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Got My Mind Set on You

Got My Mind Set on You: Rudy Clark song recorded by James Ray in 1962, covered by George Harrison, produced with Jeff Lynne for Cloud Nine (1987); his third and final US Billboard number one, number two in the UK, later parodied by Weird Al.

Got Talent

Got Talent is Simon Cowell's global talent-show format, co-owned by Syco Entertainment and Fremantle, launched 2006 with America's Got Talent. No age or talent limits; judges' auditions plus public vote; Guinness record holder with versions in about 194 countries.

Got to Be There

Got to Be There is Michael Jackson's debut solo album, released by Motown on January 24, 1972 when he was 13. Its singles "Got to Be There" (No. 4 Hot 100) and "Rockin' Robin" (No. 2) launched his solo career.

Got to Get You into My Life

Got to Get You into My Life: Beatles song written mainly by Paul McCartney (credited Lennon-McCartney), released on Revolver, 5 August 1966; Motown-styled brass arrangement, Beatles' first horn section, McCartney's stated ode to marijuana; 1976 US single peaked at number 7.

Got Your Six

Got Your Six is the sixth studio album by American heavy metal band Five Finger Death Punch, released September 4, 2015 on Prospect Park; it debuted at number two on the Billboard 200 with 119,000 units and was later certified RIAA Platinum.

Got7 (갓세븐)

GOT7 (갓세븐), seven-member K-pop boy group debuted 2014 under JYP Entertainment (JAY B, Mark, Jackson, Jinyoung, Youngjae, BamBam, Yugyeom); went independent via Warner Music Korea and released WINTER HEPTAGON with Kakao Entertainment in January 2025.

Göta Canal

Göta kanal: 190 km Swedish canal waterway from Sjötorp on Lake Vänern to Mem near the Baltic, 58 locks, built 1810–1832 by Baltzar von Platen with Thomas Telford; now a state-owned tourist waterway.

Gotabaya Rajapaksa (ගෝඨාභය රාජපක්ෂ)

Gotabaya Rajapaksa (ගෝඨාභය රාජපක්ෂ), Sri Lankan defence secretary 2005–2015 and SLPP executive president 2019–2022; resigned July 2022 after Aragalaya protests amid economic collapse.

Götaland

Götaland, also called Gothia or Gothenland, is the southernmost of Sweden's three landsdelar (with Svealand and Norrland), covering ten provinces including Skåne and Västergötland, about 84,000 km² and nearly half of Sweden's population.

Goth Babe

Goth Babe is the indie pop/indie rock solo project of Griff Washburn, started in 2015 in Nashville and named after a Surf Curse song; debut album Lola (2024) on Mom+Pop, recorded off-grid on a sailboat.

Goth subculture

Goth subculture: a music-based youth culture from late-1970s British post-punk, also called the gothic subculture, defined by gothic rock (Bauhaus, Siouxsie), the Batcave club (1982), black Victorian-influenced fashion, and club-centered social life.

Gotha

Gotha, Thuringian city in central Germany west of Erfurt, first mentioned 775 as villa gotaha; ducal capital of Saxe-Gotha 1640-1918; 45,832 residents (2022 census); Friedenstein Palace and Gotha Research Library.

Gotha Go 242

The Gotha Go 242 was a German military transport glider of World War II, built by Gothaer Waggonfabrik to carry 23 troops or freight such as a light howitzer.

Gothabhaya

Gothabhaya (ගෝඨාභය) was a thera of the Mahavihara tradition in Anuradhapura who resided in the parivena of Sanghapala and was the maternal uncle of King Gothabhaya.

Gotham (TV series)

Gotham is an American superhero crime drama TV series developed by Bruno Heller for Fox, airing 2014-2019 over five seasons and 100 episodes. It follows Detective James Gordon (Ben McKenzie) and young Bruce Wayne in pre-Batman Gotham City, with villains including Penguin, Riddler, and Catwoman.

Gotham by Gaslight

Gotham by Gaslight: 1989 DC graphic novel by Brian Augustyn and Mike Mignola, the first Elseworlds tale, a Victorian-era Batman hunting Jack the Ripper on Earth-19; 1992 sequel Master of the Future; 2018 R-rated animated film.

Gotham City

Gotham City, the fictional DC Comics metropolis and home of Batman, first named in Batman #4 (winter 1940/41) by Bill Finger, given a 1635 founding myth in Swamp Thing #53, mapped by Eliot Brown in 1999, and read as a dark counterpart to Metropolis.

Gotham City Sirens

Gotham City Sirens is a DC Comics title and the name for the trio of Catwoman, Harley Quinn, and Poison Ivy. Launched by Paul Dini in 2009 (26 issues, ended with the New 52), revived as a 2024 Leah Williams miniseries, and attached to an unproduced David Ayer film.

Gotham Girls

Gotham Girls (2000–2002) was a Warner Bros. Flash-animated web series on gothamgirls.com, a DCAU spin-off of The New Batman Adventures starring Batgirl, Harley Quinn, Poison Ivy, and Catwoman in three ten-webisode seasons, with a DC Comics comic tie-in.

Gotham Knights (TV series)

Gotham Knights (TV series), a 2023 CW superhero drama by Fiveash, Stoteraux, and Abrams: Batman's adopted son Turner Hayes and enemies' children, framed for his murder, become Gotham's protectors; canceled after 13 episodes.

Gotham Knights (video game)

Gotham Knights is a 2022 open-world action role-playing game developed by WB Games Montréal, in which Batgirl, Nightwing, Red Hood, and Robin protect Gotham after Batman's death.

Gotham Therapeutics

Gotham Therapeutics was a New York biotechnology company founded in 2017 that developed small-molecule drugs against RNA-modifying proteins, and was acquired by 858 Therapeutics in 2021.

Götheborg (ship)

Götheborg was an East Indiaman of the Swedish East India Company, launched in 1738, that sank just outside Gothenburg in 1745 after a voyage to Canton.

Gothenburg

Gothenburg (Göteborg), Sweden's second city on the southwest coast at the mouth of the Göta River: 613,278 residents (2025), Scandinavia's largest port handling 20% of Swedish foreign trade, and home to Volvo, SKF, AstraZeneca, and the University of Gothenburg.

Gothenburg Botanical Garden

Gothenburg Botanical Garden (Göteborgs botaniska trädgården, Botaniska), a 175-hectare botanical garden in Gothenburg, Sweden, opened 1919–1923, led by Carl Skottsberg; 20,000 species, Michelin-listed rock garden, Sweden's largest orchid collection.

Gothic (1986 film)

Gothic (1986) is a British psychological horror film directed by Ken Russell, written by Stephen Volk, starring Gabriel Byrne, Julian Sands, and Natasha Richardson, dramatizing the 1816 Villa Diodati night that inspired Mary Shelley's Frankenstein.

Gothic (video game)

Gothic is a 2001 action RPG by Piranha Bytes set in a magical-barrier prison colony with three factions, NPC schedules, and no quest markers; a cult European classic that inspired The Witcher, remade by Alkimia Interactive in 2026.

Gothic alphabet

Gothic alphabet, or Wulfila's alphabet: 27-letter script created in the 4th century by bishop Wulfila to write Gothic for his Bible translation, modeled on Greek with Latin and runic input; chief manuscript the Codex Argenteus.

Gothic architecture

Gothic architecture, also called Opus Francigenum, is a European building style that emerged in northern France in the 12th century, defined by pointed arches and flying buttresses.

Gothic art

Gothic art is the style of European art and architecture that began in northern France in the mid-twelfth century, defined by the pointed arch, rib vault, and flying buttress.