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Gege Akutami (芥見下々)
Gege Akutami (芥見下々) is the pseudonymous Japanese manga artist, born 1992, who wrote Jujutsu Kaisen (呪術廻戦), the 150-million-copy dark fantasy serialized in Weekly Shonen Jump from 2018, later spinoff Jujutsu Kaisen Modulo with Yuji Iwasaki.
GeGeGe no Kitarō (ゲゲゲの鬼太郎)
GeGeGe no Kitarō (ゲゲゲの鬼太郎), also Hakaba no Kitarō, is Shigeru Mizuki's yōkai manga and anime franchise about the ghost-boy Kitarō, first drawn in 1950s kamishibai and rental manga, renamed in 1967, and made famous by the 1968 TV anime.
Gegenbauer polynomials
Gegenbauer polynomials, also called ultraspherical polynomials, are classical orthogonal polynomials on (-1,1), introduced by Leopold Gegenbauer in 1875, generalizing the Legendre polynomials and arising as zonal spherical harmonics.
Geghard (Գեղարդ)
Geghard (Geghardavank, Գեղարդ) is a rock-cut Armenian Apostolic monastery in Kotayk Province's Azat Valley, founded by tradition in the 4th century, with its main church of 1215, spear relic, and UNESCO World Heritage inscription in 2000.
Geguritan
Geguritan is a genre of traditional Balinese narrative poetry composed in metered stanzas called pupuh, written in ordinary Balinese, sung in group activities, and ranked alongside the kakawin and kidung.
Gegute Tessera
Gegute Tessera, a 1,600-km-wide deformed tessera terrain on Venus at 17°N 121°E in the Niobe quadrangle, named for a Lithuanian goddess of time, approved 1997.
Gehenna
Gehenna, also known as Gehinnom or the Valley of Hinnom, is a valley south of Jerusalem that became a name for hell in Jewish and Christian tradition.
Geheyan hydroelectric plant
The Geheyan hydroelectric plant is a 1,200 MW hydropower station on the Qingjiang River in Hubei, China, held by a 151-m high concrete gravity arch dam with 3.12 billion m³ of reservoir storage.
Gehlee Dangca
Gehlee Dangca (젤리당카), known as Gehlee, is a Filipina singer and former beauty queen who placed fourth on Universe Ticket and debuted in 2024 with the girl group UNIS.
Gehnäll Persson
Gehnäll Persson (1910–1976), Swedish dressage rider on horse Knaust; disqualified at London 1948 for lacking officer rank, then won team dressage gold at Helsinki 1952 and Stockholm 1956 with Saint Cyr and Boltenstern.
Gehraiyaan
Gehraiyaan (2022) is a Hindi drama-romance film directed by Shakun Batra, streaming on Amazon Prime Video, starring Deepika Padukone as Alisha, whose affair with her cousin's fiancé Zain (Siddhant Chaturvedi) drives a psychological study of infidelity and trauma.
Gehraiyaan (2017 TV series)
Gehraiyaan (2017) is a Hindi horror web series on Viu, created by Vikram Bhatt and directed by Sidhant Sachdev, starring Sanjeeda Sheikh and Vatsal Sheth; promoted as India's first horror web series, 10 episodes, 2017.
Gehyra
Gehyra (web-toed geckos, dtellas, four-clawed geckos), genus of scansorial geckos in Gekkonidae erected by Gray in 1834; type species G. oceanica; ranges from Southeast Asia to Australia and the Pacific, with roughly 36-80 recognized species depending on source.
Geʽez script
Geʽez script (ግዕዝ, Ethiopic, fidäl), an abugida derived from Ancient South Arabian script, developed for the Geʽez language and now used for Amharic, Tigrinya, and other Ethiopian and Eritrean languages; liturgical and Unicode-encoded.
GEICO
GEICO, the Government Employees Insurance Company, is an American direct-to-consumer auto insurer founded in 1936 in San Antonio, Texas, and owned by Berkshire Hathaway since 1996.
Geiger counter
The Geiger counter, or Geiger-Müller counter, is a portable instrument that detects ionizing radiation; Hans Geiger devised it in 1908, and Walther Müller developed the modern tube in 1928.
Geiger–Marsden experiment
The Geiger–Marsden experiment was a series of alpha-particle scattering measurements made at the University of Manchester by Hans Geiger and Ernest Marsden, leading Rutherford to propose the atomic nucleus.
Geiger–Müller tube
The Geiger–Müller tube, also known as the GM tube or Geiger tube, is a gas-filled radiation detector invented in 1928 by Hans Geiger and Walter Müller in Kiel, Germany.
Geir Karlstad
Geir Karlstad, Norwegian former long-track speed skater (born 1963), 1992 Albertville Olympic 5000 m gold and 10000 m bronze, five world records, 1986 Oscarstatuetten, national coach 1998–2002.
Geiranger
Geiranger is a village of about 215 residents in Stranda, Norway, at the head of the Geirangerfjorden, a UNESCO World Heritage fjord since 2005, a major cruise destination facing overtourism, zero-emission shipping rules from 2026, and Åknes rockslide tsunami risk.
Geirvimul Catena
Geirvimul Catena is a 113 km chain of six impact craters on Jupiter's moon Callisto, centered at 48.9°N, named for a Norse river in 1997, formed by a tidally disrupted comet.
Geisel Library
Geisel Library is the main library of UC San Diego, a Brutalist cantilevered building by William Pereira opened 1970, renamed in 1995 for Dr. Seuss and Audrey Geisel after a $20 million gift; distinct from Saint Anselm College's Geisel Library.
Geisha (芸者)
Geisha (芸者; Kyoto geiko 芸妓, trainees maiko 舞妓) are professional Japanese banquet entertainers performing dance, song, and shamisen in hanamachi districts such as Kyoto's five and Tokyo's six, with Edo-period male origins, Meiji-era hanamachi formation, and steep modern decline.
Geisli
Geisli is a skaldic drápa of 71 stanzas by the Icelandic poet Einarr Skúlason, praising Saint Óláfr Haraldsson and his miracles, recited in Nidaros Cathedral in 1153.
Geislingen
Geislingen an der Steige, a town of about 26,800 in Landkreis Göppingen, Baden-Württemberg, Germany; founded by the Counts of Helfenstein, first named 1108, Ulm 1396-1802, industrialized via WMF.
Geismar (company)
Geismar, formally Geismar Rail Industry Technologies & Services (GRITS) since 2025, is a French manufacturer of railway track installation and maintenance equipment founded in 1924.
Geissler tube
A Geissler tube is a sealed glass tube with gas at low pressure that glows in a color set by its gas when high voltage is applied, invented by Heinrich Geissler in 1858.
Geisterjager
Geisterjager (Geisterjäger, "ghost hunter") names several games: HABA's 2007 3D-castle children's deduction game, SmartGames' 2016 solo logic puzzle, and the 1998 John Sinclair PC action adventure.
Geistesblitz
Geistesblitz (Ghost Blitz) is a 2010 Jacques Zeimet reaction game from Zoch Verlag for 2–8 players: grab the right one of five wooden figures based on card colors, most cards wins.
Geistesgeschichte
Geistesgeschichte, German for "history of spirit," is a humanities approach reading art and literature as the expression of an age's spirit, dominant in interwar Germany.