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Great Camanoe Great Camanoe is a small island located just north of Beef Island and northeast of Tortola in the British Virgin Islands, a group of islands which forms part of the archipelago of the Virgin Islands, located in the Atlantic Ocean and Caribbean Sea.
Great Camps Great camps refer to the grandiose family compounds of cabins that were built in the latter half of the nineteenth century on lakes in the Adirondacks such as Spitfire Lake and Rainbow Lake. The camps were summer homes for the super-rich, wherein they could relax, host or attend parties, and enjoy the wilderness.
Great Canadian Food Show The Great Canadian Food Show is a Canadian television series, which has aired on both Food Network Canada and CBC Television. Hosted by Carlo Rota, the series travels across Canada to profile the many varieties of Canadian cuisine.
Great Canadian Theatre Company The Great Canadian Theatre Company, known for short as GCTC, is a professional theatre company based in Ottawa,Canada. It was established in 1975 amidst the momentum that the Ministry of Culture had for the arts..
Great Captain Island Great Captain Island also known (less familiarly) as "Great Captains Island," is an island off the coast of Greenwich, Connecticut and is the location of the Nineteenth-century Great Captain Island Lighthouse.
Great Cataclysm The Great Cataclysm a major event within the storyline of Lego Bionicle franchise. It is the collective name given to a series of natural disasters that occurred one thousand years before the storyline's "present day", when that universe's guardian, the Great Spirit Mata Nui, fell unconscious.
Great Central and Midland Joint Railway The Great Central and Midland Joint Railway, formerly, before 1897, Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire & Midland Joint Railway, was a collection of joint railways, mainly in the Manchester and South Yorkshire areas. Because the M.
Great Central Main Line The Great Central Main Line (GCML), also known as the London Extension of the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway was a main railway line in England that linked Sheffield with Marylebone Station in London via Nottingham and Leicester. Opened in 1899, it was the last main line railway built in Britain until the Channel Tunnel Rail Link opened in 2003.
Great Central Railway The Great Central Railway (GCR) was a railway company in England which came into being when the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway changed its name in 1897 on the completion of its London Extension. In 1922 it was grouped into the London and North Eastern Railway.
Great Central Warehouse University Library, University of Lincoln The Great Central Warehouse University Library (GCW) is the main library of the University of Lincoln, a higher-education institution in England. The building has won several awards for its sensitive conversion from a derelict former railway grain-storage warehouse.
Great Cipher In the history of cryptography, the Great Cipher was a nomenclator cipher developed by the Rossignols, several generations of whom served the French Crown as cryptographers. It was excellent of its class and so was given this name; it was reputed to be unbreakable.
Great Cities' Universities The Great Cities' Universities (GCU) coalition, incorporated in 1998, is the successor organization to the Urban 13, an informal research-sharing association comprised of urban universities in major metropolitan areas of the U.S.
Great Clearance In the spring of 1662, the Qing Emperor Kangxi ordered the Great Clearance in southern China, in order to fight the anti-Qing movement, begun by Ming Dynasty loyalists under the leadership of Zheng Chenggong (also known as Koxinga), to regain Beijing. This involved moving the entire population of the coastal regions of southern China inland.
Great Coalition The Great Coalition refers to the grand coalition of political parties that formed in the Province of Canada in 1864. The previous collapse after only a few months of a coalition government formed by Étienne-Paschal Taché and Conservative John A.
Great Comet of 1843 The Great Comet of 1843 formally designated C/1843 D1 and 1843 I, was a comet which became very bright in March 1843 (it is also known as the Great March Comet of 1843). It was discovered on February 5, 1843 and rapidly brightened to become a great comet.
Great Comet of 1882 The Great Comet of 1882 formally designated C/1882 R1, 1882 II, and 1882b, was a comet which became very bright in September 1882. It was a member of the Kreutz Sungrazers, a family of comets which pass very close to the Sun's surface at perihelion.
Great Commission In Christian tradition, the Great Commission is the instruction of the resurrected Jesus Christ to his disciples, that they spread the faith to all the nations of the world. It has become a tenet in Christian theology emphasizing mission work and evangelism.
Great Commission Association The Great Commission Association of Churches (GCAC) is the current name of an Evangelical Christian movement started in Colorado the mid 1960's by Jim McCotter, with other notable early leaders being Dennis Clark and Herschel Martindale, among others. The movement at first shunned any denominational nametag, later being known as "The Blitz," then later as Great Commission International (GCI), and finally renamed to its current name, with the campus arm being named Great Commission Ministries (GCM).
