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Gradius 2 Gradius 2, (Nemesis 2 if the game cartridge was inserted into a non Japanese/Korean MSX computer), is a video game released for the MSX computer in 1987 by Konami. The game is part of the long-running Gradius series, but is unrelated to the arcade game Gradius II Gofer no YabĹŤ (which used the Roman numeral 'II').
Gradius Arcade Soundtrack The Gradius Arcade Soundtrack is a 2-disc compilation of BGM and arrangements from Konami's Gradius video game series, primarily composed by Konami Kukeiha Club with arrangements by prominent video game composers such as Sota Fujimori and Miki Higashino. It was released exclusively in Japan on April 24, 2002.
Gradius Galaxies Gradius Galaxies is a horizontally-scrolling shooter handheld video game published by Konami in 2001. The game, released for the Game Boy Advance, is the first and thus far only Gradius title to be available for the system.
Gradius II is a horizontally-scrolling shooter published by Konami in 1988 for video arcades. Gradius II never saw availability in North America until the release of Gradius Collection for the PlayStation Portable, instead, the Life Force conversion of Salamander was marketed as the sequel to Gradius.
Gradius III (soundtrack) Gradius III is a soundtrack album of video game music from the scrolling shooter game Gradius III, produced by Konami for the video arcade market. The album contains the musical tracks from the game, composed and performed by Konami Kukeiha Club.
Gradius IV Fukkatsu is the fifth game in a series of scrolling shooter video games produced by Konami. The game is officially the fourth title, but the prior release of the console-only Gradius Gaiden affected the numbering of the games.
Gradius V Soundtracks Gradius V Soundtracks is a 1-disc soundtrack by Japanese composer Hitoshi Sakimoto containing 22 tracks of music arrangements heard in the PlayStation 2 video game Gradius V. The soundtrack contains both original scores created specifically for the game and remixes of material from previous games in the series.
Gradiva Gradiva (Latin, "The one who walks") is a bas-relief of a robed woman. This Italian sculpture was the basis for the 1903 novel of the same name by German writer Wilhelm Jensen, which in turn became the basis for Sigmund Freud's famous 1907 study Delusion and Dream in Jensen's Gradiva ("Der Wahn und die Träume in W.
Grado, Asturias Grado (Asturian: Grao) is a municipality in the Autonomous Community of the Principality of Asturias, Spain. It is bordered on the north by Candamo and Las Regueras, on the east by Proaza, Santo Adriano and Oviedo, on the south by Teverga and Yernes y Tameza, and on the west by Belmonte de Miranda and Salas.
Gradski SRC Slavija Stadium Gradski SRC Slavija Stadium is a multi-use stadium in IstoÄŤno Sarajevo, Republika Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina. It is currently used mostly for football matches and is the home ground of Slavija IstoÄŤno Sarajevo.
Gradsko, Macedonia Gradsko (Macedonian: ГрадŃко) is a municipal village (despite the word grad meaning town) located in central Macedonia. It is located at around and is very close to the main motorway which linked Gevgelija on Macedonia's border with Greece, to Slovenia's crossing with Austria, constructed in Yugoslavia.
Gradual The Gradual (Latin: graduale, sometimes called the Grail) is a chant in the Roman Catholic Mass, sung after the reading or singing of the Epistle and before the Alleluia, or, during penitential seasons, before the Tract. It is part of the Proper of the Mass.
Graduate and Professional Student Assembly The Graduate and Professional Student Assembly (GAPSA) is responsible for graduate and professional student governance at the University of Minnesota. It is the largest and most comprehensive graduate/professional student governance organization in the United States.
Graduate College Graduate College is the only college in Lancaster University to take postgraduate students rather than undergraduates. The university has had a lot of success in postgraduate work, and it was felt postgraduates should have their own college for social, administrative and accommodation purposes.
