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Goldenrod

Goldenrod (Solidago) is a genus of about 138 species of yellow-flowered perennial herbs in Asteraceae, mostly native to North America; blamed for hay fever but insect-pollinated, unlike ragweed.

Goldenseal

Goldenseal (Hydrastis canadensis, yellow root) is a North American woodland perennial with a yellow rhizone harvested for berberine and hydrastine; no proven health benefits, drug interactions, CITES Appendix II, IUCN Vulnerable.

Goldenstedt/Visbek Gas Field

Goldenstedt/Visbek is a natural gas field in the Weser-Ems region of Lower Saxony, Germany, southwest of Bremen. Discovered in 1959, it has produced about 67 billion cubic meters, more than any other German gas field.

GoldenTree Distressed Funds

The GoldenTree Distressed Funds are a series of drawdown funds for distressed-debt investing run by GoldenTree Asset Management, a New York firm founded by Steven Tananbaum in 2000.

GoldenTree Tactical Opportunities

GoldenTree Tactical Opportunities is the global, evergreen opportunistic-credit private capital platform of GoldenTree Asset Management, which closed its fund oversubscribed at a $3 billion hard cap in April 2026.

Goldenvoice

Goldenvoice is a Los Angeles concert promoter founded in 1981 by Gary Tovar, best known for creating the Coachella and Stagecoach festivals and now owned by AEG Presents.

Golders Green Crematorium

Golders Green Crematorium, Hoop Lane, Barnet: London's first crematorium, opened 1902 by Sir Henry Thompson, designed by Ernest George and Alfred Yeates with William Robinson gardens; Grade I park, Grade II buildings.

Goldfields Water Supply Scheme

The Goldfields Water Supply Scheme, also known as the Golden Pipeline, pumps water 560 kilometers from Mundaring Weir to Kalgoorlie, Western Australia. Designed by C. Y. O'Connor, it opened in 1903.

Goldfinger (band)

Goldfinger is an American ska-punk band formed in 1994 in Los Angeles, fronted by producer John Feldmann, known for "Here in Your Bedroom," the 1996 gold debut, and "Superman" from Tony Hawk's Pro Skater; nine albums through Nine Lives (2026).

Goldfinger (film)

Goldfinger (1964) is the third Eon James Bond film, directed by Guy Hamilton, starring Sean Connery, Gert Fröbe, and Honor Blackman, adapting Fleming's novel; Bond thwarts Goldfinger's Fort Knox raid. 99% on Rotten Tomatoes.

Goldfish

Goldfish (Carassius auratus), domesticated in ancient China from crucian carp, are a popular ornamental fish with over 300 varieties, long memory and spatial cognition, and invasive populations worldwide.

Goldfish (cracker)

Goldfish crackers: fish-shaped baked cheese snack created as Goldfischli by Swiss baker Oscar J. Kambly in 1958, introduced to the US by Pepperidge Farm in 1962, now a Campbell brand icon.

Goldfrapp

Goldfrapp: English electronic pop duo formed in 1999 by Alison Goldfrapp and Will Gregory on Mute Records; seven albums from Felt Mountain to Silver Eye, hits Ooh La La and Strict Machine, two Ivor Novellos.

Goldhaber experiment

The Goldhaber experiment was a 1957–1958 nuclear-physics measurement at Brookhaven National Laboratory in which Maurice Goldhaber, Lee Grodzins, and Andrew Sunyar determined that the neutrino is left-handed, supporting the V-A theory of the weak interaction.

Goldhofer

Goldhofer Aktiengesellschaft is a German manufacturer of heavy-duty transport vehicles and airport ground support equipment headquartered in Memmingen, Bavaria, tracing its origins to a forge founded in 1705.

Goldie

Goldie (Clifford Joseph Price), Walsall-born British jungle and drum & bass pioneer, Rufige Kru and Metalheadz founder; debut album Timeless (1995) reached number seven.

Goldie Behl

Goldie Behl is an Indian film director and producer, founder of Rose Audio Visuals, known for the Hindi films Bas Itna Sa Khwaab Hai (2001) and Drona (2008).

Goldie Hawn

Goldie Hawn is an American actress, producer, and dancer born in 1945. She gained fame on Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In and has been partnered with Kurt Russell since 1983.

Goldilocks and the Three Bears

Goldilocks and the Three Bears, also known as The Story of the Three Bears, is a British fairy tale first published by Robert Southey in 1837 with an old woman intruder and three bachelor bears, later rewritten with a golden-haired girl and a bear family.

Goldilocks principle

The Goldilocks principle holds that the best conditions often lie in a middle range between two extremes, named for the girl who chose porridge that was "just right."

Goldin Finance 117 (高银金融117)

Goldin Finance 117, also known as Tianjin 117, is a 596.6-meter supertall skyscraper in Tianjin, China, topped out in 2015 and due for completion in 2027.

GoldLink

GoldLink (D'Anthony Carlos, born 1993) is a Washington, D.C.-area rapper whose "future bounce" blends hip-hop, house, R&B, and go-go; known for The God Complex, At What Cost, the Grammy-nominated "Crew," Diaspora, and 2025's ENOCH.

Goldman equation

The Goldman equation, more fully the Goldman-Hodgkin-Katz (GHK) voltage equation, is a membrane biophysics formula that computes a cell's resting membrane potential from ion concentration gradients and relative permeabilities.

Goldman Sachs

Goldman Sachs is an American investment bank and asset manager founded in 1869 as a commercial-paper house, with $3.6 trillion in assets under supervision in 2025.

Goldmann-Favre syndrome

Goldmann-Favre syndrome, also called enhanced S-cone syndrome (ESCS, OMIM 268100), is a rare autosomal recessive vitreoretinal degeneration caused by NR2E3 mutations, with night blindness, nummular pigment clumping, retinoschisis, and pathognomonic ERG findings.

Goldmines Telefilms

Goldmines Telefilms Pvt. Ltd., also Goldmines, is a Mumbai film rights company founded by Manish Shah that dubs South Indian films into Hindi, runs the Goldmines YouTube channel (over 100 million subscribers) and Goldmines TV channels, and released Pushpa's Hindi version theatrically.

Goldpoint Partners

GoldPoint Partners, formerly New York Life Capital Partners, was a New York private equity firm specializing in co-investment, mezzanine debt, and fund-of-funds, merged into Apogem Capital in 2022.

Goldsboro, North Carolina

Goldsboro, North Carolina: Wayne County seat on the Neuse River, chartered January 1, 1847 and named for railroad engineer Matthew T. Goldsborough; home to Seymour Johnson AFB (activated 1942), population about 35,000, prone to Neuse flooding.

Goldsborough Roman Signal Station

Goldsborough Roman Signal Station: late 4th-century AD Roman coastal watchtower at Lythe, North Yorkshire, one of five Yorkshire coast signal stations; excavated 1918, scheduled monument 1016537.

Goldschmidt (lunar crater)

Goldschmidt is a 115 km pre-Imbrium impact crater on the Moon's northern nearside at 73°N, 3.8°W, known for strong M3 OH/H2O spectral signatures and Anaxagoras ejecta on its floor.