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Greenleaf (TV series)
Greenleaf is an OWN drama series (2016-2020, 5 seasons, 61 episodes) created by Craig Wright and executive-produced by Oprah Winfrey, about the Greenleaf family running Calvary, a Memphis megachurch, starring Merle Dandridge, Keith David, and Lynn Whitfield.
Greenleaf Whittier Pickard
Greenleaf Whittier Pickard (1877–1956) was an American electrical engineer who tested thousands of minerals at AT&T and patented the silicon crystal detector in 1906, a forerunner of the transistor.
Greenmail
Greenmail, or greenmailing, is the practice of a corporate raider being bought out at a premium after threatening a takeover, most common in the 1980s.
Greenman v. Yuba Power Products, Inc.
Greenman v. Yuba Power Products, Inc., 59 Cal. 2d 57 (1963), California Supreme Court decision establishing strict products liability in tort for defective goods, independent of warranty contracts, notice rules, and privity.
Greenoaks Capital
Greenoaks Capital, formally Greenoaks Capital Partners LLC, is a San Francisco venture capital and growth equity firm founded in 2012 by Neil Mehta, managing about $18 billion and investing in Coupang, Wiz, and Anthropic.
Greenock
Greenock: town in Inverclyde, Scotland, on the Firth of Clyde. Known for the £24m UK Government-funded Central Greenock redevelopment (2026-2027) and for containing Scotland's most deprived SIMD data zone.
Greenock Morton F.C.
Greenock Morton F.C. (Morton, The Ton), Scottish Championship club founded 4 October 1874 in Greenock, playing at Cappielow Park since 1879; Scottish Cup winners 1922, fan-owned via Morton Club Together since 2022.
Greenpeace
Greenpeace: global environmental campaigning network founded 1971 in Vancouver, coordinated by Greenpeace International (Dutch stichting, Amsterdam), 25 independent organizations in over 50 countries, individual-donor funded, known for nonviolent direct action and the Energy Transfer SLAPP litigation.
Greenpoint Real Estate Innovation & Technology Venture
GreenPoint Real Estate Innovation & Technology Venture, known as GreenPoint Technology Fund I, is a New York venture capital fund investing in real estate technology.
Greenpoint, Brooklyn
Greenpoint, Brooklyn, also known as Little Poland, is a neighborhood at the northern tip of Brooklyn, New York City, long known for its Polish community.
GreenPro Ecolabel
GreenPro is India's Type 1 ecolabel for products, administered by the Confederation of Indian Industry since 2015, certifying life-cycle environmental performance across 63 product categories.
Greenridge Phoenix Project
The Greenridge Phoenix Project is a technology company in Santa Monica, California, incorporated in 2022, whose filings report about $150 million in offerings and name Bernard Allen-Bey as president.
Greensand
Greensand, also called glauconitic sandstone, is a typically marine sand or sandstone whose green color comes from glauconite; it is used as fertilizer, water softener, and heavy-metal filter.
Greensboro Complex
Greensboro Complex (formerly Greensboro Coliseum Complex) is a nine-venue city events facility at 1921 West Gate City Blvd, Greensboro, NC, anchored by the 22,000-seat First Horizon Coliseum, host of a record 29 ACC men's basketball tournaments and over 1,100 events yearly.
Greensboro massacre
The Greensboro massacre: November 3, 1979 shooting in Greensboro, North Carolina, in which KKK and American Nazi Party members killed five Communist Workers Party anti-Klan marchers, leading to acquittals and the first US truth commission.
Greensboro sit-ins
Greensboro sit-ins: nonviolent protests begun February 1, 1960, by the Greensboro Four (Blair Jr., McCain, McNeil, Richmond) at Woolworth's whites-only lunch counter, sparking a national student sit-in movement and SNCC.
Greensboro Swarm
Greensboro Swarm, NBA G League team owned and operated by the Charlotte Hornets since 2016-17, based in Greensboro, North Carolina; won its first G League championship in 2025-26, sweeping the Stockton Kings.
Greensboro, North Carolina
Greensboro, North Carolina: Guilford County seat founded 1808 in the central Piedmont; population about 308,700 (2025 estimate). Known for the February 1, 1960 NC A&T sit-in at Woolworth's that sparked the national sit-in movement, and for JetZero's planned $4.7 billion aircraft plant.
Greensburg tornado
The Greensburg tornado was a violent EF5 tornado that struck Greensburg, Kansas, on May 4, 2007, destroying about 95 percent of the town and killing 11 people.
Greenschist
Greenschist is a schistose metamorphic rock whose green color comes from chlorite, epidote, or actinolite; it forms by low-grade regional metamorphism of shale or basalt.
Greensea Systems
Greensea Systems, doing business as Greensea IQ, is an American marine robotics company in Richmond, Vermont, founded in 2006. It develops the OPENSEA vehicle platform and Bayonet amphibious crawling robots.
Greenshields model
The Greenshields model is a traffic flow model proposed by Bruce D. Greenshields in 1935 that assumes traffic speed decreases linearly with density, yielding a parabolic flow-density curve.
Greensleeves
Greensleeves, also known as the tune of What Child Is This?, is a 16th-century English ballad tune first registered in 1580, long attributed without evidence to Henry VIII, and later used by Vaughan Williams, Holst, and Busoni.
Greenspring Micro
Greenspring Micro is a family of venture capital fund partnerships in Owings Mills, Maryland, managed by Greenspring Associates; its Micro III fund reported $145.6 million sold, and StepStone acquired Greenspring in 2021.
Greenspring Secondaries
Greenspring Secondaries was the dedicated venture-capital secondaries program of Baltimore's Greenspring Associates, which raised four funds from 2014, including an $800 million Fund IV, before StepStone acquired the firm in 2021.
Greenstick fracture
Greenstick fracture: incomplete pediatric fracture where one cortex cracks and the other bends, named for a splintering green twig; common under age 10, forearm, cast 3-6 weeks.
GreenStone Aviation
GreenStone Aviation was an aircraft leasing startup launched in June 2009 by John S. Slattery, a co-founder of RBS Aviation Capital, to finance new aircraft deliveries.
Greenstone belt
A greenstone belt is a curving belt of volcanic and sedimentary rocks altered to green minerals, mostly in Archean terranes of the oldest continents, and rich in gold.
Greenstone Gold Mine
Greenstone Gold Mine is an open-pit gold mine near Geraldton, Ontario, wholly owned by Equinox Gold, on the historic Hardrock deposit. First gold poured in May 2024.
Greensville County power station
The Greensville County power station is a 1,588 MW natural gas-fired combined-cycle power station owned by Dominion Energy near Emporia, Virginia, that entered commercial operation in December 2018.