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Grease: You're The One That I Want Grease: You're The One That I Want is an NBC reality series designed to cast the lead roles of Sandy Dumbrowski and Danny Zuko in a June 2007 Broadway revival of the musical Grease directed and choreographed by Tony Award-winning Kathleen Marshall.
Greasecar A greasecar is an automobile that has been converted to run on straight vegetable oil (SVO) by installing a coolant-heated auxiliary fuel tank. The vehicle heats up the vegetable oil while burning diesel or Biodiesel from the stock fuel tank.
Greased Greased is an EP by Less Than Jake featuring songs from the musical Grease including Summer Nights, You're The One That I Want and Greased Lightning. Greased has been released twice - the first release was discontinued to avoid a lawsuit with Paramount Pictures (who own the rights to the film) and Universal Music Group (who own the rights to the songs featured in the film Grease), and the second was released several months later after a deal had been reached.
Greased Lightning Greased Lightning is a 1977 biographical film, starring Richard Pryor, Beau Bridges and Pam Grier, and directed by Michael Schultz. Greased Lightning is a film loosely based on the true life story of Wendell Scott, the first African American stock car racing champion in America.
Greasel (Deus Ex) The Greasel is a fictional creature from the computer game Deus Ex and its sequel Deus Ex: Invisible War. The Greasel from the original game resembles a large green flightless bird, though on closer inspection, it is more reptilian than avian.
Greasemonkey Greasemonkey is a Mozilla Firefox extension that allows users to install scripts that make on-the-fly changes to specific web pages. As the Greasemonkey scripts are persistent, the changes made to the web pages are executed every time the page is opened, making them effectively permanent for the user running the script.
Greaser (derogatory) Greaser was a derogatory term for a Mexican in what is now the US Southwest in the 19th century. It most likely derived from one of the lowliest occupations typically held by Mexicans in what is now the US Southwest, the greasing of the axles of mule carts.
Greaser Act The Greaser Act was an anti-Mexican law enacted in 1855 in California, thinly disguised as an anti-vagrancy statute. The law defined a vagrant as "all persons who are commonly known as ' Greasers' or the issue of Spanish and Indian blood...
Greasewood Greasewood (Sarcobatus) is a genus of one or two species of flowering plants. Traditionally it has been treated in the family Chenopodiaceae, but the APG II system, of 2003, places it in the family Sarcobataceae.
Greasy spoon Greasy spoon is a colloquial term used in Britain and North America for archetypal working class eateries. Pioneered In the UK, these are generally technically called cafés (in England often abbreviated to "caff" or referred to as cafes, with no accent); in America such establishments are generally known as diners.
Great albatross The great albatrosses are seabirds in the genus Diomedea in the albatross family. The genus Diomedea formerly included all albatrosses except the sooty albatrosses, but in 1996 the genus was split with the mollymawks and the North Pacific albatrosses both being elevated to separate genera (Nunn et al.
Great and British Motorsport Festival A Great and British Motorsport Festival is a package of motor races organised by the BARC and promoted by Dunlop. The events are a new addition to the motorsport calendar and appears at the Snetterton, Brands Hatch, Pembrey, Castle Combe, Silverstone, Thruxton, Croft and Donington Park racing circuits.
Great Alaska Shootout The Great Alaska Shootout (orginially known as the Sea Wolf Classic) is an annual college basketball tournament in Anchorage, Alaska that features colleges from all over the United States. The University of Alaska Anchorage hosts the tournament every Thanksgiving.
Great Allegheny Passage The Great Allegheny Passage is a bicycle and foot trail currently under construction that will run for 150 miles (240 km) from Cumberland, Maryland to Point State Park in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania with a 52-mile (83 km) branch to the Pittsburgh International Airport. This rail trail connects with the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal towpath trail, which runs for an additional 185 miles (296 km) between Cumberland and Washington, DC.
Great Alliance Seniors The Great Alliance Seniors is North America's newest drum and bugle corps association, and is currently a loose-knit group designed to support and provide a central nucleus for the growing numbers of non-competitive Alumni Corps.
Great Aloha Run The Hawaiian Telcom Great Aloha Run is a road race that takes place annually in Honolulu, Hawaii on the third Monday in February (Presidents' Day in the United States). It is a charity event that benefits Carole Kai Charities, a philanthropic fund run by Hawaii entertainer Carole Kai.
Great Alpine Road The Great Alpine Road (B500) is a country tourist road in Victoria, Australia, running from Wangaratta in the north to Bairnsdale in the east, and passing through the Australian Alps. The road was given its current name as being the mountain equivalent to Victoria's world famous Great Ocean Road in the south-west of the state.
Great Altar of Hercules The Great Altar of Unconquered Hercules (Herculis Invicti Ara MaximaTacitus and Juvenal both refer to the altar as magna (great") instead of maxima ("greatest")) stood in the Forum Boarium, of ancient Rome. It was the earliest cult-centre of Hercules in Rome, predating the circular Temple of Hercules that stood until it was demolished by order of Pope Sixtus V.
Great American Beer Festival The Great American Beer Festival (GABF) is a three-day annual event traditionally held at the end of September/beginning of October in Denver, Colorado (dubbed “the Napa Valley of beer” by many of the world’s beer experts). The GABF brings a record number of beer connoisseurs from around the world to sample more than 1,600 different American beers.
Great American Boycott The Great American Boycott of 2006, known in Spanish as El Gran Paro Americano ("The Great American Strike"), was a boycott of United States schools and businesses held on May 1, 2006. The date was chosen to coincide with May Day, an international Labor Movement holiday (observed as a national holiday in some European countries and in Mexico, but not widely in the United States due to associations with Communism).
Great American Brass Band Festival The Great American Brass Band Festival is a music festival held annually in Danville, Kentucky since 1990. The open-air festival features a wide variety of brass bands, a hot air balloon race, a picnic, and other activities.
Great American Country Great American Country (or GAC), is a Nashville, Tennessee-based country music cable television network. As MTV Networks shifts its CMT channel towards a "country culture" format, GAC is making inroads as the network that plays more music than CMT, about 50 percent more, according to recent data from Nielsen Media Services.
Great American Interchange The Great American Interchange was a very important paleozoogeographic event in which land and freshwater animal faunas migrated from Central America to South America and vice versa, as the volcanic Isthmus of Panama rose up from the sea floor and bridged the continents. The migration peaked dramatically around 3 Million years ago (Piacenzian, the first half of the Upper Pliocene).
Great American Music Hall The Great American Music Hall (located on O'Farrell Street, in the Tenderloin neighborhood of San Francisco on the same block as Mitchell Brothers O'Farrell Theater) is known in part for its balconies, columns, and frescoes, but more so for its history of unique entertainment. It was established
Great American Novel The "Great American Novel" is the concept of a novel that perfectly represents the spirit of life in the United States at the time of its publication. It is presumed to be written by an American author who is knowledgeable about the state, culture, and perspective of the common American citizen.
