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GUG
For the race of Underworld creatures, see Gug. GUG (also spelled gug) is a TLA, the abbreviation for "Generic UTC Greeting". GUG is a quite new element of Internet slang used mainly on IRC networks to accommodate the need for a universal greeting not depending on the geographical location of the ..
Guge
Guge was an ancient kingdom in Western Tibet. It encompassed the present-day tracts of Zanskar, Upper Kinnaur, Lahul and Spiti. The ruins of Guge are located 1200 miles westwards from Lhasa. Guge was founded in the 10th century AD. Its founder was the great-grandson of Lang Dharma, the last king of..
Gugel
A Gugel was a type of hood with a trailing point, popularly worn in medieval Germany. It was tailored to fit the head and shoulders, and was usually made from wool or loden. Originally worn by commoners, it became fashionable with the nobility from the 14th century. In the fashionable style, the gug..
Gugelhupf
Gugelhupf forms made from silicone rubber and metal A Gugelhupf or Kugelhupf is a southern German, Austrian, Swiss and Alsatian term for a type of cake. It has the general shape of a torus, like a donut. As with the Jewish dish kugel, the name 'gugelhupf' is related to the Middle High German w..
Guggenheim
Guggenheim can be a reference to any of a number of members or interests of the Meyer Guggenheim family, including: Meyer Guggenheim, or his descendants: Guggenheim family;Harry Frank Guggenheim any of the Guggenheim Museums; foundations such as the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, John Simon Gugg..
Guggenheim family
The Guggenheim family refers to a number of descendants of Meyer Guggenheim who were known for their successes in mining and smelting, and later for their philanthropy in diverse areas such as modern art and aviation. The Guggenheim family was Swiss emigrant family of Jewish ancestry to United Sta..
Guggenheim Fellowship
Guggenheim Fellowships have been awarded annually since 1925 by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation to those "who have demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the arts." Each year, the foundation makes multiple awards in each of two s..
Guggenheim Foundation
Guggenheim Foundation can refer to: The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation funds the Guggenheim Museums.The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation awards grants to scientists, scholars and artists.The [Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation] supports scholarly research on violence.The [D..
Guggenheim Hermitage Museum
The Guggenheim Hermitage Museum is a museum in The Venetian, one of the world's largest hotels, in Las Vegas, Nevada. It opened in October 2001, and has added three more collections and exhibits since then. It was a collaboration agreement between The State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg Russia,..
Guggenheim Museum
The Guggenheim Museum refers to any of several museums worldwide created and run by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation. These include: The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, in New YorkThe Peggy Guggenheim Collection, in VeniceThe Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, in BilbaoDeutsche Guggenheim Berlin, in Berl..
Guggenheim Museum Bilbao
The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, along the Nervión River in downtown Bilbao The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao is a modern and contemporary art museum designed by architect Frank Gehry and located in Bilbao, Basque Country, Spain. It is built alongside the Nervion River, which runs through the city o..
Guggenmos
Guggenmos is a German originating surname of approximately 50 families throughout the United States. Most famous Guggenmos is Kara Guggenmos of Colorado, opera singer and instructor. ..
Guggi
Guggi is an avante-garde Irish artist, once a member of the punk band The Virgin Prunes alongside his close friend Gavin Friday. Guggi (born Derek Rowan) grew up and remains best friends with U2's Bono. In 1984 he left the Virgin Prunes to pursue his passion of art. Since then he has exhibited his m..
Guggisberg
Guggisberg is a municipality of the Canton of Berne, Switzerland, situated in the district of Schwarzenburg. It lies approximately midway between Bern and Lausanne. The earliest reference to the community dates from 1148, when Guggisberg (spelled Cucansperc) was mentioned in a document of Pope Eug..
Guggulsterones
Guggulsterones are found in a substance called guggulipid, an extract from the resin of the mukul myrrh tree (Commiphora mukul) native to India. Guggulsterones, in the form of guggulipid have been used in traditional Ayurvedic medicine for the treatment of epilepsy, ulcers, obesity, rheumatoid arthr..
