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The Georgia Rugby Union The Georgia Rugby Union is a non-profit organization that is the primary overseeing body for the promotion of rugby union throughout Georgia and the Southeastern United States. The GRU has been in existence since perhaps as early as 1978.
The Georgia Straight The Georgia Straight is a free Canadian weekly news and entertainment newspaper published in Vancouver, British Columbia, by the Vancouver Free Press Publishing Corp. As surveyed by Ipsos-Reid its per-issue circulation average is 117,000, and its average weekly readership is almost 534,000.
The Germans "The Germans", alternately titled "The Fire Drill", is the sixth episode of the BBC sitcom Fawlty Towers. It is perhaps the most famous episode of all, in particular for the line "Don't mention the war" and Cleese's "funny walk" when he is impersonating Adolf Hitler.
The Gernsback Continuum "The Gernsback Continuum" is a short story by William Gibson, collected as part of his Burning Chrome anthology, about a photographer who has been given the assignment of photographing old, futuristic architecture. This architecture, although largely forgotten at the time of the story, embodied for the generation that built it their concept of the future.
The Gerogerigegege The Gerogerigegege (Japanese; ザ・ゲロゲリゲゲゲ) is a music project created in 1985 in Shinjuku, Tokyo by Juntaro Yamanouchi (山ノ内純太郎), who runs and maintains the Vis A Vis record label in Japan. The name of the group combines the Japanese words for "vomit" (gero) and "diarrhea" (geri) with what is supposedly the sound of these actions occurring simultaneously (gegege).
The Gerontological Society of America The Gerontological Society of America (GSA) is a multidisciplinary organization devoted to research and education in all aspects of gerontology: medical, biological, psychological and social. As of 2006 GSA had about 5,000 members.
The Gersch The Gersch was founded in Boston, Massachusetts in 1995, though their members now reside all across the United States in the cities of Los Angeles, New York, San Francisco and Chicago. They have been on extended hiatus since 1999.
The Get Lost The Get Lost were a Garage Rock band formed in 2000 in Bern, Switzerland by founding members of the legendary Portland,Oregon eighties garage revival band, The Miracle Workers. members included Gerry Mohr (vox,guitar), Robert Butler (bass, guitar) Chris Rosales (drums) and Kat Aellen (bass).
The Get-Along Gang The Get-Along Gang was a 30-minute television animated series broadcast between 1984 and 1986 on Saturday mornings on the CBS network which was intended for younger viewers. In all, 27 episodes of the series were produced, which were animated by the Nelvana and DiC animation companies.
The Getaway (novel) The Getaway is a 1959 novel by Jim Thompson that has been filmed twice. The first version was a Steve McQueen vehicle: see The Getaway (1972 film), whereas the second was a remake starring Alec Baldwin: see The Getaway (1994 film).
The Getaway (song) "The Getaway" is a pop rock song written by Julian Bunetta and James Michael, and produced by Bunetta for Hilary Duff's third album Hilary Duff (2004). It was released as a radio single in the United States in late November 2004 (see 2004 in music)"Past Pump it or Dump It Tracks".
The Getaway (Tru Calling episode) The Getaway is the fifteenth episode of season one of Tru Calling. Tru finds herself in the ironic position of trying to save the life of the newspaper reporter who has been hounding her about the reason she is at so many crimes.
The Getaway (video game) The Getaway is a driving/shooting video game series, developed in the United Kingdom by London-based Sony Computer Entertainment Europe (SCEE) subsidiary, Team SOHO, and released in December of 2002. Both the original game and its sequel are set in London and take their cues from British gangster movies such as Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels.
The Getaway 3 The Getaway 3 is a the third installment of Sony's popular London-based crime franchise. A technical demo featuring Piccadilly Circus was demonstrated in May 2005 at E3, but this was not directly from the game.
The Ghan The Ghan is the 48-hour, 2,979-km passenger train operating on the Adelaide-Alice Springs-Darwin Central Australian Railway in Australia. The service's name is an abbreviated version of its previous nickname The Afghan Express, which comes from the Afghan camel trains that trekked the same route before the advent of the railway.
The Ghana Scout Association The Ghana Scout Association is the national Scouting association of Ghana. Scouting was founded in the British Gold Coast Colony in 1912 and became a member of the World Organization of the Scout Movement in 1960.
