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Grey component replacement Within the CMY color space, any hue angle can be achieved by combining two of the three primaries. The intention of the third color is to move that hue towards grey (decrease saturation), and is known as the greying agent.
Grey College, Durham Grey College is a college of the University of Durham in England. It is named after Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey, who was Prime Minister at the time of the University's foundation (and who also gives his name to Earl Grey tea).
Grey Crow The Grey Crow (Corvus tristis), formerly known as the Bare-faced Crow, is about the same size (42-45 cm in length) as the Eurasian Carrion Crow (Corvus corone) but has somewhat different proportions and quite atypical feather pigmentation during the juvenile phase for a member of this genus.
Grey Fantail The Grey Fantail (Rhipidura fuliginosa) is a small insectivorous bird. It is a very common sight in all parts of Australia except western desert areas, and is also found in New Zealand (where it is also known by its Maori name, Piwakawaka or Tiwakawaka), New Guinea, the Solomon Islands, Vanuatu and New Caledonia.
Grey Francolin The Grey Francolin or Grey Partridge Francolinus pondicerianus is a species of partridge found in the plains and drier parts of South Asia. They are locally called Teetar after their call which is a loud repeated Ka-tee-tar - tee-tar.
Grey goo Grey goo refers to a hypothetical end-of-the-world scenario involving molecular nanotechnology in which out-of-control self-replicating robots consume all living matter on Earth while building more of themselves (a scenario known as ecophagy).
Grey Gull Records Grey Gull Records was a record label based in Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America from 1919 through 1930. The company seems to have been founded by Theodore Shaw, the scion of a wealthy family who was involved in a number of business projects, including a school of music and an advertising business.
Grey hat A grey hat (or gray hat, in American English) in the computer security community, refers to a skilled hacker who sometimes acts legally, sometimes in good will, and sometimes not. They are a hybrid between white and black hat hackers.
Grey Heron The Grey Heron, Ardea cinerea is a wading bird of the heron family Ardeidae, native throughout temperate Europe and Asia and also parts of Africa. It is resident in the milder south and west, but many birds retreat in winter from the ice in colder regions.
Grey import vehicles The term grey import, in reference to the grey economy refers to an item that has been imported into a country, legally, but without the agreement of the manufacturer. The term parallel import may also be used.
Grey Junglefowl The Grey Junglefowl, Gallus sonneratii also known as Sonnerat's Junglefowl is a wild relative of domestic fowl found in South Asia. They are closely related to the Red Junglefowl but their ranges are largely non-overlapping.
Grey knifefish The grey knifefish, Bathystethus cultratus, is a sea chub of the genus Bathystethus, found around the offshore islands of the east coast of Northland on the North Island of New Zealand, in surface waters. Its length is between 15 and 30 cm.
Grey market The grey market (or gray market) refers to the flow of new goods through distribution channels other than those authorized or intended by the manufacturer or producer. Used or pre-owned goods are just that: used.
Grey moray The grey moray, Gymnothorax nubilus, is a moray eel of the genus Gymnothorax, found around the offshore islands off Northland and the Bay of Plenty on the North Island of New Zealand at depths down to 50 m, in reef areas of broken rock. Their length is between 40 and 100 cm.
Grey Mare's Tail Grey Mare's Tail is a 200-foot hanging valley waterfall near to Moffat in southern Scotland. The fall is produced by the Tail Burn flowing from Loch Skeen cascading into the Moffat Water in the lower valley below.
Grey Ministry The first wholly Whig government since 1783 came to power after the Duke of Wellington's Tory government lost a vote of no confidence on the 15 November 1830. The government passed the Great Reform Act in 1832 and abolished slavery throughout the Empire in 1833.
Grey noise Grey noise is noise subjected to a psychoacoustic equal loudness curve (such as an inverted A-weighting curve) over a given range of frequencies, so that it sounds like it is equally loud at all frequencies. Some people say that this would be a better definition of "white noise" than the "equal power at all frequencies" definition, since white light never has an equal power spectrum, but rather can have a range of spectra, for example that of a 5400K black body.
Grey nurse shark The grey nurse, spotted ragged-tooth or sand tiger, Carcharias taurus, is a large shark inhabiting coastal waters worldwide, with many different names in different countries in the world. Despite a fearsome appearance and strong swimming abilities, it is a relatively placid and slow moving animal.
