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Golden number (time)
The golden number is the position, from 1 to 19, of a year in the 19-year Metonic cycle, traditionally used in computus to calculate the date of Easter.
Golden Palms Casino (Kenya)
Golden Palms Casino is a land-based casino at Manohar Centre, Mpaka Road, Parklands, Nairobi, Kenya, offering slots, poker, blackjack, and roulette; phone +254 707 794040. Distinct from the UK 'golden palms' trading name of Kravis Holdings.
Golden parachute
A golden parachute is a compensation package promised to a senior executive, payable when a company's ownership or control changes through a merger, acquisition, or takeover.
Golden Pass LNG Terminal
The Golden Pass LNG Terminal is an LNG export terminal near Sabine Pass, Texas, owned by QatarEnergy and ExxonMobil, which shipped its first export cargo in 2026.
Golden pheasant (红腹锦鸡)
Golden pheasant (红腹锦鸡, Chrysolophus pictus) is a Chinese gamebird; male has golden crest, orange cape, scarlet body, tail two-thirds of ~100 cm. IUCN Least Concern but Near Threatened in China, Class II protected; British naturalised population functionally extinct by 2023.
Golden plates
The golden plates, also called the Golden Bible, were, according to Joseph Smith, an ancient record he unearthed in 1827 and translated into the Book of Mormon.
Golden poison frog
Golden poison frog (Phyllobates terribilis), also golden dart frog, a Colombian dendrobatid frog and the most toxic frog species, carrying about 1,900 µg of diet-derived batrachotoxin; one of three Phyllobates species used to poison blowgun darts.
Golden power (Italy)
Golden power is the special power the Italian government may exercise over companies in strategic sectors, imposing conditions on or vetoing acquisitions; introduced in 2012, it screens foreign investment.
Golden Promise
Golden Promise is a British spring malting barley, a gamma-ray mutant of Maythorpe bred by Miln Marsters, dominant in Scotland in the 1970s, famed for Scotch whisky malt, and the reference genotype for barley transformation.
Golden Quadrilateral
The Golden Quadrilateral is a 5,846 kilometer network of four-to-six-lane national highways in India, connecting Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai, and Kolkata as Phase I of the National Highways Development Project.
Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Actress
Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Actress, the Razzie given annually to the worst female film performance; founded 1981 by John Wilson and Mo Murphy; recent winners Dakota Johnson, Megan Fox, Rebel Wilson.
Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Picture
Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Picture, the Razzies' top dishonor, given since 1980 (first winner Can't Stop the Music) the day before the Oscars to the year's worst film; recent winners include Madame Web and War of the Worlds.
Golden Raspberry Awards
Golden Raspberry Awards (Razzies), satirical American mock awards founded by John J. B. Wilson in 1980, held the night before the Oscars, honoring the year's worst films with a $4.97 gold-painted raspberry trophy.
Golden ratio
The golden ratio, or golden section, is the irrational number φ ≈ 1.618, defined by a line divided so the parts keep the same proportion.
Golden record
Golden record: also master record or surviving record; the single authoritative MDM record for one business entity, built by entity matching, merging, and survivorship rules.
Golden rectangle
A golden rectangle, also called a golden mean rectangle, has sides in the golden ratio of about 1.618 to 1; removing its largest square leaves a smaller golden rectangle.
Golden Retriever
Golden Retriever, Scottish gundog breed from Lord Tweedmouth's 19th-century Flat-coated Retriever and Tweed Water Spaniel crosses; friendly, biddable, fourth in AKC registrations, with high hemangiosarcoma and lymphoma rates.
Golden rice
Golden Rice (Malusog Rice in the Philippines) is a genetically modified rice producing beta-carotene in the grain, developed by Potrykus and Beyer to combat vitamin A deficiency; approved in the Philippines in 2021 but blocked by a 2024 court ruling.
Golden Rose
The Golden Rose is an ornament of wrought gold set with gems that the pope blesses on Laetare Sunday and confers as one of his highest honors.
Golden Rule
The Golden Rule, or Ethic of Reciprocity, is the principle of treating others as one wants to be treated, found across major religions. Distinguished from the Silver and Platinum Rules and critiqued for projecting one's own preferences onto others.
Golden Slumber
Golden Slumber (ゴールデンスランバー) is a 2010 Japanese thriller by Yoshihiro Nakamura, adapted from Kotaro Isaka's award-winning novel, starring Masato Sakai as a delivery driver framed for the prime minister's assassination in Sendai; remade in Korea in 2018.
Golden Slumbers
"Golden Slumbers" is a Beatles song on the 1969 album Abbey Road, written mainly by Paul McCartney, whose lyrics adapt Thomas Dekker's 1603 lullaby; it opens the closing medley.
Golden snub-nosed monkey
Golden snub-nosed monkey (Rhinopithecus roxellana, Sichuan snub-nosed monkey), an endangered Chinese colobine of 1,600 to 4,000 m mountain forests; about 25,000 remain, the largest of five snub-nosed species; lichen-and-bark winter diet, fission-fusion societies, 2025 zoo loans to France and Belgium.
Golden Son
Golden Son (2015) by Pierce Brown is book two of the Red Rising trilogy, following Darrow au Andromedus, the Reaper, a Red sleeper agent among the Gold elite; published by Del Rey, 448 pages.
Golden Spider Silk Cape
Golden Spider Silk Cape: embroidered garment woven in Madagascar by Simon Peers and Nicholas Godley from silk of 1.2 million golden orb-weaver spiders, debuted at the V&A in 2012; 141 × 130 cm, 1.88 kg, undyed golden silk.
Golden spike
The golden spike is a ceremonial 17.6-carat gold railroad spike driven at Promontory Summit, Utah, on May 10, 1869, to mark the completion of the first US transcontinental railroad.
Golden spiral
The golden spiral is a logarithmic spiral that widens by the golden ratio, about 1.618, at every quarter turn, often approximated by nested golden rectangles.
Golden State Killer (film)
Golden State Killer (formerly The Policeman) is an upcoming American crime thriller about Joseph James DeAngelo, starring Vincent Gallo as the killer and James Franco as a detective, credited to director Vito Brown and distributed by Lionsgate via Grindstone, with 2026 release eyed.
Golden State Valkyries
Golden State Valkyries, WNBA expansion team in San Francisco at Chase Center, owned by the Golden State Warriors; 13th franchise, first since 2008; 2025 playoff and attendance records, 2026 Finals vs Atlanta Dream.
Golden State Warriors
Golden State Warriors: NBA team in San Francisco, formerly Philadelphia Warriors (1946) and San Francisco Warriors. Seven championships (1947, 1956, 1975, 2015, 2017, 2018, 2022); home arena Chase Center.