daimler
Gottlieb Wilhelm Daimler was an engineer, industrial designer and industrialist, born in Schorndorf in what is now Germany. He was a pioneer of internal-combustion engines and automobile development. Daimler and his lifelong partner Wilhelm Maybach were two workaholic inventors whose dream was to create small, high speed engines to be mounted in any kind of locomotion device.


Gouda
*Kongsberg, Norway *Solingen, Germany


Goudy
Goudy, commonly called Goudy Old Style, is a family of old style Serif typeface originally created by Frederic_Goudy for American Type Founders in 1916. In its original ATF form and the Linotype derivatives, only the standard and italic weights of Goudy are called Goudy Old Style.


Goulash
Goulash is a spicy dish, originally from Hungary, usually made of beef, onions, capsicum, and paprika powder. Its name comes from Hungarian language gulys, the word for a stockman or herdsman. Goulash is a popular dish in Hungary and its neighbours in central Europe and the Balkans, and is widely known in other parts of the world.


Gourd
A gourd is a hollow, dried shell of a fruit in the Cucurbitaceae family of plants. Gourds can be used as a number of things, including bowls or bottles. Gourds are also used as resonating chambers on certain musical instruments including some stringed instruments and drums.


Gout
Gout is a form of arthritis caused by the accumulation of uric acid crystals in joints. It is an intensely painful disease, which in most cases affects only one joint , most commonly the big toe. The term gout comes from the Latin word "gutta" meaning "a drop" from the belief that gout was caused by drops of humorism and may be related to the large lumps of urate deposits.


Gouverneur Morris
Gouverneur Morris was an United States statesman who represented Pennsylvania in the Philadelphia Convention and was author of large sections of the Constitution of the United States. He is widely credited as the author of that document's Preamble to the United States Constitution: "We the People of the United States, in order to form a more perfect Union...".


Government bond
A government bond is a Bond issued by a national government denominated in the country's own currency. Bonds issued by national governments in foreign currencies are normally referred to as sovereign bonds.


Government Buildings
Government Buildings is a large Edwardian period building enclosing a quadrangle on Merrion Street in Dublin, Ireland, in which several key offices of the Irish Government of the Republic of Ireland are located.Among the offices of state located in the building are the


Gown
A gown is a loose outer garment from knee- to full-length worn by men and women in Europe from the early Middle Ages to the seventeenth century; later, gown was applied to any woman's garment consisting of a bodice and attached skirt and dress. A long, loosely-fitted gown called a Banyan was worn by men in the eighteenth century as an informal coat.


Grabs
Grabs is a Municipalities of Switzerland in the Wahlkreis of Werdenberg, in the canton of St. Gallen, Switzerland.


Grace Kelly
Grace, Princess of Monaco was an Academy Awards-winning United States film actor who, upon marriage to Rainier III, Prince of Monaco on April 19 1956, became Her Serene Highness The Princess of Monaco. She was the mother of the principality's current reigning Sovereign Prince, Albert II, Prince of Monaco.


Grace note
A grace note is a common term for a phenomenon of music notation used to denote several kinds of musical ornament. When occurring by itself, a single grace note normally indicates the intention of either an ornament#(Long) appoggiatura or an ornament#acciaccatura.


Gracie Allen
Gracie Allen was an American comedian who became internationally famous as the zany partner and comic foil of husband George Burns. Burns himself phrased it perfectly in a gag that got laughs no matter how often he repeated it for the rest of his life: "One day, the audience realised I had a terrific talent.


Gracula
Gracula is a genus of mynas, tropical members of the starling family of birds. This genus has representatives in tropical southern Asia from India and Sri Lanka east to Indonesia, and the Hill Myna, a popular cage bird, has been introduced to the USA.


Grade separation
Grade separation is the process of aligning a junction of two or more transport axes at different heights such that they do not disrupt the flow of traffic on one another when they cross. This is achieved by building bridges over or tunnels under the crossing site, allowing roads, railways and canals to pass another without interrupting the flow of traffic.


Grader
A grader, also commonly referred to as a blade or a Motor Grader, is an engineering vehicle with a large blade used to create a flat surface. Typical models have three axles, with the engine and cab situated above the rear axles at one end of the vehicle and a third axle at the front end of the vehicle, with the blade in between.


Gradient
A generalization of these concepts is the gradient in vector calculus; and this article is mostly about this vector gradient. The gradient of a scalar field is a vector field which points in the direction of the greatest rate of increase of the scalar field, and whose magnitude is the greatest rate of change.


