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Geauga Lake
Geauga Lake: Ohio amusement park (1887-2007) in Aurora/Bainbridge, later Six Flags Ohio and Six Flags Worlds of Adventure; SeaWorld Ohio merged in 2001; Cedar Fair closed it; site now Aurora Park redevelopment.
Geb
Geb, Egyptian earth god of the Heliopolitan Ennead, son of Shu and Tefnut, husband of Nut, father of Osiris, Isis, Seth, and Nephthys; linked to kingship, the Throne of Geb, snakes, and the goose hieroglyph.
Geba
Geba (Hebrew גֶּ֫בַע, Gevaʿ, meaning "hill") was a Benjaminite town in the Hebrew Bible, identified with the village of Jebaʽ about 9 km north of Jerusalem, facing Michmash.
Gebel Adda
Gebel Adda, also Jebel Adda, was a fortified citadel settlement on the Nile in Lower Nubia, occupied from about 200 CE and now submerged under Lake Nasser.
Gebel Barkal Stela of Thutmose III
A granite stela of Egyptian pharaoh Thutmose III, dedicated to Amun-Re about 1432 BC at Gebel Barkal in Sudan, now in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
Gebel el-Ahmar
Gebel el-Ahmar, Arabic for "the red mountain," is an ancient Egyptian quartzite quarry on the Nile's east bank near Cairo, the source of the Colossi of Memnon and other New Kingdom royal monuments.
Gebel el-Arak
Gebel el-Arak (جبل العركى) is a plateau in Upper Egypt, south of Abydos, known almost entirely as the reported findspot of the Predynastic Gebel el-Arak knife in the Louvre.
Gebel el-Arak knife
The Gebel el-Arak knife, also known as the Gebel al-Arak knife, is a Predynastic Egyptian flint knife with a carved ivory handle, held in the Louvre since 1914.
Gebel el-Haridi
Gebel el-Haridi is an archaeological site on the east bank of the Nile in Upper Egypt, used from the Old Kingdom through the Roman period.
Gebel el-Muzawaka
Gebel el-Muzawaka (Qaret al-Muzawaka), a Roman-era rock-cut necropolis in Egypt's Dakhla Oasis, 5 km west of Qasr, with 1st-century painted tombs of Petosiris and Petubastis, rediscovered by Ahmed Fakhry.
Gebel el-Silsila
Gebel el-Silsila, ancient Kheny or Khenu, is an ancient sandstone quarry site on both banks of the Nile in Upper Egypt that supplied stone for Egypt's great New Kingdom temples.
Gebel Ramlah
Gebel Ramlah is a complex of Final Neolithic cemeteries in Egypt's Western Desert near Nabta Playa, excavated since 2000 and dated to about 4500–4300 BC.
Gebel Sheikh Suleiman inscription
The Gebel Sheikh Suleiman inscription is an Early Dynastic Egyptian rock relief at the Second Cataract of the Nile in Lower Nubia, recording a king's victory over Nubians.
Gebel Tjauti
Gebel Tjauti is a rock ridge in the Theban Western Desert, Egypt, where the Alamat Tal desert road climbs to the high plateau and inscriptions span predynastic to Christian times.
Gebelein
Gebelein, known in Greek as Pathyris, is a group of archaeological sites on the west bank of the Nile about 28 km south-west of Luxor, Egypt.
Gebelein Papyri
The Gebelein Papyri are eleven complete administrative scrolls of Egypt's Fourth Dynasty, found in a tomb at Gebelein in 1935 and now held in Turin's Museo Egizio.
Gebelein predynastic mummies
The Gebelein predynastic mummies are seven naturally mummified bodies from Predynastic Egypt in the British Museum, including "Ginger," whose bearers carry the world's earliest known figural tattoos.
Geberit
Geberit AG is a Swiss sanitary-technology group headquartered in Rapperswil-Jona, founded in 1874, that makes concealed in-wall cisterns, installation frames, and piping systems sold across Europe.
Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher
Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher (1742–1819), Prussian field marshal, nicknamed Marshal Forward, commanded Prussia's armies at Katzbach, Leipzig, the 1814 invasion of France, and Waterloo, where his arrival decided the battle.
Gebhard Ludwig Himmler
Gebhard Ludwig Himmler (1898 or 1889–1982), German engineer, Munich vocational-school director, and REM vocational-training department head; older brother of Reichsführer SS Heinrich Himmler; 1923 putsch participant, SS member, denazified as Belasteter.
Gebhard Schertler
Gebhard F. X. Schertler, born 1957, is an Austrian structural biologist known for determining structures of membrane proteins and G protein-coupled receptors like rhodopsin, and headed Biology and Chemistry at the Paul Scherrer Institute.
Gebirgsjäger
Gebirgsjäger, German mountain light infantry of the Bundeswehr's Gebirgsjägerbrigade 23 "Bayern" in the Bavarian Alps; three battalions at Bad Reichenhall, Bischofswiesen, and Mittenwald; trace origin to 1914 ski troops and the 1915 Alpenkorps.
Gebisa Ejeta
Gebisa Ejeta is an Ethiopian plant breeder and geneticist whose drought- and Striga-resistant sorghum hybrids transformed farming across sub-Saharan Africa, earning the 2009 World Food Prize.
Geboin (crater on Iapetus)
Geboin is an 81-km-wide impact crater on Saturn's moon Iapetus at 58.6N, 173.4W, approved by the IAU in 1982 and named for a character in The Song of Roland who led Charlemagne's second column.
Gebre Kristos Desta
Gebre Kristos Desta, also written Gebrekristos Desta (1932–1981), was an Ethiopian painter and poet credited with bringing modern art to Ethiopia; he trained in Cologne and taught at the Addis Ababa Fine Arts School.
Gebre Meskel
Gebre Meskel (Gäbrä-Mäsqäl, 'servant of the cross') is a traditional sixth-century king of Aksum and son of Kaleb, canonized by the Ethiopian Church with a feast on 8 December.
Gebrehiwot Baykedagn
Gebrehiwot Baykedagn (ገብረሂወት ባይከዳኝ) was an Ethiopian economist and civil servant, a pioneer of modern Ethiopian economic thought who wrote in Amharic under Emperor Menelik II and died in 1919.
Gebrüder Teichmann
Gebrüder Teichmann, the Teichmann Brothers, are a German electronic-music duo of brothers Andi and Hannes Teichmann, Berlin-based DJs and producers who run the label NOLAND.
Gebu (high steward)
Gebu was a high steward of Egypt during the late Middle Kingdom, an official managing the provisions, granaries, and herds that sustained the royal house.
Gebze
Gebze is an industrial district of Kocaeli Province, Turkey, east of Istanbul on the İzmit Gulf. Largest Kocaeli district (414,960 people, 2025), hosting about 15% of Turkish industry and the GOSB industrial zone.