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Grafitition A Grafitition is a kind of person from the Magic Pengel/Graffiti Kindgom universe. A grafitition is one who uses a graffiti wand to make magical creatures, known as Graffiti Graffiti, they can have the following parts: head, curves, motionless, legs, arms, wings, insect wings, weapon, and charge.
Graft-chimaera In horticulture, a graft-chimaera may arise in grafting at the point of contact between rootstock and scion and will have properties intermediate to those of its "parents". A graft-chimaera is not a true hybrid but a mixture of cells, each with the genotype of one of its "parents": it is a chimaera.
Graftal A graftal or L-system is a formal grammar used in computer graphics to recursively define branching tree and plant shapes in a compact format. The shape is defined by a string of symbols constructed by a graftal grammar.
Grafting Grafting is a method of plant propagation widely used in horticulture, where the tissues of one plant are encouraged to fuse with those of another. It is most commonly used for the propagation of trees and shrubs grown commercially.
Grafton bus crash The Grafton bus crash killed 21 people and injured 22 on the Pacific Highway on the North Coast of New South Wales near Grafton on 20 October 1989. A semi-trailer truck veered onto the wrong side of the road and collided with a passenger bus travelling the other way.
Grafton Correctional Centre Grafton Correctional Centre is a medium security prison for both males and females in Grafton], [[New South Wales, Australia. As well as housing sentenced offenders, the Centre serves as a reception prison for northern NSW.
Grafton Gully Grafton Gully is a deep (about 50 m) and very wide (about 100 m) gully cutting northwards (towards the sea) through the volcanic hills of the Auckland Volcanic Field in Auckland, New Zealand. It divides the CBD of the city from the suburbs of Grafton and Newmarket in the east.
Grafton High School (Wisconsin) Grafton High School is a secondary school located in Grafton, Wisconsin. It provides students with a wide range of educational opportunities, including core subjects, technology education, physical education, and the fine arts.
Grafton Hill Grafton Hill refers to one of the seven hills of Worcester, Massachusetts, the third largest city in New England. Just as in Rome, Italy, there are seven very steep hills that distinguish its topographic neighborhoods and Grafton Hill is one of the more promienent areas in the city.
Grafton Pond Grafton Pond is a 321-acre water body located in Grafton County in western New Hampshire, United States, in the town of Grafton. The pond is part of the Mascoma River watershed, flowing to the Connecticut River.
Grafton, Wiltshire Grafton is a village and civil parish in the east of the English county of Wiltshire. Strictly the village is East Grafton, and the parish also includes the hamlets of West Grafton, Marten, Wexcombe, Wilton and Wolfhall.
Graha Graha is a “cosmic influencer” on the living beings of mother Bhumidevi (earth). In Hindu Astrology, the Nava (nine) Grahas are some of the major governing forces that could influence the behavior of the living beings.
Graham Ackerman Graham Ackerman is an American gymnast. In April 2005 he won the national championship in the floor exercise event at the 2005 NCAA Men’s Gymnastics Championship at the United States Military Academy at West Point, N.
Graham Avenue Line The Graham Avenue Line is a public transit line in Brooklyn and formerly Queens, New York City, United States, running mostly along Graham Avenue between East Williamsburg and Greenpoint. It once continued west from East Williamsburg to downtown Brooklyn along the Flushing Avenue Line and north from Greenpoint over the former Manhattan Avenue Bridge into Hunters Point, Queens; it is now joined with the Tompkins Avenue Line from East Williamsburg south to Prospect Park.
Graham bergh Graham Bergh is the founder or Resource Revival, the Oregon, USA, based recycled products company that turns discarded bicycle parts into functional art. He was born in Vermont in 1967 and moved to Oregon in 1990.
Graham bread Graham bread was invented by Sylvester Graham in 1829 for his vegetarian diet. The Graham bread was high in fiber, made with non-sifted whole wheat flour and was made into little squares we now know as graham crackers.
Graham Bartram Graham Bartram is a British vexillologist (flag researcher), a vexillographer (flag designer), and is currently Secretary-General for Congresses of FIAV (Fédération internationale des associations vexillologiques). He is also the Chief Vexillologist of the Flag Institute and maintains the World Flag Database.
Graham Bauer Graham "Gray" Bauer (also spelled as Graem), a fictional character played by Paul McCrane, first appeared in Episode 19 of Day 5 of 24. Graham is introduced as the leader of a group that orchestrated the Sentox Nerve Gas conspiracy, as well as the murders of David Palmer, Tony Almeida, and Michelle Dessler.
