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Guneshli Deepwater Oil and Gas Field

Guneshli is an offshore oil and gas field in the Azerbaijani sector of the Caspian Sea, 120 kilometers east of Baku, whose shallow waters provide more than 60% of SOCAR's oil.

Güneşin Kızları

Güneşin Kızları (Sunshine Girls) is a Turkish family and youth drama aired on Kanal D 2015-2016, 39 episodes. Güneş, a 35-year-old İzmir teacher, marries Istanbul businessman Haluk Mertoğlu; his family's secrets surface. Not to be confused with Eva Husson's film Girls of the Sun.

Gunfight at the O.K. Corral

Gunfight at the O.K. Corral: October 26, 1881 shootout in Tombstone, Arizona Territory, where Virgil, Wyatt, Morgan Earp and Doc Holliday killed Billy Clanton and the McLaury brothers in about thirty seconds on Fremont Street.

Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (film)

Gunfight at the O.K. Corral is a 1957 Paramount Western directed by John Sturges, starring Burt Lancaster as Wyatt Earp and Kirk Douglas as Doc Holliday, written by Leon Uris from George Scullin's article "The Killer," shot in VistaVision, with a Dimitri Tiomkin score and Frankie Laine title song.

Gunfighter

Gunfighter (also gunslinger, gunman) denotes a skilled veteran of gunfights in the nineteenth-century American West. The term and quick-draw duels are largely dime-novel and Hollywood mythology; real gunfights were ambushes and revenge killings.

Gunfire locator

Gunfire locator: passive acoustic system (military counter-sniper, civilian ShotSpotter-style networks) that locates shooters from muzzle blast and bullet shock wave via TDOA triangulation; accuracies of ±2° azimuth, ~41-foot urban error, ~80% detection.

Gung Ho (film)

Gung Ho is a 1986 American comedy directed by Ron Howard, starring Michael Keaton as an autoworker who brings a Japanese company to reopen his town's factory.

Gung Ye

Gung Ye (궁예) was the founder and king of Later Goguryeo, one of Korea's Later Three Kingdoms, reigning from 901 to 918 before being overthrown by his generals, after which Wang Geon founded Goryeo.

Gunga Din

Gunga Din: 1890 narrative poem by Rudyard Kipling in the voice of a British soldier praising an Indian regimental bhisti (water-carrier); collected in Barrack Room Ballads (1892); source of the catchphrase 'You're a better man than I am, Gunga Din' and of RKO's 1939 film.

Gunga Din (film)

Gunga Din (1939) is a George Stevens RKO adventure film loosely based on Kipling's poem, starring Cary Grant, Victor McLaglen, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., and Sam Jaffe as a water carrier facing the Thuggee cult in colonial India.

Gunga Jumna (गंगा जमुना)

Gunga Jumna (गंगा जमुना), also Ganga Jamuna, is a 1961 Indian Technicolor dacoit drama written and produced by Dilip Kumar, directed by Nitin Bose, starring Kumar, Vyjayanthimala, and Nasir Khan as brothers on opposite sides of the law.

Gungnae-seong

Gungnae-seong (국내성; 國內城), known in Chinese as Guonei City, was the walled capital of the Goguryeo kingdom at Ji'an in Jilin Province, China, until 427 CE.

Gungnaebu

Gungnaebu (궁내부) was the Korean government office in charge of royal household affairs from 1894 to 1910, becoming the central organ of the Korean Empire under Emperor Gojong.

Gungnir

Gungnir ("the swaying one") is Odin's spear in Norse mythology, forged by the sons of Ivaldi, said never to stop in its thrust, carved with runes, used to open the Æsir–Vanir war, and carried by Odin at Ragnarök.

Gungu

Gungu is a Swahili song-and-poetry genre of the East African coast combining dance, wedding song, and competitive poetic dialogue, performed at weddings in Lamu and Mombasa.

Gunguk gimucheo

Gunguk gimucheo (군국기무처) was the highest policy-making body of late Joseon Korea, established in 1894 after Japan occupied Gyeongbokgung; it passed more than 200 reform bills before being abolished that December.

Gungunum

Gungunum of Larsa was a king of Larsa in southern Mesopotamia, the fifth ruler of the Larsa dynasty, who reigned 27 years, 1932 to 1906 BC.

Gungye's Rebellion

Gungye's Rebellion was the rise and fall of Gung Ye, who founded the state of Later Goguryeo in 901 during Korea's Later Three Kingdoms period and was overthrown in 918.

Gunhild Carling

Gunhild Carling (born 1975, Gothenburg) is a Swedish jazz multi-instrumentalist, singer, and tap dancer who plays about 20 instruments, famously three trumpets at once, toured with the Carling Family from 1982, placed third on Sweden's Dancing with the Stars, and moved to Cupertino, California in 2018.

Gunhild Hoffmeister

Gunhild Hoffmeister (born 1944, Forst, Brandenburg), East German middle-distance runner for SC Cottbus: three Olympic medals (1972 800 m bronze, 1972 and 1976 1500 m silver), 1974 European 1500 m champion, 1000 m world record 2:35.9.

Gunichi Mikawa (三川軍一)

Gunichi Mikawa (三川軍一, 1888–1981), Imperial Japanese Navy vice admiral, Eighth Fleet commander at Rabaul; led the lopsided Japanese victory at Savo Island, 8–9 August 1942, sinking four Allied cruisers, later commanded Southwest Area Fleet and was detained postwar as a B-class war criminal.

Gunilla Jacobsson

Gunilla Jacobsson, later Gunilla Sjöström (born 1946, Göteborg), Swedish speed skater for IK Wega who competed in all four women's events at the 1964 Innsbruck Olympics, placing sixth in the 500 m and 1,000 m.

Guniushan city site

Guniushan city site (牯牛山城址), Nanling County, Wuhu, Anhui: a Western Zhou to Spring and Autumn water city of about 700,000 m² with a 20–50 m moat, excavated 1997–1998, seventh-batch national key protection unit (2013).

Gunjan Kedia

Gunjan Kedia is an Indian-born American banking executive, chief executive officer of U.S. Bancorp since April 2025 and the first woman to lead the company.

Gunjan Saxena (गुंजन सक्सेना)

Gunjan Saxena (गुंजन सक्सेना), born 1975, is a former Indian Air Force helicopter pilot who flew unarmed Cheetah helicopters on casualty evacuation and reconnaissance missions in the 1999 Kargil War.

Gunjan Saxena: The Kargil Girl

Gunjan Saxena: The Kargil Girl is a 2020 Indian Hindi-language biographical drama directed by Sharan Sharma, starring Janhvi Kapoor and Pankaj Tripathi, released on Netflix on August 12, 2020.

Gunki monogatari

Gunki monogatari (軍記物語, "war tales"), also called senki monogatari, is a genre of Japanese medieval literature depicting wars and battles, including The Tale of the Heike.

Gunkul Dhumrongpiyawut

Gunkul Dhumrongpiyawut (กัลกุล ดำรงปิยวุฒิ์) is a Thai businessman who founded Gunkul Engineering in 1982 and chairs the SET-listed renewable power producer, worth an estimated $750 million.

Gunkul Engineering

Gunkul Engineering is a Bangkok-based Thai engineering and renewable-power group founded in 1982 by Gunkul Dhumrongpiyawut, listed on the Stock Exchange of Thailand since 2010.

Gunma Bank

Gunma Bank (株式会社群馬銀行) is a Japanese regional bank headquartered in Maebashi, Gunma Prefecture. Founded in 1932, it held total assets of about 10.9 trillion yen as of March 2026.