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Great Salt Lake
Great Salt Lake, located in the northern part of the U.S. state of Utah, is the largest salt lake in the Western Hemisphere, the fourth largest Endorheic in the world, and the 33rd largest lake on Earth. In an average year the lake covers an area of around 1,700 square mileslake is the largest remnant of Lake Bonneville, a pluvial lake which covered much of western Utah in prehistoric times.
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Great Seal of the United States
The Great Seal of the United States is used to authenticate certain documents issued by the United States government. The phrase is used both for the physical seal itself , and more generally for the design represented upon it. The Great Seal was first publicly used in 1782.
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Great Skua
The Great Skua, Stercorarius skua, is a large seabird in the skua family Stercorariidae. In Britain, it is sometimes known by the name Bonxie, a Shetland name of unknown origin.
This is a large skua 5058cm in length with a 125140cm wingspan. It breeds in Iceland, Norway, the Faroe Islands and the Scotland islands, with a few on mainland Scotland.
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Great Slave Lake
Great Slave Lake is the second largest lake in the Northwest Territories of Canada, the deepest lake in North America at 614 meters, and the tenth largest lake in the world. It is 480 kilometres long and 19 to 109 kilometres wide. It covers an area of 28,400 square kilometres in the southern part of the territory.
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Great Smoky Mountains
The Great Smoky Mountains are a major mountain range in the southern part of the Appalachian Mountains, the second ridge line forming a north-south running mountain chain from the eastern seaboard and bordering the western side of the Blue Ridge Mountains. Also called the Smoky Mountains or the Smokies, they straddle the border between Tennessee and North Carolina, and are entirely west of the Eastern Continental Divide.
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Great Smoky Mountains National Park
The Great Smoky Mountains National Park is a United States National Park that straddles the ridgeline of the Great Smoky Mountains, part of the Blue Ridge Mountains which are a division of the larger Appalachian Mountains. The border between Tennessee to the west and North Carolina to the east runs northeast to southwest through the centerline of the park.
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Great Snipe
The Great Snipe, Gallinago media is a small stocky wader.
This bird's breeding habitat is marshes and wet meadows with short vegetation in north eastern Europe and north western Russia. Great Snipes are bird migration, wintering in Africa. The European breeding population is in steep decline.
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Great Wall of China
The Great Wall of China is a China fortification built from the 3rd century BC until the beginning of the 17th century, in order to protect the various dynasties from raids by Huns, Mongols, Turkic peoples, and other Ethnic groups in Chinese history coming from areas in modern-day Mongolia and Manchuria.
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Great white shark
The great white shark, Carcharodon carcharias, also known as white pointer, white shark, or white death, is an exceptionally large lamniform shark found in coastal surface waters in all major oceans. Reaching lengths of about 6 m and weighing almost 2,000 kg , the great white is the world's largest predatory fish.
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Greater Antilles
The islands of the Caribbean Sea, collectively known as the West Indies are sorted by size and location into the Bahamas, the Lesser Antilles and the Greater Antilles. The Greater Antilles are Cuba, Jamaica, the island of Hispaniola and Puerto Rico. The Greater Antilles are made up of continental rock, distinct from the Lesser Antilles, which are mostly young volcanic or coral islands.
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Greater burdock
Greater burdock is a biannual plant of the Arctium genus in the Asteraceae family, cultivated in gardens for its root used as a vegetable.
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Greater celandine
The greater celandine is a yellow-flowering poppy, native to Europe and the Mediterranean Sea. It is also widespread in North America, having been brought there by settlers as a herbal remedy for skin problems such as warts as early as 1672. The whole plant is toxic, containing a range of alkaloids, such as Chelerythrine; it may also cause contact dermatitis, particularly the latex.
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Greater Kudu
The Greater Kudu is a woodland antelope found throughout East Africa and Southern Africa.
Greater Kudu are about a metre to a metre and a half tall at the shoulder and weigh 120 to 500 kilograms, the males being much larger than the females. Greater Kudu have brown to grey-blue coats with many white stripes and markings.
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Greater London
Greater London is the top level administrative subdivision covering London, England.
