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Grand Slam (golf) The Grand Slam in men's golf is an unofficial concept, having changed over time. In the modern era, The Grand Slam is generally considered to be winning all four of golf's major championships in the same calendar year.
Grand Slam (Isley Brothers album) Grand Slam is a 1981 album by The Isley Brothers released on their T-Neck imprint. At this point in the group's career, though they were still making gold albums, most of the material the brothers recorded seem stale and outdated.
Grand Slam (PBA) The Grand Slam in the Philippine Basketball Association (PBA) refers to a PBA team who has won all three conferences (tournaments) in a single season. However, after the PBA reduced the number of conferences from three to two beginning in 2004, the term became quite obsolete to some.
Grand Slam (tennis) In tennis, a singles player or doubles team is said to have achieved the True Grand Slam if they succeed in winning all four of the following championship titles in the same calendar year or just "Grand Slam" by owning all four at the same time:
Grand Slam bomb The Grand Slam (Earth Quake bomb), was a very large freefall bomb developed by the British aeronautical engineer Barnes Wallis (also made the bouncing bomb) in late 1944. At a weight of 22,000lb the Grand Slam was almost twice the weight of his previous large bomb, the 12,000lb Tallboy.
Grand Slam Champion A Grand Slam Champion in professional wrestling is a distinction made to a professional wrestler who has won all of the major titles in a promotion. The Grand Slam typically consists of four titles, mirroring the grand slams found in golf and tennis.
Grand Slam of Grass Jacobs Investments Grand Slam of Grass is the United States’s premier series of four challenging thoroughbred turf races, which include the inaugural Colonial Turf Cup, The Virginia Derby, The Secretariat Stakes, and The John Deere Breeders' Cup Turf.
Grand Slam Single The Grand Slam Single is a reference to the hit that ended Game Five of the 1999 National League Championship Series between the New York Mets and the Atlanta Braves. The game was played on October 17, 1999 at Shea Stadium.
Grand Squire of France The Grand Écuyer de France or Grand Squire of France or Grand Equerry of France was one of the Great Officers of the Crown of France and a member of the Maison du Roi ("King's Household") during the Ancien Régime. The name "écuyer", the French word for squire, is the origin for the French word "écurie" (stable) and the English word equerry.
Grand Staircase The Grand Staircase is an immense sequence of sedimentary rock layers that stretch south from Bryce Canyon National Park through Zion National Park and into the Grand Canyon. In the 1870s, geologist Clarence Dutton first conceptualized this region as a huge stairway ascending out of the bottom of the Grand Canyon northward with the cliff edge of each layer forming giant steps.
Grand Staircase of the Titanic The Grand Staircase of the Titanic was the first class entrance to the Olympic Class passenger liner, RMS Titanic. Considered to be one of the most luxurious appointments onboard the ship, the Grand Staircase descended five levels down to the E Deck.
Grand Street Ferry The Grand Street Ferry was a ferry connecting the Lower East Side of Manhattan with Williamsburg, Brooklyn, New York City, United States, and the name of the landing at each end at Grand Street (Manhattan) and Grand Street (Brooklyn). The Grand Street Ferry name was also applied to the ferry from Manhattan's Grand Street to the Broadway Ferry landing in Williamsburg, and a ferry line also ran from the Williamsburg side to Houston Street (Houston Street Ferry).
Grand Street Line (Brooklyn) The Grand Street Line is a public transit line in Brooklyn and Queens, New York City, United States, running mostly along Grand Street/Grand Avenue between Williamsburg, Brooklyn and Maspeth, Queens. Originally a streetcar line, it is now the Q59 bus, operated by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority out of the Fresh Pond Bus Depot; the Q59 now continues east from Maspeth along Grand Avenue (with the Q58 Flushing-Ridgewood Line) and southeast on Queens Boulevard to Rego Park.
Grand Street Shuttle The Grand Street Shuttle (black ) was a New York City Subway service that operated during the long Manhattan Bridge rehabilitation, while the north tracks (connecting to the IND Sixth Avenue Line via the Chrystie Street Connection) were closed. It usually ran between Broadway–Lafayette Street and Grand Street, picking up the slack from rerouted and service.
Grand tourer A grand tourer (Italian: Gran Turismo), (initialised GT), is a high-performance automobile designed for long-distance driving. Any such car could be considered a grand tourer, but the traditional and most common body style is the coupé (two door) with either a two-seat or a 2+2 seat arrangement.
Grand trine In astrology, a grand trine occurs when you have three planets or other points in the horoscope that are all separated by a span of 120 degrees. With the placement of the planets, the grand trine visually looks like a large triangle across the horoscope of the recipient.
Grand Teton National Park Grand Teton National Park is a United States National Park located in western Wyoming, south of Yellowstone National Park. It is named after Grand Teton, which at 13,770 feet (4197 m), is the tallest mountain in the Teton Range.
Grand Théâtre de Bordeaux Grand Théâtre de Bordeaux, is a Theatre in Bordeaux, France, first inaugurated on 17 April, 1780. It was in this theatre that the ballet La Fille Mal Gardée had it's première in 1789, and where a young Marius Petipa staged some of his first ballets.
Grand Théâtre de Québec The Grand Théâtre de Québec is an arts complex in Quebec City, Canada. It was conceived to commemorate the Canadian Centennial of 1967 and the Quebec Conference, 1864, one of the key meetings leading to the Canadian Confederation of 1867.
Grand Theatre Leeds The Grand Theatre (also known as Leeds Grand Theatre and Leeds Grand Theatre and Opera House) is a theatre and Opera house in the centre of Leeds, UK. It was designed by James Robinson Watson, chief assistant in the office of Leeds-based architect George Corson, and opened on 18 November, 1878.
Grand Theft Auto (series) Grand Theft Auto (GTA) is a computer and video game series created and primarily developed by Scottish developer Rockstar North (formerly DMA Design), published by Rockstar Games and debuted in 1998. It includes seven stand-alone games and two expansion packs for the original, GTA: London 1969 and GTA: London 1961.
Grand Theft Auto (video game) Grand Theft Auto (GTA) is a computer and video game created by DMA Design (now Rockstar North) and published by ASC Games in 1997/1998. It is the first in the extremely popular Grand Theft Auto series that has thus far spanned eight standalone games, and one expansion pack for the original.
Grand Theft Auto 2 soundtrack Each area features five radio stations from a pool of eleven, in which one of them would be played as the player drives most vehicles in game. Changing radio stations for preference was also possible in the Windows PC version: Next was the "F1" function key while previous was the "F2" function key.
Grand Theft Auto III soundtrack The soundtrack of the game Grand Theft Auto III is popular not only with fans of the game, but also with lovers of mid- to late-1990s music. In the game, music is played on various "radio stations" which the player can listen to after a car has been acquired.
Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories soundtrack The soundtrack of Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories comprises radio stations that broadcast music and information to the City of Liberty, circa 1998. The only time a player can hear the radio is when the protagonist acquires a car (or in the "Audio" section of the pause menu).
