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Gramophone record A gramophone record (also phonograph record, or simply record) is an analogue sound recording medium consisting of a flat disc with an inscribed modulated spiral groove starting near the periphery and ending near the center of the disc. Gramophone records were the primary technology used for personal music reproduction for most of the 20th century.
Grampian Television Grampian Television (now legally known as STV North Ltd and referred to on-air as stv) is the ITV franchisee for the North of Scotland, based in Aberdeen. Its coverage area includes the Scottish Highlands, Inverness, Aberdeen, Dundee and parts of north Fife.
Grampound (UK Parliament constituency) Grampound in Cornwall, was a constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of England then of the Parliament of Great Britain from 1707 to 1800 and of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1801 to 1821. It was represented by two Members of Parliament.
Gramsbergen Gramsbergen lies in the north-east of Overijssel, The Netherlands on the N34 (Zwolle - Emmen), the Zwolle - Emmen railway and the Almelo - de Haandrik canal. Gramsbergen is a small town on the de Vecht River and became part of the municipality Hardenberg on January 1 2001.
Gran Asunción Gran Asunción (Greater Asuncion in English), is the metropolitan area of the city of Asunción, which consists of the Capital and other surrounding cities such as San Lorenzo, Fernando de la Mora, Lambaré, Luque, Mariano Roque Alonso, Ñemby and Villa Elisa. The metropolitan area has more than 1.
Gran Canaria Gran Canaria, rarely Grand Canary (archaic), is the third largest island of the Canary Islands, an archipelago located in the Atlantic Ocean 210 km from the northwest coast of Africa and belonging to Spain. It is located southeast of Tenerife and west of Fuerteventura.
Gran Colombia-Peru War The first international conflict which the rising Republic of Peru had to face, was against the Gran Colombia (modern-day countries of Colombia, Ecuador, Panama, and Venezuela), due to the claim that nation had made to the territories of Jaén and Maynas, legitimately pertaining to Peru from before independence.
Gran ConcepciĂłn, Chile Gran ConcepciĂłn (Greater ConcepciĂłn) is the third largest conurbation in Chile, after Greater Santiago and Gran ValparaĂ­so. It is considered, along with the Greater Valparaiso, like the second more important city in Chile.
Gran Desierto de Altar The Gran Desierto de Altar is one of the major portions of the Sonoran Desert of Mexico, including the only active erg dune region in North America. It extends across much of the northern border of the Gulf of California, reaching more than 100 kilometers east to west, and over 50 km north to south, and constitutes the largest continuous wilderness area within the Sonoran Desert.
Gran Duo Concertante The Gran Duo Concertante was composed by the Italian virtuoso Giovanni Bottesini (1821-1889) by 1880. Originally written for two double basses and orchestra, the piece was edited soon after by Camillo Sivori to be performed by a double bass and violin.
Gran Fury Gran Fury was an activist/artist collective that came together in 1987. The group was formed out of a group of members of the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power when The New Museum asked ACT UP to create a window display for the museum.
Gran Hamada Gran Hamada (real name Hiroaki Hamada) is Japanese professional wrestler, the first to adopt the high-flying Mexican lucha libre style. He has wrestled for New Japan Pro Wrestling, the Universal Wrestling Federation, Michinoku Pro, and All Japan Pro Wrestling, and was the founder of Universal Lucha Libre.
Gran Hotel Bali Gran Hotel Bali is a 4-star hotel located in Benidorm, province of Alicante, Spain. It is, with 186 meters high (210 meters taking into account the mast), the highest building in Spain, the highest hotel in Europe and one of the highest skyscrapers in Europe.
Gran Chaco The Gran Chaco (Quechua chaqu, "hunting land"), dubbed by some as "the last South American frontier", is a sparsely populated, hot and semi-arid lowland region of the RĂ­o de la Plata basin, divided between Bolivia, Paraguay, Argentina and a small portion in Brazil called Mato Grosso.
Gran Pajáten Gran Pajáten is an archaological site located in the Andean cloud forests of Peru, on the border of the La Libertad region and the San Martín region, between the cities of Cajamarca and Chachapoyas. The archaeological site lies in the Rio Abiseo National Park, which was established in 1982.
