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Grito de Lares flag
The Grito de Lares flag, or Lares flag, designed by Ramón Emeterio Betances and embroidered by Mariana Bracetti, was the flag of the failed 1868 Puerto Rican uprising and is now the official flag of the municipality of Lares.
Grito de Yara
The Grito de Yara, or Cry of Yara, was the call to rebellion issued by Carlos Manuel de Céspedes on 10 October 1868, opening Cuba's Ten Years' War against Spain.
Grits
Grits: coarsely ground corn, usually dent corn or nixtamalized hominy, boiled into porridge; a staple of Southern U.S. cuisine with Indigenous, African American, and European roots, known for shrimp and grits and distinguished from Italian polenta.
Grits Sandwiches for Breakfast
Grits Sandwiches for Breakfast is Kid Rock's 1990 debut hip-hop album on Jive Records, produced with Too $hort and D-Nice; it sold about 100,000 copies, drew an FCC fine for "Yo-Da-Lin in the Valley", and got him dropped from the label.
Gritstone Oncology
Gritstone Oncology, later renamed Gritstone bio, was a clinical-stage biotechnology company based in Emeryville, California, that developed individualized neoantigen cancer vaccines, including GRANITE and SLATE, before filing for bankruptcy in October 2024.
Grivna
Grivna (гривна) is a medieval weight-and-money unit of Kievan Rus, originally a neck ornament and later a silver ingot, whose name was revived for Ukraine's hryvnia currency, introduced in 1996.
Griz (musician)
GRiZ is the stage name of Grant Kwiecinski (born 1990), a Michigan-born electronic producer and saxophonist whose "future funk" blends bass music with live instrumentation, from End of the World Party (2011) to Future Funk Volume 1.
GRiZ B2B Subtronics (group)
GRiZ B2B Subtronics, billed as Griztronics, is the back-to-back pairing of bass producers GRiZ and Subtronics, whose 2019 track "Griztronics" reached No. 9 on Billboard's dance chart.
Grizabella
Grizabella, the Glamour Cat, is the shunned outcast feline of Andrew Lloyd Webber's Cats, based on an unpublished T. S. Eliot poem, who sings Memory and ascends to the Heaviside Layer; created by Elaine Paige in 1981, played on Broadway by Tony winner Betty Buckley and, in 2026, by Chasity Moore and three UK tour actresses.
Grizzly (album)
Grizzly is the 2025 third album by Russian-founded deathcore band Slaughter to Prevail, released July 18 on Sumerian Records; 13 tracks, 50:08, featuring Ronnie Radke and Babymetal, distinct from Grizzly Bear's albums.
Grizzly bear
Grizzly bear (Ursus arctos horribilis), a North American brown bear subspecies, listed as threatened in the lower 48 US states since 1975; populations grew from about 700-800 to over 2,000, with ongoing delisting and 4(d) rule debates.
Grizzly Bear (band)
Grizzly Bear is a Brooklyn indie rock band formed in 2002 by Ed Droste, later joined by Daniel Rossen, Chris Taylor, and Christopher Bear; albums include Veckatimest (2009, No. 8 Billboard) and Shields, reuniting for a 2025 tour.
Grizzly Man
Grizzly Man is Werner Herzog's 2005 documentary about Timothy Treadwell, who lived 13 summers among Alaskan grizzlies before being killed in 2003; built from his 100+ hours of footage.
Grizzly Night
Grizzly Night is a 2026 American survival thriller directed by Burke Doeren, starring Charles Esten, Oded Fehr, and Brec Bassinger, dramatizing the August 12, 1967 dual fatal grizzly attacks in Montana's Glacier National Park; released digitally January 30, 2026 by Saban Films.
Grizzly Smith
Grizzly Smith (Aurelian Smith, 1932–2010), American pro wrestler of the Kentuckians tag team, father of Jake Roberts, Sam Houston, and Rockin' Robin, later accused by his children of abuse.
Grizzly–polar bear hybrid
Grizzly–polar bear hybrid, or pizzly/grolar bear, the fertile cross of Ursus arctos horribilis and Ursus maritimus; first wild specimen confirmed 2006 on Banks Island, Canada, with eight known hybrids all from one polar bear female.
Grjótá Valles
Grjótá Valles is a 343.77-km-long valley system in Elysium Planitia, Mars, one of four Amazonian-aged fissure-headed catastrophic flood channels, IAU-named in 2006 for an Icelandic river, formed by repeated flooding from Cerberus Fossa.
GRK2
GRK2 (G protein-coupled receptor kinase 2, βARK1/ADRBK1) is a ubiquitous serine/threonine kinase that desensitizes GPCRs and acts as a signaling hub; elevated in heart failure, hypertension, and metabolic disease, it is targeted by peptide, aptamer, and small-molecule inhibitors.
GRK5
GRK5 (GPRK5), G protein-coupled receptor kinase 5, human gene ID 2869: a 590-aa Ser/Thr kinase that desensitizes activated GPCRs, is constitutively membrane-bound via PIP2, translocates to the nucleus, and is upregulated in heart failure.
GRN
GRN (granulin precursor) gene, also called PGRN or acrogranin, on chromosome 17q21.31 encodes progranulin, a lysosomal protein; heterozygous loss-of-function mutations cause frontotemporal dementia, homozygous mutations cause CLN11.
GRN Association
The GRN Association was a Swiss non-profit association in Zug, registered in 2022 to develop the GRNGrid blockchain, which announced $50 million in funding from GEM Digital.
Gro Espeseth
Gro Espeseth (born 1972) is a Norwegian former footballer, a center-back with 105 caps and 9 goals who won Olympic gold in 2000, Olympic bronze in 1996, and the 1995 Women's World Cup.
Gro Hammerseng
Gro Hammerseng (Gro Hammerseng-Edin), born 1980 in Gjøvik, Norwegian handball centre back; captained Norway 2003–2010, won 2008 Olympic gold, three EHF EURO titles, 2007 IHF World Player of the Year, 167 caps, 631 goals.
Gro Harlem Brundtland
Gro Harlem Brundtland (born 20 April 1939), Norwegian physician and Labour politician, first woman Prime Minister of Norway (1981, 1986–89, 1990–96), chair of the Brundtland Commission behind Our Common Future (1987), and WHO Director-General 1998–2003, later Deputy Chair of The Elders.
GRO J0422+32
GRO J0422+32, also known as Nova Persei 1992 or V518 Per, is a black hole X-ray transient discovered in 1992, known for hosting one of the lowest-mass black hole candidates.
GRO J1655-40
GRO J1655-40 (Nova Scorpii 1994, V1033 Sco) is a black hole X-ray binary in Scorpius. It was discovered in July 1994 by BATSE on the Compton Gamma Ray Observatory.
Groat (grain)
Groat (grain): the hulled kernel of cereal grains such as oats, wheat, rye, and barley, retaining bran, germ, and endosperm. Oat groats yield steel-cut, rolled, and Scottish oats; less processing means longer cooking and lower glycemic index.
Grob fragmentation
The Grob fragmentation is a 1,4-elimination reaction in which a 1,3-difunctionalized compound cleaves a carbon–carbon bond under base or acid to give an alkene and a ketone or aldehyde.
Grob G 109
The Grob G 109, called the Vigilant T.1 in Royal Air Force service, is a German two-seat touring motor glider, the world's first serially produced composite motor glider.
Grob G 120TP
The Grob G 120TP, known in Royal Air Force service as the Prefect T.1, is a German two-seat turboprop military trainer built by Grob Aircraft, with over 200 delivered by 2024.