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Gold Standard Act
The Gold Standard Act, signed March 14, 1900, was a United States federal law making gold the sole standard of value, with paper notes redeemable in gold coin.
Gold Standard Act 1925
The Gold Standard Act 1925 was the UK statute restoring sterling's convertibility into gold at its prewar parity of $4.86, announced by Chancellor Winston Churchill in April 1925.
Gold Yuan
The Gold Yuan (金圆券) was the currency of the Republic of China, issued by decree of Jiang Jieshi on 19 August 1948 to replace the collapsed fabi.
Gold-containing drugs
Gold-containing drugs, also known as gold salts, are medicines in which gold is the active component; chrysotherapy for rheumatoid arthritis used injectable gold thiolates and oral auranofin.
Gold-green landscape
Gold-green landscape (jinbi shanshui) is a Chinese landscape-painting style in which gold paste outlines and sets off mineral blues and greens, flourishing under Tang masters Li Sixun and Li Zhaodao.
Gold–thiolate
A gold–thiolate is a chemical unit in which a thiolate anion (RS⁻) bonds to a gold atom, written Au–SR, forming compounds, monolayers on gold, and nanocluster ligand shells.
Gold's Gym
Gold's Gym is a global fitness chain founded by Joe Gold in Venice Beach, California (1963–1965 by source), famed as "The Mecca of Bodybuilding" via Pumping Iron; owned by RSG Group since 2020, ~600 locations, 3M+ members.
Gold(II) compounds
Gold(II) compounds are complexes in which gold formally carries the +2 oxidation state, a rare d⁹ configuration stabilized by gold–gold bonding or rigid ligand frameworks.
Golda (film)
Golda (2023 film), directed by Guy Nattiv, written by Nicholas Martin: biographical drama starring Helen Mirren as Israeli PM Golda Meir during the 19-day Yom Kippur War; premiered at Berlinale 2023, Metascore 48.
Golda Meir (גולדה מאיר)
Golda Meir (גולדה מאיר), 1898–1978, Israeli Labor politician born in Kyiv and raised in Milwaukee; first and only female Prime Minister of Israel (1969–1974), former Labor and Foreign Minister, who led Israel during the 1973 Yom Kippur War and resigned in 1974.
Goldbach's conjecture
Goldbach's conjecture, the strong Goldbach conjecture, says every even number greater than 2 is the sum of two primes; proposed in 1742, it remains unproved.
Goldbach's weak conjecture
Goldbach's weak conjecture, also called the ternary Goldbach conjecture, states every odd integer greater than 5 is a sum of three primes; Helfgott proved it in 2013.
Goldberg Variations
Goldberg Variations (Goldberg-Variationen), BWV 988: Bach's 1741 aria with 30 variations for two-manual harpsichord, fourth part of the Clavier-Übung; theme is the 32-note bass, canons at rising intervals, quodlibet finale, named via Forkel's 1802 Goldberg story, famous through Gould's 1955 and 1981 recordings.
Goldberg-Shprintzen megacolon syndrome
Goldberg-Shprintzen megacolon syndrome (GOSHS, megacolon-microcephaly syndrome), rare autosomal recessive disorder from KIFBP/KIAA1279 mutations, combining Hirschsprung disease, microcephaly, intellectual disability, and facial dysmorphism.
Goldcrest
Goldcrest (Regulus regulus), a 5-6 g Eurasian kinglet, the smallest breeding bird in Britain and Ireland alongside the firecrest; coniferous woodland, clutches up to 12 eggs, IUCN Least Concern.
Golden (Huntrix song)
"Golden" is the 2025 hit by fictional K-pop group HUNTR/X (EJAE, Audrey Nuna, REI AMI) from Netflix's KPop Demon Hunters; eight weeks at Hot 100 number one, and the first K-pop song to win a Grammy and an Oscar for Best Original Song.
Golden (Kylie Minogue album)
Golden (2018) is Kylie Minogue's 14th studio album, her first on BMG, recorded mainly in Nashville with a country-pop sound; it topped the UK and Australian album charts and every track is co-written by Minogue.
Golden (Romeo Santos album)
Golden is the third solo studio album by American singer Romeo Santos, a bachata record released in July 2017 that topped Billboard's Top Latin Albums chart.
Golden (unfinished film)
Golden, originally titled Atlantis, was an unfinished 2025 Universal movie musical directed by Michel Gondry about Pharrell Williams' 1977 Virginia Beach childhood, starring Halle Bailey and Kelvin Harrison Jr.; it was scrapped in post-production, never released.
Golden 1 Center
Golden 1 Center is Sacramento's indoor NBA arena, home of the Sacramento Kings since October 2016; first LEED Platinum indoor sports venue, 100% solar powered, 17,608 NBA capacity, part of Downtown Commons.
Golden Age
Golden Age: first of Hesiod's five ages of humankind in Works and Days, the time of Cronos when men lived like gods without toil or grief; origin of the Western golden-age motif, retold by Ovid and Vergil.
Golden age of American animation
The golden age of American animation was the era of theatrical short cartoons, roughly 1928 to the early 1960s, produced by Disney, Warner Bros., and MGM.
Golden Age of American Illustration
The Golden Age of American Illustration, roughly 1880 to 1930, was the period when reproduced images in magazines and books became America's most widely encountered art.
Golden age of arcade video games
The golden age of arcade video games, roughly the late 1970s to early 1980s, spans Space Invaders, Pac-Man, and Defender, peaking in 1982 with about 10,000 US arcades before the 1983 crash and a Street Fighter II revival.
Golden Age of Armenian literature
The Golden Age of Armenian literature, called Vosgetar in Armenian, was the fifth-century era, about 425 to 475, when the new Armenian alphabet enabled the first major Armenian writing.
Golden age of aviation in popular culture
The golden age of aviation in popular culture was the interwar obsession with flying, marked by Lindbergh's 1927 Paris flight, air races, aviation films, and comics.
Golden Age of Comic Books
The Golden Age of Comic Books (1938 into the 1950s) began with Action Comics #1 and Superman by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, created the superhero genre, peaked in wartime, and ended with the 1954 Comics Code.
Golden Age of Detective Fiction
The Golden Age of Detective Fiction was the period between the World Wars, chiefly the 1920s and 1930s, when Agatha Christie and contemporaries established the fair-play clue-puzzle mystery.
Golden Age of Piracy
The Golden Age of Piracy, also called the Golden Age of Pirates, was a period of heightened piracy in the Atlantic and Indian Oceans from the 1680s to the 1720s.
Golden Age of Porn
The Golden Age of Porn, also known as porno chic, spans roughly 1972 to 1984, when American hardcore pornography resembled Hollywood cinema and played in movie theaters.