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Grange stone circle
Grange stone circle (Lios na Grainsi), near Lough Gur, County Limerick, is Ireland's largest stone circle: 113 contiguous standing stones about 46 m across, embanked by an earthen bank, excavated in 1939, with Beaker pottery finds and disputed astronomical alignments.
Grange syndrome
Grange syndrome (Grange occlusive arterial syndrome, OMIM 602531) is an ultra-rare autosomal recessive YY1AP1 disorder with childhood-onset multifocal renal, cerebral, abdominal, and coronary artery stenosis, hypertension, brachysyndactyly, bone fragility, and congenital heart defects.
Granger causality
Granger causality is a statistical test, proposed by Clive Granger in 1969, where one time series causes another if its past values improve prediction of it.
Granger Smith
Granger Smith (born 1979), also known as Earl Dibbles Jr., is a former country music singer, "Backroad Song" chart-topper, and Yee Yee Nation founder who left music in 2023 to become a Southern Baptist minister, author, and After MidNite radio host.
Grani
Grani (Грани, "Facets") was a Russian-language quarterly journal of literature, art, and public thought, founded by émigrés in Germany in 1946 and published in Frankfurt until 1991.
Granicus Valles
Granicus Valles, a ~750-km-long Martian outflow channel system west of Elysium Mons, carved by both lava and water during the Amazonian epoch, IAU-named 1982 after an ancient Turkish river.
Granisetron
Granisetron is a first-generation 5-HT3 receptor antagonist antiemetic (brand Kytril, Sustol) used to prevent chemotherapy-, radiotherapy-, and surgery-induced nausea and vomiting; FDA-approved since 1993, with tablet, injection, transdermal, and extended-release forms.
Granit Xhaka
Granit Xhaka, Swiss midfielder born 1992 in Basel; Switzerland's record-capped captain. Played Basel, Gladbach, Arsenal (297 apps), unbeaten Bundesliga double with Leverkusen, now Sunderland captain.
Granita
Granita, a semi-frozen Sicilian dessert of water, sugar, and fruit, coffee, or almond flavoring, agitated during freezing into fine ice crystals; born from Arab sherbet and Etna snow, eaten with brioche con il tuppo.
Granite
Granite is a coarse-grained, light-colored intrusive igneous rock that forms when silica-rich magma cools slowly at depth, and it is quarried widely as dimension and crushed stone.
Granite Bio
Granite Bio AG is a clinical-stage immunology biotech in Basel, Switzerland, developing antibody therapies for autoimmune disease, launched in 2025 with $100 million in funding.
Granite Mountain Hotshots Memorial State Park
Granite Mountain Hotshots Memorial State Park near Yarnell, Arizona, dedicated 2016, memorializes 19 Prescott hotshot firefighters killed June 30, 2013 in the Yarnell Hill Fire, with a 7-mile memorial trail to the fatality site.
Granite Rapids
Granite Rapids is the code name for Intel's Xeon 6 P-core processors, built on Redwood Cove cores and launched as the Xeon 6900P series in September 2024.
Granite State (Breaking Bad)
"Granite State" is the penultimate episode of Breaking Bad (season 5, episode 15, aired September 22, 2013), written and directed by Peter Gould, in which Walt hides in New Hampshire as Mr. Lambert before choosing to return as Heisenberg.
Granja Faria
Granja Faria S.A. is a Brazilian producer of commercial eggs, fertile eggs, and day-old chicks, founded in 2006 by Ricardo Castellar de Faria and headquartered in Lauro Müller, Santa Catarina.
Granma expedition
The Granma expedition was the November 1956 voyage in which Fidel Castro and 81 other rebels sailed from Mexico to Cuba to launch an armed uprising against Fulgencio Batista.
Granma landing
The Granma landing was the arrival at Playa Las Coloradas, eastern Cuba, of the yacht Granma carrying 82 men led by Fidel Castro on 2 December 1956.
GranMorgu
GranMorgu is a deep offshore oil development in Block 58, about 150 km off Suriname, operated by TotalEnergies and expected to produce first oil in 2028, with over 750 million barrels of recoverable reserves.
Granny (orca)
Granny (J2) was the matriarch of J pod of the endangered Southern Resident killer whales, last seen October 12, 2016 and presumed dead December 31, 2016; her famous 105-year age estimate was later revised to roughly 65-85 years.
Granny Goodness
Granny Goodness is a DC Comics New God of Apokolips created by Jack Kirby, debuting in Mister Miracle #2 (1971). She runs the Orphanage, trains the Female Furies and Darkseid's armies, and once posed as Athena to recruit Amazons.
Granny Smith
Granny Smith: bright-green, tart apple cultivar from an 1868 chance seedling found by Maria Ann Smith at Ryde, Sydney; late-maturing, high-acid, long-storing, prone to scald, a top US and EU variety.
Granodiorite
Granodiorite is a coarse-grained intrusive igneous rock intermediate between granite and diorite, defined by more plagioclase than potassium feldspar; the Rosetta Stone is a famous example.
Granoialo
Granoialo: ancient villa near Granéjouls, Cahuzac-sur-Vère, Tarn, France (Barrington Atlas 25 G2, 30 BC-AD 640); name from Latin granum plus Celtic -ialo; 9th-century form Granoialo.
Granola
Granola: baked breakfast food of oats, nuts, seeds, dried fruit, oil, and sweeteners such as honey or maple syrup, forming crunchy clusters. Invented as Granula by James Caleb Jackson (1863); distinct from raw muesli and pressed granola bars.
Granola (company)
Granola is a London-based startup founded in 2023 by Chris Pedregal and Sam Stephenson that makes an AI notetaking app which transcribes meetings without a visible bot.
Grant (money)
A grant, also called grant funding or grantmaking, is non-repayable money a funder provides for a public or scholarly purpose, governed by deliverables, reporting, and a period of performance.
Grant A. McArthur
Grant A. McArthur is an Australian medical oncologist and melanoma researcher at the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre who led the BRIM-3 and coBRIM trials establishing vemurafenib and cobimetinib.
Grant Achatz
Grant Achatz (born 1974) is an American modernist chef, CIA graduate, and co-founder of Chicago's three-Michelin-star Alinea, Next, and The Aviary; stage IV tongue cancer survivor, James Beard Outstanding Chef 2008.
Grant Aleksander
Grant Aleksander (Grant Aleksander Kunkowski), American actor born 1959 or 1960 in Baltimore, best known as Phillip Spaulding on Guiding Light (1983–2009), also All My Children, Capitol, and As the World Turns director.
Grant Amato
Grant Amato, American former nurse convicted in 2019 of murdering his parents and brother in Chuluota, Florida after spending about $200,000 on a Bulgarian cam model; sentenced to life without parole, appeal affirmed 2021.