Graham Bensinger Graham Bensinger is the host of "The Graham Bensinger Show" on ESPN Radio and a student of broadcast journalism at Syracuse University. Despite being one of the youngest sports journalists in the world, he has interviewed some very high profile sports figures.
Graham Bond Graham John Clifton Bond (born October 28, 1937 in Romford, Essex, England – died May 8, 1974 at Finsbury Park Station, Finsbury Park, North London, England) was an English musician, considered a founding father of the English rhythm and blues boom of the 1960s. Along with John Mayall and Alexis Korner, Bond was one of the great catalytic figures of 60s rock in Britain.
Graham Bowers Graham Bowers was born during a World War II bombing raid on Manchester in 1943. Brought up on a mixed diet of his older sisters’ interests in 1940s and 1950s popular music, and his father’s record collection of jazz and country blues, an eclectic mix of artists such as Johnny Ray, Guy Mitchell, Django Reinhardt, Sidney Bechet and Leadbelly were household names, and marked the milestones of his early life.
Graham Colton Graham Colton is lead singer of Graham Colton Band. He has toured with John Mayer, Counting Crows, Maroon 5, Dave Matthews Band, Guster, Kelly Clarkson and released first hit in 2004: "Don't Give Up On Me.
Graham Coxon Graham Coxon (born Graham Leslie Coxon on 12 March 1969, in Rinteln, West Germany) is an English singer-songwriter, best known as the former guitarist in the rock band Blur. He contributed to the band's first seven albums, from 1991's Leisure to the 2002 sessions for the following year's Think Tank, though he only features in the last of its 13 tracks.
Graham diet The Graham diet was invented around 1829 by Sylvester Graham, a self proclaimed "Physiological Reformer". It was based mainly on fresh fruits and vegetables, whole wheat and high fiber, and excluded meat and spices altogether (see vegetarianism).
Graham Dowling Graham Thorne Dowling (4 March 1937, Christchurch) was a New Zealand cricketer who played 39 Test matches and captained New Zealand in 19 of them. Playing as a specialist right-handed batsman, usually an opener, he achieved moderate success, averaging 31 with the bat.
Graham Eadie Graham Eadie, affectionately known as "Wombat" to his fans, (born November 25, 1953, Woy Woy, New South Wales) was one of the greatest players in rugby league during the 1970s and probably the best fullback to emerge under the six-tackle rule. His 1,917 points in first grade and 2,070 points in all grades were both records at the time of his retirement, and he was a key factor behind Manly-Warringah's dominance of the competition during the 1970s.
Graham Ferreira Graham Ferreira is a South African journalist and film maker. After leaving school in the early sixties he joined the South African Police Force but, dissatified with this career, he resigned and opted for journalism instead.
Graham Fraser (journalist) Graham Fraser (born 1946 in Ottawa, Ontario) is a Canadian journalist and writer. He is the author of several books, both in English and French, and is National Affairs Correspondent for the Toronto Star, for which he also writes a weekly column.
Graham Frederick Young Graham Frederick Young (September 7 1947 – August 1 1990) was a British murderer who poisoned a total of three people to death (his stepmother, and then years later two work colleagues, Bob Egle and Fred Biggs) as well as administering smaller doses to scores of others.
Graham Freudenberg Graham Freudenberg (born 1934) is an Australian author and political speechwriter who worked in the Australian Labor Party for over forty years, beginning when he was appointed Arthur Calwell's press secretary in June 1961.
Graham Graham-Montgomery Sir Graham Graham-Montgomery, 3rd Baronet (9 July 1823–2 June 1901) was a Scottish baronet and member of the British House of Commons. He entered the House in 1852 as a member for Peeblesshire, and held this seat until 1868, when it was united with that of Selkirk.
Graham Greene Henry Graham Greene, OM, CH (October 2, 1904 – April 3, 1991) was a prolific English novelist, playwright, short story writer, travel writer and critic whose works explore the ambivalent moral and political issues of the modern world. Greene combined serious literary acclaim with wide popularity.
Graham Hopkins Graham Hopkins (born december 20 1975) is the drummer for the band Boss Volenti and the former drummer for the hard rock/punk band Therapy?. Hopkins was born in Dublin, Ireland and was brought up in Clane, County Kildare in a musical family (father Des being a drummer).
