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Ginevra King
Ginevra King (1898–1980), Lake Forest, Illinois socialite of Chicago's "Big Four" debutantes, was F. Scott Fitzgerald's first love (1915–1917) and a principal model for Daisy Buchanan, Isabelle Borgé, Judy Jones, and Josephine Perry.
Ginnie Sebastian Storage
Virginia "Ginnie" Sebastian Storage is the 47th President General of the National Society Daughters of the American Revolution, installed June 30, 2025 for the 2025-2028 "Illuminate Our Legacy" administration; a Fredericksburg, Virginia native and former Virginia State Regent who led DAR through America's 250th anniversary.
Girl Guides
Girl Guides, also known as Girl Scouting, is a worldwide youth movement for girls founded in Britain in 1910 by Robert Baden-Powell and his sister Agnes.
Girl Scouts of the USA
Girl Scouts of the USA (GSUSA), founded by Juliette Gordon Low on March 12, 1912 in Savannah, Georgia, is a girls' youth organization separate from Scouting America, known for badges, the Gold Award, and the Girl Scout cookie program.
Gitanos
Gitanos (Calé) are the Romani people of Spain, present since a 1425 safe conduct from Alfonso V; the word derives from "Egipto Menor." They endured the 1499 Pragmática, the 1749 Gran Redada, and the Porrajmos, gaining legal equality with the 1978 Constitution.
Global catastrophic risk
Global catastrophic risk (GCR) is the risk of events that could significantly harm or set back human civilization worldwide, with existential risk its extinction-level subset. Core hazards include AI, nuclear war, pandemics, climate change, and impacts; a formal research field emerged in the 2000s.
Gnawa
Gnawa (Gnaoua) is a Moroccan Sufi brotherhood and its trance music and healing rituals, rooted in sub-Saharan African descent communities; inscribed by UNESCO in 2019, centered on the lila ceremony, guembri and qraqeb.
Gomani
Gomani is the royal name of the Inkosi ya Makhosi, the paramount king of the Maseko Ngoni of Malawi and Mozambique, descended from the ancestral name Ngcamane.
Gondi people
Gondi people (Gonds), one of the largest tribal groups of central and south India, mostly Scheduled Tribe under Article 342; speak Dravidian Gondi; historic Gondwana kingdoms; agrarian, forest-dependent livelihoods.
Gook
Gook is an English ethnic slur for East and Southeast Asian people, first recorded as U.S. military slang for Filipinos in 1899 and extended through successive wars to Koreans, Vietnamese, and Asians generally.
Gopnik (гопник)
Gopnik (гопник), derogatory Russian and post-Soviet slang for a tracksuit-wearing street youth of the urban periphery, parallel to the chav; known for the Slavic squat, counterfeit Adidas from the 1980 Moscow Olympics era, and 2010s memes.
Gorani people
Gorani: South Slavic Muslim community of the Gora region in southern Kosovo's Dragash municipality (30–40% there), speaking the Torlakian-Macedonian transitional našinski ethnolect; 10,265 in Kosovo's 2011 census; identity contested among Bosniak, Serbian, Macedonian, and Bulgarian claims.
Goy (גוי)
Goy (גוי; plural goyim) is Hebrew for "nation," later meaning a non-Jew or gentile. Neutral in the Bible (even applied to Israel), it narrowed in rabbinic literature; Yiddish derivatives include goyish and Shabbos goy.
Grand Wizard
Grand Wizard: title of the national leader of the first Ku Klux Klan, first held by Nathan Bedford Forrest from 1867; subordinate titles included Grand Dragon and Grand Cyclops; later Klans used Imperial Wizard.
Greaser (subculture)
Greaser: 1950s American working-class youth subculture defined by slicked-back oiled hair, leather jackets, hot rods, and rock and roll; related to British teddy boys and rockers, the film Grease (1978), and rockabilly revival.
Great Jüz
The Great Jüz (Ұлы жүз), also called the Senior Jüz, is one of the three historical tribal associations of the Kazakh people, occupying Zhetysu in southeastern Kazakhstan.
Great Lakes refugee crisis
The Great Lakes refugee crisis was the flight of roughly two million Rwandan refugees, mostly Hutu, into Burundi, Tanzania, Uganda, and Zaire after the 1994 genocide.
Greater Japan Women's Association
The Greater Japan Women's Association (大日本婦人会, Dai Nippon Fujinkai) was a government-organized women's organization of wartime Japan, formed in February 1942 by merging three major women's groups.
Greatest Generation
The Greatest Generation is the American cohort born about 1901-1927, also called the G.I. Generation, shaped by the Great Depression and World War II; the name was popularized by Tom Brokaw's 1998 book, not coined by him.
Greek Americans
Greek Americans are Americans of Greek ancestry, over 1.2 million in the 2024 ACS, formed by immigration waves of 1900–1924 and 1965–1980, centered in New York, and organized around the Greek Orthodox Church, AHEPA, and the Greek-language press.
Greek Cypriots (Ελληνοκύπριοι)
Greek Cypriots (Ελληνοκύπριοι) are the Greek-speaking Orthodox majority community of Cyprus, descendants of Greek colonists since the 12th century BC, about 737,200 people or 80.1% of Republic-controlled Cyprus in 2022.
Greek diaspora (Ομογένεια)
Greek diaspora (Ομογένεια, omogenia): communities of Greeks outside Greece and Cyprus. Major waves to the US (1900–1920), postwar Germany, Australia, Canada, and post-2010 brain drain; postal voting adopted 2026.
Greek resettlement of Asia Minor refugees
The Greek resettlement of Asia Minor refugees was a state and League of Nations program that housed and employed 1.2 million Greeks displaced from Turkey after 1922.
Greeks
The Greeks, also known as the Hellenes (Greek: Ἕλληνες), are an ethnic and national group defined by the Greek language, Orthodox Christianity, and communities of the eastern Mediterranean.
Green card
The green card (Form I-551, formerly I-151 and Alien Registration Receipt Card) is the U.S. permanent resident card, rooted in the 1940 Alien Registration Act; roughly 1 million LPRs are admitted yearly.
Greenlanders
Greenlanders (Kalaallit) are the roughly 57,000 people of Greenland, mostly Indigenous Inuit of Thule descent with about 25% European ancestry, self-governing under Denmark since 1979 and recognized as 'a people' by the 2009 Self-Government Act.
Greenlandic Inuit
Greenlandic Inuit (Kalaallit, Tunumiit, Inughuit) are the Indigenous Inuit peoples of Greenland (Kalaallit Nunaat), about 56,000 people in a self-governing Danish territory, descended mainly from Thule culture migrants from Alaska.
Griqua
The Griqua are a people of southern Africa of mixed Khoikhoi, European, and freed slave descent who emerged on the Cape frontier in the eighteenth century.
Griqua Trek
The Griqua Trek was the migration of most of the Griqua people, led by Adam Kok III, from Philippolis across the Drakensberg to Griqualand East between 1861 and 1864.
Groundbreaking
Groundbreaking ceremony: a symbolic ritual marking the official start of construction, also called sod-turning; participants turn first soil with ceremonial shovels, contrasting with the ribbon-cutting that marks completion.