All articles starting with G

Grand'Anse

Grand'Anse (Grande Anse), a department of Haiti on the southern peninsula, capital Jérémie; 1,912 km², 13 communes, about 570,700 people (2024 estimate), agriculture-based and hurricane-prone. Distinct from the Quebec hamlet Grande-Anse and Seychelles' Grand'Anse (Mahé).

Grandad (Only Fools and Horses)

Grandad, full name Edward Kitchener "Ted" Trotter, is the Trotter family patriarch in the BBC sitcom Only Fools and Horses (1981-96), played by Lennard Pearce in the first 23 episodes and replaced by Uncle Albert after Pearce's 1984 death.

Grande (river, Bolivia)

Río Grande (Guapay), Bolivian Andean river formed by the Caine and San Pedro, tributary of the Mamoré–Madeira–Amazon system; ~100,000 km² basin with Santa Cruz and Cochabamba, heavy January–March floods.

Grande Arche

The Grande Arche, officially Grande Arche de la Fraternité, is a monumental hollow cube at La Défense on the western edge of Paris, inaugurated by President François Mitterrand in 1989.

Grande Armée

Grande Armée: name given 1805–1814 to the field armies commanded in person by Napoleon I, formed from the Boulogne camp army. Known for its autonomous corps system, conscription-based manpower, multinational composition, and influence on later field armies.

Grande Casino

Grande Casino, or Le Grande Casino, is a 24-hour casino at Harbour View Towers, Samora Avenue, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, run by Thinamy Entertainment Ltd, offering slots, table games and poker; distinct from a same-named Kinshasa casino.

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Grande Chartreuse monastery

The Grande Chartreuse is the mother house of the Carthusian Order, a monastery of hermit monks founded by Bruno of Cologne in 1084 in the French Alps near Grenoble.

Grande Course de Haies d'Auteuil

Grande Course de Haies d'Auteuil, the French Champion Hurdle: Group 1 staying hurdle race over 5,100 m for 5yo+, first run 1874 at Auteuil, Paris; 16 obstacles; recent dual winner Losange Bleu.

Grande école

Grande école: selective French elite higher education institution recruiting by competitive examination, outside the university system. Includes École polytechnique (1794), ENS, engineering and business schools; strong social selectivity and graduate employment outcomes.

Grande Kabylie

Grande Kabylie (el-Qbā'il el-kubrā) is the Berberophone mountain region of northern Algeria east of Algiers, bounded by the Mediterranean and the Djurdjura, submitted to France in 1857 and the center of the 1871 Mokrani revolt.

Grande Médaille

Grande Médaille names two French academy awards: the Académie des sciences' highest distinction (created 1997, annual, rotating disciplines) and the Académie française's 1938 songwriting medal, plus grandes médailles attached to Grands Prix.

Grande Odalisque

Grande Odalisque (Une odalisque, dite La grande odalisque), 1814 oil on canvas by Ingres, 91 x 162 cm, Louvre; painted for Caroline Murat, shown at the 1819 Salon, famous for its elongated anatomy and Orientalism.

Grande Prairie

Grande Prairie, Alberta, is a city about 460 km northwest of Edmonton and the largest commercial center in the Peace Country, serving a trade area of nearly 300,000 people.

Grande Região Centro-Oeste

Grande Região Centro-Oeste (Central-West Region), one of Brazil's five Major Regions: Goiás, Mato Grosso, Mato Grosso do Sul, and Distrito Federal. 1.6 million km², Cerrado and Pantanal, capital Brasília, agribusiness-driven economy, fastest regional GDP growth 2002–2023.

Grande Região Norte

Grande Região Norte (North Region, Região Norte) is one of Brazil's five official IBGE major regions, covering seven Amazonian states; it overlaps the Legal Amazon, holds 93.2% Amazon biome cover, and about 7.5% of national GDP.

Grande Região Sul

Grande Região Sul (Região Sul, South Region, Brazil): one of Brazil's five IBGE Grandes Regiões, comprising Paraná, Santa Catarina, and Rio Grande do Sul; 576,774 km², about 29 million people, major agro-industrial economy.

Grande Sebkha d'Oran

Grande Sebkha d'Oran (Great Sebkha of Oran) is a 56,870-ha closed saline depression south of Oran, Algeria; Ramsar site 1055 since 2001, an IBA for greater flamingo, fed by a 1,890 km² endorheic basin with brine near 180 g/L chlorides.

Grande Semaine d'Aviation de la Champagne

The Grande Semaine d'Aviation de la Champagne was the first organized international air meet, held near Reims, France, from 22 to 29 August 1909 before huge crowds.

Grande Sertão Veredas National Park

Grande Sertão Veredas National Park (Parque Nacional Grande Sertão Veredas) is a Brazilian Cerrado national park created in 1989 and expanded in 2004 to about 230,853 hectares in Minas Gerais and Bahia, named for Guimarães Rosa's novel and protecting jaguars, maned wolves, and vereda wetlands.

Grande Sertão: Veredas

Grande Sertão: Veredas is a 1956 novel by the Brazilian writer João Guimarães Rosa, narrated by Riobaldo, a former jagunço recalling his life in the backlands.

Grande-Terre

Grande-Terre is the eastern, flat limestone island of mainland Guadeloupe in the Lesser Antilles, separated from volcanic Basse-Terre by the Rivière Salée; about 590 km², sugar cane economy, main town Pointe-à-Pitre.

Grandee

Grandee (Grande de España; Portuguese grande): highest Iberian nobility rank, originally about 20-25 great Castilian and Aragonese families, growing to 119 by 1787, still legally recognized in Spain.

Grandes Heures de Rohan

The Grandes Heures de Rohan, also called the Rohan Hours or Livre d'heures de Rohan, is an illuminated book of hours in Paris, painted by the Rohan Master around 1418–1425.

Grandes Heures of Anne of Brittany

The Grandes Heures of Anne of Brittany (Grandes Heures d'Anne de Bretagne) is a book of hours illuminated by Jean Bourdichon for Queen Anne of Brittany between 1503 and 1508.

Grandeza mexicana

Grandeza mexicana (Mexican Greatness) is a long descriptive poem by Bernardo de Balbuena, published in Mexico City in 1604, celebrating the capital of New Spain.

Grandfather clause

Grandfather clause: a legal exemption letting pre-existing activity continue under old rules after a change. Originated in post-Civil War Southern voting laws exempting descendants of pre-1867 voters; struck down by Guinn v. United States (1915); now common in zoning and regulation.