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Great Southern Railway (Western Australia) The Great Southern Railway (GSR) was the name of a railway company that operated from Beverley to Albany in Western Australia between 1886 and 1896. In 1896 the Western Australian Government Railways took over this company and the railway route also kept the name.
Great Speckled Bird (band) Great Speckled Bird was a Country Rock group formed in 1969 by Canadian musicians Ian and Sylvia. The band members included: Ian Tyson (guitar, vocals), Sylvia Tyson (vocals), Buddy Cage (pedal steel guitar), Amos Garrett (guitar, background vocals), N.
Great Sphinx of Giza The Great Sphinx of Giza is a large half-human, half-lion Sphinx statue in Egypt, on the Giza Plateau at the west bank of the Nile River, near modern-day Cairo (). It is one of the largest single-stone statues on Earth, and is commonly believed to have been built by ancient Egyptians in the 3rd millennium BC.
Great Spirit The Great Spirit is a conception of a supreme being prevalent among Native American and First Nations cultures. Also called Waken Tanka, The Creator, or The Great Maker in English and Gitchi Manitou in Algonquian, the Great Spirit was a syncretist conception of God.
Great Spruce Head Island, Maine Great Spruce Head Island is a privately owned island in Penobscot Bay, Maine. It has long belonged to the family of the painter Fairfield Porter and his brother, photographer Eliot Porter, both of whom did ample creative work there.
Great Storm of 1975 The Great Storm of 1975 (also known as the Super Bowl Blizzard, Minnesota's Storm of the Century, or the Tornado Outbreak of January, 1975) was an intense storm system that pounded a large portion of the Central United States from January 9 to January 12, 1975. The storm produced 45 tornadoes in the Southeast U.
Great Storm of 1987 The Great Storm of 1987 occurred on October 15 and 16, 1987, when an unusually strong weather system caused hurricane force winds to hit much of the south of England. It was the worst storm to hit England since the Great Storm of 1703 and was responsible for the deaths of approximately 23 people.
Great Sugar Loaf The Sugar Loaf mountain is in County Wicklow, just south of Bray. Known as Big Sugar Loaf to distinguish it from the Little Sugar Loaf to the east on the other side of the N11 dual-carriageway from Dublin to Wicklow.
Great Sumatran fault The Indonesian island of Sumatra is located in a highly seismic area of the world. In addition to the subduction zone and the associated Sunda Arc off the west coast of the island, Sumatra also has a large transform fault, the so-called Great Sumatran Fault, running the entire length of the island.
Great Swamp National Wildlife Refuge The Great Swamp National Wildlife Refuge is located in Morris County and Somerset County, New Jersey, about 25 miles (40 km) west of Manhattan's Times Square. It is one of more than 544 refuges in the National Wildlife Refuge System that is administered by the United States Department of Interior's United States Fish and Wildlife Service.
Great Swamp Watershed Association The Great Swamp Watershed Association is a member-based, non-profit, 501(c)(3) organization dedicated to preserving and protecting water and natural areas. Their programs serve all who live, work, or play in the watershed.
Great Synagogue of Oran Consrtuction of the Great Synagogue of Oran, Algeria, started in 1880 at the initiative of Simon Kanoui, but its inauguration took place only in 1918. Also known as Temple Israelite, it was located on the former Boulevard Joffre, currently Boulevard Maata Mohamed El Habib.
Great Synagogue of Vilna The Great Synagogue of Vilna which once stood at the end of Jewish Street (I-2), Vilna, Lithuania, was built between 1630-1633 after permission was granted to construct a synagogue from stone. Standing on the spot of an existing synagogue built in 1572, the site had first been used to house a Jewish house of prayer in 1440.
Great train wreck of 1918 The Great train wreck of 1918 occurred on July 9, 1918, in Nashville, Tennessee when two passenger trains collided head-on. The collision killed 101 people and injured 171, making it one of the deadliest rail accidents in United States history.
