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Great Enclosure, Musawwarat es-Sufra
The Great Enclosure of Musawwarat is a large Meroitic temple complex in Sudan, built from the 3rd century BC and part of a UNESCO World Heritage site.
Great epidemic of 1585–1591 in the Andes
The great epidemic of 1585–1591 in the Andes (Epidemia de 1585–1591) was a series of infections, mainly smallpox and measles, that swept the Viceroyalty of Peru from 1585 to 1591.
Great Escape (대탈출) (South Korean TV series)
Great Escape (대탈출, Daetalchul) is a South Korean tvN escape-room reality variety series created by Jung Jong-yeon, first airing July 1, 2018, with cast Kang Ho-dong, Kim Jong-min, Shin Dong, Yoo Byung-jae, Kim Dong-hyun, and P.O; four tvN seasons, then The Story on TVING from 2025.
Great Estate of the Palace
The Great Estate of the Palace (Hwt aAt) was a major royal production and administrative center of Old Kingdom Egypt, larger than an ordinary Hwt estate.
Great Ethiopian Famine
The Great Ethiopian Famine, known in Amharic as kifu ken, or "evil days," ravaged Ethiopia from 1888 to 1892, killing at least 2 million people, about one-third of the population.
Great Exhibition
The Great Exhibition, also called the Crystal Palace Exhibition, was an international exhibition of manufactured goods held in 1851 in Hyde Park, London, considered the first world's fair.
Great Expectation (song)
Great Expectation is a 2026 song by British singer Sienna Spiro from her debut album Visitor; written with Omer Fedi and Michael Pollack, it spent three weeks at UK number one from 11 September 2026.
Great Expectations
Great Expectations is Charles Dickens's 1860–61 novel about the orphan Pip, serialized weekly in All the Year Round with over 100,000 weekly sales, first book edition 1861, and a long afterlife in film, TV, and literary spin-offs.
Great Expectations (1946 film)
Great Expectations (1946) is David Lean's Cineguild adaptation of Dickens's novel, starring John Mills, with two Academy Awards for cinematography and art direction from five nominations.
Great Expectations (1998 film)
Great Expectations is a 1998 American romantic drama directed by Alfonso Cuarón, loosely adapting Dickens' novel to modern Florida, starring Ethan Hawke and Gwyneth Paltrow.
Great Expectations (2012 film)
Great Expectations (2012) is a Mike Newell film adaptation of Dickens's novel, scripted by David Nicholls, starring Jeremy Irvine, Ralph Fiennes, Helena Bonham Carter, and Holliday Grainger; released 30 November 2012 by Lionsgate UK and BAFTA-nominated for costume design.
Great Falls, Montana
Great Falls, Montana: third-largest Montana city and Cascade County seat on the Missouri River, founded 1884 by Paris Gibson, nicknamed the Electric City for its five hydroelectric dams, home to Malmstrom AFB.
Great Falls, MT Metro Area
Great Falls, MT Metro Area (CBSA 24500) is a Montana metropolitan statistical area covering Cascade County, anchored by Great Falls (60,329) and Malmstrom AFB, with about 85,000 residents, $67,690 median household income, and roughly 36,000 nonfarm jobs.
Great Famine (Ireland)
The Great Famine (An Gorta Mór, the Great Hunger), Ireland 1845–1852: potato blight plus British policy caused about 1 million deaths and 1 million emigrations, halving the population and reshaping the diaspora.
Great Famine of 1315–1317
The Great Famine of 1315–1317, also called the European Great Famine, was the worst subsistence crisis in European history, hitting northern Europe from Ireland to Poland after torrential rains of 1314–1316 ruined harvests and raised English wheat prices eightfold, killing roughly 10–20 percent of England's population.
Great famine of 1601–1603
The Great famine of 1601–1603 (Великий голод 1601–1603 годов) struck all of Muscovite Russia under Tsar Boris Godunov, killing a large share of the population and helping set off the Time of Troubles.
Great famine of 1695–1696
The great famine of 1695–1696, the Eulbyeong famine (을병대기근), was a catastrophe in Joseon Korea that killed about 1.41 million people, roughly one fifth of the population.
Great Famine of 1695–1697
The Great Famine of 1695–1697 (Estonian: Suur näljahäda) struck Estonia, Livonia, and Finland after successive cold, wet crop failures, killing about a sixth of Estonia's population.
Great famine of 1755–1756
The great famine of 1755–1756 struck Qing China during the Qianlong reign, after a flood, insect damage, and failed harvests led to famine and epidemic.
Great Famine of 1876-78
The Great Famine of 1876-78, also called the Madras Famine, devastated southern and western India, killing an estimated 6 to 11 million people amid failed monsoons and laissez-faire relief.
Great Famine of 1876–1878
The Great Famine of 1876–1878, also called the Madras famine, was a famine in British India that killed more than five million people after the monsoon failed.
Great famine of 1891–92
The Great famine of 1891–92 was a crisis in the Russian Empire caused by crop failure in the Volga region, leaving about 14 million people dependent on relief.
Great Famine of Egypt (1065–1072)
The Great Famine of Egypt, known in Arabic as al-Shidda al-Mustansiriyya, was a seven-year famine in Fatimid Egypt from 1065 to 1071, caused by failed Nile floods and civil war and ended by Badr al-Jamali.
Great Famine of Mount Lebanon
Great Famine of Mount Lebanon (مجاعة لبنان), 1915-1918 WWI mass starvation in Ottoman Mount Lebanon and Beirut; about 200,000 died, over a third of the population, from drought, locusts, blockades, and the silk economy's collapse.
Great Famine of the 1890s in Kenya
The Great Famine of the 1890s in Kenya was a famine caused by drought, rinderpest, and smallpox that killed up to half of some communities between 1897 and 1901.
Great famine of the Gragn war years
The Great famine of the Gragn war years was the famine and epidemic that struck Tigray in 1535 during the Ethiopian–Adal War, breaking the momentum of Imam Ahmad Gragn's conquest.
Great Filter
The Great Filter is a hypothesized obstacle so improbable it explains why a life-friendly universe shows no sign of technological civilizations, coined by economist Robin Hanson in 1998.
Great fire of Hanyang
The Great fire of Hanyang swept the Joseon capital, present-day Seoul, on 15 February 1426, destroying about 2,170 houses, killing at least 32 people, and prompting Korea's first fire office.
Great Fire of Kyoto (1788)
The Great Fire of Kyoto (Tenmei no Taika) of 1788, the largest Edo-period fire in Kyoto, burned about 80 percent of the city over two days.
Great Fire of London
The Great Fire of London (2–6 September 1666) began in Thomas Farriner's Pudding Lane bakery and destroyed 13,200 houses, 87 churches, and St Paul's, leaving about 100,000 homeless with six recorded deaths.