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Great Lent
Great Lent, also called the Great Fast or Sarakosti, is the forty-day period of fasting, prayer, and repentance before Easter in the Byzantine Orthodox tradition.
Great Lima earthquake of 1687
The Great Lima earthquake of 1687 (Terremoto de Lima de 1687) was a destructive earthquake and tsunami that struck Lima and its port of Callao on 20 October 1687.
Great Limpopo Transfrontier Park
The Great Limpopo Transfrontier Park is a protected area of about 35,000 km² joining Kruger, Limpopo, and Gonarezhou national parks across Mozambique, South Africa, and Zimbabwe, established by treaty in 2002.
Great Living Chola Temples
The Great Living Chola Temples are a UNESCO World Heritage Site of three 11th- and 12th-century Hindu temples in Tamil Nadu, India, all still in worship.
Great Locomotive Chase
The Great Locomotive Chase, or Andrews' Raid, was an April 12, 1862 Civil War mission in which Union raiders stole the locomotive General in Georgia and ran it 87 miles toward Chattanooga, pursued by the Texas; it produced the first Medal of Honor recipients.
Great Māhele
The Great Māhele was the 1848 division of the lands of the Kingdom of Hawaii under King Kamehameha III, which introduced private property and opened land to foreign ownership.
Great Malvern
Great Malvern is a Worcestershire spa town that grew around a Benedictine priory founded in 1085, dissolved under Henry VIII, and revived by the 19th-century water cure, railway, and Grade I priory church.
Great man theory
The great man theory holds that history is driven by extraordinary individuals, formulated in Thomas Carlyle's 1841 On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History; criticized by Spencer and Tolstoy and rejected by modern social history.
Great Man-Made River
The Great Man-Made River, or Great Man-Made River Project, is a Libyan network of pipelines carrying fossil groundwater from Saharan aquifers to northern coastal cities and farmland.
Great Migration (African American)
The Great Migration was the 1910s–1970s movement of about six million African Americans from the South to northern, midwestern, and western cities, later reversed by the New Great Migration back to the South.
Great Migration of the Serbs
The Great Migration of the Serbs (Velika seoba Srba) was the 1690 movement of Serbs from Ottoman lands to Habsburg territory, led by Patriarch Arsenije III.
Great Ming Code
The Great Ming Code (大明律) was the permanent penal code of the Ming dynasty, commissioned by the Hongwu Emperor and later the model for the Qing code.
Great Mississippi Flood of 1927
The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 was the most destructive flood in United States history, inundating about 27,000 square miles and leaving over 700,000 homeless.
Great Moderation
The Great Moderation was the period from the mid-1980s to 2007 when economic growth and inflation volatility fell sharply in the US and other advanced economies.
Great Mogul Diamond
The Great Mogul Diamond was a large diamond found in the Kollur mine in Golconda, India, in the mid-seventeenth century and lost after the sack of Delhi in 1739.
Great Molasses Flood
The Great Molasses Flood (Boston Molasses Flood) was a January 15, 1919 industrial disaster in which a Purity Distilling tank burst, sending 2.3 million gallons of molasses through Boston's North End at 35 mph, killing 21 and leading to landmark negligence litigation.
Great Mongol Shahnama
The Great Mongol Shahnameh, also called the Demotte Shahnameh, is a dispersed illustrated manuscript of Ferdowsi's epic, made in Iran in the 1330s and renowned for its paintings.
Great Moon Hoax
The Great Moon Hoax of 1835: six fictional New York Sun articles by Richard Adams Locke, falsely attributed to Sir John Herschel via a fake Dr. Andrew Grant, describing lunar bat-men (Vespertilio-homo) and other life; widely believed, exposed September 16, 1835.
Great Moravia
Great Moravia (Megale Moravia), a ninth-century Slavic polity in eastern Central Europe named by Constantine Porphyrogenitus, emerged after 830, hosted the 863 Cyril and Methodius mission, and collapsed under Magyar assault in 906.
Great Moscow Council of 1666–1667
The Great Moscow Council of 1666–1667 (Большой Московский собор) was a Russian Orthodox Church council held in Moscow that deposed Patriarch Nikon and approved his liturgical reforms.
Great Moscow Council of 1666–67
The Great Moscow Council (Большой Московский собор) was a Russian Orthodox Church council held in Moscow in 1666 and 1667 that deposed Patriarch Nikon and confirmed his liturgical reforms.
Great Mosque and Hospital of Divriği
Great Mosque and Hospital of Divriği (Divriği Ulu Cami ve Darüşşifası): 1228–29 Mengücekid complex in Sivas Province, Turkey, by emir Ahmed Shah and Turan Melek; first Turkish UNESCO World Heritage site, 1985, criteria (i) and (iv).
Great Mosque of Aleppo
Great Mosque of Aleppo (Jāmiʿ Ḥalab al-Kabīr), the Great Umayyad Mosque in Aleppo's Old City, Syria. Founded early 8th century, Seljuk minaret of 1090 collapsed 2013; restored with Chechen funding and reopened October 8, 2026.
Great Mosque of Central Java
The Great Mosque of Central Java (Masjid Agung Jawa Tengah) is Central Java's largest mosque, in Semarang, Indonesia; completed in 2006, it holds 16,000 worshippers.
Great Mosque of Damascus
The Great Mosque of Damascus (الجامع الأموي في دمشق), also called the Umayyad Mosque, is one of the earliest surviving congregational mosques, built by 715.
Great Mosque of Damascus mosaics
The Great Mosque of Damascus mosaics are gold and glass wall mosaics of the Umayyad Mosque, made under Caliph al-Walid I between about 706 and 715 CE.
Great Mosque of Demak
The Great Mosque of Demak (Masjid Agung Demak) is a 15th-century mosque in Demak, Central Java, traditionally regarded as the oldest mosque in Java and tied to the Demak Sultanate.
Great Mosque of Divriği
The Great Mosque of Divriği (Divriği Ulu Camii) is a 13th-century mosque and hospital complex in Divriği, Turkey, built in 1228–29 and listed by UNESCO in 1985.
Great Mosque of Djenné
Great Mosque of Djenné, Mali: world's largest mud-brick building, a Sudano-Sahelian mosque completed 1907 on a 13th-century site, replastered annually at the Crépissage festival; World Heritage in Danger since 2016.
Great Mosque of Kairouan
The Great Mosque of Kairouan (جامع القيروان), also called the Mosque of Uqba, is a mosque in Kairouan, Tunisia, founded in 670 by Uqba ibn Nafi.