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Great Indian Peninsula Railway
The Great Indian Peninsula Railway (GIPR) was a British-era railway company in India whose Bombay to Thane line carried the subcontinent's first passenger train in 1853.
Great Istanbul Tunnel
The Great Istanbul Tunnel, also called the Grand Istanbul Tunnel, is a proposed three-level road-and-metro tunnel under the Bosphorus in Istanbul, announced in 2015 as the city's third strait crossing.
Great Lakes Waterway
The Great Lakes Waterway is the locks, canals, rivers, and lakes linking the Atlantic to Lake Superior, including the St. Lawrence Seaway, Welland Canal, and Soo Locks, with 15 Seaway-size locks and a late-March-to-late-December season.
Great Living Chola Temples
The Great Living Chola Temples are a UNESCO World Heritage Site of three 11th- and 12th-century Hindu temples in Tamil Nadu, India, all still in worship.
Great Man-Made River
The Great Man-Made River, or Great Man-Made River Project, is a Libyan network of pipelines carrying fossil groundwater from Saharan aquifers to northern coastal cities and farmland.
Great Mississippi Flood of 1927
The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 was the most destructive flood in United States history, inundating about 27,000 square miles and leaving over 700,000 homeless.
Great Mosque of Central Java
The Great Mosque of Central Java (Masjid Agung Jawa Tengah) is Central Java's largest mosque, in Semarang, Indonesia; completed in 2006, it holds 16,000 worshippers.
Great Mosque of Demak
The Great Mosque of Demak (Masjid Agung Demak) is a 15th-century mosque in Demak, Central Java, traditionally regarded as the oldest mosque in Java and tied to the Demak Sultanate.
Great Mosque of Divriği
The Great Mosque of Divriği (Divriği Ulu Camii) is a 13th-century mosque and hospital complex in Divriği, Turkey, built in 1228–29 and listed by UNESCO in 1985.
Great Mosque of Djenné
Great Mosque of Djenné, Mali: world's largest mud-brick building, a Sudano-Sahelian mosque completed 1907 on a 13th-century site, replastered annually at the Crépissage festival; World Heritage in Danger since 2016.
Great Mosque of Samarra
The Great Mosque of Samarra (جامع المتوكل), or Jami' al-Mutawakkil, is a ninth-century Abbasid congregational mosque in Samarra, Iraq, once the largest mosque in the world.
Great Northern Highway
Great Northern Highway is a 2,452-kilometer highway in Western Australia linking Perth with the state's north-west and the Northern Territory, the longest route in the state road network.
Great Northern Railway (U.S.)
The Great Northern Railway was a transcontinental railroad running from St. Paul to Seattle, created by James J. Hill in 1889 and merged into Burlington Northern in 1970.
Great Northern Telegraph Company
The Great Northern Telegraph Company was a Danish company founded in 1869 whose submarine cables linked Scandinavia with Britain and Russia and connected China and Japan from 1872.
Great Northern Telegraph Company cable expeditions in East Asia
The Great Northern Telegraph Company, a Danish firm, laid three submarine cables linking Vladivostok, Nagasaki, Shanghai, and Hong Kong in 1870–71, opened as a route in 1872.
Great Observatories program
NASA's Great Observatories program comprises four large astronomical satellites observing different wavelengths: Hubble, Compton, Chandra, and Spitzer, launched between 1990 and 2003, with Hubble and Chandra still operating.
Great Railroad Strike of 1877
The Great Railroad Strike of 1877 was a nationwide strike that began on the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad and was the first national strike in US history.
Great River Energy
Great River Energy is a not-for-profit generation and transmission electric cooperative headquartered in Maple Grove, Minnesota, formed in 1999 by merger and supplying wholesale power to member-owned distribution cooperatives.
Great River Road
The Great River Road is a network of federal, state, and local highways following the Mississippi River for 3,000 miles through 10 states, from Minnesota to Louisiana.
Great room
A great room is a large, open living space in a house that combines the family room, living room, and kitchen or dining area, with raised ceilings.
Great Seto Bridge
The Great Seto Bridge (瀬戸大橋, Seto Ōhashi) is a 13.1 km series of six double-deck bridges carrying road and rail across the Seto Inland Sea between Honshu and Shikoku in Japan.
Great Southern (train)
The Great Southern is a luxury tourist train operated by Journey Beyond between Brisbane and Adelaide, launched in 2019 as Australia's summer counterpart to The Ghan.
Great Stink
The Great Stink was the 1858 episode when hot weather made sewage smells from the Thames unbearable in London, prompting Parliament to fund a new sewer system.
Great Wall Motor
Great Wall Motor Company Limited (长城汽车) is a private Chinese automaker founded in 1984 in Baoding, Hebei, producing SUVs, pickups, and electric vehicles under brands like Haval and Ora.
Great Western Railway
Great Western Railway is the name of two connected British railway enterprises: the historic company incorporated in 1835 and today's FirstGroup train operator from London Paddington.
Great Western Railway (train operating company)
Great Western Railway, formerly First Great Western, is a British train operating company running services from London Paddington to South Wales and the West Country.
Great Western Railway absorbed locomotives
Great Western Railway absorbed locomotives were engines of independent British companies taken over by the GWR between the 1870s and the 1923 Grouping, then renumbered into its own series.
Great Western Railway telegraphic codes
Great Western Railway telegraphic codes, or GWR telegraphic codes, were single code words sent in place of full phrases in telegrams between the railway's stations and offices.
Great White Way (auto trail)
The Great White Way was an auto trail across Iowa from Davenport to Council Bluffs, the first route certified by the Iowa State Highway Commission in 1914.
Greater Anglia
Greater Anglia is a British train operating company running passenger services from London Liverpool Street across East Anglia, including the Stansted Express, publicly owned since October 2025.