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Grandford
Grandford, Cambridgeshire: large Romano-British settlement northwest of March in the Fens, on the Fen Causeway; occupied c. AD 65-390, possibly founded as a post-Boudican Roman fort, with wool-based economy and mid-3rd-century flood.
Grandhasiri
Grandhasiri is a village in Guntur district, Andhra Pradesh, whose ancient mounds, with Buddhist stupa remains, rock-cut cisterns, and potsherds, form ASI centrally protected monument N-AP-61 under the Amaravati circle.
Grandhi Mallikarjuna Rao (గ్రంధి మల్లికార్జున రావు)
Grandhi Mallikarjuna Rao, known as G M Rao, is an Indian infrastructure entrepreneur who founded the GMR Group and won the 2006 concession to modernize Delhi's Indira Gandhi International Airport.
Grandidier Channel
Grandidier Channel, a channel off the Graham Coast of the Antarctic Peninsula between the Biscoe Islands and the mainland, charted by Charcot's 1903-05 French expedition and named for Alfred Grandidier.
Grandiose delusion
Grandiose delusion, also called delusion of grandeur, is a psychotic false belief of inflated worth or exceptional identity, occurring in about two-thirds of bipolar and half of schizophrenia patients, coded ICD-11 MB26.05.
Grandiosity
Grandiosity: inflated sense of superiority, importance, or power; a defining trait of narcissistic personality disorder (DSM-5-TR) and, as grandiose delusions, a psychotic symptom common in bipolar mania and schizophrenia.
Grandma
Grandma is a 2015 American comedy-drama film written and directed by Paul Weitz, starring Lily Tomlin as a lesbian poet driving with her pregnant granddaughter.
Grandma Gatewood
Grandma Gatewood (Emma Rowena Gatewood, 1887-1973), Ohio farmer who in 1955 became the first woman to solo thru-hike the Appalachian Trail at 67, completed it three times, and co-founded the Buckeye Trail.
Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer
Novelty Christmas song written by Randy Brooks, recorded by Elmo & Patsy (Elmo Shropshire and Patsy Trigg Shropshire); self-released 1979, Epic hit 1984, over 10 million sold, subject of a 2000 animated TV special.
Grandma Moses
Grandma Moses, born Anna Mary Robertson Moses (1860–1961), American self-taught folk painter of rural farm scenes who began painting in her seventies, was discovered in 1938, and made over 1,500 works.
Grandma's Boy (1922 film)
Grandma's Boy (1922), also released as The White Feather or He Who Hesitates, is a Harold Lloyd silent feature comedy directed by Fred Newmeyer for Hal Roach, his first five-reel feature, about a coward transformed by a lucky charm.
Grandma's Boy (2006 film)
Grandma's Boy (2006) is a Happy Madison stoner comedy directed by Nicholaus Goossen, starring Allen Covert as a 35-year-old game tester living with his grandmother; a critical flop that became a cult hit on DVD.
Grandmama (The Addams Family)
Grandmama is the Addams Family's resident witch-like grandmother, created by Charles Addams in 1938 New Yorker cartoons. She is Gomez's mother in the 1964 series and 2019 films, Morticia's mother (Frump) in the 1990s movies and Wednesday.
Grandmaster (chess)
Grandmaster (GM), the highest FIDE chess title below World Champion; established 1950 with 27 recipients; earned via 2500 Elo rating plus three GM norms or direct titles.
Grandmaster (martial arts)
Grandmaster (martial arts): senior honorific above master, also Sigung (Chinese) or Dae sa beam nim (Korean). No universal standard; Korean law requires 9th Dan Kukkiwon for Taekwondo grandmaster designation.
Grandmaster (Marvel Comics)
Grandmaster (En Dwi Gast), Marvel Comics Elder of the Universe created by Roy Thomas and Sal Buscema, debuting in Avengers #69 (1969); a game-obsessed immortal, brother of the Collector, played by Jeff Goldblum in Thor: Ragnarok.
Grandmaster Flash
Grandmaster Flash (Joseph Saddler), Barbados-born Bronx DJ and founding hip-hop innovator: Quick Mix Theory break-looping, slipmat, Furious Five, "The Message" (1982), first hip-hop act in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (2007).
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, Bronx hip hop group (formed 1977/1978) of DJ Flash, Melle Mel, Cowboy, Kidd Creole, Scorpio, Rahiem; Quick Mix pioneer, "The Message" (1982), first hip hop Rock Hall inductee (2007).
Grandmaster-level chess without search
Grandmaster-level chess without search is a February 2024 Google DeepMind result in which a 270-million-parameter transformer, trained on Stockfish-annotated positions, plays grandmaster-level chess without search, published at NeurIPS 2024.
Grandpa Jones
Grandpa Jones, born Louis Marshall Jones (1913-1998), was an American clawhammer banjo player, old-time country singer, and comedian, a Grand Ole Opry mainstay, Hee Haw cast member, and 1978 Country Music Hall of Fame inductee.
Grandparent
Grandparent: parent of one's mother or father, a kinship role spanning caregiving, demography, and culture. Median age at grandparenthood is 49 (US women); grandparent life stage lasts 21-35 years.
Grandparent visitation in the United States
Grandparent visitation in the United States is the body of state law under which a grandparent may ask a court to order contact with a child over a parent's objection.
Grands affluents
Grands affluents (Ramsar Site no. 1742) is a 5,908,074-hectare Wetland of International Importance in the Republic of the Congo, designated 13 December 2007 and named for the Oubangui, Sangha, Likouala-Mossaka, and Alima rivers, the Congo River's main right-bank tributaries.
Grands-Ponts
Grands-Ponts, a coastal region of southern Côte d'Ivoire created in 2011, capital Dabou; three departments, 450,007 inhabitants (RGPH 2021), economy of fishing, rubber, oil palm, tourism near Abidjan.
Grandson (musician)
Grandson (stylized lowercase) is Canadian-American musician Jordan Edward Benjamin, born 1993 in Englewood, New Jersey, raised in Toronto. Known for "Blood // Water" and albums Death of an Optimist, I Love You I'm Trying, and Inertia.
Grandvalira
Grandvalira is the largest ski resort in the Pyrenees, in Andorra, also called Grand Valira. Formed in 2003 by merging Pas de la Casa-Grau Roig and Soldeu-El Tarter, it has 215 km of slopes across seven sectors and a single ski pass.
Grandview Mall Aquarium
Grandview Mall Aquarium, or Zhengjia Polar Ocean World (正佳极地海洋世界), is a 58,000 m2 indoor polar aquarium on floors 2-3 of Grandview Mall, Guangzhou; China's first mall aquarium, opened January 2016, known for its belugas, Pizza the polar bear controversy, and welfare criticism.
Grane Oil and Gas Field
Grane is an oil field in the central Norwegian North Sea about 185 km west of Haugesund, discovered in 1991 and producing heavy oil since 2003 under Equinor.
Graneledone boreopacifica
Graneledone boreopacifica (ghost octopus, ホクヨウイボダコ), a North Pacific deep-sea octopus of Octopodidae, lives at 1000-3000 m and holds the animal record for egg brooding: 53 months in Monterey Canyon.
Grange Hill
Grange Hill: BBC children's school drama created by Phil Redmond, broadcast 1978–2008, set in a London comprehensive. Known for gritty realistic storylines such as Zammo's heroin addiction, three consecutive children's-series Baftas, and its 2002 move north under Mersey TV.