Graham Houghton Graham Houghton, founding principal of the South Asia Institute of Advanced Christian Studies (SAIACS), in Bangalore, India, was born in 1938 and raised in New Zealand, on a farm in the Manawatu near Palmerston North.
Graham Ibbeson Graham Ibbeson is an artist and sculptor resident of Barnsley, South Yorkshire, England. He has created bronze sculptures in towns and cities across Britain including Leeds, Cardiff, Dover, Barnsley, Doncaster, Northampton, Chesterfield, Middlesbrough, Perth, Otley and Rugby.
Graham Ingels Graham Ingels (June 7, 1915- April 4, 1991) was a comic-book artist best known for his work at the EC Comics company in the 1950s, notably on The Haunt of Fear and Tales from the Crypt, horror titles written and edited by Al Feldstein, and The Vault of Horror, written and edited by Feldstein and Johnny Craig.
Graham Ingerson Graham Ingerson is a former Australian politician. He was a Liberal Party of Australia member of the South Australian House of Assembly between 1983 and 2002, representing the very safe Liberal electorate of Bragg.
Graham Island Graham Island is the largest of the Queen Charlotte Islands (aka Haida Gwaii, (land of the Haida) lying off the coast of British Columbia, Canada. It is separated only by a narrow channel from the other principal island of the group, Moresby Island (aka Gwaii Haanas in the language of the Haida people.
Graham James (hockey) Graham James (born 1954) is a former ice hockey coach best known for serving prison time after being convicted of sexual abuse of several of his former players, including Sheldon Kennedy. Born in Summerside, Prince Edward Island, Canada, James originally began his coaching career with the Western Hockey League's Moose Jaw Warriors in 1984, and coached the Swift Current Broncos from 1986-1994, leading them to a Memorial Cup victory in 1989.
Graham Jessop Graham Jessop (b. June 5, 1957 in Yorkshire) is a deep sea diver, and marine archaeologist who has taken part in a number of important expeditions such as the 1999 discovery of the remains of the RMS Carpathia off the coast of Ireland.
Graham Kinniburgh Graham 'The Munster' Allen Kinniburgh (1943 - 2003) was an Australian criminal from Kew, a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Kinniburgh was reported to hold the reputation as the most influential criminal in Victoria.
Graham Koehne Graeme Koehne was born in Adelaide, South Australia in 1956. He completed his undergraduate and post-graduate studies at the Elder Conservatorium of Music, University of Adelaide studying composition with Richard Meale.
Graham Laidler (Gavin) Graham Laidler (1908 - 1940) was born on 4 July 1908 in Newcastle upon Tyne, England at 6 Osborne Road, Jesmond. His father died when Laidler was 13 and the family moved south, eventually settling in Jordans, Buckinghamshire.
Graham Land Graham Land is that portion of the Antarctic Peninsula which lies north of a line joining Cape Jeremy and Cape Agassiz. This application of Graham Land is consistent with the 1964 agreement between US-ACAN and UK-APC, in which the name "Antarctic Peninsula" was approved for the major peninsula of Antarctica, and the names Graham Land and Palmer Land for the northern and southern portions, respectively.
Graham Langley Graham Langley is an English storyteller with an international reputation for his innovative work in storytelling. Described by The Times as “a storyteller for the 21st century” he is much in demand both in Britain and abroad.
Graham Lee (jockey) Graham Lee (born December 16, 1975 in Galway, Republic of Ireland) is a successful National Hunt jockey in the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland. Prior to May 2006, he was the main stable jockey for Howard Johnson, but was replaced by Pat Brennan for unrevealed reasons.
Graham Linehan Graham Linehan (born 1968) is an Irish television writer who, often in partnership with Arthur Mathews, has written or co-written a number of popular television comedies. He is most noted for his involvement in Father Ted.
Graham Lloyd Graham David Lloyd (born July 1, 1969) is a former attacking right-handed batsman and all-round fielder for Lancashire who played a handful of One-Day Internationals for England. One of the leading batsmen in the Lancashire team of the 1990s, there were many who considered his talent largely wasted.
Graham Manou Graham Allan Manou (born 23 April, 1979) in Modbury, South Australia, is an Australian cricketer who plays for the Southern Redbacks in Australian domestic cricket. He is a wicketkeeper and aggressive right handed batsman who has taken more dismissals than any other South Australian player in One Day domestic cricket.
