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Great National Assembly The Great National Assembly (Romanian: Marea Adunare Naţională) was the legislature of the Romanian Socialist Republic. When Communism was overthrown in Romania in December 1989, the National Assembly was replaced by a bicameral parliament, made up of the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate.
Great Neck (LIRR station) Great Neck is a station on the Long Island Rail Road's Port Washington Branch in Great Neck, the first station in the branch (heading from Manhattan) in Nassau County. The station is located at Middle Neck Road and Station Plaza at Great Neck Road, 1/4 mile (0.
Great Neck Library Great Neck Library is the public library system serving the community of Great Neck, on Long Island. There are four branches, located throughout the Great Neck peninsula: Main, Station, Parkville, and Lakeville.
Great Neck School District The Great Neck School District is a comprehensive community public school district serving students in Great Neck, New York, United States. About 6,000 students, grades K-12, attend the Great Neck Public Schools.
Great New York State Fair The Great New York State Fair is an annual farmers' exposition and a 12-day showcase of entertainment, education, industry, and technology sponsored by the State of New York. Additionally there are midway rides, games, and concerts.
Great Nicobar Great Nicobar (known to its indigenous inhabitants as Tokieong Long) is the largest of the Nicobar Islands of India, north of Sumatra. Indira Point, its southernmost tip, is also the southernmost point of India.
Great Nicobar Biosphere Reserve The Great Nicobar Biosphere Reserve encompasses a large part (some 85%) of the island of Great Nicobar, the largest of the Nicobar Islands in the Indian Union Territory of Andaman and Nicobar Islands. The Nicobars lie in the Bay of Bengal, eastern Indian Ocean, 190 km to the north of the Indonesian island of Sumatra.
Great North of Scotland Railway The Great North of Scotland Railway (GNSR) was formed in 1845 and received its Parliamentary approval on June 26 1846, following over two years’ of local meetings. Its eventual area encompassed the three Scottish counties of Aberdeenshire, Banff and Moray.
Great North Road (Australia) The Great North Road in Australia refers to a 264 km road from Sydney to the Hunter Valley that was constructed between 1825 and 1836 using convict labour. Much of the original has long since been covered over or lies in various states of disrepair.
Great North Road (New Zealand) Great North Road is a major thoroughfare in Auckland. It begins as a continuation of Karangahape Road from the latter's terminus with Ponsonby road and Newton road, and passes through the western suburbs of Arch Hill, Grey Lynn, Western Springs, Point Chevalier, Waterview, Avondale, New Lynn, Kelston, Glendene and Henderson before becoming Swanson Road at the intersection with Lincoln Road.
Great North Road (Zambia) The Great North Road is a major route in Zambia, running north from Lusaka to Mpulungu via Kapiri Mposhi, Mpika and Kasama. Historically speaking, it is the Zambian section of the Cape to Cairo Road envisioned by Cecil John Rhodes.
Great North Walk The Great North Walk is a walking track which runs from Sydney to Newcastle in New South Wales, Australia. The main track, which runs between the Obelisk in Macquarie Place in Sydney to Bicentennial Park in Newcastle is 250km in length and well sign-posted.
Great North Wood The Great North Wood, sometimes known as The King's Wood, was a natural oak forest that covered most of the area of raised ground starting some four miles south of central London, covering the Sydenham Ridge and the southern reaches of the River Effra and its tributaries. At its fullest extent, the wood's boundaries stretched almost as far as Croydon and as far north as Camberwell.
Great Northeast Athletic Conference The Great Northeast Athletic Conference (or GNAC) is an intercollegiate athletic conference affiliated with the NCAA’s Division III. Member institutions are located in the northeastern United States in the States of Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island and Vermont.
Great Northern Diver The Great Northern Diver, known in North America as the Common Loon (Gavia immer [GAY-vee-ah IM-mer]), is a large member of the loon, or diver, family. Adults are typically 73–88 cm (28–36 inches) in length with a 122–148 cm wingspan, slightly smaller than the similar White-billed Diver.
