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GIA
GIA or Gia may refer to: Armed Islamic Group (GIA, from French Groupe Islamique Armé), a militant Islamist group in Algeria.Garuda Indonesia Airways, an Indonesian airline.Gemological Institute of America.1980s supermodel Gia Marie Carangi.Gia, a 1998 film about Carangi.Gia people, an Indigenous A..
Gia
For other uses, see (disambiguation)}}}. DVD cover Gia is a 1998 dramatic film about the life of drug-abusing supermodel Gia Marie Carangi. It stars Angelina Jolie, Faye Dunaway, Elizabeth Mitchell, Mercedes Ruehl, Eric Michael Cole, and Kylie Travis, among other actors. The film was written ..
Gia'na Garel
Gia'na Garel is a writer, producer, filmmaker, composer and entertainment consultant based in New York City. She is currently one of the hosts of the Air America Radio program, On The Real, with pioneer rap artist Chuck D. External Links [Official website][Garel's biography] at ..
Gia-Fu Feng
''' Gia-fu Feng was born in Shanghai in 1919 into a fairly wealthy family of some influence. His father was a banker and he was educated privately in his own home in the classics of the Chinese tradition. His family were followers of Taoism and in the springtime, they traveled to a temple in the ..
Giaan Rooney
Giaan Rooney OAM (born November 15, 1982) is an Australian swimmer who won a gold medal in world record time with her teammates Leisel Jones, Petria Thomas, and Jodie Henry at the Athens Olympics in the Women's 4 x 100 metre Medley Relay. Giaan swum a personal best and new Australian record time..
Giaches de Wert
Giaches de Wert (1535 – May 6, 1596) was a Franco-Flemish composer active in Italy. He was one of the leaders in developing the style of the late Renaissance madrigal. Contents 1 Life2 Music and influence3 References and further reading4 Recording Life He was probably..
Giacinta 'Jinx' Johnson
Giacinta 'Jinx' Johnson is a fictional character in the James Bond film Die Another Day. She is played by American actress Halle Berry. Jinx, so nicknamed because she was born on Friday the 13th, is a spy for the National Security Agency. She first meets agent 007 in Havana, where they are both ..
Giacinto Facchetti
Giacinto Facchetti. Giacinto Facchetti (born 18 July, 1942) is an Italian former football player. Since January 2004, he has been President of Internazionale, the team for which he played for his whole career during the 1960s and 1970s playing over 400 league matches for the Nerazzurri. Biogra..
Giacinto Menotti Serrati
Giacinto Menotti Serrati (November 25, 1874 - May 10, 1926) was an Italian communist politician. He was born in Spotorno, near Savona and died in Asso, near Como. Serrati was a central leader of the Italian Socialist Party (PSI), editor of the paper Avanti! (ever since he took over from ousted B..
Giacinto Placido Zurla
Giacinto cardinal Placido Zurla was Cardinal Vicar of Rome and writer on medieval geography. Biography Giacintho was born at Legnano, of noble parents, 2 April, 1769. At the age of eighteen Zurla entered the Camaldolese Monastery of San Michele di Murano at Venice, where he found a life-long fri..
Giacinto Scelsi
Giacinto Scelsi, Count of Ayala Valva (January 8, 1905 – August 9, 1988), was an Italian composer. He is best known for writing music based on only one pitch, such as Quattro Pezzi Su Una Nota Sola ["Four pieces each on a single note"] (1959). He also wrote surrealist poetry in French. (H..
Giacobinids
The Giacobinids are a meteor shower whose parent body is the periodic comet 21P/Giacobini-Zinner. It happens during early October, the best nights being Oct. 8-10. The Giacobinids are best viewed in the pre-dawn hours in an area with a clear dark sky. There were meteor storms of thousands of Giaco..
Giacomo
Giacomo, a thoroughbred race horse trained by John Shirreffs, won the 2005 Kentucky Derby in 2:02.75. At odds of 50–1, Giacomo was the second-biggest longshot ever to win the Derby after Donerail, who went off at 91–1 in 1913. Mike E. Smith was Giacomo's jockey when he won the Derby. ..
Giacomo Acerbo
Giacomo Acerbo, Baron of Aterno (July 25 1888—January 9 1969), was an Italian economist and Fascist politician that drafted the Acerbo Law, which brought Benito Mussolini to power. Early life He was born to an old family of the local nobility of Loreto Aprutino (province of Pescara), and was..
Giacomo Aconcio
Jacopo Aconcio (7 September 1492 – 1566?), pioneer of religious toleration, was born at Trent, it is said, in September 1492. He was one of the Italians, like Peter Martyr and Bernardino Ochino, who repudiated papal doctrine and ultimately found refuge in England. Like them, his revolt agains..
Giacomo Agostini
Agostini in 2003. Giacomo Agostini (born 16 June, 1942) is an Italian multi-time world champion Grand Prix motorcycle road racer. Nicknamed Ago, he was until recently the all-time leader in victories in motorcycle Grand Prix history. Biography Agostini was born in Lovere, in Lombardy, the so..
Giacomo Albanese
Giacomo Albanese (11 July 1890 - 8 June 1948) was an Italian mathematician known for his work in algebraic geometry. He took a permanent position in São Paulo, Brazil, in 1936. See: Albanese variety. External link John J. O'Connor and Edmund F. Robertson. [] at the MacTutor History of M..
Giacomo Alberione
Blessed Giacomo Alberione or James Alberione (also known as Santiago Alberione) (4 April 1884–26 November 1971) was the founder of the Society of St. Paul and the Daughters of St. Paul, besides other orders and institutes of the Pauline Family. He was born on 4 April 1884 in San Lorenzo di Fo..
Giacomo Antonelli
Giacomo Antonelli (April 2, 1806 – November 6, 1876), Italian cardinal, was born at Sonnino. He was educated for the priesthood, but, after taking minor orders, gave up the idea of becoming a priest, and chose an administrative career. Created secular prelate, he was sent as apostolic delegat..
Giacomo Antonio Perti
Giacomo Antonio Perti (June 6, 1661 – April 10, 1756) was an Italian composer of the Baroque era. He was mainly active at Bologna, where he was maestro di cappella for sixty years. He was the teacher of Giuseppe Torelli and Giovanni Battista Martini. Life He was born in Bologna, and began ..
Giacomo Aragall
Jaume Aragall y Garriga better known as Giacomo Aragall is a Spanish/Catalan tenor, born in Barcelona, Spain on 6 June 1939. After his initial studies in Barcelona under Jaime Francisco Puig, Giacomo Aragall travelled to Milan on a scholarship from the Liceu to study with Maestro Vladimir Badiali. ..
Giacomo Balla
Giacomo Balla (July 24, 1871 - March 1, 1958) was an Italian painter. Abstract Speed + Sound by Giacomo Balla. Biography Born in Turin, in the Piedmont region of Italy, the son of an industrial chemist, as a child Giacomo Balla studied music. By age twenty his interest in art was such that ..
Giacomo Barozzi da Vignola
The five orders, engraving from Vignola's Regole delle cinque ordini d'architettura. Giacomo (or Jacopo) Barozzi da Vignola, often simply called Vignola (October 1 1507 - July 7, 1573) was one of the great Italian architects of 16th century Mannerism, also known as Vignola. His two great maste..
Giacomo Beltrami
Giacomo Constantino Beltrami (1779 – January 6, 1855) was an Italian jurist, author, and explorer, best known for claiming to have discovered the headwaters of the Mississippi River in 1823 while on a trip through much of the United States (later expeditions determined a different source, howe..
Giacomo Bindi
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Giacomo Boni
Giacomo Boni (25 April 1859 - 10 July 1925) was an Italian archaeologist specializing in Roman architecture. Born in Venice Boni studied architecture at the Academy of Fine Arts in his native city and later dedicated himself to extensive and important excavations in the Forum Romanum in Rome. ..
Giacomo Brogi
Giacomo Brogi (1822 - 1881) was an Italian photographer. Giacomo Brogi was born on 6 April 1822 and died on 29 November 1881. He travelled to the Middle East in 1868. Brogi was associated with the Photographic Society of Italy. References [Union List of Artists Names, s.v. "Brogi, Giacomo", c..
Giacomo Cardinal Biffi
Giacomo Cardinal Biffi (born in Milan on June 13, 1928). Appointed an auxiliary bishop there in 1975, in 1984 the sudden death of Enrico Manfredini of Bologna opened the way for Biffi to become Archbishop there, and he was elevated to Cardinal in the consistory of 1985. He retired from the archdioce..
Giacomo Carissimi
Giacomo Carissimi (baptized April 18, 1605 – January 12, 1674), was an Italian composer, one of the most celebrated masters of the early Baroque, or, more accurately, the Roman School of music. Biography His exact birthdate is not known, but it was probably in 1604 or 1605 in Marino, near Ro..
Giacomo Casanova
Giacomo Casanova Giacomo Girolamo Casanova (aka Jacques Casanova; born April 2, 1725, in Venice – died June 4, 1798, in Dux, Bohemia, now Duchcov, Czech Republic) was a famous Venetian adventurer, writer and womanizer. Although he is often associated with Don Juan because both of them..
Giacomo Cavedone
Giacomo Cavedone (incorrectly called Jacopo Cavendone in "1911 Britannica") (1577–1660), was Italian painter of the Bolognese School started by the Carracci brothers. He was born in Sassuolo, near Modena, and was able to obtain a three year stipend to apprentice with Bernadino Baldi and Anniba..
Giacomo da Lentini
Giacomo da Lentini (also known as Jacopo Da Lentini) was an Italian poet of the 13th century. He was a senior poet of the Sicilian School and was a notary at the court of the Holy Roman emperor Frederick II. Giacomo is credited with the invention of the sonnet. His poetry was originally written in ..
Giacomo della Porta
Giacomo della Porta (c. 1533 - 1602) was an Italian architect and sculptor, who worked for many important buildings in Rome, including St. Peter's Basilica (italian: Basilica di San Pietro in Vaticano). Biography Della Porta was born at Porlezza, Lombardy. Della Porta was influenced by and collab..
Giacomo De Martino
Baron Giacomo de Martino was the Envoy of Italy to the United States under the Mussolini Regime. On January 23 1927 he traveled to Chicago, Il and spent several days touring the city, addressing the Italian community and explaining Fascism. ..
Giacomo di Grassi
Giacomo di Grassi was an Italian fencing master who wrote His True Arte of Defense, a text on fencing, in 1570. The text was later tranlsated into English and published again in 1594. Di Grassi was one of the three premiere Elizabethan fencing masters, and invented many of the tactics used in moder..
Giacomo Doria
Giacoma Doria. Giacomo Doria (November 1, 1840 - September 19, 1913) was an Italian naturalist. He was the founder of the Museo Civico di Storia Naturale in Genoa in 1867, and director from then until his death. He collected in Iran with Filippo de Filippi (1862-63) and in Myanmar with Odoard..
Giacomo Durando
Giacomo Durando (February 4, 1807 - 1894) was an Italian general and statesman. Biography Druando was born at Mondovi, in Piedmont. He was implicated in the revolutionary movements of 1831 and 1832, after which he was obliged to take refuge abroad. He served in the Belgian army, taking part in th..
Giacomo F. Maraldi
Giacomo Filippo Maraldi (August 21,1665 – December 1,1729) was an French-Italian astronomer and mathematician. His name is also given as Jacques Philippe Maraldi. He was the nephew of Giovanni Cassini, and worked most of his life at the Paris Observatory (1687 – 1718). He also is the unc..
Giacomo Galanda
Giacomo "Jack" Galanda (january 30, 1975, Udine, Friuli-Venezia Giulia) is an Italian professional basketball player. He his a forward-centre of 210 cm and 105 kg. Career Galanda is a product of Verona basketball, with which he made his debut in Italian Serie A on October 17, 1993. After four year..
Giacomo Gates
Giacomo Gates is an American jazz vocalist. He works to interpret old jazz standards, practices scat singing, and is active in jazz education. Renowned jazz singer Sarah Vaughn was one of his mentors. External links [Giacomo Gates' Website][CD Review at Jazzreview] ..
Giacomo Isolani
His eminence Giacomo Isolani (died 9th February 1431) was one of The Catholic Church's cardinals. He was made a cardinal on the 18th of November 1413 by Pope Innocent VII. ..
Giacomo Leoni
Lyme Park, Cheshire designed by Giacomo Leoni. The original Tudor mansion was transformed by Leoni into an Italian palazzoThe design perhaps a little spoilt later by the addition of the box like structure surrounding the centre pediment in the 19th century by the English architect Lewis Wyatt; th..
Giacomo Leopardi
Giacomo Leopardi, Count (June 29, 1798 – June 14, 1837) is generally considered, along with such figures as Dante, Ariosto and Tasso, to be among Italy's greatest poets and also one of its greatest thinkers in general. Contents 1 Biography2 Works2.1 The first erudite wri..
Giacomo Manzù
Giacomo Manzù (december 22, 1908 - january 18, 1991) was the best known Italian sculptor of the 20th century. He was recognized by Western museums and collectors as an important modern artist, while, as a Communist, he was celebrated by the Soviet art world as well. Yet he was also a Roman Catholi..
Giacomo Maria Airoli
Giacomo Maria Airoli (1660 – March 27, 1721) was a Jesuit Orientalist and Scriptural commentator. He was born at Genoa. During his career, he was professor of Hebrew in the Roman College, and later succeeded Cardinal Tolomei in the chair of controversy. His knowledge of Hebrew is shown by his..
Giacomo Marini
Giacomo Marini is founder and Managing Director of Noventi, formerly Cypress Ventures / CIR Ventures. In 1981, Marini co-founded Logitech (Nasdaq: LOGI) with Daniel Borel and Pierluigi Zappacosta. He was with the company until 1992 as a director and member of the management team launching Logitech..
Giacomo Matteotti
Giacomo Matteotti (22 May 1885, Fratta Polesine, Province of Rovigo—10 June, 1924, near Rome) was an Italian socialist politician. Contents 1 Political career2 Murder3 Consequences of the murder4 Works Political career A graduate in law from the University of Bologna an..
Giacomo Medici
Giacomo Medici is the name of three noteworthy men: Gian Giacomo Medici di Marignano (c. 1495 - 8 November 1555), CondottieroGiacomo Medici. (1817-1882), Italian patriot and soldierGiacomo Medici, illicit antiquities dealer ..
Giacomo Medici (general)
Giacomo Medici, Marchese del Vascello (Milan 1817– Rome 1882) was an Italian patriot and soldier. At London he met Giuseppe Mazzini, and later at Montevideo Giuseppe Garibaldi. In 1849 he fought with the army of the Roman Republic, when the fought in defence of the Villa Vascello, near Porta San..
