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Guzman - Samalayuca

Guzmán - Samalayuca (FEOW ecoregion 161) is a xeric, endorheic freshwater ecoregion in Chihuahua, Mexico, and the southwestern United States, formed after the mid-Pleistocene diversion of the upper Rio Grande and rich in endemic fishes such as Cyprinella bocagrande.

Guzmán de Alfarache

Guzmán de Alfarache is a two-part Spanish picaresque novel by Mateo Alemán, published in 1599 and 1604, recounting a rogue's life and conversion and fixing the picaresque genre's form.

Guzman y Gomez

Guzman y Gomez, also known as Guzman and Gomez, is an Australian fast-casual Mexican restaurant chain founded by Steven Marks and Robert Hazan, listed on the ASX in 2024.

Guzmania

Guzmania (Ruiz & Pav.), bromeliad genus in Tillandsioideae, about 215 species of tank epiphytes from Florida and Mexico to Brazil and Peru, mostly cloud forests; type species G. tricolor, named for Anastasio Guzmán.

GV (company)

GV, formerly Google Ventures, is the venture capital firm of Alphabet, launched in 2009, investing roughly $1 billion a year from seed to growth in technology and life sciences.

GV Ravishankar

GV Ravishankar, full name Ganapathyagraharam Venkataraman Ravishankar, is an Indian venture capital investor and Managing Director at Peak XV Partners, formerly Sequoia Capital India, which he joined in 2005.

Gvardeyskoye, Chechen Republic

Gvardeyskoye (Ielin-Yurt, formerly Ali-Yurt) is a selo on the right bank of the Terek in Nadterechny District, Chechnya; 8,836 people (2021), Chechen-majority, agriculture-based, 95 km northwest of Grozny.

GVK Group

GVK Group is an Indian infrastructure group founded by G.V. Krishna Reddy and headquartered in Secunderabad, which built and operated Mumbai's main international airport before ceding it to the Adani Group in 2020.

GVK Reddy

GVK Reddy, full name Gunupati Venkata Krishna Reddy, is the founder and chairman of the Hyderabad-based GVK Group, an Indian infrastructure company spanning power, transportation, and hospitality.

GVL

GVL (Gesellschaft zur Verwertung von Leistungsschutzrechten) is a German collecting society that collects and distributes remuneration for performing artists and recording producers, taking in 257.93 million euros in 2025.

GW approximation

The GW approximation is a many-body perturbation method that computes quasiparticle energies and band structures as the product of a Green's function and a screened Coulomb interaction.

GW Ori

GW Ori (GW Orionis) is a young triple star system in Orion about 1,300 light-years away, surrounded by a rare circumtriple disk broken into three misaligned rings.

GW Vir

GW Vir, or GW Virginis, is the class of pulsating hot, hydrogen-deficient pre-white dwarf and white dwarf stars that vary in gravity modes with periods of minutes.

GW-BASIC

GW-BASIC is a Microsoft BASIC interpreter supplied with MS-DOS on IBM PC compatible computers from 1983 until 1991, when MS-DOS 5.0 replaced it with QBasic.

GW150914

GW150914 was the first direct detection of gravitational waves, a signal recorded by LIGO on September 14, 2015, produced by the merger of two black holes.

GW170814

GW170814 is a gravitational-wave signal from the merger of two stellar-mass black holes, detected on August 14, 2017 and the first observed by three detectors, LIGO Hanford, LIGO Livingston, and Virgo.

GW170817

GW170817 was a gravitational-wave signal from the merger of two neutron stars, detected by LIGO and Virgo on August 17, 2017, with light observed across the spectrum.

GW190412

GW190412 is a gravitational-wave signal from the merger of black holes of about 30 and 8 solar masses, detected on April 12, 2019 by LIGO and Virgo.

GW190521

GW190521 is a gravitational-wave signal from the merger of 85- and 66-solar-mass black holes, detected by LIGO and Virgo on 21 May 2019 and announced in 2020.

GW190814

GW190814 is a gravitational-wave signal detected by LIGO and Virgo on 14 August 2019 from a 23-solar-mass black hole merging with a 2.6-solar-mass compact object.

GW200105 and GW200115

GW200105 and GW200115 are the first two confirmed observations of neutron star-black hole binaries, detected by LIGO and Virgo in January 2020 with no light emitted.

GW230529_181500

GW230529_181500, abbreviated GW230529, is a gravitational-wave event detected by LIGO Livingston on 29 May 2023, likely a neutron star merging with a black hole in the lower mass gap.

GW231123

GW231123 is a gravitational-wave signal detected by the two LIGO observatories on 23 November 2023 from the most massive binary black hole merger yet observed, totaling 190 to 265 solar masses.

GW501516

GW501516 (GW1516, Cardarine, Endurobol) is a potent PPARδ agonist developed by GSK and Ligand for metabolic disease, abandoned in 2007 over rodent carcinogenicity, and banned in sport by WADA since 2009.

Gwadar (گوادر)

Gwadar (گوادر) is a port city on Pakistan's Arabian Sea coast in Balochistan, bought from Oman in 1958; it hosts Pakistan's third deep-sea port, the CPEC flagship, operated by China's COPHCL.

Gwadar Port

Gwadar Port, also called the Port of Gwadar, is a deep-water seaport on the Arabian Sea in Balochistan, Pakistan, the maritime endpoint of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor.

Gwageo

The gwageo (과거) was Korea's state examination system, instituted by King Gwangjong of Goryeo in 958 on the advice of the scholar Ssanggi and abolished in 1894.

Gwajeonbeop

Gwajeonbeop (과전법), the office land law of 1391, organized early Joseon Korea's land system, granting tax rights over Gyeonggi Province land to officials until its abolition in 1466.

Gwak Jae-u

Gwak Jae-u (곽재우, 1552–1617) was a Joseon civil official who raised the first volunteer militia against the 1592 Japanese invasion in Gyeongsang Province, called the Red-Clothed General.

Gwak Jae-u's Righteous Army

Gwak Jae-u's Righteous Army was a volunteer militia raised by the Joseon scholar-official Gwak Jae-u (곽재우) at Uiryeong in 1592, the first righteous army of the Imjin War.