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G-LOC
The correct title of this } is }}}. The initial letter is capitalized due to [Naming conventions #Lower case first lettertechnical restrictions]. For other uses, see G-LOC (disambiguation). g-induced Loss Of Consciousness is a condition where a person loses consciousness because g-forces ..
G-LOC: Air Battle
For other uses see G-LOC (disambiguation) G-LOC: Air Battle is a 1990 air combat arcade game by Sega. The title refers to "Loss of Conciousness by G-force". Contents 1 Overview2 Description3 Legacy4 Ports5 External links Overview The game puts the player in a fighter p..
G-LOC (disambiguation)
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G. Love & Special Sauce
G. Love & Special Sauce is an alternative hip-hop band from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Formed in 1992, the trio are known for their unique, "sloppy", and "laid back" blues sound that encompasses the sound/production of classic R&B and rap artists, like the Beastie Boys. The trio released their f..
G. Love and Special Sauce (album)
G. Love and Special Sauce (1994) was the début album released by the trio known as G. Love & Special Sauce. G. Love & Special Sauce are, G. Love (lead vocals, guitar, and harmonica), Jeffrey Clemens (percussion and background vocals), and Jimmy Jazz Prescott (string bass).Other musicians on thi..
Glo
Glo is an album by the band Delirious?. It was the best-selling Christian album for eight months.#redirect [[Template:fact]] Track listing God You Are My God - 3:45 (Stuart Garrard)Glo In The Dark Part 1 - 2:45God's Romance - 6:58 (Martin Smith)Investigate - 4:09 (Smith, Garrard)Glo In The Dark P..
GLO
GLO may refer to Gloucestershire AirportGroup Litigation Order ..
Gloamglozer
Gloamglozer is a fictional animal derived from a series of books known as the Edge Chronicles. The Gloamglozer, also known as the "Ancient Wanderer", is perhaps the most evil creature on the Edge. Most do not believe it exists, using the name as a curse or a playroom monster to frighten children: "..
Gloaming
Gloaming may refer to: Gloaming, or twilight, the time before sunrise and after sunsetGloaming, watching fire with no other lightGloaming (horse), a famous Australian-bred racehorseGloaming, the subtitle of Radiohead's album Hail to the Thief This is a [disambiguationdisambiguation] page:..
Gloaming (horse)
Gloaming was a famous Australian-bred racehorse who raced mainly in New Zealand, but also in Australia where he won 9 of 14 starts. Gloaming raced just after the Great War at the same time as the American all time great Man O' War. He jointly holds the Australasian record (with Desert Gold) of 19 su..
Glob()
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Global
For the brand of knives see Global (cutlery). The adjective "global" and adverb "globally" imply that the verb or noun to which they are applied applies to the entire Earth as one unit. It is sometimes used as a synonym for international/internationally but this is incorrect: "Global" implicitly ..
Globalcom
Globalcom Inc. is a facilities-based service provider that delivers voice, data and integrated services to businesses throughout Chicago and Milwaukee. Globalcom core communications services include local and long-distance voice, dedicated Internet access as well as bundled voice and broadband app..
GlobalFest
GlobalFest is an annual cultural celebration in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. It is held each August and features pavilions throughout Calgary that celebrate the multi-cultural nature of the city. The pavilions often include ethnic food, displays and entertainment. The festival also features an int..
GlobalFreeLoaders
The GlobalFreeLoaders is an international internet-based hospitality service of approximately 30,000 members. The site is text-only and allows mailing to multiple hosts at the same time. External link [GlobalFreeLoaders] Hospitality services Agritourism | Amikeca Reto | CouchSurfing ..
GlobalGiving
Contents 1 About GlobalGiving2 Origins3 Vision4 Mission5 Values6 More GlobalGiving Details About GlobalGiving GlobalGiving is an online marketplace that directly connects donors with grassroots projects in the developing world. Its mission is to become the world's ..
GlobalGuide
GlobalGuide.Org is a website which integrates the Wikipedia and Google Maps. On a typical GlobalGuide page, using an embedded Google Maps image, a registered users will have added geographically-based locations - cites and towns as well as other types of locations such as places of interest and hot..
Globalisation Institute
The Globalisation Institute is a free-market international development think tank founded in London in 2005. Its website states that "We believe that globalisation is a force for good." It specialises in "practical, enterprise-based policies that governments and international institutions can adopt ..
Globalisation is Good
Globalisation is Good is a documentary film from 2003 produced by British Channel 4 and feauturing Swedish author Johan Norberg. The film is based on Norberg's much celebrated book In Defence of Global Capitalism published in 2001. ..
Globalise Resistance
Globalise Resistance (GR) is a British anti-capitalist activist group. The group was established after the emergence of the anti-globalisation movement and sought to bring together a broad array of organisations opposed to neo-liberal capitalism and corporate power. GR website logo The group..
Globalization
Globalization (or globalisationGlobalisation is a British variant spelling. Globalization is the main variant, preferred by both Webster's and the Oxford English Dictionary.), is an umbrella term for a complex series of economic, social, technological, and political changes seen as increasing interd..
Globalization and health
Globalization is reshaping the social geography within which humanity strives to create health or prevent disease. The determinants of health and disease – be they a SARS virus or increasing obesity – are affected by increasing global mobility. Contents 1 Impacts on health2 Impact..
Globalization and Its Discontents
Stiglitz (bearded, in coat and tie) talking about his book at the University of Michigan in 2005 Globalization and Its Discontents is a book written by the 2001 Nobel laureate Joseph E. Stiglitz. It was published in W.W. Norton & Company in June 2002 with ISBN 0393051242. According to James ..
Globalization Management System
A globalization management system (GMS) is a type of software for automating many parts of the human language translation process and maximizing translator efficiency. If machine translation were perfect, then globalization management systems would not be needed. However, doing even medium quality..
Globalization of wine
The globalization of wine is largely a post-1976 phenomenon. The Paris Wine Tasting of 1976 and subsequent wine competitions demonstrated to the world that wines of high quality could be produced not only in France but also in California. Wine makers in other parts of the New World quickly realized ..
Globalization Testing
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Globally Executable MHP
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. Globally Executable MHP (GEM) A few years ago, the DVB project started the development of a Java-based ap..
Globally Harmonized System
The Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals (GHS) proposed by the United Nations, "addresses classification of chemicals by types of hazard and proposes harmonized hazard communication elements, including labels and safety data sheets" (1). It also provides "a basis f..
Globally Unique Identifier
A Globally Unique Identifier or GUID is a pseudo-random number used in software applications. While each generated GUID is not guaranteed to be unique, the total number of unique keys (2128 or 3.4028×1038) is so large that the possibility of the same number being generated twice is very small. GUI..
Globalogy
Globalogy is a human response to corporate globalization and political conflict. The knowledge that everyone shares the same planet The perspective of globalogy is one of looking beyond one's national borders or religious identity and accepting that the world is our home and that we are all membe..
Globaloria
The GLOBALORIA Program was established by the World Wide Workshop Foundation in the spring of 2006 to build projects that empower people in the developing world and other underprivileged communities to experience elements of democracy and globalization through learning Internet technology skills: ac..
Globals
Globals can refer to: a PHP data type;Global_variables. 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 directly to the intended article. ..
GlobalSecurity.org
GlobalSecurity.org, launched in 2000, describes itself as a public policy organization whose mission is to be a reliable source of background information and developing news stories in the fields of defense, space, intelligence, WMD, and homeland security. Offering its information products through ..
GlobalSecurity.Org
GlobalSecurity.org is a comprehensive website that contains background information and technical specifications on a wide range of defense, space and security projects, and publishes developing news covering military, WMD, intelligence, and homeland security issues. Since its launch in December 200..
Globalstar
Globalstar is a low Earth orbit satellite constellation for telephone and low-speed data communications, similar to (and competing with) the Iridium satellite system. Contents 1 Telecommunications system1.1 System architecture1.2 System deployment2 Business operations2.1&nb..
Global (cutlery)
Global (often written in all capitalized letters as "GLOBAL") is a Japanese manufacturer of cutlery products. Their selection of knives are known for their distinctive one piece, molybdenum/vanadium stainless steel design. These are considered premium level products with a single knife often cos..
Global 200
The Global 200 is the list of ecoregions identified by the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) as priorities for conservation. According to the WWF, an ecoregion is defined as a "relatively large unit of land or water containing a characteristic set of natural communities that share a large majority of their ..
Global 500 Roll of Honour
The United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) established the Global 500 Laureate Roll of Honour to recognize the environmental achievements of individuals and organizations around the world. "The winners of UNEP's Global 500 Roll of Honour are members of a broad and growing environmental movement ..
Global AIDS and Health Fund
The Global Health and Aids Fund was a proposal created by UN Secretary General Kofi Annan to create one world governing body on the epidemics of AIDS, Tuberculosis, Malaria, and other life threating diseases. Annan first proposed the idea in April of 2001 at a African Union summit in Nigeria's capit..
Global AIDS Coordinator (U.S.)
The Global AIDS Coordinator at the U.S. State Department is the official responsible for overseeing U.S.-sponsored humanitarian aid programs to combat the AIDS epidemic in Africa and Asia. The office is presently held by Randall L. Tobias. ..
Global Air (Australia)
Global Air was a charter airline based in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. It operated on-demand special passenger and cargo charters using Boeing 747 aircraft. It also operated for other airlines on a wet-lease or A.C.M.I. (Aircraft Crew Maintenance & Insurance included) basis often sub-leased to o..
Global Air (Mexico)
Global Air (Grupo Aerolineas Damojh) is an airline based in Mexico City, Mexico. It operates domestic flights. Contents 1 Code Data2 History3 Fleet4 External links Code Data ICAO Code: DMJ History The airline was established in 2003 and started operations on 17 May 2003. It..
Global Air Traffic Management
Global Air Traffic Management (GATM) is a concept for satellite-based communication, navigation, surveillance and air traffic management. The Federal Aviation Administration and the International Civil Aviation Organization, a special agency of the United Nations, established GATM standards in order..
Global alert
Global alert is used as the global radio-communications network during times of international crises or threats to international security. Global Alerts are also issued by agencies such as the World Health Organization (WHO), when there is a perceived threat of international pandemic, (global epidem..
Global Aliance Against Traffic in Women
Global Aliance Against Traffic in Women (GAATW) was founded 1994 by several feminist activist, partly in opposition to the Coalition Against Trafficking in Women. GAATWs is an international non-governmental organisation (NGO) fighting all forms of trafficking, particularly in women and children. ..
Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization
The Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization (GAVI) is an alliance between different actors in the private and public sector committed to the mission of saving children's lives and protecting people's health through the widespread use of vaccines. The alliance Governments and vaccine industry ..
Global anomaly
In theoretical physics, a global anomaly is a type of anomaly: in this particular case, it is a quantum effect that invalidates a large gauge transformations that would otherwise be preserved in the classical theory. This leads to an inconsistency in the theory because the space of configurations wh..
Global Anti-Semitism Review Act of 2004
The Global Anti-Semitism Review Act of 2004 (Public Law 108-332, 118 Stat. 1282) was enacted on October 16, 2004. It orders the U.S. State Department to monitor global anti-Semitism, reporting annually to the United States Congress. External links [Report 2005]#redirect [[Template:UnitedS..
Global apartheid
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Global aphasia
The symptoms of global aphasia are those of severe Broca's aphasia and Wernicke's aphasia combined. There is an almost total reduction of all aspects of spoken and written language, in expression as well as comprehension. Improvement may occur in one or both areas (expressive and receptive) over tim..
Global Area Network
The global area network standard has been proposed as IEEE 802.20. External links For a great paragraph on GANs, see http://computer.howstuffworks.com/wimax1.htm ..
Global Arena
Global Stadium at Global Arena during the Sanix World Rugby Youth Tournament 2006 Global Arena is a sports facility in Munakata city, Fukuoka prefecture, Kyushu, Japan. It was set up by the President of the Sanix company and includes various sports grounds for rugby union, soccer, tennis etc. ..
Global array
The Global Arrays (GA) toolkit provides an efficient and portable “shared-memory” programming interface for distributed-memory computers. Each process in a MIMD parallel program can asynchronously access logical blocks of physically distributed dense multi-dimensional arrays, without n..
Global Assembly Cache
The Global Assembly Cache or GAC is a machine-wide .NET assemblies cache for Microsoft's CLR platform. This allows more than one application to share the same Assembly without duplication. Contents 1 Reasons for Usage1.1 Shared Location1.2 File Security1.3 Side-by-Side Vers..
Global Assessment of Functioning
The Global Assessment of Functioning, or GAF scale, is a numeric scale (0 through 100) used by mental health clinicians and doctors to rate the social, occupational and psychological functioning of adults. The scale is presented and described in the DSM-IV-TR on page 32. Children and adolescents u..
Global Athletics & Marketing
Global Athletics & Marketing is a sports management firm specializing in athletics (track and field). Founded in 1993 by Cornell/Boston University School of Law graduate Mark Wetmore, Global Athletics has grown to be one of the premier athletics management agencies in the world. Based in Boston, MA,..
Global Atmosphere Watch
The Global Atmosphere Watch (GAW) is a worldwide system established by the World Meteorological Organization – a United Nations agency – to monitor trends in the Earth's atmosphere. It arose out of concerns for the state of the atmosphere in the 1960s. Contents 1 GAW's mission2..
Global ATM Alliance
Use your ATM card or Check Card within the Global ATM Alliance with no fees when traveling internationally. Participating banks include:- Barclays (United Kingdom) Bank Of America (United States) BNP Paribas (France) China Construction Bank (China) Deutsche Bank (Germany) Santander Serfin (Mexico)..
Global a Go-Go
Global a Go-Go is the second album by Joe Strummer and The Mescaleros, displaying trademark genre-melding folk-rock and Strummer's unique lyrical style. As the title suggests, there are world music influences on the album, mostly on the title track and "Bhindhi Bhagee", a celebration of the "humbl..
Global Basketball Association
Global Basketball Association Contents 1 GBA membership chronology1.1 ..
Global Battle of the Bands
The Global Battle of the Bands (GBOB) is Battle of the Bands competition. It was held for the first time in 2004 and the final was at the London Astoria on November 30. The bands were from 16 different countries. In 2005 they were from 24. The prize is 100,000 American dollars. There are only two o..
Global Biodiversity Information Facility
The Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) is an international organisation which focusses on the availability of data on biodiversity. It offers comprehensive taxonomic information on plants, animals, fungi, and microbes primarily for North America but also covers many taxonomic groups for..
Global Boundary Stratotype Section and Point
A Global Boundary Stratotype Section and Point, abbreviated GSSP, is an internationally agreed upon stratigraphic section which serves as the reference section for a particular boundary on the geologic time scale. The effort to define GSSPs is conducted by the International Commission on Stratigrap..
Global brain
"The global brain is the name given to the emerging intelligent network formed by all people on this planet, together with the computers and communication links that connect them together. Like a real brain, this network is an immensely complex, self-organizing system, that processes information, m..
Global Broadcast News
Global Broadcast News (GBN) is an Indian corporation composed of a 74-26 joint venture between TV18 (74%) and Rajdeep Sardesai, Sameer Manchanda and Haresh Chawla (26% cumulative). The company is the co-owner of CNN-IBN, along with Turner International. ..
Global Business Network
Global Business Network, or GBN, is a membership organization and consulting firm that advises businesses on possible future scenarios. It was founded in Berkeley in 1987 by a group of friends including Peter Schwartz, Jay Ogilvy, Stewart Brand, Napier Collyns, and Lawrence Wilkinson. Members of GBN..
Global Call to Action Against Poverty
"The Global Call to Action Against Poverty (GCAP) is an emerging worldwide alliance consisting of national platforms of campaigns to end poverty. GCAP brings together a range of actors: existing anti-poverty coalitions, community groups, trade unions, individuals, NGOs, and religious and faith gro..
Global Certification Forum
Global Certification Forum (GCF), is a partnership between network operators and terminal manufacturers that provides an independent programm to ensure global interoperability of 2G and 3G mobile wireless terminals. GCF certification is expected to boost industry confidence in the performance and r..
Global Challenge
The Global Challenge is a round the world yacht race run by Challenge Business, the company started by Sir Chay Blyth in 1989. Held every four years, it takes a fleet of one-design (or matching) steel yachts, crewed by ordinary men and women who have paid to take part, round Cape Horn and through th..
Global change
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Global Change Music
redirect [[Template:music-importance]]Global Change Music challenges musicians worldwide to write lyrics and melodies that ascend the soul, raise planetary consciousness, and unite humanity in one global family rhythm.[link title] Global Change Music is a nonprofit record label and new mil..
Global Change Research Act
The Global Change Research Act 1990 is a United States law requiring research into global warming and related issues. It requires a report to Congress every four years on the consequences of climate change; however, the first of these, the National Assessment on Climate Change, was not published unt..
Global Church of God
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Global citizenship
Global citizenship is a person's obligation to respect and protect their environment and people around them while thinking on a global scale. This can be related to globalisation. ..
Global city
"World city" redirects here. For , see . London New York City Tokyo Chicago Frankfurt Hong Kong Los Angeles Milan Singapore San Francisco Sydney Zürich Brussels Madrid Mexico City São Paulo Mo..
Global civilization
The theory of a Global civilization emerged in the late 20th century. As parts of the world, especially the First World, move toward economic and political unity, the idea of a "united Earth" has been initiated. On the organizational side (global governance), institutions such as the European Un..
Global climate
Global climate is a concept that has never been defined, but roughly speaking it is meant to express the average temperature, average precipitation, average intensity of winds and similar features of Earth's atmosphere and the whole planet's surface. This general notion is intended to describe the c..
Global Climate and Energy Project
The Global Climate and Energy Project (GCEP) at Stanford University "seeks new solutions to one of the grand challenges of this century: supplying energy to meet the changing needs of a growing world population in a way that protects the environment."[link] Beginning in December 2002, GCE..
Global Climate Coalition
The Global Climate Coalition was a group of mainly United States businesses opposing immediate action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The group formed as a response to several reports from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. A major scientific report on the severity of global warming ..
Global climate model
A global climate model or general circulation model (GCM) aims to describe climate behavior by integrating a variety of fluid-dynamical, chemical, or even biological equations that are either derived directly from physical laws (e.g. Newton's law) or constructed by more empirical means. There are b..
Global Climate Observing System
The Global Climate Observing System (GCOS) is an international institution co-sponsored by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), and the International Council for Science (ICSU). G..
Global Command and Control System
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Global Command and Control System-Army
The Global Command and Control System-Army (GCCS-A) is the United States Army's Strategic and Theater Command and Control (C2) System. It provides readiness, planning, mobilization and deployment capability information for the strategic commanders. For Theater commanders, GCCS-A provides Common Op..
Global Commerce Initiative
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Global commons
that which no one person or state may own or control and which is central to life. A Global Common contains an infinite potential with regard to the understanding and advancement of the biology and society of all life. e.g. forests, oceans, land mass and cultural identity. ..
Global Communication
Global Communication is an electronic music act, comprised of Tom Middleton and Mark Pritchard, that produces ambient and house music. Their debut LP, [[76:14]] is one of the most acclaimed albums from the ambient music genre and from 1990s electronic music in general. Discography Blood Music: Pen..
Global Communications Conference
The Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM) is an annual international academic conference organised by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers' Communications Society. The first GLOBECOM was organised by the Communications Society's predecessor in 1957, with the full name of "Nati..
Global Communications Network
Global Communications Network or (GCN) is an instant messaging client for Microsoft Windows. The software is provided free of charge but is supported by banner advertisements. In addition to chat services, users are also provided with free e-mail and webspace. GCN supports a number of conferencin..
Global Community
The Global Community Flag of The Global Community Coat of arms The Entire Terretory Controlled By The GC. Official language None Capital New Babylon Area 148,939,100 km² (29.2 %) Population Current Population Minus Casultys from World War II, Jugments, Genocide, and Battle of..
Global Compact
In an address to the World Economic Forum on 31 January 1999, United Nation Secretary-General Kofi Annan challenged business leaders to join an international initiative – the Global Compact – that would bring companies together with UN agencies, labour and civil society to support universal envi..
Global Configuration Mode
Global Configuration Mode is the privilege level in Cisco Systems IOS used to configure global router and network switch parameters. The mode is entered from enable mode using the command "configure terminal", more commonly expressed as "conf t". router# configure terminal router(config)# From i..
Global Consciousness Project
The Global Consciousness Project, also called the EGG Project, is the most significant of current scientific research projects into parapsychology. Based at Princeton, the project researches into the theory that the human consciousness may create or otherwise influence objective reality by means u..
Global context registries
Redirect [[Template:Uncategorized]]Global context registries are a simple, human-friendly way to indicate the global context of an i-name or i-number. There are three key types of global context registries, each represented by a single symbol as shown. Type Global Context Symbol Example i-n..
Global cooling
This article is about the climatalogical theory of global cooling. For the obsolete geophysical theory about the formation of natural features, see Geophysical Global cooling. Global cooling in general can refer to a cooling of the earth; more specifically, it is a theory positing an overall coolin..
Global Corruption Report
The Global Corruption Report is an annual report which gives analysis on the level of corruption among many nations of the world. The report is produced by Transparency International. The 2005 Global Corruption Report launched on March 16 focuses on how corruption in the construction sector undermin..
Global coverage
Global Coverage, in the venacular of the U.S. Intelligence Community, is the opposite of "Hard Targets" or "Denied Areas." It has been traditional for the secret bureaucracy to focus on China, Cuba, India, Iran, Iraq, Libya, North Korea, and Pakistan, and Russia, generally to the detriment of all o..
Global Crises, Global Solutions
Global Crises, Global Solutions (ISBN 0521606144) is a book presenting the methodology, economic papers and conclusions of the first Copenhagen Consensus, edited by Bjørn Lomborg, published in 2004 by the Cambridge University Press. External links [How to find and fund social and economic pro..
Global Crop Diversity Trust
Global Crop Diversity Trust is a foundation based in Italy. They started the Svalbard International Seed Vault - a project to bunker 3 millionen gene of plants used in agriculture. External links http://www.croptrust.org ..
Global Crossing
Global Crossing Limited is a major telecommunications company that provides computer networking services worldwide. It maintains a large backbone and offers transit and peering links, VPN, leased lines, audio and video conferencing, long distance telephone, Managed services, dialup, colocation and..
Global Cultural Flows
Global Cultural Flows are an anthropological concept proposed by Arjun Appadurai in his analysis of globalization. Appadurai identified five dimensions that relate to "global cultural flows." These five dimensions are ethnoscapes, mediascapes, technoscapes, financescapes, and ideoscapes. Ethn..
Global day
redirect [[Template:Not verified]] The global day is a modern capital markets term used in international trading situations. Trading during a global day "follows the sun", from region to region and continent to continent. Institutions which make use of this technique are able to maintain a contin..
Global Day of Prayer
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Global debt levels
Contents 1 Flows2 Levels2.1 Euro area2.2 Japan2.3 United States3 See also4 External links4.1 ECB4.2 United States4.2.1 Federal Reserve Flows Global Debt, Equity and Equity-related issuance reached record-breaking levels in 2003 with over $5 trilli..
Global Deejays
Global Deejays is a dance trio composed of DJ Taylor (Konrad Schreyvogl), DJ Mikkel (Mikkel Christensen) and FLOw (Florian Schreyvogl). Their first three singles were big hits in Europe, particularly in Russia. Contents 1 Discography1.1 Albums1.2 Singles / Maxis / Vinyls1.3 No..
Global Defence Initiative storyline
In the fictional Command & Conquer universe, the storyline of the Global Defense Initiative can be traced back to the conclusion of the Great World War II featured in [[Command & Conquer: Red Alert]]. It is this series of events that are considered canonical throughout the Tiberian series. [Sp..
Global Defense Initiative
The emblem of the United Nations Global Defense Initiative, as seen in the original Command & Conquer The Global Defense Initiative (GDI) is a fictional military faction featured in the science fiction computer games Command & Conquer, [[Command & Conquer: Tiberian Sun]], [[Tiberian Sun: Fires..
Global Depository Receipt
Global Depository Receipt (GDR) - certficate issued by international bank, which can be subject of worldwide circulation on capital markets. GDR's are emited by banks, which purchase shares of foreign companies and deposit it on the accounts. Global Depositry Receipt facilitates trade of shares, esp..
Global Descriptor Table
The Global Descriptor Table or GDT is a data structure used by Intel x86-family processors starting with the 80286 in order to define the characteristics of the various memory areas used during program execution, for example the base address, the size and access privileges like executability and wri..
Global Destiny Cable
Global Destiny Cable is a direct-to-home cable TV subscription service. Global Destiny Cable is the 2nd Largest cable TV company in the Philippines; they are serving almost all major cities in Metro Manila and have affiliates almost all-around the Philippines. Areas Served Quezon CityPasigPateros..
Global Digital Currency Association
The Global Digital Currency Association (or GDCA) is a trade association of electronic money operators, exchangers, merchants and users. The GDCA is a nonprofit organization of business professionals operating in the global digital gold currency economy. Founded in 2002, it is one of the oldest an..
Global digital divide
The global digital divide is a term used to describe “great disparities in opportunity to access the Internet and the information and educational/business opportunities tied to this access … between developed and developing countries” (Lu 2001 p. 1). Unlike the traditional notion of the "digi..
Global dimension
In mathematics, more specifically in abstract algebra, the global dimension of a ring [A,] denoted gl dim([A]), is the supremum of the set of projective dimensions of all [A]-modules. By homological algebra, this is equal to: the supremum of the set of projective dimen..
Global dimming
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Global Diplomacy
Global Diplomacy (GD) and Age of Discovery (AoD) are two variants of a play-by-email wargame, run by E-Mail Games. The games simulate strategic-level warfare and diplomacy at a late-19th century (c.1880) technology level. The smallest units are of corps and squadron size. Whereas Global Diplomacy ..
Global Dj Broadcast
Global Dj Broadcast is a weekly internet radio show run by Markus Schulz. Some of the guest DJs are Gabriel & Dresden, Leama & Moor, Ozgur Can, Sasha, Andrew K, Matt Darey, Christopher Lawrence, Lemon 8, Deep Dish and more. External link [Global Dj Broadcast] ..
Global domination
Global domination, global conquest, taking over the world, world conquest, or world domination is an ambitious goal in which one government, one ideology or belief system, or even one person, seeks to secure complete political control of the entire planet. It can be considered the extreme form of gl..
Global Eagle
The Global Eagle is a modified UH-1 Iroquois helicopter with a new Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6C-67D engine, modified tail rotor, and other minor changes. The design and engineering for the Global Eagle modifications work was performed by Global Helicopters, Inc, under a contract to Pratt and Whitn..