Gugh
Gugh is an island in the Isles of Scilly, England. It is uninhabited. It is joined to the island of St Agnes by a sandbar, known as the Gugh Bar, which is exposed only at low tide. Archaeological features on Gugh include: Kittern Hill, a burial chamber or "dolmen"The Old Man of Gugh, a Bronze Age 2..
Gugl-Meeting
The Gugl-Meeting is the largest one-day athletics meeting in Austria and organised every year in the City of Linz. Founded in 1988 the Gugl-Meeting was IAAF Grand Prix meeting from 1994 onwards and has changed to EAA Premium Status in 2006. Many big athletic stars have started at the Gugl-Meeting: C..
Guglielmi Detachable Coil
A Guglielmi Detachable Coil, or GDC, is a platinum coil commonly used in intracranial non-invasive surgery, for the occlusion of brain aneurysms. It was invented by Italian neurosurgeon Dr. Guido Guglielmi in 1990, and was gradually introduced in the later 1990s as an alternative to surgical clippin..
Guglielmo Achille Cavellini
Contents 1 Context2 Collector3 Artist4 Authored works5 Catalogs6 See also7 References8 External links Guglielmo Achille Cavellini (b. Italy 1914 - d. 1990; also known as GAC) was an influential art collector and mail artist. G.A. Cavellini produced ma..
Guglielmo Agnelli
Fra. Guglielmo Agnelli was a sculptor and architect, (born in Pisa, probably in 1238; died in 1313). Agnelli was a pupil of Niccolo Pisano, who had then brought the art of sculpture to a great perfection, modelled on Greek and Roman ideas, matured by the study of actual truth, and preserving only..
Guglielmo Caccia
Guglielmo Caccia called il Moncalvo (1568-1625) was an Italian fresco-painter, who did mostly altar-pieces. His best work, Deposition from the Cross, is at Novara. References This article incorporates text from the public domain 1907 edition of The Nuttall Encyclopaedia. ..
Guglielmo Ferrero
Guglielmo Ferrero (IPA guˈʎʎelmo feˈrrero, July 21, 1871, Portica, Piedmont—August 3, 1942, Mont-Pelerin-sur-Vevey, France) was an Italian historian, journalist and novelist, author of the Greatness and Decline of Rome (6 vols., 1903-1908). Ferrero devoted his writings to liberalism. Ferrero ..
Guglielmo il Giuggiola
Guglielmo il Giuggiola (William, called the Ziziphus berry) was a 16th century Italian poet and author of canzoni. Canzona de' lanzi alabardieriCanzona di lanzi che fanno schizzatoiCanzona di lanzi venturieri ..
Guglielmo Letteri
Guglielmo Letteri (11 January 1926—2 February 2006) was an Italian comic book artist best known for his work on the Tex Willer comic. References [Guglielmo Letteri][Guglielmo Letteri Wikipedia entry] (in Italian) ..
Guglielmo Libri Carucci dalla Sommaja
Count Guglielmo Libri Carucci dalla Sommaja (born January 1, 1803 in Florence, Italy; died September 28, 1869, in Fiesole, Italy) was an Italian mathematician. He entered the University of Pisa in 1816, starting to study law, but soon switching to mathematics. He graduated in 1820, his first works ..
Guglielmo Marconi
Guglielmo Marchese Marconi, GCVO (25 April 1874 – 20 July 1937) was an Italian- Irish electrical engineer and Nobel laureate known for the development of a practical wireless telegraphy system commonly known as the "radio". Marconi was President of the Accademia d'Italia and a member of the ..
Guglielmo Oberdan
Guglielmo Oberdan (1858 - 1882), an Italian nationalist and deserter from the Austrian imperial army, plotted an assassination attempt on the Austrian Emperor Franz Joseph in 1882. That year, the Emperor was paying a visit to the Italian-majority city of Trieste, a city which was both a hotbed for ..