Great Conduit The Great Conduit was a man-made underground channel in London, England which brought drinking water from the Tyburn to Cheapside in the City. From: 'Great Conduit (The) in Westcheap', A Dictionary of London (1918).
Great Conspiracy The Great Conspiracy is a term given to a year-long war that occurred in Roman Britain near the end of the Roman occupation of the island. The historian Ammianus Marcellinus described it as a barbarica conspiratio that capitalised on a depleted military force in the province brought about by Magnentius' losses of the Battle of Mursa Major.
Great Controversy theme In Seventh-day Adventist theology the Great Controversy theme refers to the cosmic battle between Jesus Christ and Satan, of which our lives are also a part. The concept is derived in the book The Great Controversy by Ellen G.
Great Conversation The Great Conversation is a characterization of references and allusions made by authors in the Western Canon to the works of their predecessors. As such it is a name used in the promotion of the Great Books of the Western World ("GBWW") published by Encyclopædia Britannica Inc.
Great Cornard Upper School Great Cornard Upper School is an upper school in the village of Great Cornard, located near the town of Sudbury, Suffolk in the United Kingdom, for 13-18 year olds. The school has an average student population of between eight and nine hundred, with approximately one hundred and fifty teaching and support staff.
Great Council of Chiefs (Fiji) The Great Council of Chiefs (Bose Levu Vakaturaga in Fijian) is a constitutional body in the Republic of the Fiji Islands. It is not to be confused with the House of Chiefs, a larger body which includes all hereditary chiefs, although membership of the two bodies overlaps to a considerable extent.
Great Crimes and Trials Great Crimes and Trials is a British Television series on The History Channel. The programme consists of archive material combined with never before seen interviews to reconstruct a renowned crime, examining the felon's motives, details of the crime, the investigations and the trial.
Great Crown of Victory The Great Crown of Victory or Phra Maha Phichai Mongkut (Thai: พระมหาพิชัยมงกุฏ) is one of the Royal Regalia of Thailand. Made of gold in the reign of King Buddha Yodfa Chulaloke or Rama I in 1782, it is 66 centimeters high and weighs 7.
Great Crusade The Great Crusade is a historical period in the fictional Warhammer 40,000 universe, lasting from the late 30th to early 31st millennia (approximately two centuries). The Emperor wanted to unite all of humanity under the one banner, and end inter-human conflict.
Great Culverden About half a mile from the centre of Tunbridge Wells lies a small 9½ acre wood, known as Great Culverden Park. The first big house built on the highest point in that wood (currently the Kent & Sussex Hospital car park) was known as Culverden House.
Great Curassow The Great Curassow, Crax rubra is a large, up to 100cm long, black pheasant-like bird with a yellow knob on its bill, curly black feather crests and white below. There are three morphs of females Great Curassow.
Great divergence The Great Divergence is the period beginning in the mid 18th century in which the "West" (namely England, followed closely by the rest of Western Europe) clearly emerged as the most powerful region of the world. In the early-mid 1700's, Western Europe and East Asia were roughly similar materially, but coming up against Malthusian constraints to further growth.
Great Dark Horde The Great Dark Horde is an independent "household" (a type of social sub-group or fraternal club) within the Society for Creative Anachronism. Although one can also find members in other re-enactment groups, it may very well be the largest household in that organization.
Great Dark Spot The Great Dark Spot was a dark spot on Neptune similar in appearance to Jupiter's Great Red Spot. Although it looked nearly the same as Jupiter's spot, it was not thought to be a storm but instead an atmospheric hole similar to the hole in Earth's ozone layer.
Great Darkness Saga The Great Darkness Saga was a 5-issue storyline In the comic book Legion of Super-Heroes that ran from issues #290-294 (August-December 1982), with a prologue in #287 (May 1982), and is considered by many to be one of the greatest Legion epics of all time (with the Earthwar saga and the 5-issue Legion of Super-Villain War being two others).
Great Daylight Comet of 1910 The Great Daylight Comet of 1910 or Great January Comet was a Great Comet that in January 1910 upstaged the much-anticipated appearance of Halley's Comet in May of the same year. It was already visible to the naked eye when it was first noticed, and many people independently 'discovered' the comet.
Great Dayton Flood The Great Dayton Flood of 1913 flooded Dayton, Ohio and the surrounding area with water from the Great Miami River, causing the greatest natural disaster in Ohio history. In response, Ohio passed the Vonderheide Act to allow the Ohio state government to form the Miami Conservancy District, one of the first major flood control districts in Ohio and the United States.
