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Gray bichir The gray bichir, Polypterus senegalus, also known as the Senegal bichir, is sometimes called the dinosaur eel - a misnomer, as the creature is not an eel. It is a prototypical species of the Polypterus genus, meaning most of its features are held across the genus.
Gray ceiling The gray ceiling is a business/societal phenomenon where the existing workforce of those born during the baby boom era prevents the slightly younger generation Xers from advancing or being promoted at their jobs.
Gray Davis Joseph Graham Davis Jr. (born December 26, 1942), better known as Gray Davis, is an American politician who served as the Chief of Staff to Governor Jerry Brown (1974-1981), a California State Assemblyman (1983-1987), the California State Controller (1987-1995), the Lieutenant Governor of California (1995-1999), and the 37th Governor of California from 1999 to 2003.
Gray Flimmer Gray flimmer(ing) - The constant flashing of a Java applet, usually in animation, with the refresh() method. This can usually be avoided by implementation of the update() method or by using the technique of double buffering.
Gray Fossil Site The Gray Fossil Site is a Late Miocene-epoch assemblage of fossils located near the unincorporated town of Gray in Washington County, Tennessee. It was discovered in May 2000 in the course of a project to widen State Route 75 near its intersection with Interstate 26.
Gray Fox The Gray Fox (Urocyon cinereoargenteus) is a species of canine ranging from southern Canada, throughout most of the lower United States and Central America, to Venezuela. This species and the closely related Island Fox are the only living members of the genus Urocyon, which is considered to be among the most primitive of the living canids.
Gray Goose Laws The Gray Goose Laws (Icelandic: Grágás) were a collection of laws from the Icelandic Commonwealth period consisting of Icelandic civil laws and the laws governing the Christian church in Iceland. Prior to the establishment of the Gray Goose Laws all the Icelandic laws were recited by the Law Speaker at Althingi over a three year period.
Gray Kingbird The Gray Kingbird, Tyrannus dominicensis, is a passerine bird. It breeds from the extreme southeast of the USA through Central America and the West Indies south to Colombia, Venezuela, Trinidad, Tobago and the Guiana.
Gray Knight A gray knight is an acquiring company that enters a bid for a hostile takeover in addition to the target firm and first bidder. The gray knight is more favorable than the black knight (unfriendly bidder), but less favorable than the white knight (friendly bidder); it will usually take advantage of any problems between the target firm and other bidders.
Gray langur The gray langurs are a group of Old World monkeys and make up the entirety of the genus Semnopithecus. The species are large and fairly terrestrial, inhabiting open wooded habitats and urban areas on the Indian subcontinent.
Gray literature Gray literature is a term used variously by the intelligence community, librarians, and research professionals to refer to a body of materials that cannot be found easily through conventional channels such as publishers, "but which is frequently original and usually recent" in the words of M.C.
Gray Line Worldwide Gray Line Worldwide operates local sightseeing tours across the world using trolley coaches, double deckers and standard single deck coaches. It also offers charter services, airport transfers and convention services.
Gray Matter Heterotopia Grey Matter Heterotopia (singular heterotopion) Note: This article is written for the layman; for more technical information, refer to the external links. For a very good layman's introduction to the structure of the nervous system, I would recommmend John Kimball's wonderful online biology text.
Gray Matters Gray Matters is a romantic comedy film directed by Sue Kramer, starring Heather Graham, Tom Cavanagh and Sissy Spacek. It premiered on October 21 2006 at the Hamptons International Film Festival and is scheduled for a US theatrical release on February 23 2007.
Gray Morrow Gray Morrow (March 7, 1934 - November 6, 2001) was an American illustrator of paperback books and comics. Born in Fort Wayne, Indiana, he is best known as art director of Spider-Man between 1967 and 1970 and as illustrator of the syndicated Tarzan, Buck Rogers, Flash Gordon and Prince Valiant comic strips, among others.
