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Grūtas Park Grūtas Park is a sculpture garden of Soviet-era statues and an exposition of other ideological relics, founded by the Lithuanian entrepreneur (and former wrestler) Viliumas Malinauskas, near Druskininkai, about 130 km southeast of Vilnius, Lithuania. It is unofficially called Stalin's World or Stalin World (by way of reference to theme parks such as Walt Disney World and SeaWorld).
Gro Harlem Brundtland Gro Harlem Brundtland [IPA: gro harlem brundtland] (born April 20, 1939) is a Norwegian politician, diplomat, and physician, and an international leader in sustainable development and public health. She is a former Prime Minister of Norway, and has served as the Director General of the World Health Organization.
Gro Schibsted Sandvik Gro Schibsted Sandvik is a member of the Bergen Woodwind Quintet and served as solo flutist in the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra from 1967 until 2005. She has an active career as soloist and chamber music performer, which includes premier performances of many works written especially for her, and the Scandinavian premier of John Corigliano's Concerto for Flute.
Groans of the Britons The Groans of the Britons (Latin: gemitus Britannorum) is the name of the final appeal made by the post-Roman population of Britain for assistance against foreign invasion. It describes a people in extreme danger and was an attempt to persuade the late Western Roman Empire to send troops across the English Channel to help defend its former subjects.
GroĂź Naundorf GroĂź Naundorf (or Gross Naundorf) is a community in Wittenberg district in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. The community belongs to the administrative community (Verwaltungsgemeinschaft) of Annaburg-Prettin whose seat is in the town of Annaburg.
GroĂź-Gerau (district) GroĂź-Gerau is a Kreis (district) in the south of Hesse (Hessen in German), Germany. Neighboring districts are Main-Taunus, district-free Frankfurt, Darmstadt-Dieburg, BergstraĂźe, Alzey-Worms, Mainz-Bingen, and the district-free cities Mainz and Wiesbaden.
GroĂźe Fuge The GroĂźe Fuge is a single-movement composition for string quartet by Ludwig van Beethoven famous for its extreme technical demands on the players as well as for its unrelentingly introspective nature, even by the standards of his late period. It was written in 1825 and 1826, when the composer was completely deaf.
GroĂźe Kreisstadt GroĂźe Kreisstadt is the German term for a district town in Germany with some greater significance despite its rather small size as measured by population. It is used for towns which are administration centers in their area.
GroĂźe Messe The GroĂźe Messe (or Great Mass) No. 17 in C minor K427 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, composed in 1782, embodies all of the pomp and solemnity associated with the Salzburg traditions of the time, but it anticipates the symphonic masses of Haydn in its solo-choral sharing.
GroĂźenkneten GroĂźenkneten is one of the largest municipalities in Germany, in terms of its area, and lies between the rivers Hunte and Lethe in the district Oldenburg. It is located in the landscape called Wildeshauser Geest.
GroĂźer Zapfenstreich The (literally translated "Grand Tattoo" or "Grand Taps") is a military ceremony performed in Germany and Austria. It is similar to the Military tattoo ceremony performed in English-speaking countries.
GroĂźes Festspielhaus The GroĂźes Festspielhaus (Great Festival Hall) was designed by the architect Clemens Holzmeister in 1956 for the Salzburg Festival. The Festspielhaus was inaugurated on 26 July 1960 with a performance of Richard Strauss' Der Rosenkavalier conducted by Herbert von Karajan.
GroĂźes Schauspielhaus The GroĂźes Schauspielhaus (Great Theater) was a theatre in Berlin, Germany, often described as an example of expressionist architecture, designed by Hans Poelzig for theatre impresario Max Reinhardt (theatre director). The structure was originally a market built by architect Friedrich Hitzer, and it retained its external, gabled form.
GroĂźraum-Verkehr Hannover The GroĂźraum-Verkehr Hannover is a transport association in Germany, operating in the Region Hannover metropolitan area in the state of Lower Saxony. It was founded on March 4, 1970 and is the second oldest transport association in Germany, only surpassed by the Hamburger Verkehrsverbund.