Graduate College of Union University Albany College of Pharmacy, Albany Law School, Albany Medical College, Dudley Observatory, Graduate College of Union University, and Union College together form Union University, a historic linkage dating back to 1873. Each member institution has its own governing board, is fiscally independent and is responsible for its own programs.
Graduate Diploma in English and Hong Kong Law Graduate Diploma in English and Hong Kong Law (GDEHKL) is a programme that allows non-law students to 'convert' to law subsequent to their undergraduate qualification. The programme itself is a localised mutation of the Common Professional Examination of England and Wales (CPE), also known as Graduate Diploma in Law, and is currently jointly offered by University of Hong Kong's School of Professional and Continuing Education (HKU SPACE) as course operator and Manchester Metropolitan University as the qualification awarding institution.
Graduate Employees Together - University of Pennsylvania Graduate Employees Together - University of Pennsylvania (GET-UP) is a group of graduate student employees at the University of Pennsylvania that is trying to become recognized as a union. The group formed in the spring of 2001, and affiliated with the American Federation of Teachers.
Graduate Institute of International Studies Graduate Institute of International Studies (HEI), based in Geneva in Switzerland, is one of the world's leading graduate schools devoted to the study of international studies, most notably of their historic, judicial, economic, political and social aspects. The French name of the institute is Institut universitaire de hautes études internationales.
Graduate Management Admission Test The Graduate Management Admissions Test, better known by the acronym GMAT (pronounced G-mat), is a standardized test for determining aptitude to succeed academically in graduate business studies. The GMAT is used as one of the selection criteria by most respected business schools globally, most commonly for admission into an MBA program.
Graduate of the Year (UK) Graduate of the Year is a national competition in the United Kingdom, held annually that recognises those that made the most of university life, whether in an academic or extracurricular context. Every year hundreds of high-calibre students from across the country compete in several rounds for this prestigious award, with national press coverage and large cash prizes (the winner gets ÂŁ10,000 ($17,500)).
Graduate Record Examination The Graduate Record Examination or GRE is a standardized test that is an admissions requirement for many graduate schools in English speaking countries. It is created and administered by the Educational Testing Service and is similar in format and content to the SAT.
Graduate school A graduate school or "grad school" is a school that awards advanced degrees, with the general requirement that students must have earned an undergraduate (bachelor's) degree. Many universities award graduate degrees; a graduate school is not necessarily a separate institution.
Graduate student A graduate student (also grad student or grad in American English, postgraduate (student) or postgrad in British English) is an individual who has completed a bachelor's degree and is pursuing further higher education, with the goal of earning a master's degree, doctorate, or other postgraduate qualification, such as a graduate certificate or Post-graduate diploma.
Graduate student unionization The debate over whether graduate student employee unions (also known as academic student employee unions) have a place within higher education is heating up on campuses. The suitability of collective bargaining for academic student employees is the contested issue.
Graduate School of Duke University The Graduate School of Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, United States, is currently one of ten colleges and schools that comprise the university. Established in 1926, the Graduate School offers the degrees of Master of Arts, Master of Science, Master of Arts in Teaching, Master of Public Policy, and the Doctor of Philosophy, as well as various certificate programs.
Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies The Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies (IR/PS), at the University of California, San Diego, is devoted to the study of international affairs, economics, and policy education. Its research and education focus is the Pacific Region.
Graduate Studies in Mathematics Graduate Studies in Mathematics (GSM) is a series of graduate-level textbooks in mathematics published by the American Mathematical Society (AMS). The covers of these books have a characteristic turquoise color with a yellow band across the middle of the front cover and side.
Graduate Teacher Programme The Graduate Teacher Programme (GTP) is a programme in England and Wales for graduates who want to gain Qualified Teacher Status while working. A person must work in a school as an unqualified teacher in order to participate in the programme, which can last from three months to a year.
Graduate Teacher Training Registry The Graduate Teacher Training Registry is the subsidiary of UCAS responsible for student applications to providers of Initial Teacher Training in the United Kingdom. It is acknowledged by both Initial Teacher Training Providers and Students to be inadequate at all stages of the application process, causing confusion and stress.
