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Gewehr 41
The Gewehr 41 was a German semi-automatic rifle of World War II, built in competing Mauser and Walther versions with an unreliable muzzle gas-trap system.
Gewehr 43
The Gewehr 43, later renamed Karabiner 43, was a gas-operated German semi-automatic rifle in 7.92×57mm Mauser, developed during the Second World War to outfire the bolt-action Karabiner 98k.
Gewehr 98
The Gewehr 98, a Mauser bolt-action rifle, was the German Army's standard service rifle from 1898 through the First World War, replaced by the Karabiner 98k in 1935.
GEWEX
GEWEX, the Global Energy and Water Exchanges project, is a core project of the World Climate Research Programme, launched in 1988 to study Earth's water cycle and energy fluxes.
Gewogs of Bhutan
Gewogs of Bhutan covers the gewog, Bhutan's county-level rural unit: 205 gewogs within 20 districts, each governed by an elected Gewog Tshogde headed by a gup.
Gewürztraminer
Gewürztraminer, also called Roter Traminer or Traminac, is a pink-skinned, intensely aromatic white grape, a Savagnin/Traminer mutation. Alsatian signature variety with lychee-rose aromas, low acidity, 13.5–15% ABV, dry to late-harvest styles.
Gex (series)
Gex (series): Crystal Dynamics platformer trilogy (1995-1999) starring a wisecracking gecko voiced by Dana Gould; Gex, Enter the Gecko, Deep Cover Gecko; IP retained by Square Enix, revived as Gex Trilogy by Limited Run Games in 2025.
Gex (video game)
Gex: 1994 2D platformer by Crystal Dynamics for 3DO, starring a wisecracking gecko voiced by Dana Gould; ported to PlayStation, Saturn, PC; two 3D sequels; collected in Gex Trilogy, 2025.
Gex Williams
Gex Williams is an American Republican politician serving in the Kentucky Senate from the 20th district, elected in 2022 after earlier service in the House and the 24th Senate district.
Geyaguga Chasma
Geyaguga Chasma, a Venusian chasma or rift trough, IAU-named 1997 for a Cherokee moon deity; centered at 56.5°S, 70°E, diameter 800 km, quadrangle v57, Feature ID 2152.
Geylang
Geylang, Singapore: eastern city-fringe planning area also called Geylang Serai, a Malay heritage heartland with conserved shophouses gazetted in 1991, a famous food district, and Singapore's red-light district since the 1980s.
Geyser
A geyser is a hot spring that periodically erupts a shower of boiling water and steam, with quiet intervals between eruptions; fewer than 1,000 exist worldwide, half in Yellowstone.
Geyser eruptive mechanics
Geyser eruptive mechanics is the study of how geysers work: the subsurface reservoirs, constricted conduits, and boiling processes behind their periodic eruptions of water and steam.
Geyser types
Geyser types are the two classes of Earth's geysers: fountain geysers, which erupt from pools, and cone geysers, which erupt from mounds of siliceous sinter called geyserite.
Geysir
Geysir (Great Geysir) is the famous geyser of Haukadalur, South Iceland, whose name gave English the word "geyser"; first recorded in the 13th century, historically erupting up to 70 m, now mostly dormant beside the active Strokkur.
Géza Fejérváry
Géza Fejérváry was a Hungarian general and baron who served as Minister of Defence from 1884 to 1903 and as Prime Minister of Hungary from 1905 to 1906.
Géza Freud
Géza Freud was a Hungarian mathematician at the Mathematical Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in Budapest, known for Freud weights, the Freud equations, and Freud's conjecture.
Géza Gárdonyi
Géza Gárdonyi (Gárdonyi Géza; born Ziegler Géza, 1863–1922) was a Hungarian novelist and journalist, best known for Egri csillagok (Stars of Eger, 1901) and A láthatatlan ember (The Invisible Man, 1902).
Géza I of Hungary
Géza I of Hungary, also called Magnus, was king of Hungary from 1074 to 1077, having defeated his cousin Solomon at the Battle of Mogyoród.
Géza II of Hungary
Géza II of Hungary (c. 1130–1162) was an Árpád king crowned at age 11 in 1141 who fought Kievan Rus' and Byzantine wars and settled Saxons in Transylvania.
Géza Lakatos
Géza Lakatos (Lakatos Géza), Hungarian colonel general and Prime Minister from 29 August to 15 October 1944, led a secret effort to defect from the Axis before the Arrow Cross coup overthrew him; he died in Adelaide in 1967.
Géza Mansfeld
Géza Mansfeld was a Hungarian physician and pharmacologist, born 1882 and died 1950, who trained two future Nobel laureates and was nominated for the 1928 Nobel Prize in Medicine.
Géza Maróczy
Géza Maróczy was a Hungarian chess player, the first Hungarian grandmaster, ranked world number one for 30 months between 1904 and 1907, and the name behind the Maróczy Bind.
Géza Ottlik
Géza Ottlik (Ottlik Géza), 1912 to 1990, was a Hungarian writer, translator, and bridge theorist whose novel School at the Frontier is a landmark of Hungarian prose.
Géza, Grand Prince of the Hungarians
Géza (c. 940s–997), Grand Prince of the Hungarians (fejedelem), son of Taksony of the Árpád dynasty; ruled from about 972 (possibly 963), accepted Latin Christianity, centralized princely power, and fathered Stephen I, first king of Hungary.
Gezahegne Abera
Gezahegne Abera (ገዛኸኝ ኣበራ), born 1978, is an Ethiopian marathon runner, 2000 Sydney Olympic champion (2:10:11) and 2001 Edmonton world champion, with Fukuoka and London marathon titles.
GEZAN with Million Wish Collective
GEZAN with Million Wish Collective (ゲザンウィズミリオンウィッシュコレクティブ) is the expanded-ensemble name of Japanese alternative rock band GEZAN, formed with its chorus team during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Gezer (גזר)
Gezer (גזר), ancient Canaanite and Israelite city at Tell Jezer in Israel's Shephelah, identified by boundary inscriptions; known from Egyptian, Assyrian, and biblical texts, with a Middle Bronze Age water system and major ongoing radiocarbon chronology research.
Gezer calendar
The Gezer calendar is a small limestone tablet listing a year of agricultural activities, found at Tel Gezer, Israel, in 1908 and dated to the tenth century BCE.
Gezer power station
Gezer power station (תחנת הכוח גזר) is a natural gas and dual fuel power station near Ramle in central Israel, owned by the Israel Electric Corporation with about 1,300 MW of capacity.