Grob G-120 The Grob G-120A is a two seated training and aerobatic low-wing aircraft with a corrosion-free carbon composite airframe. It is based on the Grob G-115TA training aircraft and is specially designed for military and civil pilots training.
Grob Tutor The Grob Tutor is a single-engined low-wing monoplane used as a basic training aircraft by the Royal Air Force (RAF). The aircraft (a Grob G 115) has fixed tricycle undercarriage with spatted wheels, a short nose bearing the engine and a 3-bladed variable-pitch propellor.
Grocery Game Grocery Game is a pricing game on the American television game show The Price Is Right. Debuting on September 5, 1972's show, Price's second episode, it is played for a four-digit prize, usually valued between $3,000 and $10,000, and uses grocery items.
Grocery Outlet Grocery Outlet, first known as Canned Food Grocery Outlet until 1992, is a privately owned supermarket chain. Founded in 1946 in San Francisco, California, it currently operates within the Western states of California, Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Nevada, Arizona and Hawaii.
Grocery store A grocery store is a store established primarily for the retailing of food. A grocer, the owner of a grocery store, stocks different kinds of foods from assorted places and cultures, and sells them to customers.
Grock Grock (January 10 1880, Reconvilier, Switzerland - July 14 1959, Imperia, Italy), original name Karl (Charles) Adrien Wettach, was a Swiss circus clown whose blunders with the piano and the violin became proverbial.
Grocka Grocka (Serbian Cyrillic: Гроцка) is a suburban settlement and one of 17 municipalities which constitute the City of Belgrade, the capital of Serbia. It is one of the 7 suburban municipalities, not being part of the Belgrade City proper itself.
Grocon Grocon Pty Ltd is a major Australian construction company started and owned by the Grollo family in Melbourne. It is especially notable for spectacular buildings in Melbourne including Eureka Tower and Rialto Towers.
Grodin Tierce In the Star Wars Expanded Universe, Grodin Tierce was a human male who served as a Royal Guard to Emperor Palpatine, and later was the instigator of a plot to cripple the New Republic, and command the remains of the Empire.
Grodno Sejm Grodno Sejm was the last Sejm (session of parliament) of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. The Grodno Sejm, held in fall of 1793 in Grodno, Grand Duchy of Lithuania (now Hrodno, Belarus) is infamous because its deputies, bribed or coerced by the Russian Empire, passed the act of Second Partition of Poland.
Groenhorst College The Groenhorst College is an education centre that has 11 locations in the Netherlands. It offers several 'green' high school programmes, apprenticeship programmes on nutrition and nature & environment, education for adults, and several courses.
Groesbeek Canadian War Cemetery The Groesbeek Canadian War Cemetery and Memorial (French:Le Cemitière de Guerre Canadien Groesbeek) is located about three kilometers north of the village of Groesbeek, Netherlands. The cemetery contains 2,338 Canadian soldiers of World War II.
Groezrock Groezrock is an annual music festival that takes place in Gestel, near Meerhout, Belgium. It started out as a small rock and pop festival with a few hundred people attending, but since 1997, it has turned into a large punk rock happening with a few thousand people showing up.
Groff Groff is an anglicized form of the surname ‘Graf’ or ‘Graff’ and of predominantly Swiss and sometimes German origin. It may also refer to other things such as aristocratic rank, computer programs or physical places:
Groff Conklin Groff Conklin (September 6, 1904, Glen Ridge, New Jersey - July 19, 1968, Pawling, New York) was a leading science fiction anthologist. Born Edward Groff Conklin, he edited 41 anthologies of science fiction, wrote books on home improvement and was a freelance writer on scientific subjects.
Groff family Originating in Bäretswil, Switzerland, the Groff family became during the early seventeenth century one of the founding families of both the United States and what was later to become Canada. The original German spellings of the family name are Graf as well as Graff and the Zürich line, known in the area since the early 1300's, are a branch of the ancient rabbinical Graff family.