Graduate Texts in Mathematics Graduate Texts in Mathematics (GTM) is a series of graduate-level textbooks in mathematics published by Springer-Verlag. The books in this series, like the other Springer-Verlag mathematics series, are small yellow books of a standard size.
Graduate Theological Foundation Founded in 1962, the Graduate Theological FoundationGraduate Theological Foundation Home Page is unique in its consultative relationship with international institutions and organizations which provide educational opportunities to our students in their pursuit of graduate degrees.
Graduate Theological Union The Graduate Theological Union is a consortium of nine independent theological schools and eight program centers in Berkeley, California. The close relationship among these schools is meant to encourage ecumenical and interfaith dialogue.
Graduate University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences The Graduate University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences () or GUCAS.Founded in 1978, Graduate School of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (GSCAS) was the first graduate school in China with the approval of the State Council.
Graduated cylinder A graduated cylinder (Grad or graduate for short), also referred to as a measuring cylinder, is a type of laboratory glassware comprised of a tall cylinder with a range of calibrated markings that is used for visually measuring the volumes of liquids in a quantitative manner. A graduated cylinder can be made of translucent plastic or borosilicate glass such as Pyrex.
Graduated driver licensing Graduated driver licensing systems are designed to provide new drivers of motor vehicles with driving experience and skills gradually over time in low-risk environments. There are typically three steps or stages through which new drivers pass.
Graduated neutral density filter A graduated neutral density filter, also known as a graduated ND filter, split neutral density filter, or just a graduated filter, is an optical filter that has a variable light transmission. Typically half of the filter is of neutral density which transitions, either hardly or softly, into the other half which is clear.
Graduated payment mortgage loan A graduated payment mortgage loan, often referred to as GPM, is a mortgage with low initial monthly payments which gradually increase over a specified time frame. These plans are mostly geared towards young men and women who cannot afford large payments now, but can realistically expect to do better financially in the future.
Graduated payments Graduated Payments are repayment terms involving gradual increases in the payments on a closed-end obligation. A graduated payment loan typically involves negative amortization, and are intended for young people who currently have low income but foresee a greater future income.
Graduated Random Presidential Primary System The Graduated Random Presidential Primary System (also known as the California Plan or American Plan) was created by aerospace engineer and political scientist Thomas Gangale in 2003, evolving from his earlier 1997 version. It is designed to begin with presidential primaries in small-population states, where candidates do not need tens of millions of dollars in order to compete, and grow progressively larger and more challenging as the nominating process advances.
Graduates who cannot read their diplomas According to an Idaho state of the state address, one in five high school graduates in the United States cannot read their own diploma. This has been given as a reason to adopt standards based education reform and High school graduation examinations which seek to raise standards, and grant diplomas for demonstrated performance rather than seat time.
Graduation (album) Graduation will be the third major label album release from Roc-A-Fella/Def Jam hip hop artist/producer Kanye West; there is currently no official release date, but in an interview in January 2007, West said that the album will be released later than originally expected, in late 2007. first single is tentatively "Homecoming", a track recorded with Chris Martin] during a spontaneous "jamming session" in [[London, England in February 2006.
Graduation Ball "Graduation Ball" was choreographed in 1940 in Australia by David Lichine during the 1939-1940 tour of the Original Ballets Russes. The single-act, light-hearted comic ballet was premiered on the First of March, 1940 in Sydney.
Grady Booch Grady Booch (born February 271955) is a software designer, a software methodologist and a design pattern enthusiast. He is chief scientist of Rational Software (now a part of IBM) and a series editor for Benjamin/Cummings.
Grady Hatton Grady Edgebert Hatton (born October 7, 1922 in Beaumont, Texas) was an American baseball player, coach, manager and executive. Although the bulk of his playing career was as the third baseman of the Cincinnati Reds, Hatton is most identified with his native Texas: he was born in Beaumont, attended the University of Texas at Austin, managed minor league teams in Houston and San Antonio and was an important contributor to the early years of Major League Baseball's Houston Astros.