The Ghazali Project The Ghazali Project is an initiative dedicated to creating engaging summaries of books, articles, and multimedia on Islam and Muslims. The summaries are designed for academics in Islamic studies and Muslims interested in accessing their tradition.
The Ghost and the Darkness The Ghost and the Darkness is a 1996 film about the Tsavo maneaters, lions who attacked the builders of the Uganda-Mombassa Railway in 1898, and the subsequent hunt to kill them. The attacks, which took place in Tsavo, Kenya, were recounted by Lieutenant Colonel John Henry Patterson in his book The Man-Eaters of Tsavo.
The Ghost Busters The Ghost Busters was a live-action children's television series that ran from 1975 to 1976 and was not affiliated with the similarly-titled 1984 movie (it must be noted, however, that Columbia Pictures paid Filmation for a license for the name).
The Ghost is Dancing The Ghost is Dancing is a Canadian indie-pop conglomeration formed out of a group of friends in Toronto, Ontario. Their first show was performed in August 2004 to commemorate the end of their residency at 2 French Avenue.
The Ghost Map The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic - and How it Changed Science, Cities and the Modern World is a book by Steven Berlin Johnson in which he describes the most intense outbreak of cholera in Victorian London - and what it means to us today, from the way we understand cities, science, disease, and the modern world.
The Ghost of Fashion The Ghost of Fashion is the third album by indie rock band Clem Snide. The song "Ice Cube" was released as a single in Europe, and the song "Moment in the Sun" was used as the theme song during the second season of the NBC television program Ed, later spawning an EP of the same title.
The Ghost of Frankenstein The Ghost of Frankenstein (often referred to without the article "The" in the title), was an American horror film released in 1942. It was the fourth of in a series of films produced by Universal Studios based upon characters in Mary Shelley's novel Frankenstein.
The Ghost of Tom Joad (RATM song) "The Ghost of Tom Joad" by American rap/rock group Rage Against the Machine is a cover of the title track of the Bruce Springsteen album of the same name. The title refers fo the protagonist of the John Steinbeck novel The Grapes of Wrath, Tom Joad.
The Ghost Pirates The Ghost Pirates is a novel by William Hope Hodgson, first published in 1909. The economic style of writing has led horror writer Robert Weinberg to describe the Ghost Pirates as "one of the finest examples of the tightly written novel ever published.
The Ghost Road The Ghost Road is a novel by Pat Barker, first published in 1995 and winner of the Booker Prize. It is the third volume of a trilogy that follows the fortunes of shell-shocked British army officers towards the end of the First World War.
The Ghost Shadows The Ghost Shadows (鬼影幫) are a Chinese American gang that ruled New York City's Chinatown from the late 1980s through the early 1990s. They have a formal business relationship with larger Triad linked organizations such as the On Leong tong.
The Ghost who Saved the Bank at Monte Carlo The Ghost who Saved the Bank at Monte Carlo is the eleventh episode of the popular 1969 ITC British television series Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased) starring Mike Pratt, Kenneth Cope and Annette Andre. The episode was first broadcast on 30 November 1969 on the ITV.
The Ghost Who Walks The Ghost Who Walks is a planned movie adaptation of Lee Falk's comic strip The Phantom. No release date have been officially announced, but according to IMDB, it is set to premiere in 2007, which is very unlikely.
The Ghost Writer The Ghost Writer (1979) is the first novel by Philip Roth to be narrated by Nathan Zuckerman, one of Roth's alter egos and constitutes the first book in his Zuckerman Bound trilogy and epilogue. The novel touches on themes common to many Roth works, including identity, the responsibilities of authors to their subjects, and the condition of Jews in America.
The Ghostly Trio The Ghostly Trio (known as Fatso, Fusso and Lazo in the comics and Fatso, Stinkie, and Stretch in the film series), are Casper the Friendly Ghost's wicked uncles, appearing in Paramount Pictures' Famous Studios theatrical cartoons from the 1950s. They have also made numerous Harvey Comics appearances and were featured in Casper and the Ghostly Trio.
The Ghosts of Inverloch The Ghosts of Inverloch is volume eleven in the French comic book (or bande dessinée) science fiction series Valérian: Spatio-Temporal Agent created by writer Pierre Christin and artist Jean-Claude Mézières.
The Ghosts of N-Space The Ghosts of N-Space is a radio audio drama based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. It was recorded in 1994 and finally broadcast in six parts on BBC Radio 2 from January 20 to February 24 1996.