Grogs (YTV) Grogs were the different puppet characters on various YTV programming blocks between 1992 and 1994. The most famous of the Grogs was Warren, a turtle/moss character resembling a chia-pet with a grumpy voice and cynical disposition.
Groin attack A groin attack is an attempt to cause pain to the groin area of one's opponent, either through punching, kicking, grappling, squeezing or biting. The technique can be quickly debilitating, due to the large number of sensitive nerve endings in the testicles in male opponents, as well as the vulva in female opponents.
Groin vault A groin vault or groined vault (also sometimes known as a double barrel vault or cross vault) is a vault produced by the intersection at right angles of two barrel vaults. Sometimes the arches of groin vaults are pointed instead of round (See image of the Gårdslösa Church below).
Grokline Grokline is a community-based, collaborative research project, designed to trace the ownership history and survivable legal enforcement rights of UNIX and UNIX-like software code. It is run and edited by Pamela Jones and complements her Groklaw website, which acts as a focus for legal news of interest to the Free and Open Source Software communities, including in particular SCO Group's litigation against IBM and others and its attacks on Linux.
Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia The Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia (abbreviated GME) is an electronic encyclopedia in English available online and on 2 CD-ROMs. It is aimed at middle and high school students and is available to schools and libraries as one of the options in the Grolier Online reference service, which also includes the Encyclopedia Americana, a larger encyclopedia aimed for students up to college level, and the New Book of Knowledge, an encyclopedia for elementary school students.
Grolier Poetry Bookshop The Grolier Poetry Bookshop ("Grolier's") is an independent bookstore on Plympton Street near Harvard Square in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. Although founded as a "fine-arts" bookstore, its focus today is solely poetry.
Grolleau (grape) Grolleau is a red wine grape grown primarily in the Loire Valley of France. The name is derived from the French word grolle, meaning "crow" and is said reflect the deep black berries of the Grolleau vine.
Grom (band) Grom is an NSBM band with a strong Slavonic/Mediterranean influence within its lyrics, due to that being the racial composition of the band. When they formed originally in the late 90's they opened for many well-known mainstream metal acts such as Immolation, Deicide, Incantation, sometimes playing before as many as 600 people.
Grom (missile) The GROM (meaning thunder in Polish ) is a 72 mm anti-aircraft missile set with a flight speed of 650 m/s developed in Poland. This is not to be confused with two other missiles of the same name (Grom-A and Grom-B) developed by Yugoslavia/Serbia.
Grom (Russia) Grom (Thunder) is a division of the FSB responsible for VVIP (Very Very Important People) security. Allegedly formed in the KGB during its final years, it consists of former members of Alpha Group and other KGB/MVD OSNAZ units.
Gromov's compactness theorem (topology) In symplectic topology, Gromov's compactness theorem states that a sequence of pseudoholomorphic curves in an almost complex manifold with a uniform energy bound must have a subsequence which limits to a pseudoholomorphic curve which may have nodes or (a finite tree of) "bubbles". A bubble is a holomorphic sphere which has a transverse intersection with the rest of the curve.
Gromov-Witten invariant In mathematics, specifically in symplectic topology and algebraic geometry, Gromov-Witten (GW) invariants are rational numbers that, in certain situations, count pseudoholomorphic curves meeting prescribed conditions in a given symplectic manifold. The GW invariants may be packaged as a homology or cohomology class in an appropriate space, or as the deformed cup product of quantum cohomology.
Grompone Grompone is an ancestral line from the Cilento region of Southern Italy. The main familial line originates from Gioi, Cilento, where church records trace marriage, birth, and deaths within the line dating back to a church fire in the 15th century.
Grong Grong, New South Wales Grong Grong at is a small town in New South Wales, Australia on the Newell Highway, 23 kilometers east of Narrandera in Narrandera Shire. It has a population within a 7 kilometre radius of approximately 237 people.
Groningen (province) Groningen is the northeasternmost province of the Netherlands with a typical Low Saxon dialect called Gronings (Grönnegs / Grunnegs in Gronings regional language), with local nuances. Nowadays, many inhabitants of the province do not speak the dialect, especially in the city of Groningen where many outsiders have moved.
