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Grendon crime family

The 'Grendon crime family' is a mislabel for the Grendon Organised Crime Group, an Irish drug-trafficking gang called 'The Family', based in Clondalkin and Ballyfermot, west Dublin, led by brothers Brian and Philip Grendon.

Grenergy Renovables

Grenergy Renovables is a Spanish independent power producer, founded in 2007 and headquartered in Madrid, that develops solar and battery storage projects in Europe, Latin America, and the United States.

Grenfell Tower

Grenfell Tower was a 24-storey public housing block in North Kensington, west London, where a fire on 14 June 2017 killed 72 people, spread by combustible cladding fitted during a 2012 to 2016 refurbishment.

Grenfell Tower fire

Grenfell Tower fire: fatal 14 June 2017 blaze in a west London high-rise, 72 dead, spread via combustible ACM polyethylene-cored cladding; inquiry found all deaths avoidable.

Grenoble

Grenoble is a city in southeastern France and the prefecture of the Isère department, set in an Alpine valley and known as the "capital of the Alps." It hosted the 1968 Winter Olympics.

Oct 10, 2026

Grenville Clark

Grenville Clark (1882–1967) was an American corporate lawyer who led the Plattsburg preparedness movement, helped defeat Roosevelt's 1937 court-packing plan, and later campaigned for world government.

Oct 10, 2026

Grenville Turner

Grenville Turner (died 2024) was a British isotope geochemist who, with Craig Merrihue, invented the argon-40/argon-39 dating method and produced the first precise ages of the Apollo lunar rocks.

Grenzebach

Grenzebach is a German family-owned automation group founded by Rudolf Grenzebach in 1960 in Hamlar, Bavaria, best known for glass and building materials plant engineering and intralogistics systems built on automated guided vehicles.

Greolieres Roman Milestone

The Greolieres Roman Milestone is a Roman milestone in Gréolières, Alpes-Maritimes, France, marking the Roman road from Vence to Castellane; its inscription honors the emperor Caracalla, dated around 213.

Grep

Grep is a command-line utility that searches input files for lines matching a regular expression and prints them, written by Ken Thompson at Bell Labs for Unix.

Grepafloxacin

Grepafloxacin (OPC-17116, Raxar/Vaxar) was a third-generation fluoroquinolone antibiotic by Otsuka and Glaxo Wellcome, approved 1997 for bronchitis and pneumonia, withdrawn worldwide in 1999 for QTc prolongation and cardiac deaths.

Grès à Reptiles Formation

Grès à Reptiles Formation (Argiles et grès à reptiles), Late Cretaceous sandstone and claystone unit of southern France, 83.5–66 Ma, Late Campanian–Early Maastrichtian, famous for dinosaurs such as Rhabdodon and Ampelosaurus; also a correlative sandstone level in the Spanish Pyrenees.

Gresham

Gresham, Oregon: fourth-largest city in the state (114,247 in 2020), in Multnomah County east of Portland. Founded 1851 by the Powell brothers, incorporated 1905, named for Postmaster General Walter Quintin Gresham; former berry-farming town turned suburb.

Gresham House

Gresham House is a London-based specialist alternative asset manager focused on real assets and sustainable investments, with about £8.7 billion under management as of 2024.

Gresham's law

Gresham's law, also called the Gresham–Copernicus law, is the economic principle that bad money drives out good when both are legally accepted at the same value.

Gresia

Gresia, a village in Teleorman County, Romania, site of a Roman castellum (RAN 154442.01) and a Limes Transalutanus earth rampart (RAN 154442.02), first half of the 3rd century AD.

Gresik power station

Gresik power station is a gas-fired power plant in Gresik, East Java, Indonesia, owned by state utility PLN and supplying about 5% of the Java-Bali grid.

Gresik Regency

Gresik Regency (Kabupaten Gresik), East Java, Indonesia: industrial regency northwest of Surabaya including Bawean island; historic Islamic port with tombs of Sunan Giri and Maulana Malik Ibrahim; JIIPE special economic zone; manufacturing-led economy.

Gresini Racing

Gresini Racing (BK8 Gresini Racing MotoGP), Italian independent MotoGP team founded by Fausto Gresini in Faenza, competing since 1997; five world titles, Ducati satellite with Alex Marquez and Fermin Aldeguer.

Greta (2018 film)

Greta (2018 film), also released as The Widow, is a Neil Jordan psychological thriller starring Isabelle Huppert and Chloë Grace Moretz, about a lonely widow who stalks the young woman who returned her planted handbag. Premiered at TIFF 2018; released by Focus Features March 1, 2019.

Greta Andersen

Greta Andersen (1927-2023), Danish swimmer, 1948 Olympic 100 m freestyle champion and 4x100 relay silver medallist, later a professional marathon swimmer with six English Channel crossings and 18 world records.

Greta Bridge (United Kingdom)

Greta Bridge, County Durham: Roman auxiliary fort, vicus and road on the Stainmore route (Scotch Corner–Carlisle, modern A66). Scheduled 1929; fort 140 by 95 m; Severan inscription 205–208; vicus excavated 1972–4 (Casey and Hoffmann, Britannia 1998).

Greta Farm

Greta Farm (เกรต้าฟาร์ม) is a farm-themed resort, restaurant, event venue, and six-court tennis center in Na Chom Thian, Sattahip, Chonburi, Thailand, run by Greta Farm Company Limited, registered 2013 with 5,000,000 baht capital.

Greta Garbo

Greta Garbo, born Greta Gustafsson (1905-1990), was a Swedish-born Hollywood star of silent and early sound film, discovered by Mauritz Stiller, famous for Anna Christie, Grand Hotel, Queen Christina, and Ninotchka, and for retiring in 1941 at about age thirty-five.

Greta Gerwig

Greta Gerwig, born 1983 in Sacramento, California, is an American film director, screenwriter, and actor who became the first woman to solo-direct a billion-dollar film with Barbie.

Sep 27, 2026

Greta Gysin

Greta Gysin, born 1983 in Locarno, is a Swiss Green politician, a National Councillor for Ticino since 2019, and president of the Green parliamentary group since 2026.

Greta Johansson

Greta Johansson (Anna Teresia Margareta Johansson, later Brandsten, 1895–1978), Swedish diver and swimmer of Stockholms KK; won the first Olympic women's diving gold at Stockholm 1912, first Swedish female Olympic champion, later Stanford diving instructor in California.

Greta Kline

Greta Kline, born 1994 in New York, is an American indie pop singer-songwriter known as Frankie Cosmos, daughter of Kevin Kline and Phoebe Cates. She moved from prolific Bandcamp bedroom releases to Sub Pop albums including Vessel and Different Talking (2025).