Graduated cylinder
A graduated cylinder , also referred to as a measuring cylinder, is a type of laboratory glassware comprised of a tall cylinder with a range of calibrated markings that is used for visually measuring the volumes of liquids in a quantitative manner. The top usually has a small curled lip to allow easy pouring of liquids, and the bottom is usually anchored with a wide base, to keep the cylinder from easily tipping.


Graduation
Graduation is the action of receiving or conferring an academic degree or the associated ceremony. The date of event is often called degree day. In the United States and Canada, it is also used to refer to the advancement from a primary or secondary school level. Many colleges have different traditions associated with the graduation ceremony, the best-known probably being throwing mortarboards in the air.


Graffiti
Graffiti is the application of media by humans on publicly viewable surfaces. One definition is that it is "a drawing or writing scratched on a wall or other surface; a scribbling on an ancient wall, as those at Pompeii and Rome." . When done without the property owner's consent it is vandalism.


Grafting
Grafting is a method of plant propagation widely used in horticulture, where the tissues of one plant are encouraged to fuse with those of another. It is most commonly used for the propagation of trees and shrubs grown commercially. In most cases, one plant is selected for its roots, and this is called the stock or rootstock.


Graham cracker
The graham cracker was developed in nineteenth century United States by Presbyterian minister Sylvester Graham. Conceived of as a "health food", it is more like a digestive biscuit than a cracker. Though originally made solely with graham flour, most modern "graham crackers" are instead made mostly of the refined, bleached white flour to which the Rev.


Graham Greene
Henry Graham Greene, Order of Merit, Order of the Companions of Honour was a prolific England novelist, playwright, short story writer and critic whose works explore the ambivalent moral and political issues of the modern world. Greene combined serious literary acclaim with wide popularity.


GRAIN
GRAIN is an international non-governmental organization based in Barcelona, Spain, which works toward sustainable agriculture. It was formed upon the realization that the genetic diversity of the world's food crops has been drastically eliminated. Very few breeds of crop plants are in use today, as so many have fallen out of use in favor of the most robust, productive strains.


Gram
The gram or gramme symbol g, is a Physical unit of mass. Originally defined as the mass of 1 cubic centimeter of water at 4C but now taken as the one one-thousandth of the SI base unit kilogram, or Scientific notation kg, a mass preserved by the International Bureau of Weights and Measures.


Gram-positive
Gram-positive bacteria are classified as bacteria that retain a crystal violet dye during the Gram stain process. Gram-positive bacteria will appear blue or violet under a microscope, whereas Gram-negative bacteria will appear red or pink. The difference in classification is largely based on a difference in the bacteria's cell wall structure.


Gramicidin
Gramicidin is a heterogeneous mixture of six antibiotic compounds divided into three categories: Gramicidin A, B and C, all of which are obtained from the soil bacterial species Bacillus brevis and called collectively Gramicidin D. Gramicidin D are linear pentadecapeptides, that is, they are long protein chains made up of 15 amino acids.


GRAMPS
GRAMPS, an abbrevation of Genealogical Research and Analysis Management Programming System, is free genealogy software. It is a part of the GNOME project. GRAMPS allows you to easily build and keep track of your family tree. While providing all of the common capabilities of other genealogical programs.


Granada
Granada – Greek language: - Elibyrge; Latin: Illiberis or Illiberi Liberini ; Arabic language: ?????? – is a city and the capital of the province of Granada , in the autonomous communities of Spain of Andalusia, Spain.


Granary
A granary is a storehouse for threshed cereal or animal feed. In ancient or primitive granaries, pottery is the most common use of storage in these buildings. Granaries are often built above the ground to keep the stored food from mice and other animals. From ancient times grain has been stored in bulk.


Grand Canyon
The Grand Canyon is a very colorful, steep-sided gorge, carved by the Colorado River, in the United States state of Arizona. It is largely contained within the Grand Canyon National Park — one of the first national parks in the United States. President Theodore Roosevelt was a major proponent of the Grand Canyon area, visiting on numerous occasions to hunt mountain lions and enjoy the scenery.


Grand Canyon National Park
Grand Canyon National Park is one of America's oldest U.S. National Park and is located in Arizona. Within the park lies the Grand Canyon, a gorge of the Colorado River , considered to be one of the major natural wonders of the world. The park covers 1,902 mi .


Grand Fir
Grand Fir or Giant Fir is a fir native to the Pacific Northwest of North America, occurring at altitudes of sea level to 1,800 m. It is a large evergreen Pinophyta tree growing to 40-70 m tall and with a trunk diameter of up to 2 m. The leaf are needle-like, flattened, 3-6 cm long and 2 mm wide by 0.5 mm thick, glossy dark green above, and with two green-white bands of stomata below, and slightly notched at the tip.


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