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Govinda Bhagavatpada Govinda Bhagavatpada (IAST ) was the Guru of the Advaita philosopher, Adi Shankara. We know little of his life and works, except that he is mentioned in all the traditional accounts (Shankara Vijayams) as the teacher of Adi Shankara.
Govinda Bhashya Govinda Bhashya is a Gaudiya Vaishnava commentary on Vedanta Sutra. It was written in 1718 CE at Galta (Golta) near the present city of Jaipur, Rajasthan, by Baladeva Vidyabhushana to defend Gaudiya Vaishnava Theology.
Govindadasa College Govindadasa College (established in 1967) is presently affiliated to Mangalore University in Mangalore, India. It offers bachelors degree courses in Science (Bsc), Commerce (Bcom), Arts (BA) and Management (BBM).
Govt. Central Textile Institute Government Central Textile Institute is a quite old and reputed institute in Kanpur with courses in Textile Technology. The need and importance for this institute dates back to the days when Kanpur was called Manchester of the East.
Gowalia Tank Gowalia Tank Maidan (now also known as August Kranti Maidan) is a park in central Bombay where Mahatma Gandhi issued the Quit India speech on 8 August, 1942 decreeing that the British must leave India immediately or else mass agitations would take place. The call mobilised the citizens to a huge Civil Disobedience movement as the British refused to grant independence till the War was over.
Gowanus Canal The Gowanus Canal, also known as the Gowanus Creek Canal, is a canal in the western portion Long Island, in the New York City borough of Brooklyn, New York, USA. Connected to Gowanus Bay in Upper New York Bay, the canal borders the neighborhoods of Red Hook and South Brooklyn on the west and Gowanus/Park Slope on the east.
Gowanus Expressway The Gowanus Expressway is an expressway in the Borough of Brooklyn, City of New York. A part of Interstate 278, it connects the Verrazano Narrows Bridge to the Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel and the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway, with junctions along the way with the Shore Parkway (part of the Belt Parkway) and the Prospect Expressway.
Gowanus, Brooklyn Gowanus is a neighborhood in Brooklyn, New York, USA, situated roughly between Red Hook and Carroll Gardens on the west and Park Slope on the East. The neighborhood is marked by the elevated Smith-Ninth Street subway station and the Gowanus Expressway, both crossing the Gowanus Canal.
Gower (UK Parliament constituency) Gower is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. The constituency has elected only Labour MPs since 1906, the longest run (with Normanton) of any UK constituency.
Gower Explorer The Gower Explorer is a bus service operated by the City and County of Swansea council and provides services to Gowerton, Horton, Llangennith, Llanmadoc, Llanrhidian, Oxwich, Penclawdd, Port Eynon, Reynoldston and Rhossili.
Gower Street (Hollywood) Gower Street is a street in Los Angeles, California, which begins at the corner of First Street in the Hancock Park district as a residential street, becomes primarily industrial and then commercial as it bisects the Hollywood district, becomes residential again north of Franklin Avenue, and terminates in Beachwood Canyon at Beachwood Drive near the Hollywood Sign. Gower Street, though not nearly as well known as its neighbor Vine Street, has played an important (if anonymous) role in Hollywood.
Gower Street (London) Gower Street is a street in Bloomsbury, central London, England, running between Euston Road to the north and Montague Place to the south. It continues as North Gower Street north of Euston Road and Bloomsbury Street south of Montague Place.
Gower's sign Gowers' sign is a medical sign that indicates weakness of the proximal muscles, namely those of the lower limb. The sign describes a patient that has to use his or her hands and arms to "walk" up his or her own body from a squatting position due to lack of hip and thigh muscle strength.
Gowers Review of Intellectual Property The Gowers Review of Intellectual Property is an independent review of intellectual property rights in the United Kingdom conducted from December 2005 to December 2006. Chancellor of the Exchequer, Gordon Brown, commissioned Andrew Gowers to lead the review; Gowers had just left a position as editor of the Financial Times when he took up the position on December 2, 2005.
