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Great Harbour Deep, Newfoundland and Labrador Great Harbour Deep is an incorporated town in the province of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada, situated on the east coast of the Great Northern Peninsula. Harbour Deep, as it is customarily called, is a logging and fishing community that lies in a sheltered harbour on the south shore of Pigeonnière Arm.
Great Harrowden Great Harrowden is a village in Northamptonshire, near the town of Wellingborough - the population is approximately 70. The village sits astride the busy A509 running between Kettering and Wellingborough - although a bypass is due to be built shortly.
Great Havana Hurricane of 1846 The Great Havana Hurricane of 1846 was a powerful late-season hurricane that caused extensive damage and 163 deaths as it moved across Cuba, Florida, and the eastern United States before dissipating over the Canadian Maritimes.
Great Hearts Academies Great Hearts Academies is a non-profit charter school management organization which operates charter school "preparatory academies" (grades 7 to 12) in the Phoenix, Arizona metropolitan area. Tempe Preparatory Academy is the founding sister school to the Great Hearts network of schools.
Great Heathen Army The "Great Heathen Army", also known as the Great Army or the Great Danish Army, was a Viking army originating in Denmark which pillaged and conquered much of England in the late 9th century. The army was exceptionally large for the period, probably containing several thousand fighters.
Great Heaton Great Heaton (also known as Over Heaton and Heaton Reddish) was a historic township in the ecclesiastical parish of Prestwich-cum-Oldham, in Lancashire, England. It was situated between modern day Prestwich and Manchester, near Heaton Park.
Great Hedge of India The Great Hedge of India, or the Inland Customs Line was a nearly impenetrable barrier of trees, thorny bushes, hedges and guard-stations that was built by the nineteenth century British rulers of India across the length and breadth of India. The purpose of the Customs Line was to divide the salt-producing regions from the non-salt-producing regions, and thus to facilitate the collection of salt tax on any movement of salt across the barrier.
Great Highland Bagpipe The Great Highland Bagpipe (Gaelic : A' Phìob Mhòr) is probably the best-known variety of bagpipe. Abbreviated GHB, and commonly referred to simply as "the pipes", they have historically taken numerous forms in both Scotland and Ireland.
Great Hinckley Fire The Great Hinckley Fire was a major conflagration that burned an area of more than 400 square miles (1000 km²), killing 418 to 459 people in the process. The fire occurred on September 1, 1894 and was centered at Hinckley, Minnesota.
Great Hiwassee Great Hiwassee, also known as "Ayuhwasi Egwaha" was an important Overhill Cherokee town. It was located on the Hiwassee River, near present-day Polk County, Tennessee, on the north bank of the river where highway 411 crosses the river.
Great Hornbill The Great Hornbill, Buceros bicornis also known as Greater Indian Hornbill, is the largest member of the hornbill family. Great Hornbill is distributed in the forests of India, the Malay Peninsula and Sumatra, Indonesia.
Great Hospital The Great Hospital is an almshouse that has been serving the people of Norwich, Norfolk, England, since its foundation in 1249. It is situated on a 7 acre (28,000 m²) site in a bend of the River Wensum and to the north-east of Norwich Cathedral.
Great House at Sonning The Great House at Sonning is a hotel and restaurant with a riverside garden on the Thames near Sonning Bridge at Sonning, Berkshire, England. It is possible for patrons to moor along the towpath running past the hotel on the river.
Great Hungarian Plain The Great Alföld, Alföld, or Great Hungarian Plain (Hungarian: Alföld [] or Nagyalföld, Slovak: Veľká dunajská kotlina, Romanian: Câmpia Tisei, Serbian and Croatian: simply Panonski basen or Панонски басен - Pannonian plain) is a plain/basin occupying the southern and eastern part of Hungary, some parts of eastern Slovakia (Východoslovenská nížina - Eastern Slovak Lowland), southwestern Ukraine (Zakarpats'ka nyzovyna - Transcarpathian Lowland), western Romania (various names), northern Serbia, and eastern Croatia (various names). It is the largest part of the Pannonian plain.
