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The Gospel of Buddha The Gospel of Buddha was an 1894 book by Paul Carus, it was modeled on the New Testament and told the story of Buddha through parables. It was an important tool in introducing Buddhism to the west and is used as a teaching tool by some Asian sects.
The Gospel of Filth The Gospel of Filth is a book by Dani Filth and Gavin Baddeley, documenting the history of the band Cradle of Filth and straying further afield to explore their influences and "lay bare the fascinating underworld of contemporary culture".
The Gospel of Inhumanity The Gospel of Inhumanity is the first album by Blood Axis. Conceived in the winter of 1994/95, it was performed, recorded and engineered at Absinthe Studios (Denver, Colorado) by Michael Jenkins Moynihan and Robert Ferbrache.
The Gospel of John (film) The Gospel of John is a 2003 movie that is the story of Jesus' life as recounted by the Gospel of John. It is a motion picture that has been adapted for the screen on a word-for-word basis from the American Bible Society's Good News Translation Bible.
The Gospel of the Flying Spaghetti Monster The Gospel of the Flying Spaghetti Monster, which includes the Eight "I'd Really Rather You Didn'ts", is a satirical text written by Bobby Henderson that is considered to embody the main beliefs of the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster (FSM), a parody religion mocking Intelligent Design (ID).
The Gospel of Wealth "The Gospel of Wealth" was an essay written by Andrew Carnegie in 1889 that described the responsibility of philanthropy by the new upper class of self-made rich. The central thesis of Carnegie's essay was the peril of allowing large sums of money to be passed into the hands of persons or organizations ill-equipped mentally or emotionally to cope with them.
The Gothenburg Study of Children with DAMP The Gothenburg Study of Children with DAMP was a study of six-year old children in Gothenburg, Sweden that began in 1977. The purpose was to find out what proportion of the children had DAMP (initially called MBD) and to follow the development of that group over the years.
The Gothsicles The Gothsicles are an electronic band from Milwaukee and Madison, Wisconsin, USA. Their music is generally of the electronic music variety, but deals thematically with more humorous topics than their contemporaries, often writing about classic videogaming or lampooning the musical conventions of the genre.
The Gouranga Powered Band The Gouranga Powered Band is a Classic Rock and Blues band led by a group of Scottish and Hungarian Hare Krishna monks. Not much is known about the band, as the group have rarely played live (apparently they have only played live at many of the Sziget Festivals throughout the years), and their music is usually given away for expensive prices in the streets of England and Scotland by Monks promoting the Gouranga chant.
The Government Pension Fund of Norway The Government Pension Fund - Global (Statens pensjonsfond - Utland in Norwegian) is the Norwegian fund where the surplus wealth produced by petroleum income is put. The fund changed name in January of 2006 from the previous name: The Petroleum Fund of Norway.
The Governor's Academy The Governor's Academy (formerly Governor Dummer Academy) is an independent school with 376 students in grades nine through twelve. The school was established in 1763, and is located on 450 acres in Byfield, Massachusetts, 33 miles north of Boston.
The Gow School The Gow School is an independent boarding school for boys, grades 7-12, diagnosed with dyslexia and other learning disabilities. Located near Buffalo, New York, the school was founded in 1926 by educator Peter Gow, Jr.
The Gown The Gown, is the independent student newspaper at Queen's University, Belfast. It was formed by Richard Herman, a medical student, in April, 1955 and in 2005 Dr Herman was able to attend the papers 50th Anniversary.
The GOAT Store The GOAT Store is an American video game developer and publisher that was officially formed as a Limited liability company in the state of Wisconsin on May 15, 2001. The name GOAT is derived from Games Of All Types.
The Grace (song) The Grace was written by Canadian recording artist and producer Daniel Victor in August of 2005 and appears on Neverending White Lights' debut album - Act 1: Goodbye Friends of the Heavenly Bodies. The song was written with the intent of using Canadian singer/performer Dallas Green (of Alexisonfire) as the featured vocalist.
