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Great Barrier Reef
The Great Barrier Reef is the world's largest coral reef ecosystem, off Queensland, Australia, with about 400 coral types and 1,500 fish species, inscribed by UNESCO in 1981.
Great Barrington Declaration
Great Barrington Declaration: open letter published October 5, 2020, by Kulldorff, Gupta, and Bhattacharya, opposing COVID lockdowns and proposing Focused Protection; answered by the John Snow Memorandum and Francis Collins's 'takedown' email.
Great Barrington, Massachusetts
Great Barrington is a Berkshires town in Berkshire County, Massachusetts, incorporated 1761 as Berkshire's shire town; population about 7,200, birthplace of W.E.B. Du Bois, first town lit by alternating current.
Great Basin
The Great Basin, also known as Gran Cuenca, is a roughly 200,000-square-mile region of the western United States where rivers drain inland with no outlet to the sea.
Great Basin Desert
Great Basin Desert: the only cold desert of the four US deserts, a high-elevation internally drained sagebrush region of Nevada and neighboring states, created by the Sierra Nevada rain shadow, averaging under 10 inches of precipitation yearly, mostly as snow.
Great Basin National Park
Great Basin National Park, established in Nevada on October 27, 1986, protects Wheeler Peak (13,063 ft), Nevada's only glacier, ancient bristlecone pines, Lehman Caves, and International Dark Sky Park night skies.
Great Basin Scientific
Great Basin Scientific, formerly Diagnostic Micro Arrays, Inc., was a Salt Lake City, Utah molecular diagnostics company whose assets sold to Vela Diagnostics after its 2018 bankruptcy.
Great Bath, Mohenjo-daro
The Great Bath of Mohenjo-daro is a large brick-lined water tank on the citadel of Mohenjo-daro, Pakistan, built in the 3rd millennium BCE and unearthed in 1925.
Great Bear Lake
Great Bear Lake (Sahtu), Northwest Territories: largest lake entirely within Canada, 31,153 km2, 446 m deep, Arctic Circle, five arms, Délı̨nę Got'ine, UNESCO biosphere reserve, record-low water levels 2023-2025.
Great Belt
The Great Belt (Storebælt) is the widest Danish strait, separating Zealand and Funen and connecting the Kattegat with the Baltic Sea, crossed by a fixed road and rail link.
Great Belt East Bridge
The Great Belt East Bridge is a Danish suspension bridge carrying the motorway between Zealand and Funen, opened in 1998 with the Great Belt Link.
Great Bengal famine of 1770
Great Bengal famine of 1770, Chhiattor-er Monnontor (Famine of '76), a catastrophic famine in Company-ruled Bengal killing about 10 million, one third of the population, while the East India Company kept collecting revenue.
Great Big Beautiful Life
Great Big Beautiful Life is Emily Henry's 2025 Berkley romance/historical fiction novel, a Reese's Book Club pick and instant #1 New York Times bestseller, in which rival journalists Alice Scott and Hayden Anderson compete to write the biography of reclusive heiress Margaret Ives on Georgia's Little Crescent Island.
Great Big Sea
Great Big Sea (GBS): Canadian folk-rock band from St. John's, Newfoundland (active early 1990s to 2013), known for rock versions of Newfoundland sea shanties; members Alan Doyle, Séan McCann, Bob Hallett, Darrell Power; albums Up and Play went platinum in Canada.
Great Bitter Lake
Great Bitter Lake (al-Buḥayrah al-Murra al-Kubrā) is a 250 km² saltwater lake at the midpoint of Egypt's Suez Canal, formed from a dry salt flat when the canal opened in 1869, serving as the convoy crossing zone and formerly a salinity barrier to Red Sea species.
Great Blizzard of 1888
The Great Blizzard of 1888, also called the Great White Hurricane, struck the northeastern United States from March 11 to 14, 1888, killing hundreds of people.
Great Blizzard of 1978
The Great Blizzard of 1978 was a severe winter storm that struck the Great Lakes and Ohio Valley on January 26-27, 1978, paralyzing Ohio, Indiana, and Michigan.
Great blue heron
Great blue heron (Ardea herodias; Garza Azulada, Grand héron), North America's largest heron, a blue-gray wading bird 97–137 cm long that stalks fish in wetlands and nests colonially; generally increasing and of low concern, but the Pacific subspecies fannini is Special Concern in Canada.
Great Blue Hole
The Great Blue Hole is a 320 m wide, 125 m deep flooded karst sinkhole in Lighthouse Reef atoll, Belize, formed during glacial low sea level, anoxic below 90 m, a UNESCO-protected diving site and annually layered climate archive.
Great Bombay textile strike
The Great Bombay textile strike, also known as the Great Mumbai textile strike, was an 18-month strike by about 250,000 cotton textile workers in Bombay beginning in 1982.
Great Books of the Western World
Great Books of the Western World: 54-volume anthology published by Encyclopaedia Britannica in 1952, edited by Robert Hutchins and Mortimer Adler with the Syntopicon index of 102 great ideas; 60-volume second edition in 1990.
Great Break (Velikii Perelom)
The Great Break (Velikii Perelom), or Великий перелом, was the radical Soviet policy turn Joseph Stalin announced in Pravda in November 1929, launching collectivization, industrialization, and cultural revolution.
Great Britain
Great Britain is the largest island of the British Isles, containing England, Scotland, and Wales; the UK adds Northern Ireland. Area 209,331 km2, united as the Kingdom of Great Britain in 1707, separated from Europe by Doggerland's flooding about 7000 years ago.
Great Britain at the 1972 Summer Paralympics
Great Britain at the 1972 Summer Paralympics (Heidelberg, 2-11 August): a 71-athlete team (46 men, 25 women) finishing third with 16 gold, 15 silver, 21 bronze, 52 medals; Carol Bryant won four golds.
Great Britain at the 2012 Summer Olympics
Great Britain (Team GB) at the London 2012 Summer Olympics: host-nation team of 542 athletes winning 65 medals, 29 gold, third on the medal table, best British haul since 1908.
Great Britain at the 2012 Summer Paralympics
Great Britain (ParalympicsGB) at London 2012 Paralympics: host nation finished third with 120 medals, 34 gold, behind China and Russia; Weir and Storey won four golds each.
Great Britain at the 2016 Summer Olympics
Great Britain at the 2016 Summer Olympics: Team GB, 366 athletes in 23 sports, won 67 medals (27 gold) to finish second behind the USA, the first host nation to better its home Games tally.
Great Britain at the 2020 Summer Olympics
Great Britain (Team GB) at the Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympics, held in 2021: 376 athletes, 65 medals (22 gold), fourth on golds, first female-majority summer team, record swimming haul, zero COVID cases.
Great Britain at the 2024 Summer Olympics
Great Britain (Team GB) at Paris 2024: 327 athletes in 24 sports, 172 women and 155 men, winning 65 medals (14 gold, 22 silver, 29 bronze), seventh by golds but third in total medals, within UK Sport's 50-70 target.
Great Britain at the 2028 Summer Olympics
Great Britain at the 2028 Summer Olympics: Team GB, run by the British Olympic Association, competes in Los Angeles 14–30 July 2028, using Stanford University as preparation camp, with £330m UK Sport funding and a Paris 2024 baseline of 65 medals.