Grey Owl Grey Owl (in Ojibwe: Wa-sha-quon-asin) was the name Archibald Belaney (September 18, 1888 – April 13, 1938) adopted when he took upon a First Nations identity as an adult. He was a writer and became one of Canada's first conservationists.
Grey Panthers Party of Germany The Grays — Gray Panther (Die Grauen - Graue Panther) are a German political party and interest group founded by activist Trude Unruh. Their main areas of focus are the protection of the interests of seniors and the securing of stable pensions.
Grey Party of Canada The Grey Party of Canada is a political party in Canada. The party is a protest movement started by senior citizens who want to make views known on specific issues including tax credits for seniors, saving Medicare, and free medications for seniors.
Grey Poupon Grey Poupon is a Dijon mustard made by Kraft Foods. Currently the best-selling Dijon-style mustard in the United States, it gained some notoriety from a late-80's commercial in which a limousine pulls up alongside another limousine, and a passenger in one asks a passenger in the other (in a 'posh' American accent), "Pardon me, would you have any Grey Poupon?
Grey Revell Grey Revell (born October 28, 1973) is a songwriter originally from Los Angeles, CA. In the late 90's, he moved to New York City, where like other west coast musicians, including Beck, he found a creative home in the Lower East Side Anti-folk community.
Grey River The Grey River is located in the northwest of the South Island of New Zealand. It rises in Lake Christabel, one of numerous small lakes on the western side of the Southern Alps,12 kilometres southwest of the Lewis Pass, and runs westward for 120 kilometres before draining into the Tasman Sea at Greymouth.
Grey Ruegamer Christopher Grey Ruegamer (born June 1, 1976 in Scottsdale, Arizona) is an American football player who currently plays center for the New York Giants. On April 3, 2006, the New York Giants signed Ruegamer to a 1-year, $750,000 contract.
Grey sharpnose shark The grey sharpnose shark, Rhizoprionodon oligolinx, is a requiem shark of the family Carcharhinidae, found in the tropical waters of the Indo-West Pacific Oceans between latitudes 30° N and 18° S, from the surface to 36 m. Its length is up to about 70 cm.
Grey smooth-hound The grey smooth-hound, Mustelus californicus, is a houndshark of the family Triakidae, found on the continental shelves of the subtropical eastern Pacific from northern California to the Gulf of California between latitudes 40° N and 23° N, from the surface to 200 m. Its length is up to 1.
Grey Shrike-thrush The Grey Shrike-thrush, Colluricincla harmonica is one of the best-loved and most distinctive songbirds of Australasia. It is moderately common to common in most parts of Australia, but absent from the driest of the inland deserts.
Grey Towers Castle Grey Towers Castle is a building on the campus of Arcadia University in Glenside, Pennsylvania, a suburb of Philadelphia. The castle was designed by Horace Trumbauer and built starting in 1893 as the estate of William Welsh Harrison.
Grey Wagtail The Grey Wagtail (Motacilla cinerea) is a small passerine in the wagtail family Motacillidae, which also includes the pipits and longclaws. Its relationships are not well resolved; while it belongs to the non-African clade of wagtails, these are confusing in their external morphology, and mtDNA cytochrome b and NADH dehydrogenase subunit 2 sequence data is not able to robustly resolve their relationships.
Grey Will Fade Grey Will Fade is the debut album from British singer/songwriter Charlotte Hatherley, released in 2004 whilst still playing guitar in British rock band Ash. She was encouraged to write the album by Ash frontman Tim Wheeler due to the popularity of the song, "Grey Will Fade," originally released as a B-side on Ash's 2001 single "There's A Star.
Grey Wolves Grey Wolves (Bozkurtlar in Turkish) is the youth organization of the Turkish Nationalist Movement Party ("Milliyetçi Hareket Partisi", MHP), an ultra-nationalist" Update to the UNHCR CDR Background Paper on Refugees and Asylum Seekers from Turkey" - UNHCR movement founded by Alparslan Türkeş in 1969. They are named after a legendary wolf that led captive Turks to freedom.
Grey Woodpecker The Grey Woodpecker, Mesopicos goertae, is a widespread and frequently common resident breeder in much of Sub-Saharan and equatorial Africa. It is a species associated with forest and bush which nests in a tree hole, often in an Oil Palm, laying two to four eggs.
Grey's Monument Grey's Monument is a monument to Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey built in 1838 in the centre of Newcastle upon Tyne, England. It was erected to acclaim Earl Grey for the passing of the Great Reform Act of 1832 and stands at the head of Grey Street.