The Graduation Match (Part 1) The Graduation Match (Part 1) (Japanese: VSカイザăĽ(前編)ă‘ăŻăĽă»ăśăłă‰Ă—サイăăĽă‚¨ăłă‰, VS Kaiser (Part 1) - Power Bond and Cyber End) is the 51st episode of Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters GX (Yu-Gi-Oh!
The Graham School The Graham School (or TGS) is a 4 year high school (grades 9-12) charter school located in Columbus, Ohio, United States. Its focus is experiential learning in a small-school setting where all students are known by all staff members.
The Grail Quest The Grail Quest novels are a series of books written by the historical novelist Bernard Cornwell dealing with a 14th Century search for the Holy Grail, around the time of the Hundred Years' War. They follow the adventures of Thomas of Hookton as he leaves Dorset after the murder of his father and joins the English Army under Edward III as an archer.
The Grain of Wheat The Grain of Wheat was a parable given by Jesus in the New Testament (The Gospel of John). Here Jesus explains that the more a person hates his life on Earth, the better his chances are of achieving eternal life.
The Grampians The Grampians are a set of popular hills in the Nelson, New Zealand region. Frequented by locals and tourists alike, they are covered in a myriad of tracks ranging from leisurely strolls to relatively taxing steep inclines.
The Grand Cayman Concert (America album) The Grand Cayman Concert is the fifth official live album by American folk rock duo America, released by the group in 2002 (see 2002 in music). The concert consisted solely of Gerry Beckley and Dewey Bunnell performing a number of their hits in a stripped-down, acoustic manner not seen since the early days when America performed as an acoustic trio.
The Grand Grimoire The Grand Grimoire is a grimoire originally written in Italian some time in the 13th century and supposedly published in Cairo by a person known as Alibek the Egyptian. Also known as "The Red Dragon", this book contains instructions purported to summon Lucifer or Lucifuge Rofocale for the purpose of forming a pact.
The Grand Inquisitor The Grand Inquisitor is a parable told by Ivan to Alyosha in Fyodor Dostoevsky's novel, The Brothers Karamazov (1879-1880). Ivan and Alyosha are brothers; Ivan a committed atheist, while Alyosha a novice monk.
The Grand Tour (musical) The Grand Tour is a musical by Jerry Herman, Michael Stewart, and Mark Bramble. It started previews Dec 27, 1978, opened Jan 11, 1979, and closed March 4, 1979, it ran for 17 previews and 61 total performances in the Palace Theatre, a Broadway venue.
The Grand Vizier's Garden Party "The Grand Vizier's Garden Party" is a three part instrumental of Pink Floyd's Ummagumma album. All three songs are written by Nick Mason following the structure of the album in which each band member made their own composition.
The Grange School, Santiago The Grange School is a private co-ed school in La Reina, Santiago, Chile with an enrollment of over 1,700 and over 100 full time teachers. It is known for a strong sports program in addition to high academic standards.
The Grange, Edinburgh The Grange is a suburb of Edinburgh, about one and a half miles south of the city centre, with Morningside and Greenhill to the west and Newington to the east. It is a conservation area characterised by large late Victorian stone-built villas, often with very large gardens.
The Grange, Edinburgh (cricket and sports club) The Citylets Grange (for sponsorship reasons), but better known as The Grange, is a cricket and sports club in the Stockbridge district of Edinburgh, Scotland. It is the home of the Scotland national cricket team.
The Grant Building Grant Building is one of the major distinctive and recognizable features of the Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania skyline. The tower is named for Pittsburgh Grant Street power strip or corridor where all the major regional corporations or government offices are located.
The Grantville Gazette The Grantville Gazette is the first of a series of collaborative literary works that started as an experimental sub-set within the 1632 universe created by Eric Flint in his novel 1632. The Gazettes are initially published as serialized e-magazines and then as e-books, which are part of the canonical background for the other works (novels and anthologies) in the rapidly growing ongoing alternative-history series edited by Flint and set in his 1632 Multiverse, starting from spring in 1631.
