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Grease 2
Grease 2, also known as Grease II, is a 1982 American musical comedy and the sequel to Grease, directed by choreographer Patricia Birch and starring Maxwell Caulfield and Michelle Pfeiffer.
Grease Live!
Grease Live! (Grease: Live) is Fox's three-hour live televised musical of Grease, aired January 31, 2016, directed by Thomas Kail and Alex Rudzinski across Warner Bros. soundstages with a live audience, starring Julianne Hough and Aaron Tveit; it drew 12.2 million viewers and won five Emmys.
Grease trap
A grease trap, also called a grease interceptor, is a plumbing device that removes fats, oils, and grease from kitchen wastewater before it reaches the sewer.
Grease: Rise of the Pink Ladies
Grease: Rise of the Pink Ladies is a 2023 Paramount+ musical prequel series, created by Annabel Oakes, set in 1954 at Rydell High, showing Jane, Olivia, Cynthia, and Nancy founding the Pink Ladies; canceled after 10 episodes and removed from streaming.
Greaser (subculture)
Greaser: 1950s American working-class youth subculture defined by slicked-back oiled hair, leather jackets, hot rods, and rock and roll; related to British teddy boys and rockers, the film Grease (1978), and rockabilly revival.
Greasing ground glass joints
Greasing ground glass joints means applying a thin film of grease to tapered glass connections so they seal against gas and can be taken apart again.
Greasy spoon
Greasy spoon: a small, cheap café or diner serving fried food; informal term first recorded 1906, with an 1850 German-linked instance. British "caff" culture, decline, and new-wave revival.
Great Acceleration
The Great Acceleration is the sharp, synchronous post-1950 rise in global socio-economic and Earth system trends, shown in 24 graphs and used to date the Anthropocene.
Great American Ball Park
Great American Ball Park, Cincinnati Reds' Hamilton County-owned riverfront stadium since 2003, replacing Riverfront/Cinergy Field; 45,814 seats, hitter-friendly park factors, smokestack home-run feature, 2015 All-Star Game, lease through 2037.
Great American Beer Festival
Great American Beer Festival (GABF), annual Denver craft beer festival and blind-judged competition run by the Brewers Association since 1982; founded in Boulder by Charlie Papazian, moved outdoors to Levitt Pavilion in 2026.
Great American Family
Great American Family (GAF), formerly GAC Family, is a US cable network launched September 27, 2021 by Bill Abbott's GAC Media from the Great American Country channel, known for Great American Christmas original holiday movies and as a faith-and-family Hallmark competitor.
Great American Interchange
The Great American Interchange, formally the Great American Biotic Interchange, is the two-way exchange of land mammals between North and South America following the Isthmus of Panama's formation.
Great American Novel
The Great American Novel (GAN) is a hypothetical US novel capturing the national character, codified in John W. De Forest's 1868 Nation essay naming Uncle Tom's Cabin; later typologized by Lawrence Buell into four scripts.
Great American Songbook
The Great American Songbook is a loosely defined canon of American popular songs and jazz standards from roughly the 1920s to the 1960s, also called American standards. Not a physical book; rooted in Tin Pan Alley, Broadway, and Hollywood, with composers like Gershwin, Porter, Berlin, and Rodgers.
Great and Unfortunate Things
Great and Unfortunate Things is Jason Arday's memoir, with Eve Claxton, published by 37 Ink/Simon & Schuster in August 2026, recounting his rise from nonverbal autistic childhood in South London to Cambridge professorship, days before his death amid plagiarism allegations.
Great Anti-Buddhist Persecution
The Great Anti-Buddhist Persecution, also called the Huichang persecution (會昌毀佛), was a suppression of Buddhism under Tang Emperor Wuzong that demolished over 4,600 monasteries and laicized 260,500 monks and nuns.
Great ape language
Great ape language research teaches chimpanzees, bonobos, gorillas, and orangutans sign language or lexigram symbols. Washoe, Nim Chimpsky, Koko, and Kanzi learned symbols and comprehension, but ape syntax remains disputed.
Great Arab Revolt in Palestine
The Great Arab Revolt in Palestine (الثورة العربية الكبرى في فلسطين) was a Palestinian Arab uprising against British rule and Zionist immigration, lasting from 1936 to 1939.
Great Artesian Basin
The Great Artesian Basin is Australia's largest groundwater basin, a system of pressurized sandstone aquifers underlying about 1.7 million square kilometers, more than one-fifth of the Australian continent.
Great Aten Temple
The Great Aten Temple was the principal sanctuary of the sun disk Aten at Akhetaten, modern Amarna in Middle Egypt, built by Akhenaten and later quarried for its stonework.
Great Attractor
The Great Attractor is a concentration of mass hidden behind the Milky Way in the Hydra-Centaurus region, whose gravity draws nearby galaxies, including our own Local Group.
Great auk
Great auk (Pinguinus impennis), the original "penguin": a flightless ~70 cm, 5 kg North Atlantic alcid, closest relative the razorbill, hunted to extinction; last pair killed on Eldey, Iceland, 3 June 1844, last sighting 1852.
Great Australian Bight
The Great Australian Bight is a large open bay on Australia's southern coast, spanning Western Australia and South Australia. Known for its cool-water carbonate ramp, southern right whale calving at Head of Bight, high endemism, and the 45,822 km² Great Australian Bight Marine Park.
Great Awakening
The Great Awakening was a series of Protestant revival movements in the American colonies and early United States, beginning in the 1720s and including a second wave of camp meetings from the 1790s.
Great Ballcourt of Chichén Itzá
The Great Ballcourt of Chichén Itzá (Gran Juego de Pelota) is the largest known Mesoamerican ballcourt, built at Chichén Itzá in Yucatán, Mexico, and famous for its whispering acoustics.
Great Balls of Fire
Great Balls of Fire: 1957 Jerry Lee Lewis rock and roll single on Sun Records, written by Otis Blackwell and Jack Hammer, recorded October 8, 1957 in Memphis; No. 2 pop, No. 1 country and UK hit.
Great Balls of Fire! (film)
Great Balls of Fire! (1989) is Jim McBride's Jerry Lee Lewis biopic starring Dennis Quaid, Winona Ryder, and Alec Baldwin, based on Myra Lewis's book, released by Orion Pictures, rated PG-13 after an R appeal, grossing $13.7 million.
Great Barn
Great Barn: name shared by several notable English historic barns, including Grade I listed examples at Avebury (late 17th century), Harmondsworth (1425-7, Winchester College), Gawthorpe Hall (1605), Headstone Manor, and Great Coxwell (13th century).
Great Barr
Great Barr is a West Midlands district around M6 Junction 7, split between Birmingham, Sandwell, and Walsall (postcodes B42, B43, B44). Known for Great Barr Hall, a Lunar Society venue, Barr Beacon, and Great Barr Medical Centre.
Great Barrier Island
Great Barrier Island, known in Māori as Aotea, is an island in the outer Hauraki Gulf of New Zealand, about 100 km northeast of Auckland, named Great Barrier by James Cook in 1769.