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Grand Grimoire
The Grand Grimoire (Le Grand Grimoire, also Le Dragon rouge or Red Dragon) is a French black-magic grimoire centered on a pact with the demon Lucifuge Rofocale. Its 1411-1522 title-page dates are fictions; the text circulated from the mid-eighteenth century and was printed at Nîmes in 1823.
Grand Guignol
Grand Guignol (Grand-Guignol) was the Théâtre du Grand-Guignol at 20 bis rue Chaptal, Paris, founded by Oscar Méténier in 1897, a 290-seat horror-and-farce theatre famous for realistic blood effects, over one thousand plays, resident doctor, and closure in November 1962.
Grand Gulf nuclear power plant
Grand Gulf Nuclear Station is a boiling water reactor power plant in Port Gibson, Mississippi, operating since 1985 and the largest single-unit nuclear plant in the United States.
Grand Herald
The Grand Herald (大鴻臚) was one of the Nine Ministers of the Han dynasty, handling foreign envoys, vassal princes, and enfeoffment ceremonies from 104 BC.
Grand Hetman
The Grand Hetman (Polish: hetman wielki) was the supreme military commander of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, made a permanent Crown office in 1503 and lasting until 1795.
Grand Hotel (1932 film)
Grand Hotel (1932) is Edmund Goulding's MGM drama adapted from Vicki Baum's Menschen im Hotel, starring Garbo, John and Lionel Barrymore, Crawford, and Beery; it won Best Picture with no other nominations.
Grand Hotel (TV series)
Gran Hotel (Grand Hotel) is a Spanish Antena 3 period mystery drama (2011–2013, 3 seasons, 39 episodes) set in 1905 at a hotel in fictional Cantaloa, starring Yon González and Amaia Salamanca, remade in Mexico, the US, Italy, and France.
Grand Hotel Villa Serbelloni
Grand Hotel Villa Serbelloni is a five-star luxury hotel in Bellagio on Lake Como, Italy, opened as a hotel in 1873 and owned by the Bucher family since 1918.
Grand Hustle Records
Grand Hustle Records, also known as Hustle Gang Music, is an Atlanta, Georgia-based hip hop record label founded in 2003 by rapper T.I. and Jason Geter.
Grand Illusion
Grand Illusion (La Grande Illusion) is Jean Renoir's 1937 French antiwar film, co-written with Charles Spaak, about French officers escaping a WWI German POW camp, starring Jean Gabin, Pierre Fresnay, and Erich von Stroheim; banned by Goebbels, Venice and New York prize winner.
Grand Inga Dam
The Grand Inga Dam is a proposed hydropower complex at Inga Falls on the Congo River in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, planned at about 39,000 MW.
Grand Island Opera House
The Grand Island Opera House, opened in 1883 as Bartenbach's Opera House, was a 1,000-seat second-floor theater in Grand Island, Nebraska, hosting Buffalo Bill and Sarah Bernhardt.
Grand Island, Nebraska
Grand Island, Nebraska: county seat of Hall County, fourth-largest Nebraska city (2020 pop. 53,131), founded 1857 by settlers from Davenport, Iowa, named for a Platte River island, platted 1866 by the Union Pacific, home of the Nebraska State Fair and JBS meatpacking.
Grand Jeté
Grand Jeté: 2022 German drama by Isabelle Stever, screenplay Anna Melikova from Anke Stelling's novel Fürsorge; ballet teacher Nadja reunites with son Mario; Berlinale Panorama premiere 2022.
Grand Junction, Colorado
Grand Junction is the largest city on Colorado's Western Slope, sitting where the Colorado and Gunnison rivers meet. Founded in 1881, it had 65,560 residents in 2020.
Grand juries in the United States
Grand juries in the United States are citizen bodies, 16 to 23 members federally, that decide probable cause for criminal charges by indictment under the Fifth Amendment; secret proceedings, not incorporated against the states.
