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Grand Canyon Series: major division of rocks in northern Arizona dating from Precambrian time (about 3.8 billion to 540 million years ago). The rocks of the Grand Canyon Series consist of about 3,400 ...
Grand Circuit: oldest continuing harness horse-racing series in the United States. It was begun in 1871 by Colonel Billy Edwards, a businessman from Cleveland, Ohio. The circuit, then known as the Quadrilateral ...
Grand Coulee Dam: gravity dam on the Columbia River in the state of Washington, U.S. It was originally a project of the Federal Bureau of Reclamation. The main structure and power plant were ...
Grand Dictionnaire encyclopedique Larousse: (French: "Larousse Great Encyclopaedic Dictionary"), French encyclopaedia published in Paris (1982-85) by Librairie Larousse and based on earlier editions of Larousse encyclopaedias dating back to the Grand Dictionnaire universel du ...
grand duke: title of sovereign princes ranking between kings and dukes and of certain members of the Russian imperial family.
Grand Falls: town, Victoria county, northwestern New Brunswick, Canada. Grand Falls lies along the St. John River, 142 miles (228 km) northwest of Fredericton.
Grand Falls-Windsor: town, central Newfoundland, Canada. It lies along the Exploits River and the Trans-Canada Highway, 266 miles (428 km) northwest of St. John's. Grand Falls developed around a newsprint and pulp ...
Grand Forks: city, seat (1875) of Grand Forks county, eastern North Dakota, U.S. It lies at the confluence of the Red River of the North and the Red Lake River, opposite East ...
Grand Guignol: short plays popular in Parisian cabarets in the 19th century, especially at the Theatre du Grand Guignol. The plays emphasized violence, horror, and sadism. Although Grand Guignol was introduced into ...
Grand Harbour: small inlet on the east coast of Malta in the Mediterranean Sea. It is separated from Marsamxett harbour by Mount Sceberras, a rocky promontory on which Valletta, Malta's capital, is ...
grand hazard: gambling game with dice from which chuck-a-luck evolved. In the United States the game is sometimes mistakenly called chuck-a-luck. Grand hazard is sometimes known just as hazard (especially in casinos), ...
Grand Island: city, seat of Hall county, southeast-central Nebraska, U.S. The town's name comes from an island in the nearby Platte River called La Grande Ile by early French-Canadian trappers.
Grand Isle: county, northwestern Vermont, U.S. It is bordered to the north by Quebec, Can., and to the west by New York state. It consists of a peninsula extending southward into Lake ...
Grand Junction: city, seat (1883) of Mesa county, western Colorado, U.S. It lies in the Grand Valley (elevation 4,586 feet [1,398 metres]), at the confluence of the Colorado and Gunnison rivers. Settled ...
grand jury: in Anglo-American law, a group that examines accusations against persons charged with crime and, if the evidence warrants, makes formal charges on which the accused persons are later tried. Through ...
Grand Manan Island: island in the Bay of Fundy, southwestern New Brunswick, Canada. The island lies near the entrance to Passamaquoddy Bay, 23 miles (37 km) southeast of Saint Andrews and 9 miles ...
Grand National: British horse race held annually over the Aintree course, Liverpool, in late March or early April; it attracts more attention throughout the world than any other steeplechase. The race was ...
Grand National Party: conservative political party in South Korea.
Grand Ole Opry: country music show in Nashville, Tenn., U.S., which began weekly radio broadcasts in December 1925, playing traditional country or hillbilly music. Founded by George Dewey Hay, who had helped organize ...
Grand Portage National Monument: historic site in the northeastern corner of Minnesota, U.S., on Lake Superior near the Canadian border, 140 miles (225 km) northeast of Duluth. Designated a national historic site in 1951 ...
Grand Pre: unincorporated place, Kings county, central Nova Scotia, Canada. It lies on the south shore of Minas Basin (an inlet of the Bay of Fundy). Settled in the late 17th century ...
Grand Prix de Rome: any of a group of scholarships awarded by the French government to enable young French artists to study in Rome. It is so named because the students who win the ...
Grand Prix racing: automobile racing on closed highways or other courses somewhat simulating road conditions. Such racing began in 1906 and, in the second half of the 20th century, became the most popular ...
Grand Rapids: city, seat (1836) of Kent county, western Michigan, U.S. It is situated along the Grand River, 25 miles (40 km) east of Lake Michigan and 149 miles (240 km) west-northwest ...
Grand River: river formed by the confluence of the North and South forks in Perkins county, northern South Dakota, U.S. The Grand River flows southeast and a little south to join the ...