Giacomo Meyerbeer
Giacomo Meyerbeer Giacomo Meyerbeer (September 5, 1791 – May 2, 1864) was a noted German-born opera composer, and the first great exponent of Grand Opera. Contents 1 Biography2 Meyerbeer and Richard Wagner3 List of Operas4 External links5 Bibliography6 ..
Giacomo Pacchiarotti
Giacomo Pacchiarotti, sometimes seen as Pacchiarotto (1474 - 1539 or 1540) was an Italian painter. He was born in Siena, and worked there. Bernardino Fungai may have been his teacher; Pacchiarotti's style is influenced by Fungai, as well as Matteo di Giovanni, Perugno, and Signorelli. A number of..
Giacomo Puccini
Giacomo Puccini Giacomo Antonio Domenico Michele Secondo Maria Puccini (December 22, 1858 – November 29, 1924) is regarded as one of the great operatic composers of the late 19th and early 20th century. Although he wrote only twelve operas, Puccini's works dominate the operatic stage, pa..
Giacomo Pylarini
Giacomo Pylarini was a physician who gave the first smallpox inoculation. ..
Giacomo Quarenghi
Giacomo Quarenghi (20 September or 21, 1744 – 1 March 1817) was the foremost and most prolific practitioner of Palladian architecture in Imperial Russia, particularly in Saint Petersburg. Contents 1 Career in Italy2 Career under Catherine II3 Career under Paul and Alexander..
Giacomo Raffaelli
Giacomo Raffaelli (February 2, 1753 - October 11, 1836) was a mosaicist from Rome. For further reading Micromosaics: The Gilbert Collection, by Jeanette Hanisee Gabriel, published by the Gilbert Collection. Includes detailed biographies of the known artists of the time, with an appendix by Profess..
Giacomo Tedesco
Giacomo Tedesco (born January 2, 1976 in Palermo, Italy) is an Italian football (calcio) midfielder who currently plays for Reggina of Italy's Serie A. Tedesco participated in 4 games of the UEFA Cup in the 2003-2004 season for Perugia Calcio. His brother, Giovanni Tedesco, plays for U.S. Città d..
Giacomo Vincenti
Giacomo Vincenti (d. 1619) was a Venetian bookseller and music printer. He also spelled his name Vincenci and Vincenzi. He started printing in 1583. His partner was Ricciardo Amadino, and between 1583 and 1586 they printed about 20 books a year, mostly editions of music. Although their official part..
Giacomo Zanella
Giacomo Zanella. Giacomo Zanella (9 September 1820 - 17 May 1888) was an Italian poet. Biography He was born at Chiampo, near Vicenza, and was educated for the priesthood. After his ordination he became professor at the lyceum of his native place, but his patriotic sympathies excited the jealo..
Giaconda
Giaconda is an Australian biotechnology company headquartered in Sydney. The company was founded in 2004 to commercialise a number of drug combinations developed by Professor Thomas Borody, a Sydney-based gastroenterologist. Contents 1 The business2 The company's name3 Management4&..
Giada De Laurentiis
Giada De Laurentiis (IPA: [dʒiɑdɑ deɪ lɔɹɪntɪs]) (born August 22, 1970) is an Italian-American chef, currently [host] of the Food Network program Everyday Italian. De Laurentiis studied at Le Cordon Bleu in Paris, France before becoming a professional chef, working in s..
Giaginsky District, Republic of Adygea
Giaginsky District (Russian: ) is one of the seven districts of the Republic of Adygea, Russia. The area of the district is 790 km². Its administrative center is stanitsa (village) Giaginskaya. According to the population census, the population of the district in 2002 was 33,458. Adminis..
Giaks
Giaks are fictional servants of the Darklords of Helgedad in the Lone Wolf game book series by Joe Dever. Contents 1 Physiology2 History3 Culture4 References Physiology They are human like, with grey skin color and are squat figures. They have yellow eyes, are very strong and..
Gialappa's Band
Gialappa's Band is the name with which is known the trio of TV and radio commentators Marco Santin, Carlo Taranto and Giorgio Gherarducci. The three Gialappa's member united in 1985 at the Radio Popolare of Milan, where they launched the show Bar Sport. The show was on air after the 22 PM, and con..
Giallchaidh
Giallchaidh, grandson of Sírna, was a legendary High King of Ireland. |- style="text-align: center;" ..
Giallo
S.S. Van Dine's The Benson Murder Case, the first giallo ever published (1929). Giallo (pronounced JAH-loh) is an Italian 20th century genre of literature and film. It is closely related to the French fantastique genre, crime fiction, horror fiction and eroticism. The term is also used to mean ..
Giambattista Andreini
Giambattista Andreini (1578-1650) was an Italian actor and playwright. Born in Florence to stage stars Isabella Andreini and Francesco Andreini, he had a great success as a comedian in Paris under the name of Leylio. He was a favourite with Louis XIII, and also with the public, especially as the y..
Giambattista Basile
Giambattista Basile (1566 or 1575–February 23, 1632) was an Italian poet, courtier, and fairy tale collector. Contents 1 Biography2 Synopsis3 Translations4 External links and resources Biography Born to a Neapolitan middle-class family, Basile was, during his career, a..
Giambattista Benedetti
Giambattista (Gianbattista) Benedetti (1530–1590) was a Venetian mathematician who wrote La gnomonica. He was a Copernican who determined that falling objects fall at the same rate in 1553, a discovery often credited to Galileo. This is called the "equality of fall rates." In a letter to Ci..
Giambattista Bodoni
Giovanni Battista (Giambattista) Bodoni Giambattista Bodoni (February 16, 1740 in Saluzzo – November 29, 1813 in Parma) was an Italian engraver, publisher, printer and typographer of high repute remembered for designing a typeface which is now called Bodoni. Giambattista Bodoni achieve..
Giambattista della Porta
Giambattista della Porta Giambattista della Porta (1538-1615). Scholar and polymath who lived in Naples, Italy. A child prodigy, Della Porta was educated at home where scientific discussions occurred. The wealth acquired from the ownership of several estates ensured that he could devote his l..
Giambattista Gelli
Giambattista Gelli (1498 - 1563) was a Florentine humanist man of letters, from an artisan background. He is known for his works of the 1540s, Capricci del bottaio and La Circe, which are ethical and philosophical dialogues. Other works were the plays La sporta (1543) and L'errore (1556). ..
Giambattista Moroni
Redirect [[Template:Merge]]Giambattista Moroni (c. 1510 - February 5, 1578), Italian portrait-painter of the Venetian school, was born at Albino near Bergamo about 1510 (or perhaps a few years later), and became a pupil of Bonvicino named Il Moretto. Beyond the record of his works very few particul..
Giambattista Pittoni
Giambattista Pittoni (1687-1767) was a Venetian painter. His subjects were religious, historical, and mythological (such as Sophonisba and Polyxena). A contemporary of Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, whom he succeeded as President of the Venice Academy of Painting (1758-1761) (he was also its co-founder..
Giambattista Vico
Giambattista Vico or Giovanni Battista Vico (1668–1744) was a Neapolitan philosopher, historian, and jurist. Born to a bookseller and the daughter of a carriage maker, Vico attended a series of grammar schools, but ill-health and dissatisfaction with Jesuit scholasticism led to home schoolin..
Giambologna
"Portrait of Giovanni Bologna" by Hendrick Goltzius Giambologna, born as Jean Boulogne, also known as Giovanni Da Bologna and Giovanni Bologna (1529 - 1608) was a sculptor, known for his marble and bronze statuary in a late Renaissance or Mannerist style. Giambologna's La Archetectura in t..
Giammateo Asola
Giammateo Asola (1532 or earlier – October 1, 1609) was an Italian composer of the late Renaissance. He was a prolific composer of sacred music, mostly in a conservative style, although he may have been one of the first composers to write a part for basso continuo. Life He was born in Veron..
Giampaolo Gobbo
Giampaolo Gobbo, founding member of the Liga Veneta in 1979, was national president of the party from 1994 to 1998, when he succeeded Fabrizio Comencini as national secretary. He was a member of the Veneto Regional Council from 1990 to 2000, vice-president of the regional government from 1994 to 199..
Giampiero Boniperti
Giampiero Boniperti (born July 4, 1928) was an Italian football player who played for Juventus between 1946 and 1961; with 182 goals, he was highest goalscorer in Juventus' history for more than 40 years, now placed second, behind Alessandro Del Piero. He is the ninth-highest goalscorer of all-time ..
Giampiero Combi
Giampiero Combi. Giampiero Combi (November 20, 1902– August 12, 1956) was an Italian football goalkeeper who played for Juventus in the 1930s. Born at Turin, he debuted in the Italian Serie A on February 5, 1922. Playing for Juventus for his whole career, he totalled 351 caps in the S..
Giampietro Stocco
Giampietro Stocco (born 1961) is an Italian author; he writes alternate history, science fiction and noir fiction novels. Contents 1 Biography2 Works3 Bibliography4 External links Biography Stocco was born in Rome. He got his university degree in Political Sciences at the Un..
Gian-Carlo Menotti
Menotti redirects here. If you are looking for the Argentine coach see César Luis Menotti. Gian Carlo Menotti, photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1944 Gian Carlo Menotti (born July 7, 1911, Cadegliano, Italy) is an Italian-born American composer and librettist. He wrote the classic Christma..
Gian-Carlo Rota
Gian-Carlo Rota Gian-Carlo Rota (April 27, 1932 – April 18, 1999, known as Juan Carlos Rota to Spanish-speakers) was an Italian-born American mathematician and philosopher. He was born in Vigevano, Italy, where he lived until he was 13 years old. At that time his family fled Italy bec..
Gian-Carlo Wick
Italian theoretical physicist (1909-1992). The Wick rotation is named after him. See also Wick's theorem. External link [Wick's biography at the website of National Academies Press] ..
Gianandrea Gavazzeni
Gianandrea Gavazzeni (25 July, 1909 - 5 February, 1996) was an Italian composer (Concerto bergamasco, The Song of St Alexander; concertos, sonatas). He was, however, better known as a conductor of opera. [Alternative dates of birth: 27 July 1909, 25 Jul 1919] ..
Giancarlo Abelli
Giancarlo Abelli, a former Christian Democrat, is the head of Forza Italia's group in the regional assembly of Lombardy from 2005. ..
Giancarlo Alessandrini
Giancarlo Alessandrini (born March 20, 1950) is an Italian comic artist. Biography Born in Jesi, Alessandrini graduated from Ancona's Art Institute and begins drawing comics professionally in 1972 for Il Corriere dei Ragazzi with the story Il Cifrario del Maggiore Martin written by Mino Milani. The..
Giancarlo Antognoni
Giancarlo Antognoni, (born April 1st, 1954 in Marsciano) was a football (soccer) player from Italy. He played offensive midfielder, mainly with Fiorentina. He won the 1982 FIFA World Cup with the Italian national team. Clubs 1970-1971 : Astimacobi (Italy)1972-1987 : Fiorentina (Italy)1987-1989 : ..
Giancarlo Baghetti
Giancarlo Baghetti (born December 25 1934 in Milan, Italy; died November 27 1995) was a Formula One driver who raced for the Ferrari, ATS (Ita), BRM, Brabham and Lotus teams. Baghetti still remains the only driver to have won his first ever World Championship race (aside from Nino Farina, as the ..
Giancarlo De Carlo
--> Giancarlo De Carlo was born in Genoa, Italy in 1919 and died in Milan the 4th of June 2005. He trained in Italy as an architect from 1942 to 1949, a time of political turmoil which generated his philosophy toward life and architecture. Libertarian socialism is the underlying force for all of h..
Giancarlo Esposito
Giancarlo Esposito (born April 26, 1958) is an American film and television actor. Born in Denmark to an Italian father and an African-American mother, Esposito lived in Europe, New York, and Cleveland until the family settled in Manhattan when he was six. He began acting in the late 1970s. Through..
Giancarlo Ferrari
Bronze medal 1976Montréal Archery Men's Individual Bronze medal 1980Moscow Archery Men's Individual Giancarlo Ferrari (born October 22, 1942) is an Italian athlete, who has participated at the Olympic Games as in the discipline of archery on several occasions. In 1976 and 1980 ..
Giancarlo Ferretti
Giancarlo Ferretti (16 October 1959 – ) is the former manager of the now-disbanded Italian professional road bicycle racing team Fassa Bortolo team, sponsored by the Italian cement company of the same name. Fassa Bortolo was a top-ranked team until the 2005 season, during which it was part ..
Giancarlo Fisichella
Giancarlo Fisichella (born January 14, 1973 in Rome), also known as Fisico or Fisi, is an Italian Formula One racing driver. He currently drives for the world constructors champion Renault team and has also driven for Sauber, Jordan, Benetton and Minardi. For most of his career he has consist..
Giancarlo Galan
Giancarlo Galan (born in Padova on September 10, 1956), after an experience in the Italian Liberal Party, joined Forza Italia, as far as it was founded in 1994. In the same year he was elected to the Italian Senate. In 1995 he run successfully for the post of president of Veneto Region, and he was ..
Giancarlo Giannini
Giancarlo Giannini as Emperor Shaddam IV in the Dune miniseries Giancarlo Giannini (born August 1, 1942, La Spezia, Liguria) is an Oscar-nominated Italian actor and dubber. Giannini studied at the Accademia Nazionale in Rome, and made his film debut in a small part in Fango sulla metropoli in..
Giancarlo Giorgetti
Giancarlo Giorgetti is national secretary of the Lombard League from 2002 and a probable successor to Umberto Bossi at the leadership of the Northern League. ..
Giancarlo Gramolazzo
Father Giancarlo Gramolazzo is an Italian Roman Catholic priest who serves as an exorcist. He is the current president of the International Association of Exorcists. In September 2004, in Mexico City, Mexico, Father Gramolazzo addressed the more than five hundred participants including exorcist pri..
Giancarlo Mici
Giancarlo Mici was born in Rome in 1972. A musician and singer, his work involves musical arrangement for soundtracks in cinema and television. In 1992 he found the musical editions Saint Production, were he realizes various record jobs. He has participated in numerous vocal events, such as The A..
Giancarlo Minardi
Giancarlo Minardi (often spelt as Gian Carlo) (born 18 September, 1947) is the founder and Managing Director of the Minardi Formula One team. Minardi was born in Faenza (Ravenna), Italy and has spent his life with cars. As a young boy, his family managed a Fiat dealership and an Agip fuel station, ..
Giancarlo Neri
The Writer Giancarlo Neri is a sculptor born in Naples. At one time he played professional soccer for the New York Apollos. Perhaps his best known work is The Writer a 9 metre high table and chair made from steel plated with wood, a piece about writer's block. It has been exhibited in Rome a..