Great Taste Coffee Makers Great Taste Coffee was one of the Pioneer teams in the Philippine Basketball Association (PBA). The company was then known as the Consolidated Foods Corporation (CFC) and their chief products included well known brands like Presto Ice Cream, N-Rich Coffee Cream, Jack & Jill Fun Snacks, Great Taste Coffee among others.
Great Tellico Great Tellico was a Cherokee town at the site of present-day Tellico Plains, Tennessee, where the Tellico River emerges from the Appalachian Mountains. Great Tellico was one of the largest Cherokee towns in the region.
Great Tinamou The Great Tinamou, Tinamus major is a species of bird native to Central and South America, one of about 47 species of tinamou. It is 43 cm long, 1100 g in weight and approximately the size and shape of a small turkey.
Great Tit The Great Tit, Parus major, is a passerine bird in the tit family Paridae. It is a widespread and common species throughout Europe and Asia in any sort of woodland. It is resident, and most birds do not migrate.
Great Tom (bell) Great Tom is the bell that hangs in Tom Tower (designed by Christopher Wren) in Christ Church, University of Oxford, England. It is the loudest bell in Oxford, and measures seven feet one inch in diameter and five feet nine inches in height, and weighs six and a quarter tons.
Great Torrington Great Torrington (generally abbreviated to Torrington, though it should be noted that the villages of Little Torrington and Black Torrington are situated in the same region) is a small market town in the north of Devon, England. Parts of it are sited on a cliff top with steep drops down to the River Torridge below.
Great Tottington Great Tottington is a moated manor farm near Maidstone in the English county of Kent. It is also the site of a spring, around which are scattered numerous sarsen stones which may be the remains of a Neolithic monument and part of the Medway megaliths.
Great Trail The Great Trail (also called the Great Path) was a network of footpaths created by Algonquian and Iroquoian-speaking peoples prior to the arrival of European colonists in North America. It connected the Great Lakes region of Canada to New England and the mid-Atlantic.
Great Trek In South African history, the Great Trek was an eastward and north-eastward migration of the segment of Afrikaners (known as Boers or Boere (Dutch/Afrikaans for "farmers"), who as descendants primarily of immigrants from western mainland Europe, lived a semi-nomadic pastoralist life in the eastern frontier region of the Cape where they were known as Trekboers. Those who had settled into the eastern districts of the Cape province where they became established farmers and artisans were soon known as Grensboere (Border Farmers) from which most those who undertook the Great Trek came from and were called Voortrekkers.
Great Triumvirate The Great Triumvirate is a term that refers to the three statesmen who dominated the United States Senate in the 1830s and 1840s: Henry Clay of Kentucky, Daniel Webster of Massachusetts, and John C. Calhoun of South Carolina.
Great Turkish Bombard The Great Turkish Bombard is a siege gun dating from soon after the fall of Constantinople in 1453. It is cast in bronze and was made in two parts: the barrel which holds the shot and the chamber which holds the charge.
Great Turkish War The Great Turkish War was a series of conflicts between the Ottoman Empire and European powers at the time (joined into a Holy League) during the second half of the 17th century. It marked the end of the Ottoman incursion into Europe.
Great unity The Great unity () is a classical Chinese term found in classical Chinese philosophy which has been invoked many times in modern Chinese history. It refers to a utopian vision of the world in which everyone and everything is at peace.
Great Unconformity The Great Unconformity is a geologic feature where two adjacent layers of rock were not formed one after another in the earth's development. The lower layer was always at a high point, undergoing erosion, and in this case for an extended time, even in geological terms.
Great Union Party The Great Union Party (Turkish: Büyük Birlik Partisi - BBP) is a far-right nationalist and Islamist political party in Turkey, created in 1992. It is considered to be close to the Grey Wolves organization, Turkey/Istanbul – Istanbul Police Chief claims there was no political motivation behind Hrant Dink’s murder!
Great Upheaval The Great Upheaval (le Grand DĂ©rangement), also known as the Great Expulsion, The Deportation or the Acadian Expulsion, was the forced population transfer or ethnic cleansing of the Acadian population from Nova Scotia between 1755 and 1763, ordered by British governor Charles Lawrence and the Nova Scotia Council.
