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The Great Sleigh Drive "The Great Sleigh Drive" () was a daring and bold maneuver by Frederick William, the Great Elector of Brandenburg-Prussia, to drive Swedish forces out of the Duchy of Prussia, a territory of his which had been invaded by the Swedes during the winter of 1678.
The Great Society The Great Society was a 1960s San Francisco rock band in the burgeoning Haight Ashbury folk-psychedelic style pervasive during the time of its existence, 1965 to 1966. Remembered as the original group of model turned singer Grace Slick, the initial line-up of the band also featured her then-husband Jerry Slick on drums, his brother Darby Slick on guitar, David Minor on vocals and guitar, Bard DuPont on bass, and Peter van Gelder on saxophone.
The Great South East The Great South East is an Australian television programme, airing exclusively in Queensland. Currently hosted by Sofie Formica, the half-hour-long programme showcases tourist attractions in the south-eastern corner of the state surrounding the state capital Brisbane.
The Great Speckled Bird (song) "The Great Speckled Bird" was written by The Reverend Guy Smith. It is based on Jeremiah 12:9, "Mine heritage is unto me as a speckled bird, the birds round about are against her; come ye, assemble all the beasts of the field, come to devour.
The Great Stalacpipe Organ The Great Stalacpipe Organ, claimed by its owners to be the world's largest musical instrument, is a keyboard instrument that works by tapping stalactites of varying sizes with rubber-tipped mallets attached to solenoids in order to produce tones. The instrument was created by Leland W.
The Great Story The Great Story, The Epic of Evolution, and the "Story of the Universe", refer to mythopoetic language used by a social movement (or new religious movement) that tells the history of the universe in a way that is simultaneously scientific and sacred. It articulates the understandings of modern science – especially the evolutionary sciences ranging from stellar evolution to biological evolution and cultural evolution – as a sacred creation story, much like the traditional creation myths passed down through oral cultures and sacred texts.
The Great Synthesis The Great Synthesis is the main book of the works of Pietro Ubaldi. In this book Ubaldi goes from matter through energy into the spirit trying to explain the origin and the working of everything in the Universe.
The Great Thunderstorm, Widecombe The Great Thunderstorm of Widecombe-in-the-Moor, Dartmoor, took place on 21 October 1638, when the church of St Pancras was apparently struck by ball lightning during a severe thunderstorm. An afternoon service was taking place at the time, and the building was packed with worshippers.
The Great Train Story The Great Train Story is a 3,500 square foot model railroad in the Transportation Zone of the Museum of Science and Industry (Chicago). It explains the story of transportation in a 2,200 scale-mile journey from Seattle to Chicago.
The Great Train Wreck of 1856 The Great Train Wreck of 1856 occurred between Camp Hill and Fort Washington), Pennsylvania, on July 17, 1856. Two trains, traveling on the same track in opposite directions, collided, killing between 59 and 67, and injuring over 100.
The Great Vegetable Rebellion The Great Vegetable Rebellion was an episode of the CBS series Lost in Space. First shown on February 28, 1968, it was the penultimate episode of the final season and arguably the best segment in the show's history.
The Great Waldo Pepper The Great Waldo Pepper is a 1975 film in which a biplane pilot who had missed combat in World War I by being assigned as a flight instructor takes up barnstorming and later a movie career in his quest for the glory that had escaped him. He eventually gets a chance to prove himself in a film depicting the dog fights from the Great War.
The Great Warming The Great Warming is a 2006 documentary film directed by Michael Taylor. The film was hosted by Alanis Morissette and Keanu Reeves and even before its November 3, 2006 premiere helped establish an alliance between Democrats and Evangelicals trying to shake the administration out of its inertia on climate change.
The Great Water The Great Water (Macedonian: Γолемата Вода; Transliteration: Golemata voda) is a 2004 Macedonian film starring Saso Kekenovski, Maja Stankovska, Mitko Apostolovski,Meto Jovanovski and Verica Nedeska. It was directed and written by Ivo Trajkov.
The Great Went The Great Went was the second of seven weekend-long festivals hosted by the rock band Phish. The event took place on August 16 and 17, 1997, at the Loring Air Force Base in Limestone, Maine, just miles from the Canadian border.
The Great White Hope The Great White Hope, a Pulitzer Prize-winning and Tony Award-winning play written by Howard Sackler and first produced by Arena Stage in Washington, DC in 1967, that was the basis for the 1970 film of the same name.
