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Gulosus
Gulosus, Montagu 1813, is a monotypic cormorant genus holding the European shag, Gulosus aristotelis (formerly Phalacrocorax aristotelis), split from Phalacrocorax after Kennedy and Spencer 2014; coastal seabird, Least Concern.
Gulp.js
Gulp.js, commonly just gulp, is an open-source JavaScript task runner built on Node.js streams that automates front-end tasks like compiling Sass, transpiling JavaScript, and minifying assets.
Gulraiz Akhtar
Gulraiz Akhtar, Pakistani field hockey left halfback (1943-2021), won gold at the 1968 Mexico City Olympics and 1970 Asian Games, played for Pakistan Customs, and was recalled for the 1973 World Cup.
Gülşen
Gülşen (Gülşen Bayraktar Çolakoğlu, born 1976 in Istanbul) is a Turkish pop singer and songwriter whose 2015 album Bangır Bangır sold 100,000 copies and made her one of Turkey's best-selling pop names.
Gulshan Album
The Gulshan Album (Moraqqaʿ-e golšan) is a 17th-century Mughal album of miniature paintings, calligraphy, and engravings by Mughal, Persian, and European artists, now in Tehran's Golestan Palace Library.
Gulshan Devaiah (गुलशन देवैया)
Gulshan Devaiah (गुलशन देवैया), born 1978 in Bengaluru, is an Indian actor known for Hindi films like Shaitan, Mard Ko Dard Nahin Hota, and the 2025 Kannada hit Kantara: Chapter 1, plus Telugu and Tamil debuts.
Gulshan Kumar (गुलशन कुमार दुआ)
Gulshan Kumar (गुलशन कुमार दुआ), the Cassette King, founded Super Cassettes Industries (T-Series), India's largest music label, built on cheap cassettes, cover versions and devotional music including the Hanuman Chalisa; he was assassinated in Mumbai in 1997 and succeeded by his son Bhushan Kumar.
Gult system
The gult system (ጉልት) was an Ethiopian land tenure system in which the emperor granted nobles, officials, and churches the right to collect tribute and labor from peasants in exchange for service.
Gülten Akın
Gülten Akın, full name Gülten Akın Cankoçak, was a Turkish poet and lawyer who published more than twenty books from 1956 and was voted Turkey's greatest living poet in 2008.
Gulu Lalvani
Gulu Lalvani, born Inderjit Singh Lalvani in 1939, is a businessman who co-founded the electronics company Binatone in 1958, later a leading British supplier of cordless telephones.
Gulu, Northern Region
Gulu is a city in the Northern Region of Uganda and the largest urban center of the Acholi sub-region, upgraded from a municipality to city status in 2020.
Guluronic acid
Guluronic acid, often abbreviated G, is a uronic acid sugar that with mannuronic acid forms alginate from brown seaweed; identified in 1955, its calcium-binding G-blocks determine gel strength.
Gulussa
Gulussa was a prince and later joint king of Numidia, the second son of King Masinissa, known for diplomatic missions to Rome and commanding cavalry at the siege of Carthage.
Gulzar (گلزار)
Gulzar (گلزار), pen name of Sampooran Singh Kalra, born 1934 in Dina, Jhelum, is an Indian Urdu poet, Hindi film lyricist, and director of Bandini, Aandhi, and Ijaazat; winner of the Oscar, Grammy, Jnanpith, Sahitya Akademi, Padma Bhushan, and Dadasaheb Phalke awards.
Gulzarilal Nanda (गुलज़ारीलाल नंदा)
Gulzarilal Nanda (गुलज़ारीलाल नंदा), 1898–1998, Indian Gandhian labour leader and economist, twice acting Prime Minister of India (1964, 1966), Ahmedabad Textile Labour Association secretary, Planning Commission Deputy Chairman, Bharat Ratna 1997.
Gum arabic
Gum arabic (acacia gum, E 414) is a water-soluble exudate from Acacia senegal trees, dominated by Sudanese production, prized as a low-viscosity emulsifier for beverages, confectionery, and pharmaceuticals.
Gum Nebula
The Gum Nebula (Gum 12) is a giant emission nebula spanning roughly 30° to 40° in Vela and Puppis, discovered by Colin S. Gum in 1952 and cataloged as Gum 12.
Gum Wall
The Gum Wall, also known as the Market Theater Gum Wall, is a Seattle brick wall in Post Alley at Pike Place Market covered in chewed gum since the early 1990s.
Guman
The guman is an epic chant of the Subanon people of northwestern Mindanao, Philippines, sung over three to four nights; its best-known version, The Guman of Dumalinao, was published in 1980 with 4,062 lines.
Gumani Pant
Gumani Pant (गुमानी पंत), born Lokratna Pant, was a poet of Kumaon who wrote in Sanskrit, Hindi, Kumaoni, and Nepali, and is considered the first Kumauni writer.
Gumasthan (ഗുമസ്താൻ)
Gumasthan (ഗുമസ്തൻ) is a 2024 Malayalam crime thriller directed by Amal K Joby, starring Jaise Jose as clerk Andrews Pallippadan, who murders his wife and exploits legal loopholes; released 27 September 2024, streamed on Prime Video from 8 November 2024.
Gumball 3000
Gumball 3000 is an annual 3,000-mile international supercar rally and lifestyle brand founded in 1999 by Maximillion Cooper, officially a rally not a race, with a 2013 youth charity foundation that has raised over $12 million.
Gumbaz, Srirangapatna
Gumbaz (Gumbaz-e-Shahi) at Srirangapatna, Karnataka: Indo-Islamic mausoleum built 1782–84 by Tipu Sultan for Haidar Ali and Fakhr-un-Nisa; Tipu himself was buried there by the British on 5 May 1799.
Gumbel distribution
The Gumbel distribution, also called the Log-Weibull or Type I extreme value distribution, models the maximum of a large sample and is traditionally used for annual flood and rainfall maxima.
Gumbo
Gumbo, from West African gombo/ki ngombo (okra), is Louisiana's official state cuisine: a thick stew of stock, meat or seafood, and vegetables over rice, thickened with roux, okra, or Choctaw filé powder, first documented around 1803.
Gumboot chiton
The gumboot chiton, also called the giant Pacific chiton or wandering meatloaf, is the world's largest chiton, a marine mollusk living on rocky shores from central California to Japan.
Gumby
Gumby is a green clay character created by Art Clokey in 1955, star of stop-motion television series and a 1990s film, famous for adventures with his pony pal Pokey.
Gumi
Gumi (구미시, 龜尾市) is a city in southwestern Gyeongsangbuk-do, South Korea, home to the country's largest inland national industrial complex (38 km²), created in 1969 for electronics; Samsung, LG, and SK Siltron operate there, with exports reaching $30 billion by 2005.
Guming Holdings
Guming Holdings (古茗控股有限公司) is a Chinese freshly-made tea company that franchises the Good me (古茗) brand, founded in 2010 and listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange in 2025.
Gumla
Gumla is a small archaeological mound on the Gomal plain in Dera Ismail Khan District, Pakistan, where Ahmad Hasan Dani's excavations first brought the Tochi-Gomal phase to light.