Gowlings Gowlings (Gowling Lafleur Henderson LLP) is a Canadian law firm that has existed for over 100 years and is one of Canada's largest national law firms. Gowlings has offices in all major business and technology centres across Canada – Montréal, Ottawa, Toronto, Hamilton, Kitchener, Calgary, and Vancouver, and has a representative office in Moscow, Russia.
Gown A gown (medieval Latin gunna) is a (usually) loose outer garment from knee- to full-length worn by men and women in Europe from the early Middle Ages to the seventeenth century (and continuing today in certain professions); later, gown was applied to any woman's garment consisting of a bodice and attached skirt.
Goya's Ghosts Goya's Ghosts is a 2006 film directed by Academy Award winner Miloš Forman (Amadeus, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest), produced by Saul Zaentz (The English Patient, Amadeus, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest), and written by Miloš Forman and Jean-Claude Carrière. The film stars Academy Award nominee Natalie Portman, Academy Award nominee Javier Bardem, and Stellan Skarsgård, and was shot on location in Spain during late 2005.
Goya-Ra-Ru Founded during the middle of the last century, Goya-Ra-Ru is a diverse martial art mainly influenced by the asian fighting systems. A principal aim of the Goya-Ra-Ru system is its adaptability to suit all individuals regardless of size, shape and natural ability.
Goyder crater Goyder is an impact structure (or astrobleme), the eroded remnant of a former impact crater. It is situated at latitude 13° 29' S and longitude 135° 02' E in Arnhem Land in the Northern Territory, Australia, and was named after the nearby Goyder River.
Goyder's Line Goyder's Line is a boundary line across South Australia corresponding to a rainfall boundary believed to indicate the edge of the area suitable for agriculture. North of Goyder's Line, the rainfall is not reliable enough, and the land is only suitable for grazing and not cropping.
Goyescas Goyescas is an nationalistic opera in three acts by Enrique Granados to a Spanish libretto by Fernando Periquet y Zuaznabar, inspired by the paintings of Francisco Goya, subtitled Los majos Enamorados ("the gallants of love"). The composer wrote, "I am enamored with the psychology of Goya, with his palette, with him, with his muse the Duchess of Alba, with his quarrels with his models, his loves and flatteries.
Gozón Gozón is a municipality in the Autonomous Community of the Principality of Asturias. The Cantabrian Sea lies on its northern edge, and it is bordered to the south by Corvera de Asturias, to the west by Avilés, and to the east by Carreño.
Gozen Kaigi Gozen Kaigi (literally the conference before the noble face) is the conference that Emperor Tenno 「天皇」 attends, and with cabinet colleagues and senatus consultum make a decision in important agenda in Japan.
Gozenyama, Ibaraki Gozen'yama (御前山村; -mura) was a village located in Higashiibaraki District, Ibaraki, Japan. On October 16, 2004 the village merged with the town of Yamagata and two villages from neighboring Naka District forming the city of Hitachiomiya and no longer exists as an independent municipality.
Goznak Goznak (Гознак in Russian, short for Государственный знак, or State Currency) was the Soviet Mint and now is the Russian Mint, responsible for producing state currency, coinage, and orders of the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation. Goznak used to combine paper and printing facilities, which manufactured money, government bonds, checks, letters of credit, savings-bank books (сберегательная книжка), lottery tickets, postage stamps, blanks of passports, birth certificates, marriage licenses, as well as publications of high artistic value, special and high-grade paper.
Gozo Football Association The Gozo Football Association (GFA) is the body that co-ordinates and organises football (soccer) on the Maltese island of Gozo. Formed in 1936 they run the Gozo Football League, which is split into two divisions; the GFA Cup; the Independence Cup; the Super Cup; the Second Division Knock-Out and the Under-21s League.