Grand Theft Auto: Vice City soundtrack The soundtrack of the game Grand Theft Auto: Vice City is popular not only with fans of the game, but also with lovers of 1980s music. In the game it is played on various "radio stations" the player can tune into after entering certain types of cars, but it has also been released in a box set of seven separate CDs (dubbed the Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Official Soundtrack Box Set), with the European editions of the CDs containing a few extra songs that are not on the United States edition.
Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories Empire Mode New to the Grand Theft Auto series is Empire Building, one of the key gameplay elements in Vice City Stories which plays an important role in Victor Vance's story." It takes previous ideas from its predecessor.
Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories soundtrack The soundtrack of the video game Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories sees the return of some of the "radio stations" featured in Grand Theft Auto: Vice City. As there is a two year gap between the settings of the two games (1984 and 1986 respectively), there are many differences between these stations.
Grand Theft Autumn/Where Is Your Boy "Grand Theft Autumn/Where is Your Boy" is one of Chicago alternative rock band Fall Out Boy's first singles, taken from their 2003 album, Take This to Your Grave. Though it never achieved much success on the radio charts, it remains one of their more popular songs, as it did draw in a large amount of digital downloads.
Grand Theft Bus Grand Theft Bus is a Canadian indie rock band from New Brunswick. The band consists of Tim Walker (guitar, vocals), Graeme Walker (bass, vocals), Dennis Goodwin (guitar, synths, vocals) and Bob Deveau (drums and electronics).
Grand Theft Parsons Grand Theft Parsons is a 2003 movie based on the true story of the legendary country musician Gram Parsons, who died of an overdose in 1973. Parsons and his road manager, Phil Kaufman (played by Johnny Knoxville) made a pact in life that whoever died first would be cremated by the other in the Joshua Tree National Park, an area of desert they both loved and cherished.
Grand Tour The Grand Tour was a European travel itinerary that flourished from about 1660 until the arrival of mass rail transit in the 1820s. It was popular amongst young British upper-class men and served as an educational rite of passage for the wealthy.
Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians The Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians are a United States federally recognized Native American tribal entity. Robert Kewaygoshkum is the current chairman of the Tribal Council whose offices are in Peshawbestown, Michigan and where it operates the Leelanau Sands Casino and the Grand Traverse Resort & Casino.
Grand Trianon Built near Versailles by Louis XIV, the Grand Trianon was designed to act as a place where Louis XIV could retreat with family and other select members of his Court, away from the rigid etiquette at the Palace of Versailles.
Grand Trunk Bridge (Saskatoon) The Grand Trunk Bridge is a railway bridge that spans the South Saskatchewan River in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan Canada. It was built as part of the Canadian National Railway rail line that connects Saskatoon to the Chappell Drive rail yards.
Grand Trunk Milwaukee Car Ferry Company The Grand Trunk Milwaukee Car Ferry Company was the Grand Trunk Western Railroad's (AAR reporting mark GTW) subsidiary company operating its Lake Michigan railroad car ferry operations between Muskegon, Michigan and Milwaukee, Wisconsin from 1905 to 1978. Major railroad companies in Michigan used car ferry vessels to transport rail cars across Lake Michigan form Michigan's western shore to eastern Wisconsin to avoid rail traffic congestion in Chicago.
Grand Trunk Pacific Alphabet Railway At the time that the railroaders were building the mainline of the Grand Trunk Pacific Railroad, they had the task of finding names for the little towns along the way. Many of these towns were no more than seven miles apart and an attempt was
Grand Trunk Road The Grand Trunk Road (abbreviated to GT Road in common usage) is one of South Asia's oldest and longest major roads. For several centuries, it has linked the eastern and western regions of the Indian subcontinent, running from what is now Pakistan, across north India, into Bangladesh.
Grand Trunk Western Railroad Grand Trunk Western Railroad Incorporated is the American arm of Canadian National (CN; AAR reporting mark CNA) operating in Michigan, Illinois, Indiana and Ohio. Since a corporate restructuring by CN in 1971 the railroad has been under a subsidiary holding company known as the Grand Trunk Corporation.
Grand Turk (frigate) The Grand Turk is a replica of a three-masted sixth-rate frigate, well known for depicting HMS Indefatigable in the TV series Hornblower, although the historical Indefatigable was a much bigger ship. She has also served in the same TV series as the French ship Papillon.
Grand unification energy The grand unification energy Lambda_{GUT}, or the GUT scale, is the energy level above which, it is believed, the electromagnetic force, weak force, and strong force become indistinguishable from each other. The electromagnetic and weak forces become indistinguishable at a lower energy level, forming the electroweak force, and gravitational force requires an even higher energy level to unify with the other three.
Grand unification epoch In physical cosmology, assuming that nature is described by a GUT, the grand unification epoch was an era very, very soon after the Big Bang in which the temperature was comparable to the characteristic temperatures of grand unified theories. It occurred "long" before the electroweak epoch, the hadron epoch, and the lepton epoch.
Grand unification theory Grand unification, grand unified theory, or GUT is one of several very similar theories or models in physics that unify what are considered three "fundamental" gauge symmetries: hypercharge, the weak force, and quantum chromodynamics. Grand unification is based on the idea that at extremely high energies, all symmetries have the same gauge coupling strength, which is consistent with the speculation that they are really different manifestations of a single overarching gauge symmetry.
Grand Union (dance group) Grand Union was a dance group practicing dance improvisation in New York from 1970 to 1976. A breakaway group from Judson Dance Theater led by Steve Paxton, Grand Union developed the dance form contact improvisation (CI) as a method for creating improvised dance works.
Grand Union (stores) Grand Union was once a large supermarket chain based in Elmwood Park, New Jersey (later moving to Wayne, New Jersey) operating in the northeastern United States. It entered bankruptcy protection for the third (and final) time in 2000.
Grand Union Canal (old) The Grand Union Canal was a canal in England from Foxton, Leicestershire to Norton Junction on the Grand Junction Canal. It was bought by the latter in 1894, after which it became known as the Leicester Line of the Grand Junction.
Grand Union Canal 145 mile Race The Grand Union Canal Race (GUCR) is an ultramarathon run from the centre of Birmingham to the centre of London along the Grand Union Canal. Competitors are required to complete the 145 mile distance within a time limit of 45 hours.
Grand Union Flag The Grand Union Flag, also known as the Congress flag, the First Navy Ensign, The Cambridge Flag, and The Continental Colors is the first true Flag of the United States. This flag consisted of 13 red and white stripes, signifying the "uniqueness and unity" of the Thirteen Colonies, with the British Union Flag in the canton, as a symbol of many colonial leaders' wishes to keep close ties with Great Britain.
Grand Union Railway Grand Union is an open-access railway company that has proposed running two separate train services. It has planned services along the West Coast Main Line from London Euston to Bradford Interchange via Huddersfield.