Grady Mathews Grady Mathews (born January 3, 1943), also known as "The Professor," is an American pool player who is as well-known for his after-hours play as his tournament success. He is also revered for his contributions to pocket billiards through his promotions and lessons.
Grady McMurtry Grady Louis McMurtry (October 18, 1918-July 12, 1985) was a student of Aleister Crowley and an adherent of Thelema. He is best known for reviving the fraternal organization, Ordo Templi Orientis, which he headed from 1971 until his death in 1985.
Grady Memorial Hospital Grady Memorial Hospital, frequently referred to as "Grady Hospital" or simply "Grady", is the largest hospital in the state of Georgia, and is the public hospital for the city of Atlanta. It is a Level I trauma center.
Grady Sizemore Grady Sizemore III (born August 2, 1982, in Seattle, Washington) is a Major League Baseball center fielder who currently plays for the Cleveland Indians. A fan favorite in Cleveland, Sizemore was acquired from the Montreal Expos in 2002 along with Brandon Phillips, Cliff Lee, and Lee Stevens in exchange for Bartolo ColĂłn and Tim Drew.
Grady Tate Grady Tate, (born January 14, 1932 in Durham, North Carolina), is a jazz drummer. He has played with Lena Horne, Astrud Gilberto, Ella Fitzgerald, Blossom Dearie, Chris Connor, Sarah Vaughan, Ray Charles, Cal Tjader, Peggy Lee, Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Stanley Turrentine, Charles Earland, Quincy Jones, Wes Montgomery, Jimmy Smith, as well as many other famous jazz artists.
Grady Thomas Grady Thomas was a vocalist with Parliament Funkadelic, a member of the original do wap soul band The Parliaments who remained with band leader George Clinton until an acrimonious separation at the end of the 1970s, when Thomas left the band along with many other principal members, to form a renegade version of Funkadelic.
Graeae Theatre Company Graeae Theatre Company is a British organisation composed of artists and managers with physical and sensory impairments. Founded by Nabil Shaban and Richard Tomlinson in 1980, the company has since become the most well-respected group of its kind.
Graeco-Armenian Graeco-Armenian (also Helleno-Armenian) refers to the hypothesis that the Greek language and the Armenian language share a common ancestor post-dating the Proto-Indo-European language (PIE). This idea is not widely accepted among linguists; its notability may be comparable to that of Italo-Celtic.
Graeco-Aryan language Graeco-Aryan refers to a hypothesis that the Proto-Greek and the Proto-Indo-Iranian languages share a common history separate from the remaining Indo-European languages. Graeco-Aryan has little support among linguists, though both geographical and temporal distribution of Greek and Indo-Iranian fit well with the Kurgan hypothesis, associating late PIE with the 4th millennium BC Yamna culture, consistent with a roughly mid-3rd millennium BC date for both Proto-Greek and Proto-Indo-Iranian.
Graeco-Latin square A Graeco-Latin square or Euler square of order n over two sets S and T, each consisting of n symbols, is an nĂ—n arrangement of cells, each cell containing an ordered pair (s,t), where s â S and a t â T, such that
Graecoanatolica macedonica Graecoanatolica macedonica is an extinct freshwater mollusk which existed primarily in Macedonia and Greece. The population first started to decline in the 1970s and researchers were unable to locate the species after 1992.
Graecus Graecus or Græcus (in Greek ), was according to Hesiod, the son of Pandora and brother of Latinus. Their mother Pandora (named after her grandmother Pandora), was the daughter of Deucalion and Pyrrha and sister of Hellen.
Graeme Base Graeme Base (born 1958) is a successful Australian author and artist of picture books that have been sold internationally. He is perhaps best known for his second book, Animalia published in 1986, and third book The Eleventh Hour which was released in 1989.
