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Great Temple of Ramesses II at Abu Simbel
The Great Temple of Ramesses II at Abu Simbel is a rock-cut Egyptian temple in Nubia, built for Ramesses II and famous for its four 20-meter colossi.
Great Temple of Yeha
The Great Temple of Yeha, also known as the Yeha temple, is a monumental temple at Yeha in northern Ethiopia, built around 700 BC and dedicated to the god Almaqah.
Great Tew
Great Tew: village and civil parish in the Cotswold Hills, Oxfordshire, 5 miles east of Chipping Norton. Roman villa at Beaconsfield Farm, Domesday manor of Bishop Odo of Bayeux, home of Lucius Cary, Viscount Falkland, and his literary circle, with a Grade II registered Repton-influenced park.
Great Theban Revolt
The Great Theban Revolt, also called the Egyptian Revolt of 206 BC, was a native Egyptian uprising in Upper Egypt against Ptolemaic rule, lasting from 207/206 BC to 186 BC.
Great tit
Great tit (Parus major), Eurasian tit of the Paridae family, black-headed yellow-breasted garden and woodland bird. IUCN Least Concern, 423–683 million mature individuals; UK population about 2.4 million territories; model species in phenological-mismatch and urban-evolution research.
Great Train Robbery (1963)
Great Train Robbery (1963): Glasgow-to-London Royal Mail train stopped with a false signal at Sears Crossing, Buckinghamshire; a 15-to-17-man gang stole about £2.6 million; twelve convictions, 307 years of sentences, fingerprints on a Monopoly board.
Great Trek
The Great Trek (Groot Trek), the 1835-1846 migration of Voortrekker farmers from the Cape Colony into the southern African interior, leading to conflicts with the Ndebele and Zulu, the Republic of Natalia, and the Boer republics.
Great Tribulation
The Great Tribulation (Greek: thlipsis megalē) is the period of unprecedented end-times distress and persecution in Christian eschatology, drawn from Matthew 24:21 and Revelation 7:14, with its timing and length debated.
Great Troubles
The Great Troubles, or Velikaya zamyatnya, was a twenty-year dynastic war in the Golden Horde from 1359 to 1380, with more than 25 khans and Mamai ruling the west.
Great Turkish War
Great Turkish War, or War of the Holy League (1683–1699): Ottoman war against the Holy League of the Habsburg emperor, Poland, Venice, and Russia, from the siege of Vienna to the Treaty of Karlowitz.
Great Union
The Great Union (Romanian: Marea Unire) was the 1918 process by which Basarabia, Bucovina, and Transylvania united with the Kingdom of Romania, forming Greater Romania.
Great Victoria Desert
The Great Victoria Desert, also called Victoria Desert, is Australia's largest mainland desert, covering about 348,750 km² across Western Australia and South Australia; Ernest Giles crossed it in 1875 and named it after Queen Victoria.
Great Vlachia
Great Vlachia (Μεγάλη Βλαχία) was the medieval name for Thessaly and neighboring parts of Greece, home to Vlach herders and independent from 1204 under the Angelos rulers.
Great Volzhsko-Kamsky Biosphere Reserve
Great Volzhsko-Kamsky Biosphere Reserve (Большой Волжско-Камский биосферный резерват), a UNESCO MAB biosphere reserve in Tatarstan, Russia, designated 2005 around the Volzhsko-Kamsky zapovednik's Raifa and Sarali sections, expanded 2007 to four clusters of nearly 160,000 ha.
Great Vowel Shift
The Great Vowel Shift is a major change in English pronunciation, involving the raising and diphthongization of long stressed vowels. This process created a mismatch between English spelling and pronunciation.
Great Wall Cinema
Great Wall Cinema (长城影视基地) is a theme park and film studio complex in Lanzhou New Area, Gansu, China, opened for trial operation in July 2017, known for replicas of a sphinx, a Greek temple, and Chinese dynastic buildings; not related to the 2016 film The Great Wall.
Great Wall Motor
Great Wall Motor Company Limited (长城汽车) is a private Chinese automaker founded in 1984 in Baoding, Hebei, producing SUVs, pickups, and electric vehicles under brands like Haval and Ora.
Great Wall of China (长城)
Great Wall of China (长城), a series of walls, fortresses, and beacon towers across northern China built from the 3rd century BC to the 17th century AD, joined under Qin Shi Huang and mainly rebuilt by the Ming; over 20,000 km, UNESCO-listed 1987.
Great Wall of Gorgan
The Great Wall of Gorgan, also known as the Red Snake, is a Sasanian fortified wall in northern Iran, built in the 5th and 6th centuries.
Great Way (Dadao) Daoist order
The Great Way Daoist order (大道教) was a Daoist order founded by Liu Deren in the late Jin dynasty, around 1142, and declined in the late Yuan.
Great Western Railway
Great Western Railway is the name of two connected British railway enterprises: the historic company incorporated in 1835 and today's FirstGroup train operator from London Paddington.
Great Western Railway (train operating company)
Great Western Railway, formerly First Great Western, is a British train operating company running services from London Paddington to South Wales and the West Country.
Great Western Railway absorbed locomotives
Great Western Railway absorbed locomotives were engines of independent British companies taken over by the GWR between the 1870s and the 1923 Grouping, then renumbered into its own series.
Great Western Railway telegraphic codes
Great Western Railway telegraphic codes, or GWR telegraphic codes, were single code words sent in place of full phrases in telegrams between the railway's stations and offices.
Great western trail
Great Western Trail is a 2016 Alexander Pfister strategy board game for 2-4 players, 75-150 minutes, in which players drive cattle from Texas to Kansas City using deck building, hand management, and route optimization; a 2021 second edition added a solo mode.
Great White
Great White, American blues-based hard rock band formed in Los Angeles in 1982 (via Dante Fox), known for Twice Shy (1989) and the No. 5 hit "Once Bitten, Twice Shy"; marked by the 2003 Station nightclub fire that killed 100 and a later split into two bands.
Great White Fleet
Great White Fleet: sixteen white-painted Atlantic Fleet battleships sent by Theodore Roosevelt around the world, 16 December 1907 to 22 February 1909, 43,000 miles, 20 ports, six continents.
Great white shark
The great white shark, also called the white shark or white pointer (Carcharodon carcharias), is a large apex predatory shark found in temperate and subtropical seas worldwide.
Great white shark size
The size of the great white shark: adult males run 3.5 to 4 meters and females 4.5 to 5 meters, with the largest reliably measured individuals just under 6 meters.
Great White Spot
The Great White Spot (GWS) is a large, bright planet-encircling storm that erupts on Saturn roughly every 29.5 Earth years, with six recorded since 1876.