Grand Valley (Colorado) The Grand Valley is an extended populated agricultural valley, approximately 30 miles (48 km) long and 5 miles (8 km) wide, located along the Colorado River in Mesa County in western Colorado in the United States. The valley contains the city of Grand Junction, as well as other smaller agricultural communities such as Fruita, Orchard Mesa, and Palisade.
Grand Vizier Grand Vizier (in Ottoman Turkish "sadrazam" or "vezir-i âzam"; see below for the evolution of the term), deriving from the originally Persian word "Vizier" (Ůزير) was the first minister of the Sultan with absolute power of attorney and, in principle, dismissable only by the Sultan himself. He held the imperial seal and he could convocate all other viziers for affairs of the state, their whole conference being called "Kubbealtı viziers" (viziers of the dome) in reference to the architecture of their meeting place.
Grand WEGA A liquid crystal rear projection television system using a patented "optical engine" made by Sony to provide a large image in a very compact chassis. Screen sizes in inches as of 2004 can range anywhere for 42" to 65"; with exceptional sharpness, composed of approximately 3 million plus pixels.
Grand Wizard Grand Wizard was the title used by the overall leader of earliest form of the Ku Klux Klan, during Reconstruction in the South. Nathan Bedford Forrest held the title until he dissolved the Klan, but had very little real power, since most Klan "dens" (local groups) were effectively autonomous, due to the Klan's semi-clandestine nature.
Grand World Grand World was the debut and only full-length album released by the band Cool For August. Released in 1997, it was a moderate hit, spawning three rock radio singles, and two videos (for "Don't Wanna Be Here", and "Walk Away").
Grand Zupan Grand Zupan, or Chief Zupan, is the English rendering of some Southern Slavonic titles which relate etymologically to Zupan (originally a pater familias, later the tribal chief of a unit called zupa) like a Russian Grand Prince to a Knyaz (rendered as Prince or Duke).
Grand-Bassam Grand-Bassam is a city in CĂ´te d'Ivoire, lying east of Abidjan. It was the French colonial capital city from 1893 until 1896, when the administration was transferred to Bingerville after a bout of yellow fever.
Grand-Bourg Grand-Bourg is a commune on the island of Marie-Galante, in the French Caribbean departement of Guadeloupe. It is located in the southwest of the island, and is the most populous of the three communes on the island, with a population of nearly 6000.
Grand-Pré Grand-Pré National Historic Site is a national historical site in Canada that commemorates the Grand-Pré area of Nova Scotia as a center of Acadian settlement from 1682 to 1755 and the deportation of the Acadians, which began in 1755 and continued until 1762.
Grandad Edward Kitchener Trotter born (1909-1985 in Peckham Rye, London), known better as simply Grandad, was a character in the popular BBC sitcom Only Fools and Horses from 1981-1984. He was played by Lennard Pearce.
Grande Armée slang As with all armed forces throughout history, the French Grande Armée of the Napoleonic Wars used a colorful and extensive vocabulary of slang terms to describe their lives, times and circumstances and express their reactions towards them.
Grande Bibliothèque du Québec The Grande Bibliothèque du Québec (English: Great Library of Quebec/Grand Library of Quebec, GBQ) is a very large public library in downtown Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Its collection is part of the Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec (BAnQ), Quebec's national library.
Grande Boucle The Grande Boucle, formerly known as the Tour Cycliste Feminin, or simply Tour Feminin, was one of the Grand Tours of women's cycle races in the world for many years before its demise. The last Grande Boucle took place in 2003.
Grande Coutume The Grande Coutume (English Great Custom) was a principal export tax imposed by the British on products from the Gascony, Bordeaux and Poitou regions. In 1203, King John of England exempted the towns of Bordeaux, Bayonne and Dax from the tax in exchange for support against King Philip II of France.
Grande Chartreuse The Grande Chartreuse is the head monastery of the Carthusian order. It is located in the Chartreuse Mountains, to the north of the city of Grenoble, in the commune of Saint-Pierre-de-Chartreuse in the Isère département of France.
Grande Loja Regular de Portugal The Regular Grand Lodge of Portugal was created under a warrant from the Grande Loge Nationale Française by Decrees 762 and 763 of June 29, 1991. It was incorporated as a civil association under Portuguese law some days afterwards, on July 15, 1991, on the official books of the 3rd Public Notary of Lisbon.
Grande Oriente Lusitano The Grande Oriente Lusitano - Maçonaria Portuguesa (Grand Orient of Lusitania - Portuguese Freemasonry) is a symbolic Masonic Obedience founded in 1802, thus being the oldest Portuguese Masonic Obedience. Its first Grand Master was Sebastião José de São Paio de Melo e Castro Lusignan, grandson of the first Marquis of Pombal, and his symbolic name was Egas Moniz.
Grande Otelo Grande Otelo (October 18 1915 in Uberlândia, Brazil -November 26 1994 in Paris, France) is the stage name of Brazilian actor, comedian, singer, and composer Sebastião Bernardes de Souza Prata. Otelo had a problematic life, became orphan when he still was a child and kept running away from the families that adopted him, it was only when he entered in the artistic way that his life began to be more bright.
Grande Porto Grande Porto (Greater Porto) is a Portuguese NUTS3 subregion, integrating the NUTS2 region of Norte, in Portugal. It corresponds to 9 out of 14 municipalities (concelhos) that constitute the larger Greater Metropolitan Area of Porto, centered in the city of Porto.
Grande Prairie Regional College Grande Prairie Regional College, often abbreviated GPRC, is a community college in Grande Prairie, Alberta. Over 2000 students in credit programs, and over 6000 in workforce training and recreational programs, attend GPRC annually.
Grande Raccordo Anulare The Autostrada del Grande Raccordo Anulare (GRA) is a toll-free, ring-shaped orbital motorway, 68,2 km (42,6 mi) in circumference that encircles Rome. Although the acronym literally means Greater Ring Junction, the GRA was actually named after one of its main designers and supporters, Eugenio Gra, chairman of ANAS, the Italian roads Authority, at the time of construction.
Grande Riviere Grande Riviere is a village on the north coast of the island of Trinidad, west of Toco and east of Matelot. Grande Riviere is one of the more remote places in Trinidad since it is connected to the rest of the island by a single road which runs along the coast to Toco and then crosses the Northern Range running parallel to the east coast.
Grande Ronde River The Grande Ronde River is a tributary of the Snake River, approximately 180 mi (290 km) long, in northeastern Oregon and southeastern Washington in the United States. It drains an area on the east side of the Blue Mountains on the Columbia Plateau, flowing through the agricultural Grande Ronde Valley in its middle course and through a series of scenic canyons in its lower course.
Grande Sertão Veredas National Park The Grande Sertão Veredas National Park (Parque Nacional Grande Sertão Veredas) is located on the border between Minas Gerais and Bahia states of Brazil, between 15º16’—15º25’S and 45º37’—46º03’W.
Grandee Grandee is a word either to render in English the Spanish high aristocratic title Grande, or by analogy to refer to other people of a somewhat comparable, exalted position, roughly synonymous with Magnate, and in particular by analogy to a formal upper level of the nobility, such as a peerage (especially if granted parliamentary seats).