Global Earth Observing System of Systems (GEOSS)
Contents 1 Backgound2 Synopsis3 Recent Events4 Potential5 External links Backgound Earth observation systems consist of tools that provide measurements of air, water, and land. These measurements may be made on the ground, from the air, or from space by satellite. While ..
Global Ecolabelling Network
The Global Ecolabelling Network is a non-profit interest group composed of 26 eco-label organisations throughout the world. It was established in 1994 and its precursor, the German Blue Angel was established in 1978. The goal of the interest group is to further the exchange of information between na..
Global Ecovillage Network
The Global Ecovillage Network is a global association of people and communities (ecovillages) dedicated to living "sustainable plus" lives by restoring the land and adding more to the environment than is taken. Network members share ideas and information, transfer technologies and develop cultural ..
Global education network
The Global Education Network was started in 1999 as an alternate way for students to take liberal arts courses outside of a traditional classroom. College students, as well as high school students and adults can take the multimedia courses online. External links http://www.gen.com/ - Official websi..
Global Education Opportunities and Services (Eikaiwa)
If anyone knows how to delete this page, then please do so. It has been moved to the link below. Thank you. GEOS (eikaiwa) ..
Global Electric Motorcars
Global Electric Motorcars (GEM) is a Fargo, North Dakota-based manufacturer of electric cars. The company was founded as in 1992 by a team of ex-General Motors engineers from Livonia, Michigan, under the name Trans2. The company was nearly bankrupt by 1997, when it was purchased by a group of North..
Global Electronic Party Information Register
The Global Electronic Party Information Register (GEPIR) is a distributed database that contains basic information on over 1,000,000 companies in over 100 countries. You can search by GTIN (includes UPC and EAN-13), SSCC and GLN numbers or by company name in some countries. Results can be returned ..
Global empire
A global empire involves the extension of a state's sovereignty over territories all around the world. The essential criterion demands that, when navigating around the world, the longest trip between the empire's possessions be half of the circumference of the planet. "Global" is therefore a functio..
Global Energy Network Institute
The Global Energy Network Institute (or GENI) is a non-profit research and education organization founded in 1991. GENI's goal is the completion of a world-wide power grid suggested by Buckminster Fuller's World Game simulation in the 1970s. External links [www.GENI.org] ..
Global Engine Manufacturing Alliance
The Global Engine Manufacturing Alliance, or GEMA, is a manufacturing arm of Global Engine Alliance LLC, which is a joint venture of DaimlerChrysler, Mitsubishi Motors, and Hyundai Motor Company for developing a line of shared engines. Contents 1 GEMA2 The GEMA engine2.1 1.82.2&nbs..
Global enterprise challenge
The Global Enterprise Challenge, formerly known as the Enterprise Olympics, arose as a result of an international collaboration between Ken Baker, then Chief Executive of the Enterprise New Zealand Trust, and Gordon McVie, who was at that time with Scottish Enterprise. This challenge is a high-power..
Global Entertainment Corporation
Global Entertainment Corporation(AMEX: [GEE]) is an entertainment company that is in charge of six owned companies. Companies Central Hockey LeagueInternational Coliseums CompanyEncore Facility ManagementGlobal Entertainment Marketing Systems (GEMS)Global Entertainment Ticketing (GetTix.n..
Global Environment Facility
The Global Environment Facility (GEF) was established by donor governments in 1991, largely to pre-empt politically more radical alternative models of conservation finance proposed at the Rio Earth Summit. It helps so called developing countries (that is, poorer governments) to fund projects and pro..
Global Environment Outlook
The UNEP Global Environment Outlook (GEO) project was initiated in response to the environmental reporting requirements of Agenda 21 and to a UNEP Governing Council decision of May 1995 which requested the production of a new comprehensive global state of the environment report. The coordinated g..
Global ethic
Drafted initially by Dr. Hans Küng, in cooperation with the Council for a Parliament of the World's Religions staff and Trustees and experts drawing on many of the world's religious and spiritual traditions, Towards a Global Ethic: An Initial Declaration identifies four essential affirmations as s..
Global Exchange
Global Exchange is a non-governmental organization, based in San Francisco, California. It was founded in 1988, and funds itself through memberships. Its aim is to promote human rights and social, economic and environmental justice around the world. It has worked to increase public awareness of root..
Global field
In mathematics, the term global field refers to either of the following: a number field, i.e., a finite extension of Q orthe function field of an algebraic curve over a finite field, i.e., a finitely generated field of characteristic p>0 of transcendence degree 1. There are a number of formal simil..
Global filesystem
A global filesystem is one which guarantees that the same path name corresponds to the same object on all computers deploying the filesystem. That implies usage of a global networkprohibition of host-dependent mountpoints Such filesystems are few and not widely known but they exist. One (and in pr..
Global File System
The Global File System (GFS) is a shared storage file system available for Linux computer clusters. GFS is different from distributed file systems like AFS, Coda, or InterMezzo because it requires all nodes to have direct concurrent access to the same shared block storage. GFS has no disconnect..
Global financial system
The global financial system (GFS) refers to those financial institutions and regulations that act on the international level, as opposed to those that act on a national or regional level. The main players are the global institutions, such as International Monetary Fund and Bank for International Set..
Global Forecast System
The Global Forecast System (GFS) is global numerical weather prediction model run by NOAA. This model is run four times a day and produces forecasts up 16 days in advance, but with decreasing spatial and temporal resolution over time (although it is widely accepted that beyond 7 days the forecast..
Global Frequency
Global Frequency is a comic book published by Wildstorm Productions, created and written by Warren Ellis. It is a science fiction series set in the present day, in the genre of "rescue fiction", consisting of single-issue, standalone stories. The first series of twelve issues was published between..
Global Fund
The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria is a UN-related organization whose purpose is to finance programs that purport to prevent and treat patients with AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria, three major threats to health on a global scale. The Fund itself does not implement such programs..
Global Gala
The Global Gala is a fictional event in the "Left Behind" Series. When Antichrist Nicolae Carpathia renamed the United Nations to Global Community after the Rapture, he made a peace treaty with Israel, ushering in the Tribulation. The Global Gala celebrated the halfway point of the seven-year treat..
Global Gaming Expo
Global Gaming Expo (G2E) is an annual gaming trade show held in Las Vegas, Nevada, generally in November, at the Las Vegas Convention Center. The show is one of the two major gaming trade shows. The show has been run by the American Gaming Association since its inception in 2001. External links..
Global Gaming League
Global eSport Computer Games League which sponsors tornaments in Video Games such as: StarCraftWarcraft 3[[Counterstrike: Source]] Tournaments include the prestigious ClanBase tournaments. Also awards the Golden Llamas. External links [Offical Site] ..
Global Garden
|} Global Garden (Aka gurōbaru gāden - ainshutain suimu kitan) is a manga by Saki Hiwatari, who is known as the mangaka of Please Save My Earth. The series was published in Hakusensha's Hana to Yume which comes out by-weekly in Japan. As of writing, the series is finished and up to 8 volumes. ..
Global Gathering
Global Gathering is an annual dance music festival promoted by Angel Music Group, the company behind Godskitchen, on the last weekend of July each year at Long Marston Airfield, Near Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, United Kingdom. The festival has been running since 2001, competing with Homeland..
Global Gathering 2001
Godskitchen staged their first outdoor festival Global Gathering on Saturday 28th July 2001 at Long Marston Airfield in Warwickshire nr. Stratford-Upon-Avon in the UK. The event ran from 4pm on the 28th through until 7am on the 29th, with an after party following the event on the Sunday afternoo..
Global Gathering 2002
Godskitchen Global Gathering 2002 was held at Long Marston Airfield, Warwickshire, England with the Birmingham based promoters returning to the site of the previous years festival. Godskitchen's Global Gathering 2002 ran from 4pm on Saturday 27th July until 7am on Sunday 28th July. The format of..
Global Gathering 2003
Godskitchen Global Gathering 2003 was held at Long Marston Airfield, Warwickshire, United Kingdom with the Birmingham based promoters again returning to the site of the previous two years. Godskitchen Global Gathering 2003 ran from 4pm on Saturday 26th July until 7am on Sunday 27th July. The for..
Global Gathering 2005
Global Gathering 2005 was held on Friday 29th July 2005 (5pm-2am) and Saturday 30th July 2005 (2pm-6am) at Long Marston Airfield, near Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, United Kingdom. Global Gathering is the name of an annual dance music festival organised by the Godskitchen brand. The BBC broadca..
Global Gathering 2006
Global Gathering 2006 is due to take place at Long Marston Airfield on the 28th and 29th of July. The festival promoter, previously known as Godskitchen completed a restructuring and rebranding programme in 2005, and are now known as Angel Music Group, to reflect their wide range of music-related in..
Global Geo Services
GGS (Global Geo Services) is a Norwegian Seismic company registered on the Oslo Stock Exchange. It has a market cap of approximately 250 Million Norwegian kroner (40 MUSD). Outstanding shares are 60 million and the share price, as of June 2006, is 4 kroner. Operations 'GGS is a Multi-client seism..
Global Gillette
Global Gillette is a business unit of Procter & Gamble. It is the successor of The Gillette Company, which was founded by King C. Gillette in 1901 as a safety razor manufacturer. It was based in Boston, Massachusetts. On October 1, 2005, The Gillette Company finalized its purchase by Procter & G..
Global Gladiators
Global Gladiators (or alternatively Mick and Mack: Global Gladiators) is a platform game released for the Sega Master System, Sega Game Gear and Mega Drive/Genesis. It was made by Virgin Interactive and released in 1992. In the single player game, the player controls Mick or Mack through four worl..
Global Goon
Global Goon's Johnny Hawk is a former shepherd from Liverpool who earned a recording contract with Rephlex Records before moving to London and being Richard D. James' (aka Aphex Twin) roommate for a time. He had been making electronic music using soundedit 16 while supporting himself with various pr..
Global governance
Global governance refers to political interaction aimed at solving problems that affect more than one state or region when there is no power of enforcing compliance. Contents 1 The concept of global governance2 Global governance vs. world government3 An example of global governan..
Global Greens
Part of the Politics series onGreen politics Green issues Worldwide green parties (list): Global Greens · Africa · Americas · Asia-Pacific · Europe Ideas in the Global Greens Charter: ecological wisdom social justice participatory democracy nonviolence susta..
Global Greens Charter
Part of the Politics series onGreen politics Green issues Worldwide green parties (list): Global Greens · Africa · Americas · Asia-Pacific · Europe Ideas in the Global Greens Charter: ecological wisdom social justice participatory democracy nonviolence susta..
Global Grid Forum
The Global Grid Forum (GGF) is the community of users, developers, and vendors leading the global standardization effort for grid computing. The OGSA, OGSI and JSDL standards were created by the GGF. The GGF models its creations of open standards on the IETF. Contents 1 Organization and Ge..
Global Grover
Global Grover is a recurring segment in Sesame Street. In the segments, Grover reminises of his recent "travels" around the world, then shows actual video segments from the countries. Each film features children engaged in activities related to their individual cultures. According to Sesame Worksho..
Global Guardian
Global Guardian is an annual training exercise sponsored by the United States Strategic Command in conjunction with Air Force Space Command and NORAD. Its main purpose is to test the military's command and control procedures in the event of nuclear warfare. Global Guardian is performed in conjunct..
Global Guardians
The Global Guardians are a team of fictional DC Comics superheroes which hail from countries around the world. The concept originated in the Super Friends tv cartoon when several heroes (Black Vulcan, Samurai, Apache Chief and El Dorado) were added to the Justice League to give it more ethnic dive..
Global H20 Resources
Global H2O Resources Inc. is a Canadian company based in Vancouver, British Columbia. It specializes in the acquisition and transportation of water from glaciers in Alaska and Norway to consumers. The company has the rights to take 18.2 billion litres of water from sources in the state of Alaska..
Global Harvest Ministries
Global Harvest Ministries is a parachurch organisation committed to helping Christians contribute to the spread of the Gospel and Church planting around the world. The World Prayer Center is an associate organisation that exists in the same building. The organisation was created by C. Peter Wagner..
Global health
Global health is a component of the wider discipline of public health that concerns itself particularly with international issues. Examples of global health issues include international law (and its effect on health systems), global warming (and the implications for population health), globalization..
Global Heresy
Global Heresy (Rock My World in the United States) is a drama and comedy film about a struggling American rock band in the United Kingdom. Plot [Spoiler warningSpoiler warning]: Plot and/or ending details follow. When a rock band at the top of their game suddenly loses their leader, the..
Global highway
The Global highway is a proposed network of currently existing and yet-to-be constructed roads and bridges that would connect the American continents to Asia, Europe and Africa, incorporating over one hundred nations. Ultimately this expansive project would enable a Scandinavian family to drive to..
Global High Frequency Service
As of 01 October 2002 the Global High Frequency System (GHFS) became the High Frequency Global Communications System (HF-GCS). The High Frequency Global Communications System is a network of single sideband shortwave transmitters of the United States Air Force which is used to communicate with airc..
Global Hunger Alliance
The Global Hunger Alliance is a coalition and network of about 100 organizations from around the world, together with university researchers, and grassroots activists who distribute information and take socio-political action in favour of what they believe to be effective and morally acceptable meth..
Global Hyatt
Global Hyatt Corporation is a Chicago, Illinois based holding company for several hotel brands and related businesses. Contents 1 History2 Subsidaries3 Hyatt Brands4 USFS Brands5 External links History Subsidaries Hyatt Corporation (North America and Caribbean hotels)Hy..
Global Hybrid Cooperation
Global Hybrid Cooperation (formerly called Advanced Hybrid System 2 or AHS2) is a set of hybrid vehicle technologies jointly developed by General Motors and DaimlerChrysler, with BMW joining in 2005. It uses two sets of gears in an automatic transmission: One for the internal combustion engine and a..
Global ideas bank
The Global Ideas Bank's origins lie in the Institute for Social Inventions, which was set up in 1985 by Nicholas Albery, social inventor and visionary. From small beginnings (a network of inventors, a quarterly newsletter), the Institute grew into a fully-fledged organisation under his leadership: p..
Global illumination
Global illumination algorithms used in 3D computer graphics are those which, when determining the light falling on a surface, take into account not only the light which has taken a path directly from a light source (direct illumination), but also light which has undergone reflection from other surfa..
Global Impact
For 50 years, Global Impact has helped Americans support international relief and development efforts by raising money for the world’s most effective international charities through employee giving campaigns. In that time, Global Impact has raised more than $400 million to meet the needs of the wo..
Global Independent Baptist Fellowship
The Global Independent Baptist Fellowship is a recently formed independent Baptist fellowship arising from doctrinal disputes within the Baptist Bible Fellowship International. For a while it was known informally as the Heartland Baptist Fellowship. Pastors and churches withdrawing from BBFI objecte..
Global Industry Classification Standard
The Global Industry Classification Standard (GICS) was developed by Morgan Stanley Capital International (MSCI), a premier independent provider of global indices and benchmark-related products and services, and Standard & Poor's (S&P), an independent international financial data and investment servi..
Global Information Assurance Certification
Global Information Assurance Certification (GIAC) is an information security certification entity that specialises in technical and practical certification as well as new research in the form of its GIAC Gold program. SANS Institute founded the certification entity in 1999. GIAC provides a set of ..
Global Information Grid
The U.S. Defense Information Systems Agency is one of the key agencies building the Global Information Grid The Global Information Grid (GIG) is defined as the globally interconnected, end-to-end set of information capabilities, associated processes, and personnel for collecting, processing, ..
Global Information Grid-Bandwidth Expansion
Contents 1 Description2 Scope3 Capabilities and Services4 Implementation5 References6 See also7 External links Description The Global Information Grid Bandwidth Expansion (GIG-BE) Program was a major Department of Defense (DOD) net-centric transformational init..
Global Information Grid-Enterprise Services
Contents 1 GIG Enterprise Services1.1 For More Information2 References3 See also4 External links GIG Enterprise Services The Defense Information Systems Agency's (DISA) Global Information Grid Enterprise Services Engineering (GE) directorate plans, engineers, acquires an..
Global Innovations & Marketing
Global Innovations & Marketing© Global Innovations & Marketing, Global Innovations and Marketing. Founded:2003, incorporated: TBA Location SAN MATEO, CALIFORNIA Contact Executive< Daniel Adam Orta Global Products and Services< R&D, Management Services, Business Consulting ..
Global Insight
Global Insight was formed in March 2001 from the merger of WEFA (formerly Wharton Econometric Forecasting Associates) and DRI (formerly Data Resources Inc), together with Primark Decision Economics, Primark Poland and French company DAFSA. Engaged in economic forecasting, consultancy, sectorial ana..
Global International Airways
Global International Airways, formed in 1981, was an airline company deeply involved in the Iran-Contra scandal. It made many of the shipments of illegal arms. It was financed by a number of unsecured loans totaling $600,000 from the Indian Springs State Bank, at the instigation of Farhad Azima. Gl..
Global internet usage
This article is for information relating to the amount of people who use the internet by language, nationality, geography, class, etc. Total number of Internet users As of March 2006, approximately 1,023 million people worldwide use the Internet, according to [Internet World Stats]. N..
Global IP Sound
Global IP Sound provides a solution for poor audio in network (VoIP) architecture. The patented technology solves the inherent problems and general deficiencies introduced by wired or Wi-Fi networks - such as delay, jitter, packet loss, clock-drift, acoustic and network echo. Typically, it is place..
Global justice
Global justice is a concept in political philosophy denoting justice between societies or between individuals in different societies, as opposed to within a specific society. Two questions are particularly problematic in the domain of global justice: the question of the subject – individuals, nati..
Global Justice Movement
The term Global Justice Movement is an alternative term to describe the loose collection of individuals and groups who advocate fair international trading rules and are critical of current institutions of global economic governance, such as the World Trade Organization, International Monetary Fund, ..
Global Kryner
Global Kryner is a six-piece Austrian folk band, consisting of clarinet player Christof Spörk, bass trombonist, tenor and yodeller Sebastian Fuchsberger, guitarist Edi Koehldorfer, trumpet player Karl Rossmann, accordion player Anton Sauprügl, and jazz vocalist Sabine Stieger. The youngest member..
Global Leadership Foundation
The Global Leadership Foundation (GLF) is an NGO founded in 2004 by former Apartheid era South African leader F.W. de Klerk. Comprised of a number of former statesmen, ex presidents and Prime Ministers the Global Leadership Foundation is mandated to help and advise present governments based on the ..
Global Leader of Tomorrow
Global Leader of Tomorrow is an award given every year by the World Economics Forum to 100 leader in the world. List of awarded people Larry PageTim JacksonJulie MeyerChong Ju ChoiBarbara KuxSrivatsa KrishnaMarc BenioffJack MaEdward ZengAnthony Jones ..
Global Learning Semesters
Global Learning Semesters is an organization that designs and operates for-credit academic study abroad programs for college students based at accredited colleges and universities worldwide. Global Learning Semesters operates multiple programs throughout Europe and Central America and is known fo..
Global legal information network
The Global legal information network or GLIN is an online repository of searchable full text legal documents, judicial decisions, legislation, statutes and other laws. The database was initiated by of the Law Library of the United States Congress in 1993. It includes documents from many countries..
Global Literacy Project
The Global Literacy Project, Inc. (GLP) is a New Jersey based nonprofit and tax-exempt [501 (C) 3] organization that develops community-based literacy initiatives throughout the world primarily through the creation of libraries and library support programs in rural schools and community cen..
Global Location Number
The Global Location Number (GLN) is a thirteen digit number used to identify parties and physical locations. The GLN is generally used in electronic commerce transactions and it is encoded in a barcode, generally GS1-128. The GLN comprises a GS1 Company Prefix, a Location Reference, and a Check di..
Global Login System
Global Login System is a single sign-on open source protocol, designed to allow any user logged in on his account to one of the sites using it, to be authenticated when visiting any other site using it. It aims to be used universally over the Internet, so that each user only needs to have one accoun..
Global Lorentz covariance
A global Lorentz covariance or global Lorentz symmetry is a global symmetry and a Lorentz symmetry of space-time. Any theory which exhibts a global Lorentz symmetry is said to be globally Lorentzian. Special relativity is globally Lorenztian. ..
Global macro
The term global macro is used to classify the strategy of certain hedge funds -- those that take large leveraged positions in financial derivatives, on the basis of forecasts about interest rate trends, movements in the general flow of funds, political changes, government policies, inter-government..
Global Marijuana March
The Global Marijuana March is an annual rally held at different locations across the planet. The home page is at GlobalMarijuanaMarch.org [link] It is a celebration of the business of embracing cannabis culture as a personal lifestyle choice. Participants unite to discuss, promote, enter..
Global Maritime Distress Safety System
The Global Maritime Distress Safety System (GMDSS) is an internationally agreed-upon set of safety procedures, types of equipment, and communication protocols used to increase safety and make it easier to rescue distressed ships, boats and aircraft. GMDSS consists of several systems, some of which ..
Global Marshall Plan
The Global Marshall Plan is a plan first devised by Former American Vice-President Al Gore in his bestselling novel Earth in the Balance which gives specific ideas on how to save the global environment. Gore states: "The model of the Marshall Plan can be of great help. For example, a Global Marsh..
Global Mirror
Global Mirror is an IBM technology that provides data replication over extended distances between two for business continuity and disaster recovery. It provides an RPO (Recovery Point Objective) of as low as 3-5 seconds with adequate bandwidth between the two sites at extended distances with no perf..
Global Mobile Satellite System
The Global Mobile Satellite System (GMSS) is a general term referring to the selection of satellite phone providers available to private customers. It is a term analogous to PLMN, referring to wireless telephony (cellular) carriers, and PSTN, referring to traditional wire-based telephony. As of 200..
Global Motion Compensation
Global Motion Compensation (GMC) is a technique used when encoding video in a digital format, such as MPEG-4 (e.g. DivX and XviD codecs). The aim of the technique is to improve encoding of fast moving scenes, such as car chases and other action scenes. The result of not using GMC is either poorer qu..
Global Multimedia Protocols Group
The Global Multimedia Protocols Group (GMPG) was founded in March 2003 by Tantek Çelik, Eric Meyer, and Matt Mullenweg. The group has developed technologies to represent human relationships using XHTML called XHTML Friends Network (XFN) and XHTML Meta Data Profiles (XMDP), for use in weblogs. See..
Global Name Registry
The Global Name Registry, Limited is the operator of the .name top-level domain. External link [Official site] ..
Global National
Global National is the national newscast of Global Television Network in Canada. It broadcasts daily from facilities at Global's Vancouver station CHAN. The program's weekday anchor is Kevin Newman, whose name was added to the program's title beginning in its second season. Global National aire..
Global Navigation Satellite System
A Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) is a fully civilian satellite navigation system that provides accuracy and integrity usable for civil navigation. GNSS-1 is the first generation system and is the combination of existing satellite navigation systems, like the Global Positioning System (GP..
Global Neighborhood Watch
Global Neighborhood Watch is an article by Neal Stephenson that appeared in Wired Magazine in 1998. In it he proposes a specific plan for using information technology to fight crime. According to Stephenson, he is no longer pursuing the idea. [link] External links [Wired article ..
Global Network Navigator
The Global Network Navigator (GNN) was the first commercial web publication and the first web site to offer clickable advertisements, now commonly referred to as "banner ads." GNN was founded in May of 1993 by Tim O'Reilly and Dale Dougherty of O'Reilly & Associates of Sebastopol, California at tim..
Global Network of People living with HIV/AIDS
The Global Network of People living with HIV/AIDS (GNP+) is a global network for and by people with HIV/AIDS. The mission of GNP+ is to work to improve the quality of life of people living with HIV/AIDS. The secretariat of GNP+ is based in Amsterdam. Contents 1 Aim2 Organisation3 S..
Global Night Commute
The Global Night Commute (GNC) was a worldwide event organized by the makers of the film Invisible Children through the organization Invisible Children Inc. The GNC took place on April 29 2006. Youths from around the world walked to city centers and spent the night in parks to show support for ..
Global Nuclear Energy Partnership
The Global Nuclear Energy Partnership (GNEP), announced by United States Department of Energy Secretary Samuel Bodman on February 6, 2006, is a plan to form an international partnership to reprocess spent nuclear fuel in a way that renders the plutonium in it usable for nuclear fuel but not for nucl..
Global Oceanographic Data Archaeology and Rescue Project
The Global Oceanographic Data Archaeology and Rescue Project, or GODAR Project was established to increase the volume of historical oceanographic data available to climate change and other researchers. The project attempts to locate ocean profile and plankton data sets not yet in digital form, digit..
Global One
Global One was an international voice and data telecommunications carrier, formed in 1996 as a joint venture between France Télécom, Deutsche Telekom and Sprint Corporation. Although it built an extensive international network, it was never a financial success. In 2000, France Télécom bought o..
Global One Lending
Global One Lending is a Sacramento-based residential mortgage broker, licensed in the state of California, founded by Vietnamese-American entrepreneurs Robert Do and Quinn Dang in April, 2003. Global One Lending is also the name of an Oklahoma-based residential mortgage broker. The relationship bet..
Global Operations
Global Operations is a first-person shooter computer game developed by Barking Dog Studios and published by both Crave Entertainment and Electronic Arts. It was released in March of 2002, following its public multiplayer beta version which contained only the Quebec map. The full game featured thirt..
Global optimization
Global optimization is a branch of applied mathematics and numerical analysis that deals with the optimization of a function or a set of functions to some criteria. Contents 1 General2 Applications of global optimization3 Approaches3.1 Deterministic3.2 Stochastic, thermod..
Global optimum
Polynomial of degree 4, on the right one finds a local optimum, on the left is the global optimum. In mathematics, a global optimum is a selection from a given domain which yields either the highest value or lowest value (depending on the objective), when a specific function is applied. For e..
Global Organisation of People of Indian Origin
The Global Organisation of People of Indian Origin is an organization promoting the interests of the Indian Diaspora. The organization arranges numerous conferences, often several times a year. Recently, they have also begun a youth chapter in NY that, so far, has been very succesful. This cha..
Global organisation of the Roman Catholic Church
The Roman Catholic Church is organised in a worldwide hierarchy under the pope, and the Roman Curia. Patriarchs are the heads of Catholic Churches other than the Latin Church. Some senior Roman Catholic archbishops are also called Patriarchs. Archbishops and Bishops administer individual dioceses a..