Gozo Football League The Gozo Football League is a football (soccer) competition for clubs on the Maltese island of Gozo. Split into two divisions, the winners of Division 2 are promoted into Division 1 at the end of each season, whilst the bottom club in Division 1 is relegated.
Gozoku Literally: Go tribe, where Go is a Japanese game identical to the Chinese "Wei Chi". The moving forces behind Japanese politics in the 4th and 5th politics: a group of powerful and near-autonomous wealthy families, of which the most powerful was the house of the ruling emperor.
GO Finch Bus Terminal GO Finch Bus Terminal is a terminal that serves York Region, north of Toronto, Canada. It is located at 5697 Yonge Street on the northeast corner of Bishop Avenue and Yonge Street, one block north of Finch Avenue and the Toronto Transit Commission station.
GO Transit GO Transit , officially known as the Greater Toronto Transit Authority (GTTA), is Canada's first, and Ontario's only, interregional public transit system, established to link Toronto with the surrounding regions of the Greater Toronto Area (GTA). GO carries 47 million passengers a year in an extensive network of train and bus services.
GOAL (organization) GOAL is an international non-governmental organization headquartered in Dublin, Ireland, that engages in humanitarian and development activities. It is non-denominational and aims to work with the poorest of the poor.
GOALTV GOALTV is a dedicated football network offering Asian audiences coverage of European soccer. Its coverage includes exclusive live soccer from three major European leagues as well as behind-the-scenes access to England's Big Four clubs: Manchester United, Arsenal F.
GOArt GOArt (Göteborg Organ Art Center) is a research center based in Göteborg, Sweden under Göteborg University. The institute conducts research in organ building and organ performance from a wide variety of angles.
GObject The GLib Object System, or GObject, is a free software library (covered by the LGPL) that provides a portable object system and transparent cross-language interoperability. GObject is designed for use both directly in C programs and through bindings to other languages.
GOC Army Headquarters The Israeli GOC Army headquarters (, Mifkedet Zro'a HaYabasha), abbreviated as Mazi (מז"י), is a multi-corps command headquarters created in 1998, which amalgamates the ground forces of the Israel Defense Forces. As of November 8, 2005, Mazi is headed by Aluf Benjamin Gantz.
GOCOO GOCOO are seven female and four male Taiko drummers from Tokyo (Japan) who capture their audience with original grooves woven with Japanese drums, Taikos. GOCOO performed at major Blues&Roots, Rock&Pop and alternative Rock festivals, in live clubs, classic theatres and concert halls or at techno events.
GOD Rekidz GOD rekidz is a New Zealand record label /net label started in 1996. The founding members are K5K & MCslypussy of a multi-genres band called Anti-Kati, and also SQUEE a long time friend and artist in his own right.
GOGC The Georgian Oil & Gas Corporation (GOGC) is the enterprise established by LLC Oil and Gas Corporations, that owns the high pressure gas pipeline system of Georgia, with the total length of 1940km. GOGC is responsible for the gas supply networkof the country, security of gas supply and diversification of such supply routes.
GOIM GOIM (Gamers Own Instant Messenger), is a free software instant messaging client based on the Eclipse Rich Client Platform. It uses the Jabber protocol for communication with an extended presence packet to transmit information about games a user is currently playing.
GOLUM GOLUM , an acronym for "Group of Linux Users, Memphis", is a Linux User Group in Memphis, Tennessee. GOLUM is a non-profit corporation that advocates and supports the use of Linux and Open Source Software and attempts to educate others who are interested in using these applications.
GOMS GOMS stands for Goals, Operators, Methods, and Selection rules, an approach to human computer interaction observation developed by Stuart Card, Thomas P. Moran & Allen Newell, and spelled out in their book The Psychology of Human Computer Interaction, 1983.
GONGO GONGO stands for Government-operated Non-governmental organization, which may have been set up by governments to look like NGOs in order to qualify for outside aid. Often, GONGOs are set up by undemocratic governments to create confusion when NGOs who seek to promote democracy in the country in question.
