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Gies Memorial Stadium
Gies Memorial Stadium, called Memorial Stadium until 2025, is the University of Illinois football stadium in Champaign, home of the Fighting Illini since it opened in 1923 as a World War I memorial.
Giese reaction
The Giese reaction is a carbon–carbon bond-forming reaction in which a nucleophilic carbon-centered radical adds to an electron-deficient alkene by 1,4-addition, named after Bernd Giese of Freiburg.
Gießen
Gießen, university city in central Hesse on the Lahn, about 92,000 residents, youngest city in Hesse (average age 38), Germany's top student city with roughly 37,000 students; university founded 1607, Justus Liebig professor there 1824–1852.
GIF
GIF, or Graphics Interchange Format, is a bitmap image format introduced by CompuServe in 1987 that stores 256-color images with lossless compression and supports simple frame-based animation.
Gif-sur-Yvette
Gif-sur-Yvette is a commune in Essonne, 23 km southwest of Paris, on the RER B line. A ninth-century village renamed in 1930, it hosts CNRS laboratories and the growing Moulon quarter on the Saclay plateau.
Giffard dirigible
The Giffard dirigible, or Giffard airship, was a hydrogen-filled, steam-powered airship built by French engineer Henri Giffard in 1852, the first powered and steerable airship to fly.
Giffen good
A Giffen good, also called the Giffen paradox, is an inferior good for which a price increase raises quantity demanded, violating the law of demand; first evidence came from rice in China in 2008.
Giffgaff
Giffgaff, legally Giffgaff Limited, is a British mobile network operator launched in 2009 and owned by Telefonica UK, running on O2's network with a community-run member model.
Giffnock
Giffnock, East Renfrewshire: affluent Glasgow suburb of about 12,300 people, formerly a quarrying village; railway arrived 1864, 1930s housing boom, Rouken Glen Park.
Gifford H. Miller
Gifford H. Miller is a paleoclimatologist and Quaternary geologist, Distinguished Professor at the University of Colorado Boulder, known for amino acid dating and research on Australian megafauna extinctions.
Gifford Pinchot
Gifford Pinchot (1865–1946), first chief of the U.S. Forest Service under Theodore Roosevelt, founder of the Yale Forest School and Society of American Foresters, twice governor of Pennsylvania, and champion of utilitarian conservation, dismissed by Taft after the Ballinger-Pinchot affair.
Gifford Pinchot National Forest
Gifford Pinchot National Forest, formerly Columbia National Forest, is a 1.3-million-acre U.S. national forest in southern Washington, established 1908, renamed 1949 for the first Forest Service chief, and home to Mount St. Helens National Volcanic Monument.
Gifford-McMahon cryocooler
A Gifford-McMahon cryocooler is a closed-cycle helium refrigerator reaching 4 K to 80 K without liquid cryogens, invented by William Gifford and Howard McMahon in the late 1950s.
Gift
Gift (social science): a transfer whose counterpart can be given but not demanded, defined by Alain Testart against exchange. Central concept of anthropology since Mauss's 1925 The Gift, with three obligations and institutions such as the potlatch and kula.
Gift card
A gift card, also called a gift certificate or gift voucher, is a prepaid stored-value card redeemable for goods or services, typically at a single merchant or payment network.
GIFT City
GIFT City (Gujarat International Finance Tec-City) is a planned financial-services city on the Sabarmati River near Gandhinagar, Gujarat, centered on an International Financial Services Centre regulated by the IFSCA since 2020.
Gift economy
Gift economy: transfer of goods and services without price or agreed return, coordinated by reciprocity and obligation. Central concept from Mauss's 1925 Essai sur le don, with potlatch, kula, and modern open source and digital gifting as instances.
Gift of Gab (rapper)
Gift of Gab (Timothy Parker, born 1970 or 1971; died June 18, 2021) was the American MC of Blackalicious with Chief Xcel, known for Alphabet Aerobics, his solo albums, and the Quannum collective.
Gifted (2017 film)
Gifted (2017) is an American drama directed by Marc Webb, written by Tom Flynn, starring Chris Evans, Mckenna Grace, Lindsay Duncan, Jenny Slate, and Octavia Spencer; a Fox Searchlight custody drama about a math-prodigy girl in Florida.
Gifted education
Gifted education, also known as gifted and talented education, is the set of practices, programs, and policies for students whose abilities and potential far exceed what the standard curriculum meets.
Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story
Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story is a 2009 TNT biographical TV movie directed by Thomas Carter, starring Cuba Gooding Jr. as neurosurgeon Ben Carson and Kimberly Elise as his mother Sonya, premiering February 7, 2009.
Gifu (city)
Gifu (岐阜市) is the prefectural capital of Gifu Prefecture, Japan, on the Nagara River at the Nōbi Plain's northern edge; about 397,000 residents, Mt. Kinka and Gifu Castle, and 1,300-year-old cormorant fishing distinguish it.
Gifu (district)
Gifu (岐阜県, Gifu-ken) is a landlocked Japanese prefecture in the center of Honshu, formed in 1876 from Hida and Mino provinces; capital Gifu City, 42 municipalities, about 1.89 million people, manufacturing-centered economy.
Gifu Hand
The Gifu Hand is a series of five-fingered anthropomorphic robot hands developed at Gifu University in Japan as a standard research platform for grasping and dexterous manipulation.
Gig economy
The gig economy is the part of the labor market where workers take short-term tasks, paid per unit of work, with no assurance of steady employment.
Gig Harbor, Washington
Gig Harbor, Washington: a maritime city in Pierce County on Puget Sound, incorporated 1946, named for the Wilkes Expedition's captain's gig, population about 12,600, known for commercial fishing heritage and the Tacoma Narrows bridges.
Gig worker
A gig worker, also known as gig work, is a person earning income from short-term, per-task engagements through digital platforms, usually classified as an independent contractor rather than an employee.
Gig Young
Gig Young (Byron Elsworth Barr, 1913-1978), American character actor and Oscar winner for They Shoot Horses, Don't They?; named after his The Gay Sisters role; Coast Guard veteran; died in a 1978 murder-suicide.
Giga (musician)
Giga (ギガ, GigaP), legal name Shouta Honma, born 1991 in Akita, Japan, is a Vocaloid producer and composer known for Gigantic O.T.N, BRING IT ON, and Ado's Odo and Show, and a former REOL member.
Giga Chikadze (გიგა ჭიკაძე)
Giga Chikadze (გიგა ჭიკაძე), "Ninja", Georgian UFC featherweight from Tbilisi; former GLORY kickboxer (38-6, 22 KOs) with world karate and kickboxing titles; 15-6 MMA record, seven-fight UFC win streak, signature liver "Giga kick".