Great American Restaurants Great American Restaurants is a chain of restaurants and bakeries in the Northern Virginia region of the United States. Founded in 1974, the chain now operates nine restaurants under the names Artie's, Carlyle, Coastal Flats, Mike's American Grill, Silverado, and Sweetwater Tavern.
Great American Songbook The Great American Songbook is an informal term referring to a period of American popular music songwriting that took place between the 1930s and 1960s. It also refers to a canon of songs written in this style.
Great American Streetcar Scandal The Great American Streetcar Scandal refers to General Motors, Firestone Tire and Rubber Company, Standard Oil of California and two other companies forming National City Lines (NCL) holding company, which acquired most streetcar systems throughout the United States, dismantled them, and replaced them with buses in the early 20th Century. The scandal alleges that NCL's companies had an ulterior motive to gain mass use of the automobile among the U.
Great Americans series The Great Americans series is a set of definitive stamps issued by the United States Postal Service, starting in 1980 with a 19¢ stamp depicting Sequoyah, and continuing through 2002, the final stamp being the 78¢ Alice Paul self-adhesive stamp.
Great Andamanese Great Andamanese is a collective term used to refer to related groups or tribes of indigenous peoples who lived throughout most of the Great Andaman archipelago, the main and closely-situated group of islands in the Andaman Islands. Their collective identity is put forward mainly on the basis of linguistic analysis; the languages spoken by the different groups were (from what is known) clearly related, and formed one of the two identified families of indigenous Andamanese languages (the Great Andamanese family).
Great Anti-Buddhist Persecution The Great Anti-Buddhist Persecution was initiated by (Taoist) Tang Emperor Wuzong in the year 845 CE in order to appropriate "war funds" and cleanse China of "foreign" influences. Essentially, it was a wave of "religious" pogroms directed towards Buddhism but also other "foreign" religions such as Zoroastrianism and Christianity.
Great Ape language Research into non-human Great Ape language has generated a great deal of evidence suggesting that the great apes are capable of using sophisticated communication with humans and other apes. Gorillas and chimpanzees have been taught to form signs in sign language, arrange physical tokens in specific sequences, and operate lexigrams (keyboards with symbols on them).
Great Ape Project The Great Ape Project (GAP), founded in 1993, is an international organization of primatologists, psychologists, ethicists, and other experts who advocate a United Nations Declaration of the Rights of Great Apes that would confer basic legal rights on non-human great apes: chimpanzees, bonobos, gorillas, and orangutans. The rights suggested are the right to life, the protection of individual liberty, and the prohibition of torture.
Great Ape research ban A Great Ape research ban, or severe restrictions on the use of non-human great apes in research, is currently in place in the Netherlands, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, Sweden, Germany and Japan, and has been proposed in Austria.
Great Apes Survival Project Established in 2001, the Great Apes Survival Project (GRASP) aims to conserve the great apes (chimpanzees, gorillas and orangutans) and their habitat — primarily forested tropical ecosystems that provide important services to humanity, through pro-poor conservation and sustainable development strategies.
Great Apostasy The Great Apostasy is a term of [used by some religious groups to allege a general fallen state of traditional Christianity], or especially of [[Catholicism, magisterial Protestantism and Eastern Orthodoxy, that it is not representative of the faith founded by Jesus and promulgated through his twelve Apostles: in short, that these churches have fallen into apostasy.
Great Appalachian Storm of November 1950 The Great Appalachian Storm of November 1950 was a large extratropical cyclone which moved through the Eastern United States, causing significant winds, heavy rains east of the Appalachians, and blizzard conditions along the western slopes of the mountain chain. Power was out to more than 1,000,000 customers during this event.
Great Appalachian Valley The Great Valley, also called the Great Appalachian Valley or Great Valley Region, is one of the major landform features of eastern North America. It is a gigantic through — a chain of valley lowlands — and the central feature of the Appalachian Mountain system.
Great Argus The Great Argus, Argusianus argus is a brown-plumaged pheasant with a small blue head and neck, rufous red upper breast, a black hair-like feathers on crown and nape, and red legs. The male is among the largest of all pheasants, with up to 200cm in length.
Great Architect of the Universe The Great Architect of the Universe (GAOTU, also Grand Architect of the Universe or Supreme Architect of the Universe) is a conception of God used by many. It is a conception of God discussed by many Christian theologians and apologists.
Great Assembly The Great Assembly (Hebrew: ×›Ö°ÖĽ× Ö¶×ˇÖ¶×Ş הַגְּדוֹלָה) or Anshei Knesset HaGedolah (×Ö·× Ö°×©Öµ××™ ×›Ö°ÖĽ× Ö¶×ˇÖ¶×Ş הַגְּדוֹלָה, "The Men of the Great Assembly"), also known as the Great Synagogue) was an assembly of 120 Rabbis in the period after the time of the prophets up to the time of the development of Rabbinic Judaism. They were in a period of about two generations.
Great Atlanta fire of 1917 The Great Atlanta Fire of 1917 began just after noon on Monday, May 21 and was finally extinguished by 10 PM. Destroyed were 300 acres (much of the Fourth Ward), including nearly 2,000 homes, businesses and churches, and 10,000 people were displaced.
Great Attractor The Great Attractor is a gravity anomaly in intergalactic space within the range of the Centaurus Supercluster which reveals the existence of a localised concentration of mass equivalent to tens of thousands of galaxies, observable by its effect on the motion of galaxies over a region hundreds of millions of light years across.
Great Australian Bight The Great Australian Bight is a large bight, or open bay, encompassing an area of the Southern Ocean located off the central and western portions of the southern coastline of mainland Australia. By definition of the International Hydrographic Bureau, the Great Australian Bight extends eastward from West Cape Howe, Western Australia, to South West Cape, Tasmania.
Great Australians Party Great Australians is an Australian political party. The party was founded in 2003 by John James Cumming, and is currently led by John Rivett, a Queensland businessman who has started and run many businesses during his life.
Great Ayton Great Ayton is a village and civil parish in the Hambleton district of North Yorkshire on the edge of the North York Moors in England. The name Great Ayton is thought to derive from Ea-tun, tun meaning farm and 'ea' meaning river.
Great Ayton railway station Great Ayton railway station serves the village of Great Ayton in the county of North Yorkshire, England. It is located on the Esk Valley Line and is operated by Northern Rail who provide all of the station's passenger services.
Great Barford Bridge The early fifteenth century Great Barford Bridge, sometimes called simply Barford Bridge, spans the River Great Ouse at Great Barford, Bedfordshire. It is an arch bridge with seventeen arches, originally built from limestone and sandstone.
