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Great Mosque of Samarra
The Great Mosque of Samarra (جامع المتوكل), or Jami' al-Mutawakkil, is a ninth-century Abbasid congregational mosque in Samarra, Iraq, once the largest mosque in the world.
Great Naktong Offensive
The Great Naktong Offensive was the North Korean People's Army's final large-scale attack on the Pusan Perimeter in the Korean War, from 31 August to 15 September 1950.
Great Neck, New York
Great Neck, New York: a North Shore Long Island peninsula in the Town of North Hempstead, also called Madnan's Neck, comprising nine incorporated villages, the Great Neck school district, and a Gold Coast history tied to the LIRR and The Great Gatsby.
Great News
Great News, NBC sitcom (2017-2018) created by Tracey Wigfield and produced by Tina Fey and Robert Carlock, about producer Katie Wendelson whose mother interns at her Secaucus, New Jersey cable news show The Breakdown; canceled after two seasons, later a Netflix favorite.
Great Nicobar Biosphere Reserve
Great Nicobar Biosphere Reserve, 885 sq km reserve on Great Nicobar Island, India, designated 6 January 1989 and added to UNESCO's World Network in 2013; home to Shompen and Nicobarese and site of the Great Nicobar Project.
Great Nicobar Island
Great Nicobar: largest and southernmost island of India's Nicobar archipelago, 910 sq km, UNESCO biosphere reserve, home of the Shompen and Nicobarese, and site of the contested Rs 81,000-crore port, airport, township and power plant project.
Great Nigeria People's Party
The Great Nigeria People's Party (GNPP) was one of five parties in Nigeria's Second Republic, founded in 1978 by Waziri Ibrahim and banned after the 1983 coup.
Great Northern Highway
Great Northern Highway is a 2,452-kilometer highway in Western Australia linking Perth with the state's north-west and the Northern Territory, the longest route in the state road network.
Great Northern Railway (U.S.)
The Great Northern Railway was a transcontinental railroad running from St. Paul to Seattle, created by James J. Hill in 1889 and merged into Burlington Northern in 1970.
Great Northern Railway Buildings
Great Northern Railway Buildings: a 1987 National Historic Landmark district in Glacier National Park, Montana, comprising Many Glacier Hotel, Sperry and Granite Park Chalets, and the Two Medicine Store, built 1913-1915 in Swiss chalet style.
Great Northern Steeplechase
Great Northern Steeplechase, also Great New Zealand Steeplechase, a New Zealand jumps horse race first run in 1885 at Ellerslie over about 6,400 m and 25 fences; renamed and moved to Te Aroha in 2025.
Great Northern Telegraph Company
The Great Northern Telegraph Company was a Danish company founded in 1869 whose submarine cables linked Scandinavia with Britain and Russia and connected China and Japan from 1872.
Great Northern Telegraph Company cable expeditions in East Asia
The Great Northern Telegraph Company, a Danish firm, laid three submarine cables linking Vladivostok, Nagasaki, Shanghai, and Hong Kong in 1870–71, opened as a route in 1872.
Great Northern War
Great Northern War (1700–1721), also the Second Northern War: Sweden versus a coalition of Russia, Denmark, and Saxony-Poland (later Hanover, Prussia). Ended with Poltava (1709) and the Treaty of Nystad (1721), ceding Estonia and Livonia to Russia and ending the Swedish Empire.
Great Northern War in Poland
The Great Northern War in Poland (Wielka wojna północna w Polsce) was the phase of the Great Northern War fought on Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth territory from 1700.
Great Northern War plague outbreak
The Great Northern War plague outbreak was a major plague epidemic that swept central and northern Europe from about 1708 to 1713, killing hundreds of thousands.
Great Observatories Origins Deep Survey
The Great Observatories Origins Deep Survey (GOODS) is a multiwavelength astronomical survey combining Hubble, Spitzer, and Chandra data on two deep fields to study galaxy formation and evolution.
Great Observatories program
NASA's Great Observatories program comprises four large astronomical satellites observing different wavelengths: Hubble, Compton, Chandra, and Spitzer, launched between 1990 and 2003, with Hubble and Chandra still operating.
Great Ocean Road
Great Ocean Road, a 242 km coastal road in Victoria, Australia, from Torquay to Allansford; built 1919-1932 by over 3000 WWI returned servicemen as a war memorial, opened 26 November 1932.
Great Offices of State
Great Offices of State: the four most senior UK ministerial posts, Prime Minister, Chancellor of the Exchequer, Foreign Secretary, and Home Secretary; distinct from the nine ceremonial Great Officers of State; James Callaghan alone held all four.
Great Orme
Great Orme (Pen y Gogarth, Y Gogarth): 207-metre limestone headland at Llandudno, north Wales, with Bronze Age copper mines, SSSI/SAC and Heritage Coast designations, Kashmiri goats, and Britain's only cable-hauled public-road tramway (1902).
Great Ormond Street Hospital
Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH), London children's hospital founded 14 February 1852 by Dr Charles West as the Hospital for Sick Children; first UK hospital for children, NHS Foundation Trust since 2012, CQC-rated Good, leading paediatric research centre.
Great Overlord of the Oryx Nome
The Great Overlord of the Oryx Nome was the title of the governors of the Sixteenth Upper Egyptian nome during the late Eleventh and early Twelfth Dynasties.
Great Oxidation Event
The Great Oxidation Event, also known as the Oxygen Catastrophe, began roughly 2.4 billion years ago, when oxygen produced by photosynthetic microbes first accumulated in Earth's atmosphere and oceans, permanently changing the planet's surface.
Great Pacific garbage patch
The Great Pacific garbage patch (Pacific trash vortex) is a North Pacific accumulation of floating plastic between Hawaii and California, held by the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre; estimated at 1.8 trillion pieces, mostly microplastics by count and fishing nets by mass.
Great Patriotic War
The Great Patriotic War (Великая Отечественная война) is the Russian name for the Soviet Union's war against Nazi Germany on the Eastern Front of World War II, from 1941 to 1945.
Great Patriotic War (term)
Great Patriotic War (Великая Отечественная война) is the Soviet and Russian historiographical term for the Soviet-German war of 22 June 1941 to 9 May 1945, the Eastern Front of World War II, first printed in Pravda on 23 June 1941 and central to Russian memory politics.
Great Peace of Montreal
The Great Peace of Montreal (Grande Paix de Montréal) was a 1701 treaty between New France and some forty Indigenous nations, ending nearly a century of war.
Great Perm
Great Perm (Пермь Великая) was a principality in the Upper Kama region of the northern Urals, with its main town at Cherdyn, conquered by Moscow in 1472.
Great Plague of 1738
The Great Plague of 1738 was a plague epidemic in the Habsburg provinces of Transylvania and the Banat during the Austro-Turkish War, carried by refugees and imperial soldiers.