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Golden Dawn (Χρυσή Αυγή) (Greece)
Golden Dawn (Χρυσή Αυγή), Greek neo-Nazi party founded in the 1980s, entered parliament in 2012 during the debt crisis, peaked third in polls, and was convicted as a criminal organization in 2020, upheld on appeal in 2026.
Golden Delicious
Golden Delicious is a yellow apple cultivar from a chance seedling found in Clay County, West Virginia, bought and named by Stark Bro's in 1914; unrelated to Red Delicious, it is the EU's largest apple variety and parent of Gala, Jonagold, and Pink Lady.
Golden Disc Awards
The Golden Disc Awards (골든디스크어워즈) is an annual South Korean music awards ceremony first held in 1986, honoring K-pop achievements based on album sales and streaming.
Golden Dome (missile defense system)
Golden Dome is a proposed layered US homeland missile defense system ordered by President Trump in 2025, which would place interceptors in space for the first time.
Golden Dome (missile defense)
Golden Dome for America is a US homeland missile defense initiative announced by President Trump in 2025, planned as a layered shield including space-based interceptors.
Golden eagle
Golden eagle (Aquila chrysaetos, Aigle royal, Steinadler): a large Holarctic booted eagle of open mountains, hunting hares and marmots, nesting on cliffs; IUCN Least Concern with 85,000-160,000 mature birds but over 70% of recorded deaths human-caused.
Golden Eagle Oil and Gas Field
Golden Eagle is an oil field in the Outer Moray Firth of the UK North Sea, about 111 kilometers northeast of Aberdeen, producing first oil in late October 2014.
Golden Earring
Golden Earring: Dutch rock band formed 1961 in The Hague as The Tornadoes; classic lineup Hay, Kooymans, Gerritsen, Zuiderwijk from 1970; hits Radar Love (1973) and Twilight Zone (1982); ended 2021 after Kooymans's ALS diagnosis; he died 2025.
Golden Ears Bridge
The Golden Ears Bridge is a six-lane road bridge over the Fraser River connecting Maple Ridge and Pitt Meadows with Langley and Surrey in British Columbia, opened in 2009.
Golden Era Records
Golden Era Records is an independent hip hop record label based in Adelaide, Australia, founded by the Hilltop Hoods in 2009 and home to Funkoars, Vents, and Briggs.
Golden Features
Golden Features is the stage name of Tom Stell, an Australian electronic music producer and DJ from Sydney known for performing in a gold-plated mask; his debut album SECT reached the Australian top 20 in 2018.
Golden Fleece (χρυσόμαλλον δέρας)
Golden Fleece (χρυσόμαλλον δέρας), the fleece of the winged ram Chrysomallos in Greek myth, kept at Colchis (western Georgia) and won by Jason and the Argonauts with Medea's help; known from Pindar, Apollonius' Argonautica, and Ovid.
Golden Gate
The Golden Gate is the roughly 3-mile-long, 1-mile-wide strait linking San Francisco Bay to the Pacific Ocean, named Chrysopylae by John C. Fremont in 1846 after the Golden Horn, with tidal currents of 4.5 to 7.5 knots.
Golden Gate Bridge
The Golden Gate Bridge is a suspension bridge spanning the Golden Gate Strait connecting San Francisco and Marin County, California; opened in 1937, its 4,200-foot main span was the world's longest.
Golden Gate Cloning
Golden Gate cloning: type IIS restriction enzyme and ligase DNA assembly method by Engler and Marillonnet (2008), also called MoClo or GoldenBraid; scarless one-pot, one-step assembly of up to dozens of fragments.
Golden Gate Park
Golden Gate Park is a 1,017-acre urban park in western San Francisco, built from 1870 on sand dunes by William Hammond Hall and John McLaren, with gardens, museums, and 25 million annual visits.
Golden Girls (gymnastics)
Golden Girls: nickname of the 2024 US women's Olympic gymnastics team (Biles, Lee, Carey, Chiles, Rivera), which won team gold at Paris 2024 with 171.296 points; named for the oldest US roster since 1952, average age 22.2.
Golden Glider
Golden Glider is Lisa Snart, DC Comics Flash villain, sister of Captain Cold, created by Cary Bates and Irv Novick, debuting in The Flash #250 (1977); a figure skater turned Rogue with air-skating ice powers, later killed by Chillblaine and reborn in the New 52.
Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Television Series Drama
Golden Globe Award for Best Performance by a Female Actor in a Television Series – Drama, a Golden Globes acting award for lead roles in dramatic TV series; recent winners Rhea Seehorn (Pluribus, 2026), Anna Sawai (Shōgun, 2025), and Sarah Snook (Succession, 2024), voted by international journalist voters in two phases.
Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama
Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama (Best Performance by a Female Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama), annual Golden Globes lead drama acting prize, split from a single category in 1951; first winner Jennifer Jones 1944, 2026 winner Jessie Buckley for Hamnet.
Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy
Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy, a Golden Globes film award created in 1952; first winner An American in Paris; recent winners include Emilia Pérez and One Battle After Another.
Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song
Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song, a Golden Globes honor since 1962 for songwriters of songs written for a motion picture; first winner "Town Without Pity"; recent winners "El Mal" (2025) and "Golden" from KPop Demon Hunters (2026).
Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture
Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture, now Best Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role in any Motion Picture: annual Golden Globes film acting honor first given in 1944 to Akim Tamiroff; 84 awards through 2026, latest winner Stellan Skarsgård for Sentimental Value.
Golden Globe Award for Best Television Series – Drama
Golden Globe Award for Best Television Series – Drama, an annual Golden Globes honor for the year's best drama series, judged by over 300 international journalist voters. The Pitt won in 2026; Succession, The X-Files, and Mad Men lead with three wins each.
Golden Globe Awards
Golden Globe Awards (the Golden Globes), annual film and television honors first given in 1944, now run by Penske Media Eldridge with Dick Clark Productions, voted by international journalists, broadcast on CBS since 2024 across 28 categories.
Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award
The Cecil B. DeMille Award is the Golden Globes' honorary lifetime achievement prize for entertainment contributions, established 1952 with DeMille as first recipient, 70 recipients through Helen Mirren in 2026, not given in 1976 or 2024.
Golden Gloves
Golden Gloves: annual US amateur boxing tournament series founded in Chicago in 1923 by Chicago Tribune sports editor Arch Ward; now 31 franchises under Golden Gloves of America culminating in the National Tournament of Champions; alumni include Joe Louis, Ali, Leonard, Tyson.
Golden goal
Golden goal: football rule, also called sudden death, under which the first goal in extra time immediately ended the match. Used from 1993 to 2004, decided Euro 96 and Euro 2000 finals, then abolished by the IFAB.
Golden Guitar Awards
The Golden Guitar Awards, formally the Country Music Awards of Australia, are country music awards held each January at the Tamworth Country Music Festival, first presented in 1973.
Golden hamster
Golden hamster (Mesocricetus auratus), or Syrian hamster: a solitary rodent from Syria and Turkey, most common pet hamster and lab animal; all captive stock descends from hamsters caught near Aleppo in 1930 by Israel Aharoni.