Giancarlo Parretti
Giancarlo Parretti is an Italian financier. He formerly owned the movie studio Pathé and in 1990 bought MGM, using money borrowed from a Dutch subsidiary of Crédit Lyonnais and contingent on future profits financing the purchase from mogul Kirk Kerkorian. During that period the movie studio rele..
Giancarlo Peris
Giancarlo Peris (b. November 4, 1941), an Italian track athlete of Greek descent, was the final bearer of the Olympic torch for the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome, Italy. Peris was born in Civitavecchia, a port city on the Tyrrhenian Sea 70 kilometers northwest of Rome. He was chosen to be the last t..
Giancarlo Politi
Giancarlo Politi is the founder of Flash Art Magazine the leading art magazines in the world. In 1967, Italian born Giancarlo Politi started his own magazine, called "Flash", and then changed into [Flash Art], which then became a real point of reference to the art world. In the mid-70s he ..
Giancarlo Prete
Giancarlo Prete (born February 5, 1943 in Rome; died March 9, 2001 in Rome) was an Italian actor. After he worked in the cinema as stuntman, Prete went to the Alessandro Fersen's acting school (where he later returned as a teacher) and begun to act in many movies and in TV serials. In the followin..
Giandante X
Giandante X, Nickname of Dante Persico, Italian Painter, sculptor, architect (1900-1984) ..
Giandari
Giandari is a mountain peak, approximately 1,250 m (4,100 ft) in height, in the Giandar range of mountains in southwest Punjab and Balochistan provinces of Pakistan. It is about 64 km (40 mi) west of Indus River. Giandar range is a part of the larger and more extensive Sulaiman Range of mountains ..
Giandomenico Mesto
Giandomenico Mesto (born May 25, 1982 in Monopoli) is an Italian football (calcio) midfielder who currently plays for Reggina of Italy's Serie A. Mesto represented Italy in the 2004 Summer Olympics and won a bronze medal with a 1-0 victory over Iraq. Club history Reggina Calcio (1998-2000)U.S. Cr..
Giandor
Giandor is the name of a chocolate produced in Switzerland by the Swiss company Frey AG, which is a part of the Migros corporation. It is available in Switzerland through the stores of Migros and various local retailers. Giandor is produced in three basic versions: milk, dark, and white chocolate, a..
Gianduiotto
The Gianduiotto is a Piedmontese chocolate whose shape is similar to an upturned boat. Gianduiotti are individually wrapped in a tinfoil cover, usually gold or silver-colored. It is the specialty of Turin. Gianduiotti are produced from a paste of sugar, cocoa and the hazelnut Tonda Gentile delle La..
Gianduja
Gianduja is one of the masks of the Italian Commedia dell'Arte, typically representing the town of Turin (and Piedmont in general). The mask depicts an honest peasant of Piedmontese countryland, with a certain inclination for wine, gastronomy and beautiful girls, while strictly faithful to his love..
Gianella Neyra
Gianella Neyra Magana (born August 3, 1977, Lima, Peru), is an actress and model who is better known plainly as Gianella Neyra. Neyra began her acting at the age of seven, in 1985. As a youngster, she went to study at New York City's prestigious acting school, the Lee Strasberg studio. Back in Per..
Gianfrancesco Guarnieri
Gianfrancesco Sigfrido Benedetto Marinenghi de Guarnieri is an actor and dramatist born in Milan on August 6, 1934. He has been associated with Brazil since the 1950s. External links ..
Gianfrancesco Penni
Gianfrancesco Penni, also known as Giovan Francesco (1488/1496, Florence-1528, Naples) was an Italian painter, student of Raphael. Penni entered very early in Raphael's workshop, and collaborated with him for several works, including the famous Rooms of the Vatican Palace as well as the frescoes o..
Gianfrance Brancatelli
Gianfrance Brancatelli was a professional race car driver from Italy. He tried but failed to qualify for 3 Formula One grands prix with Kauhsen and Merzario. ..
Gianfranco (porn star)
Gianfranco (also known as Johnny Diamond) is a male pornographic actor (porn star) who appears in gay pornographic movies. He is known for his hairy chest, large penis and well-proportioned buttocks. Though often misidentified as Latino or Italian, he is actually of Middle Eastern descent. He p..
Gianfranco Brancatelli
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Gianfranco Comotti
Gianfranco Comotti (Brescia, July 24 1906 - Bergamo, May 10 1963) was an italian racecar driver, first appearing at the 1928 Italian Grand Prix in a Talbot before he joined Alfa Romeo around 1930, winning the 1933 Grand Prix of Naples in an Alfa Romeo 2600, and the 1934 Commingues GP. After World Wa..
Gianfranco Ferrè
Gianfranco Ferre (born 15 August 1944 in Legnano, northern Italy) is a Fashion designer. He received a degree in architecture in 1969. Ferre began his fashion career in 1970 by designing accessories, then worked as a raincoat designer in 1972-74. He started his own company in 1974 (Baila-label) and ..
Gianfranco Fini
Gianfranco Fini. Gianfranco Fini (born January 3, 1952) is an Italian politician. Fini was born in Bologna, Emilia-Romagna. He is married and has one daughter, holds a degree in psychology and is a journalist by trade (since 1979). He ran for the mayorship of Rome in 1993 but was defeated b..
Gianfranco Gardin
Gianfranco Gardin (1944- is the current Secretary of the Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life. He was appointed on 11 July 2006 by Pope Benedict XVI. He will serve alongside Franc Cardinal Rode who is Prefect. He was ordained a priest in 1970 and taught ..
Gianfranco Goria
Gianfranco Goria is a cartoonist and script-writer (also for Disney Italy). He founded the Italian cartoonists society [Anonima Fumetti], the daily news service [afNews], the [Foundation and Museum of Comic Art Franco Fossati], the national Union of comic artists [..
Gianfranco Rotondi
Gianfranco Rotondi (born 25 July 1960) is an Italian politician, and the current leader of the Christian Democracy for the Autonomies since June 2005. Biography Rotondi was born in Avellino, Campania. A graduate in law, he was first elected in the Chamber of Deputies in 2001 as member of the House..
Gianfranco Sanguinetti
Gianfranco Sanguinetti was a writer and member of the Situationist International (SI), a political art movement. Sanguinetti was deported from France in 1971 and settled in Italy. By 1972, Sanguinetti and Guy Debord were the only two remaining members of the SI. Together they wrote "The Veritable ..
Gianfranco Terenzi
Gianfranco Terenzi (born January 2, 1941) was elected as one of the Captains Regent of San Marino. His term with Loris Francini lasts from April 1, 2006 to October 1, 2006. He is a member of the San Marinese Christian Democratic Party. Terenzi was Captain Regent twice before, once with Rossano Zaff..
Gianfranco Zaccai
Gianfranco Zaccai is president and CEO of Design Continuum, an international multidisciplinary design consultancy. Actively involved with the International Council of Societies of Industrial Design (ICSID), presently as Board Treasurer, he also served on the Board of Directors from 1993 through 19..
Gianfranco Zola
Gianfranco Zola, OBE, born July 5, 1966 in Oliena, Sardinia, is a former Italian footballer, and was the 1997 Football Writers' Player of the Year in England. Zola (left) celebrates Chelsea's 1998 Cup Winners' Cup victory with Gianluca Vialli. Contents 1 Early days in Italy2 Chelse..
Gianico
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Gianluca Basile
Gianluca Basile (born January 24, 1975 in Ruvo di Puglia, Italy) is an Italian basketball player. He plays for Winterthur FCB and for the Italian national team. He is considered to be one of the best 1990s and 2000s Italian basketball players. Has won the silver medal in 2004 Olympic Games. He is ..
Gianluca Berti
Gianluca Berti (born 20 May, 1967 in Florence) is an Italian football goalkeeper. Most of his career spent on Serie B of Italy. Teams and clubs 1986-1990: Prato (Serie C1)1990-1991: Olbia (Serie C2)1991-1992: Genoa (Serie A)1992-1993: Pisa (Serie B)1993-1994: Genoa (Serie A)1994-1995: Ancona (Seri..
Gianluca Comotto
Gianluca Comotto (born October 16, 1978 in Ivrea) is an Italian footballer who currently plays for Ascoli of Serie A, on loan from AS Roma. A product of the Torino youth team, Comotto made his Serie A debut for Vicenza Calcio on October 1, 2000, in a match against AC Milan. He successively played..
Gianluca Curci
Gianluca Curci (born July 12, 1985 in Rome) is a football (soccer) goalkeeper. Curci is a product of the world famous A.S. Roma youth academy. At only 19, he became the clubs first choice goalkeeper for the second half of the 04/05 season after injuries to fellow 'keepers Ivan Pelizzoli and Carlo..
Gianluca Festa
Gianluca Festa (born 15 March 1969 in Cagliari) is an Italian football defender. He currently plays for A.S. Nuorese Calcio, recently promoted to Serie C2, but he played in several notable teams, including Inter Milan, AS Roma and Middlesbrough F.C., being one of the first Italians to play in the ..
Gianluca Luisi
Gianluca Luisi is an Italian pianist known for his interpretions of J.S.Bach whose complete Well Tempered Clavier he recorded. Luisi is also a teacher at the Recanati Piano Academy of the Marche. Awards Luisi won the national Piano competition "Città dell’Aquila" and the Mozart prize (Italy) in..
Gianluca Masi
Gianluca Masi is an Italian astronomer. He has discovered a number of asteroids. Near-Earth objects (NEO) and comets are his main scientific interest. He earned a PhD in astronomy in 2006 and he is currently continuing his research in NEO photometry. ..
Gianluca Pagliuca
--> Gianluca Pagliuca (born December 18, 1966 in Bologna) is an Italian football goalkeeper. In his club career, Pagliuca has played for Sampdoria (1987-94), Inter (1994-99), Bologna (1999-2006), and now will play at Serie A club Ascoli . He won the Cup Winners' Cup and one scudetto with Sampdo..
Gianluca Pessotto
Gianluca Pessotto (born August 11, 1970) is an Italian former footballer who played with Juventus for the majority of his career. A versatile player, Pessotto was able to play as a full back or midfielder. Contents 1 Career2 Attempted suicide3 References4 External links Ca..
Gianluca Pozzi
Gianluca Pozzi (born June 17, 1965 in Bari) is a former tennis player from Italy, who turned professional in 1984. He won one singles title (1991, Brisbane) and one doubles title (1991, Newport) during his career. The lefthander reached his highest individual ranking on the ATP Tour on January 29, 2..
Gianluca Signorini
Gianluca Signorini (born 17 March 1960 in Pisa - died 6 November 2002 in Pisa) was an Italian football (soccer) player, mostly known for his time spent as Genoa C.F.C.. Gianluca Signorini started his career playing in his home team, Pisa S.C. of Serie C1, and successively for Pietrasanta, Prato, Li..
Gianluca Susta
Gianluca Susta (b. 10 April 1956, Biella) is an Italian politician. He is a member of the European Parliament since May 8, 2006, when he took up a seat vacated after the 2006 Italian general election. He represents the Margherita within the ALDE parliamentary group. External links [Gianluca Su..
Gianluca Vialli
Gianluca Vialli (born July 9, 1964 in Cremona) is an Italian football striker and manager. Vialli (right) celebrates the 1998 Cup Winners' Cup victory at Chelsea with the scorer of the winning goal, Gianfranco Zola Vialli's career started in 1980; he played for Cremonese, Sampdoria, and Juven..
Gianluca Zambrotta
Gianluca Zambrotta (born February 19, 1977 in Como) is an Italian football player. He is comfortable playing on either wing as a defender or midfielder. He currently wears number 19 for Juventus of Serie B. Contents 1 Como2 Bari3 Juventus4 Italy National Team4.1 Under-21..
Gianluigi Buffon
Gianluigi "Gigi" Buffon (born January 28, 1978) is an Italian World Cup-winning goalkeeper. He is currently the first choice goalkeeper for Juventus F.C. and the Italian national team, and is regarded by many to be the world's best goalkeeper which is highlighted by the fact that he was transferre..
Gianluigi Gelmetti
Gianluigi Gelmetti (born 11 September, 1945, in Rome) is an Italian conductor. Since February 2004, he has been Chief Conductor of the Sydney Symphony Orchestra. In 2001 he was appointed Chief Conductor of the Teatro dell'Opera of Rome. External links [Biography] |- style="text-align..
Gianluigi Lentini
Gianluigi Lentini (born March 27, 1969 in Carmagnola) is a former Italian international winger who once held the distinction of being the world's most expensive footballer, when he moved from Torino to AC Milan for £13 million in 1992. Indeed, it was this fee - which arose due to a bidding war ..
Gianluigi Trovesi
Gianluigi Trovesi (1944 Bergamo) is an Italian jazz saxophonist and composer. He studied harmony and counterpoint under V. Fellegara. Since then he has been a major player in the Italian and European (free) jazz scene. He also teaches clarinet and saxophone in Italy. He has won various Italian jaz..
Gianmarco Bellini
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Gianmarco Zignago
Gianmarco Javier Zignago Alcóver (Lima, 17 August 1970)is a Peruvian pop musician and composer. His mother is the Peruvian actress and singer, Regina Alcóver and his father is the Peruvian composer and singer Joe Danova. ..
Gianmaria Bruni
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Gianna
Gianna can refer to multiple people: Gianna AmoreGianna JessenGianna DistencaGianna NanniniGianna Angelopoulos–DaskalakiGianna Beretta MollaGianna MichaelsThis is a [disambiguationdisambiguation] page: a list of articles associated with the same title. If an referred you to this page,..
Gianna Amore
Gianna Amore is an American model and actress. She was chosen as Playboy's Playmate of the Month in August, 1989 and has appeared in numerous Playboy videos. Appearances in Playboy special editions Playboy's Great Playmate Hunt February 1989 - page 84.Playboy's Playmate Review Vol. 6 July 199..
Gianna Angelopoulos-Daskalaki
Gianna Angelopoulos-Daskalaki (born Gianna Daskalaki on December 12, 1955 in Heraklion, Crete) is a Greek politician and business woman. She is best known for being the president of the bidding and organizing committee for the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece. She was named one of the 50 most ..
Gianna Beretta Molla
Gianna Beretta Molla (October 4, 1922 - April 28, 1962) was an Italian pediatrician, wife and mother who is best known for refusing both an abortion and a hysterectomy when she was pregnant with her fourth child, despite warnings that continuing with the pregnancy could result in her death. Catholi..
Gianna Distenca
Gianna Distenca made her public debut as Stacy in the music video for the hit 2003 song by Fountains of Wayne, Stacy's Mom. ..
