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Gridiron football Gridiron football or Gridiron is a term used outside the United States and Canada that refers to both American football and Canadian football. The term came about after it was observed that the field of play in each sport, because of the many lines marking it, resembles a gridiron.
Gridiron pendulum The gridiron pendulum was an improvement of clock pendulums invented by John Harrison, consisting of alternating brass and iron rods assembled so that their different expansions (or contractions) cancel each other out. Its simplest form, attributed to John Arnold, consists of five rods.
Gridless Narrow-Angle Astrometry Gridless Narrow-Angle Astrometry (GNAA) is an astrometry technique developed at the California Institute of Technology Jet Propulsion Laboratory under contract to NASA. GNAA allows star positions to be measured without first setting up a grid of reference stars; instead, it sets up a reference frame using several reference stars and a target star observed from different locations, and star positions are calculated using delay measurements from the separate observations.
Gridley Bryant Gridley Bryant (1789 – June 13, 1867) was an American construction engineer who ended up building the first commercial railroad in the United States and inventing most of the basic technologies involved in it. His son, Gridley James Fox Bryant, was a famous 19th century architect and builder.
Gridley James Fox Bryant Gridley James Fox Bryant (August 29 1816 – June 8 1899) was a famous 19th century Boston architect and builder. His work was seen in custom houses, government buildings, churches, schoolhouses, and private residences across the United States.
Gridlinked Gridlinked is Neal Asher's first novel, published by the Macmillan Publishers imprint Pan Books in 2001. It contains elements of the technological inventiveness of hard science-fiction with a more contemporary political plotline.
Gridlock (band) Gridlock is a San Francisco based experimental electronic band originally created by Mike Wells in 1994. A year later, Mike Cadoo joined up, and the duo released their first two demos, Sickness and Frozen, and soon signed to Pendragon Records in 1997.
Gridlock (politics) In politics, gridlock refers to difficulty of passing party agenda items in a legislature that is close to being evenly divided. In United States politics, this situation most frequently occurs when the House of Representatives and the Senate are controlled by opposing parties.
Gridlok Ryan Powell, also known as Gridlok, is a drum and bass producer and DJ who got his start in Central Florida's Tampa Bay area and his music exploded when he became based out of San Francisco, USA. He used to be a classical violin player before he submerged himself into the drum and bass realm.
GridWay GridWay is an open source] [[meta-scheduling technology that enables large-scale, secure, reliable and efficient sharing of computing resources (clusters, computing farms, servers, supercomputers...), managed by different DRM (Distributed Resource Management) systems, such as Sun GridEngine, Condor, PBS, Load Sharing Facility...
Grief (band) Grief were one of the pioneering acts of Sludge doom. This Boston based was founded in 1991 by Disrupt guitarist Terry Savastano and drummer Randy Odierno (who later switched to bass and later again left to join Bane of Existence).
Griefer Griefer is a slang term for a player in an online, multiplayer computer game who deliberately sets out to harass other players by using or abusing unintended game mechanics with the intent of having a negative impact on a victim. Griefer is a term that is often used as an insult towards PvP gamers in general.
Griegakademiet The Grieg Academy is a music conservatory in Bergen, Norway which is a part of the University of Bergen. The Academy was founded in 1905 and offers 4-year undergraduate programs in Performance, Composition and Pedagogy/Music Education, and also 2-year Masters programs in Performance, Composition and Ethnomusicology.
Grievous bodily harm Grievous bodily harm or GBH is a phrase used in English criminal law which was introduced in ss18 and 20 Offences Against The Person Act 1861. For less serious offences, see common assault and assault occasioning actual bodily harm
Griff Allen Griff Allen is the president of the Cleveland Motor Media Group, Inc. - a company that makes TV and radio motorsports programming, obtains and manages motorsports marketing dollars and manages motorsports public relations concerns. Allen is best known for his regular appearances on ESPN2 as host, pit reporter and expert analyst for Speedworld, In the Driver’s Seat, The Mother’s Polish Car Show Series, Inside Drag Racing and The Outdoor Channel's World of Trucks. He pioneered the sport compact broadcast wave as NIRA, IDRA, IDRC, NHRA, Summer Slam, NOPI Nationals and other sanctions and promoters started airing their events on Speedvision, Spike, SPEED Channel and ESPN2.