Global Oscillations Network Group
The Global Oscillation Network Group (GONG) is a community-based program to study solar internal structure and dynamics using helioseismology. Six solar observatories are involved, with the intention of achieving almost unbroken observation of the Sun. The six observatories are the Teide Observator..
Global Overseas Adoptees' Link
Global Overseas Adoptees' Link (G.O.A.L.) is an organisation 'run by adoptees, for adoptees'. It is based in South Korea, primarily providing support services for Korean adoptees who return to their country of birth, sometimes in search of their natural parents. External links [Global Oversea..
Global Ozone Monitoring by Occultation of Stars
Global Ozone Monitoring by Occultation of Stars (GOMOS), is an instrument on board the European satellite Envisat launched 1st March 2002. It is the first space instrument dedicated to the study of the atmosphere of the Earth by the technique of stellar occultation. The spectrum of stars in the ult..
Global Party of Canada
The Global Party of Canada was a minor political party in Canada, led by Edward John Slota of Toronto. It advocated wealth redistribution through monetary reform. It aims to change the Canadian economic system and to lead world-wide change through the associated "Global Party of the World". Mr. S..
Global Plan to Stop Tuberculosis
The [Stop Tuberculosis Partnership] promotes [The Global Plan to Stop Tuberculosis], which calls for a total of $56 billion between 2006 and 2015 to treat 50 million tuberculosis patients and save 14 million lives during that period. Full funding of the Plan will help achieve the..
Global Policy Advisors
Global Policy Advisors is a policy advisory firm based in Philadelphia. The company integrates politics and policy for a client base that largely consists of multinational corporations. The firm employs over 50 policy analysts, lawyers, economists, former policy-makers, management consultants and po..
Global Policy Forum
Global Policy Forum, or GPF, is an organization seeking to promote accountability of international organizations such as the United Nations and strengthen international law. GPF holds that free markets are not enough to ensure global prosperity, and therefore is opposed to libertarian groups such as..
Global politics
Global politics is the discipline that studies the political and economical patterns of the world. It studies the relationships between cities, nation-states, shell-states, multinational corporations, non-governmental organizations and international organizations. It has been argued that global pol..
Global Positioning System
GPS redirects here. For other uses of the acronym GPS, see GPS (disambiguation). GPS satellite in orbit, image courtesy NASA The Global Positioning System, usually called GPS, is the only fully-functional satellite navigation system. A constellation of more than two dozen GPS satellites broa..
Global Positioning System-based game
A Global Positioning System-based game is a game played in conjunction with a Global Positioning System device (GPS). The GPS is used to verify or coordinate coordinates on the globe. GeocachingPac-ManhattanGPS Golf ..
Global Power
A global power or world power is a term that refers to a country that has overwhelming power over all other nations in the world. Countries like the United States, the United Kingdom, China, Germany, Russia, France, Japan, Italy and India are all major world powers. Many would also regard the Euro..
Global Publishing Services
Global Publishing Services is a self-publishing service that allows people to publish their own independent works. The company was launched in 2000 by IndyPublish.com so writers can "cost-effectively and quickly publish and market their books to a worldwide readership as print-on-demand and electron..
Global reach
Global Reach is a business initiative to increase the access between a company and their current and potential customers through the use of the Internet. The Internet allows the company to market themselves and attract new customers to their website where they can provide product information and bet..
Global reality
Global reality is about a group's reality which consists of anything it can perceive and of meanings it has attached to what it perceives. Some of this reality consists of physical objects, people, and situations that the group sees as truth. This is generally a hard concept to grasp because each..
Global recordings network
Global Recordings Network (GRN) was founded by Joy Ridderhof in 1938 as "Gospel Recordings". The mission of GRN is "to effectively communicate the gospel of Jesus Christ, through audio recordings, to all peoples in their own language." This is accomplished by recording the stories of the Bible in ..
Global Regulatory Information Database (Compliance GRID)
Contents 1 GRID Overview2 Quality of Information3 Types of Information Needed4 More Info GRID Overview The Global Regulatory Information Database (Compliance GRID) is an open database of rules, regulations, standards, and government guidance documents that require IT action, ..
Global Relief Foundation
The Global Relief Foundation, also known as Fondation Secours Mondial or FSM, was a terrorist front organization masquerading as a charity. The Global Relief Foundation was founded by Rabih Haddad, who worked for Makhtab al-Khidamat, the precursor organization to al Qaeda which was itself co-founded..
Global Reporting Initiative
The Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) aims to make reporting on economic, environmental, and social performance – sustainability reporting – by all organizations as routine and comparable as financial reporting. To achieve this, the GRI develops, continuously improves and builds capacity around..
Global Research NOC
The Global Research Network Operations Center at Indiana University provides engineering and operations services for high performance research and education (R&E) networks, for international connections to U.S. and global R&E networks, and is undertaking research and development for support of Grid ..
Global Research Program
Students giving a presentation. 1992. The Global Research Program was an acclaimed course of study offered in the 1980's and 1990's at the widely known Bronx High School of Science in New York City. Offered as an elective to standard freshman social studies, it became known for being very dif..
Global Reserve Bank
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Global Rhythm
Global Rhythm is a monthly music and lifestyle magazine featuring coverage of world music, film, cuisine and travel. Published monthly and circulated across North America, Europe and hundreds of other locations worldwide, New York-based Global Rhythm is considered the leading authority on world musi..
Global Rights
GLOBAL RIGHTS is a human rights advocacy group that partners with local activists to challenge injustice and amplify new voices within the global discourse. With offices in countries around the world, it helps local activists create just societies through proven strategies for effecting change. I..
Global Rocket 1
scrag is also Australian slang for both an undesirable woman and holding someone back by a garment. The Global Rocket 1 (GR-1) was a Fractional Orbital Bombardment System (FOBS) intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) developed but not deployed by the Soviet Union during the Cold War. The system..
Global scenario group
Contents 1 Global Scenario Group1.1 Conventional Worlds1.2 Barbarization1.3 The Great Transition2 Applicability of Scenario Analysis3 External links4 References Global Scenario Group The Global Scenario Group (GSG) was a team of environmental scholars, headed b..
Global School of Business
Global School of Business is a South African tertiary institute that was established in 1994. External links [Official Site] ..
Global Sea Level Observing System
The Global Sea Level Observing System (GLOSS) is an Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission program whose purpose is to measure sea level globally for long-term climate change studies. The program's purpose has changed since the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and the program now collects realtime m..
Global Secure Systems
Global Secure Systems is a hands-on IT security consultancy and managed service provider with a list of blue-chip clients and business partners. Prior to April 2001 Global Secure Systems Ltd operated under the company name of Global Technology Associates Ltd (GTA). GTA started providing securit..
Global Server Load Balancing
Internet services hosted in a single facility or geographic area are subject to downtime due to general facility or network issues that lead to the entire site being unavailable, and will result in high latency for clients whose network and/or geographic location is far from the server farm. GSLB ad..
Global settlement
redirect [[Template:Confusing]]The Global Settlement was a legal settlement reached between Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Harvey Pitt, New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer, North American Securities Administrators Association President Christine Bruenn, NASD , New York Stock Exchang..
Global spacetime structure
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Global Spirit Airlines
Global Spirit Airlines is a UK based airline started by Tasejad Jeffrey. The airline uses former British Airways Boeing 747-200 aircraft. Airplanes are operated by European Aviation. The airline hub is Manchester airport (MAN) with flights to Islamabad (ISB) in Pakistan . Plans are to expand to si..
Global spread of H5N1
Highly pathogenic H5N1  →  Countries with poultry or wild birds killed by H5N1.  →  Countries with human cases of H5N1. H5N1 Influenza A virus subtype H5N1Genetic structureInfectionGlobal spreadSocial impactPandemic WHO pandemic phases 1. Low risk 2. Ne..
Global square
Global square in an important concept in set theory, a branch of mathematics. Define Sing to be the class of all limit ordinals which are not regular. Global square states that there is a system [(C_\beta)_] satisfying: a) [C_\beta] is a club set of [\beta]. b) ot&#..
Global Standard Stratigraphic Age
A Global Standard Stratigraphic Age, often abbreviated GSSA, is a chronological age used to define the boundaries between different periods or epochs on the geologic time scale. GSSAs are defined by the International Commission on Stratigraphy and are only used for time older that 630 million years..
Global Star
Global Star is a subsidiary of Take-Two Interactive that publishes computer and video games such as: Ford vs. Chevy (2005)[[Robotech: Invasion]] (2004)Outlaw Golf (2004)[[Classified: The Sentinel Crisis]] (2005)Scaler (2004) ..
Global Star Software
Global Star Software is a video game publisher. Global Star focuses on publishing family and budget titles for both PC and consoles. Global Star is a wholly owned subsidiary of Take 2 Interactive Software. ..
Global steel industry trends
The global steel industry has been going through major shifts in focus. Not only has a new steel making giant emerged the entire geographical focus of steel production has been undergoing major changes. Such changes have been taking place on a critical scale since the Second World War but have compl..
Global strategic petroleum reserves
Strategic petroleum reserves ("SPR") refer to crude oil reserves held by the government of a particular country, as well as private industry, for the purpose of providing economic and national security during an energy crisis. According to the EIA, approximately 4.1 billion barrels of oil are held i..
Global Strategy
Firms that pursue a Global Strategy are faced with great pressures from cost reductions but with weak pressure for local responsiveness. Therefore, it allows these firms to sell a standardized product worldwide. However, fixed costs (capital equipment) are substantial. Nevertheless, these firms are..
Global Studies
Global Studies is a mandated course by the New York State Department of Education for high school graduation in the subject of Social Studies. Similar to the World History courses taught in other states, Global Studies focuses on international history from the perspective of all those involved. It i..
Global Sunday
Global Sunday was the name of a Canadian television newsmagazine, which aired Sunday evenings on the Global Television Network. The program was launched in September, 2001, with Charles Adler as host. Run separately from the rest of Global's news division, the program often reflected the political..
Global Supply Systems
Global Supply Systems is a cargo airline based in Stansted, United Kingdom. It provides dedicated freighters to airlines on a wet-leased basis. Its main base is London Stansted Airport. Contents 1 Code Data2 History3 Fleet4 External links Code Data IATA Code: XHICAO Code: GS..
Global symmetry
A global symmetry is a symmetry that holds for all points in the spacetime under consideration, as opposed to a local symmetry that only holds for an open subset of points. Most physical theories are described by Lagrangians which are invariant under certain transformations, when the transformation..
Global System for Mobile Communications
"GSM" redirects here. For , see . Mobile phone and datastandards 0G PTTMTSIMTSAMTS 0.5G Autotel/PALMARP 1G NMTAMPSHicapCDPDMobitexDataTac 2G GSMiDEND-AMPSIS-95/cdmaOnePDCCSDPHS 2.5G GPRSHSCSDWiDEN 2.75G CDMA2000 1xRTT/IS-2000EDGE 3G W-CDMA* UMTS* FOMA1xEV-DO/IS-856TD-SCDMAGAN/UMA 3.5G HSD..
Global Technology Associates, Inc.
Global Technology Associates, Inc. is a privately held US corporation founded in 1992 and located in Orlando, Florida. GTA was an early entrant in the commercial firewall market, having developed and marketed the GFX Internet Firewall in 1994. The GFX Internet Firewall was a unique "dual wall" des..
Global telecommunications system
The Global telecommunications system (GTS) is a global network for the transmission of meteorological data from weather stations, satellites and numerical weather prediction centres. The GTS consists of an integrated network of point-to-point circuits, and multi-point circuits which interconnect me..
Global Television (Australia)
For the Canadian television network, please see Global Television Network. Global Television is an Australian independent television production facility, responsible for producing many Australian TV series such as Australian Idol, Big Brother, Hi-5, MTV Australia's Total Request Live, Neighbours, R..
Global Television (disambiguation)
Global Television may refer to: Global Television Network, a major English-language television network in Canada.Global Television (Australia), an Australia-based television production company.Global TV (Indonesia) a television network in Indonesia.Global TV (T&T), a television station in Trinidad ..
Global Television Network
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Global Television Studios
Global Television Studios are a two-studio television facility situated in the suburb of North Ryde, Sydney, Australia. The facilites were built in 1965 as the original home of television staion TEN-10, however they were sold to Global in 1996 when Network Ten moved premises to Ultimo, then finally ..
Global Temperature-Salinity Profile Program
The Global Temperature-Salinity Profile Program (GTSPP) is a cooperative international project that seeks to develop and maintain a global ocean Temperature-Salinity resource with up-to-date and high quality data. Contents 1 Purpose2 International contributors3 Infrastructure4&n..
Global Title
A Global Title (GT) is an address used in the SCCP protocol for routing signaling messages on telecommunications networks. In theory, a global title is a unique address which refers to only one destination, though in practice destinations can change over time. Contents 1 Overview2 Struc..
Global Top 40 Albums
The Global Top 40 Albums Chart is a listing of the 40 highest selling music albums in the World, published weekly in official global chart website by Media Traffic. It is frequently used to convey the popularity of an artist or groups of artists. Often, a musical group will be remembered by its "num..
Global Trade Item Number
Global Trade Item Number (GTIN) is an identifier for trade items developed by GS1 (comprising the former EAN International and Uniform Code Council). GTIN is an “umbrella” term used to describe the entire family of GS1 data structures for trade items (products and services) identification. GTIN..
Global Trance Network
Global Trance Network is the German parent label of several smaller labels including d.Drum, Liquid Audio Soundz, Sector, and Velvet Inc. It is a sublabel of Nova Tekk Records. Some of the most well-known psychedelic trance artists has releases on GTN, including X-Dream and Koxbox. See also List ..
Global TV (Indonesia)
Global TV is a private television station in Indonesia established in early 1999 and first went on air in October 2001 with MTV programming. The station airs news and sports such as F1, A1 and the Superbike racing. It continues to broadcst MTV programming some of the time. Global TV has 18 transm..
Global TV (T&T)
Global TV is a television station owned and operated by the HCL Comminications Network, in Trinidad and Tobago. The station is expected to launch in late 2006 on the Colombus Cable television system, and then in July over a UHF Frequency. The station was expected to launch in May 2006, but it h..
Global Underground
Global Underground is a series of primarily progressive house compilation albums reflecting a performance of a high profile DJ in venues from around the world released by Boxed. The name of the series gives reference to the albums' removal from typical mainstream dance music and the fact that each a..
Global Underwater Explorers
Global Underwater Explorers are a SCUBA diving organization. As of 2006, GUE's president is Jarrod Jablonski, one of the world's most accomplished underwater explorers and owner and CEO of diving equipment manufacturer Halcyon. Global Underwater Explorers emerged out of a shared desire to safely..
Global Unions
Global Unions is a website, which is jointly owned and managed by the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions, ICFTU, the Trade Union Advisory Committee to the OECD and ten global union federations. See also Trade union External links [www.global-unions.org] ..
Global union federation
A global union federation is an international federation of national and regional trade unions organising in specific industry sectors or occupational groups, sometimes also known as an international trade secretariat. Most major unions are members of one or more global union federations, relevant ..
Global value numbering
Global value numbering (GVN) is a compiler optimization based on the SSA intermediate representation. It sometimes helps eliminate redundant code that common subexpression evaluation (CSE) does not. At the same time, however, CSE may eliminate code that GVN does not, so both are often found in mode..
Global Van Lines
Global Van Lines was founded in 1933 by George T. Howard as Howard Van Lines in Dallas, Texas and took its present name in 1957 when it was acquired by Trans-Ocean Van Service of Long Beach, California. It gained some fame in the 1960's by moving equipment for NASA. It was acquired in 1981 by WKG ..
Global variable
In computer programming, a global variable is a variable that does not belong to any subroutine or class and can be accessed from anywhere in a program. They are contrasted with local variables. See also scope. They are usually considered bad practice precisely because of their nonlocality: a glob..
Global village
For the broadcasted show, see Global Village. Global village is a term coined by P. Wyndham Lewis in his book America and Cosmic Man (1948). However, Herbert Marshall McLuhan also wrote about this term in his book [[The Gutenberg Galaxy: The Making of Typographic Man ]] (1962). His book describes h..
Global Village
For the scientific term, see global village. For the CBC Radio show, see Global Village (radio show). Global Village is an Australian television show which takes its listeners to the far corners of the globe where they will discover that the world really is an amazing place. It broadcasts weekd..
Global Village (radio show)
Global Village is an entertainment program on the Radio One and Radio Two networks of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, hosted by Jowi Taylor. It is heard on the Radio One network between 8:00 p.m. and 9:00 p.m. local time on Wednesdays, or 8:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. in Newfoundland, and on the Ra..
Global Vision
Global Vision is a Canadian non-profit organization founded in 1991 by Terry Clifford, two-term Member of Parliament for the London-Middlesex riding (1984 - 1993). Its flagship program, "Junior Team Canada", was modelled after Team Canada, a national government trade mission program led by the Pri..
Global Vision Christian School
A private Christian boarding school located in Umsong, Chungchungbuk-do, South Korea. The school was established in 2003 by Pastor Jean Seok Nam. External links [School Website] ..
Global Voices
The phrase Global Voices might refer to: Global Voices Online, a blog that summarizes what is going on in the blogosphere in every corner of world - it has a few dozen regular contributors. [Link]The Global Voices - an internship program at the Kennedy School of Government.Global Voices -..
Global volunteer network
The Global Volunteer Network (GVN) is a private NGO which supports the work of local community organizations through facilitating the placement of international voulnteers to do work of humanitarian/environmental nature. The organisation was founded in 2000 by its present day executive director Co..
Global warming
Global warming is the observed increase in the average temperature of the Earth's atmosphere and oceans in recent decades. The Earth's average near-surface atmospheric temperature rose 0.6 ± 0.2 degrees Celsius (1.1 ± 0.4  degrees Fahrenheit) in the 20th century. The prevailing scien..
Global Warming: Opposing Viewpoints (2002)
This article is about the second edition of Global Warming: Opposing Viewpoints; for the first edition see [[Global Warming: Opposing Viewpoints (1997)|Global Warming: Opposing Viewpoints (1997)]]; for the third edition see [[Global Warming: Opposing Viewpoints (2006)|Global Warming: Opposing Viewpo..
Global warming controversy
The global warming controversy is an ongoing dispute about the effects of humans on the global climate and what, if any, policies should be followed to avoid future effects. A current scientific opinion on climate change is that recent warming is largely human-caused (e.g. [American Geophysical..
Global warming potential
Global warming potential (GWP) is a measure of how much a given mass of greenhouse gas is estimated to contribute to global warming. It is a relative scale which compares the gas in question to that of the same mass of carbon dioxide (whose GWP is by definition 1). A GWP is calculated over a specifi..
Global warming skeptic
Global warming skeptics are those who have reservations or even outright objections to one or more of the main tenets of the global warming theory. Typical points of dispute include: Whether human activity has caused a trend of global warming that will eventually make Earth uninhabitable.Whether h..
Global War on Terrorism Expeditionary Medal
The Global War on Terrorism Expeditionary Medal (GWOTEM) is a military decoration of the United States armed forces which was created by Presidential Order of George W. Bush in March 2003. The decoration recognizes those military service members who have performed deployed overseas service in the W..
Global War on Terrorism Service Medal
The Global War on Terrorism Service Medal is a military decoration of the United States military which was created by Executive Order 13289 of President George W. Bush on 12 March, 2003. The decoration recognizes those military service members who have performed service in the War on Terrorism from..
Global Watch
Global Watch is a service of the UK Department of Trade and Industry. It helps UK businesses discover and use technologies and practices from outside the UK. External links [Global Watch Service home page]. ..
Global Witness
Global Witness is an international NGO that highlights the links between natural resource exploitation, conflict,poverty, corruption, and human rights abuses worldwide. Global Witness was founded in 1993. Its staff now totals over thirty people, based in offices in London and Washington, D.C. Glob..
Global Wordnet
The [GlobalWordNet] project aims to follow the process and data formats of the Princeton WordNet effort. There are some 40 ongoing efforts to create wordnets. There is a bi-annual conference that brings together these developers to present and share their results. ..
Global Workspace Theory
Global Workspace Theory (GWT) is a simple cognitive architecture that has been developed to account qualitatively for a large set of matched pairs of conscious and unconscious processes, and it was proposed by Bernard Baars (1988, 1997). It is based on the concept of a human working memory – the "..
Global Wrestling Federation
Global Wrestling Federation was a professional wrestling promotion based in Dallas, Texas. It started in June 1991 and folded in September 1994. At one time its shows were presented on the ESPN television network. Contents 1 Brief history2 Kerry Von Erich3 GWF Wrestlers and Persona..
Global Young Greens
The Global Young Greens (GYG) is an emerging universal organisation supporting and consolidating the efforts of young people working towards social justice, ecological sustainability, grassroots democracy and peace. GYG is a joint project of over 70 youth organisations and many hundreds of individua..
Global Young Leaders Conference
The Global Young Leaders Conference (GYLC) is a leadership development program devised by the Congressional Youth Leadership Council (CYLC). It brings together scholars, between the ages of 16 and 18, from countries all around the world to build critical leadership skills in a global context. S..
Global Youth Action Network
The Global Youth Action Network (GYAN) is an international network of youth NGOs working to incubate global partnerships and increase youth participation. GYAN co-coordinates Global Youth Service Day annually at a global level. It is a program of Youth Service America that has become the world's l..
Globar
A Globar is a silicon carbide rod of 5 to 10 mm width and 20 to 50 mm length which is electrically heated up to 1000 to 1650 °C (1800 to 3000 °F) with a downstream variable interference filter that emits radiation from 4 to 15 micrometres wavelength. Globars are used as thermal light sources for..
GLOBCOVER
In geography, GLOBCOVER is a two-year project whose goal is to develop the sharpest map of Earth's global land cover. The project will contribute information relevant to land use, ecosystems and climate change. The artificial satellite Envisat (especially its Medium Resolution Imaging Spectrometer..
Globe
A globe This article is on a planet-representation device. For others, see globe (disambiguation). A globe is a three-dimensional scale model of a spheroid celestial body such as a planet, star or moon, in particular Earth, or, alternatively, a spherical representation of the sky with the st..
Globe, Arizona
Globe is a city in Gila County, Arizona, United States. The population was 7,486 at the 2000 census. The city is the county seat of Gila County[Geographic references#6GR6]. Contents 1 Geography2 Demographics3 Notable people born in Globe4 Notable people who lived in..
Globe-Democrat
The St. Louis Globe-Democrat (sometimes referred to as The Globe) was a daily newspaper based in St. Louis, Missouri. It began operations on July 1, 1852. It was St. Louis' conservative daily newspaper for much of its run. The newspaper was the morning paper for Greater St. Louis, and had some co..
Globe-flower
The Globe-flower (Trollius europaeus) is a plant of the family Ranunculaceae. It has a tall, 60 cm flower with a bright yellow, globe-shaped head. It grows in damp ground in shady areas, woodland and scrub, flowering between June and August. A native of Europe and Western Asia. ..
Globe-News Center for the Performing Arts
Globe-News Center for the Performing Arts is a performing arts facility in downtown Amarillo, Texas, U.S.A.. The $30 million USD facility, opened in January 2006, houses the Amarillo Opera, Amarillo Symphony, Lone Star Ballet, and various events. The building was constructed by the Dallas office o..
GlobeCast World TV
Globecast World TV, a division of France Telecom, is a direct-to-home provider of free-to-air and Nagravision-encrypted ethnic television and audio channels via the Intelsat Americas 5 satellite. Contents 1 Channels1.1 Television1.2 Radio2 Reception Equipment3 See also..
Globemallow
The globemallows are members of the genus Sphaeralcea (or Iliamna) in the mallow family (Malvaceae). There are about 40-60 species, including annuals, perennials, and shrubs. Most originate in the drier regions of North America, with some known from South America. Other names include globe mallow ..
Globemaster
Globemaster is the name of three separate airlifters, produced by Douglas Aircraft Company or its successors: Douglas C-74 Globemaster (1945)Douglas C-124 Globemaster II (1949)Boeing C-17 Globemaster III (1991, designed by McDonnell Douglas) This is a [disambiguationdisambiguation] page: ..
Globemaster Air Cargo
Globemaster Air Cargo is a cargo airline based in St Albert, Alberta, Canada. It is an all-cargo airline operating scheduled and charter services in Alberta, British Columbia and the Northwest Territories. History The airline was established in 2003 and started operations in October 2003. It launc..
Globes
Globes is a Hebrew language daily evening financial newspaper, published in Israel. External links [Globes homepage] See also List of Israeli newspapers ..
Globewide Network Academy
The Globewide Network Academy is a non-profit corporation incorporated in the state of Texas. It promotes distance education through the use of open source technologies and maintains a database of distance learning courses and programs. External links [Official web site] ..
GlobeXplorer
GlobeXplorer is a website which provides users with satellite imagery of places on Earth. Users can access instant aerial photos for specific addresses anywhere the world. Installing GlobeXplorer comprises of manually replacing key DLL files in the ArcIMS kernel, using DLLs provided by the company ..
Globe (band)
The correct title of this } is }}}. The initial letter is capitalized due to [Naming conventions #Lower case first lettertechnical restrictions]. globe is a dance-oriented Japanese pop band, formed in 1995 by legendary producer and songwriter Tetsuya Komuro. Originally consisting of Komu..
Globe (disambiguation)
Globe can refer to: Globe - A model of a planet.The Boston Globe - a Boston newspaper.Le Globe - a French newspaper.Globe Theatre - one of several theatres in London.The GLOBE Program - a worldwide hands-on, primary and secondary school-based education and science program.globe - a Japanese pop mu..
Globe and Mail's Top 40 under 40
2006 List Lorne Abony 36, Fun Technologies PLC -- High-tech entrepreneurChristopher Alexander (diplomat) 37, United Nations -- DiplomatJordan Banks 37, eBay Canada -- E-commerce executiveBrenda Banwell 38, University of Toronto -- pediatric neurologistDov Bercovici 37, Acadia University -- Universi..
Globe artichoke
The Globe Artichoke (Cynara scolymus) is a perennial, thistle-like plant, originating in southern Europe around the Mediterranean. It grows to 1.5-2 m tall, with arching, deeply lobed, silvery glaucous-green leaves 50-80 cm long. The flowers develop in a large head from an edible bud about 8-15 cm..
Globe Handyphone
Globe Handyphone is the main mobile arm of parent company Globe Telecom, providing mobile phone services in the Philippines. At present, Globe Handyphone (of which the name Globe is most commonly used on) is the second-largest service provider in the Philippines, with a subscriber base of 11.7 m..