The Grapes The Grapes is a public house backing onto the Thames waterfront, located at 76 Narrow Street, London E14 8BP (). It was built in 1720, on the site of a previous pub and was a working class tavern, serving the dockers of the Limehouse Basin.
The Grapes of Wrath The Grapes of Wrath is a classic novel published in 1939 and written by John Steinbeck, who was subsequently awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. It is frequently read in American high school and college literature classes.
The Grapes of Wrath (opera) The Grapes of Wrath is an opera based on John Steinbeck’s 1939 novel of the same title. The opera was commissioned by the Minnesota Opera and co-produced with Utah Opera, with music by Ricky Ian Gordon and libretto by Michael Korie.
The Grapes, Sheffield The Grapes is a public house and music venue on Trippett Lane in Sheffield City Centre. The pub has an upstairs room with a stage and PA, with a capacity of around 60, and is one of the most important venues for new bands in the city, and a touring venue for out of town bands.
The Graphic The Graphic was a British illustrated newspaper, first published on 4 December 1869. It continued to be published weekly under this title until 23 April 1932 and then changed title to "The National Graphic" between 28 April and 14 July 1932, it then ceased publication.
The Grass Is Blue The Grass is Blue is a 1999 bluegrass album by Dolly Parton. In addition to rejuvenating Parton's then lagging career, the album, along with the O Brother, Where Art Thou soundtrack and the work of Alison Krauss, is credited with making bluegrass a hugely popular musical genre during the early 2000s.
The Grass Is Greener The Grass Is Greener is a 1960 comedy film directed by Stanley Donen and featuring an ensemble cast consisting of screen veterans Cary Grant, Deborah Kerr, Robert Mitchum, and Jean Simmons. The film was adapted by Hugh Williams and Margaret Vyner from the play of the same name which they had written and found success with in London's West End.
The Grateful Dead Movie The Grateful Dead Movie, released in 1977 and directed by Jerry Garcia, is a film that captures performances from the Grateful Dead's October 1974 five-night stand at the Winterland Ballroom in San Francisco. This end-of-tour run marked the beginning of an extended hiatus for the band, with no shows planned for 1975.
The Grateful Dead Movie Soundtrack In 1974, the Grateful Dead were burned out from touring and their legendary sound system, the "Wall of Sound" had proven too expensive to continue with. So the Dead decided to stop touring and go into hiatus. In October they played five nights at the Winterland Arena in San Francisco. As they were the last ones before the hiatus, the Dead wanted them to be properly recorded and documented by a film crew. The results were a rather unsuccessful live album, Steal Your Face, and a film, The Grateful Dead Movie. The movie was released in theaters in 1977, and on videotape in 1981. In 2004 it was expanded to a double DVD with bonus cuts and documentaries, and to a five CD soundtrack. The soundtrack included even more previously unreleased tracks, including a rare "Tomorrow Is Forever". The DVD contains one track not released on the soundtrack ("Sugaree" from October 18).
The Grays (band) The Grays were a short-lived supergroup comprising singer/songwriters/multi-instrumentalists Jon Brion, Jason Falkner, Buddy Judge, and Dan McCarroll. They only released one album, the out-of-print but highly regarded Ro Sham Bo (1994) on Sony/Epic Records.
The Great and Secret Show The Great and Secret Show is a novel by British (although he now lives in the USA) author Clive Barker. It was released in 1989 and it is the first "Book of the Art" in a trilogy, but it also can be read on its own.
The Great Alaskan Mystery The Great Alaskan Mystery is a 1944 Universal film serial about government agents trying to stop Nazi spies from getting their hands on futuristic weapons. This is a stock serial plot, also used in SOS Coast Guard, Radar Patrol vs.