Great Valley School District The Great Valley School District is located in southeastern Pennsylvania, in the suburbs of Philadelphia. It is in the Delaware Valley region, in eastern Chester County, and provides education for the residents of Charlestown, East Whiteland, and Willistown townships, and the borough of Malvern.
Great Victoria Desert The Great Victoria Desert is a barren, arid and sparsely populated desert ecoregion in southern Australia. It falls inside the states of South Australia and Western Australia and consists of many small sandhills, grasslands and salt lakes.
Great Voltigeur Stakes The Great Voltigeur Stakes is a Group 2 flat horse race in the United Kingdom for three-year-old thoroughbred colts and geldings run over a distance of 1 mile 3 furlongs and 198 yards (2,394 metres) at York Racecourse during the Ebor Festival meeting in August.
Great Vowel Shift The Great Vowel Shift was a major change in the pronunciation of the English language, generally accomplished in the fifteenth century, although evidence suggests it began as early as the fourteenth century. The shift continued for some time into the sixteenth century, spreading toward the non-metropolitan and non-port areas.
Great white shark The great white shark, Carcharodon carcharias, also known as white pointer, white shark, or white death, is an exceptionally large lamniform shark found in coastal surface waters in all major oceans. Reaching lengths of about 6 metres (20 ft) and weighing almost 2,000 kilograms (4,400 lb), the great white shark is the world's largest known predatory fish.
Great Walk Networking Great Walk Networking is a unique bushwalking community in Western Australia(WA). The Great Walk started in 1988 as a protest walk from Denmark, WA to Parliament House in Perth to raise awareness about the logging in WAs old growth forests.
Great Wall (astronomy) The Great Wall, sometimes more specifically referred to as the CfA2 Great Wall, is the second largest known super-structure in the Universe. It is a filament of galaxies approximately 200 million light-years away and has dimensions which measure over 500 million light-years long, 300 million light-years wide and only 15 million light-years thick.
Great Wall Airlines Great Wall Airlines Company Limited was a short-lived cargo airline based in Shanghai, People's Republic of China. Launched on 22 June 2006 it was co-owned by China Great Wall Industry Corporation] (51%), [[Singapore Airlines Cargo (25%), and Dahlia Investments (24%), a subsidiary of Temasek Holdings based in Singapore Code Data ==
Great Wall Motors Great Wall Motor Company Limited (GWM, in Chinese: 长城汽车) is the largest privately owned automotive manufacturer in China. It is the first privately owned auto company of China listed in the Hong Kong stock market and has obtained HKD 1.
Great Wall of Gorgan The Great Wall of Gorgan (باب الابواب), also called the Gorgan Defense Wall and sometimes Sadd-i-Iskandar, (Arabic for dam or barrier of Alexander) is an ancient defensive facility located in the Gorgan region of northeastern Iran. It consists of a 155 kilometre long, and 6 to 10 metre wide wall, along the length of which are located a number of fortresses, spaced at intervals of between 10 and 50 kilometres.
Great Wall of China The Great Wall () is a series of stone and earthen fortifications in China, built between 5th century BC and the 17th century to protect the northern borders of the Chinese Empire during the rule of successive dynasties. The fortifications that remain today date from the Ming Dynasty, and the longest section stretches 6,352 km (3,948 miles) from Shanhai Pass in the east to Lop Nur in the west, along an arc that roughly delineates the southern edge of Inner Mongolia.
Great Wall of China Marathon The Great Wall Marathon is an annual marathon race held in May along the Great Wall of China in Tianjin Municipality of China. The race started in 1999 and has grown over the years to several hundred participants annually.
Great Wall of Los Angeles The Great Wall of Los Angeles is a mural designed by Judith Baca and executed by community youth and artists coordinated by the Social and Public Art Resource Center (SPARC). It is located in the San Fernando Valley in the Tujunga Wash, part of the drainage system of Los Angeles, California.