Globe magnolia
Globe Magnolia (Magnolia globosa) is a species of Magnolia native to Bhutan, southwestern China (Sichuan, Xizang, Yunnan), northeastern India (Assam, Sikkim), northern Myanmar, and eastern Nepal. It is a deciduous large shrub or small tree growing to 7-10 m tall. The leaves are variable in shape,..
Globe of Frogs
Globe of Frogs is an album released by Robyn Hitchcock and the Egyptians on A&M Records in 1988. Recorded in London, it was produced by the Egyptians (Robyn Hitchcock, Andy Metcalfe, and Morris Windsor) along with Pat Collier. Guest artists included Chris Cox, Peter Buck (from R.E.M.), and Glenn Til..
GLOBE Program
GLOBE Program logo The GLOBE Program or Programme is a worldwide, hands-on, primary and secondary school-based education and science program. It seeks to teach young students experimental skills using real experiments and equipment and collaboration with students in a global network of over a ..
Globe Shoes
Globe Shoes are a manufacturer of surf and skateboard footwear formed in Australia in 1994 by former Australian professional skateboarders Matt, Steven, and Peter Hill. Globe's line-up consists of shoes designed in conjunction with known professional skateboarders including Chet Thomas, Rodney Mul..
Globe Swift
A Globe Swift reflecting in the sun. The Globe Swift, also advertised as the "All Metal Swift", was a light, two-seat sport monoplane of the post-World War II period. Designed by R.S. Johnson in 1940, the design was purchased by John Kennedy, president of the Globe Medicine Company, to be buil..
Globe Telecom
Globe Telecom (), commonly known as Globe, is the third-largest telecommunications company in the Philippines. Contents 1 History2 Subsidiaries3 Ownership4 Competition5 See also6 External links History Globe Telecom's roots date back to the American colonial perio..
Globe Theatre
This article is about the Globe Theatre of Shakespeare, both the original and its modern reconstruction. For other Globe theatres, see Globe Theatre (disambiguation). The modern reconstruction of the Globe Theatre, in London. The Globe Theatre normally refers to one of three theatres in Londo..
Globe Theatre, Regina
The Globe Theatre in Regina, Saskatchewan, was founded in 1966 by Ken and Sue Kramer. It was the first professional educational theatre company and the only professional theatre company in Saskatchewan. The Globe was first in the Jubilee Theatre at the Saskatchewan Centre of the Arts and then moved..
Globe Theatre (disambiguation)
The Globe Theatre may refer to several buildings: The original Globe Theatre of Shakespeare's LondonShakespeare's Globe Theatre, a modern reconstructionThe Globe Theatre on Newcastle Street, London, which opened in 1868 and was demolished around 1902. It was also known as the Royal Globe Theatre or..
Globe Trekker
Globe Trekker (also called Pilot Guides outside the United States and originally broadcast as Lonely Planet) is an adventure tourism television series produced by Pilot Productions. The British-based series was inspired by the Lonely Planet travelbooks and began its 11th season in late 2005. Glo..
Globe Unity Orchestra
The Globe Unity Orchestra is a free jazz ensemble. Globe Unity was formed in autumn 1966 with a commission received by Alexander von Schlippenbach from the Berlin Jazz Festival. It had its debut at the Berliner Philharmonie on 3 November. ..
Globe valve
Globe valves are named for their spherical body shape. The two halves of the valve body are separated by a baffle with a disc in the center. Globe valves operate by screw action of the handwheel. They are used for applications requiring throttling and frequent operation. Since the baffle restricts f..
Globi
Globi is a Swiss cartoon character often referred to as Switzerland's Mickey Mouse. He is pictured as a blue bird with a yellow beak wearing a black beret and a pair of red and black checked trousers. He started as an advertising character for the Swiss department store Globus in 1932 for the co..
Globidens
Globidens is an extinct genus of lizard belonging to the marine mosasaur family. The 6 m (20 ft) long creature looked like a regular mosasaur, possessing a streamlined body with flippers, a laterally flattened tail and powerful jaws. However, its teeth were vastly different from other mosasaurs. G..
Globig-Bleddin
Globig-Bleddin is a community in Wittenberg district in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. The community belongs to the administrative community (Verwaltungsgemeinschaft) of Kurregion Elbe-Heideland whose seat is in the town of Bad Schmiedeberg. Contents 1 Geography1.1 Location1.2 Constitu..
Globigerinida
The Globigerinida are a common group of foraminiferans that are found as marine plankton (other groups are primarily benthic). They produce hyaline calcareous tests, and are known as fossils from the Jurassic period onwards. The group has included more than 100 genera and over 400 species, of whi..
Globish
Globish is a portmanteau neologism of the words Global and English. It is a simplified version of the English language that uses only the most common English words and phrases. It is used by non-English-speakers of various native languages. Unlike Basic English, Simplified English and Voice of Ame..
Globix
Globix Corporation is a leading provider of Internet infrastructure and network services. Globix offers a suite of services from network bandwidth, to the management of Web applications, servers, and databases, to security, media streaming, and colocation. Globix and its subsidiaries have operations..
Globopoly
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Globosat
Globosat is a multichannel, subscription-based cable and satellite TV service in Brazil, created in 1991, after the creation of cable and satellite TV services. It also distributes one channel in Portugal. In 1993, Globosat split its content generation and distribution businesses. Cable TV sales an..
Globotype
The Globotype is a color display for telecommunications. It was invented and patented by David Mc Callum of Stonehouse, Devon, England. The device features very low cost and does not use consumable supplies. It is Royal Letters Patent No. 2924 issued Dec 29, 1855. The design and coding used is des..
Globovisión
Globovisión is a Venezuelan 24-hour news channel. It is one of the world's only 24-hour news channels that can be seen by people without a cable or satellite system (in select areas). It first went on the air on December 1, 1994, a year and a half after the impeachment of Carlos Andrés Pérez...
Globox
Globox is a popular figure in the Rayman 2 and Rayman 3 computer games. Globox is a gentle, sensitive character. Globox has some magic powers, but in times, he is only a burden to the main hero, Rayman. He is a kind of creature known as a glewt. He has some family: a wife named Uglette--quite si..
Globo Loco
Globo Loco is a British children's game show that aired on CITV from 2003 to 2004, presented by Stephen Mulhern. The show featured two teams of children, boys and girls, who tried to predict the outcome of often crazy challenges. If their prediction was closest they each won a prize. After all of t..
Globster
A globster is an unidentified carcass washed up on a the shore of an ocean or other body of water, or found in the stomach of a whale. In the past these were often described as sea monsters, and myths and legends about such monsters may often have started with the appearance of a globster. Many glo..
GloBul
GloBul is the second Bulgarian GSM operator. The company, which reached 2,000,000 customers in August 2005, was founded in 2001, and is owned by Greek telecommunications corporation OTE. GloBul changed their logo in June 2006 to unify it with the Cosmote logo. External links [Official we..
Globularia
Globularia is a genus of about 22 species of flowering plants in the family Plantaginaceae, native to central and southern Europe, Macaronesia, northwest Africa and southwest Asia. They are dense low evergreen mat-forming herbs or subshrubs, with leathery oval leaves 1-10 cm long. The flowers..
Globularia meridionalis
Globularia meridionalis (syn. G. bellidifolia) is a species of Globularia. It is a perennial plant. It has a dark evergreen foliage and bright blue spherical flowerheads. ..
Globular Amphora culture
The Globular Amphora Culture, German Kugelamphoren, ca. 3400-2800 BC, is an archaeological culture contemporaneous with and overlapping the central area occupied by the Corded Ware culture. Somewhat to the south and west, it was bordered by the Baden culture, which also overlapped portions occupie..
Globular cluster
accessdate = 2006-05-26 }} A globular cluster (sometimes known more simply as a globular) is a spherical collection of stars that orbits a galaxy core as a satellite. Globular clusters are very tightly bound by gravity, which gives them their spherical shape, and relatively high stellar densit..
Globular Cluster M107
Messier 107, from 2MASS Messier 107 Globular Cluster M107 (also known as Messier Object 107 or NGC 6171) is a very loose globular cluster in the constellation Ophiuchus. It was discovered by Pierre Méchain in April 1782 and independently by William Herschel in 1793. It wasn't until 194..
Globular Cluster M2
[NGC 7089] Globular Cluster M2 (also known as Messier Object 2, Messier 2, M2, or NGC 7089) is a globular cluster in the Aquarius constellation. It was discovered by Jean-Dominique Maraldi in 1746. M2 has a diameter of about 175 light-years, contains about 150,000 stars, and is one of..
Globular Cluster M28
Messier 28 Globular Cluster M28 (also known as Messier Object 28 or NGC 6626) is a globular cluster in the constellation Sagittarius. It was discovered by Charles Messier in 1764. M28 is at a distance of about 18,000 to 19,000 light-years away from Earth. 18 RR Lyrae type variable stars have ..
Globular Cluster M30
Globular Cluster M30 (also known as Messier Object 30, Messier 30, M30, or NGC 7099) is a globular cluster in the Capricornus constellation. It was discovered by Charles Messier in 1764. M30 is at a distance of about 26,000 light-years away from Earth. External link [Globular Cluster M30 @ SED..
Globular Cluster M4
Globular Cluster M4 [M4] Globular Cluster M4 (also known as Messier Object 4 or NGC 6121) is a globular cluster in the constellation Scorpius. It was discovered by Philippe Loys de Chéseaux in 1746 and catalogued by Charles Messier in 1764. This was the first globular cluster..
Globular Cluster M53
An image of M53 Globular Cluster M53 (also known as Messier Object 53, Messier 53, M53, or NGC 5024) is a globular cluster in the Coma Berenices constellation. It was discovered by Johann Elert Bode in 1775 . M53 is one of the more outlying globular clusters, being about 60,000 light years aw..
Globular Cluster M54
M54 Globular Cluster M54 (also known as Messier Object 54 or NGC 6715) is a globular cluster in the constellation Sagittarius. It was discovered by Charles Messier in 1778 and subsequently included in his catalog of comet-like objects. Previously thought to be at a distance from Earth of abou..
Globular Cluster M55
Messier 55 Globular Cluster M55 (also known as Messier Object 55 or NGC 6809) is a globular cluster in the constellation Sagittarius. It was discovered by Nicolas Louis de Lacaille in 1751 and catalogued by Charles Messier in 1778. M55 is at a distance of about 17,300 light years away from Ear..
Globular Cluster M56
Messier 56 Globular Cluster M56 (also known as Messier Object 56 or NGC 6779) is a globular cluster in the constellation Lyra. It was discovered by Charles Messier in 1779. M56 is at a distance of about 32,900 light years from Earth and measures roughly 85 light years across. The brightest st..
Globular Cluster M68
M68 is also an optical firearm sight. Globular Cluster M68 (also known as Messier Object 68, Messier 68, M68, or NGC 4590) is a globular cluster in the Hydra constellation. It was discovered by Charles Messier in 1780. M58 is at a distance of about 33,000 light years away from Earth. External links..
Globular Cluster M69
Messier 69 Globular Cluster M69 (also known as Messier Object 69 or NGC 6637) is a globular cluster in the constellation Sagittarius. It was discovered by Charles Messier in 1780. M69 is at a distance of about 29,700 light years away from Earth and has a spatial radius of 42 light years. It i..
Globular Cluster M70
Messier 70 Globular Cluster M70 (also known as Messier Object 70 or NGC 6681) is a globular cluster in the constellation Sagittarius. It was discovered by Charles Messier in 1780. M70 is at a distance of about 29,300 light years away from Earth and close to the Galactic Center. It is roughly ..
Globular Cluster M72
Globular Cluster M72 (also known as Messier Object 72, M72, or NGC 6981) is a globular cluster in the Aquarius constellation discovered by Pierre Méchain in August 29, 1780. Charles Messier looked for it on the following October 4 and 5, and included it in his catalog. Both decided that it was a fa..
Globular Cluster M75
Messier 75 Globular Cluster M75 (also known as Messier Object 75 or NGC 6864) is a globular cluster in the constellation Sagittarius. It was discovered by Pierre Méchain in 1780 and included in Charles Messier's catalog of comet-like objects that same year. M70 is at a distance of about 67,5..
Globular Cluster M9
Messier 9, from 2MASS Messier 9 Globular Cluster M9 (also known as Messier Object 9 or NGC 6333) is a globular cluster in the constellation Ophiuchus. It was discovered by Charles Messier in 1764. M9 is one of the nearer globular clusters to the center of the Milky Way Galaxy with a dis..
Globular Cluster M92
This article is about the globular cluster. For the Beretta handgun see Beretta 92FS or Beretta 92 Models An image of M92, taken with a small telescope Globular Cluster M92 (also known as Messier Object 92, Messier 92, M92, or NGC 6341) is a globular cluster in the Hercules constellation. It w..
Globular protein
Globular proteins, or spheroproteins are one of the two main protein classes, comprising globelike proteins that are more or less soluble in aqueous solutions (where they form colloidal solutions). This main characteristic helps distinguishing them from fibrous proteins (the other class), which are..
Globulation 2
Globulation 2 is a real-time strategy game which minimizes micro-management by automatically assigning tasks to units. The player chooses the number of units he wants to assign to various tasks, and the units will do their best to satisfy the requests. This allows the user to manage more units and..
Globule (CDN)
Globule is an open-source collaborative content delivery network developed at the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam. It is implemented as a third-party module for the Apache HTTP Server that allows any given server to replicate its documents to other Globule servers. This can improve the site's perfor..
Globulin
Globulin is one of the two types of serum proteins, the other being albumin. This generic term encompasses a heterogenous series of families of proteins, with larger molecules and less soluble in pure water than albumin, which migrate less than albumin during serum electrophoresis. It is sometimes ..
Globulite
Globulite refers to a small, globular region of protocrystalline material in an amorphous mass of material such as volcanic glass. ..
Globus
Globus is Latin for "sphere". It can refer to: Globus, the upscale Swiss department store chainGlobus Alliance, an engineering association for grid computing infrastructureGlobus Toolkit, a software framework that implements the Grid computing specifications proposed by the Globus Alliance.Globus, ..
Globus (company)
For other uses of the term, see Globus. Globus is a Swiss department store company, with 11 department stores in Switzerland. The group, which also includes the Herren Globus chain of menswear stores and the Office World chain of office supplies stores, it is owned by Switzerland's largest retailer..
Globus (weekly)
For other uses of the term, see Globus. Globus is a Croatian weekly newspaper published in Zagreb. The magazine was started in 1991, having some of its first issues published during the Croatian War of Independence. Originally devised as tabloid, it never took an openly chauvinist approach of Slob..
Globus Aerostaticus
Globus Aerostaticus (Latin for hot air balloon) was a constellation created by Jérôme Lalande in 1798. It was located east from the constellation Microscopium. It is no longer in use. External links http://www.pa.msu.edu/people/horvatin/Astronomy_Facts/obsolete_pages/globus_aerostaticus.htmhttp:/..
Globus Alliance
The Globus Alliance is an association dedicated to developing fundamental technologies needed to build grid computing infrastructures. A grid is a persistent environment that enables software applications to integrate instruments, displays, computational and information resources that are managed..
Globus Cassus
A top and side view of the Globus Cassus Globus Cassus is a utopian project for the transformation of Planet Earth into a much bigger, hollow, artificial world with an ecosphere on its inner surface. Sunlight would enter through two large windows, gravity would be provided by centrifugal force..
Globus cruciger
Danish globus cruciger. Part of the Danish Crown Regalia. The globus cruciger (Latin) is an orb (globus) topped with a cross (cruciger), a Christian symbol of authority used throughout the Middle Ages on coins, iconography and royal regalia. It symbolises Christ's (the cross) dominion over t..
Globus hystericus
Globus hystericus, commonly referred to as having a "lump in one's throat", is the sensation of having a non-existant lump or sense of fullness of the throat. However, swallowing can be performed normally, so it is not a true case of dysphagia. It can be a sign of reflux laryngitis or hysterical ne..
Globus II
Globus II is a controversial radar station located in Vardø, Norway, near the Russian border. Contents 1 Purpose and use2 Controversy3 Administration and funding4 Technical data5 References Purpose and use The radar is administrated by the Norwegian National Intelligenc..
Globus Music
Globus is the commercial name of a mix of producers, musicians and vocalists from the prominent movie trailer music production company Immediate Music. Globus was launched in 2006 in response to an influx of requests to Immediate Music to make their distinctive, rousing orchestral cues available..
Globus pallidus
Coronal slices of human brain showing the basal ganglia, globus pallidus: external segment (GPe), subthalamic nucleus (STN), globus pallidus: internal segment (GPi), and substantia nigra (SN). The globus pallidus (Latin for "pale body") or pallidum (Terminologia anatomica since it is not even ..
Globus Pharyngis
Globus Pharyngis (also known as Globus Sensation, Globus or, somewhat outdatedly, Globus Hystericus) is the persistent sensation of having phlegm or some other sort of obstruction in the throat when there is none. Though Globus does not interfere with the function of the throat, it can become quite ..
Globus Toolkit
The Globus Toolkit, currently at version 4, is an open source toolkit for building computing grids provided by the Globus Alliance. Standards implementation The Globus Toolkit is an implementation of the following standards: Open Grid Services Architecture (OGSA)Open Grid Services Infrastructure (O..
Glob Herman
Glob Herman (Herman) is a fictional mutant character of the Marvel Comics Universe. His first appearance was in New X-Men #117. Glob was created by Grant Morrison and Ethan Van Sciver. The young mutant called Glob Herman is one of many who enrolled into the Xavier Institute for Higher Learning afte..
Glocalization
Glocalisation, a neologism and portmanteau of globalisation and localisation, entails one or both of the following: The creation or distribution of products or services intended for a global or transregional market, but customized to suit local laws or culture.Using electronic communications technol..
Glocester, Rhode Island
Glocester is a town in Providence County, Rhode Island, United States. The population was 9,948 at the 2000 census. The village of Chepachet is in Glocester. Glocester was the site of start of Dorr Rebellion. Contents 1 Geography2 Demographics3 Prominent residents4 See als..
Glochidion
Glochidion are a taxon of plants in the family Phyllanthaceae. It comprises about 300 species, distributed from Madagascar to the Pacific Islands. Glochidion species are used as food plants by the larvae of some Lepidoptera species including Aenetus eximia and Endoclita damor. Synonymy The genus ..
Glock
Glock is an Austrian defense contractor (named after the founder Gaston Glock) founded in 1963 in Deutsch-Wagram, near Vienna, Austria. Contents 1 Overview2 Popularity3 Plastic pistol myths4 Safety mechanism5 Weapon functionality misconceptions6 ka-BOOM! or kB! C..
Glock-Guitar
Glock-Guitar is a percussion instrument belonging to the idiophone family of instruments. The glock-guitar is composed of a large, flat wooden board with a smaller handle known as the akkordboard. The akkordboard usually has four round peg holes for attaching 3-chime chord block sets, often making a..
GlockBerry
An editor has expressed a concern that the topic of this article may be unencyclopedic. Please review [What Wikipedia is not] and try to resolve the objections on the discussion page. Popularized in the British movie "Appointment" where a killer goes around town killing his victims on..
Glockengold
Glockengold is a factory company who manages the producing of all sorts of juice. They are especially known for their multi-vitamin-drink which contains all sorts of vitamins. External links [Glockengold website] ..
Glockenspiel
Most orchestral glockenspiels are mounted in a case. Musician playing glockenspiel at front left; Sousaphone at behind at right. The Glockenspiel (German, "play of bells", also known as orchestra bells and, in its portable form, bell lyra or bell lyre) is a musical instrument in the per..
GLOCK 17
The GLOCK 17 was the first pistol designed and manufactured by the Austrian company GLOCK. It is a locked breech, short recoil 9 mm Luger semi-automatic pistol with a standard magazine capacity of 17 rounds of ammunition. It uses a modified Peter/Browning barrel locking system. The G17 showed up in ..
GLOCK 17L
GLOCK 17L: Glock's long-slide 9 mm pistol The GLOCK 17L is a specially made pistol designed and manufactured in Austria by GLOCK. It is basically a longer slide version of the GLOCK 17. It has the same frame as a GLOCK 17 and uses the same magazines. History The 17L was initially sold in th..
GLOCK 18
The GLOCK 18 is a handgun manufactured by GLOCK. It is a GLOCK 17 with a mode of fire selection switch on its slide that enables it to fire in semi-automatic or fully-automatic modes. Rotating the fire selection switch to the bottom of the frame allows for fully automatic fire, while rotating the..
GLOCK 18 in popular culture
This is an article listing appearances or reference to the GLOCK 18 in popular culture. See also List of firearms in video games and List of firearms in films. Film Used by Morpheus in the film The Matrix Reloaded, and by Niobe in the video game Enter the Matrix.Used by John Connor in the film [[T..
GLOCK 19
Glock 19, current model. Glock 19 early model, left side view The GLOCK 19 is a pistol designed and manufactured by GLOCK. The GLOCK 19 is effectively a reduced size GLOCK 17. Standard magazine capacity is 15 rounds of 9 x 19 mm ammunition. Development of the GLOCK 19 started in 1988. In..
GLOCK 20
The GLOCK 20 is a pistol manufactured by GLOCK. It is a standard frame GLOCK, roughly 7 mm longer and 2.5 mm wider than the GLOCK 17. It is chambered to fire 10 mm Auto ammunition. 10 mm auto is one of the most powerful handgun rounds commonly used in autopistols. The GLOCK 20 is sometimes used as..
GLOCK 21
The GLOCK 21 is a pistol manufactured by GLOCK. It is a large frame GLOCK based on the GLOCK 20 and fires the .45 ACP ammunition. It uses a modified GLOCK 20 frame, .45 ACP barrel, modified slide and magazine but these difference are quite minor and it does look identical to a GLOCK 20. It is a v..
GLOCK 22
GLOCK 22 in the new Olive Drab finish (with magazine) The GLOCK 22 is a pistol manufactured by GLOCK. It is a GLOCK 17 modified to fire the .40 S&W ammunition. It uses a modified slide, frame, .40 S&W barrel and magazine but is otherwise near identical in looks to the GLOCK 17. It has a 15 ro..
GLOCK 23
GLOCK 23 - 3rd Gen The GLOCK 23 is a pistol manufactured by GLOCK. Contents 1 Description and use2 GLOCK 23 in fiction3 See also3.1 Other calibers3.2 .40 GLOCK family4 External links Description and use The GLOCK 23 is a GLOCK 19 modified to fire the .40 S&W..
GLOCK 24
The GLOCK 24 is a pistol manufactured by GLOCK. It is a GLOCK 17L modified to fire the .40 S&W ammunition. It uses a modified slide, frame, .40 S&W barrel and magazine but is otherwise near identical in looks to the GLOCK 17L along with a 15-round magazine capacity. The GLOCK 24 has undergone 3 maj..
GLOCK 25
The GLOCK 25 is a pistol manufactured by GLOCK. It is a GLOCK 19 modified to fire the .380 ACP ammunition and uses a modified slide, frame, .380 ACP barrel and magazine, but is otherwise nearly identical in looks to the GLOCK 19. It has a magazine capacity of 15 rounds. The GLOCK 25 is a blowback pi..
GLOCK 26
GLOCK 26 The GLOCK 26 is a pistol manufactured by GLOCK. It is a sub-compact frame GLOCK based on the GLOCK 19 and chambered for the 9mm Luger round. It features a small frame, short barrel and slide, and small magazine. It is a very popular self-defense and carry pistol, owing in part to t..
GLOCK 27
The GLOCK 27 is a pistol manufactured by GLOCK. It is a GLOCK 26 modified to fire the .40 S&W ammunition. It uses a modified slide, frame, .40 S&W barrel and magazine but is otherwise near identical in looks to the GLOCK 26. It has a magazine capacity of nine rounds. Many GLOCK 27 users find the gr..
GLOCK 28
The GLOCK 28 is a pistol manufactured by GLOCK. It is a GLOCK 26 modified to fire the .380 ACP ammunition. It uses a modified slide, frame, .380 ACP barrel and magazine but is otherwise nearly identical in looks to the GLOCK 26. It has a magazine capacity of 12 rounds . The GLOCK 28 is a blowback pi..
GLOCK 29
A GLOCK 29 with factory night sights and a Pearce magazine floorplate The GLOCK 29 is a semi-automatic pistol manufactured by GLOCK Inc., introduced in 1997. It is a large frame sub compact GLOCK somewhat bigger than the GLOCK 26 and fires 10mm Auto ammunition. It is built on the same frame ..
Glock 3
Glock 3 is a web site that appeared in 1996 that claimed to be for a gang in Detroit, Michigan. The web site was prominently featured in news articles and segments on television news. It was hosted in New Zealand by a person with the handle 'Sinister' and its members claimed to be involved in exto..
GLOCK 30
Cowboy Bebop's Faye Valentine drawing her Glock 30 The GLOCK 30 is a pistol manufactured by GLOCK. It is a large frame ultra-compact GLOCK based on the GLOCK 29 and fires the .45 ACP ammunition. It uses a modified GLOCK 29 frame, .45 ACP barrel, modified slide and magazine but these difference..
GLOCK 31
The GLOCK 31 is a pistol manufactured by GLOCK. It is a GLOCK 22 modified to fire the .357 SIG ammunition. It uses a modified slide, frame, .357 SIG barrel and magazine but is otherwise near identical in looks to the GLOCK 22. It has a 15-round magazine capacity. The GLOCK 31 has become a popular l..
GLOCK 32
The GLOCK 32 is a pistol manufactured by GLOCK. It is a GLOCK 23 modified to fire the .357 SIG ammunition. It uses a modified slide, frame, .357 SIG barrel and magazine, but is otherwise nearly identical in appearance to the GLOCK 23. In fact, the 23 and 32 are identical in barrel length and externa..
GLOCK 33
The GLOCK 33 Sub-compact is a pistol manufactured by GLOCK. It is a GLOCK 27 Sub-compact modified to fire the .357 SIG ammunition. It uses a modified slide, frame, .357 SIG barrel and magazine but is otherwise nearly identical in appearance to the GLOCK 27 Sub-compact. It has a 9 rounds magazine cap..
GLOCK 34
The GLOCK 34 is a 9 mm pistol designed and manufactured by GLOCK. It is a combat competition shooting pistol with a standard magazine capacity of 17 rounds of ammunition. It is similar to both the GLOCK 17 and the GLOCK 17L. The receiver and magazine are interchangeable with those of the GLOCK 17. T..
GLOCK 35
The GLOCK 35 is a pistol manufactured by GLOCK. It is a GLOCK 34 modified to fire the .40 S&W ammunition. It uses a modified slide, frame, .40 S&W barrel and magazine, but is otherwise identical in appearance to the GLOCK 34; in fact, the two pistols are identical in exterior dimensions and barrel l..
