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Great Resignation
The Great Resignation, also called the Big Quit, was the surge of voluntary job quitting in the United States and other advanced economies beginning in spring 2021.
Great Retreat of 1915
The Great Retreat of 1915 (Великое отступление 1915 года) was the strategic rollback of the Russian army from Poland and Galicia in summer 1915, caused by the Gorlice operation.
Great Revolt against Naram-Sin
The Great Revolt against Naram-Sin, also called the Great Rebellion against Naram-Sin, was an uprising of Sumerian cities crushed by the Akkadian king in nine battles.
Great Rift
The Great Rift is a band of overlapping dark nebulae, cold dust clouds that seem to split the Milky Way in half, stretching from Cygnus toward Sagittarius.
Great Rift Valley
Great Rift Valley: vast tectonic depression from the Jordan valley through the Red Sea and East Africa to Mozambique, where the Nubian and Somalian plates pull apart, forming lakes, volcanoes, and hominin fossil sites.
Great Rites Controversy (大礼议)
The Great Rites Controversy (大礼议) was a Ming dynasty dispute in which the Jiajing emperor fought his officials over the ritual titles of his parents.
Great River Energy
Great River Energy is a not-for-profit generation and transmission electric cooperative headquartered in Maple Grove, Minnesota, formed in 1999 by merger and supplying wholesale power to member-owned distribution cooperatives.
Great River Road
The Great River Road is a network of federal, state, and local highways following the Mississippi River for 3,000 miles through 10 states, from Minnesota to Louisiana.
Great Rock Capital
Great Rock Capital, legally Great Rock Capital Partners, LLC, is a private credit firm in Westport, Connecticut, founded in 2015 by former GE Capital executive Stuart Armstrong.
Great room
A great room is a large, open living space in a house that combines the family room, living room, and kitchen or dining area, with raised ceilings.
Great Royal Wife
Great Royal Wife (hemet nesut weret) was the title of the pharaoh's principal wife, introduced around 1700 BCE and held by queens such as Tiye, Nefertiti, and Hatshepsut.
Great Ruaha
Great Ruaha River, in southwestern Tanzania, a 750 km tributary of the Rufiji feeding the Mtera and Kidatu dams, which generate roughly half of Tanzania's electricity; perennial until it first dried in December 1993 due to upstream Usangu rice irrigation.
Great Salt Lake
Great Salt Lake: hypersaline closed-basin lake in northern Utah, remnant of Lake Bonneville; largest saline lake in the Western Hemisphere, eighth largest worldwide; shrinking since 2021 record lows.
Great Salt Lake Desert
Great Salt Lake Desert: arid northwestern Utah basin, remnant bed of pluvial Lake Bonneville, containing the Bonneville Salt Flats, potash mining at Salduro, land speed racing, and Dugway dust sources.
Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve
Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve, Colorado: protects North America's tallest dunes (Star Dune, 750 ft), a 30-square-mile dunefield, Medano Creek surge flow, and a closed aquifer system; monument 1932, park 2004.
Great Sandy Biosphere Reserve
The Great Sandy Biosphere Reserve is a UNESCO biosphere reserve in Queensland, Australia, designated in 2009, spanning 1.416 million hectares and containing K'gari and the Great Sandy Strait.
Great Sandy Desert
Great Sandy Desert: arid dunefield region of central northern Western Australia extending into the Northern Territory; 267,250 km² desert (395,250 km² bioregion), spinifex grasslands, 223 mm median rainfall, crossed by Carnegie in 1896.
Great Sandy National Park
Great Sandy National Park, Queensland: two sections, mainland Cooloola and K'gari (formerly Fraser Island), the world's largest sand island, World Heritage listed 1992; Cooloola Recreation Area covers 61,750 ha.
Great Sandy Strait
Great Sandy Strait: 70 km double-ended sand passage estuary in south-eastern Queensland between the mainland and K'gari (Fraser Island); Ramsar site since 14 June 1999, 93,160 ha, famed for migratory shorebirds, dugongs, and turtles.
Great saphenous vein
Great saphenous vein (GSV), vena saphena magna: the largest superficial leg vein, from dorsal venous arch to femoral vein. Key for varicose vein reflux treatment and as the most-used coronary bypass conduit.
Great Seal of the Realm
The Great Seal of the Realm is the chief seal of the British Crown, affixed to letters patent for royal assent, appointments, and honours; kept by the Lord Chancellor at the House of Lords, with separate Scottish, Welsh, and Northern Ireland seals.
Great Seal of the United States
The Great Seal of the United States, adopted June 20, 1782, is the national seal authenticating presidential documents; its obverse shows the eagle coat of arms and its reverse, an unfinished pyramid with Eye of Providence, appears on the one-dollar bill.
Great Seattle Fire
The Great Seattle Fire was a fire that destroyed about 66 blocks of Seattle's business district and waterfront on June 6, 1889, killing no one.
Great Sejm
The Great Sejm, or Four-Year Sejm (Polish: Sejm Wielki), was the parliament of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth that sat in Warsaw from 1788 to 1792 and produced major reforms.
Great Seljuk Empire
The Great Seljuk Empire (سلجوقیان) was a Turkic empire of the Oghuz Seljuk family, founded by Tughril Beg and Chagri Beg, that ruled the Middle East in the 11th and 12th centuries.
Great Seto Bridge
The Great Seto Bridge (瀬戸大橋, Seto Ōhashi) is a 13.1 km series of six double-deck bridges carrying road and rail across the Seto Inland Sea between Honshu and Shikoku in Japan.
Great Settlement Shang
Great Settlement Shang (大邑商) is the name by which oracle-bone inscriptions call the late Shang royal capital, dynasty, or royal domain, its exact location disputed.
Great Siege of Gibraltar
Great Siege of Gibraltar (June 1779 to February 1783), fourteenth siege of the Rock, when a 7,000-strong British garrison under General Eliott held out against 40,000 Franco-Spanish troops, defeating floating batteries with red-hot shot and digging the Great Siege Tunnels.
Great Siege of Malta
Great Siege of Malta (1565): Ottoman invasion of the Knights Hospitaller's island, May to September 1565. Fort St Elmo fell 23 June; 8,000-strong relief landed 7 September; Ottoman army withdrew, Valletta founded 1566.
Great Sioux Reservation
The Great Sioux Reservation was territory set aside for the Sioux Nation in 1868. It lasted over two decades before being divided into six separate reservations in 1889.