Gran Premio de MĂ©xico The Gran Premio de MĂ©xico is the held on the Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez circuit in Mexico City, Mexico and is a round of the Champ Car World Series. It was first held in 1980, and in it's first two years of competition was the penultimate round of the championship.
Gran Premio del Jockey Club The Gran Premio del Jockey Club is a Group 1 flat horse race in Italy for three-year-old and above thoroughbred colts and fillies run over a distance of 2,400 metres (approximately 1 mile 4 furlongs) at the San Siro Racecourse, Milan in October.
Gran Premio di Milano The Gran Premio di Milano is a Group 1 flat horse race in Italy for three-year-old and above thoroughbred colts and fillies run over a distance of 2,400 metres (approximately 1 mile 4 furlongs) at the San Siro Racecourse, Milan in June.
Gran Saposoa Gran Saposoa is the name given to a series of ruins in the Andean cloud forests of the Amazonas region of Peru by American explorer Gene Savoy. Savoy hypothesized that this site is the Pre-Columbian city of Cajamarquilla, built by the Chachapoyas culture, but "Cajamarquilla" is clearly identifiable in historical documents as the re-named modern highland town of Bolivar.
Gran Sasso Gran Sasso d'Italia (Italian for great stone), is a massif located in the Abruzzo region of central Italy. It is also the centerpiece of a national park named Parco Nazionale del Gran Sasso e Monti della Laga (established in 1991).
Gran Telescopio Canarias The Gran Telescopio Canarias (GTC) ("Great Telescope Canary Islands"), sometimes called GranTeCan, is a 10.4m reflecting telescope about to undertake commissioning observations at the Observatorio del Roque de los Muchachos on the island of La Palma.
Gran Turismo Gran Turismo is Italian and Spanish for grand touring or "grand tourisme." These terms are used to describe long distance or endurance races like 24 Hours of Le Mans, Mille Miglia, Targa Florio, Carrera Panamericana and the high-powered sports cars which compete there.
Gran Turismo (series) Gran Turismo (GT) is a series of racing video games produced for the Sony PlayStation, PlayStation 2, PlayStation Portable and Playstation 3 gaming systems. All of the games, for their time, exhibited superior detail in simulating the appearance and performance of a large selection of vehicles, nearly all of which are licensed reproductions of real-world automobiles.
Gran Turismo HD Gran Turismo HD (High Definition), previously known as Vision Gran Turismo at E3 2006, was to be the first installment of the Gran Turismo racing series to be released on the PlayStation 3. This title is no longer a full-blown epilogue but will be made available as a series of free downloadable concept titles.
Gran ValparaĂ­so, Chile Gran ValparaĂ­so (Greater ValparaĂ­so) is the second largest conurbation in Chile, after Greater Santiago. It takes this name after the city of ValparaĂ­so, the oldest city of the group and the most important harbour in Chile.
Gran Vilaya Gran Vilaya is located to the west of the fortitude of Kuelap, it is shaped by centers populated as the Stairs, the Pirquilla, Cacahuasha, Mortar, the Bishop, Paxamarca, Lanche, the Secret, etc, for his big extension calculates that it exists next to 5000 buildings between circular and rectangular of lime stone with embellishment, the trip is full of adventure that initiates from the Vale of Huaylla Bethlehem, the place is propitious for trekking and tourism of adventure this route allows us to end in the fortitude of Kuelap.
Grana Padano cheese Grana Padano cheese is one of the most popular Denominazione di Origine Controllata cheeses of Italy. The name comes from the noun grana (‘grain’), which refers to the distinctively grainy texture of the cheese, and the adjective Padano, which refers to the river Po.
Granada (province) Granada is a province of southern Spain, in the eastern part of the autonomous community of Andalusia. It is bordered by the provinces of Málaga, Córdoba, Jaén, Albacete, Murcia, Almería, and the Mediterranean Sea.
Granada Breeze Granada Breeze was a lifestyle channel from Granada Sky Broadcasting. The channel was aimed at female viewers and showed programmes shows on lifestyle, cookery, health and US daytime television such as Judge Joe Brown.
