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Greatest Hits (Queen album)
Greatest Hits is a 1981 compilation album by Queen. It features 17 singles from 1974 to 1980, including "Bohemian Rhapsody," and is the best-selling album in the UK.
Greatest Hits (The Cure album)
Greatest Hits is The Cure's November 2001 Fiction Records compilation, track-selected by Robert Smith, gathering UK Top 10 and Top 20 singles plus the new songs Cut Here and Just Say Yes, with an Acoustic Hits bonus disc and a 25th-anniversary silver vinyl reissue.
Greatest Hits (Tom Petty album)
Greatest Hits is a 1993 compilation album by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, the band's first greatest-hits collection, adding "Mary Jane's Last Dance" and becoming Petty's best-selling album.
Greatest Hits (Tupac Shakur album)
Greatest Hits (1998) is 2Pac's posthumous double-CD compilation on Amaru, Death Row, Interscope, and Jive; 25 tracks including four unreleased songs, notably "Changes", and RIAA diamond certified in June 2011.
Greatest Hits (ZZ Top album)
Greatest Hits is a 1992 compilation album by the American rock band ZZ Top, gathering 18 tracks from 1979 to 1990 and certified 2x Platinum in the US.
Greatest hits album
Greatest hits album, also called best-of album: a compilation collecting an artist's most popular songs. Began with Johnny Mathis in 1958; the Eagles' 1971–1975 collection is the best-selling US album at over 40 million units.
Greatest Hits Radio
Greatest Hits Radio is a British commercial radio network owned by Bauer Media Audio UK. It launched nationally in January 2019, playing classic hits from the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s.
Greatest Hits Tour (Avril Lavigne)
Avril Lavigne's Greatest Hits Tour was an eighth concert tour celebrating her two-decade catalog of hits. It started May 22, 2024, in Vancouver, Canada, and concluded July 4, 2025.
Greatest Love of All (Whitney Houston recording)
"Greatest Love of All" is a song by Whitney Houston, released as a single in 1986. Written by Michael Masser and Linda Creed, it reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100.
GreatPoint Ventures
GreatPoint Ventures is a San Francisco-based early-stage venture capital firm formed in 2014, whose first fund raised about $199 million and which invests in enterprise, healthcare, biotech, and food.
Greave
A greave, also called a shin guard or sune-ate, is armor that protects the lower leg and shin, used from ancient Greek and Roman bronze guards to medieval steel plate.
GREB1
GREB1 (growth regulation by estrogen in breast cancer 1) is an estrogen, progesterone, and androgen-regulated gene encoding an ERα cofactor and O-GlcNAc glycosyltransferase required for hormone-dependent breast cancer proliferation and implicated in prostate, ovarian, endometrial, and colorectal cancers.
Grebe
Grebes (Podicipediformes, Podicipedidae) are diving waterbirds with lobed toes and rear-set feet, 22 species worldwide, floating nests, feather-eating habits, and loon-like but unrelated loons.
Grebo (music)
Grebo was a short-lived British alternative rock scene of the Midlands in the late 1980s and early 1990s, mixing punk, hip hop, and electronic dance grooves.
Grebo masks
Grebo masks are wooden ceremonial masks made by the Grebo people of southeastern Liberia and southwestern Côte d'Ivoire, recognizable by tubular eyes that influenced Picasso's Cubism.
Grechukha Tholi
Grechukha Tholi, a 200 km tholus (domical volcanic hill group) on Venus at 8.6 S, 255.8 E, IAU-approved 2000, named for a Ukrainian field deity; among Venus's largest tholi.
Grecia Quiroz
Grecia Itzel Quiroz García, mayor of Uruapan, Michoacán, since 5 November 2025; widow and political heir of assassinated mayor Carlos Manzo, leads the independent Movimiento del Sombrero and is a polled contender for Michoacán's 2027 governorship.
Greco-Bactrian Kingdom
Greco-Bactrian Kingdom: Hellenistic state founded c. 250 BC when the satrap Diodotus revolted from the Seleucids; ruled Bactria and Sogdia, expanded into India, and fell to the Yuezhi by 130 BC.
Greco-Buddhism
Greco-Buddhism: the presumed Hellenistic-Buddhist cultural syncretism of Gandhara and Bactria, 4th century BC onward; Foucher's 1905 term, Menander and the Milindapañha, Gandharan art, and current scholarly dispute over whether it occurred.
Greco-Buddhist art
Greco-Buddhist art, also called Gandharan art, is the sculptural tradition of ancient Gandhara in present-day Pakistan and Afghanistan, blending Greek, Roman, Iranian, and Indian elements.
Greco-Italian War (Ελληνοϊταλικός Πόλεμος)
Greco-Italian War (Ελληνοϊταλικός Πόλεμος), also Italo-Greek War: conflict between Italy and Greece, 28 October 1940 to 23 April 1941, begun by the Italian invasion from Albania after Metaxas rejected Mussolini's ultimatum; Greek counter-offensive was the first Allied land victory over the Axis.
Greco-Persian Wars
Greco-Persian Wars: conflicts between Achaemenid Persia and Greek city-states, 499-449 BC, beginning with the Ionian Revolt and marked by Marathon (490), Salamis and Plataea (480/79), ending with the disputed Peace of Kallias.
Greco-Roman mysteries
The Greco-Roman mysteries, also called mystery religions or mystery cults, were diverse ancient cults built on voluntary, personal, secret initiations promising benefits like a better afterlife.
Greco-Roman world
The Greco-Roman world: the Mediterranean civilization zone where Greek and Roman culture fused from the Hellenistic era after Alexander through the Roman Empire and Byzantium, with Greek as the east's lingua franca and Rome adapting Hellenistic practices.
Greco-Roman wrestling
Greco-Roman wrestling: Olympic amateur style, also called classic or French wrestling, banning holds below the waist and leg use; two 3-minute periods, 8-point technical superiority, six Olympic weight classes.
Greco-Turkish War (1897)
The Greco-Turkish War of 1897 (Thirty Days' War), fought over Crete, ended in Ottoman victory; the Treaty of Constantinople imposed a 4-million-lira indemnity, territorial cession, financial control on Greece, and Cretan autonomy.
Greco-Turkish War (1919–1922)
The Greco-Turkish War (1919–1922), or Asia Minor Campaign, pitted Greece against Mustafa Kemal's Turkish National Movement; it began with the Smyrna landing in May 1919, ended with the 1922 Turkish Great Offensive and the burning of Smyrna, and produced the 1923 Treaty of Lausanne and population exchange.
Gree Electric (珠海格力电器股份有限公司)
Gree Electric, also known as Gree Electric Appliances, is a Chinese home appliance maker founded in Zhuhai in 1991, one of the world's largest air conditioner makers.
GREE, Inc.
GREE, Inc., also known as GREE Holdings, Inc., is a Tokyo-based Japanese internet group founded by Yoshikazu Tanaka in 2004, known for social games and the REALITY VTuber platform.
Greece (organization)
Hellenic Olympic Committee (Ελληνική Ολυμπιακή Επιτροπή), Greece's National Olympic Committee, founded Athens 24 November 1894; organized the 1896 first modern Olympics, runs the Olympia flame ceremony and International Olympic Academy; president Isidoros Kouvelos since 2025.