Groningen Horse The breed association 'Het Groninger Paard' (The Groningen Horse) was founded in 1982 and was recognized as an official studbook organisation under the Horse Act by decree of the Netherlands monarch on November 28, 1985. The reason it was founded was that other Dutch breed associations at the time merged into a single association, the Dutch Warmblood Studbook, with the objective to breed horses for sport.
Groningen Internet Exchange Groningen Internet Exchange (GN-IX) is a center for broadband connectivity and Internet services in the Northern Netherlands. It offers peering, switching and housing facilities to Internet Access and Service Providers.
Groningen theology Groningen theology was a popular movement which grew from the founding influence of Philip Willem van Heusde, who was Professor of Philosophy at the University of Utrecht from 1804 to 1839. The emphasis of the movement was education: God educates people through his acts.
Groningen University Theatre Society Commonly known as GUTS, the Groningen University Theatre Society is an amateur theatre company attached to the English department of the University of Groningen in Groningen, The Netherlands. It is run by students, who act, direct, and make up the Board.
Groninger Forum The Gronger Forum is a project that is beginning in the city of Groningen, the Netherlands, and will conclude in 2012. The east side of Groningen's Grote Markt was destroyed in World War Two, and was replaced with buldings that have long since lost ther appeal.
Groninger Studentencorps Vindicat atque Polit The Groninger Studenten Corps Vindicat atque Polit (Latin for maintain and refine) is the oldest Dutch student association and was founded on February the 4th 1815 as a reaction on attacks from local citizens on students. The first rector of the senate was B.
Gronings Gronings (Grunnegs or Grönnegs) can equally be defined as a Low Saxon dialects spoken in the Netherlands province of Groningen and in some adjoining areas: one in Groningen city, four in the outlands (or Ommelanden), and Westerwolds. They are the result of an intermingling of 4 languages: Low Saxon (the result of 9th-century Saxon domination), Frisian (the province of Groningen was part of Friesland until the city of Groningen became the dominant factor in the region in the 15th century), Dutch, and (to a lesser extent) English and Danish (Anglo Saxon) .
Gronk Gronk (born 1957 in East Los Angeles, California) is the artistic name of Chicano painter and performance artist Glugio Nicondra. According to Gronk, his widely-repeated birth year of 1954 is false and directly attributed to his long-time dealer, Daniel Saxon, who wanted his young artist to "be older" and "taken seriously.
Gronow Davis Gronow Davis (16 May 1828- 18 October 1891) was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.
Gronsvik Grønsvik coastal battery (HKB 16/974 Grönsviken) at Helgeland in Norway, is a German army coastal artillery battery, built between 1942 and 1945 as one of ten coastal batteries in Artillery group Sandnessjöen (Heeres-Küsten-Artillerie-Regiment 974). The coastal battery is today a museum witch purpose is to show the public that the Atlantic Wall in Norway was a lot more than the big naval batteries we find scattered along the coast.
Groo the Wanderer Groo the Wanderer is a fantasy/comedy comic book series written and drawn by Sergio Aragonés, rewritten, coplotted and edited by Mark Evanier, lettered by Stan Sakai, and colored by Tom Luth. Over the years it has been published by Pacific Comics, Eclipse Comics (one special issue), Marvel Comics (under its Epic imprint), Image Comics and Dark Horse Comics.
Groombridge 34 Groombridge 34 is a binary star system that consists of two red dwarf stars in a nearly circular orbit with a separation of about 147 astronomical units. Both stars in this pair exhibit variability due to random flares, and they have been given variable star designations.
Groomsman In a North American/Australian wedding a groomsman or usher is one of the (usually) male attendants to the bridegroom in a wedding ceremony. Usually the groom selects his closest friends and/or relatives to serve as a groomsmen, and it is considered an honor to be selected.
