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Great Britain at the Olympics
Great Britain at the Olympics, marketed as Team GB, is the team organized by the British Olympic Association, competing at every Summer Olympics since 1896.
Great Britain at the Paralympics
Great Britain, or the United Kingdom, fields athletes at the summer and winter Paralympic Games through the British Paralympic Association, finishing second in the Paris 2024 medal table with 124 medals.
Great Britain at the UCI Track Cycling World Championships
Great Britain is one of the most successful nations at the UCI Track Cycling World Championships, ranking third all-time with 303 medals, including 124 gold.
Great Britain in the Seven Years' War
Great Britain in the Seven Years' War (French and Indian War, 1754–63): Britain's global struggle against France and Spain, won at Quebec, Plassey, and Quiberon Bay, resolved by the 1763 Treaty of Paris.
Great Britain national rugby league team
The Great Britain national rugby league team, also known as the Great Britain Lions, played Test rugby league from 1908 until being replaced by England in 2008.
Great Britain Olympic football team
The Great Britain Olympic football team is the side entered by the British Olympic Association under the Team GB brand, a three-time Olympic gold medalist in 1900, 1908, and 1912.
Great Britain road numbering scheme
The Great Britain road numbering scheme is the system of identifiers like A1 and M25 used to label classified roads, created by the Ministry of Transport in the early 1920s.
Great British Beer Festival
The Great British Beer Festival (GBBF), CAMRA's flagship beer festival since 1977, styled the biggest pub in the world; home of the Champion Beer of Britain; cancelled for 2024 (venue) and 2026 (costs).
Great British Energy
Great British Energy (GB Energy) is a publicly owned British clean energy company, established in 2025, headquartered in Scotland, and backed by £8.3 billion of capital.
Great British Energy – Nuclear
Great British Energy – Nuclear, formerly Great British Nuclear, is the UK government body delivering new nuclear projects, including the country's first small modular reactors at Wylfa, Wales.
Great British Menu
Great British Menu: BBC Two cookery competition produced by Optomen since 2006, in which professional chefs compete through regional heats to cook at a themed banquet; 21 series, judges Tom Kerridge, Lorna McNee, Phil Wang.
Great British PAC
Great British PAC (GBPAC) is a British political action committee launched 22 March 2025, chaired by Ben Habib with CEO Claire Bullivant, campaigning cross-party outside elections on sovereignty, free speech and the Chagos deal.
Great Buddha of Tōdai-ji
The Great Buddha of Tōdai-ji (Tōdaiji Daibutsu) is a colossal gilded bronze statue of Vairocana Buddha at Tōdai-ji temple in Nara, Japan, first cast in the 750s.
Great Burkhan Khaldun Mountain and its surrounding sacred landscape
Great Burkhan Khaldun Mountain, a UNESCO World Heritage Site inscribed in 2015, is a sacred mountain in northeastern Mongolia traditionally held to be where Genghis Khan was born and buried.
Great bustard
Great bustard (Otis tarda), a large Eurasian steppe and farmland bird, largest land bird in Europe, IUCN Endangered 2023, world population 43,500–51,200 with about 60% in Spain, subspecies tarda and dybowskii.
Great Cameo of France
The Great Cameo of France, or Grand Camée de France, is the largest cameo surviving from antiquity, a Roman carving of the Julio-Claudian dynasty held at the Bibliothèque nationale de France in Paris.
Great Canadian Maple Syrup Heist
The Great Canadian Maple Syrup Heist: 2011-2012 theft of ~3,000 tonnes ($18.7M CAD) of maple syrup from Quebec's FPAQ strategic reserve, ringleader Richard Vallières, C$9M fine upheld by the Supreme Court of Canada in 2022.
Great Caucasus Biosphere Reserve
Great Caucasus Biosphere Reserve (Böyük Qafqaz Biosfer Rezervi), Azerbaijan's first UNESCO biosphere reserve, designated June 2026 on the southern Greater Caucasus slopes, 245 m to over 3,600 m.
Great Central Railway
The Great Central Railway (GCR) was a British railway company, formed in 1897 by renaming the Manchester, Sheffield & Lincolnshire Railway, whose 1899 London Extension reached Marylebone.
Great chain of being
The great chain of being, or scala naturae, is the idea, from Plato and Aristotle, of a divine hierarchy from God down through angels, humans, animals, and minerals.
Great Chenghua–Hongzhi epidemics and the 1490s north China famine
The Great Chenghua–Hongzhi epidemics (弘治饥荒) were droughts and famines that devastated north China in the 1480s; Ming relief efforts, including a 400,000-shi grain shipment to Shanxi, mitigated the crisis.
Great Chicago Fire
The Great Chicago Fire began October 8, 1871 near the O'Leary barn on DeKoven Street, burned about 36 hours, killed about 300, left 100,000 homeless, destroyed 17,500 buildings; the cow-lamp story is a myth.
Great Chief of the Ma
Great Chief of the Ma, or Great Chief of the Meshwesh, was a hereditary title of Libyan chiefs in Egypt; its best-known holder founded the 22nd Dynasty as Shoshenq I.
Great Chinese Famine
Great Chinese Famine (三年大饥荒), 1959–1961 famine during the Great Leap Forward; largest in human history with an estimated 16.5–45 million excess deaths, driven mainly by procurement and Leap policies rather than weather.
Great circle
A great circle, or orthodrome, is the largest circle on a sphere, formed by a plane through its center; its shorter arc is the shortest path between two points.
Great Clock of Westminster
The Great Clock of Westminster is the five-ton mechanical turret clock in Elizabeth Tower of the Palace of Westminster, striking the hour bell Big Ben since 1859.
Great comet
A great comet is a comet that becomes exceptionally bright to the naked eye, such as Hale-Bopp in 1997, usually by passing close to the Sun or Earth.
Great Comet of 1811
The Great Comet of 1811, or Comet Flaugergues, was a long-period comet visible to the naked eye for 260 days, a record until Comet Hale-Bopp in 1997.
Great Commandment
The Great Commandment, or Summary of the Law, is Jesus' answer in the Synoptic Gospels naming love of God and neighbor as the greatest commandments.
Great conjunction
A great conjunction, or Jupiter Saturn conjunction, is the apparent close meeting of Jupiter and Saturn, occurring about every 20 years; the 2020 event was the closest since 1623.