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Giro (musician)

Giro, born Jorge Manuel López, is a Puerto Rican salsa singer who rose from the teen group Los Chicos to lead 1990s salsa romántica with Billboard tropical chart-toppers.

Giro d'Italia (Corsa Rosa), annual Italian Grand Tour stage race organized by La Gazzetta dello Sport since 1909; time-based general classification, pink leader's jersey since 1931; 2026 winner Jonas Vingegaard.

Giro di Lombardia

Giro di Lombardia, also called Il Lombardia or the Race of the Falling Leaves, is an Italian autumn one-day cycling race, one of the five Monuments, first held in 1905, run between Bergamo and Como, and known for the Madonna del Ghisallo climb.

Giroctocogene fitelparvovec

Giroctocogene fitelparvovec (PF-07055480, formerly SB-525) is an investigational AAV6 vector gene therapy carrying B-domain-deleted human F8 for hemophilia A; positive Phase 3 AFFINE results, but Pfizer terminated development in December 2024, returning rights to Sangamo.

Oct 10, 2026

Girolamo Casanata

Girolamo Casanata, also spelled Casanate, was an Italian Dominican cardinal (1620–1700) who served as prefect of the Index and left his fortune to found Rome's public Biblioteca Casanatense.

Girolamo Savonarola

Girolamo Savonarola was a Dominican friar whose apocalyptic preaching in 1490s Florence made him effective leader of the republic until his excommunication and execution in 1498.

Oct 10, 2026

Girolamo Seripando

Girolamo Seripando (1493–1563) was an Italian Augustinian friar, theologian, and cardinal who led reform of his order and served as papal legate at the Council of Trent.

Oct 10, 2026

Girolamo Zanchi

Girolamo Zanchi, also known as Jerome Zanchius, was an Italian-born Reformed theologian who fled Catholic Italy and taught at Strasbourg, Heidelberg, and Neustadt, dying in 1590.

Girona

Girona, capital of its province in northeastern Catalonia, Spain, stands at the confluence of the Onyar, Galligants, and Güell rivers with the Ter. Founded as Roman Gerunda, county seat since 785, nicknamed "the key of the kingdom".

Oct 15, 2026

Girona 1000

The Girona 1000 is a reconfigurable autonomous underwater vehicle developed at the University of Girona, an updated Girona 500 rated to 1000 m for survey and intervention missions.

Girona FC

Girona FC, or Girona Futbol Club, is a Spanish professional football club based in Girona, Catalonia, founded in 1930 and playing at the Estadi Municipal de Montilivi.

Gironde

Gironde (department 33), southwestern French department in Nouvelle-Aquitaine with prefecture Bordeaux; largest metropolitan department by area, about 1.7 million inhabitants, 534 communes, Bordeaux wine economy, and strained departmental finances.

Gironde estuary

Gironde estuary (estuaire de la Gironde): macrotidal estuary in southwest France formed by the Garonne and Dordogne at Bec d'Ambès; largest in France, ~76 km long, 4.5 m tidal range at mouth, permanent turbidity maximum of 1-10 g/L, major migratory fish habitat.

Girondins

Girondins (Brissotins), a moderate French Revolutionary political faction of the Legislative Assembly and Convention (1791–1793), led by Brissot and Vergniaud, pro-war, purged by the Jacobins on 31 May–2 June 1793 and largely guillotined.

Oct 22, 2026

Giroux daguerreotype camera

The Giroux daguerreotype camera, marketed as Le Daguerreotype, is a wooden sliding-box camera first sold in Paris in 1839, generally regarded as the first commercially manufactured camera.

Girraween National Park

Girraween National Park: 11,800 ha granite park on the QLD–NSW border, 260 km southwest of Brisbane; 'place of flowers'; Mount Norman 1,267 m; formed from 1930–32 parks amalgamated 1966.

Girsanov theorem

The Girsanov theorem, also called the Cameron–Martin–Girsanov theorem, is a stochastic analysis result stating Brownian motion with drift becomes driftless under an equivalent probability measure.

Girsu (city)

Girsu, also written Ngirsu and known as the mound of Tello, was a Sumerian city of the Lagash state in southern Iraq, cult center of the god Ningirsu.

Girsu (Gulf trade texts)

The Girsu Gulf trade texts are administrative tablets excavated at Girsu (Telloh), southern Iraq, recording Lagash's copper and timber trade with Dilmun from the 25th century BCE onward.

Oct 15, 2026

Girth (graph theory)

In graph theory, the girth of a graph is the length of its shortest cycle in edges; graphs with no cycles are assigned girth 0 or infinity by convention.

Girvan Mains

Girvan Mains, Ayrshire: farm and scheduled archaeological site north of Girvan with two overlapping late first-century AD Roman temporary camps (about 22 ha and 6 ha) and a prehistoric enclosure; Kennedy landholding from 1481.

Sep 24, 2026

Gisa Hwan-guk

Gisa Hwan-guk (기사환국) was a 1689 political turnover in Joseon Korea, triggered by King Sukjong naming his son by Consort Jang heir apparent, ousting the Seoin faction.

Sep 21, 2026

Gisbert Schneider

Gisbert Schneider is a Swiss-based biochemist and bioinformatician, Full Professor of Computer-Assisted Drug Design at ETH Zurich since 2010, credited with introducing AI-based drug design and coining "scaffold hopping".

Gisco

Gisco, also called Gisgo, was a Carthaginian general of the mid-4th century BC, son of Hanno, recalled from exile to lead Carthage's forces in Sicily after the defeat at the Crimissus in 339 BC.

Gisco (father of Hasdrubal)

Gisco, also spelled Gisgo, was a Carthaginian aristocrat of the 3rd century BC, known almost solely as the father of Hasdrubal, a leading Carthaginian general.

Gisco (First Punic War general)

Gisco, also spelled Gesco, was a Carthaginian general of the First Punic War who held Lilybaeum against Rome until 241 BC, then was seized by mutinous mercenaries.

Gisco Strytanus

Gisco Strytanus, also rendered Gisgo Strytanus, was a Carthaginian ambassador sent to Rome in 149 BC, at the outbreak of the Third Punic War, to offer submission.

Gisela Grass

Gisela Schöbel-Grass (Gisela Graß), German swimmer born 18 June 1926 in Leipzig; set the 100 m breaststroke world record of 1:19.80 on 9 May 1943, first woman under 1:20, and later set masters age-group records.

Gisela Kinzel

Gisela Maria Kinzel (née Gottwald), born 1961, West German 400 m sprinter of SC Eintracht Hamm; 1986 European relay silver, 1987 indoor silvers, Seoul 1988 Olympian, later named in the Hammer Modell doping affair.