The administrative area was created in 1965 and covers the City of London and 32 London boroughs. Its area also forms the London Regions of England of England and the London .
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Greater Prairie Chicken
The Greater Prairie-Chicken, Tympanuchus cupido, is a large bird in the grouse family. This North American species was once abundant, but has become extremely rare or extinct over much of its range due to habitat loss.
Adults of both sexes are 14 inches, medium sized, stocky, and round-winged.
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Greater Scaup
The Greater Scaup, or just Scaup in Europe, is a small diving duck. It breeds on the ground by lakes and bogs on the tundra and at the northern limits of the boreal forest across Arctic and subarctic regions of northern North America, Europe and Asia.
The adult Greater Scaup is 42-51 cm long with a 71-80 cm wingspan, larger than the Lesser Scaup.
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Greater Yellowlegs
The Greater Yellowlegs, Tringa melanoleuca, is a large shorebird similar in appearance to the smaller Lesser Yellowlegs.
Adults have long yellow legs and a long, thin, dark bill which has a slight upward curve and is longer in length than the head. The body is grey brown on top and white underneath; the neck and breast are streaked with dark brown.
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Greave
A greave is a piece of armour that protects the leg.
Often in matched pairs, greaves may be constructed of materials ranging from padded cloth to steel plate. Some designs protect only the lower leg or extend upwards to protect the thigh. Greaves can also be called platelegs.
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Grebe
Grebes are members of the Podicipediformes order, a widely distributed order of freshwater diving Avess, some of which visit the sea when Bird migration and in winter. This order contains only a single family, the Podicipedidae, containing 20 species in 6 genus.
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Greco-Roman wrestling
Greco-Roman wrestling is a form of amateur wrestling practiced throughout the world. It is one of two styles contested in the Olympic games and one of the base styles of Real Pro Wrestling.
According to the International Federation of Associated Wrestling Styles, Greco-Roman wrestling is one of the four main forms of amateur competitive wrestling practiced internationally today, the other three being Judo wrestling, Freestyle wrestling and sambo wrestling.
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Greece
Greece
Greece lies at the juncture of Europe, Asia, and Africa. It is heir to the heritages of Ancient Greece, the Byzantine Empire, and nearly four centuries of Ottoman Empire ruleistory
The shores of Greece's Aegean Sea saw the emergence of the first advanced civilizations in Europe, the Minoan civilization and Mycenae civilizations.
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Greed
Greed is a selfish desire to obtain money, wealth, material possessions or any other entity than one legitimately needs. Greed is listed as one of the Catholic seven deadly sins, usually by the synonym of avarice.
Desire to increase one's wealth has become more acceptable in Western culture, where the desire to acquire wealth has been understood as indispensable for economic prosperity.
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Greek alphabet
The Greek alphabet is an alphabet that has been used to write the Greek language since about the 9th century BC. It was the first alphabet in the narrow sense, that is, a writing system using a separate symbol for each vowel and consonant alike. It is the oldest alphabetic script in use today.
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Greek drachma
Drachma, pl. Drachmas or Drachmae is the name of both:
#An ancient currency unit found in many Greek city states and successor states, and in many Middle East kingdoms of the Hellenistic era.
#A modern Greek currency, introduced in 1832, and replaced by the euro in 2001 .
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Greek fire
Greek fire was a burning-liquid weapon used by the Byzantine Empire, typically in naval battles to great effect as it could continue burning even on water. "Byzantine fire" was largely responsible for many Byzantine military victories, and partly the reason for the Eastern Roman Empire surviving as long as it did.
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Greek key
A Greek Key is a repeating design element used in architecture, jewelry and fabrics. It is meant to evoke an Ancient Greek theme.
Its repeating design symbolises infinity; the design has been linked to images of the Labyrinth where the Minotaur was imprisoned.
In biochemistry, the term Greek Key refers to a kind of supersecondary structure or Structural motif of a protein sequence.
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Greek mythology
Greek mythology consists in part of a large collection of narratives that explain the origins of the world and detail the lives and adventures of a wide variety of Greek gods. These accounts were initially fashioned and disseminated in an oral tradition; our surviving sources of Greece mythology are literary reworkings of this oral tradition.