The Great White Stag (Farthing Wood) The Great White Stag is a fictional character from the animated children's television series The Animals of Farthing Wood based upon the books of the same name by author Colin Dann. He is the only resident of White Deer Park born there to appear in the first season, and therefore the only one to appear in every season of the show.
The Great Wisconsin Cheese Festival The Great Wisconsin Cheese Festival, or Cheesefest, is a festival held in the village of Little Chute, Wisconsin at Little Chute's Doyle Park on the first weekend of every June. This annual event kicks off "Dairy Month".
The Great Work The Great Work (lat: Magnum Opus), within Thelema, is the process of attaining Knowledge and Conversation of the Holy Guardian Angel and learning and accomplishing one's True Will. The term originates as far back as Medieval alchemy, and came to Thelema through Hermetic Magic informed by the Qabalah.
The Greater Boston Food Bank The Greater Boston Food Bank is a nearly $50 million-a-year charitable business, distributing more than 25 million pounds of food annually to a network of 600 community hunger-relief agencies in a dedicated partnership to feed the hungry in eastern Massachusetts.
The Greater Good, or the Passion of Boule de Suif The Greater Good, or the Passion of Boule de Suif is an opera by contemporary American composer Stephen Hartke, with an English libretto by the Philip Littell, based on the short story Boule de Suif by Guy de Maupassant. It was commissioned by the Glimmerglass Opera, and premiered on 22 July 2006 at Glimmerglass, in Cooperstown, New York.
The Greatest (Ian Brown) The Greatest is the first compilation album from British musician Ian Brown, former lead singer of The Stone Roses. It covers material from his first four albums and includes two new tracks, "All Ablaze" and "Return Of The Fisherman".
The Greatest American The Greatest American was a public vote, modeled after the 100 Greatest Britons competition, in which citizens of the United States were asked to nominate, and then later vote for, "the Greatest American" of all time.
The Greatest Canadian Officially launched on April 5, 2004, The Greatest Canadian was a project by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) to find out who is considered the greatest Canadian of all time. The project was inspired by the BBC series Great Britons.
The Greatest Game Ever Played The Greatest Game Ever Played is a 2005 biographical sports film, directed by Bill Paxton. It is distributed by Walt Disney Studios, and is similar to their other fact-based sports dramas such as Remember the Titans (2000), The Rookie (2002), and Miracle (2004).
The Greatest Hits (Lulu album) 2003 Lulu album charting her 40 year music career in music from 1964 UK Top Ten Hit "Shout" through till 2002's "We've Got Tonight" a UK Top 5 duet with Ronan Keating. Plus everything in between such as 1967 US #1 Hit "To Sir with Love", the 1969 Eurovision Song Contest winner "Boom Bang-a-Bang", 1974 Bond Theme "The Man with the Golden Gun" and 1993 UK #1 Hit "Relight My Fire" (duet with Take That).
The Greatest Hits Collection (Brooks & Dunn album) The Greatest Hits Collection is the first of two collections of the biggest and best releases by country duo Brooks & Dunn. The album featured three new tracks, two of which were released as singles: He's Got You (rated #2 on the US Hot Country chart), and Honky Tonk Truth (#3).
The Greatest Hits Collection II The Greatest Hits Collection Volume II (2004) is the eleventh studio album by country music duo Brooks & Dunn. It is the second collection of the duo's most popular releases and features three previously unreleased tracks: That's What It's All About, It's Getting Better All The Time, and Independent Trucker.
The Greatest Shop in the Galaxy The Greatest Shop in the Galaxy is a Big Finish Productions audio drama featuring Lisa Bowerman as Bernice Summerfield, a character from the spin-off media based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who.
The Greatest Songs of the Fifties The Greatest Songs of the Fifties is an album by veteran American singer Barry Manilow, released in the United States on January 31 2006. A significant album for Barry Manilow, it finds the Brooklyn-born crooner taking on songs that were popular in his youth.
The Greatest Story Ever Told The Greatest Story Ever Told is a 1965 United Artists film about the life of Jesus, directed by George Stevens (some scenes by Jean Negulesco and David Lean). Max von Sydow stars as Christ, and it features a number of other top Hollywood stars at the time, such as Charlton Heston as John the Baptist, and Telly Savalas as Pontius Pilate.