Great Hurricane of 1780 The Great Hurricane of 1780 is considered the deadliest Atlantic tropical cyclone of all time. About 22,000 people died when the storm pounded Barbados, Martinique, and Sint Eustatius in the Lesser Antilles between October 10 and October 16 Thousands of deaths also occurred offshore.
Great Hymn to the Aten The Great Hymn to the Aten was found in the tomb of Ay, in the rock tombs at Akhetaten. It is attributed to Pharaoh Akhenaten (Amenhotep IV) himself, and gives us a glimpse of the artistic outpouring of the Amarna period (14th century BC).
Great chamber The great chamber was the second most important room in a medieval or Tudor English castle, palace, mansion or manor house after the great hall. Medieval great halls were the ceremonial centre of the household and were not private at all; the gentleman attendants and the servants came and went at all times.
Great Chagos Bank The Great Chagos Bank, in the Chagos Archipelago, about 500 km South of the Maldives, is the largest atoll structure in the world, with a total area of roughly 13 000 km2. There are seven or eight individual islands on the rim of the atoll, one in the North (Nelson's Island) and the others on the Eastern rim.
Great Chamberlain Holders of the office of Lord Chamberlain of Scotland are known from about 1124, though by the seventeenth century it enjoyed high status but few actual powers, having lost its financial functions after 1425 to the Treasurer and its supervision of the royal burghs. Left vacant from 1558 to 1565 and again from 1569 it was revived in 1580 for the cousin of James I, Esmé Stewart, 1st Duke of Lennox, whose appearance as a Great Officer of State in 1581 is attributable to his personal standing with the king rather than his office.
Great Chardonnay Showdown The Great Chardonnay Showdown, held in the spring of 1980, was organized by the wine columnist for the Chicago Tribune newspaper with help from three Chicago wine stores. A total of 221 Chardonnays from around the world were selected for the blind wine competition.
Great Chart Great Chart is a village in civil parish of Great Chart with Singleton in the Ashford District of Kent, England. The parish is split between the ancient village of Great Chart and the modern Singleton housing development, which is part of the western outskirts of Ashford.
Great Charter of Ireland The Great Charter of Ireland, also known as the Magna Charta Hiberniae, was a charter of rights for the citizens of Ireland, published at about the same time as the Magna Carta. The only known copy was to be found in the Red Book of the Dublin Court of Exchequer, a MS volume compiled in the 14th century.
Great Chesterford Great Chesterford is a medium size village in the Uttlesford district of Essex, England. It is located 15 miles (22 km) north of Bishop's Stortford, 12 miles (20 km) south of Cambridge and approx 35 miles (56 km) north of London.
Great Chicago Fire The Great Chicago Fire was a conflagration that burned from Sunday October 8 to early Tuesday October 10, 1871, killing hundreds and destroying about 4 square miles in Chicago, Illinois. Though the fire was one of the largest U.
Great Illustrated Classics The Great Illustrated Classics series offers easy to read abridgements of well known classics, featuring large print and illustrations. The series is targeted for younger readers, but the writing style is suitable for adult readers as well.
Great Indian Warpath The Great Indian Warpath, Great Indian War and Trading Path, or Seneca Trail was that part of the network of trails in eastern North America developed and used by Native Americans which ran through the Great Appalachian Valley . The system of footpaths (the Warpath branched off in several places onto alternate routes and over time shifted westward in some regions) extended from what is now upper New York state to deep within Georgia.
Great Inheritance Great Inheritance (also Great Expectation) is a Korean telenovela starring Korean thespians Kim Jae Won (100 Days With Mr. Arrogant, Wonderful Life) as gangster turned kindergarten teacher, Jiang Xianshi (also Kang Hyun Se).
Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search The Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search, or GIMPS, is a collaborative project of volunteers, who use Prime95 and MPrime, special software that can be downloaded from the Internet for free, in order to search for Mersenne prime numbers. The project was founded and the prime testing software was written by George Woltman.
