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Grateful Dead (album)
Grateful Dead, nicknamed Skull & Roses for its Kelley and Mouse cover art, is the band's 1971 self-titled Warner Bros. double live album, recorded in New York and San Francisco, mostly covers, first gold record.
Grateful Dead discography
Grateful Dead discography: the recorded catalog of the American rock band the Grateful Dead, 13 studio albums plus about 306 live and archival releases, including Workingman's Dead, American Beauty, In the Dark, and Live/Dead.
Gratian
Gratian (Flavius Gratianus, 359-383), western Roman emperor from 367, son of Valentinian I; victor at Argentaria, maker of Theodosius I, repudiated the pontifex maximus, killed after Magnus Maximus's usurpation. Distinguished from Gratian the Bolognese canonist.
Gratin
Gratin: a French oven-baked dish defined by its browned crust of cheese or breadcrumbs, from gratter (to scrape). Includes gratin dauphinois, technique, and gratin versus casserole distinctions.
Grating Light Valve
The Grating Light Valve (GLV) is a MEMS spatial light modulator invented at Stanford University in 1994 that deflects microscopic ribbons to modulate laser light.
Grating-based phase-contrast imaging
Grating-based phase-contrast imaging is an X-ray technique using transmission gratings arranged as an interferometer to capture attenuation, refraction, and small-angle scattering signals simultaneously, and it works with ordinary laboratory X-ray tubes rather than requiring synchrotron radiation.
Gratitude
Gratitude: appreciation for a benefit received from another, studied as emotion, trait, and expression. Key facts: expressed-gratitude interventions show small effects (g=0.22 vs neutral, nonsignificant vs active controls); cross-cultural meta-analysis g=0.19.
Gratitude (Mary J. Blige album)
Gratitude is the fifteenth studio album by Mary J. Blige, released November 15, 2024 on Mary Jane Productions/300 Entertainment: 12 tracks in 41 minutes, singles "Breathing," "You Ain't The Only One," and "Here I Am," features Fabolous, Jadakiss, Fat Joe, and A$AP Ferg, promoted by the 27-city For My Fans tour.
Gratsian Botev
Gratsian Botev (Грациан Георгиевич Ботев, 1928–1981), Soviet canoeist; with Pavel Kharin won C-2 10,000 m gold and C-2 1,000 m silver at Melbourne 1956, the 10,000 m event's final Olympic edition.
Grattan Massacre
The Grattan Massacre was an 1854 fight near Fort Laramie, Wyoming, in which Lakota warriors killed a 30-man U.S. Army detachment under Lieutenant John Grattan.
Gratuity
A gratuity (tip) is a voluntary customer payment to a service worker, legally distinct from a service charge. Covers history, US tip credit ($2.13 tipped minimum), weak evidence tips reward service, and the 2025-2028 No Tax on Tips deduction.
Grauballe Man
Grauballe Man (Grauballemanden) is a Danish Iron Age bog body found in Nebelgaard Bog in 1952, dated around 390 BC, executed by throat-cutting, and displayed at Moesgaard Museum as the world's best-preserved bog body.
Grauman's Chinese Theatre
Grauman's Chinese Theatre, known as Mann's Chinese Theater from 1973 to 2001 and since 2013 the TCL Chinese Theatre, is a historic movie palace on Hollywood Boulevard in Los Angeles.
Graupel
Graupel, also called soft hail or snow pellets, is precipitation of small, fragile, white ice grains under 5 mm that forms when supercooled droplets freeze onto snowflakes.
Graupner
Graupner is a German model-making brand founded by Johannes Graupner in Stuttgart in 1930, a leading European maker of radio-controlled aircraft, boats, and RC electronics.
Grauspitz
Grauspitz (Vorder Grauspitz), 2,599 m, is Liechtenstein's highest mountain, a double summit with the 2,574 m Hinter Grauspitz (Schwarzhorn) in the Rätikon on the Swiss border, climbed via an exposed UIAA 1-2 ridge with no maintained trail.
Grauzone
Grauzone was a Swiss Neue Deutsche Welle and post-punk band from Bern, formed around 1980, best known for "Eisbär", a cult anthem of German-language pop; it dissolved in 1982.
Gravastar
A gravastar, short for gravitational vacuum condensate star, is a hypothetical compact object proposed by Mazur and Mottola in 2001 as an alternative to black holes.
Gravataí
Gravataí is a Brazilian municipality in the Porto Alegre metropolitan region of Rio Grande do Sul, one of Brazil's main automotive centers since a General Motors plant opened there in 2000.
Grave (group)
Grave is a Swedish death metal band formed in Visby, Gotland, in 1988, led by Ola Lindgren and known for its 1991 debut Into the Grave.
Grave accent
The grave accent (◌̀), a left-descending diacritic from Ancient Greek pitch notation, marks open vowels, stress, or homographs in French, Italian, Portuguese, Catalan, Welsh, Gaelic, and Norwegian orthographies.
Grave Circle A at Mycenae
Grave Circle A at Mycenae: royal shaft-grave precinct inside the citadel, six graves, 19 burials, excavated by Schliemann 1876 and Stamatakis 1877, source of the Mask of Agamemnon.
Grave Circle B
Grave Circle B at Mycenae: early Mycenaean royal cemetery of 26 shaft and cist graves, 28 m across, about 130 m west of the Lion Gate; excavated 1951–1954 by Papadimitriou and Mylonas; 35 elite burials, MH III–LH I.
Grave Digger (monster truck)
Grave Digger: Dennis Anderson's monster truck, created 1981-1982 from a 1951 Chevy Panel Wagon, the green-and-black flagship of Monster Jam with four World Finals titles and a family dynasty of drivers.
Grave Encounters
Grave Encounters (2011) is a Canadian-American found-footage horror film, the debut of the Vicious Brothers, about a ghost-hunting TV crew trapped in a haunted psychiatric hospital; it spawned a 2012 sequel and a reboot in development.
Grave Encounters 2
Grave Encounters 2 (2012), also called GE2, is a Canadian found-footage horror sequel directed by John Poliquin and written by the Vicious Brothers, in which film student Alex Wright investigates the real Collingwood asylum from the first Grave Encounters film.
Grave goods
Grave goods (burial goods, funerary offerings) are objects placed with the dead to equip them for the afterlife or identify them. Article covers categories, interpretation limits, Varna gold, and Europe's 6th-8th century decline of furnished burial.
Grave of Charmylos
Grave of Charmylos (Τάφος Χαρμύλου, Charmyleion), also called Harmyleion or Tomb of Charmylos: a vaulted heroön tomb on Kos, Greece, near Pyli, identified by inscription as the sepulchre of the heroised king Charmylos, set in a temenos and partly reused in the church of Tímios Stávros.
Grave of the Fireflies
Grave of the Fireflies (火垂るの墓, Hotaru no Haka) is a 1988 Studio Ghibli animated war drama directed by Isao Takahata, adapted from Akiyuki Nosaka's Naoki Prize-winning 1967 story about orphaned siblings Seita and Setsuko in 1945 Kobe.
Grave of the Fireflies (火垂るの墓) (short story)
Hotaru no haka (火垂るの墓), Grave of the Fireflies, is Akiyuki Nosaka's 1967 semi-autobiographical short story about Seita and Setsuko, siblings who starve in postwar Kobe; it won the 58th Naoki Prize and inspired Takahata's 1988 Ghibli film.