Great Wallachia Great Wallachia (Greek: Megale Vlachia; Romanian: Vlahia Mare), also Thessaly Wallachia, was a medieval state (12th and 13th century) of the Aromanian (Vlach) shepherds, which included the Thessaly region of Greece, the southern and central ranges of Pindus and extending over part of Macedonia.
Great War at Sea series The Great War at Sea series of board wargames released by Avalanche Press features operational and tactical-level naval combat in the period of the early battleships and dreadnoughts (roughly 1898-1930). Each game in the series comes with a common rule book and tactical map, as well as game-specific operational map, counters and scenarios.
Great War Flying Museum The Great War Flying Museum is a non-profit organization located at the Brampton Airport (CNC3) who build and maintain flying Replicas of World War I aircraft. Consisting of paying members and volunteers who help build and maintain the authentic replicas.
Great Waters Music Festival The Great Waters Music Festival (also called GWMF) is an annual summer music festival held on the campus of Brewster Academy located on the shore of Lake Winnipesaukee in Wolfeboro, New Hampshire, USA, two hours north of Boston. The festival was founded in 1995 to promote live musical performances of both outstanding amateur and professional musicians, and consists of a wide range of musical performances including choral, symphonic, Folk, pops, jazz, Broadway, and dance.
Great Western Ambulance Service The Great Western Ambulance Service NHS Trust is the authority responsible for providing NHS ambulance services in Bath and North East Somerset, Bristol, Gloucestershire, South Gloucestershire, North Somerset, Swindon, and Wiltshire in the South West England region. The trust was formed on April 1, 2006, following the merger of the Avon, Gloucestershire and Wiltshire ambulance services.
Great Western Bank Great Western Bank (previously known as Great Western Savings & Loan) was a large consumer bank that operated primarily in the Western United States. Great Western's headquarters were in Chatsworth, California.
Great Western Bike Trail of Central Iowa The Great Western Bike Trail is a bike trail that takes riders from Water Works Park in Des Moines, IA to rural Martensdale over 16 miles away. The official name is the Great Western/Bill Riley Trail, and it is maintained by the Polk County Conservation Board, and the Warren County Conservation Board.
Great Western Brewing Great Western Brewing is located in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada. When Molson decided to shut down their plant in Saskatoon in 1989, the employees purchased the brewery from Molson and founded Great Western.
Great Western Development "Great Western Development" (pinyin: Xibu da kaifa) is a current campaign in the People's Republic of China, designed to increase the economic situation of the Western Provinces through capital investment and increase use of the area's natural resources. It has been mentioned several times by Hu Jintao and Wen Jiabao in appearances throughout the country.
Great Western Lacrosse League The Great Western Lacrosse League is a NCAA Division 1 conference that only sponsors men’s lacrosse. The conference was created, when the NCAA Lacrosse tournament instituted Automatic Qualifiers; in so doing, it eliminated the "western region" bid.
Great Western Main Line The Great Western Main Line is a main line railway in the United Kingdom, corresponding to the principal routes of the pre-1948 Great Western Railway which were subsequently taken over by the Western Region of British Railways and are now operated by First Great Western.
Great Western Railway The Great Western Railway (GWR, colloquially known as God's Wonderful Railway) was a British railway company and a marvel of civil engineering, linking South West England, the West Country and South Wales with London. It was founded in 1833, kept its identity through the 1923 grouping, and became part of British Railways at nationalisation in 1948.
Great Western Railway (Ontario) The Great Western Railway was a historic Canadian railway that operated in Canada West and later the province of Ontario, following Confederation. Entrepreneur Samuel Zimmerman was instrumental in promoting its construction.
Great Western Railway of Colorado The Great Western Railway of Colorado operates about 80 miles of track in Colorado and connects with the Union Pacific Railroad as well as the BNSF Railway. It is a currently a subsidiary of OmniTRAX but was founded in 1901 to serve the Great Western Sugar Company and other sugar, beet, and molasses companies in Colorado.
