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The Goose and the Common

The Goose and the Common is an anonymous English protest verse, also known as the goose poem, criticizing enclosure of common land; it survives in variants, often dated 1764, with no secure source before the 19th century.

The Gordian Palace

The Gordian Palace (Le palais dit de Gordien) is a large Roman domus, about 69 by 74 m, at Volubilis, Morocco, built in the second century CE and later the Governor's palace in the Gordian period; distinct from the Phrygian palace at Gordion and Rome's Villa Gordiani.

The Gorge Amphitheatre

The Gorge Amphitheatre, formerly Champs de Brionne Music Theatre, is an outdoor concert venue above the Columbia River in George, Washington, opened in 1986 by the Bryan winery family, capacity about 27,500, operated by Live Nation and a nine-time Pollstar Best Outdoor Music Venue winner.

The Gorilla God's Go-To Girl

The Gorilla God's Go-To Girl (ゴリラの神から加護された令嬢は王立騎士団で可愛がられる), a Narō web novel by Shirohi, printed as a Mika Kamisu manga (8 vols) and adapted into a 12-episode 2025 Kachigarasu anime.

The gospel

The gospel (Greek euangelion, "good news") is the Christian announcement of what God has done in Jesus Christ, above all his death and resurrection, as the means of salvation.

The Gospel of the Flying Spaghetti Monster

The Gospel of the Flying Spaghetti Monster, also called Pastafarian scripture, is Bobby Henderson's 2006 satirical book parodying intelligent design; it grew from his 2005 open letter to the Kansas school board and is treated as sacred by Pastafarians.

The Gospel of Wealth

The Gospel of Wealth is Andrew Carnegie's pair of 1889 North American Review essays arguing the rich are trustees who must give away fortunes in their lifetimes, not leave them to heirs; it founded modern American philanthropy.

The Governess

The Governess (1998) is Sandra Goldbacher's debut British period drama, also known simply as a Victorian romance, starring Minnie Driver as Rosina da Silva, a Sephardic Jew passing as 'Mary Blackchurch' who becomes a governess in Scotland and enters an affair with Tom Wilkinson's photography experimenter Charles Cavendish.

The Government Inspector

The Government Inspector (Ревизор) is Gogol's 1835 five-act satirical comedy, premiered 19 April 1836 in St. Petersburg, in which officials mistake Khlestakov for an inspector; plot suggested by Pushkin, revised through 1842.

The Governor (The Walking Dead)

The Governor is the fictional villain and Woodbury community leader in The Walking Dead comics and TV series, played by David Morrissey; first appearing in issue 27, known in the novels as Brian Blake, and remembered for beheading Hershel and keeping walker heads in fish tanks.

The Governor of the Southern Branch

The Governor of the Southern Branch (南柯太守傳) is a Tang dynasty tale by Li Gongzu in which Chunyu Fen dreams he serves twenty years as governor of an ant kingdom.

The Governors Ball Music Festival 2018

The Governors Ball Music Festival 2018 was the eighth annual edition of New York City's three-day music festival, held June 1–3, 2018 on Randall's Island Park and headlined by Eminem, Jack White, and Travis Scott.

The Graduate

The Graduate (1967), Mike Nichols's comedy-drama starring Dustin Hoffman, Anne Bancroft, and Katharine Ross, adapted from Charles Webb's 1963 novel; Embassy Pictures release that won Nichols the Best Director Oscar and entered the National Film Registry in 1996.

The Graham Norton Show

The Graham Norton Show is a British comic chat show hosted by Graham Norton, first broadcast 22 February 2007 on BBC Two, on BBC One since Series 6, with 555 episodes across 34 series, made by So Television, and renewed until at least 2028.

The Grand Budapest Hotel

The Grand Budapest Hotel is Wes Anderson's 2014 comedy caper (with Hugo Guinness, inspired by Stefan Zweig) about concierge Gustave and lobby boy Zero in fictional Zubrowka, told in nested 1985/1968/1932 layers with three aspect ratios.

