Grand Marnier Grand Marnier is a liqueur created in 1880 by Alexandre Marnier-Lapostolle. It is a kind of triple sec, made from a blend of true cognacs, distilled essence of orange, and other ingredients. Grand Marnier is about 40% alcohol. It is produced in several varieties, most of which can be consumed "neat" or can be used in mixed drinks.
	Grand piano A grand piano is the concert form of a piano. A grand piano has the frame and strings placed horizontally, with the strings extending away from the keyboard. Grand pianos are distinguished from upright pianos, which have their strings and frame arranged vertically. Grand Pianos are typically used for concerts and concert hall performances, although a baby grand piano can also be used in a household where space is limited.
	Grand Teton National Park Grand Teton National Park is a United States National Park located in western Wyoming, south of Yellowstone National Park. It is named after Grand Teton, which at 13,770 feet , is the tallest mountain in the Teton Range. The mountains were named by a French trapper who viewed them from the Idaho side of the range and called them ttons, French language slang for "breasts" .
	Grand Tour The Grand Tour was a European travel itinerary that flourished from about 1660 until the arrival of mass rail transit in the 1820s. It was popular amongst young British upper-class men and served as an educational rite of passage for the wealthy. Its primary value lay in the exposure both to the cultural artifacts of antiquity and the Renaissance and to the aristocratic and fashionable society of the European Continent.
	Grandma Moses Grandma Moses was a renowned United States Folk art. She was born Anna Mary Robertson in Greenwich, New York. She spent most of her life as a farmer's wife and the mother of 5 children. She married Thomas Solomon Moses in 1887. They lived in the Shenandoah Valley, then later settling at Eagle Bridge, New York.
	Grandparent Grandparents are family members, the father and mother of a person's own father and mother, being respectively grandfather and grandmother. Grandparents form an important part of the extended family. In western societies, particularly the United States of America given unstable intimate relationships and relationship breakup between parents, high levels of unstable cohabitation or common-law marriage relationships and divorce, grandparents have increasingly taken on the role of primar
	Granite Granite is a common and widely-occurring type of Intrusion , felsic, igneous rock rock . Granites are usually a white, black or buff color and are medium to coarse grain size, occasionally with some individual crystals larger than the groundmass forming a rock known as Porphyry .
	Granny knot The granny knot is a bend, used to tie together two loose ends. It looks a lot like the reef knot, or square knot, and is sometimes confused with it. When attempting to tie a reef knot, it can be easy to substitute a granny knot accidentally, but this is dangerous because the latter slips if heavily tested.
	Granny Smith Granny Smith is an apple cultivar originating in Australia from 1868 from a chance seedling Fruit tree propagation by Marie Ana (Granny) Smith. It is thought to be a seed from Malus sylvestris, the European Wild Apple, with the domestic apple M. domestica as the pollenizer; if this origin is correct, it is a hybrid.
	Granola Granola is a breakfast and snack food consisting of rolled oats, dried fruits, nut, and mixed with honey, or other ingredients. The mixture is baked until crispy. During the baking process the mixture is stirred to maintain a loose, breakfast cereal type consistency.
	Grant Wood Grant Wood, born Grant DeVolson Wood was an United States painter, born in Anamosa, Iowa, Iowa. He is best known for his paintings depicting the rural American Midwest. His family moved to Cedar Rapids, Iowa after his father died in 1901.
	Granuloma In medicine, a granuloma is a group of epithelioid macrophages surrounded by a lymphocyte cuff. Granulomas are small nodules that are seen in a variety of diseases such as Crohn's disease, tuberculosis, sarcoidosis, berylliosis and syphilis. It is also a feature of Wegener's granulomatosis and Churg-Strauss syndrome, two related autoimmune disorders.
	Grape Grapes are the fruit that grow on a woody grape vine. The grapevine belongs to the family Vitaceae. Grapes grow in clusters of 6 to 300, and can be black, blue, golden, green, purple-red and white. They can be eaten raw or used for making grape juice, jelly, wine, and grape seed oil.
	Grape hyacinth Grape hyacinths are a group of plants in the genus of plants native to Eurasia that produce spikes of blue flowers resembling bunches of grapes. There are about forty species. Some species are among the earliest to bloom in the spring, and are planted both in flower beds as well as in lawns.
	Grape juice Grape juice is a fruit juice obtained from crushing grapes. The juice is often fermentation and made into wine, brandy, or vinegar. In the wine industry grape juice is often referred to as "must." Grape juice can also be sweetened and preserved as a beverage.
	Grapefruit The grapefruit is a sub-tropical citrus tree grown for its fruit, which are also known as grapefruit. The evergreen tree is usually found at around 5-6 metre tall, although it can reach 13-15 m. The leaves are dark green, long and thin. It produces 5 cm white four-petalled flowers.
