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Guimaras oil spill
The Guimaras oil spill began on 11 August 2006, when the tanker Solar 1 sank in the Guimaras Strait, Philippines, spilling about 2,000 tonnes of fuel oil.
Guinan (Star Trek)
Guinan is the El-Aurian bartender of Ten-Forward on Star Trek: The Next Generation, played by Whoopi Goldberg from 1988 to 1993 and later in Generations, Nemesis, and Picard; a Nexus survivor created by Gene Roddenberry for Goldberg.
Guinea
Guinea (Republic of Guinea), coastal West African country, capital Conakry, population 17.52 million (2026). Holds about one-third of world bauxite and the Simandou iron ore project; returned to constitutional order in 2026 under President Mamady Doumbouya after the 2021 coup.
Guinea (Cameroon)
Guinea (Cameroon): a region in Cameroon's Littoral division, GeoNames geonameId 2230867, at 5°N 10°E, elevation about 705 m; distinct from the country Guinea and other African Guinea toponyms.
Guinea (coin)
Guinea (coin): British gold coin first struck 1663 under Charles II, named for Guinea Coast gold, worth 20 shillings then fixed at 21 in 1717 by Newton; replaced by the sovereign after 1816.
Guinea bauxite boom
The Guinea bauxite boom is the rapid expansion of bauxite mining in Guinea since 2015 that made it the world's leading producer of the aluminum ore.
Guinea Fowl (珍珠鸡)
Guinea fowl (珍珠鸡, pearl chicken), especially the helmeted guineafowl Numida meleagris, are African ground-dwelling game birds with pearl-spotted plumage, helmet-like crests, loud calls, 6-12 egg clutches, and domesticated farm and Chinese park exhibits.
Guinea Highlands
Guinea Highlands: mountainous region of West Africa centered in Guinea, with summits over 1,500 m, source of the Niger River, driver of the offshore rainfall maximum, and part of the Upper Guinea forest ecosystem.
Guinea national football team
Guinea national football team (Syli National), the men's side run by FEGUIFOOT: never a World Cup qualifier, AFCON runners-up in 1976, record 14 AFCON appearances without a title, FIFA-ranked 81st in July 2026.
Guinea pig
Guinea pig (Cavia porcellus, cuy): domesticated Andean rodent from Cavia tschudii, domesticated around 5,000 BC, kept as pet, lab animal, and meat; needs dietary vitamin C, 700-1,100 g, lives 4-8 years.
Guinea Pig (film series)
Guinea Pig (Za Ginīpiggu, ザ・ギニーピッグ), Japanese direct-to-video body-horror anthology of six films 1985–1990, created by Ogura Satoru with director Hino Hideshi; infamous for the 1991 Charlie Sheen snuff-film controversy over Flower of Flesh and Blood.
Guinea-Bissau
Guinea-Bissau, West African country with capital Bissau; independent from Portugal in 1974, cashew-dependent economy, chronic coups, and a November 2025 military takeover led by General Horta N'Tam that suspended disputed elections.
Guinea-Bissau Civil War
The Guinea-Bissau Civil War was an eleven-month conflict in 1998 and 1999 between President João Bernardo Vieira's government and a military junta led by Ansumane Mané.
Guinea-Bissau national football team
Guinea-Bissau national football team, the Djurtus, men's team of Guinea-Bissau run by the FFGB. Four straight AFCONs from 2017, no wins in nine finals matches, never a World Cup; FIFA ranking 132 in 2026.
Guinea-Bissau peso
The Guinea-Bissau peso was the national currency of Guinea-Bissau from 1976 to 1997, introduced at par with the Guinea escudo and replaced by the CFA franc.
Guinea-Bissau War of Independence
The Guinea-Bissau War of Independence (1963–1974) was the guerrilla war fought between the PAIGC and Portugal that ended Portuguese rule in what was then Portuguese Guinea.
Guinean franc
The Guinean franc (GNF) is the national currency of Guinea, issued by the central bank since 1960, subdivided into 100 centimes, and not pegged to any foreign currency.
Guinean syli
The Guinean syli was the currency of Guinea from 1972 to 1986, divided into 100 cauris and named for the Susu word for elephant, until a new Guinean franc replaced it in 1986.
Guinevere
Guinevere (Welsh Gwenhwyfar) is the legendary queen consort of King Arthur, known for her abduction motif and her affair with Sir Lancelot; a literary figure first appearing in Welsh tradition and Geoffrey of Monmouth's 1136 chronicle, not a documented historical queen.
Guinevere (1999 film)
Guinevere is Audrey Wells's 1999 American drama-romance starring Sarah Polley and Stephen Rea, about a young San Francisco woman who becomes an alcoholic photographer's muse and protege; it won the 1999 Sundance Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award.
Guinevere Kauffmann
Guinevere Kauffmann is an astrophysicist and director at the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics in Garching, Germany, known for galaxy formation models and Sloan Digital Sky Survey analyses.
Guinevere Planitia
Guinevere Planitia is a large lowland plain on Venus, one of the planet's major planitiae, named after King Arthur's wife Guinevere; Magellan radar showed its plains are volcanic.
Guinevere Turner
Guinevere Turner, American screenwriter, director, actor, and memoirist born 1968 in Boston; co-wrote Go Fish (1994) and American Psycho (2000) with Mary Harron, wrote for The L Word, and published the 2023 memoir When the World Didn't End about the Lyman Family cult.
Guinhoe
Guinhoe (구인회, 九人會, Circle of Nine) was a Korean modernist literary group founded August 15, 1933, in colonial Korea. Keeping nine rotating members including Lee Sang, Jeong Jiyong, and Park Tae Won, it opposed the KAPF and founded the magazines Poetry and Novel and Munjang.
Guinn Smith
Guinn Smith (Owen Guinn Smith, 1920-2004), American pole vaulter who won 1948 Olympic gold at 4.30 m, the last champion on a bamboo pole; Distinguished Flying Cross recipient.
Guinness
Guinness is the Irish dry stout brand founded by Arthur Guinness at St James's Gate, Dublin, under a 9,000-year lease signed 31 December 1759; known for roasted-barley porter lineage, nitrogen dispense and the widget, now owned by Diageo.
Guinness Brewery
St James's Gate Brewery (Guinness Brewery): Dublin brewery founded by Arthur Guinness via a 9,000-year lease in 1759 at £45/year; home of Guinness stout, now owned by Diageo, expanded by the Littleconnell, County Kildare brewery.
Guinness family
The Guinness family, an Anglo-Irish Protestant brewing dynasty founded by Arthur Guinness (1725–1803), who leased Dublin's St. James's Gate Brewery in 1759; seven generations led the brewery before the 1997 Diageo merger, while gaining earldoms and philanthropic fame.
Guinness Ghana
Guinness Ghana Breweries PLC is a Ghanaian brewery founded in 1960 with plants in Accra and Kumasi; Diageo sold its 80.4% stake to Castel Group in 2025.
Guinness Nigeria
Guinness Nigeria is a Nigerian beverage company brewing Guinness and other drinks. Its Ikeja brewery, opened in 1962, was the first outside Ireland and the United Kingdom.