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Gothic fashion
Gothic fashion is the dress of the goth subculture: black Victorian- and punk-inflected clothing born in London post-punk between 1979's "Bela Lugosi's Dead" and the 1982 Batcave club, later splitting into trad, cyber, and nu-goth variants.
Gothic fiction
Gothic fiction, also called Gothic horror, is a literary genre blending horror, romance, and the supernatural, beginning in eighteenth-century England with Horace Walpole's The Castle of Otranto.
Gothic film
Gothic film: a cinematic mode carrying Gothic fiction conventions (haunted houses, curses, the supernatural) onto screen; not a formal genre, spanning German Expressionism, Universal and Hammer horror, and modern works like Get Out and Crimson Peak.
Gothic language
Gothic, also called Biblical Gothic or Wulfilas' Gothic, is the extinct East Germanic language of the Goths, known mainly from Wulfila's 4th-century Bible translation and the Codex Argenteus, the earliest substantially attested Germanic language.
Gothic Line
Gothic Line (Gotenstellung, Linea Gotica): German fortified defense across the northern Apennines from La Spezia to Pesaro-Rimini in WWII; breached in Operation Olive in September 1944 but held until April 1945.
Gothic Lolita (ゴシック・ロリータ)
Gothic Lolita (ゴシック・ロリータ, gosu-rori, Gothloli, EGL) is a Japanese Harajuku street fashion from the 1990s combining the modest bell-skirted Lolita silhouette with Victorian-Gothic motifs, popularized via Visual Kei, Mana, KERA, and Gothic & Lolita Bible.
Gothic metal
Gothic metal, also called gothic heavy metal, is a metal subgenre fusing gothic rock melancholy with metal aggression, emerging from early-1990s UK death/doom via Paradise Lost's album Gothic, with Theatre of Tragedy's beauty-and-the-beast vocals and scenes in Norway, Finland, and Germany.
Gothic Revival architecture
Gothic Revival architecture, also called Neo-Gothic or Victorian Gothic, revives medieval Gothic forms like pointed arches; it flourished in 18th- and 19th-century Britain and beyond.
Gothic Revival architecture in the United States
Gothic Revival architecture in the United States, arriving in the 1830s from Britain, reinterpreted medieval Gothic as picturesque American churches, cottages, and college buildings, spread through pattern books by Downing.
Gothic rock
Gothic rock (goth rock) is a dark post-punk style from Britain, starting with Bauhaus's "Bela Lugosi's Dead" (1979) and the Sisters of Mercy, distinguished from deathrock, darkwave, and coldwave.
Gothic script (palaeography)
Gothic script (palaeography): the family of Latin hands, formal Gothic textualis/textura (blackletter) and cursiva, that arose from Caroline minuscule via Protogothic in the 11th-12th centuries, dominated European manuscripts into the 16th century, and survives in Fraktur type.
Gothic sculpture
Gothic sculpture is the sculptural tradition of western Europe that arose with Gothic architecture around 1140 in the Île-de-France, known for cathedral portal statues and a shift toward naturalistic figures.
Gothic short story
A Gothic short story is short fiction applying Gothic conventions such as haunted settings, inherited secrets, and psychological terror within the compressed short-story form, from Poe to Angela Carter.
Gothic War (535–554)
Gothic War (535–554), also called the Greco-Gothic War: Justinian I's Byzantine reconquest of Italy from the Ostrogoths, led by Belisarius and Narses against Totila, ending with Mons Lactarius and devastation of Rome.
Gothika
Gothika (2003) is an American supernatural horror thriller directed by Mathieu Kassovitz, starring Halle Berry as psychiatrist Miranda Grey, accused of her husband's murder. Dark Castle production; $141.5M worldwide; 15% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Goths
The Goths were East Germanic peoples whose migration story rests mainly on Jordanes' Getica (551), an abridgment of Cassiodorus' lost history; linked to the Wielbark culture, they split into Visigoths and Ostrogoths, and left a Gothic Bible.
Gotianun family
The Gotianun family is a Filipino-Chinese business family that founded and still controls Filinvest Development Corporation, a Philippine conglomerate in real estate, banking, and power.
Gotion (国轩高科)
Gotion High Tech (国轩高科), also known as Guoxuan High-Tech, is a Chinese lithium-ion battery manufacturer founded in 2006 in Hefei; Volkswagen has been its largest shareholder since 2021.
Gotistobart
Gotistobart (ONC-392, BNT316) is a humanized pH-sensitive anti-CTLA-4 IgG1 monoclonal antibody from OncoC4 and BioNTech, in Phase 3 (PRESERVE-003) for squamous NSCLC, with median OS 18.5 vs 10.0 months versus docetaxel.
Gotland
Gotland: Sweden's largest island and a Baltic Sea island, county, province and municipality in one, with Silurian limestone rauks, Hanseatic Visby's UNESCO ring wall, ~61,000 residents, cement at Slite, mass summer tourism, and renewed NATO-era military significance.
Gotland Basin
Gotland Basin: deep sub-basin of the central Baltic Sea east of Gotland island, containing the Gotland Deep (about 249 m, station BY15); known for anoxic, hydrogen sulfide-rich deep water, episodic Major Baltic Inflow ventilation, and high internal nutrient release.
Gotland sports
Gotland sports: traditional Gotlandic events (varpa, pärk, gutnisk femkamp, stångstörtning) governed by Föreningen Gutnisk Idrott since 1912, staged at the Stångaspelen since 1924, plus Gotland's ~200-club modern sports scene.
Gotland-class submarine
The Gotland-class submarine (Gotlandsklass), type A19, is a class of three diesel-electric attack submarines built by Kockums for the Royal Swedish Navy starting in 1996.
GOTO
GOTO (CVCL_1234, JCRB0612) is a human neuroblastoma cell line established in 1979 from an adrenal tumor of a Japanese male infant; fibroblast-like, ~48-hour doubling, NRAS Q61L mutant, used in differentiation, radiation, and drug studies.
GoTo (company)
GoTo is an Indonesian technology holding company, formed in May 2021 by the merger of Gojek and Tokopedia, that operates ride-hailing, payments, and e-commerce services.
Gotō school
The Gotō school (後藤家) was a Japanese family line of sword-fitting metalworkers founded by Gotō Yūjō in 1440, whose formal ie-bori style set the standard for samurai society.
Gotō Shinpei
Gotō Shinpei (後藤新平) was a Japanese politician and physician who headed civil administration in colonial Taiwan from 1898 to 1906 and served as Home Minister.
Gotō Shōjirō
Gotō Shōjirō (後藤象二郎, 1838–1897) was a Japanese statesman and Tosa samurai who helped bring about the 1867 return of power to the imperial court and later led the Freedom and People's Rights Movement.
GoToMeeting
GoToMeeting is a web-hosted video conferencing and online meeting service with HD video, screen sharing, chat, recording, and transcription, launched by Citrix Systems in 2004 and now sold by GoTo.
Gotra (गोत्र)
Gotra (गोत्र) is the Hindu patrilineal exogamous clan, traced to a common male ancestor, regulating marriage via gotra and pravara rules alongside the sapinda bar; same-gotra marriage is legal under the Hindu Marriage Act 1955.