Grandes Ă©coles The grandes Ă©coles (French: elite schools) of France are higher education establishments outside the mainstream framework of the public universities. They are generally focused on a single subject area, such as business or engineering, have a moderate size, and are highly selective in their admission of students.
Grandes Éxitos 1991-2004 Grandes Éxitos 1991-2004 is a compilation album from Spanish singer Alejandro Sanz. This album comes in two editions, once called "Digipack" which has three CDs, and the other one called "Jewel Box" that only has the first two CDs, they come with Sanz's greatest hits, the songs that made him an international artist.
Grandes Chroniques de France The Grandes Chroniques de France is a royal compilation of the history of France, its manuscripts remarkably illuminated. It was compiled between the thirteenth and fifteenth centuries, beginning in the reign of Saint Louis, who wished to preserve the history of the Franks from the coming of the Trojans to his own time, in an "official" chronography whose dissemination was tightly controlled.
Grandeur of the Seas The Grandeur of the Seas is part of Royal Caribbean International's Vision Class of cruise ships. Features include a full-service spa, six whirlpools, an outdoor jogging track and countless bars and restaurants.
Grandfamilies Grandfamily is a recently coined term that refers to a family where grandparents, great-grandparents, other relatives, or close family friends are raising a child because the biological parents are unwilling or unable to do so. Legal custody of a child may or may not be involved, and the child may be related by blood, marriage or adoption.
Grandfather clause In American English, a Grandfather clause is an exception that allows an old rule to continue to apply to some existing situations, when a new rule will apply to all future situations. It is often used as a verb: to "grandfather" means to grant such an exemption.
Grandfather hapuku The grandfather hapuku, New Zealand scorpionfish, or New Zealand red rock cod, Scorpaena cardinalis, is a scorpionfish of the genus Scorpaena, found in southern Australia and all around New Zealand from shallow depths to 100 m. Their length is between 25 and 60 cm.
Grandfather paradox The grandfather paradox is a paradox of time travel, first conceived by the science fiction writer René Barjavel in his 1943 book "Le Voyageur Imprudent" ("The Imprudent Traveller") . The paradox, stated in the second person, is this: Suppose you traveled back in time and killed your biological grandfather before he met your grandmother.
Grandfather's Clock Grandfather's Clock is a solitaire game using a deck of 52 playing cards. Its foundation is akin to Clock Solitaire; but while winning the latter depends on the luck of the draw, this game has a strategic side.
Grandfather's old axe Grandfather's old axe is a colloquial expression describing something of which little original remains: "it's had three new heads and four new handles but it's still the same old axe." The phrase has also been used in banter as in: "This is George Washington's original axe...
Grandi's series The infinite series 1 ⒠1 + 1 ⒠1 + · · · is sometimes called Grandi's series, after Italian mathematician, philosopher, and priest Guido Grandi, who gave a memorable treatment of the series in 1703. It is a divergent series, meaning that it lacks a sum in the usual sense.
Grandia (video game) Grandia (Japanese: ă‚°ă©ăłă‡ă‚Łă‚˘) is a console role-playing game and the first title in the Grandia series developed by Game Arts originally for the Sega Saturn in 1997. Since then, it has been ported to the Sony PlayStation, and was published in North America and Europe for the first time by SCEA and Ubisoft respectively in 1999 and 2001.
Grandia III Grandia III is the most recent installment in the Grandia series, developed by Game Arts for the PlayStation 2 and published by Square Enix with music by Noriyuki Iwadare. It was released on August 4, 2005 in Japan and on February 14, 2006 in North America.
Grandia Xtreme Grandia Xtreme is a console role-playing game developed by Game Arts and published by Enix (now known as Square Enix) for the PlayStation 2 video game console. It was released in both Japan and North America in 2002.
Grandia: Parallel Trippers Grandia: Parallel Trippers (ă‚°ă©ăłă‡ă‚¤ă‚˘ďĽšă€€ă‘ă©ă¬ă«ăăŞăă‘ăĽă‚ş) is a Game Boy Color game developed by Game Arts and published by Hudson Soft in Japan only. It is the only game in the Grandia series for a handheld and on a Nintendo system.
Grandin (ETS) Grandin Station-Government Centre is an LRT Station operated by Edmonton Transit System in the city of Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. It is located underground beneath 110 Street between 99 Avenue and 98 Avenue, adjacent to the Legislature of Alberta.
Grandiose delusion A grandiose delusion is an experience of an extremely exaggerated sense of worth, power, knowledge, identity, or relationship. Someone who is grandiose may believe he can speak to supernatural beings or that he is a supernatural being himself.
Grandma (comic strip) Grandma was a comic strip that ran from 1947 until 1969, and was distributed by King Features Syndicate. The strip, drawn by Charles Harris Kuhn, depicted humorous events in the life of an elderly, curmudgeonly woman known only as "Grandma".
Grandma Moses Anna Mary Moses - better known as Grandma Moses -- (September 7, 1860 – December 13, 1961) was a renowned American folk artist. She is often cited as an example of an individual successfully beginning a career in the arts at an advanced age.
Grandma's Gifts Grandma’s Gifts is a charity organization that works to provide food, clothing, books, toys, glasses, school supplies, scholarships, and educational experiences to children, families, schools, businesses, and organizations in Appalachian Ohio, West Virginia, and Kentucky.
Grandma's Marathon Grandma's Marathon is an annual road race held in late spring in Duluth, Minnesota, in the United States. The course runs point-to-point from the town of Two Harbors on Scenic Route 61 and continues along Lake Superior into the city of Duluth.
Grandmaster (Martial Arts) The term Grandmaster in the martial arts world is the pinnacle title for any martial style. However there are multiple meanings behind the term grandmaster depending on the lineage of the master, the style he or she practices and the method in which the grandmaster title is bestowed or claimed.
Grandmaster Caz Grandmaster Caz AKA Grandmaster Casanova Fly, real name Curtis Fisher, was born in the Bronx, New York and was a part of the hip hop group The Cold Crush Brothers. After seeing Kool Herc play at a party in the Bronx in 1974, Fisher decided to become a DJ, and purchase the necessary equipment the next day.
Grandmaster norm In order to qualify for the title of Grandmaster of chess, a title awarded by FIDE, the World Chess Federation, one must in most cases achieve three grandmaster norms totaling a minimum of 24 games. There have been many changes to the rules, but in most cases a grandmaster norm is achieved by playing in a tournament of nine rounds or more.
Grandmaster Ratte' Grandmaster Ratte' (born April 1970, formerly known as Swamp Rat and then Swamp Ratte') is one of the founders of the CULT OF THE DEAD COW (cDc) hacker group, along with Franken Gibe and Sid Vicious. His official title in the cDc is "Imperial Wizard of ExXxtasy.
Grandmontines Grandmontines were the monks of the Order of Grandmont, a religious order founded by Saint Stephen of Thiers, towards the end of the 11th century, is named after its motherhouse, Grandmont Abbey in the homonymous village in the department of Haute-Vienne, in Auvergne, France.
