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Great Sioux War of 1876
The Great Sioux War of 1876, or Black Hills War, pitted the U.S. Army against Lakota Sioux and Northern Cheyenne after gold was found in the Black Hills, violating the 1868 Fort Laramie Treaty; it included Little Bighorn, where Custer and 267 men died, and ended with the 1877 confiscation of the Black Hills.
Great Sitkin
Great Sitkin is an active andesitic stratovolcano with a summit caldera on uninhabited Great Sitkin Island in the western Aleutian Islands, Alaska, in continuous eruption since May 2021 with slow lava effusion since July 2021.
Great Slave Lake
Great Slave Lake: large deep lake in the Northwest Territories, Canada; fifth largest in North America at 27,195 km2, 625 m deep in Christie Bay, outlet of the Mackenzie River, fur-trade hub since 1786.
Great Smog of London
The Great Smog of London, 5–9 December 1952, trapped coal smoke under a temperature inversion, killing about 4,000 immediately and an estimated 12,000 total, and prompting the UK Clean Air Acts of 1956 and 1968.
Great Smoky Mountains
The Great Smoky Mountains are a mountain range along the Tennessee–North Carolina border in the southern Appalachians, at the heart of the most visited US national park.
Great Smoky Mountains National Park
Great Smoky Mountains National Park: 772-square-mile Appalachian park in Tennessee and North Carolina, authorized 1926, dedicated 1940; most biodiverse and most visited US national park, UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1983.
Great Society
Great Society: Lyndon B. Johnson's domestic program, launched with a May 22, 1964 University of Michigan speech and enacted chiefly by the 89th Congress, including Medicare, Medicaid, Head Start, the Voting Rights Act of 1965, and the War on Poverty's Office of Economic Opportunity.
Great Southern (train)
The Great Southern is a luxury tourist train operated by Journey Beyond between Brisbane and Adelaide, launched in 2019 as Australia's summer counterpart to The Ghan.
Great Soviet Encyclopedia
The Great Soviet Encyclopedia (Большая советская энциклопедия) was the Soviet Union's official encyclopedia, published in three editions from 1926 and famous for replacing its Beria entry after his 1953 execution.
Great Sphinx of Giza
The Great Sphinx of Giza (Abu al-Hawl) is a colossal limestone lion with a human head carved from Giza bedrock in Egypt's Fourth Dynasty, attributed to Khafre, 73 m long, 20 m high, with a Sphinx Temple and contested fringe redating claims.
Great Spirit
The Great Spirit, or Master of Life, is an English term for high-god and sacred-power concepts in Native North American traditions, rendering names like Gitche Manitou and Wakan Tanka.
Great spotted woodpecker
Great spotted woodpecker (Dendrocopos major), a Eurasian and North African Picidae woodpecker with black-white-red plumage and drumming displays; Least Concern globally, 49-78 million mature individuals, but strongly increasing in Britain and Ireland.
Great Stand on the Ugra River (Великое стояние на реке Угре)
The Great Stand on the Ugra River (Великое стояние на реке Угре) was the 1480 standoff between Ivan III of Moscow and Khan Akhmed of the Great Horde.
Great Standing on the Ugra River
The Great Standing on the Ugra River (Стояние на реке Угре) was a bloodless 1480 standoff between Ivan III of Moscow and Khan Akhmat, ending Mongol-Tatar overlordship.
Great Standoff on the Ugra River
The Great Standoff on the Ugra River (Стояние на Угре) was a 1480 confrontation in which Ivan III's Muscovy faced the Horde under Khan Akhmat, who withdrew without battle.
Great Stele of Aksum
The Great Stele of Aksum, also known as Stela 1, is the largest decorated stela at Aksum, Ethiopia, a fallen monolith of roughly 33 meters and 500 tonnes.
Great Stink
The Great Stink was the 1858 episode when hot weather made sewage smells from the Thames unbearable in London, prompting Parliament to fund a new sewer system.
Great storm of 1703
The Great storm of 1703 was a violently destructive cyclone that struck southern England and northern France in late November 1703, killing an estimated 8,000 to 15,000 people.
Great storm of 1987
The Great Storm of 1987 was an extratropical cyclone that struck southern Britain and northern France on 15–16 October 1987, felling about 15 million trees.
Great Strahov Stadium
Great Strahov Stadium (Velký strahovský stadion), also Masaryk Stadium, Prague: largest stadium ever built by field area (62,876 m², 310.5 × 202.5 m), capacity 250,000; built 1926 for Sokol slets, later Spartakiáds and concerts, now Sparta Prague training ground.
Great Summary Inscription of Sargon II
The Great Summary Inscription of Sargon II is a Neo-Assyrian royal inscription carved on palace wall slabs at Dur-Sharrukin, surveying his campaigns, including the capture of Samaria.
Great Swamp Fight
The Great Swamp Fight, also called the Great Swamp Massacre, was a 1675 attack in which colonial forces burned the Narragansett fort in Rhode Island during King Philip's War.
Great Syrian Revolt
The Great Syrian Revolt (الثورة السورية الكبرى) was an armed uprising against French Mandatory rule in Syria, begun in July 1925 under Sultan al-Atrash and crushed by 1927.
Great Tang Records on the Western Regions
The Great Tang Records on the Western Regions (大唐西域记) is a twelve-volume account of Central Asia and India compiled by the monk Xuanzang in 646.
Great Tapestry of Scotland
The Great Tapestry of Scotland is a 143-metre crewel embroidery of 160 linen panels depicting Scotland's history, stitched by over 1,000 volunteers. Conceived by Alexander McCall Smith and designed by Andrew Crummy, it is displayed at a purpose-built visitor centre in Galashiels, opened in 2021.
Great Teacher Onizuka
Great Teacher Onizuka (GTO) is a 25-volume shōnen manga by Tōru Fujisawa serialized in Weekly Shōnen Magazine 1997–2002, about ex-biker Eikichi Onizuka becoming an unconventional teacher; adapted into a 1998 live-action drama, a 43-episode 1999 anime, and GTO 2026.
Great Teaching Campaign
The Great Teaching Campaign (taikyō senpu undō, also translated Great Promulgation Campaign) was a Shinto edification movement run by Japan's Meiji government from 1869 to 1885.
Great Temenos of Naukratis
The Great Temenos of Naukratis, also called the Temple of Amun at Naukratis, is a large mud-brick Egyptian temple enclosure founded in the Twenty-Sixth Dynasty.
Great Temple of Hera
Great Temple of Hera (Heraion, Samos): colossal uncompleted dipteral Ionic temple begun under Polycrates, 55.16 x 108.63 m, 155 columns, one standing; successor to the 8th-century Hekatompedos and the 570 BC Rhoikos temple.
Great Temple of Petra
The Great Temple of Petra is the largest freestanding building in ancient Petra, Jordan, a Nabataean complex whose function, temple or civic building, is debated by archaeologists.