Great Ireland Great Ireland or Ireland the Great (Irland it mikla in Old Norse), or Greater Ireland, also known in Old Norse as HvĂ­tramannaland ("White Men's Land") and in Latin as Hibernia Major or Albania (not to be confused with the country of Albania) is a phantom island once believed by many Norsemen and others to be located near Vinland. The island was supposed to have been settled by Irishmen, possibly by the Irish monks called papar who were supposed to have fled Ireland when the Vikings arrived there to settle.
Great Is My Country Great Is My Country (Russian: Sheroka Strana Moya Rodnaya, a literal translation of My Spacious Homeland, from the song of the same name, which is heard in the film, by the Russian composer Isaac Dunaevsky) — was the first film shot in the Soviet wide screen film format known as Kinopanorama. The film was directed by Roman Karmen, one of the most famous individuals in documentary film making in the Soviet Union.
Great Island Great Island (Oileann Mor an Barraigh in Irish) is the name of an island in Cork Harbour, just outside Cork city, at the mouth of the River Lee. The town of CĂłbh is situated on the island, which is connected by causeway to Fota Island to the north, which in turn is connected by causeway to the mainland.
Great Jedi Purge The Great Jedi Purge was the near-complete destruction of the Jedi by the Sith-led Galactic Empire in the fictional Star Wars universe. This conflict was first documented in Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith.
Great Kills, Staten Island Great Kills is a neighborhood within New York City's borough of Staten Island. It is located on the island's South Shore, and according to many local geographers, it is the South Shore's northernmost community.
Great King Great King and the equivalent in many languages is a semantic model for historical titles of Monarchs, suggesting an elevated status among the host of Kings and minor Princes. This title is most usually associated with the kings of Persia under the Achaemenid dynasty whose vast empire lasted for 300 years up to the year 330 BC.
Great Kingdom In the World of Greyhawk campaign setting for the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game, the Great Kingdom, or the Great Kingdom of Aerdy, refers to an empire that varied in size at various points in its history.
Great Kingshill Great Kingshill and Little Kingshill are hamlets in the parishes of Hughenden and Little Missenden respectively in Buckinghamshire, England. They are located in the Chiltern Hills, about five miles west of Amersham and two and a half miles south of Great Missenden.
Great Knoutberry Hill Great Knoutberry Hill, also commonly known as Widdale Fell, is a mountain located near Dent at the heads of Ribblesdale, Dentdale and Wensleydale in the Yorkshire Dales National Park. The Cumbria/North Yorkshire border runs over the fell.
Great lanternshark The great lanternshark, Etmopterus princeps, is a shark of the family Dalatiidae found in the northeast and northwest Atlantic, between latitudes 65° N and 13° N, at depths of between 300 and 2,310 m. Its length is up to 75 cm.
Great Labor Arts Exchange The Great Labor Arts Exchange is an annual arts festival in Silver Spring, Maryland, which celebrates the labor history of the United States as well as preserves, advances and promotes the culture of the American labor movement.
Great Lake (Tasmania) The Great Lake is a half man made lake located in the central north region of Tasmania, Australia, it's original size is much smaller, it is dammed for hydro-electricity production. It is Australia's second largest freshwater lake (Lake Pedder is considered to be the largest), 1,030 metres above sea level.
Great Lakes Aboriginal Syllabics Great Lakes Aboriginal Syllabics is a Latin-based syllabic system used by the Native Americans tribes surrounding the Great Lakes. It is most closely associated with the Ho-chunk language, but it was also used by the Menomini, Odawa, Potawatomi, Sac and Fox.
Great Lakes Aircraft Company The Great Lakes Aircraft Company LLC today is a business focused on the manufacturing of the 2T-1A Sport Trainer biplane. The Great Lakes Aircraft Company has a rich history of building both private and military aircraft.
Great Lakes Aquarium Great Lakes Aquarium is the only aquarium in the United States that focuses on freshwater exhibits. It is housed in a three-story building in Duluth, Minnesota on the shores of Lake Superior and has numerous large and smaller satellite tanks that comprise the 120,000 gallon facility.
