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Getty Villa

The Getty Villa is an art museum in Pacific Palisades, Los Angeles, opened in 1974 to display the J. Paul Getty Museum's ancient Greek, Roman, and Etruscan antiquities.

Gettysburg (1993 film)

Gettysburg is a 1993 American historical war drama directed by Ronald F. Maxwell, adapted from Michael Shaara's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Killer Angels, starring Tom Berenger, Jeff Daniels, and Martin Sheen.

Gettysburg (game)

Gettysburg is a two-player board wargame published by Avalon Hill in 1958 that simulates the July 1863 Battle of Gettysburg, with one player commanding Union forces and the other Confederate forces.

Gettysburg 1863

Gettysburg 1863 is Bo Brinkman's 2026 Civil War drama about Gettysburg civilians and a young Union soldier, starring Eric Nelsen, Stephen Lang, and Bruce Boxleitner, distinct from the 1993 film Gettysburg and a 2025 short of the same name.

Gettysburg Address

The Gettysburg Address is Abraham Lincoln's 272-word speech of November 19, 1863 at the Soldiers' National Cemetery dedication, four and a half months after the battle; five manuscript copies (Nicolay, Hay, Everett, Bancroft, Bliss) survive, with the signed Bliss copy the standard text.

Gettysburg Battlefield

Gettysburg Battlefield, site of the July 1-3, 1863 Civil War battle in Adams County, Pennsylvania, preserved within Gettysburg National Military Park (6,034 acres, NPS since 1933) and the Soldiers' National Cemetery where Lincoln gave the Gettysburg Address.

Gettysburg College

Gettysburg College, founded 1832 in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania as Pennsylvania College, is a private liberal arts college with about 2,000 undergraduates, a 9:1 student-faculty ratio, a campus beside the Gettysburg battlefield, and noted Civil War-era and Eisenhower ties.

Gettysburg Confederate order of battle

Gettysburg Confederate order of battle: the Army of Northern Virginia's organization, July 1-3, 1863, under Robert E. Lee, with Longstreet's, Ewell's, and A.P. Hill's corps, Stuart's cavalry, 75,054 engaged, and about 28,000 casualties.

Gettysburg Union order of battle

Gettysburg Union order of battle: organization of Meade's Army of the Potomac, over 100,000 men in seven infantry corps plus cavalry and artillery reserve, July 1-3, 1863, replacing Hooker June 28.

Gettysburg, Pennsylvania

Gettysburg, Pennsylvania: Adams County borough founded 1786 by James Gettys, incorporated 1806, population 7,620 (2010). Site of the July 1-3, 1863 Civil War battle with over 51,000 casualties and Lincoln's Gettysburg Address.

Getúlio Vargas

Getúlio Dornelles Vargas (1882–1954), Brazilian statesman from São Borja, led the 1930 Revolution, ruled 1930–45 (Provisional Government, constitutional presidency, Estado Novo dictatorship), created the CLT labor code and Petrobras, and was elected president again in 1950 before his 1954 suicide.

Getxo

Getxo, Getxon (Basque), a coastal municipality in Bizkaia, Basque Country, on the Estuary of Bilbao near Bilbao; five districts, about 76,000 inhabitants, the 1893 Vizcaya Bridge, beaches, cliffs and grand bourgeois villas.

Getz/Gilberto

Getz/Gilberto is a 1964 Verve album by Stan Getz and João Gilberto with Antônio Carlos Jobim, recorded March 1963 at A&R Studios, New York. Its hit "The Girl from Ipanema" made bossa nova global; it won the 1965 Grammy for Album of the Year.

Geukensia demissa

Geukensia demissa, the Atlantic ribbed mussel (ribbed mussel, Mytilus demissus), is a Mytilidae salt-marsh bivalve from the Gulf of St. Lawrence to Florida, introduced to San Francisco Bay in 1894, a Spartina mutualist and marsh-accretion engineer.

Geum

Geum (avens) is a genus of perennial herbs in Rosaceae, published by Linnaeus in 1753, with about 46-60 temperate Northern Hemisphere species, hooked two-part styles, and achene heads dispersed by plumose styles.

Geum urbanum

Geum urbanum L. (wood avens, herb bennet) is a perennial Rosaceae herb native from Europe to Central Asia and NW Africa, with small yellow flowers and hooked achenes; its clove-scented eugenol root has traditional medicinal and flavoring uses, and it hybridizes with G. rivale as G. × intermedium.

Geumcheok

Geumcheok (금척) is a golden ruler of Korean legend, bestowed by a divine being in dreams to symbolize Heaven-granted authority to rule, and attached to the founders of Silla and Joseon.

Geumgwan Gaya

Geumgwan Gaya (금관가야), also called Garak, was the leading early Gaya polity centered at Gimhae, prosperous from iron production and trade until it surrendered to Silla in 532.

Geumo Land

Geumo Land (금오랜드) is a small family amusement park opened in 1993 at the base of 976-meter Geumosan in Gumi, South Korea, with free entry, paid rides, a 2023 Ferris wheel, ice rink, and TiniPing zone.

Geumwiyeong

Geumwiyeong (금위영) was a central military camp of late Joseon Korea, established in 1682 to guard the king and defend the capital, dissolved in 1895.

Geunchogo of Baekje

Geunchogo of Baekje (근초고왕) was the thirteenth king of Baekje, one of the Three Kingdoms of Korea, reigning from 346 to 375 and defeating Goguryeo at Pyongyang in 371.

Gevo

Gevo, Inc. is an American renewable fuels company founded in 2005 and based in Colorado, producing low-carbon ethanol, renewable natural gas, and sustainable aviation fuel.

Gevokizumab

Gevokizumab (XOMA 052, VPM087) is a humanized IgG2 allosteric monoclonal antibody against interleukin-1 beta developed by XOMA and Servier; its phase 3 EYEGUARD-B uveitis trial missed its primary endpoint and the drug was never approved.

Gevorg Bashinjaghian

Gevorg Bashinjaghian (Գևորգ Բաշինջաղյան) was an Armenian painter, born in Signakhi, Georgia in 1857, who founded landscape painting in Armenian art and painted Lake Sevan and Mount Ararat.

Gevorg Marzpetuni

Gevorg Marzpetuni (Գևորգ Մարզպետունի) is a three-part historical novel by the Armenian writer Muratsan, serialized in 1896, set in 10th-century Bagratid Armenia under King Ashot II.

Gevorg Papoyan

Gevorg Papoyan, born 1987 in Ujan, Armenia, is a Civil Contract politician who has served as Armenia's Minister of Economy since March 2024, after chairing a National Assembly committee.

Gevra Coal Mine

The Gevra Coal Mine is an opencast coal mine in Korba district, Chhattisgarh, India, operated by South Eastern Coalfields and the largest coal mine in India.

Gewandhaus

The Gewandhaus, also known as the Leipzig Gewandhaus, is the concert hall of the Leipzig Gewandhausorchester on Augustusplatz in Leipzig, Germany, opened in 1981 as the third building of that name.

Gewargis III

Born in Iraq in 1941, Mar Gewargis Sliwa led the Assyrian Church of the East as Catholicos-Patriarch from 2015 until 2021, relocating the see to Erbil.

Gewehr 1888

The Gewehr 1888, known as the Commission Rifle (Kommissionsgewehr), was the German Empire's first smokeless-powder bolt-action service rifle, adopted in 1888 to answer France's Lebel and replaced from 1898.