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Gloriavale Christian Community
Gloriavale Christian Community, also called the Springbank Christian Community, is a communal conservative Christian sect of about 600 people at Haupiri, New Zealand, founded in 1969 by Neville Cooper (Hopeful Christian); distinguished by shared property under the Christian Church Community Trust, 2022 Employment Court employee rulings, and loss of charitable status in 2026.
GloRilla
GloRilla (Gloria Hallelujah Woods, born 1999) is an American rapper from Memphis's Frayser neighborhood, signed to Yo Gotti's CMG/Interscope. Known for "F.N.F. (Let's Go)", "Tomorrow 2" with Cardi B, and the 2024 debut album GLORIOUS.
Gloriosa
Gloriosa (flame lily, glory lily, climbing lily) is a genus of Colchicaceae herbs from Africa and Asia with tendril-tipped leaves and reflexed red-yellow flowers; G. superba yields colchicine but is lethally toxic.
Glorioso Islands
Glorioso Islands (îles Glorieuses): French Scattered Islands coral archipelago in the northern Mozambique Channel, TAAF fifth district, disputed by Madagascar and the Comoros, ~7 km² land with a ~48,000 km² EEZ.
Glorious (GloRilla album)
GLORIOUS is the debut studio album by Memphis rapper GloRilla (Gloria Hallelujah Woods), released October 11, 2024 on CMG/Interscope; 15 tracks blending crunk anthems and gospel, debuting No. 5 on the Billboard 200 with a Grammy Best Rap Album nomination.
Glorious Exploits
Glorious Exploits, Ferdia Lennon's 2024 debut novel, set in 412 BC Syracuse, where potters Lampo and Gelon stage Euripides' Medea with Athenian war prisoners; Waterstones Debut Fiction Prize and Wodehouse Prize winner.
Glorious First of June
The Glorious First of June, or Bataille du 13 prairial an 2, was a 1794 naval battle in which Lord Howe's British fleet defeated the French west of Ushant.
Glorious Orient
Glorious Orient (东方欲晓, Oriental Dawn) is Fantawild's theme park brand on modern Chinese history, with four parks in Jining, Ningbo, Ganzhou, and Huai'an; Jining opened July 2024 with 42 attractions and the 92 km/h Fighter Jet coaster.
Glorious Purpose (Loki season 2)
Glorious Purpose is the November 9, 2023 season 2 finale of Marvel's Loki on Disney+, written by Michael Waldron; Loki becomes the God of Stories, replacing the Temporal Loom as Yggdrasil, drawing 11.2 million views in three days.
Glorious Revolution
The Glorious Revolution (1688–89) deposed Catholic James II of England, Scotland, and Ireland and installed William III and Mary II, producing the 1689 Declaration and Bill of Rights and a new Crown-Parliament settlement.
Glory (1989 film)
Glory is a 1989 American Civil War drama directed by Edward Zwick, starring Matthew Broderick, Denzel Washington, and Morgan Freeman as Black soldiers of the Union's 54th Massachusetts Infantry.
Glory (Britney Spears album)
Glory is Britney Spears' ninth studio album, released August 26, 2016 on RCA after Britney Jean, with Karen Kwak as executive producer; it debuted at No. 3 on the Billboard 200, peaked at No. 2 in the UK, and remains her last studio album.
Glory (kickboxing)
GLORY Kickboxing, founded 2012 by Glory Sports International (Singapore), is the leading professional kickboxing promotion and K-1 successor. Six weight classes, no elbows, limited clinch; Rico Verhoeven's 12-year heavyweight reign; 2026 grand prix tournament format.
Glory (optical phenomenon)
A glory, also called Buddha's light, is an optical phenomenon of small colored rings around an observer's shadow on cloud or fog, caused by sunlight backscattered by tiny water droplets.
Glory (religion)
Glory, or the glory of God, in Jewish and Christian theology is the visible or radiant manifestation of the divine presence, from Hebrew kavod ("weight") and Greek doxa.