Great Lakes Areas of Concern Great Lakes Areas of Concern are designated geographic areas within the Great Lakes watershed that show severe environmental degradation. The Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement between the United States and Canada more specifically defines Areas of Concern as "geographic areas that fail to meet the general or specific objectives of the agreement where such failure has caused or is likely to cause impairment of beneficial use of the area's ability to support aquatic life.
Great Lakes Blizzard of 1977 The Blizzard of ‘77 was a deadly blizzard that hit the city of Buffalo, New York and the area around it in New York and Ontario (and to a lesser extent, surrounding regions) from January 28 to February 1, 1977. Daily peak gusts of 69, 51, 52, 58 and 46 miles per hour (111, 82, 84, 93, and 74 km/h) were recorded during this period at the Buffalo National Weather Service office (National Weather Service Buffalo Office 2006a).
Great Lakes Brewing Company Great Lakes Brewing Company is a Cleveland-based brewing company which has been in operation since 1988. Established by brothers Patrick and Daniel Conway, Great Lakes Brewing Company became the first microbrewery in the state of Ohio.
Great Lakes Commission The Great Lakes Commission is an eight-state compact United States agency established in 1955 through the Great Lakes Basin Compact, in order to "promote the orderly, integrated and comprehensive development, use and conservation of the water resources of the Great Lakes Basin," which includes the Saint Lawrence River. The commission provides policy development, coordination, and advocacy on issues of regional concern, as well as communication and research services.
Great Lakes Crossing Great Lakes Crossing is a shopping mall located in Auburn Hills, Michigan, just off I-75 between Baldwin and Joslyn Roads. Upon opening in 1998, it instantly became one of the largest shopping centers in the United States at 1.
Great Lakes Dredge and Dock Company Great Lakes Dredge and Dock Company (GLD&D) is an American company providing services in dredging, beach nourishment, and marine construction, currently the largest such provider in the United States The company was founded in 1890 as the partnership of William A. Lydon & Fred C.
Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory The Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory (GLERL) is a laboratory in the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)/Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research (OAR). It is headquartered in Ann Arbor, Michigan, with a subsidiary field station in Muskegon, Michigan.
Great Lakes Exposition The Great Lakes Exposition was held in Cleveland, Ohio, in the summers of 1936 and 1937, along the Lake Erie shore north of downtown. The fair commemorated of the centennial of Cleveland's incorporation as a city.
Great Lakes Hockey League The Great Lakes Hockey League (GLHL) is an amateur adult men’s full contact ice hockey league that is affiliated with USA Hockey. There are currently ten teams in the league in two divisions- North and South.
Great Lakes Christian College Great Lakes Christian College (GLCC) is an Christian liberal arts college in Delta Township, Michigan near the state capital of Lansing. It is affiliated with the Independent Christian Churches and Churches of Christ and currently has 240 enrolled students.
Great Lakes Invitational The Great Lakes Invitational is a four-team NCAA men's ice hockey tournament held annually at Joe Louis Arena in Detroit between Christmas and New Year as part of College Hockey at The Joe. Although many college hockey tournaments take place when the holidays coincide with collegiate Christmas break, the GLI is arguably the most prestigious.
Great Lakes Junior C Hockey League The Great Lakes Junior C Hockey League is a Junior "C" ice hockey league in Ontario, Canada, sanctioned by the Ontario Hockey Association. The Champion of the Great Lakes will compete for the All-Ontario Championship and the Clarence Schmalz Cup.
Great Lakes Loons The Great Lakes Loons, based in Midland, Michigan, is a Class A minor league baseball team, affiliated with the Los Angeles Dodgers. The team plays in the Midwest League and their home park is Dow Diamond, which will open in April 2007.
Great Lakes refugee crisis The Great Lakes refugee crisis is the common name for the situation beginning with the exodus in April 1994 of over two million Rwandans to neighboring countries of the Great Lakes region of Africa in the aftermath of the Rwandan Genocide. Many of the refugees were Hutu ethnics fleeing the predominantly Tutsi Rwandese Patriotic Front (RPF), which invaded to end the Rwandan Genocide.