Gray reef shark The grey reef shark, Carcharhinus amblyrhynchos, is one of the most common sharks in Indo-Pacific waters, from the Red Sea to Easter Island. It is found at depths down to about 250 m in lagoons and close to islands and coral reefs.
Gray render In the Dungeons and Dragons fantasy role-playing game, the gray render is a magical beast born from various terran substances present in swamps and marshes. It is a big, bulky, bulbous creature which stands 9 feet tall, despite a hunched posture, and 4 feet wide and long.
Gray Sails the Columbia River In 1792 American merchant sea-captain Robert Gray Sailed the Columbia River, becoming the first white man to navigate into it. This was eventually used as a basis for the United States' claim on the Pacific Northwest.
Gray Waste In the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game, the Gray Waste (more fully, the Gray Wastes of Hades; also, Hades, The Three Glooms, Hope's Loss or The Nadir) is a strongly neutral evil aligned plane of existence. It is one of a number of alignment-based Outer Planes that form part of the standard Dungeons & Dragons (D&D) cosmology, used in the Planescape, Greyhawk and some editions of the Forgotten Realms campaign settings.
Gray Whale The Gray Whale or Grey Whale (Eschrichtius robustus), more recently called the Eastern Pacific Gray Whale, is a whale that travels between feeding and breeding grounds yearly. It reaches a length of about 16 meters (52 ft), a weight of 36 tons and an age of 50–60 years.
Gray Whale Ranch Gray Whale Ranch is a part of Wilder Ranch State Park in Santa Cruz County, California. It is a 2,305 acre (9 km²) parcel of undeveloped land in the Santa Cruz Mountains, just outside of the City of Santa Cruz and adjacent to the University of California, Santa Cruz.
Gray Wolf Ridge Gray Wolf Ridge is a spur of the northeastern Olympic Mountains in Washington's Olympic Peninsula. Arcing northeast from the Mount Deception - Needles - Mount Clark - Mount Walkinshaw massif, Gray Wolf Ridge is clothed by alpine and subalpine forests up to the timberline, leaving the upper elevations of the Ridge's six rocky peaks vegetated only by fragile alpine meadows.
Gray's Anatomy Henry Gray's Anatomy of the Human Body, commonly known as Gray's Anatomy after Henry Gray, is an anatomy textbook widely regarded as a classic work on human anatomy. The book was first published under the title Gray's Anatomy: Descriptive and Surgical in Great Britain in 1858, and the following year in the United States.
Gray's Anatomy (1996 film) Gray's Anatomy is an 80-minute motion picture directed by Steven Soderbergh in 1996 involving a dramatized monologue by actor/writer Spalding Gray. The title is taken from the famous human anatomy textbook, Gray's Anatomy.
Gray's Beaked Whale Gray's Beaked Whale (Mesoplodon grayi), sometimes known as Haast's Beaked Whale or the Scamperdown Whale is one better known members of the genus Mesoplodon. The scientific name is in reference to John Edward Gray, a zoologist at the British Museum.
Gray's Inn Gray's Inn is one of the four Inns of Court around the Royal Courts of Justice in London, England to which barristers belong and where they are called to the bar. The others are Middle Temple, Inner Temple and Lincoln's Inn.
Gray's Inn Road Gray's Inn Road is a major road in central London, in the London Borough of Camden, and is part of the A5200 in London's congestion charge zone. The road starts in Holborn at the A40, near Chancery Lane tube station and the boundaries of the City of London and the London Borough of Islington.
Gray's Papaya Gray's Papaya is a hot dog restaurant with three locations on the West Side of Manhattan, open 24 hours a day year-round. Somewhere between a street vendor and a fast food restaurant, Gray's Papaya is famous for its very inexpensive, relatively high-quality hot dogs.
Gray's Sporting Journal Gray's Sporting Journal is a magazine dedicated to the pursuit of outdoor recreation, with an emphasis on hunting and fishing. It is one of the last consciously-literary outdoor publications, famously using a "blind reader" to select articles, poems, and stories for publication.