Graham McNeill Graham McNeill is a game developer for Games Workshop. He was born in Glasgow, Scotland and studied architecture and then building surveying at the University of Strathclyde and Glasgow Caledonian University from 1989 – 1996.
Graham Moodie Graham Moodie (born on January 15, 1981 in Croydon) is a Scottish field hockey player, who was a member of the Great Britain and Northern Ireland squad that finished ninth at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens.
Graham Moss Graham Moss was an Australian rules footballer for the Essendon Football Club from 1973 to 1976, when his career was cut short by a knee injury. Before coming to Essendon, he had a successful career at the Claremont Football Club in the WAFL.
Graham Mourie Graham Neil Kenneth Mourie (born 8 September 1952 in Opunake, Taranaki, New Zealand) is a former New Zealand All Black flanker and coach of the Hurricanes. He was one of the great All Black Captains in the late 70s and early 80s.
Graham Nash Graham William Nash (born February 2, 1942) is an English-born singer-songwriter known for his light tenor vocals and songwriting contributions in pop group The Hollies and folk-rock band Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, and as a photography collector and photographer.
Graham Nicholls, Haywards Heath Graham Nicholls is Chief Executive Officer with Extrada, a global company providing a service aggregation hub for the delivery of digital services to consumers. Consumer-facing companies increasingly want to deliver their service offerings digitally.
Graham Payne Graham Clifford Payne is an Australian currently being held in custody in Medan, Indonesia, charged with drug possession. Police arrested Payne in August 2005 under amphetamine laws, carrying a five-year maximum jail term, and for possessing heroin, which has a potential 10-year term.
Graham Reid Graham Reid (born April 9, 1964 in Redcliffe, Queensland) is a former field hockey defender and midfielder from Australia, who was a member of the team that won the silver medal at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain. Afterwards he played club hockey for the Dutch top team Amsterdam for two seasons (1993, 1994) returning in 1995 to play the Europa cup.
Graham Reynolds Graham Reynolds is a composer, bandleader, pianist and drummer from Austin, Texas, who works in theater, dance, film, concert halls, and nightclubs. His compositions include four symphonies, two operas, a violin concerto, more than a dozen one movement string quartets and many chamber music pieces.
Graham Richardson Graham Richardson (born September 27, 1949, in Sydney, Australia) is a former Labor politician who was a 'numbers man' for the right wing of the New South Wales branch of the Australian Labor Party. He was highly effective in this position and became known as a 'king maker'.
Graham Road Covered Bridge Graham Road Bridge is a covered bridge which formerly spanned the west branch of the Ashtabula River in Pierpont Township, Ashtabula County, Ohio, United States. Built from remnants of a former covered bridge that was damaged in a flood in 1913, the bridge now sits in an Ashtabula County MetroPark along the south side of Graham Road, near its original site, and is a single span Town truss designhttp://www.
Graham Roberts Graham Roberts (October 10, 1929–October 28, 2004) was an English actor most famous for his work on BBC Radio 3 and BBC Radio 4, including 31 years playing George Barford, the gamekeeper in Radio 4 soap opera The Archers.
Graham Roumieu Graham Roumieu is a Canadian illustrator based in Toronto, Ontario. He is perhaps best known for his Bigfoot-themed books, but his work has also appeared in publications such as the New York Times, Harper's, and the Wall Street Journal.
Graham scan The Graham scan is a method of computing the convex hull of a given set of points in the plane with time complexity O(n log n). It is named after Ronald Graham, who published the original algorithm in 1972Graham, R.
Graham Salisbury Graham Salisbury, also known as Sandy Salisbury, is an author who has written many books including Under the Blood Red Sun. He was also a songwriter and musician in the late-60s, and is best known for his association with Curt Boettcher.
Graham Simpson (musician) Graham Simpson was a founding member of Roxy Music, and friend of Bryan Ferry - he was part of the band as a bassist when they recorded their first album Roxy Music in 1972. However not long after the album was released Graham was fired by Ferry - apparently Graham's attitude to the band was not as dedicated as was Ferry's.
Graham Sligo Graham William Sligo (born December 24, 1954 in Gisborne, New Zealand) is a former field hockey player from New Zealand, who was a member of the national team that finished seventh at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California.
Graham Smith (police officer) Graham Smith was a Deputy Senior Personal Protection Officer to the Prince of Wales from 1981 to the 1990s. He was a Superintendent in the London Metropolitan Police Royalty and Diplomatic Protection Department and Detective for the Princess of Wales.
