GOLD stands for Gathered or linked data in the staging tables of a Data warehouse.
The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers or IEEE (pronounced as eye-triple-ee) is an international non-profit, professional organization incorporated in the State of New York, United States. ... GOLD is a freeware parsing system that was designed to support multiple programming languages. ... The Backus-Naur form (BNF) (also known as Backus normal form) is a metasyntax used to express context-free grammars: that is, a formal way to describe formal languages. ... A parser is a computer program or a component of a program that analyses the grammatical structure of an input, with respect to a given formal grammar, a process known as parsing. ... A data warehouse is the main repository of an organizations historical data, its corporate memory. ...
Some of the early theories about the origin of gold suggested that it was produced by volcanic heat, that it grew from a certain kind of clay, that it was created by lightning, or that in ancient times it had rained gold.
If all the gold ever made in the world to this point was made into a thin wire of 5 microns (millionth of a metre) diameter, then all the gold would stretch around the circumference of the world 72 million times.
The Chinese believed that gold was the yang energy of the sun, whilst silver was the yin energy of the moon.