Great Northern Highway Great Northern Highway is a generally north-south Western Australian highway which links the state's capital Perth with its most northern port, Wyndham. It is 3204 km in length, with 3144 km being National Highway.
Great Northern Peninsula The Great Northern Peninsula is the largest and longest peninsula of the island of Newfoundland, Canada, approximately 225km long and a width of 80km at its widest point and encompasses an area of 17,483km2. It is defined as that part of Newfoundland from Bonne Bay northwards around Cape Norman and Cape Bauld and thence southwards to the head of White Bay, bounded by the Gulf of St.
Great Northern Road Retail Park The Great Northern Road Retail Park is a Retail Park in the town of Omagh, Tyrone and is on the Great Northern Road (sometimes referred to as the Omagh Bypass, the Omagh Throughpass or the A5). The shops located in the park are as follows:
Great Northern War The Great Northern War took place between 1700 and 1721. It was fought between a coalition of Russia, Denmark-Norway, and Saxony (also the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, from 1701 and Prussia and Hanover from 1715) on one side and Sweden, which was helped by the Ottoman Empire on the other.
Great Northern War and Norway The Great Northern War was the war fought between a coalition of Denmark-Norway, Russia and Saxony-Poland (from 1715 also Prussia and Hanover) on one side and Sweden on the other side from 1700 to 1721. It started by a coordinated attack on Sweden by the coalition in 1700, and ended 1721 with the conclusion of the Treaty of Nystad, and the Stockholm treaties.
Great Notch (NJT station) Great Notch Station is a New Jersey Transit station in Little Falls, New Jersey along the Montclair-Boonton Line. Located at the intersection of Notch Road and Long Hill Road, it is the second of three stations in Little Falls, and the first on the line to be strictly diesel trains.
Great Notley Garden Village Great Notley Garden Village, or simply Great Notley is a suburban development on the fringe of Braintree, Essex in England with an approximate population of 5,500. It legally became an independent parish on 1 April 2000 as a result of The Great Notley Parish Council Order 2000.
Great Oakley, Essex Great Oakley is a village and civil parish in the Tendring district of Essex. It is a long, narrow parish lying on the top of a low (25 metre) ridge south of Ramsey Creek which drains northeast towards Harwich.
Great Observatories program NASA's series of Great Observatories satellites were four large, powerful space-based telescopes. Each of the Great Observatories has/had a similar size and cost at program outset, and each has made a substantial contribution to astronomy.
Great Ocean Road The Great Ocean Road (known as the Surfcoast Highway between Geelong and Torquay) which stretches along the South Eastern coast of Australia between the Victorian cities of Geelong and Warrnambool is the world's biggest war memorial. It was built between World War I and World War II by returned servicemen in honour of their fallen comrades.
Great Ocean Walk The Great Ocean Walk is a walking trail located on Victoria's south-east coast in Australia. The track stretches 91 kilometres from Apollo Bay to Glenample Homestead, located near the the The Twelve Apostles, Victoria.
Great Officer of State In the United Kingdom, the Great Officers of State are traditional Crown ministers, who either inherit their positions or are appointed to exercise certain largely ceremonial functions. Separate Great Officers exist for England and Scotland, and formerly for Ireland.
Great Officers of the Crown of France The Great Officers of the Crown were the most important officers of state of the royal court in France during the Ancien RĂ©gime and Bourbon Restoration. They were appointed by the King of France, and the appointments were for life (except for Chancellor), and were not transmissible or hereditary.
Great Orchestra of Christmas Charity The Great Orchestra of Christmas Charity (GOCC, Polish Wielka Orkiestra ĹšwiÄ…tecznej Pomocy, WOĹšP) is one of the biggest, non-governmental, non-profit, charity organizations in Poland. The GOCC Foundation has an American Heart Association Certification in providing of CPR and ECC courses - and using the high technology for the medical lifesaving.
Great Orme The Great Orme is a prominent limestone headland on the north coast of Wales situated in Llandudno and its oldest Welsh name is Creuddyn. It is echoed by the Little Orme, a smaller but very similar limestone headland, which is on the other side of Llandudno Bay in the parish of Llanrhos.