Groomsport Groomsport (in Irish: Port an Ghiolla Ghruama, Port of the gloomy fellow or gloomy servant) is a village two miles north east of Bangor in County Down, Northern Ireland. It is on the south shore of Belfast Lough and on the north coast of the Ards Peninsula.
Groosalugg The Groosalugg (meaning "brave and undefeated") (also known as "Groo") is a fictional character on the WB network's series Angel. He appeared in seasons 2 and 3, and is portrayed by Mark Lutz.
Groote Eylandt Groote Eylandt is the largest island in the Gulf of Carpentaria in northeastern Australia and is the homeland of and is owned by, the Anindilyakwa people. It lies some 50 km from the Northern Territory mainland and eastern coast of Arnhem Land (approximately 630 km from Darwin).
Groote Schuur Hospital Groote Schuur Hospital is a government-funded hospital situated in Cape Town, South Africa. It is probably most famous for being the institution at which the first human heart transplant of Louis Washkansky took place, by University of Cape Town-educated surgeon Christiaan Barnard.
Groove (music) In popular music groove, used in the sense of rhythm, is a term for metre and its embellishment by a rhythm section. Richard Middleton (1999) describes, "the concept of groove – a term now theorized by analysts but long familiar in musicians' own usage – marks an understanding of rhythmic patterning that underlies its role in producing the characteristic rhythmic 'feel' of a piece, a feel created by a repeating framework within which variation can then take place.
Groove Armada Groove Armada are a electronic music] group from [[Cambridge, England, composed of two members, Andy Cato (real name Andrew Cocup) and Tom Findlay. They first came to fame with a 1997 limited single release, "At The River", which sampled "Old Cape Cod" by Patti Page.
Groove metal Groove metal, also called neo-thrash, half-thrash, or post-thrash, is a derivative of thrash metal which took its current form during the early 1990s. Groove metal is a blend of several genres from the 80s, including traditional heavy metal, hardcore punk, thrash metal, and death metal.
Groove Networks Groove Networks is a software company based in Beverly, Massachusetts. Founded by Ray Ozzie, the creator of IBM's Lotus Notes application, the privately held company specializes in productivity software that allows multiple users to work collaboratively on computer files simultaneously.
Groove Phi Groove Social Fellowship Incorporated Groove Phi Groove Social Fellowship Incorporated®(GΦG®) was founded at Morgan State College (now Morgan State University) in Baltimore, MD, at the height of the Civil Rights Movement during the early 1960's. Fourteen African-American men raised the bar of academic, social, political, excellent and cultural awareness by establishing this Afrocentric organization on Friday, October 12, 1962.
Groove Squared Groove Squared - sometimes indicated as G² - is the name of an electronic music and acid jazz project formed by Italian dj/producer Paco Dj together with Paolo Achenza and other musicians, including vocalist Stefania Di Pierro who had previously worked by Nicola Conte.
Groove-billed Ani The Groove-billed Ani, Crotophaga sulcirostris, is an odd-looking tropical bird in the cuckoo family with a long tail and a large, curved beak. It is a resident species throughout most of its range, from southern Texas and central Mexico through Central America, to northern Colombia and Venezuela, and coastal Ecuador and Peru.
Groovebox The term Groovebox was originally used by Roland corporation to refer to their MC-303, but is now in more general use. It refers to a self-contained instrument for the production of live, loop-based electronic music, with a high degree of user control facilitating improvisation.
Grooved ware people Most Neolithic cultures in Britain are best identified by the pottery remains which they left. A large number of apparently unrelated cultures seem to have produced urns which have characteristic grooves near the top rim, hence the name grooved ware people.
GrooveLily GrooveLily is a New York City-based band made up of Valerie Vigoda (vocals, violins), Brendan Milburn (vocals, keyboards), and Gene Lewin (vocals, drums). GrooveLily's music mixes classical music, musical theatre, jazz and rock.
Grooverider Grooverider (born Raymond Bingham) is the stage name of a drum and bass DJ from London. Grooverider began his DJing career at illegal raves and warehouse parties in Britain in the late eighties, and rose to prominence with partner Fabio through his innovative sets at influential club nights such as Rage and Speed.
