All articles starting with G

Giles Coren

Giles Coren (born 1969, Paddington, London), British restaurant critic and columnist for The Times since 2002, previously Tatler and the Independent on Sunday; Food and Drink Writer of the Year 2005, novelist of Winkler, TV presenter, and author of the podcast Giles Coren Has No Idea.

Giles Corey

Giles Corey (c. 1611–1692), Salem Farms farmer, refused to plead at his 1692 witchcraft trial and was pressed to death by peine forte et dure, the only such court-ordered death in American history; husband of Martha Corey.

Giles Deacon

Giles Deacon (born 1969, Darlington) is a British couture designer and illustrator; founder of the Giles label (2003), British Designer of the Year winner, Ungaro creative director, and couture designer since 2016.

Sep 24, 2026

Giles Fletcher

Giles Fletcher was an English diplomat and author, Elizabeth I's ambassador to Russia in 1588–89, whose book Of the Russe Common Wealth (1591) described Muscovite government and society.

Giles of Rome

Giles of Rome (Aegidius Romanus, Aegidius Colonna, c. 1243/1247–1316) was an Augustinian friar, scholastic theologian, prior general of his order, and archbishop of Bourges; pupil of Aquinas, censured in 1277, author of De regimine principum and De ecclesiastica potestate.

Sep 21, 2026

Giles Oldroyd

Giles Oldroyd is a British plant biologist known for work on how legumes recognize beneficial microbes, and president of the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center since 2025.

Giles Scott

Giles Scott (Giles Lyndon Scott), British sailor born 1987 in Huntingdon, two-time Olympic Finn gold medallist (Rio 2016, Tokyo 2020), four-time Finn World Champion, later America's Cup tactician and SailGP driver.

Oct 20, 2026

Gilf Kebir

Gilf Kebir (Gilf el-Kebir), a large Nubia sandstone plateau in far southwest Egypt near the Libyan border, discovered by Prince Kamal el-Din Hussein in 1925-1926, known for wadis, rock art, and Mars-analogue landforms.

Gilford Island

Gilford Island, a 388 sq km island in the Broughton Archipelago, British Columbia, between Tribune Channel and Knight Inlet; home of Gwa'yas'dums, main village of the Kwikwasut'inuxw Haxwa'mis First Nation.

Gilgal

Gilgal was an early Israelite cultic site east of Jericho, where the Bible says Israel first camped after crossing the Jordan; Saul was crowned there, and its physical location has never been securely identified.

Gilgamesh

Gilgamesh (Akkadian Gilgamesh, Sumerian Bilgames), legendary king of Uruk around 2700 BC, hero of the Epic of Gilgamesh, the longest Akkadian work, with five Sumerian tales, Sin-leqi-unninni's Standard Babylonian version, and the 1872 flood tablet discovery.

Gilgamesh and Aga

Gilgamesh and Aga is a Sumerian poem about Aga of Kish, son of Enmebaragesi, whose war on Uruk ends with his capture and release by Gilgamesh.

Gilgamesh flood myth

The Gilgamesh flood myth is a Mesopotamian deluge story told by Utnapishtim on Tablet XI of the Epic of Gilgamesh, inserted from the older Atrahasis epic and paralleling Noah's flood.

Gilgamesh, Enkidu, and the Netherworld

Sumerian poem GEN (ETCSL 1.8.1.4), also Gilgamesh and the halub tree, predating the Epic of Gilgamesh; Enkidu descends to the netherworld and reports on the dead; survives as Tablet XII.

Gilgandra, New South Wales

Gilgandra is a town in the Orana region of inland New South Wales on the Castlereagh River at the Newell, Oxley and Castlereagh Highway junction, known for the 1915 Coo-ee recruiting march to Sydney led by William Hitchen.

Gilgel Gibe III Dam

Gilgel Gibe III Dam, also known as Gibe III, is a 250 m roller-compacted concrete dam and 1,870 MW hydroelectric plant on Ethiopia's Omo River.

Gilgit (گِلت)

Gilgit (گِلت) is the capital city of Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan, at the Gilgit-Hunza river confluence; about 290,000 residents (2017), a former British Agency town, major tourism hub facing rapid unplanned growth.

Gilgit-Baltistan (گلگت بلتستان)

Gilgit-Baltistan (گلگت بلتستان), formerly the Northern Areas, is an administrative territory in northern Pakistan. It is governed by presidential orders, remaining a constitutional ambiguity in the Kashmir dispute.

Gilgo Beach serial killings

Gilgo Beach serial killings: Long Island murders of escorts, 1993–2010, exposed December 2010 when the "Gilgo Four" were found along Ocean Parkway. Rex Heuermann, arrested 2023, pleaded guilty in 2026 to seven murders plus an admitted eighth and received life without parole.

Gili Islands

Gili Islands (Gili Tramena): Gili Trawangan, Gili Meno, Gili Air, three islands off north-west Lombok, Indonesia, in the Gili Matra marine park; Sasak 'gili' means island; car-free, dive-tourism economy of about 1 million visitors a year.

Gili Raanan

Gili Raanan, born 1969, is an Israeli venture capitalist and former software entrepreneur who founded the cybersecurity seed fund Cyberstarts and was a Sequoia Capital general partner.

Gili Santigi

Gili Santigi: a name plotted on tourist maps of the Gili Islands, Lombok, Indonesia; also a Gili Air home stay, the former name of Pantai Senggigi, and the plant Pemphis acidula.

Gili T Surfspot

Gili T Surfspot, locally called Secrets, is an inconsistent right-hand coral reef break about 300 m off Gili Trawangan's southeast corner, Lombok, Indonesia, suiting intermediate and advanced surfers on SW swells at mid to high tide.

Gilia

Gilia (Ruiz & Pav., 1794) is a genus of about 25-39 species of annual herbs in Polemoniaceae, the phlox family, native to western North America and Ecuador to southern South America; taxonomically difficult, partly hybridizing, with ornamental and traditional medicinal uses.