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General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
General Secretary of the CPSU (Генеральный секретарь ЦК КПСС), also First Secretary 1953–1966, was the top Communist Party office and de facto Soviet leadership post from Stalin (1922) to Gorbachev's resignation in August 1991.
General Services Administration
The General Services Administration (GSA) is the U.S. federal agency, created in 1949, that manages federal real estate through its Public Buildings Service and government-wide procurement through the Federal Acquisition Service.
General Sherman incident
The General Sherman incident (제너럴셔먼호 사건) was the 1866 burning of the American merchant schooner General Sherman on the Taedong River near Pyongyang, killing all aboard, which shaped early U.S.–Korean relations and the 1871 Shinmiyangyo expedition.
General Social Survey
The General Social Survey is a nationally representative survey of US adults conducted by NORC at the University of Chicago since 1972, tracking social attitudes over time.
General Staff of the Polish Armed Forces
The General Staff of the Polish Armed Forces (Sztab Generalny Wojska Polskiego) is the principal strategic planning and advisory body of the Polish military, established in 1918.
General Staff of the Red Army
The General Staff of the Red Army (Генеральный штаб РККА) was the Soviet military's central planning body, serving as the Stavka's main working organ during World War II.
General store
A general store is a rural shop selling groceries, dry goods, and hardware, historically serving as the credit, banking, postal, and social center of its community.
General strike
A general strike, also called a mass strike or popular strike, is a work stoppage by workers across many industries and whole communities to achieve economic or political goals.
General surgery
General surgery is the broad surgical specialty covering the alimentary tract, abdomen, breast, endocrine, vascular, trauma, and critical care, requiring at least five years of residency, with over 234 million procedures performed globally each year.
General theory of Banach algebras
The general theory of Banach algebras, which began in 1941, examines complete normed algebras with submultiplicative norms. It details concepts like closed ideals, quotients, and the Gelfand transform.
General Tom Thumb
General Tom Thumb, stage name of Charles Sherwood Stratton (1838-1883), was a Bridgeport-born little person entertainer managed by P.T. Barnum, billed as an eleven-year-old English marvel, received by Queen Victoria, and famous for his 1863 wedding to Lavinia Warren.
General transcription factor
A general transcription factor, also called a basal transcription factor, is a protein required to initiate transcription by RNA polymerase II at essentially all protein-coding promoters.
General transcription factors in disease and therapy
General transcription factors in disease and therapy covers congenital transcription syndromes from TFIIH and BRF2 mutations, cancer-linked alterations in the basal machinery, and emerging therapies targeting transcription factors.
General Tso's chicken
General Tso's chicken (左宗棠鸡) is a Chinese-American deep-fried chicken dish in sweet-spicy sauce, named for Qing general Zuo Zongtang, who never ate it. Invented in Taiwan in the 1950s by Hunan chef Peng Chang-kuei, it reached New York in 1973.
General View of Mt. Geumgang
General View of Mt. Geumgang (Geumgang jeondo, 금강전도) is a true-view landscape painting by Jeong Seon, dated 1734, a National Treasure showing the inner Geumgang mountains in one scroll.
General Who Crosses the Liao
The General Who Crosses the Liao (度辽将军) was a permanent Eastern Han frontier command, based at Manbai in Wuyuan from 65 CE to guard the Southern Xiongnu.
General Who Pacifies the Far Distance (Fuyuan Dajiangjun)
The General Who Pacifies the Far Distance (抚远大将军) was the supreme Qing field command in the Qinghai, Tibet, and Zunghar wars, first held by Yin Ti in 1718.
General will
The general will (French: volonté générale) is a concept at the heart of Rousseau's 1762 The Social Contract: what the community wills for the common good, distinct from private interests.
General Zod
General Zod (Dru-Zod) is a DC Comics supervillain, Kryptonian military leader and Superman enemy, first appearing in Adventure Comics #283 (1961); banished to the Phantom Zone, famous for Terence Stamp's "Kneel before Zod" and Michael Shannon's Man of Steel portrayal.
General-Purpose AI Code of Practice
The General-Purpose AI Code of Practice, or GPAI Code of Practice, is a voluntary code the European Commission published in July 2025 to help AI providers comply with the EU AI Act.
General-purpose bomb
A general-purpose (GP) bomb is an air-dropped munition carrying 40 to 50 percent of its weight in high explosive, producing both blast and fragmentation effects.
General-purpose computing on graphics processing units
General-purpose computing on graphics processing units (GPGPU), or GPU computing, uses a graphics processor for non-graphics work like deep learning, scientific simulation, and dense linear algebra.
General-purpose input/output
General-purpose input/output (GPIO), also known as general purpose IO, is a digital pin on an integrated circuit that software configures as input or output to monitor switches and drive LEDs.
General-purpose machine gun
A general-purpose machine gun (GPMG) is a belt-fed, air-cooled machine gun that serves in light, medium, and mounted roles, first exemplified by Germany's MG34 of the 1930s.
General-purpose programming language
A general-purpose programming language is a programming language designed to express programs across a wide range of application domains rather than one narrow problem domain; familiar examples include C, Java, Python, and JavaScript.
General-relativistic magnetohydrodynamic simulations of black hole accretion
General-relativistic magnetohydrodynamic (GRMHD) simulations numerically model magnetized plasma accreting onto black holes, underlying Event Horizon Telescope interpretations of Sgr A and M87 in SANE and MAD states.
General's Lady (将军家的小娘子)
General's Lady (将军家的小娘子, Jiang Jun Jia De Xiao Nan Zi), a 2020 Youku Chinese costume romance-comedy, 30 episodes, adapted from Yanbo Jiangnan's novel; Tang Min and Caesar Wu play Shen Jin and General Chu Xiuming, whose arranged marriage survives court intrigue.
Generala
Generala (also General, Escalero) is a Latin American five-dice game of the Yacht family, popular in Argentina, Uruguay and Chile: three rolls per turn, eleven scorecard boxes, servida first-roll bonuses, and a served Generala that wins instantly.
Generalbezirk Weißruthenien
Generalbezirk Weißruthenien, the General District of Belarus, was a Nazi German civil-administration district in occupied Soviet Belarus from 1941 to 1944, governed from Minsk by Generalkommissar Wilhelm Kube as one of four districts of Reichskommissariat Ostland.
Generalfeldmarschall
Generalfeldmarschall (field marshal) was the highest German military rank from Prussia through the Wehrmacht; abolished 1920, reinstated 1936 for Blomberg, and absent from today's Bundeswehr.