Granada Cathedral Granada Cathedral (Cathedral of the Annunciation) is a cathedral in Granada, in the Autonomous Region of Andalusia, Spain, designed at the peak of the Spanish Renaissance. In 1529 Diego de Siloé outlined the Renaissance lines of this building upon its Gothic foundations, with a triforium and five naves instead of the usual three.
Granada Ltd. Granada Limited (previously called Granada plc, Granada Group plc and Granada Media plc) is a former British media and previously catering conglomerate, best known as the former parent of Granada Television Limited. It is now known as ITV plc following its merger with Carlton Communications plc.
Granada Reports Granada Reports is the flagship news programme of ITV franchisee Granada, transmitting to the North West of England. The name was used when the news service was launched in 1980, but other names including Granada Tonight, Granada News, etc.
Granada Television Granada Television was the British ITV (commercial television) contractor for the "North of England" weekday franchise from 1954 (broadcasting began on May 3, 1956) until 1968, and for the "Northwest England" all-week franchise from 1968. Granada was the only one of the original four ITA franchisees from 1954 which survived as a franchise holder into the twenty-first century, until the merger of its parent company, Granada plc in 2004 into ITV plc.
Granada Theatre The Granada Theatre, 6427-41 North Sheridan Road (in the Rogers Park neighborhood of Chicago) was a movie theatre constructed for the Marks Brothers, who, in 1926, were major theatre operators in Chicago. Edward E.
Granadero Baigorria Granadero Baigorria is a city in the south of the province of Santa Fe, Argentina, located directly north of Rosario, on the western shore of the Paraná River, and forming part of the Greater Rosario metropolitan area. Its population is about 43,000 inhabitants.
Granado Espada Granado Espada (Korean: 그라나도 에스파다) is an Age of Exploration fantasy MMORPG (Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game) developed by IMC Entertainment. Set in a detailed fictional gameworld that mirrors the 17th century and the European colonists' forays into the New World, the game allows players to explore the newfound continent of Granado Espada in a hunt for treasure, adventure, and fame.
Granary Burying Ground Founded in 1660, the Granary Burying Ground on Tremont Street in Boston, Massachusetts is the city's third oldest cemetery. It serves as the final resting place for may notable Revolutionary War-era patriots, including three signers of the Declaration of Independence and many victims of the Boston Massacre.
Granby Prédateurs The Granby Prédateurs ("Predators") were originally founded in 1981 after the team moved from Sorel-Tracy, Quebec, where they had previously been known as the Sorel Eperviers. The team was originally known as the Granby Bisons, but changed their name to the Prédateurs in 1995.
Granby, Quebec (township) The Township of Granby (French: Canton de Granby) is a municipality in south-central Quebec, Canada in the Regional County Municipality La Haute-Yamaska. It surrounds the City of Granby on the north and on the west.
Grand (tv series) GRAND was a half-hour situation comedy airing on the NBC network in 1990. The series featured an ensemble cast including Pamela Reed, Bonnie Hunt, Michael McKean, John Randolph, Andrew Lauer, John Neville, Joel Murray and Sara Rue.
Grand antiprism In geometry, the grand antiprism or pentagonal double antiprismoid is a uniform polychoron (4-dimensional uniform polytope) bounded by 320 cells: 20 pentagonal antiprisms, and 300 tetrahedra. It is an anomalous, non-Wythoffian uniform polychoron, discovered in 1965 by Conway and Guy.
Grand argument story A grand argument story is a type of story that is intended to be conceptually complete and to answer a core argument from both an emotionally and logically comprehensive perspective. The elements of a grand argument story should follow the argument and attempt to answer it.
Grand Admiral Thrawn Grand Admiral Thrawn (full name: Mitth'raw'nuruodo) is a fictional character from the Star Wars galaxy. He first appeared in Timothy Zahn's Thrawn trilogy of novels, which are set five years after the time of Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi.
Grand Alliance The Grand Alliance was a European coalition, consisting (at various times) of Austria, Bavaria, Brandenburg, England, the Holy Roman Empire, the Palatinate of the Rhine, Portugal, Saxony, Spain, Sweden, and the United Provinces. The organization, which was founded in 1686, was known as the "Grand Alliance" after England joined the League (in 1689).
