All articles starting with G
18,970 articles
Gore Verbinski
Gore Verbinski, born Gregor Verbinski in 1964, is an American film director known for the first three Pirates of the Caribbean films, The Ring, and the Oscar-winning Rango.
Gore Vidal
Gore Vidal (1925–2012), American novelist, playwright, screenwriter, essayist, and political commentator; author of Burr, Myra Breckinridge, and United States: Essays 1952–1992 (1993 National Book Award); also known for campaigns for Congress and Senate and his televised debates with William F. Buckley Jr.
Gore-Tex
Gore-Tex (GORE-TEX) is W. L. Gore's trademarked waterproof, breathable fabric based on expanded PTFE, discovered by Bob Gore in 1969; nine billion pores per square inch, ePE PFAS-free membranes since 2022.
GoreBox
GoreBox (GoreBox Animosity) is a 3D physics-driven gore sandbox by F²Games, free on Android since 2022 and $8.99 on Steam since July 2023, built around the Reality Crusher, GoreDolls, map editor, and Workshop.
Gorée
Gorée (Île de Gorée) is a 28-hectare Senegalese island 3.5 km off Dakar, a UNESCO World Heritage site since 1978, famed for the House of Slaves and Door of No Return, though historians dispute its scale as a slave-trading hub.
Goregrish.com
Goregrish.com is a shock site that hosts graphic images and videos of real death, violence, and injury, together with member discussion forums; its domain was registered in 2010.
Göreme
Göreme is a town in Nevşehir Province, central Turkey, at the heart of Cappadocia, whose cliffs hold rock-cut dwellings and over 200 churches in a UNESCO World Heritage site inscribed in 1985.
Göreme National Park and the Rock Sites of Cappadocia (Turkey)
Göreme National Park and the Rock Sites of Cappadocia (Göreme Millî Parkı ve Kapadokya), a mixed UNESCO World Heritage site in Nevşehir, Türkiye, inscribed 1985: fairy-chimney tuff landscape, Byzantine rock churches, and the underground cities of Kaymaklı and Derinkuyu.
Gorenje
Gorenje is a Slovenian household appliance brand and former manufacturer, founded in 1950 and headquartered in Velenje; once Yugoslavia's largest appliance maker, it was acquired by Hisense in 2018.
Gorenstein ring
A Gorenstein ring, named after Daniel Gorenstein, is a commutative Noetherian local ring of finite injective dimension over itself; every Gorenstein ring is Cohen–Macaulay and is its own canonical module.
Gorey
Gorey (Irish: Guaire) is a market town in north County Wexford, Ireland, laid out by the Ram family and chartered as Newborough in 1619. Population 11,517 (2022); a fast-growing Key Town on the Dublin–Rosslare rail line and M11.
Gorf
Gorf is a 1981 Midway arcade shooter designed by Jamie Fenton, with five missions, robotic speech, and rank progression; home ports omitted the Galaxian stage, and no official re-release exists.
Gorgadji attack
The Gorgadji attack was a jihadist ambush on 18 August 2021 near Gorgadji in northern Burkina Faso, killing at least 80 people in a convoy heading to Arbinda.
Gorgān (city)
Gorgān (گرگان), formerly Astarābād, is the capital of Golestan Province in northern Iran near the Caspian; renamed from Astarābād under Reza Shah, birthplace of Aqa Mohammad Khan, 350,676 inhabitants in 2016.
Gorgān (region)
Gorgān (Jorjān, ancient Hyrcania, Varkāna) is a historical region at the southeast corner of the Caspian Sea in northern Iran, a transitional steppe plain, home of the Sasanian Great Wall of Gorgan and the Turkman Dašt-e Gorgān.
Gorgani
Fakhr al-Din As'ad Gorgani was an 11th-century Persian poet whose verse romance Vis o Ramin, completed around 1055 and dedicated to the Saljuq governor of Isfahan, shaped the Persian romance tradition.
Gorgas Steam Plant
The Gorgas Steam Plant was a coal-fired power station operated by Alabama Power on the Black Warrior River in Walker County, Alabama, from 1917 until its retirement in 2019.
Gorge of Samaria Biosphere Reserve
Gorge of Samaria Biosphere Reserve, a UNESCO Man and Biosphere site in Crete, Greece, designated 1981 around the Samaria Gorge National Park (1962); 58,484 ha, endemic Cretan wild goat, cypress forests, seasonal tourism.
Gorgeous (Doja Cat song)
"Gorgeous" is a 2025 song by Doja Cat from her fifth album Vie, its second single after "Jealous Type". Produced by Jack Antonoff, George Daniel, and Sounwave, its chorus repeats "It's a crime to be gorgeous"; it peaked at No. 34 in the UK and No. 56 on the Hot 100.
Gorgeous (玻璃樽) (film)
Gorgeous (玻璃樽) is a 1999 Hong Kong action romance comedy directed by Vincent Kok, starring Jackie Chan as a wealthy businessman who falls for a Taiwanese girl, played by Shu Qi.
Gorgeous George
Gorgeous George was the ring persona of American professional wrestler George Wagner (1915–1963), whose arrogant glamour-villain character made him one of television's first superstar attractions in the late 1940s.
Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling
Produced in Las Vegas, Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling (GLOW) was a women's wrestling promotion and syndicated TV series from 1986 to 1990, known for emphasizing character-driven entertainment.
Gorget
A gorget is a hinged pair of steel plates protecting the neck, throat, and upper chest, first worn in the late fifteenth century and later a badge of rank.
Gorgias
Gorgias of Leontini was a Greek sophist, Presocratic philosopher, and rhetorician, regarded as the first theoretician of artistic prose and author of the complete Encomium of Helen.
Gorgippia/Sindikos Limen
Gorgippia (Sindikos Limen, Sindian Harbor) was an ancient Greek polis in Sindike under modern Anapa, Russia; incorporated into the Bosporan Kingdom in the 4th century BC, renamed for Gorgippus, destroyed around AD 240 and by the Huns in the 370s.
Gorgo, Queen of Sparta
Gorgo (Γοργώ), Spartan queen, daughter of Cleomenes I and wife of Leonidas I; as a girl she exposed Aristagoras' bribe, and as queen she deciphered Demaratus' wax-covered tablet warning of Xerxes' invasion.
Gorgol
Gorgol (Gorgol wilaya) is a region of southern Mauritania, capital Kaédi, 13,600 km², on the Senegal River; its seasonal Gorgol Noir and Blanc rivers feed an agro-pastoral economy centered on rice, livestock, and the Foum Gleita dam.
Gorgon (Inhuman)
Gorgon (Gorgon Petragon), Marvel Comics Inhuman Royal Family enforcer created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby, debuting in Fantastic Four #44 (1965); hooved legs generate shockwaves; distinct from the villain Gorgon Tomi Shishido.
Gorgon gas project
The Gorgon gas project is a liquefied natural gas development operated by Chevron on Barrow Island, Western Australia, with 15.6 mtpa capacity, first exported in 2016.
Gorgoniidae
Gorgoniidae (sea fans, sea whips) is a family of gorgonian octocorals, type genus Gorgonia, defined by calcareous sclerites under 0.3 mm with wart girdles, in tropical shallow waters, currently in Malacalcyonacea.