The Great American Bash The Great American Bash is an annual summer pay-per-view event held by World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE). In the past, it was held by the National Wrestling Alliance (NWA)'s Jim Crockett Promotions and then in World Championship Wrestling (WCW).
The Great American Trailer Park Musical The Great American Trailer Park Musical is written by David Nehls and Betsy Kelso. It was performed in the first annual New York Music Theater Festival in 2004, featuring Carter Calvert, Dan Sharky, Jenn Colella, Robin Baxer, Marya Grandy, Geoff Scheer, and Amanda Ryan Paige (from the original cast of Zanna Don't!
The Great Banyan Located in the Indian Botanical Gardens, Howrah, over the River Hooghly from Kolkata, the Great Banyan was the widest tree in the world, in terms of the area of the canopy. It is estimated as about 200 to 250 years old.
The Great Bear The Great Bear is an artwork by Simon Patterson produced in 1992. At first glance the work looks like the London Underground Tube map, but Patterson uses each line to represent groups of people, from scientists, saints and philosophers to comedians, explorers and footballers.
The Great Betrayal The Great Betrayal is a 1981 autobiography written by Ian Smith covering his time as Premier of the British Crown Colony of Southern Rhodesia and Prime Minister of Rhodesia (April 13, 1964 - June 1, 1979). The country is now called Zimbabwe, after Great Zimbabwe - remains of a Southern African ancient city.
The Great Big British Quiz The Great Big British Quiz (TGBBQ)is an interactive quiz based channel where viewers are invited to phone in to solve puzzles in return for cash and prizes. Broadcasting from purpose built studios in Cambridge, England, it can currently be seen on channel 840 on Sky Digital.
The Great Boer War The Great Boer War is a non-fiction work on the Boer War by Arthur Conan Doyle and first published in 1900. By the end of the war in 1902 the book had been published in 16 editions, constantly revised by Doyle.
The Great Book of Saint Cyprian The Great Book of Saint Cyprian (Portuguese: O Antigo Livro de São Cipriano: Capa de Aço) is a book that deals with the occult. The book is written in Portuguese and has been published in several editions with varying titles.
The Great Brain The Great Brain is a series of children's books by American author John Dennis Fitzgerald (1907-1988). Set in the fictitious small town of Adenville, Utah, at the turn of the last century, between 1896 and 1898, the stories are loosely based on Fitzgerald's childhood experiences.
The Great Burrito Extortion Case The Great Burrito Extortion Case is a Bowling for Soup album released on November 7, 2006 through Jive Records. It was originally set to be titled All My Rowdy Friends Are Still Intoxicated or We're Not Fat, We Just Have Small Heads.
The Great Cow Race The Great Cow Race is the second book in the Bone series. It collects issues 7-11 of Jeff Smith's self-published Bone comic books, along with the short story "Up on the Roof" which was originally published in Wizard Presents: Bone 13½.
The Great Debate The Great Debate was an influential debate between the astronomers Harlow Shapley and Heber Curtis which concerned the nature of spiral nebulae and the size of the universe. The basic issue under debate was whether distant nebulae were relatively small and lay within our own galaxy or whether they were large independent galaxies.
The Great Deluge The Great Deluge: Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans, and the Mississippi Gulf Coast is a 2006 book by Professor Douglas Brinkley of Tulane University about the effect of Hurricane Katrina which devastated the Gulf Coast of Mississippi and Louisiana in 2005.
The Great Depression and the World Wars in Arizona In 1912, women in Arizona gained the right to vote, and in 1917, World War I brought an economic boom to Arizona. It recovered from The Great Depression with the New Deal and another economic boom after World War II, leading the cotton, copper, farming, and mining industries to flourish.
The Great Divide The Great Divide is the first solo album released by Scott Stapp, former Creed singer. The album came about after the breakup of Creed and Stapp's collaboration on the 'original songs inspired by the film' CD to Mel Gibson's controversial film The Passion of the Christ.
