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Gorgonopsia
Gorgonopsia, saber-toothed theriodont therapsids, were the dominant Late Permian terrestrial predators with 15–60 cm skulls, known from Africa, Russia, India, and China, extinct at the PTME about 252 million years ago.
Gorgonum Chaos
Gorgonum Chaos, a chaos terrain in Terra Sirenum, Mars, about 150 km across, IAU-named in 1985 from an Antoniadi albedo feature; known for dense gullies and ancient lake and groundwater evidence.
Gorgonzola
Gorgonzola PDO: Italian blue-veined cheese from pasteurized cow's milk in Lombardy and Piedmont; two styles, dolce and piccante; PDO-protected since 1955, EU-registered 1996.
Gorgoroth
Gorgoroth, a Norwegian black metal band from Bergen formed in 1992 by Infernus (Roger Tiegs), named after Tolkien's Mordor plateau. Known for Satanic imagery, the 2004 Krakow controversy, and the 2007-2009 trademark dispute won by Infernus.
Gorgosaurus
Gorgosaurus (Gorgosaurus libratus), a large albertosaurine tyrannosaurid from Late Cretaceous Alberta (~76.5–75 Ma), named by Lambe in 1914; ~8.6 m long, ~1,000 kg, juveniles ate small prey like Citipes.
Gorgui Dieng
Gorgui Dieng, Senegalese NBA center (2013-23) for the Timberwolves, Grizzlies, Spurs, and Hawks; 2013 NCAA champion with Louisville; 628 games, 7.3 points and 5.6 rebounds per game; later a Spurs basketball operations representative.
Gorham-Stout disease
Gorham-Stout disease (GSD), or vanishing bone disease, is a rare complex lymphatic malformation causing progressive osteolysis via lymphatic proliferation in bone; roughly 400 cases documented, mostly children, treated with surgery, bisphosphonates, sirolimus, and radiotherapy.
Gorham's Cave Complex
Gorham's Cave Complex, Gibraltar: four sea-level caves, UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2016, preserving about 120,000 years of Neanderthal and early modern human occupation, the last recorded Neanderthals, and a Neanderthal rock engraving over 39,000 years old.
Gorhambury Ancient Site
Gorhambury Ancient Site is a late Iron Age farmstead and Roman villa on the Gorhambury estate near Verulamium at St Albans, excavated from 1972 to 1982.
Gori Tere Pyaar Mein (गोरी तेरे प्यार में!)
Gori Tere Pyaar Mein! (गोरी तेरे प्यार में!) is a 2013 Hindi romantic comedy directed by Punit Malhotra, starring Imran Khan and Kareena Kapoor Khan for Dharma Productions; released 22 November 2013, it flopped at the box office.
Gori, Georgia
Gori (გორი) is a city in eastern Georgia, regional capital of Shida Kartli at the Mtkvari–Liakhvi confluence, 76 km west of Tbilisi. Known as Stalin's birthplace (museum opened 1957), for Gori Fortress, nearby Uplistsikhe cave town, the 1920 earthquake, and nine-day 2008 Russian occupation.
Gøril Kringen
Gøril Kringen, Norwegian football defender born 1972, won Olympic gold at Sydney 2000, earned 72 caps, and won eight Cups and seven league titles with Trondheims-Ørn before coaching the club and Ranheim.
Gøril Snorroeggen
Gøril Snorroeggen (born 1985, Trondheim) is a Norwegian former handball back with 102 caps and 224 goals, a double Olympic champion (2008, 2012), 2011 world champion, and 2004 and 2006 European champion, who played for Byåsen IL and Team Esbjerg.
Gorilla
Gorilla is a large language model developed at UC Berkeley's Sky Computing Lab in May 2023, fine-tuned from LLaMA-7B to write accurate API calls and later expanded into function-calling models.
Gorilla
Gorilla (genus Gorilla): largest living primates, equatorial African great apes, two species (western G. gorilla, eastern G. beringei) with four subspecies, diverged about 1.75 Mya; both threatened, mountain gorillas recovering above 1,000.
Gorilla (James Taylor album)
Gorilla is the sixth studio album by American singer-songwriter James Taylor, released in May 1975, with the hit singles "Mexico" and "How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved by You)".
Gorilla Armor
Gorilla Armor is a smartphone cover material by Corning that combines scratch-resistant glass with an anti-reflective surface, debuting on the Samsung Galaxy S24 Ultra in 2024.
Gorilla Biscuits
Gorilla Biscuits: New York straight edge hardcore punk band (formed 1986 or 1987), known for the 1988 EP Gorilla Biscuits and the 1989 album Start Today, Revelation Records' best-selling release; broke up 1991, members formed CIV, reunited 2005.
Gorilla Energy
Gorilla Energy is an energy drink brand produced by Gorilla Drinks Limited, founded in 2008 and sold in 29 countries, with its strongest market in Kazakhstan.
Gorilla Glass
Gorilla Glass, also known as Corning Gorilla Glass, is a family of chemically strengthened cover glasses made by Corning for smartphones, launched with the first iPhone in 2007.
Gorilla Glue
Gorilla Glue is a moisture-activated polyurethane adhesive sold in North America since the mid-1990s by the Gorilla Glue Company of Cincinnati, Ohio, known for its 100% waterproof bond.
Gorilla Grodd
Gorilla Grodd, also Grodd or King Grodd, is DC Comics' hyper-intelligent telepathic gorilla from Gorilla City, created by John Broome and Carmine Infantino in The Flash #106 (1959), a Flash enemy with telepathy, telekinesis, and world-conquering ambitions.
Gorilla Monsoon
Gorilla Monsoon, ring name of Robert "Gino" Marella (1930s-1999), American pro wrestler, WWF lead commentator, partial owner, and on-screen WWF President 1995-1997; 1994 WWE Hall of Fame inductee.
Gorilla Tag
Gorilla Tag is a free multiplayer VR game by Another Axiom, created by Kerestell Smith (LemmingVR), released February 2021. Players move using only arm-based locomotion, playing Infection, Hunt, and Paintbrawl; first Quest game over 100,000 reviews.
Gorillas in the Mist
Gorillas in the Mist (1988) is Michael Apted's biographical drama starring Sigourney Weaver as primatologist Dian Fossey, adapted from her 1983 autobiography; a Universal-Warner Bros. film with five Oscar nominations and $61 million worldwide gross.
Gorillaz
Gorillaz are a British virtual band created in 1998 by musician Damon Albarn of Blur and comic artist Jamie Hewlett, with four animated characters fronting shifting musicians.
Gorillaz (album)
Gorillaz (2001), the self-titled debut album of Albarn and Hewlett's virtual band, blending hip hop, dub and lo-fi rock; UK #3, US #14, about seven million sold.
Gorimir G. Chernyi
Gorimir G. Chernyi, full name Gorimir Gorimirovich Chernyi, was a Soviet and Russian mechanician and full academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences known for hypersonic gas dynamics.
Goring-on-Thames
Goring-on-Thames: Oxfordshire village in the Goring Gap on the Thames, opposite Streatley; Domesday manor of Robert d'Oilly, Ridgeway crossing, Gatehampton Roman villa, GWR village of about 3,500 residents.
Gorizont
Gorizont (Горизонт) was a series of Soviet and Russian geostationary communications satellites built by NPO PM, carrying television, telephone, and maritime traffic, including Intersputnik service, from 1978 to 2000.