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Goonew
Goonew (Markelle Antonio Morrow, 1997-2022), also known as HoodRich Goon, was a Forestville, Maryland rapper whose whisper flow and run-on punch-ins shaped DMV crank and free car rap; mixtapes Certified Goon, Big 64, Goonrich Urkel; killed in a 2022 shooting.
Goongarrie
Goongarrie, also called Ninety Mile, is an abandoned Western Australian goldfields townsite 85 km north of Kalgoorlie, on hypersaline Lake Goongarrie, and the site of the Goongarrie South nickel-cobalt laterite deposit and Goongarrie National Park.
Goonhilly Satellite Earth Station
Goonhilly Satellite Earth Station, also known as Goonhilly Earth Station, is a satellite communications and deep-space tracking complex on Cornwall's Lizard Peninsula, opened in 1962.
Gooning
Gooning, also called the goon state or goon space, is internet slang for prolonged edging to pornography seeking a trance-like state. Originating on Urban Dictionary in 2005, it grew via Reddit subcultures from 2019 and went mainstream around 2023; it is not a clinical diagnosis.
Goonyella-Riverside Coal Mine
The Goonyella-Riverside Coal Mine is a large open-cut coking coal mine in Queensland's Bowen Basin, 30 kilometers north of Moranbah, operated by the BHP Mitsubishi Alliance.
Goop (company)
Goop, also known as Goop.com, is an American wellness and lifestyle company founded by actress Gwyneth Paltrow in 2008 as a newsletter, known for wellness products and criticized health claims.
Goopy Gyne Bagha Byne
Goopy Gyne Bagha Byne (গুপী গাইন বাঘা বাইন), also The Adventures of Goopy and Bagha, is Satyajit Ray's 1969 Bengali musical fantasy based on Upendrakishore Ray Chowdhury's tale, released 8 May 1969, starring Tapen Chatterjee and Rabi Ghosh.
Goose
Goose: large herbivorous waterfowl of genera Anser and Branta; domesticated from greylag and swan goose, possibly first poultry species; abundant wild populations now managed under AEWA for farm conflicts.
Goose (American band)
Goose is an American jam band formed in 2014 in Wilton, Connecticut, by ex-Vasudo members Rick Mitarotonda, Trevor Weekz, and Ben Atkind; distinct from the Belgian Goose. Breakout at Peach Fest 2019; albums Moon Cabin through BIG MODERN!; current quartet with Cotter Ellis.
Goose barnacle
Goose barnacle, also gooseneck or stalked barnacle (Lepas anatifera, Pollicipes pollicipes), a filter-feeding crustacean on a fleshy stalk; source of the medieval barnacle goose myth and a valuable Iberian shellfishery.
Goose bumps
Goose bumps, or piloerection (cutis anserine, horripilation), are skin bumps from arrector pili muscle contraction under sympathetic control, triggered by cold, fear, and emotional chills; largely vestigial in humans but linked to hair follicle stem cells.
Goose Goslin
Goose Goslin (Leon Allen Goslin, 1900–1971), Hall of Fame left fielder for the Washington Senators, St. Louis Browns, and Detroit Tigers; .316 hitter, 2,735 hits, 1924 and 1935 World Series winner, 1928 AL batting champion.
Goose Gossage
Rich "Goose" Gossage (born 1951) is a Hall of Fame relief pitcher (1972–1994) with 310 saves, 1,502 strikeouts, a 3.01 ERA, nine All-Star selections, and the 1978 World Series with the Yankees; elected to Cooperstown in 2008.
Goose Green
Goose Green is a settlement on Choiseul Sound in Lafonia, East Falkland, founded in 1875 as a tallow factory and later the Falkland Islands Company's sheep-farming headquarters; site of the first major land battle of the 1982 Falklands War.
Goose step
Goose step: a stiff-legged ceremonial military march, German Stechschritt, Prussian in origin; English name from early 1800s first meant a balance drill, later the Prussian parade step, associated with fascist and modern parade regimes.