The Great Divide (2005) The Great Divide is an album by Captain of Industry, their follow-up to 2003's !. This album finds a more mature band expanding their musical horizons to Beach Boys-esque vocal arrangements and rhythm-driven dance music as complements to their signature brand of melodic rock.
The Great Dividing Range (band) The Great Dividing Range are an Australian alt-country band consisting of Scott Blackley, Chris Alford, Leif Tisdell, and Luke Bennett. Blackley was a singer and songwriter in the influential 1990's indie rock band, Muzzy Pep.
The Great Eastern (album) The Great Eastern is The Delgados third album, released on their own Chemikal Underground record label in 2001. It was their first album not to be named after a cycling theme – the title refers to a textile mill in Glasgow, latterly a hostel for the homeless.
The Great Escape & Splashwater Kingdom Six Flags The Great Escape & Splashwater Kingdom is an amusement park and water park located in Queensbury, New York, which is near Lake George and is approximately 60 miles north of Albany. It is owned and operated by Six Flags.
The Great Escape (song) "The Great Escape" is a song by English rock band Morning Runner and is featured on their debut album, Wilderness Is Paradise Now. It was released 15 May 2006 in the United Kingdom as a limited edition single from the album (see 2006 in British music), failing to chart well due to the limited amount of airplay it received.
The Great Exhibition The Great Exhibition, also known as the Crystal Palace Exhibition, was an international exhibition held in Hyde Park, London, from 1 May to 15 October 1851 and the first in a series of World's Fair exhibitions of culture and industry that were to be a popular 19th century feature.
The Great Feast The Great Feast is a short animated film by animator/cartoonist, Tim Andrews (and including additional artwork by Nathanael Vander Reyden). The Great Feast is based on the Parable of the Great Banquet from the book of Luke in the New Testament of the Bible.
The Great Fen Project The Great Fen Project is a habitat restoration project being undertaken in the East Anglian region of the United Kingdom. It is one of the largest restoration projects in the country, and aims to create a 3700 hectare wetland and will connect Woodwalton Fen National Nature Reserve with Holme Fen National Nature Reserve to create a very large site with conservation benefits for wildlife and socio-economic benefits for people.
The Great Fire The Great Fire of Portland, Maine occurred on the first Independance Day after the end of the American Civil War on July 4, 1866. Five years before the Great Chicago Fire, this was the greatest fire yet seen in an American city.
The Great Gama The "Great" Gama (1882-1960), also known as Rustam-e-zaman Gama Pahelvan, born Ghulam Muhammad, in Amritsar, India, was a renowned wrestler and a practitioner of Pehlwani wrestling. He was awarded the World Heavyweight Champion belt on October 15,1910.
The Great Game The Great Game, a term usually attributed to Arthur Conolly, was used to describe the rivalry and strategic conflict between the British Empire and the Tsarist Russian Empire for supremacy in Central Asia. The term was later popularized by British novelist Rudyard Kipling in his work, Kim.
The Great Gig in the Sky "The Great Gig in the Sky" is the fifth trackThe track number depends upon the album version; some releases merge the two tracks "Speak to Me" and "Breathe," for instance. from British progressive rock band Pink Floyd's 1973 album, The Dark Side of the Moon.
The Great Gildersleeve The Great Gildersleeve (1941-1957) was arguably the first spin-off program, as well as one of the first true situation comedies (as opposed to sketch programs) in broadcast history. Built around a character who had been a staple on the classic radio sit-com, Fibber McGee and Molly, The Great Gildersleeve enjoyed its greatest success in the 1940s.
The Great Houdini (film) The Great Houdini was a highly fictionalized made-for-TV movie biography of Harry Houdini featuring TV stars Paul Michael Glaser (Starsky and Hutch) and Sally Struthers (All in the Family) was written and directed by Melville Shavelson (who also wrote the novelization).
