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Golmud Nanshankou Pumped Storage Power Station

The Golmud Nanshankou Pumped Storage Power Station (格尔木南山口抽水蓄能电站) is a pumped-storage power station under construction in Golmud, Qinghai, China, with a 2,400 MW capacity from eight 300 MW units.

Golo Mann

Golo Mann, born Angelus Gottfried Thomas Mann, was a German-Swiss historian and writer, the third child of the novelist Thomas Mann, best known for his biography Wallenstein.

Golodirsen

Golodirsen (Vyondys 53), a 25-mer phosphorodiamidate morpholino oligomer by Sarepta, treats DMD amenable to exon 53 skipping; FDA accelerated approval December 12, 2019, 30 mg/kg weekly IV.

Golos Minuvshogo

Golos Minuvshego (Голос минувшего, "The Voice of the Past") was a Moscow journal of history and literary history published from 1913 to 1923, edited by historians Sergei Melgunov and Vasily Semevsky.

Golovnin Incident

The Golovnin Incident (ゴローニン事件) was Japan's 1811 seizure of Russian naval officer Vasily Golovnin on Kunashiri Island, resolved by a 1813 hostage exchange regarded as the start of Japan-Russia relations.

Golpe de Dados

Golpe de Dados is a Colombian poetry magazine founded around 1972 in Envigado, Antioquia, by the poet Mario Rivero and published every two months for more than three decades.

GOLPH3

GOLPH3 (GPP34, Vps74) is a conserved 34 kDa PI(4)P-binding Golgi protein regulating vesicle trafficking, glycosylation, and cytokinesis; amplified at 5p13 and overexpressed in many solid tumors as an oncoprotein linked to poor prognosis.

Golpitha

Golpitha (गोलपिठा) is the first poetry collection of the Marathi Dalit poet Namdeo Dhasal, published in the early 1970s and named after the Bombay red-light district where he grew up.

Gölpınar Dam

The Gölpınar Dam, also called the Alacahöyük Dam, is a Hittite dam built around 1240 BC near Alacahöyük in Çorum Province, Turkey, and still irrigates local farmland today.

Golpo Guccho

Golpo Guccho (গল্পগুচ্ছ, "A Bunch of Stories") is the standard collected edition of Rabindranath Tagore's short stories, a core Bengali text gathering 90 of his 95 stories, including "Kabuliwala" and "Postmaster."

Golshifteh Farahani (گلشیفته فراهانی)

Golshifteh Farahani (گلشیفته فراهانی), born Rahavard Farahani in 1983 in Tehran, is an Iranian-French actress and musician. First Iranian actress in Hollywood after 1979 (Body of Lies, 2008); exiled in Paris since 2008; known for Paterson, Extraction, and Invasion.

Göltepe

Göltepe is an Early Bronze Age tin-processing settlement in the Taurus Mountains of Niğde, Turkey, 2 km from the Kestel tin mine, occupied roughly 3290–1840 BCE, with about 50,000 surface ground stone tools and evidence of cassiterite ore processing.

Göltzsch Viaduct

The Göltzsch Viaduct (German: Göltzschtalbrücke) is a brick railway viaduct in the Vogtland region of Saxony, Germany, the largest brick-built bridge in the world at 574 m long and 78 m high.

Golub Capital

Golub Capital is a New York-based private credit manager and direct lender to US middle-market companies, founded in 1994, with over $90 billion under management as of 2026.

Golub Capital Partners

Golub Capital Partners is a series of privately offered direct-lending funds, filed with the SEC from 2010 to 2019 and managed on the Golub Capital platform founded in 1994.

Golub Capital Partners Rollover Funds

The Golub Capital Partners Rollover Funds are Delaware limited-partnership investment vehicles of Golub Capital, a Chicago-based private credit manager, with three funds first filed from 2015 to 2018.

Golub Capital Pearls Direct Lending Program

The Golub Capital Pearls Direct Lending Program is a Delaware limited partnership fund sponsored by Golub Capital that raised $1.03 billion from 21 investors to hold direct loans.

Golubac (Голубац)

Golubac (Голубац), a small Danube town and municipality in eastern Serbia at the entrance to the Đerdap gorge, known for its medieval fortress first mentioned in 1335; 6,599 municipal residents in 2022.

Golubaya Krinitsa

Блакітная крыніца, known as Golubaya Krinitsa and in folk tradition as the Blue Well, is Belarus's most powerful ascending spring near Slavgorod, a pilgrimage site and protected nature monument.

Golubyatnya

Голубятня (golubyatnya) is the Russian word for a dovecote or pigeon loft, a structure for keeping and breeding domestic pigeons, also a Moscow landmark dacha of Count Orlov and a colloquial term for a tiny top-floor flat.

Goly Abivardi

Goly Abivardi is a Swiss dentist who co-founded and co-leads vVARDIS, a Zug-based dental medtech company, with her sister Haley; its Curodont products treat early tooth decay without drilling.

Goma

Goma, the capital of North Kivu Province in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, sits on Lake Kivu at the Rwanda border beneath the active Nyiragongo volcano.

Gomadingen

Gomadingen, also Gemeinde Gomadingen, is a municipality in the Reutlingen district, Baden-Württemberg, in the Große Lauter valley on the Swabian Alb, with seven Ortsteile including Grafeneck, site of the Aktion T4 memorial, and the Marbach state stud.

Gomal Zam Dam

Gomal Zam Dam is a roller-compacted concrete dam on the Gomal River in South Waziristan, Pakistan, completed in 2013 for irrigation, flood control, and 17.4 MW of power.

Gomani

Gomani is the royal name of the Inkosi ya Makhosi, the paramount king of the Maseko Ngoni of Malawi and Mozambique, descended from the ancestral name Ngcamane.

Gombe Chimpanzee War

Gombe Chimpanzee War, or Four-Year War (1974–1978): lethal conflict between the Kasakela and Kahama chimpanzee communities in Gombe Stream National Park, Tanzania, after a 1973 fission; Kasakela killed all six Kahama males and took their territory.

Gombe Masito Ugalla Biosphere Reserve

Gombe Masito Ugalla Biosphere Reserve, a UNESCO Man and Biosphere site designated in Tanzania in 2018, spanning 1,658,466 ha including Gombe National Park, forest reserves, and Lake Tanganyika; protects over 90% of Tanzania's roughly 2,200 endangered eastern chimpanzees.

Gombe State

Gombe State, the "Jewel in the Savannah," is a Nigerian state created October 1, 1996 from Bauchi State, capital Gombe, 11 LGAs, governor Muhammadu Inuwa Yahaya since 2019, agriculture-dominated economy, 2026 budget ₦617.95 billion.

Gombey

The Gombey is a Bermudian tradition of masked, costumed dancers and drummers blending African, British, Caribbean, and Native American influences, with roots reaching back to the 18th century.

Gömböc

The Gömböc is a convex, homogeneous body with exactly one stable and one unstable equilibrium point, first built by Gábor Domokos and Péter Várkonyi in 2006.