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Great cormorant
Great cormorant (Phalacrocorax carbo), also called Cormorant in the UK or Black Shag, a large cosmopolitan fish-eating cormorant of Suliformes; IUCN Least Concern, increasing, 1.4-2.1 million birds, wingspan 130-160 cm, wettable plumage dried with outstretched wings.
Great Council of Chiefs
The Great Council of Chiefs, or Bose Levu Vakaturaga, is Fiji's formal assembly of indigenous chiefs, established under British rule in 1875, suspended in 2007, and restored in 2023.
Great County Adit
The Great County Adit, also called County Adit, is a branching mine drainage tunnel network in Cornwall, begun in 1748, draining mines around Gwennap, Redruth, and St Day.
Great Court, Trinity College, Cambridge
Great Court is the main courtyard of Trinity College, Cambridge, laid out 1593-1615 by Master Thomas Nevile and reputedly Europe's largest enclosed courtyard. Features the Great Gate (1518-35), fountain (c.1600), 1610 clock, and the Great Court Run tradition.
Great Dane
Great Dane (Deutsche Dogge): giant German dog breed from mastiff-sighthound crosses, AKC-recognized 1887, 76+ cm males, 45-90 kg, lifespan 9-10 years, prone to bloat and cardiomyopathy, ranked 22nd in 2025 AKC registrations.
Great Dark Spot
The Great Dark Spot (GDS-89) was an Earth-sized anticyclonic storm on Neptune, discovered by Voyager 2 during its 1989 flyby and named for Jupiter's Great Red Spot; it had vanished by 1994.
Great Debate (astronomy)
The Great Debate was a 1920 discussion between astronomers Harlow Shapley and Heber Curtis at the National Academy of Sciences over whether spiral nebulae were within the Milky Way.
Great Depression
The Great Depression was a worldwide economic collapse that began in the United States in 1929; US output fell nearly 30 percent and unemployment reached nearly 25 percent by 1933.
Great Depression in Germany
The Great Depression in Germany, known in German as the Weltwirtschaftskrise, was the 1929–1932 collapse in which unemployment rose from 1.4 to 5.6 million and Hitler became chancellor in 1933.
Great Depression in Mexico
The Great Depression in Mexico was the country's experience of the global economic collapse beginning in 1929, which shaped the reformist presidency of Lázaro Cárdenas.
Great Depression in the Baltic states
The Great Depression in the Baltic states was the economic crisis of 1930 to the mid-1930s that collapsed exports and ended parliamentary democracy in Estonia and Latvia.
Great Depression in the United Kingdom
The Great Depression in the United Kingdom was the severe contraction of 1930 to 1932, with unemployment above 20 percent, followed by recovery from late 1932.
Great Depression in the United States
The Great Depression in the United States was an economic contraction beginning in 1929, when unemployment rose from 3 to 25 percent and output fell by about 27 percent.
Great Dictionary of Modern Chinese Dialects (现代汉语方言大词典)
Great Dictionary of Modern Chinese Dialects (现代汉语方言大词典), edited by Li Rong, is a 42-locality Chinese dialect dictionary from Jiangsu Education Press (1993–2003 single-dialect volumes; 2002 six-volume comprehensive edition), distinct from the 1999 汉语方言大词典.
Great Dimming of Betelgeuse
The Great Dimming of Betelgeuse was an unprecedented fade in the star's brightness between November 2019 and March 2020, causing speculation it would explode as a supernova.
Great Disappointment
The Great Disappointment was the failure of the expected return of Jesus Christ on October 22, 1844, a date set by the Millerite movement in the northeastern United States.
Great Dismal Swamp
The Great Dismal Swamp is a 113,000-acre forested peatland refuge in southeastern Virginia and northeastern North Carolina, the largest remnant of a once million-acre wetland, drained by 150 miles of ditches, home to Lake Drummond and historic maroon communities, now being rewetted through 64 water-control structures.
Great Divergence
The Great Divergence, or European miracle, is the widening gap in per capita incomes between Western Europe and Eastern Asia from around the British Industrial Revolution, a debate named by Kenneth Pomeranz in 2000.
Great Dividing Range
Great Dividing Range, also called Eastern Highlands or Great Divide: Australia's eastern highland and watershed system, about 3,500-4,000 km from Cape York to the Grampians, highest at Mount Kosciuszko, 2,228 m.
Great Drought
The Great Drought (Portuguese: Grande Seca) was a drought and famine in Northeast Brazil from 1877 to 1879 that killed hundreds of thousands and displaced millions.
Great drought of King Xuan's reign
The great drought of King Xuan's reign (宣王大旱) was a multi-year drought in early Western Zhou China, remembered chiefly through the poem "Yun Han" in the Shijing's Da Ya section.
Great droughts and epidemics of the mid-Ming
The great droughts and epidemics of the mid-Ming (成化大旱疫) were severe droughts with famine and epidemic disease that struck northern China in the 1480s, during the Ming dynasty's Chenghua era.
Great Eastern Crisis
The Great Eastern Crisis (Shark Buhrani) was the revolts and wars of 1875 to 1878, ending with the Treaty of Berlin, that cost the Ottoman Empire its Balkan territories.
Great Eastern Highway
Great Eastern Highway is the main road link between Perth and Kalgoorlie in Western Australia, running about 592 km and forming part of National Highway 94.
Great Eastern Railway
The Great Eastern Railway was a British railway company, incorporated in 1862, that operated a near-monopoly network across East Anglia and eastern London until absorbed into the London and North Eastern Railway in 1923.
Great Eastern Steeplechase
The Great Eastern Steeplechase, also known as the Onkaparinga Steeplechase, is a jumps horse race first run in 1876 at Oakbank Racecourse in the Adelaide Hills of South Australia.
Great Edict of Horemheb
The Great Edict of Horemheb, also called the Decree of Horemheb, is a sandstone stela at Karnak inscribed with laws against official corruption and extortion, discovered in 1882.
Great egret
Great egret (Ardea alba), a large white heron with yellow bill and black legs found on every continent except Antarctica; hunted nearly to extinction for plumes, now about 9.5 million North American breeding birds and low conservation concern.
Great Emigration
The Great Emigration (Wielka Emigracja) was the political exodus of thousands of Poles to Western Europe, mainly France, after the failed November Uprising of 1830–1831.
Great Enclosure (Hierakonpolis)
The Great Enclosure, known to archaeologists as HK29A, is a Predynastic ceremonial precinct at Hierakonpolis in Upper Egypt, a walled oval courtyard used for ritual feasting from about 3500 BC.