Griff Tannen Griff Tannen is a fictional character, an important antagonist in Back to the Future Part II, played by actor Thomas F. Wilson, who played all of the Tannen family members in different time periods of the Back to the Future trilogy.
Griffin The Griffin (Greek gryphos, Persian شیردال‌ shirdal "lion-eagle")Variant spellings include gryphon and, less commonly, gryphen, griffon, griffen, or gryphin is a legendary creature with the body of a lion and the head, with upstanding ear-tufts, and wings of an eagle: as the lion was considered the "King of the Beasts" and the eagle the "King of the Air", the griffin was thought to be an especially powerful and majestic creature. The griffin is generally represented with four legs, wings and a beak, with eagle-like talons in place of a lion's forelegs and feathered, equine-like ears jutting from its skull.
Griffin and Sabine Griffin and Sabine: An Extraordinary Correspondence is a fiction book by Nick Bantock, published in 1991 by Chronicle Books in the United States and Raincoast Books in Canada. The story is told through a series of letters and postcards between the two main characters.
Griffin Book The Griffin Book is a listing of known or suspected gambling cheaters and advantage players published by Griffin Investigations, a firm that monitors casinos. Those listed may be anyone perceived as a threat to the casino's profits, including card counters, people who mark cards and those who try to cheat slot machines.
Griffin Dunne Griffin Dunne (born June 8, 1955 in New York, New York) is an American actor and film director. He is the son of producer/writer Dominick Dunne, brother of actress Dominique Dunne, and the nephew of John Gregory Dunne and Joan Didion.
Griffin Technical College Griffin Technical College is a public, accredited two-year postsecondary college located in Griffin, Georgia. Griffin Tech provides the knowledge, skills, and abilities necessary for initial employment; offers continuing education and training to acquire advanced levels of competency; offers a general education curriculum that encourages intellectual, personal, and social values; sponsors co-curricular activities to assist in the development of leadership traits; and facilitates public adult education programs to improve general population and workforce literacy levels.
Griffin Technology Griffin Technology is a computer peripheral manufacturer based out of Nashville, Tennessee, most widely known for their iPod accessories. They also provide a variety of accessories for video games and for computers.
Griffin Television Tower Oklahoma Griffin Television Tower Oklahoma (also known as KWTV Mast) is a 480.5 metre high guy-wired aerial mast for the transmission of FM radio and television programs in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA (Geographical coordinates: ) built in 1954.
Griffin's Tale Griffin’s Tale is Northwestern University's only children's repertory theater company. Every year, Griffin's Tale works with Chicago area schools, taking children's creative works, turning them into songs and sketches, and then performing them both at the schools and within the Northwestern community.
Griffith College Cork Griffith College Cork is an independent education institution based in the former Skerry’s College Cork which it merged with Griffith College in 2005, where it runs courses in Business, Law, Secretarial, Media & Journalism, Design as well as evening courses in Psychology, Office Skills, Computing and development and training Courses.
Griffith College Dublin Griffith College Dublin (GCD) is a private college located on South Circular Road in Dublin, Ireland. The college was established in 1974 and as of 2005 has 8,500 students studying on a full and part-time basis.
Griffith Institute The Griffith Institute is an institution based in the Ashmolean Museum of the University of Oxford for the advancement of Egyptology as a discipline. The Griffith Institute is named after the eminent Egyptologist Francis Llewellyn Griffith, who bequeathed funds within his will for the foundation of the Institute.
Griffith Island Griffith Island () is a small Antarctic island at the south entrance to Robertson Channel in the Windmill Islands. It was first mapped from air photos taken by USN Operation Highjump and Operation Windmill in 1947 and 1948.
Griffith J. Griffith Griffith Jenkins Griffith (January 4, 1850–July 6, 1919) was an American immigrant from Wales who made millions in a mining syndicate in the 1880s. He donated 3,015 acres to the city of Los Angeles which became Griffith Park, and he donated the money to build the park’s Greek Theater and Griffith Observatory.
Griffith John Griffith John (December 14 1831 – July 25 1912) was a Welsh Christian Congregationalist missionary to China and a pioneer evangelist with the London Missionary Society. He was also a writer and a translator of the Bible into Chinese.