Gianna Jessen
Gianna Jessen Gianna Jessen (born April 6, 1977 in Los Angeles, California) is a pro-life advocate and symbol. Jessen was born over a month premature after a failed saline abortion. The doctor who had carried out the abortion was not present at the moment that Jessen was born alive, and the..
Gianna Michaels
Gianna Michaels (born Melissa Wilson[[Citing sources citation needed]], June 6, 1983 in Seattle, Washington, USA) is an adult performer. Contents 1 Background1.1 Adult Industry2 Awards3 Partial Filmography4 External links Background Adult Industr..
Gianna Nannini
Gianna Nannini (born June 14, 1956) is an Italian female singer-songwriter and rock musician. She's former Formula 1 driver Alessandro Nannini's older sister. Born in Siena, she studied piano playing in Turin and then composition in Milan. Her first hit was in 1979 with the single America and ..
Gianna Rolandi
Gianna Rolandi, American soprano, was born in New York City in 1952 and raised in Spartanburg, South Carolina. She became director of vocal studies for the Lyric Opera Center for American Artists in May 2002 and was named director of the Center in 2006. Miss Rolandi lives in Chicago with her husb..
Giannis Poulopoulos
Giannis Poulopoulos (aka John Poulopoulos) is a Greek singer of the 1970's and 1980's who had many prominent hits in the Greek music world. His albums are the 4th highest sold in Greece of all-time singers. He is considered a legend by many and still currently sings, refusing to give concerts due to..
Giannis Skarimpas
Giannis Skarimpas Giannis Skarimpas, Giannis Skarimbas or Yiannis Skarimbas (Γιάννης Σκαρίμπας) (September 28, 1893 in Agia Efthymia near Amfissa - January 21, 1984) was a Greek writer, dramatist, and poet. Biography Born in Agia Efthymia in the Parnassida area near Amfissa i..
Giannis Skopelitis
Giannis Skopelitis is a Greek football player, born March 2, 1978. He currently plays for Greek football club Egaleo FC. Skopelitis joined FA Premier League club Portsmouth FC in January 2005 from Egaleo FC for what was thought to be a fee of £1million, as a replacement for Amady Faye who was sold..
Giannis Taralidis
Ioannis Taralidis (born 17/05/1981) is a football midfielder who currently plays for Olympiacos, Greece. After spending 5 seasons at Paniliakos side, he moved to Olympiakos in 2003. He rapidly settled down at his new club and became an important first team player. He is extremely famous within Olym..
Giannitsa
Giannitsa or Yannitsa (Greek: Γιαννιτσά) is a town in Greece in the Pella Prefecture. External links http://www.pella.gr/gianitsa-gazide.htmhttp://www.pella.gr/gianitsa-turbesengl.htmhttp://www.thesis.bilkent.edu.tr/0002131.pdf ..
Giannitsochori
Giannitsochori, Gianitsochori, Giannitsohori or Gianitsohori (Greek: Γιαννιτσοχώρι), older forms: -on is a village located in the municipality of Zacharo to its east southeast in the southern part of the prefecture of Ilia. Giannitsoc..
Gianni Agnelli
Gianni Agnelli. Giovanni Agnelli, better known as Gianni Agnelli (March 12, 1921 – January 24, 2003), was an Italian industrialist and principal shareholder of Fiat. As the head of Fiat, he controlled 4.4% of Italy's GNP, 3.1% of its industrial workforce, and 16.5% of its industrial investmen..
Gianni Amelio
Gianni Amelio (born January 20, 1945 in San Pietro Magisano, Catanzaro, Calabria) is an Italian film director. He was a member of jury at the Cannes Film Festival in 1995. He directed many highly acllaimed films such as Stolen Children (1990), Lamerica (1994) and The Keys to the House (2004). Exter..
Gianni Baget Bozzo
Gianni Baget Bozzo (born March 8, 1925) is an Italian Catholic priest, always involved in politics. One-time Christian-Democrat activist, in 1984 he was elected at the European Parliament for the Italian Socialist Party and from 1994 he is a member of Silvio Berlusconi's Forza Italia party. ..
Gianni Bellocchi
This article or section is in need of attention from an expert on the subject.Please help recruit one, or improve this page yourself}} if you can. See [discussion page] for details. Gianni Bellocchi (born July 22, 1969) is a researcher in agricultural and related sciences. He is credi..
Gianni Brera
Gianni Brera (September 8, 1919 - December 19, 1992) was an Italian sports journalist and novel writer. biography Brera was born in San Zenone al Po, near Pavia. He obtained his degree in Political Sciences at Pavia University in 1943, while on leave from his post as Lieutenant of the paratrooper ..
Gianni Bugno
Gianni Bugno. Gianni Bugno (born Brugg, Switzerland, February 14, 1964) is an Italian former professional road racing cyclist. Biography Gianni Bugno was born at Brugg, Switzerland. Bugno was a very versatile rider, able to do well in different races. He won numerous stages in the Tour de ..
Gianni Coscia
Gianni Coscia is an Italian jazz accordionist. Originally a lawyer, Coscia began focusing full time on jazz music. Expresses an interest in developing "the remote values of cultural and popular tradition through the language of jazz." Has toured widely on the international jazz circuit. Of interes..
Gianni De Fraja
Gianni De Fraja is Professor of Economics at the University of Leicester and Research Fellow (CEPR) [link]. Between 1999 and 2005, he was Managing Editor of Bulletin of Economic Research [link]. His research interests lie in the areas of Public economics, Economics of Education, ..
Gianni De Michelis
Gianni De Michelis (born on 26 November 1940 in Venezia) is an Italian politician and Member of the European Parliament for Southern with the NPSI, and is therefore a Non-Inscrit in the European Parliament waiting for the acceptance of his party's request of membership in the European Socialist Gr..
Gianni di Calais
Gianni di Calais is a melodramma semiserio, a "semi-serious" opera in three acts by Gaetano Donizetti (1828), from a libretto by Domenico Gilardoni, based on Jean de Paris by Louis-Charles Caignes. Its received its first performance on the 2nd August 1828 at the Teatro del Fondo, Naples. Exte..
Gianni di Marco
Gianni di Marco was a fictional character in the BBC soap opera EastEnders. He was played by Marc Bannerman. Gianni arrived in Walford along with the rest of the di Marco family in 1998. Gianni was the youngest of the two brothers in the family, the other being Beppe di Marco. He had two younger s..
Gianni di Parigi
Gianni di Parigi is a melodramma or opera in two acts by Gaetano Donizetti (1839) from a libretto by Felice Romani which had been previously used by Morlacchi (1818) for an opera of the same name. It is derived from Jean de Paris, an opera by François-Adrien Boïeldieu (1812) with libretto by Claud..
Gianni Garko
Gianni Garko ( born Giovanni Garcovich in 1935 and often billed as John Garko) is a Yugoslavian actor who found much fame in Italian westerns especially as the enigmatic Sartana. He also played two other spaghetti western characters Holy Ghost and an unofficial Django. He began his film career in 19..
Gianni Giansanti
Gianni Giansanti is a long time photographer of Pope John Paul II. ..
Gianni Guigou
Gianni Bismark Martinez Guigou (born February 22, 1975 in Nueva Palmira) is a soccer player from Uruguay, currently playing for Serie A side Treviso. He played for Uruguay in the 2002 FIFA World Cup. Teams and clubs 2004-2005Dec: Fiorentina2006Jan-June: Treviso on loan 2006-present: Treviso ..
Gianni Letta
Gianni Letta (born April 15, 1935 in Avezzano) is an Italian politician, member of the Forza Italia party. After graduating in law, he started working as a journalist for several daily newspapers, as well as RAI and ANSA. He was editor-in-law of Il Tempo from 1973 to 1987; that year, he left the n..
Gianni Meccia
Giovanni "Gianni" Meccia (born 2 June 1931, Ferrara, Italy) is an Italian actor, composer and singer. He is usually associated with Jimmy Fontana. Contents 1 Filmography1.1 Actor1.2 Composer1.3 Singer2 External links Filmography Actor Djurado (1969)Canzoni in... bikini (..
Gianni Morandi
Gianni Morandi (born December 11, 1944) is an Italian pop singer and entertainer. Born Gian Luigi Morandi in Monghidoro, Italy, he became of the best-known show-business personalities in Italy of the past four decades. He made his debut in 1962 and quickly placed high at or won a number of Italian ..
Gianni Morbidelli
Gianni Morbidelli (born January 13, 1968 in Pesaro) is a former Formula One driver from Italy. He participated in 70 grands prix, debuting on March 11, 1990. He achieved one podium, and scored a total of 8.5 championship points. He was European and Italian Formula 3 champion in 1989. After doing th..
Gianni Motta
Gianni Motta (born March 13, 1943) is an Italian former bicycle racer who won the 1966 Giro d'Italia . Gianni Motta was born at Cassano d'Adda (Lombardy). His main victories include the Giro d'Italia (1966), a Giro di Lombardia (1964), a Tour of Switzerland (1967) and two Tour de Romandie (1966,..
Gianni Paladini
Gianni Paladini is the current chairman of Queens Park Rangers football club after replacing Bill Power in a boardroom coup. He is part of the Monaco-based consortium, Wanlock LLC, that owns 30% of QPR. He was allegedly threatened with a gun before the team's first home game of the 2005-06 season al..
Gianni Rivera
Giovanni (Gianni) Rivera (born August 18, 1943 in Alessandria) was an Italian football player, the European Footballer of the Year in 1969. He is widely considered to be one of the best players in the history of the game. He was nicknamed il golden boy of Italian football. He is the product of Al..
Gianni Rodari
--> Gianni Rodari (October 23 1920 - April 14 1980) was an Italian writer and journalist, most famous for his books for children. Biography Rodari was born in Omegna, a small town in the province of Novara (Northern Italy). His father, a baker, died when Rodari was only ten. Rodari and his two bro..
Gianni Romme
Gianni Petrus Cornelis Romme (born February 12, 1973 in Lage Zwaluwe) is a Dutch speed skater. Gianni Romme is strongest on the longest distances (5,000 and 10,000 metres). His greatest triumphs came at the 1998 Winter Olympics, where he won both events. Four years later, at the 2002 Winter Olymp..
Gianni Rufini
Gianni (Giovanni) Rufini was born in Rome in 1954. He is an expert of international aid, former Director of VOICE, the Network of European NGOs working in Emergency and Humanitarian Aid (1997-2001). A former media-man, with a background in anthropology, since 1985, he has worked in development and ..
Gianni Russo
Louis Giovanni "Gianni" Russo (born December 12, 1942) is an Italian-American actor who is best known for his role as Carlo Rizzi in the 1972 movie The Godfather. Russo then went on to act in over 35 movies including The Freshman, Any Given Sunday, and Seabiscuit. He is also a singer and in 2004 he ..
Gianni Schicchi
Gianni Schicchi is an opera in one act by Giacomo Puccini to an Italian libretto by Giovacchino Forzano, based on a story that is referred to in Dante's The Divine Comedy. It is the third act of Il trittico. First performance: Metropolitan Opera, New York City, 1918. Contents 1 Literary sou..
Gianni Vattimo
Gianni Vattimo (born January 4, 1936) is an internationally recognized Italian author and politician. Many of his works have been translated into English. Contents 1 Biography2 Vattimo’s Philosophy2.1 Being as event2.2 Nihilism as the truth of history2.3 Weak thought..
Gianni Versace
Gianni Versace Giovanni "Gianni" Versace (Reggio Calabria, December 2, 1946 – Miami, July 15, 1997) was a charismatic and accomplished Italian designer of clothing and theater costumes. He was influenced by Andy Warhol and modern abstract art; and considered one of the most colourful and..
Gianni Zuiverloon
Gianni Zuiverloon (born December 30, 1986, in Rotterdam, The Netherlands) is a Dutch football defender, who currently plays for Feyenoord Rotterdam. Career overview Gianni Zuiverloon started playing football at the age of six, when he got tired of other sports such as karate and swimming. His m..
Giannos Kranidiotis
Giannos Kranidiotis (Greek Γιάννος Κρανιδιώτης) (born September 25, 1947, Nicosia, Cyprus; died September 9, 1999, Romania) was a Greek diplomat and politician. Son of the Cyprus diplomat, poet, and writer Nikos Kranidiotis, he studied law at the University of Athens and continued..
Giannozzo Manetti
Giannozzo Manetti (1396-1459) was a Florentine politician and diplomat, and also a significant humanist scholar of the early Italian Renaissance. He was a Latinist, and a translator of works in Greek; he also studied Hebrew. He is now remembered principally as the author of De dignitate et excellen..
Giannutri
Giannutri is a small island in the Mediterranean Sea off the coast of Tuscany, Italy. It is the most southernly island of the Tuscan Archipelago. Its tourist attractions include Villa Domizia, an ancient Roman house on the seashore. ..
Gianoukas Papoulas
Gianoukas Papoulas is a pop rock band from Sao Paulo, Brazil. External link [Gianoukas Papoulas Homepage] ..
Gianpaolo Dozzo
Gianapaolo Dozzo is a leading member of the Liga Veneta-Lega Nord. MP from 1994, he is under-secretary at the Ministry of Agriculture from 2001, in Silvio Berlusconi's government. ..
Gianpaolo Pazzini
Gianpaolo Pazzini (born August 2, 1984 in Pescia) is an Italian football (soccer) player, who currently plays for Fiorentina, having been transferred there from Atalanta in January 2005, with Valeri Bojinov from U.S. Lecce. Gianpaolo Pazzini's high point of the 2005/2006 season was his spectacular e..
Gianrico Carofiglio
Gianrico Carofiglio (born 1961) is a novelist and anti-Mafia judge in Italian city of Bari. His debut novel, Involuntary Witness, was published in 2002, and translated into English in 2005 by Patrick Creagh and published by the Bitter Lemon Press. It has also been adapted as the basis for a popular ..
Giant
Giant(s) can refer to: Giant (mythology), especially tall mythological creaturesA person with gigantism, or just a human who is unusually tallA Giant from Warhammer Fantasy In business: Giant Manufacturing, a bicycle manufacturerGiant Food, two distinct supermarket chains in the Mid-Atlantic p..
Giant's Bread
Giant's Bread (published in 1930) is a tragedy novel written by Agatha Christie. It is the first of six novels Christie published under the nom-de-plume Mary Westmacott. Plot [Spoiler warningSpoiler warning]: Plot and/or ending details follow. Musical genius Vernon Deyre marries his chi..
Giant's Castle
Giant's Castle is a mountain peak in the southern African Drakensberg in KwaZulu Natal. Giants Castle offers visitors to the regions spectacular hiking opportunities with breathtaking views. But Giants Castle is more than just another Drakensberg destination. The Nature Reserve offers secluded ..
