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Gakuen Idolmaster

Gakuen Idolmaster (学園アイドルマスター, Gakumas) is Bandai Namco's 2024 free-to-play idol training simulation, the first school-set, first mainline new-content Idolmaster game in six years; 9 idols, evolving live scenes, ~$150M 2024 revenue, 2M downloads in five months.

Gal d 4

Gal d 4 is the WHO/IUIS allergen name for lysozyme C, a 14.3 kDa antibacterial egg white protein of Gallus gallus domesticus; also called Gal d IV, k208, E1105, a food and pharmaceutical preservative allergen.

GAL DUB.SAR

GAL DUB.SAR, also written GAL DUB.SAR.MEŠ, is the Sumerographic title of the chief scribe of the Hittite kingdom, attested at Ḫattuša in the 2nd millennium BC.

Gal Fridman

Gal Fridman (גל פרידמן), born 1975, Israeli windsurfer; bronze at Atlanta 1996 and gold at Athens 2004 in men's Mistral, Israel's first Olympic gold, later coach of Tom Reuveny's Paris 2024 gold.

Gal Gadot (גל גדות)

Gal Gadot (גל גדות), Israeli actress born 1985, Miss Israel 2004 and IDF combat instructor, known as Gisele in Fast & Furious and Wonder Woman in the DC films; first Israeli actress with a Hollywood Walk of Fame star and 2025 Genesis Prize recipient.

GAL GESTIN

GAL GEŠTIN ('Great of the Wine') was a top-level Hittite court title, equivalent to Akkadian rabi karānim, whose holders mainly commanded army units from the early 2nd millennium BC to the kingdom's end.

Gal Level

Gal Level is a Namibian R&B and afro-pop duo of singers Daphne Willibard and Freida Haindaka, formed in 2004 and known for Channel O awards before a 2013 break.

GAL MESEDI

GAL MEŠEDI is the title of the chief of the royal bodyguards in the Hittite kingdom of Anatolia, usually held by a brother of the king.

Gal Vihara

Gal Vihara, originally named Uttararama, is a 12th-century Buddhist rock shrine in Polonnaruwa, Sri Lanka, where four large Buddha figures were cut from a single granite rock face.

Gal x Gal Yuri

#Gal x Gal Yuri (#ギャルとギャルの百合) is a yuri romantic comedy manga by Inoue (Koharu Inoue), serialized on Shogakukan's Sunday Webry since June 2025, about gyaru girls Yua and Reina's trial relationship, licensed in English by VIZ Media.

Gal-Sal

Gal-Sal is a private individual of archaic Sumer named on a clay tablet of about 3100 BC as holding two slaves, a contender for the earliest known named person.

GAL4/UAS system

GAL4/UAS system: bipartite Drosophila gene-expression method (Brand & Perrimon 1993) using yeast GAL4 drivers and UAS responders, with GAL80, split-GAL4, and LexA/Q-system analogs.

Gala (apple)

Gala is a New Zealand apple cultivar from the 1930s, a Kidd's Orange Red × Golden Delicious cross by J.H. Kidd; sweet, crisp, medium-sized, and the top US apple variety at about 16% of production.

Gala (singer)

Gala (Gala Rizzatto, born 1975, Milan) is an Italian Eurodance singer whose 1996 hit "Freed from Desire" sold over 6 million copies, peaked at UK No 2, and became a global football and protest anthem; she re-recorded it in 2024 to reclaim royalties lost to producer Max Moroldo.

Gala Abu Ahmed

Gala Abu Ahmed is a Kushite dry-stone fortress in the lower Wadi Howar desert of northern Sudan, about 110 km west of the Nile, used mainly in the Napatan period.

Gala Dalí

Gala Dalí (Elena Ivanovna Diakonova, 1894-1982), Russian-born muse, wife, model, and business manager of Salvador Dalí and first wife of Paul Éluard; born in Kazan, met Dalí in Cadaqués in 1929, and received Púbol Castle, her burial place.

GALA-FD trial

GALA-FD (NCT06416657) is a randomized trial at Beijing Tiantan Hospital comparing general anesthesia with local anesthesia alone for flow diverter treatment of unruptured intracranial aneurysms; 188 participants, primary outcome mRS ≤2 at 90 days.

Galab Donev

Galab Donev is a Bulgarian politician who serves as Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance, having previously been caretaker Prime Minister of Bulgaria from 2022 to 2023.

Galabin Boevski

Galabin Boevski (Гълъбин Боевски), Bulgarian weightlifter born 1974 in Knezha, won 69 kg gold at Sydney 2000 with 357.5 kg, held six world records, then received an eight-year doping ban in 2004 and was convicted of cocaine trafficking in Brazil and Portugal.

Galactic anticenter

The galactic anticenter is the direction on the sky exactly opposite the Milky Way's center, in Gemini, used by astronomers to study the Galaxy's outer disk.

Galactic bar

A galactic bar is an elongated concentration of stars, gas, and dust cutting across the center of a disc galaxy, found in nearly two-thirds of nearby disc galaxies.

Galactic bulge

A galactic bulge is the dense central concentration of stars, mostly old, that swells out of the disk of a spiral galaxy. The Milky Way's bulge is a bar with an X-shaped structure.

Galactic Center

The Galactic Center is the rotational and gravitational center of the Milky Way, about 26,000 light-years from Earth, marked by the supermassive black hole Sagittarius A.

Galactic Center GeV excess

The Galactic Center GeV excess, also called GCE, is an unexplained gamma-ray glow at the Milky Way's center, first seen in 2009 and debated as dark matter or pulsars.

Galactic Center radio filaments

Galactic Center radio filaments, also called non-thermal filaments, are narrow magnetic structures up to 100 light-years long near the Milky Way's center, first identified in 1984.

Galactic Center X-ray chimneys

The Galactic Center X-ray chimneys are two plumes of hot plasma, hundreds of parsecs long, extending from the center of the Milky Way toward the Fermi bubbles, first reported in 2019.

Galactic chimney

A galactic chimney is a collimated channel of hot, overpressured gas created when a supernova-driven superbubble bursts out of a galaxy's disk into its halo, carrying mass and energy upward.

Galactic cosmic ray shielding problem

The galactic cosmic ray shielding problem is the difficulty of protecting astronauts from galactic cosmic rays in deep space, a principal health constraint on missions to the Moon and Mars.

Galactic disk

The galactic disk is the flattened, rotating component of a disk galaxy, made of stars, gas, and dust and distinct from the central bulge and halo.

Galactic dynamics

Galactic dynamics is the study of motions within the Milky Way, where Gaia data since 2018 revealed a phase spiral showing the disk was perturbed hundreds of millions of years ago.