Great Barr Great Barr is a large and loosely-defined area which straddles the boundaries of Birmingham, West Bromwich (Sandwell) and Walsall, West Midlands, England. "Barr" means "hill", and the name refers to nearby Barr Beacon.
Great Barrier Airlines Great Barrier Airlines is a New Zealand airline that was established in 1983. They flew their first scheduled service to Great Barrier Island on the 2 December 1983, departing from Ardmore Airport, an airport three nautical miles southeast of Manurewa in Auckland, New Zealand.
Great Barrier Island Great Barrier Island is a large island of New Zealand, situated 88 km to the north-east of central Auckland in the outer Hauraki Gulf. One of the largest islands in New Zealand, it is named so as it acts as a barrier between the Pacific Ocean and the mainland.
Great Barrier Reef The Great Barrier Reef is the world's largest coral reef system, composed of roughly 3,000 individual reefs and 900 islands, that stretch for 2,600 kilometres (1,616 mi) covering an area of approximately 344,400 km². The reef is located in the Coral Sea, off the coast of Queensland in northeast Australia.
Great Basin Bristlecone Pine The Great Basin Bristlecone Pine (Pinus longaeva) is one of the bristlecone pines, a group of three species of pine found in the higher mountains of the southwest United States. Great Basin Bristlecone Pine occurs in Utah, Nevada and eastern California.
Great Basin College Great Basin College is a community college unit of the University and Community College System of Nevada, located in Elko, Nevada, USA. Opened in 1967 as "Elko Community College", it was later renamed to "Northern Nevada Community College" and then to its current name.
Great Basin National Park Great Basin National Park is a United States National Park established in 1986, located in east-central Nevada near its border with Utah. The park derives its name from the Great Basin, the dry and mountainous region between the Sierra Nevada and the Rocky Mountains.
Great Basin tribes Bold textThe Great Basin tribes of Native Americans occupied an area of some 400,000 mile² (1,000,000 km²), between the Rocky Mountains and the Sierra Nevada, in what is now Nevada, and parts of Oregon, California, Idaho, Wyoming, and Utah. There is very little precipitation in the Great Basin area, which affects the lifestyles and cultures of the indigenous inhabitants.
Great Battles The Great Battles is a documentary television show that tells the stories of various decisive battles throughout history. It is hosted by Mark Jackson, a descendant of the author of The 15 Most Decisive Battles in the World.
Great Bay (New Hampshire) Great Bay is a tidal estuary located in Strafford and Rockingham counties in eastern New Hampshire, United States. The bay occupies over 6,000 acres (24 km²), not including its several tidal river tributaries.
Great Bay (New Jersey) Great Bay is located in southern New Jersey's Atlantic Coastal Plain in Ocean and Atlantic Counties, about ten miles (13 km) north of Atlantic City and 87 mi (140 km) south of New York City. The Mullica River flows into the bay and together they form the Mullica River - Great Bay estuary habitat.
Great Bear Wilderness The Great Bear Wilderness is located in northern Montana, United States, within Lewis and Clark National Forest Created by an act of Congress in 1978, the wilderness is comprised of 286,700 acres (1,160 km²) and borders the Bob Marshall Wilderness on the north. The Great Bear and Bob Marshall Wildernesses, along with the Scapegoat Wilderness which borders the Bob Marshall to the south, collectively form the Bob Marshall Wilderness Complex, which is over 1.
Great Bed of Ware The Great Bed of Ware is an extremely large oak four poster bed, carved with marquetry, that was originally housed in the White Hart Inn in Ware, England. Built by Hertfordshire Jonas Fosbrooke circa 1590, the bed measures ten by eleven feet and can sleep over 15 people at once.
Great Belize Television Great Belize Television, or as it is locally known, Channel 5, is a Belize City based local television station established in December of 1990. Channel 5 airs mostly American and Caribbean programs, as well as a variety of locally produced programs.
Great Bentley Great Bentley, in the Tendring district of Essex, England, has the largest village green in the country and has won 'Village of the Year' several times. A short stroll and you come to Great Bentley railway station with its manned level crossing which is being updated to automatic barriers in the near future on the Colchester to Clacton Line.
Great Big DVD And CD Great Big DVD and CD is a live recording by Canadian folk group, Great Big Sea, released on Zoe Records in 2004. The package contains two discs, one in CD format and one in NTSC DVD format with no region coding.
Great Bircham Great Bircham is the largest of the three villages that make up the civil parish of Bircham, in the west of the English county of Norfolk. The village is located about 1 km south of the village of Bircham Newton, the same distance west of the village of Bircham Tofts, 20 km north-east of the town of King's Lynn, and 60 km north-west of the city of Norwich.
Great Bitter Lake The Great Bitter Lake (Arabic: البŘيرة المرة الŮبرى; transliterated: al-Buhayrah al-Murra al-Kubra) is a salt water lake between the north and south part of the Suez Canal. It is adjoined by the Small Bitter Lake (Arabic: البŘيرة المرة الصغرى; transliterated: al-Buhayrah al-Murra as-Sughra), separated by a contraction.
Great Black Swamp The Great Black Swamp, or simply Black Swamp, was a glacially-caused wetland in northwest Ohio, United States, extending into extreme northeastern Indiana, that existed from the end of the Wisconsin glaciation until the late 19th century. It comprised extensive swamps and marshes, with some higher, drier ground interspersed, and occupied what was formerly the southwestern part of Glacial Lake Maumee, a holocene precursor to Lake Erie.
Great Black-backed Gull The Great Black-backed Gull, Larus marinus, is a very large gull which breeds on the European and North American coasts and islands of the North Atlantic. It is fairly sedentary, but some Great Black-backed Gulls move further south or inland to large lakes or reservoirs.
Great Blasket Island Great Blasket (An Bhlascaod MhĂłr in Irish) is the principal island of the Blaskets, County Kerry, Ireland. It lies approximately 2 km from the mainland at Dunmore Head, and extends 6 km to the southwest, rising to 292 metres at its highest point (Croaghmore).
Great Blizzard of 1888 The Great Blizzard of 1968 (March 12 – March 14 1888) was one of the most severe blizzards in United States recorded history, with snow drifts in excess of 50 feet (15 m). All across the eastern seaboard there were snow walls up to 50 inches (1.
Great Blizzard of 1978 The Great Blizzard of 1978 struck parts of the Ohio Valley and Great Lakes on January 26 1978. Particularly hard hit were the states of Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio, and southeast Wisconsin where up to 40" of snow fell.
Great Blue Heron The Great Blue Heron, Ardea herodias, is a wading bird of the heron family Ardeidae, common all over North and Central America as well as the West Indies and the Galápagos, except in deserts and high mountains where there is no water for it to wade in. It is very similar to the European Grey Heron.