Great power A Great power is a nation or state that, through its great economic, political and military strength, is able to exert power over world diplomacy. Its opinions are strongly taken into account by other nations before taking diplomatic or military action.
Great Palace of Constantinople The Byzantine Great Palace of Constantinople, (, Turkish: BĂĽyĂĽk Saray), also known as the Sacred Palace (Latin: sacrum palatium, ), was a large palace complex, located in the south-eastern end of the peninsula where the city lies. It served as main residence of the Byzantine emperors from 330 AD to 1081 AD and was the centre of imperial administration for approximately 800 years.
Great Patriotic War The term Great Patriotic War (, Velikaya Otechestvennaya Voyna; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ) is used in Russia and other states of the former Soviet Union to describe the war of 1941 to 1945 between Nazi Germany and its Axis allies and the Soviet Union. The term is not generally used outside the former Soviet Union.
Great Plague of London The Great Plague (1665-1666) was a massive outbreak of disease in England that killed 75,000 to 100,000 people, up to a fifth of London's population. The disease is generally believed to have been bubonic plague, an infection by the bacterium Yersinia pestis, transmitted via a rat vector.
Great Plague of Marseille The Great Plague of Marseille was one of the most significant European outbreaks of bubonic plague in the early 18th century. Arriving in Marseille, France in 1720, the disease killed 100,000 people in the city and the surrounding provinces.
Great Plague of Vienna The Great Plague of Vienna occurred in 1679 in Vienna, Austria, the imperial residence of the Austrian Habsburg rulers. From contemporary descriptions, the disease is believed to have been bubonic plague, which is caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis, carried by fleas associated with the black rat and other rodents.
Great Plains Airlines Great Plains Airlines was a regional airline headquartered out of Tulsa, Oklahoma with a hub in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. The airline was founded in 2001 but filed bankruptcy and ceased operations in 2004 after a bid for assistance through the Air Transportation Stability Board (ATSB) was rejected.
Great Plains Art Collection The Great Plains Art Collection of the Center for Great Plains Studies at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln opened in 1981 after a generous donation from Dr. John and Elizabeth Christlieb of Bellevue, Nebraska.
Great Plains culture Historically, the Great Plains were the range of the bison and of the short-lived Great Plains culture of the Native American tribes of the Blackfeet, Crow, Sioux, Cheyenne, Arapaho, Comanche, and others. Prior to the availability of horses, a few small tribes living on the perimeters of the Great Plains undertook the difficult task of hunting buffalo on foot.
Great Plains Distinguished Book Prize The Great Plains Distinguished Book Prize is a prize awarded by the University of Nebraska-Lincoln to the best full-length, professionally published English language book on the Great Plains. The books also must have been published within the year preceding the awards.
Great Plains Energy Great Plains Energy Incorporated (NYSE: GXP) is a holding company based on Kansas City, Missouri that owns electric utility Kansas City Power & Light and Strategic Energy, LLC, an energy management company.
Great Plains Rat Snake The Great Plains Rat Snake (Pantherophis guttatus emoryi or Elaphe gutatta emoryi) is a subspecies of non-venomous rat snake native to the eastern two thirds of the United States, from New Jersey to Nebraska, to Colorado, south to Texas, and into northern Mexico. It is a subspecies of the corn snake, which is commonly kept as a pet, and is sometimes interbred with the corn snake to produce varying pattern and color morphs.
Great Platte River Road Archway Monument The Great Platte River Road Archway Monument is a museum of and monument to Nebraska's and the Platte River valley's role in westward expansion. The Archway Monument is directly over Interstate 80 three miles east of Kearney, Nebraska.
Great Post Road The Great Post Road (Indonesian: Jalan Raya Pos) is a road with a length of approximately 1,000 km across northern Java from Anyer to Panarukan. It was built during the reign of governor-general Herman Willem Daendels.