	Grapeshot Grapeshot is a type of Anti-personnel weapon ammunition used in cannons. Instead of a solid shot, a mass of loosely packed metal slugs is loaded into a canvas bag. Grapeshot can also be improvised from chainlinks, shards of glass, rocks, et cetera. The balls assembled resemble a cluster of grapes.
	Graph paper Graph paper is paper that is printed with fine lines making up a grid. The lines are used as guides for plotting mathematical functions and drawing diagrams. It is commonly found in mathematics classrooms and in engineering settings for quick drawings and sketches. it is also available without lines but with dots at the positions where the lines would intersect.
	Graphical user interface A graphical user interface , is a particular case of user interface for human-computer interaction which employs graphical images and widget s in addition to text to represent the information and actions available to the user. Usually the actions are performed through direct manipulation of the graphical elements.
	Graphics Graphics are visual presentations on some surface such as a wall, canvas, computer screen, paper, or stone to brand, inform, illustrate, or entertain. Examples are photographs, drawings, Line Art, graphs, diagrams, typography, numbers, symbols, geometric designs, maps, engineering drawings, or other Category:Graphic design
	Graphite Graphite is one of the allotropes of carbon carbon. Unlike diamond, graphite is an electrical conductor, and can be used, for instance, as the material in the electrodes of an electrical arc lamp. Graphite holds the distinction of being the most stable form of solid carbon ever discovered.
	Grappa Grappa is a fragrant grape-based alcohol of between 40% and 60% alcohol by volume, of Italy origin. It is made by distillation pomace, i.e.,  grape residue left over from winemaking. It was originally made to prevent wastage by using leftovers at the end of the wine season.
	Grappling Grappling refers to the gripping, handling and controlling of an opponent without the use of strike , typically through the application of various grappling holds and counters to various hold attempts. A grappler is a person who predominantly practices grappling in martial arts or combat sports.
	Graptophyllum Graptophyllum is a genus of plants in the family Acanthaceae. One of the species in this genus is G. pictum, the Caricature plant. Another species is the Graptophyllum ilicifolium, the Graptophyllum_ilicifolium.
	Grass Grass generally describes a monocotyledonous green plant in the family Poaceae, botanically regarded as true grasses. However, there are many plants outside the Poaceae family that have similar appearances to grass, with leaves rising vertically from the ground, and which are commonly called "grasses", or have "grass" as part of their name.
	Grass pink Grass pinks are a group of terrestrial orchids. The generic name is from Greek language and means "beautiful beard", referring to the cluster of hairs adorning the labellum. The genus is confined to the United States, with 5 species found in the southeastern U.S., but only one north into Wisconsin.
	Grass Snake The Grass Snake, sometimes called the Ringed Snake or Water Snake is a European non-venom snake. The Grass Snake is typically dark green or brown in colour with a characteristic yellow collar behind the head, which explains the alternative name ringed snake.
	Grasshopper Grasshoppers are herbivorous insects of the suborder Caelifera in the order Orthoptera. To distinguish them from Tettigoniidae, they are sometimes referred to as short-horned grasshoppers. Species that change colour and behaviour at high population densities are called locusts.
	Grasshopper mouse The genus Onychomys, contains species commonly referred to as grasshopper mice., This is a genus of New World mouse only distantly related to the common house mouse, Mus musculus. Its behavior is rather distinct from other mice. It is a carnivorous rodent, dining on insects, worm, and even young mice.
	Grassland A grassland is a generally open and continuous, fairly flat area of grass. Grasslands are often located between temperate forests at high latitudes and deserts at subtropical latitudes. Grasses vary in size from 2.1 m tall with roots extending down into the soil 1.8 m, to the short grasses only a few millimeters tall.
	Grater A grater is a kitchen appliance used to grate foods into fine strips or powder. Several types of graters boast different sizes of grating slots, and can therefore aid in the preparation of a variety of foods. They are commonly used to grate cheese and lemon or orange peel, and can also be used to grate other soft foods.
	Grating A grating is any regularly spaced collection of essentially identical, parallel, elongated elements. Gratings usually consist of a single set of elongated elements, but can consist of two sets, in which case the second set is usually perpendicular to the first. When the two sets are perpendicular, this is also known as a grid.
	Gravedigger A gravedigger is a cemetery worker responsible for digging Grave used in the process of burial.
	Gravel Gravel is rock that is of a certain grain size range. In geology, gravel is any loose rock that is at least two millimeters in its largest dimension and no more than 75 millimeters. Sometimes gravel is restricted to rock in the 2-4 millimeter range, with pebble being reserved for rock 4-75 millimeters.
	Gravitation In physics, gravitation or gravity is the tendency of objects with mass to acceleration toward each other. Gravitation is one of the four fundamental interactions in nature, the other three being the electromagnetic force, the weak nuclear force, and the strong nuclear force.