GONZO GONZO is a Japanese anime studio, owned by GDH group. In June 2006, it signed a long-term output deal with the anime television network, Animax, which will see Animax broadcasting all of GONZO's anime titles across all of its networks around the world, including Japan, Asia, the Indian Subcontinent, and Latin America.
GOPAC GOPAC is a Republican political action committee (PAC), calling itself "the premier training organization for Republican candidates for elected office." It has been closely associated with former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich.
GOSI The General Organization for Social Insurance (GOSI) is an agency of the state in Saudi Arabia concerned with social insurance. GOSI is supervised by a board of eleven directors from government departments, employers and insured persons.
GOST GOST refers to a set of technical standards maintained by the Euro-Asian Council for Standardization, Metrology and Certification (EASC), a regional standards organization operating under the auspices of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS).
GOST 16876-71 GOST 16876-71 () is a romanization system (for transliteration of Cyrillic texts into the Latin alphabet) devised by the National Administration for Geodesy and Cartography of the Soviet Union. Based on the scientific transliteration system used in linguistics, GOST 16876-71 is the only common transliteration system that refrains from using diacritics.
GOSUB GOSUB is a command in many versions of BASIC, which should always be accompanied by the RETURN command. GOSUB statements branch to simple kinds of subroutines without (sometimes with) parameters or local variables.
GOTE GOTE, which stands for "Goal, Obstacle, Tactics, and Expectation", is an acronym devised by Robert Cohen to remind actors of the four basic elements they need to consider while preparing a character for the theater. The acronym was introduced in Cohen's book Acting One, which has become one of the most widely used textbooks for college theater students in the United States.
Gp2 TrackEditor GP2 Trackeditor is an MFC application written and created by Paul Hoad. GP2 TrackEditor first started to appear around 1997 some time after the release of GP2, The track editor was developed through experimentation.
Gp41 gp41 is a glycoprotein non-covalently bound to gp120, and provides the second step by which HIV enters the cell. It is originally buried within the viral envelope, but when gp120 binds to a CD4 receptor, gp120 changes its conformation causing gp41 to become exposed, where it can assist in fusion with the host cell.
Gps tour guide The concept of using global positioning satellite gps signals as a basis for a personal computerized tour guide has been discussed as early as the 1990s. As gps receivers/systems become common place in vehicles, gps tour guides will become more common.
GpsOne gpsOne is the brand name for a cellphone chipset manufactured by Qualcomm that allows cell phones to more accurately plot your position, using a technology referred to as A-GPS or Assisted-GPS. For differences between GPS and A-GPS methods, please see their respective articles.
GP Ouest-France Grand-Prix de Plouay Ouest-France (now known as GP Ouest-France) is an elite cycle race held annually in late summer around a circuit based on the small Breton village of Plouay since 1931. Originally named Grand-Prix de Plouay, it is considered the most popular one-day race in France, it has been part of the UCI ProTour since the competition's inception in 2005.
GP Strategies General Physics Strategies (GP Strategies) owns and operates a myriad of industrial engineering, support and research projects through its subsidiaries, General Physics Corporation (GP) and GSE Systems, Inc., for the US government and private contractors.
GPA Footballer of the Year The GPA Footballer of the Year is awarded annually by the Gaelic Players Association, as part of the Opel Gaelic Players awards scheme, established in 2006 The title was first awarded in 2001, at the foundation of the association, and was first sponsored in 2005, also by Opel]. The award honours the achievements of a [[Gaelic footballer of outstanding excellence for each season.
GPA Gaelic Team of the Year The GPA Gaelic Team of the Year known for sponsorship reason as The Opel Gaelic Team of the Year awards are an awards ceremony to honour the performances of Gaelic Athletic Association players. The awards are judged and awarded by the Gaelic Players Association.
