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Grave Pleasures
Grave Pleasures are a Finnish apocalyptic post-punk and death rock band formed in Helsinki in 2015 from the renamed remainder of Beastmilk, fronted by singer Mat 'Kvohst' McNerney.
Grave robbery
Grave robbery, also known as body snatching or tomb robbing, is the unauthorized disturbance of burial sites to remove bodies or grave goods, documented since ancient Egypt.
Grave Robbing for Morons
Grave Robbing for Morons is a 1990 American amateur shockumentary, about 27 minutes long, credited to director Christopher Bouchie and starring an unidentified man called Anthony.
Grave Torture
Grave Torture (Siksa Kubur) is a 2024 Indonesian psychological horror film by Joko Anwar, expanded from his 2012 short, about Sita entering a sinner's grave to disprove grave torture; it sold nearly 4 million tickets in Indonesia.
GRAVEDGR
GRAVEDGR is a masked American DJ and music producer introduced by Carnage in 2017, first known for hardstyle-influenced trap called raw trap and since 2022 for hard techno.
Gravediggaz
Gravediggaz were a New York hip-hop supergroup formed in 1993 by Prince Paul, RZA, Poetic, and Frukwan, known for the pioneering horrorcore album 6 Feet Deep.
Gravel
Gravel is a loose granular material of rock fragments larger than sand, one of the two main sources of natural aggregate for concrete, asphalt, and road base.
Gravel pack
A gravel pack is a sand-control well completion method in which gravel packed around a screen filters formation sand while letting oil and gas flow, used since the 1930s.
Gravel pit
Gravel pit: an open excavation extracting alluvial sand and gravel for construction aggregate. Distinct from rock quarries (no blasting needed); key issues include reserve estimation accuracy, groundwater effects, pit capture, and pit-lake after-use.
Gravel-bed river
A gravel-bed river is an alluvial river whose bed is gravel and cobble, 2 to 256 mm, common in steep mountain terrain, where sediment moves mainly as bedload.
Graveland
Graveland is a Polish pagan/black metal band from Wrocław founded by Rob Darken (Robert Fudali), active since 1991-1992, known for Thousand Swords, its epic Bathory-inspired pagan metal style, NSBM associations, German BPjM indexing, and first live shows only from 2015-2016.
Gravelines nuclear power plant
The Gravelines nuclear power plant is a French nuclear power station operated by EDF on the North Sea coast between Calais and Dunkerque, with six 900 MWe reactors.
Graveney School
Graveney School is a mixed secondary school and sixth form on Welham Road in Tooting, London, run by Graveney Trust and rated Outstanding by Ofsted in 2022.
Graves' disease
Graves' disease, also called Basedow's disease, is an autoimmune disorder causing hyperthyroidism through TSH receptor-stimulating antibodies; it affects about 1 in 100 Americans, is 7-8 times more common in women, and is treated with antithyroid drugs, radioactive iodine, or surgery.
Graves' ophthalmopathy
Graves' ophthalmopathy, also called thyroid eye disease or Graves' orbitopathy, is an autoimmune orbital inflammation affecting about one in three people with Graves' disease, treated with glucocorticoids, mycophenolate, teprotumumab, radiotherapy, or surgery.
Gravesend
Gravesend is a historic riverside town in Gravesham, Kent, on the south bank of the Thames opposite Tilbury. Recorded as Gravesham in Domesday Book, a ferry port with royal ferry rights, New Tavern Fort, Fastrack transit and major town centre regeneration.
Gravettian
The Gravettian, or Upper Perigordian, is a European Upper Paleolithic archaeological culture lasting from about 34,000 to 25,000 years ago, named after La Gravette in France and known for the Gravette point.
Graveyard
Graveyard is a Swedish rock band from Gothenburg formed in 2006, playing blues- and psychedelia-influenced hard rock; their album Hisingen Blues reached number 1 in Sweden in 2011.
Graveyard Carz
Graveyard Carz is an American reality TV series, also called a Mopar restoration show, following Mark Worman's Springfield, Oregon shop restoring Chrysler muscle cars; it premiered in 2012 on Velocity and became MotorTrend's longest-running linear series.
Graveyard orbit
A graveyard orbit is an orbit above geostationary altitude where retired satellites are parked at end of mission so they no longer interfere with operating spacecraft.
Graveyard poets
The Graveyard poets were eighteenth-century English poets of melancholy, reflective works on human mortality, often set in graveyards, whose canon includes Gray's Elegy and Young's Night Thoughts.
Graveyard Shift (1990 film)
Graveyard Shift (1990 film), also Stephen King's Graveyard Shift, is a horror movie directed by Ralph S. Singleton, based on King's Night Shift short story, about a mill crew battling rats and a mutant bat-rat creature; released October 26, 1990 by Paramount, starring David Andrews and Brad Dourif.
Graveyard spiral
The graveyard spiral, also called the suicide spiral, is a vestibular flight illusion in which a pilot in an unnoticed descending turn pulls back, tightening the spiral.
Graveyard Surf
Graveyard Surf is a beginner-friendly A-frame beach break near Hāpuku, Kaikōura District, New Zealand, at -42.3118, 173.7523, surfable year-round with 10.2–17.3°C water; distinct from Graveyard in Yakutat, Alaska, and Graveyards in Taranaki.
Gravidity and parity
Gravidity and parity (G/P, GTPAL, GPAL): obstetric counts summarizing pregnancy history. Gravidity counts all pregnancies regardless of outcome; parity counts pregnancies reaching a viability threshold, typically 20-28 weeks, counting multiples as one delivery.
Gravimetric analysis
Gravimetric analysis, or gravimetry, is a quantitative chemical analysis method in which the analyte is separated in a weighable form and determined from mass measurements.
Gravimetry
Gravimetry is the measurement of gravitational acceleration and its variations in space and time, using instruments on the ground, ships, aircraft, or satellites to infer Earth's mass distribution.
Gravis UltraSound
The Gravis UltraSound (GUS) is an ISA sound card released in 1992 by Advanced Gravis, offering hardware wavetable synthesis favored by the demoscene and tracker musicians.
Gravitas
Gravitas (Latin "weight, heaviness") was a Roman virtue of seriousness, dignity, and authority, close to dignitas and auctoritas; borrowed into English in 1924, it is now also studied as a measurable leadership trait.
Gravitation (book)
Gravitation, known in physics as MTW, is a 1973 graduate-level textbook on general relativity by Charles Misner, Kip Thorne, and John Wheeler, emphasizing the geometric view and applications from stars to black holes.