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Glacier cave exploration and study
Glacier caves, also called glaciospeleology subjects, are ice-walled caves formed inside glaciers by meltwater and airflow, distinct from rock ice caves; studied for englacial hydrology, cave climatology, and cave ice climate archives.
Glacier collapse
Glacier collapse, also called glacier detachment, is the sudden catastrophic failure of a glacier or ice shelf, from ice shelf disintegration to rock-ice avalanches like Blatten in 2025.
Glacier Girl
Glacier Girl is a restored Lockheed P-38 Lightning that landed on the Greenland ice cap in 1942, was recovered from 268 feet of ice in 1992, and flew again in 2002.
Glacier mass balance
Glacier mass balance is the mass a glacier gains or loses, usually measured annually in meters water equivalent, and the key link between glaciers, climate, and sea level.
Glacier National Park (U.S.)
Glacier National Park, established May 11, 1910 in northwestern Montana, is a 1,583-square-mile U.S. national park of glaciers, lakes, and Going-to-the-Sun Road, joined with Canada's Waterton Lakes as the first international peace park.
Glacier Peak (mountain)
Glacier Peak is a dacitic stratovolcano, 3,213 m, in Washington's Glacier Peak Wilderness, the state's most remote active volcano, with six postglacial eruptive episodes and Very High threat potential.
Glacier surge
A glacier surge is a temporary period of rapid ice flow, during which a glacier speeds up by up to two orders of magnitude and often advances its front.
Glaciers of Mount Rainier
The glaciers of Mount Rainier are 28 named glaciers covering the volcano in Mount Rainier National Park, Washington, including the Emmons Glacier, the largest in the contiguous United States.
Glacis
A glacis is an artificial earth slope built in front of a fortification's works, keeping attacking forces exposed to the defenders' fire until the last moment.
Gladbeck hostage crisis
Gladbecker Geiseldrama: 54-hour German hostage crisis, 16–18 August 1988, begun with a Deutsche Bank robbery in Gladbeck by Rösner and Degowski; bus hijacking in Bremen, three deaths, media scandal near Bad Honnef.
Glade Brook Strategic
Glade Brook Strategic is a series of growth-equity funds managed by Glade Brook Capital Partners, a Connecticut firm founded by Paul J. Hudson in 2011.
Gladiator
Gladiators were armed combatants who fought in Roman munera games, mostly slaves, criminals, or contracted volunteers (auctorati) trained at a ludus by a lanista, legally infames yet celebrated, performing in paired types like murmillo and retiarius from 264 BCE to the 5th century AD.
Gladiator (1992 film)
Gladiator (1992) is a Rowdy Herrington boxing drama starring James Marshall, Cuba Gooding Jr., and Brian Dennehy about illegal Chicago fights; a Columbia flop grossing $5.9 million, unrelated to Ridley Scott's 2000 Roman epic of the same name.
Gladiator (2000 film)
Gladiator (2000) is Ridley Scott's Roman epic starring Russell Crowe as Maximus and Joaquin Phoenix as Commodus; it won five Oscars including Best Picture and spawned Gladiator II (2024).
Gladiator (Kallark)
Gladiator (Kallark) is a Marvel Comics Strontian, Praetor of the Shi'ar Imperial Guard, debuting in X-Men #107 (1977) by Claremont and Cockrum; a Superman homage whose power requires devotion to a cause.
Gladiator (Melvin Potter)
Gladiator (Melvin Potter) is a Marvel Comics character, a costume designer turned blade-armed Daredevil villain, created by Stan Lee and John Romita, debuting in Daredevil #18 (1966), later reformed and distinct from Marvel's Shi'ar Gladiator.
Gladiator 2
Gladiator 2 is a 2024 historical epic directed by Ridley Scott, the sequel to his Oscar-winning Gladiator (2000), starring Paul Mescal and Denzel Washington and released by Paramount Pictures.
Gladiator II
Gladiator II (2024) is Ridley Scott's sequel to Gladiator, starring Paul Mescal as Lucius with Denzel Washington and Pedro Pascal; it opened November 22, 2024, grossed about $462 million worldwide, and scored 64 on Metacritic.
Gladiatorial School
Gladiatorial school (ludus gladiatorius): Roman institution where gladiators lived and trained under a lanista. Key examples: Rome's Ludus Magnus by the Colosseum, Pompeii's barracks, and the Carnuntum school found in 2011 by radar survey.
Gladiators (1992 British TV series)
Gladiators (1992 British TV series), the ITV adaptation of American Gladiators, ran 1992-2000 at the National Indoor Arena, Birmingham, with Contenders facing costumed athletes across events ending in the Eliminator.
Gladiators (2023 British TV series)
Gladiators (2023 British TV series): BBC revival of the 1992 ITV sports entertainment show, premiering 13 January 2024 on BBC One, produced by Hungry Bear Media and MGM, hosted by Bradley and Barney Walsh, refereed by Mark Clattenburg, with Contenders facing elite Gladiators in events ending in the Eliminator.
Gladiators' barracks
Gladiators' barracks, Pompeii: two buildings, the Quadriporticus VIII.7.16 (74 Doric columns, converted to gladiatorial use after AD 62) and the earlier V.5.3 barracks with 120 gladiatorial inscriptions, housing and training gladiators for the Amphitheatre.
Gladiolus
Gladiolus (sword lily) is a genus of about 296 cormous Iridaceae species native from Europe to Iran and Africa, centred in southern Africa; summer-flowering hybrids are major cut-flower crops, with corm rots and gladiolus thrips the main problems.
Gladiolus 'Priscilla'
Gladiolus 'Priscilla' is a Dutch-bred large-flowered gladiolus cultivar (K & K Gootjes, NL rights 1994) with pink-edged, yellow-centered florets, widely grown as a cut flower and garden plant and a frequent benchmark in cultivar trials.
Gladius
The gladius was the short, double-edged sword of the Roman legionary, adopted from Iberian weapons during the Punic Wars and used for both cutting and thrusting.
GLaDOS
GLaDOS (Genetic Lifeform and Disk Operating System) is a fictional artificial intelligence and main antagonist of Valve's Portal (2007) and Portal 2 (2011), voiced by Ellen McLain.
Gladsheim Peak
Gladsheim Peak (2,830 m) is the highest summit of the Valhalla Range in the Selkirk Mountains, British Columbia, named in 1900 for Odin's Norse hall, with its first ascent by the west ridge in 1963.
Gladstone Gallery
Gladstone Gallery, founded by Barbara Gladstone in 1980 in New York, is a contemporary art gallery with spaces in Manhattan, Brussels, and Seoul, representing over 70 artists and estates including Matthew Barney, Keith Haring, and Robert Mapplethorpe, now led by partners Max Falkenstein, Gavin Brown, Caroline Luce, and Paula Tsai.
Gladstone Gander
Gladstone Gander is a Disney comic character created by Carl Barks, debuting in Walt Disney's Comics and Stories #88 (January 1948) as Donald Duck's extremely lucky, lazy cousin, rival for Daisy Duck; he appears in DuckTales but never starred in his own comic or film.
Gladstone Institutes
The Gladstone Institutes is an independent, nonprofit biomedical research organization in San Francisco, founded in 1979 and closely affiliated with UCSF, with about 600 scientists working on cardiovascular, neurological, and infectious disease.