Grey-backed Tern The Grey-backed Tern, Onychoprion lunata, is a seabird in the tern family. A close relative of the Bridled and Sooty Terns (with which it is sometimes confused), the Grey-backed Tern is less common than the other members of its genus and is has been studied less.
Grey-Banded Kingsnake The grey-banded kingsnake, (Lampropeltis alterna), or more commonly just referred to as the alterna, is a species of non-venomous colubrid snake, found in the Trans-Pecos/Chihuahuan Desert region of western Texas, southern New Mexico, and northern Mexico. Some sources list two distinct subspecies of alterna, L.
Grey-faced Liocichla The Grey-faced Liocichla, Liocichla omeiensis, is a passerine bird in the Old World babbler family. The species, also known as the Omei Shan or Emei Shan Liocichla, is endemic to mountain ranges in Southern Sichuan, China.
Grey-headed Bulbul The Grey-headed Bulbul Pycnonotus priocephalus is a member of the bulbul family of passerine birds. It is endemic to the Western Ghats of south-west India, found from Goa south to Tamil Nadu, at altitudes up to 1200m.
Grey-headed Chachalaca The Grey-headed Chachalaca, Ortalis cinereiceps, is a member of an ancient group of birds of the Cracidae family, which are related to the Australasian mound builders. It breeds in lowlands from eastern Honduras to northwestern Colombia (from South ChocĂł to the upper Atrato) at up to 1100 m altitude.
Grey-headed Parakeet The Grey-headed Parakeet Psittacula finschii is closely related to the Slaty-headed Parakeet which together form a super-species. It occurs from the North-eastern states of India, into Myanmar, Thailand, Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam.
Grey-headed Sparrow The Grey-headed Sparrow (Passer griseus) is a resident breeding bird species in much of tropical Africa. It occurs in a wide range of open habitats, including open woodlands and human habitation, and it is, in effect, the African House Sparrow.
Grey-winged Trumpeter The Grey-winged Trumpeter (Psophia crepitans) is a member of a small family of birds, the Psophiidae, which occur only in the Amazon basin in tropical South America. There are three trumpeter species, all in the genus Psophia, the other two being the Pale-winged Trumpeter and the Dark-winged Trumpeter.
Greyabbey Greyabbey (in Irish: Mainistir Liath, ie Grey Abbey) is a small village located on the eastern shores of Strangford Lough, on the Ards Peninsula, County Down, Northern Ireland, 7 miles south of Newtownards. In the 2001 Census it had a population of 1,011 people.
Greyday Productions Greyday Productions, sometimes called simply Greyday Records, is an independent record label based in Portland, Oregon, USA. Formed to release a new record from long-time friends Still Life, Greyday has grown from a musician run DIY collective to a full independent label.
Greyfriars Church, Reading Greyfriars Church is an evangelical Anglican church in the town centre of Reading, Berkshire, and in the Diocese of Oxford, UK. It is the oldest Franciscan church still in use as a place of worship in the UK, and is a Grade I listed building.
Greyfriars Kirk Greyfriars Kirk, today Greyfriars Tolbooth & Highland Kirk, is a parish kirk (church) of the Church of Scotland in central Edinburgh, Scotland. Its name reflects a pre-Reformation association with the Franciscan order (the Grey Friars).
Greyfriars Kirkyard Greyfriars Kirkyard is the graveyard surrounding Greyfriars Kirk in Edinburgh, Scotland, and is in the hands of a separate trust from the church. For many people, the graveyard is associated primarily with Greyfriars Bobby, the loyal dog who guarded his master's grave.
Greyfriars School Greyfriars School is a fictional English school used extensively as a setting in the Billy Bunter series of novels by the writer Charles Hamilton who worked under the nom de plume of Frank Richards. Although focused on the Lower Fourth (or "Remove") form, the stories also draw on other forms for their characters: the bull-headed Coker of the Fifth, for example, and the despised prefect Loder.
Greyhawk Calendar The Greyhawk Calendar is a fictional calendar used in the World of Greyhawk campaign setting for the Dungeons and Dragons role-playing game. It is the most common system for tracking the days and months of the Common Year in the Flanaess.
Greyhawk Ruins Greyhawk Ruins is an Advanced Dungeons and Dragons (AD&D 2nd edition) module released in 1990 by TSR, Inc.. It is set in the World of Greyhawk campaign setting and describes the ruins of and dungeons under Castle Greyhawk.