Great Potoo The Great Potoo (Nyctibius grandis) is a bird, both the largest potoo species and the largest member of the nightjar order, Caprimulgiformes. It ranges from southern Mexico through northeastern Guatemala and through most of Central America down through South America as far as Bolivia and southeasternBrazil.
Great Powers of the Universe The Great Powers of the Universe are a group of powers in the Marvel Universe. They are considered by Kubik to be the Celestials, Eternity, Death, Galactus, and the Living Tribunal, and also apparently includes such abstract entities as Mistress Love and Sire Hate, Kronos, Lord Chaos and Master Order, Infinity and Oblivion, to name just a few.
Great Purge The Great Purge (, transliterated Bolshaya chistka) is the name given to campaigns of political repression and persecution in the Soviet Union orchestrated by Joseph Stalin during the late 1930s. It involved the purge of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and the persecution of unaffiliated persons, both occurring within a period characterized by omnipresent police surveillance, widespread suspicion of "saboteurs", imprisonment, and killings.
Great Pyramid of Tenochtitlan The Great Pyramid or Templo Mayor was the main temple of the Aztec capital of Tenochtitlan (modern Mexico City). The temple rose 60 m (197 ft) above the city's ritual precinct, surmounted by dual shrines to the deities Huitzilopochtli (god of war and sun) and Tlaloc (god of rain and fertility).
Great Qing Legal Code The Great Qing Legal Code or Qing Code (Chinese: 大清律例; Manchu: Daicing gurun-i fafun-i bithe kooli) was the legal code of Qing dynasty (1644-1912). The code was based on the Ming legal system, which was kept largely intact.
Great Quittacas Pond Great Quittacas Pond is a lake/reservoir/pond within the towns of Lakeville, Middleboro, and Rochester, in southeastern Massachusetts. It shares its waters with Pocksha Pond and possibly nearby Little Quittacas Pond.
Great rhombitriheptagonal tiling In geometry, the Great rhombitrihexagonal tiling (or Omnitruncated trihexagonal tiling) is a semiregular tiling of the Euclidean plane. There are one square, one hexagon, and one triskaidecagon(14-sides) on each vertex.
Great rhombitrihexagonal tiling In geometry, the Great rhombitrihexagonal tiling (or Omnitruncated trihexagonal tiling) is a semiregular tiling of the Euclidean plane. There are one square, one hexagon, and one dodecagon (12-sides) on each vertex.
Great Railroad Strike of 1922 The Great Railroad Strike of 1922, a nationwide railroad shop workers strike in the United States which began on July 1, caused a national outcry. The immediate cause of the strike was the Railroad Labor Board's announcement that hourly wages would be cut by seven cents on July 1, which prompted a shop workers vote on whether or not to strike.
Great Recycling and Northern Development Canal The Great Recycling and Northern Development Canal is a long proposed project in the James Bay region of Canada. The project would involve constructing a barrier to separate James Bay from Hudson Bay and thereby create an enormous freshwater reservoir.
Great Red Spot The Great Red Spot is a persistent anticyclonic storm on the planet Jupiter, 22° south of the equator, which has lasted for at least 176 years, and possibly as long as 340 years. The storm is large enough to be visible through Earth-based telescopes.
Great Republic Launched in October 1853, the Great Republic is noteworthy as the largest wooden clipper ship ever constructed. Originally designed by naval architect/shipbuilder Donald McKay as a four-deck medium clipper, the Great Republic—at 4555 tons registry (most likely Gross Register Tonnage or GRT measurement)—was intended to be the most profitable wooden sailing ship ever to ply the Australian gold rush and southern oceans merchant trade.
Great Republic of Rough and Ready The Great Republic of Rough and Ready was a small, short-lived self-declared independent nation that existed in Nevada County in northern California in the United States in 1850. Founded in the town of Rough and Ready by miners largely as a protest against a recently-introduced tax on new mining claims and the prohibition of alcohol in Nevada County, it never achieved formal recognition of any government and was abolished after only three months.
Great Retreat The Great Retreat is the name given to the slow, fighting retreat by Allied forces to the River Marne, on the Western Front early in World War I, after their defeat by the Imperial German Armies at the Battle of Mons on 23 August 1914. The Allies were closely pursued by the Germans, acting under the Schlieffen Plan.