GLOCK 36
The GLOCK 36 is a pistol manufactured by GLOCK. It features an ultra-compact frame and is chambered for the .45 ACP round; the barrel, slide, and magazine, are unique to the model. It is a very popular self-defense and carry pistol in the United States, where the caliber is widely favored. It has a ..
GLOCK 37
The GLOCK 37 is a pistol manufactured by GLOCK. It is a GLOCK 17 modified to fire the .45 GAP ammunition. It uses a different slide, frame, barrel and magazine but is otherwise similar in looks to the GLOCK 17 but has a wider slide. It has a 10 round magazine capacity. The .45 GAP ammunition was de..
GLOCK 38
The GLOCK 38 is a pistol designed by GLOCK and released originally in the United States. It is the first weapon to use GLOCK's newly designed .45 GAP ammunition. The .45 GAP ammunition was designed by GLOCK to have the same performance as .45 ACP ammunition but with a shorter case length to fit in..
GLOCK 39
The GLOCK 39, released in 2005, follows the GLOCK 37's 2003 release. It is mainly available in the U.S. and uses a unique .45 GAP (GLOCK Automated Pistol) ammunition. The .45 GAP ammunition was designed by GLOCK, it has the same performance as the .45 ACP ammunition but is short enough to fit into..
GLOCK 7
The GLOCK 7 is a fictional ceramic gun, purportedly made by the Austrian small-arms manufacturer Glock, that was mentioned by John McClane, Bruce Willis' character in the 1990 movie Die Hard 2. In the movie, McClane says: That punk pulled a Glock 7 on me. You know what that is? It's a porcelain gun..
Gloc 9
Gloc 9 is dubbed as the fastest rapper in the Philippines; largely due to his swift style of rhyme delivery that characterizes many of his songs. Born Aristotel Pollisco, he is also a well known member of the pioneering Filipino gangsta rap group, Death Threat. In 2003, he released his solo debut..
Glod
Glod may refer to: Another name for Fornjót, a giant in Norse myth.A misspelling of GoldA dwarf name in Terry Prachett's Discworld, made much more common because of a curse placed on a king that all he touched would turn to Glod (bad spelling can be fatal was the moral of the story). This is a �..
Glodeni
Glodeni is also a commune in Dâmboviţa County, Romania. See: Glodeni, Dâmboviţa. Glodeni is a city and an administrative region of north-east of Moldova. The population of the city of Glodeni is 10,146. The population of the Glodeni region is 59,701. Subdivisions of Moldova Raion..
Glodok
Glodok is the Chinatown district of Jakarta, Indonesia. Centered on Gajah Mada Road, it remains the commercial hub for relatively prosperous Chinese Indonesians. Glodok was the site of the anti-Chinese race riots by native Indonesians that occurred in 1998. See also Chinatowns in AsiaJakarta Rio..
Glodwick
Glodwick is a district in the town of Oldham in Greater Manchester, England. Glodwick is a multi-ethnic district in the south of the town of Oldham, but is home particularly to a large community of people of Pakistani heritage. There is also a considerable but much smaller community of people of Ba..
Gloeocapsa
Gloeocapsa is a type of Photoautotrophic Bacteria (Cyanobacteria), and is a prokaryote. The cells secrete individual gelatinous sheaths which can often be seen as sheaths around recently divided cells within outer sheaths. Recently divided cell pairs often appear to be only one cell since the new..
GloFish
A group of Glofish The GloFish is a trademarked brand of genetically modified (GM) fluorescent zebrafish with a bright red fluorescent color. Although not originally developed for the ornamental fish trade, it is the first GM animal to become publicly available as a pet. Contents 1 Hi..
Glofonzo
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Glog
A glog - short for a "game log" - is a new way to follow live games. It's an expert's - sometimes biased - commentary of the contest at hand - not just what happened but why and how it affects the rest of the game. Glogs are an honest look at what's going on in the game - by a fan for fans. Differe..
Gloger's rule
Gloger's Rule is a zoological rule which states that within a species of endotherms, more heavily pigmented forms tend to be found near the equator and lighter forms away from the equator. It was named after the zoologist Constantin Wilhelm Lambert Gloger. This principle is vividly demonstrated amon..
Gloger's Rule
Gloger's Rule is an ornithological principle that in humid habitats, feathers are darkly colored, while in arid environments they are pale. Some scientests have conjectured that this is an evolutionary defense against feather degrading bacteria (such as Bacillus licheniformis) as humid environments ..
Glogg
Glogg (Swedish: Glögg, Norwegian: Gløgg, Danish: Gløg, Finnish: Glögi) is the Scandinavian version of vin chaud or mulled wine. The main ingredients are (usually red) wine, spices such as cinnamon and cloves, and optionally also stronger spirits such as vodka or even cognac. The mixture is prepa..
Gloggnitz
State Coat of Arms basic facts country: lower austria district: Neunkirchen area: 19,55 km² inhabitants: 6.159 (2001) population density: 315 people/km² level: 442 m postal code: 2640 area code: 02662 degrees: 47,7° N.B. 15,9° Ö.L. vehicle registrat..
Glogovac
Glogovac or Gllogovc or Drenasi (Albanian) or Glogovac/Глоговац (Serbian) is a town and municipality in Kosovo. Before the Kosovo War the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) had a strong level of influence and controlled large areas of the municipality. See also Prishtina DistrictExternal links..
Glomalin
Glomalin is a glycoprotein produced abundantly on hyphae and spores of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi in soil and in roots. As a glycoprotein, glomalin stores carbon in both its protein and carbohydrate (glucose or sugar) subunits. It permeates organic matter, binding it to silt, sand, and clay part..
Glomar
Glomar may refer to: Glomar Challenger, the drillship used for the Deep Sea Drilling Program.USNS Glomar Explorer (T-AG-193) - The Glomar Explorer was a large salvage vessel built by the CIA for Project Jennifer — an attempted salvaging of a sunken Soviet nuclear submarine. The CIA had chosen..
Glomar Challenger
The 120m long Glomar Challenger was a deep sea research and scientific drilling vessel for oceanography and marine geology studies. It was designed by the USA National Science Foundation and The Regents, University of California, USA. The vessel was operated by the Global Marine cooperation. The Glo..
Glomar response
In United States law, the term Glomar response refers to a "neither confirm nor deny" response by agents of national security to Freedom of Information Act requests. Lower court precedent has thus far ruled the Glomar response to have potential merit, if the secretive nature of the material truly re..
Glomel
glomel is along the coast of brittany. it has lots shops and markets and lots of things to do. To meet Wikipedia's and make it more accessible to a general audience, this article may require [Cleanupcleanup].The introduction to this article provides insufficient context for those unfam..
Glomera
Glomera is a genus of orchids (family Orchidaceae), with more than 50 species. They are native from New Guinea and Malaysia. The genera Ischnocentrum Schltr. and Sepalosiphon Schltr. are synonyms of this genus. ..
Glomeromycota
The division (phylum) Glomeromycota is a taxon within the kingdom Fungi that includes those species that form arbuscular mycorrhizae with plants. Originally placed in the order Glomales of division Zygomycota, these fungi were elevated to their own division in 2002 by Walker and Schüßler. Glome..
Glomerular filtration rate
Glomerular filtration rate (GFR) is the volume of fluid filtered from the renal glomerular capillaries into the Bowman's capsule per unit time. Clinically, this is often measured to determine renal function. The GFR was originally determined by injecting inulin (not insulin) into the plasma. Sinc..
Glomerulation
Glomerulation refers to bladder hemorrhages which are thought to be associated with some types of Interstitial cystitis. ..
Glomerulitis
Glomerulitis is a medical term for the inflammation of the glomeruli of the kidney. ..
Glomerulonephritis
Glomerulonephritis is a primary or secondary autoimmune renal disease characterized by inflammation of the glomeruli. It may be asymptomatic, or present with hematuria and/or proteinuria (blood resp. protein in the urine). There are many recognised types, divided in acute, subacute or chronic glome..
Glomerulus
This article is about the structure in the kidney. For other uses of the term, see Glomerulus (disambiguation). ..
Glomerulus (disambiguation)
Glomerulus is a common term used in anatomy to describe globular structures. It may refer to: the filtering unit of the kidney; see Glomerulus.the structure in the olfactory bulb; see Glomerulus (olfaction).the contact between specific cells in the cerebellum; see Glomerulus (cerebellum).This is a &..
Glomerulus (olfaction)
This article is about the structure in the olfactory bulb. For the structure in the kidney, see Glomerulus. ..
Glomfjord
Glomfjord is an industrial community in the bottom of a fjord of the same name in Meløy, northern Norway, across the Arctic Circle. The population is 1204 . The community is based on electric power generating, which was the target of the 1942 commando raid entitled Operation Musketoon. Norsk Hydro..
Glomfjordtreffene
' Glomfjordtreffene ''Glomfjordtreffene is a non-commercial yearly convention where friends of Glomfjord, primarily those who have left Glomfjord participate. It started out in June 1996 as an experiment and has continued due to great popularity and been kept alive by people with a strong connect..
Glomma
Glomma, pronounced and written Glåma in northern regions of the river, is the longest and largest river in Norway, 598 kilometers long. It collects water from fully 13% of Norway's area. right At its fullest length, the river runs from lake Aursund near Røros in Sør-Trøndelag and runs..
Glommadal
The Glommadal is a designation for the valley in Norway formed by the river Glomma. From lake Aursund in the north on south to Elverum the valley is called the Østerdal. From that point south until Kongsvinger is is referred to as Solør. As in turns westerly from Kongsvinger until Nes in Romerike ..
Glommen class minesweeper
Glommen-class minelayer Glommen class minelayer Class Overview Class type: Minelayer Preceded by: Succeeded by: Ships of the line: Glommen and Laugen General Characteristics Displacement: 351 tons Length: 42 m Beam: 8.5 m Draft: 2.3 m Speed: 9.9 knots ( km/h) Complement..
Glomp
2004 No Brand Con flyer depicting glomping as one of the con's features. Glomping is a form of greeting used by anime fans in the West. A typical "glomp" involves bear hugging someone and latching on tightly, though not enough to intentionally hurt the recipient. Sometimes it includes a runn..
Glomstein
Glomstein is a village in the municipality of Nøtterøy, Norway. Its population (SSB 2005) is 382. ..
Glomus
Glomus is a genus of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungus. All of the species in this genus live in mutualistic symbiotic relationships with plant roots. It is a very diverse genus, with ca. 90 species described. Contents 1 Classification2 Ecology3 Life cycle4 Uses5 Reference..
Glomus aggregatum
Glomus aggregatum is an arbuscular mycorrhizal fungus used as a soil innoculant in agriculture and horticulture. ..
Glomus body
The glomus body is not to be confused with the glomus cell which is a kind of chemoreceptor found in the carotid bodies and aortic bodies. A glomus body (or glomus apparatus) is a component of the dermis layer of the skin, involved in body temperature regulation. The glomus body consists of an art..
Glomus cell
The glomus cell is not to be confused with the glomus body found in the dermis layer of the skin. A glomus cell is a peripheral chemoreceptor, located in the carotid bodies and aortic bodies, that helps the body regulate breathing. When there is a decrease in the blood's pH, a decrease in oxygen (..
Glomus intraradices
Glomus entraradices is an Endomychorrhizal fungus used as a soil innoculant in agriculture and horticulture. ..
Glomus tumor
Glomus tumor was also the name formerly used for a tumor now called a paraganglioma. A glomus tumor (glomangioma) is a rare neoplasm, is a specialized arteriovenous anastomosis usually found in the skin of the extremities. It arises from the glomus body. They are usually solitary and small, and ..
GLONASS
GLONASS GLONASS (Russian ГЛОНАСС; ГЛОбальная НАвигационная Спутнико..
Glons
Glons (Dutch: Glaaien) is a village in the municipality of Bassenge, province of Liège, Belgium. ..
Gloom
Gloom could refer to: Gloom (game), a Doom clone for the Amiga computer.Gloom (game mod), a Quake II mod created by Team Reaction.Gloom (Pokémon), a fictional species in the pokémon franchise.Gloom (X-Men), a fictional student character in the X-Men comics.Gloom (card game), a card game played w..
Gloomcookie
Wraparound cover to Gloomcookie #20. Art by Harley Sparx. Gloomcookie is a goth comic series created and written by Serena Valentino (Nightmares and Fairytales) and co-created by Ted Naifeh, who also illustrated the comic’s first 6 issues. The series functions both as a social satire on re..
Gloomy
Look up [[wiktionary:|}}}]] in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Gloomy can refer to: gloom, a melancholy, depressing or despondent atmosphere The song Gloomy SundayThe Gloomy Dean, nickname of William Ralph IngeGloomy Bear, a fictional characterGloomy Galleon This is a [disambiguationd..
Gloomy Sunday
"Gloomy Sunday" (from Hungarian "Szomorú Vasárnap", IPA ['sɒmɒɾuː 'vɐʃaɾnɐp]) is a song written by the Hungarian self-taught pianist and composer Rezső Seress in 1933. According to urban legend, it inspired hundreds of suicides. According to record publicists when the song was fi..
Gloom (album)
Gloom is an album by Macabre released in 1989. Several versions of this album exist. Some versions include the Grim Reality EP, other include a few live tracks and two songs from the Grim Reality EP. Track listing "Embalmer""Trampled to Death" - The Who rock show"Holidays of Horror" - Ronald Gen..
Gloom (card game)
Gloom Designed by Keith Baker and illustrated by Scott Reeves, Gloom is a card game played with two specifically designed 55-card decks of transparent plastic cards. The game inverts the usual aim of acquiring as many positive points as the aim is to amass as many negative points as possible bef..
Gloom (comics)
Gloom is a fictional character, a mutant in the Marvel Comics universe. He debuted in X-Treme X-Men #20 (2003). His real name has never been revealed, but he was part of the many student that enrolled at Xavier's school after Professor X outed himself worldwide as a mutant. His powers were to relea..
Gloom (game)
Gloom is a 1995 computer game for the Amiga computer. Gloom was the first proper, commercially released, clone of the immensely popular first-person shoot'em-up Doom on the Amiga. Although technically slightly inferior to Doom, its release marked a milestone in Amiga gaming, as the Amiga at the tim..
Gloom (game mod)
Gloom is a team-based multiplayer Quake II mod created by Team Reaction. Ever since Gloom's official release on the 30th January, 1999, it has celebrated a long and dynamic life — as far as game modifications are concerned — partly attributed to its atmospheric, addictive and unique gameplay. Ev..
Gloom (Pokémon)
is a fictional species of the Pokémon franchise. The English name "Gloom" refers to its seemingly sad appearance, while the Japanese name Kusaihana can mean either "green flower" or "stinking flower". The word bloom may be another influence on its name. Contents 1 Biology2 In the vid..
Glooscap
Glooscap (also spelled Glooskap, Gluskabi, Kluscap, Kloskomba, or Gluskab) is a mythical hero, god, and "transformer" of the Algonquin peoples. He was an important figure for the Abenaki in the United States and Atlantic Canada, particularly the Passamaquoddy, as well as to the Mi'kmaq (Micmac), w..
Glooscap Trail
The Glooscap Trail is a scenic drive in the province of Nova Scotia that runs for 365 Kilometers from Broklyn in Hants County to Amherst near the border with New Brunswick. The route goes around Minas Basin and Cobiquid Bay. Contents 1 The Legend2 Communities3 Parks4 Museum..
Glooston
Glooston is a small village and civil parish in the Harborough district of Leicestershire, England. According to the 2001 census the parish had a population of 54. ..
Gloppen
Gloppen kommune County Sogn og Fjordane District Nordfjord Municipality NO-1445]] Administrative centre Sandane Mayor (2003) Anders Ryssdal (Sp) Official language form Nynorsk Area - Total - Land - Percentage km²961 km²0.32 % 2004) - Perc..
Glopperock
Glopperock is an annual music festival in Sandane, Sogn og Fjordane, Norway, first held in 1982. Est in 1982 by founder Remi Tystad. Every year they host with major bands. Here are some performers in the history of Glopperock,; Metallica, The Breeders, Anthrax, Husker Du, Stainless, Nazareth, TMR, ..
Glorantha
Glorantha is the mythical world developed originally by Greg Stafford and that has since been used as the background for several role-playing games, especially RuneQuest and HeroQuest. The world is characterised by its complex approach to mythology, heavily influenced by the work of Joseph Campbell..
Glorfindel
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Gloria
Gloria may be: Gloria (song), any one of several songs from the history of popular musicGloria in Excelsis Deo, the main doxology of the Roman Catholic MassVivaldi's Gloria, a musical setting of the doxologyGloria Patri, a relatively short, common doxology Gloria, Oriental Mindoro, a municipality ..
Gloria, Oriental Mindoro
Gloria is a 4th class municipality in the province of Oriental Mindoro, Philippines. According to the 2000 census, it has a population of 38,667 people in 7,640 households. The town previously a barangays called "Maligaya", and was the largest barangay during the administration President Diosdado ..
Gloria, Princess of Thurn and Taxis
--> Gloria, Princess of Thurn and Taxis (German: Gloria Fürstin von Thurn und Taxis), born Countess Maria Gloria of Schönburg-Glauchau on February 23, 1960, is a German princess and socialite. The mother of Albert, the head of the princely house of Thurn and Taxis, she controlled the $2 billion T..
GLORIAD
GLORIAD or Global Ring Network for Advanced Application Development is a high-speed computer network used to connect scientific organizations in Russia, China, United States, the Netherlands, Korea and Canada. GLORIAD is sponsored by the US National Science Foundation, a consortium of science organ..
Gloriae Dei Cantores
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Glorian
Glorian is a fictional character appearing in the Marvel Comics universe. History Thomas Gideon, son of billionaire Gregory Gideon and his wife Claire, was aboard a private jet aircraft with his parents when it was caught in the heat-pulse and blast wave of a Russian nuclear weapon test. The plane ..
Gloriana
Joan Cross costumed for the role of Elizabeth in Gloriana. The portrait by Joanna Dunham was a gift to the Britten-Pears Foundation. '' ''For the fantasy world, see Glorianna Gloriana is an opera in three acts by Benjamin Britten to an English libretto by William Plomer, based on Elizabeth and E..
Glorianna
Glorianna (or Gloriana) is the fictional world in which the hybrid role-playing/adventure computer games designed by Corey and Lori Ann Cole, Quest for Glory, takes place. Contents 1 History2 Canon Locations2.1 Locations in which the games take place2.2 Locations mentioned3&nb..
GLORIA (album)
GLORIA is the album by Okean Elzy, released in 2005. Track Listing Persha Pisnia (First Song)Ty i ya (You and Me)Vysche neba (Higher Than Sky)Sonce sidaje (The Sun Is Setting)Nikoly (Never)Tin' tvogo tila (Shadow Of Your Body)Bez boju (Without A Fight)GLORIA (GLORIA)Vidchuvaju (I Feel)Ikony ne p..
Gloria (doo-wop song)
For other songs with this title, see Gloria (song). "Gloria" is a doo-wop song written by Leon René in the 1940s and later revised by Esther Navarro, with notable performances by The Mills Brothers, The Modernaires, The Cadillacs, The Manhattan Transfer (The Manhattan Transfer, 1975), and The Passi..
Gloria (film)
Gloria is a 1980 film which tells the story of a gangster's girlfriend who goes on the run with a young boy who is being hunted by the mob for information he may or may not have. It stars Gena Rowlands and John Adames,who tied with Sir Lawrence Olivier for winning the Worst Supporting Actor Razzi..
Gloria (Laura Branigan song)
For other songs with this title, see Gloria (song). Gloria Cassette tape by Laura Branigan From the album Branigan Released 1982 Genre Pop/Rock. Length 4 min, 50 s Record label Atlantic "Gloria" is a pop song released by Laura Branigan in 1982 off her debut album, Branigan. Originally ..
Gloria (song)
"Gloria" is the title of many different songs, both in contemporary popular music as well as classical music of the sacred Christian genre. Gloria in Excelsis Deo is the liturgical theme; Handel, Haydn, and Mendelssohn are among the composers who wrote the most popular and enduring interpretations..
Gloria (TV series)
Gloria was a spinoff television situation comedy that lasted one season on CBS, from September 1982 to September 1983. It starred Sally Struthers, reprising her role as Gloria Stivic, the daughter of Archie Bunker on the hugely successful 1970s sitcom All in the Family. The cast of Gloria, circa ..
Gloria (U2 song)
For other songs with this title, see Gloria (song). October Album Listing (beginning of album) "Gloria"(Track 1) "I Fall Down"(Track 2) Under a Blood Red Sky Album Listing (beginning of album) "Gloria"(Track 1) "11 O'Clock Tick Tock"(Track 2) "Gloria" was the second and final single from U2..
Gloria (Van Morrison song)
For other songs with this title, see Gloria (song). "Gloria" is a rock song written by Van Morrison and originally recorded by Morrison's band Them in 1964 as the B-side of "Baby Please Don't Go," which reached #10 on the UK charts. It later reached #71 on the U.S. charts in 1966. Over the years, i..
Gloria (Vivaldi)
Vivaldi's Gloria in D major is a popular arrangement of the doxology, Gloria in Excelsis Deo by Antonio Vivaldi, for choir and orchestra. It is still regularly performed in churches and at concerts. Movements GloriaEt in terra pax hominibusLaudamus Te (soprano duet)Gratias agimus tibiPropter magna..
Gloria Abbott
Gloria Baldwin Fisher Abbott is a fictional character, a resident of Genoa City on CBS daytime drama series The Young and the Restless. The role was played by veteran actress Joan Van Ark from 2004 to January 2005 and is currently portrayed by Judith Chapman, who joined the show one week after Van ..
Gloria Allred
Gloria Allred on the cover of her book, Fight Back and Win Gloria Allred (born Gloria Rachel Bloom on July 3, 1941 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States) is an American lawyer, radio talk show host, and media hound. She is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania and Loyola Law Sc..
Gloria al Bravo Pueblo
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Gloria Barberi
Gloria Barberi (b. 1955) is an Italian science fiction and fantasy writer based in Liguria; she started publishing in the early eighties in various fanzines and magazines. Strong on lyrical and dream-like atmospheres, her approach to fantasy shows a penchant for horror or weird tones; some of her s..
Gloria Bennett
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Gloria Bistriţa
Gloria Bistriţa is a Romanian football club playing in Divizia A. It has never won the domestic league, but it does have a Romanian Cup win dating back to 1994, as well as another final appearance in 1996. The latest season (2005/2006) saw the team finishing 10th in Divizia A table. Gloria par..
Gloria Borger
Gloria Borger is a journalist, columnist, and commentator. Borger is presently a contributing editor and columnist for US News and World Report magazine. She has worked previously as a political correspondent for NBC News, a special correspondent with CBS News, appeared as a panelist on CBS' Face..
Gloria Brame
Book cover for "Come Hither : A Commonsense Guide To Kinky Sex" Gloria Glickstein Brame (born August 20, 1955) is a U.S. writer and sex therapist based in Athens, Georgia. She has a PhD and MPH in Human Sexuality and is a licensed clinical sexologist. Her practice specializes in consensual BD..
Gloria Buzău FC
Gloria Buzău are a Romanian football club based in Buzău. ..
Gloria Carter Spann
Gloria Carter Spann (October 22,1926 in Plains, Georgia–March 5,1990 in Americus, Georgia) was a sister of former President of the United States Jimmy Carter. Contents 1 Early years2 1977-19813 Trivia4 Pancreatic Cancer and Death5 Sources Early years Spann was the ..
Gloria Chaney
A secondary character in the 1993 comedy movie Mrs. Doubtfire. She is the nosy neighbor to the Hillards. ..
Gloria Chang
Gloria Chang (張韻琪) is the former president of The Hong Kong University Students' Union, who was the main contributor to the resignation of the former Vice Chancellor of The University of Hong Kong Prof Cheng Yiu Chung. She is currently working at Greenpeace Hong Kong. Her articles have been p..
Gloria Coates
Gloria Coates (October 10, 1938 in Wausau, Wisconsin) is an American composer who lives in Europe. She studied with Alexander Tcherepnin, Otto Luening, and Jack Beeson. Her music features canonic structures and prominent, sometimes exclusive, glissandos, being "characterized by extremely strict, ev..
Gloria DeHaven
Gloria DeHaven Gloria DeHaven (born July 23, 1925, in Los Angeles, California) is an American actress. The daughter of vaudeville performers, DeHaven began her career as a child actor as an extra in Charlie Chaplin's Modern Times (1936). She was signed to a contract with MGM Studios and despi..
Gloria Dei (Old Swedes') Church National Historic Site
Gloria Dei (Old Swedes') Church National Historic Site ..
Gloria Diaz
right Gloria Díaz, born in the Ilocos region of Northern Philippines, is a veteran in the Philippines cinema, who became the first Filipino to bring home the Miss Universe crown. Often referred to as the "Díaz Clan," in newspapers, Diaz was one of 12 children. One of her sisters, Rio Díaz..
Gloria Dickson
Gloria Dickson (Thais Alalia Dickerson) (August 13, 1917 - April 10, 1945) was a talented leading lady on stage and Hollywood's motion pictures in the late 1930's. Contents 1 Life and career2 Filmography3 Stageplay4 Death5 External link Life and career During her hig..
Gloria E. Anzaldúa
--> Gloria Evangelina Anzaldúa (September 26, 1942 - May 15, 2004) was a Chicana lesbian feminist writer, poet, scholar and activist. Anzaldúa was born in the Rio Grande Valley of south Texas on September 26, 1942 to Urbano and Amalia Anzaldúa. At 11, her family relocated to Hargill, Texas. ..
Gloria Estefan
Gloria Estefan (born Gloria María Milagrosa Fajardo on September 1, 1957 in Havana, Cuba) is a five-time Grammy Award-winning singer-songwriter-author, who began her career as lead vocalist for the Hispanic dance music band, Miami Sound Machine, in 1975. They crossed over to mainstream popular su..
Gloria Estefan discography
A discography for Gloria Estefan. Contents 1 Discography1.1 Albums1.2 US and UK singles1.3 Other singles Discography Albums Live Again/Renacer (1977)*Miami Sound Machine (English version) (1978)*Miami Sound Machine (Spanish version) (1978)*Imported (1979)*MSM (1980)*Otra v..
