Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna of Russia

Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna of Russia (Russian: Ольга Александровна, romanized: Olga Aleksandrovna; 13 June [O.S. 1 June] 1882 – 24 N…

Grand Teton National Park

Grand Teton National Park is a national park of the United States in northwestern Wyoming. At approximately 310,000 acres (130,000 ha; 1,300 km2), the…
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Grand Theft Auto V

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Grant Memorial coinage

The Grant Memorial coinage are a gold dollar and silver half dollar struck by the United States Bureau of the Mint in 1922 in honor of the 100th anniversary of …
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Grant's Canal

Map of the Vicksburg area, De Soto Point, and the canal. The positions to the north of Vicksburg are related to the Battle of Chickasaw Bayou Grant's Canal (als…
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Grass Fight

The Grass Fight was a small battle during the Texas Revolution, fought between the Mexican Army and the Texian Army. The battle took place on November 26, 1835,…
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Grasshopper

GrasshopperTemporal range: Induan–Holocene, 250–0 Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N American grasshopper (Schistocerca americana) Scientifi…
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Gravity Bone

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Gray mouse lemur

Grey mouse lemur Conservation status Least Concern (IUCN 3.1) CITES Appendix I  Scientific classification Kingdom: Animalia Phyl…
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GRB 970228

GRB 970228 was the first gamma-ray burst (GRB) for which an afterglow was observed. It was detected on 28 February 1997 at 02:58 UTC. Since 1993, physicists had…

GRB 970508

GRB 970508 was a gamma-ray burst (GRB) detected on May 8, 1997, at 21:42 UTC. It is historically important as the second GRB (after GRB 970228) with a…

Great auk

Great aukTemporal range: Middle Pleistocene - Holocene, ~400,000 BC – 1852 AD PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N Specimen No. 8 and replica egg in the Kelvin…
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Great cuckoo-dove

Great cuckoo-dove R. r. reinwardti Conservation status Least Concern (IUCN 3.1) Scientific classification Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: C…
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Great Eastern Highway

Great Eastern Highway is a 590-kilometre-long (370 mi) road that links the Western Australian capital of Perth with the city of Kalgoorlie. A key route for…

Great Fire of London

The Great Fire of London, depicted by an unknown painter (1675), as it would have appeared from a boat in the vicinity of Tower Wharf on the evening of Tuesday,…

Great Gold Robbery

Contemporary news illustration of Agar and Burgess in the guard's van, emptying the safes of the gold The Great Gold Robbery took place on the night of 15 May 1…

Great Lakes Storm of 1913

The Great Lakes Storm of 1913, historically referred to as the Big Blow, the Freshwater Fury and the White Hurricane, was a blizzard with hurricane-force winds …
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Great North of Scotland Railway

The Great North of Scotland Railway (GNSR) was one of the two smallest of the five major Scottish railway companies prior to the 1923 Grouping, operating in the…

Great spotted woodpecker

Great spotted woodpecker Adult male Dendrocopos major pinetorum Drumming recorded in Devon, England Conservation status Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)…
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Great Stink

"The Silent Highwayman" (1858). Death rows on the Thames, claiming the lives of victims who have not paid to have the river cleaned up. The Great Stink was an e…
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