	Gravitational collapse Gravitational collapse in astronomy is the inward fall of a massive body under the influence of the force of gravity. It occurs when all other forces fail to supply a sufficiently high pressure to counterbalance gravity and keep the massive body in equilibrium. Gravitational collapse is at the heart of the structure formation in the universe.
	Gravitational Forces Gravitational Forces is an album by Texas-based Folk music singer-songwriter Robert Earl Keen, first released in the United States on August 7 2001.
	Gravity bomb A gravity bomb is an aircraft-delivered bomb that does not contain a guidance system and hence follows a Ballistics trajectory. Until the later half of World War II this described all aircraft bombs, and described the vast majority until the late 1980s. Then, with the dramatically increased use of precision guided munitions, a new term was needed to separate 'smart bombs' from those that weren't.
	Gravity wave In fluid dynamics, gravity waves are those generated in a fluid medium or on an Interface and having a restoring force of gravity or buoyancy. When a fluid parcel is displaced on an interface or internally to a region with a different density, gravity restores the parcel toward mechanical equilibrium resulting in an oscillation about the equilibrium state.
	Gravy Gravy is a thickened sauce, usually made from a base of extracts that run from meat and/or vegetables during cooking. Recently, extracts have tended to be bought in the form of ready made cubes and powders. Gravy is most commonly served with a Roast, or Sunday roasts or with mashed potatoes or other popular types of potatoes.
	Gray Birch Gray Birch is a deciduous tree native to North America. It ranges from southeastern Ontario east to Nova Scotia, and south to Pennsylvania and New Jersey. It also has disjunct populations in Indiana, Virginia, and North Carolina. It prefers poor, dry upland soils, but is also found in moist mixed woodlands.
	Gray Catbird The Gray Catbird is a medium-sized passerine of the Mimid family and the only member of genus Dumetella. Adults are dark gray with a slim, black bill and dark eyes. They have a long dark tail, dark legs and a dark cap; they are rust-colored underneath their tail.
	Gray Fox The Gray Fox is a species of fox ranging from southern Canada, throughout most of the lower United States and Central America, to Venezuela. This species and the closely related Island Fox are the only living members of the genus Urocyon, which is considered to be among the most primitive of the living canids.
	Gray Jay The Gray Jay Perisoreus canadensis, is a medium-sized jay. Adults are gray on the upperparts, with a white forehead, face and throat. They have a dark cap and a short thick dark bill. They are slightly smaller than a Blue Jay. Their breeding habitat is forested areas containing conifer across Canada, Alaska, New England, New York, and coastal and montane parts of the western United States.
	Gray Kingbird The Gray Kingbird, Tyrannus dominicensis, is a passerine bird. It breeds from the extreme southeast of the USA through Central America and the West Indies south to Colombia, Venezuela, Trinidad, Tobago and the Guianas. Northern populations are bird migration, wintering on the Caribbean coast of Central America and northern South America.
	Gray Whale The Gray Whale or Grey Whale , more recently called the Eastern Pacific Gray Whale, is a whale that travels between feeding and breeding grounds yearly. It reaches a length of about 16 meters , a weight of 36 tons and an age of 50–60 years. Gray Whales were once called devil fish because of their fighting behavior when hunted.
	Gray Wolf The Gray Wolf is a mammal in the order Carnivora. The Gray Wolf shares a common ancestry with the dog , as evidenced by DNA sequencing and genetic drift studies. Gray wolves were once abundant and distributed over much of North America, Eurasia, and the Middle East.
	Graz Graz [gra?ts] , with a population of 285,470 as of 2006 , is the List of cities and towns in Austria#List of cities and towns by population size in Austria after Vienna and the capital of the federal state of Styria . It has a long tradition as a student city, with six List of universities in Austria with over 40,000 students.
	Grease Monkeys Grease Monkeys is a fictional fast-food restaurant in the popular Australian soap, Neighbours. It was once owned by Harold Bishop.
	Greasy spoon Greasy spoon is a colloquial term used in Britain and North America for archetypal working class eateries. In the UK, these are generally technically called cafs ; in America such establishments are generally known as diners. The name "greasy spoon" is used to imply a less than rigourous approach to hygiene and washing dishes, and appears to date from 1925.
	Great Attractor The Great Attractor is a gravitational anomaly in intergalactic outer space within the range of the Centaurus Supercluster which reveals the existence of a localised concentration of mass equivalent to tens of thousands of galaxies, observable by its effect on the motion of galaxies over a region hundreds of millions of light years across.
	Great Auk The Great Auk is an extinct bird. It was the only species in the genus Pinguinus, flightless giant auks from the Atlantic, to survive until recent times, but is extinct today. It was also known as garefowl , or penguin . In the past, the Great Auk was found in great numbers on islands off eastern Canada, Greenland, Iceland, Norway, Ireland and Great Britain, but it was eventually hunted to extinction.
