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Gashadokuro (がしゃどくろ)
Gashadokuro (がしゃどくろ, 餓者髑髏), also romanized Gasha-dokuro, is a modern Japanese yōkai: a giant night-walking skeleton created by Saitō Morihiro in a 1966 Bessatsu Shōjo Friend article, later linked to Kuniyoshi's print Sōma no Furu-dairi.
Gashan-Ki Corona
Gashan-Ki Corona is a 225 km diameter (mapped up to 290 km) corona on Venus at 11.7°N, 243.7°E in quadrangle V-28, named for the Babylonian "Lady of the Earth" (IAU 2003), with two mapped lava-flow units cut by Hecate Chasma faults.
Gashapon (ガシャポン)
Gashapon (ガシャポン) is Bandai's trademarked capsule toy brand, named for the crank's 'gasha' and capsule's 'pon' sounds, sold in Japan since 1977; it leads Japan's capsule toy market with 57% of FY2025 maker sales.
Gashmeer Mahajani (गश्मीर महाजनी)
Gashmeer Mahajani (गश्मीर महाजनी), born 1985, is an Indian actor, choreographer, and producer in Marathi cinema; son of Ravindra Mahajani, known for Deool Band, Dharmaveer, Sarsenapati Hambirrao, Panipat, and Imlie's Aditya Kumar Tripathi.
Gasífero Oil and Gas Field
Gasífero Oil and Gas Field, Spanish for gas-bearing, is an onshore oil and gas field in the Veracruz Basin of Mexico, discovered by Pemex in 2012 and producing light crude and non-associated gas from Miocene sandstones.
Gasification
Gasification is a thermochemical process that converts carbon-containing materials like coal and biomass into syngas by reacting them at high temperature with controlled oxygen or steam.
Gasikule Oil Field
Gasikule Oil Field (尕斯库勒) is an oil field in the western Qaidam Basin, Qinghai, China, the basin's largest, discovered in 1977 and operated by PetroChina.
Gasiri
Gasiri (가시리) is a Goryeo-period Korean lyric folk song, also known as Gwihogok, that laments parting and ranks among the masterpieces of the Goryeo long-song tradition.
Gasket
A gasket is a mechanical seal, typically made from rubber, silicone, metal, or composite materials, that fills the space between mating surfaces to prevent leakage of fluids or gases.
Gaskiya Ta Fi Kwabo
Gaskiya Ta Fi Kwabo, whose name means "truth is worth more than a penny," is a Hausa-language Nigerian newspaper founded at Zaria in January 1939 and described as the first written entirely in Hausa.
Gaslight (1940 film)
Gaslight (1940) is Thorold Dickinson's British thriller, the first film of Patrick Hamilton's play Gas Light, starring Anton Walbrook and Diana Wynyard; MGM suppressed it before its 1944 remake, and it is the origin of the term gaslighting.
Gaslight (1944 film)
Gaslight (1944) is George Cukor's MGM psychological thriller starring Ingrid Bergman, Charles Boyer, Joseph Cotten, and debuting Angela Lansbury, adapted from Patrick Hamilton's 1938 play Gas Light; it won Bergman her first Oscar and gave English the term gaslighting.
Gaslight (2023 film)
Gaslight is a 2023 Hindi-language mystery thriller directed by Pavan Kirpalani, starring Sara Ali Khan, Vikrant Massey, and Chitrangda Singh, which premiered on Disney+ Hotstar on 31 March 2023.
Gaslighting
Gaslighting is psychological manipulation that makes a victim doubt their own reality, memory, and sanity. Derived from Patrick Hamilton's 1938 play Gas Light, first studied academically in 1969, and Merriam-Webster's 2022 word of the year.
Gaslit (TV series)
Gaslit is a 2022 Starz eight-episode limited series based on Slate's Slow Burn podcast, starring Julia Roberts as Martha Mitchell and Sean Penn as John Mitchell, retelling Watergate from her discredited whistleblower perspective.
Gaslit by My Husband: The Morgan Metzer Story
Gaslit by My Husband: The Morgan Metzer Story is a 2024 Lifetime thriller, also on Netflix, starring Jana Kramer and Austin Nichols, dramatizing Morgan Metzer's real 2021 Georgia home invasion assault by ex-husband Rodney Metzer, who staged a rescue and received a 70-year sentence.
GasLog
GasLog Ltd. is an international owner, operator, and manager of liquefied natural gas carriers, formed in 2001 by the Livanos family shipping arm Ceres Hellenic and headquartered in Bermuda.
GasNet (Czech Republic)
GasNet, s.r.o. is a Czech natural gas distribution system operator headquartered in Ústí nad Labem, running the country's largest gas network under majority ČEZ ownership.
Gasoducto Norte Gas Pipeline
Gasoducto Norte, the Northern Pipeline, is an Argentine natural gas pipeline built in 1960, running from Campo Durán in Salta toward Buenos Aires.
Gasolina
Gasolina is Daddy Yankee's 2004 reggaetón single from Barrio Fino, produced by Luny Tunes and written with Eddie Dee. It peaked at No. 32 on the Hot 100, reached No. 5 in the UK, and in 2023 became the first reggaeton song in the Library of Congress National Recording Registry.
Gasoline
Gasoline, also known as motor spirit, gasolene, or bensin, is a volatile hydrocarbon fuel refined from crude oil and blended with additives and ethanol, used mainly in vehicle engines.
Gasoline and diesel usage and pricing
Gasoline and diesel usage and pricing describes how pump prices are built from crude oil, refining, distribution, and taxes; global gasoline averaged $1.00 per liter in 2025.
Gasoline compression ignition
Gasoline compression ignition (GCI) is a low-temperature combustion strategy, first studied by Gautam Kalghatgi, in which gasoline autoignites under compression alone in a diesel-type engine, suppressing soot and NOx.
Gasoline direct injection
Gasoline direct injection, also called petrol direct injection, is a fuel system for spark-ignition engines that injects fuel at high pressure directly into the combustion chamber.
Gasometer Wien
Gasometer Wien, also known as Gasometer Vienna, is a concert venue in the basement of one of four converted 19th-century gas tanks in Simmering, Vienna, opened in 2001.
Gaspar Bocarro's expedition across Central Africa
Gaspar Bocarro's expedition across Central Africa was a 1616 overland journey by a Portuguese trader from Tete on the Zambezi River to the coast, crossing today's Mozambique, Malawi, and Tanzania.
Gaspar de Lemos
Gaspar de Lemos was a Portuguese navigator who captained the supply ship of Cabral's 1500 fleet and carried the first news of Brazil's discovery to King Manuel I.
Gaspar de Sousa
Gaspar de Sousa was a Portuguese nobleman who served as governor-general of the State of Brazil from 1612 to 1617 and directed the conquest of Maranhão from the French.
Gaspar de Zúñiga, 5th Count of Monterrey
Gaspar de Zúñiga, 5th Count of Monterrey, was a Spanish nobleman who served as viceroy of New Spain from 1595 to 1603 and of Peru from 1604.
Gáspár Károlyi
Gáspár Károlyi (Károlyi Gáspár), born Gáspár Radics around 1529, was a Hungarian Calvinist pastor who led the first complete translation of the Bible into Hungarian, printed at Vizsoly in 1590.