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Great Hurricane of 1780
The Great Hurricane of 1780, also known as Hurricane San Calixto, crossed the eastern Caribbean in October 1780 and remains the deadliest Atlantic hurricane, killing about 22,000 people.
Great Hymn to the Aten
The Great Hymn to the Aten is an ancient Egyptian religious poem to the sun disk, inscribed in the tomb of Ay at Amarna around 1348 BCE.
Great Hypostyle Hall
The Great Hypostyle Hall is the great columned hall of the Temple of Amun at Karnak, Egypt, built around 1300 BCE by Sety I and decorated by Ramesses II.
Great Inca famine and epidemic of the early colonial transition
The great epidemic of 1524–1528 (gran epidemia de 1524–1528), probably smallpox, swept the Inca Empire, killing emperor Huayna Capac and his heir and triggering civil war.
Great Indian bustard
Great Indian bustard (Ardeotis nigriceps, Godawan): critically endangered, ~150 birds left, India's heaviest flying bird; threatened by power-line collisions; captive breeding and first rewilding release in 2026.
Great Indian Peninsula Railway
The Great Indian Peninsula Railway (GIPR) was a British-era railway company in India whose Bombay to Thane line carried the subcontinent's first passenger train in 1853.
Great inequality
The great inequality (la grande inégalité) is a roughly 900-year oscillation in the mean longitudes of Jupiter and Saturn, caused by their near 5:2 orbital resonance.
Great Inflation
The Great Inflation was the period from roughly 1965 to 1982 when US inflation rose to peacetime record highs before the Fed under Paul Volcker ended it.
Great Instruction (Nakaz)
The Great Instruction (Nakaz), or Наказ, is a legal treatise Catherine II presented to Russia's Legislative Commission in 1767 to draft a new code of laws.
Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search
The Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search (GIMPS) is a volunteer computing project founded by George Woltman in 1996 that has discovered the last 18 Mersenne primes, including the largest known prime.
Great Istanbul Tunnel
The Great Istanbul Tunnel, also called the Grand Istanbul Tunnel, is a proposed three-level road-and-metro tunnel under the Bosphorus in Istanbul, announced in 2015 as the city's third strait crossing.
Great Jüz
The Great Jüz (Ұлы жүз), also called the Senior Jüz, is one of the three historical tribal associations of the Kazakh people, occupying Zhetysu in southeastern Kazakhstan.
Great Karnak Inscription of Merneptah
The Great Karnak Inscription of Merneptah is a 79-column triumphal inscription on a wall at Karnak temple, recording the pharaoh's victory over a Libyan-led invasion around 1208 BC.
Great Khorasan Road
The Great Khorasan Road, also called the Northern Route, was an ancient trade route from Khorasan through Rayy and Ecbatana into Assyria and Mesopotamia, in use from the Bronze Age.
Great King (Hittite title)
Great King, written LUGAL.GAL, was the title of Hittite kings ruling from Hattuša about 1650 to 1180 BC, equal in rank to Egypt and Assyria.
Great Kings of Hanigalbat
The Great Kings of Hanigalbat were Assyrian grand viziers of the 13th century BC who, bearing the title king of Hanigalbat, ruled the former Mitanni kingdom from Dur-Katlimmu.
Great Kyz Kala
Great Kyz Kala (Greater Kyz Kala, "Maiden Fortress") is the largest surviving monumental köshk, an 8th/9th-century corrugated earthen palace at Merv, Turkmenistan, likely a governor's suburban residence.
Great Lakes
The Great Lakes (Superior, Michigan, Huron, Erie, Ontario) are North America's five connected freshwater lakes, the largest fresh surface water system on earth, holding about one-fifth of the world's fresh surface water and supplying over 40 million people.
Great Lakes Avengers
Great Lakes Avengers (GLA), also Great Lakes X-Men or Champions: Marvel Comics comedic superhero team created by John Byrne in West Coast Avengers #46 (1989), based in Milwaukee, with Mr. Immortal, Big Bertha, Doorman, Flatman, and Squirrel Girl.
Great Lakes Insurance SE v. Raiders Retreat Realty Co., LLC
Great Lakes Insurance SE v. Raiders Retreat Realty Co., LLC, 601 U.S. 65 (2024): unanimous Supreme Court admiralty ruling holding choice-of-law provisions in maritime contracts presumptively enforceable, with narrow exceptions, reversing the Third Circuit.
Great Lakes Power Limited
Great Lakes Power Limited is an Ontario hydroelectric generator that owns and operates 12 stations in the District of Algoma as part of the Brookfield Renewable group.
Great Lakes refugee crisis
The Great Lakes refugee crisis was the flight of roughly two million Rwandan refugees, mostly Hutu, into Burundi, Tanzania, Uganda, and Zaire after the 1994 genocide.
Great Lakes region
The Great Lakes region is the North American area around Lakes Superior, Michigan, Huron, Erie, and Ontario and their basin, spanning eight U.S. states and Ontario, holding about 21% of the world's surface fresh water and a $6 trillion economy.
Great Lakes Valley Conference
Great Lakes Valley Conference (GLVC), NCAA Division II athletic conference founded 1978 in Indianapolis; 15 full-time members across four Midwest states, 27 championship sports, 23 NCAA D-II national titles, commissioner Jim Naumovich.
Great Lakes Waterway
The Great Lakes Waterway is the locks, canals, rivers, and lakes linking the Atlantic to Lake Superior, including the St. Lawrence Seaway, Welland Canal, and Soo Locks, with 15 Seaway-size locks and a late-March-to-late-December season.
Great Lavra of Mount Athos
The Great Lavra (Μονὴ Μεγίστης Λαύρας) is the first-ranked and largest monastery on Mount Athos, founded in 963 by St Athanasios the Athonite with support from Emperor Nikephoros II Phokas.
Great Law of Peace
The Great Law of Peace, known in Mohawk as Kaianere'kó:wa, is the oral constitution of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy, transmitted in wampum belts and credited to the Peacemaker and Hiawatha.
Great Leap Forward (大跃进)
Great Leap Forward (大跃进), 1958–1961 CPC campaign to rapidly collectivize agriculture and industrialize; ended in the 1959–1961 famine killing an estimated 15–55 million, most studies 30–46 million.
Great Lechia
Great Lechia (Wielka Lechia) is a Polish pseudohistorical theory of an ancient Slavic empire, also called the Lechite Empire or Lechistan, rejected by historians and archaeologists.
Great Lemhill Farm Roman villa
Great Lemhill Farm Roman villa: scheduled Romano-British courtyard villa 550m NE of Great Lemhill Farm, Lechlade, Gloucestershire, occupied 2nd-4th century AD, known from a 1937 excavation and 2011 geophysical survey.