Great Blue Windrunner The Great Blue Windrunner is a huge fictional bird, with a wingspan of over 50 feet wide, making it larger than the largest flying bird to have ever lived (Argentavis magnificens). It was invented for the film The Future Is Wild.
Great Book of Lecan The Great Book of Lecan (Leabhar MĂłr Leacain) is an medieval Irish manuscript written in 1418. It is in the possession of the Royal Irish Academy and should not be confused with the Yellow Book of Lecan, an earlier and more complete manuscript.
Great Books Foundation The Great Books Foundation, incorporated in the state of Illinois and based in Chicago, is an independent, nonprofit educational organization whose mission is to help people think and share ideas. Toward this end, the Foundation publishes collections of classic and modern literature as part of a continuum of reading and discussion programs for children and adults.
Great Books of the Western World Great Books of the Western World is a series of books originally published in the United States in 1952 by Encyclopædia Britannica Inc. in an attempt to present the western canon in a single package of 54 volumes.
Great Bowerbird The Great Bowerbird, Chlamydera nuchalis is a common and conspicuous resident of northern Australia, from the area around Broome across the Top End to Cape York Peninsula and as far south as Mount Isa. Favoured habitat is a broad range of forest and woodland, and the margins of vine forests, monsoon forest, and mangrove swamps.
Great BrÄila Island The Great BrÄila Island (Insula Mare a BrÄilei, formerly Balta Mare a BrÄilei, the "Great BrÄila Pond") is an island on the Danube river in the BrÄila County, Romania. It has on average 60 km length and 20 km width.
Great Brewster Island Great Brewster Island is a one of the outer islands in the Boston Harbor Islands National Recreation Area, situated some 9 miles offshore of downtown Boston. The island has a permanent size of 18 acres, plus an intertidal zone of a further 49 acres.
Great Bridge (Cambridge) The Great Bridge over the Charles River connected Cambridge, Massachusetts to Little Cambridge, which was the name for Allston-Brighton before it separated from Cambridge in 1807, first becoming the town of Brighton and finally joining the city of Boston in 1874. The Great Bridge was built in 1660-1662, and was the first bridge to span the Charles.
Great Britain and Ireland The phrase Great Britain and Ireland is a term often used as a collective description covering the whole of the geographical area of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland.
Great Britain and Ireland at the 1896 Summer Olympics Ten athletes from the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland competed in seven sports at the 1896 Summer Olympics. The British and Irish athletes were the fifth most successful in terms of overall medals (7) and tied for fifth in gold medals (2).
Great Britain and Ireland at the 1900 Summer Olympics The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland competed as Great Britain at the 1900 Summer Olympics in Paris, France. It was the second appearance of the European nation, after having participated in the inaugural 1896 Games.
Great Britain and Ireland at the 1908 Summer Olympics The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland was the host nation of the 1908 Summer Olympics in London. The British Olympic Association was the National Olympic Committee responsible for organizing the United Kingdom's representation.
Great Britain and Ireland at the 1920 Summer Olympics The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland competed as Great Britain at the 1920 Summer Olympics in Antwerp, Belgium. British athletes won fifteen gold medals (up from ten in 1912) and 43 medals overall, finishing third.
Great Britain and Ireland at the 1924 Summer Olympics The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland competed as 'Great Britain and Ireland' at the 1924 Summer Olympics in Paris, France. Despite the name, athletes from the newly-independent Irish Free State competed separately.
Great Britain and Northern Ireland at the 1928 Summer Olympics The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland competed as Great Britain at the 1928 Summer Olympics in Amsterdam, Netherlands. British athletes won only three gold medals (down from nine in 1924), and twenty medals overall, finishing eleventh.
Great Britain and Northern Ireland at the 1932 Summer Olympics The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland competed as Great Britain at the 1932 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California, United States. British athletes have competed in every Summer Olympic Games.
Great Britain and Northern Ireland at the 1948 Summer Olympics The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, competing as Great Britain, was the host nation for the 1948 Summer Olympics in London. It was the second time that the United Kingdom had hosted the Summer Olympic Games, equalling the record of France and the United States to that point.
Great Britain and Northern Ireland at the 2004 Summer Olympics Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the name under which the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland competes at the Olympics) sent a wide-ranging delegation to the 2004 Summer Olympics, continuing its ubiquitous presence in the Olympic games — the only country to have sent competitors to every summer and winter games since the birth of the modern Olympics in 1896. Great Britain's 271 athletes competed in 22 disciplines throughout the two-week event.
Great Britain and Northern Ireland at the 2006 Winter Olympics The United Kingdom competed under the name Great Britain and Northern Ireland at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, Italy. Athletes from Northern Ireland were generally free to participate for either this team or the Ireland team under a long-standing settlement between the British Olympic Association and the Olympic Council of Ireland.
Great Britain and Northern Ireland at the Summer Olympics Great Britain and Northern Ireland is the name used by the United Kingdom at the Summer Olympic Games. The nation went by Great Britain and Ireland through the 1924 Summer Olympics, while the country was the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
Great Britain at the 2004 Summer Paralympics Great Britain (the name which the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland competes under at Olympic and Paralympic level) sent a delegation of 166 athletes to the 2004 Summer Paralympics, covering 15 sports. The ParalympicsGB team entered the opening ceremony behind the Union Flag carried by Noel Thatcher.
Great Britain Historical GIS The Great Britain Historical GIS, GBHGIS, is a spatially enabled database that document and visualise the changing administrative boundaries of England and Wales the past 200 years. The aim is to make demographical and social statistics from different years comparable, even if the administrative sub divisions have been subject to alterations.
Great Britain national Australian rules football team The Great Britain national Australian rules football team is known as the British Bulldogs. The team is made up of the best British born players selected from the clubs of the British Australian Rules Football League competitions in both England and Scotland.
Great British Beer Festival The Great British Beer Festival (often shortened to GBBF) is a yearly beer festival organised by the Campaign for Real Ale (CAMRA). It presents a selection of cask ales and other alcoholic drinks from the UK and beyond.
Great Burgan Most of Kuwait's oil is located in the Great Burgan area (reserves of approximately 70 billion barrels) and is considered to be the world's second largest oil field. These three fields together pump 31' and 33' range crude into 14 tank farms.
Great capes In sailing, the great capes are the three major capes of the Southern Ocean — the Cape of Good Hope (although sometimes Cape Agulhas is cited in its place), Cape Leeuwin, and Cape Horn.The Circumnavigators, by Don Holm; Around the Three Capes.
Great circle A great circle is a circle on the surface of a sphere that has the same circumference as the sphere, dividing the sphere into two equal hemispheres. Equivalently, a great circle on a sphere is a circle on the sphere's surface whose center is the same as the center of the sphere.