Great Depression The Great Depression was an economic downturn which started in 1929 and lasted through most of the 1930s. It was centered in North America and Europe, but had devastating effects around the world, particularly in industrialized countries and producers of raw materials.
Great Depression in Australia The Great Depression of the 1930s was an economic catastrophe that severely affected most nations of the world, and Australia was not immune. In fact, Australia, with its extreme dependence on exports, particularly primary products such as wool and wheat, is thought to have been one of the hardest-hit countries in the Western world along with Canada and Germany.
Great Depression in Latin America The Great Depression which followed the US stock market crash of 1929 impacted heavily on the countries of Latin America. Before the global Great Depression of the 1930s, links between the United States economy and Latin American economies had been established through US investment in Latin America and Latin American exports to the US.
Great Depression in South Africa The Great Depression had a pronounced economic and political effect on South Africa, as it did to most nations at the time. As world trade slumped, demand for South African agricultural and mineral exports fell drastically.
Great Depression in the United States The Great Depression was a period where economic activity was stagnant and at an all time low in many countries of the world. The effects of the stock market crash of 1929 triggered the Great Depression in the United States which lasted from the beginning of 1930 to the late 1930's.
Great Diamond The Great Diamond or Virgin's Diamond/Diamond of Virgo is an asterism. It is composed of the stars Cor Caroli (in Canes Venatici), Denebola (the tail of Leo), Spica (the wheat of Virgo), and Arcturus (in Bootes).
Great Dismal Swamp The Great Dismal Swamp is a marshy region on the Coastal Plain of southeastern Virginia and northeastern North Carolina between Norfolk, Virginia, and Elizabeth City, North Carolina in the United States. It is a southern swamp, the northernmost of many along the Atlantic Ocean's coast which includes the Everglades and the Big Cypress Swamp in Florida, the Okefenokee Swamp in Georgia, the Congaree Swamp and Four Holes swamps of South Carolina, and some of the Carolina bays in the Carolinas.
Great Dismal Swamp National Wildlife Refuge The Great Dismal Swamp National Wildlife Refuge was created in 1974 to help protect and preserve a portion of the Great Dismal Swamp, a marshy region on the Coastal Plain of southeastern Virginia and northeastern North Carolina between Norfolk, Virginia, and Elizabeth City, North Carolina in the United States.
Great Divide Basin The Great Divide Basin (also called the Great Divide Closed Basin) is located in south central Wyoming in the United States. The basin is a natural anticline in the surface of the land, and forms a self contained endorheic watershed.
Great Divide Snowsports Great Divide is a local ski hill for the residents of Helena, Montana and the surrounding area. Located west of Helena in Southwestern Montana near the Continental Divide, Great Divide is a locally owned ski area known for being the first ski area in Montana to open each year, though often opening with only a single run, with little snow, and only on weekends.
Great Divide Trail The Great Divide Trail, or GDT, is a wilderness hiking trail in the Canadian Rockies. The trail follows the continental divide from Jasper National Park to the Canada-US border, where it joins with the Continental Divide Trail.
Great Dividing Range The Great Dividing Range, also known as the Eastern Highlands, is Australia's most substantial mountain range. The range stretches more than 3500km from the northeastern tip of Queensland, running the entire length of the eastern coastline through New South Wales, then into Victoria and turning west, before finally fading into the central plain at the Grampians in western Victoria.
Great Dorset Steam Fair The Great Dorset Steam Fair is an annual show featuring steam powered vehicles and machinery. The fair has been held in Dorset, England, every summer since 1968, currently on Cranborne Chase near Blandford Forum.
Great Dun Fell Great Dun Fell is the second-highest hill in the Pennine range, United Kingdom, lying two miles south along the watershed from Cross Fell, its higher neighbour. Together with its smaller twin, Little Dun Fell, it forms a stepping-stone for the Pennine Way on its long climb up from Dufton.
Great Dyke The Great Dyke is a linear feature that trends nearly north-south through the center of Zimbabwe passing just to the west of the capital, Harare (previously Salisbury). It consists of a band of short, narrow ridges and hills spanning for about 320 miles (515 km).
Great East Lake Great East Lake is a nearly 1,800-acre water body located in Carroll County, New Hampshire and York County, Maine in the United States. The lake is shared by the towns of Wakefield, New Hampshire and Acton, Maine.