Gloria Foster
Gloria Foster (November 15, 1933 - September 29, 2001) was an American actress born in Chicago, Illinois. She was perhaps best known as The Oracle in The Matrix and The Matrix Reloaded. Before becoming known on the big screen, Foster had a long career in theater, winning two Obie Awards over the co..
Gloria Gaither
Gloria Gaither is a songwriter for gospel music, along with her husband, Bill Gaither. She also sang in the Bill Gaither Trio, one of the most influential groups in recent Christian music. Awards Dove Awards*1984**Song of the Year: "Upon This Rock" - Gloria Gaither, Dony McGuire*1985**Songwriter ..
Gloria Gaynor
Gloria Gaynor Gloria Gaynor (real name Gloria Fowles, born September 7, 1949 in Newark, New Jersey) is a singer best-known for the disco hits I Will Survive (Hot 100 #1, 1979) and Never Can Say Goodbye (Hot 100 #9, 1974). Gaynor was a singer with the Soul Satisfiers, a jazz/pop band, in the 1..
Gloria Glens Park, Ohio
Gloria Glens Park is a village in Medina County, Ohio, United States. The population was 538 at the 2000 census. Geography Gloria Glens Park is located at [41°3′30″N, 81°54′3″W] (41.058344, -81.900755)[Geographic references#1GR1]. According to the United States Cens..
Gloria Gopher
--> Gloria Gopher is a fictional character from the 1986 children's television program Under the Umbrella Tree, played by Noreen Young. She is one of four roommates in the 'Umbrella Tree' apartment. The three others include Jacob Bluejay, played by Stephen Brathwaite, Iggy Iguana, played by Bob Stu..
Gloria Gould
Gloria Gould (1895-1943) was the socialite daughter of industrialist heir, George Jay Gould I. Contents 1 First marriage2 Children3 Second marriage4 Death5 Selected coverage in the New York Times6 Timeline First marriage Time magazine wrote on April 14, 1923: "Enga..
Gloria Grahame
Gloria Grahame (November 28, 1923 - October 5, 1981) was an Academy Award-winning American film actress. Contents 1 Early life2 Career3 Death4 Filmography5 External links Early life Grahame was born Gloria Hallward in Los Angeles, California. Her mother, Jean McDougal, ..
Gloria Grey
Gloria Grey (October 23, 1909 - November 22, 1947) was an American actress and director, appearing in mainly dramatic/romantic films during the silent era. Born Marie Draga in Portland, Oregon, Gloria Grey's career was spent chiefly during the 1920s. Her first film credit was the 1923 film Bag and..
Gloria Guardia
Gloria Guardia (born 1940) is a Panamanian journalist for the Panamanian Academy of Language and Correspondence, the Royal Spanish Academy, and the Columbian Academy of Language. Contents 1 Education2 Literary contributions3 International contributions4 Personal life Educa..
Gloria Guida
A Playboy (Italian edition) cover featuring Gloria Guida. Gloria Guida (born November 19, 1955) is an Italian actress and model. She is most famous for starring in sexy film comedies. Biography Gloria Guida was born in Meran-Merano, in the Northern Italy region of Trentino-South Tyrol, to a f..
Gloria Hendry
Gloria Hendry, Live and Let Die Promo Shoot, 1973 Gloria Hendry (born March 3 1949 in Winter Haven, Florida) is an African-American actress. She is sometimes credited as "Gloria Henry." Gloria was raised in Newark, New Jersey. She originally trained for a career as a legal secretary, but c..
Gloria Holden
Gloria Holden (September 5, 1908 - March 22, 1991) was a film actress of the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s. She may be best remembered for two roles in her long career, that of Mme. Zola in The Life of Emile Zola and the possibly bi-sexual vampire in Dracula's Daughter. ..
Gloria Hunniford
Gloria Hunniford (born April 10, 1940, Portadown, County Armagh, Northern Ireland) is TV and radio presenter, and the mother of the late Caron Keating. She was also a popular singer in her native Northern Ireland, and has made many records. In the 1970s and 1980s she was the presenter of Good Even..
Gloria in Excelsis Deo
"Gloria in Excelsis Deo" (Latin for "Glory to God on High") is the title and beginning of the great doxology (song of praise) used in the Roman Catholic Mass and, in translation, in the services of many other Christian churches. The text of the song begins with a slight variation on the words sung ..
Gloria Jahoda
Gloria Jahoda (October 6 1926-January 13 1980) was an author of fiction and non-fiction, including literature for young readers. She is best known for her journalistic history of Floridian folk culture in the 1960s. Jahoda, in her book The Other Florida presents a collection of essays about parts of..
Gloria Jean
Gloria Jean Schoonover (born April 14, 1926 in Buffalo, New York) is an American singer and actress who used the professional name "Gloria Jean." The family moved to Scranton, Pennsylvania, where she sang on radio with Paul Whiteman's band. She was being trained as the world's youngest coloratura s..
Gloria Jean's
Gloria Jean’s Coffees is one of the world's largest chains of specialty coffee restaurants. The company began in 1995 with a restaurant opened by Jireh International Pty Ltd, but it was only until 1998 that the restaurant started franchising to over 20 countries. Contents 1 Corporate Ov..
Gloria Jean's restaurants
Australia NSW Arndell ParkAshfieldAuburnBankstownBateau BayBatemans BayBaulkham HillsBlacktown Westpoint Shopping CentreBondi BeachBondi JunctionBorders ParramattaBorders SkygardenBordersBroadwayBrookvaleBurwoodCabramattaCamdenCampbelltownCampsieCaringbahCastle HillCasulaCharlestownChatswood KioskCh..
Gloria Johnson-Powell
Gloria Johnson-Powell MD (born Gloria Johnson, c. 1937) is a child psychiatrist who is also an important figure in the American Civil Rights Movement (1955-1968), was the first African American woman to attain tenure at Harvard Medical School and is the author of several books. She is currently the..
Gloria Jones
The cover of 1979 album, Windstorm Gloria Jones (born 12 September, 1938 in Longview, Texas) is an American singer. She recorded the 1964 northern soul classic "Tainted Love", later a hit for the UK synth-pop duo Soft Cell and, later, Marilyn Manson. She was also the girlfriend of T. Rex singe..
Gloria Ladson-Billings
Gloria Ladson-Billings is an author and teacher educator. She brought to the forefront of academia the issues of educational incongruity in teaching African American children in the 21st Century within her critically acclaimed book The Dreamkeepers: Successful Teachers of African-American Children. ..
Gloria LaRiva
Gloria Estela LaRiva (b. August 13, 1954) was a third-party candidate for President of the United States in the United States presidential election, 1992, representing the Workers World Party; she was only on the ballot in New Mexico, garnering 181 votes. She had also been their vice-presidential c..
Gloria Lasso
Gloria Lasso (born Rosa María Coscolin in Barcelona, November 25, 1922 - Cuernavaca, Mexico, December 4, 2005) was a French-Spanish singer. In the fifties, she was one of the major competitors to Dalida. She met success in the sixties, with in particular Amour, castagnettes et tango (1955), Etrang..
Gloria Laura Mercedes Morgan-Vanderbilt
Gloria Laura Mercedes Morgan Vanderbilt (August 23, 1904–February 13, 1965) was a socialite best known as the mother of fashion designer and artist Gloria Vanderbilt. She is also the maternal grandmother of American television journalist Anderson Cooper. Early Life Born in Lucerne, Switzerla..
Gloria Lee
Gloria Lee (1925 - 1962) was an airline stewardess and occultist, a follower of Oahspe, who got into the 1950s contactee movement in 1953, with ultimately tragic consequences. Lee claimed to be in telepathic communication with an entity known as JW, who lived on the planet Jupiter, and began to as..
Gloria Leonard
Gloria Leonard (born August 28, 1940 in The Bronx, New York, USA) was an erotic actress who later became a magazine publisher. She is sometimes credited as: C. Gale Leonard or Gail Leonard. Her physical measurements are 40-33-37 and 5' 9". She has brown hair with gold highlights and brown eyes. She..
Gloria Lindsay Luby
Gloria Lindsay Luby is a city councillor in Toronto, Canada. She represents one of the two Etobicoke Centre wards. Lindsay Luby was a successful businesswoman and consultant before entering politics. She first served as a trustee on the Etobicoke school board, and then became an Etobicoke city co..
Gloria Loring
Gloria Loring was born Gloria Goff on December 12, 1946, in New York City. She began her music career at age 14, singing with a folk group known as Those Four. She went on to perform on a wide range of shows in the 70's, from The Carol Burnett Show to the Academy Awards ceremony. Loring was marrie..
Gloria Lynne
Gloria Lynne (born Gloria Alleyne 23 November 1931 in New York City) is an American vocalist on several rhythm and blues hits in the 1950s and 1960s. Lynne grew up in Harlem and won first prize at the "Amateur Night" at the Apollo Theater. She recorded as part of groups The Enchanters and The Dell..
Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo
Gloria Macaraeg Macapagal-Arroyo (born April 5, 1947) is the 14th and current president of the Philippines. She is the country's second female president after Corazon Aquino. She is the daughter of former President Diosdado Macapagal. Prior to becoming president, Arroyo was the country's first fem..
Gloria Malgarini
Gloria Malgarini, a former TV spokesperson for "Senior Dimensions" a Nevada-based healthcare organization, was born (December 14, 1925) in Chicago, Illinois, USA. She is grandmother to famous child actor Ryan Malgarini who lives with her along with her husband in Nevada. She has played some small ..
Gloria Molina
Gloria Molina is chair of the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors, vice chairwoman of the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority and one of the vice-chairs of the Democratic National Committee. Molina grew up as one of ten children in the Los Angeles suburb of Pico Rivera, Cali..
Gloria Monty
Gloria Monty (August 16, 1921 — March 30, 2006) was an American TV producer working primarily in the field of daytime drama. Soaps After directing successful shows such as The Secret Storm, she is best known for taking over the ailing General Hospital in 1978. Monty was given 13 weeks to t..
Gloria Mundi
"As for Gloria Mundi the records, sadly, give no real indication of what they're like because I don't think the producer knew what the hell they were. Live they were like a tortured version of early Christian Death, but on record it sounds positively sedate. They were manic and darkly theatrical, ..
Gloria Naylor
Gloria Naylor (b. January 25, 1950) is an African American novelist. Her novel The Women of Brewster Place was adapted into a 1989 film of the same name by Oprah Winfrey's Harpo Productions. Bibliography The Women of Brewster Place (1982), ISBN 0670778559Linden Hills (1985), ISBN 0899193579Mama D..
Gloria Pall
Gloria Pall (born July 15, 1929) is an American model, showgirl, film and television actress, author and businesswoman. Pall was born in Brooklyn, New York to an English family. During World War II, she worked as an aircraft mechanic in upstate New York at Rome Army Air Depot. O On July 28, 1945..
Gloria Petyarre
Gloria Petyarre (b. 1945 at Atnangkere Soakage ) , Australian Aboriginal artist from the Anmatyerre community who live just north of Alice Springs. She won Australia's longest running art prize, the Wynne Prize in 1999 with Leaves, being the first Aboriginal person to win one of the Art Gallery of ..
Gloria Ray Karlmark
Gloria Ray (born 1942) was one of the Little Rock Nine. She was 15 when she attempted to enter Little Rock Central High School. During her life, Karlmark served as an executive officer for a Dutch company and publisher of a European computer magazine. She now resides in the Netherlands. ..
Gloria Reuben
Gloria Reuben (born June 9, 1964 in Toronto) is a Canadian actress of film and television, best known for her role on ER. Her Jamaican mother was a gospel singer. She is a biracial Jamaican Canadian. She began learning piano as a child and studied later music technique and theory, ballet and jazz a..
Gloria Richardson
Gloria Richardson (b. May 6, 1922) Gloria Richardson (a.k.a. Gloria St. Clair Hayes Richardson) is best known as the leader of the Cambridge Movement (Maryland), a human rights struggle in the town of Cambridge, on Maryland's Eastern Shore during the mid-1960s. Under Richardson’s leadership, the ..
Gloria Romero
--> Gloria J. Romero is an American politician. She is currently the Democratic majority leader of the California State Senate. Romero grew up in Barstow, and earned her associate's degree from Barstow Community College. She went on to a B.A. from California State University, Long Beach and a Ph.D..
Gloria Root
Gloria Root (born May 28, 1948 in Chicago, Illinois, died January 8, 2006 in San Francisco, California) was Playboy magazine's Playmate of the Month for the December 1969 issue. Her centerfold was photographed by Pompeo Posar. Gloria started her higher education at the University of Illinois, but..
Gloria Rubio y Alatorre
Gloria Rubio y Alatorre, better known as Gloria Guinness (August 27, 1912 - November 9, 1980) was an elegant, earthy socialite (major) and writer (minor) of the mid 20th century. Born in Vera Cruz, Mexico, she was a daughter of José Rafael Rubio, a Mexican journalist, and his wife, Dolores Alatorr..
Gloria Saatjian
Gloria Saatjian is a former first lady of California (1983 - 1991) and the wife of former California governor George Deukmejian. She, like her husband, is the child of Armenian immigrants. Saatjian married her husband in 1955 and they have two daughters and one son. ..
Gloria Sawai
Gloria Sawai BA, MFA (born Gloria Ruth Ostrem 20 December 1932 in Minneapolis, Minnesota) is an American-born fiction author currently based in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. In early childhood, she moved with her family to Saskatchewan, then in her youth to Alberta. Her father was a Lutheran minister ..
GLORIA sidescan sonar
The is a sidescan SONAR-based system for determining the depth of the ocean. GLORIA stands for Geological Long-Range Inclined Acoustics. ..
Gloria Slade
Gloria Slade is a Canadian actress whose roles were mostly in television. She and fellow-actor Ted Simonett portrayed a couple in a series of Canadian Tire advertisements over many years. Filmography Maximum Risk (1996)The Real Blonde (1997)Blues Brothers 2000 (1998)Aliens In The Wild West (1999)To..
Gloria Stadium
Gloria Stadium is a multi-use stadium in Bistriţa, Romania. It is currently used mostly for football matches and is the home ground of Gloria Bistriţa. The stadium holds 15,000 people. ..
Gloria Stavers
Gloria Stavers (1926-1983) was the editor in chief of 16 magazine. Her personality gave the magazine its stamp for many years. Stavers is credited with being one of the first women rock journalists, but male editors, detractors and those who scoffed at teenzines sometimes called her "Mother Superior..
Gloria Steinem
Gloria Steinem (born March 25, 1934) is an American feminist, journalist and a spokeswoman for women's rights. She is the founder and original publisher of Ms.. Contents 1 Early life2 Education and early career3 Political awakening and activism4 Legacy5 List of works6&..
Gloria Stivic
Sally Struthers as Gloria Bunker Stivic. Gloria Stivic (née Bunker) is the name of the fictional character played by Sally Struthers on the American situation comedy All in the Family, which aired on the CBS television network from 1971 until 1979. Gloria Stivic was the daughter of Archie an..
Gloria Stuart
Gloria Stuart in The Invisible Man (1933) Gloria Stuart (born July 4, 1910) is an American stage, television and film actress and artist. Born Gloria Frances Stewart in Santa Monica, California, she changed the spelling of her name when she commenced her acting career. After acting in colleg..
Gloria Swanson
Gloria in one of her many movie roles. Gloria Swanson (March 27, 1897 - April 4, 1983) was an American actress. Contents 1 Early life2 Silent films3 Comeback in ''Sunset Boulevard''4 Television5 Marriages and Relationships6 Academy Award nominations7 Triv..
Gloria Talbott
Movie actress Gloria Talbott (February 7 1931 - September 19 2000) grew up, along with her acting sister Lori, in the Los Angeles suburb of Glendale. In addition to appearing in high school plays, the young actress first worked in film in the late 1930s appearing as a young woman in bit parts. S..
Gloria Trevi
--> Gloria Trevi (born Gloria de los Ángeles Treviño Ruiz, February 15, 1970 in Monterrey, Nuevo León) is a Mexican rock singer (although she dabbles in pop). Contents 1 Biography1.1 Childhood1.2 Thirst for stardom1.3 Mexican rock singer1.4 Scandal starts1.5 Tre..
Gloria Vanderbilt
Gloria Vanderbilt, photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1958. Gloria Laura Vanderbilt (born February 20, 1924) is a member of the prominent United States Vanderbilt family. She is an artist, actress, and socialite most noted as a spokeswoman for designer blue jeans. Contents 1 Early life..
Gloria Vasquez
Gloria Vasquez is a colorist who has worked in the comics industry. ..
Gloria Velez
Gloria Velez (born December 18, 1978) is an American bikini model, former Hip Hop model, dancer, rap artist and actress who is a native of Long Island, New York and is of Puerto Rican descent. Contents 1 Life2 Employment3 Becoming a rapper4 Plans5 See also6 Externa..
Gloria Walker
Gloria Walker (born July 16, 1937 in Bronx, New York) is an American actress and model. She was Playboy magazine's Playmate of the Month for the June 1956 issue. Her centerfold was photographed by Herman Leonard. Walker became a Playmate through her attenance of a modeling school, which referred h..
Gloria Watts
Daughter of the late italian 'Popsie', Gloria Watts is an established educator, writer, poet and I.T expert. Completing her education at a London-based Convent School, Gloria re-located to Sutton Coldfield, Birmingham. Here, she began pionerring work into computing technology, soon taking leading ..
Gloria Windsor
Gloria Windsor is an American model. She was Playboy magazine's Playmate of the Month for the April 1957 issue. Her centerfold was photographed by Hal Adams. ..
Gloria Winters
Gloria Winters, an actress most noted for playing Penny in the 1950s-60s American television series Sky King, was born November 28, 1932, in Los Angeles, California. She was a child actor, starting as a baby in Virtue, with Carole Lombard. She was in about 20 films. She's also appeared on stage. I..
Gloria Wise Boys and Girls Clubs
The Gloria Wise Boys and Girls Clubs were a non-profit organization serving the community of the Bronx, in New York City. In July and August of 2005, allegations surfaced that Gloria Wise board member Evan Cohen, who was serving at the time as Chief Executive Officer of Air America radio, had arr..
Gloria Yip
Gloria Yip Wan-Yee was born in Hong Kong January 13, 1973. She frequently appears in comedian supporting roles, such as Ron, an acrobatic acupuncturist in The Legend of the Liquid Sword, or the just slightly-too-young thief Little Enchantment in Flying Dagger. Her most noted role is Ashura the H..
Glorieta, New Mexico
Glorieta is a census-designated place (CDP) in Santa Fe County, New Mexico, United States. The population was 859 at the 2000 census. The community is located in the southern Sangre de Cristo Mountains along Interstate 25 on the east side of Glorieta Pass. Geography Glorieta is located at [35..
Glorieta Pass
Glorieta Pass (elevation 7500 ft) is a mountain pass in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains of northern New Mexico in the United States. The pass is at a strategic location near at the southern end of the Sangre de Cristos in east central Santa Fe County southeast of the city of Santa Fe. Historically,..
Glorietta
Glorietta is a large shopping mall in the Ayala Center in Makati City, Metro Manila, Philippines. It is divided into four sections (named Glorietta 1-4) and contains many shops and restaurants, as well as cinema screens, a gym, arcades and a large central atrium often used to stage special events. ..
Glorification
There are two events that occur during glorification, these are "the receiving of perfection by the elect before entering into the kingdom of heaven," and "the receiving of the resurrection bodies by the elect" Glorification is the third stage of Christian development. The first being justifica..
Glorificus (Buffyverse)
Glorificus Clare Kramer as Glory First appearance No Place Like Home Last appearance The Gift, Lessons (as the First Evil) Created by Joss Whedon Statistics Name Glory/Glorificus Status Deceased Species Goddess Affiliation Herself Notable powers Periodically drains the sanity of h..
Glorifying the American Girl
Glorifying the American Girl is a 1929 musical comedy film produced by Florenz Ziegfeld and highlighting his Ziegfeld Follies girls. The last third of the film is basically a Follies production, with cameo appearances by Rudy Vallee, Helen Morgan and Eddie Cantor. The plot involves a young woman (..
Gloriosa
Gloriosa is a genus of five species in the plant family Colchicaceae, from tropical Asia and Africa. They are tuberous rooted deciduous perennials, adapted to a monsoon climate with a dormant dry season. Gloriosa climb or scramble over other plants with the aid of tendrils at the ends of their l..
Glorioso Islands
The Glorieuses or Glorioso Islands (French: Îles Glorieuses or officially also Archipel des Glorieuses) are group of islands and rocks totalling 5 km², at [11°30′S 47°20′E], in the northern Mozambique channel, about 160 km northwest of Madagascar. The Glorieuses have an Excl..
Glorious
Eddie Izzard performing live on Glorious. Glorious is the title of British comedian and transvestite Eddie Izzard's 1997 performance at the Hammersmith Apollo in London. The performance was released on video/DVD and on CD. The CD version is a recording of a different night. Both performances c..
Glorious Betsy
Glorious Betsy is a 1928 mostly-silent film, based on a play of the same name by Rida Johnson Young and starring Dolores Costello. It was produced by Warner Brothers and was nominated for (but did not win) an Academy Award for Best Writing, Adaptation in 1929. The film was directed by Alan Crosland ..
Glorious class aircraft carrier
HMS Glorious as a carrier The Glorious class aircraft carrier was a design born of necessity. HMS Glorious and HMS Courageous were originally built as 'large light cruisers', which is a cross between 'a light cruiser with 15 inch guns' and 'a battlecruiser with almost no armor'. They we..
Glorious First of June
The Glorious First of June (also known as the Third Battle of Ushant and in French as the Bataille du 13 prairial an 2) was a naval battle fought in the Atlantic Ocean on June 1 1794 between the Royal Navy and the navy of Revolutionary France. It was the first major naval battle of the French Revo..
Glorious Godfrey
Glorious Godfrey is a DC Comics villain created by Jack Kirby, originally as part of The Fourth World series of comic books in the early 1970s. He first appeared in Forever People #3 (1971). His sister is Amazing Grace who is also a member of Darkseid's Elite. Both siblings have similar powers. Wh..
Glorious Heritage
A Glorious Heritage Class Heavy Cruiser The Glorious Heritage (Ship Registration Code XMC) Heavy Cruiser is a fictional starship class in the television series Gene Roddenberry's Andromeda. The Glorious Heritage Heavy Cruiser was the bright star of the High Guard fleet. As the most visible s..
Glorious Revolution
The Glorious Revolution was the overthrow of James II of England in 1688 by a union of Parliamentarians and the Dutch stadtholder William III of Orange-Nassau (William of Orange). It is sometimes called the Bloodless Revolution, although there was fighting and loss of life in Ireland and Scotland; m..
Glorious Revolution (Spain)
The Glorious Revolution (Spanish La Gloriosa) took place in Spain in 1868, deposing Queen Isabella II. An 1866 rebellion led by General Juan Prim and a revolt of the sergeants at San Gil sent a signal to Spanish liberals and republicans that there was serious unrest with the state of affairs i..
Glorious Twelfth
The Glorious Twelfth is usually used to refer to August 12, the start of the open season for grouse shooting in the United Kingdom. This is one of the busiest days in the shooting season, with large amounts of game being shot. It is also a major boost to the rural economy. While the date itself is t..
Glorith
Glorith of Baldur is a fictional villain from the Legion of Super-Heroes comics published by DC Comics. A pretty blonde woman with varying degrees of magical power from the nonexistent to the godlike, she is a D-list villain that was promoted to godlike status during the continuity confusion follow..
Glorpy
Magic trick consisting of a silk pocket handkerchief which is laid down on a table. After commanded by the magician, a ghost shows its presence by coming to life under the handkercheif, lifting it and making it dance around. This effect is also used often in demonstrations of spirit writing when sho..
Gloryhallastoopid
Gloryhallastoopid is an album by the funk ensemble Parliament. It was their penultimate album on the Casablanca Records label, and is another concept album which tries to explain that Funk was responsible for the creation of the universe (see P Funk mythology). It reuses samples from previous albu..
Glorystar
GloryStar Satellite Systems provides direct to home (DTH) satellite reception equipment to viewers of many of the world’s largest Christian broadcast ministries. GloryStar’s pre-programmed satellite reception packages allow free access to Christian television content in English, Spanish, Russi..
Glory (comics)
Glory is a fictional character from the Image Comics comic book series created by Rob Liefeld. The character's full name is Gloriana Demeter, a half-Amazon, half-Demon warrior. The character was clearly meant to be a version of Wonder Woman in the Image universe, especially given the ties to myth..
Glory (disambiguation)
Look up [[wiktionary:|}}}]] in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Glory may refer to: In Judeo-Christian religious tradition, Glory (religion) is the manifestation of God's presence, see Hod (Hebrew)Glory (optical phenomenon), an optical phenomenon produced by light reflected toward its source b..
Glory (film)
Glory is a 1989 film which follows the history of the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Regiment during the American Civil War. The 54th was the first formal unit of the U.S. Army to be made up entirely of African Americans (apart from the officers). Contents 1 Outline2 Cast and crew3 ..
Glory (optical phenomenon)
A double glory at the foot of a waterfall. NASA photo Glory with aircraft shadow in the center. It is easy to see what part of the plane the photographer was sitting in. Glory encountered during a hike in An Teallach, Scotland Glory looking out of the aircraft window A..
Glory (religion)
Glory (from the Latin gloria, "fame, renown") is used to denote the manifestation of God's presence in the Judeo-Christian religious tradition. In Hebrew it would probably be the word הוד Hod. For example, see Exodus 24:16. It is also used simply to express God's majesty and hon..
Glory (singer)
Glory (birthname: Glorimar Montalvo Castro, also known as "La Gata Gangster") was born in Santurce, Puerto Rico. She is a reggaeton artist. Contents 1 Glory2 Discography2.1 Albums2.2 Singles2.3 Collaborations3 Music videos3.1 Albums appeared on4 See also..
Glory (single)
Glory is a KMFDM single from their album Angst. It contains three remixes of the title track "Glory" (as well as the version from Angst), plus remixes of the tracks "Lust" (by Chemlab) and "Move On", both originally from Angst. There is also a rough mix of "Trust" which would become a song on th..
Glory (spacecraft)
Glory is a proposed NASA mission to use the spacecraft as a communication satellite and as an Earth science satellite. Overview As of 2006, much is yet unknown about the spacecraft. But it has been proposed that it's main objectives are to gather and emit data to and from planetary/comet missions ..
Glory Alozie
Glory Alozie Oluchi (born December 30, 1977 in Amator, Nigeria) is a Spanish athlete competing mostly in hurdling. The world junior champion from 1986, she went on to have a successful senior career, although she has never won a major international event. While representing Nigeria she became Afri..