Great Western Trail (Illinois) The Great Western Trail in Illinois is made up of two non-consecutive sections of the former right-of-way of the Chicago Great Western Railway in suburban Chicago and northern Illinois that have been converted into biking and hiking trails.
Great Whernside Great Whernside is a mountain in the Yorkshire Dales, not to be confused with the more well known Whernside, some 30 kilometres (20 miles) to the west. Its summit is the highest point of the eastern flank of Wharfedale above Kettlewell.
Great White Brotherhood The Great White Brotherhood is a term used in some metaphysical and Theosophical literature, as well as in Ascended Master Activities, to be an association of enlightened Spiritual Beings, in or out of incarnation, who continue to take an interest in the spiritual development of the human race. The Ascended Masters are believed by some to form such a college.
Great White Heron National Wildlife Refuge The Great White Heron National Wildlife Refuge is part of the United States National Wildlife Refuge System, located in a region known as the 'Backcountry', which reaches from north of Marathon to north of Key West. It is along the north side of the Keys in that area that border the Gulf of Mexico.
Great White Planet Great White Planet a high ranking servant under that of the Jade Emperor during the famous Chinese novel, Journey to the West. After hearing of the appearance of the Heaven-born monkey, Sun Wukong, the Jade Emperor assigned for the Great White Planet to be the one to retrieve him.
Great White Spot The Great White Spot, also known as Great White Oval, on Saturn, named by analogy from Jupiter's Great Red Spot, is a name given to periodic storms that are large enough to be visible by telescope from Earth by their characteristic white appearance. The spots can be several thousands of kilometers wide.
Great Wilbraham Great Wilbraham is a small village situated in a rural area some seven miles (11 km) to the east of Cambridge, between the edge of an area of low lying drained fens to the west and north, and higher ground beyond the A11 to the east.
Great Wilbraham Preceptory Great Wilbraham Preceptory is a [in Great] and [[Little Wilbraham, Cambridgeshire. Much of the Church of Saint Nicholas at Great Wilbraham dates back to 1226 when a preceptory was established here by the Knights Templar when the manor was given to Alan Martel, who was at that time Templar Master.
Great Works River The Great Works River is about 27 miles (43 kilometres) long in southwestern Maine in the United States. It rises in central York County, flows generally south past North Berwick to meet the tidal part of the Salmon Falls River at South Berwick.
Great World City Great World City is a shopping mall bewteen Zion and Kim Seng Roads & near River Valley Road and Kim Seng Promenade. Great World City is a 6-storey shopping, 18-storey office and 35-storey serviced apartments.
Great Wraps Great Wraps is an American fast-food restaurant founded in the early 1980's with locations in over 30 states, mainly in shopping center food courts. Its menu consists mostly of wrapped sandwiches (including their signature Gyro Wrap), grilled flatbread sandwiches, grilled subs and frozen smoothies.
Great Wyrley Great Wyrley is a parish and village in South Staffordshire, in the county of Staffordshire, England. It includes Landywood, Churchbridge, and Wyrley Bank but to confuse matters the settlement of Little Wyrley lies within the parish of Norton Canes, a nearby village.
Great Xenops The Great Xenops, Megaxenops parnaguae, the only species in the genus Megaxenops is named as a Xenops because of its similarities in appearance, including an upturned bill tip. However, it forages amongst foliage rather than on the trunk.
Great year A Great year (also known as a Platonic year or Equinoctial cycle) is the time required for one complete cycle of the precession of the equinoxes, about 25700 years, at the current rate. Although astrologers consider it very important, modern day astronomers care little about it.
Great Yarmouth Great Yarmouth, often known to locals simply as Yarmouth, is an English coastal town in the county of Norfolk. It is situated at the mouth of the River Yare, some 30km east of the city of Norwich and 18 km north of the Suffolk town of Lowestoft.
Great Yarmouth - North Denes Airport North Denes Airport is a Heliport that is located in the northern suburbs of Great Yarmouth, just off the A149 next to Yarmouth Stadium, used as a base for services to the Gas platforms in the Southern North Sea. Fixed wing aircraft are not permitted to use the Heliport.