Grand Alliance (HDTV) Consortium created in 1993 at the behest of the FCC to develop the American HDTV specification, with the aim of pooling the best work from different companies. The Grand Alliance (or GA) consisted of AT&T, General Instrument Corporation, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Philips Consumer Electronics, David Sarnoff Research Center, Thomson Consumer Electronics, and Zenith Electronics Corporation.
Grand Almoner of France The Grand Almoner of France or Grand aumônier de France was an officer of the French monarchy and a member of the Maison du Roi ("King's Household") during the Ancien Régime. He directed the Religious branch of the royal household (the Ecclesiastical Household or "Maison ecclésiastique du roi de France") also known as the royal chapel.
Grand Arcade (Cambridge) The Grand Arcade is a large shopping development in Cambridge, England that is currently under construction. The development is anchored by the John Lewis Partnership, whose store will be situated to the southeast of the site, being one of the central focuses of the arcade.
Grand Army of the Republic The Grand Army of the Republic (GAR) was a fraternal organization composed of veterans of the Union Army who had served in the American Civil War. The GAR was among the first organized interest groups in American politics.
Grand Army Plaza (IRT Eastern Parkway Line) Grand Army Plaza is a station on the IRT Eastern Parkway Line of the New York City Subway, located underneath Flatbush Avenue at Grand Army Plaza in Brooklyn. It is a local station with a very wide island platform, under which the express tracks and BMT Brighton Line tracks pass (built at the same time as part of the Dual Contracts).
Grand Austrian State Prize The Grand Austrian State Prize (German: GroĂźer Ă–sterreichischer Staatspreis) is a decoration given annually by Austria to an artist for exceptional work. The recipient must be an Austrian citizen with a permanent residence in Austria.
Grand Avenue–Newtown (IND Queens Boulevard Line) Grand Avenue–Newtown is a local station on the IND Queens Boulevard Line of the New York City Subway. Located at the intersection of Grand Avenue, Broadway, and Queens Boulevard in the neighborhood of Elmhurst, Queens, it is served by the train (all times except late nights), the train (weekdays and evenings), the train (evenings, weekends, and late nights), and the train (late nights).
Grand Ayatollah Abdullah Shirazi Grand Ayatollah Haj Sayyed Abdullah al-Shirazi (February 25, 1892 – September 29, 1984) was a Grand Ayatollah of Shi'a Islam. He is not to be confused with Grand Ayatollah Mirza Hassan Shirazi of the Tobacco movement, and Ayatollah al-Udhma Muhammad Shirazi, who died in 2001.
Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani Grand Ayatollah Sayyid Ali Husaini al-Sistani (Arabic: السيد علي الحسيني السيستاني Āyatullāh `Alī al-Ḥusayni as-Sīstānī Persian: سید علی حسینی سیستانی; born approximately August 4, 1930) is a Grand Ayatollah, a Shi'a marja . He is currently an important political figure in Post-invasion Iraq.
Grand Ayatollah Hossein-Ali Montazeri Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri (Persian: حسین علی منتظری), styled His Honourable Eminence, (born in 1922), was one of the leaders of the Islamic Revolution in Iran and is a Grand Ayatollah (a Shi'a marja) and as such is considered one of the highest ranking authorities in Shi'a Islam today. He currently lives in the holy city of Qom, and remains politically influential, especially upon reformist politicsBBC Profile.
Grand Ayatollah Mohammad Shirazi Grand Ayatollah Muhammad ibn Mehdi al-Hussaini al-Shirazi (1928-2001) was a Religious Authority, or Marja, to millions of Shi’a Muslims around the globe. A charismatic leader who was known for his high moral values, modesty and spirituality, Imam Shirazi was a mentor and a source of aspiration to his followers; and the means of access to authentic knowledge and teachings of Islam.
Grand Bahama Grand Bahama is one of the northernmost of the islands of the Bahamas, and the closest major island to the United States, lying just 55 mi (90 km) off the coast of the state of Florida. Grand Bahama is the fourth largest island in the Bahama island chain of approximately 700 islands.