	Great Australian Bight The Great Australian Bight is a large bight, or open bay, encompassing an area of the Southern Ocean located off the central and western portions of the southern coastline of mainland Australia. By definition of the International Hydrographic Bureau, the Great Australian Bight extends eastward from West Cape Howe, Western Australia, to South West Cape, Tasmania.
	Great Barrier Reef The Great Barrier Reef is the world's largest coral reef system, composed of roughly 3,000 individual reefs and 900 islands, that stretch for 2,600 kilometres.Great Barrier Reef can be seen from outer space and is sometimes referred to as the single largest organism in the world. In reality, it is made up of many millions of tiny organisms, known as coral polyps.
	Great Black-backed Gull The Great Black-backed Gull, Larus marinus, is a very large gull which breeds on the European and North American coasts and islands of the North Atlantic. It is fairly sedentary, but some birds move further south or inland to large lakes or reservoirs. This species breeds singly or in small colonies, making a lined nest on the ground often on top of a rocky stack.
	Great Blue Heron The Great Blue Heron, Ardea herodias, is a wading bird of the heron family Ardeidae, common all over North America and Central America as well as the West Indies and the Galpagos Islands, except in deserts and high mountains where there is no water for it to wade in.
	Great Britain Great Britain is an island lying off the northwestern coast of mainland Europe and to the east of Ireland, comprising the main territory of the United Kingdom. Great Britain is also used as a geopolitical term describing the combination of England, Scotland, and Wales, which together comprise the entire island and some outlying islands.
	Great Bustard The Great Bustard, Otis tarda, is in the bustard family, the only member of the genus Otis. It breeds in southern and central Europe and across temperate Asia. European populations are mainly resident, but Asian birds bird migration further south in winter. It is the national bird of Hungary.
	Great circle A great circle is a circle on the surface of a sphere that has the same circumference as the sphere, and divides the sphere into two equal hemispheres. Equivalently, a great circle on a sphere is a circle on the sphere's surface whose center is the same as the center of the sphere. A great circle is the intersection of a sphere with a plane going through its center.
	Great Crested Grebe The Great Crested Grebe, Podiceps cristatus, is a member of the grebe family of water birds.
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	Great Depression The Great Depression was a worldwide Recession which started in 1929 and lasting through most of the 1930s. It centered in North America and Europe, but had damaging effects around the world. The most industrialized countries were affected the worst, including the Great Depression in the United States, Great Depression in Germany, Great Depression in the United Kingdom, Great Depression in France, Great Depression in Canada, and Great Depression in Australia
	Great Dividing Range The Great Dividing Range, also known as the Eastern Highlands, is Australia's most substantial mountain range. The ranges were home to Indigenous Australians tribes such as the Kulin and were central to European exploration of Australia. The range stretches more than 3500km from the northeastern tip of Queensland, running the entire length of the eastern coastline through New South Wales, then into Victoria and turning west, before finally fading into the central plain at the Grampian Mountains
	Great Grey Owl The Great Grey Owl or Lapland Owl is a very large typical owl. They breed in North America from Lake Superior to the Pacific coast and Alaska, and from Scandinavia across northern Asia. They are permanent residents, but may move south and southeast when food is scarce.
	Great hall A great hall was the main room of a royal palace, a nobleman's castle or a large manor house in the Middle Ages, and in the country houses of the 16th century and early 17th century. As that time the word great simply meant big, and had not acquired its modern connotations of excellence.
	Great Horned Owl The Great Horned Owl, Bubo virginianus, is a very large Typical owl. Adults have large ear tufts, a reddish face, a white patch on the throat and yellow eyes. The ear tufts are not actually ears, but just tufts of feathers. The underparts are light with brown barring; the upper parts are mottled brown.
	Great Lakes The Great Lakes are a group of five large lakes in North America on or near the Canada-United States border. They are the largest group of fresh water lakes on Earth. The Great Lakes-Saint Lawrence River system is the largest fresh-water system in the world.
	Great Plains The Great Plains is the broad expanse of prairie and steppe which lies east of the Rocky Mountains in the United States and Canada. This area covers all or parts of the U.S. states of Colorado, Kansas, Montana, Nebraska, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Texas and Wyoming, and the provinces and territories of Canada of Alberta, Manitoba and Saskatchewan.
	Great power A great power is a term used to refer to a nation or state that, through its great economic, politics and military strength, is able to exert Power over world diplomacy. Its opinions are often strongly taken into account by other nations before taking diplomatic or military action.
	Great Rift Valley The Great Rift Valley is a vast geographical and geological feature that runs north to south for some 5,000 km, from northern Syria in Southwest Asia to central Mozambique in East Africa. The valley varies in width from thirty to one hundred kilometers, and in depth from a few hundred to several thousand meters.