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Gelato
Gelato is the Italian-style frozen dessert made from milk, sugar, fruit, and eggs, churned with little air and served warmer than ice cream. Originating in 16th-century Tuscany, it differs from US ice cream by lower fat, lower overrun, and denser texture.
Gelawdewos
Gelawdewos (Ge'ez: ገላውዴዎስ), known in European sources as Claudius, was Emperor of Ethiopia from 1540 to 1559, defeating Ahmad Gragn at Wayna Daga in 1543 and dying in battle against Nur of Adal in 1559.
Gelboys (สถานะกั๊กใจ)
Gelboys (สถานะกั๊กใจ) is a 2025 Thai BL series directed by Boss Kuno, produced by LOOKE as an iQIYI Original: four Bangkok teens in undefined relationships around Siam Square gel-nail culture, 7 episodes on One31/iQIYI, with a 2026 second season.
Gelcasting
Gelcasting is a near-net-shape ceramic forming process in which a slurry of ceramic powder and monomers gels inside a mold, developed at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in the 1990s.
Geldanamycin
Geldanamycin is a benzoquinone ansamycin antibiotic isolated in 1970 from Streptomyces hygroscopicus, best known as the prototype Hsp90 inhibitor and starting point for experimental anticancer drugs.
Gelderland
Gelderland (Gelre, Guelders) is the largest Dutch province by area, 5,137 km2, capital Arnhem, about 2.16 million inhabitants in 51 municipalities, descended from the medieval duchy of Gelre.
Gelding
Gelding: a castrated male horse, or the castration procedure itself. Most common equine surgery worldwide, done to curb stallion behavior; complication rates 10.2-60%, mortality up to 1%.
Gelechiidae
Gelechiidae, the twirler moths, is a large microlepidoptera family in Gelechioidea with about 4,700 described species in 500 genera, defined by the male gnathos, with leaf-mining larvae and major crop pests like Tuta absoluta.
Gelede
Gelede is a Yoruba masquerade ceremony in which masked male dancers honor the spiritual powers of women, especially elderly "our mothers"; UNESCO recognized it in 2008.
Gelede headdresses
Gelede headdresses, known in Yoruba as igi Gelede, are carved wooden helmet masks worn by male dancers in Nigeria, Benin, and Togo to honor and appease the spiritual powers of women.
Geledi Sultanate
The Geledi Sultanate (Geledi) was a Somali sultanate of the Gobroon dynasty, centered on Afgoy on the lower Shabelle River and dominant in southern Somalia by the mid-1800s.
Geleki Oil and Gas Field
Geleki Oil and Gas Field is an oil and gas field in Sivasagar district, Assam, India, discovered by ONGC in 1968 and producing commercially since 1974.
Gelena Topilina
Gelena Dmitriyevna Topilina (Гелена Дмитриевна Топилина), born 1994, Russian artistic swimmer; Rio 2016 Olympic team gold (196.1439), three 2015 Kazan world titles, three European titles; retired 2016.
Geleophysic dysplasia
Geleophysic dysplasia (geleophysic dwarfism) is a rare autosomal skeletal dysplasia with short stature, small hands and feet, a "happy" face, and progressive cardiac valvular thickening, caused by ADAMTSL2, FBN1, or LTBP3 variants with enhanced TGF-beta signaling.
Gelephu Mindfulness City
Gelephu Mindfulness City (GMC) is a Special Administrative Region in southern Bhutan, announced by King Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck in December 2023, chartered February 2024, with its own laws, eight core industries, and a BIG master plan.
Gelfand representation
The Gelfand representation, also called the Gelfand transform or Gelfand duality, sends each element of a commutative Banach algebra to a function on its character space, introduced by Gelfand in 1941.
Gelfand–Naimark theorem
The Gelfand–Naimark theorem, also called the Gelfand–Naimark representation theorem, is a 1943 result stating that every commutative C-algebra is a function algebra C₀(X) and every C-algebra is a -algebra of bounded operators on a Hilbert space.
Gelfand–Naimark–Segal construction
The Gelfand–Naimark–Segal construction, also called the GNS construction or GNS theorem, converts a state on a C-algebra into a Hilbert-space representation with a cyclic vector, a correspondence Segal completed in 1947.
Gelfond's constant
Gelfond's constant is the transcendental number e^π, approximately 23.1407, proven transcendental in 1934 by Aleksandr Gelfond and independently by Theodor Schneider in 1935, settling Hilbert's seventh problem.
Gelgel Kingdom
The Gelgel Kingdom was a Hindu kingdom on Bali, Indonesia, ruling from the late 1300s until the late 1600s as the principal cultural successor of Majapahit.
Geli Raubal
Geli Raubal (Angela Maria Raubal, 1908–1931), Adolf Hitler's half-niece, lived in his Munich Prinzregentenplatz apartment and died there by gunshot on 18 September 1931; officially ruled suicide, the case remains disputed.
Gelibolu
Gelibolu (Gallipoli, from Kallipolis) is a town and district of Çanakkale Province, Turkey, at the northern entrance of the Dardanelles; Ottoman naval base from 1354, population 33,062 (2025), mayor Ali Kamil Soyuak.
Gelignite
Gelignite, also called blasting gelatine, is a stable, jelly-like blasting explosive made by dissolving nitrocellulose in nitroglycerin; invented by Alfred Nobel in 1875, it dominated mining and construction blasting for roughly a century.
Gelindo Bordin
Gelindo Bordin (born 1959, Longare, Vicenza) is an Italian marathon runner, 1988 Seoul Olympic champion in 2:10:32, twice European champion (1986, 1990), 1987 World bronze medalist, and 1990 Boston winner in 2:08:19.
Gelisol
Gelisol is one of the twelve soil orders in USDA Soil Taxonomy, defined by permafrost within 100 cm of the surface; in the United States, Gelisols occur only in Alaska.
Gellan gum
Gellan gum, sold as Phytagel and Gelrite, is a polysaccharide made by fermenting the bacterium Sphingomonas elodea and used as a gelling and thickening agent in food.
Gelleneuve Gallo-Roman villa
Gelleneuve Gallo-Roman villa: a fourth-century late Roman villa at Mouchan (Gers), France, in a meander of the Osse, excavated 1953–1956 by Georges Fouet and Jean Boube and reused from the 6th century as a Merovingian sarcophagus necropolis.
Gellért Jászai
Gellért Jászai is a Hungarian businessman who is Chairman and CEO of 4iG Plc, the Budapest-listed telecom, IT, space, and defense group, and its majority shareholder.
Gelli Haha
Gelli Haha, also known as Angel Abaya, is the experimental dance-pop persona of a Los Angeles-based Filipino American musician from Boise, Idaho, whose 2025 debut album Switcheroo with Sean Guerin of De Lux and all-red Gelliverse live show earned Pitchfork acclaim.
Gelligaer
Gelligaer, Caerphilly, Wales: village preserving two successive Roman auxiliary forts (Flavian earth-and-timber fort c. AD 74-8; Trajanic stone fort AD 103-11, 1.4 ha, 500-strong garrison), practice camps, Roman road, bath-house annexe, and medieval St Cattwg church.