Great commodities depression The Great Commodities Depression is a term used in economic history to describe the protracted declines in the prices of raw materials roughly from 1982-1998. The analysis of this period is based on the work of Robert Solow and is rooted in macroeconomic theories of trade including the Mundell-Fleming Model
Greasecar A greasecar is an automobile that has been converted to run on straight vegetable oil (SVO) by installing a coolant-heated auxiliary fuel tank. The vehicle heats up the vegetable oil while burning diesel or Biodiesel from the stock fuel tank.
Greased Greased is an EP by Less Than Jake featuring songs from the musical Grease including Summer Nights, You're The One That I Want and Greased Lightning. Greased has been released twice - the first release was discontinued to avoid a lawsuit with Paramount Pictures (who own the rights to the film) and Universal Music Group (who own the rights to the songs featured in the film Grease), and the second was released several months later after a deal had been reached.
Greased Lightning Greased Lightning is a 1977 biographical film, starring Richard Pryor, Beau Bridges and Pam Grier, and directed by Michael Schultz. Greased Lightning is a film loosely based on the true life story of Wendell Scott, the first African American stock car racing champion in America.
Greasel (Deus Ex) The Greasel is a fictional creature from the computer game Deus Ex and its sequel Deus Ex: Invisible War. The Greasel from the original game resembles a large green flightless bird, though on closer inspection, it is more reptilian than avian.
Greasemonkey Greasemonkey is a Mozilla Firefox extension that allows users to install scripts that make on-the-fly changes to specific web pages. As the Greasemonkey scripts are persistent, the changes made to the web pages are executed every time the page is opened, making them effectively permanent for the user running the script.
Greaser (derogatory) Greaser was a derogatory term for a Mexican in what is now the US Southwest in the 19th century. It most likely derived from one of the lowliest occupations typically held by Mexicans in what is now the US Southwest, the greasing of the axles of mule carts.
Greaser Act The Greaser Act was an anti-Mexican law enacted in 1855 in California, thinly disguised as an anti-vagrancy statute. The law defined a vagrant as "all persons who are commonly known as ' Greasers' or the issue of Spanish and Indian blood...
Greasewood Greasewood (Sarcobatus) is a genus of one or two species of flowering plants. Traditionally it has been treated in the family Chenopodiaceae, but the APG II system, of 2003, places it in the family Sarcobataceae.
Greasy spoon Greasy spoon is a colloquial term used in Britain and North America for archetypal working class eateries. Pioneered In the UK, these are generally technically called cafés (in England often abbreviated to "caff" or referred to as cafes, with no accent); in America such establishments are generally known as diners.
Great albatross The great albatrosses are seabirds in the genus Diomedea in the albatross family. The genus Diomedea formerly included all albatrosses except the sooty albatrosses, but in 1996 the genus was split with the mollymawks and the North Pacific albatrosses both being elevated to separate genera (Nunn et al.
Great and British Motorsport Festival A Great and British Motorsport Festival is a package of motor races organised by the BARC and promoted by Dunlop. The events are a new addition to the motorsport calendar and appears at the Snetterton, Brands Hatch, Pembrey, Castle Combe, Silverstone, Thruxton, Croft and Donington Park racing circuits.
Great Alaska Shootout The Great Alaska Shootout (orginially known as the Sea Wolf Classic) is an annual college basketball tournament in Anchorage, Alaska that features colleges from all over the United States. The University of Alaska Anchorage hosts the tournament every Thanksgiving.
Great Allegheny Passage The Great Allegheny Passage is a bicycle and foot trail currently under construction that will run for 150 miles (240 km) from Cumberland, Maryland to Point State Park in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania with a 52-mile (83 km) branch to the Pittsburgh International Airport. This rail trail connects with the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal towpath trail, which runs for an additional 185 miles (296 km) between Cumberland and Washington, DC.
Great Alliance Seniors The Great Alliance Seniors is North America's newest drum and bugle corps association, and is currently a loose-knit group designed to support and provide a central nucleus for the growing numbers of non-competitive Alumni Corps.
Great Aloha Run The Hawaiian Telcom Great Aloha Run is a road race that takes place annually in Honolulu, Hawaii on the third Monday in February (Presidents' Day in the United States). It is a charity event that benefits Carole Kai Charities, a philanthropic fund run by Hawaii entertainer Carole Kai.
Great Alpine Road The Great Alpine Road (B500) is a country tourist road in Victoria, Australia, running from Wangaratta in the north to Bairnsdale in the east, and passing through the Australian Alps. The road was given its current name as being the mountain equivalent to Victoria's world famous Great Ocean Road in the south-west of the state.
Great Altar of Hercules The Great Altar of Unconquered Hercules (Herculis Invicti Ara MaximaTacitus and Juvenal both refer to the altar as magna (great") instead of maxima ("greatest")) stood in the Forum Boarium, of ancient Rome. It was the earliest cult-centre of Hercules in Rome, predating the circular Temple of Hercules that stood until it was demolished by order of Pope Sixtus V.
Great American Beer Festival The Great American Beer Festival (GABF) is a three-day annual event traditionally held at the end of September/beginning of October in Denver, Colorado (dubbed “the Napa Valley of beer” by many of the world’s beer experts). The GABF brings a record number of beer connoisseurs from around the world to sample more than 1,600 different American beers.
Great American Boycott The Great American Boycott of 2006, known in Spanish as El Gran Paro Americano ("The Great American Strike"), was a boycott of United States schools and businesses held on May 1, 2006. The date was chosen to coincide with May Day, an international Labor Movement holiday (observed as a national holiday in some European countries and in Mexico, but not widely in the United States due to associations with Communism).
Great American Brass Band Festival The Great American Brass Band Festival is a music festival held annually in Danville, Kentucky since 1990. The open-air festival features a wide variety of brass bands, a hot air balloon race, a picnic, and other activities.
Great American Country Great American Country (or GAC), is a Nashville, Tennessee-based country music cable television network. As MTV Networks shifts its CMT channel towards a "country culture" format, GAC is making inroads as the network that plays more music than CMT, about 50 percent more, according to recent data from Nielsen Media Services.
Great American Interchange The Great American Interchange was a very important paleozoogeographic event in which land and freshwater animal faunas migrated from Central America to South America and vice versa, as the volcanic Isthmus of Panama rose up from the sea floor and bridged the continents. The migration peaked dramatically around 3 Million years ago (Piacenzian, the first half of the Upper Pliocene).
Great American Music Hall The Great American Music Hall (located on O'Farrell Street, in the Tenderloin neighborhood of San Francisco on the same block as Mitchell Brothers O'Farrell Theater) is known in part for its balconies, columns, and frescoes, but more so for its history of unique entertainment. It was established
Great American Novel The "Great American Novel" is the concept of a novel that perfectly represents the spirit of life in the United States at the time of its publication. It is presumed to be written by an American author who is knowledgeable about the state, culture, and perspective of the common American citizen.