Griffith Lifestyle Centre Griffith Lifestyle Centre (also known as Griffith Homemakers Centre) is a large shopping centre with various homemakers stores located in Griffith in the Riverina region of New South Wales, Australia. The centre is partly under construction with the first retailer opening in 2004 on the Kidman Way in South Griffith.
Griffith University Law School The Griffith University Law School teaches undergraduate degrees in law, as well as provides postgraduate courses and a Practical Legal Training (PLT) course. It was opened in 1992 and is spread across three of the five Griffith University campuses.
Griffith University Student Representative Council Griffith University students are currently uniquely represented by three student organisations as a legacy of the Griffith University Act (Qld), political differences and campus amalgamations. The Griffith University Student Representative Council (GUSRC) represents undergraduate students in all campuses apart from the Gold Coast.
Griffith's experiment Griffith's experiment was conducted in 1928 by Frederick Griffith which was one of the first experiments suggesting that bacteria are capable of transferring genetic information, otherwise known as the “transforming principle”, which was later discovered to be DNA.
Griffith's Island Griffith's Island is an island at the mouth of the Moyne River, in Port Fairy, western Victoria, Australia. Notable features of the island include the Griffiths Island Lighthouse, mutton bird nesting habitat and a walking track.
Griffith-Priday State Park Griffiths-Priday State Park is a Pacific Ocean beach at the mount of the Copalis River, in Grays Harbor County, Washington. This is a favorable site for spotting gray whales migrating northward to summer feeding grounds near Alaska.
Griffith, Australian Capital Territory Griffith (postcode: 2603) is an early inner-south suburb of Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia. Griffith is named after Sir Samuel Griffith, who was chosen in 1903 as the first Chief Justice of the High Court of Australia.
Griffiths Commission on Personal Debt The Griffiths Commission on Personal Debt was launched in 2004 by Oliver Letwin, MP, the Conservative Shadow Chancellor, to investigate the increasing problem of personal debt in the United Kingdom. Although initially formed by the Conservative Party, the Commission took evidence from individuals of all political persuasion and none, and sought to achieve consensus across the political divide.
Griffithstown Griffithstown is a large and affluent suburb of Pontypool in the borough of Torfaen, Wales. It is an ecclesiastical parish, formed in May, 1898, from Llanfrechfa Upper and Panteg, and includes Sebastopol, but, under the provisions of the Local Government Act 1894, became a separate civil parish.
Griffiti magazine Griffiti is a monthly student magazine distributed throughout the campus of Griffith College Dublin. It was launched by the GCD Students Union in October 2004 as means of communicating student news to the college population, however its early editions took a very satirical slant on the news, a trait that was later rewarded with a gong by the Oxygen Student Media Awards for best colour writing.
Griffon Griffon is a type of dog, a collection of breeds of originally hunting dogs. There are three recognized lines of the griffon type (FCI), the griffon vendéens, the wirehaired pointers, and the smousje (Belgian companion dogs).
Griffon (roller coaster) Griffon is a roller coaster, announced on August 23, 2006, under construction at Busch Gardens Europe. The coaster, a Bolliger & Mabillard diving machine, now reigns as tallest and fastest dive machine coaster surpassing its sister, SheiKra, at Busch Gardens Africa.
Griffon Bruxellois The Griffon Bruxellois or Brussels Griffon is a breed of toy dog, named for the city of their origin, Brussels, Belgium. The Griffon Bruxellois is really three dogs rolled into one, the Griffon Bruxellois, the Griffon Belge and the Petit Brabançon.
Griffons (rugby team) The Griffons are a South African rugby union team that participates in the annual Currie Cup tournament. They play out of Welkom at North West Stadium, and draw players from roughly the eastern third of Free State Province (the remainder of the province comprises the territory of the Free State Cheetahs).
Griffytown, Kentucky Griffytown is a neighborhood of Louisville, Kentucky located along Old Harrods Creek Run. In 1879 Dan Griffy, an African American, purchased the land he had been living on in the area and the neighborhood appears to be named for him.
Griggsville Historic District Griggsville Historic District is a designated historic district in the Pike County, Illinois city of Griggsville. The district has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since January 17, 1979.
