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Grand Mosque of Kuwait
The Grand Mosque of Kuwait (المسجد الكبير), also called the Kuwait State Mosque, is the largest and official state mosque of Kuwait, inaugurated in 1986 in Kuwait City.
Grand Mosque seizure
Grand Mosque seizure: the November 1979 armed takeover of Mecca's Masjid al-Haram by several hundred Salafi insurgents led by Juhayman al-Utaybi proclaiming Mohammed al-Qahtani the Mahdi; crushed with foreign help, sixty executed, Saudi policy turned more conservative.
Grand Mufti
The grand mufti is the highest-ranking mufti in a given country or territory, issuing Islamic legal opinions, or fatwas, supervising religious institutions, and counseling the government.
Grand Music Master (Da Si Yue)
Grand Music Master (大司乐) is the head of the music offices in the Rites of Zhou, charged with governing state learning and teaching music to noble sons.
Grand National
Grand National, also Grand Liverpool Steeplechase, is a handicap steeplechase run since 1839 at Aintree, Liverpool, over 4m2½f and 30 fences; won 2024 and 2026 by I Am Maximus.
Grand National Assembly of Turkey
Grand National Assembly of Turkey (Türkiye Büyük Millet Meclisi, TBMM), Türkiye's unicameral parliament, founded in Ankara April 23, 1920; 600 deputies, five-year terms, D'Hondt system.
Grand National Tour
Grand National Tour: 2025 co-headlining stadium tour by Kendrick Lamar and SZA (also called GNX Tour), presented by Live Nation, pgLang, TDE; grossed $358.7 million, the highest-grossing hip-hop tour on record.
Grand Ole Opry
The Grand Ole Opry, also called the WSM Barn Dance, is Nashville's weekly country music radio show and live stage program, broadcast since November 28, 1925 on WSM, the longest-running radio show in U.S. history, now at the Grand Ole Opry House.
Grand Opera House, Belfast
The Grand Opera House is a Victorian theater on Great Victoria Street in Belfast, Northern Ireland, designed by Frank Matcham and opened in 1895 as the Grand Opera House Theatre and Cirque.
Grand Order of Water Rats
Grand Order of Water Rats: British showbusiness charity and fraternity founded in 1889 by music hall performers; motto "Philanthropy, Conviviality and Social Intercourse"; first King Rat Harry Freeman; HQ at the Water Rats pub, Gray's Inn Road; charity no. 292201.
Grand Palace (พระบรมมหาราชวัง)
The Grand Palace is a complex of royal buildings in Bangkok, Thailand, begun in 1782 by King Rama I as the residence of the Chakri dynasty kings.
Grand Palais
The Grand Palais, also known as the Grand Palais des Champs-Elysées, is a Beaux-Arts exhibition hall in Paris built for the 1900 Exposition Universelle, now hosting major art exhibitions and cultural events.
Grand Paris
Grand Paris covers the Métropole du Grand Paris intercommunality (Paris plus 130 communes, created 2016) and the Grand Paris Express, a 200 km, 68-station automated metro network built by Société des grands projets, opening 2024–2031.
Grand Paris Express
The Grand Paris Express is a 200-kilometer automated metro under construction around Paris, adding lines 15, 16, 17, and 18 with 68 stations from 2026 onward.
Grand Piano (film)
Grand Piano is a 2013 English-language thriller by Eugenio Mira, written by Damien Chazelle, starring Elijah Wood as pianist Tom Selznick, forced by sniper John Cusack to play flawlessly; Spanish-US 35mm co-production released 2013-2014.
Grand Poobah
Grand poobah: an English idiom for an important, high-ranking or pompous person, derived from Pooh-Bah, the multi-office-holding character (Lord-High-Everything-Else) in Gilbert and Sullivan's 1885 comic opera The Mikado.
Grand potential
The grand potential, also called the Landau potential, is a thermodynamic state function for systems at fixed temperature, volume, and chemical potential, defined as Ω = F − μN.
Grand Prairie, Texas
Grand Prairie, Texas, a city of about 196,100 (2020 census) in Dallas, Tarrant, and Ellis counties between Dallas and Fort Worth; founded as Dechman in 1863, renamed 1877, transformed by World War II aviation plants.
Grand prince
Grand prince (velikii knyaz, великий князь) was the title of the senior Rurikid prince of Kyivan Rus', later of Vladimir, Moscow, and Lithuania; often mistranslated grand duke, it ranked above other princes and below kings.
Grand Prince (군주) (TV series)
Ruler: Master of the Mask (군주 - 가면의 주인) is a 2017 MBC Wednesday-Thursday historical drama starring Yoo Seung-ho, Kim So-hyun, and L, about a masked Joseon crown prince fighting the water-monopolizing Pyunsoo-hwe organization; it premiered at 11.6% Nielsen Korea.
Grand Prince Anpyeong (이용)
Grand Prince Anpyeong (안평대군, Yi Yong, 1418–1453), third son of King Sejong of Joseon, was a calligrapher, poet, painter, and collector who commissioned An Gyeon's Mongyudowondo and was executed by his brother Suyang in 1453.
Grand Princess
Grand Princess is a cruise ship operated by Princess Cruises, built in 1998 as the lead ship of the line's Grand class and then the world's largest cruise ship.
Grand Principality of Serbia
The Grand Principality of Serbia (Велика жупа Рашка), known as Raška, was a medieval Serbian state ruled by grand župans until 1217, when Stefan was crowned king.
Grand Principality of Transylvania
The Grand Principality of Transylvania was a Habsburg province, raised from a principality by Empress Maria Theresa in 1765 and absorbed into Hungary after 1867.
Grand Prismatic Spring
Grand Prismatic Spring, in Midway Geyser Basin, Yellowstone National Park, is the largest hot spring in the United States and third largest in the world, famed for rainbow thermophile color bands.
Grand Prix (1966 film)
Grand Prix (1966) is John Frankenheimer's MGM sports drama about four fictional Formula One drivers in the 1966 season, starring James Garner, Yves Montand, Eva Marie Saint, and Toshiro Mifune. Shot at real 1966 F1 races in 70 mm, it won three Oscars and grossed about $20.8 million.
Grand Prix (Cannes Film Festival)
Grand Prix: the Cannes Film Festival's second most prestigious award after the Palme d'or, created in 1978 as the Grand Prix spécial du Jury and renamed Grand Prix in 1990; 2026 winner Minotaure by Andreï Zviaguintsev.
Grand Prix Charles-Leopold Mayer
Grand Prix Charles-Léopold Mayer: annual €20,000 prize of the French Academy of sciences, created 1960, for biochemical, biological, and biophysical sciences, alternating French and foreign laureates, with a 65-year age limit; recent winners include Benjamin Simons and Ludovic Orlando.
Grand Prix Cycliste de Montréal
Grand Prix Cycliste de Montréal: UCI WorldTour one-day road race on a Mount Royal circuit since 2010, held two days after GP Québec; climbing-heavy course, 2026 winner Isaac del Toro.
Grand Prix Cycliste de Québec
Grand Prix Cycliste de Québec: annual UCI WorldTour one-day road race in Québec City, Canada, first held 2010 (Voeckler). Repeated hilly circuit with the Côte de la Montagne; Matthews three wins; Evenepoel won 2026; paired with GP Montréal before the Worlds.