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Gardellaca/Cardabiaca
Gardellaca/Cardabiaca, a Roman road station and small fort on the Danube limes in Pannonia inferior at Tokod, Hungary; attested in the Tabula Peutingeriana, Ravenna Geographer, and Notitia Dignitatum (auxilia insidiatorum), occupied into the 5th century.
Garden
Garden: enclosed ground cultivated for fruit, flowers, or vegetables. Covers domestic, botanic, community, and rain gardens; key facts include 1,775 botanic gardens in 148 countries and over 728,000 hectares of British gardens.
Garden carpet
A garden carpet is a Persian carpet showing a formal walled garden in bird's-eye view, with canals, pools, trees, and a pavilion, its classic form set under the Safavid dynasty.
Garden City Funfair
Garden City Funfair (غاردن سيتي), formerly Unity Park, is a small theme park in eastern Taiz, Yemen, at 13.57401°N, 44.023°E; destroyed in the civil war, closed 2015–2018, reopened 2018 as the city's only amusement park.
Garden city movement
The garden city movement, founded by Ebenezer Howard in his 1898 book, proposes self-contained towns combining town and country, producing Letchworth and Welwyn and shaping the UK's post-war New Towns.
Garden City, New York
Garden City, New York: incorporated village in Nassau County, Long Island, founded 1869 by merchant Alexander Turney Stewart as a planned community on the Hempstead Plains; incorporated 1919; 2020 population 23,272.
Garden cress
Garden cress (Lepidium sativum), also called common cress or pepper cress, is a fast-growing annual Brassicaceae salad herb of the "mustard and cress" mix, with protein- and fat-rich seeds used as a functional food ingredient.
Garden gnome
A garden gnome, also called a lawn gnome, is a small bearded figurine used as a garden ornament, first made in Germany in the 19th century and centered in Thuringia.
Garden Grove chemical leak
May 2026 emergency in Garden Grove, Orange County, California: an overheated GKN Aerospace tank of methyl methacrylate vented vapors, forcing about 50,000 evacuations before the tank safely cracked and cooled, with lawsuits and a DA investigation following.
Garden Grove, California
Garden Grove, California: an Orange County city of about 170,000 founded in 1874 by Alonzo Cook and incorporated June 18, 1956, known for the Strawberry Festival, Little Saigon, and Christ Cathedral.
Garden hermit
Garden hermit, or ornamental hermit: a person hired to live in a rustic hermitage on an 18th-century estate as a living garden ornament, chiefly in Georgian Britain, with contracts, automata stand-ins, and decline by the 1830s.
Garden Houses
Garden Houses (Case a Giardino): planned second- and third-century CE luxury apartment complex with shops and gardens at Ostia, Rome's port; excavated 1938-1942, later converted to commercial use.
Garden Kingdom of Dessau-Wörlitz
The Garden Kingdom of Dessau-Wörlitz (Gartenreich Dessau-Wörlitz) is an 18th-century landscape of parks and palaces in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany, created by Prince Franz of Anhalt-Dessau and listed by UNESCO in 2000.
Garden leave
Garden leave, or gardening leave, keeps a departing employee employed and on full pay and contractual benefits during the notice period while instructing them not to work. Unlike PILON it preserves employment; unlike restrictive covenants it applies before termination and usually needs an express contract clause.
Garden of Allah Hotel
The Garden of Allah Hotel was a villa-and-courtyard hotel on Sunset Boulevard in West Hollywood, a gathering place for Hollywood writers and stars from 1927 to 1959.
Garden of Bones
Garden of Bones is the fourth episode of Game of Thrones season 2 (HBO, 2012), written by Vanessa Taylor, directed by David Petrarca; Joffrey punishes Sansa, Melisandre births a shadow that kills Renly.
Garden of Cybele
Garden of Cybele (Jardin de Cybèle), Vienne, France: archaeological garden preserving the Gallo-Roman forum quarter, with portico arches, a 800-seat assembly hall, a domus, and 2023-2025 excavations.
Garden of Eden
The Garden of Eden, also called Gan eden or terrestrial paradise, is the garden of Genesis 2–3, planted in Eden and watered by four rivers.
Garden of Eden (1954 film)
Garden of Eden (1954) is Max Nosseck's American nudist-camp drama with Jamie O'Hara and Mickey Knox, the first nudist film in color, filmed at Lake Como Club near Tampa, and the subject of the 1957 New York Court of Appeals censorship ruling Excelsior Pictures Corp. v. Regents.
Garden of Eden (Lady Gaga song)
"Garden of Eden" is a Lady Gaga song from her seventh album MAYHEM (Interscope, March 7, 2025), written with Andrew Watt, Henry Walter, and Mike Lévy, produced with Gesaffelstein and Cirkut; it peaked at No. 52 on the Billboard Hot 100 and served as ESPN F1's 2025 anthem.
Garden of Evil
Garden of Evil (1954) is a Henry Hathaway CinemaScope Western starring Gary Cooper, Susan Hayward, and Richard Widmark, produced by Charles Brackett from a Frank Fenton screenplay, shot on Mexican locations including Parícutin, with a Bernard Herrmann score.
Garden of Exotic Plants
Garden of Exotic Plants (趣異植物園), a 550 m2 collection of 53 unusual plants built in 1994 within Macau's botanic garden on Coloane, featuring Kandelia obovata, Nepenthes mirabilis, and Drosera spathulata.
Garden of forking paths
The garden of forking paths is a 2013 statistical concept by Andrew Gelman and Eric Loken describing how data-dependent analysis choices create a multiple comparisons problem without conscious p-hacking.
Garden of Repose
Garden of Repose (Qiyuan, 憩园) is a 1944 novella by Chinese writer Ba Jin about two families living in turn in one mansion in a wartime city.
Garden of Shadows
Garden of Shadows, also listed as the Dollanganger prequel, is V.C. Andrews' 1986/1987 novel told from grandmother Olivia Foxworth's perspective, completed by ghostwriter Andrew Neiderman and adapted by Lifetime in 2022 as Flowers in the Attic: The Origin.
Garden of Stories
Garden of Stories, also known as Shuo Yuan (說苑), is a collection of historical anecdotes compiled by the Western Han scholar Liu Xiang as moral guidance for the emperor.
Garden of the Gods
Garden of the Gods is a free 1,341.3-acre city park and National Natural Landmark in Colorado Springs, Colorado, with red sandstone formations, about 4.5 to 6 million annual visitors, and a 1909 Perkins family donation requiring free public access forever.
Garden Party relief
The Garden Party relief, or Garden Banquet, is an Assyrian relief showing King Ashurbanipal and his queen feasting at Nineveh, with a severed head in a tree.
Garden Pavilion
Garden pavilion: a small ornamental building in a garden or park, also called summerhouse or gazebo. English examples range from the Grade I John Webb pavilion at The Vyne to Capability Brown-era and 20th-century listed pavilions.
Garden roses
Garden roses: ornamental Rosa hybrids and cultivars, over 30,000 varieties, split into old garden roses (pre-1867, before 'La France', the first hybrid tea) and modern classes such as hybrid tea, floribunda, and grandiflora.