Grand Slam (Isley Brothers album) Grand Slam is a 1981 album by The Isley Brothers released on their T-Neck imprint. At this point in the group's career, though they were still making gold albums, most of the material the brothers recorded seem stale and outdated.
Grand Slam (PBA) The Grand Slam in the Philippine Basketball Association (PBA) refers to a PBA team who has won all three conferences (tournaments) in a single season. However, after the PBA reduced the number of conferences from three to two beginning in 2004, the term became quite obsolete to some.
Grand Slam (tennis) In tennis, a singles player or doubles team is said to have achieved the True Grand Slam if they succeed in winning all four of the following championship titles in the same calendar year or just "Grand Slam" by owning all four at the same time:
Grand Slam bomb The Grand Slam (Earth Quake bomb), was a very large freefall bomb developed by the British aeronautical engineer Barnes Wallis (also made the bouncing bomb) in late 1944. At a weight of 22,000lb the Grand Slam was almost twice the weight of his previous large bomb, the 12,000lb Tallboy.
Grand Slam Champion A Grand Slam Champion in professional wrestling is a distinction made to a professional wrestler who has won all of the major titles in a promotion. The Grand Slam typically consists of four titles, mirroring the grand slams found in golf and tennis.
Grand Slam of Grass Jacobs Investments Grand Slam of Grass is the United States’s premier series of four challenging thoroughbred turf races, which include the inaugural Colonial Turf Cup, The Virginia Derby, The Secretariat Stakes, and The John Deere Breeders' Cup Turf.
Grand Slam Single The Grand Slam Single is a reference to the hit that ended Game Five of the 1999 National League Championship Series between the New York Mets and the Atlanta Braves. The game was played on October 17, 1999 at Shea Stadium.
Grand Squire of France The Grand Écuyer de France or Grand Squire of France or Grand Equerry of France was one of the Great Officers of the Crown of France and a member of the Maison du Roi ("King's Household") during the Ancien Régime. The name "écuyer", the French word for squire, is the origin for the French word "écurie" (stable) and the English word equerry.
Grand Staircase The Grand Staircase is an immense sequence of sedimentary rock layers that stretch south from Bryce Canyon National Park through Zion National Park and into the Grand Canyon. In the 1870s, geologist Clarence Dutton first conceptualized this region as a huge stairway ascending out of the bottom of the Grand Canyon northward with the cliff edge of each layer forming giant steps.
Grand Staircase of the Titanic The Grand Staircase of the Titanic was the first class entrance to the Olympic Class passenger liner, RMS Titanic. Considered to be one of the most luxurious appointments onboard the ship, the Grand Staircase descended five levels down to the E Deck.
Grand Street Ferry The Grand Street Ferry was a ferry connecting the Lower East Side of Manhattan with Williamsburg, Brooklyn, New York City, United States, and the name of the landing at each end at Grand Street (Manhattan) and Grand Street (Brooklyn). The Grand Street Ferry name was also applied to the ferry from Manhattan's Grand Street to the Broadway Ferry landing in Williamsburg, and a ferry line also ran from the Williamsburg side to Houston Street (Houston Street Ferry).
Grand Street Line (Brooklyn) The Grand Street Line is a public transit line in Brooklyn and Queens, New York City, United States, running mostly along Grand Street/Grand Avenue between Williamsburg, Brooklyn and Maspeth, Queens. Originally a streetcar line, it is now the Q59 bus, operated by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority out of the Fresh Pond Bus Depot; the Q59 now continues east from Maspeth along Grand Avenue (with the Q58 Flushing-Ridgewood Line) and southeast on Queens Boulevard to Rego Park.
Grand Street Shuttle The Grand Street Shuttle (black ) was a New York City Subway service that operated during the long Manhattan Bridge rehabilitation, while the north tracks (connecting to the IND Sixth Avenue Line via the Chrystie Street Connection) were closed. It usually ran between Broadway–Lafayette Street and Grand Street, picking up the slack from rerouted and service.
Grand tourer A grand tourer (Italian: Gran Turismo), (initialised GT), is a high-performance automobile designed for long-distance driving. Any such car could be considered a grand tourer, but the traditional and most common body style is the coupé (two door) with either a two-seat or a 2+2 seat arrangement.
Grand trine In astrology, a grand trine occurs when you have three planets or other points in the horoscope that are all separated by a span of 120 degrees. With the placement of the planets, the grand trine visually looks like a large triangle across the horoscope of the recipient.
Grand Teton National Park Grand Teton National Park is a United States National Park located in western Wyoming, south of Yellowstone National Park. It is named after Grand Teton, which at 13,770 feet (4197 m), is the tallest mountain in the Teton Range.
Grand Théâtre de Bordeaux Grand Théâtre de Bordeaux, is a Theatre in Bordeaux, France, first inaugurated on 17 April, 1780. It was in this theatre that the ballet La Fille Mal Gardée had it's première in 1789, and where a young Marius Petipa staged some of his first ballets.
Grand Théâtre de Québec The Grand Théâtre de Québec is an arts complex in Quebec City, Canada. It was conceived to commemorate the Canadian Centennial of 1967 and the Quebec Conference, 1864, one of the key meetings leading to the Canadian Confederation of 1867.
Grand Theatre Leeds The Grand Theatre (also known as Leeds Grand Theatre and Leeds Grand Theatre and Opera House) is a theatre and Opera house in the centre of Leeds, UK. It was designed by James Robinson Watson, chief assistant in the office of Leeds-based architect George Corson, and opened on 18 November, 1878.
Grand Theft Auto (series) Grand Theft Auto (GTA) is a computer and video game series created and primarily developed by Scottish developer Rockstar North (formerly DMA Design), published by Rockstar Games and debuted in 1998. It includes seven stand-alone games and two expansion packs for the original, GTA: London 1969 and GTA: London 1961.
Grand Theft Auto (video game) Grand Theft Auto (GTA) is a computer and video game created by DMA Design (now Rockstar North) and published by ASC Games in 1997/1998. It is the first in the extremely popular Grand Theft Auto series that has thus far spanned eight standalone games, and one expansion pack for the original.
Grand Theft Auto 2 soundtrack Each area features five radio stations from a pool of eleven, in which one of them would be played as the player drives most vehicles in game. Changing radio stations for preference was also possible in the Windows PC version: Next was the "F1" function key while previous was the "F2" function key.
Grand Theft Auto III soundtrack The soundtrack of the game Grand Theft Auto III is popular not only with fans of the game, but also with lovers of mid- to late-1990s music. In the game, music is played on various "radio stations" which the player can listen to after a car has been acquired.
Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories soundtrack The soundtrack of Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories comprises radio stations that broadcast music and information to the City of Liberty, circa 1998. The only time a player can hear the radio is when the protagonist acquires a car (or in the "Audio" section of the pause menu).