Great Rift Valley The Great Rift Valley is a vast geographical and geological feature that runs north to south for around 6,000 km, from northern Syria in Southwest Asia to central Mozambique in East Africa. The valley varies in width from thirty to one hundred kilometers, and in depth from a few hundred to several thousand meters.
Great Rite In Wicca, the Great Rite is either ritual sexual intercourse, or else a ritual symbolic representation of sexual intercourse. In the symbolic version the High Priest plunges the athame, or ritual knife, (the male symbol) into a cup or chalice (the female symbol) which is filled with wine and is held by the High Priestess.
Great River Road The Great River Road is a collection of state, provincial, federal, and local roads which follow the course of the Mississippi River through ten states of the United States and one Canadian province. They are Arkansas, Illinois, Iowa, Kentucky, Louisiana, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Tennessee, Wisconsin, and Ontario.
Great River Shakespeare Festival The Great River Shakespeare Festival (GRSF) is an annual festival held in June and July in Winona, Minnesota, a Mississippi River town in the southeastern part of the state. It has produced two simultaneous performances each summer, held at the Winona State University Performing Arts Center.
Great River, New York Great River is a hamlet (and a census-designated place) in Suffolk County, New York, United States. It was formerly known as Youngsport and was once a mansion-heavy enclave, home to many aristocratic New York families including the Vanderbilts.
Great Ruaha River The Great Ruaha River is a river in south-central Tanzania that flows through the Usangu wetlands and the Ruaha National Park east into the Rufiji River. The population of the basin is mainly sustained by irrigation and the water-related livelihood such as fishing and livestock keeping.
Great Russia Great Russia () is the obsolete name formerly applied to the territories of what was "Russia proper", the land that formed the core of Muscovy and, later, Russia. The name is equivalent to the Greek Makra Rosia (Μακρα Ρωσία) used by Byzantines for the northern part of the lands of Rus'.
Great Russian language Great Russian language (Russian: Великорусский язык, Velikorusskiy yazyk) is a name given in the 19th century to the Russian language as opposed to the Ukrainian and Belarusian languages. For instance, Vladimir Dahl's monumental dictionary of the Russian language is titled The Explanatory Dictionary of the Live Great Russian Language.
Great sparrow campaign The Great sparrow campaign, also known as the Kill a sparrow campaign, was one of the first actions taken in the Great Leap Forward, initiated by Mao Zedong. The four pests to be eliminated were rats, flies, mosquitoes and sparrows.
Great stand on the Ugra river The Great standing on the Ugra river (Великое cтояние на реке Угре in Russian, also Угорщина (Ugorschina in English, derived from Ugra) was a standoff between Akhmat Khan, Khan of the Great Horde, and Grand Duke Ivan III of Russia in 1480, which resulted in the retreat of the Tataro-Mongols and eventual disintegration of the Horde.
Great Saiyaman Saga The Great Saiyaman Saga of Dragon Ball Z largely focuses on Gohan, who is now a teenager attending high school in the city (previously he was self-tutored at home) and is trying to keep his powers a secret from his classmates. It also introduces Goten, Gohan's little brother and the son that Goku never met.
Great Salad Oil Swindle The Great Salad Oil Swindle (Baltimore, MD: Penguin Books, 1965) is a book by Wall Street Journal reporter Norman C. Miller about Tino De Angelis, a New York-based commodities trader who bought and sold vegetable oil futures contracts around the world.
Great Salt Plains Lake Great Salt Plains Lake is an artificial lake in Alfalfa County, Oklahoma in the United States. It is named because of the salt flats which are in the area and for the Salt Fork Arkansas River which is dammed to form the lake.
Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve is a United States National Park located in Alamosa County and Saguache County, Colorado, United States. Originally designated Great Sand Dunes National Monument, Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve was created by an act of the United States Congress on September 13, 2004, making it the newest national park in the United States.
