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Gila River power station
The Gila River power station is a natural gas-fired combined-cycle power plant near Gila Bend, Arizona, about 2,200 MW across four blocks, now owned by Salt River Project, Tucson Electric Power, and UNS Electric.
Gilaad G. Kaplan
Gilaad G. Kaplan, also published as Gil Kaplan, is a Canadian gastroenterologist and epidemiologist at the University of Calgary known for measuring the worldwide burden of inflammatory bowel disease.
Gilad Japhet
Gilad Japhet is an Israeli software entrepreneur who founded the genealogy company MyHeritage in 2003 and has led it as CEO, growing it to over 104 million users.
Gilad Shalit (גלעד שליט)
Gilad Shalit (גלעד שליט), born 1986, Israeli armored corps soldier captured by Hamas in June 2006 at Kerem Shalom and freed October 18, 2011 in exchange for 1,027 Palestinian prisoners, including Yahya Sinwar.
Gilan Gharbi
Gilan Gharbi (Gilan-e Gharb) is an ancient temple, sanctuary, and shrine site near Sarpol-e Zahab in western Iran, Barrington Atlas 92 A2, Pleiades 903034, dated AD 300-640, tied to Sasanian chahar-taq fire-temple studies.
Gilan power station
Gilan power station (نیروگاه سیکل ترکیبی گیلان) is a 1,305 MW gas-fired combined cycle plant about 15 km southeast of Rasht, Iran, built by Siemens and fully operational since 1997.
Gilan Province
Gilan Province (گیلان), Iran's Caspian-coast province with capital Rasht, ISO code IR-01; area 14,709 km², population about 2.53 million. Known for its humid Hyrcanian climate, rice, tea, and caviar, the 1990 Manjil–Rudbar earthquake, and a leading role in the Constitutional Revolution.
Gilat Satellite Networks
Gilat Satellite Networks (גילת לוויינים) is an Israeli satellite communications company founded in 1987 and headquartered in Petah Tikva, making VSAT terminals, modems, and antennas, and trading on NASDAQ as GILT.
Gilău
Gilău, a Roman auxiliary fort in Cluj County, Romania, 16 km from Napoca; earth-and-timber under Trajan, expanded for ala I Siliana torquata under Hadrian, rebuilt in stone, occupied to the later 3rd century AD.
Gilbert (lunar crater)
Gilbert is a 100.25 km impact crater on the Moon's near side at 3.22°S, 76.12°E, named for USGS geologist Grove Karl Gilbert, pioneer of the lunar impact hypothesis.
Gilbert (Martian crater)
Gilbert is a 121.34-km-wide impact crater on Mars at 68.00°S, 86.08°E, named for USGS geologist Grove Karl Gilbert, who championed the impact origin of lunar craters.
Gilbert & George
Gilbert & George: British artist duo of Gilbert Proesch (b. 1943, Italy) and George Passmore (b. 1942, Devon), 'living sculptures' since 1969, creators of grid photopieces under the motto 'Art for All', Turner Prize 1986, with their own Spitalfields centre since 2023.
Gilbert Agnew Hunt
Gilbert Agnew Hunt (1916–2008) was an American mathematician at Princeton known for the Hunt process in probability theory, who as a young man beat tennis champion Bobby Riggs in 1938.
Gilbert Ames Bliss
Gilbert Ames Bliss (1876–1951) was an American mathematician at the University of Chicago known for the calculus of variations, including wartime ballistics work at Aberdeen Proving Ground.
Gilbert and Ellice Islands Colony
The Gilbert and Ellice Islands Colony was a British colony in the central Pacific, formed in 1916 from protectorates proclaimed in 1892 over the Gilbert and Ellice islands.
Gilbert and Linati schemata
Gilbert and Linati schemata: two tables James Joyce made in 1920 and 1921 for Carlo Linati and Valery Larbaud mapping each Ulysses episode to Homeric parallels, hours, colors, organs, arts, symbols, and techniques; Gilbert's was published in 1930, Linati's in 1972.
Gilbert and Marshall Islands campaign
The Gilbert and Marshall Islands campaign was a US Central Pacific offensive in World War II that seized the Gilbert Islands in 1943 and the Marshall Islands in 1944.
Gilbert and Sullivan
Gilbert and Sullivan were the Victorian English partnership of librettist W. S. Gilbert and composer Arthur Sullivan, creators of thirteen comic operas between 1871 and 1896, including HMS Pinafore and The Mikado.
Gilbert Arenas
Gilbert Arenas, also known as Gil Arenas or Agent Zero, is an American former NBA point guard who was a three-time All-Star with the Washington Wizards.
Gilbert Ashwell
Gilbert Ashwell, full name George Gilbert Ashwell, was an American biochemist at the National Institutes of Health who discovered the hepatic asialoglycoprotein receptor, the first cellular receptor to be isolated.
Gilbert Baker (artist)
Gilbert Baker (1951–2017), American artist and LGBTQ activist, creator of the rainbow pride flag, first flown June 25, 1978 at San Francisco's Gay Freedom Day Parade; original eight-stripe design reduced to six in 1979; MoMA acquired it in 2015.
Gilbert Baumslag
Gilbert Baumslag (1933–2014) was an American group theorist who introduced the Baumslag–Solitar groups in 1962 and later worked on computation and cryptography at the City College of New York.
Gilbert Blythe
Gilbert Blythe, also called "Carrots" name-giver, is the fictional schoolboy rival, eventual husband of Anne Shirley in L. M. Montgomery's Anne of Green Gables (1908) and sequels, known for the slate scene, the Avonlea teaching sacrifice, and portrayals by Jonathan Crombie (1985) and Lucas Jade Zumann (2017).
Gilbert Burns
Gilbert Burns, nicknamed Durinho, is a retired Brazilian UFC welterweight (record 22-10-0) and 2011 IBJJF black belt world champion who challenged Kamaru Usman at UFC 258 and later signed with UFC BJJ.
Gilbert cell
The Gilbert cell is a four-quadrant analog multiplier circuit built from a transconductance stage and cross-coupled switching transistors, first used as a mixer by Barrie Gilbert around 1968.
Gilbert Cesbron
Gilbert Cesbron (1913–1979) was a French novelist and playwright whose socially engaged Catholic novels sold millions of copies, notably Chiens perdus sans collier on juvenile delinquency.
Gilbert Choiseul du Plessis-Praslin
Gilbert Choiseul du Plessis-Praslin (1613–1689) was a French Catholic bishop, successively of Comminges and Tournai, known for reforming his poor Pyrenean diocese and his moderate Gallican handling of the Jansenist controversy.
Gilbert Chu
Gilbert Chu is an American scientist and Stanford professor of medicine and biochemistry known for creating Significance Analysis of Microarrays and for research on how cells repair damaged DNA.
Gilbert Dalldorf
Gilbert Dalldorf, full name Gilbert Julius Dalldorf (1900–1979), was an American virologist who discovered the Coxsackie viruses, demonstrated viral interference, and directed New York State's health laboratories.
Gilbert de la Porrée
Gilbert de la Porrée, also known as Gilbert of Poitiers, was a French scholastic theologian and bishop of Poitiers from 1142, founder of the Porretani school.