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Guam national football team
Guam national football team, the Matao, men's team of the US territory Guam, run by the Guam FA (founded 1975, FIFA member 1996). First FIFA-member win 1-0 over Mongolia in 2009; highest FIFA ranking 154 in July 2015.
Guan Chenchen
Guan Chenchen (管晨辰), born 2004 in Hubei, Chinese artistic gymnast; won balance beam gold at Tokyo 2020 (14.633) in her senior debut, then retired in 2022; nickname Guan Xiaopang.
Guan dao
The guan dao (關刀), also called yanyuedao, is a Chinese polearm with a long shaft and large single-edged blade, popularly attributed to the Three Kingdoms general Guan Yu.
Guan Daosheng
Guan Daosheng (管道升, 1262–1319) was a Yuan-dynasty painter and calligrapher famed for her ink bamboo, the wife of the literatus Zhao Mengfu, honored as Lady of the Wei Kingdom.
Guan Hanqing
Guan Hanqing (關漢卿) was a Yuan dynasty playwright of Dadu, active in the 1200s, ranked first of the Four Masters of Yuan drama and named a World Cultural Celebrity in 1958.
Guan Lu
Guan Lu (管輅), courtesy name Gongming, was a Chinese diviner of the Three Kingdoms era, famed for foretelling He Yan's downfall in 249 and honored by later diviners as a founding master.
Guan Ning
Guan Ning was a late Han and early Wei scholar who fled civil war to Liaodong, taught there, and famously refused every summons to office.
Guan Shanhai
Guan Shanhai (官山海) is an ancient Chinese doctrine of state monopoly over salt and iron, first set out in the Guanzi and attributed to Guan Zhong.
Guan Shanyue
Guan Shanyue (关山月, 1912–2000), born Guan Zepei, was a Chinese painter of the Lingnan School, best known for co-creating Such Is the Beauty of Rivers and Mountains.
Guan Tianpei
Guan Tianpei (关天培), courtesy name Zipu (滋圃), was a Qing naval commander who died defending the Humen forts against the British in the First Opium War in 1841.
Guan Tong
Guan Tong (关仝) was a Chinese landscape painter of the Five Dynasties period from Chang'an who studied under Jing Hao and gave the northern school its mature panoramic form.
Guan ware
Guan ware (官窑), or "official ware," is the Southern Song dynasty imperial ceramic made for the court at Hangzhou, with a dark body and crackled blue-green glaze.
Guan Xiaotong (关晓彤)
Guan Xiaotong (关晓彤, Gabrielle Guan), born 1997 in Beijing, is a Chinese actress and Beijing Film Academy graduate who debuted as a child star in 2001, won a Magnolia Best Supporting Actress award for 《好先生》, and starred in 《影》 and 《小巷人家》.
Guan Xing
Guan Xing (关兴) was a son of the general Guan Yu who served Shu Han as Palace Attendant and Central Army Supervisor in the Three Kingdoms period.
Guan Ying
Guan Ying (灌婴) was a Han dynasty general and statesman, a silk merchant of Suiyang who rose to Marquis of Yingyin, Grand Commandant, and Chancellor under Emperor Wen.
Guan Yu (关羽)
Guan Yu (关羽, d. 219), also Lord Guan or Emperor Guan, was a minor Three Kingdoms general deified into one of imperial China's major gods of war, wealth, and trust, with a temple cult tied to commerce and finance.
Guan Yunshi
Guan Yunshi (贯云石, 1286–1324), originally named Xiaoyunshihaiya, was a Yuan dynasty sanqu poet of Uyghur origin who resigned a Hanlin post and settled in Hangzhou, ranking among the era's most celebrated song-lyric writers.
Guan Zhong
Guan Zhong (管仲), personal name Yiwu, was chief minister of Qi under Duke Huan of Qi, whose reforms made Qi the first of the Five Hegemons.
Guan Zhong's reforms in Qi
Guan Zhong's reforms in Qi (管仲相齐变法) were reforms by chancellor Guan Zhong for Duke Huan of Qi, making Qi the leading power of the Spring and Autumn period.
Guan-du shang-ban (official supervision, merchant management)
Guan-du shang-ban (官督商辦), "official supervision, merchant management," was a Qing model in which merchants supplied capital and ran enterprises while officials retained control, first applied to the China Merchants' Steam Navigation Company in 1872.
Guanabara Bay
Guanabara Bay (Baía de Guanabara), the 412 km² Atlantic bay of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, entered by the Portuguese on January 1, 1502; site of France Antarctique and the 1565 founding of Rio, now a hypereutrophic estuary under long-running cleanup programs.
Guanabara Bay FSRU
The Guanabara Bay FSRU is a floating storage and regasification unit in Guanabara Bay, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, owned and operated by Petrobras since 2009.
Guanabenz
Guanabenz (Wytensin) is a centrally acting alpha-2 adrenergic agonist antihypertensive, dosed 8–32 mg/day twice daily; discontinued in the US and investigated for ALS and vanishing white matter.
Guanacaste Province
Guanacaste Province, northwestern Costa Rica, formed from the 1824 annexation of the Partido de Nicoya; driest province, home to the UNESCO Área de Conservación Guanacaste and the country's largest tourism and construction boom.
Guanaco
The guanaco (Lama guanicoe, also called huanaco) is a wild camelid native to South America, ranging from Peru to Tierra del Fuego and ancestral to the domestic llama.
Guanadrel
Guanadrel (Hylorel) is a discontinued oral postganglionic sympathetic inhibitor, a guanidine analog of guanethidine, FDA-approved in 1982 for mild to moderate hypertension.
Guanajuato
Guanajuato, a central Mexican state in the Bajio region with capital Guanajuato city and 46 municipalities; founded 1823, population 6.4 million, mining heritage, industrial economy, and Mexico's highest homicide count.
Guanche language
Guanche (ISO gnc) is the extinct language or languages of the indigenous Canary Islanders, replaced by Spanish in the 15th-16th centuries. Traditionally classed as Berber, though some scholars argue borrowing; it survives in toponymy and Canarian Spanish loans.
Guanches
The Guanches were the Amazigh (Berber) indigenous people of the Canary Islands, settled from North Africa, isolated without seafaring, conquered by Castile 1402-1496, with 16-31% ancestry surviving in modern Canarians.
Guandao (关刀)
The guandao (關刀), also called yanyuedao, is a Chinese polearm with a heavy curved blade on a long haft, named after the general Guan Yu.