Graham Smith (swimmer) Graham Smith (born May 9, 1958 in Edmonton, Alberta) was a Canadian swimmer, who won the silver medal in the 4x100m Medley Relay at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, Canada. He did so alongside Stephen Pickell, Clay Evans, and Gary MacDonald.
Graham Staines Graham Stuart Staines (1941-January 1999) was an Australian missionary who was burnt alive while he was sleeping with his two sons Timothy (aged 9) and Philip (aged 7) in his station wagon at Manoharpur village in Keonjhar district in Orissa, India in January 1999. He had been working in Orissa among the poor and especially for people suffering from leprosy since 1965.
Graham Steele Graham Steele is a Canadian politician and member of the Nova Scotia House of Assembly, representing the constituency of Halifax Fairview for the Nova Scotia New Democratic Party. He was first elected in March 6, 2001 by-election and re-elected in 2003 and 2006.
Graham Strachan Graham "Shirley" Strachan (2 January 1952 - 29 August 2001) was the lead singer of Australian 1970s rock group Skyhooks. Born in the Melbourne suburb of Malvern, he was an avid surfer, and his nickname "Shirley" was given to him by his surfie mates because of his long, sunbleached and very curly hair, referring to Shirley Temple.
Graham Street Graham Street (嘉咸街) is one of the oldest markets in Victoria City of Hong Kong. Located in Central, the street starts from Queen's Road Central and runs uphill and south to Staunton Street, crossing Stanley Street, Wellington Street, Gage Street, Lyndhurst Terrace and Hollywood Road.
Graham Stringer Graham Eric Stringer (born February 17, 1950, Manchester) is a politician in the United Kingdom, and Labour Member of Parliament for Manchester Blackley. He was first elected in 1997, having previously been leader of Manchester City Council.
Graham Stuart Thomas Graham Stuart Thomas OBE (born 3 April, 1909 in Cambridge - died April 16, 2003) was an English horticultural artist, author and garden designer. He studied in the University Botanic Garden at Cambridge University.
Graham T. Allison Graham Tillett Allison, Jr. (born 23 March 1940, Charlotte, North Carolina) graduated from Harvard University in 1962 with an AB, Oxford University in 1964 with a BA and MA, and from Harvard University in 1968 with a PhD.
Graham Thomson Lyall Graham Thomson Lyall (8 March 1892-28 November 1941) was a Canadian recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.
Graham Uden Graham Uden is an award-winning, British born photographer based in Hong Kong. He specializes in corporate and commercial photography, editorial features, reportage, travel and news including the frontlines of the Afghanistan war in 2001 and Iraq in 2003.
Graham Virgo Graham Virgo is a fellow of, Director of Studies in Law at and Senior Tutor at Downing College, Cambridge and a Reader in Law at the University of Cambridge. He is the author of works on the Law of Restitution and the Criminal Law.
Graham Weir Graham Weir (born on July 10 1984 in Harthill, Scotland) is a Scottish football player. He plays as a striker for Scottish First Division club Queen of the South, having been signed from Heart Of Midlothian in 2006.
Graham West Graham West is a NSW Australian Labor Party politician representing the State electoral district of Campbelltown. Mr West was elected to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly in a by-election on the 3rd of Feburary 2001 following the resignation of Labor Member Michael Knight.
Graham's law Graham's law, also known as Graham's law of effusion, was formulated by Scottish physical chemist, Thomas Graham. Graham found experimentally that the rate of effusion of a gas is inversely proportional to the square root of the mass of its particles.
Graham's number Graham's number, named after Ronald Graham, is often described as the largest number that has ever been seriously used in a mathematical proof. It is too large to be written in scientific notation because even the digits in the exponent would exceed the number of particles in the visible universe, so it needs special notation to write down.
Graham's Shipping and Trading Company Graham's Shipping and Trading Company was the company with which the father of Mohammed Ali Jinnah - the founder of Pakistan - did business. Mohammed Ali Jinnah in his youth went to England to work for this company.
Graham-Denning model The Graham-Denning Model addresses the security issues associated with how to define a set of basic rights on how specific subjects can execute security functions on an object. The model has eight basic protection rules that outline:
Grahame Bond (actor) Grahame Bond is an Australian actor, writer, director and composer who began his career in entertainment at University of Sydney in the 1960s as a founding student member of the Sydney University Architecture Revue, which included his university friends Geoffrey Atherden (writer Mother and Son, Grass Roots), Peter Weir (director Gallipoli, The Truman Show), Peter Best (composer Crocodile Dundee, Wildside) and Rory O'Donoghue.