The Grecque The "Grecque" (or the Greek) is a celebratory dance often undertaken en masse by football supporters within a stadium during a match. The dance involves the supporters, arm-in-arm, turning their backs to the field, as if to mock their opponents and gloat in the idea that they need not even watch their team as they know they will always win anyway, and hopping from side to side.
The Greed of Man The Greed of Man (Traditional Chinese: 大時代, "Great Era") was a Drama Series that was broadcast by TVB in Hong Kong during 1993. It is extremely controversial for its depiction of violence and is well remembered for its effects of the stock market in general, known as the Ding Hai Effect.
The Greek Myths The Greek Myths (1955) is a compendium of Greek mythology, by the poet and writer Robert Graves, normally published in two volumes. Each myth is presented, in the voice of a narrator writing under the Antonines such as Plutarch or Pausanias, with full citations of the classical sources.
The Greek Passion The Greek Passion (ĹeckĂ© pašije in Czech) is an opera in four acts by Bohuslav MartinĹŻ to a libretto by the composer, based on the novel of the same name (also known as Christ Recrucified) by Nikos Kazantzakis. The opera has been performed in Czech, German, and English.
The Greek Slave The Greek Slave is a marble statue in Raby Castle, carved in Florence by American sculptor Hiram Powers in 1844. Copies of the statue were displayed in a number of venues around Great Britain and the United States, and it quickly became one of Powers' most famous and most popular works.
The Greek-Spanish Dictionary (DGE) The Greek-Spanish Dictionary (DGE) is the last link in the long chain of European lexicographical tradition of general dictionaries of Ancient Greek, the first of which could be considered Henricus Stephanus's Thesaurus Graecae Linguae (Paris 1572). The Greek-Spanish Dictionary resumes this tradition at the level reached by its immediate predecessor, Liddell-Scott-Jones's (LSJ) dictionary in its ninth edition (Oxford 1925–1940).
The Greeks of The Wire On the fictional TV series The Wire, a powerful crime organization is led by a man known only as The Greek. Based in Highlandtown in Southeastern Baltimore, a predominantly Greek neighborhood of the city, they assist the I.
The Green Alliance The Green Alliance is a national network of Green Party political clubs in the United States, which are local membership organizations for Green activists. It is a membership organization, and requires payment of an annual fee to maintain good standing in the organization.
The Green Bag The Green Bag: An Entertaining Journal of Law is a legal journal dedicated to publishing "good writing" about the law. Founded in 1997 by three former-classmates of the University of Chicago Law School, The Green Bag is published quarterly.
The Green Berets (book) The Green Berets was is a non-fiction book (ISBN 0-312-98492-8) written by Robin Moore about the Green Berets in the Vietnam War, originally published in 1965. It was made into a movie by the same name starring John Wayne.
The Green Berets (film) The Green Berets is the title of a 1968 film starring John Wayne and featuring George Takei, David Janssen, Jim Hutton, and Aldo Ray. It was nominally based on the 1965 book of the same name by Robin Moore, but the screenplay has little to do with the book.
The Green Book (IRA training manual) The IRA Green Book is a training and induction manual issued by the Irish Republican Army to new volunteers. It was used by the post-Irish Civil War Irish Republican Army (IRA) and Cumann na mBan, ("League of Women"), along with offspring groupings such as the Provisional IRA (PIRA).
The Green Butchers The Green Butchers (Danish: De grønne slagtere) is a 2003 Danish film starring Mads Mikkelsen, Nikolaj Lie Kaas, and Line Kruse, written and directed by Anders Thomas Jensen. It is a dark comedy featuring two butchers, Svend and Bjarne, who start their own shop to get away from their arrogant boss.
The Green Carnation The Green Carnation, first published anonymously in 1894, was a scandalous novel by Robert Hichens whose lead characters are closely based on Oscar Wilde and Lord Alfred Douglas - also known as 'Bosie', whom the author personally knew). It was an instant 'succes de scandale' on both sides of the Atlantic.
The Green Death The Green Death is a serial in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was first broadcast in six weekly parts from May 19, 1973 to June 23, 1973. This serial was the last to feature Katy Manning in the role of Jo Grant.
The Green Glass Door The Green Glass Door is a common word game where a player already introduced to the game (understands the 'trick' to it) gives clues to a new player about what does or does not belong behind the 'green glass door'.