Grand Battery Grand Battery (Grande Batterie, meaning big or great battery) was a French artillery tactic of the Napoleonic wars. It involved massing all available batteries into a single large, temporary one, and concentrating the firepower of their guns at a single point in the enemy's lines.
Grand Bauhinia Medal The Grand Bauhinia Medal () the highest award under the Hong Kong honours and awards system, is to recognise the selected person's life-long and highly significant contribution to the well-being of Hong Kong. The awardee is entitled to the postnominal letters GBM and the style The Honourable.
Grand Bay, Georgia Grand Bay is a 13,000-acre swamp located in Lanier County and Lowndes County, Georgia. It consists of Grand Bay Wetlands Management Area, an educational wildlife area, and Banks Lake National Wildlife Refuge, a recreational and educational lake.
Grand Bazaar, Istanbul The Grand Bazaar (Kapalıçarşı in Turkish) in Istanbul (at ) is one of the largest covered markets in the world with more than 58 streets and 4000 shops, and has 250,000-400,000 visitors daily. It is well known for its jewelry, pottery, spice, and carpet shops.
Grand Bear Lodge Grizzly Jack's Grand Bear Resort is an indoor waterpark resort in Utica, Illinois next to Starved Rock State Park and the historical Starved Rock area. It opened in the Summer of 2005 and is Illinois' first indoor waterpark.
Grand Belial's Key Grand Belial's Key is a Black Metal band which was formed in 1992 by guitarist Gelal Necrosodomy and vocalist Lord Vlad Luciferian. Lord Vlad Luciferian was later ejected from the group due to internal differences.
Grand Bois In Haitian Vodun, Grand Bois (meaning great wood, also Grans Bwa, Bran Bwa, Ganga-Bois) is an elemental, nature-oriented loa closely associated with trees, plants and herbs. Offerings to him include leaves and herbs, honey, and spiced rum.
Grand Boulevard, Chicago Grand Boulevard, located on the south side of Chicago, Illinois, is one of the official Chicago Community Areas.The area is bounded by 39th and 51st Streets to the north and south, and by Cottage Grove Avenue and the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad tracks to the east and west.
Grand Buffet Grand Buffet is a hip-hop duo from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, made up of Jackson O'Connell-Barlow (stage names: Iguanadon, Grape-a-Don, Nate Kukla, and Mr. Pennsylvania) and Jarrod Weeks (stage names: M-Dog, Lord Grunge, Matt Kukla, Fred Durts).
Grand coalition A grand coalition is a coalition government in a parliamentary system where political parties representing a vast majority of the parliament unite in a coalition. The term is most commonly used in countries where there are two dominant parties with different ideological orientations, and a number of smaller parties which are large enough to secure representation in the parliament.
Grand cross In astrology, a grand cross is said to occur when four planets are all separated from each other by square aspects (90 degrees apart). A grand cross can also be viewed as two oppositions (180 degrees apart) separated from each other by a square.
Grand cru Grand Cru is the highest level of classification of AOC wines from Burgundy or Alsace, those that come from a single vineyard. The same term is used in Saint-Émilion and Champagne, but there it refers to a differing level of classification.
Grand Canal Dock railway station Grand Canal Dock railway station serves the Grand Canal of Ireland in Dublin. Like several stations in central Dublin, it is elevated above street level, with steps leading down to Barrow Street, near Google's European headquarters.
Grand Canal of China The Grand Canal of China (), also known as the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal () is the largest ancient canal or artificial river in the world. It passes through the Chinese mainland cities of Beijing and Tianjin and the provinces of Hebei, Shandong, Jiangsu and Zhejiang.
Grand Canal of Ireland The Grand Canal (An Chanáil Mhór in Irish) is the southernmost of a pair of canals that connect Dublin, in the east of the country, with the River Shannon in the west, the two canals nearly encircling Dublin's inner city. Its sister canal on the Northside of Dublin is the Royal Canal.
Grand Canyon Dories Grand Canyon Dories is a river running company in the Grand Canyon founded by Martin Litton in 1969. It was notable mainly in the 1970's and 80's, as a longer, more thorough way to run the canyon that was relatively inexpensive.
