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Gol Mod-1

Gol Mod-1 (Gol Mod I) is a major Xiongnu elite cemetery in Arkhangai aimag, central Mongolia, with 483 recorded tombs including 214 terrace tombs; excavated by Ts. Dorjsüren and the Mongolian-French expedition (2000-2010), part of the UNESCO Xiongnu Nobility serial property.

Göl Saatleri

Göl Saatleri, the first poetry collection of the Turkish poet Ahmet Haşim (1887–1933), was published in Istanbul in 1921 and is regarded as a founding work of modern Turkish poetry.

Gol Transportes Aéreos Flight 1907

Gol Transportes Aéreos Flight 1907, the Amazon mid-air collision, was a Brazilian Boeing 737 flight that collided with a business jet in 2006, killing all 154 aboard.

GOL TV

GOL TV names two soccer channels: GolTV, a bilingual 24-hour American soccer network founded by Enzo Francescoli in Miami in 2003, and Mediapro's Spanish Gol Televisión/Gol (2008-2026), Spain's first premium TDT football channel, replaced by Replay in 2026.

Gola Dhoro

Gola Dhoro, also called Bagasra, is a small fortified Harappan settlement near Bagasra village in Kutch, Gujarat, India, occupied until about 1700 BCE and known for craft production.

Gola-Tiwai Complex

Gola-Tiwai Complex: Sierra Leone's first World Heritage site (2025), a serial property of Gola Rainforest National Park and Tiwai Island Wildlife Sanctuary, 71,203 ha of Upper Guinean Forest rich in endemic plants, chimpanzees, and pygmy hippos.

Golam (2024 film)

Golam (ഗോളം), 2024 Malayalam mystery thriller by debutant Samjad; ASP Sandeep Krishna (Ranjith Sajeev) probes an IT office murder; released 7 June 2024, streamed on Prime Video, sequel hinted.

Golan Cipel (גולן ציפל)

Golan Cipel (גולן ציפל), Israeli-born former aide, born 1968, served as New Jersey homeland security adviser under Governor Jim McGreevey in 2002; his 2004 sexual harassment accusations prompted McGreevey's resignation.

Golan Heights (الجولان)

Golan Heights (الجولان), also Jawlan, a 1,800 km² Syrian plateau captured by Israel in 1967, annexed in 1981 (UNSC 497 nullified it), US-recognized 2019; UNDOF-monitored since 1974; Druze majority among residents.

Golan Levin

Golan Levin is a new-media artist, engineer, and educator at Carnegie Mellon University, best known for Dialtones (2001), a concert played entirely on the audience's mobile phones.

Golan Telecom

Golan Telecom is an Israeli low-cost mobile operator founded in 2012 by Michael Golan, whose flat-rate pricing triggered a price war; it has been part of Cellcom since 2020.

Golani Brigade

Golani Brigade (חטיבת גולני), Israel Defense Forces 1st Infantry Brigade, founded 22 February 1948 from the Levonni Brigade split; brown beret and olive-tree badge; battalions Barak, Gideon, HaBokim HaRishon, and 631st Reconnaissance; fought from 1948 through Gaza and Lebanon operations.

Golasecca

Golasecca, a commune in Varese province, Lombardy (7.4 km2, 2,530 inhabitants in 2008), gave its name to the Golasecca culture, an Iron Age cremation-burial civilization of Lombardy, Piedmont, and Canton Ticino with Lepontic inscriptions, ended by the Insubri Celtic invasion.

Golaxy (星阵围棋)

Golaxy (星阵围棋) is a proprietary Chinese Go-playing AI developed by Beijing Thinker Technology, first released in April 2018; its developers report a 2018 win over Ke Jie.

Golay code

The Golay codes are two perfect error-correcting block codes, one binary and one ternary, introduced by Marcel Golay in 1949 and used for error control in the Voyager mission.

Golcadomide

Golcadomide (CC-99282, BMS-986369) is an investigational oral Bristol Myers Squibb cereblon E3 ligase modulator (CELMoD) that degrades Ikaros and Aiolos; unapproved, in phase 1-3 lymphoma trials including GOLSEEK-1.

Golchin Gilani

Golchin Gilani (گلچین گیلانی) was the pen name of Majd-al-Din Mir-Fakhra'i, an Iranian poet and physician who lived in London and wrote "Bārān" (The rain).

Golconda (గోల్కొండ)

Golconda (गोल्को), also known as Golkonda, is a ruined fortress city located in Hyderabad, India, serving as the Qutb-Shahi capital until 1687 and known for its diamonds.

Golconda painting

Golconda painting is a Deccani miniature painting school flourished at the Qutb Shahi court in India from the late sixteenth century until the Mughal conquest of 1687.

Gold

Gold, a chemical element with symbol Au and atomic number 79, is a dense, soft yellow metal prized since prehistoric times as jewelry, coinage, and a store of value.

Gold (2016 film)

Gold is a 2016 American adventure drama film directed by Stephen Gaghan and starring Matthew McConaughey as prospector Kenny Wells, loosely based on the Bre-X mining scandal.

Gold (2018 film)

Gold (2018) is a Hindi sports drama directed by Reema Kagti, starring Akshay Kumar as fictional hockey manager Tapan Das, a fictionalized account of India's first Olympic gold as a free nation at the 1948 London Games.

Gold (2022 Indian film)

Gold (2022) is a Malayalam comedy drama directed by Alphonse Puthren, starring Prithviraj Sukumaran and Nayanthara, about a man who finds a truck of hidden gold. Released 1 December 2022 after an Onam postponement, it flopped, grossing ₹11.30 crore worldwide.

Gold (British radio network)

Gold Radio is a British radio network owned by Global, formed in 2007. It plays classic hits from the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s, reaching 1,824,000 listeners weekly.

Gold (color)

Gold is the characteristic yellow color of the metallic element gold, produced by relativistic effects on its electrons, which make it absorb blue light instead of reflecting a silvery white.

GOLD (instrument)

GOLD (Global-scale Observations of the Limb and Disk) is a NASA far-ultraviolet imaging spectrograph launched in 2018 on a commercial communications satellite to study Earth's upper atmosphere.

Gold as an investment

Gold as an investment means gaining exposure through physical bullion, ETFs, futures, or mining shares; it produces no cash flow, and critics dispute its reliability as an inflation hedge.

Gold bar

A gold bar, also known as a gold ingot, is refined gold cast or minted into a standardized shape, from 1-gram retail bars to 400-ounce wholesale bars.

Gold Base

Gold Base, also known as the Int Base, is the Church of Scientology's closed compound at Gilman Hot Springs in Riverside County, California, housing Golden Era Productions and senior church management.

Gold Beach

Gold Beach: British D-Day landing sector, 6 June 1944, between Omaha and Juno, from Port-en-Bessin to Ver-sur-Mer; assaulted by the 50th (Northumbrian) Division, with Arromanches Mulberry B harbour and the British Normandy Memorial distinguishing it.