Great American Restaurants Great American Restaurants is a chain of restaurants and bakeries in the Northern Virginia region of the United States. Founded in 1974, the chain now operates nine restaurants under the names Artie's, Carlyle, Coastal Flats, Mike's American Grill, Silverado, and Sweetwater Tavern.
Great American Songbook The Great American Songbook is an informal term referring to a period of American popular music songwriting that took place between the 1930s and 1960s. It also refers to a canon of songs written in this style.
Great American Streetcar Scandal The Great American Streetcar Scandal refers to General Motors, Firestone Tire and Rubber Company, Standard Oil of California and two other companies forming National City Lines (NCL) holding company, which acquired most streetcar systems throughout the United States, dismantled them, and replaced them with buses in the early 20th Century. The scandal alleges that NCL's companies had an ulterior motive to gain mass use of the automobile among the U.
Great Americans series The Great Americans series is a set of definitive stamps issued by the United States Postal Service, starting in 1980 with a 19¢ stamp depicting Sequoyah, and continuing through 2002, the final stamp being the 78¢ Alice Paul self-adhesive stamp.
Great Andamanese Great Andamanese is a collective term used to refer to related groups or tribes of indigenous peoples who lived throughout most of the Great Andaman archipelago, the main and closely-situated group of islands in the Andaman Islands. Their collective identity is put forward mainly on the basis of linguistic analysis; the languages spoken by the different groups were (from what is known) clearly related, and formed one of the two identified families of indigenous Andamanese languages (the Great Andamanese family).
Great Anti-Buddhist Persecution The Great Anti-Buddhist Persecution was initiated by (Taoist) Tang Emperor Wuzong in the year 845 CE in order to appropriate "war funds" and cleanse China of "foreign" influences. Essentially, it was a wave of "religious" pogroms directed towards Buddhism but also other "foreign" religions such as Zoroastrianism and Christianity.
Great Ape language Research into non-human Great Ape language has generated a great deal of evidence suggesting that the great apes are capable of using sophisticated communication with humans and other apes. Gorillas and chimpanzees have been taught to form signs in sign language, arrange physical tokens in specific sequences, and operate lexigrams (keyboards with symbols on them).
Great Ape Project The Great Ape Project (GAP), founded in 1993, is an international organization of primatologists, psychologists, ethicists, and other experts who advocate a United Nations Declaration of the Rights of Great Apes that would confer basic legal rights on non-human great apes: chimpanzees, bonobos, gorillas, and orangutans. The rights suggested are the right to life, the protection of individual liberty, and the prohibition of torture.
Great Ape research ban A Great Ape research ban, or severe restrictions on the use of non-human great apes in research, is currently in place in the Netherlands, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, Sweden, Germany and Japan, and has been proposed in Austria.
Great Apes Survival Project Established in 2001, the Great Apes Survival Project (GRASP) aims to conserve the great apes (chimpanzees, gorillas and orangutans) and their habitat — primarily forested tropical ecosystems that provide important services to humanity, through pro-poor conservation and sustainable development strategies.
Great Apostasy The Great Apostasy is a term of [used by some religious groups to allege a general fallen state of traditional Christianity], or especially of [[Catholicism, magisterial Protestantism and Eastern Orthodoxy, that it is not representative of the faith founded by Jesus and promulgated through his twelve Apostles: in short, that these churches have fallen into apostasy.
Great Appalachian Storm of November 1950 The Great Appalachian Storm of November 1950 was a large extratropical cyclone which moved through the Eastern United States, causing significant winds, heavy rains east of the Appalachians, and blizzard conditions along the western slopes of the mountain chain. Power was out to more than 1,000,000 customers during this event.
Great Appalachian Valley The Great Valley, also called the Great Appalachian Valley or Great Valley Region, is one of the major landform features of eastern North America. It is a gigantic through — a chain of valley lowlands — and the central feature of the Appalachian Mountain system.
Great Argus The Great Argus, Argusianus argus is a brown-plumaged pheasant with a small blue head and neck, rufous red upper breast, a black hair-like feathers on crown and nape, and red legs. The male is among the largest of all pheasants, with up to 200cm in length.
Great Architect of the Universe The Great Architect of the Universe (GAOTU, also Grand Architect of the Universe or Supreme Architect of the Universe) is a conception of God used by many. It is a conception of God discussed by many Christian theologians and apologists.
Great Assembly The Great Assembly (Hebrew: ×›Ö°ÖĽ× Ö¶×ˇÖ¶×Ş הַגְּדוֹלָה) or Anshei Knesset HaGedolah (×Ö·× Ö°×©Öµ××™ ×›Ö°ÖĽ× Ö¶×ˇÖ¶×Ş הַגְּדוֹלָה, "The Men of the Great Assembly"), also known as the Great Synagogue) was an assembly of 120 Rabbis in the period after the time of the prophets up to the time of the development of Rabbinic Judaism. They were in a period of about two generations.
Great Atlanta fire of 1917 The Great Atlanta Fire of 1917 began just after noon on Monday, May 21 and was finally extinguished by 10 PM. Destroyed were 300 acres (much of the Fourth Ward), including nearly 2,000 homes, businesses and churches, and 10,000 people were displaced.
Great Attractor The Great Attractor is a gravity anomaly in intergalactic space within the range of the Centaurus Supercluster which reveals the existence of a localised concentration of mass equivalent to tens of thousands of galaxies, observable by its effect on the motion of galaxies over a region hundreds of millions of light years across.
Great Australian Bight The Great Australian Bight is a large bight, or open bay, encompassing an area of the Southern Ocean located off the central and western portions of the southern coastline of mainland Australia. By definition of the International Hydrographic Bureau, the Great Australian Bight extends eastward from West Cape Howe, Western Australia, to South West Cape, Tasmania.
Great Australians Party Great Australians is an Australian political party. The party was founded in 2003 by John James Cumming, and is currently led by John Rivett, a Queensland businessman who has started and run many businesses during his life.
Great Ayton Great Ayton is a village and civil parish in the Hambleton district of North Yorkshire on the edge of the North York Moors in England. The name Great Ayton is thought to derive from Ea-tun, tun meaning farm and 'ea' meaning river.
Great Ayton railway station Great Ayton railway station serves the village of Great Ayton in the county of North Yorkshire, England. It is located on the Esk Valley Line and is operated by Northern Rail who provide all of the station's passenger services.
Great Barford Bridge The early fifteenth century Great Barford Bridge, sometimes called simply Barford Bridge, spans the River Great Ouse at Great Barford, Bedfordshire. It is an arch bridge with seventeen arches, originally built from limestone and sandstone.
Great Barr Great Barr is a large and loosely-defined area which straddles the boundaries of Birmingham, West Bromwich (Sandwell) and Walsall, West Midlands, England. "Barr" means "hill", and the name refers to nearby Barr Beacon.