Grand Canyon National Park Grand Canyon National Park is one of the United States' oldest national parks and is located in Arizona. Within the park lies the Grand Canyon, a gorge of the Colorado River, considered to be one of the major natural wonders of the world.
Grand Canyon of the Fraser The Grand Canyon of the Fraser is a short gorge on the Fraser River in north-central British Columbia about 30km upstream from the confluence of the Bowron River and about 100km due east of downtown Prince George, British Columbia. Just downstream of the canyon, which pierces a rocky ridge, is a stretch of water called Scow Rapids, which was the upper limit of navigation from Prince George and where scows had to be used to tow vessels and rafts upstream along the gorge's banks.
Grand Canyon of the Tuolumne The Grand Canyon of the Tuolumne is the portion of the valley of the Tuolumne River in Yosemite National Park, USA. As defined by the United States Geological Survey, it begins immediately below Tuolumne Meadows and ends immediately above Hetch Hetchy Valley.
Grand Canyon Suite The Grand Canyon Suite is a suite for orchestra by Ferde Grofé, composed during the period from 1929 to 1931. It consists of 5 parts or movements, each an evocation in tone of a particular scene typical of the Grand Canyon.
Grand Canyon-Parashant National Monument Grand Canyon-Parashant National Monument (sometimes referred to as Parashant National Monument) is located on the northern edge of the Grand Canyon in northwest Arizona. It was established by Presidential Proclamation 7265 on January 11 2000.
Grand Canyon: A Different View Grand Canyon: A Different View is a 2003 book by Tom Vail. The book features a series of photographs of the Grand Canyon coupled with essays arguing, from a Young Earth creationist perspective, that the canyon is no more than a few thousand years old and was formed by the Global Flood or Noachian flood of the Bible.
Grand Central Band The Grand Central Band is a New Zealand-based band formed in 1997 by Chris Melville. The band has moved through several different formations and over the years employed and guested around 60 different musicians, and esteemed local celebrities including Nathan Haines and Joel Haines, Midge Marsden, Maria Paterson (now playing bass for Dave Dobbyn), and Kim Willoughby (from When The Cat's Away).
Grand Central Mall Grand Central Mall is a 908,238 square foot regional shopping mall located on state route 14 in Vienna, WV, just north of the Pakersburg corporation limit. Current anchors include Belk's, Elder-Beerman, JC Penney and Sears.
Grand Central Parkway The Grand Central Parkway, unsigned New York State Reference Route 907M, is a parkway that stretches from the Triborough Bridge in New York City to Nassau County in Long Island. At the Queens-Nassau border, it becomes the Northern State Parkway, which runs in the Northern part of Long Island through Nassau County and into Suffolk County, where it ends in Smithtown.
Grand Central Railway The Grand Central Railway Company Ltd (Grand Central) is an "open-access" railway company that plans to run trains from Sunderland and Hartlepool to London from 2007. Rather than operating under a franchise (from the Department for Transport) like most other National Rail train operators in Britain, Grand Central will be run on a fully commercial, unsubsidized basis similar to that of Hull Trains.
Grand Central Records Grand Central Records was an independent record label based in the Northern Quarter of Manchester, UK. It was started in 1995 by DJ Mark Rae (who, along with Steve Christian makes up the duo Rae & Christian).
Grand Central Shopping Centre, Toowoomba Grand Central Shopping Centre is a retail shopping centre in Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia. It is the largest shopping centre in the Darling Downs area and includes the area's only full-line department store: a two floor Myer.
Grand Central Station (Chicago) Grand Central Station was a passenger railroad terminal in downtown Chicago, Illinois from 1890 to 1969. It was located at 201 West Harrison Street in the south-western part of the Chicago Loop, the block bounded by between West Harrison Street, South Wells Street, West Polk Street and the Chicago River.
Grand Central Terminal Grand Central Terminal (GCT, often unofficially called Grand Central Station) is a terminal rail station at 15 Vanderbilt Avenue (42nd Street and Park Avenue) in Midtown Manhattan in New York City. Built by the New York Central Railroad (for which it was named) in the heyday of American long-distance passenger trains, it is the largest train station in the world by number of platforms: 44, with 67 tracks along them.