The Ghoul (1933 film) The Ghoul is a 1933 British horror film starring Boris Karloff, Cedric Hardwicke and Ernest Thesiger. The plot centres around a Professor (Karloff) who is to be buried with an Egyptian jewel in order to attain eternal life.
The Giant Spider Invasion The Giant Spider Invasion is a low-budget, 1975 film produced by Cinema Group 75 and directed by Bill Rebane. The film is about giant spiders that terrorize the town of Merrill, Wisconsin and the surrounding area.
The Giaour The Giaour is a poem by Lord Byron first published in 1813 and the first in the series of his Oriental romances. It is also one of the earliest fictional works to touch upon the subject of vampires (see vampire fiction).
The Giblet Boys The Giblet Boys is a British comedy about three brothers, Pud, Kevin and Scurvy, and their adventures usually involving their devious mum. The show will be broadcast on ITV's new kids channel CITV launching on 11 March 2006.
The Gift (1994 film) The Gift is a 30 minute made for television movie directed by Laura Dern and starring Jason Adelman, Bonnie Bedelia, Peter Horton, Diane Ladd, Isabella Rossellini and Mary Steenburgen. It is about a woman trying to cope with the prospect of breaking up with her long time partner and moving on with her life.
The Gift (Angels and Airwaves song) The Gift is to be the fifth single (The Adventure, It Hurts, Do It For Me Now, The War) from the band Angels and Airwaves off their debut album We Don't Need To Whisper. This was confirmed by lead singer and guitarist Tom Delonge at a concert.
The Gift (Nabokov book) The Gift (Russian: Дар, Dar; ISBN 0-679-72725-6) was Vladimir Nabokov's final Russian novel, and is considered to be his farewell to the world he was leaving behind. He wrote it between 1935 and 1937 while living in Berlin.
The Gift (song) "The Gift" is an eight-minute and 18 second short story appearing on the 1968 Velvet Underground Album White Light/White Heat. Spoken to a steady backbeat by the deadpan John Cale, though it was written by Lou Reed.
The Gift of Stones (novel) The Gift of Stones is a 1989 novel set at the end of the Neolithic period by British author Jim Crace, in a place that is not defined geographically. The story is told through two main narrators: the village storyteller and his "daughter".
The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today was an 1873 novel by Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner satarizing greed and political corruption after the American Civil War. The term gilded age, commonly given to the era, comes from the title of this book.
The Ginocchio The Ginocchio or Ginocchio Hotel was originally constructed in 1896 next to the Texas and Pacific Railway station in Marshall, Texas to provide disembarking passengers with ready access to a hotel and restaurant facility. During its height the building housed several U.
The Giraffes (Brooklyn band) The Giraffes is a Brooklyn-based punk/metal band formed in 1998. The group's current lineup features guitarist Damien Paris, drummer Andrew Totolos, lead vocalist Aaron Lazar and bassist John Rosenthal, who replaced original bassist Tim Kent in 2002.
The Girl Behind the Counter The Girl behind the Counter is an English musical by Arthur Anderson and Leedham Bantok, with music by Howard Talbot and lyrics by Arthur Anderson (and additional lyrics by Percy Greenbank), produced by Frank Curzon. It opened at Wyndham's Theatre on April 21 1906.
The Girl Can't Help It The Girl Can't Help It is a 1956 comedy, musical film, starring Jayne Mansfield, Tom Ewell, and Edmond O'Brien. It was directed by Frank Tashlin, with a screenplay written by Frank Tashlin and Herbert Baker from an uncredited novel Do Re Me by Garson Kanin.
The Girl from Ipanema "The Girl from Ipanema" ("Garota de Ipanema") is a well known bossa nova song, and was a worldwide hit in the mid-1960s. It was written in 1962, with music by Antonio Carlos Jobim and Portuguese lyrics by Vinicius de Moraes with English lyrics written later by Norman Gimbel.
The Girl from Kays The Girl from Kays is an English musical with music by Ivan Caryll, Paul Rubens, Wilhelm Meyer Lutz and Edward Jones, book by Cecil Cook and lyrics by Adrian Ross and Claude Aveling. It was produced by George Edwardes at the Apollo Theatre in London, opening on 15 November 1902, for a run of 432 performances.
