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Grim Fandango
Grim Fandango (1998) is Tim Schafer's LucasArts adventure game about Manny Calavera, a travel agent in the Land of the Dead, blending Day of the Dead folklore, film noir, and art deco; a commercial flop, later remastered in 2015.
Grim Reaper
The Grim Reaper is the personification of death in Western culture, conventionally pictured as a hooded skeleton carrying a scythe. This image is rooted in medieval European Catholicism.
Grim Sleeper
The Grim Sleeper, serial killer Lonnie David Franklin Jr., murdered 10 women in South Los Angeles 1985-2007; identified 2010 via familial DNA and a discarded pizza crust, convicted 2016, sentenced to death.
Gríma Wormtongue
Gríma Wormtongue, son of Gálmód, is the treacherous chief counsellor of King Théoden of Rohan in Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, Saruman's spy at Edoras, promised Éowyn, and killed by Hobbit archers after slaying Saruman.
Grimace scale
A grimace scale is an observational pain measure scoring facial expressions in nonverbal subjects like laboratory animals; the first, the Mouse Grimace Scale, was described in 2010.
Grimace Shake
Grimace Shake: McDonald's limited-time purple berry milkshake from the June 12, 2023 Grimace Birthday Meal, famous for the TikTok trend of drinkers faking death, which drove sales and Purchase Intent among TikTok users from 25% to 32%.
Grimaffen
Grimaffen (Manic Monkeys, Dutch Apenstreken) is a 2010 Reiner Knizia children's memory game from Selecta Spielzeug for 2-6 players aged 5+, using 30 picture tiles and a colored die; it made the 2011 Kinderspiel des Jahres recommended list.
Grimaldi (crater)
Grimaldi is a dark-floored, double-ring impact basin about 400 km across on the Moon's western near side, near Oceanus Procellarum, named for the 17th-century astronomer Francesco Maria Grimaldi.
Grimani Breviary
The Grimani Breviary (Breviario Grimani) is a Flemish illuminated breviary made in Ghent and Bruges around the 1510s, named for Cardinal Domenico Grimani and held in Venice.
Grimdark
Grimdark is a speculative-fiction subgenre, especially fantasy, marked by violence, dystopia, and moral ambiguity; the term comes from the Warhammer 40,000 tagline and contrasts with noblebright, with key authors Martin, Abercrombie, Lawrence, and Cook.
Grimde
Grimde, hamlet in Tienen, Belgium (Drie Tommen), site of three Gallo-Roman tumuli of the 2nd century AD, about 30 m wide and over 10 m high, the grave monument of Marcus Probius Burrus, excavated by baron De Loë in 1892.
Grime music
Grime: Black British rap genre born in early-2000s East London from UK garage and pirate radio; MC-led, ~140 BPM, eskibeat sound pioneered by Wiley, with Dizzee Rascal and Skepta its Mercury Prize winners.
Grime's Graves
Grime's Graves is a large Neolithic flint mining complex near Brandon, Norfolk, England, worked from about 2650 BC. Over 400 shafts up to 13 m deep reached black floorstone flint; first recognized as a Neolithic mine by Greenwell in 1868–70.
Grimes
Grimes (Claire Elise Boucher), Canadian singer-producer-visual artist; albums Geidi Primes, Halfaxa, Visions (2012 Juno winner), Art Angels, Miss Anthropocene; known for self-production and AI projects like Elf.tech.
Grimethorpe Colliery Band
Grimethorpe Colliery Band, a British brass band founded in 1917 by South Yorkshire miners, won the 1992 National Championship days after pit closure was announced and starred in Brassed Off (1996).
Grimeton Radio Station
Grimeton Radio Station, near Varberg in Sweden, is a longwave transmitting station built in 1922–1924 for transatlantic wireless telegraph traffic and a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2004.
Grimgar of Fantasy and Ash
Grimgar of Fantasy and Ash (灰と幻想のグリムガル, Hai to Gensō no Grimgar) is an isekai light novel series by Ao Jūmonji and Eiri Shirai, published by Overlap since 2013, with a 2016 A-1 Pictures anime and Yen Press manga.
Grimlock
Grimlock (钢锁) is the Dinobot Commander of the Autobots in Transformers, a robotic Tyrannosaurus rex introduced in 1985, known for maximum strength, low cartoon intelligence, and a stint as Marvel comic Autobot leader.
Grimm (TV series)
Grimm (NBC, 2011-2017) is an American supernatural police procedural created by Stephen Carpenter, Jim Kouf, and David Greenwalt, starring David Giuntoli as Portland detective Nick Burkhardt, a Grimm descendant who sees Wesen creatures; filmed in Portland, six seasons, Metascore 58.
Grimm season 4
Grimm season 4: fourth season of NBC's fantasy procedural, 22 episodes airing October 24, 2014 to May 15, 2015. Nick loses his Grimm powers, Juliette becomes a Hexenbiest, and Trubel kills her in the finale "Cry Havoc".
Grimm's law
Grimm's law, or the First Germanic Sound Shift, is the set of Proto-Indo-European to Proto-Germanic consonant shifts (p>f, d>t, bʰ>b) formulated by Jacob Grimm in 1822, with earlier observations by Rasmus Rask and exceptions explained by Verner's law.
Grimme dispersion correction
The Grimme dispersion correction (DFT-D) is a family of semiempirical corrections adding London dispersion forces to density functional calculations, introduced by Stefan Grimme in 2004.
Grimmiales
Grimmiales is an order of acrocarpous mosses within the Dicranidae, named for the genus Grimmia, including grimmias, bent-mosses, pincushions, and rock-bristles defined by a single-rank peristome of 16 teeth.
Grimms' Fairy Tales
Grimms' Fairy Tales (Kinder- und Hausmärchen), collected by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, first published in Berlin in 1812/1815, expanded to 210 tales by the 1857 seventh edition, translated into over 160 languages and UNESCO-listed in 2005.
Grímnismál
Grímnismál ("The Lay of Grímnir") is a mythological poem of the Poetic Edda in which Odin, disguised as Grímnir, reveals the dwellings of the gods and the Norse cosmos.
Grimoire
Grimoire (from Old French gramaire): a book of magic spells, invocations, seals, and instructions for making amulets, first recorded in the Ancient Middle East; known through medieval Solomonic texts like the Clavicula Salomonis, later print, censorship, and occult revival.
Grimoire of Zero
Grimoire of Zero (Zero kara Hajimeru Mahou no Sho) is a Japanese fantasy light novel series by Kakeru Kobashiri, 20th Dengeki Taisho Grand Prize winner, with an 11-volume run and a 12-episode 2017 White Fox anime adapting only volume 1; sequel The Dawn of the Witch.
Grimpoteuthis
Grimpoteuthis, the dumbo octopus genus, deep-sea cirrate octopods with ear-like fins, named by Robson 1932; 17 valid species living 1,000–7,000 m deep worldwide, feeding with arm cirri and lacking an ink sac.
Grimr (crater on Callisto)
Grimr is a 103.20-km-diameter IAU-approved impact crater on Callisto at 41.50°N, 214.60°W, named in 1979 after a Norse name for Odin, within the size range of pit and dome crater morphologies.
Grimsbury Castle (United Kingdom)
Grimsbury Castle, also Grimsbury Camp, is an Iron Age slight univallate hillfort of 3.2 ha on a spur near Hermitage, West Berkshire, a scheduled monument with 2 m earthworks, a western outwork, and sparse Early Iron Age finds.