Graeme Cairns Graeme Cairns is a New Zealand musician, artist, and political candidate. He is perhaps best known for his role as "Laird McGillicuddy", chief of the Clan McGillicuddy, and as the only-ever leader of the Clan's satirical McGillicuddy Serious political party.
Graeme Clark Professor Graeme Clark AC pioneered the multiple-channel cochlear implant which has brought hearing and speech understanding to tens of thousands of people with severe-to-profound hearing loss in more than 80 countries. He is also the founder of Cochlear Corporation.
Graeme Cremer Graeme Cremer (born September 19, 1986 in Harare) is a Zimbabwean cricketer. He is a leg-spinner who got into the Zimbabwe side at the age of eighteen, following the exits of Paul Strang, Andy Whittall and Ray Price from the Zimbabwean team.
Graeme Davies Sir Graeme Davies is a New Zealand engineer and academician. He is a former Vice-Chancellor of the University of Liverpool and the University of Glasgow and current Vice-Chancellor of the University of London, in the United Kingdom.
Graeme Devine Graeme Devine is a computer game designer and programmer who co-founded Trilobyte, created bestselling games The 7th Guest and The 11th Hour, and designed id Software's Quake III Arena. He was also Chairman of the International Game Developers Association (IGDA) from 2002-2003.
Graeme Edge Graeme Edge (born Graeme Charles Edge, March 30, 1941, in Rochester, Staffordshire, England) is best known as the drummer and a songwriter for the Moody Blues, but has also led his own outfit from time to time, the Graeme Edge Band.
Graeme Goldsworthy Graeme Goldsworthy is an Australian Anglican theologian specialising in the Old Testament and Biblical Theology. He has authored several books including According to Plan and Preaching the whole Bible as Christian Scripture.
Graeme Hall Nature Sanctuary Graeme Hall Swamp is an exapmle of the coastal swamps which were once dotted along the leeward coasts of Barbados from Speightstown to Chancery Lane. Typical of a typical swamp, Graeme Hall supports a specialised vegetation type known as mangrove.
Graeme Harper Graeme Harper (born March 11 1945) is a British television director. He is best known for his work on the science-fiction series Doctor Who, for which he is the only man to have directed episodes of both the original (1963–89) and revived (2005–) versions of the programme.
Graeme Hick Graeme Ashley Hick (born 23 May, 1966) is an English cricketer, who played 65 Tests and 120 One-day Internationals for England. He has played county cricket for Worcestershire for his entire English domestic career, a period of more than twenty years.
Graeme Hole Graeme Blake Hole (born January 6, 1931, Concord West, New South Wales, died February 14, 1990, Kensington Gardens, South Australia) was an Australian cricketer. He played Cricket for Australia for 4 years, from 1951 - 1955.
Graeme Jardine Graeme Anthony Jardine (born September 2, 1963, London, United Kingdom) is a Hong Kong cricketer. Jardine, a left-handed batsman and right arm off break bowler, was selected to represent Hong Kong as part of a 14-man squad for the 2004 Asia Cup,Squads - Hong Kong, from Cricinfo, retrieved 18 May 2006 but was the only player in the squad who did not play a match.
Graeme Jennings Graeme Jennings, born in 1968 in Australia, studied at the Queensland Conservatorium where he completed his Bachelor’s Degree in 1989, and later on, at the San Francisco Conservatory, earning his Master’s Degree in 1992, and an Artist Certificate in Chamber Music in 1994. His principal violin teachers were Isadore Tinkleman, Anthony Doheny and John Curro.
Graeme Kirkland Graeme Kirkland is a Canadian musician. He has appeared as a guest drummer on albums by a variety of artists, including Ashley MacIsaac, Leslie Spit Treeo, Mary Margaret O'Hara, Jane Bunnett and Bob Wiseman, and has released solo albums of his own.