The Grand Canal

The Grand Canal (京杭大运河) is China's Beijing-to-Zhejiang inland waterway, begun in the 5th century BC, unified under the Sui, over 2,000 km by the 13th century, a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2014, still navigable.

The Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone

The Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone is a pale-yellow gorge carved by the Yellowstone River in Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, and the subject of Thomas Moran's monumental 1872 painting.

The Grand Ho Tram - Pick Up/Drop Off Gate

The Grand Ho Tram - Pick Up/Drop Off Gate is the guest shuttle gate on the coastal road in Ho Tram commune, Ho Chi Minh City, endpoint of the resort's free bus service from Vinatex Building and The Panorama CN5 stops.

The Grand Illusion

The Grand Illusion is Styx's seventh album, released by A&M on July 7, 1977. Recorded at Paragon Studios, Chicago, it hit No. 6 on the Billboard 200, went triple platinum, and spawned "Come Sail Away" and "Fooling Yourself."

The Grand Inquisitor

The Grand Inquisitor (Великий инквизитор) is a prose poem told by Ivan Karamazov in Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamazov, in which Christ returns to Inquisition-era Seville.

The Grand Old Duke of York

The Grand Old Duke of York is an English nursery rhyme and action song about a duke marching ten thousand men up a hill and down again. Its oldest ancestor is the 1642 'Old Tarlton's song' about the King of France; the modern wording first appeared in Arthur Rackham's 1913 Mother Goose.

The Grand Seduction

The Grand Seduction is a 2013 Canadian comedy directed by Don McKellar, an English remake of La grande seduction, starring Brendan Gleeson and Taylor Kitsch as a Newfoundland village schemes to keep a doctor.

The Grand Tour

The Grand Tour is a Prime Video motoring series created in 2016 by ex-Top Gear trio Clarkson, Hammond, and May, ending with One for the Road in 2024, and relaunched in 2026 with Bourgeois, Engelsman, and Holland.

The Grand Tour (2026)

The Grand Tour (2026) is the rebooted Prime Video motoring series hosted by Francis Bourgeois, James Engelsman, and Thomas Holland of Throttle House, replacing Clarkson, Hammond, and May; six episodes launched 4 September 2026, produced by Studio Lambert with Andy Wilman.

The Grand View Garden Area of Shanghai

Shanghai Grand View Garden (上海大观园, Daguanyuan) is a 135-mu pseudo-classical garden in Qingpu District on Dianshan Lake, built 1980-1988 to recreate the garden in Dream of the Red Chamber, Luban Prize winner and 4A scenic spot.

The Grandfather

The Grandfather (El abuelo) is José Luis Garci's 1998 Spanish drama adapted from Benito Pérez Galdós's 1897 novel, starring Fernando Fernán Gómez as an aristocrat seeking his true granddaughter; Oscar-nominated for Best Foreign Language Film.

The Grandmaster (一代宗师) (film)

The Grandmaster (一代宗師, Yi dai zong shi) is Wong Kar-wai's 2013 martial arts film about Wing Chun master Ip Man, starring Tony Leung and Zhang Ziyi, choreographed by Yuen Woo-ping, released in multiple cuts and winning 12 Hong Kong Film Awards.

The Grandmother

The Grandmother (Babička) is an 1855 prose work by Czech writer Božena Němcová, depicting an elderly woman's life in the Ratibořice valley and regarded as her masterpiece.

The Grange (near Farnham)

The Grange (near Farnham): Grade I listed early 18th-century red brick house on Castle Hill, Farnham, Surrey, built about 1710 on the site of the former Bishop's Grange of the Bishops of Winchester, with Thornhill staircase decoration and listed garden walls.

The Grange (near Hereford)

The Grange, Adforton (Wigmore Grange), Herefordshire: Grade I listed house formed from monastic buildings of Wigmore Abbey, C12 and C14 with later alterations, with a separate Grade I gatehouse.