Grand River: river rising near Creston, Union county, south-central Iowa, U.S., and flowing in a southerly direction into Missouri. It merges with the Thompson River and Shoal, Medicine, and Locust creeks near ...
Grand Teton National Park: spectacular glaciated mountain region in northwestern Wyoming, U.S. It lies just south of Yellowstone National Park (to which it is connected by the John D. Rockefeller, Jr., Memorial Parkway) and ...
Grand Traverse Bay: northeastern arm of Lake Michigan, indenting the northwest coast of the Lower Peninsula of Michigan, U.S. The head of the bay (32 miles [52 km] long and 12 miles [19 ...
Grand Trunk Railway: early Canadian railway line, incorporated in 1852-53 to build a railway connecting the key cities of eastern Canada (the area now known as Ontario and Quebec) with the American seacoast ...
Grand Turk: chief island and seat of government of the British colony of the Turks and Caicos Islands in the West Indies, north of Hispaniola. The only town and port on the ...
grand unified theory: in particle physics, theory that attempts to unify the strong force with the electroweak force. See unified field theory.
Grand Union Flag: American colonial banner first displayed by George Washington on Jan. 1, 1776. It showed the British Union Flag of 1606 in the canton. Its field consisted of seven red and ...
Grand-Bassam: city, southeastern Cote d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast). It lies at the mouth of the Komoe (Comoe) River at the eastern entrance to the Ebrie Lagoon. The site of a French trading ...
Grand-Mere: city, Mauricie-Bois-Francs region, south-central Quebec province, Canada, on the Saint-Maurice River. The name (French: "grandmother") was inspired by a rock in the river that, according to the Indians, resembled an ...
Grandbois, Alain: French-Canadian poet whose use of unconventional verse forms, abstract metaphors of voyage and death, and colourful imagery influenced younger experimental poets.
Grandchamp and Taize communities: two associated Protestant religious communities founded in the mid-20th century in Switzerland and France.
Grande Cascade: set of cataracts in the Pyrenees range near the head of the Pau Stream in southern France. At 1,450 feet (442 m), it is among the world's highest waterfalls. Fed ...
grande cuisine: the classic cuisine of France as it evolved from its beginnings in the 16th century to its fullest flowering in the lavish banquets of the 19th century. The classic cuisine ...
Grande Dixence Dam: gravity dam on the Dixence River, Switzerland, completed in 1961. It is 935 feet (285 m) high and 2,280 feet (695 m) wide at the crest, has a volume of ...
Grande dizionario della lingua italiana: (Italian: "Great Dictionary of the Italian Language"), Italian dictionary, a scholarly work being produced at Turin, intended to replace the Dizionario della lingua italiana (1861-79), the standard Italian dictionary. Volumes ...
Grande Enciclopedia Portuguesa e Brasileira: (Portuguese: "Great Portuguese and Brazilian Encyclopaedia"), 37-volume Portuguese dictionary-encyclopaedia published in Lisbon and Rio de Janeiro (1935-57), with a 3-volume appendix (1958-60). A second part, covering Brazilian subjects, was begun ...
Grande Encyclopedie, La: (French: "The Great Encyclopaedia"), French general encyclopaedia, lavishly illustrated in 21 volumes and published in Paris (1971-78). The work has a French slant and an emphasis on 20th-century achievements in ...
Grande Prairie: city, western Alberta, Canada. It lies along the Bear River, near the British Columbia border, 286 miles (460 km) northwest of Edmonton. Named by a missionary and settled by farmers ...
Grande Range: range of granite hills, eastern Uruguay. It forms the eastern limit of the Negro River drainage basin and the watershed between it and that of the Mirim (Merin) Lagoon to ...
Grande River: river, south-central Brazil. It rises in the Mantiqueira Mountains almost in sight of Rio de Janeiro city and descends inland, west-northwestward, in many falls and rapids. Its lower course marks ...
Grande-Terre: island in the Lesser Antilles in the Caribbean Sea, which with its twin to the west, Basse-Terre, constitutes the core of the French overseas departement of Guadeloupe. Although the two ...
grandee: a title of honour borne by the highest class of the Spanish nobility. The title appears first to have been assumed during the late Middle Ages by certain of the ...
grandfather clause: statutory or constitutional device enacted by seven Southern states between 1895 and 1910 to deny suffrage to American blacks; it provided that those who had enjoyed the right to vote ...
Grandgent, Charles Hall: American linguist who was a principal authority on Vulgar Latin. He was also noted for his scholarship on Dante.
Grandi, Alessandro: Italian composer noted for his solo songs; he was the first to use the word cantata in the modern sense.