Great Sandy Strait The Great Sandy Strait is a 70 kilometre sand passage estuary separating mainland Queensland, Australia from World Heritage listed Fraser Island. A complex landscape of mangroves, sandbanks, intertidal sand, mud islands, salt marshes and seagrass beds, the Strait is an important habitat for breeding fish, crustaceans, dugongs, dolphins and marine turtles.
Great Satan The Great Satan (Persian شيطان بزرگ Shaytan Bozorg, Arabic الشيطان الأكبر Al-Shaytan Al-Akbar) is a common epithet for the United States of America in Iranian foreign policy statements. Ayatollah Khomeini used the terms Iblis and Shaitan, both Islamic terms for the devil, or Satan.
Great Scott Great Scott! is an exclamation of surprise or amazement which was commonly found in superhero comic books and often said by Superman; it is also known as a line from the character Doc Brown of the Back to the Future film trilogy.
Great Seal of Ontario The Great Seal of Ontario was authorized by an Order-in-Council and has been used since January 1, 1870. It is added to documents that are released in the name of the Monarchy in Canada, including the appointment of the Executive Council and Ministers (the Cabinet).
Great Seal of Scotland The Great Seal of Scotland (An Seala Mòr na h-Alba in Gaelic) allows the monarch to authorise official documents without having to sign each document individually. Wax is melted in a metal mould or matrix and impressed into a wax figure that is attached by cord or ribbon to documents that the monarch wishes to make official.
Great Seal of the Irish Free State The Great Seal of the Irish Free State (Irish: Séala Mor do Shaorstát Éireann) was the official seal which replaced the Great Seal of the Realm used to seal official documents of the Irish Free State (Saorstát Éireann) by the Governor-General. The Great Seal is currently kept at National Museum of Ireland at Collins Barracks, Dublin.
Great Seal of the Realm The Great Seal of the Realm or Great Seal of the United Kingdom is a British institution by which the monarch's official documents can be authorised without having to be signed personally. Wax is melted in a metal mould or matrix and impressed into a wax figure that is attached by cord or ribbon to documents that the monarch wishes to make official.
Great Sejm The Great Sejm, also known as the Four-Year Sejm (Polish: respectively, Sejm Wielki or Sejm Czteroletni) was a Sejm of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth that was held in Warsaw, beginning in 1788. Its goal became to restore sovereignty to, and reform, the Commonwealth, politically and economically.
Great September Gale of 1815 The Great September Gale of 1815 (the word "hurricane" was not yet current in American English at the time), is one of five "major hurricanes" (Category 4 on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale) to strike New England in the years 1938, 1893, 1821, 1815, and 1635 (Hughes). At the time it struck, the Great September Gale was the first hurricane to strike New England in 180 years.
Great Seto Bridge The , or Seto-Ohashi Bridge, is a series of double deck bridges connecting Okayama and Kagawa prefectures in Japan across a series of five small islands in the Seto Inland Sea. Built over the period 1978 - 1988, it is one of the three routes of the Honshū-Shikoku Bridge Project connecting Honshū and Shikoku islands.
Great Shelford Great Shelford is a village located approximately four miles to the south of Cambridge, in the county of Cambridgeshire, in eastern England. In 1850 Great Shelford parish contained 1900 acres intersected by the river Cam.
Great Siberian Ice march Great Siberian Ice march - winter retreat of the White Russian Army in course of Russian Civil War of 1917-1922. As the White Russian Army moved eastward, they stopped near the town of Irkutsk, which is located on the western edge of lake Baikal, but with the Red Army in hot pursuit the White Army had to escape across the frozen lake in sub-zero temperatures.
Great Sioux reservation The Great Sioux Reservation was established in the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1868, and includes all of modern Western South Dakota (commonly known as "West River" South Dakota) and modern Boyd County, Nebraska. This area was established as a reservation for the Teton Sioux, also known as the Lakota: the seven western bands of the "Seven Council Fires" (the Great Sioux Nation).