Great Yorkshire Show The Great Yorkshire Show (GYS) is an agricultural show which takes place on the Great Yorkshire Showground in Harrogate, North Yorkshire annually from the second Tuesday of July until the following Thursday. It is organised and run by the Yorkshire Agricultural Society (YAS).
Great Ziggurat of Ur The Great Ziggurat was built as a place of worship, dedicated to the moon god Nanna (or Sin), in the Sumerian city of Ur in ancient Mesopotamia (). The temple, a huge stepped platform, was constructed approximately in the 21st century BC by king Ur-Nammu.
Great Zimbabwe Great Zimbabwe is the name given to the remains of stone, sometimes referred to as the Great Zimbabwe Ruins, of an ancient Southern African city, located at in present-day Zimbabwe which was once the centre of a vast empire known as the Munhumutapa Empire (also called Monomotapa or Mwene Mutapa Empire). This empire ruled territory now falling within the modern states of Zimbabwe (which took its name from this city) and Mozambique.
Great-billed Heron The Great-billed Heron, Ardea sumatrana is a wading bird of the heron family Ardeidae, resident from southeast Asia to Papua New Guinea and Australia. Its habitats are largely coastal such as islands, coral reefs, mangroves, large rivers.
Great-billed Parrot The Great-billed Parrot, Tanygnathus megalorynchos also known as Moluccan Parrot or Island Parrot is a medium-sized, up to 38cm long, green parrot with massive red bill, yellow iris, blackish shoulders, olive green back, pale blue rump and yellowish green below. Both sexes are similar.
Great-circle distance The great-circle distance is the shortest distance between any two points on the surface of a sphere measured along a path on the surface of the sphere (as opposed to going through the sphere's interior). Because spherical geometry is rather different from ordinary Euclidean geometry, the equations for distance take on a different form.
Great-circle navigation Great-circle navigation is the practice of navigating a vessel (such as a ship or aircraft) along a track that follows a great circle. A great circle track is the shortest distance between two points on the surface of the earth.
Great-tailed Grackle The Great-tailed Grackle (Quiscalus mexicanus) is a large icterid blackbird , also referred to simply as "blackbird", and occasionally "crow" or "jackdaw", though it is not a member of the Corvidae. Similarly, it is often called "cuervo" in areas of Mexico where there are no true crows.
Greater administrative area Greater administrative areas (大行政区 Pinyin: Dàxíngzhèngqū) were early top-level administrative divisions of the People's Republic of China that directly governed provinces and municipalities. These were the largest-ever political divisions of China and were controlled by the Central People's Government.
Greater and Lesser Tunbs Greater Tunb and Lesser Tunb (, Tonb-e Bozorg and Tonb-e Kuchak; Arabic: , Tunb al-kubra and Tunb al-sughra) are two small islands in the eastern Persian Gulf, close to the Strait of Hormuz. The Islands are claimed by and administered as a part of Iran, but also claimed by the UAE.
Greater Adjutant The Greater Adjutant, Leptoptilos dubius, is a large wading bird in the stork family Ciconiidae. It formerly bred in southern Asia from Pakistan and India, Sri Lanka east to Borneo, but is now restricted to two separate small breeding populations; in Assam and Cambodia.
Greater Albania The term Greater Albania or Great Albania is an irredentist political movement with the stated purpose of uniting all perceived ethnic Albanians into one entity, by the annexation of neighbouring countries' territories. Its equivalent in Albanian - Shqipëria e Madhe - is rarely used, usually in translations.
Greater Albany Public School District 8J Education in Albany, Oregon, USA is coordinated by Greater Albany Public School District 8J (GAPS 8J). Established in 1979 and encompassing a 154 square mile (399 km²) area, this educational district aims to educate the children of Albany from grades K through 12.
Greater Antillean Grackle The Greater Antillean Grackle (Quiscalus niger) is a grackle found throughout the Greater Antilles and the Cayman Islands as well as smaller, nearby islands. Like all Quiscalus grackles, it is a rather large, gregarious bird.
