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Grupo Norte

Grupo Norte, also called the Grupo Trujillo, was an intellectual group formed in Trujillo, Peru, in 1915, whose best-known members were poet César Vallejo and APRA founder Víctor Raúl Haya de la Torre.

Grupo Pellas

Grupo Pellas is a family-owned Nicaraguan conglomerate founded in 1890, controlled by Carlos Pellas Chamorro, with about $1.5 billion in annual sales and holdings including Flor de Caña rum.

Grupo Romero

Grupo Romero is a Peruvian family conglomerate founded in 1888 as a straw-hat trading business in Piura, now spanning consumer goods, agribusiness, energy, and logistics, with about 23,000 employees.

Grupo Salinas

Grupo Salinas is a Mexican group of media, retail, financial-services, and telecommunications companies created by Ricardo Salinas Pliego, including TV Azteca and Grupo Elektra; it is a management forum holding no shares in its member companies.

Grupo SEB

Grupo SEB is a Brazilian private-education group founded in 1963 in Ribeirão Preto by businessman Chaim Zaher, split in 2026 into SEB Education and Z Participações.

Grupo Techint

Grupo Techint, also known as the Techint Group, is an Italian-Argentine industrial group founded by Agostino Rocca in Milan in 1945, best known for Tenaris and Ternium.

Grupo Viento y Sol

Grupo Viento y Sol is a Mexican grupero group formed in 1990 in Irapuato, Guanajuato, best known for the song "Par de Anillos" and recording for Disa Records.

Gruppo 63

Gruppo 63 was the principal Italian neo-avant-garde literary movement, founded by 34 writers and poets at Palermo in 1963 and dissolved in 1969, known for extreme linguistic experimentation.

Gruppo Bertone

Gruppo Bertone, commonly Bertone (Carrozzeria Bertone), was an Italian coachbuilder and design house founded in Turin in 1912 by Giovanni Bertone, known for the Lamborghini Miura and Countach.

Gruppo di Improvvisazione Nuova Consonanza

Gruppo di Improvvisazione Nuova Consonanza (GINC), a Rome-based collective of composers founded by Franco Evangelisti in 1964, pioneers of group free improvisation; members included Ennio Morricone; active to about 1980.

Grus (constellation)

Grus, the crane, is a southern constellation covering 366 square degrees south of Piscis Austrinus, named by Johann Bayer in 1603 and best viewed on October evenings.

Grus Monacha

Grus monacha (白头鹤, ナベヅル), the hooded crane, is a small Vulnerable crane of Siberia and northeast China; over 80% winter at Izumi, Japan, with 9,750–13,000 mature individuals.

Grus nigricollis

Grus nigricollis, the black-necked crane (Thrung Thrung Karmo), is the only alpine crane, breeding on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau at 2,600-4,900 m and wintering in Yunnan-Guizhou, Tibet, and Bhutan; IUCN Near Threatened, population about 17,400-17,610 and increasing.

Grutas del Palacio UNESCO Global Geopark

Grutas del Palacio UNESCO Global Geopark, in Flores, Uruguay, designated 2013 (UNESCO programme 2015), 364,100 ha, 19 geosites; namesake sandstone cave with 2 m columns, Chamangá rock art.

Grutenhäuschen

Grutenhäuschen: partially reconstructed two-story Roman grave temple of the 3rd/4th century in the vineyards near Igel on the Moselle, beside the Roman road from Trier, with a barrel-vaulted burial chamber and sarcophagi below.

Grutter v. Bollinger

Grutter v. Bollinger, 539 U.S. 306 (2003), Supreme Court case upholding the University of Michigan Law School's race-conscious admissions as narrowly tailored to diversity, companion to Gratz, effectively overruled by SFFA v. Harvard in 2023.

Gruyère cheese

Gruyère cheese (Le Gruyère AOP) is a Swiss hard raw-milk cheese from Fribourg, Vaud, Neuchâtel, Jura and Bern, PDO since 2001/2011; 55–65 cm wheels of 25–40 kg, aged 5–18 months, distinct from French holey Gruyère IGP.

Gruyères

Gruyères (Greyerz), Fribourg canton, Switzerland: hilltop medieval town and 13th-century castle of the counts of Gruyère, home of Gruyère AOP cheese, HR Giger Museum, 2,353 residents (2025).

GRX-810

GRX-810 is an oxide dispersion strengthened NiCoCr medium entropy alloy developed by NASA's Glenn Research Center for 3D printing of rocket engine and turbine parts.

Gryan Miers

Gryan Miers (born 1999) is a Geelong Cats AFL small forward, 2022 premiership player and 2023 record holder for goal assists in a home-and-away season (41), contracted until 2028.

Gryazev-Shipunov GSh-23 (ГШ-23)

The Gryazev-Shipunov GSh-23 (ГШ-23) is a Soviet twin-barreled 23 mm aircraft autocannon adopted in 1965, which replaced the NR-23 and armed MiG fighters, helicopters, and bomber tail turrets.

Gryazev-Shipunov GSh-6-30 (Грязев-Шипунов ГШ-6-30)

The Gryazev-Shipunov GSh-6-30 is a Soviet gas-operated six-barrel 30 mm rotary autocannon developed by Gryazev and Shipunov at the KBP bureau in Tula, adopted in 1974 and armed the MiG-27.

Gryazovets-Leningrad Gas Pipeline

The Gryazovets-Leningrad Gas Pipeline (Russian: Газопровод Грязовец — Ленинград) is a Gazprom trunk pipeline, 609 km per string, carrying gas from Gryazovets in Vologda Oblast to Saint Petersburg.

Gryazovets-Volkhov-Slavyanskaya Gas Pipeline

The Gryazovets-Volkhov-Slavyanskaya Gas Pipeline, also called Gryazovets-Ust Luga, is an operating onshore natural gas trunk pipeline in Russia, built by Gazprom from 2018 to feed Nord Stream 2.

Gryazovets-Vyborg Gas Pipeline

The Gryazovets-Vyborg Gas Pipeline (Russian: газопровод «Грязовец — Выборг») is a Gazprom trunk pipeline about 917 kilometers long, from Gryazovets to Vyborg, feeding Nord Stream and northwestern Russia, commissioned from 2011.

Gryffin

Gryffin (Dan Griffith), American melodic bass/future bass DJ and producer; USC engineering graduate behind Gravity, Alive, Pulse, RIAA Platinum 'Feel Good' and 'Tie Me Down', Red Rocks and Coachella headliner.

Grýla

Grýla is the child-eating ogress of Icelandic folklore, first recorded in 13th-century manuscripts, mother of the thirteen Yule Lads, wife of Leppalúði, and owner of the Yule Cat; linked to Christmas only from the 17th century.

Gryllacrididae

Gryllacrididae, called raspy crickets or leaf-rolling crickets, is a family of nocturnal Orthoptera insects known for spinning silk from their mouthparts to build daytime shelters from rolled leaves.

Gryphaea

Gryphaea, the Devil's toenail, is an extinct Jurassic oyster with a large curved lower valve, common in European Jurassic rocks and a classic case study of gradual versus punctuated evolution.

Gryphaeidae

Gryphaeidae (honeycomb or foam oysters), Vialov 1936, a bivalve family in Ostreoidea, sister to true oysters (Ostreidae); vesicular shell microstructure, edentate hinge, Triassic to Recent, tropical and subtropical seas.