Glory Be to the Father
Glory Be to the Father, also known as Gloria Patri, is a doxology, a short hymn of praise to God in various Christian liturgies. It is also referred to as the Minor Doxology (Doxologia Minor) as opposed to the Greater Doxology, which is the Gloria in Excelsis Deo. The doxology in the form in which w..
Glory Comics Magazine
Glory Comics Magazine is a publicational magazine for older youth. Published in Canada, it is a magazine that features comics, articles, a games page, a letters page and advertisements to companies local to the publishing area (Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada). The comics are the main atraction ..
Glory Days
Glory Days was a 1998 television sitcom starring the UK "The Office" and "Extras" star Ricky Gervais. Gervais played the main character who had a David Bowie obsession. ..
Glory Daze
Glory Daze is an independent film starring Ben Affleck, Sam Rockwell, and French Stewart. It had a limited release in 1996. The film deals with five friends who share a house (called "El Rancho") while attending art school at UC Santa Cruz. Now they are graduating, and they are struggling to dela..
Glory Farm Primary and Nursery School
Glory Farm Primary and Nursery School is located at Sunderland Drive in Bicester, Oxfordshire, England. The school logo is a plough. Glory Farm Primary School is between Bardwell Special School and Cooper Secondary School. Contents 1 History2 Classes3 Links with Bardwell Special Sc..
Glory Glory Man United
Glory Glory Man United is a football chant sung by the fans of the football club Manchester United to the tune of The Battle Hymn of the Republic. History Lyrics and Background score Glory Glory Man United is sung the Manchester United fans during the team's matches and both home and away venues...
Glory hole
Glory hole may refer to: Glory hole (mining), a type of mineGlory hole (sexual), a hole in a wall used for sexual purposesGlory hole (band), a New York City based punk bandA trench, in trench warfareA colloquial term for any small room or cupboard, usually containing odds and endsA glassblowing ter..
Glory hole (mining)
A glory hole is a type of mine. In the western United States during the Gold Rush days, independent miners who did not have the finances to dig a conventional mine shaft would dig a shaft straight down to try to find a gold seam. These perpendicular shafts became known as "glory holes". In moder..
Glory hole (sexual)
A glory hole is a hole in a wall or partition, often between public lavatory stalls or video booths, which can be used to observe the person in the next cubicle (see voyeurism) or to engage in sexual activity with the person next door. Glory hole is also occasionally used to describe the openings ..
Glory hunter
A glory hunter is a derogatory term used as a form of insult towards people who are, or who are suspect to, supporting a particular football club due to its size, quality and/or popularity in the media. Glory hunters usually live outside the town where a particular team is from, and may, in fact, li..
Glory Lane
Glory Lane (1987) is a science fiction novel written by Alan Dean Foster. The book takes place outside of either of Foster’s two usual universes, Spellsinger and the Humanx Commonwealth. This novel is long on humor and quirkiness, departing from Foster’s usual seriousness in his science fict..
Glory of Heracles
The Glory of Heracles (or Herakles no Eikou, as it's known in Japan) is a Japanese video game series made by Data East. The series consists of a total of five games, all RPGs, and is most comparable to the Dragon Quest series, from Enix. The most distinguishing feature of these games is the ancien..
Glory of the Morning
Glory of the Morning (Hoe-poe-kaw in Ho-chunk) was the first woman ever described in the written history of Wisconsin. She became chief of the Ho-Chunk tribe in the year 1727, when she was 18. In 1728 she married a Frenchman named Sabrevoir Descaris, a fur trader. During the time she was chief, the ..
Glory Road
For the unrelated 2006 movie, see Glory Road. Glory Road is a fantasy novel by Robert A. Heinlein published in 1963. Heinlein himself reported that this book only took several weeks to write and was a lot of fun, as opposed to some of his other works such as Stranger in a Strange Land, which took ..
Glory Road (film)
Glory Road is the name of a 2006 film released on January 13 2006. The film will be released straight to DVD in some countries. The film deals with the events of the 1966 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship, in which Texas Western College coach Don Haskins led a team with an all-black s..
Glory Season
Glory Season is a 1993 feminist science-fiction novel by David Brin. A paperback edition was reissued in New York by Bantam Books in 1996 with ISBN 0553567675. It describes a rousing adventure in a feminist utopia with engaging characters, and bold social and scientific extrapolations. When it c..
Glory to the Brave
Glory to the Brave is an album released by the Swedish power metal band HammerFall in 1997. It was their first album, despite the fact that the band was formed in 1993; they performed mostly live music and covers before this album was released. Steel Meets Steel was composed just before the band..
Glos
Glos is also the last name of Michael Glos, the German Minister for Economics and Technology since Nov. 2005, as well as an abbreviation for the English county of Gloucestershire. Glos is a commune of the Calvados département in the Basse-Normandie région in France. Its postal code is 14100. The ..
Glosa
Glosa is an international auxiliary language (auxlang), that was developed by Lancelot Hogben (as Interglossa, GB, 1943), Ronald Clark and Wendy Ashby (GB, 1972-1992). Glosa is of the type that linguists call isolating, meaning that there are no inflections. Words remain always in their origina..
Glosli
Glosli is a village in the eastern part of Fredrikstad municipality, Norway. Its population (SSB 2005) is 613. ..
Gloss
For other uses of the term Gloss, see Gloss (disambiguation). A gloss (from Koine Greek γλώσσα glossa, meaning 'tongue') is a note made in the margins or between the lines of a book, in which the meaning of the text in its original language is explained, sometimes in another language. As such..
GLOSS
Generally Loquacious Overly Simplistic marketing Speak, is a term used often in conjunction with COTS, commercial-off-the-shelf software. Loquacious is defined by dictionary.com as "adj: full of trivial conversation". It usually refers to extravagant claims found on vendors' web sites that promise t..
Glossary
For a glossary of Wikipedia terminology, see [Glossary] A glossary is a list of terms with the definitions for those terms. Traditionally, a glossary appears at the end a book and includes terms within that book which are either newly introduced or at least uncommon. In a more general se..
Glossary and supplements for the Rwandan Genocide
The Rwandan Genocide RwandaHistory of Rwanda Initial events Causes of the genocide Rwandan Players Role of the International Community Glossary and supplementsBibliography Contents 1 People2 Political parties3 Places4 Events People Paul Rusesabagina - sheltered both Tuts..
Glossary of Adidam terms
The following glossary consists of concepts and terms that are both unique to Adidam and derived from both the Sanskrit and English languages. The intention of this glossary is to provide a guide to the unique concepts, terms, and uses of language in Adidam. A - B - C - D - E - F - G - H - I - J -..
Glossary of American football
The following terms are used in American football and Canadian football. See also: [[wiktionary:Category:Football (American)]] See also FootballFootball strategy : Top - 0–9 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z 0–9 n-m defensea defense with n down linemen and m linebacke..
Glossary of anatomical terminology, definitions and abbreviations
This is a glossary of anatomical terminology, definitions and abbreviations pertinent to the description of the Central Nervous System. Contents 1 Anatomical localisation2 Alphabetical Index of Terms2.1 A2.2 B2.3 C2.4 D2.5 E2.6 F2.7 G2.8 H2.9 ..
Glossary of ARG-related terms
ASCII character encoding based on the English alphabet. ASCII codes represent text in computers, communications equipment, and other devices that work with text. Most modern character encodings have a historical basis in ASCII. See ASCII Alternate Reality Gaming A cross-media genre of interactive f..
Glossary of arithmetic and Diophantine geometry
This is a glossary of arithmetic and Diophantine geometry in mathematics, areas growing out of the traditional study of Diophantine equations to encompass large parts of number theory and algebraic geometry. Much of the theory is in the form of proposed conjectures, which can be related at various l..
Glossary of atmospheric reentry
Over the decades since the 1950s, a rich technical jargon has grown around the engineering of vehicles designed to enter planetary atmospheres. Definition of the jargon is prerequisite to meaningful discussion about Atmospheric reentry. Atmospheric entry the transition from the vacuum of space t..
Glossary of bagpipe terms
Glossary of Bagpipe Terms Contents 1 A to D2 E to H3 I to M4 N to R5 S to Z6 References A to D Alto Clef: CArm Strap:African Blackwood:Argyllshire Gathering: Oban Baldric: decorative sash about 4 inches wide, worn by the Drum Major, hanging from the left shoulder,..
Glossary of ballet terms
For more on the equestrian movement, see pirouette (dressage). A significant part of ballet terminology is in the French language. Unless there is much to say about a specific term, there is no reason to put each and every of them into a separate article. : Top - 0–9 A B C D E F G H I J K L M..
Glossary of basketball terms
Basketball, like any other major sport, has its own unique words and phrases used by sports journalists, players, and fans. 0–9 A B buzzer beater The final shot of a game that in itself results in a win or overtime. C D E F free throw An unopposed attempt to score a basket, worth o..
Glossary of BDSM terms
This glossary of BDSM terms defines terms commonly used in the BDSM community. BDSM activities are described as play in BDSM terminology. The BDSM term is a portmanteau acronym intended to take in all of the following activities: Bondage and Discipline play (B & D)Domination & submission play (D ..
Glossary of Canadian football
This is a glossary of terms used in Canadian football. cornerback A defensive position on scrimmages. Typical formations include two cornerbacks, whose main duty is to cover wide receivers. See also defensive back. defensive back One of the players whose main duty is to cover wide receivers. ..
Glossary of category theory
This is a glossary of properties and concepts in category theory in mathematics. Contents 1 A ..
Glossary of classical physics
This article serves as a glossary of the most common terms in classical physics and how they are used. See also A Acceleration - the change in the velocity of an object in unit timeAmpère's law - relates a circulating magnetic field to an electric current passing through a loopAtom - smallest uni..
Glossary of climate change
This article serves as a glossary of the most common terms and how they are used. Fairly obvious terms with wiki articles are simply linked. The glossary used by the IPCC [link] is a useful reference. A Antarctic oscillation (AAO)Anthropogenic: literally, man-made: but avoids the unco..
Glossary of climbing terms
This page describes terms and jargon related to climbing and mountaineering. A Ablation zone The area of a glacier where yearly melting meets or exceeds the annual snow fall. Abseil The process by which a climber may descend a fixed rope. Also known as Rappel. Adze A thin blade mounted per..
Glossary of dance moves
This glossary of dance moves gives brief descriptions of various dance moves commonly used various contemporary social dances. This list includes Simple dance steps and actions that require 2-3 sentences to describe.Summaries of moves used in many dances.The rest may be searchable via the and via ..
Glossary of dance terms
You may want to link to one of the following articles. Glossary of ballroom dance termsGlossary of ballet terms 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 dir..
Glossary of darts
This is a general Glossary of Darts, the popular pub sport. A - B - C - D - E - F - G - H - I - J - K - L - M - N - O - P - Q - R - S - T - U - V - W - X - Y - Z A ANNIE'S ROOM (or ANNIE'S HOUSE) The number 1. ARROWS Another term for darts. ARCHER Refers to a player who throws very quick sm..
Glossary of differential geometry and topology
This is a glossary of terms specific to differential geometry and differential topology. The following two glossaries are closely related: Glossary of general topologyGlossary of Riemannian and metric geometry. See also: List of differential geometry topics Words in italics denote a self-reference ..
Glossary of education-related terms (A-C)
redirect[[Template:Portal]]This glossary of education-related terms is based on how they commonly are used in Wikipedia articles. This page contains terms starting with A – C. Select a letter from the table of contents to find terms on other pages. : Top – 0–9 A B C D E F G H..
Glossary of education-related terms (D-F)
redirect[[Template:Portal]]This glossary of education-related terms is based on how they commonly are used in Wikipedia articles. This page contains terms starting with D – F. Select a letter from the table of contents to find terms on other pages. : Top – 0–9 A B C D E F G H..
Glossary of education-related terms (G-L)
redirect[[Template:Portal]]This glossary of education-related terms is based on how they commonly are used in Wikipedia articles. This page contains terms starting with G – L. Select a letter from the table of contents to find terms on other pages. : Top – 0–9 A B C D E F G H..
Glossary of education-related terms (M-O)
redirect[[Template:Portal]]This glossary of education-related terms is based on how they commonly are used in Wikipedia articles. This page contains terms starting with M – O. Select a letter from the table of contents to find terms on other pages. : Top – 0–9 A B C D E F G H..
Glossary of education-related terms (P-R)
redirect[[Template:Portal]]This glossary of education-related terms is based on how they commonly are used in Wikipedia articles. This page contains terms starting with P – R. Select a letter from the table of contents to find terms on other pages. : Top – 0–9 A B C D E F G H ..
Glossary of education-related terms (S)
redirect[[Template:Portal]]This glossary of education-related terms is based on how they commonly are used in Wikipedia articles. This page contains terms starting with S. Select a letter from the table of contents to find terms on other pages. : Top – 0–9 A B C D E F G H I J..
Glossary of education-related terms (T-Z)
redirect[[Template:Portal]]This glossary of education-related terms is based on how they commonly are used in Wikipedia articles. This page contains terms starting with T – Z. Select a letter from the table of contents to find terms on other pages. : Top – 0–9 A B C D E F G H..
Glossary of field theory
Field theory is the branch of mathematics in which fields are studied. This is a glossary of some terms of the subject. (See field theory (physics) for the unrelated field theories in physics.) Contents 1 Definition of a field2 Basic definitions3 Homomorphisms4 Types of fields..
Glossary of firefighting equipment
Note: This list is incomplete. You can help Wikipedia by [adding to it]. A - B - C - D - E - F - G - H - I - J - K - L - M - N - O - P - Q - R - S - T - U - V - W - Y - Z - See also A Accelerator (also exhauster): portion of dry-pipe system that bleeds air or shunts air pressure below th..
Glossary of firefighting terms
Note: This list does not include firefighting equipment, i.e., tools and apparatus used by firefighters. Please refer to Glossary of firefighting equipment for such terms. Note: This list is incomplete. You can help Wikipedia by [adding to it]. Please make sure the entry is not already..
Glossary of game theory
Game theory is the branch of mathematics in which games are studied: that is, models describing human behaviour. This is a glossary of some terms of the subject. Contents 1 Definitions of a Game1.1 Notational conventions1.2 Normal form game1.3 Extensive form game1.4 Coo..
Glossary of graph theory
Graph theory is a growth area in mathematical research, and has a large specialized vocabulary. Some authors use the same word with different meanings. Some authors use different words to mean the same thing. This page attempts to keep up with current usage. Contents 1 Basics1.1 Sub..
Glossary of group theory
Please refer to group theory for a general description of the topic. See also list of group theory topics. A group is a set together with an associative operation which admits an identity element and such that every element has an inverse. Throughout the article, we use e to denote the identity e..
Glossary of Indian economic terms
This page describes economic and trade related terms and jargon used or originated in India. Occupations Asami : cultivator or tenantBania : merchant, banker engaging in traditional money lending or money-changer.Baluta : village servantBhumihar : ..
Glossary of Japanese history
This is the glossary of Japanese history including the major terms, titles and events the casual (or brand-new) reader might find useful in understanding articles on the subject. Contents 1 A2 B3 D4 F5 G6 H7 J8 K9 M10 R11 S12 T13 ..
Glossary of Japanese tea ceremony terms
This is an alphabetical list of terms used in Japanese tea ceremony. Note that in tea ceremony terms are often prefixed with the honorifics "o-" or "go"; terms are listed here under the first letter of the word (eg: kama), followed by the honorific, if applicable (o-kama). : Top - 0–9 A B C D..
Glossary of Lepidopteran terms
AntennaeLong feelers situated close to the eyes of butterflies. In Papilionoidea the antennae end in bulging tips called clubs, whereas in Hesperioidea they have hooked tips and the club is found just before the tip. [More] Base or Basal area of wingBrandCellThe cells are spaces formed b..
Glossary of library and information science terms
An abstract is a brief set of statements that summarize, classifies, evaluates, or describes the important points of a text, particularly a journal article. An abstract is typically found on the first page of a scholarly article. Because an abstract summarizes an article, it is very useful for eithe..
Glossary of medical terms related to communications disorders
This is a glossary of medical terms related to communications disorders such as blindness and deafness. A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z A Acoustic neurinoma - tumor, usually benign, which may develop on the hearing and balance nerves and can cause gradual hearing loss, tinnitu..
Glossary of nautical terms
A list of nautical terms; some remain current, many date from the 17th-19th century. See also [[Wiktionary:Category:Nautical|Wiktionary's nautical terms]] Contents 1 A-B2 C-F3 G-L4 M-P5 R-S6 T-Z7 External links A-B Above board - On or above the deck, in plain v..
Glossary of order theory
This is a glossary of some terms used in various branches of mathematics that are related to the fields of order, lattice, and domain theory. Note that there is a structured list of order topics available as well. Other helpful resources might be the following overview articles: completeness proper..
Glossary of owarai terms
This page describes words and terms (generally of Japanese origin) relating to owarai (Japanese comedy). Many of these terms may be used in areas of Japanese culture outside comedy, including television and radio, music, or some may even be used in normal Japanese speech. Glossary bangumi 番組 ..
Glossary of partner dance terms
This is the list of dance terms that are not names of dances or types of dances. See List of dances and List of dance style categories for those. This glossary lists terms used in various types of partner dances, leaving out terms of highly evolved or specialized dance forms, such as ballet, tap da..
Glossary of philosophical isms
This is a list of topics relating to philosophy that end in -ism. A absolutism – the position that in a particular domain of thought, all statements in that domain are either absolutely true or absolutely false: none is true for some cultures or eras while false for other cultures or eras. ..
Glossary of pinball terms
A glossary of terms commonly used in discussing pinball machines. B Backbox The vertical "head" of the pinball machine, where the score is always displayed. Bank See drop target. Bumper (jet bumper) An upright, typically cylindrical or rectangular area that applies force to the ball when hit. ..
Glossary of pool, billiards and snooker terms
The following is an incomplete list of traditional terms used in the game of billiards. ..
Glossary of probability and statistics
The following is a glossary of terms. It is not intended to be all-inclusive. Concerned fields Probability theoryAlgebra of random variables (linear algebra)StatisticsMeasure theoryEstimation theory Probability interpretations:*Bayesian probability (or "personal probability")*Frequency probabilit..
Glossary of Psychiatric Terms
This article is in need of improvement. In this Glossary, Psychiatric Terms, initially mostly French and German and some English terms, as used in psychiatric literature, are defined. We aim to broaden this article to include most of the psychopathological terms in use. There are many psychia..
Glossary of rhetorical terms
Rhetorical Theory is a subject rife with jargon and special terminology. This page explains commonly used rhetorical terms in alphabetical order. The brief definitions here are intended to serve as a quick reference rather than an in-depth discussion. For more information, click the terms. : To..
Glossary of Riemannian and metric geometry
This is a glossary of some terms used in Riemannian geometry and metric geometry — it doesn't cover the terminology of differential topology. The following articles may also be useful. These either contain specialised vocabulary or provide more detailed expositions of the definitions given bel..
Glossary of ring theory
Ring theory is the branch of mathematics in which rings are studied: that is, structures supporting both an addition and a multiplication operation. This is a glossary of some terms of the subject. Contents 1 Definition of a ring2 Types of elements3 Homomorphisms and ideals4 ..
Glossary of scheme theory
This is a glossary of scheme theory. For an introduction to the theory of schemes in algebraic geometry, see affine scheme, projective space, sheaf and scheme. The concern here is to list the fundamental technical definitions and properties of scheme theory. See also list of algebraic geometry topic..
Glossary of SCUBA diving terms
Here is a glossary of SCUBA diving terms: Contents 1 A-F2 G-L3 M-R4 S-Z A-F Anoxia absence of oxygen caused by inhaling a breathing gas that contains no oxygen or being unable to inhale any breathing gas. Aqua-lung underwater breathing equipment consisting of a diving cyl..
Glossary of sculpting terms
Adobe Ceramic maquette model of a tower. Dated 13th century BCE. Excavated at Chogha Zanbil, Iran. This page describe terms and jargon related to sculpture and sculpting. See also: [Comprehensive glossary of art terms.]Glossary of painting termsList of sculptors A armature An arm..
Glossary of spirituality-related terms (A-C)
redirect[[Template:Portal]]This glossary of spirituality-related terms is based on how they commonly are used in Wikipedia articles. This page contains terms starting with A – C. Select a letter from the table of contents to find terms on other pages. : Top – 0–9 A B C D E F G..
Glossary of spirituality-related terms (D-F)
redirect[[Template:Portal]]This glossary of spirituality-related terms is based on how they commonly are used in Wikipedia articles. This page contains terms starting with D – F. Select a letter from the table of contents to find terms on other pages. : Top – 0–9 A B C D E F G..
Glossary of spirituality-related terms (G-L)
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Glossary of spirituality-related terms (M-O)
redirect[[Template:Portal]]This glossary of spirituality-related terms is based on how they commonly are used in Wikipedia articles. This page contains terms starting with M – O. Select a letter from the table of contents to find terms on other pages. : Top – 0–9 A B C D E F G..
Glossary of spirituality-related terms (P-R)
redirect[[Template:Portal]]This glossary of spirituality-related terms is based on how they commonly are used in Wikipedia articles. This page contains terms starting with P – R. Select a letter from the table of contents to find terms on other pages. : Top – 0–9 A B C D E F G..
Glossary of spirituality-related terms (S)
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Glossary of spirituality-related terms (T-Z)
redirect[[Template:Portal]]This glossary of spirituality-related terms is based on how they commonly are used in Wikipedia articles. This page contains terms starting with T – Z. Select a letter from the table of contents to find terms on other pages. : Top – 0–9 A B C D E F G..
Glossary of tensor theory
This is a glossary of tensor theory. For expositions of tensor theory from different points of view, see: TensorClassical treatment of tensorsTensor (intrinsic definition)Intermediate treatment of tensorsApplication of tensor theory in engineering science For some history of the abstract theory see..
Glossary of terms in Ayurveda
This is a glossary of terms and concepts used in Ayurveda. Ayurveda is an ancient medical science of India, based on tradition. It is closely associated with the Atharvaveda, and mythical sage (rishi) Dhanvantari is believed to be the first practitioner of ayurveda. It is a traditional system of med..
Glossary of terms in Hinduism
;Chakra: An energy node in the human body. The seven main chakras are described as being aligned in an ascending column from the base of the spine to the top of the head. Each chakra is associated with a certain colour, multiple specific functions, an aspect of consciousness, a classical element,..
Glossary of terms in The Urantia Book
The following glossary of terms in The Urantia Book provides short definitions of words and concepts presented in the book, especially those that are unique or defined in a way that differs from more traditional understandings. The glossary is meant to assist people unfamiliar with The Urantia Book..
Glossary of terms related to Quality Management
80/20 rule See Pareto analysis - Based on the proven 80/20 rule: 20% of the sources cause 80% of any problems. accountability - Holding an individual or group subject to blame or penalty for the results of specified tasks, functions or results. The risk can be that the individual or group, wh..
Glossary of the French Revolution
History of Franceseries Celtic Gaul Roman Gaul Franks Middle Ages Early Modern France Revolution to WWI French Revolution Causes Estates-General National Assembly Storming of the Bastille National ConstituentAssembly (1, 2, 3) Legislative Assemblyand fall of the monarchy ..
Glossary of the Third Reich
This is a list of words, terms, concepts, and slogans that were specifically used in Nazi Germany. Some words were coined by Adolf Hitler and other Nazi Party members. Other words and concepts were borrowed and appropriated. Yet other terms were already in use during the Weimar Republic. Finally..
Glossary of the Weimar Republic
These are terms, concepts and ideas that are useful to understanding the political situation in the Weimar Republic. Some are particular to the period and government, while others were just in common usage but have a bearing on the Weimar milieu and political maneuvering. Agrarian Bolshevism &mdash..
Glossary of U.S. Army Lineage Terms
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Glossary of Unified Modeling Language terms
A glossary of Unified Modeling Language terms. Contents 1 UML version 1.x2 UML version 2.x3 A-C4 D-D5 E-H6 I-L7 M-N8 O-R9 S-U10 V-Z11 Sources12 See also UML version 1.x This section will contain the UML version 1 glossary. UML versi..
Glossary of Water Polo
The following terms are used in water polo. Rules below reflect the latest FINA Water Polo Rules 2005-2009. [FINA Water Polo Rules 2005-2009] See also Water poloExternal links [USA Water Polo] : Top - 0–9 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z 0-9 2 mete..
Glossary of wildland fire terms
A - B - C - D - E - F - G - H - I - K - L - M - N - O - P - R - S - T - U - W - See also - External refs A Aerial canopy: Fuel type comprised of trees having few low branches, making it less susceptible to ignition by low-intensity fires.Aerial firefighting (or air attack): Use of aircraft in suppo..
Glossary of wine terms
The Glossary of wine terms lists the defintions of many terms used within the wine industry. These terms may be used by winemakers, connoisseurs, and wine writers to name but a few. A - B - C - D - E - F - G - H - I - J - K - L - M - N - O - P - Q - R - S - T - U - V - W - Y - Z A Aftertaste A tas..
Glossary of WWII German military terms
This is a list of words, terms, concepts, and slogans that were used by the German military during World War II. Some have also been used in other times, and some are still in use today. Ranks and translations of the nicknames Germans gave their vehicles during the war are included. Also included ar..
Glossator
The scholars of the 11th and 12th century legal schools in Italy, France and Germany are identified as glossators in a specific sense. They studied Roman Law based on the Digestae, the Codex of Justinian, the Authenticae (an abridged Latin translation of selected Justinian's constitutions, promulgat..
Glossematics
Linguistics Theoretical linguistics Phonetics Phonology Morphology Syntax Semantics Lexical semantics Structural semantics Prototype semantics Stylistics Prescription Pragmatics Applied linguistics Psycholinguistics Sociolinguistics Generative linguistics Cognitive linguis..
Glossitis
Glossitis is inflammation or infection of the tongue. It causes the tongue to swell and change color. Finger-like projections on the surface of the tongue (papillae) may be lost, causing the tongue to appear smooth. Glossitis usually responds well to treatment if the cause of inflammation is remo..
Glossodia
Glossodia are a small family of mostly purple orchids from Australia. In spring vast numbers of Glossodia major flower on uncleared land. Cultivation Glossodia are hard to maintain in cultivation, growing from seed in-vitro has yielded very poor results, and plants rescued from land clearing u..
Glossodia, New South Wales
Glossodia is a semi-rural suburb of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. External links ..