Graeme Leung Graeme Everrett Leung is a Fijian lawyer and former President of the Fiji Law Society. He is also Chairman of the Electoral Commission, and has been named as Judge Advocate of a Court Martial panel to retry 20 soldiers convicted mutiny in relation to the Fiji coup of 2000, but a number of complications left his commissioning in that office outstanding until he was finally approved as Judge Advocate and commissioned as an Army officer with the rank of Lieutenant Colonel on 4 January 2006.
Graeme Lloyd Graeme John Lloyd (born April 9, 1967 in Victoria, Australia) is a pitcher who had a ten year career from 1993 to 2003. He played with the Milwaukee Brewers, New York Yankees, Toronto Blue Jays and Kansas City Royals all of the American League and the Montreal Expos, Florida Marlins and New York Mets all of the National League.
Graeme MacDonald Graeme MacDonald (sometimes credited as Graeme McDonald or Graham McDonald died September 1997) was a British television producer and executive. Working for BBC Television from the early 1960s, he became a producer in the drama department, working particularly on anthology play series such as The Wednesday Play (for which he produced some of Dennis Potter's early work) and Theatre 625.
Graeme Murphy Graeme Murphy (born Melbourne, November 1950) is regarded as one of Australia's best dance choreographers. Together, with fellow dancer and collaborator Janet Vernon, he has guided Sydney Dance Company to become one of Australia's most successful and well-known dance companies.
Graeme Nicholls Graeme Nicholls is a San Franciso, California based guitar player. Hailing from the UK where he played with hardcore punk bands Voorhees and Break It Up with who at various times he toured the US, Europe and UK, he now spends most of his time in San Francisco.
Graeme Norgate Graeme Norgate is a video game music composer, who has composed music for a variety of video games developed by Rare, Ltd.. His first project at Rare was writing the music for the Game Boy game, Donkey Kong Land.
Graeme Paul Knowles The Right Reverend Graeme Paul Knowles AKC MLC is the 80th Lord Bishop of Sodor and Man and ex officio a Member of the Legislative Council in the Isle of Man. He succeeded Noel Debroy Jones CB BA as Lord Bishop in 2003.
Graeme Pollock Robert Graeme Pollock (born February 27, 1944, Durban, Natal) is one of South Africa's most famous cricketers and one of the greatest Test batsman of all time, with the third-highest batting average after Don Bradman and Mike Hussey. He is one of the greatest left-handed batsmen the world has ever seen and was chosen as South Africa's Cricketer of the 20th Century in 2000 (see picture which shows him with the award at Newlands Cricket Ground).
Graeme S. Mount Graeme Stewart Mount (born 1939) is a Canadian historian and academic who taught history at Laurentian University in Greater Sudbury, Ontario until his retirement in 2005. His publications have included a number of works on international relations, including several books on Canada-United States relations, the Caribbean, and historic sites in Northern Ontario, including Fort St.
Graeme Smith Graeme Craig Smith (born 1 February 1981 in Johannesburg) became the youngest ever cricketer to captain the South African cricket team at the age of 22 years when he was selected to take over from Shaun Pollock after the 2003 cricket World Cup. He grew up in Houghton, Johannesburg and was a prolific run scorer in school cricket at the King Edward School in Johannesburg.
Graeme Smith (footballer born 1982) Graeme Smith (born 3 October 1982, in Bellshill) is a Scottish professional footballer currently playing as a goalkeeper for Kilmarnock in the Scottish Premier League. He should not be confused with his namesake, also a goalkeeper, who plays for Motherwell.
Graeme Thorne kidnapping The Graeme Thorne kidnapping is the name given to the 1960 kidnapping and murder of Graeme Thorne for the money that his father, Basil Thorne, had won in a lottery. A crime which caused massive shock at the time and gathered huge publicity, it was the first known kidnapping for ransom in Australian history.
Graeme Wood Graeme Malcolm Wood (born November 6, 1956, East Fremantle, Western Australia) is a former Australian cricketer who played in 59 Tests and 83 ODIs from 1978 to 1989. He scored nine Test centuries in his career and it was a West Australian record until 2001-02 when it was passed by Justin Langer.