Gray-bellied Dunnart The Gray-bellied Dunnart (Sminthopsis griseventor) was described by the same people Kitchener, Stoddart and Henry along with the Kangaroo Island Dunnart, Gilbert's Dunnart and Little-tailed Dunnart in 1984. They also described the Mallee Ningaui in 1983.
Gray-bellied Night Monkey The Gray-bellied Night Monkey (Aotus lemurinus), also called the Lemurine Owl Monkey, is a small New World monkey of the family Aotidae. Native to tropical and subtropical forests of South and Central America, the Gray-bellied Night Monkey faces a significant threat from hunting, harvesting for use in pharmaceutical research and habitat destruction.
Gray-Dort Motors Ltd. Grey-Dort Motors was a Canadian automobile manufacturer in Chatham, Ontario, Canada from 1915 to 1925. It started as Canadian carriage works of William Gray & Sons Company Ltd, founded in 1855 by William Gray.
Gray-tailed Vole The gray-tailed vole is a common small mammal that inhabits grasslands in the Willamette Valley of western Oregon (Vert and Carraway, 1987). Gray tailed voles are polygamous: females are territorial, males have large home ranges that overlap those of several females, and juvenile emigration is male biased (Wolff et al.
Grayanotoxin Grayanotoxin is a toxin found in rhododendrons and other plants of the family Ericaceae. It can be found in honey made from their nectar and cause a very rare poisonous reaction called grayanotoxin poisoning, honey intoxication, or rhododendron poisoning.
Grayingham Grayingham is a small village in Lincolnshire, near Kirton in Lindsey, about nine miles NE of Gainsborough and ten miles S of Scunthorpe. The name Grayingham comes from the Old English Gra(ga)+inga+ham for "homestead of the family of a man named Graeg".
Grayling Day In the United Kingdom, in the early autumn, fisherman often use the name of the grayling (Thymallus thymallus) as a by-word for their seasonal jolly: a Grayling Day is fisherman-talk for a party. Many clubs as well as fisherman friends will organise their annual Grayling Day in the autumn when it is traditional for there to be large quantities of both food and drink - prefaced by a token amount of fishing.
Graymail Graymail is by definition a threatened revelation of state secrets, as opposed to blackmail, which is a threat against an individual party member. It is a defense tactic, forcing the government to drop a case, otherwise national secrets might be revealed.
Grayrigg Forest Grayrigg Forest is a hill in England, located on the eastern edge of what might be considered the Lake District though lying outside the national park. Reaching 494Â metres above sea level, it is attainable from the less well-known Borrowdale valley.
Grays Ferry, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Grays Ferry is a neighborhood in South Philadelphia bounded by 25th Street on the east, the Schuylkill River on the west, Vare Avenue on the south, and Grays Ferry Avenue on the north. The neighborhood's name dates back to the 1970s.
Grays Harbor Grays Harbor is an estuarine bay located 45 miles north of the mouth of the Columbia River, on the southwest Pacific coast of Washington State, in the United States of America. The bay is 15 miles long and 11 miles wide.
Grays Point (Washington) Grays Point is the western, downstream point of Grays Bay, on the north shore of the Columbia River estuary, at River Mile 20 (measured from the estuary-mouth), in [Washington]] State, United States of America. Grays Point sticks out slightly and bluntly from the greater headland at the west of that bay.
Grays River (Washington) Grays River is a tributary of the Columbia River, approximately 20 mi (32 km) long, in southwestern Washington in the United States. One of the lowest tributaries of the Columbia on the Washington side, it drains an area of low hills north of the mouth of the river.
Grayscale In computing, a grayscale or greyscale digital image is an image in which the value of each pixel is a single sample. Displayed images of this sort are typically composed of shades of gray, varying from black at the weakest intensity to white at the strongest, though in principle the samples could be displayed as shades of any color, or even coded with various colors for different intensities.