Great Barrier Airlines Great Barrier Airlines is a New Zealand airline that was established in 1983. They flew their first scheduled service to Great Barrier Island on the 2 December 1983, departing from Ardmore Airport, an airport three nautical miles southeast of Manurewa in Auckland, New Zealand.
Great Barrier Island Great Barrier Island is a large island of New Zealand, situated 88 km to the north-east of central Auckland in the outer Hauraki Gulf. One of the largest islands in New Zealand, it is named so as it acts as a barrier between the Pacific Ocean and the mainland.
Great Barrier Reef The Great Barrier Reef is the world's largest coral reef system, composed of roughly 3,000 individual reefs and 900 islands, that stretch for 2,600 kilometres (1,616 mi) covering an area of approximately 344,400 km². The reef is located in the Coral Sea, off the coast of Queensland in northeast Australia.
Great Basin Bristlecone Pine The Great Basin Bristlecone Pine (Pinus longaeva) is one of the bristlecone pines, a group of three species of pine found in the higher mountains of the southwest United States. Great Basin Bristlecone Pine occurs in Utah, Nevada and eastern California.
Great Basin College Great Basin College is a community college unit of the University and Community College System of Nevada, located in Elko, Nevada, USA. Opened in 1967 as "Elko Community College", it was later renamed to "Northern Nevada Community College" and then to its current name.
Great Basin National Park Great Basin National Park is a United States National Park established in 1986, located in east-central Nevada near its border with Utah. The park derives its name from the Great Basin, the dry and mountainous region between the Sierra Nevada and the Rocky Mountains.
Great Basin tribes Bold textThe Great Basin tribes of Native Americans occupied an area of some 400,000 mile² (1,000,000 km²), between the Rocky Mountains and the Sierra Nevada, in what is now Nevada, and parts of Oregon, California, Idaho, Wyoming, and Utah. There is very little precipitation in the Great Basin area, which affects the lifestyles and cultures of the indigenous inhabitants.
Great Battles The Great Battles is a documentary television show that tells the stories of various decisive battles throughout history. It is hosted by Mark Jackson, a descendant of the author of The 15 Most Decisive Battles in the World.
Great Bay (New Hampshire) Great Bay is a tidal estuary located in Strafford and Rockingham counties in eastern New Hampshire, United States. The bay occupies over 6,000 acres (24 km²), not including its several tidal river tributaries.
Great Bay (New Jersey) Great Bay is located in southern New Jersey's Atlantic Coastal Plain in Ocean and Atlantic Counties, about ten miles (13 km) north of Atlantic City and 87 mi (140 km) south of New York City. The Mullica River flows into the bay and together they form the Mullica River - Great Bay estuary habitat.
Great Bear Wilderness The Great Bear Wilderness is located in northern Montana, United States, within Lewis and Clark National Forest Created by an act of Congress in 1978, the wilderness is comprised of 286,700 acres (1,160 km²) and borders the Bob Marshall Wilderness on the north. The Great Bear and Bob Marshall Wildernesses, along with the Scapegoat Wilderness which borders the Bob Marshall to the south, collectively form the Bob Marshall Wilderness Complex, which is over 1.
Great Bed of Ware The Great Bed of Ware is an extremely large oak four poster bed, carved with marquetry, that was originally housed in the White Hart Inn in Ware, England. Built by Hertfordshire Jonas Fosbrooke circa 1590, the bed measures ten by eleven feet and can sleep over 15 people at once.
Great Belize Television Great Belize Television, or as it is locally known, Channel 5, is a Belize City based local television station established in December of 1990. Channel 5 airs mostly American and Caribbean programs, as well as a variety of locally produced programs.
Great Bentley Great Bentley, in the Tendring district of Essex, England, has the largest village green in the country and has won 'Village of the Year' several times. A short stroll and you come to Great Bentley railway station with its manned level crossing which is being updated to automatic barriers in the near future on the Colchester to Clacton Line.
Great Big DVD And CD Great Big DVD and CD is a live recording by Canadian folk group, Great Big Sea, released on Zoe Records in 2004. The package contains two discs, one in CD format and one in NTSC DVD format with no region coding.
Great Bircham Great Bircham is the largest of the three villages that make up the civil parish of Bircham, in the west of the English county of Norfolk. The village is located about 1 km south of the village of Bircham Newton, the same distance west of the village of Bircham Tofts, 20 km north-east of the town of King's Lynn, and 60 km north-west of the city of Norwich.
Great Bitter Lake The Great Bitter Lake (Arabic: البŘيرة المرة الŮبرى; transliterated: al-Buhayrah al-Murra al-Kubra) is a salt water lake between the north and south part of the Suez Canal. It is adjoined by the Small Bitter Lake (Arabic: البŘيرة المرة الصغرى; transliterated: al-Buhayrah al-Murra as-Sughra), separated by a contraction.
Great Black Swamp The Great Black Swamp, or simply Black Swamp, was a glacially-caused wetland in northwest Ohio, United States, extending into extreme northeastern Indiana, that existed from the end of the Wisconsin glaciation until the late 19th century. It comprised extensive swamps and marshes, with some higher, drier ground interspersed, and occupied what was formerly the southwestern part of Glacial Lake Maumee, a holocene precursor to Lake Erie.
Great Black-backed Gull The Great Black-backed Gull, Larus marinus, is a very large gull which breeds on the European and North American coasts and islands of the North Atlantic. It is fairly sedentary, but some Great Black-backed Gulls move further south or inland to large lakes or reservoirs.
Great Blasket Island Great Blasket (An Bhlascaod MhĂłr in Irish) is the principal island of the Blaskets, County Kerry, Ireland. It lies approximately 2 km from the mainland at Dunmore Head, and extends 6 km to the southwest, rising to 292 metres at its highest point (Croaghmore).
Great Blizzard of 1888 The Great Blizzard of 1968 (March 12 – March 14 1888) was one of the most severe blizzards in United States recorded history, with snow drifts in excess of 50 feet (15 m). All across the eastern seaboard there were snow walls up to 50 inches (1.
Great Blizzard of 1978 The Great Blizzard of 1978 struck parts of the Ohio Valley and Great Lakes on January 26 1978. Particularly hard hit were the states of Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio, and southeast Wisconsin where up to 40" of snow fell.
Great Blue Heron The Great Blue Heron, Ardea herodias, is a wading bird of the heron family Ardeidae, common all over North and Central America as well as the West Indies and the Galápagos, except in deserts and high mountains where there is no water for it to wade in. It is very similar to the European Grey Heron.
Great Blue Windrunner The Great Blue Windrunner is a huge fictional bird, with a wingspan of over 50 feet wide, making it larger than the largest flying bird to have ever lived (Argentavis magnificens). It was invented for the film The Future Is Wild.