Griggsville Landing Lime Kiln The Griggsville Landing Lime Kiln is located near village of Valley City, Illinois in Pike County. The periodic lime kiln is listed on the National Register of Historic Places, a designation it gained in August 1999.
Grignan Grignan is a commune of southern France in the Drôme département in the Rhone-Alpes région. It owes its fame to its magnificent Renaissance castle and the delightful letters that Madame de Sévigné wrote to her daughter, Madame de Grignan, in the 17th century.
Grigol Tsereteli Grigol Tsereteli (March 12, 1870-1938) was a distinguished Georgian scientist, one of the founders of Papyrology, founder of the Georgian scientific school of Classical Philology, Doctor of Philological Sciences, Meritorious Scientific Worker of Georgia, Honourable Professor.
Grigor II Grigor II is a fictional character from the Russian Campaign of the computer strategy game Empire Earth. A heavy cyber, or combat robot, he first appears as the Rostov JK1 cyber in the mission "Novaya Russia" and as Grigor II in all later missions.
Grigor Koprov Grigor Koprov (born September 30, 1943 in Ohrid) is arguably one of Republic of Macedonia's most famous pop composers. He has worked with many stars like Toše Proeski, Vlado Janevski, Marijan Stojanvski, Martin Vučic, Karolina Gočeva and Andrijana Janevska.
Grigor Parlichev Grigor Stavrev Parlichev (Bulgarian: Григор Ставрев Пърличев, Macedonian: Григор Ставрев Прличев, January 18, 1830 in Ohrid, present-day Republic of Macedonia - January 25, 1893 in Ohrid), was a Bulgarian writer and translator. (He is considered to be Macedonian in Republic of Macedonia).
Grigor Stoyanovich Grigor Illyanich Stoyanovich is a character in the video game Empire Earth. He appears in the Russian Campaign in the first three scenarios ("The Crocodile", "Novaya Russia" and "Changing of the Guard") as well as in the final scenario ("A Bad Case of Deja Vu").
Grigoraş Dinicu Grigoraş Dinicu (April 3, 1889 – March 28, 1949) was a Romanian composer and violinist. He is most famous for his often-played virtuoso violin showpiece "Hora staccato" (1906) and for making popular the tune Ciocârlia.
Grigore Alexandru Ghica Grigore Alexandru Ghica (1807 – 1857) was the Prince of Moldavia between October 14 1849 and 1853 and then between October 30 1854 and 3 June 1856. His wife was Helena Sturdza, daughter of the Ioan Sturdza who had been Prince of Moldavia from 1822 to 1828.
Grigore Antipa Grigore Antipa (27 November 1867, BotoĹźani - 9 March, 1944 Bucharest) was a Romanian Darwinist biologist who studied the fauna of the Danube Delta and the Black Sea. Between 1892 and 1944 he was the director of the Bucharest Natural History Museum, which now bears his name.
Grigore II Ghica Grigore II Ghica was Voivode (Prince) of Moldavia at four different intervals - from October 1726 to April 16 1733, from November 27 1735 to 14 September 1739, from October 1739 to September 1741 and from May 1747 to April 1748 - and twice Voivode (Prince) of Wallachia - April 16 1733 - November 27 1735 and April 1748 to September 3 1752.
Grigore Kotovski Grigore Kotovski (mostly known under his Russified name, Grigori Ivanovich Kotovsky, ; born in Hînceşti, now in the Republic of Moldova; died August 6, 1925 in Birzula, now in Ukraine) was a Soviet military leader and Communist activist.
Grigore Preoteasa Grigore Preoteasa (August 25 1915-November 4 1957) was a Romanian communist activist, journalist, and politician, who served as Communist Romania's Minister of Foreign Affairs between October 4, 1955 and the time of his death.
Grigore Sturdza Grigorie Sturdza (1821-1901), son of Mihail Sturdza was educated in France and Germany, became a general in the Ottoman army under the name of "Muklis Pasha", and afterwards attained the same rank in the Moldavian army. He was a candidate for the Moldavian throne in 1859, and subsequently a prominent member of the Russophil party in the Romanian parliament.