Grayson (film) Grayson is a 2004 fan film made by John Fiorella featuring DC Comics character Dick Grayson along with several other DC Universe characters. Since it is a fan film, it was not allowed to be sold at a profit and was thus distributed for free on the internet.
Grayson (Honorverse) The planet Grayson is a fictional human star-nation in the "Honorverse" located in the Yeltsin's Star system. It is a frequent setting for the series as the main character Honor Harrington is a citizen of both Manticore and Grayson.
Grayson Boucher Grayson Scott Boucher (born June 10, 1984 in Keizer, Oregon), better known by his moniker The Professor, is an American basketball player who plays on the Streetball AND1 Mixtape Tour. Boucher is five-foot-10 and weighs 140 pounds (1.
Grayson L. Kirk Grayson Louis Kirk (October 12, 1903 - November 21, 1997) was president of Columbia University during the campus unrest that culminated in the student occupation of several buildings. He was also a Professor of Government, advisor to the State Department, and instrumental in the formation of the United Nations.
Grayson Perry Grayson Perry (born 24 March 1960) is an award-winning English artist, best known for his ceramics and cross-dressing. He has also worked in other forms, including drawing and embroidery, and has written a graphic novel, Cycle of Violence.
Graysonia, Arkansas Graysonia, Arkansas is a ghost town and once boomtown in Clark County, Arkansas. It is located on a dirt road in what is now known locally as "the middle of nowhere", halfway between Arkadelphia and Alpine.
Grayton Beach State Park Grayton Beach State Recreation Area is a Florida State Park located between Panama City Beach and Destin, near the town of Grayton Beach, on CR 30A, in northwestern Florida. Its sister park is Deer Lake State Park.
Grayware Grayware The term "grayware" is also used to describe a kind of Native American pottery and has also been used by some working in computer technology as slang for the human brain. is a general classification for applications that behave in a manner that is annoying or undesirable.
Graz Graz [graËts] (ethyomologically from Slovenian: Gradec IPA: /gra.deʦ/, "little castle"; Czech: Ĺ tĂ˝rskĂ˝ Hradec), with a population of 287,723 as of 2006 (of which 250,099 have principal residence status), is the second-largest city in Austria after Vienna and the capital of the federal state of Styria (Steiermark in German).
Graz Entertainment Graz Entertainment is a licensing and distribution company which obtains and provides programming and licensing rights for children's television animation. They currently control Z Blade, The Attic, Goliath, Tom Thumb, and others.
Graz School The Graz School of experimental psychology and object theory was headed by Alexius Meinong, who was professor and Chair of Philosophy at the University of Graz where he founded the Graz psychological institute (in 1894).
Graz University of Technology Graz University of Technology is (after Karl-Franzens-University) the second largest university in Styria, Austria. It is situated in the heart of Styria's capital, Graz and was founded in 1811 by Archduke Johann.
Grazalema Grazalema is a tiny town located in the northeast of the province Cádiz, Andalusia, Spain at the foothills of Sierra del Pinar mountain range. According to the 2005 census, the city has a population of 2,225 inhabitants.
Grazeley Grazeley is a small rural village in the English county of Berkshire, located approximatley four miles south of Reading at . It is divided by the two administrative unitary authorities of Wokingham District and West Berkshire.
Grazer AK Grazer AK, founded 18 August 1902 as Grazer Athletik-Sport Klub (in Austria the abbreviation GAK is more common, but they are also known as the "Athletiker" and in Austrian media the are often called "Liebherr GAK" for their sponsor), is an Austrian sports club, from the city of Graz in the federal state of Styria (Steiermark). The football section is one of the most traditional Austrian clubs, most successful in the decade 1995 - 2005.
Grazhdanskaya Oborona Grazhdanskaya Oborona (often abbreviated as GrOb or GO) (Russian: ГражданŃкая Оборона, ГрОб, ГО) is one of the earliest and most famous Russian punk bands. The name of the band can be translated from Russian as "Civil Defence".