Grooves Grooves is an American electronic music magazine founded in 1998 by editor Sean Portnoy, initially concentrating on the then-burgeoning IDM music genre and expanding to its more experimental, abstract offshoots, such as microsound, microhouse and glitch, eventually encompassing a global view of musicians and cross-cultural influences that is reflected in coverage of jungle, two-step, avant rap, broken beat and other offbeat new music.
Groovespeak Groovespeak is weekly cultural event which showcases spoken word artists, musicians and singers in Albany, Georgia. This has been a phenomenal event that has added flavor to the cultural landscape of Southwest Georgia.
Groovie Goolies Groovie Goolies, created in 1970, was a take off of Filmation's wildly popular The Archie Show with a monster bend. Combined with another show featuring a character directly spun off of The Archie Show, Sabrina The Teenage Witch, the Goolies were a group of hip monsters, many of whom were, in look and sound, pop-culture echoes of the classic horror-film monsters created in the 1930s and 1940s, mostly by Universal Pictures including Frankie (Frankenstein's Monster), Wolfie (The Wolfman), Mummy, Drac (Dracula), Batzo and Ratzo (two mean green-skinned kids), Bonapart (an animated skeleton that might have been Napoleon Bonaparte), Dr.
Groovies Due to the success of Space Ghost Coast to Coast in the late 90's, Cartoon network chose to fill commercial airtime with little blocks of padding called "Groovies" and "Shorties", which were similarly constructed little music videos featuring recut classic animation and composited new material. These music videos were based on current cartoon network line-ups like the Dexter's Laboratory, The Powerpuff Girls, Samurai Jack, Ed, Edd n Eddy, Johnny Bravo, Cow & Chicken, Courage The Cowardly Dog, Yogi Bear, Superfriends, and many others paired with an eclectic mix of music from movie soundtracks, popular songs, as well as songs not in the mainstream, or even the obscure.
Groovy (programming language) Groovy is an object-oriented programming language for the Java Platform as an alternative to the Java programming language. It can be viewed as a scripting language for the Java Platform, as it has features similar to those of Python, Ruby, Perl, and Smalltalk.
Groovy Feeling (Fluke song) "Groovy Feeling" is the eighth single by the English electronic music band Fluke. Taken from the album, Six Wheels on My Wagon the track was the final single released by Fluke in 1993 after the successes of Slid and Electric Guitar.
Groovy Films Groovy Films, is an international and Latin-American audiovisual production company represented in Brazil, Mexico and Argentina. Founded in 2004 in Rio de Janeiro only by Frandu Almeida, Estevam Allevato, Roberto Peralta and Rodrigo Rueda Terrazas it now comprehends a vast and diverse group of collaborators with several nationalities and professional areas of expertise.
Gropecunt Lane Gropecunt Lane was a name used in English speaking towns and cities in the Middle Ages for streets where prostitutes conducted their business. The name derives from cunt, the Middle English term for female genitalia, and the act of groping.
Gropius House The Gropius House was the family residence of noted architect Walter Gropius) at 68 Baker Bridge Road, Lincoln, Massachusetts. It is now owned by Historic New England and is open to the public Wednesday through Sunday (June 1-October 15, and weekends (October 16-May 31).
Grorud Valley The Grorud Valley (in Norwegian: "Groruddalen") is a broad valley in eastern Oslo. Four of Oslo's boroughs, Bjerke in the west, Alna in the south, Grorud in the north, and Stovner in the east, lie within the valley.
Gros Mammouth Album Gros Mammouth Album is the first album by Québécois rock/pop band Les Trois Accords released in 2003 and rereleased in 2004 as Gros Mammouth Album Turbo featuring two new tracks, 'Loin d'ici' and 'Turbo sympathique'.
Gros Michel banana Gros Michel, or 'Big Mike', was an early export cultivar of banana which was phased out as the main export variety in the 1950s by Panama disease, a fungus which attacks the roots of the banana plant. Although there are many banana cultivars, Gros Michel was especially suitable for export to non-tropical nations.
