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Great plague of Emperor Huan's reign
The great plague of Emperor Huan's reign (桓帝大疫) was a series of epidemics in Han China, recorded in 151 and 161 and later linked to the Yellow Turban Rebellion.
Great Plague of London
Great Plague of London, 1665–1666 epidemic, last major plague outbreak in the city; official Bills of Mortality record 68,596 plague deaths in 1665, with about 100,000 estimated deaths, a fifth of the population, peaking at 8,297 deaths in a week in September 1665.
Great Plague of Marseille
Great Plague of Marseille (1720-1722): last major plague epidemic of Western Europe, brought by the ship Grand Saint-Antoine from the Levant, killing about 100,000 people, nearly half of Marseille and a quarter of Provence.
Great plague of North Africa (1780s)
The great plague of North Africa was a bubonic plague epidemic that struck Tunisia and Algeria from late 1784 into 1787 while sparing Morocco almost entirely.
Great Plague of Prague
The Great Plague of Prague was a bubonic plague epidemic that struck the Bohemian capital from spring to autumn 1680, killing between 7,000 and 12,000 people, one of the last plague epidemics in central Europe.
Great Plague of Seville
The Great Plague of Seville was an epidemic that struck the city from March to July 1649, killing about 60,000 people, roughly half its population.
Great Plague of Vienna
The Great Plague of Vienna was the bubonic plague epidemic that struck the Habsburg capital in 1679, killing roughly 12,000 or more of its 70,000 inhabitants.
Great Plains
Great Plains: North American grassland region east of the Rocky Mountains, also called the High Plains, spanning about 725,000 km2. Defined by tallgrass, mixed-grass, and shortgrass prairie zones and the depleting Ogallala Aquifer.
Great Plains low-level jet
The Great Plains low-level jet is a fast southerly airstream in the lower atmosphere over the central United States, most frequent at night in the warm season.
Great potoo
Great potoo (Nyctibius grandis), or grand potoo, the largest potoo (Nyctibiidae) of Central and South America; nocturnal camouflage master, 360–650 g, moaning growl, one egg on a branch, IUCN Least Concern.
Great power
Great power: a state with the economic, military, and political capacity to shape the international system, recognized by peers. Covers definitions, measurement, balance of power, and the US, Russia, and China today.
Great Powers club
The Great Powers club is the modern label for the Late Bronze Age Near Eastern kings who recognized each other as equals in the 14th and 13th centuries BC.
Great Prayer to Šamaš
The Great Prayer to Šamaš, also called the Shamash Hymn, is a 200-line Akkadian hymn to the sun god Šamaš, presenting him as the divine judge who sees all deeds.
Great Pretender (グレートプリテンダー) (TV series)
Great Pretender (グレートプリテンダー) is a 2020 original WIT Studio heist anime, 23 episodes, directed by Hiro Kaburagi, written by Ryota Kosawa, streamed on Netflix worldwide; not to be confused with the Freddie Mercury song or the razbliuto sequel.
Great Promulgation Campaign Edict
The Great Promulgation Campaign Edict (大教宣布の詔) is an 1870 imperial rescript of the Meiji government ordering the propagation of the "great way of the kami" nationwide.
Great Prussian Uprising
The Great Prussian Uprising was the largest revolt of the pagan Old Prussian tribes against the Teutonic Order, from 1260 to 1274, prompted by the Order's defeat at Durbe.
Great Psalms Scroll
The Great Psalms Scroll (11QPs^a) is a first-century CE Hebrew manuscript from Qumran Cave 11 with 49 psalms, including 9 absent from the Masoretic Psalter.
Great Purge (Большая чистка)
The Great Purge, also called the Great Terror or the Ezhovshchina, was a campaign of political repression in the Soviet Union in 1936–1938, directed by Stalin and carried out by the NKVD, with about 683,000 executed.
Great Pyramid of Cholula
Great Pyramid of Cholula (Tlachihualtepetl, "man-made mountain"), Puebla, Mexico: world's largest pyramid by volume, c. 4.45 million cubic meters, 66 m tall, built 3rd century BCE to 9th century CE, topped by the church of Nuestra Señora de los Remedios.
Great Pyramid of Giza
Great Pyramid of Giza (Pyramid of Khufu, Cheops): 4th Dynasty Old Kingdom royal tomb near Cairo, c. 2589–2566 BC, 146.5 m original height, only surviving ancient Seven Wonder, built by paid Egyptian workers.
Great Qing Legal Code
The Great Qing Legal Code (大清律例) was the codified statutory law of China's Qing dynasty, built on 436 statutes and substatutes, translated into six languages, and in force until 1910.
Great Raid of 1840
The Great Raid of 1840 was a large retaliatory Comanche raid into the Republic of Texas, in which Buffalo Hump's warriors burned Victoria and Linnville before defeat at Plum Creek.
Great Railroad Strike of 1877
The Great Railroad Strike of 1877 was a nationwide strike that began on the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad and was the first national strike in US history.
Great Rann of Kutch
The Great Rann of Kutch, also spelled Kachchh, is a vast salt-encrusted seasonal marsh in Gujarat, India, extending into Sindh, Pakistan; it floods during the monsoon.
Great Rebellion of 1780–1782
The Great Rebellion of 1780–1782 was a pan-Andean indigenous uprising against Spanish colonial rule, led by Túpac Amaru II and Túpac Katari in Peru and Upper Peru.
Great Recession
The Great Recession, also called the Lesser Depression, was the 2007–2009 US contraction that began with a housing collapse and became the longest recession since World War II.
Great Recession in the United States
The Great Recession in the United States was the 18-month contraction from December 2007 to June 2009, the deepest since World War II, triggered by a housing collapse.
Great Red Spot
The Great Red Spot (GRS) is a giant anticyclonic storm in Jupiter's southern hemisphere, the largest and longest-lived known vortex of any planet in the solar system.
Great Renunciation
The Great Renunciation, or Great Departure (Sanskrit abhiniṣkramaṇa), is the episode in which Siddhārtha Gautama left his home in Kapilavastu at age twenty-nine to seek salvation, a scene popular in Gandhāran art.
Great Reset
The Great Reset, or Great Reset Initiative, was a 2020 World Economic Forum proposal by Klaus Schwab to rebuild the post-COVID economy around fairer, sustainable outcomes, later the subject of a false conspiracy theory.