GPA Hurler of the Year The GPA Hurler of the Year is a hurling award that honours the achievements of a hurler of outstanding excellence. At the end of every Hurling Championship the members of the Gaelic Players Association, the players 'union', vote on which of its members has played the best hurling in the previous year.
GPASS GPASS, General Practice Administration System for Scotland, originally developed by a Scottish General Medical Practioner and Software developer, Dr Ferguson, currently owned by the Scottish Executive and developed and supported by the NHS Common Services Agency of Scotland.
GPGPU General-Purpose Computing on Graphics Processing Units (GPGPU, also referred to as GPGP and to a lesser extent GP²) is a recent trend in computer science that uses the Graphics Processing Unit to perform the computations rather than the CPU. The addition of programmable stages and higher precision arithmetic to the GPU rendering pipeline have allowed software developers to use the GPU for non graphics related applications.
GPHPedit gPHPedit is a GPL-based, small UTF-8 compatible text editor for the GNOME desktop environment, written by Andy Jeffries. It is similar to gedit with the difference that it is designed for PHP and HTML text editing and contains many features to make the PHP programmer's life easier such as drop down lists of function, hints to show function parameters and integrated PHP HTML-format Help.
GPLRank GPLRank was/is the first really successful Internet ranking system for participants in simracing (races for racing simulations, often run via the Internet, where participants directly compete against each other on virtually-recreated tracks). From the year 2000 onwards, it focused its comparisons on registered laptimes (the faster/lower, the better, and the higher one's standing on the worldwide ranking).
GPRA The Provisional Government of the Algerian Republic (French, Gouvernement Provisoire de la République Algérienne, GPRA) was the government-in-exile of the Algerian Front de Libération Nationale (FLN) resistance movement, during the latter part of the Algerian War of Independence (1954-62).
GPRD The GPRD is the abbreviation of the General Practitioners Research Database. The GPRD is considered by many as the gold standard of longitudinal anonymised patient databases from primary care and its usage has resulted in over 400 clinical reviews and papers.
GPS (band) GPS is a progressive rock group formed in 2006 by John Payne (vocals, bass, guitar), Guthrie Govan (guitars) and Jay Schellen (drums, percussion). These three had been working together in Asia when the fourth member of Asia, Geoff Downes, joined a reunion of the band's earlier line-up, dissolving the then current line-up.
GPS for the visually impaired There have been many attempts at integrating Global Positioning System into a navigation-assistance system for the blind. GPS was introduced in the late 1980s and since then there have been several research projects such as MoBIC, Drishti, and Brunel Navigation System for the Blind, NOPPA, BrailleNote GPS and Trekker.
GPS Schools The GPS, Great Public Schools, or Athletic Association of the Great Public Schools of New South Wales (AAGPS) is an association of mostly private boys' schools in New South Wales, Australia that share common interests, ethics, educational philosophy and contest sporting events among themselves. AAGPS was formed at a meeting in a cafe on 30 March 1892.
GPS tracking A GPS tracking unit is a device that uses the Global Positioning System to determine the precise location of a vehicle, person, or other asset to which it is attached and to record the position of the asset at regular intervals. The recorded location data can be stored within the tracking unit, or it may be transmitted to a central location data base, or internet-connected computer, using a cellular (GPRS), radio, or satellite modem embedded in the unit.
GPS·C GPS·C, short for GPS Correction, is a set of Differential GPS data for most of Canada maintained by the Canadian Active Control System, part of Natural Resources Canada. When used with an appropriate receiver, GPS·C improves real-time accuracy to about 1-2 meters, from a nominal 15 m accuracy.
GPSS General Purpose Simulation System (GPSS) was a discrete time simulation language, where a simulation clock advanced in uniform discrete steps. A system was modelled as transactions entered the system and were passed from one service to another.
GPU cluster A GPU cluster is a computer cluster in which each node is equipped with a Graphics Processing Unit (GPU). By harnessing the computational power of modern GPUs via General-Purpose Computing on Graphics Processing Units (GPGPU), very fast calculations can be performed with a GPU cluster.