Grandi, Dino, Conte Di Mordano: high-ranking official of Italy's Fascist regime who contributed to the downfall of the dictator Benito Mussolini.
Grandin, Temple: American scientist and industrial designer whose own experience with autism funded her professional work in creating systems to counter stress in certain human and animal populations.
Grandjean, Philippe: French type engraver particularly noted for his famous series of roman and italic types known as Romain du Roi. The design was commissioned in 1692 for the Imprimerie Royale (royal ...
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five: American group that was instrumental in the development of hip-hop music. The members were Grandmaster Flash (original name Joseph Saddler; b. Jan. 1, 1958), Cowboy (original name Keith Wiggins; b. ...
Grandville: French caricaturist who is admired as a fantasist and proto-Surrealist. His big-headed people, seen as if in distorting mirrors, and his animal analogies (individuals with the bodies of men and ...
Grange, Red: American collegiate and professional gridiron football player and broadcaster. He was an outstanding halfback whose spectacular long runs made him one of the most famous players of the 20th century. ...
Grangemouth: seaport and industrial town on the south shore of the River Forth estuary, Falkirk council area, historic county of Stirlingshire, Scotland.
Granger movement: coalition of U.S. farmers, particularly in the Middle West, that fought monopolistic grain transport practices during the decade following the American Civil War.
Granger, Clive W.J.: Welsh economist, corecipient of the Nobel Prize for Economics in 2003 for his development of techniques for analyzing time series data with common trends. He shared the award with Robert ...
Granicus, Battle of the: (early summer of 334 BC), first victory won by Alexander the Great of Macedon in his invasion of the Persian Empire. The Persians, numbering perhaps 40,000, occupied the far bank ...
Granit, Ragnar Arthur: Finnish-born Swedish physiologist who was a corecipient (with George Wald and Haldan Hartline) of the 1967 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for his analysis of the internal electrical changes ...
granite: coarse- or medium-grained intrusive igneous rock that is rich in quartz and feldspar; it is the most common plutonic rock of the Earth's crust, forming by the cooling of magma ...
Granite City: city, Madison county, southwestern Illinois, U.S. Situated on the Mississippi River just northeast of St. Louis, Missouri, it lies within that city's metropolitan area. Granite City was first settled in ...
granite moss: any of the plants of the order Andreaeales, comprising a single family, Andreaeaceae, which includes the genera Andreaea, with about 120 species, and Neuroloma, with one species. The reddish-brown or ...
Granite Peak: peak in the Beartooth Range, Montana, U.S., the highest point (12,799 feet [3,901 metres]) in the state. Granite Peak is situated northeast of Yellowstone National Park and about 10 miles ...
Granite Railway: first chartered railroad in the United States (March 4, 1826). It was designed and built by Gridley Bryant, an engineer, and began operations on Oct. 7, 1826, running three miles ...
granitization: formation of granite or closely related rocks by metamorphic processes, as opposed to igneous processes in which such rocks form from a melt, or magma, of granitic composition. In granitization, ...
Granja De San Ildefonso, La: Spanish royal glass factory established in 1728 near the summer palace of King Philip V in San Ildefonso. The glassworkers were initially foreigners; the main stylistic influence was, as in ...
Granma: province, southeastern Cuba. It is bordered by the provinces of Las Tunas on the northwest, Holguin on the northeast, Santiago de Cuba on the east and on the south and ...
Granma: daily newspaper published in Havana, the official organ of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba. The paper takes its name from the yacht that carried Fidel Castro ...
Granmont, Louis: one of the most celebrated of French buccaneers, a scourge of the Spanish settlements bounding the Caribbean.
granodiorite: medium- to coarse-grained rock that is among the most abundant intrusive igneous rocks. It contains quartz and is distinguished from granite by its having more plagioclase feldspar than orthoclase feldspar; ...
Granollers: city, Barcelona province, in the autonomous community (region) of Catalonia, northeastern Spain. The capital of the fertile Valles region, Granollers is a marketing and manufacturing centre that produces chemicals and ...
granophyre: fine-grained igneous rock that is characterized by a porphyritic texture, having large crystals (phenocrysts) that rest in a nonglassy, finely crystalline matrix (groundmass). Granophyre is similar to granite, except for ...
Grant: county, southwestern New Mexico, U.S., a scenic region bordered on the west by Arizona. The Continental Divide crosses the county. The wide northern section of Grant county lies for the ...
Grant, Bernie: British politician who, with Paul Boateng and Diane Abbott, was one of the first persons of African descent to win election to the House of Commons. The son of educators, ...