Great Book of Lecan The Great Book of Lecan (Leabhar MĂłr Leacain) is an medieval Irish manuscript written in 1418. It is in the possession of the Royal Irish Academy and should not be confused with the Yellow Book of Lecan, an earlier and more complete manuscript.
Great Books Foundation The Great Books Foundation, incorporated in the state of Illinois and based in Chicago, is an independent, nonprofit educational organization whose mission is to help people think and share ideas. Toward this end, the Foundation publishes collections of classic and modern literature as part of a continuum of reading and discussion programs for children and adults.
Great Books of the Western World Great Books of the Western World is a series of books originally published in the United States in 1952 by Encyclopædia Britannica Inc. in an attempt to present the western canon in a single package of 54 volumes.
Great Bowerbird The Great Bowerbird, Chlamydera nuchalis is a common and conspicuous resident of northern Australia, from the area around Broome across the Top End to Cape York Peninsula and as far south as Mount Isa. Favoured habitat is a broad range of forest and woodland, and the margins of vine forests, monsoon forest, and mangrove swamps.
Great BrÄila Island The Great BrÄila Island (Insula Mare a BrÄilei, formerly Balta Mare a BrÄilei, the "Great BrÄila Pond") is an island on the Danube river in the BrÄila County, Romania. It has on average 60 km length and 20 km width.
Great Brewster Island Great Brewster Island is a one of the outer islands in the Boston Harbor Islands National Recreation Area, situated some 9 miles offshore of downtown Boston. The island has a permanent size of 18 acres, plus an intertidal zone of a further 49 acres.
Great Bridge (Cambridge) The Great Bridge over the Charles River connected Cambridge, Massachusetts to Little Cambridge, which was the name for Allston-Brighton before it separated from Cambridge in 1807, first becoming the town of Brighton and finally joining the city of Boston in 1874. The Great Bridge was built in 1660-1662, and was the first bridge to span the Charles.
Great Britain and Ireland The phrase Great Britain and Ireland is a term often used as a collective description covering the whole of the geographical area of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland.
Great Britain and Ireland at the 1896 Summer Olympics Ten athletes from the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland competed in seven sports at the 1896 Summer Olympics. The British and Irish athletes were the fifth most successful in terms of overall medals (7) and tied for fifth in gold medals (2).
Great Britain and Ireland at the 1900 Summer Olympics The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland competed as Great Britain at the 1900 Summer Olympics in Paris, France. It was the second appearance of the European nation, after having participated in the inaugural 1896 Games.
Great Britain and Ireland at the 1908 Summer Olympics The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland was the host nation of the 1908 Summer Olympics in London. The British Olympic Association was the National Olympic Committee responsible for organizing the United Kingdom's representation.
Great Britain and Ireland at the 1920 Summer Olympics The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland competed as Great Britain at the 1920 Summer Olympics in Antwerp, Belgium. British athletes won fifteen gold medals (up from ten in 1912) and 43 medals overall, finishing third.
Great Britain and Ireland at the 1924 Summer Olympics The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland competed as 'Great Britain and Ireland' at the 1924 Summer Olympics in Paris, France. Despite the name, athletes from the newly-independent Irish Free State competed separately.
Great Britain and Northern Ireland at the 1928 Summer Olympics The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland competed as Great Britain at the 1928 Summer Olympics in Amsterdam, Netherlands. British athletes won only three gold medals (down from nine in 1924), and twenty medals overall, finishing eleventh.
Great Britain and Northern Ireland at the 1932 Summer Olympics The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland competed as Great Britain at the 1932 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California, United States. British athletes have competed in every Summer Olympic Games.
Great Britain and Northern Ireland at the 1948 Summer Olympics The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, competing as Great Britain, was the host nation for the 1948 Summer Olympics in London. It was the second time that the United Kingdom had hosted the Summer Olympic Games, equalling the record of France and the United States to that point.
Great Britain and Northern Ireland at the 2004 Summer Olympics Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the name under which the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland competes at the Olympics) sent a wide-ranging delegation to the 2004 Summer Olympics, continuing its ubiquitous presence in the Olympic games — the only country to have sent competitors to every summer and winter games since the birth of the modern Olympics in 1896. Great Britain's 271 athletes competed in 22 disciplines throughout the two-week event.
Great Britain and Northern Ireland at the 2006 Winter Olympics The United Kingdom competed under the name Great Britain and Northern Ireland at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, Italy. Athletes from Northern Ireland were generally free to participate for either this team or the Ireland team under a long-standing settlement between the British Olympic Association and the Olympic Council of Ireland.
Great Britain and Northern Ireland at the Summer Olympics Great Britain and Northern Ireland is the name used by the United Kingdom at the Summer Olympic Games. The nation went by Great Britain and Ireland through the 1924 Summer Olympics, while the country was the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
Great Britain at the 2004 Summer Paralympics Great Britain (the name which the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland competes under at Olympic and Paralympic level) sent a delegation of 166 athletes to the 2004 Summer Paralympics, covering 15 sports. The ParalympicsGB team entered the opening ceremony behind the Union Flag carried by Noel Thatcher.
Great Britain Historical GIS The Great Britain Historical GIS, GBHGIS, is a spatially enabled database that document and visualise the changing administrative boundaries of England and Wales the past 200 years. The aim is to make demographical and social statistics from different years comparable, even if the administrative sub divisions have been subject to alterations.
Great Britain national Australian rules football team The Great Britain national Australian rules football team is known as the British Bulldogs. The team is made up of the best British born players selected from the clubs of the British Australian Rules Football League competitions in both England and Scotland.
Great British Beer Festival The Great British Beer Festival (often shortened to GBBF) is a yearly beer festival organised by the Campaign for Real Ale (CAMRA). It presents a selection of cask ales and other alcoholic drinks from the UK and beyond.
Great Burgan Most of Kuwait's oil is located in the Great Burgan area (reserves of approximately 70 billion barrels) and is considered to be the world's second largest oil field. These three fields together pump 31' and 33' range crude into 14 tank farms.
Great capes In sailing, the great capes are the three major capes of the Southern Ocean — the Cape of Good Hope (although sometimes Cape Agulhas is cited in its place), Cape Leeuwin, and Cape Horn.The Circumnavigators, by Don Holm; Around the Three Capes.
Great circle A great circle is a circle on the surface of a sphere that has the same circumference as the sphere, dividing the sphere into two equal hemispheres. Equivalently, a great circle on a sphere is a circle on the sphere's surface whose center is the same as the center of the sphere.
Great commodities depression The Great Commodities Depression is a term used in economic history to describe the protracted declines in the prices of raw materials roughly from 1982-1998. The analysis of this period is based on the work of Robert Solow and is rooted in macroeconomic theories of trade including the Mundell-Fleming Model
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