GPU-5/A Pave Claw This pod houses a 30mm GAU-13/A four-barrel derivative of the seven-barrel GAU-8/A cannon used by the A-10A, and 353 rounds of ammunition. This pod was carried by 174th TFW of the New York ANG (Air National Guard) with their F-16A/B.
GPUTILS GPUTILS is a GPL-licensed set of tools for the PIC microcontroller, comprising an assembler, disassembler, linker, and object file viewer. It is available for various flavors of Unix, Mac OS X, and Microsoft Windows.
GPxPatch GPxPatch is a tool for the PC racing simulators Grand Prix 3 and Grand Prix 4. It was created by René Smit, with additional contributions by Marc Aarts, Markus Krötz, Laurent Rousseau and a whole host of others.
Gq proteins Gq Proteins are class of G proteins. Gq proteins works to activate phospholipase C (PLC) in which allows it to be involved in many physiological activities, including taste, manic depression, tumor promotion, etc.
GQ Australia GQ Australia, or Gentlemen's Quarterly Australia, is the Australian version of popular magazine for men, GQ. GQ is also commonly referred to as the male Vogue, with GQ Australia corresponding to Vogue Australia.
GQ Lupi GQ Lupi b is a possible extrasolar planet orbiting the star GQ Lupi. At its discovery in 2005, it was believed to be the first extrasolar planet to be directly imaged, although 2M1207b may also claim that distinction.
GQM GQM, the acronym for "Goal, Question, Metric", is an approach to metrics that was developed by Victor Basili of the University of Maryland, College Park and the Software Engineering Laboratory at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center.
GQM-163 The GQM-163 Coyote Sea Skimming target is a supersonic seaskimming target built by Orbital Sciences, and used by the United States Navy as a sucessor to the MQM-8 Vandal. Orbital's proposal was chosen over the MA-31, a joint venture between Boing and Zvezda-Strela.
Gračanica monastery Gračanica (Serbian Cyrillic: Грачаница , Albanian: Graçanica), is a Serb Orthodox monastery in the village of Gračanica in Priština municipality in the southern Serbian province of Kosovo. It was founded by King Stefan Milutin 1321.
Grab bars Grab bars are architectural products commonly used in toilet stalls for handicapped people. Grab bars are smooth, metal cylindrical bars that are mounted on the side and rear walls of the stall, to help handicapped people move from a wheelchair to the toilet seat.
Grabbed by the Ghoulies Grabbed by the Ghoulies was a video game released in 2003 by Rare for the Microsoft Xbox gaming console. It was historic in that it was the first Rare game to be released under the Microsoft banner (discounting the Game Boy Advance release Banjo-Kazooie: Grunty's Revenge) after being bought out from Nintendo.
Grabby recipients This is a listing of the winners of the Adult Erotic Gay Video Awards (the "Grabbys"). The awards are given annually by Gay Chicago Magazine and were first given in 1991; the first live awards ceremony was in 1999 and presented awards for work done in 1998.
Graben, Vienna Graben is one of the most important streets in Vienna's first district, the city centre, quite close to the Stephansdom. It takes its name from the wall of one of the moats of the Roman encampment of Vindobona which was located there in ancient times.
Grace (prayer) Grace is a name for any of a number of short prayers said before a meal to bless and give thanks for it, in folk practices of Christianity and other religions. It is probably most often observed when the family is assembled at the dinner table, and also occurs in other communal settings such as summer camps and residential and parochial schools, though it is okay to pray silently or before dining alone.
Grace (rock band) Grace is a rock band, based in Shepherd's Bush in London. The band consists of JP (John Paul) Jones on vocals and guitar, Sam Swallow on keyboards, Ben Lumsden on bass, James Hayto on guitar and Chris Hutchings on drums.
