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Gudlaugstungur Nature Reserve
Gudlaugstungur Nature Reserve (Friðland í Guðlaugstungum), Icelandic highland wetland protected 2005, Ramsar site 2130 since 2013; world's largest pink-footed goose nesting colony, over 23,000 pairs.
Guðmundur and Geirfinnur case
Guðmundar- og Geirfinnsmálið, the Reykjavík confessions: two Icelandic men vanished in 1974, six people were convicted on coerced confessions in 1980, and five were acquitted by the Supreme Court in 2018.
Guðmundur G. Hagalín
Guðmundur G. Hagalín was an Icelandic novelist and librarian best known for novels of rural life in western Iceland, above all Kristrún í Hamravík (1933).
Guðmundur Kamban
Guðmundur Kamban (1888–1945) was an Icelandic playwright, novelist, and stage director who lived mostly in Denmark; his main work was the four-volume historical novel Skálholt.
Guðni Th. Jóhannesson
Guðni Th. Jóhannesson (Guðni Thorlacius Jóhannesson), born 1968, Icelandic historian and sixth president of Iceland 2016–2024, re-elected 2020, now professor of history at the University of Iceland.
Gudong Oil Field
Gudong Oil Field (孤东油田) is a heavy-oil sandstone field in the Yellow River delta region of Shandong Province, China, and a major component of Sinopec's Shengli Oilfield since 1986.
Gudrun Burwitz
Gudrun Burwitz (Gudrun Himmler, 1929–2018) was Heinrich Himmler's daughter and a leading figure of Stille Hilfe, the network aiding convicted and fugitive Nazi criminals, also briefly a BND secretary.
Guðrún Eva Mínervudóttir
Guðrún Eva Mínervudóttir (born 1976) is an Icelandic novelist and short story writer whose work is translated into more than a dozen languages; she won the Icelandic Literary Prize in 2011.
Guðrún Hafsteinsdóttir
Guðrún Hafsteinsdóttir (born 1970, Selfoss) is an Icelandic Independence Party politician, party leader since 2025, MP for the South Constituency since 2021, and former Minister of Justice (2023–2024).
Gudrun oil field
Gudrun is an oil and gas field in the Norwegian North Sea, discovered in 1975 and producing since 2014 from an Equinor-operated platform tied to Sleipner A.
Gudrun Rappold
Gudrun Rappold (born 1954) is a German human geneticist who led molecular human genetics at Heidelberg University and discovered SHOX, the gene behind short stature in Turner syndrome.
Gudrun Wegner
Gudrun Wegner (1955-2005), East German swimmer from SC Einheit Dresden; 1972 Olympic 400 m freestyle bronze and 1973 world 400 m IM champion with world record 4:57.51, first woman under five minutes.
Guduci Lauha
Guduci Lauha (Guduchyadi Lauha, Guducyadi Louha) is an Ayurvedic herbo-mineral iron formulation from Bhaishajya Ratnavali combining Lauha Bhasma with Tinospora cordifolia and digestive herbs, listed in AFI Part II 17:1 and used mainly for gout (Vatarakta).
Guduci Sattva
Guduci Sattva (गुडूची सत्त्व), also called Giloy Sattva, is an Ayurvedic powder extracted from the Tinospora cordifolia stem, prescribed mainly for fever and as a general tonic.
Guducyadi kvatha curna
Guducyadi kvatha curna (Guḍūcyādi gaṇa kvātha cūrṇa, AFI000560) is a classical Ayurvedic coarse-powder decoction of guduchi, coriander, neem, red sandalwood, and padmaka, used as an appetiser and febrifuge; AFI dose 48 g/day.
Guducyadi Modaka
Guḍūcyādi Modaka (गुडूच्यादि मोदक) is a classical Ayurvedic herbal-mineral confection in the Ayurvedic Formulary of India (AFI000047), built on guduchi, dosed 6-12 g, and indicated for urinary disorders, bleeding, and as a rasayana.
Guédelon Castle
Guédelon Castle (Château de Guédelon) is a fortified castle under construction since 1997 near Treigny in Burgundy, France, built from scratch using only 13th-century tools, techniques, and materials as an experimental archaeology project.
Guédiawaye
Guédiawaye, Senegal: city and department in the Dakar region, a dense satellite of Dakar (28,670 inhabitants/km² in 2023) known for recurrent flooding, dune-coast urbanization, and the BRT terminus.
Guelaât Bou Sbaâ Neopunic inscriptions
The Guelaât Bou Sbaâ inscriptions are Neo-Punic texts from a site near Guelma, Algeria, the ancient Numidian city of Calama, cataloged in the Handbook of Neo-Punic Inscriptions.
Guelma Province
Guelma Province (ولاية قالمة) is a northeastern Algerian wilaya created in 1974, covering 3,686.84 km² with about 570,000 people, 34 communes, ancient Calama, and major thermal tourism.
Guelmim-Es Semara
Guelmim-Es Semara (كلميم – السمارة), former Moroccan region with capital Guelmim, five provinces including Es-Semara and Tata, dissolved in 2015 into Guelmim-Oued Noun; pre-Saharan, partly in Western Sahara.
Guelmim-Oued Noun
Guelmim-Oued Noun (كلميم واد نون), a region of southern Morocco between the Atlantic and the Sahara; 46,108 km², 448,685 people (2024), four provinces, arid climate, water-security and green-energy development programs.
Guelph
Guelph, Ontario, 'The Royal City': planned town founded April 23, 1827 by John Galt of the Canada Company, named for the royal Guelph lineage; 2021 population 143,740, projected 208,000 by 2051.
Guelphs and Ghibellines
The Guelphs and Ghibellines (Guelfi e Ghibellini) were rival factions in medieval Italy, the Guelphs supporting the Pope and the Ghibellines the Holy Roman Emperor.
Gueltas et Oasis de l'Aïr
Gueltas et Oasis de l'Aïr, Ramsar Site 1501 in Niger (Agadez), a 2005-designated complex of desert streams, oases, and marshes in the Aïr massif, habitat of the addax, cheetah, and Dorcas gazelle.
Guémon
Guémon (Yémahin) is an administrative region of western Côte d'Ivoire in the Montagnes district, capital Duékoué, with four departments; 930,873 inhabitants (RGPH 2021) and Côte d'Ivoire's top cocoa-producing region.
Guennol Lioness
The Guennol Lioness is a small stone figure of a striding lioness from Elam, circa 3000–2800 BC, which sold at Sotheby's in 2007 for a record $57.2 million.
Guenter Ahlers (engineer)
Guenter Ahlers is an experimental physicist known for critical phenomena near the superfluid transition of liquid helium and for experiments on convection, pattern formation, and turbulent heat transport.
Guenter J. Krejs
Guenter J. Krejs (Günter Josef Krejs) is an Austrian-American gastroenterologist, emeritus professor at the Medical University of Graz, known for the 1979 somatostatinoma syndrome paper.
Guenther Boden
Guenther Boden (1935–2015) was a German-born endocrinologist and diabetes researcher at Temple University who first showed that elevated blood fatty acids interfere with insulin's action.