Giant's Causeway
For other uses, see (disambiguation)}}}. Basalt columns World Heritage Sitesof Ireland Archaeological Ensemble of the Bend of the BoyneDowthKnowthNewgrangeMonknewtonNewgrange cursusTownleyhall passage grave Sceilig Mhichil Giant's Causeway The Giant's Causeway is an area of 40,000 inte..
Giant's Causeway (disambiguation)
Giant's Causeway usually refers to the Giant's Causeway rock formation in Northern Ireland, but might also be Giant's Causeway, New South Wales, a similar smaller formation in AustraliaGiant's Causeway (horse), Europe's Horse of the Year in 2000, sired by Storm Cat from Mariah's Storm. This article..
Giant-kin
Giant-kin are large humanoids related to the 'true' giants in the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game. The mythology of the Forgotten Realms has it that the mother of all giants, Othea, cheated on her unfaithful husband, Annam, the father of giants, with Ulutiu. Othea and Ulutiu they sired the fou..
Giant-Size X-Men
Giant-Size X-Men #1 was a one-time issue of the X-Men comic book series, published by Marvel Comics. It was written by Len Wein and illustrated by Dave Cockrum. Though not a regular issue, it jumpstarted the series after a five-year hiatus. The issue serves as a link between the original X-Men an..
Giant-Stop & Shop
Giant-Stop & Shop is a company owned by Ahold USA, a subsidiary of Ahold. It was formed in 2004 by a merger of Giant Food and Stop & Shop, two formerly separate companies within Ahold USA. It is the largest supermarket chain currently in existence in the Mid-Atlantic region. History In early 2004, ..
Giant-striped Mongoose
The Giant-striped Mongoose, also known as Grandidier's Mongoose, Galidictis grandidieri, is a small mammal weighing between 1.1 and 1.3 lb (500 to 600 g) and living in Southwestern Madagascar, in areas of spiny desert vegetation. It is a pale brown or grayish coloured mongoose, with eight wide, da..
Giantess
A giantess is a female giant. The word has at least three interpretations: A mythical being resembling a woman of superhuman size and strength.A human woman of exceptional stature, often the result of some medical or genetic abnormality (see gigantism). A typical example was Jane Bunford (died 1922..
GIANTmicrobes
GIANTmicrobes is a toy company based in Wilmington, Delaware and headquartered in Chicago, Illinois that manufactures plush toys resembling microbes, including a number of clinically important human pathogens. The toys, also referred to as GIANTmicrobes, are available via Internet and are also typic..
Gianto
Gianto is a Featherweight Robot which entered in robot wars series 7. It weighs about 12kg and has a helicopter bale on the top and a sideways flipper. Craig Bambi is the owner, driver and builder of the machine, in its first fight it faced Micro Mute, Rampage 2 and Whipper and lost unfortunately be..
Giants' grave
Giants' grave, or tomba di giganti, is the name given by local people and archaeologists to a type of Sardinian megalithic gallery grave built during the Bronze Age. A stone cairn lies over the burial chamber itself. Some examples have a cup-shaped entrance similar to the Court Cairn tombs of Irela..
Giants-Dodgers rivalry
The historic rivalry between the San Francisco Giants and the Los Angeles Dodgers began when both clubs played in New York City, with the Giants playing uptown at the Polo Grounds in the borough of Manhattan and the Dodgers at Ebbets Field in the borough of Brooklyn. In 1958, the Dodgers' Walter O'M..
Giants: Citizen Kabuto
Giants: Citizen Kabuto is a multi-platform video game developed by Planet Moon Studios, published by Interplay. It was released in late 2000, after many delays. The game was praised for its state of the art graphics, humorous story, and innovative genre blending gameplay. The game mixed elements ..
Giants kettle
Giants kettle, also known as giants cauldrons or potholes, are cavities or holes which appear to have been drilled in the surrounding rocks by eddying currents of water-bearing stones, gravel and other detrital matter. The size varies from a few inches to several feet in depth and diameter. The co..
Giants of Jazz
The Giants of Jazz was a jazz all-star group of the 1970s which featured Art Blakey, Dizzy Gillespie, Al McKibbon, Thelonious Monk, Sonny Stitt, and Kai Winding. They recorded two albums. ..
Giants Ring, Belfast
The Giant's Ring is a henge monument at Ballynahatty, near Shaw's Bridge, Belfast, Northern Ireland. It consists of a circular enclosure, 200 m in diameter, surrounded with an 4 m high earthwork bank with five entrances, and a small neolithic passage grave slightly off-centre. The tomb is believed t..
Giants series
Giants Series is a series of five Science Fiction books by author James P. Hogan beginning in 1977. The story follows several scientists who discover how humans originated on a Planet named Minerva which orbited the Sol System between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter. When Minerva was about to be ..
Giants Stadium
Giants Stadium is the home stadium for the New York Giants and New York Jets NFL football teams, and Red Bull New York (formerly MetroStars) of Major League Soccer. It is located in East Rutherford, New Jersey in the Meadowlands Sports Complex, which also hosts the Meadowlands Racetrack and the Con..
Giant (album)
Debut album by The Woodentops. Tracklisting Get It OnGood ThingGive It TimeLove TrainHear Me JamesLove Affair With Everyday LivingSo Good TodayShoutHistoryTravelling ManLast TimeEverything Breaks..
Giant (band)
Giant is an American Rock band that was formed in 1987 by brothers Dann and David Huff. The band also included keyboardist Alan Pasqua, who had once played with Sammy Hagar. The band only scored one major hit, the 1990 power ballad "I'll See You In My Dreams", but it's "I'm A Believer" that is f..
Giant (Dungeons & Dragons)
In the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game, giant is a type of creature, or "creature type". Giants are humanoid-shaped creatures of great strength and size. All giants have Low-light vision. As a group, they have no other special abilities or immunities. There are six types of classic ..
Giant (film)
Giant is a 1956 drama film and was directed by George Stevens. The movie was adapted by Fred Guiol and Ivan Moffat from the novel by Edna Ferber. It stars Elizabeth Taylor, Rock Hudson, James Dean, Carroll Baker, Jane Withers, Chill Wills, Mercedes McCambridge, Dennis Hopper, Sal Mineo, Rod Taylo..
Giant (magazine)
Dec. 2004/Jan. 2005 issue. Giant Magazine is a bimonthly magazine which caters to men's interests. The first issue was printed in October 2004. Giant focuses mainly on popular culture, including reviews of video games, movies, music, everyday happenings (such as the fall equinox), and celebr..
Giant (mythology)
The mythology and legends of many different cultures include mythological creatures of human appearance but prodigious size and strength. "Giant" is the English word commonly used for such beings, derived from one of the most famed example: the gigantes of Greek mythology. In various Indo-European ..
Giant African snail
The giant African snail, Achatina fulica, has been widely introduced to Asia, to Pacific and Indian Oceans islands, and to the West Indies. It has also been intercepted widely by quarantine officials and incipient invasions have been eradicated, for instance in the mainland USA. It is a major agric..
Giant animal
A giant animal can refer to an entire species which is particularly large, especially when compared to other species in the same family or order. For example, a giant squid is 10 - 13m long, making it the second largest species of squid in existence (the Colossal Squid is larger). Alternatively, a ..
Giant Anteater
Wikimedia Commons has media related to: [Special] The Giant Anteater, Myrmecophaga tridactyla, is the largest species of anteater. It is found in Central and South America. It is the only species in the Myrmecophaga genus. It is a solitary animal, found in many habitats, including..
GIANT AntiSpyware
GIANT AntiSpyware is a spyware detection and removal application developed by GIANT Company Software, Inc. GIANT Company Software, Inc. was acquired by Microsoft Corporation on December 16 2004. GIANT AntiSpyware is no longer sold; however, Microsoft still provides technical support for the program..
Giant Armadillo
The Giant Armadillo (Priodontes maximus) is the largest species of armadillo. It was once found widely in tropical forests of eastern South America and now extends in varied habitats as far south as northern Argentina; the species is considered endangered. They typically weigh around 27 kg (59 lb..
Giant Asian Pond Turtle
The Giant Asian Pond Turtle (Heosemys grandis) inhabits rivers, streams, marshes, and rice paddies from estuarine lowlands to moderate altitudes (up to about 400 m) throughout Cambodia and Vietnam and in parts of Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar and Thailand. References Asian Turtle Trade Working Gr..
Giant axonal neuropathy
Giant axonal neuropathy is a rare inherited condition that causes disorganization of neurofilaments. Neurofilaments form a structural framework that helps to define the shape and size of neurons and are essential for normal nerve function. Giant axonal neuropathy generally appears in infancy or ear..
Giant Barred Frog
The Giant Barred Frog, Mixophyes iteratus, is a species of barred frogs that is associated with flowing streams and creeks in wet sclerophyll and rainforest habitats from the coast to the ranges. It occurs from south-east Queensland to just south of the Newcastle region in New South Wales. Conten..
Giant beaked whale
The genus Berardius contains two species of beaked whale, Baird's Beaked Whale and Arnoux's Beaked Whale. The two species are so similar that some scientists (see e.g. [4]) regard their separation into distinct species as a historical anomaly. The two species are the largest of all beaked ..
Giant beaver
Giant beavers (Castoroides ohioensis) were a huge species of rodent, with a length up to 2.5 m (8.2 feet) and an estimated weight of 220 kg (485 lbs). They lived in North America and went extinct during the last Ice Age, 10,000 years ago. Fossils 70,000 years old were found in Toronto, Canada. Its..
Giant Bite Studios
Giant Bite Studios is a third-party video game developer founded in November of 2005. The company was founded by Hamilton Chu, former lead producer of Bungie Studios, Michael Evans, also from Bungie Studios, Steve Theodore, and Andy Glaister, both of whom developed Counter-Strike and Half-Life for ..
Giant boarfish
The giant boarfish or common boarfish or sowfish (Paristiopterus labiosus) is an armorhead of the genus Paristiopterus, found in the eastern Indian Ocean, around southern Australia, and New Zealand, at depths of between 20 and 200 metres. Its length is between 45 and 100 centimetres, and they weig..
Giant bully
The giant bully (Gobiomorphus gobioides) is a sleeper of the genus Gobiomorphus, found in slow flowing streams within a few kilometres of the coast of the North and South Islands of New Zealand. Their length is up to 25 cm. The giant bully is the largest member of the Eleotridae family in New Zea..
Giant burrowing cockroach
The giant burrowing cockroach (Macropanesthia rhinoceros) is also known as the rhinoceros cockroach and litter bug. They are native to Australia and mostly found in tropical parts of Queensland. However, some people like to keep them as pets and describe them as easy to care for, although they are ..
Giant Burrowing Frog
The Giant Burrowing Frog (Heleioporus australiacus) is a large frog species that occurs in coastal south east New South Wales and Victoria. Physical Description This is a large species of frog, up to 10cm in length. It is normally grey, dark brown or black on the back. It is white on the belly. T..
Giant california sea cucumber
The Giant California Sea Cucumber is a Sea Cucumber that can be found from the Gulf of Alaska to southern California. It is found from the low intertidal zone to a depth of 250 m. They are most abundant in areas with moderate current with cobbles, boulders or bedrock. Contents 1 Physical ..
Giant cell tumor of bone
Giant cell tumor of bone is a soft, reddish-brown, sometimes malignant, osteolytic tumor composed of multinucleated giant cells and ovoid or spindle-shaped cells, occurring most frequently in an end of a long tubular bone of young adults. Synonyms include giant cell myeloma and osteoclastoma. See..
GIANT Center
Redirect [[Template:Infobox Stadium]]The GIANT Center is a 12,500-seat multi-purpose arena in Hershey, Pennsylvania, near Harrisburg. It is home to the Hershey Bears ice hockey team and replaced the Hersheypark Arena as the Bears' home in 2002. In addition to Bears games, the arena also hosts an an..
Giant Civet
--> The Giant Civet (Macrogalidia muschenbrcoeki) is a mammal that lives solely on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi, particularly the North and Central regions. It looks like a mongoose but with a smaller body and tan hair. Its feet are very large and can be used to grasp which is helpful in cl..
Giant clam
In Japanese cuisine, Geoduck (mirugai) is sometimes referred to as "giant clam". The giant clam (Tridacna gigas) or traditionally, pa’ua, is the largest living bivalve mollusc. One of a number of large clam species native to the shallow coral reefs of the South Pacific and Indian oceans, they can..
Giant cockroach
Giant cockroaches, or blaberids (family Blaberidae) are the second largest cockroach family. Some ..
GIANT Company Software
GIANT Company Software, Inc. developed internet security products, including GIANT Spam Inspector, GIANT Popup Inspector, and GIANT AntiSpyware. GIANT's head office was located in New York, NY. GIANT also had offices in Chicago, IL and Atlanta, GA. Microsoft Corporation officially announced its acq..
Giant component
Giant component is a network theory term referring to a connected subgraph that contains a majority of the entire graph's nodes. Percolation theory is based on adding nodes and connections to an empty graph until a giant component surfaces. ..
Giant Conebill
The Giant Conebill Oreomanes fraseri is a small passerine bird, one of the tanager family. It is the only member of the genus Oreomanes. The Giant Conebill is 15 cm in length and weighs 22.0 -27.0 g. It is found in the Andes from Colombia to Ecuador, and Peru to Bolivia. It lives in Polylepis tre..
Giant Country Horns
The Giant Country Horns (or GCH) were a group of musicians who joined the jamband Phish for about twenty shows during the band's 1991 summer tour. The horn section, named after Giant Country White Bread, added new arrangements to classic Phish songs, including Suzy Greenberg and Split Open and Mel..
Giant Cowbird
The Giant Cowbird, Molothrus oryzivorus, is a large passerine bird in the New World family Icteridae. It breeds from southern Mexico south to northern Argentina, and on Trinidad and Tobago. It may have relatively recently colonised the latter island. It is associated with open woodland and cultiv..
Giant crab
A Giant crab is a type of crustacean. Giant crab may refer to: Japanese spider crab (Macrocheira kaempferi), the largest crab species aliveTasmanian giant crab (Pseudocarcinus gigas), another large crab species..
Giant Danio
The Giant Danio (Devario aequipinnatus) is a tropical fish belonging to the minnow family (Cyprinidae). Originating in Sri Lanka, Nepal, and the West coast of India, it grows to a maximum length of 6 inches (15 cm), making it one of the largest of the danionins. They are characterized by a blue ..
Giant depolarizing potentials
Giant depolarizing potentials (GDP) are the first type of electrical activity of developing brain. These patterns of activity differ a lot from the adult brain activity patterns: they do not carry encoded information, they are generalized, they are relatively slow (with typical time of .1 s), they a..