The Green House The Green House (La casa verde) is a 1966 novel by Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa. The novel is considered a central work for the new Spanish American novel style that arose in the 1960s, and has been much commented on by literary scholars.
The Green Christ The Green Christ (in French: Le Christ vert) is a painting executed by Paul Gauguin in autumn 1889 in Pont-Aven. Together with The Yellow Christ, it is considered to be one of the key-works of Symbolism in painting
The Green Initiative The Organization has as its main object offset the Greenhouse gases emitted by human activities that can range from complex industrial production processes to simply driving a car, with reforestation projects in riparian areas that need to be recovered.
The Green Man Written in 1969, The Green Man (ISBN 978-0-89733-220-0), is a novel by the noted British author Kingsley Amis. A Times Literary Supplement reviewer described The Green Man as “three genres of novel in one”: ghost story, moral fable, and comic novel.
The Green Manalishi "The Green Manalishi (With the Two-Pronged Crown)" is a song written by Peter Green and recorded by Fleetwood Mac. It was released as a single in the UK in May 1970 and reached #10 on the British charts.
The Green Project The Green Project is a nonprofit organization located in New Orleans, Louisiana and serves mainly Southeast Louisiana and the Mississippi Coast. The stated primary focus of The Green Project is recycling of locally donated and reclaimed items.
The Green Ramp Disaster The Green Ramp Disaster occurred on March 23, 1994, while approximately 500 Paratroopers stationed at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, were preparing for an Airborne Operation at Pope Air Force Base, North Carolina. Shortly after 1400 hours an F-16D, (88-0171) collided with a USAF Lockheed C-130E Hercules (68-10942) at an altitude of 300 feet.
The Green Room (film) The Green Room (original French title: La chambre verte) is a 1978 film by François Truffaut based on the Henry James story "The Altar of the Dead", in which a man becomes obsessed with the many dead in his life and builds a memorial to honor them.
The Green Table The Green Table is the masterpiece of German choreographer Kurt Jooss, and his most popular work, depicting the futility of peace negotiations of the 1930's. It was the first play to be fully notated using kinetography Laban (Labanotation).
The Green Team: Boy Millionaires The Green Team is a fictional comic book team of rich-kid adventurers whose only published starring appearance made it cult item as an infamous misfire by a legendary comic creator. The team appeared in DC Comics' First Issue Special #2 (May 1974), created by writer Joe Simon (the co-creator of Captain America and legendary artist Jack Kirby's longtime collaborator) and artist Jerry Grandenetti.
The Green-Eyed Monsters The Green-Eyed Monsters is a Big Finish Productions audio drama featuring Lisa Bowerman as Bernice Summerfield, a character from the spin-off media based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who.
The Greenball Crew The Green Ball Crew, released in 1993, was the second EP released by the New Jersey Punk rock band The Bouncing Souls. Almost every song from this EP was later re-released on the 2002 compilation disc The Bad the Worse and the Out of Print.
The Greenberry Woods The Greenberry Woods was a power-pop quartet formed in 1989 by songwriters Matt Huseman and Ira Katz while students at the University of Maryland. They were later joined by by Huseman's twin brother Brandt Huseman on bass and drummer Miles Rosen.
The Greenbriar Boys The Greenbriar Boys were a seminal northern bluegrass music group who first got together in jam sessions in New York's Washington Square Park. Along with the New Lost City Ramblers, their urban traditional country sound inspired a generation of musicians and fans.
The Greencards The Greencards are a bluegrass music band from Austin, Texas, that formed in 2003. The band is composed of two Australians, Kym Warner (mandolin) and Carol Young (bass), and an Englishman, Eamon McLoughlin (fiddle).
The Greene The Greene, (known as the Greene Town Center), is a mixed-use development located in Beavercreek, Ohio (an eastern suburb of Dayton in Greene County), at the exit from Ohio Interstate 675 to Indian Ripple Road. The first phase of the center opened on August 24, 2006.
The Greene Knight The Greene Knight is a late medieval rhyming romance, found in the Percy Folio Manuscript. The storyline effectively parallels the more famous Sir Gawain and the Green Knight in describing the the dealings of Gawain, King Arthur's nephew, with the titular Greene Knight.
The Greenhornes The Greenhornes are a rock band from Cincinnati, Ohio, featuring Craig Fox on lead vocals and guitar, Jack Lawrence on bass, and Patrick Keeler on drums. The Greenhornes started life as a high school band based in Dearborn County, Indiana (20 miles west of Cincinnati) called Us and Them, self-releasing a four-track tape.