Grand Theft Auto: Vice City soundtrack The soundtrack of the game Grand Theft Auto: Vice City is popular not only with fans of the game, but also with lovers of 1980s music. In the game it is played on various "radio stations" the player can tune into after entering certain types of cars, but it has also been released in a box set of seven separate CDs (dubbed the Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Official Soundtrack Box Set), with the European editions of the CDs containing a few extra songs that are not on the United States edition.
Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories Empire Mode New to the Grand Theft Auto series is Empire Building, one of the key gameplay elements in Vice City Stories which plays an important role in Victor Vance's story." It takes previous ideas from its predecessor.
Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories soundtrack The soundtrack of the video game Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories sees the return of some of the "radio stations" featured in Grand Theft Auto: Vice City. As there is a two year gap between the settings of the two games (1984 and 1986 respectively), there are many differences between these stations.
Grand Theft Autumn/Where Is Your Boy "Grand Theft Autumn/Where is Your Boy" is one of Chicago alternative rock band Fall Out Boy's first singles, taken from their 2003 album, Take This to Your Grave. Though it never achieved much success on the radio charts, it remains one of their more popular songs, as it did draw in a large amount of digital downloads.
Grand Theft Bus Grand Theft Bus is a Canadian indie rock band from New Brunswick. The band consists of Tim Walker (guitar, vocals), Graeme Walker (bass, vocals), Dennis Goodwin (guitar, synths, vocals) and Bob Deveau (drums and electronics).
Grand Theft Parsons Grand Theft Parsons is a 2003 movie based on the true story of the legendary country musician Gram Parsons, who died of an overdose in 1973. Parsons and his road manager, Phil Kaufman (played by Johnny Knoxville) made a pact in life that whoever died first would be cremated by the other in the Joshua Tree National Park, an area of desert they both loved and cherished.
Grand Tour The Grand Tour was a European travel itinerary that flourished from about 1660 until the arrival of mass rail transit in the 1820s. It was popular amongst young British upper-class men and served as an educational rite of passage for the wealthy.
Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians The Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians are a United States federally recognized Native American tribal entity. Robert Kewaygoshkum is the current chairman of the Tribal Council whose offices are in Peshawbestown, Michigan and where it operates the Leelanau Sands Casino and the Grand Traverse Resort & Casino.
Grand Trianon Built near Versailles by Louis XIV, the Grand Trianon was designed to act as a place where Louis XIV could retreat with family and other select members of his Court, away from the rigid etiquette at the Palace of Versailles.
Grand Trunk Bridge (Saskatoon) The Grand Trunk Bridge is a railway bridge that spans the South Saskatchewan River in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan Canada. It was built as part of the Canadian National Railway rail line that connects Saskatoon to the Chappell Drive rail yards.
Grand Trunk Milwaukee Car Ferry Company The Grand Trunk Milwaukee Car Ferry Company was the Grand Trunk Western Railroad's (AAR reporting mark GTW) subsidiary company operating its Lake Michigan railroad car ferry operations between Muskegon, Michigan and Milwaukee, Wisconsin from 1905 to 1978. Major railroad companies in Michigan used car ferry vessels to transport rail cars across Lake Michigan form Michigan's western shore to eastern Wisconsin to avoid rail traffic congestion in Chicago.
Grand Trunk Pacific Alphabet Railway At the time that the railroaders were building the mainline of the Grand Trunk Pacific Railroad, they had the task of finding names for the little towns along the way. Many of these towns were no more than seven miles apart and an attempt was
Grand Trunk Road The Grand Trunk Road (abbreviated to GT Road in common usage) is one of South Asia's oldest and longest major roads. For several centuries, it has linked the eastern and western regions of the Indian subcontinent, running from what is now Pakistan, across north India, into Bangladesh.
Grand Trunk Western Railroad Grand Trunk Western Railroad Incorporated is the American arm of Canadian National (CN; AAR reporting mark CNA) operating in Michigan, Illinois, Indiana and Ohio. Since a corporate restructuring by CN in 1971 the railroad has been under a subsidiary holding company known as the Grand Trunk Corporation.
Grand Turk (frigate) The Grand Turk is a replica of a three-masted sixth-rate frigate, well known for depicting HMS Indefatigable in the TV series Hornblower, although the historical Indefatigable was a much bigger ship. She has also served in the same TV series as the French ship Papillon.
Grand unification energy The grand unification energy Lambda_{GUT}, or the GUT scale, is the energy level above which, it is believed, the electromagnetic force, weak force, and strong force become indistinguishable from each other. The electromagnetic and weak forces become indistinguishable at a lower energy level, forming the electroweak force, and gravitational force requires an even higher energy level to unify with the other three.
Grand unification epoch In physical cosmology, assuming that nature is described by a GUT, the grand unification epoch was an era very, very soon after the Big Bang in which the temperature was comparable to the characteristic temperatures of grand unified theories. It occurred "long" before the electroweak epoch, the hadron epoch, and the lepton epoch.
Grand unification theory Grand unification, grand unified theory, or GUT is one of several very similar theories or models in physics that unify what are considered three "fundamental" gauge symmetries: hypercharge, the weak force, and quantum chromodynamics. Grand unification is based on the idea that at extremely high energies, all symmetries have the same gauge coupling strength, which is consistent with the speculation that they are really different manifestations of a single overarching gauge symmetry.
Grand Union (dance group) Grand Union was a dance group practicing dance improvisation in New York from 1970 to 1976. A breakaway group from Judson Dance Theater led by Steve Paxton, Grand Union developed the dance form contact improvisation (CI) as a method for creating improvised dance works.
Grand Union (stores) Grand Union was once a large supermarket chain based in Elmwood Park, New Jersey (later moving to Wayne, New Jersey) operating in the northeastern United States. It entered bankruptcy protection for the third (and final) time in 2000.
Grand Union Canal (old) The Grand Union Canal was a canal in England from Foxton, Leicestershire to Norton Junction on the Grand Junction Canal. It was bought by the latter in 1894, after which it became known as the Leicester Line of the Grand Junction.
Grand Union Canal 145 mile Race The Grand Union Canal Race (GUCR) is an ultramarathon run from the centre of Birmingham to the centre of London along the Grand Union Canal. Competitors are required to complete the 145 mile distance within a time limit of 45 hours.
Grand Union Flag The Grand Union Flag, also known as the Congress flag, the First Navy Ensign, The Cambridge Flag, and The Continental Colors is the first true Flag of the United States. This flag consisted of 13 red and white stripes, signifying the "uniqueness and unity" of the Thirteen Colonies, with the British Union Flag in the canton, as a symbol of many colonial leaders' wishes to keep close ties with Great Britain.
Grand Union Railway Grand Union is an open-access railway company that has proposed running two separate train services. It has planned services along the West Coast Main Line from London Euston to Bradford Interchange via Huddersfield.
Grand Valley (Colorado) The Grand Valley is an extended populated agricultural valley, approximately 30 miles (48 km) long and 5 miles (8 km) wide, located along the Colorado River in Mesa County in western Colorado in the United States. The valley contains the city of Grand Junction, as well as other smaller agricultural communities such as Fruita, Orchard Mesa, and Palisade.