Great East Thompson Train Wreck The Great East Thompson Train Wreck was a large rail disaster which occurred in East Thompson, Connecticut, on December 4, 1891. It happened on the New York and New England Railroad, which provided a shortcut from New York City to Boston by making a diagonal across Connecticut.
Great Eastern Highway Bypass Great Eastern Highway Bypass is a limited access dual carriageway linking Great Eastern Highway and Roe Highway. Opened in 1988, it, together with a section of Roe Highway, bypasses the historical Guildford and Midland precincts, through which the original, urban and slower Great Eastern Highway passes through.
Great Eastern Islamic Raiders' Front The Great Eastern Islamic Raiders' Front (İslami Büyükdoğu Akıncılar Cephesi in Turkish, abbreviated IBDA-C) is an Islamic organization which follows the "Great East" ideology of Necip Fazil Kisakürek, a well-known Turkish author and Islamist ideologue. The group's self-proclaimed goal is the creation of a Sunni Islamic federate state in Middle East and re-establish the Caliphate.
Great Egg Harbor Bridge The Great Egg Harbor Bridge is a bridge that exists along the Garden State Parkway in New Jersey. It crosses the Great Egg Harbor River, connecting Upper Township, in Cape May County to Somers Point in Atlantic County.
Great Egg Harbor River The Great Egg Harbor River (known locally as the Great Egg) is a river, approximately 50 mi (80 km) long, in southern New Jersey in the United States. It is one of the major rivers that transverse the largely pristine Pinelands, draining 308 sq mi (790 km²) of wetlands into the Atlantic Ocean at Great Egg Harbor, from which it takes its name.
Great Egret The Great Egret (Casmerodius albus), also known as the Great White Egret, White Heron, or Common Egret, is a wading egret, found in most of the tropical and warmer temperate parts of the world, although it is very local in southern Europe and Asia. It is called Kotuku in New Zealand.
Great Emancipator Great Emancipator is a term often used to describe President Abraham Lincoln for his issuing of the Emancipation Proclamation and for his struggle against the Confederacy during the United States Civil War; which ultimately freed the enslaved African American population in the Southern states.
Great Emigration The Great Emigration (Polish: Wielka Emigracja) was an emigration of political elites from Poland from 1831–1870. Since the end of the 18th century, a major role in Polish political life was played by people who carried out their activities outside the country as émigrés.
Great Escarpment The Great Escarpment is a mountainous escarpment in southern Africa. While it lies predominantly within the borders of Lesotho and South Africa, it also extends into Angola, Namibia, Swaziland, Mozambique, and Zimbabwe.
Great Evening Bat The Great Evening Bat (Ia io) is a bat in the vesper bat family (Vespertilionidae). It is common to Eastern and Southeastern Asia (China, India, Laos, Nepal, Thailand and Vietnam), mainly living in areas with limestone caves at altitudes of 400–1,700 metres (¼–1 miles).
Great Expectations Great Expectations is a Bildungsroman (a novel tracing the life of the protagonist) by Charles Dickens and first serialized in All the Year Round from December 1860 to August 1861. The action of the story takes place from Christmas Eve, 1812, when the protagonist is about seven years old, to the winter of 1840.
Great Expectations (1946 film) Great Expectations is a 1946 British film directed by David Lean and based on the novel by Charles Dickens. It stars John Mills as Pip, Valerie Hobson as Estella, Finlay Currie as Abel Magwitch, Martita Hunt as Miss Havisham, Alec Guinness as Herbert Pocket, Francis L.
Great Expectations (1998 film) Great Expectations is a 1998 contemporary film adaptation of the Charles Dickens novel of the same name, directed by Alfonso CuarĂłn and starring Ethan Hawke, Gwyneth Paltrow, Robert DeNiro, Anne Bancroft and Chris Cooper. Though graced with those well-known and respected actors the movie received mixed reviews.
Great Expectations (film) Great Expectations, based on the Charles Dickens novel of the same name, is about an orphan whose dreams of social advancement are suddenly fulfilled by a mysterious benefactor. One of Dickens' most popular works, it has been filmed many times.
Great fire of Newcastle and Gateshead The Great fire of Newcastle and Gateshead was a tragic and spectacular series of events starting on Friday 6 October 1854, in which a substantial amount of property in the two towns was destroyed in a series of fires and an explosion which killed 53 and injured hundreds.
Great Falls Dam Great Falls Dam is located about 75 miles southeast of Nashville, Tennessee on the Caney Fork River just below its confluence with Collins River and on the border of Warren County and White County. The dam is 92 feet high and stretches 800 feet across the river.
