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Gretna
Gretna FC, Scottish border club founded 1946, played English non-league, elected to the Scottish league in 2002, reached the 2006 Scottish Cup final and SPL, then liquidated in 2008; successor Gretna FC 2008 plays at Raydale Park.
Gretna Green
Gretna Green, a Scottish border village in Dumfriesshire, became famous for runaway marriages after England's 1753 Marriage Act; Scots law allowed marriage by declaration before witnesses, performed famously over the blacksmith's anvil until 1939.
Gretsch
Gretsch (The Gretsch Company, Fred Gretsch Manufacturing Company): American guitar and drum maker founded 1883 in Brooklyn by Friedrich Gretsch; known for White Falcon, Duo Jet, Chet Atkins models, Baldwin era, 1985 family buyback, and 2002 Fender distribution deal.
Grettis saga
Grettis saga, also known as Grettla or The Saga of Grettir the Strong, is an Icelanders' saga about the outlaw Grettir Ásmundarson, who dies on Drangey.
Grevena - Kozani UNESCO Global Geopark
Grevena - Kozani UNESCO Global Geopark (Γεωπάρκο Γρεβενών – Κοζάνης) is a UNESCO Global Geopark in West Macedonia, Greece, designated in 2021 and known for the Vourinos ophiolite.
Greville Wynne
Greville Wynne (1919-1990), British engineer and MI6-recruited businessman, was courier to GRU colonel Oleg Penkovsky; arrested 1962, sentenced to eight years, exchanged for Gordon Lonsdale in 1964; memoirs widely doubted.
Grevillea
Grevillea is a genus of about 360 to 400 species of shrubs and trees in the Proteaceae family, nearly all endemic to Australia and grown for their bird-attracting flowers.
Grevillea cultivars
Grevillea cultivars are named garden forms of the Australian genus Grevillea that must be propagated by cuttings or grafting, since seed does not come true.
Grévy's zebra
Grévy's zebra (Equus grevyi), the largest wild equid at 350–450 kg, is an Endangered zebra of northern Kenya and southern Ethiopia with thin stripes, 46 chromosomes, and about 3,000 animals remaining.
Grewia
Grewia is a genus of Malvaceae shrubs and small trees of the tropical Old World, named for Nehemiah Grew; about 276 accepted species, including phalsa (Grewia asiatica), yield edible fruit, fiber, and medicinal phytochemicals.
Grex (horticulture)
Grex (gx, plural grexes) is the parentage-based name for all offspring of a specific orchid hybrid cross, including its reciprocal; registered with the RHS International Orchid Register, begun with Calanthe Dominii in 1858, distinct from cultivar and Group ranks.
Grey
Grey, also called an achromatic color, in physics names the gray body, an idealized radiator absorbing a constant fraction of incident radiation regardless of wavelength, between blackbody and white body limits.
Grey alien
Grey alien (gray alien, Grey, Roswell Grey): the archetypal short, grey-skinned, big-headed, black-eyed humanoid of UFO lore, standardized by the 1961 Betty and Barney Hill abduction case and spread by 1980s-1990s abduction books and film; no physical evidence supports it.
Grey atmosphere
The gray atmosphere is an idealized model of a stellar atmosphere in which opacity is independent of frequency, making radiative transfer tractable and yielding a simple temperature law.
Grey Cup
Grey Cup: CFL championship game and trophy, donated 1909 by Governor General Earl Grey for amateur rugby football; first won by University of Toronto 26-6; Toronto Argonauts lead with 19 titles; 2025 champion Saskatchewan Roughriders.
Grey Damon
Grey Damon (born 1987, Bloomington, Indiana) is an American actor known as Lt. Jack Gibson on Station 19, Hastings Ruckle on Friday Night Lights, and Brian Shafe on Aquarius, with film roles in Oldboy and The Possession of Hannah Grace.
Grey DeLisle
Grey DeLisle (Erin Grey Van Oosbree; also Grey Griffin) is an American voice actress and Grammy-winning Gothic Americana singer, known as Daphne Blake, Azula, Vicky, and Mandy, with over 1,500 credited cartoon voices since 1996.
Grey divorce
Grey (gray) divorce, also called silver splitting, is divorce among adults aged 50 and older. Its US rate doubled 1990-2010 (Brown & Lin); by 2019, 36% of US divorces involved people 50+.
Grey Friars
Grey Friars, Lichfield: scheduled monument (list entry 1008544) of a Franciscan friary founded c.1237 by Bishop Alexander de Stavensby, burned 1291, rebuilt, dissolved 1538; survives as buried remains beneath a public garden.
Grey Gardens
Grey Gardens (1975) is a direct cinema documentary by Albert and David Maysles, Ellen Hovde, and Muffie Meyer about Big Edie and Little Edie Beale, Jackie Onassis's reclusive relatives, in their decaying East Hampton mansion; released theatrically February 19, 1976.
Grey Gardens (2009 film)
Grey Gardens (2009) is an HBO Films television drama directed by Michael Sucsy, starring Drew Barrymore and Jessica Lange as Little Edie and Big Edie Beale; it premiered April 18, 2009 and won the Emmy for Outstanding Made for Television Movie.
Grey Gardens (estate)
Grey Gardens is a Shingle Style summer house in East Hampton, New York, known as the decaying home of the Beales and the 1975 Maysles documentary.
Grey Goose (vodka)
Grey Goose is a French super-premium vodka created in 1997 by Sidney Frank with cellar master François Thibault, made from Picardie winter wheat and Gensac spring water, distilled once at 40% ABV, and owned by Bacardi since 2004.
Grey hat
Grey hat: a hacker who breaks into systems without permission but without malicious intent, often disclosing flaws. Between white hat (authorized) and black hat (criminal); still illegal, folk term from Western films.
Grey heron
Grey heron (Ardea cinerea), also Gray Heron, a large Ardeidae wading bird of Europe, Asia, and Africa; fish-eating, tree-nesting in heronries; IUCN Least Concern with 500,000-2,500,000 mature individuals.
Grey import vehicle
A gray import vehicle, also called a gray market vehicle, is a vehicle imported outside the manufacturer's official distribution network, usually legally but without official warranty.
Grey Line (Namma Metro)
The Grey Line is a planned 12.5 km elevated corridor of Namma Metro in Bengaluru, India, running from Hosahalli to Kadabagere with 9 stations, approved in 2024.
Grey literature
Grey literature (gray literature) is material produced outside commercial publishing, such as theses, reports, preprints, and conference papers. Defined by the 1997 Luxembourg definition; including it in meta-analyses reduces publication bias since published effect sizes run about one-third larger.
Grey market
Grey market is the trade of genuine goods imported into a new country without the local manufacturer's consent. This parallel trade is legal depending on the importing country's exhaustion regime.
Grey matter
Grey matter (gray matter) is the darker CNS tissue made of neuronal cell bodies, neuropil, glia, and capillaries with few myelinated fibers; it forms the brain's outer cortex, is measured as GMV by MRI, and atrophies in Alzheimer's, MS, and after COVID-19 hospitalization.