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Galina Urbanovich
Galina Urbanovich (Галина Наполеоновна Урбанович), Soviet gymnast (1917–2011), 1952 Olympic team gold and portable apparatus silver, seven-time Soviet all-around champion.
Galina Vinogradova
Galina Vinogradova, later Galina Popova (1932-2017), Soviet sprinter-long jumper; set women's long jump world records of 6.28 m and 6.31 m in 1955 and ran on a 4x100 m relay world record team.
Galina Vishnevskaya (Гали́на Па́вловна Вишне́вская)
Galina Vishnevskaya (Галина Вишневская, 1926–2012), Russian lyric-dramatic soprano, Bolshoi star 1952–1974, muse of Shostakovich and Britten, exiled with Rostropovich in 1974, later founded the Moscow Opera Centre.
Galina Yermolenko
Galina Yermolenko (later Grinwald), born 25 January 1932, Soviet Leningrad hurdler and pentathlete; set the women's 80 m hurdles world record of 10.8 s at Leningrad on 5 July 1955, broken by Zenta Gastl in 1956.
Galina Zakharova
Galina Petrovna Zakharova (Галина Петровна Захарова, born 1947, Kyiv) is a Ukrainian handball player who won gold with the Soviet Union in women's handball at the 1976 Montreal Olympics; distinct from the 1956-born Soviet runner of the same name.
Galina Zhiltsova
Galina Zhiltsova (Галина Жильцова), Soviet middle-distance runner and 3x800m relay world record holder; set 6:54.0 Moskva 1949 and 6:53.8 Tbilisi 1949 with Dmitruk and Vasilyeva; Air Forces champion; event discontinued in 1969.
Galina Zybina
Galina Zybina, full name Galina Ivanovna Zybina-Fyodorova, was a Soviet shot putter who won the 1952 Olympic title and set eight shot put world records between 1952 and 1956.
Galinsoga
Galinsoga (gallant soldiers) is a genus of 12 accepted annual Asteraceae herbs native to tropical and subtropical America, established by Ruiz and Pavon in 1794; its weedy species G. parviflora and G. quadriradiata are invasive worldwide and used as food and medicine.
Galinsoga parviflora
Galinsoga parviflora, gallant soldier or quickweed (guascas), an annual Asteraceae herb native to tropical America, a cosmopolitan weed of crops, distinguished from G. quadriradiata by sparse hairs and blunt pappus tips, and eaten as a cooked vegetable.
Galinstan
Galinstan is a eutectic liquid-metal alloy of gallium, indium, and tin, liquid near room temperature and used as a low-toxicity replacement for mercury in thermometers.
Galit Alter
Galit Alter is an immunologist who developed Systems Serology, a method for profiling antibody function, and later joined Moderna as Vice President of Immunology Research.
Galit Lahav
Galit Lahav is a systems biologist who is Novartis Professor and Chair of Systems Biology at Harvard Medical School, known for discovering that p53 pulses in single living cells.
Galium
Galium (bedstraws, cleavers) is a cosmopolitan genus of about 500-670 species of Rubiaceae herbs with whorled leaves, four-angled stems, small four-merous flowers, and two-lobed fruits; type species G. aparine.
Galium aparine
Galium aparine, cleavers or catchweed bedstraw (stickywilly), is a hooked-hair annual climbing herb of Rubiaceae, a widespread temperate weed of crops and gardens with bur-like fruits, edible and folk-medicinal uses, and invasive status in Argentina.
Galium mollugo
Galium mollugo (smooth bedstraw, hedge bedstraw, false baby's breath), a perennial Rubiaceae herb native to Europe to Siberia and North Africa, invasive in North American hayfields and pastures, regulated as a Canadian Secondary Noxious weed seed.
Galium odoratum
Galium odoratum (sweet woodruff, Waldmeister), a Rubiaceae perennial of temperate Eurasia, is a shade ground cover with whorled leaves and coumarin-scented dried foliage used to flavor German May wine.
Galium verum
Galium verum (lady's bedstraw), perennial Rubiaceae herb of temperate Eurasia and NW Africa; type species of Galium, golden-yellow flowers, whorled leaves, traditional dye, milk-coagulation, and diuretic uses.
Galiximab
Galiximab (IDEC-114), a discontinued primatized anti-CD80 (B7-1) IgG1 lambda monoclonal antibody with macaque variable regions, was trialed in follicular and Hodgkin lymphoma, alone and with rituximab.
Galkayo
Galkayo (Gaalkacyo), capital of Somalia's Mudug region, is a divided trade city: North Galkayo under Puntland, South under Galmudug, split since the 1993 Mudug Peace Agreement, with a major livestock market.
Gall
Gall: an abnormal plant growth induced by another organism, most often insects or mites via feeding or egg-laying chemicals; also bacteria, fungi, nematodes, viruses. Provides shelter and nutrition to the inducer; usually harmless to plant health.
Gall adelgid
Gall adelgids, spruce-gall-forming Adelgidae such as Adelges abietis and A. cooleyi, are 65-species aphid relatives with cyclical parthenogenesis, spruce-to-conifer host alternation, and species-specific pineapple or strawberry galls.
Gall Force
Gall Force is a Japanese science-fiction OVA series created by Hideki Kakinuma with character designs by Kenichi Sonoda, running from 1986 to 1997, depicting a war between the Solnoid and Paranoid races.
Gall wasp
Gall wasp (Cynipidae), also called cynipid wasp, a family of about 1,400 hymenopteran species whose larvae induce species-specific plant galls, chiefly on oaks and roses, with alternating parthenogenetic generations and inquiline and parasitoid communities.
Gall–Peters projection
The Gall–Peters projection, also known as the Peters projection, is a cylindrical equal-area map projection that preserves area exactly while distorting shapes, presented by James Gall in 1855.
Galla Jayadev
Galla Jayadev, Indian industrialist and two-term Telugu Desam Party MP for Guntur (2014, 2019), chairman of Amara Raja Energy & Mobility; quit electoral politics in January 2024.
Galla Placidia
Galla Placidia (Aelia Galla Placidia, c. 393–450) was a Roman empress who governed the Western Roman Empire as regent for her son Valentinian III from 425 to 437.
Gallaberry Camp
Gallaberry Camp (West Gallaberry) is a Roman temporary marching camp in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland, found as cropmarks by O.G.S. Crawford, excavated by St Joseph in 1952, measuring 64 by 110 m, near Carzield fort; distinct from the Iron Age Gallaberry Hill fort.
Gallaecia
Gallaecia (Callaecia), Roman province of northwestern Iberia created under Diocletian from the Bracaran, Lucense, and Astur conventus; Suebic kingdom from 411, conquered by Leovigild in 585.
Gallagher
Gallagher, formally Arthur J. Gallagher & Co., is an American insurance brokerage and risk management firm founded in 1927, ranked the world's third largest insurance broker by revenue.
Gallagher (comedian)
Gallagher, stage name of Leo Anthony Gallagher Jr. (1946–2022), American prop comic famous for the Sledge-O-Matic watermelon-smashing routine, Showtime specials, 1980s stardom, brother lawsuit, and 2022 death.