Great Lakes Storm The Great Lakes Storm was a basketball team that played in the Continental Basketball Association for three seasons, beginning in 2002 and ending in 2005. They were based in Birch Run, Michigan, a small town between Flint and Saginaw.
Great Lakes Storm of 1913 The Great Lakes Storm of 1913, historically referred to as the "Big Blow," the "Freshwater Fury," or the "White Hurricane," was a blizzard with hurricane-force winds that devastated the Great Lakes basin in the United States Midwest and the Canadian province of Ontario from November 7, 1913, to November 10, 1913.
Great Lakes Theater Festival The Great Lakes Theater Festival is the second oldest regional theater company in Greater Cleveland, and is "Cleveland's Classic Theater Company," specializing in large-cast classic plays including regular performances of the works of Shakespeare. It was founded in 1961 by Arthur Lithgow (father of John Lithgow) as the "Great Lakes Shakespeare Festival", but it was renamed in the 80s to reflect its expanding scope that includes modern classics.
Great Lakes Transportation Great Lakes Transportation LLC is a group of transportation related companies primarily consisting of rail and water carriers catering to the needs of the steel making industry centered around the Great Lakes of North America. GLT companies include:
Great Lakes Valley Conference The Great Lakes Valley Conference (GLVC) is a highly competitive intercollegiate athletic conference which competes at the NCAA's Division II level. Member teams are located in the states of Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Missouri, and Wisconsin.
Great Lakes Waterway The Great Lakes Waterway is a system of channels and canals that makes all of the Great Lakes accessible to oceangoing vessels. Its principal civil engineering components are the Welland Canal, bypassing Niagara Falls between Lake Ontario and Lake Erie, and the Soo Locks, bypassing the rapids of the St.
Great Lakes-Atlantic Coast derecho The Great Lakes-Atlantic Coast derecho was a series of severe wind events associated with powerful thunderstorms, known as Derechos, that occurred between July 17 and July 21, 2006 across a wide swath of north-central and northeastern North America stretching from the Upper Midwest, through much of Ontario and into the northeastern United States. In the latter storms of the period, the middle Mississippi River Valley was affected, notably the city of St.
Great Langdale Great Langdale is a valley running from the town of Ambleside to the highest peaks of the Lake District in the county of Cumbria, in the northwest of the England. It is often simply referred to as Langdale, the epithet Great distinguishing it from the neighbouring Little Langdale.
Great Lavra The Monastery of Great Lavra was built by the monk Athanasius of Trebizond with funds from Byzantine Emperor Nicephorus II Phocas who intended to abdicate his throne and become a monk when he was assassinated in 969. Great Lavra is the oldest and largest monastery on Mount Athos in Greece, housing 317 monks in 1990.
Great Lavra Belltower The Great Lavra Belltower or the Great Belfry (, ) is the main belltower of the ancient cave monastery of Kiev Pechersk Lavra in Kiev, the capital of Ukraine. It is one of the most notable buildings of the Kiev skyline ().
Great Law of Peace Gayanashagowa or the Great Law of Peace of the Iroquois (or Haudenosaunee) Six Nations is the oral constitution that created the Iroquois Confederacy. The law was developed by a Huron man known as The Great Peacemaker and his spokesman Hiawatha.
Great Leap Forward The Great Leap Forward () of the People's Republic of China was an economic and social plan used from 1958 to early 1962 which aimed to use China's vast population to rapidly transform mainland China from a primarily agrarian economy dominated by peasant farmers into a modern, industrialized communist society. Mao Zedong based this program on the Theory of Productive Forces.
Great Leap Forward (band) The Great Leap Forward was a band formed by former bIG fLAME member Alan Brown, when his previous band split up in 1987. Great Leap Forward was essentially a solo project, although various musicians were added for live performances.
Great Lent Great Lent is the greatest fasting period in the church year in Eastern Christianity, which prepares Christians for the greatest feast of the church year, Easter (or "Holy Pascha"). Although it is in many ways similar to Lent in Western Christianity, there are important differences in the timing of Lent (besides calculating the date of Easter), the underlying theology, and how it is practiced, both liturgically in the church and personally.
