Gog
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Gog, Gogg or Gogs may refer to:
Biblical:
People:
In geography:
In fiction:
Other meanings:
Biblical:
- Gog and MagogGog and MagogGog and Magog are names that appear primarily in various Jewish, Christian and Muslim scriptures, as well as numerous subsequent references in other works. Their context can be either genealogical or eschatological and apocalyptic, as in Ezekiel and Revelation...
People:
- Anikó GógAniko GogAnikó Góg is a female athlete from Hungary. She competes in triathlon. Góg competed at the first Olympic triathlon at the 2000 Summer Olympics. She took thirty-ninth place with a total time of 2:14:50.55....
, Hungarian triathlete - Gog or "gogledd", a person from North WalesNorth WalesNorth Wales is the northernmost unofficial region of Wales. It is bordered to the south by the counties of Ceredigion and Powys in Mid Wales and to the east by the counties of Shropshire in the West Midlands and Cheshire in North West England...
from the Welsh word for "north" - GOG SvendborgGOG SvendborgGOG Svendborg TGI is a handball club based in the small town of Gudme on Funen, Denmark. The club is one of the most successful in the history of Danish handball...
, a Danish team in the Danish Handball League - Gorillas of Gospel a Christian rap/rock band in the Maryland.
- Gynecologic Oncology GroupGynecologic Oncology GroupThe Gynecologic Oncology Group is a non-profit organization funded by the National Cancer Institute with the purpose of supporting research for the prevention and treatment of all gynecologic cancers, such as ovarian cancer, cervical cancer, endometrial cancer, vulvar cancer, and vaginal...
or GOG, a non-profit organization researching gynecological cancers
In geography:
- Gog (woreda)Gog (woreda)Gog is one of the 12 woredas in the Gambela Region of Ethiopia. Part of the Anuak Zone, Gog is bordered on the south by the Akula or Chiarini River which separates it from the Southern Nations, Nationalities and Peoples Region, on the southwest by the Akobo River which separates it from South...
, a district in Gambela, Ethiopia - Gog, a 2600-metre mountain summit in North East GreenlandGeography of GreenlandGreenland is located between the Arctic Ocean and the North Atlantic Ocean, northeast of Canada and northwest of Iceland. Greenland has no land boundaries and 44,087 km of coastline. A sparse population is confined to small settlements along the coast. Greenland possesses the world's second...
- Gog, an archaic spelling of the town of GochGochGoch is a town in the district of Kleve, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is situated close to the border with the Netherlands, approx. 12 km south of Kleve, and 27 km southeast of Nijmegen.-Cultural ties:...
, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany - Gog Magog DownsGog Magog DownsThe Gog Magog Downs are a range of low chalk hills, extending for several miles to the southeast of Cambridge in England. The highest points are marked on Ordnance Survey 1:25000 maps as "Telegraph Clump"Telegraph Clump, at , Little Trees HillLittle Trees Hill, and Wandlebury Hill,Wandlebury...
or The Gogs, a hill range south of Cambridge, England
In fiction:
- Gog, a 1931 satiric book by Giovanni PapiniGiovanni PapiniGiovanni Papini was an Italian journalist, essayist, literary critic, poet, and novelist.-Early life:...
- Gog, a 1967 novel by Andrew SinclairAndrew SinclairDr Andrew Sinclair is a prolific British novelist, historian, biographer, critic and film-maker. He was a Founding Member of Churchill College, Cambridge. He directed the film, now regarded as a classic, of Under Milk Wood. His book The Better Half: The Emancipation of the American Woman won the...
- Gog (film)Gog (film)Gog is a 1954 science fiction film directed by Herbert L. Strock and released in 1954 by United Artists. It is notable for having been shot in color, widescreen and 3-D...
, a 1954 3-D science fiction film by Herbert L. Strock - Gog (comics)Gog (comics)Gog is the name of several different fictional characters in the comics published by DC Comics. The first version first appeared in New Year's Evil: Gog #1, , and was created by Mark Waid and Jerry Ordway.-The Kingdom:...
, a DC Comics super-villain - Gog (Marvel Comics)Gog (Marvel Comics)Gog is a fictional character, a comic book supervillain in the . Created by writer Roy Thomas and Gil Kane, the character first appears in The Amazing Spider-Man #103....
, a Marvel Comics super-villain and monster - Gogg, a character in the 1993 television series CroCroCro is an American animated television series produced by the Children's Television Workshop and Film Roman. It debuted on September 18, 1993 as part of the Saturday morning line-up for fall 1993 on ABC. Cro did not do well with the viewers...
- GogsGogsGogs! is a claymation-style animated television series which takes the form of a sitcom, originally aired on Welsh television in 1993, and aired to the rest of the United Kingdom on the BBC in 1996...
, an animated UK television series - Guardians of Ga'HooleGuardians of Ga'HooleGuardians of Ga’Hoole is a fantasy book series written by Kathryn Lasky and published by Scholastic. The series, which ended in 2008 with the publication of The War of the Ember, has a total of fifteen books. Apart from the main series there are a few more books and spin offs set in the same universe...
or GoG, a New York Times best-selling book series - Guardians of the Galaxy (1969 team), the original team from Earth-691
- Guardians of the Galaxy (2008 team), the most recent team from the main Marvel dimension, Earth-616
Other meanings:
- GOG, an acronym for Good Old Games, a website specializing in selling licensed digital copies of old games.
- GoG, an acronym for Groovy on GrailsGrails (Framework)Grails is an open source web application framework which uses the Groovy programming language . It is intended to be a high-productivity framework by following the "coding by convention" paradigm, providing a stand-alone development environment and hiding much of the configuration detail from the...
, a web application framework alternative to Ruby on Rails