Greyhawk Wars (game) Greyhawk Wars is a fantasy board wargame published by TSR in 1991. The game was designed by David Cook as a strategic simulation of the eponymous Greyhawk Wars on the fictional world of Oerth, the Greyhawk campaign setting for the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game.
Greyhound The Greyhound is a breed of dog used for companionship, coursing game and racing. It is one of the fastest land mammals; its combination of long, powerful legs, deep chest and aerodynamic build allows it to reach speeds of up to 72 km/h (45 mph).
Greyhound (horse) Greyhound was a grey Standardbred gelding by Guy Abbey out of Elizabeth by Peter the Great . Born in 1932, Greyhound was the outstanding trotting horse of his day and arguably the most outstanding in the history of the sport.
Greyhound Australia Greyhound Australia is the largest long distance bus operator in Australia, operating in all mainland states and territories. It is owned by the Chapman Group and ANZ (and is not related to the North American Greyhound Lines).
Greylisting Greylisting (sometimes spelled graylisting) is a method of defending electronic mail users against e-mail spam. A mail transfer agent which uses greylisting will "temporarily reject" any email from a sender it does not recognize.
Greynet A greynet is an elusive networked computer application that is downloaded and installed on end user systems without express permission from network administrators and often without awareness or cognition that it is deeply embedded in the organization’s network fabric. These applications may be of some marginal use to the user, but inevitably consume system and network resources.
Greys The Greys, also known as Roswell aliens, Zetas, Reticulians, are alleged extraterrestrial life forms that appear in modern UFO conspiracy theories and other UFO-related paranormal phenomena. They make up approximately 75% of all aliens reported in the US, 20% of all aliens reported in Mainland Europe, and 12% of all aliens reported in Britain.
Greys Court Greys Court is a country house and associated gardens situated in the Chiltern Hills at Rotherfield Greys, Henley-on-Thames, south Oxfordshire, England. It is owned by the National Trust, and is located at grid reference .
Greyshirt Greyshirt is a comic book character in Alan Moore's Tomorrow Stories, published by Wildstorm (a subsidiary of DC Comics), under the America's Best Comics imprint. The character was co-created by Moore and Rick Veitch.
Greystanes, New South Wales Greystanes is a suburb of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Greystanes is part of Holroyd council and is close to Merrylands, Parramatta, Wood Park, Smithfield, Toongabbie, Prospect, Pendle Hill and Wetherill Park.
Greysteel Greysteel is a village in County Londonderry, Northern Ireland, 14 kilometres to the east of Derry and 11 kilometres to the west of Limavady, on the main A2 coast road between Limavady and Derry overlooking Lough Foyle. City of Derry Airport is located 4 kilometres to the west.
Greysteel massacre The Greysteel massacre occurred on the evening of the October 30, 1993 when three members of the Ulster Freedom Fighters, an Ulster Loyalist organisation headed by Johnny Adair, entered the Rising Sun Bar in Greysteel, County Londonderry. Inside was a Halloween party in full swing, and so the masked men were not noticed until they produced an AK-47 and an automatic pistol, and started shooting into the packed crowd.
Greystone golf course Greystone golf course was designed by Joe Lee, who also designed Doral Resort's famed Blue Monster, La Quinta (Palm Springs, California) and the magical courses at Walt Disney World (Orlando). Greystone is a championship golf course that includes 140 feet of elevation changes and features seven ponds and more than 80 bunkers.
Greystone Golf & Country Club Greystone Golf & Country Club is a private, 36-hole golf club located just outside Birmingham, Alabama, United States, in the suburb of Hoover, Alabama. The two courses are known as The Founders Course (designed by Bob Cupp) and the The Legacy Course (designed by Rees Jones in 2000).
Greystone Park Psychiatric Hospital Greystone Park Psychiatric Hospital (also known as Greystone Psychiatric Park, Greystone Psychiatric Hospital, or simply Greystone) refers to both the former psychiatric hospital and the historic building that it occupied in Parsippany-Troy Hills Township (formerly part of Hanover Township, New Jersey). A new facility is currently under construction on the large Greystone campus and will bear the same name as the aging facility.
GreySheeters Anonymous GreySheeters Anonymous is a twelve-step program that combats compulsive overeating, similar to Overeaters Anonymous. It is based on the Alcoholics Anonymous program, treating overeating as an unhealthful addiction.
