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Garden Route Biosphere Reserve
Garden Route Biosphere Reserve, a UNESCO MAB site designated June 2017 as South Africa's 9th biosphere reserve; 698,363 ha along the southern Cape coast within the Cape Floristic Region, centered on the Garden Route National Park.
Garden slender salamander
Garden slender salamander (Batrachoseps major), also Southern California slender salamander, a lungless plethodontid salamander of coastal southern California and northern Baja California, suburban-garden adapted, with the endangered desert subspecies B. m. aridus.
Garden State (film)
Garden State (2004) is Zach Braff's comedy-drama directorial debut, starring Braff, Natalie Portman, Ian Holm, and Peter Sarsgaard. A $2.5 million Sundance film that grossed $35.8 million, it is known for its platinum, Grammy-winning soundtrack and for Portman's Sam, a defining Manic Pixie Dream Girl example.
Garden State Parkway
The Garden State Parkway is a 173-mile toll highway in New Jersey, running from Cape May to the New York state line and serving the Jersey Shore.
Garden tool
A garden tool, also called a gardening tool, is any tool made for gardening; hand tools include spades and trowels, power tools include mowers and trimmers.
Garden village
A garden village is a new planned settlement of 1,500 to 10,000 homes built to Garden City principles; the UK designated 14 in January 2017.
Garden-path sentence
Garden-path sentence: a grammatically correct sentence whose early words favor a wrong parse, forcing reanalysis, as in "The horse raced past the barn fell"; central to psycholinguistic parsing research.
Garden, Ashes
Garden, Ashes (Bašta, pepeo) is a 1965 autobiographical novel by Danilo Kiš, told through a boy watching his father disappear during the early years of World War II.
Gardena (brand)
Gardena is a German manufacturer of gardening tools and watering systems founded in Ulm in 1961, known for the Original GARDENA System and SILENO robotic lawn mowers.
Gardena, California
Gardena, California: South Bay city in Los Angeles County, incorporated September 11, 1930 from Gardena, Moneta, and Strawberry Park. Known as the Freeway City, former berry capital, historic Japanese American community, and home of California's first licensed card club (1936).
Gardeners' World
Gardeners' World is the BBC Two gardening programme first broadcast 5 January 1968, presented by Percy Thrower, Alan Titchmarsh and Monty Don, airing Fridays at 20:00 with practical advice and garden visits.
Gardenia
Gardenia, a genus of about 120 accepted species of fragrant shrubs in Rubiaceae named for Alexander Garden; best known species Gardenia jasminoides, source of gardenia yellow colorant.
Gardenia jasminoides
Gardenia jasminoides (Cape jasmine), a Rubiaceae shrub native from the East Himalaya to China, Indo-China, and Japan, grown for fragrant flowers; its dried fruit Zhizi yields crocins and iridoid glycosides used in traditional Chinese medicine and as a yellow colorant.
Gardening
Gardening: small-scale cultivation of plants for food, ornament, or livelihood, in home, market, and community gardens. Key facts: ancient origins, Kew founded 1759, RHS founded 1804, right plant right place principle, water-wise climate adaptation.
Gardens and Castle at Kroměříž
Gardens and Castle at Kroměříž (Zahrady a zámek v Kroměříži): Czech UNESCO World Heritage site inscribed 1998, an early Baroque archbishop's castle with the English-style Castle Garden and the formal 17th-century Flower Garden.
Gardens by the Bay
Gardens by the Bay (滨海湾花园), Singapore's national garden at Marina Bay, comprises Bay South, Bay East, and Bay Central waterfront gardens. Opened 2012 after a 2006 design competition won by Grant Associates; known for Supertrees, cooled conservatories, and over 100 million visitors.
Gardens of Bomarzo
Gardens of Bomarzo, also called Sacro Bosco or Park of the Monsters (Parco dei Mostri), a 16th-century Mannerist sculpture park in Bomarzo, Lazio, Italy, built by Vicino Orsini from about 1552 with grotesque peperino sculptures.
Gardens of Stone
Gardens of Stone is Francis Coppola's 1987 Tri-Star drama, based on Nicholas Proffitt's novel, about the Army's Old Guard at Arlington National Cemetery during the Vietnam War, starring James Caan, James Earl Jones, and Anjelica Huston.
Gardens of the Moon
Gardens of the Moon, by Steven Erikson (with world co-creator Ian C. Esslemont), is the 1999 first novel of the ten-volume Malazan Book of the Fallen, begun as a 1982 RPG campaign and a failed film script, shortlisted for the World Fantasy Award.
Gardens of the Tigris Street Corniche
حدائق كورنيش شارع دجلة, gardens of the Tigris Street Corniche (كورنيش السرية والسراي) in Maysan Governorate, Iraq; first phase opened by Governor Ali Daway Lazim, built by Ufuq al-Mansour and Shamsa al-Iraq with gardens, lighting, and riverfront recreation.
Gardens of Versailles
The Gardens of Versailles, also called jardins du château de Versailles, are the French formal gardens laid out from 1661 by André Le Nôtre for Louis XIV, with the Grand Perspective, 400 statues, 14 groves, and gravity-fed fountains; free entry except on fountain-show days.
Gardi brigade
The Gardi brigades were European-disciplined infantry and artillery raised for Mahadji Sindhia by the Savoyard Benoit de Boigne, whose victories at Agra in 1788 made Sindhia master of Hindostan.
Gardiner Museum
The Gardiner Museum is a public museum in Toronto devoted exclusively to ceramic art, holding more than 5,000 objects from the Ancient Americas to contemporary Canadian work.
Gardiners Island
Gardiners Island, also called Manchonake, is a 3,300-acre private island in Gardiners Bay off eastern Long Island, bought from the Montauketts by Lion Gardiner in 1639, held by his family since, and closed to the public.
Gardizi
Gardizi (Abu Sa'id Abd-al-Hayy b. Zahhak b. Mahmud Gardizi) was an 11th-century Persian historian in the Ghaznavid court whose Zayn al-Akhbar is the earliest surviving original Persian historiography.
Gardner Ackley
Gardner Ackley, also known as H. Gardner Ackley, was an American Keynesian macroeconomist who chaired the Council of Economic Advisers under Johnson and served as Ambassador to Italy.
Gardner Denver
Gardner Denver is an American compression and flow equipment brand founded in 1859 in Quincy, Illinois, making industrial air compressors, blowers, and transport solutions; in 2020 it became Ingersoll Rand Inc.
Gardner Inlet
Gardner Inlet, also called Bahía Gardner or Ensenada Gardner, is an ice-filled inlet between Cape Adams and Cape Schlossbach on the Lassiter Coast, Palmer Land, Antarctica, discovered by RARE in 1947 and named for physicist Irvine Clifton Gardner.
Gardner Lindzey
Gardner Lindzey (1920–2008) was an American social and behavioral scientist who founded the first US behavior genetics laboratory and directed Stanford's Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences.
Gardner McKay
Gardner McKay (George Cadogan Gardner McKay, 1932–2001), American actor, playwright, and novelist; star of ABC's Adventures in Paradise (1959–1962) as Capt. Adam Troy, who quit acting for writing, winning the LA Drama Critics Circle award for Sea Marks.