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Garbage Plate
Garbage Plate: trademarked Rochester, NY dish from Nick Tahou Hots (created 1918 by Alexander Tahou), layering hot dogs or burgers over home fries, mac salad, or beans with meat hot sauce, mustard, onions, and buttered bread.
Garbage truck
A garbage truck, also called a refuse collection vehicle or dustcart, is a motor vehicle that collects refuse, compacts it, and hauls it to landfills.
Garbhacintamani rasa
Garbhacintamani rasa (Garbha cintāmaṇi rasa), an Ayurvedic herbo-mineral pregnancy formulation from Bhaishajya Ratnavali, AFI000490, 250 mg dose, containing mercury and calcined metals; rat studies show dose-dependent toxicity.
Garbhagriha
The garbhagriha, Sanskrit for "womb-chamber," is the innermost sanctum of a Hindu temple, a small, dark, usually square chamber housing the deity's image or linga.
Garbhapala rasa
Garbhapala rasa (गर्भपाला रस), also Garbhpal Ras, is an Ayurvedic herbo-mineral formulation of cinnabar, lead, tin, and iron bhasmas with herbs, used for pregnancy disorders; commercial samples have tested high in lead and mercury.
Garbiñe Muguruza
Garbiñe Muguruza Blanco, Spanish-Venezuelan tennis player, two-time Grand Slam champion (Roland Garros 2016, Wimbledon 2017), world No. 1 from 11 September 2017, 10 WTA titles, retired April 2024.
Garbo Patera
Garbo Patera is a 75-km-wide patera (volcanic depression) on Venus at 1.50°N, 258.20°E, in quad V-28, adopted by the IAU in 2003 and named for actress Greta Garbo (Greta Gustafsson).
Garcelle Beauvais
Garcelle Beauvais, Haitian-born American actress, producer, and former Ford model (born 1966, St. Marc, Haiti). Known as Fancy Monroe on The Jamie Foxx Show, NYPD Blue's Valerie Heywood, and the first Black cast member of The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills (2020–2025).
GARCH model
The GARCH model, generalized from Engle's ARCH by Bollerslev in 1986, forecasts the conditional variance of returns from past squared errors, and its GARCH(1,1) form is the workhorse volatility model for daily returns.
Garching
Garching bei München is a town in the Munich district of Upper Bavaria, north of Munich, first recorded around 1020 (or 915) as Gouvirihhinga. It hosts the TUM research campus with over 7,500 staff and 20,300 students, the 1957 Atom-Ei reactor, and three U6 stations.
Garchomp (ガブリアス)
Garchomp (ガブリアス, Gaburias) is a Dragon/Ground Pokémon, National Dex No. 445, final form of Gible. Banned to Ubers in Gens IV–V, a Smogon OU mainstay, with Mega Garchomp and the pure Dragon Mega Garchomp Z in Legends Z-A.
Garcia
Garcia (Vahl ex Rohr, 1792) is a two-species genus of Euphorbiaceae shrubs and trees native from Mexico to Brazil, including Garcia nutans (false tungoiltree), whose oil-rich seeds are used medicinally and studied as a drying oil.
Garcia de Orta
Garcia de Orta (c. 1500–1568) was a Portuguese Renaissance physician in Goa who wrote the Coloquios, a foundational text of tropical medicine, printed in 1563.
García Hurtado de Mendoza, Marquis of Cañete
García Hurtado de Mendoza, Marquis of Cañete (1535–1609), was a Spanish soldier who governed Chile from 1557 to 1561 and later served as Viceroy of Peru.
Garcia II of Kongo
Garcia II of Kongo, also known as Garcia II Nkanga a Lukeni, was king of Kongo from 1641 to 1661, allied with the Dutch against Portugal.
García Moreno regime
The García Moreno regime was the conservative, centralizing government of Ecuador from 1860 to 1875, dominated by Gabriel García Moreno and allied with the Catholic Church.
García Sarmiento de Sotomayor, 2nd Count of Salvatierra
García Sarmiento de Sotomayor, 2nd Count of Salvatierra, was a Spanish nobleman and colonial administrator who served as viceroy of New Spain, 1642 to 1648.
Garcilaso de la Vega
Garcilaso de la Vega (c. 1501–1536) was a Castilian poet, soldier, and diplomat from Toledo who, with Juan Boscán, introduced the Petrarchan sonnet into Spanish poetry.
Garcinia
Garcinia (Clusiaceae, Malpighiales) is a pantropical genus of latex-bearing dioecious trees and shrubs, first published by Linnaeus in 1753, with hundreds of species including the mangosteen, kokum, and gamboge-yielding plants.
Garcinia gummi-gutta
Garcinia gummi-gutta, also sold as garcinia cambogia or Malabar tamarind, is a tropical evergreen tree of the Western Ghats whose sour fruit rind flavors fish curries.
Garcinia indica
Garcinia indica (kokum), Western Ghats endemic tree of Clusiaceae; dried rind used as souring agent, seeds yield kokum butter; contains hydroxycitric acid and garcinol; IUCN vulnerable.
Garcinia kola
Garcinia kola (bitter kola, false kola) is a Clusiaceae tree of West and Central Africa whose resin-rich seeds are chewed and used in folk medicine; its compounds show animal-model pharmacology but no confirmed human clinical efficacy.
Garçon à la pipe
Garçon à la pipe (Boy with a Pipe) is a 1905 Rose Period oil on canvas by Pablo Picasso showing a Montmartre boy with a pipe and rose garland; it sold for $104,168,000 at Sotheby's in 2004, the first artwork to exceed $100 million at auction.
Gard
Gard (department 30), southern France, Occitanie; prefecture Nîmes. 770,940 inhabitants (2023), 5,853 km², 350 communes; created 1790 from dioceses of Nîmes, Alès, Uzès; migration-driven growth, high poverty and tourism.
Garda Síochána
An Garda Síochána is the national police service of Ireland, formed as the Civic Guard in 1922 to replace the Royal Irish Constabulary, renamed in 1923, unarmed by tradition, led by a Commissioner accountable to the Minister for Justice.
Garðabær
Garðabær, a Capital Region municipality in Iceland south of Reykjavík, had 20,724 inhabitants in 2026, became a town in 1976, merged with Álftanes in 2013, and hosts Bessastaðir.
Gardaland Park
Gardaland Park, at Castelnuovo del Garda on Lake Garda, Italy, opened 19 July 1975, founded by Livio Furini; Italy's first amusement park, Merlin-owned since 2006, about 3 million annual visitors, part of Gardaland Resort with SEA LIFE and LEGOLAND Water Park.
Gardasil
Gardasil is Merck's quadrivalent HPV 6/11/16/18 vaccine, FDA-approved in 2006 as the first cervical cancer-preventing vaccine; Gardasil 9 (2014) adds five types and is the only HPV vaccine in the U.S.
Gardasil 9
Gardasil 9 (Human Papillomavirus 9-valent Vaccine, Recombinant) is Merck's recombinant HPV vaccine covering types 6, 11, 16, 18, 31, 33, 45, 52, 58, FDA-approved 2014 for ages 9 through 45 to prevent HPV-related cancers, precancerous lesions, and genital warts.
Garde manger
Garde manger is a French term meaning "keeper of the food." It was codified as a chef de partie station in Auguste Escoffier's 1903 brigade de cuisine.