Grand Vizier Grand Vizier (in Ottoman Turkish "sadrazam" or "vezir-i âzam"; see below for the evolution of the term), deriving from the originally Persian word "Vizier" (Ůزير) was the first minister of the Sultan with absolute power of attorney and, in principle, dismissable only by the Sultan himself. He held the imperial seal and he could convocate all other viziers for affairs of the state, their whole conference being called "Kubbealtı viziers" (viziers of the dome) in reference to the architecture of their meeting place.
Grand WEGA A liquid crystal rear projection television system using a patented "optical engine" made by Sony to provide a large image in a very compact chassis. Screen sizes in inches as of 2004 can range anywhere for 42" to 65"; with exceptional sharpness, composed of approximately 3 million plus pixels.
Grand Wizard Grand Wizard was the title used by the overall leader of earliest form of the Ku Klux Klan, during Reconstruction in the South. Nathan Bedford Forrest held the title until he dissolved the Klan, but had very little real power, since most Klan "dens" (local groups) were effectively autonomous, due to the Klan's semi-clandestine nature.
Grand World Grand World was the debut and only full-length album released by the band Cool For August. Released in 1997, it was a moderate hit, spawning three rock radio singles, and two videos (for "Don't Wanna Be Here", and "Walk Away").
Grand Zupan Grand Zupan, or Chief Zupan, is the English rendering of some Southern Slavonic titles which relate etymologically to Zupan (originally a pater familias, later the tribal chief of a unit called zupa) like a Russian Grand Prince to a Knyaz (rendered as Prince or Duke).
Grand-Bassam Grand-Bassam is a city in CĂ´te d'Ivoire, lying east of Abidjan. It was the French colonial capital city from 1893 until 1896, when the administration was transferred to Bingerville after a bout of yellow fever.
Grand-Bourg Grand-Bourg is a commune on the island of Marie-Galante, in the French Caribbean departement of Guadeloupe. It is located in the southwest of the island, and is the most populous of the three communes on the island, with a population of nearly 6000.
Grand-Pré Grand-Pré National Historic Site is a national historical site in Canada that commemorates the Grand-Pré area of Nova Scotia as a center of Acadian settlement from 1682 to 1755 and the deportation of the Acadians, which began in 1755 and continued until 1762.
Grandad Edward Kitchener Trotter born (1909-1985 in Peckham Rye, London), known better as simply Grandad, was a character in the popular BBC sitcom Only Fools and Horses from 1981-1984. He was played by Lennard Pearce.
Grande Armée slang As with all armed forces throughout history, the French Grande Armée of the Napoleonic Wars used a colorful and extensive vocabulary of slang terms to describe their lives, times and circumstances and express their reactions towards them.
Grande Bibliothèque du Québec The Grande Bibliothèque du Québec (English: Great Library of Quebec/Grand Library of Quebec, GBQ) is a very large public library in downtown Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Its collection is part of the Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec (BAnQ), Quebec's national library.
Grande Boucle The Grande Boucle, formerly known as the Tour Cycliste Feminin, or simply Tour Feminin, was one of the Grand Tours of women's cycle races in the world for many years before its demise. The last Grande Boucle took place in 2003.
Grande Coutume The Grande Coutume (English Great Custom) was a principal export tax imposed by the British on products from the Gascony, Bordeaux and Poitou regions. In 1203, King John of England exempted the towns of Bordeaux, Bayonne and Dax from the tax in exchange for support against King Philip II of France.
Grande Chartreuse The Grande Chartreuse is the head monastery of the Carthusian order. It is located in the Chartreuse Mountains, to the north of the city of Grenoble, in the commune of Saint-Pierre-de-Chartreuse in the Isère département of France.
Grande Loja Regular de Portugal The Regular Grand Lodge of Portugal was created under a warrant from the Grande Loge Nationale Française by Decrees 762 and 763 of June 29, 1991. It was incorporated as a civil association under Portuguese law some days afterwards, on July 15, 1991, on the official books of the 3rd Public Notary of Lisbon.
Grande Oriente Lusitano The Grande Oriente Lusitano - Maçonaria Portuguesa (Grand Orient of Lusitania - Portuguese Freemasonry) is a symbolic Masonic Obedience founded in 1802, thus being the oldest Portuguese Masonic Obedience. Its first Grand Master was Sebastião José de São Paio de Melo e Castro Lusignan, grandson of the first Marquis of Pombal, and his symbolic name was Egas Moniz.
Grande Otelo Grande Otelo (October 18 1915 in Uberlândia, Brazil -November 26 1994 in Paris, France) is the stage name of Brazilian actor, comedian, singer, and composer Sebastião Bernardes de Souza Prata. Otelo had a problematic life, became orphan when he still was a child and kept running away from the families that adopted him, it was only when he entered in the artistic way that his life began to be more bright.
Grande Porto Grande Porto (Greater Porto) is a Portuguese NUTS3 subregion, integrating the NUTS2 region of Norte, in Portugal. It corresponds to 9 out of 14 municipalities (concelhos) that constitute the larger Greater Metropolitan Area of Porto, centered in the city of Porto.
Grande Prairie Regional College Grande Prairie Regional College, often abbreviated GPRC, is a community college in Grande Prairie, Alberta. Over 2000 students in credit programs, and over 6000 in workforce training and recreational programs, attend GPRC annually.
Grande Raccordo Anulare The Autostrada del Grande Raccordo Anulare (GRA) is a toll-free, ring-shaped orbital motorway, 68,2 km (42,6 mi) in circumference that encircles Rome. Although the acronym literally means Greater Ring Junction, the GRA was actually named after one of its main designers and supporters, Eugenio Gra, chairman of ANAS, the Italian roads Authority, at the time of construction.
Grande Riviere Grande Riviere is a village on the north coast of the island of Trinidad, west of Toco and east of Matelot. Grande Riviere is one of the more remote places in Trinidad since it is connected to the rest of the island by a single road which runs along the coast to Toco and then crosses the Northern Range running parallel to the east coast.
Grande Ronde River The Grande Ronde River is a tributary of the Snake River, approximately 180 mi (290 km) long, in northeastern Oregon and southeastern Washington in the United States. It drains an area on the east side of the Blue Mountains on the Columbia Plateau, flowing through the agricultural Grande Ronde Valley in its middle course and through a series of scenic canyons in its lower course.
Grande Sertão Veredas National Park The Grande Sertão Veredas National Park (Parque Nacional Grande Sertão Veredas) is located on the border between Minas Gerais and Bahia states of Brazil, between 15º16’—15º25’S and 45º37’—46º03’W.
Grandee Grandee is a word either to render in English the Spanish high aristocratic title Grande, or by analogy to refer to other people of a somewhat comparable, exalted position, roughly synonymous with Magnate, and in particular by analogy to a formal upper level of the nobility, such as a peerage (especially if granted parliamentary seats).