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Greeks
The Greeks are an ethnic group mostly found in the southern Balkan peninsula of southeastern Europe and are primarily associated with the Greek language. They have populated primarily Greece and Cyprus for some 3500 years. Until the early 20th century, Greeks were uniformly distributed between the Greek peninsula, the western coast of Asia Minor, Pontus and Constantinople, regions which coincided to a very large extent with the borders of the Byzantine Empire of the 11th century and the areas of Greek colonies
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Green
Green is a color with many different shades, all within a wavelength of roughly 520570 Nanometre. Green is considered one of the additive primary colors. It is the complement of magenta.
People who are Colour blind#Red-green colour blindness can often distinguish between the two colors but confuse them with other colors, for example, bright green with yellow; dark green with brown.
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Green Alder
The Green Alder is an alder with a wide range across the cooler parts of the Northern Hemisphere.
It is a large shrub or small tree 3-12 m tall with smooth grey bark even in old age. The leaf are shiny green, ovoid, 3-8 cm long and 2-6 cm broad. The flowers are catkins, appearing late in spring after the leaves emerge; the male catkins are pendulous, 4-8 cm long, the female catkins 1 cm long and 0.7 cm broad when mature in late autumn, in clusters of 3-10 on a branched stem.
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Green algae
The Green Algae are the large group of algae from which the embryophytes emerged. As such they form a paraphyletic group, variously included among the Plantae or with the Protista. The green algae include unicellular and colonial flagellates, usually but not always with two flagella per cell, as well as various colonial, coccoid, and filamentous forms.
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Green Ash
Green Ash or Red Ash is a species of ash tree native to Eastern United States and Central United States North America, from central Saskatchewan and southern Quebec south to eastern Texas and northern Florida; also the Western United States U.S.
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Green bean
Green beans are the fruits of any kind of bean.
Known scientifically as Phaseolus vulgaris. Beans commonly eaten in this way include the yardlong bean, the hyacinth bean, the pea, the winged bean and especially the common bean, whose pods are also called string beans or snap beans.
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Green frog
The Green Frog is a species of frog native to the eastern half of the United States and Canada.
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Green Peafowl
The Green Peafowl, Pavo muticus also known as Dragonbird is a large member of the Phasianidae family. Like others of the genus it is a colourful bird and is sometimes considered the most beautiful member of its family. The male Green Peafowl is up to 3 meters long, including the "train" and weighs up to 5kg.
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Green Revolution
The term Green Revolution is used to describe the transformation of agriculture in many developing nations that led to significant increases in cereal production between the 1940s and 1960s. This transformation occurred as the result of programs of agricultural research, extension, and infrastructural development largely funded by the Rockefeller Foundation, the Ford Foundation, and national governments.
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Green tea
Green tea is a "true" tea that has undergone minimal oxidation during processing. Green tea is popular in China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Japan, and the Middle East. It is only recently that it has become more widespread in the West, which traditionally drinks black tea.
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Green Tea
Green Tea is a 2003 in film Cinema of China film about a conservative college student who goes on a series of blind dates, not taking them seriously and often leaving halfway through. She winds up being pursued by an older man who is also attracted to a sexy woman who may be the same person.
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Green Woodpecker
The Green Woodpecker is a member of the woodpecker family Picidae. It occurs in most parts of Europe, and in western Asia.
The Green Woodpecker is probably the best known, though not always the commonest of the European woodpecker species; its large size, 30-36 cm in length with a 45-51 cm wingspan, conspicuous dress, loud call and habits render it more noticeable.
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Green-tailed Towhee
The Green-tailed Towhee, Pipilo chlorurus, is the smallest towhee, but is still one of the larger members of the "American sparrow" family Emberizidae.
Its breeding range covers most of the interior Western United States, with a winter range in Mexico and the southern edge of the Southwestern United States.
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Green-winged Teal
The Green-winged Teal is a common and widespread duck which breeds in the northernmost areas of North America.
This dabbling duck is strongly bird migration and winters far south of its breeding range. It is highly gregarious outside of the breeding season and will form large flocks.
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Greene
Places
Greene is the name of some places in the United States:
*Greene, Iowa, city in Butler County.