Goose-eye coins
Goose-eye coins (鹅眼钱) were extremely small, thin debased copper coins of southern China, produced after the Liu Song dynasty opened private minting in 465 and named for a thousand coins stretching less than three cun.
Gooseberry
Gooseberry (Ribes uva-crispa), a thorny Ribes shrub of Eurasia and North Africa grown for tart green, red, white, or yellow berries; cultivated in England since 1276, famous for 19th-century gooseberry clubs and the American mildew collapse.
Goosebumps
Goosebumps is a children's horror fiction series by R.L. Stine, launched by Scholastic in 1992; with over 400 million copies in print, it was named the world's bestselling book series in 2003.
Goosebumps (2023 TV series)
Goosebumps (2023 TV series), also known for season 2 as Goosebumps: The Vanishing, is a Disney+/Hulu horror anthology by Stoller and Letterman based on R.L. Stine's books; two seasons, canceled 2025.
Goosebumps (film)
Goosebumps (2015 film), also called the Jack Black Goosebumps movie: a Rob Letterman horror-comedy in which R.L. Stine's monsters escape their manuscripts; preceded by a 1990s TV series and followed by the 2018 sequel and a 2023 Disney+ series.
Goosebumps 2: Haunted Halloween
Goosebumps 2: Haunted Halloween is a 2018 Sony horror-comedy sequel directed by Ari Sandel, in which Slappy the dummy brings Halloween decorations to life; grossed $93.3M worldwide, Metascore 53.
Gopabandhu Das
Gopabandhu Das (1877–1928), honored as Utkalmani, the Jewel of Utkal, was an Odia poet, journalist, and independence activist who founded the open-air Satyabadi school near Puri and the newspaper The Samaja.
Gopaka Moggallāna
Gopaka Moggallāna (गोपक मोग्गल्लान) was a brahmin contemporary of the Buddha, remembered as Ānanda's interlocutor in the Gopakamoggallānasutta (MN 108), set at Rājagaha after the Buddha's passing.
Gopakumar-Vafa invariants
Gopakumar-Vafa invariants, also called GV invariants, count BPS states of M2 branes wrapping holomorphic curves in a Calabi-Yau threefold, introduced by Rajesh Gopakumar and Cumrun Vafa in 1998.
Gopal Ganesh Agarkar
Gopal Ganesh Agarkar (गोपाळ गणेश आगरकर) was an Indian rationalist thinker and social reformer, born in 1856, who co-founded Fergusson College and edited the weeklies Kesari and Sudharak.
Gopal Ghose
Gopal Ghose (গোপাল ঘোষ, 1913–1980) was an Indian modernist painter from Calcutta and a founding member of the Calcutta Group in 1943, known for vibrant watercolor and pastel landscapes.
Gopal Halder
Gopal Halder (গোপাল হালদার, 1902–1993) was a Bengali essayist, literary critic, novelist, and journalist who edited the journal Parichay and wrote the two-volume survey Bangla Sahityer Ruprekha.
Gopal Jee Thakur
Gopal Jee Thakur, born in 1969 in Darbhanga, Bihar, is an Indian Bharatiya Janata Party politician who has represented Darbhanga in the Lok Sabha since 2019, after serving in the Bihar Legislative Assembly from 2010.
Gopal Krishna Gokhale (गोपाळ कृष्ण गोखले)
Gopal Krishna Gokhale (गोपाळ कृष्ण गोखले, 1866–1915), moderate Congress president 1905 and mentor of Gandhi, founded the Servants of India Society at Pune on 12 June 1905 to train selfless public-service workers.
Gopal Mukherjee
Gopal Chandra Mukherjee, known as Gopal Patha (গোপালচন্দ্র মুখোপাধ্যায়), was a Calcutta meat trader and strongman who led the Bharat Jatiya Bahini's Hindu armed resistance during the Great Calcutta Killing of August 1946, later refusing to surrender arms to Gandhi.