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Gombojab Tsybikov
Gombojab Tsybikov (1873–1930) was a Russian Buryat ethnographer, Buddhologist, and professor who, disguised as a Buddhist pilgrim on an 1899–1902 expedition, took the first photographs of Lhasa and met the 13th Dalai Lama.
Gomburza
Gomburza is the name for three Filipino secular priests, Mariano Gómez, José Burgos, and Jacinto Zamora, executed by garrote in Manila in 1872 after the Cavite Mutiny.
GomBurZa (film)
GomBurZa is a 2023 Filipino historical biographical film directed by Pepe Diokno about martyred priests Gomes, Burgos, and Zamora, executed in 1872; an MMFF 2023 entry that won seven awards including Best Actor for Cedrick Juan.
Gome
Gome (国美) is a Chinese electronics and home-appliance retail chain founded in Beijing in 1987 by Huang Guangyu, once China's largest appliance retailer before collapsing into default in 2022.
Gomel State Circus
Гомельскі дзяржаўны цырк (Gomel State Circus, Гомельский государственный цирк) is a stationary circus at 27 Sovetskaya St, Gomel, Belarus, opened 2 December 1972 from a reused Krasnodar project, with a saucer-shaped domed hall of about 1,544 seats.
GoMentum Station
GoMentum Station is a secure closed-course testing facility for connected and automated vehicle technology in Concord, California, opened in 2014 on a former naval weapons station.
Gomer Pyle
Gomer Pyle is a fictional Mayberry auto mechanic played by Jim Nabors on The Andy Griffith Show (from 1963) and the CBS spin-off Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C. (1964–1969, 150 episodes), a Top Ten Nielsen hit with Frank Sutton as Sgt. Carter, notable for avoiding Vietnam-era politics.
Gomer Pyle – USMC
Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C. is a CBS sitcom (1964-1969, 150 episodes), a spin-off of The Andy Griffith Show starring Jim Nabors as Mayberry's naive Marine recruit and Frank Sutton as Sgt. Carter, a top-ten Nielsen hit that never mentioned Vietnam.
Gomes Freire de Andrade
Gomes Freire de Andrade (1757–1817) was a Portuguese field marshal who served under Catherine II of Russia and was hanged in 1817 over an unproven liberal conspiracy.
Gomez (band)
Gomez is an English five-piece rock band from Southport (Ian Ball, Ben Ottewell, Tom Gray, Paul Blackburn, Olly Peacock) whose garage-recorded 1998 debut Bring It On won the Mercury Prize; not the Mexican composer or other namesakes.
Gomez Addams
Gomez Addams is the patriarch of Charles Addams's Addams Family, unnamed in 1938 New Yorker cartoons until the 1964 ABC sitcom; played by John Astin, Raúl Julia, Oscar Isaac, and Luis Guzmán, devoted husband of Morticia.
Gómez Palacio
Gómez Palacio, Durango: city and municipality in the Comarca Lagunera of northeastern Mexico, founded 1886, named for governor Francisco Gómez Palacio; 372,750 inhabitants (2020), industrial and dairy hub of the La Laguna metro area.
Gómez-López-Hernández syndrome
Gómez-López-Hernández syndrome (cerebellotrigeminal-dermal dysplasia, OMIM 601853) is an ultra-rare neurocutaneous disorder combining rhombencephalosynapsis, scalp alopecia, and often trigeminal anesthesia; about 57 cases reported, cause unknown.
Gommateshwara statue
Gommateshwara statue (Bahubali colossus) at Shravanabelagola, Karnataka: 57-foot monolithic granite Jain image on Vindhyagiri Hill, commissioned by Chavundaraya of the Western Ganga dynasty around 981 CE and anointed every 12 years in the Mahamastakabhisheka.
Gomoku
Gomoku (五目並べ), Five in a Row, is a two-player board game of placing stones to make five in a row on a 15x15 board; RIF rules use Swap2, and the game is solved as a first-player win.