The Girl from the Black Organization and the University Professor Murder Case The Girl from the Black Organization and the University Professor Murder Case (黒の組織から来た女 大学教授殺人事件) is an episode from the anime show Detective Conan. It is a two hour special.
The Girl from the Chartreuse The Girl from the Chartreuse (original title: La Petite Chartreuse) is a French novel written by Pierre Péju and released for the first time in France in 2002. It has been translated in several other languages including English and it has been adapted in an eponymous film by Jean-Pierre Denis
The Girl Guides Association of Bahrain The Girl Guides Association of Bahrain (GGAB) is the national Guiding organization of Bahrain. Guiding was introduced to Bahrain in 1970 and the association became a member of the World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts (WAGGGS) in 1981.
The Girl Guides Association of the Solomon Islands The Girl Guides Association of the Solomon Islands is the national Guiding organisation in the Solomon Islands. Founded in 1949, the girls-only organization became an associate member of the World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts in 1987.
The Girl in the Café The Girl in the Café is an Emmy Award-winning British one-off television drama, produced by independent production company Tightrope Pictures for BBC Wales, and originally screened on BBC One in the UK on Saturday June 25 2005. It was also shown in the United States on cable television station Home Box Office, on the same day.
The Girl in the Taxi The Girl in the Taxi is the English adaptation by Frederick Fenn and Arthur Wimperis of the musical, Die keusche Susanne (1910 in Magdeburg), with music by Jean Gilbert. It opened at the Lyric Theatre in London, produced by Philip Michael Faraday, on 5 September 1912 and ran for 385 performances.
The Girl in the Train The Girl in the Train (Die geschiedene Frau -- literally, The Divorcee), is an operetta in three acts by Leo Fall (1873-1925) with a libretto by Victor Léon. It opened at the Carltheater in Vienna on December 23 1908.
The Girl In The Park The Girl In The Park is a movie by writer/director David Auburn, who makes his directorial debut here after having written the films Proof in 2005 and The Lake House in 2006. The film, which is currently shooting in New York City, has been described as a sentimental psychological drama, a tearjerker, a thriller and a chick flick.
The Girl Is Mine "The Girl Is Mine" was a hit duet for singers Michael Jackson and Paul McCartney in 1982. Released as the first single from Jackson's biggest selling album, Thriller, the song was about two men fighting over the love of one woman, each claiming that he can love the woman better than the other.
The Girl with the Hungry Eyes The Girl with the Hungry Eyes (1967) is a William Rostler film about a lesbian couple, and one's obsession with the other. It features Adele Rein as "Kitty", Cathy Crowfoot as "Tigercat" and a dance scene by Pat Barrington.
The Girl Who Knew Too Much The Girl Who Knew Too Much is a 1969 film starring Adam West as Johnny Cain, a nightclub owner and former freelance adventurer who is forced out of retirement when a crime syndicate boss is murdered in his nightclub and investigations lead into unexpected areas.
The Girl Who Overcame Time... and the Boy Who Was Just Overcome The Girl Who Overcame Time... and the Boy Who Was Just Overcome (Japanese: 「時代を越えた少女と封印された少年」 - Jidai wo Koeta Shoujo to Fuuinsareta Shounen) is the first episode of the anime series InuYasha.
The Girlie Show Tour Even though Madonna proclaimed after her 1990 Blond Ambition Tour that she would never go on tour again, it only took her three years until she hit the road again with The Girlie Show Tour 1993. After that, she said that if "you ever hear me say again 'I'm never going on tour again', don't believe me".
The Girls (1960s band) The Girls were from Los Angeles, California, USA. They called themselves The Sandoval Sisters and The Moonmaids before ending up as The Girls in 1965 when they signed a recording contract with Capitol Records.
The Girls' Guide to Hunting And Fishing Suburban Girl is a movie that is currently being filmed in New York City. This movie is adapted from two short stories in Melissa Bank's best-selling novel "A Girls’ Guide To Hunting and Fishing" , which spent 16 weeks on the New York Times Best Seller list and has been published in more than 27 countries.
The Gitxsan The Gitxsan are a people located on the Skeena River in the Northwestern Interior of British Columbia, Canada. They live in perminant villages near the river and depened primarily on the Salmon run and food gathered throughout the summer months for sustinance.
The Giver The Giver is a soft science fiction novel written by Lois Lowry and published on April 16, 1993. It is set in a future society which is at first presented as a utopia and gradually appears more and more dystopic, so could therefore be considered anti-utopian.
