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Golden handshake
A golden handshake is a pre-negotiated severance package giving departing executives substantial cash or stock on dismissal, layoff, restructuring, or retirement, distinct from the merger-triggered golden parachute.
Golden Hind
The Golden Hind, also known as the Golden Hinde, was Sir Francis Drake's flagship galleon, built at Plymouth in 1576 as the Pelican, on his 1577–1580 circumnavigation.
Golden Horde
The Golden Horde (Olug Ulus, Ulus Juchi) was the Jochid Mongol khanate of the Qipchaq steppe founded by Batu, ruled from Sarai, Muslim from Berke and Uzbeg, at war with the Ilkhanate, dissolved in the 15th century into Kazan, Crimea, and other khanates.
Golden Horde sack of Tabriz
The Golden Horde sack of Tabriz was the capture of Tabriz in 1357 by the army of Jochid khan Janibeg, which overthrew the Chobanid ruler Malek Ashraf and occupied Azerbaijan.
Golden Horde–Ilkhanate wars
The Golden Horde–Ilkhanate wars were conflicts from about 1261 between the Golden Horde and the Ilkhanate of Iran, fought for a century over the Caucasus without decisive result.
Golden Horn
The Golden Horn (Haliç) is Istanbul's horn-shaped estuary of the Bosphorus, the historic harbor of Byzantium and Constantinople, chained against attack and bypassed by Mehmed II in 1453, later heavily polluted and restored from the 1980s onward.
Golden Horse Film Festival and Awards (金马奖)
Golden Horse Awards (金馬獎), Taiwan's Chinese-language film awards founded in 1962, named for Kinmen and Matsu, one of three major Chinese-language film prizes, open to all regions.
Golden Horseshoe
Golden Horseshoe: urban region of southern Ontario curving around western Lake Ontario from Oshawa through Toronto and Hamilton to Niagara; Greater Golden Horseshoe is Ontario's growth-plan area with about 8.6 million people and 25% of Canada's GDP.
Golden hour (photography)
Golden hour (photography): the warm, soft, low-sun window after sunrise and before sunset, when the sun is within about 6 degrees of the horizon; also called magic hour, distinct from blue hour twilight.
Golden Hour: Part.3
GOLDEN HOUR : Part.3, ATEEZ's 12th mini album (KQ Entertainment, June 13, 2025), third of the Golden Hour series; five tracks led by "Lemon Drop," which gave the group its first Billboard Hot 100 entry at No. 69; EP debuted No. 2 on the Billboard 200.
Golden jackal
Golden jackal (Canis aureus), also called common jackal, a wolf-like canid native to Eurasia; IUCN Least Concern and increasing; expanding across Europe from Balkan and Caucasus core populations; distinct from the African golden wolf.
Golden jackal optimization
Golden jackal optimization, or jackal optimization, is a swarm-based metaheuristic algorithm introduced in 2022 that mimics golden jackal hunting to solve continuous engineering optimization problems.
Golden Joystick Awards
The Golden Joystick Awards, also known as the People's Gaming Awards, are an annual British video game award show decided by public vote and held each year in London.
Golden Jubilee Diamond
The Golden Jubilee Diamond, also called the Golden Jubilee, is the world's largest faceted diamond, a 545.67-carat yellow-brown gem presented to King Bhumibol Adulyadej of Thailand.
Golden Jubilee of Elizabeth II
Golden Jubilee of Elizabeth II: 2002 celebration of the Queen's 50 years on the throne, with the 1-4 June central weekend of palace concerts, a St Paul's thanksgiving service in the Gold State Coach, 1,952 beacons and about 1.2 million at the Mall, after her 1977 Silver Jubilee.
Golden Kamuy (ゴールデンカムイ)
Golden Kamuy (ゴールデンカムイ) is Satoru Noda's award-winning manga, serialized in Weekly Young Jump 2014-2022, 31 volumes, about veteran Saichi Sugimoto and the Ainu girl Asirpa hunting hidden gold in Meiji-era Hokkaido.