Gros Piton Gros Piton is one of two mountains overlooking Soufrière Bay in the southwest of Saint Lucia. Gros Piton lies at the southern end of the bay, close to the headland Beaumont Point, and rises to a height of 2619 ft (786 m).
Gros Ventre landslide The Gros Ventre landslide (pronounced GROW-VAUNT), is located in the Gros Ventre Wilderness of Bridger-Teton National Forest, Wyoming, United States. The Gros Ventre landslide is 7 miles (10 km) east of Jackson Hole valley and Grand Teton National Park.
Gros Ventres The Gros Ventre are a Native American tribe located in northcentral Montana, also known as the Atsina, which is considered an inaccurate and derogatory name. There are currently 3,682 members and they share Fort Belknap Indian Reservation with the Assiniboine, their historical enemies.
Gros Ventres (disambiguation) The Gros Ventres (French for "Big Bellies") is a name given to two distinct Native American groups in North America. The Hidatsa were known as the "Gros Ventres of the Missouri" and the Atsina were known as the "Gros Ventres of the Prairie/Plains.
Gros-Mécatina, Quebec The Municipality of Gros Mecatina consists of two small isolated fishing villages (La Tabatière and Baie-des-Moutons) in Quebec, Canada on the Lower North Shore of the Gulf of Saint Lawrence, near the border with Labrador.
Groshong line A Groshong line is a type of tunneled intravenous catheter used for central venous access. Groshongs may be left in place for extended periods and are used when long-term intravenous therapy is needed, such as for chemotherapy.
Groschen The Groschen (, , , ) was the (sometimes colloquial) name for a coin used in various German speaking states as well as some non-German speaking countries in the Central Europe (Bohemia, Poland). The name derives from the Italian denaro grosso, or large penny, combined with the German diminutive suffix "-chen".
Grosmont Castle Grosmont Castle is a remarkably well-preserved three phase fortress in Grosmont, Monmouthshire . It was quite possibly founded by William FitzOsbern, 1st Earl of Hereford during his invasion of South Wales in 1070.
Grosmont, North Yorkshire Grosmont (pronounced "grow-mont") is a small village situated in North Yorkshire, England and is within the North Yorkshire Moors National Park. Grosmont railway station forms an intersection between the National Rail Esk Valley Line and the North Yorkshire Moors Railway, a volunteer-run heritage railway which links Grosmont in the north, and Pickering in the south.
Gross anatomy Gross anatomy is the study of anatomy at the macroscopic level. The term gross distinguishes it from other areas of anatomical study, including microscopic anatomy, which must be studied with the aid of a microscope.
Gross domestic product A region's gross domestic product,or GDP, is one of several measures of the size of its economy. The GDP of a country is defined as the market value of all final goods and services produced within a country in a given period of time.
Gross domestic product per barrel Energy efficiency as it relates to oil usage can be described by the gross domestic product per barrel (GDP per barrel) (GDP/barrel) of oil used. The original data for this is taken from two sources, the CIA World Fact Book and the List of countries by GDP (nominal) article from wikipedia.
Gross Dealer Concession Gross Dealer Concession or GDC is the revenue to a brokerage firm when Commissioned securities and insurance salespeople sell a product, whether it is an investment like stocks, bonds, or mutual funds, or insurance like life insurance or long term care insurance. The commission that the agent receives is usually a percentage of this figure, although some firms like Merrill Lynch use figures called Production Credits, usually smaller than GDC, to determine payouts and retain more revenue.
Gross enrolment ratio The gross enrolment ratio (GER) or gross enrolment index (GEI) is a statistical measure used in the education sector. The GER gives a rough indication of the level of education – primary, secondary, and/or tertiary – amongst residents in a given jurisdiction.
Gross income Gross income is commonly defined as the amount of a company's or a person's income before all deductions or any taxpayer’s income, except that which is specifically excluded by the Internal Revenue Code, before taking deductions or taxes into account. For a business, this amount is pre-tax net sales less cost of sales.

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