The Great Chess Movie The Great Chess Movie is a 1982 Canadian film directed by Camille Coudari, starring Bobby Fischer, Viktor Korchnoi, Anatoly Karpov and Ljubomir Ljubojevic among other notable chessplayers. The documentary is 80 minutes.
The Great Impostor Based on Robert Crichton's 1959 book by the same name, The Great Impostor is a 1961 movie based on the life of the well-known impostor Ferdinand Waldo Demara. Starring Tony Curtis and Edmond O'Brien, it only loosely follows Demara's real-life exploits.
The Great Indian Comedy Show The Great Indian Comedy Show is a half-hour standup and sketch comedy show in Hindi. New episodes are aired three times a week (Monday to Wednesday) on Star One, which is a part of the Rupert Murdoch owned Star TV network.
The Great Kat The Great Kat is the stage name of Katherine Thomas, an English-born, Long Island NY raised, musician best known for her thrash metal interpretations of well-known pieces of classical music. Most feature her using the electric guitar, but some have her on violin.
The Great Leap (Phideaux) In August of 2005, while putting the finishing touches on "313", Phideaux and mates returned to the studio to record the first two parts of a projected "Trilogy" of albums dealing with "Big Brother" authoritarianism and ecological crisis. Part One, "The Great Leap," was released in September of 2006, and Part Two ("Doomsday Afternoon") is underway as of now (September/October 2006).
The Great McGinty The Great McGinty is a 1940 Hollywood comedy movie written and directed by Preston Sturges, starring Brian Donlevy. It is Sturges' first film as a director, and he famously sold his script to the studio for $1 to do so.
The Great Merlini The Great Merlini is a fictional detective created by Clayton Rawson. He is a professional magician who appears in four locked room or impossible crime novels written in the late 30s and early 40s, as well as in a few short stories.
The Great Migration and Chicago’s Growth Chicago became one of the most popular destinations for African Americans during the Great migration from 1914 to 1950. The great migration was the mass movement of Blacks from the farming communities of the south to the more industrial cities of the north.
The Great Milenko The Great Milenko is the fourth of six "Joker Card" albums released by the Insane Clown Posse. The Great Milenko is a necromancer and master of illusions, who tempts people into following a path of hedonism and evil for material comforts.
The Great Morgan The Great Morgan is an American musical-comedy film released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in 1946. The film is considered one of the more unusual in the MGM canon in that it is a compilation film built around a slight plotline.
The Great Mouse Detective The Great Mouse Detective is a 1986 animated feature produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation, and originally released to movie theaters on July 2, 1986 by Walt Disney Pictures. The twenty-sixth animated feature in the Disney animated features canon, the film was directed by Burny Mattinson, David Michener, and the team of John Musker and Ron Clements, who later directed Disney's hit films The Little Mermaid and Aladdin.
The Great Muppet Caper The Great Muppet Caper is the second of a series of live-action musical feature films, starring Jim Henson's Muppets. This film was produced by Henson Associates, ITC Entertainment and Universal Studios, and originally released in movie theatres in 1981.
The Great Ngaruawahia Music Festival The Great Ngaruawahia Music Festival, was the first large outdoor event in New Zealand to feature music as the central theme. It ran in 1973, for 3 days, 6,7,8th January, at a farm at Ngaruawahia, 19 kilometres north-west of Hamilton, on the Waikato River.
The Great Northwest The Great Northwest (previously The Every Thing or Thee Every Thing) is a stoner rock project created by studio engineer and producer Brian James "Coatsie" Coates (The Dandy Warhols, Dead Meadow). The group is based around a collective philosophy in which "every one is welcome to participate".
The Great Outdoors The Great Outdoors is an Australian travel magazine series broadcast on the Seven Network. Similar to its competitor Getaway, the program features a team of reporters who travel around Australia and the world reporting on travel destinations, tourist attractions and accommodation.