Grace (style) His Grace or Her Grace was the style used to address the monarch of Scotland up to the Act of Union of 1707, which merged the Kingdom of England and the Kingdom of Scotland. Today, the style is used when referring to non-royal dukes and duchesses in the United Kingdom.
Grace (Soulfire) Grace is a character in Soulfire, a comic book created by Michael Turner. Though she wears clothes that resemble that of a princess, Grace’s outfits are equipped with enough armor and weaponry to handle almost any situation.
Grace academy Grace Academy is a Christian University-Model School located in the First Baptist Church in Matthews, North Carolina. The school started back in 2002 and has grown from about 50 students to over 450 students stretching from Kindergarten-12th grade.
Grace Adler Grace Elizabeth Adler is a fictional character on the popular American sitcom Will & Grace, portrayed by Debra Messing. She is a Jewish interior designer (Messing is also Jewish in real life), living in New York City with her gay best friend Will Truman (played by Eric McCormack).
Grace Aguilar Grace Aguilar (June 1816 – September 16 1847), an English novelist and writer on Jewish history and religion, was born in Hackney of Jewish parents of Portuguese descent. She was delicate from childhood, and early showed great interest in history, especially Jewish history.
Grace Annie Lockhart Grace Annie Lockhart (1855-1916) was the first woman in the British Empire to receive a Bachelor's degree. She received a Bachelor of Science from Mount Allison University in Sackville, New Brunswick, Canada in 1875.
Grace Archer Grace Archer née Fairbrother (April 2, 1930 – September 22, 1955) was a fictional character in the BBC's long-running radio soap, The Archers, and was one of the original characters. She was played by Ysanne Churchman.
Grace Armstrong Hartman Grace Hartman (1900-May 23, 1998), née Armstrong was a social activist and politician in Sudbury, Ontario, Canada, who became the city's first female mayor. She became mayor on October 5, 1966, when she was selected by city council following the death of the city's previous mayor, Max Silverman.
Grace Baptist Assembly Grace Baptist Assembly is a fellowship of Particular Baptist churches organised in England in 1980, when the Strict Baptist Assembly (founded in 1964) and the Assembly of baptized churches holding the doctrines of grace (founded in 1976) voluntarily agreed to cease their organisations and form the Grace Baptist Assembly. The churches of the Grace Baptist Assembly hold a Calvinistic form of theology, and are descendants of the larger Strict and Particular Baptist movement.
Grace Bedell Grace Bedell (1849 – 1936) is best known for her relationship with Abraham Lincoln. At 11 years of age, from Westfield, New York, she sent Lincoln a letter on October 15, 1860, a few weeks before Lincoln was elected President of the United States.
Grace Bible College Grace Bible College is a fundamentalist Christian College in the premillenial, dispensational tradition located in Grand Rapids, Michigan. GBC began as an evening Bible institute in 1939 in the Fundamental Bible Church of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, that was expanded in 1945 to a day school and named Milwaukee Bible Institute.
Grace Building (Sydney) The Grace Building in Sydney, Australia was constructed by Kell & Rigby Builders during the late 1920s and opened in 1930 by the Grace Brothers, Australian department store magnates, as their headquarters. Inspired by the Gothic revival-modernist Tribune Tower in Chicago–the headquarters of the Chicago Tribune–the building was of the art deco architectural style and had stat-of-the-art innovations and facilities for the time.
Grace Bumbry Grace Bumbry (born 4 January 1937) is an American opera singer, considered one of the leading, and sometimes controversial, mezzo-sopranos of her generation. Bumbry began her career as a mezzo, but later expanded her repertoire to include many dramatic soprano roles.
Grace Bussell Grace Bussell (1870–1835), later Grace Drake-Brockman, was the 16-year-old heroine of the SS Georgette disaster in Western Australia on 1 December 1876. Bussell, along with Aboriginal stockman Sam Isaacs, helped save the lives of around 50 people with a quick thinking rescue from shore.

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