Giant desert hairy scorpion
The giant desert hairy scorpion (Hadrurus arizonensis) is the largest scorpion inhabiting North America, attaining a length of 15 cm (6 inches). Although this scorpion is big, its venom is not very potent, and its sting is commonly perceived to be about as painful as a honeybee's sting. ..
Giant Dipper
The Giant Dipper is a famous wooden roller coaster located at the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk, an amusement park in Santa Cruz California, USA. It was designed by Frank Prior and Fredrick Church with a double out and back layout and built by Arthur Looff in 1924 in just 47 days at a cost of $50,000..
Giant Ditch Frog
The Giant Ditch Frog (Leptodactylus fallax) is a frog that lives in Dominica and Montserrat. The population has declined 80 % in the last ten years and this species is now critical endangered. The population is estimated to 8000 individuals. One of the main threats is human consumption. It is also..
Giant Drag
Giant Drag is a Californian Indie rock duo, composed of singer/guitarist Annie Hardy and simultaneous drummer and synth-player Micah Calabrese. They have released an EP, Lemona, in 2003 and a debut album, Hearts and Unicorns, which was released in the United States on September 13, 2005, and Febru..
Giant Eagle
Giant Eagle, Inc. is an American supermarket chain with stores located in Pennsylvania, Ohio, West Virginia, and Maryland. Giant Eagle was founded in 1918 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and since then has continued to grow. In 2005, it was the 34th largest privately-held corporation, as determined by ..
Giant earwig
Giant earwig may refer to any of the following species of earwigs. Titanolabis colosseaLabidura herculeanaLabidura riparia This is a [disambiguationdisambiguation] page: a list of articles associated with the same title. If an referred you to this page, you may wish to change the link t..
Giant Eland
The Giant Eland (Taurotragus derbianus also known as the Derby Eland) is an open forest savannah antelope. It is found in Central African Republic, Sudan and Senegal. There are two subspecies: the endangered T. d. derbianus, found in Senegal's Niokolo-Koba National Park, and the low risk T. d. gi..
Giant Fijian long-horned beetle
The giant Fijian long-horned beetle is known from the island of Viti Levu in Fiji, and is one of the largest living insect species, with specimens around 15 cm long, excluding legs, antennae, or jaws; judged by this standard, this is the second-longest of all known beetles, exceeded only by t..
Giant Food
Giant Food is the name of two separate but related supermarket chains in the United States, and a two other unrelated chains. Contents 1 Giant Food of Carlisle, Pennsylvania2 Giant Food of Landover, Maryland3 Giant Food Markets of Broome County, New York4 Giant Eagle5 Foo..
Giant Food of Carlisle, Pennsylvania
For other uses, see Giant Food. Giant Food Stores was founded in 1923, when David Javitch opened a small meat market in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. The Carlisle Meat Market, as it was known, began as a humble two-man butcher shop. David Javitch, otherwise known as "D.J.", built his business on the pr..
Giant Food of Landover, Maryland
For other uses, see Giant Food. Giant Food Inc. of Landover, Maryland, was founded in 1936 by N.M. Cohen and Samuel Lehrman in Washington, D.C.. It expanded to Virginia, Maryland, Delaware, and New Jersey. Giant Food Inc. was the first to use computer-assisted checkout systemwide. Giant Food I..
Giant forest hog
The Giant Forest Hog (Hylochoerus meinertzhageni) is the largest wild member of the pig family Suidae. It is the only member of the genus Hylochoerus. Males can reach as much as two metres in length and 110 centimetres high at the shoulder and have been known to weigh as much as 225 kg. Unlike mos..
Giant Forest Peccary
The Giant Forest Peccary is a possible fourth species of peccary, discovered in Brazil in 2004. The animal was uncovered by a team including German natural history filmmaker Lothar Frenz and Dutch naturalist Marc Van Roosmalen. Frenz claims the species' colour and behaviour were different to known s..
Giant for a Day
Giant for a Day is a album by British progressive rock band Gentle Giant which was released in 1978. The band's facility for counterpoint and medieval-themed arrangements had largely been abandoned by this stage in their career. Commercial success eluded them, while their original fan base began t..
Giant Frog
The Giant Frog (Cyclorana australis) is a species of burrowing frog native to Australia. It occurs from western Queensland through to northern Western Australia. Contents 1 Physical description2 Ecology and behaviour3 Similar species4 References Physical description This i..
Giant Gippsland earthworm
The giant Gippsland earthworm (Megascolides australis), is one of the most fascinating of Australia's 1000 native earthworm species. These giant earthworms average at 80 cm long and 2 cm in diameter but can reach 3 metres. They have a dark purple head and a pinkish-grey body. They live..
Giant Glass
Giant Glass is a North Andover (MA) based windshield replacement specialist. Giant Glass has been servicing vehicles in New England for over 25 years. The company has five locations and a fleet of 30 vans. Its stores are open 8 - 5 Monday through Friday and 8 - 12 on Saturdays. All Giant Glass tech..
Giant golden-crowned flying fox
The Giant golden-crowned flying fox (Acerodon jubatus), also known as the Golden-capped fruit bat, is a rare fruit bat said to be the largest bat in the world. They can be found only in the Philippines, where they live in the caves and rainforests of Maitum, Sarangani. The species is endangered and..
Giant gourami
The Giant Gourami, Osphronemus goramy, is a gourami, a freshwater fish belonging to the family Osphronemidae. Some other larger members of this family are also occasionally or regionally referred to as "giant gouramis", including the banded gourami, Polyacanthus fasciatus, and the three spot goura..
Giant granadilla
The Giant Granadilla or Badea (Spanish: [ba.ˈð̞e.a]), Passiflora quadrangularis, is the largest of the passionfruits, plants of the genus Passiflora. It is a perennial native of tropical America, having smooth, cordate, ovate or acuminate leaves; petioles bearing from 4 to 6 glands; an..
Giant grouper
The giant grouper (Epinephelus lanceolatus), also known as the brindle bass and as the Queensland grouper in Australia, is the largest bony fish found in coral reefs, and the aquatic emblem of Queensland, Australia. It is found throughout the Indo-Pacific region, with the exception of the Persian ..
Giant hatchetfish
The giant hatchetfish, (Argyropelecus gigas), a marine hatchetfish of the genus Argyropelecus, is found in deep tropical and subtropical waters of all oceans, except the north Pacific. Its length is between 8 and 12 centimetres, and it is the largest fish in its family. The giant hatchetfish i..
Giant Hawaiian Darner
The Giant Hawaiian Darner, also known as the Giant Hawaiian Dragonfly or Pinao (Anax strenuus) is a dragonfly of the family Aeshnidae, endemic to the Hawaiian Islands, particularly common at higher elevation. This species is one of the largest of all modern dragonflies, reaching a wingspan of 7.5..
Giant Hogweed
Giant Hogweed (Heracleum mantegazzianum), or Giant Cow-parsley, is a member of the family Apiaceae, native to the Caucasus Region and Central Asia. As its name indicates, it is characterized by its size and may grow 2-5m (rarely to 7 m) tall. Except for size, it closely resembles Common Hogweed (..
Giant Horned Lizard
The giant horned lizard (Phrynosoma asio) can be found on the Pacific coast in southern Mexico. They are considered the largest horned lizard and are also the most slender ( they have a typical lizard-like appearance). ..
Giant house spider
The Giant house spider (Tegenaria gigantea) is the largest member of the Tegenaria genus and is a close relative of both the Domestic house spider and the infamous Hobo spider. Although closely related to the Hobo spider, its bite does not pose a threat to humans or pets. Contents 1 Appear..
Giant Hummingbird
The Giant Hummingbird (Patagona gigas) is the largest member of the hummingbird family, weighing 18-20 g (6/10 - 7/10 of an ounce). It measures eight and a half inches in length (~23cm), which is about the length of a starling or an American catbird. It is the only member of the genus Patagona. T..
Giant hutia
The giant hutias are an extinct group of large rodents known from fossil and subfossil material in the West Indies. One species, Amblyrhiza inundata, is estimated to have weighed between 50 and 200 kg, big specimens being as large as an American Black Bear. This is much larger than Capybara, the ..
Giant Ibis
The Giant Ibis (Thaumatibis gigantea), the only species in the monotypic genus Thaumatibis, is a wading bird of the ibis family, Threskiornithidae. It is confined to northern Cambodia, with a few birds surviving in extreme southern Laos. It occurs in marshes, pools, wide rivers and seasonal water..
Giant impact hypothesis
The Big Splash. View from the south pole. The giant impact hypothesis (or Big Splash or Big Whack; cf. Big Bang) is the now-dominant scientific theory for the formation of the Moon, which is thought to have formed as a result of a collision between the young Earth and a Mars-sized body someti..
Giant isopod
A giant isopod may be one of approximately nine species of large isopods (crustaceans related to the shrimps and crabs) in the genus Bathynomus. They are thought to be abundant in cold, deep waters of the Atlantic and Pacific Ocean. The generitype Bathynomus giganteus is the largest known species o..
Giant Kangaroo Rat
The Giant Kangaroo Rat (Dipodomys ingens) is an endangered rodent species endemic to California. It is the largest of the kangaroo rats, measuring about 15 cm (6 in.) in length, not including its long, tufted tail. It is buffy or brown in color. Like other kangaroo rats it has a large head and lar..
Giant Kingfisher
The Giant Kingfisher, Megaceryle maxima, is the largest kingfisher in Africa, where it is a resident breeding bird over most of the continent south of the Sahara Desert other than the arid southwest. There are two subspecies, M. m. maxima, found in open country, and M. m. gigantea in the rainfores..
Giant Koala
The Giant Koala (Phascolarctos stirtoni) was an arboreal marsupial which existed in Australia during the Pleistocene epoch. The Giant Koala was about one third larger than the contemporary Koala, and was a part of the Australian megafauna. The two koala species co-existed during the Pleistocene; ..
Giant kokopu
For a general article about all 3 kokopu. The giant kokopu (Galaxias argenteus) is a galaxiid of the genus Galaxias, found only in New Zealand. It grows to a length of up to 45 cm and is the largest member of the Galaxiidae family. It was the first member of the Galaxiidae family to be discovere..
Giant Lantern Festival
The Giant Lantern Festival is an annual festival held in December (Saturday before Christmas Eve) in The City of San Fernando in the Philippines. The festival features a competition of giant lanterns. Because of the popularity of the festival, the city has been nicknamed the "Christmas Capital of..
Giant Leopard Moth
The Giant Leopard Moth (Hypercompe scribonia) is a moth of the family Arctiidae. It is distributed throughout the Southeastern United States from New England to Mexico. This species is sometimes known as Ecpantheria scribonia (an archaic genus name which has recently been rendered obsolete; all the..
Giant Magellan Telescope
The Giant Magellan Telescope is a ground-based telescope planned for completion in 2016. It would consist of seven, 8.4-meter "primary" mirrors, for a total telescope diameter of 25.4 metres (83 feet). The telescope is expected to have over four times the light-gathering ability of existing instrume..
Giant magnetoresistive effect
The Giant Magnetoresistance Effect (GMR) is a quantum mechanical effect observed in thin film structures composed of alternating ferromagnetic and nonmagnetic metal layers. The effect manifests itself as a significant decrease in resistance from the zero-field state, when the magnetization of a..
Giant Manufacturing
The bike that Alexander Vinokourov used at the 2005 Tour de France. Giant Manufacturing Co. Ltd. is a bicycle manufacturer. Established 1972 in Tachia, Taichung, Taiwan. Giant (捷安特) started as an OEM, manufacturing bicycles to be sold under other company brand names. In 1986, Giant, und..
Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope
Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope OrganizationNCRA Location10 km east of Narayangaon, India Wavelength regimeradio 50 to 1500 MHz Completion datefirst light 1995 Webpagehttp://www.gmrt.ncra.tifr.res.in Physical characteristics Telescope stylearray of 30 parabolic reflectors Diameter (m..
Giant Mine
The Giant Mine was a large gold mine located at Yellowknife, Northwest Territories. Gold was discovered on the property in 1935 by Johnny Baker, but the true extent of the gold deposits were not known until 1944 when a massive gold-bearing shear zone was uncovered beneath the dift-filled Baker Cree..
Giant moa
The giant moa (Dinornis) is an extinct genus of ratite birds belonging to the moa family. It was native to New Zealand. Dinornis were among the largest birds that ever lived, standing 3 m (10 ft) tall and weighing 250 kg. Feather remains were reddish brown and hair-like, and apparently covered m..
Giant mouse lemur
The giant mouse lemurs are two small lemur species (genus Mirza) native to the western deciduous forests of Madagascar, usually located near the coast or other sources of water. They are an olive-brown colour dorsally, and are yellowish-grey ventrally. Originally the genus was described as a singl..
Giant muntjac
Giant Muntjac (Muntiacus vuquangensis) is a species of muntjac deer. It is the largest muntjac species and was discovered in 1994 in Vu Quang, Ha Tinh province of Vietnam and in central Laos. It is a medium-sized deer, most closely related to the Indian Muntjac (or Common Muntjac). References Dee..
Giant octopus
For other uses, see (disambiguation)}}}. Enteroctopus is an octopus genus, many of whose members are sometimes known as giant octopuses. However, one member of this genus is extremely small in size. Genus Enteroctopus * North Pacific Giant Octopus, Enteroctopus dofleini* Enteroctopus juttingi **..
Giant octopus (disambiguation)
Giant Octopus may refer to the following: Octopuses of the genus EnteroctopusColossal Octopus or lusca, a cryptid This is a [disambiguationdisambiguation] page: a list of articles associated with the same title. If an referred you to this page, you may wish to change the link to point d..
Giant Orchid
The Giant Orchid, Grammatophyllum speciosum, also called Tiger Orchid, Sugar Cane Orchid or Queen of the Orchids, is the world's largest orchid. It is native to New Guinea, Indonesia and Malaysia, growing in crotches of large trees on exposed areas of the lowland tropical rainforest. It is an epi..
Giant order
In Classical architecture, a giant order is an order whose columns or pilasters span two (or more) stories. At the same time, smaller orders may feature in arcades or window and door framings within the storeys that are embraced by the giant order. At the Palaces on the Capitoline Hill in Rome, (156..
Giant Otter
The Giant Otter Pteronura brasiliensis is the largest of the world's otters. It is native to South America but is endangered and is also very rare in captivity. The Giant Otter can reach up to 6 ft (1.8 m) in length, and weigh 76 lb (34 kg) in weight. The females are smaller and weigh only 57&ndas..
Giant Otter Shrew
The Giant Otter Shrew (Potamogale velox) is an insectivore that inhabits the Dzanga-Sangha tropical rainforest of Cameroon, where it lives along streams and in swamps. It is the only member of the genus Potamogale. It is characterized by a long, flat tail, which it uses for swimming. The Giant Otte..