Glory (TV series)
Glory is a 2026 Hindi-language Netflix sports crime thriller, 7 episodes, created by Karan Anshuman and Karmanya Ahuja, starring Divyenndu, Pulkit Samrat, and Suvinder Vicky as a boxing family in fictional Shaktigarh, Haryana, investigating a murder.
Glory (玉茗茶骨)
Glory (玉茗茶骨, alias 茗门世家) is a 2025 Chinese historical romance-suspense drama by Huanyu Entertainment and Mango TV, starring Hou Minghao and Gülnezer Bextiyar, 36 episodes, premiered December 29, 2025 on Mango TV and Hunan TV, centered on tea culture.
Glory Days (Little Mix album)
Glory Days is the fourth studio album by British girl group Little Mix, released November 18, 2016 on Syco/Columbia. Their first UK number 1 album, it sold 96,200 first-week copies, spent 89 weeks in the UK Top 40, and spawned five platinum UK singles including Shout Out to My Ex and Touch.
Glory hole
Glory hole: a hole in a wall or partition, as in adult bookstore booths, bathhouses, or public toilets, allowing anonymous sexual activity; also nonsexual nautical, glassmaking, mining, and British storage senses.
Glory Johnson
Glory Johnson (born 1990) is an American basketball forward, 6-3, drafted fourth overall by the Tulsa Shock in 2012; two-time WNBA All-Star (2013, 2014) who played eight seasons for the Shock, Wings, and Dream.
Glory Road (film)
Glory Road is a 2006 Disney sports drama directed by James Gartner, starring Josh Lucas as coach Don Haskins, dramatizing Texas Western's 1966 NCAA title win with the first all-Black starting five, with noted historical liberties.
Gloryhammer
Gloryhammer is a symphonic power metal band founded by Alestorm's Christopher Bowes, originally named Gloryhole, on Napalm Records. Known for the Angus McFife vs. Zargothrax concept saga across albums from Tales from the Kingdom of Fife (2013) to Space 1993 (2026).
Gloryia (格乐利雅)
Gloryia (格乐利雅) was a Shanghai-based chain of high-end one-stop wedding halls founded in 2014 by wedding-industry entrepreneur Shi Jiahao, which collapsed in mid-2025 when its cash chain broke.
Glosa
Glosa is a novel by the Argentine writer Juan José Saer, published in the mid-1980s and considered, alongside El entenado, the central novel of his work.
Glossă
Glossă is a philosophical poem by Romanian poet Mihai Eminescu, written in the fixed glossa form and built on antinomic pairs like death and birth.
Glossary
Glossary: an alphabetical list of specialized terms, abbreviations, and glosses with their meanings, attached to a book or discipline; from Medieval Latin glossarium; used in dictionaries, terminology standardization, and WCAG accessibility.
Glossary of ancient Roman religion
Glossary of ancient Roman religion: defines pontifex maximus, augures, auspicia, pax deorum, sacra, flamines, rex sacrorum, and numina, the priesthoods and concepts organizing Roman state and domestic cult.
Glossary of anime and manga
Glossary of anime and manga: reference terms for Japanese animation (anime) and comics (manga), including demographic labels (shōnen, shōjo, seinen, josei), formats (OVA, ONA, cour), production and fandom vocabulary (sakuga, otaku, dōjinshi), and words that changed meaning in translation.
Glossary of association football terms
Glossary of association football terms: reference lists defining football vocabulary, chiefly the IFAB's official Laws of the Game glossary and referee-terms glossary, plus fan terms (clean sheet, hat trick), MLS terms (DP, GAM, TAM), and analytics terms such as expected goals (xG).
Glossary of ballet
Glossary of ballet, also called ballet terminology or list of ballet terms: the predominantly French vocabulary of classical ballet, covering positions, steps, pointe work, and school differences (Cecchetti, French, Russian/Vaganova, RAD), with over 1,100 to 1,400 recorded terms.