Great Sitkin Island Great Sitkin Island is a volcanic island in the Andreanof Islands of the Aleutian Islands of Alaska. The island covers a total area of 156 km² and lies slightly north of a group islands which are located between Adak Island and Atka Island.
Great Smog of 1952 The Great Smog, also referred to as the Big Smoke, befell London starting on December 5, 1952, and lasted until December 9, 1952. This catastrophe caused or advanced the death of thousands and formed an important impetus to the modern environmental movement.
Great Smoky Mountains The Great Smoky Mountains are a major mountain range in the southern part of the Appalachian Mountains, the second ridge line forming a north-south running mountain chain from the eastern seaboard and bordering the western side of the Blue Ridge Mountains. Also called the Smoky Mountains or the Smokies, they straddle the border between Tennessee and North Carolina, and are entirely west of the Eastern Continental Divide.
Great Smoky Mountains Association The purpose of Great Smoky Mountains Association (GSMA) is to help the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Through sales, labor, donations, and volunteer efforts, GSMA provides the National Park Service with additional tools for fulfilling its mission.
Great Smoky Mountains Expressway The Great Smoky Mountains Expressway is a four lane, divided highway in southwestern North Carolina that runs between exit 27 off of Interstate 40 near Canton in Haywood County in the east to the Nantahala National Forest in Swain County in the west.
Great Smoky Mountains National Park The Great Smoky Mountains National Park is a United States National Park that straddles the ridgeline of the Great Smoky Mountains, part of the Blue Ridge Mountains which are a division of the larger Appalachian Mountain chain. The border between Tennessee to the west and North Carolina to the east runs northeast to southwest through the centerline of the park.
Great Snoring Great Snoring is a rural village in North Norfolk by the River Stiffkey, in the East of England, UK at . Its population in the 2001 census was 168, a dramatic decrease since 1841 when it was 556 (this included 81 people in the Walsingham Union Workhouse).
Great South Athletic Conference The Great South Athletic Conference (or GSAC) is an intercollegiate athletic conference affiliated with the NCAA’s Division III. Member institutions are located in the southeastern United States in the States of Alabama, Georgia, and Tennessee.
Great South Pacific Express The Great South Pacific Express was a luxury train service, run by Venice Simplon Orient Express, that ran between Cairns and Sydney in Australia from 1998 until 2003. It made occasional excursions to Canberra, the Blue Mountains and the Hunter Valley.
Great Southern and Western Railway The Great Southern and Western Railway (GS&WR) was one of the main railway operations in Ireland in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The company was the largest of Ireland's "Big Four" railway operators, buying up smaller operations and expanding its route mileage for much of its existence.
Great Southern Football League (South Australia) The Great Southern Football League (GSFL) is an Australian rules football competition based in the Fleurieu Peninsula region of South Australia, Australia. It is a affiliated member of the South Australian National Football League and is zoned to the South Adelaide Football Club.
Great Southern Highway Great Southern Highway is a highway in the Southern Wheatbelt region of Western Australia, starting from Great Eastern Highway at The Lakes, 50 km from Perth, and ending at Albany Highway near Cranbrook. It is the primary thoroughfare for this part of Western Australia and runs parallel with the Perth-Albany railway for its entire length.
Great Southern region of Western Australia The Great Southern region is one of the nine regions of Western Australia. It is located on the south coast of Western Australia, and is comprised of the local government areas of Albany (both town and shire), Broomehill, Cranbrook, Denmark, Gnowangerup, Jerramungup, Katanning, Kent, Kojonup, Plantagenet, Tambellup and Woodanilling.
Great Southern Rail Trail The Great Southern Rail Trail is a Rail trail from Leongatha to Foster in South Gippsland, Victoria, Australia. The trail is 49km long and travels through open farmland, before passing through the Hoddle range to Foster.
Great Southern Railroad The Great Southern Railroad was a 41-mile short-line that connected with the Oregon Railway and Navigation Company in The Dalles, Oregon, United States, and ran south along Fifteen Mile Creek through Boyd to Dufur, and on to small community of Friend. The railroad was formed by John Heimrich, a late 19th Century entrepreneur of German ancestry.

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