Grand jury
Grand jury: citizen panel (16–23 members in US federal court, 12 votes to indict) that hears prosecutor evidence and issues felony indictments; Fifth Amendment federal requirement, states exempt; secret proceedings rooted in 12th-century English law.
Grand Kankakee Marsh
Grand Kankakee Marsh, the "Everglades of the North," was a vast Kankakee River wetland in Indiana and Illinois, over 500,000 acres, drained for farmland from 1869 to the 1920s; only about 13 percent of the basin's wetlands remain.
Grand Kremlin Palace (Большой Кремлёвский дворец)
The Grand Kremlin Palace, also known as the Great Kremlin Palace, is a 19th-century imperial palace in the Moscow Kremlin, built 1838–1850 under Emperor Nicholas I and now the Russian president's residence.
Grand Lake (lake, Canada)
Grand Lake (Labrador) is a 60 km long, 250 m deep fjord lake in Labrador, Canada, fed by the Naskaupi and Beaver Rivers and draining to Lake Melville; distinct from Grand Lake, New Brunswick and other namesakes.
Grand Lake St. Marys State Park
Grand Lake St. Marys State Park, in Mercer and Auglaize counties, western Ohio, centers on Ohio's largest inland lake, built 1837–1845 as a feeder reservoir for the Miami and Erie Canal and dedicated as a state park in 1949.
Grand Lisboa
Grand Lisboa is a hotel and casino in central Macau, operated by SJM Resorts, whose casino opened in 2007 and whose 258-meter tower is Macau's tallest building.
Grand Lisboa Palace Resort Casino
Grand Lisboa Palace Resort Macau is SJM Resorts' integrated casino resort in Cotai, opened 30 July 2021, with three hotel towers (Grand Lisboa Palace, THE KARL LAGERFELD, Palazzo Versace) totaling 1,892 rooms, a ~200-table casino, and Forbes all-Five-Star recognition in 2026.
Grand Loou (France)
Grand Loou (Villa du Loou, Villa Marius), Gallo-Roman wine-producing villa at La Roquebrussanne, Var, France. Discovered 1977, excavated 1978–1983; about 5,000 m², 1,100 hl wine per year, founded 46 BC for a 6th legion veteran.
Grand Maison hydroelectric plant
Grand'Maison is a pumped-storage hydroelectric plant in the French Alps, operated by EDF and, at 1,800 MW, France's most powerful plant and Europe's largest pumped-storage station.
Grand Marnier
Grand Marnier: French orange liqueur created 1880 by Louis-Alexandre Marnier Lapostolle, blending cognac (51% in Cordon Rouge) with bitter bigarade orange at 40% ABV; owned by Campari since 2016.
Grand Masti (ग्रैंड मस्ती)
Grand Masti (ग्रैंड मस्ती), 2013 Hindi adult comedy by Indra Kumar, sequel to Masti (2004), starring Riteish Deshmukh, Vivek Oberoi, Aftab Shivdasani; first adult comedy to cross Rs 100 crore.
Grand mausolée des Flavii
Grand mausolée des Flavii (Mausoleum of the Flavii, ضريح فلافيوس): three-story Roman tower mausoleum at Kasserine, ancient Cillium, Tunisia, 14 m tall, bearing CIL VIII 211–216 and the Roman world's longest epigraphic poem, 110 verses, for the veteran family of T. Flavius Secundus.
Grand Minister of Agriculture (Da sinong)
The Grand Minister of Agriculture (大司农) was the Han dynasty's chief official for state agriculture and national finance, renamed from a Qin grain office in 104 BC.
Grand Moff Tarkin
Grand Moff Tarkin (Wilhuff Tarkin) is the Star Wars Imperial governor, first Grand Moff and Death Star commander, played by Peter Cushing in A New Hope (1977) and digitally recreated via Guy Henry and ILM CGI in Rogue One (2016).