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Gáe Bulg
Gáe Bulg, also Gáe Bolg or Gáe Bulga, is Cú Chulainn's barbed spear in the Irish Ulster Cycle, cast from the foot and opening into thirty barbs; also a causality-reversing Noble Phantasm in the Fate franchise.
Gaea (crater on Amalthea)
Gaea is an 80-km-wide impact crater near the south pole of Jupiter's moon Amalthea, IAU-named in 1979 for the Greek earth goddess. Its floor and rim hold Amalthea's brightest albedo material, and it is among the largest bowl-shaped craters known.
Gaehwapa
Gaehwapa (개화파) was a Korean reformist faction of the 1870s and 1880s that sought to modernize Joseon; its radical wing staged the failed Gapsin Coup of 1884.
Gaekwad dynasty
Gaekwad dynasty, Maratha house (also Gaikwad) that ruled Baroda State in Gujarat from Pilaji Rao's conquests in the 1720s until merger into India on 1 May 1949; best known under Sayajirao III (1875–1939) for compulsory education and the Bank of Baroda.
Gaël Clichy
Gaël Clichy (born 1985, Toulouse) is a French former left-back; Arsenal 2003-2011 (Invincibles), Manchester City 2011-2017, Başakşehir, Servette; 20 France caps 2008-2013; later Thierry Henry's assistant.
Gaël Faye
Gaël Faye, born in 1982 in Bujumbura, Burundi, is a Burundian-French rapper, singer-songwriter, and novelist who fled to France in 1995 and won the 2024 prix Renaudot for Jacaranda.
Gael García Bernal
Gael García Bernal (born 1978, Guadalajara) is a Mexican actor, director, and producer known for Amores perros, Y tu mamá también, The Motorcycle Diaries, Mozart in the Jungle (Golden Globe 2016), and Coco, and co-founder of Canana and the Ambulante festival.
Gaël Kakuta
Gaël Romeo Kakuta Mambenga (born 1991, Lille), DR Congo attacking midfielder and former France youth star; left Lens for Chelsea in 2007, triggering a FIFA transfer ban later annulled by CAS; long journeyman career.
Gaël Monfils
Gaël Monfils (La Monf, Sliderman), French tennis player born 1986 in Paris; career-high ATP No. 6 (2016), 13 titles, 586 wins, 2008 Roland Garros and 2016 US Open semifinalist; retired October 2026.
Gael Touya
Gaël Touya (Gaël Roger Touya), born 1973, French sabre fencer, 2004 Athens Olympic team gold with brother Damien and Julien Pillet, 1997 world team champion, later a fencing coach and PE teacher.
Gaelic
Gaelic (Scottish Gaelic, Gàidhlig) is a Goidelic Celtic language spoken in Scotland for over 1,500 years, closely related to Irish and Manx. The 2022 census counted 130,161 people with some Gaelic skills; it gained official status under the Scottish Languages Act 2025.
Gaelic Athletic Association
Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA, Cumann Lúthchleas Gael), Ireland's largest sporting body, founded 1 November 1884 in Hayes's Hotel, Thurles by Michael Cusack and Maurice Davin; amateur, parish- and county-based, governs hurling and Gaelic football.
Gaelic broadcasting in Scotland
Gaelic broadcasting in Scotland is the production of services in Scottish Gaelic, centered on the MG ALBA and BBC partnership. It began with an Aberdeen broadcast in 1923.
Gaelic football
Gaelic football (Peil Ghaelach), Irish field invasion game run by the GAA since 1884; 15-a-side, round ball, goals worth 3 points, points 1; major FRC rule reforms adopted 2025-2026.
Gaelic games
Gaelic games (Cluichí Gaelacha) are Ireland's indigenous sports, chiefly hurling and Gaelic football, plus camogie, handball, and rounders, run by the amateur GAA founded in 1884, with over 2,200 Irish clubs and 437 clubs in 51 countries abroad.
