All articles starting with G

Galilee (الجليل)

Galilee (الجليل, Hebrew ha-Galil) is the mountainous northern region of Israel and ancient Palestine's northernmost province, divided into Lower Galilee (200–900 m) and Upper Galilee (700–1,200 m), source of over half of Israel's drinking water.

Galilee Coal Mine

The Galilee Coal Mine is a proposed thermal coal mine in Queensland's Galilee Basin, developed by Clive Palmer's Waratah Coal and refused approval in 2023.

Galileo (musical)

Galileo is an original rock musical with book by Danny Strong, score by Zoe Sarnak and Michael Weiner, directed by Michael Mayer. Premiered at Berkeley Rep in May 2024; Broadway previews begin November 10, 2026 at the Shubert Theatre, starring Raúl Esparza, distinct from Brecht's play.

Galileo (satellite constellation)

Galileo is the European Union's global navigation satellite system, a civil-controlled constellation in medium Earth orbit providing positioning, navigation, and timing signals worldwide, begun in 2016.

Galileo (satellite navigation)

Galileo is the European Union's global navigation satellite system, operational since December 2016, run under civilian control and built so Europe would not depend on GPS or GLONASS.

Galileo (spacecraft)

Galileo was a NASA spacecraft launched in 1989 aboard the shuttle Atlantis that became the first artificial satellite of Jupiter in 1995 and was deliberately flown into the planet in 2003.

Galileo Academy of Science and Technology

Galileo Academy of Science and Technology, also Galileo High, is a public grades 9–12 high school of SFUSD at 1150 Francisco Street, Russian Hill, San Francisco; built 1921, about 1,750 students, six academies, twice a California Distinguished School.

Galileo affair

The Galileo affair, also called the prosecution of Galileo, was the Roman Catholic Church's dispute with Galileo over Copernicanism, ending in his 1633 condemnation and abjuration.

Galileo atmospheric probe

The Galileo atmospheric probe was a NASA entry craft dropped into Jupiter's atmosphere on December 7, 1995, making the first direct measurements of any outer planet's atmosphere.

Galileo Galilei

Galileo Galilei was a Pisa-born Italian astronomer, physicist, and mathematician who discovered Jupiter's moons, pioneered mathematical physics, and was convicted of heresy by the Roman Inquisition in 1633.

Galileo High Accuracy Service

The Galileo High Accuracy Service (HAS) is a free correction service of the EU's Galileo satellite navigation system, delivering decimetre-level positioning accuracy worldwide since its Initial Service began in 2023.

Galileo project

Galileo, also called the Galileo Mission, was a NASA orbiter and atmospheric probe mission to Jupiter, launched in 1989, that found evidence of an ocean on Europa.

Galileo PRS

Galileo PRS is the robust, encrypted navigation service of the EU's Galileo satellite system, restricted to government-authorized users such as police and emergency services, available since 2016.

Oct 20, 2026

Galileo Regio

Galileo Regio: the largest dark surface region on Ganymede, Jupiter's largest moon, a 4,439 km ancient cratered dark terrain named for Galileo Galilei and imaged by Voyager and Galileo spacecraft.

Sep 19, 2026

Galileo Technology (company)

Galileo Technology was an Israeli fabless semiconductor company that designed switched Ethernet and communications chips, listed on NASDAQ and acquired by Marvell in 2001 for about $2.7 billion.

Galileo thermometer

The Galileo thermometer, also called a Galilean or density thermometer, is a sealed glass cylinder whose calibrated floating bulbs indicate temperature; it is decorative, not precise.

Galileo's Leaning Tower of Pisa experiment

Galileo's Leaning Tower of Pisa experiment is the textbook story that Galileo dropped two cannonballs from the tower around 1590 to show unequal weights fall at the same rate.

Galileo's middle finger

Galileo's middle finger, the preserved middle finger of Galileo Galilei's right hand, removed by Anton Francesco Gori in 1737 and displayed at the Museo Galileo in Florence (inv. 2432), with related relics of thumb, index finger, tooth, and vertebra.

Galina Bystrova

Galina Bystrova (Галина Петровна Быстрова, 1934–1999), Soviet pentathlete and 80 m hurdler; 1964 Olympic pentathlon bronze, European champion 1958 and 1962, three world records.

Galina Chistyakova

Galina Chistyakova (Halyna Chystiakova, born 1962, Izmail) is a Soviet and Slovak long and triple jumper; her 7.52 m women's long jump world record from Leningrad, 11 June 1988, still stands, and she won Olympic bronze at Seoul 1988.

Oct 20, 2026

Galina Gorokhova

Galina Gorokhova (Галина Горохова), born in Moscow in 1938, is a Soviet and Russian foil fencer who won three Olympic golds and nine world titles, then coached Soviet fencing.

Galina Jovovich

Galina Jovovich (Galina Loginova, born 1950) is a Soviet-born Russian-American actress, VGIK graduate and Dovzhenko studio player, known for Much Ado About Nothing (1973) and as the mother and former manager of actress Milla Jovovich.

Galina Kreft-Alekseyeva

Galina Kreft-Alekseyeva (Галина Сергеевна Крефт-Алексеева), Soviet kayaker (1950-2005), also competed as Galina Kreft and Galina Alekseyeva; K2 500 m Olympic gold 1976 and silver 1980 with Nina Gopova-Trofimova, seven world silvers.

Galina Kukleva

Galina Alekseyevna Kukleva (Галина Алексеевна Куклева), Russian biathlete (1972–2026), 1998 Nagano Olympic sprint champion, three-time Olympic medalist, six world championship medals, 23 World Cup wins, retired 2003.

Galina Kulakova

Galina Kulakova (Галина Алексеевна Кулакова, born 1942), Soviet cross-country skier from Udmurtia; four Olympic golds among eight medals 1968–1980, Sapporo 1972 triple, five world titles, first Women's World Cup winner 1978–79, 1976 ephedrine disqualification.

Galina Leontyeva

Galina Leontyeva (Галина Александровна Леонтьева, born Yelnitskaya, 1941–2016), Soviet volleyball setter; two Olympic golds (1968, 1972), world champion 1970, European champion 1967 and 1971 with Spartak Leningrad.

Galina Prozumenshchikova Stepanova

Galina Prozumenshchikova Stepanova (Галина Прозуменщикова, 1948–2015), Soviet breaststroke swimmer, first Soviet Olympic swimming gold, 200 m breaststroke Tokyo 1964, five Olympic medals, five world records.

Sep 21, 2026

Galina Selivanova

Galina Selivanova is a Swedish-based cancer researcher and professor at Karolinska Institutet, a pioneer of p53 research known for showing that mutant p53 can be restored by small molecules.

Galina Shamray

Galina Shamray (Галина Шамрай, 1931–2022), Soviet gymnast from Tashkent; 1952 Olympic team gold and portable apparatus silver; first Soviet woman world all-around champion, Rome 1954; later coach and judge.