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Guy Verhofstadt
Guy Verhofstadt (born 1953), Belgian liberal politician, prime minister of Belgium 1999–2008, founder of Open Vld, MEP 2009–2024, ALDE leader and the European Parliament's chief Brexit coordinator and federalist advocate.
Guy Williams (actor)
Guy Williams (actor), born Armando Joseph Catalano (1924-1989), American actor and former model who starred as Disney's Zorro (1957-1959) and Professor John Robinson in Lost in Space; retired to Argentina, Disney Legend 2011; distinct from a British actor and an NZ comedian of the same name.
Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo
Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo (born 1974, Paris) is a French musician and producer, one half of Daft Punk with Thomas Bangalter, and co-founder of Le Knight Club and the Crydamoure label.
Guy-wire
A guy-wire, also called a guy rope or stay wire, is a tensioned metal cable attached to a tall structure and a ground anchor to keep it stable against lateral forces.
Guy's Grocery Games
Guy's Grocery Games is a Food Network cooking competition that premiered October 20, 2013, hosted by Guy Fieri. Chefs shop and cook in Flavortown Market under game twists for a $20,000 spree; 42 seasons by 2026.
Guy's Hospital
Guy's Hospital, London SE1: NHS teaching hospital founded 1721 by Thomas Guy, opened 1725 for "incurables", endowed £219,499; now part of Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust with 400 beds and London's largest cancer care provider.
Guy's Wave
Guy's Wave (Vague à Guy), the Eternal Wave, is a natural standing river wave in the Saint Lawrence River at Parc des Rapides, LaSalle, Montreal; a knee-high beginner spot named after a pioneering kayaker, developed by the city in 2021.
Guyana
Guyana (Co-operative Republic of Guyana), English-speaking South American country on the Atlantic, borders Venezuela, Brazil, Suriname. Oil discovered 2015; fastest GDP growth worldwide, 47% average 2022–24; high-income since 2023; Essequibo disputed with Venezuela.
Guyana–Venezuela crisis (2023–2024)
The Guyana–Venezuela crisis (2023–2024) over the Essequibo region: Venezuela's December 3, 2023 referendum backing annexation, the ICJ's December 1 status quo order, the Argyle Declaration, and Venezuela's 2024 Guayana Esequiba law.
Guyanese dollar
The Guyanese dollar (GYD, symbol G$) is the currency of Guyana, issued by the Bank of Guyana since 1965 and officially pegged near G$208.50 per US dollar.
Guyanese literature
Guyanese literature is the body of writing in English and Guyanese Creole by writers from Guyana, formerly British Guiana, and its diaspora, flourishing after independence in 1966.
Guyanese people
Guyanese people are the inhabitants of Guyana and their diaspora, formed by Amerindian, African, Indian, Chinese, Portuguese, and European ancestry; six ethnic groups, English-speaking, roughly half living abroad.
Guyed mast
A guyed mast, also called a guyed tower, is a tall slender steel structure stabilized by guy wires anchored to the ground, used for communications, broadcasting, and meteorology.
Guyford Stever
Guyford Stever was an American physicist and aeronautical engineer who led Carnegie-Mellon University, directed the National Science Foundation, and advised Presidents Nixon and Ford on science.
Guyin Jian
Guyin Jian (Gù yīn jiān, Decoction that Secures Yin) is a traditional Chinese medicine tonifying formula first recorded in Zhang Jiebin's Ming dynasty Jingyue Quanshu, nourishing liver and kidney yin.
Guyon Waton
Guyon Waton, often shortened to Guton, is an Indonesian dangdut koplo group from Kulon Progo, Yogyakarta, formed in 2015 and known for humorous Javanese-language songs like "Korban Janji".
Guyot
Guyot, also called tablemount: a flat-topped seamount rising at least 1,000 m above the seafloor. Term coined 1946 by Harry Hess for Arnold Guyot; formed by erosion and subsidence of volcanic islands.
Guys and Dolls
Guys and Dolls is a 1950 Broadway musical comedy with music and lyrics by Frank Loesser, and a book by Jo Swerling and Abe Burrows, based on a 1933 story by Damon Runyon.
Guys and Dolls (film)
Guys and Dolls (1955) is Joseph L. Mankiewicz's CinemaScope musical for Samuel Goldwyn, starring Marlon Brando as Sky Masterson, Frank Sinatra as Nathan Detroit, Jean Simmons, and Vivian Blaine, adapting the Frank Loesser Broadway hit; highest-grossing film of 1955.
Guyuan
Guyuan (固原) is a prefecture-level city in semiarid southern Ningxia, China, on the Loess Plateau at the Liupan Mountains. Five counties, Silk Road hub, water-scarce agricultural region, 1.14 million residents (2024).
Guyuan Ancient City Site
固原古城遗址 (Guyuan Ancient City Site), Han-era Gaoping city in Yuanzhou District, Guyuan, Ningxia; seat of Anding Commandery from 114 BC, National Key Cultural Relics Protection Unit 7-0486-1-486 (2013), Silk Road node with surviving Ming-Qing wall segments.
Güyük Khan
Güyük Khan (Güyüg, Dingzong, c. 1206–1248), third Mongol great khan, son of Ögödei and Töregene, enthroned 24 August 1246 after a five-year interregnum; died April 1248 while moving against his rival Batu.
Guyum
Guyum: rock-relief site in Fars, Iran, with a Sasanian panel of King Bahram II (276-293) above a spring near Shiraz; an unfinished, possibly non-official investiture or veneration scene.
Guz Khan
Guz Khan (Ghulam Dustgir Khan, born 1986, Coventry) is an English comedian and actor, creator and star of BBC's Man Like Mobeen, RTS award winner, two-time BAFTA nominee, and star of Stuffed and Prime Video's Bait.
Guzaarish (गुज़ारिश) (film)
Guzaarish (गुज़ारिश) is a 2010 Hindi drama directed by Sanjay Leela Bhansali, starring Hrithik Roshan as paralyzed magician Ethan Mascarenhas and Aishwarya Rai Bachchan as his nurse Sofia, who petitions a court for euthanasia; released 19 November 2010 by UTV.
Guze Kannon of Hōryū-ji
The Guze Kannon of Hōryū-ji (救世観音, also read Kuse Kannon) is a seventh-century wooden statue of Kannon kept as a secret image in the Yumedono hall at Hōryū-ji, Nara.
Guzhen Ancient City Site
Guzhen Ancient City Site (固镇古城遗址), an Eastern Zhou to Eastern Han walled city in Yetao Town, Wu'an, Handan, Hebei; 855,000 m² with front and back rammed-earth cities, a Han iron office, and a 2013 national heritage listing.
Guzheng (古筝)
The guzheng, also called the Chinese zither, is a Chinese plucked zither with a history of more than 2,500 years and 21 or more strings today.
Guzhuang (古装)
Guzhuang (古装), meaning "ancient costume," is the period costume worn in Chinese television dramas and films set in an imaginary past, a production idiom rather than a reconstruction of historical dress.
Guzi ci
Guzi ci (鼓子词, "drum-tune songs") was a Chinese narrative singing form popular in the Song dynasty, in which stories were sung to a single repeated tune with drum accompaniment.