Giant Over Soul
Giant Over Soul is a technique used by some protagonists of the manga and anime Shaman King, by Hiroyuki Takei. Introduction Giant Over Soul, or Giant Spirit Control, is the next step in shamanic combat techniques, after the mastery of Over Soul. Indeed, most participants of the second part of th..
Giant Palouse earthworm
The giant Palouse earthworm or Washington giant earthworm (Driloleirus americanus) is a species of earthworm belonging to the genus Driloleirus found in the Palouse region of Eastern Washington state as well as parts of Idaho in the United States. Believed to be possibly extinct since the 1980s, ..
Giant Panda
The giant panda (Ailuropoda melanoleuca "black-and-white cat-foot") is a mammal classified in the bear family, Ursidae, native to central and southern China. [] There is on-going debate as to whether this creature is truly a bear or more related to the raccoon rather than the bear, or pe..
Giant Panda (group)
Contents 1 History1.1 Fly School Reunion2 Members2.1 Additional Members3 Discography3.1 Promos3.2 Albums3.3 7\" Singles3.4 12\" Singles3.5 Collaborations4 External links History Giant Panda are an underground hip hop group from Los Angeles,..
Giant Pangolin
The Giant Pangolin (Manis gigantea) is a pangolin species. Members of the species inhabit Africa with a range streching along the Equator from west Africa to Uganda. The giant pangolin is the largest species of pangolin, or "scaly anteaters"–the large, scaled mammals belonging to the Manidae..
Giant paw
The Ancient Order of the Giant Paw was a secret society formed in London during the 1880s A contemporary of the ' Hermetic_Order_of_the_Golden_Dawn ' , it was based around an icon which was believed to be the severed paw of a she-demon. The legend of the Giant Paw claimed that the Paw was cut off b..
Giant petrel
The giant petrels are two large seabirds from the genus Macronectes. Long considered to be conspecific (they were not established as separate species until 1966), the two species, the Southern Giant Petrel (M. giganteus) and Northern Giant Petrel (M. halli) are the largest members of the petrel fam..
Giant pouched rat
The giant pouched rats (genus Cricetomys) of subSaharan Africa, are truly immense muroid rodents. Their head and body length ranges from 25-45 cm (9-18 in) with scaly tails ranging from 36-46 cm (14-18 in). Females weigh between 1-1.5 kg and males have been known to reach nearly 3 kg (2.2-6.5 lb..
Giant puffball
[[template:mycomorphbox|?]] Mycological characteristics of Calvatia gigantea : smooth on hymenium no cap attachment: NA edibility: edible stem: NA brown spore print mycorrhizal ecology The Giant puffball (Calvatia gigantea) is a puffball mu..
Giant raccoon
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Giant rat
Nutrias are sometimes mistaken for the fearsome Giant Rat of Sumatra. A giant rat is a rat that is substantially larger than its other rodent cousins. Rats of startling size do appear in nature such as the Gambian Pouched Rat, Cricetomys gambianus, adult specimens of which have been known to..
Giant Records
Giant Records was launched as a joint-venture in 1990 between Warner Brothers Records and Irving Azoff, who had sold his companies to MCA Records for $15.7 million. A start up label for Warner Music Group, that at the time also bankrolled another new imprint, Interscope Records. Giant had some hu..
Giant retinal ganglion cells
Giant retinal ganglion cells are ganglion cells with large dendritic trees discovered in the human and macaque retina by Dacey et al (2005). Giant retinal ganglion cells contain a visual pigment, melanopsin, allowing them to respond directly to light. This means they are a sort of photosensitive_ga..
Giant river prawn
The giant river prawn (Macrobrachium rosenbergii), also known as the giant freshwater prawn or the Malaysian prawn, is a species of freshwater shrimp (not prawn) native to the Indo-Pacific and northern Australia. This species (as well as other Macrobrachium) is commercialy important for its value ..
Giant Robo
|} Mitsuteru Yokoyama's Giant Robo Giant Robo (ジャイアントロボ), is a tokusatsu, anime and manga series created by Mitsuteru Yokoyama. It is similar to his famous manga/anime series, Tetsujin 28 (the OVA version of Giant Robo features characters from Tetsujin 28), only Giant Robo h..
Giant Robot
Giant Robot can mean one of four things: Another word for Mecha Giant Robot (magazine) Giant Robot (band) Giant Robot (genre) This is a [disambiguationdisambiguation] page: a list of articles associated with the same title. If an referred you to this page, you may wish to change the lin..
Giant robot
Giant Robot may refer to: Mecha or Mech, large human-piloted humanoid vehiclesGiant Robot (magazine)Giant Robot (band), a Finnish musical groupGiant Robot (album), Buckethead recordGiant Robo, an anime seriesA large robotThis is a [disambiguationdisambiguation] page: a list of articles as..
Giant Robot (album)
Second album release by Buckethead, loosely following the same concept as his previous album (Bucketheadland). Again the album was originally a Japanese only release. Giant Robot features many guest appearances by artists such as Iggy Pop and Bill Moseley. Track listing Doomride - 0:57Welcome To B..
Giant Robot (band)
Giant Robot is a band based in the Helsinki area, Finland, that plays intricate, modern mixture of rock, dub and dance music. External links http://www.giantrobot.fi/ - Band homepage ..
Giant Robot (magazine)
Giant Robot Magazine is an Asian American pop culture magazine founded by Eric Nakamura and Martin Wong in 1994 as a small punk-minded zine that covered a variety of Asian American alternative culture from music, movies, history, toys, technology, to food and skateboarding. The publication went from..
Giant Robot NTT
Giant Robot NTT is an album by the band Giant Robot led by guitarist Buckethead, the album was released in 1996. Buckethead had released a solo album entitled "Giant Robot" in 1994, and to distinguish the two albums, fans refere to this recording as "Giant Robot NTT", after the recording company, NT..
Giant Robot Week
Giant Robot Week was a week-long event that aired on Cartoon Network's Toonami afternoon block during the last week of February 2003 as part of a promotion for several ADV-licensed series. It marked the first time Neon Genesis Evangelion, Martian Successor Nadesico, and Dai-Guard have been by a nati..
Giant Rock
Giant Rock is a large freestanding boulder in the Mojave Desert near Landers, California. In the 1950s, it was a popular gathering point for UFO believers; it was located on land leased by George Van Tassel, a flying-saucer contactee and organizer of the conventions. External links ["The Intr..
Giant salamander
The Giant Salamanders (Cryptobranchidae) are aquatic amphibians found in brooks and ponds in Japan, China and with a similar specimen in the United States. The Japanese Giant Salamander reaches five feet and feeds on fish and crustaceans, and can live for up to 80 years. They hunt mainly at night..
Giant salvinia
Giant salvinia (Salvinia molesta) is an aquatic fern, native to south-eastern Brazil. It is a free floating plant that does not attach to the soil, but instead remains buoyant on the surface of a body of water. The fronds are 0.5-4 cm long and broad, with a bristly surface, and produced in pairs a..
Giant Sand
Giant Sand, originally The Giant Sandworms, is an American rock band, based in Tucson, Arizona (although Los Angeles, California was its home for many years). Overseen by singer-songwriter-guitarist-pianist Howe Gelb, its membership has shifted over the years -- at times with each album -- though fo..
Giant Schnauzer
The Giant Schnauzer (German Reichschnauzer) is a large, powerful, compact breed of dog. It is one of several Schnauzer breeds. Like most large breeds, the Giant Schnauzer needs a fair amount of exercise. Contents 1 Appearance2 Temperament3 Health4 History5 Reference..
Giant sea bass
The giant sea bass (Stereolepis gigas), also known as the black sea bass, is a fish native to the northern Pacific Ocean."[Stereolepsis gigas]." FishBase. Ed. Ranier Froese and Daniel Pauly. February 2006 version. N.p.: FishBase, 2006.[Stereolepis gigas (TSN 167918)]. Integrated..
Giant Sequoia National Monument
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Giant Short-Faced Bear
The Giant Short-Faced Bear (Arctodus simus) is an extinct species of bear that lived in prehistoric North America from about 800,000 to 12,500 years ago. ..
Giant Silva
Paulo César da Silva (born July 21, 1963 in São Paulo) is a Brazilian mixed martial artist and professional wrestler, better known by his ring name, Giant Silva. Career Very much like El Gigante/Giant Gonzales years earlier, Silva was originally an amateur basketball player. He may be remembered..
Giant Slalom skiing
Giant slalom is an alpine skiing discipline. It involves skiing between sets of poles ("gates") spaced at a greater distance to each other than in slalom but not as great as super G or downhill. The number of gates in this event ranges from 56 to 70 for men and from 46 to 58 for women. Giant slal..
Giant space hamster
Giant Space Hamsters are a Dungeons and Dragons (D&D) creature that first appeared in the Spelljammer series. They are cute, brown-bear-sized rodents with thick fur and have achieved popularity among D&D fans, due in part to the fact that they are based on such a humorous and ridiculous concept. Gi..
Giant squid
Giant squid, once believed to be mythical creatures, are squid of the Architeuthidae family, represented by as many as eight species of the genus Architeuthis. They are deep-ocean dwelling squid that can grow to a tremendous size: recent estimates put the maximum size at 10 meters (34 ft..
Giant squid in culture
The Giant squid's elusive nature and fearsome appearance have long made it a popular subject of legends and folk tales. Its popularity as an image continues today with references and depictions in literature, film, television, and video games. Often, the giant squid is represented as being in dra..
Giant star
A Giant star is a star that has stopped fusing hydrogen in its core. More specifically, the term giant star refers to a star that belongs to the luminosity class III in the Yerkes spectral classification. Low-mass stars remain in this luminosity class until they settle down as white dwarfs. More mas..
Giant Step
Giant Step is a New York based concert promoter, marketing company, and record label. Contents 1 Overview2 Events3 Giant Step Records4 See also5 External link Overview Established in New York in 1990, Giant Step started as a weekly underground dance party that featured ..
Giant Steps
Giant Steps Album by John Coltrane Released January 1960 Recorded 1959 Genre Jazz Length 37:03 Label Atlantic Producer Nesuhi Ertegun Professional reviews All Music Guide [link] John Coltrane chronology Soultrane(1958) Giant Steps(1960) Coltrane Jazz(1961) For the band, ..
Giant Steps (band)
Giant Steps was a dance pop duo from England that consisted of vocalist Colin "Col" Campsie and bassist/keyboardist George McFarlane. They previously recorded as The Quick. Giant Steps's only album, Book of Pride, was released in 1988, and the single, "Another Lover," from the album became a huge..
Giant Steps (Boo Radleys album)
This is the third album by The Boo Radleys, released in 1993. NME and Select Magazine named it as album of the year. It reached the UK Top 20, but did not spawn a Top 40 single. The title is inspired by John Coltrane, and the album features an assortment of influences - their previous shoegazing sou..
Giant Steps (composition)
"Giant Steps" is the first track on the album of the same name by John Coltrane, and is 4 minutes and 46 seconds long. It is characterized by an extremely fast progression of chord changes (see Coltrane changes). The chords progress so quickly that Coltrane must for the most part arpeggiate up and..
Giant sucking sound
The "giant sucking sound" was United States Presidential candidate Ross Perot's colorful phrase for what he believed would be the negative effects of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), which he opposed. The phrase, coined during the 1992 U.S. presidential campaign, referred to the soun..
Giant Swing
The Giant Swing in front of Wat Suthat The Giant Swing (Thai: เสาชิงช้า, Sao Ching Cha) is a building in Bangkok, Thailand, Phra Nakhon district, located in front of the temple Wat Suthat. It dates back to an old Bhramin ceremony, and is on..
Giant Tiger
Giant Tiger Stores Limited is a discount store in Canada founded on May 13, 1961. Gordon Reid, founder, Chairman and CEO, opened his first store in Ottawa, the capital of Canada. The business was launched with a $15,000 investment, and first year sales were $139,781. As of 2005, annual sales now e..
Giant tortoise
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Giant Tree Frog
The Giant Tree Frog (Litoria infrafrenata), also commonly known as the 'White-lipped Tree Frog. This species is native to the rainforests of New Guinea and northern Australia. Contents 1 Physical Description2 Ecology and Behaviour3 References4 External links Physical Descri..
Giant trevally
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Giant tube worm
Giant tube worms (Riftia pachyptila) are marine invertebrates in the phylum Annelida (formerly grouped in phylum Pogonophora) related to tubeworms commonly found in the intertidal and pelagic zones. These giants live over a mile deep on the floor of the Pacific Ocean near black smokers and can tol..
Giant Viper
The Giant Viper is a trailer-mounted, vehicle-pulled, mine-clearance system, designed to be deployed in areas containing mines. It was developed for the British Army in the 1950s. It was designed to be towed behind a Centurion gun tank, FV4003, AVRE (Armoured Vehicle Royal Engineers) Foss, Page 144;..
Giant Wake Robin
Giant Wake Robin or Sessile Trillium (Trillium chloropetalum) is a spring-flowering perennial plant native to the west and north-west coast of the United States. The flowers are a deep red color. A typical monocot, it has leaves and flowers that are grouped in threes. It is clump-forming and pr..
Giant water bug
Giant water bugs are members of the family Belostomatidae within the order Hemiptera, colloquially known as toe-biters. They occur worldwide, with most of the species in North America, South America and East Asia. They are typically encountered in freshwater streams and ponds. Most species are rel..
Giant Wheel (Hersheypark)
The Giant Wheel is a ride that existed in Hersheypark between 1973 and 2004. It was built by Intamin AG which has also made several other rides in Hersheypark including Storm Runner and Canyon River Rapids. Shortly before it was removed in 2004, a fan of Hersheypark got word of the removal of th..
Giant Wild Goose Pagoda
Big Wild Goose Pagoda, Xian, China The Giant Wild Goose Pagoda or Big Wild Goose Pagoda (}; }), is located in southern Xi'an, China. The pagoda was built in 652 during the Tang Dynasty and back then had five stories. The pagoda was built to store sutras and figurines of Buddha, that were brou..
Gian Antonio Fumiani
Gian Antonio Fumiani was an Italian painter. Fumiani was responsible for painting what is claimed to the largest painting on canvas in the world. It covers the whole of the ceiling of the church Chiesa di San Pantaleone Martire, known as San Pantalon, in Venice. The painting depicts The Martyrdom ..
Gian Barbarona
Gian Barbarona (born December 3, 1993) is a young Filipino singer who was the 1st runner up (2nd Honor) on the first season of ABS-CBN's Little Big Star. He is a member of Star Magic, ABS-CBN's Talent Management & Development Center. Contents 1 Facts2 Song List2.1 Little Big St..