Great Falls Historic District The Great Falls Historic District is the most famous neighborhood in Paterson, New Jersey, because of the landmark Great Falls of the Passaic River. The Great Falls Historic District is mostly above I-80 and along the Passaic River.
Great Falls Leader The Great Falls Leader was a daily evening newspaper published in Great Falls, Montana. Established in 1888, the Leader was one of two daily newspapers in the city for much of its history, competing with the morning Great Falls Tribune.
Great Falls of the Catawba River The Great Falls of the Catawba mark the point at which the Catawba River crosses the Fall Line of the Piedmont Plateu on the border of Lancaster County, South Carolina, and Chester County, South Carolina. Prior to the creation of the Fishing Creek Resevoir by Duke Power, the falls were a major point on the river.
Great Falls of the Passaic River The Great Falls of the Passaic River is a prominent waterfall, 77 ft (23 m) high, on the Passaic River in the city of Paterson in Passaic County in northern New Jersey in the United States. One of the United States' taller waterfalls, it played a significant role in the early industrial development of New Jersey starting in the earliest days of the nation.
Great Famine of 1315–1317 The Great Famine of 1315–1317 (or to 1322) was the first of a series of large-scale crises that struck Europe early in the 14th century, causing millions of deaths over an extended number of years and marking a clear end to an earlier period of growth and prosperity during the 11th through 13th centuries. Starting with bad weather in the spring of 1315, universal crop failures lasted through 1316 until the summer of 1317; Europe did not fully recover until 1322.
Great Fear The "Great Fear" () occurred in July and August of 1789 in France at the start of the French Revolution. Rumors spread among the peasantry that nobles had hired brigands to march on villages and destroy the peasants' new harvest, adding to this was the lack of good harvests (due to freak weather) beginning in 1787.
Great Feasts of the Orthodox Church The feast of the Resurrection of Jesus, called Easter or Pascha, is the greatest of the feasts of the Eastern Orthodox Church. In addition, there are other days of great importance in the life of the Church - the Twelve Great Feasts.
Great Fire of 1889 The Great Fire of 1889 was the largest fire in recorded California history. The fire burned an estemated 800,000 acres (3,200 km²) in San Diego County and Orange County during the last week of September, 1889.
Great Fire of 1910 The Great Fire (also known as the Big Blowup and the Big Burn) of 1910 was a forest fire which burned about three million acres (12,000 km²) in northeast Washington, northern Idaho, and western Montana over two days (August 20 and 21) and killed 86 people.
Great Fire of London The Great Fire of London was a major conflagration that swept through the central parts of London, England, from Sunday, 2 September to Wednesday, 5 September, 1666.All dates are given according to the New Style.
Great Fire of Meireki The , also known as the Furisode fire, destroyed 60-70% of the Japanese capital city of Edo (now Tokyo) in 1657, the third year of the Meireki Imperial era. It lasted for three days, and is estimated to have claimed over 100,000 lives.
Great Fire of Smyrna The Great Fire of Smyrna is the name commonly given to the fire that ravaged Ä°zmir/Smyrna starting 13 September 1922 and lasted for four days till the 17 September. It occurred shortly after the Turkish army regained control of the city on 9 September 1922, thus effectively ending the Greco-Turkish War (1919-1922) in the field, more than three years after the Greek army had landed on Smyrna on 15 May 1919.
Great Fish River The Great Fish River (called great to distinguish from the Namibian Fish River) is a river running through the South African province of The Eastern Cape. The river is 644 km long and flows into the Indian Ocean.
Great Food Live Great Food Live is a British magazine programme hosted by Jeni Barnett and broadcast on UKTVFood, part of the UKTV Network. Various chefs demonstrate recipes whilst other experts feature discussing organic produce, wines, chocolate and a whole host of other foodstuffs.
Great Fortune The Great Fortune is the first novel in Olivia Manning's Balkan Trilogy, set in Eastern Europe during early World War II. In the book, Guy and Harriet Pringle, newly married and newly arrived from England, are faced with a pre-war Romania which contrasts sharply with their familiar British homeland, and in which a rich, corrupt upper class in a land of hungry peasants and beggars is squandering their nation's "great fortune" .
Great Fox The Great Fox is a fictional space aircraft carrier / battleship used in the Star Fox series of video games as the mothership of the Star Fox team. It was officially introduced in Star Fox 64 as the base of operations of the team when in space.