Gaelic Ireland
Gaelic Ireland: the Gaelic-speaking society of Ireland defined by túath lordships, Brehon law, and the Irish language, from Clontarf (1014) through the Norman invasion, Gaelic Recovery, and Tudor conquest to the Flight of the Earls (1607).
Gaelic Language (Scotland) Act 2005
Gaelic Language (Scotland) Act 2005 (Achd na Gàidhlig (Alba) 2005), 2005 asp 7, a Scottish Parliament Act establishing Bòrd na Gàidhlig, national and authority Gaelic language plans, and Gaelic education guidance; amended by the Scottish Languages Act 2025.
Gaelic League
The Gaelic League (Conradh na Gaeilge) is an Irish-language organization founded in Dublin in 1893 by Douglas Hyde and Eoin MacNeill, which grew to 100,000 members and remains active today.
Gaels
Gaels (Gaeil, Gàidheil) are the Goidelic-speaking ethnolinguistic group of Ireland, the Scottish Highlands and Islands, and the Isle of Man; key facts include the Gall-Ghaidheil of the 850s annals, the medieval Kingdom of the Isles, the 18th-century "Celtic" label, and 130,161 people with Gaelic skills in Scotland's 2022 census.
Gaelscoil
A Gaelscoil (plural: Gaelscoileanna) is an Irish-medium primary school in Ireland, mostly outside the Gaeltacht, teaching children from English-speaking homes through full immersion; about 45,000 pupils attend.
Gaeltacht
An Ghaeltacht (the Gaeltacht): officially designated Irish-speaking districts of Ireland, in Donegal, Mayo, Galway, Kerry and elsewhere; 106,220 residents in 2022, 66% Irish speakers, redefined into 26 Language Planning Areas by the Gaeltacht Act 2012.
Gaerdan
Gaerdan (噶尔丹), also known as Boshugtu Khan, was a leader of the Dzungar Oirats who fought three campaigns against the Kangxi emperor before his death in 1697.
Gaero of Baekje
Gaero of Baekje (개로왕) was the 21st king of Baekje, one of the Three Kingdoms of Korea, reigning 455 to 475 and killed when Goguryeo took the capital Hanseong.
GAESRD trial
GAESRD (GADAD study), NCT06836206: open-label randomized crossover phase 1/2 trial at SEHA Kidney Care, Abu Dhabi, testing 30 g/day gum Arabic versus water for preserving residual renal function in 40 dialysis patients with ESRD.
Gaetan Boucher
Gaétan Boucher, Canadian long track speed skater born 1958 in Charlesbourg, Quebec; four Olympic medals including 1,000m and 1,500m gold at Sarajevo 1984, first Canadian man with individual Winter Olympic gold.
Gaëtan Dugas
Gaétan Dugas (1953–1984), French-Canadian Air Canada flight attendant wrongly dubbed AIDS "Patient Zero"; marked Patient O (Outside of California) in a 1984 CDC cluster study; exonerated by 2016 Nature genome analysis showing HIV reached New York around 1971.
Gaetano Badalamenti
Gaetano "Don Tano" Badalamenti (1923–2004), Sicilian Mafia boss of Cinisi and head of the Sicilian Commission 1973–1978, chief defendant of the FBI's Pizza Connection heroin case, sentenced to 45 years in the US and life in Italy for Peppino Impastato's murder.
Gaetano Donizetti
Gaetano Donizetti (1797-1848), Bergamo-born Italian opera composer of the bel canto trio with Rossini and Bellini; about 70 operas including Lucia di Lammermoor, L'elisir d'amore, and Don Pasquale, bridging Rossini and Verdi.
Gaetano Guerra
Gaetano Guerra is an Italian polymer scientist and professor emeritus of Chemistry at the University of Salerno, internationally known for work on co-crystalline and nanoporous-crystalline phases of syndiotactic polystyrene.
Gaetano Kanizsa
Gaetano Kanizsa (1913–1993) was an Italian psychologist who held the chair of psychology at Trieste from 1953 to 1988 and is known for the Kanizsa triangle, an illusory contour figure.