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Gobiidae
Gobiidae (gobies) is the most species-rich fish family, about 2,000 species in roughly 250 genera of the order Gobiiformes, found in marine, brackish, and fresh waters, with fused pelvic fins, tiny body sizes, shrimp symbioses, and heavy aquarium-trade use.
Gobiiformes
Gobiiformes (gobies, gobioids) is an order of small, mostly benthic ray-finned fishes with 2,740 living species in 12 families, including Gobiidae, the most species-rich fish family, plus cardinalfishes, sleepers, and mudskippers.
Gobir
Gobir was a Hausa kingdom, the northernmost and most militant of the Hausa states, whose conflicts with Usman dan Fodio triggered the Sokoto jihad of 1804.
Goblet cell
Goblet cell is a unicellular glandular epithelial cell found in the linings of many organs, including the small intestine and respiratory tract, and is linked to hypersecretion in asthma and COPD.
Gobliiins
Gobliiins (1991, Coktel Vision) is a puzzle adventure by Pierre Gilhodes and Muriel Tramis; three goblins with distinct abilities solve 22 levels to cure King Angoulafre, starting a series through Gobliiins 5 and the 2026 Collection.
Goblin
Goblin: a small, grotesque mischievous creature of European folklore, from Middle English gobelin via Old French, also the name of Tolkien/D&D fantasy villains and the source of 'goblin mode.'
Goblin (album)
Goblin (album): Tyler, The Creator's second solo album and first on XL Recordings, released May 2011; 15-track standard edition with therapist framing device, Odd Future guests, and Pitchfork's 'game-changing' indie hip-hop verdict.
Goblin (band)
Goblin is an Italian progressive rock band formed in Rome in 1972, also known as Cherry Five and Reale Impero Britannico, famous for horror scores for Dario Argento including Profondo rosso, Suspiria, and Zombi.
Goblin Market
Goblin Market (1859, published 1862) is a narrative poem by Christina Rossetti about sisters Laura and Lizzie tempted by goblin fruit vendors. Its best-known aspect is its ambiguity, sustaining religious, sexual, feminist, economic, and colonial readings.
Goblin mode
Goblin mode is internet slang for unapologetically self-indulgent, lazy, slovenly behavior rejecting social norms; first tweeted in 2009, viral in 2022 via a fake Julia Fox headline, and Oxford Word of the Year 2022 with 93% of 342,079 votes.
Goblin shark
Goblin shark (Mitsukurina owstoni), sole living species of Mitsukurinidae; deep-sea lamniform shark to 3.9 m with slingshot jaws, ampullae-covered snout, first filmed alive in 2019/2024 Pacific sightings.
Goblin Slayer (ゴブリンスレイヤー)
Goblin Slayer (ゴブリンスレイヤー) is a dark fantasy light novel series by Kumo Kagyu, illustrated by Noboru Kannatuki, GA Bunko, from February 2016; 16 volumes, Yen Press English edition, manga, and 2018 and 2023 anime seasons.
Gobstopper
Gobstopper, also called jawbreaker in the US, is a hard spherical candy of many layered sugar coats meant to be sucked slowly. The Everlasting Gobstopper, from Roald Dahl's 1964 book, became a real Wonka candy in 1976, now made by Ferrara.
Gobustan (journal)
Qobustan, also known as Qobustan jurnalı, is an Azerbaijani literary, cultural, and arts journal published in Baku since 1969, now the press organ of the Azerbaijan Writers' Union.
Gobustan Rock Art Cultural Landscape (Azerbaijan)
Gobustan Rock Art Cultural Landscape, Qobustan, Azerbaijan: UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2007 near Baku with over 6,000 petroglyphs spanning 40,000 years on Boyukdash, Kichikdash, and Jinghirdag-Yazylytepe hills.
Goby–shrimp mutualism
The goby–shrimp mutualism is a partnership in which a pistol shrimp digs a burrow shared with a goby fish that warns it of predators by touch.
GoByBike
GoByBike (Gobybike Finland Oy) is a Finnish employee bike-benefit service founded in Espoo in 2020, arranging company bicycle leases between employers, employees, and bike sellers.
Góc sân và khoảng trời
Góc sân và khoảng trời ("The Corner of the Yard and the Stretch of Sky") is a 1968 Vietnamese poetry collection by Trần Đăng Khoa.
GOCE
GOCE, the Gravity field and steady-state Ocean Circulation Explorer, was a European Space Agency satellite launched in 2009 that measured Earth's gravity field and mapped the geoid.
Goch-Asperden
Goch-Asperden, a late Roman burgus and glass workshop on the Niers river near Goch, Germany (51.705N, 6.049E): wooden fort around 340/350, stone rebuild under Valentinian I, abandoned about 420/430, with two successive glass furnaces producing Helle bowls.
Gochang Biosphere Reserve
Gochang Biosphere Reserve (고창군 생물권보전지역), a UNESCO MAB biosphere reserve designated 28 May 2013 covering all 671.52 km2 of Gochang County, South Korea; first whole-county designation in Korea, with Ramsar mudflats, Ungok Wetland, Seonunsan Park, and dolmen World Heritage in its core zone.
Gochang, Hwasun and Ganghwa Dolmen Sites
Gochang, Hwasun and Ganghwa Dolmen Sites (고인돌, goindol): serial UNESCO World Heritage property in South Korea, inscribed 2000, three prehistoric cemeteries of over 1,000 megalithic tombs of the 1st millennium BC, the densest dolmen concentration of any country.
Gocheok Sky Dome
Gocheok Sky Dome (고척스카이돔) is South Korea's first domed baseball stadium, opened in Seoul in 2015 as home of the Kiwoom Heroes and the country's largest music venue.
Gocho
Gocho is the stage name of José Ángel Torres, a Puerto Rican reggaeton producer behind "Dale Don Dale" and "La Tortura" who scored a No. 1 Hot Latin Songs hit as an artist.
Gochujang (고추장)
Gochujang (고추장), Korean fermented chili paste of soybean, glutinous rice, chili powder, and malt; sweet-hot taste, about 2,402 mg sodium per 100 g, distinct from doenjang and ssamjang.
Goclenius (lunar crater)
Goclenius, a 73-km-wide floor-fractured impact crater on the Moon's near side at the western edge of Mare Fecunditatis, crossed by the Rimae Goclenius rille system and famously photographed by Apollo 8.
Gocta
Gocta (Catarata de Gocta) is a two-tiered waterfall in Peru's Amazonas region, dropping 771 meters near Cocachimba and San Pablo and becoming internationally known after 2005.
God
God: the supreme being or ultimate reality of religion and philosophy. Western theism defines God as creator and sustainer, omniscient, omnipotent, omnipresent, and morally perfect; key debates include divine providence, the problem of evil, foreknowledge, and comparative concepts of the divine.
God (word)
God (word): the English deity-word from Proto-Germanic gudą, cognate with Gott, god, goð, guþ; traditionally linked to PIE ǵʰutóm 'that which is invoked', an unsettled etymology distinct from deus and theos.
God & Country
God & Country (2024) is a 90-minute documentary directed by Dan Partland and produced by Rob Reiner, based on Katherine Stewart's The Power Worshippers, examining Christian nationalism's threat to American democracy and Christianity; released February 16, 2024, 88% on Rotten Tomatoes.