Great French War The Great French War is an anachronistic British term to describe the period of conflict beginning on April 20, 1792 and continuing until November 20, 1815. The conflict began when France declared war on Austria following a gradual increase in tensions following the French Revolution in 1789.
Great Frigatebird The Great Frigatebird (Fregata minor), also known as the Iwa, is a migratory seabird in the frigatebird family. Major nesting populations are found in the Pacific (including Galapagos Islands) and Indian Oceans, as well as a population in the South Atlantic.
Great Gish Gish or Great Gish was by far the most popular god of the Kafirs of Hindukush mythology and received the greatest amount of attention among the Siah-Posh Kafirs of Bashgul. Every village of Bashgul had one or more shrines dedicated to him.
Great Glen The Great Glen (Scottish Gaelic: An Gleann Mòr, also known as Glen Albyn or Glen More is a series of valleys in Scotland running 100 kilometres from Inverness on the Moray Firth to Fort William at the head of Loch Linnhe.
Great Glen Fault The Great Glen Fault is a long strike-slip fault or ancient transform fault that runs through its namesake the Great Glen (Glen Albyn) in Scotland. However, the fault is actually much longer and over 400 million years old.
Great Gorge and International Railway The Great Gorge and International Railway was a trolley belt line encompassing the Niagara Gorge. Many dignitaries rode this line and they used to use a flat car with search light to illuminate the Niagara Whirlpool at night (during the tourist season).
Great Grebe The Great Grebe Podiceps major is the largest species of grebe on earth. A disjunct population exists in northwestern Peru, while the main distribution is from extreme southeastern Brazil to Patagonia and central Chile.
Great Grey Slug The Great Grey Slug (Limax maximus; also known as the Tiger slug or the Spotted leopard slug) is the largest type of keeled slug, noted for its dark-spotted pale-grey body and the short keel on its rear. It can live for up to three years and grow to be as long as 8 inches (0.
Great Grimsby and Sheffield Junction Railway The Great Grimsby & Sheffield Junction Railway was an early British railway company which opened between 1848 and 1849 between Grimsby and Gainsborough It amalgamated with the Sheffield, Ashton-Under-Lyne and Manchester Railway and the Sheffield and Lincolnshire Junction Railway, the three being renamed the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway in 1847.
Great Gulf The Great Gulf is a glacial cirque located in the White Mountains of New Hampshire. The cirque's walls are formed, from south to north, by Mount Washington (6,288 ft/1917 m), Mount Clay (5,533 ft/1686 m), Mount Jefferson (5,716 ft/1742 m), Mount Adams (5,799 ft/1768 m), and Mount Madison (5,366 ft/1636 m).
Great hall A great hall was the main room of a royal palace, a nobleman's castle or a large manor house in the Middle Ages, and in the country houses of the 16th and early 17th centuries. At that time the word great simply meant big, and had not acquired its modern connotations of excellence.
Great house A great house is a large and stately residence; the term encompasses different styles of dwelling in different countries. The name refers to the makeup of the household rather than to any particular architectural style.
Great Hacker War The Great Hacker War was a 1990–1991 conflict between two hacker groups: the Masters of Deception (MOD) and a faction of the older guard hacker group Legion of Doom (LOD). Each side attempted to hack the other's computers across Internet, X.
Great Hall of the People The Great Hall of the People () is located at the western edge of Tiananmen Square, Beijing, People's Republic of China, and is used for legislative and ceremonial activities by the People's Republic of China and the Communist Party of China. However, most day to day government activities are conducted within a complex at Zhongnanhai.
Great Hall of the University of Sydney The Great Hall, of the University of Sydney, Australia, is one of the principal structures of the University; today a public interior embracing such purposes as formal ceremonies, conferences, recitals and dinners. The Hall, located in the Main Quadrangle on the Camperdown campus, is not only an iconic symbol of the University's stately history, but also an architectural example of the Victorian Gothic revival.
Great Hampden Great Hampden and Little Hampden are two villages in Buckinghamshire, England, about three miles south-east of Princes Risborough. The former is the ancestral home of the Hobart-Hampden family, the most famous of whom was the English Civil War hero John Hampden.
Great Harbor Cay Great Harbour Cay (pronounced "key") is the major island in the north Berry Islands, approximately 50 miles NNW of Nassau, the capital of the Bahamas located on New Providence Island. The island was substantiall damaged by Hurricane Andrew in 1992, but has fully recovered in the ensuing 15 years.

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