Graeme Wynn Graeme Wynn (born in Thirroul, New South Wales) was an Australian rugby league player for the St. George Dragons and the Western Suburbs Magpies in the New South Wales Rugby League premiership and National Rugby League competitions.
Graeter's Graeter's is a local chain of ice cream and candy shops which originated in Cincinnati, Ohio in 1870. Their premium, thick ice cream has been featured on Food Network, and has earned them many dedicated fans including Oprah Winfrey.
Graf Graf was a German noble title equal in rank to a count (derived from the Latin Comes, with a history of its own) or a British earl (an Anglo-Saxon title akin to the Viking title Jarl). A derivation ultimately from Greek verb graphein 'to write' may be fanciful: Paul the Deacon wrote in Latin ca 790: "the count of the Bavarians that they call gravio who governed Bauzanum and other strongholds…" (Historia gentis Langobardorum, V.
Graf Hockey Equipment Graf Hockey Equipment - Graf is a major Czech and Canadian hockey sporting goods company which manafactires hockey equipment for all level of play. Graf produces hockey gloves, pants, shoulder pads, skates, sticks and women's figure skates.
Grafedia Grafedia is hyperlinked text, written by hand onto physical surfaces and linking to rich media content – images, video, sound files, and so forth. Grafedia can be written in letters or postcards, on the body as tattoos, or on the street, Grafedia written "on the street" is likely to be illegal and considered vandalism.
Grafeneck Grafeneck is a small rural village in Germany, near the town of MĂĽnsingen, south-west of Stuttgart. The castle of Grafeneck, which had previously been an asylum for crippled people, was turned by the Nazis into an extermination facility .
Grafenwohr Grafenwoehr is a military training ground in northeast Bavaria, Germany, located to the east of Nuremberg. Used by the German Army before and during World War II,mostly Panzer Divisions and Artillery, it became an important training site during the Cold War for United States Army, even Battery C-94th Artillery in the Famous Berlin Brigade used it as a live fire training area, along with other NATO tank and Artillery units stationed in Germany.
Graff (lunar crater) Graff is a small lunar crater that lies along the southwestern limb of the Moon. It is located to the west of the Vallis Bouvard depression in the southern part of the ejecta blanket that surrounds the Mare Orientale impact basin.
Graffiti Graffiti is the unauthorized application of graphics on publicly viewable surfaces. It has been defined as being "a drawing or writing scratched on a wall or other surface; a scribbling on an ancient wall, as those at Pompeii and Rome".
Graffiti 2 Graffiti 2 is a new version of the Palm OS handwriting system, Graffiti, that was introduced in 2003. In January of that year PalmSource announced the change and explained that Graffiti 2 was based on CIC’s Jot and would replace the "old" (original) version of Graffiti.
Graffiti Blasters Graffiti Blasters is a program of the city government of Chicago, Illinois to eliminate graffiti and gang-related vandalism. It uses baking soda-based solvents and paints matching the city's official color scheme to erase all varieties of graffiti.
Graffiti Bridge (film) Graffiti Bridge is a film written, directed and starring Prince. It is a sequel to his highly successful first film, Purple Rain, though notorious for its relatively low quality and poor performance at the box-office.
Graffiti House The Graffiti House is a red, two-story frame structure in Brandy Station, Virginia that was used as a hospital during the American Civil War. Its second-floor walls bear the graffiti of Union and Confederate soldiers.
Graffiti Kingdom Graffiti Kingdom, known as Rakugaki Oukoku 2: Maoujou no Tatakai (ă©ă‚Żă‚¬ă‚王国2 é”王城ă®ć¦ă„) in Japan, is a video game by Taito Corporation and Garakuta Studio, which was published in America by Hot-B for the PlayStation 2 console.
Grafh Phillip Bernard, better known as Grafh, was born in the southeastern section of Jamaica, Queens, New York City, New York, USA on August 23, 1982. This particular part of Queens had an especially notorious reputation.
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