Grand Cities Art Fest The Grand Cities Art Fest is a large art festival and street fair held over one weekend each June in the twin cities of Grand Forks, North Dakota and East Grand Forks, Minnesota. The event includes over 150 artists selling their wares in individual booths, multiple food vendors, an antique car show, and a children's play area.
Grand Cities Mall The Grand Cities Mall (or South Forks Plaza) is an enclosed shopping mall located on South Washington Street in Grand Forks, North Dakota. It was the first enclosed shopping mall built in North Dakota, but by a quirk of fate, the second opened to the public by only six days difference.
Grand Coalition for Fiji The Grand Coalition for Fiji, formerly known as the Grand Coalition Initiative Group, wa a coalition of five predominantly indigenous Fijian political parties in Fiji, forged for the purpose of contesting the general election scheduled for 2006 under a single umbrella and forming a coalition government subsequently. By the time of the election, however, the coalition was virtually defunct.
Grand College of Rites The Grand College of Rites is a Masonic organization dedicated to the collection and publication of various ritual texts from both Masonic ritual not currently used in the United States, and non-Masonic rituals used by other fraternities and societies of a ritualistic nature who generally keep their rituals private.Grand College of Rites home page Accessed 17 April 2006.
Grand Comic-Book Database The Grand Comic-Book Database (GCD) is an internet-based project to build a database of comic book information, with the aim that this database will be easy to understand, retrieve information from, and contribute to. The GCD project is cataloging information on creator credits, story details, reprints and other information useful to the comic book reader, comic collector, fan, and scholar.
Grand Concourse (Bronx) The Grand Boulevard and Concourse (almost universally referred to as the Grand Concourse) is likely the most famous street in the borough of the Bronx in New York City. It was designed by Louis Aloys Risse, an Alsatian immigrant who had previously worked for the New York Central Railroad and was later appointed chief topographical engineer for the City of New York.
Grand Convocation Chamber The Grand Convocation Chamber, also referred to as the Senate Rotunda, Senate Arena, Senate Chamber, Great Rotunda, was the largest room in the Senate Building on Coruscant. It was over 100 meters tall and consisted of 1,024 pods for Senators from all over the Galaxy.
Grand Council The Grand Council or Junjichu (; Manchu: coohai nashūn i ba; literally, "Office of Military Secrets") was an important policy-making body in the Qing Empire. It was established in 1733 by the Yongzheng Emperor.
Grand Council of Fascism The Grand Council of Fascism () was the main body of Mussolini's Fascist government in Italy. A body which held and indeed applied great power to control the institutions, it was created by government law on 9 December 1928.
Grand Council of the Crees The Grand Council of the Crees (GCC) is the political body that represents the approximately (2003) 14,000 Crees or “Eeyouch” (“Eenouch” – Mistissini dialect) as they call themselves, of the James Bay and Nunavik regions of Northern Quebec, Canada. The Grand Council has twenty members: a Grand Chief and Deputy-Grand Chief elected at large by the Eeyouch, the chiefs elected by each of the nine Cree communities, and one other representative from each community.
Grand Councilwoman The Grand Councilwoman is the leader of the fictional United Galactic Federation in Walt Disney Pictures' Lilo & Stitch series of animated movies and the spin-off television series. She is voiced by Australian actress Zoe Caldwell.
Grand Cross The phrase grand cross is used to denote the highest grade in many orders of knighthood. Sometimes the knights (and dames) of the highest grade are called "knights grand cross" or "dames grand cross"; in other cases the actual insignia itself is called "the grand cross.
Grand Cross of the Iron Cross The Grand Cross of the Iron Cross was an award intended for senior Generals of the German Army and dated back to the Franco Prussian War in 1870. It was the senior most decoration of the Iron Cross award series.
Grand dictionnaire universel du XIXe siècle The Grand Dictionnaire universel du XIXe siècle (Great Universal Dictionary of the 19th Century), often called the Larousse du dix-neuvième is an encyclopedic dictionary, a work of Pierre Larousse. Its publication in 17 volumes of 1500 pages each extended from 1866 to 1877.

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