The Greens (France) Les Verts (or The Greens) are an ecologist political party to the left of the political spectrum in France. They have officially been in existence since 1982, but their spiritual roots can be traced as far back as René Dumont’s candidacy for the presidency in 1974.
The Greenskeepers The Greenskeepers are a Chicago music group. One of their most notable tracks is "Lotion", a song that pays homage to Buffalo Bill, the fictitious serial killer featured in the 1991 film, The Silence of the Lambs.
The Greentree Gazette The Greentree Gazette magazine covers the people, campuses and companies that are making business news in higher education. The Gazette carefully tracks campus finance and makes sense of information technology, student services and enrollment management.
The Greenway The Greenway is a footpath and cycleway in East London constructed on the embankment containing the Northern Outfall Sewer. The path runs from Wick Lane in Bow through Stratford, Plaistow and Newham to Royal Docks Road in Beckton.
The Greenway (Greater Grand Forks) The Greenway is made up of 2,200 acres (9 km²) bordering the Red River and Red Lake River in the twin cities of Grand Forks, North Dakota and East Grand Forks, Minnesota (commonly called Greater Grand Forks). The Greenway was constructed after the devastating Flood of 1997.
The Greeting Song "The Greeting Song" is the fourteenth song on the Red Hot Chili Peppers' Blood Sugar Sex Magik. A tempo of 134 beats per minute combined with consistently fast rhythms make it the fastest-paced song on the album (other than "They're Red Hot").
The Grel Escape The Grel Escape is a Big Finish Productions audio drama featuring Lisa Bowerman as Bernice Summerfield, a character from the spin-off media based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who.
The Gremlins (band) Formed in 1999, The Gremlins were a band from the suburbs of Detroit. The Gremlins were a mild success in the Detroit area, and were recognized for the originality of their live performances as well as their ability to mix avant-garde sounds with popular taste.
The Grey Fox (film) The Grey Fox is a Canadian film, released in 1982. Written by John Hunter and directed by Phillip Borsos, the film was based on the true story of Bill Miner, an American stagecoach robber who staged Canada's first-ever train robbery on September 10, 1904.
The Grey King The Grey King is a book by Susan Cooper which was awarded the Newbery Medal for excellence in American children's literature in 1976. It is the fourth of five books in her young adult Arthurian fantasy cycle, The Dark is Rising.
The Grey Seas Under The Grey Seas Under is a non-fiction book by well known Canadian author Farley Mowat about the Atlantic Salvage Tug Foundation Franklin, operated by the firm Foundation Maritime in Canada's Maritime provinces from 1930 to 1948.
The Grey Zone The Grey Zone is a film directed by Tim Blake Nelson in 2001 and stars David Arquette, Steve Buscemi, Harvey Keitel, Mira Sorvino and Daniel Benzali. It is based on the book; Auschwitz: A Doctor's Eyewitness Account written by Dr.
The Grier School Grier School For Girls is an all girls boarding school located in Tyrone, Pennsylvania near Penn State University. Founded in 1853, the school is known for its school symbol, a green and white shield with a pine tree.
The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy, created by Maxwell Atoms, is an American animated television series that currently airs on Cartoon Network and Teletoon. The two main characters, Billy and Mandy, have obliged the Grim Reaper, here usually called Grim, to be their best friend forever after having won a bet over a sick hamster through a game of Limbo.
The Grimes sisters Barbara Grimes and Patricia Grimes disappeared on December 28, 1956, in Chicago, Illinois and their dead bodies were discovered on January 22, 1957. Their murder case is known as the Grimes sisters' murder case and it is still unsolved today.
The Grimleys The Grimleys was a nostalgic comedy-drama set on a council estate in Dudley, West Midlands, England in the mid-1970s. It was first broadcast by Granada TV for ITV in 1999, following a pilot in 1997, and concluded in 2001 after three series.
The Grimoire The Grimoire was a comic book series published by Speakeasy Comics since the beginning of 2005. The acclaimed series, created by writer Sebastien Caisse and art studio Grafiksismik, had a creative team change right after the completion of its first story-arc with issue #6.
The Grimoire of Exalted Deeds The Grimoire of Exalted Deeds is a magazine published by Bill Zebub, which focuses mainly on heavy metal and death metal music. The magazine also includes a feature called "Grimoire Girls", female heavy metal fans who voluntarily submit photographs of themselves.