The Giving Tree The Giving Tree, first published in 1964, is a children's book written and illustrated by Shel Silverstein. This book has become one of Silverstein's best known titles and has been translated into more than 30 languages.
The Gizmo The Gizmo (sometimes called The Gizmotron) was an effects device for the electric guitar, invented ca. 1975 by English rock musicians Kevin Godley and Lol Creme while they were members of the British rock group 10cc.
The Glade The Glade is an electronic dance music festival which originally started out as a stage at Glastonbury Festival. The annual festival takes place in England for three days in the summer and attracted around 13,000 people in 2005.
The Gladiator Nightstick Collection The Gladiator Nightstick Collection is a vinyl-only greatest hits collection from the Athens-based group Of Montreal. It was released exclusively on Devil in the Woods records in 2004, and included the never-before-released track "Ah, My Kitten".
The Gladiators (novel) The Gladiators is the name of Arthur Koestler's novel about the Spartacus revolt in the Roman Empire. Although not as famous as Howard Fast's novel Spartacus (source material for Kubrick's 1960 film), The Gladiators is interesting in its own right, because Koestler is not merely writing about the original slave revolt, but the 20th century left in Europe.
The Gladys Aylward School The Gladys Aylward School (formerly named Aylward School) is a large secondary school situated in Edmonton, North London. The school has recently achieved an Artsmark Gold award and, in 2005, the Leading Parent Partnership Award.
The Glam Metal Detectives The Glam Metal Detectives was a comedy show combining both sketch and sitcom elements, produced by the BBC in 1995. It was screened on BBC2 in the Thursday 9pm slot, a place long renowned as a breeding ground for new and more experimental comedy.
The Glands The Glands are an indie rock band from Athens, Georgia. Their first CD was released in 1998 called "Double thriller," and their latest self titled re-released album called "The Glands" in August 2001.
The Glasgow Academy Founded in 1845, The Glasgow Academy is the oldest fully independent school in Glasgow, Scotland. It is located in the Kelvinbridge area and has approximately 1000 pupils, split between three primary schools and a senior school.
The Glass Ballerina "The Glass Ballerina" is the second episode of the third season of the TV series Lost. The episode was written by Jeff Pinkner and Drew Goddard and directed by Paul Edwards, and premiered on October 11, 2006.
The Glass Bead Game The Glass Bead Game (German: Das Glasperlenspiel) is the last work and magnum opus of the German author Hermann Hesse. Begun in 1931 and published in Switzerland in 1943, the book was mentioned in Hesse's citation for the 1946 Nobel Prize for Literature.
The Glass Bottle The Glass Bottle is a one-hit wonder American band fronted by Gary Criss whose song about bitterness and heartbreak, "I Ain't Got Time Anymore", was recorded in 1970 but reached #36 in September 1971. It was coproduced by Dickie Goodman.
The Glass Key The Glass Key is a novel by Dashiell Hammett, said to be his favorite among his works. It was first published in 1931, and tells the story of gambler and racketeer Ned Beaumont, whose devotion to crooked political boss Paul Madvig leads him to investigate the murder of a local senator's son.
The Glass Key (film) The Glass Key is the name of two film adaptations of the classic suspense novel The Glass Key by Dashiell Hammett. The first was released in 1935 with George Raft, Edward Arnold and Claire Dodd, and directed by Frank Tuttle.
The Glass Man and the Golden Bird: Hungarian Folk and Fairy Tales The Glass Man and the Golden Bird: Hungarian Folk and Fairy Tales is a 1968 anthology of 21 tales from Hungary that have been collected and retold by Ruth Manning-Sanders. It is one in a long series of such anthologies by Manning-Sanders.
The Glass Plastiks The Glass Plastiks are Trevor Lissauer on vocals/guitar/keys, Keith Tenenbaum on drums/percussion, Barry Whittaker on bass and Jack Gue on lead guitar. Their songs tell stories of optimistic love gone bad and range from high-energy pop to dark spacey melodies.
The Glass Teat The Glass Teat: Essays of Opinion on Television (ISBN 0-515-03701-X) is a 1970 compilation of essays written by Harlan Ellison for the Los Angeles Free Press on the effect of television upon society. The title implies that the content conveyed via TV is far too preprocessed and that the viewer is lulled into being a passive receiver of such information, opinions and entertainment - an analogy with a nursing baby.
