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Guinness Storehouse
Guinness Storehouse: Dublin visitor attraction at St. James's Gate, opened December 2000 in a 1902–1905 fermentation plant; seven floors, 14.3-million-pint atrium, Gravity Bar, about 1.6 million visitors a year.
Guinness World Records
Guinness World Records, originally The Guinness Book of Records, is the global record-verification brand founded from Sir Hugh Beaver's 1950s pub-argument idea, first published 27 August 1955 by Norris and Ross McWhirter, now certifying 70,000+ titles.
Guinote
Guiñote is an Aragonese point-trick card game of the Tute family for 2-4 players, usually partnerships, played with a 40-card Spanish deck; jacks outrank horses, marriages score 20/40, and 101 points wins.
Guion Bluford
Guion Bluford, also known as Guy Bluford, is an American engineer and former NASA astronaut who became the first African American in space in 1983.
Guirenniao
Guirenniao (贵人鸟) was a Chinese sportswear company founded by Lin Tianfu in Jinjiang, Fujian, which peaked above 40 billion yuan in 2015 before collapsing under debt.
Güiro
Güiro (also guiro, güícharo, güira): Latin American scraped idiophone, a notched hollowed gourd (Crescentia cujete) of Taíno origin rubbed with a stick; central to danzón, cha-cha-chá, salsa, plena, and merengue.
Guiron le Courtois
Guiron le Courtois is a cycle of Old French Arthurian prose romances from the first half of the 13th century, also called the Roman de Palamède.
Guiry-Gadancourt
Guiry-Gadancourt: Gallo-Roman villa at Les Terres Noires, Guiry and Gadancourt communes, Vexin, France; excavated 1955-1960 by the Groupe Archéologique du Camping Club de France; Building II about 60 m long with baths and hypocaust.
Guisarme
The guisarme is a European polearm with a curved cutting blade and thrusting point, an infantry weapon of the 12th to 15th centuries distinguished by its hook.
Guiseley
Guiseley AFC (GSLY), "The Lions", a West Yorkshire non-league football club founded 1909 at Nethermoor Park, FA Vase winners 1991, National League members 2015-2018, now Northern Premier League Premier Division.
Guitar
Guitar (Spanish guitarra): fretted, plucked six-string instrument with a waisted, flat-backed body; standardized by Antonio de Torres in 19th-century Spain, amplified via the 1934 Rickenbacker Frying Pan, and central to popular music.
Guitar (Mac DeMarco album)
Guitar is Mac DeMarco's sixth studio album, released 22 August 2025 on Mac's Record Label. Written, recorded, mixed, and photographed by DeMarco himself at his Los Angeles home in two weeks, it is his first non-instrumental album since 2019's Here Comes the Cowboy, with 12 songs over 31 minutes.
Guitar Center
Guitar Center is the largest US musical instrument retailer, founded by Wayne Mitchell in Hollywood (Organ Center 1959; Guitar Center 1964). Owns Musician's Friend and Music & Arts; Bain Capital buyout 2007, Chapter 11 in 2020, now controlled by Ares, Brigade, and Carlyle.
Guitar chord
Guitar chord: simultaneous notes fretted and strummed on a guitar's six standard-tuned strings (E-A-D-G-B-E). Covers open, barre, and power chords, voicings and inversions, alfabeto history, and the chord's role in accompaniment.
Guitar Hero
Guitar Hero, a rhythm-action video game series debuting 2005, developed by Harmonix and published by RedOctane, later Activision; guitar-controller note-matching gameplay, over 25 million units sold, closed 2010, revived as Guitar Hero Live 2015.
Guitar Hero (video game)
Guitar Hero, the 2005 PlayStation 2 rhythm game by Harmonix and RedOctane, had players play rock songs on a guitar controller; under Activision it became the first billion-dollar game series before its 2010 shutdown.
Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock
Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock (GH3) is a 2007 Neversoft-developed, RedOctane-published rhythm game for PS2, PS3, Xbox 360, Wii, PC, and Mac; 73 songs, Les Paul controller, over 16 million sold.
Guitar Hero Live
Guitar Hero Live (GHL) is a 2015 Activision rhythm game by FreeStyleGames with a six-button guitar controller, a first-person GH Live mode (42 tracks), and the GHTV streaming music video network (484 tracks), shut down December 1, 2018.
Guitar Hero World Tour
Guitar Hero World Tour (GHWT) is Activision's 2008 full-band rhythm game by Neversoft, adding velocity-sensitive drums, vocals, Music Studio/GHTunes song creation, and 86 master tracks; it outsold Rock Band 2 in 2008 before the rhythm-game crash.
Guitar solo
Guitar solo: an instrumental passage where the guitar leads melodically; techniques include bending, tapping, and harmonics. Stairway to Heaven tops consensus rankings; solos declined in pop after grunge.
Guitar tunings
Guitar tunings: standard EADGBE (fourths plus a major third) and alternates such as Drop D, DADGAD, Open G, Open D, Nashville, and Eb standard, their history, uses, and practical costs.
Guitar World
Guitar World (Guitar World Magazine): American monthly guitar magazine founded July 1980 by Stanley Harris, now published by Future plc; best-selling US guitar magazine, known for interviews, gear reviews, and song transcriptions.
GuitarFreaks and DrumMania
GuitarFreaks and DrumMania (ギターフリークス) are Konami's linked 1999 Bemani arcade rhythm games played with a three-button guitar and a five-pad drum controller, featuring session mode and a song library that grew past 500 tracks before becoming GITADORA.
Guitarist
Guitarist: a musician who plays the guitar, classical, acoustic, or electric. Covers training paths, ensemble programs, repertoire history, competitions like the Francisco Tárrega, and notable players such as Derek Gripper and Tosin Abasi.
Guixi
Guixi (贵溪市) is a county-level city under Yingtan, Jiangxi, China, founded as a county in 765 AD and made a city in 1996. Known as China's Copper Capital, it hosts Jiangxi Copper's Guixi Smelter, the world's largest, producing about 10 percent of China's electrolytic copper.
Guixi power station
Guixi power station (国家电投贵溪发电厂) is a coal-fired power station in Guixi City, Yingtan, Jiangxi, China, operating four units totaling 1,880 MW under State Power Investment Corporation.
Guixin Zashi
Guixin Zashi (癸辛杂识) is a Song-dynasty biji collection of anecdotes by Zhou Mi, a Song loyalist in Hangzhou, a standard source on the Song–Yuan transition.
Guiyang
Guiyang (贵阳), capital of Guizhou province in the eastern Yunnan-Guizhou plateau, China; a forest city and big data hub with 5.99 million people (2020), 2025 GDP over 600 billion yuan, and computing power above 150 EFLOPS.
Guiyi Circuit
Guiyi Circuit (归义军) was the name of two Tang-era military circuits: a short-lived one at Tiande for the Uyghur chief Wa Meisi, and the Dunhuang circuit of Shazhou.
Guiyijun (Return-to-Allegiance Army)
Guiyijun, the Return-to-Allegiance Army (沙州归义军), was a Tang military commission founded at Shazhou (Dunhuang) in 851 under Zhang Yichao, governing the Hexi region until the mid-11th century.