Greythorn High School Greythorn High School was a state-run high school (years 7-12) in the suburb of Balwyn North, in Melbourne, Victoria , Australia, It was established in 1961. During the 1970s and 1980s it had over 1,000 students and over 100 staff.
Greywacke Greywacke (German grauwacke, signifying a grey, earthy rock) is a variety of sandstone generally characterized by its hardness, dark color, and poorly-sorted, angular grains of quartz, feldspar, and small rock fragments set in a compact, clay-fine matrix. It is a texturally-immature sedimentary rock generally found in Palaeozoic strata.
Greywater Greywater , sometimes spelled graywater, grey water or gray water and also known as sullage, is non-industrial wastewater generated from domestic processes such as washing dishes, laundry and bathing. Greywater comprises 50-80% of residential wastewater.
Grgeteg monastery The Grgeteg Monastery (Serbian: Манастир Гргетег / Manastir Grgeteg) is a Serb Orthodox monastery on the Fruška Gora mountain in the northern Serbian province of Vojvodina. According to tradition, the monastery was founded by Zmaj Ognjeni Vuk (Despot Vuk Grgurević) in 1471.
Grhya Sutras The Grhya Sutras "domestic sutras" are a category of Sanskrit texts in the tradition of the Brahmanas, commenting on Vedic ritual. Their language is late Vedic Sanskrit, and they date to around roughly 500 BC, contemporary with the Shrautasutras.
Grianan of Aileach Grianan of Aileach (Irish: An Grianán an Aileach An Grianán Ailigh) are the ruins of an Iron Age stone fortress in County Donegal in the north-west of Ireland which was the seat of the Kingdom of Aileach (Aileach). The kingdoms of Ulaidh and Airgiallaigh were two subject kingdoms in the North under the general rule of Aileach, making this fortress a historical centre of culture and politics during the rule of early Irish chieftains (c.
Gribble A gribble is any of about 56 species of marine isopod from the family Limnoriidae. They are mostly pale white and small (1-4  mm long) crustaceans, although Limnoria stephenseni from subantarctic waters can reach 10 mm.
Gribbly's Day Out Gribbly's Day Out is a Commodore 64 game by Andrew Braybrook, released by Hewson in 1985. The game is set on the planet Blabgor and centred on the exploits of Gribbly Grobbly and his attempts to rescue errant 'gribblets' from the landscape and return them to safety.
Gribenes Gribenes, or "scraps," are the remnants of crispy chicken skin and onion reserved from the preparation of schmaltz. Gribenes is one of the best liked foods among Ashkenazi Jews residing in or originating from Eastern Europe.
Griboyedov Canal Griboyedov Canal () is a canal in Saint Petersburg, constructed in 1739 on the basis of the existing river Krivusha. In 1764–1790, the canal was deepened, and the banks were reinforced and covered with granite.
Gribskov municipality As of January 1, 2007 Gribskov municipality will, as the result of Kommunalreformen ("The Municipal Reform" of 2007), come into existence as a municipality (Danish, kommune) in Denmark. It will consist of the (what are currently existing, but on January 1 2007) former municipalities of Græsted-Gilleleje and Helsinge.
Gribskovbanen Gribskovbanen is a local passenger railway north of Copenhagen in Denmark, now part of the Lokalbanen system. It runs north from Hillerød where transfers from the S-train system as well as other Lokalbanen lines are possible, and through the Grib Skov forest.
Grice (extinct pig) Grice were a breed of swine native to the Shetland Isles of Scotland. Small in size, yet ferocious, this domesticated breed of pig fell out of favour with crofters during the late 19th century and became extinct.
Gricigliano Gricigliano is a location in the Tuscany region of Italy. It is the location of the seminary of The Institute of Christ the King Sovereign Priest (Institutum Christi Regis Summi Sacerdotis) and of Sisters Adorers of the Royal Heart of Jesus Christ Sovereign Priest.
Grick In the Dungeons and Dragons fantasy role-playing game, the grick is an aberration. It resembles a large (roughly 8 feet long and 2 feet wide and tall), green and white colored slug/snake-like creature of which one end bears a vulture-like beak ringed by four barbed tentacles.