Grazia Grazia (Italian for “Grace”) is an Italian and a British weekly women's glossy magazine. In Italy, it is owned by the Mondadori (one of Berlusconi's companies), and it owned in the UK under licence by Emap.
Grazide Lizier Grazide Lizier née Fauré was a peasant in the Comté de Foix in the late thirteenth and early fourteenth century. A number of facts about her life are recorded in the Fournier Register, and her life, along with those of her fellow villagers, was analyzed in Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie's Montaillou.
Graziella Magherini Graziella Magherini is an Italian psychologist, most known for her 1989 book "La sindrome di Stendhal" ("The Stendhal syndrome"), which introduced this term to indicate a psychosomatic illness affecting individuals when exposed to art.
Grazielle Oganna Grazielle Oganna (born March 22, 1980) GROUPIE. She was born in Auburn, New South Wales, Australia and raised in Santa Catarina, Brazil, and is of Japanese descent on her mother's side and Norwegian on her father's side.
Grazigity The term Grazigity was first coined by a suburban mother mispronouncing the title of a Video Game/Book/Movie by the name of Gravity X. The resulting bluncer was the term Grazigity (although at the time it did sound more baffling).
Grazing Grazing is the regular consumption of part of one organism without killing it by another organism. Grazing differs from predation because the organism being eaten is not killed, and it differs from the feeding of parasites by the fact that the two organisms do not stay together very long, nor is the grazer so limited in what it can eat.
Grazing incidence diffraction Grazing incidence X-ray and neutron diffraction (abbreviation GIXD or GID) uses small incident angles for the incoming X-ray or neutron beam, so that diffraction can be made surface sensitive. If one stays below (typically 80% of) the critical angle of the surface material studied, the radiation does not penetrate into the material, but only an evanescent wave is established for a short distance (typicall tens of Angstroms) into the material, but exponentially damped.
Grazing lunar occultation A lunar occultation occurs when the Moon, moving along its orbital path, passes in front of a star or other celestial object, as seen by an observer (normally on the Earth). A grazing lunar occultation (also lunar grazing occultation, lunar graze, or just graze) occurs when one of the two edges of the moon parallel to its orbital path appears to just touch or graze the star as the moon goes by.
Grazing occultation An occultation is an astronomical event that occurs when one celestial object is hidden by another celestial object that passes between it and the observer. A grazing occultation is a special type of lunar occultation that occurs within a mile or two of the edge of an occultation's predicted path, referred to as its northern or southern limit.
GrĂmur Thomsen GrĂmur Thomsen (1820-1896), Icelandic poet and man of letters, was born in 1820 in at Bessastaðir, and was the son of ĂžorgrĂmur TĂłmasson, a goldsmith. He came in 1837 to the University of Copenhagen, where he first studied law and philology, but later, philosophy and aesthetics.
GrĂpisspá GrĂpisspá (GrĂpir's prophecy) or Sigurðarkviða Fáfnisbana I (First Lay of Sigurd Fáfnir's Slayer) is an Eddic poem, found in the Codex Regius manuscript where it follows Frá dauða Sinfjötla and precedes Fáfnismál.
Gråsten Gråsten (German:Gravenstein), stress on last syllable) is a municipality (Danish, kommune) in South Jutland County on the east coast of the Jutland peninsula in south Denmark by the Nybøl Nor at an inlet of the Flensburg Fjord. The municipality covers an area of 57 km², and has a total population of 7,256 (2005).
GrĂĽĂź Gott GrĂĽĂź Gott (God bless you, literally Greet God) is a greeting, less often a farewell, in the Upper German Sprachraum, particularly in Catholic states. The greeting was publicized in the 19th century by the Catholic clergy and along with its variants has long been the most common greeting form in Southern Germany and Austria.
Gründerzeit The Gründerzeit (German, literally: the Founding Epoch) denotes the first decades after the foundation in 1871 of the Prussia-led German Empire. As a design style it was succeeded by the Jugendstil (Art Nouveau) (1895–1914).