Grandes Ă©coles The grandes Ă©coles (French: elite schools) of France are higher education establishments outside the mainstream framework of the public universities. They are generally focused on a single subject area, such as business or engineering, have a moderate size, and are highly selective in their admission of students.
Grandes Éxitos 1991-2004 Grandes Éxitos 1991-2004 is a compilation album from Spanish singer Alejandro Sanz. This album comes in two editions, once called "Digipack" which has three CDs, and the other one called "Jewel Box" that only has the first two CDs, they come with Sanz's greatest hits, the songs that made him an international artist.
Grandes Chroniques de France The Grandes Chroniques de France is a royal compilation of the history of France, its manuscripts remarkably illuminated. It was compiled between the thirteenth and fifteenth centuries, beginning in the reign of Saint Louis, who wished to preserve the history of the Franks from the coming of the Trojans to his own time, in an "official" chronography whose dissemination was tightly controlled.
Grandeur of the Seas The Grandeur of the Seas is part of Royal Caribbean International's Vision Class of cruise ships. Features include a full-service spa, six whirlpools, an outdoor jogging track and countless bars and restaurants.
Grandfamilies Grandfamily is a recently coined term that refers to a family where grandparents, great-grandparents, other relatives, or close family friends are raising a child because the biological parents are unwilling or unable to do so. Legal custody of a child may or may not be involved, and the child may be related by blood, marriage or adoption.
Grandfather clause In American English, a Grandfather clause is an exception that allows an old rule to continue to apply to some existing situations, when a new rule will apply to all future situations. It is often used as a verb: to "grandfather" means to grant such an exemption.
Grandfather hapuku The grandfather hapuku, New Zealand scorpionfish, or New Zealand red rock cod, Scorpaena cardinalis, is a scorpionfish of the genus Scorpaena, found in southern Australia and all around New Zealand from shallow depths to 100 m. Their length is between 25 and 60 cm.
Grandfather paradox The grandfather paradox is a paradox of time travel, first conceived by the science fiction writer René Barjavel in his 1943 book "Le Voyageur Imprudent" ("The Imprudent Traveller") . The paradox, stated in the second person, is this: Suppose you traveled back in time and killed your biological grandfather before he met your grandmother.
Grandfather's Clock Grandfather's Clock is a solitaire game using a deck of 52 playing cards. Its foundation is akin to Clock Solitaire; but while winning the latter depends on the luck of the draw, this game has a strategic side.
Grandfather's old axe Grandfather's old axe is a colloquial expression describing something of which little original remains: "it's had three new heads and four new handles but it's still the same old axe." The phrase has also been used in banter as in: "This is George Washington's original axe...
Grandi's series The infinite series 1 ⒠1 + 1 ⒠1 + · · · is sometimes called Grandi's series, after Italian mathematician, philosopher, and priest Guido Grandi, who gave a memorable treatment of the series in 1703. It is a divergent series, meaning that it lacks a sum in the usual sense.
Grandia (video game) Grandia (Japanese: ă‚°ă©ăłă‡ă‚Łă‚˘) is a console role-playing game and the first title in the Grandia series developed by Game Arts originally for the Sega Saturn in 1997. Since then, it has been ported to the Sony PlayStation, and was published in North America and Europe for the first time by SCEA and Ubisoft respectively in 1999 and 2001.
Grandia III Grandia III is the most recent installment in the Grandia series, developed by Game Arts for the PlayStation 2 and published by Square Enix with music by Noriyuki Iwadare. It was released on August 4, 2005 in Japan and on February 14, 2006 in North America.
Grandia Xtreme Grandia Xtreme is a console role-playing game developed by Game Arts and published by Enix (now known as Square Enix) for the PlayStation 2 video game console. It was released in both Japan and North America in 2002.
Grandia: Parallel Trippers Grandia: Parallel Trippers (ă‚°ă©ăłă‡ă‚¤ă‚˘ďĽšă€€ă‘ă©ă¬ă«ăăŞăă‘ăĽă‚ş) is a Game Boy Color game developed by Game Arts and published by Hudson Soft in Japan only. It is the only game in the Grandia series for a handheld and on a Nintendo system.
Grandin (ETS) Grandin Station-Government Centre is an LRT Station operated by Edmonton Transit System in the city of Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. It is located underground beneath 110 Street between 99 Avenue and 98 Avenue, adjacent to the Legislature of Alberta.
Grandiose delusion A grandiose delusion is an experience of an extremely exaggerated sense of worth, power, knowledge, identity, or relationship. Someone who is grandiose may believe he can speak to supernatural beings or that he is a supernatural being himself.
Grandma (comic strip) Grandma was a comic strip that ran from 1947 until 1969, and was distributed by King Features Syndicate. The strip, drawn by Charles Harris Kuhn, depicted humorous events in the life of an elderly, curmudgeonly woman known only as "Grandma".
Grandma Moses Anna Mary Moses - better known as Grandma Moses -- (September 7, 1860 – December 13, 1961) was a renowned American folk artist. She is often cited as an example of an individual successfully beginning a career in the arts at an advanced age.
Grandma's Gifts Grandma’s Gifts is a charity organization that works to provide food, clothing, books, toys, glasses, school supplies, scholarships, and educational experiences to children, families, schools, businesses, and organizations in Appalachian Ohio, West Virginia, and Kentucky.
Grandma's Marathon Grandma's Marathon is an annual road race held in late spring in Duluth, Minnesota, in the United States. The course runs point-to-point from the town of Two Harbors on Scenic Route 61 and continues along Lake Superior into the city of Duluth.
Grandmaster (Martial Arts) The term Grandmaster in the martial arts world is the pinnacle title for any martial style. However there are multiple meanings behind the term grandmaster depending on the lineage of the master, the style he or she practices and the method in which the grandmaster title is bestowed or claimed.
Grandmaster Caz Grandmaster Caz AKA Grandmaster Casanova Fly, real name Curtis Fisher, was born in the Bronx, New York and was a part of the hip hop group The Cold Crush Brothers. After seeing Kool Herc play at a party in the Bronx in 1974, Fisher decided to become a DJ, and purchase the necessary equipment the next day.
Grandmaster norm In order to qualify for the title of Grandmaster of chess, a title awarded by FIDE, the World Chess Federation, one must in most cases achieve three grandmaster norms totaling a minimum of 24 games. There have been many changes to the rules, but in most cases a grandmaster norm is achieved by playing in a tournament of nine rounds or more.
Grandmaster Ratte' Grandmaster Ratte' (born April 1970, formerly known as Swamp Rat and then Swamp Ratte') is one of the founders of the CULT OF THE DEAD COW (cDc) hacker group, along with Franken Gibe and Sid Vicious. His official title in the cDc is "Imperial Wizard of ExXxtasy.
Grandmontines Grandmontines were the monks of the Order of Grandmont, a religious order founded by Saint Stephen of Thiers, towards the end of the 11th century, is named after its motherhouse, Grandmont Abbey in the homonymous village in the department of Haute-Vienne, in Auvergne, France.
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