Grigori The Grigori are a group of fallen angels told of in Biblical apocrypha who mated with mortal women, giving rise to a race of hybrids known as the Nephilim and described as Giants in Genesis 6:4. Also known as "Watchers" (from Greek egrḗgoroi), the Grigori appear in the books of Enoch and Jubilees.
Grigori Alexandrovich Potemkin Prince Grigori Alexandrovich Potemkin (Russian: Григо́рий Алекса́ндрович Потёмкин, pronounced Potyomkin) (September 131739 (NS: September 24)–October 5 1791 (NS: October 16)) was a Russian general-field marshal, statesman, and favourite of Catherine II the Great. He is primarily remembered for his efforts to colonize the sparsely populated wild steppes of Southern Ukraine, which passed to Russia under the Treaty of Kuchuk-Kainarji (1774).
Grigori Perelman Grigori Yakovlevich Perelman (), born 13 June 1966 in Leningrad, USSR (now St. Petersburg, Russia), sometimes known as Grisha Perelman, is a Russian mathematician who has made landmark contributions to Riemannian geometry and geometric topology.
Grigori Rasputin Grigori Yefimovich Rasputin (or Grigori Yefimovich Novyh) () (–) was a Russian mystic who held an influence in the later days of Russia's Romanov dynasty. Rasputin played an important role in the lives of Tsar Nicholas II, his wife the Tsaritsa Alexandra, and their only son the Tsarevich Alexei, who suffered from hemophilia.
Grigori Trilogy The Grigori Trilogy is a series of three gothic horror novels by British author Storm Constantine. The series tells the story of the Grigori, a race of fallen angels who are being rewoken in preparation for the new millennium, and their children by human women, the Nephilim.
Grigori Voitinsky Grigori Naumovich Voitinsky (1893-1956) was a Comintern official during its creation, and was sent to China in 1920 as an advisor to contact the prominent Chinese radicals such as Chen Duxiu, just before the formation of the Communist Party of China. The actual process of forming the infant Party can be mostly attributed to his influence, although his successor advisors had more influence about the official Party line itself, such as allying with the Guomindang.
Grigorios Georgatos Grigoris Georgatos (born October 31, 1973), also know as "Trelos Karaflos", is a Greek footballer, who typically plays as a defensive or attacking winger for the Greek Championship club Olympiacos. Georgatos also has 35 caps and 3 goals for the Greek national team.
Grigoris Afxentiou Grigoris Pieris Afxentiou (Greek: Γρηγόρης Πιερής Αυξεντίου) was a fighter during the Cypriot struggle for union with Greece. He was second in command to Georgios Grivas in the leadership of EOKA (National Organization of Cypriot Struggle).
Grigoris Arnaoutoglou Grigoris Arnaoutoglou (Greek: Γρηγόρης Αρναούτογλου), also spelled as Gregory or Gregoris Arnaoutoglou, is a controversial greek television host. Since 2003, he is the host of Mega Channel's morning daily entertaining show, Omorfos Kosmos to proi (Beautiful world in the morning).
Grigoris Asikis Grigoris Asikis (Greek:Γρηγόρης Ασίκης) (Constantinople 1890 - Athens 7 October 1966) was a Greek singer and songwriter of urban Greek music, Rembetiko. He wrote lyrics for most of the songs he recorded and played the outi (the Greek oud).
Grigoriy A. Gamburtsev Grigoriy Aleksandrovich Gamburtsev () (March 23, 1903 in Saint Petersburg – June 28, 1955 in Moscow) was a Soviet seismologist and academician from Saint Petersburg, Russia who worked in the area of seismometry and earthquake prediction.
Grigoriy Ordzhonikidze Grigoriy Konstantinovich Ordzhonikidze (Georgian: გრიგოლ (სერგო) ორჯონიკიძე - Grigol (Sergo) Orjonikidze, Russian: Григорий Константинович Орджоникидзе), generally known as Sergo Ordzhonikidze (Серго) ( – February 18, 1937) was a member of the Politburo, and close friend to Stalin. Ordzhonikidze, Stalin and Anastas Mikoyan comprised what was jokingly referred to as the "Caucasian Clique".
