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Gaetano Pesce
Gaetano Pesce was an Italian architect and designer known for experimental plastics and irregular forms, a leading Radical Design figure whose 1969 UP armchair became iconic.
Gaetano Scorza
Gaetano Scorza (1876–1939) was an Italian mathematician who worked on algebraic geometry, abelian functions, Riemann matrices, and algebras, and gave his name to the Scorza curve and Scorza varieties.
Gaetano Thiene
Gaetano Thiene, born in 1947, is an Italian cardiovascular pathologist at the University of Padua who identified arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy as a cause of sudden death in young people.
Gaetuli
The Gaetuli, or Gaetulians, were Berber nomadic peoples south of Numidia and Mauretania in northwest Africa, first entering Roman history in the Jugurthine War of 111-104 BC.
Gaeul (김가을) (singer)
Gaeul (김가을, Kim Ga-eul, English name Demi Kim), born 2002 in Incheon, is the eldest member, main dancer, and lead rapper of the K-pop girl group IVE under Starship Entertainment; debuted 2021 with ELEVEN, solo track "Odd" on REVIVE+ (2026).
Gaff rig
The gaff rig is a sailing rig with a four-sided mainsail whose head is supported by a spar called the gaff, dominant for over 250 years.
Gaffer tape
Gaffer tape, also called gaff or gaffa tape, is a matte, cloth-backed pressure-sensitive tape with a clean-release rubber adhesive, used in film, theatre, and live events for cable management, spike marking, and labeling; unlike duct tape it removes without residue but has less aggressive grip.
Gaffney, SC Micro Area
Gaffney, SC Micro Area (Gaffney, SC Micropolitan Statistical Area, CBSA 23500): an OMB-designated micropolitan area covering Cherokee County, South Carolina, with about 56,600 residents, Gaffney as principal city, and a specialized textile-and-services economy within the Greenville-Spartanburg-Anderson CSA.
Gafgyt
Gafgyt, also known as Bashlite, is a family of Linux malware, first observed in 2014, that infects IoT devices and routers and uses them for DDoS attacks.
Gafsa
Gafsa (Qafsah), ancient Capsa, is an oasis city in southwestern Tunisia at a pass where Saharan caravan roads converge; Marius destroyed ancient Capsa in 107 BC.
Gafur Ghulam
Gafur Ghulam (Gʻafur Gʻulom; 1903, Tashkent – 1966) was an Uzbek poet, prose writer, and translator, best known for the novella Shum bola and wartime poems like "You Are Not an Orphan."
Gag
A gag is either the pharyngeal reflex that protects the throat from foreign objects or a device that fills the mouth, used in surgery, dentistry, and consensual BDSM.
Gag name
Gag name (also pun name): a false pseudonym that sounds like a real name and a funny or vulgar phrase, used in prank calls and comedy; documented from the 1970s Tube Bar prank tapes and popularized by The Simpsons Moe prank-call gag.
Gag order
Gag order (gagging order): a court order barring attorneys, parties, or witnesses in a pending case from public comment. Treated in the US as a prior restraint under Nebraska Press Ass'n v. Stuart; UK super-injunctions hide the order itself.
Gaga
Gaga (哈勇家) is a 2022 Taiwanese family drama by Laha Mebow, Taiwan's first female indigenous director, about an Atayal family after their patriarch's death; it won Golden Horse Best Director and Best Supporting Actress.
Gaga Bhatta
Gaga Bhatta (गागाभट्ट) was a seventeenth-century Sanskrit pandit of Varanasi who presided as chief priest over Shivaji's 1674 coronation at Raigad and wrote its ritual manual, the Shivarajabhishekprayog.
Gagaga SP
Gagaga SP (ガガガSP) is a Japanese punk rock band formed in Kobe in 1997, called Japan's oldest seishun punk band, active without an official hiatus for nearly three decades.
GAGAN
GAGAN (GPS Aided Geo Augmented Navigation) is India's Satellite-Based Augmentation System, jointly developed by the Airports Authority of India and ISRO with Raytheon and fully operational since 2015.
Gagan Dev Riar
Gagan Dev Riar, Mumbai theatre actor, director, and writer, plays scammer Abdul Karim Telgi in SonyLIV's Scam 2003: The Telgi Story (2023), his first screen lead, after Piya Behrupiya and A Suitable Boy.
Gaganachari
Gaganachari (ഗഗനചാരി) is a 2024 Malayalam dystopian sci-fi comedy mockumentary directed by Arun Chandu, starring Gokul Suresh, Aju Varghese, Anarkali Marikar, and K. B. Ganesh Kumar; released 21 June 2024, it won a Kerala State Film Award Special Jury Mention.
Gaganae
Gaganae (Tabula Peutingeriana: Gaganis; Ravenna Cosmography: Gazanam) was a Roman road station on the Tibiscum–Tsierna road in western Dacia, identified with Armeniş, Romania, though Mommsen proposed Slatina.
Gaganasundara Rasa
Gaganasundara Rasa (गगनसुन्दर रस) is a classical Ayurvedic herbo-mineral formulation from Bhaishajya Ratnavali (AFI 20:11), made of borax, cinnabar, sulphur, and calcined mica with Euphorbia juice, indicated for fever with diarrhea and bleeding disorders.
Gagandeep Kang
Gagandeep Kang (गगनदीप कांग) is an Indian physician-scientist known for research on enteric infections in children and for trials that carried the Indian-made rotavirus vaccine Rotavac into India's national immunization program.
Gaganendranath Tagore
Gaganendranath Tagore (গগনেন্দ্রনাথ ঠাকুর; 1867–1938) was an Indian painter, cartoonist, and stage designer of Calcutta, a nephew of Rabindranath Tagore and pioneer of modernist Indian painting.
Gaganitsa
Gaganitsa (Гаганица) is a village in Montana Province, northwestern Bulgaria, with an ancient elliptical fortress near Bozhlichka peak and a late Roman coin hoard ending under Theodosius II (AD 402-450); the name also covers a local dam, lake, and geological section.
Gaganyaan (गगनयान)
Gaganyaan (गगनयान), also called the ISRO Orbital Vehicle, is India's human spaceflight program, announced in 2018, to fly three astronauts on a three-day low Earth orbit mission.
GagaOOLala
GagaOOLala is a Taiwan-based LGBTQ+, BL, and GL streaming platform launched in 2016-2017 by Portico Media under founder Jay Lin, with over 1,600 titles, millions of members worldwide, originals like Fragrance of the First Flower, and a USD 6.99/month subscription.
Gagarin (lunar crater)
Gagarin is a roughly 265-km-wide pre-Nectarian impact crater on the lunar far side at 19.66 S, 149.35 E, named for cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, with nested floor craters and mapped grabens and scarps.
Gagauz people
Gagauz (Gagauzlar): Turkic-speaking Orthodox Christian people of southern Moldova (Gagauzia), Ukraine's Budjak, Bulgaria, and Greece; Oghuz-branch language, debated Seljuk/Oghuz origins, autonomy since 1994.
Gagauzia
Gagauzia (Gagauz: Gagauz Yeri), officially the Autonomous Territorial Unit of Gagauzia, is an autonomous region in southern Moldova, created in 1994 for the Turkic-speaking Gagauz people.