Gian Domenico Romagnosi
Gian Domenico Romagnosi (December 11, 1761 – June 8, 1835) was an Italian philosopher, economist and jurist. Romagnosi is believed to be the first person to publish, in 1802, an account suggesting a relationship between electricity and magnetism, about two decades before Hans Christian Ørste..
Gian Francesco Albani
:See Albani for other uses of that name Gian Francesco Albani (26 February 1720 – 15 September 1803) was a Roman Catholic Cardinal born to a significant religious family in Rome. The Albanis had come to Italy from Albania in the fifteenth century and soon entered ecclesiastical and secular no..
Gian Francesco Gamurrini
Gian Francesco Gamurrini (Monte San Savino, Arezzo May 18, 1835 – Arezzo March 17, 1923), an Italian archeologist and historian, bibliophile and connoisseur from an aristocratic Aretine family, found his interest in history piqued when he was selected by lot, at the age of 25, Rector of the Fr..
Gian Francesco Malfatti
Giovanni Francesco Giuseppe aka Gian Francesco or Gianfrancesco (1731-9 October, 1807) was an Italian mathematician. He was born in Ala near Trento, Italy and died in Ferrara. He studied at the College of San Francesco Saverio in Bologna were his mentors included Vincenzo Riccati, F. M. Zanotti and..
Gian Francesco Malipiero
Gian Francesco Malipiero (March 18, 1882 - August 1, 1973) Italian composer, musicologist and music editor. Born in Venice, the grandson of the opera composer Francesco Malipiero, he was prevented by family troubles from pursuing his musical education in a consistent manner. After stopping counterp..
Gian Francesco Poggio Bracciolini
Poggio Bracciolini (Gian Francesco) Poggio Bracciolini (February 11, 1380 – October 30, 1459) was one of the most important Italian Renaissance humanists. He was born at the Village of Terranuova, now Terranuova Bracciolini, near Arezzo in Tuscany. Contents 1 Biography2 Meth..
Gian Galeazzo Sforza
Gian Galeazzo Sforza (also Giovan Galeazzo Sforza) (June 20, 1469 - October 21, 1494), the Sixth Duke of Milan, was only 7 years old when in 1476 his father, Galeazzo Maria Sforza, was assassinated and Gian became the Duke of Milan. His uncle, Lodovico Sforza, acted as regent to the young duke but q..
Gian Galeazzo Visconti
right Gian Galeazzo Visconti (1351 – September 3, 1402) was the first Duke of Milan and ruled the city for much of the early Renaissance. Born in Pavia, Galeazzo was a feared and hated tyrant of Milan from 1386 to 1402. He was not the immediate heir to the title, but he overthrew his u..
Gian Gastone de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany
Gian Gastone de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany. Gian Gastone de' Medici (May 24, 1671 – July 9, 1737) was the last Medici Grand Duke of Tuscany, from 1723 to 1737, and the last of the Medici except for his sister Anna Maria Luisa de' Medici. He was the son of Cosimo III de' Medici, Gra..
Gian Giacomo Medici di Marignano
Gian Giacomo Medici di Marignano (c. 1495 - 8 November 1555) was an Italian condottiero, duke of Marignano and marquis of Musso and Lecco in Lombardy. Biography Gian Giacomo Medici was the brother of Giovanni Angelo Medici, who was later to be elected Pope as Pius. They were scions of an impoverish..
Gian Giacomo Trivulzio
Gian Giacomo Trivulzio. Gian Giacomo Trivulzio (1440 or 1441 - 1518) was a Milanese aristocrat who held several military commands during the Italian Wars. Trivulzio was born in Milan. Initially in the service of Lodovico Sforza, in 1483 he switched his allegiance to Charles VIII of France. ..
Gian Giorgio Trissino
Gian Giorgio Trissino (July 8, 1478 - December 8, 1550) was an Italian Renaissance humanist, poet, dramatist, diplomat and grammarian. Biography Trissino was born of a patrician family at Vicenza in 1478. He was exiled from Venice for political reasons, and travelled in Germany and Lombardy. He e..
Gian Lorenzo Bernini
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Gian Maria Visconti
Gian Maria Visconti. Gian Maria or Giovanni Maria Visconti (September 7, 1388 – May 16, 1412) was the second Visconti Duke of Milan, the son of Gian Galeazzo Visconti. Gian Maria, who inherited his father's cruelty, proved, unlike his father, to be a dissolute and ineffective ruler, and ..
Gian Maria Volontè
Gian Maria Volontè (April 9 1933 – December 6 1994) was an Italian actor. He is perhaps most famous for his roles as the main villains in Sergio Leone's A Fistful of Dollars and For a Few Dollars More. He was also considered one of the best European actors ever, for his skill to enter into the ..
Gian Paolo Chiti
Gian Paolo Chiti (born January 21 1939 in Rome) is an Italian composer and pianist. After beginning his studies in piano, violin and composition at the age of four, he made a series of appearances as a child prodigy before entering the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome, Italy's most imp..
Gian Paolo Lomazzo
Self-portrait, ca. 1568 (Pinacoteca Brera, Milan) Gian Paolo Lomazzo (Milan, April 26, 1538 – Milan, February 13, 1600; his first name is sometimes also given as "Giovan" or "Giovanni") was a Milanese painter of the second generation that produced Mannerism in Italian art and architectur..
Gian Paolo Montali
Gian Paolo Montali (January 18, 1960, Traversetolo, province of Parma) is an Italian volleyball coach who has won two Volleyball European Championships with Italian national team. Montali began his career as volleyball coach for the junior team of the Santal Parma (Calisto Tanzi's club). From 198..
Gian Pyres
Gian Pyres (Piras) was a long-term guitarist in England's Symphonic Black Metal band Cradle of Filth, from 1996 to 2002. He has recorded with Cradle of Filth on 4 studio albums: Dusk and Her Embrace, Cruelty and the Beast, From the Cradle to Enslave and Midian. Other bands he has been apart of incl..
Gian Rinaldo Monaldesco
Gian Rinaldo Monaldesco (d. November, 1657) was a servant to Christina of Sweden and a Neapolitan patriot who attempted to stop her from invading the Kingdom of Naples. Monaldesco was subsequently executed at Fontainebleau in November, 1657. External links [Sweden.se - Queen Christina with not..
Gian Sammarco
Gian Sammarco is an English actor best known for playing the title role in the television dramatisations of The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13¾ and its successors. He also appeared in Press Gang and as Whizzkid in the 1988 Doctor Who story The Greatest Show in the Galaxy. Gian's last acting ..
Gian Simmen
Gian Simmen (born 19 February 1977) is a Swiss snowboarder. In Snowboarding at the 1998 Winter Olympics, Simmen won Gold in Men's Halfpipe. ..
Gian Singh
Gian Singh Gian Singh (5 October 1920 - 6 October 1996) was an Indian recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces. Details He was 24 years old, and a Naik in the 15th Pu..
Gian Singh & Co.
Gian Singh & Co. was the largest textile firm in the Far East, circa 1920. ..
Gian Vincenzo Pinelli
Gian Vincenzo Pinelli (1535–1601) was a humanist of Padua, a savant whose collection of manuscriprts, when it was purchased from his estate in 1608 for the Biblioteca Ambrosiana, filled 70 cases. A mentor of Galileo, a coollector of scientific instruments whose literary correspondence put him ..
Giaour
Giaour, written gavur in modern Turkish, is a word used by Turkish people to describe all who are non Muslims, with particular reference to Christians and at times to Greeks. The word is a Turkish adaptation of the Persian gdwr or gbr, an infidel. The term was first employed as a term of contemp..
Giao Hoang
Prime Minister Giao Hoang was the Prime Minister of Vietnam (in charge of ruling the country for 6 months while King Ham Nghi was sent away and was under arrest by the French). Prime Minister Giao Hoang resigned his post and retired early because he disagreed with the French Indochina policy. Howe..
Giardiasis
Giardiasis (also known as beaver fever) is a disease caused by the flagellate protozoan Giardia lamblia (also Giardia intestinalis). The giardia organism inhabits the digestinal tract of a wide variety of domestic and wild animal species as well as humans. It is a common cause of gastroenteritis in..
Giardia lamblia
Giardia lamblia (formerly also Lamblia intestinalis and also known as Giardia duodenalis and Giardia intestinalis) is a flagellated protozoan parasite that infects the gastrointestinal tract of humans. It is also one of the most common parasites infecting cats. Infection causes giardiasis, a type ..
Giardini
Giardini is a suburb of Palermo, Sicily. It is further off from the central city. It was important in the history of the Cosa Nostra. ..
Giardini-Naxos
View from the sea. Giardini Naxos is a comune in Messina province on the island of Sicily in Italy. Today it is a popular seaside-resort. Ancient Naxos Founded by Thucles the Chalcidian in 734 BCE, it was never a powerful city, but its temple of Apollo Archegetes, protecting deity of all the..
Giardiniera
For the Fiat 500 based "Giardiniera" station wagon, see Bianchina. Giardiniera is a condiment consisting of Serrano peppers, hot peppers, bell peppers, crushed red peppers, celery, carrots, cauliflower and green olives in vegetable oil. Italian Giardiniera, the godfather of American Giardiniera, co..
Giardini di Mirò
Giardini di Mirò is a post-rock unit based in Reggio Emilia, Italy. The group formed in 1998, and its members include Jukka Reverberi, Lorenzo Lanzi, Mirko Venturelli, Luca Di Mira, and Corrado Nuccini. Notable acts the unit has toured with include Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Karate, Ulan Bator,..
Giarratana
Giarratana is a town in the province of Ragusa, Sicilia, Italy. Sicily · Communes in the province of Ragusa Acate | Chiaramonte Gulfi | Comiso | Giarratana | Ispica | Modica | Monterosso Almo | Pozzallo | Ragusa | Santa Croce Camerina | Scicli | Vittoria ..
Giarre
Giarre is a coastal town in the province of Catania, Sicilia, southern Italy. Sicily · Communes of the province of Catania Aci Bonaccorsi | Aci Castello | Aci Catena | Aci Sant'Antonio | Acireale | Adrano | Belpasso | Biancavilla | Bronte | Calatabiano | Caltagirone | Camporotond..
GIAT 30
The GIAT 30 is a series of 30mm cannon developed to replace the DEFA 550 series weapons on French military aircraft. Introduced in the late 1980s, the GIAT 30 is a revolver cannon with electric ignition and automatic recocking. Unlike the DEFA cannon, the revolver chamber is electrically operated,..
GIAT BM92-G1 (PAMAS-G1)
The PAMAS-G1 (Pistolet Automatique de la Manufacture d'Armes de Saint-Étienne, "Automatic Pistol of the Saint Etienne Manufacture") is a modified Beretta 92F pistol used by, and designed for, the French army. The PAMAS-G1 was manufactured under licence from Beretta in France by GIAT. However quite ..
GIAT Industries
GIAT Industries (formerly known as Groupement des Industries de l'Armée de Terre, Army's Industries Group) is a French government-owned weapon manufacturer. It manufactures various weapons and other hardware for the French and foreign military, including: the FAMAS assault rifle,the FRF2 sniper ri..
Giaveno
Giaveno is a town in the province of Torino, Piemonte, Italy. It is located at around [45°2′0″N, 7°21′0″E]. Piedmont · Communes of the province of Turin Agliè | Airasca | Ala di Stura | Albiano d'Ivrea | Alice Superiore | Almese | Alpette | Alpignano | Andezeno | An..
Gia Carangi
This does not cite its [[Opentopia:Citing sources|references or sources]]. You can [[Opentopia:WikiProject Fact and Reference Check|help]] Wikipedia by introducing appropriate citations. Gia Carangi on the cover of Vogue Paris August 1980. Gia Marie Carangi (January 29, 1960 – November 18, ..
Gia Carides
Gia Carides (born June 7, 1964 in Sydney, Australia) is a Greek-Australian actress. She speaks Greek fluently. She has been acting since age 12. She has won awards for her films, Strictly Ballroom and Brilliant Lies from the Australian Film Institute. She is best known for her roles as Robin Spit..
Gia Darling
Gia Darling is a transsexual film actress, entrepreneur, and media personality. Contents 1 Biography2 Adult video appearances3 Television Appearances4 Print media features5 External links Biography In her twenties, Gia was born in Guatemala, the son of a single mother w..
Gia Goodman
Gia Goodman First appearance Normal Is the Watchword Last appearance Happy Go Lucky Statistics Name Gia Goodman Status Alive Family Woody Goodman (Father; deceased)Mrs. Goodman (Mother)Rodney Goodman (Brother) Portrayed by  Krysten Ritter Gia Goodman is a fictional cha..
Gia Lai Province
Gia Lai is a province in the Central Highlands of Vietnam.   Vietnam ..
Gia Lam Airbase
Vietnam has two major military airfields used by the PAVN Air force. Gia Lam Airbase is one of two major military airbases in Vietnam, but it is being used as a civilian airport. The airport pre-dates the Vietnam war and likely built by the French. Located in Hanoi and is one of two airports in t..
Gia Lam Train Company
Gia Lam Train Company is a Vietnamese railcar manufacturer. The company supplies cars to Vietnam Railways. Products Air suspension bogie for coachBogie for coachAir-conditioned double-deck carAir-conditioned buffet carWould be used coaches Reference [Gia Lam Train Company] ..
Gia Long
Gia Long (1762-1820), born Nguyễn Phúc Ánh, was an emperor of Annam. He founded the Nguyễn Dynasty, the last of the Vietnamese dynasties. His uncle, Nguyễn Phúc Than (Dul Tung), lost his throne as feudal lord of southern Vietnam during the Tây Sơn peasant rebellion led by the brothers Ng..
Gia Maione
Gia Maione , is an American singer and widow of famous jazz singer Louis Prima. She also goes by Gia Prima or Gia Maione Prima. Gia Maione rose to popularity in 1962, when she was signed to sing lead female vocals for Louis Prima and his band. Prima had divorced former wife Keely Smith in 1961, at ..
Gia Paloma
Gia Paloma (born June 27 1984 in Diamond Bar, California) is an American porn star. She has appeared in over 170 adult films since her 2003 debut. Her stage name comes from Gia, a 1998 movie in which Angelina Jolie played model Gia Carangi, and Paloma, the Spanish word for dove as well as the nam..
Gia Scala
Gia Scala Gia Scala (March 3, 1934 – April 30, 1972) was an actress. She was born Giovanna Scoglio in Liverpool, England, to an aristocratic Sicilian father, Pietro Scoglio, and an Irish mother, Eileen Sullivan. Raised from infancy in Sicily, she moved to the United States at age fourte..

 

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