The Grind Line The Grind Line refers to the forward line of the Detroit Red Wings of the National Hockey League. Red Wings head coach Scotty Bowman modeled it after the Crash Line of the 1995 Stanley Cup champion New Jersey Devils and other grind lines preceding it.
The Grinch Grinches the Cat in the Hat The Grinch Grinches the Cat in the Hat is an animated musical crossover produced by Marvel Productions in association with DePatie-Freleng Enterprises, it starred Dr.Seuss' famed characters The Grinch and The Cat in the Hat.
The Griswold Inn The Griswold Inn, located in Essex, Connecticut, is the oldest continuously-run tavern in the United States of America Historical Inns Article, retrieved 2006-8-28. Founded by three brothers in the late 1700's, it has been under the stewardship of only 6 families.
The Grizzly and the Treasure The Grizzly and the Treasure is a 1975 film. It is narrated by an elderly man (Scott Beach) with the accent of an old woodsman or prospector of 19th century gold rushes, much in the same style as early Disney nature specials.
The Groke The Groke (the original Swedish name Mårran and the Finnish name Mörkö and the Norwegian name Hufsa) is a fictional character in the Moomin world created by Tove Jansson. She appears as a ghostlike hill-shaped body with two cold staring eyes and a wide row of white shiny teeth.
The Groove (band) Formed in 1968, The Groove were considered to be Australia's first "supergroup" in that all members had considerable experience behind them in a number of successful bands. They were formed in Melbourne, Australia and gathered together by well known manager and agent, Garry Spry, who teamed up with respected keyboard player, Tweed Harris, to put the band together.
The Grotto The National Sanctuary of our Sorrowful Mother, popularly known as The Grotto, is a Catholic sanctuary on Sandy Boulevard (Highway 30) at Northeast 85th Avenue, Portland, Oregon, USA, set both at the foot of and on top of a cliff. A large meditation hall whose main chamber is at clifftop level extends down to the foot of the cliff; the cross on the hall is visible many miles away.
The Ground of Arts Robert Recorde's Arithmetic: or, The Ground of Arts was one of the first printed English textbooks on arithmetic and the most popular of its time. It was preceded only by two anonymous texts in 1537 and 1539; The Ground of Arts appeared in London around 1542, and it was reprinted in 27 more editions until 1700.
The Groundlings The Groundlings is an improvisational comedy troupe based in Los Angeles, California, USA. The troupe was formed by Gary Austin in 1974 and uses an improv format influenced by Viola Spolin to produce sketches and improvised scenes.
The Group (film) The Group is a 1966 ensemble film based on the novel by Mary McCarthy about a group of female graduates from a Vassar-like college during the early 1930s. The cast includes Elizabeth Hartman ("A Patch Of Blue"), Shirley Knight ("As Good As It Gets"), Candice Bergen, Joanna Pettet and Joan Hackett.
The Group B Project The Group B Project is a New York based theater company that was founded in the fall of 2005 by sixteen students of the Atlantic Theater Company's conservatory program. The Group B Project is based on the idea that actors can and should create their own work and in the last year they have produced two shows.
The Group for Contemporary Music The Group for Contemporary Music was an American chamber ensemble dedicated to the performance of contemporary classical music. It was founded in New York City in 1962 by Harvey Sollberger and Charles Wuorinen and was in residence at Columbia University from 1962 to 1971.
The Group Selection Squad A group of over 40 scientists on three continents founded by multi-disciplinarian Howard Bloom in 1995 to confront a basic problem in evolutionary biology and in evolutionary psychology--"the tyranny of individual selection".
The Groupies The Groupies were a psychadelic rock group from the Lower East Side of New York City. They are probably best known for the song "Primitive", which was not a hit in its time but was rediscovered as part of The Nuggets compiliation.
The Grove Family The Grove Family was a British television soap opera, generally regarded as the first of its kind broadcast in the UK, made and transmitted by BBC Television from 1954 to 1957. The series revolved around the life of the family of the title, who were named after the BBC's Lime Grove Studios, where the programme was made.
The Grovers (album) The Grovers was released as a '10th Anniversary' album, representing the 10 years since it was originally recorded by Jimmy Newquist and Mark Haugh in college. It was pressed in a limited run just for the internet and is now out of print.
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