Great Lever Great Lever is a mainly residential settlement in the Metropolitan Borough of Bolton, Greater Manchester, England, between Farnworth and Burnden, and about 2 miles from Bolton town centre. Great Lever has many shops and services serving the local community.
Great Liakhvi Great Liakhvi is a river in central Georgia, which rises on the southern slopes of the Greater Caucasus Mountain Range in the rebel region of South Ossetia and flows into the Kura (Mtkvari) River. The cities of Tskhinvali and Gori (the birthplace of Joseph Stalin) lie along the banks of the Great Liakhvi.
Great Liberal Union The Great Liberal Union (Spanish: Gran Unión Liberal - GUL) is a right-wing Nicaraguan political party -never legally registered- formed by President Bolaños and other dissidents from the Constitutionalist Liberal Party (PLC) in 2004. After signing an electoral alliance with the Conservative Party, both organizations formed the Alliance for the Republic (APRE) in 2005.
Great Limpopo Transfrontier Park Great Limpopo Transfrontier Park is a 35,000 km² peace park that is in the process of being formed. It will link the Limpopo National Park (formerly known as Coutada 16) in Mozambique, Kruger National Park and the Mala Mala Reserve in South Africa, Gonarezhou National Park, Manjinji Pan Sanctuary and Malipati Safari Area in Zimbabwe, as well as the area between Kruger and Gonarezhou, the Sengwe communal land in Zimbabwe and the Makuleke region in South Africa.
Great Link (Star Trek) In the fictional Star Trek universe, the Great Link is the natural state of Changelings on their home planet in the Omarion Nebula in the distant Gamma Quadrant of the Milky Way. The link appears as a giant ocean-like gelatinous form, physically consisting of the Changelings themselves.
Great Living Chola Temples The Great Living Chola Temples are temples built during the Chola rule in the south of India. These temples are the Brihadisvara Temple at Thanjavur, the Temple of Gangaikondacholisvaram and the Airavatesvara Temple at Darasuram.
Great Locomotive Chase The Great Locomotive Chase or Andrews' Raid was a military raid that occurred April 12, 1862, in northern Georgia during the American Civil War. Volunteers from the Union Army stole a train in an effort to disrupt the vital Western & Atlantic Railroad (W&A), which ran from Atlanta, Georgia, to Chattanooga, Tennessee.
Great man theory The Great man theory is a theory held by some that aims to explain history by the impact of "Great men", or heroes: highly influential individuals, either from personal charisma, genius intellects, or great political impact.
Great Machine The Great Machine is an enormous technological marvel beneath the surface of the planet Epsilon III in Babylon 5. Although the size of the machine is not specified, it is similar in concept to the great machine of the Krell of Altair IV in Forbidden Planet, being several miles in size, and generating considerable energy.
Great Mall/Main (VTA) Great Mall/Main is a transit center operated by Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority (VTA). This transit center serves as a transfer point between VTA's Alum Rock-Santa Teresa line and several bus lines operated by VTA and AC Transit.
Great Manmade River The Great Manmade River or Great Man-made River (GMR) is a network of pipes that supplies water from the Sahara Desert in Libya from a fossil aquifer. Some sources cite it as the largest engineering project ever undertaken.
Great Marshal of Ayacucho Symphony orchestra Since its foundation in 1989, Great Marshal of Ayacucho Symphony orchestra has reunited to an ample group of young Venezuelan talents that with his outstanding performances they give faith of the fruits of the National System of Youthful and Infantile Symphony orchestras of Venezuela. Marcos Carrilo is the musical director.
Great Meadow Great Meadow is a 250-acre field events center and steeplechase course operated under stewardship of the Great Meadow Foundation, a 501(c)3 non-profit organization dedicated to the preservation of open space for community use.
Great Meadows National Wildlife Refuge The Great Meadows Wildlife Refuge, is a twelve-mile long river wetlands conservation area, in two major parcels, stretching from the towns of Billerica, Massachusetts (downstream) to Wayland, Massachusetts (upstream), along the Concord and Sudbury rivers. Considered by some ornithologists among the best inland bird observatories in the state of Massachusetts, it is a popular destination for bird watchers and tourists.
