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Gargždai

Gargždai (Gorzd, גאָרזד) is a town in western Lithuania, 17 km east of Klaipėda on the Minija River, center of Klaipėdos district municipality; first mentioned 1253, population 15,461 (2025), site of the first mass execution of Lithuanian Jews on 24 June 1941.

Garheng Kong

Garheng Kong is a physician-scientist and venture investor who founded HealthQuest Capital in Austin in 2012, known for a healthcare-only strategy he calls value optimization and over 40 exits.

Garhi Khairo

Garhi Khairo is a tehsil and town in Jacobabad District, Sindh, Pakistan; 2023 census population 193,297, 89.65 percent rural, area 733 square kilometres, a former Hindu trade town known for Usto-mason architecture.

Sep 23, 2026

Garhwal Kingdom

The Garhwal Kingdom (गढ़वाल रियासत) was a Himalayan kingdom in present-day Uttarakhand, India, ruled by a dynasty traced to Kanak Pal and unified as a single state by Ajay Pal.

Garhwali people

The Garhwali people, also known as Garhwalis, inhabit Garhwal in northwestern Uttarakhand, India, speak the Central Pahari Garhwali language, and are known for Hindu hill culture and widespread labor migration.

Sep 23, 2026

Garib Niwaz

Garib Niwaz, born Pamheiba, was a king of Manipur in northeastern India who reigned from 1709 to 1748, made Hinduism the state religion, and led wars against Burma.

Garib Rath Express

Garib Rath Express ("poor man's chariot") is a fleet of fully air-conditioned, low-fare long-distance trains operated by Indian Railways since 2006, offering AC travel below conventional AC 3-tier fares.

Garibaldi (cocktail)

Garibaldi cocktail: an Italian highball of Campari and freshly squeezed orange juice, named for general Giuseppe Garibaldi; an IBA official drink (45 ml Campari, 120 ml juice) famous for its aerated "fluffy" juice technique revived at Dante, New York.

Garibaldi Lake

Garibaldi Lake: glacier-fed alpine lake in Garibaldi Provincial Park, BC, north of Squamish, dammed by The Barrier lava dam; 9 km hike from Rubble Creek; reservations required.

Garibaldi Provincial Park

Garibaldi Provincial Park, established 1927, is a 188,667 ha wilderness park in the Coast Mountains 64 km north of Vancouver, centered on 2,678 m Mount Garibaldi, with five Highway 99 trailheads, over 90 km of trails, and reservation-only backcountry camping.

Garibname

Garibname, also known as Garîb-nâme, is a mystical-didactic mesnevi in Anatolian Turkish completed by the Sufi poet Âşık Paşa in 1330, among the earliest works establishing Turkish as a literary language.

Gariep Dam

Gariep Dam, formerly the Hendrik Verwoerd Dam, is South Africa's largest dam by storage, a concrete arch dam on the Orange River begun in 1965 and storing water from 1971.

Garifuna

Garifuna (Garínagu, Black Carib): Afro-Indigenous people of Arawak, Carib, and African descent exiled from St. Vincent in 1797, living on the Caribbean coasts of Honduras, Belize, Guatemala, and Nicaragua; Arawakan language, UNESCO-recognized music and dance.

Garifuna oral literature and song

Garifuna oral literature and song is the spoken narratives, songs, and dance through which the Garifuna people of Central America's Caribbean coast pass on history and tradition.

Oct 10, 2026

Garik Israelyan

Garik Israelyan, also published as Garik Israelian, is an Armenian astrophysicist at the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias in Tenerife, born in Yerevan in 1963.

Garima Gospels

The Garima Gospels are three illuminated Gospel manuscripts in Geʿez at a monastery near Adwa, Ethiopia, radiocarbon dated as early as the fourth to sixth centuries.

Garip

Garip is a 1941 poetry collection by Turkish poets Orhan Veli Kanık, Oktay Rifat, and Melih Cevdet Anday that launched a movement freeing Turkish poetry from meter and rhyme.

Garip movement

The Garip movement, also called Birinci Yeni, was a Turkish poetry movement launched by Orhan Veli Kanık, Oktay Rifat, and Melih Cevdet Anday with their 1941 book Garip.

GARIS-II

GARIS-II is a gas-filled recoil ion separator at RIKEN in Wako, Japan, built to study superheavy elements and used in the search for element 119.

Garissa

Garissa is an arid county in Kenya's North-Eastern region bordering Somalia, with its capital at Garissa town on the Tana River and a pastoral livestock economy.

Garissa University attack

The Garissa University attack was a 2015 al-Shabaab assault on Garissa University College in northeastern Kenya in which four gunmen killed 147 people, mostly students.

Garita Creek Formation

Garita Creek Formation: Upper Triassic (Carnian) mudstone unit of the Chinle Group in east-central New Mexico, up to 76 m thick, between the Santa Rosa and Trujillo Formations; yields Adamanian vertebrates including Metoposaurus and lungfish tooth plates.