Grigory Abramovich Shajn Grigory Abramovich Shajn (Григорий Абрамович Шайн) (April 19 1892 – August 4 1956) was a Soviet/Russian astronomer. In modern English transliteration, his surname would be given as Shayn, but his astronomical discoveries are credited under the name G.
Grigory Fedotov club Grigory Fedotov Club () is a non-official list of Soviet and Russian football players that have scored 100 or more goals during their professional career. This club is named after first Soviet player to score 100 goals - Grigory Fedotov.
Grigory Grabovoy Grigory Petrovich Grabovoy () (born November 14, 1963 in Kazakhstan) is a Russian religious leader who claims the ability to abolish death, resurrect the dead, cure cancer and AIDS, teleport, and pinpoint mechanical problems on airplanes. Some sources call him a cult leader.
Grigory Korganov Grigory Nikolayevich Korganov (Korganashvili) (July 301886, Tiflis - September 20, 1918, nowadays Turkmenistan) was a Georgian Communist activist, one of the 26 Baku Commissars and Bolshevik Party leaders in Azerbaijan during the Russian Revolution.
Grigory Kulik Grigory Ivanovich Kulik (Russian: Григорий Иванович Кулик) (November 9 1890 - August 24 1950), Soviet military commander, was born into a peasant family near Poltava in Ukraine. A soldier in the army of the Russian Empire in World War I, he joined the Bolshevik Party in 1917 and the Red Army in 1918.
Grigory Margulis Gregori Aleksandrovich Margulis (first name often given as Gregory, Grigori or Grigory) (born February 24 1946) is a mathematician known for his far-reaching work on lattices in Lie groups, and the introduction of methods from ergodic theory into diophantine approximation. He was awarded a Fields Medal in 1978 and a Wolf Prize in 2005, becoming the seventh mathematician to receive both prizes.
Grigory Razumovsky Count Grigory Kirillovich Razumovsky (November 10, 1759 – June 3, 1837) was a Ukrainian nobleman, political philosopher, botanist, zoologist and geologist known from his writings in the West as Gregor, who lost his Russian titles in 1811 for verbally attacking Emperor Alexander I and was subsequently incorporated into the Bohemian nobility (Inkolat im Herrenstande) and accorded the rank of Count in the Austrian Empire. Gregor was the first to describe and classify the Triturus Helveticus Razoumovsky.
Grigory Romanov Grigory Vasilyevich Romanov (, scientific transliteration: Grigorij Vasil'eviÄŤ Romanov; no relation to the former Russian imperial family bearing the same surname), born 7 February 1923, was a Soviet politician and member of the Politburo and Secretariat of the CPSU. In 1985, he was considered Gorbachev's main rival in the succession struggle.
Grigory Sanakoev Grigory Konstantinovich Sanakoev (born April 17, 1935 in Voronezh, Russia) is a Russian chess grandmaster of correspondence chess, most famous for being the 12th ICCF World Champion in correspondence chess between 1984 and 1991.
Grigory Soroka Grigoriy Vasilyevich Soroka (, real surname Vasilyev (Васильев); —) was a Russian painter, one of the most notable members of Venetsianov school. Though Soroka's heritage is relatively small and includes no more than 20 undated paintings, Soroka proved himself to be a gifted draughtsman.
Grigory Zinoviev Grigory Yevseevich Zinoviev (Григо́рий Евс́еевич Зин́овьев, alternative transliteration Grigorii Ovseyevish Zinoviev, real name Ovsei-Gershon Aronovich Radomyslsky (Радомысльский), also known as Hirsch Apfelbaum, primary revolutionary pseudonym Grigory, privately Grisha), ( - August 25, 1936) was a Bolshevik revolutionary and a Soviet Communist politician.
Grigsby Grigsby is a surname of unknown origin (possibly meaning 'of Grig's town/settlement)', stemming from a common progenitor, John Grigsby (1623-1730) who may have originated in Kent, England where the name is still known. Most Grigsbys in the United States of America trace lines of descent from this 17th century landowner, in Stafford County, Virginia.
Grijpstra and de Gier Adjutant-Detective Henk Grijpstra and Detective-Sergeant Rinus de Gier, along with their never-named elderly superior, the commissaris, are the most popular creations of Janwillem van de Wetering. They are police detectives in the Murder Brigade of the Amsterdam Municipal Police, and are featured in more than a dozen detective novels and several short stories published in Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine and Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine.