The Gleaners and I The Gleaners and I is a French documentary by Agnès Varda on the life of French gleaners who search the newly-harvested French fields for any crop that might be left. It was released as Les Glaneurs et la glaneuse in France in 2000.
The Glen "The Glen" is a composition by Bradley Joseph and is not included on any of his original albums. It was written exclusively for the 1998 Narada compilation album, "Stories", a Narada Artist Collection, in which "Extraordinary performers reveal their artistic inspirations in deeply personal instrumental memoirs".
The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour hosted by country singer Glen Campbell from January, 1969 through June, 1972. He was offered the show after he hosted a 1968 summer replacement for The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour.
The Glenn Gould School The Glenn Gould School, founded in 1997, is a centre for the training of professional musicians in pedagogy and performance at undergraduate and graduate levels. It was named for the celebrated pianist, who was born in Toronto and lived most of his life in the city.
The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis & Malaria The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis & Malaria (often commonly called "The Global Fund") was established in January 2002 to dramatically increase global financing for interventions against the three pandemics. In 2006 it is the largest single source of funding to combat each of these three diseases.
The Global Language Monitor The Global Language Monitor is a San Diego-based company that collectively documents, analyzes and tracks trends in language the world over, with a particular emphasis upon the English language. The GLM is supported by a worldwide assemblage of linguists, professional wordsmiths, and bibliophiles to help monitor the latest trends in the evolution of language, word usage and word choices, and their impact on the various aspects of culture.
The Global Trap Die Globalisierungsfalle - Der Angriff auf Demokratie und Wohlstand is a 1996 book by Hans-Peter Martin and Harald Schumann that describes possible implications of current trends in globalization. It was published in English as The Global Trap: Civilisation and the Assault on Democracy and Prosperity in 1997 .
The Globalized City The Globalized City: Economic Restructing and Social Polarization in European Cities is an edited book that provides discussions and case studies on a number of large-scale Urban Development Projects in nine European cities. It also analyses the aspects of social exclusion, emergence of new urban elites, and the consolidation of less democratic forms of urban governance.
The Globe (tabloid) Globe is a supermarket tabloid published in North America. It was founded in 1954 Montreal, Canada as Midnight by Joe Azaria and John Vader and became the chief competitor to the National Enquirer during the 1960s.
The Globe (Toronto newspaper) The Globe was founded in 1844 by George Brown, who was later a Father of Confederation as the Reform Party voice in Toronto. The newspaper later merged with the Conservative The Mail and Empire in 1936 to form the current newspaper.
The Gloria Record The Gloria Record, a rock band from Austin, Texas, was a project of former Mineral vocalist Chris Simpson and bassist Jeremy Gomez, along with Brian Hubbard (guitar), Brian Malone (drums) and Ben Houtman (keyboards).
The Glorious Cause The Glorious Cause is a novel by author Jeff Shaara and is the sequel to Rise to Rebellion and concludes the Shaara's retelling of the American Revolution. It is credited as one of Shaara's best novels, and People magazine called the book, "A rock-'em sock-'em adventure...
The Glory and the Dream The Glory and the Dream: A Narrative History of America, 1932-1972 is a 1400-page volume by William Manchester (sometimes sold as two volumes), describing the history of the United States between 1932 and 1972. The book is exceptionally detailed, bringing in information not just about historical events, but also about the culture of the United States during the times that were described.
The Glory of Christmas The Glory of Christmas is an annual musical performance of the story of the birth of Jesus which is performed at Christmastime at the Crystal Cathedral in Garden Grove, California in the United States. It has been produced annually since 1981 and has become a holiday tradition in southern California.
The Glory of Their Times The Glory Of Their Times: The Story Of The Early Days Of Baseball Told By The Men Who Played It is a book, edited by Lawrence Ritter, telling the stories of early 20th century baseball. It is widely acclaimed as one of the great books written about baseball.
The Gloucestershire Regiment The Gloucestershire Regiment was an infantry regiment of the British Army. Nicknamed the "Glorious Glosters", the regiment carried more battle honours on their colours than any other British Army line regiment.
The Glove The Glove is a supergroup that was a side-project of Robert Smith and Steven Severin (from British alt-rock bands The Cure and Siouxsie & the Banshees respectively). They recorded only one album, Blue Sunshine (1983).
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