Grid (Jotun) In Norse mythology, Gríðr (sometimes Anglicized Grid) was a giantess who, aware of Loki's plans to get Thor killed at the hands of the giant Geirröd, helped Thor by supplying him with a number of magical gifts which included a girdle (belt) of might, a pair of iron gloves, and a staff known as Grídarvöl. These items saved Thor's life.
Grid (page layout) A typographic grid is a two-dimensional structure made up of a series of intersecting vertical and horizontal axis used to structure content. The grid serves as an armature on which a designer can organize text and images in a rationalist, easy to absorb manner.
Grid bias Grid bias is a voltage applied to electron tubes (or valves in British English) with three electrodes or more, such as triodes. The control grid (usually the first grid) of these devices is used to control the electron flow from the heated cathode to the positively charged anode.
Grid cells A grid cell is a type of neuron found in the entorhinal cortex (EC) that fires strongly when an animal is in specific locations in an environment. Grid cells were discovered in 2005 and it is hypothesized that a network of these cells constitute a mental map of the spatial environment (Hafting et al.
Grid computing Grid computing is an emerging computing model that provides the ability to perform higher throughput computing by taking advantage of many networked computers to model a virtual computer architecture that is able to distribute process execution across a parallel infrastructure. Grids use the resources of many separate computers connected by a network (usually the Internet) to solve large-scale computation problems.
Grid declination Grid declination is the angle between compass north and the north direction defined by map coordinate grid. One map can sometimes have two coordinate grids, consequently there is a grid declination for each of these.
Grid dip oscillator Grid dip oscillator (GDO), also called grid dip meter, dip meter, dipmeter, or just dipper, is a measuring instrument to measure resonant frequency of radio frequency circuits. It measures the amount of absorption of high frequency electromagnetic field by nearby objects.
Grid energy storage Grid energy storage is the use of various energy storage techniques to complement electric power generation plants on the transmission grid. By using the grid connection, intermittent sources of power need not be installed with their own energy storage facilities.
Grid friendly Note: The term Grid Friendly is trademarked, and refers to energy usage management technology, and the use of energy-efficient products and services, which operate in a manner that supports electrical power grid reliability. The owner and the trademark are hereby recognized.
Grid MP Grid MP is a commercial distributed computing software package developed and sold by United Devices, a privately held company based primarily in Austin, Texas. It was formerly known as the MetaProcessor prior to the release of version 4.
Grid north Grid north is a navigational term referring to the direction northwards along the grid lines of a map projection. It is contrasted with true north (the direction of the North Pole) and magnetic north (the direction of the Magnetic North Pole).
Grid reference A grid reference is a standard method for the location of a point on a map. The grid itself is a coordinate system imposed on the map, and is numbered in such a way as to provide a unique way to identify any given feature.
Grid Security Infrastructure Grid Security Infrastructure is a specification for secret, tamper-proof, delegatable communication between software in the grid computing environment. Secure, authenticatable communication is enabled using an asymmetric encryption.
Gridcosm Gridcosm is a collaborative art project of the online art collective SITO, in which artists from around the world contribute images to a compounding series of graphical squares. Each level of Gridcosm is made up of nine square images arranged into a 3-by-3 grid.
GridCC The Grid enabled Remote Instrumentation with Distributed Control and Computation (GRIDCC) is a project funded by the European Community, aimed to provide access to and control of distributed complex instrumentation.
Griddhraj Parvat Griddhraj Parvat (also called, Gridhra-kuta Hill or locally known as Giddhaila Pahar) (Hindi: गृद्घराज पर्वत), which means the hill of vultures, is a hill of religious, archeological and ecological importance situated in Devrajnagar village of tehsil Ramnagar in Satna district of Madhya Pradesh, India. It is located at a distance of 8 km from Ramnagar town and 65 km from Satna in south direction.
Gridiron (science fiction story) Gridiron is a science fiction story written by British author Philip Kerr. It is a story about a highly technical building (nicknamed The Gridiron), which becomes self-aware and tries to kill everyone inside, confusing real life with a video game.
Gridiron Classic The Gridiron Classic was an annual post-season college football all-star game featuring a team representing Florida versus a team from the rest of the United States. It was generally held in mid-January at the Citrus Bowl in Orlando, Florida, but for 2004 and 2005 it was played at The Villages Polo Stadium.
Gridiron Enterprises Gridiron Enterprises is a sports consulting company based in Chicago, Illinois. Although they offer services to the public, their primary focus and notability is in being the patent holder of the system of play for Arena Football, as well as being an equity member of the league.
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