Griko language Griko, sometimes spelled Grico, is a Modern Greek dialect which is spoken by people in the Magna Graecia region in southern Italy and Sicily, and it is otherwise known as the Grecanic language. Greeks often call the dialect Katoitaliótika (Greek: Κατωιταλιώτικα, "Southern Italian") and sometimes Calabrian, although the latter may also serve as an euphemism for a Greek-Italian pidgin language.
Grikor Suni Grikor Mirzaian Suni (Armenian ) (originally Grikor Mirzaian, given name also transliterated as Grigor) (September 10, 1876, Getabek, a village in the Armenian principality of Gardman, at the time part of the Russian province of Yelizavetpol, the former Khanate of Gandzak, now part of Azerbaijan - December 18, 1939, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) was an Armenian composer.
Grill (cooking) There are multiple varieties of grills, with most falling into one of two categories: gas-fueled and charcoal. There is a great debate over the merits of charcoal or gas for use as the cooking method between grillers.
Grill (jewelry) In Hip hop culture, the term grills refers to cosmetic dental metal apparatus featuring silver, gold, or platinum caps with diamond inlays (usually princess-cut diamonds) jewelled to be worn over the teeth. Grills rose to prominence with Dirty South rappers in the 2000s as a symbol of their wealth and success, but earlier rappers such as Big Daddy Kane, Flavor Flav, and Kool G.
Grill (philately) A grill on a postage stamp is an embossed pattern of small indentations intended to discourage postage stamp reuse. They were supposed to work by allowing the ink of the cancellation to be absorbed more readily by the fibers of the stamp paper, making it harder to wash off the cancellation.
Grille (cryptography) In the history of cryptography, a grille cipher was a technique for encrypting a plaintext by writing it onto a sheet of paper through a pierced sheet (of paper or cardboard or similar). The earliest known description is due to the polymath Girolamo Cardano in 1550.
Grilled cheese sandwich A grilled cheese sandwich is a simple sandwich that consists of two slices of bread and at least one slice of cheese melted in between. Some methods call for buttering the outside of the bread first, while others melt the butter in the pan.
Grilled pizza Grilled pizza was invented at the Al Forno restaurant in Providence, Rhode Island by owners Johanne Killeen and George Germon. It was inspired by a misunderstanding that confused a wood-fired brick oven with a grill.
Griller Griller a new Fast Food Chain of restaurants which is gaining popularity so rapidly that it has gone global within few years. They started from UK but now they are coming to many other countries of Americas, Europe, Asia and Middle East.
Grillifilms The Finnish commercial film production company Kaivopuiston Grillifilmi known as Grillifilms, is the new company after the merger of Elohopea and Filmitalli. Grillifilms in-house Directors are; Marko Antila, Mikko Iho, Pete Riski and Olli Rönkä.
Grillz "Grillz" is a 2005 rap single from the album Sweatsuit by Nelly featuring Paul Wall and Ali & Gipp (a duo composed of Ali from the St. Lunatics and Big Gipp from the Goodie Mob) about grills, cosmetic dental apparatuses.
Grim (Billy and Mandy) Grim is a fictional character from the television series The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy. He is the Grim Reaper, the personification of Death, here portrayed as a scythe-wielding skeleton in a black hooded robe.
Grim Fandango Grim Fandango is a graphical adventure computer game released by LucasArts in 1998, the title derived from a line of a mournful poem read by one of the characters in the game. It is the first adventure game by LucasArts to use three-dimensional graphics.
Grim Ghost The Grim Ghost, created by Mike Fleisher, was a superhero first featured in The Grim Ghost #1 (January 1975) from Atlas/Seabord Comics. The series lasted only three issues before Atlas Comics stopped publication and the company went out of business in January 1975.
Grim Meathook Future The Grim Meathook Future ('GMF') is a concept of the future first elucidated by Las Vegas-based media writer Joshua Ellis It is a dark future, characterized by religious wars spreading from the third world] across the globe, and the consequent breakdown of [[first world society. Irremediable disaster areas such as post-Hurricane Katrina New Orleans (The 'K-Hole') become the norm.

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