Golden Kamuy (ゴールデンカムイ) (film)
Golden Kamuy (ゴールデンカムイ) is a 2024 Japanese live-action film directed by Kubo Shigeaki, starring Yamazaki Kento and Yamada Anna, adapting Noda Satoru's manga about a Russo-Japanese War veteran and an Ainu girl hunting hidden gold in Hokkaido; it earned 2.96 billion yen and spawned drama and film sequels.
Golden Kamuy: The Hunt of Prisoners in Hokkaido (ゴールデンカムイ)
Golden Kamuy: The Hunt of Prisoners in Hokkaido (北海道刺青囚人争奪編) is the 2024 nine-episode WOWOW drama, the second part of the live-action Golden Kamuy project between the 2024 film and the 2026 Abashiri Prison Raid film, starring Kento Yamazaki and Anna Yamada.
Golden Legend
The Golden Legend (Legenda aurea) is a collection of saints' lives and church feasts compiled around 1260 by the Dominican friar Jacobus de Voragine, Archbishop of Genoa.
Golden Liberty
Golden Liberty (Polish: Złota Wolność) was the collective name for the rights and unrestricted freedom of the nobility in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, especially in the 17th and 18th centuries.
Golden Lion
Golden Lion (Leone d'Oro): top prize of the Venice International Film Festival, created in 1949 (as Leone di San Marco, first winner Manon) after Coppa Mussolini and Grand Prix eras; also the highest award of the other Biennale sectors, with rules barring joint winners.
Golden Lion Casino (Angola)
Golden Lion Casino is a land-based casino on Estrada do Futungo, Futungo de Belas, Luanda, Angola, in the Golden Coast complex; slots, roulette, blackjack, baccarat, Oasis Poker; distinct from unrelated online Golden Lion casinos.
Golden lion tamarin
Golden lion tamarin (Leontopithecus rosalia), mico-leão-dourado, an endangered maned Brazilian monkey endemic to Rio de Janeiro's Atlantic Forest, recovered from under 200 to 4,800 via zoo reintroductions and yellow fever vaccination.
Golden Madonna of Essen
The Golden Madonna of Essen (Goldene Madonna) is a gilded wooden sculpture of Mary enthroned with the Christ Child, made around 980 for the convent of Essen, Germany.
Golden Man (Issyk kurgan)
The Golden Man (Altyn adam) is the skeleton of a young Saka warrior buried with over 4,000 gold ornaments in the Issyk kurgan, Kazakhstan, excavated in 1969.
Golden mean (philosophy)
Golden mean (philosophy): Aristotle's doctrine of the mean in the Nicomachean Ethics, virtue as an intermediate between vices of excess and deficiency, located by practical wisdom, contrasted with Confucius's Zhongyong.
Golden Mile, Kalgoorlie
The Golden Mile is a goldfield near Kalgoorlie, Western Australia, about 600 km east of Perth, one of the richest gold deposits ever worked, now mined as the Super Pit.
Golden Mountains of Altai
Golden Mountains of Altai (Золотые горы Алтая), a serial natural UNESCO World Heritage Site in Russia's Altai Republic inscribed in 1998 under criterion (x), covering 1,611,457 ha in three areas and protecting snow leopard habitat and the Ob and Irtysh headwaters.
Golden Needle Sewing School
The Golden Needle Sewing School was a secret literary circle of women writers in Herat, Afghanistan, who studied banned literature disguised as sewing classes under Taliban rule.
Golden Nugget Las Vegas
Golden Nugget Las Vegas, a 2,419-room hotel and casino at 129 Fremont Street in Downtown Las Vegas, opened 1946, owned by Landry's/Tilman Fertitta since 2005, with a 45,000 sq ft casino, shark-tank pool, and 24K Select Rewards program.