Greater Arab Free Trade Area As of 1 January 2005, the Greater Arab Free Trade Area also referred to as (GAFTA) has come into existence. GAFTA is a pact made by the Arab League to achieve a complete Arab economic block that can compete internationally.
Greater Argonaut The Greater Argonaut (Argonauta argo) is a species of pelagic octopus belonging to the genus Argonauta. The female of the species, like all argonauts, creates a paper-thin eggcase that coils around the octopus much like the way a nautilus lives in its shell, hence the name paper nautilus.
Greater Armenia (political concept) Greater Armenia or United Armenia (the term used by the Armenian Revolutionary Federation) is an Armenian irredentist political goal aimed at uniting all territories perceived as "historically or ethnically Armenian" to the Republic of Armenia. Most of these territories had suffered under the Armenian Genocide.
Greater Attleboro Taunton Regional Transit Authority The Greater Attleboro Taunton Regional Transit Authority (GATRA) oversees and coordinates public transportation in the areas of Attleboro and Taunton, Massachusetts and nearby areas. It operates daily (except on Sundays) on fixed routes and schedules within 21 communities in Bristol and Plymouth counties plus a commuter run which goes into Providence, Rhode Island
Greater Baltimore Youth Orchestra Since it's founding in 1977, the Greater Baltimore Youth Orchestras provide student musicians with a thorough classical music and orchestral education while offering audiences concerts of music ranging from well-loved symphonies to cutting edge contemporary works. Based in Baltimore, Maryland, three ensembles comprise the GBYO, the full-sized symphonic Youth Orchestra, the intermediate-level Concert Strings, and the beginning-level Sinfonia—and a new BRIDGES program offers beginning instruction to underserved youth in the city.
Greater Berlin Act The Greater Berlin Act () of 1920, in full the Law Regarding the Ronstruction of the New Local Authority of Berlin (), was a law passed by the Prussian government that led to the formation of the separate Prussian administrative region of Berlin.
Greater Bilbao Greater Bilbao (, ) is a metropolitan area of Biscay, Spain. It is also called Metropolitan Bilbao and is constituted by a set of municipalities along the Nervion River ending at its mouth, that due to their growth have gotten physically united looking like a single city (see conurbation), plus some satellite towns.
Greater Binghamton Greater Binghamton is the regional name given to the area of Broome County, New York and the surrounding area. The Greater Binghamton name was adopted in the early 21st century to better identify the region with its most well-known city.
Greater Bird of Paradise The Greater Bird of Paradise, Paradisaea apoda is a large, up to 43cm long, maroon brown bird of paradise with a yellow crown, dark emerald green throat and blackish brown breast cushion. The male is adorned with large yellow ornamental flank plumes and a pair of long tail wires.
Greater Blue Mountains Area The Greater Blue Mountains Area is a World Heritage Site in the Blue Mountains of New South Wales, Australia. It was inscribed on the World Heritage List at the 24th Session of the World Heritage Committee, held in Cairns from 27 November to 2 December 2000.
Greater Blue-ringed Octopus The Greater Blue-ringed Octopus (Hapalochlaena lunulata) is one of 3 (or perhaps 4) species of blue-ringed octopuses. Unlike its southern brethren, the Blue-lined and Southern Blue-ringed octopuses, the Greater Blue-ringed Octopus is found throughout the tropic western pacific ocean rather than solely in Australian waters.
Greater Bologna Greater Bologna is a group of municipalities in the urbanized area around the city of Bologna in Italy, compose of the cities of Anzola dell'Emilia, Calderara di Reno, Casalecchio di Reno, Castel Maggiore, Castenaso, Granarolo dell'Emilia, Pianoro, San Lazzaro di Savena, Sasso Marconi e Zola Predosa.
Greater Boston Track Club The Greater Boston Track Club (usually abbreviated GBTC), a nonprofit organization, was founded in 1973 in Boston, Massachusetts to provide coaching for runners looking to remain competitive beyond their collegiate running careers.

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