Grahame Park Grahame Park, located on the site of the old Hendon Aerodrome in north west London , and is the largest housing estate in the London Borough of Barnet with 1,777 homes, and was built in the 1970s by the Greater London Council.
Grahame Sydney Grahame Sydney ONZM is a New Zealand artist, based in the southern South Island region of Otago. His landscapes, which concentrate largely on sparse elements of human impact on Otago's wild natural beauty and the loneliness of individuals in this scenery, possess a style which could be described as magic realism, and have been compared to works by artists such as Edward Hopper.
Grahamstown (Riverina), New South Wales Grahamstown is a village community in the central east part of the Riverina and situated about 12 kilometres north from Adelong and 13 kilometres south from Tumblong. It has a population within a 7 kilometre radius of approximately 363 people.
Graian Alps The Graian Alps (Italian: Alpi Graie; French: Alpes Grées) are a mountain range in the western part of the Alps. They are located in France (Savoie), Italy (Piedmont and the Aosta Valley), and Switzerland (western Valais).
Graig markel American songwriter / producer who's 2007 release on Seattle's Sonic Boom Recordings contains performances by Jeremiah Green (Modest Mouse, The Vells) and Jen Wood (The Postal Service, Joan of Arc, Jeremy Enigk, The Black Heart Procession and more). Produced and mixed by Aaron Prellwitz (Death Cab for Cutie, Sun Kil Moon, Red House Painters, Neil Young and more).
Graig Nettles Graig Nettles (born August 20, 1944, in San Diego, California) is a former Major League Baseball third baseman and left-handed batter who played for the Minnesota Twins (1967-69), Cleveland Indians (1970-72), New York Yankees (1973-83), San Diego Padres (1984-86), Atlanta Braves (1987) and Montreal Expos (1988). He played collegiate baseball with the Aztecs of San Diego State University.
Grain (cipher) Grain is a stream cipher designed for restricted hardware environments and submitted to eSTREAM in 2004 by Martin Hell, Thomas Johansson and Willi Meier. It has been selected as Phase 2 Focus Candidate for Profile 2 by the eSTREAM project.
Grain boundary A grain boundary is the interface between two grains in a polycrystalline material. Grain boundaries disrupt the motion of dislocations through a material so reducing crystallite size is a common way to improve strength, as described by the Hall-Petch relationship.
Grain Belt (beer) Grain Belt is a brand of beer brewed in Minnesota by the August Schell Brewing Company. The beer has been produced in two varieties: Grain Belt Golden, the original style introduced in 1893, and Grain Belt Premium, first introduced in 1947.
Grain elevator Grain elevators are buildings or complexes of buildings for storage and shipment of grain. They were invented in 1842 in Buffalo, New York by Joseph Dart, who first developed a steam-powered mechanism, called a marine leg, for scooping grain out of the hulls of ships directly into storage silos.
Grain growth Grain growth refers to the increase in size of grains (crystallites) in a material at high temperature. This occurs when recovery and recrystallisation are complete and further reduction in the internal energy can only be achieved by reducing the total area of grain boundary.
Grain Inspection, Packers and Stockyards Administration The Grain Inspection, Packers and Stockyards Administration (or GIPSA) is an agency of the United States Department of Agriculture that facilitates the marketing of livestock, poultry, meat, cereals, oilseeds, and related agricultural products, and promotes fair and competitive trading practices for the overall benefit of consumers and American agriculture.
Grain refinement Grain refinement is a set of techniques used in metallurgy to ensure that the crystallites (grains) that make up a metallic object are sufficiently small, so as to increase its strength. One common technique is to induce a very small fraction of the melt to solidify at a much higher temperature than the rest; this will generate seed crystals that act as a template when the rest of the material falls to its (lower) melting temperature and begins to solidify.
Grain supply to the city of Rome The megalopolis of ancient Rome could never be fed entirely from its own surrounding countryside. It was therefore entirely reliant on grain supplies from foreign areas inside the empire (particularly the provinces of North Africa, Asia and Egypt).
Grain trade GRAIN TRADE: The complexity of the conditions of life in the 20th century may be well illustrated from the grain trade of the world. The ordinary bread sold in Great Britain represents, for example, produce of nearly every country in the world outside the tropics.

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