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Greentown China
Greentown China Holdings is a Hangzhou-based Chinese residential property developer founded by Song Weiping in 1995, known for high-end housing in Zhejiang and the Yangtze River Delta.
Greenville County
Greenville County, South Carolina: county seat Greenville; created 1786 from Cherokee land ceded by Treaty of DeWitt's Corner; the state's most populous county, 525,534 residents in 2020, textile heritage and Upstate economic hub.
Greenville Zoo (Closed)
Greenville Zoo, a 14-acre AZA-accredited city zoo in Cleveland Park, Greenville, South Carolina, opened 1960; still operating, with only temporary closures for maintenance, Hurricane Helene, and a 2026 leopard escape.
Greenville, Mississippi
Greenville, Mississippi: Delta river-port city in Washington County, population 29,670 (2020), 82.6% Black, median household income $40,083; rebuilt after the Civil War and the 1927 flood; home of the Port of Greenville.
Greenville, North Carolina
Greenville, North Carolina, is the county seat of Pitt County on the Tar River, a university and medical center for eastern North Carolina with about 96,000 residents in 2025.
Greenville, South Carolina
Greenville, South Carolina: Upstate city on the Reedy River, incorporated 1831, population 70,720 (2020). Former textile mill town, now known for Falls Park, Liberty Bridge, Swamp Rabbit Trail, and downtown dining.
Greenvolt
Greenvolt is a Lisbon-based renewable energy group working in biomass, wind, solar, and storage; it listed on Euronext Lisbon in 2021 and has been wholly owned by KKR since late 2024.
Greenvolt Power
Greenvolt Power is the Portugal-based battery energy storage and renewables development arm of Greenvolt Group, owned by KKR since 2024; it inaugurated one of Poland's largest battery systems in July 2026.
Greenwashing
Greenwashing is misleading environmental or sustainability communication by firms, spanning selective disclosure and decoupling; measured via disclosure-performance gaps, regulated by FTC Green Guides and EU Directive 2024/825, distinct from greenhushing.
Greenway Estate
Greenway Estate, also called Greenway House, is a Grade II Georgian country house and Grade II registered garden on the River Dart in Devon, bought by Agatha Christie and Max Mallowan in 1938 and now a National Trust property.
Greenwich
Greenwich: south-east London district and Royal Borough (population 294,113), home of the Maritime Greenwich UNESCO World Heritage Site (1997), the Queen's House, Old Royal Naval College, Greenwich Park, and the Royal Observatory, origin of the Prime Meridian and Greenwich Mean Time.
Greenwich foot tunnel
The Greenwich foot tunnel, also known as Greenwich tunnel, is a pedestrian tunnel under the River Thames linking Greenwich with Millwall, opened in 1902 and free to use.
Greenwich Island
Greenwich Island, South Shetland Islands, Antarctica; site of Chile's Arturo Prat station (1947) in Chile Bay, retreating glaciers, and the Yankee Harbour gentoo penguin Key Biodiversity Area.
Greenwich Mean Time
Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) is the mean solar time at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, London, which became the basis for the world's time zones in 1884.
Greenwich Park
Greenwich Park, London's oldest and smallest Royal Park (183 acres), enclosed 1433 by Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester, laid out in the 1660s with André Le Nôtre, home of the Royal Observatory and the Prime Meridian.
Greenwich Time Signal
The Greenwich Time Signal, known as the BBC pips or Greenwich pips, is a series of six tones broadcast by the BBC at each hour since 1924.
Greenwich Village
Greenwich Village, Manhattan neighborhood centered on Washington Square Park; historic artists' and bohemian quarter, site of the 1969 Stonewall uprising, NYC historic district since 1969, now among the city's wealthiest districts.
Greenwich, Connecticut
Greenwich, Connecticut: affluent Fairfield County town founded 1640, population 63,505, known for restrictive zoning, 5.93 percent affordable housing, and 2026 dispute over state zoning mandates.
Greenwood Coal Mine
Greenwood Coal Mine is an anthracite coal strip mine in the Panther Valley of eastern Pennsylvania near Tamaqua, mined since the 1800s and now operated as Lehigh Anthracite.
Greenwood District, Tulsa
Greenwood District, Tulsa, known as Black Wall Street, was a prosperous Black business district founded by O.W. Gurley in 1906, destroyed in the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, rebuilt, then diminished by urban renewal.
Greenwood Family Park
GreenWood Family Park (GreenWood Forest Park, GreenWood Centre) is an eco-adventure park in Y Felinheli, Gwynedd, North Wales, opened 24 May 1993, home to the world's only people-powered roller coaster and the UK's first solar-powered water ride.
Greenwood LeFlore
Greenwood LeFlore (1800–1865), Choctaw chief of the Western District and head chief, signed the 1830 Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek ceding Mississippi Choctaw lands, then remained as a planter and Mississippi senator; Malmaison namesake.
Greenwood-Tripp asperity model
The Greenwood-Tripp asperity model is a statistical contact-mechanics model published by Greenwood and Tripp in 1970, widely used for asperity load sharing in mixed and boundary lubrication.
Greenwoods Asset Management
Greenwoods Asset Management (Jinglin Asset, 景林资产) is a Chinese private fund management firm founded in Shanghai in 2004 by Jiang Jinzhi, investing in mainland-China-related listed securities.
Greer Garson
Greer Garson (1904-1996), born Eileen Evelyn Greer Garson in London, was a British-American MGM actress with seven Best Actress Oscar nominations; she won for Mrs. Miniver (1942) and gave the famously long acceptance speech, later becoming a Texas philanthropist.
Greer Grammer
Greer Grammer (Kandace Greer Grammer), American actress born 1992 in Los Angeles, daughter of Kelsey Grammer; known as Lissa Miller on MTV's Awkward., Miss Golden Globe 2015, and Deadly Illusions.
Greet Van den Berghe
Greet Van den Berghe (Greet H. A. Van den Berghe) is a Belgian intensive care physician and endocrinology researcher, professor at KU Leuven and head of intensive care at UZ Leuven since 2002.
Greeting
Greeting is a conventionalized act of communication opening social encounters, universal across societies but variable in form (questions, commands, statements), content, and embodied practices, shaped by culture, gaze, history, and social hierarchy.
Greeting card
Greeting card: folded illustrated paper card, also called greetings card in UK English, sent to mark occasions like birthdays and Christmas. Traces to ancient China and Egypt; first commercial Christmas card 1843; global market USD 19.8 billion in 2025.
Greetings from Asbury Park, N.J.
Greetings from Asbury Park, N.J. is Bruce Springsteen's debut studio album, released by Columbia on January 5, 1973. Nine Dylan-influenced songs; "Blinded by the Light" later topped charts for Manfred Mann's Earth Band.