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Great Fire of Rome
The Great Fire of Rome (64 CE) burned nine days from the Circus Maximus under Nero, who was at Antium; Tacitus, Suetonius, and Dio disagree on cause, and Nero's punishment of Christians shaped later Christian history.
Great Fires of 1871
The Great Fires of 1871 were large wildfires in the American Upper Midwest in October 1871. The Peshtigo Fire was the deadliest, killing up to 2,500 people.
Great Fleet
The Great Fleet was an account by S. Percy Smith of Māori arrival in New Zealand in seven canoes from Tahiti in 1350 CE, taught for a century before scholars showed it was largely false.
Great Flood of 1862
The Great Flood of 1862 (winter 1861–1862) was California's most severe recorded flood, driven by successive atmospheric rivers that dropped up to 37 inches of rain, drowned Sacramento, killed thousands, and destroyed a third of taxable property.
Great Flood of 1993
The Great Flood of 1993, or Flood of 93, was a flood of the Mississippi and Missouri Rivers across nine US states and the costliest in US history.
Great Freedom
Great Freedom (Große Freiheit) is a 2021 Austrian-German prison drama by Sebastian Meise starring Franz Rogowski as Hans, repeatedly jailed under Paragraph 175, with Georg Friedrich as cellmate Viktor; Cannes Un Certain Regard Jury Prize winner and Austria's Oscar entry.
Great Frost of 1709
The Great Frost of 1709, known in France as Le grand hiver, was an extraordinarily cold European winter, the coldest on the continent in 500 years.
Great Fulo
Great Fulo, also called the Denianke Kingdom or Empire of Great Fulo, was a Fulbe state in the Senegal River valley founded by Koli Tenguella in the early 1500s.
Great Gallery
The Great Gallery is the best known pictograph panel in Horseshoe Canyon in Canyonlands National Park, Utah, and the type site of the Barrier Canyon Style of prehistoric rock art.
Great Game
The Great Game: nineteenth-century British–Russian imperial rivalry over Central Asia, Persia, and Afghanistan, named by Arthur Connolly and popularized by Kipling's Kim, ended by the 1907 Anglo-Russian Convention; also the 'New Great Game' among China, Russia, and the US.
Great Genna Martyrdom (元和の大殉教)
Great Genna Martyrdom (元和の大殉教, Genna dai junkyō): mass execution of 55 Catholics burned or beheaded at Nishizaka, Nagasaki, September 10, 1622, on shogun Tokugawa Hidetada's orders; distinct from the 1619 Kyoto and 1623 Edo martyrdoms.
Great Gobi Biosphere Reserve
Great Gobi Biosphere Reserve, a UNESCO MAB site in south-west Mongolia designated 1990 over 6,839,160 ha, protects wild Bactrian camel, Gobi bear, and snow leopard in Central Asian desert.
Great Goddess
Great Goddess: hypothesized single supreme female deity of prehistoric Europe and the Near East, also called Great Mother; formulated by Gerhard (1849) and Bachofen, developed by Marija Gimbutas, and now largely abandoned by specialists in prehistoric religion.
Great Granary, Harappa
The Great Granary at Harappa is a large brick building in Punjab, Pakistan, dated to about 2600 to 1900 BCE, though no evidence of grain storage was found.
Great Granary, Mohenjo-daro
The Great Granary is a large brick building on the citadel of Mohenjo-daro, Pakistan, excavated by Mortimer Wheeler in 1950 and traditionally identified as a granary.
Great Grand Masti (ग्रेट ग्रैंड मस्ती)
Great Grand Masti (ग्रेट ग्रांड मस्ती), 2016 Hindi adult comedy, third in the Masti series, directed by Indra Kumar, starring Deshmukh, Oberoi, Shivdasani, and Urvashi Rautela as a ghost; leaked before release, a box-office disaster.
Great Green Wall
The Great Green Wall is an African Union initiative launched in 2007 to combat desertification in the Sahel, now an 8,000 km restoration mosaic across Africa.
Great grey owl
Great grey owl (Strix nebulosa, Great Gray Owl), a very tall boreal-forest owl of North America and Eurasia; weighs 700–1700 g, hunts voles by ear through snow using the largest facial disc of any owl.
Great Hall of the People (人民大会堂)
The Great Hall of the People, also known as Renmin Dahuitang, is a government building on Tiananmen Square in Beijing, built in 1959 as one of the Ten Great Buildings.
Great hammerhead
The great hammerhead (Sphyrna mokarran) is the largest hammerhead shark, a tropical coastal predator whose large individuals prey mainly on other sharks and rays; it is Critically Endangered.
Great Hanshin earthquake (阪神・淡路大震災)
The Great Hanshin earthquake, also known as the Kobe earthquake, was a magnitude 7.3 quake that struck Kobe, Japan, on January 17, 1995, killing 6,434 people.
Great Harris Papyrus
The Great Harris Papyrus, also known as Papyrus Harris I, is the longest surviving document from pharaonic Egypt, a 42-meter roll from about 1150 BC recording Ramesses III's deeds.
Great Heathen Army
The Great Heathen Army (Old English micel hæðen here) was the Viking conquering army that landed in East Anglia in 865 under Ivar the Boneless, Halfdan, and Ubba, overwintering at camps like Torksey and Repton, seizing York, dividing Northumbria and Mercia, and establishing the Danelaw.
Great Highland bagpipe
Great Highland bagpipe (a' phìob mhòr), Scotland's mouth-blown bagpipe with two tenor drones, one bass drone, and a nine-note Mixolydian chanter in A; spread worldwide by the British Army and central to pipe bands and solo competition.
Great Hill Equity Partners
Great Hill Equity Partners, doing business as Great Hill Partners, L.P., is a Boston, Massachusetts growth buyout private equity firm founded in 1998 that invests in software, financial services, and healthcare companies.
Great Himalayan National Park Conservation Area
Great Himalayan National Park Conservation Area (GHNPCA), a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2014 in Kullu district, Himachal Pradesh, India: 90,540 ha park, sanctuaries, and Ecozone buffer protecting Western Himalayan biodiversity.
Great Horde
The Great Horde (Большая Орда) was the remnant of the Golden Horde under the Saray government, destroyed by the Crimean khan Mengli Giray in 1502.
Great hornbill
Great hornbill (Buceros bicornis), a large Vulnerable Asian hornbill of South-west India, the Himalayas, and Southeast Asia; fig-eating canopy frugivore and seed disperser with a yellow casque, hunted for meat, feathers, and casque.
Great horned owl
Great horned owl (Bubo virginianus), also Búho Americano or Grand-duc d'Amérique, a large tufted owl from Alaska to Brazil; earliest-nesting North American owl, most diverse diet of any North American raptor, talons needing 28 pounds of force to open.
Great Hungarian Plain
The Great Hungarian Plain (Alföld, Nagy Alföld) is the large eastern-Hungarian lowland of the Pannonian Basin, Hungary's main agricultural region, distinguished by extreme flatness, Tisza River floodplains, severe drought exposure, and drained former wetlands.