Gomorrah (film)
Gomorrah (Gomorra), 2008 Italian crime drama by Matteo Garrone adapted from Roberto Saviano's book on the Camorra; five interwoven Naples stories, Cannes Grand Prix winner, five European Film Awards, later a TV series.
Gomorrah (TV series)
Gomorra – La serie (Gomorrah) is an Italian Sky Original crime drama, 2014–2021, five seasons, based on Roberto Saviano's 2006 Camorra novel, set in Secondigliano and Scampia's Le Vele, sold to over 130 countries, distinct from the 2008 Garrone film, with a 2026 prequel The Origins.
Gomotartsi
Gomotartsi (Гомотарци) is a village on the Danube River in the municipality of Vidin, Vidin Province, northwestern Bulgaria, known for its winegrowing tradition and nearby ancient sites.
Gompertz function
The Gompertz function is an asymmetric sigmoid growth model used for tumor, microbial, and animal growth curves, proposed in 1825 as a law of human mortality.
Gomphaceae
Gomphaceae Donk (1961) is a family of basidiomycete fungi in the order Gomphales, uniting coral fungi (Ramaria), false truffles (Gautieria), and gomphoid genera such as Gomphus and Turbinellus, defined by cyanophilic spores and a ferric-sulfate-positive hymenium.
Gomphales
Gomphales is an order of basidiomycete fungi in Agaricomycetes, subclass Phallomycetidae, proposed by Jülich in 1981; includes coral fungi (Ramaria), fairy clubs, and false truffles, with ferric-positive hymenia, chiastic basidia, and Cretaceous-aged gomphoid lineages.
Gomphidae
Gomphidae (clubtails, clubtail dragonflies) is a family of Anisoptera dragonflies, about 1,000 species in ~90 genera on all continents except Antarctica, with widely separated eyes, often club-tipped abdomen, and burrowing nymphs.
Gomphonema
Gomphonema is a large, abundant genus of freshwater diatoms of single-celled algae. Described by Ehrenberg in 1832, it has silica cell walls shaped like a wedge or club.
Gomphothere
Gomphotheres, family Gomphotheriidae, extinct four-tusked proboscideans related to elephants, from 33 Ma to Late Pleistocene, across the Americas; trilophodont molars, mixed C3/C4 diets, hunted by Clovis people.
Gomphotherium
Gomphotherium (Burmeister, 1837) is an extinct Miocene gomphothere proboscidean genus with four tusks and trefoil molar wear, known from Africa, Eurasia, and North America; type species G. angustidens.
Gomphrena
Gomphrena (globe amaranth) is a genus of about 100-144 Amaranthaceae herbs, type species G. globosa, native from the Americas to Australia, C4, polyphyletic per phylogenomics, grown as ornamental cut and dried flowers.
Gomukh (गोमुख)
Gomukh (गोमुख), also Gaumukh, is the snout of the Gangotri Glacier in Uttarakhand, India, where the Bhagirathi River emerges; measured retreat slowed from 38 m/yr in the 1970s to about 10 m/yr by 2015.
Gomul Catena
Gomul Catena is a 342.6-km crater chain (catena) on Jupiter's moon Callisto at 35.5°N, 47.1°W, with 25 craters spaced about 13.5 km apart; named for a Norse river and formed by a tidally disrupted comet.
Gomutra haritaki
Gomutra haritaki (Gomūtra Harītakī) is a classical Ayurvedic powder formulation of haritaki (Terminalia chebula) processed in cow's urine with herbal decoctions, used for oedema, hemorrhoids, anemia, and oral disease; official in the Ayurvedic Pharmacopoeia of India.
Gona Budda Reddy
Gona Budda Reddy was a 13th-century Telugu ruler of Vardhamanapura near Raichur, a Kakatiya-era feudatory, best known for composing the Ranganatha Ramayana around 1240; his daughter Kuppamambika was an early Telugu poetess.