Glossodynia
Glossodynia or burning mouth syndrome (BMS) is a condition characterized by a burning or tingling sensation on the lips, tongue, or entire mouth. Typically, there are no visual signs like discoloration that help the diagnosis. Possible causes include nutritional deficiencies, chronic anxiety or ..
Glossoepiglottic folds
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Glossofacilia
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Glossolalia
''Glossolalia is commonly called "speaking in tongues". For other uses of "speaking in tongues", see Speaking in Tongues (disambiguation). Glossolalia (from the Greek, "γλώσσα" (glossa), tongue and "λαλώ" (lalô), to speak) comprises the utterance of what appears, depending on the listene..
Glossolalia (album)
Glossolalia is the 2000-released solo album from Kansas keyboaridst/vocalist Steve Walsh. It was released on Magna Carta records and features help from Trent Gardner, Virgil Donati, and Billy Greer. Track listing Glossolalia (Walsh, Gardner) 5:20Serious Wreckage (Walsh, Gardner) 6:01Heart Attack (W..
Glossolepis Incisus
Glossolepis incisus is also know as the salmon-red rainbow fish. It can be found in dense vegetation waters of Lake Sentai in Indonesia. The males are bright red and with age grow a high back. Their colors change depending on their mood, and subordinate males do not disply bright colors. ..
Glossop
For the Australian settlement of the same name, see Glossop, South Australia Glossop is a small town in the borough of High Peak in Derbyshire, England. Lying to the west of the Peak District national park, Glossop is about 13 miles east of the city of Manchester and 24 miles west of the city of ..
Glossop, South Australia
For a town of the same name in England, see Glossop Glossop ([34°16′S 140°31′E]) is a small town in the Riverland region of South Australia. It was gazetted in 1921 as the town in a soldier settlement area after World War I and was named after Admiral Glossop, who had been in charge..
Glossopharyngeal breathing
Glossopharyngeal breathing (GPB, also called frog breathing) is a means of forcing extra air into the lungs to expand the chest and achieve a functional cough. The technique involves the use of the glottis to add to an inspiratory effort by gulping boluses of air into the lungs. It can be beneficial..
Glossopharyngeal nerve
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Glossophobia
''This article is about the sudden onset of fear while performing. For other uses, see Stage Fright (disambiguation) The fear of public speaking is called glossophobia (from the Greek γλῶσσα glōssa, meaning tongue, and φόβος phobos, fear or dread). It is more commonly known as stage fr..
Glossopteridales
Glossopteridales is an extinct order of plants belonging to Pteridospermatophyta, or Seed Ferns. They arose during the Permian on the southern continent of Gondwana, but dwindled to extinction by the end of the Triassic period. The best known genus is Glossopteris. External links [Glossipterid..
Glossopteris
Glossopteris (Greek glossa, meaning "tongue", because the leaves were tongue-shaped) is the largest and best-known genus of the extincthi order of seed ferns known as Glossopteridales. Long considered a fern after its discovery in 1824, it was later assigned to the gymnosperms. The genus is placed i..
Glossop Line
Glossop Line Principal stations (from north to south)           Manchester Piccadilly   Ardwick   Ashburys   Gorton   Fairfield (Hope Valley Line)   Guide Bridge   Hyde North (Hope Valley Line)   Flowery Field &nbs..
Glossop North End A.F.C.
Glossop North End A.F.C. are an English football club based in Glossop, Derbyshire. Former members of the Football League, they are currently in the North West Counties League, and play their home matches at Surrey Street, which has a capacity of 2,374 (209 seated, 2,165 standing). The club play in ..
Glossop railway station
Glossop railway station serves the town of Glossop in Derbyshire and is the main terminus at the Derbyshire end of the Manchester-Glossop Line. External links [Train times] and [station information] for from National Rail[Street map] and [aerial photo] of ..
Glossoscolecidae
Glossoscolecidae is a large family of earthworms which has native representatives in South and Central America. Main genera: AndiodrilusAndiorrhinusAndioscolexDiachaetaDiaguitaEnantiodrilusEstherellaGlossodrilusGlossoscolexHoloscolexMartiodrilusOnychochaetaPontoscolexRhinodrilusThamnodrilus The ..
Glossosomatoidea
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Glossu Rabban
Glossu Rabban, Count of Lankiveil (nickname 'The Beast') was a minor character in the science fiction novel Dune by Frank Herbert. [Spoiler warningSpoiler warning]: Plot and/or ending details follow. Glossu Rabban was the older nephew of Baron Vladimir Harkonnen. He inherited the Harkon..
Glossy-mantled Manucode
The Glossy-mantled Manucode, Manucodia atra is a medium-sized, up to 42cm long, glossed green, blue and purple black bird of paradise with red iris, black bill, long graduated tail and somewhat elongated upper breast and neck feathers. Both sexes are alike with slightly smaller female. In appearan..
Glossyware
Glossyware is a slang term referring to marketing materials produced on high-gloss bond paper. Typically, the content of this material provides an abstract description of a product often too vague to obtain a solid understanding of the product and often lacking any relevant substance or evidentiary..
Glossy Black-Cockatoo
The Glossy Black Cockatoo (Calyptorhynchus lathami) is the smallest member of the subfamily Calyptorhynchinae found in Australia. Glossy Black Cockatoos are predominantly black/dark brown with striking caudal red patches. Female birds are duller in colour, with flecks of yellow in the tail and col..
Glossy Ibis
The Glossy Ibis (Plegadis falcinellus) is a wading bird in the ibis family Threskiornithidae. This is the most widespread ibis species, breeding in scattered sites in warm regions of Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia, and the Atlantic and Caribbean region of the Americas. It is thought to have orig..
Glossy snake
The glossy snake (Arizona elegans) and its many subspecies are all similar in appearance to gopher snakes. They are small, with narrow, pointed heads, and a variety of skin patterns and colors. They are nonvenomous, nocturnal predators of small mammals and lizards, and can be found in sandy plains..
Gloss (comics)
Gloss is Xiang Po, a fictional character who appeared in DC Comics's series New Guardians, and currently makes appearances in Green Lantern. History The creators of the Green Lantern Corps, the Guardians, had planned to create their succesors, a race of new Guardians on Earth, so one of their num..
Gloss (disambiguation)
Gloss may refer to: Gloss (Lexicography)Gloss (material appearance)Lip glossMolly Gloss - writerDillon v. Gloss - U.S. constitutional court case Plural: Glosses (journal) This is a [disambiguationdisambiguation] page: a list of articles associated with the same title. If an referred y..
Gloss (material appearance)
See also List of optical topics. Gloss is an optical property, which is based on the interaction of light with physical characteristics of a surface. It is actually the ability of a surface to reflect light into the specular direction. The factors that affects gloss are the refractive index of the ..
Gloster, Mississippi
Gloster is a town in Amite County, Mississippi, United States. The population was 1,073 at the 2000 census. T. T. Martin, an evangelist and one of the most prominent figures in the anti-evolution movement in the 1920's, is buried in Gloster. Geography Gloster is located at [31°11′49″N, 9..
Gloster Aircraft Company
The Gloster Aircraft Company was a British aircraft manufacturer formed in 1917 as the Gloucestershire Aircraft Company Limited. In 1926 the name of the company was abbreviated to Gloster because customers outside of the United Kingdom found the original name too difficult to pronounce. The company..
Gloster E.28/39
The Gloster E.28/39, (also referred to as the "Gloster Whittle", "Gloster Pioneer", or "Gloster G.40") was the first jet engined aircraft to fly in the United Kingdom. In September 1939, the Air Ministry issued a specification to Gloster for an aircraft to test one of Frank Whittle's turbojet d..
Gloster Gamecock
The Gloster Gamecock was a development of the Mk III Grebe. It differed from the Grebe primarily by way of its Bristol Jupiter engine, which replaced the unreliable Armstrong Siddeley Jaguar. Other changes included improved ailerons, refined fuselage contours and internally mounted machine guns. ..
Gloster Gauntlet
The Gloster Gauntlet was a single-seat, biplane fighter of the RAF. It was the last RAF fighter to have an open cockpit and the penultimate biplane. The prototype first flew in 1933 and the Mk. I entered service in May 1935. This was replaced in production by the Mk. II after 24 had been complete..
Gloster Gladiator
The Gloster Gladiator was a biplane fighter, used by the Royal Air Force and the Royal Navy (as well as a number of other air forces), during World War II. The aircraft had a top speed of around 414 km/h. Gladiators were also modified for carrier operations and flown by the Royal Navy's Fleet A..
Gloster Grebe
Developed from the Gloster Grouse (an experimental aircraft later developed as a trainer), Gloster's Grebe was the Royal Air Force's first post World War I fighter aircraft, entering service in 1923. It retained the same single seat biplane lay out, fabric covered wooden structure and twin Vickers ..
Gloster Hill
Korean War Pusan Perimeter – Inchon – Chosin Reservoir – Imjin River – Gloster Hill– Kapyong – The Hook - Pork Chop Hill - Bloody Ridge - Heartbreak Ridge The hill designated Hill 235 during the Korean War is remembered as Gloster Hill because of the actions..
Gloster Javelin
The Gloster Javelin was an interceptor aircraft that served with Britain's Royal Air Force in the late 1950s and most of the 1960s. It was a large T-tailed delta-wing aircraft designed for night and bad weather operations. This was the last aircraft to bear the Gloster name. Contents 1 Hi..
Gloster Meteor
The Gloster Meteor was the first operational Allied jet fighter aircraft. First flying in 1943, it entered combat in the late summer of 1944, sharing the title of the first operational jet with the German Messerschmitt Me 262. The night fighter Meteors remained in service for many years after the ..
Glostrup
Location in Denmark Glostrup is a municipality (Danish, kommune) in Copenhagen County on the island of Zealand (Sjælland) approx. 10 km west of Copenhagen in eastern Denmark. The municipality covers an area of 13 km², and has a total population of 20,785 (2005). Its mayor is Søren Enemark,..
Glostrup FK
Glostrup FK is a Danish football club currently playing in the Danish 2nd Division East. They play at Glostrup Stadion in Glostrup on Zealand, which has a capacity of 4,000. External links [Mother club official website (Danish)][Support society (Danish)] |- !style="backgro..
Glostrup station
Glostrup station is a station on the Tåstrup radial of the S-train network in Copenhagen, Denmark. It is located close to the historical, administrative and commercial center of Glostrup municipality, but also serves Brøndbyvester in Brøndby municipality, whose boundary comes within a few hundred..
Glot-Up
A Glot-Up is type of dental equipment, something in between a mouthguard and an adult-sized pacifier. It was designed by an Acupuncture and Osteopathy Practice in Barcelona. It is an oral prottusor used mainly to treat TMJ (Temporo Mandibular Joint syndrome) because it relieves the tension from the..
Glotovo
Glotovo (Russian: ) is a village in the Komi Republic, Russia. It lies on the Mezen River. ..
Glottalic consonant
See also Glottalization A glottalic consonant is a consonant produced with some important contribution (a movement, a closure) of the glottis (the opening that leads from the nose and mouth cavities into the larynx and the lungs). Glottalic sounds may involve motion of the larynx upward or downwar..
Glottalic theory
According to the glottalic theory, Indo-European had ejective plosives instead of voiced ones. The glottalic theory was developed in the United States and in the (then) Soviet Union by the American linguist Paul Hopper and the Soviet scholars Thomas V. Gamkrelidze and Vyacheslav V. Ivanov. While ea..
Glottalization
See also Glottalic consonant Glottalization is the complete or partial closure of the glottis during the articulation of another sound. Glottalization of vowels and voiced consonants is most often realized as creaky voice (partial closure). Glottalization of voiceless consonants usually involves co..
Glottal consonant
Places of articulation Labial Bilabial Labial-velar Labial-alveolar Labiodental Coronal Linguolabial Interdental Dental Alveolar Apical Laminal Postalveolar Alveolo-palatal Retroflex Dorsal Palatal Labial-palatal Velar Uvular Uvular-epiglottal Radical ..
Glottal fry
Glottal Fry is the pseudo-vocal range of sounds produced at the extreme low end of vocal sound production. What it is not, is a true vocal tonal emination. Very low baritoned voice performers sometimes get to such a low register that it appears to be glottal fry, but in fact is still true tonal..
Glottal stop
IPA – number 113 IPA – text IPA – image Entity &#660; X-SAMPA ? Kirshenbaum ? The glottal stop or voiceless glottal plosive is a type of consonantal sound, used in many spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this s..
Glottal stop (letter)
Due to technical limitations, some web browsers may not display some [[meta:Help:Special characters|special characters]] in this article. The symbol ʔ is a letter of the Latin alphabet, used to represent a glottal stop in several phonetic transcription schemes, as well as in the alphabets of som..
Glottis
The space between the vocal cords is called the glottis. As the vocal cords vibrate, the resulting vibration produces a "buzzing" quality to the speech, called voice or voicing. Sounds production involving only the glottis is called glottal. English has a voiceless glottal fricative spelled "h". ..
Glottochronology
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Glottometrics
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Glou
Glou is the debut album from the Puertorican reggaeton singer Glory. She composed almost all of the songs on the album. Contents 1 Tracklisting1.1 Singles1.2 Collaborations2 Chart performance3 Facts4 External links Tracklisting "Intro" [0:46]"Perreo 101" ..
Gloucester
This article is about the city of Gloucester in England; for other uses see Gloucester (disambiguation). City of Gloucester Shown within Gloucestershire Geography Status: City Region: South West England Admin. County: Gloucestershire Area:- Total Ranked 317th40.54 km² Admin. HQ: Gloucest..
Gloucester, Massachusetts
This article is about Gloucester, Massachusetts, USA; there are other places called Gloucester Gloucester is a city in Essex County, Massachusetts, in The United States. As of the 2000 census, the city population was 30,273. A popular summer resort, Gloucester includes the villages of Annisquam, B..
Gloucester, New Jersey
Gloucester, New Jersey could refer to: Gloucester City, New Jersey (Camden County)Gloucester Township, New Jersey (Camden County)Gloucester County, New Jersey See also Gloucester (England)Gloucester (disambiguation)History of Camden County, New Jersey This article consisting of geographical location..
Gloucester, New South Wales
Gloucester is a town and Local Government Area in the dairy country of the mid north of the state of New South Wales, Australia. It is located on the North Coast railway line and can be accessed from Newcastle (145 kilometres SE) via the Bucketts Way. It stands on the Avon River, New South Wales jus..
Gloucester, Ontario
Gloucester was a city in eastern Ontario, Canada on the Ottawa River and is now a suburb of the City of Ottawa. Gloucester Township was established in 1792 and originally included lands east of the Rideau River from the Ottawa River south to Manotick. It was incorporated as a township in 1850 and ..
Gloucestershire
Gloucestershire Geography Status Ceremonial & (smaller) Non-metropolitan county Origin Historic Region: South West England Area- Total- Admin. council- Admin. area Ranked 16th3,150 km²Ranked 17th2,653 km² Admin HQ: Gloucester ISO 3166-2]]: GB-GLS ONS code: 23 NUTS 3: UKK13 Dem..
Gloucestershire Airport
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Gloucestershire Constabulary
Gloucestershire Constabulary Coverage Area Gloucestershire Size 1,025 sq miles Population 564,000 Operations Formed 1974 (merger) HQ Quedgeley Officers 1,289 Divisions 3 Stations Chief Constable Dr Timothy Brain Website [Gloucestershire Constabulary&..
Gloucestershire County Cricket Club
Gloucestershire County Cricket Club is an English domestic first-class cricket club based at County Cricket Ground, Bristol. In some one-day competitions they are known as the Gloucestershire Gladiators. Contents 1 Formation and History2 Grounds3 Famous players4 Roll of Honour..
Gloucestershire County Cricket Club in 2004
Gloucestershire Gladiators Grounds Bristol Cheltenham Gloucester [Website] Captain Chris Taylor Squad Overseas players Shabbir Ahmed Shoaib Malik Others Steve Adshead Mark Alleyne James Averis Martyn Ball Alastair Bressington Ian Fisher Alex Gidman Tim Hancock Mark Hardinges ..
Gloucestershire County Cricket Club in 2005
Gloucestershire Gladiators Grounds Bristol Cheltenham Gloucester [Website] Captain Chris Taylor Squad Overseas players Upul Chandana Ramnaresh Sarwan Malinga Bandara Others Steve Adshead Kadeer Ali Mark Alleyne James Averis Martyn Ball Ian Fisher Alex Gidman Carl Greenidge Ti..
Gloucestershire County League
The Gloucestershire County League is a football league based in England, which was founded in 1968. It sits at step 7 (or level 11) of the National League System and is a feeder to the Western Football League, although some clubs have also moved upwards to the Hellenic Football League. The leag..
Gloucestershire East (constituency)
East Gloucestershire County constituency Created: 1832 Abolished: 1885 Type: House of Commons This is a list of people who have been elected to represent East Gloucestershire in the Parliament of the United Kingdom. The constituency was created in 1832 and abolished in 1885, being replaced..
Gloucestershire Warriors
Gloucestershire Warriors RLFC are a rugby league team from the county of Gloucestershire in England. They play in the Rugby League Conference and in 2006 made their debut in the Challenge Cup. History of rugby league in Gloucestershire The Cheltenham Warriors were formed in 1997 and took part in..
Gloucestershire Warwickshire Railway
GWR 2-8-0T 4200 Class no. 4247 at Toddington Station on 8th August 2004. This locomotive, now based at the Bodmin and Wenford Railway, was built by the Great Western Railway at Swindon in 1916. GWR 0-6-0PT 6400 Class no. 6430 at Cheltenham Racecourse on 11th September 2004. This locomotive..
Gloucestershire Wildlife Trust
The Gloucestershire Wildlife Trust is a wildlife trust covering the county of Gloucestershire, England. External link [Gloucestershire Wildlife Trust website] ..
Gloucester (disambiguation)
Gloucester is the name of many places; the original is Gloucester, England. Other places that use the name are: Gloucester, New South Wales, AustraliaGloucester, Ontario, CanadaGloucester County, New BrunswickGloucester (electoral district)Gloucester, Massachusetts, United States of AmericaGloucest..
Gloucester (UK Parliament constituency)
Gloucester Borough constituency Gloucester shown within Gloucestershire, and Gloucestershire shown within England Created: 1295 MP: Parmjit Dhanda Party: Labour Type: House of Commons County: Gloucestershire EP constituency: South West England Gloucester is a constituency represen..
Gloucester and Sharpness Canal
The Gloucester and Sharpness Canal near Frampton-on-Severn The Gloucester and Sharpness Canal is a canal in the south west of England, between Gloucester and Sharpness; for much of its length it runs close to the tidal River Severn, but cuts off a significant loop in the river, at a once-dang..
Gloucester Cathedral
Gloucester Cathedral from the north east in 1828. Gloucester Cathedral, in Gloucester, England, stands in the north of the city near the river. It originated with the foundation of an abbey dedicated to Saint Peter in 681 (dissolved by King Henry VIII of England). Contents 1 Foundat..
Gloucester Centre Minor Hockey Association
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Gloucester City
Gloucester City may refer to: Gloucester City, New Jersey, a city in the United States.Gloucester City A.F.C., an English football club. 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 cha..
Gloucester City, New Jersey
Gloucester City highlighted in Camden County Gloucester City is a City in Camden County, New Jersey, United States. As of the United States 2000 Census, the city population was 11,484. Contents 1 Geography2 Demographics3 Government3.1 Local government3.2 Federal, st..
Gloucester City A.F.C.
Gloucester City AFC are a semi-professional football club currently playing in the Southern League. Their current manager (appointed Jan 2006) is Tim Harris, who is an ex-goalkeeper and assistant manager at the club. They play their home matches at their home stadium Meadow Park. Contents 1&nbs..
Gloucester City Public Schools
Gloucester City Public Schools is a comprehensive community public school district that is based in Gloucester City, New Jersey, and serves students in kindergarten through twelfth grade. GCPS, an Abbott District, serves the city of Gloucester City. Contents 1 Schools1.1 Secondary schoo..
Gloucester County
Gloucester County is the name of several counties in the United States: Gloucester County, New JerseyGloucester County, Virginia In Canada: Gloucester County, New Brunswick The name may also be used (mistakenly) to refer to Gloucestershire in England. This is a [disambiguationdisambiguation&#..
Gloucester County, New Brunswick
Gloucester County (2001 population 82,929) is located in the northeastern corner of New Brunswick, Canada. Fishing, mining and forestry are the major industries in the county. The eastern section of the county is known for its Acadian culture. List of CSD's in Gloucester County, with 2001 popula..
Gloucester County, New Jersey
Gloucester County is a county located in the U.S. state of New Jersey. As of the 2000 Census, the population was 254,673. Its county seat is Woodbury6. This county is part of the Delaware Valley area. It is located 10 miles east of Philadelphia and 50 miles west of Atlantic City. Contents 1&..
Gloucester County, New York
Gloucester County, New York is a former county in New York that became part of the state of Vermont. It was a part of Albany County in the Province of New York until 1770 and was lost to Vermont in 1777. At that time, Vermont was holding itself out as the Republic of Vermont and did not become a s..
Gloucester County, Virginia
Gloucester County is an historical Chesapeake county located on the Middle Peninsula of the U.S. state — officially, "Commonwealth" — of Virginia. As of the 2000 census, the population was 34,780. Contents 1 History2 Geography3 Demographics4 Census-designated p..
Gloucester County College
Gloucester County College is an accredited, co-educational, two-year, public, community college located in Gloucester County, New Jersey. Gloucester County College is located in Sewell. Gloucester County College is accredited by the Commission on Higher Education of the Middle States Association o..
Gloucester Courthouse, Virginia
Gloucester Courthouse is a census-designated place (CDP) in Gloucester County, Virginia, United States. The population was 2,269 at the 2000 census. Geography Gloucester Courthouse is located at [37°24′46″N, 76°31′27″W] (37.412876, -76.524140)[Geographic references#1GR1�..
Gloucester dory
The Gloucester dory is a variant of the Banks dory. It is characteristically smaller and lighter, with less overhang, both bow and stern, and less freeboard. It retains the Banks dory's slab sides. Gloucester dories were designed to be launched through the surf behind a breakwater for daily fishi..
Gloucester Eastgate railway station
Gloucester Eastgate railway station was the station in Gloucester, England, used by trains from Birmingham to Bristol. It was originally built as the terminus of the Birmingham and Gloucester Railway (which later became part of the Midland Railway). When it was extended to be a through station, this..
Gloucester Glen, Ontario
Gloucester Glen is a community on the Rideau River in eastern Ontario, Canada. It is located in the former City of Gloucester in the City of Ottawa. It is located on River Road between the communities of Cedardale to the north and Honeygables to the south. ..
Gloucester High School
Gloucester High School can refer to: Gloucester High School (Ottawa), Ontario, CanadaGloucester High School (Gloucester, Ontario), CanadaGloucester High School (Massachusetts), in Gloucester, Massachusetts, USAGloucester High School (Virginia), in Gloucester, Virginia, USA This is a [disambigu..
Gloucester High School (Ottawa)
Gloucester High School Principal: Lynn Thompson Vice-Principals: Tim Hawes,Ann Taillon Superintendent: Larry Archibald List of Ottawa, Ontario schools Gloucester High School is a high school in the Beacon Hill, Ottawa, Canada neighbourhood of Gloucester, in the city of Ottawa. Their mascot..
Gloucester High School (Virginia)
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Gloucester House
Gloucester House is a former royal residence in the seaside resort of Weymouth on the south coast of England. It was the summer residence of Prince William Henry Duke of Gloucester and Edinburgh (1743-1805), fourth son of Frederick, Prince of Wales and brother of King George III. It is now a hotel,..
Gloucester Island National Park
Gloucester Island is a national park in Queensland (Australia), 950 km northwest of Brisbane. Fact sheet Area: 29.60 km²Coordinates: [20°00′55″S, 148°27′18″E]Date of establishment: 1994Managing authorities: Queensland Parks and Wildlife ServiceIUCN category: II See also Protect..
Gloucester National Park
Gloucester is a national park in Western Australia (Australia), 281 km south of Perth and about 3km from Pemberton. This park contains the Gloucester Tree, Western Australia's most famous Karri tree. Visitors can climb up to a viewing platform 61 meters above the ground, using the climbing pegs ins..
Gloucester Northern Senior League
The Gloucester Northern Senior League is a football competition based in England. It consist of two divisions, the Gloucester Northern Senior League Division One and Gloucester Northern Senior League Division Two. Division One sits at level 12 of the English football league system. In the 2005-06 se..
Gloucester Old Spot
The Gloucester Old Spot (or Gloucestershire Old Spot) is an English breed of pig which is prodominantly white with black spots. The Gloucester Old Spot was once a very popular breed. With the advent of intensive farming, certain lean, pale, high-yield breeds were chosen to suit the factory conditio..
Gloucester Park
Gloucester Park is a harness racing course in Perth, Western Australia. In the suburb of East Perth, the oval course is adjacent to the WACA. The track is lit, and Friday night pacing events are popular. Gloucester Park has also been used for Telstra Rally Australia. ..
Gloucester Point, Virginia
Gloucester Point is a census-designated place (CDP) in Gloucester County, Virginia, United States. The population was 9,429 at the 2000 census. Geography Gloucester Point is located at [37°16′12″N, 76°29′55″W] (37.269907, -76.498604)[Geographic references#1GR1]. Acco..
Gloucester Pool
Gloucester Pool is a lake in Georgian Bay Township, District of Muskoka. ..
Gloucester Railway Carriage and Wagon Company
Gloucester Railway Carriage and Wagon Company (GRCW) was a railway manufacturer based at Gloucester in England. The Gloucester Railway Wagon and Carriage Company (GRWCC) supplied the original fleet of red trains for the Toronto subway, which were based upon similar vehicles for the London Undergrou..
Gloucester railway station
Gloucester railway station (formerly known as Gloucester Central station) serves the city of Gloucester. The station is unusual as it is located off the main Bristol-Birmingham line, meaning trains that call at Gloucester usually have to reverse. Only trains that continue along the line to Chepstow ..
Gloucester Rangers
The Gloucester Rangers were a Tier II Junior "A" ice hockey team from Gloucester, Ontario, Canada. This defunct hockey team was a part of the Central Junior A Hockey League. The Rangers are now known as the Orleans Blues and still play out of Gloucester. Central Junior A Hockey League ..
Gloucester RFC
Gloucester Rugby Club is an English rugby union team which plays in the Guinness Premiership. Its stadium is called Kingsholm. The team plays in cherry-red and white hooped shirts, which led to the nickname Cherry and Whites. Gloucester is a city in Gloucestershire in South West England. Content..