GrĂĽneburgpark The GrĂĽneburgpark is a park in the Westend district of Frankfurt, whose name derives from the "Green castle", which used to stand on the site from the 14 century. In 1789 the banker Peter Heinrich von Bethmann Metzler acquired the property and designed the park.
GrĂĽneisen Parameter The GrĂĽneisen Parameter, named after Eduard GrĂĽneisen, describes the alteration in a crystal lattice's vibration's frequency (phonon) based on the lattice's increase or decrease in volume as a result of temperature change.
GrĂĽnhorn The GrĂĽnhorn is a mountain in the Bernese Alps range of the Swiss Alps with a height exceeding 4,000 metres. The starting point for the usual ascent by the GrĂĽnegghorn and the Southwestern Ridge is the KonkordiahĂĽtte alpine hut at 2850m, which can be reached from Fiesch (1049m).
GrĂĽningen Priory GrĂĽningen Priory was a short-lived Cluniac foundation, predecessor to St. Ulrich's Priory in the Black Forest, at GrĂĽningen in Breisach in the district of Breisgau-Hochschwarzwald, Baden-WĂĽrttemberg, Germany.
GrĂĽssau Abbey GrĂĽssau Abbey or GrĂĽssau Monastery (in German Abtei GrĂĽssau) is a house of the Benedictine Order that was located at Grussau, Silesia (now KrzeszĂłw, Poland) and now located at Bad Wimpfen in Baden-WĂĽrttemberg in Germany.
GrĂŁo Vasco Museum The GrĂŁo Vasco Museum (Museu de GrĂŁo Vasco) is an art museum located in the city of Viseu, in Portugal. The museum is named after one of the most important Portuguese painters of the Renaissance, Vasco Fernandes (also known as the GrĂŁo Vasco), who had his workshop in Viseu.
Grêmio Foot-Ball Porto Alegrense World Champion in 1983, Grêmio Foot-Ball Porto Alegrense, usually known simply as Grêmio, is a traditional Brazilian football team from Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, founded on September 15, 1903. Major titles captured by Grêmio include one Intercontinental Cup, two Copa Libertadores de América (the South American "Champions League"), two national championships and four national cups.
Grândola Vila Morena "Grândola Vila Morena" is a Portuguese song by Zeca Afonso, that tells of the fraternity among the people of Grândola, a town in the Alentejo. Salazar's Estado Novo regime considered the song to be associated with Communism, and as a result it was banned from being played or broadcast.
Gré Brouwenstijn The Dutch lyric-dramatic soprano Gré Brouwenstijn (August 26 1915–December 14 1999) was a famous opera singer whose stage career spanned from the early 1940s to the mid-1970s. She was admired for her warm, radiant voice, her stage presence, her dramatic instincts, and her "Ingrid Bergman" looks.
Grégoire Hellot Grégoire Hellot is a famous French professional video game reviewer (member of the Joypad/Joystick magazines), he is renowned for his proficiency about RPG games, as well as Japanese language. He has numerous other projects, for example France Five, a French parody and homage to the Sentai genre (Bioman-like), and he is now editorial director of Kurokawa mangas.
Grégoire-Pierre Cardinal Agagianian Krikor Bedros Aghajanian (, in Eastern Armenian pronounced as Grigor Petros – Gregory Peter also known under the name ) (September 18, 1895 – May 16, 1971) was a leading clergyman of the Armenian Catholic Church.
Grégory Bourillon Grégory Bourillon (born 1 July 1984 in Laval, Mayenne, Pays de la Loire) is a French soccer player, currently playing for Stade Rennais in Ligue 1, the top division of French soccer. He plays as a defender or defensive midfielder.
Grétar Steinsson Grétar Rafn Steinsson (born January 9, 1982 in Siglufjörður) is an Icelandic professional football player, playing for AZ Alkmaar in Holland. He also plays regularly for the Iceland national football team usually as a right back but also sometimes on the right wing.