The Great Peacemaker The Great Peacemaker, sometimes referred to as Deganawida or "Dekanawida" (although as a mark of respect the Iroquois avoid referring to him by this name except in special circumstances), was the traditional founder, with Hiawatha, of the Haudenosaunee (commonly called the Iroquois) confederacy, a political and cultural union of Native American tribes. Although the formal inheritor of this confederacy includes only lands in what is now New York State, the impact of the union was far-reaching and certainly includes the related people in Ontario, Quebec, Pennsylvania, Ohio and other places.
The Great Piggy Bank Robbery The Great Piggy Bank Robbery is a Warner Brothers Looney Tunes theatrical cartoon short released in 1946. It was directed by Robert Clampett, written by Warren Foster, and animated by Izzy Ellis, Manny Gould, Bill Melendez, Robert McKimson, and Rod Scribner.
The Great Plateau The Great Plateau is the ninth episode in the documentary series The Future Is Wild. It is set in a lofty plateau created by the collision of Australia (who moved northward) against Japan and Kamchatka (the Asian tectonic plate), 100,000,000 years into the future.
The Great Popadom Dalip Singh Rana (born September 25, 1981) is an Indian wrestler, better known by his ringname The Great Khali or Khali for short. He is currently working for World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) on its Raw brand.
The Great Pretender (Dolly Parton album) The Great Pretender was a 1984 Dolly Parton album, comprised of covers of hits from the 1950s and 1960s. The first single, a remake of The Drifters' 1960 hit "Save the Last Dance for Me" was a top ten country single for Parton in early 1984.
The Great Race (rowing) The Great Race is an annual rowing race between the men's eight from the University of Waikato, New Zealand and the men's eight alternating each year between the University of Oxford and University of Cambridge (both of the United Kingdom). The race is held over a five kilometre stretch of the Waikato River in Hamilton, New Zealand.
The Great Raid The Great Raid is a 2005 war film which tells the story of the January 1945 liberation of the Cabanatuan Prison Camp during World War II. It is directed by John Dahl and stars Benjamin Bratt, Joseph Fiennes, James Franco and Connie Nielsen with Filipino actor Cesar Montano.
The Great Railway Bazaar The Great Railway Bazaar is a 1975 travelogue written by the American novelist Paul Theroux. It recounts Theroux's four-month journey across Asia by train, travelling through Europe, the Middle East, the Indian Subcontinent and Southeast Asia, before finally returning via the Trans-Siberian Railway.
The Great Red Dragon and the Beast from the Sea The Great Red Dragon and the Beast from the Sea is a part of a four-painting series painted by William Blake during the period between 1805 and 1810 It was during this period that Blake was commissioned to create over a hundred paintings intended to illustrate books of the Bible. In the four-painting Great Red Dragon series, Blake intended the dragon to represent Satan] from [[Revelations.
The Great Red Dragon and the Woman Clothed with the Sun [Great Red Dragon and the Woman Clothed with the Sun by William Blake]. The Great Red Dragon and the Woman Clothed with the Sun: 'the Devil is come down was painted by the English poet and painter William Blake between 1806 and 1809.
The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle (1980) is a fictional "documentary" (a "mockumentary") film directed by Julien Temple about the seminal British punk band, The Sex Pistols. It starred the band: singer Johnny Rotten as "The Collaborator", guitarist Steve Jones as "The Crook", bassist Sid Vicious as "The Gimmick", drummer Paul Cook as "The Tea-Maker", and the band's infamous manager, Malcolm McLaren, as "The Embezzler".
The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle (soundtrack album) The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle is an album by the British punk rock band the Sex Pistols. Released on February 26, 1979 on Virgin Records, it was the soundtrack album to Malcolm McLaren's film The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle.
The Great Santini The Great Santini is a 1979 film which tells the story of a highly successful Marine officer whose success as a military aviator contrasts with his shortcomings as a husband and father. It also explores the high price of heroism and self sacrifice on the man's soul and interpersonal relationships.
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