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GGV Capital

GGV Capital (纪源资本) was a Menlo Park venture capital firm founded in 2000 as Granite Global Ventures, backing Alibaba, ByteDance, and Airbnb before splitting in 2024.

GH Group, Inc. (Glass House Brands)

GH Group, Inc., doing business as Glass House Brands, is a vertically integrated California cannabis company headquartered in Long Beach, founded by Kyle Kazan and Graham Farrar in 2015.

GH Research

GH Research is a Dublin-based clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company, founded in 2018, developing mebufotenin (5-MeO-DMT) therapies for psychiatric disorders; its lead inhaled candidate, GH001, targets treatment-resistant depression, and the company trades on Nasdaq as GHRS.

GH1

GH1 (growth hormone 1, GH-N, hGH-N) is the human chromosome 17q23.3 gene encoding pituitary growth hormone, a 191-amino-acid somatotropin. It sits in a five-gene cluster with GH2, CSH1, CSH2, CSHL1; mutations cause isolated growth hormone deficiency and short stature.

Ghaati

Ghaati (ఘాటీ) is a 2025 Telugu action crime drama directed by Krish Jagarlamudi, starring Anushka Shetty as Sheelavathi and Vikram Prabhu, set in the Eastern Ghats ganja trade; released 5 September 2025, it opened to lukewarm box office and streams on Prime Video.

Ghabadkund

Ghabadkund (घबाडकुंड) is a 2026 Marathi action-adventure horror thriller directed by Pritam SK Patil, produced by Dr. Rasik Kadam for Icon De Style, released 19 June 2026; marketed as the first Marathi cinematic universe, about treasure hidden in a haunted village well, earning ₹7.52 crore net in India.

Ghada al-Samman

Ghada al-Samman (غادة السمان), born in Damascus in 1942, is a Syrian novelist, poet, and journalist based in Beirut whose war novel Beirut Nightmares (1976) is her best-known work.

Ghada Shouaa

Ghada Shouaa (غادة شعاع), Syrian heptathlete born 1973 in Maharda; 1996 Atlanta Olympic champion, Syria's only Olympic gold, 1995 world champion, Asian record 6942 points from Götzis 1996; retired 2001.

Ghadar Conspiracy

The Ghadar Conspiracy (ग़दर षड्यंत्र) was a plan for a 1915 mutiny in the British Indian Army, organized by the Ghadar Party of Indian emigrants in North America with German help.

Ghadar Movement

Ghadar Movement (1913–1918), also Ghadar Party or Hindustan Ghadar Party, a transnational Indian revolutionary organization founded in Oregon and San Francisco by mainly Punjabi Sikh immigrants, seeking armed overthrow of British rule through its newspaper Ghadar.

Ghadi (غدي)

Ghadi (غدي) is a 2013 Lebanese comedy-drama directed by Amin Dora, written by and starring Georges Khabbaz, about a father who convinces his village his Down-syndrome son is an angel; Lebanon's 86th Academy Awards entry.

Ghaggar-Hakra River

The Ghaggar-Hakra River is an ephemeral India-Pakistan river whose paleochannel was a former Sutlej course, abandoned 11-8 ka, later sustaining monsoon-fed Harappan settlements and identified by many with the Vedic Sarasvati.

Ghajar (غجر)

Ghajar (غجر) is an Alawite village of about 3,000 on the Hasbani river at the junction of Israel, Lebanon, and the Golan Heights, split by the UN Blue Line in 2000.

Ghajini (2008 film)

Ghajini (गजनी), 2008 Hindi action thriller by A.R. Murugadoss, a remake of his Tamil Ghajini (2005) inspired by Memento; Aamir Khan as an amnesiac avenger; first Hindi film to cross Rs 100 crore nett in India.

Ghajini (கஜினி) (2005 film)

Ghajini (கஜினி, 2005) is a Tamil action thriller directed by A.R. Murugadoss, starring Suriya as an amnesiac avenger with Asin and Nayanthara; it inspired by Memento, won Filmfare and Tamil Nadu State awards, and was remade in Hindi with Aamir Khan in 2008.

Ghajinikanth (கஜினிகாந்த்)

Ghajinikanth (கஜினிகாந்த்), 2018 Tamil romantic comedy directed by Santhosh P. Jayakumar, starring Arya and Sayyeshaa; official remake of Bhale Bhale Magadivoy about a forgetful young man, released 3 August 2018.

Ghalekuti

Ghalekuti (Qal'eh Kuti, قلعه کوتی), ancient cemetery site of four hills in Dailaman Province, northern Iran, about 5 km east of Dailaman; excavated 1960 and 1964 by Namio Egami's Tokyo University expeditions, with at least 270 Late Bronze Age to Parthian-period tombs.

Ghalib (غالب)

Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib (غالب, 1797–1869), Urdu and Persian ghazal poet of late Mughal Delhi, court poet to Bahadur Shah Zafar, author of the celebrated Urdu divan, chronicler of 1857's devastation of Delhi.

Ghalib Academy

Ghalib Academy (غالب اکیڈمی) is an educational and research institution in Delhi, established in 1969 by Hakeem Abdul Hameed in memory of the Urdu poet Mirza Ghalib.

Ghalib Award

The Ghalib Award (غالب ایوارڈ) is the name of several Indian literary prizes honoring the poet Mirza Ghalib, the best known awarded by the Ghalib Institute in New Delhi.

Ghalib bin Ali

Ghalib bin Ali (غالب بن علي) was imam of Oman, elected in 1954 and exiled to Saudi Arabia in 1959 after the failed Jebel Akhdar War against the sultan.

Ghalib ibn Abd al-Rahman

Ghalib ibn Abd al-Rahman (غالب بن عبد الرحمن), known as Ghalib al-Siklabi, was a Slavic freedman who served the Umayyad caliphs of Cordoba as a great general, dying in battle against Almanzor in 981.

Ghamubar Zom

Ghamubar Zom (Dhuli Chhish), 6,518 m ultra in Pakistan's Hindu Raj, Ghizer District; five summits, main summit first climbed 1973 by Italians, Ghamubar Zom V first climbed 2023 by Japanese trio.

Ghana

Ghana (Republic of Ghana), West African country on the Gulf of Guinea; first sub-Saharan African nation to gain independence (1957). Second-largest world cocoa producer; emerged from 2022 debt crisis with 6% growth in 2025 under an IMF program.

Ghana Armed Forces

The Ghana Armed Forces, or Military of Ghana, is the unified armed force of Ghana, made up of an army, a navy, and an air force.

Ghana banking crisis

The Ghana banking crisis comprised the 2017–2019 clean-up that resolved nine distressed banks at about 7.10% of GDP, followed by the 2022 Domestic Debt Exchange Programme's hit to bank balance sheets.

Ghana Cocoa Board

The Ghana Cocoa Board, known as COCOBOD, is the state body of Ghana regulating and marketing cocoa, coffee, and sheanut, successor to the Cocoa Marketing Board established in 1947.

Ghana conquest of Awdaghost

The Ghana conquest of Awdaghost (أودغست) was the takeover of the Saharan trade town of Awdaghost, in present-day Mauritania, by the Ghana Empire around 992.

Ghana Economic Recovery Program

The Ghana Economic Recovery Program was a program of macroeconomic stabilization and structural adjustment launched by Ghana's PNDC government in April 1983, supported by the IMF and World Bank.

Ghana Empire

The Ghana Empire, also known as Wagadu, was a West African trading state that flourished from the 7th to the 13th century on the trans-Saharan gold and salt trade.