Gräf & Stift Gräf & Stift was an Austrian automaker founded by the brothers Franz, Heinrich and Carl Gräf, and the Investor, Wilhelm Stift. The Gräf brothers started a workshop in 1893, in which they developed the world's first front-wheel drive automobile in 1898 (and patented the technology in 1900).
Gränna Gränna is a town in Jönköping Municipality on the eastern shores of the lake Vättern in Sweden. The town is situated at the foot of Gränna mountain and is characterized by its steep streets and old wooden houses.
Græsted-Gilleleje Græsted-Gilleleje is a municipality (Danish, kommune) in Frederiksborg County on the north coast of the island of Zealand (Sjælland) in eastern Denmark. The municipality covers an area of 134 km², and has a total population of 20,936 (2005).
Gröbner basis In computer algebra, computational algebraic geometry, and computational commutative algebra, a Gröbner basis is a particular kind of generating subset of an ideal I in a polynomial ring R. One can view it as a multivariate, non-linear generalization of:
Gröden-Val Gardena Gröden (ger) - Val Gardena (ita) - Gherdëina (lad) is one of the five ladin valleys in the Dolomites (two of these valleys are in South Tyrol). Its form of the ladin language is called "gardenese" in Italian, "grödnerisch" in German and "gherdëina" in Ladin.
Grönvik Grönvik is a village and secluded part of the larger village of Iskmo in the municipality of Korsholm, ca 15 km north of the city of Vasa, in Finland. The population of the village is mostly Finland-Swedes and the number of inhabitants is ca 80 persons.
Grötzsch graph The Grötzsch graph is a triangle-free graph with 11 vertices, 20 edges, and chromatic number 4. It is named after German mathematician Herbert Grötzsch, and its existence demonstrates that the assumption of planarity is necessary in Grötzsch's theorem (Grötzsch 1959) that every triangle-free planar graph is 3-colorable.
Grønlands Spejderkorps Grønlands Spejderkorps (Kalaallisut: Kalaallit Nunaanni Spejderit Kattufiat) is the youngest of the Danish Scout associations, founded on February 2, 1973. Previously Greenlandic boys had belonged to one of the Danish Scout associations and girls belonged to one of the corresponding Danish Guide associations.
Gre'Thor In the fictional Star Trek universe, Gre'Thor (in Klingon, ghe'tor or ghe''or) is the Klingon afterlife where the dishonored go when they die. It is the Klingon equivalent of hell and is guarded by a fearsome demon, Fek'lhr (roughly pronounced "Fek-Lar"; in Klingon, veqlargh).
Gre-Nal Gre-Nal stands for every match opposing the two main forces of southern Brazilian soccer, Grêmio versus Internacional, two highly successful football clubs based in the same city – Porto Alegre, the capital of the southern state of Rio Grande do Sul. Grêmio was Intercontinental Champion, two times winner of the Copa Libertadores (South American Champions' League), has won 2 Brazilian championships, 4 Brazilian cups and 34 state cups.
Gre-No-Li Gre-No-Li is a contraction of the surnames of three Swedish footballers: Gunnar Gren, Gunnar Nordahl and Nils Liedholm. The denomination was colloquially used after these players composed a formidable trio of strikers while playing for the Swedish national team and AC Milan in the 1950s.
Grease (soundtrack) Grease is 1978's original motion picture soundtrack. It's film version of Jim Jacobs & Warren Casey's musical "Grease" starring John Travolta, Olivia Newton-John and Stockard Channing, directed by Randal Kleiser.
Grease Trucks The Grease Trucks are a group of food truck vendors located on the College Avenue campus of Rutgers University at New Brunswick, New Jersey. They are known for serving "Fat Sandwiches", a sub roll containing an ensemble of ingredients such as steak, cheese, chicken fingers, french fries, mozzarella sticks, jalapeño poppers, and more.
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