Great Meadows Regional School District The Great Meadows Regional School District is a regional public school district in Warren County, New Jersey. The district serves students in kindergarten through eighth grade from Independence and Liberty townships.
Great Meadows-Vienna, New Jersey Great Meadows-Vienna is a census-designated place (CDP) located within Independence Township and Liberty Township, in Warren County, New Jersey, United States. It is located in the eastern most region of the Lehigh Valley.
Great Miami Fire of 1912 Sixteen years after its incorporation and fifteen years before the famous devastation wreaked by the Hurricane of 1927, the new city of Miami, FL was decimated by a large fire that started in a railway worker's shack in "Colored Town." (today called Overtown).
Great Midwest Trivia Contest The Great Midwest Trivia Contest, or Midwest Trivia Contest, is held each year in Appleton, Wisconsin, broadcast over Lawrence University's radio station, WLFM. Beginning with Trivia XLI in 2006, the contest went to a webcast-only format after WLFM ceased FM broadcasting.
Great Migration (Puritan) The Great Migration may refer to the Winthrop Fleet of 1630; where in 1,000 passengers migrated from England to the Massachusetts Bay Colony in eleven ships. It may also refer more generally to the Puritan migration of approximately 70,000 refugees from England to what is now the Northeastern United States, the Chesapeake Bay area, and the Caribbean during the 1630s.
Great Migrations (Greyhawk) In the World of Greyhawk campaign setting for the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game, the Great Migrations is a general term applying to the migration of great hordes of Oeridians and Suel humans into the Flanaess from western Oerik. The impetus for the migrations was political tension related to the conflict that erupted into the great Baklunish-Suloise Wars that ended in the Twin Cataclysms.
Great Missenden railway station Great Missenden railway station serves the town of Great Missenden in Buckinghamshire, as well as the villages of Prestwood, Little Hampden and Little Missenden. The station lies on the London Marylebone-Aylesbury line and is served by Chiltern Railways trains.
Great Moon Hoax The Great Moon Hoax was a series of six articles that appeared in the New York Sun beginning on August 25, 1835 about the supposed discovery of life on the Moon. The discoveries were falsely attributed to Sir John Herschel, perhaps the best-known astronomer of his day.
Great Moravia Great Moravia was a Slavic empire existing in Central Europe between 833 and the early 10th century. Its core territory laid on both sides of the Morava river, in present-day Slovakia, the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Austria.
Great Mosque of Djenné The Great Mosque of Djenné is the largest mud brick or adobe building in the world and is considered by many architects to be the greatest achievement of the Sudano-Sahelian architectural style, albeit with definite Islamic influences. The mosque is located in the city of Djenné, Mali on the flood plain of the Bani River.
Great Mosque of Kilwa The Great Mosque of Kilwa is a congregational mosque on the island of Kilwa Kisiwani, in Tanzania. It was likely founded in the tenth century, but the two major stages of construction date to the eleventh or twelfth and thirteenth century, respectively.
Great Mosque of Samarra The Great Mosque of Samarra is an Islamic mosque located in the Iraqi city of Samarra and was built in the 9th century. The mosque was commissioned by Abbasid caliph Al-Mutawakkil who reigned (in Samarra) from 847 until 861.
Great Moss Swamp The Great Moss Swamp (also known as the Loganburn Reservoir) is located in Otago, New Zealand, at 45°33'S, 169°56'E. It lies in the Maniototo, close to the former gold mining route of the Old Dunstan Road, 60 kilometres to the northwest of Dunedin city centre.
Great Mural Rock Art, Baja California Great Mural Rock Art consists of prehistoric paintings of humans and animals, often larger than life-size, on the walls and ceilings of natural rock shelters in the mountains of northern Baja California Sur and southern Baja California, Mexico.
Great Natchez Tornado The Great Natchez Tornado was a tornado that hit Natchez, Mississippi on May 7, 1840. It is the second deadliest single tornado in United States history, killing 317 people (the only tornado in the United States to have killed more people was the Tri-State Tornado).

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