Guglielmo Pepe
Guglielmo Pepe (1783-1855), Neapolitan general, was born at Squillace in Calabria. He entered the army at an early age, but in 1799 he took part in the republican movement at Naples inspired by the French Revolution; he fought against the Bourbon troops under Cardinal Ruffo, was captured and exiled..
Guglielmo Plüschow
Wikimedia Commons has media related to: [Special] Guglielmo Plüschow (August 18, 1852–January 3, 1930), born Wilhelm Plüschow was a German photographer who moved to Italy and became known for his nude photos of local youths, predominantly males (but also females). Being the ..
Guglielmo Quarenghi
Guglielmo Quarenghi (1826-1882) was an Italian composer. He is known to have written one opera, Il dì di San Michele, premiered in Milan in 1863. Reference ['OperaGlass' page (cached)] ..
Guglielmo Ratcliff
Guglielmo Ratcliff is a tragic opera in four acts by Pietro Mascagni (1895) to an Italian libretto by Andrea Maffei, translated from the German play Wilhelm Ratcliff (1822), by Heinrich Heine. It received its premiere on February 16, 1895, at the Teatro alla Scala, Milan and has been revived a numb..
Guglielmo Verdirame
Please [Glossary#Wwikify] (format) this article or section as suggested in the [Guide to layoutGuide to layout] and the [Manual of StyleManual of Style]. Remove this template after wikifying. This article has been tagged since May 2006. Dr Guglielmo Verdirame is a..
Guglionesi
Guglionesi is a small town in Molise, Southern Italy, about 50 kilometers’ distance from Campobasso. The municipality of Guglionesi had a population of 5,272 inhabitants accordingly to the results of the recent national census. The town lies on Kmq. 100.73 and approximately 369 meters above s..
Gugo Veles
Gugo Veles (born March 30, 1972) is an American poet and writer. He lives in Chicago, IL. Contents 1 Writing Career2 ''Rumiyat''3 Politics and Philosophy4 External links Writing Career While Veles has published in magazines and on the Internet since early 1990's, including p..
Gugsa of Yejju
Gugsa of Yejju (died 23 May 1825) was a Ras of Begemder (circa 1798 until his death), and Regent of the Emperor of Ethiopia. He was the son of Mersu Barentu and Kefey, the sister of Ras Aligaz. He married one daughter to Dejazmach Meru of the house of Fenja, and his other daughter Hirut to Dejazmac..
Guguan
Guguan: Guguan is an island in the Northern Marianas island chain and is 130 miles north of Saipan. It measures only 1.5 square miles but contains two volcanos (one which is active). A major eruption in 1883 produced pyroclastic flows as well as lava flows. The coast is bordered by steep basaltic r..
Guguletu
Guguletu is a township 15km from Cape Town, South Africa. The name is a contraction of igugu lethu, which is Xhosa for our treasure. Guguletu, along with Nyanga, was established in the 1960's due to the overcrowding of Langa, which was the only black residential area for Cape Town at the time. Durin..
Gugum Gumbira
Dr. Gugum Gumbira Tirasondjaja, often known just as Gugum Gumbira, is a Sundanese composer, orchestra leader, choreographer, and entrepreneur from Bandung, West Java, Indonesia. Contents 1 Jaipongan2 Jugala3 Personal4 References4.1 Album reviews Jaipongan In 1961, Indone..
Gugutka
Gugutka (Bulgarian - Гугутка) is a village in south Bulgaria near the Greek border. Contents 1 Geography2 History3 Culture and natural landmarks4 External links Geography Village Gugutka is situated in the White river valley. History Culture and natural landmarks ..
Gugu Dlamini
Gugu Dlamini (1962-1998) was a South Afican woman from KwaMancinza, a town in eastern KwaZulu-Natal province, who was stoned and stabbed to death after she had admitted on a Zulu language radio on World AIDS Day that she was HIV positive. ..
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