*Greene, Maine, town in Androscoggin County.
*Greene, New York, two locations in Chenango County.
**Greene, New York
**Greene, New York
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Greeneye
Greeneyes are deep-sea aulopiform marine fishes in the small family Chlorophthalmidae. Thought to have a circumglobal distribution in tropical and temperate waters, the family contains just 18 species in two genera. The family name Chlorophthalmidae derives from the Greek language words chloros meaning "green" and ophthalmos meaning "eye".
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Greeneyes
Greeneyes is a science fiction webcomic drawn by K with assistance from A, and written by Jetfuel, published under a Creative Commons by-nd-nc 1.0 license.
Greeneyes follows the lives of The ?(Integral) subculture. They're a group of teenage misfits of the 23rd century, similar to the current nerds or
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Greengage
The Greengage is an edible drupe fruit, a cultivar of the plum, Prunus domestica 'Reine Claude'. It was developed in France from a green-fruited wild plum originally found in Asia Minor. It is identified by its small, oval shape, smooth-textured flesh, and ranging in colour from green to yellow, grown in temperate areas.
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Greengrocer
A greengrocer is a retail trader in fruit and vegetables; that is, in green grocer. Greengrocer is primarily a United Kingdom term, and greengrocer's shops were once common in towns and villages. They have been affected by the rise to dominance of supermarkets, but many can be found managing small shops or stores in towns and cities and in some villages.
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Greenhouse
A greenhouse is a building where plants are cultivated.
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Greenhouse effect
The greenhouse effect, first discovered by Joseph Fourier in 1824, and first investigated quantitatively by Svante Arrhenius in 1896, is the process in which the absorption of infrared radiation by an celestial body atmosphere warms a planet.
Without these greenhouse gases, the Earth's surface would be up to 30 C cooler.
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Greenhouse gas
Greenhouse gases are gaseous components of the Earth's atmosphere that contribute to the "greenhouse effect". Although uncertainty exists about exactly how earth's climate responds to these gases, global temperatures are rising. Some greenhouse gases occur naturally in the atmosphere, while others result from human activities.
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Greenland
Greenland is a federacy Denmark territory. Though physical geography and ethnicity an Arctic island nation associated with the continent of North America, politically and historically Greenland is closely tied to Europe.
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Greenland Sea
The Greenland Sea is an area of the Arctic Ocean between Greenland, Jan Mayen and Iceland, spanning some 465,000 square miles.
It is the arm of the Arctic Ocean and the main outlet of the Arctic Ocean to the Atlantic. Because of drifting arctic ice, the northern part is rarely open to navigation.
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Greenpeace
Greenpeace is an international environmental organization founded in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada in 1971.
Greenpeace is known for its use of campaigns to stop atmospheric and underground nuclear testing as well as to bring an end to high seas whaling. In later years, the focus of the organisation turned to other environmental issues, including bottom trawling, global warming, ancient forest, and genetic engineering.
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Greens
Greens are people who support some or all of the goals of a Worldwide green parties without necessarily working with or voting for that or any party. Most of them consider themselves to be part at least of a global Green movement. A potential basis of unity for Greens could be Green values , but even these aren't shared by all people who consider themselves Greens.
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Greensand
Greensand is an olive-green coloured sandstone Rock which is commonly found in narrow bands, particularly associated with bands of chalk and clay worldwide; it has been deposited in marine environments at various times during Earth history, such as during the Jurassic and Cretaceous Geologic time scale.
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Greenshank
The Greenshank, Tringa nebularia, is a wader in the large family Scolopacidae, the typical waders. This is a subarctic bird, breeding from northern Scotland eastwards across northern Europe and Asia. It is a bird migration species, wintering in Africa, south Asia, and Australasia, usually on fresh water.
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Greenwich
Greenwich is a town, now part of the south eastern urban sprawl of London, on the south bank of the River Thames in the London Borough of Greenwich.
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Greenwich Village
Greenwich Village is a largely residential area on the west side of downtown Manhattan in New York City.
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Greeting card
A greeting card is an illustrated, folded card usually featuring a message or greeting or other sentiment. Although greeting cards are usually given on special occasions such as birthdays, Christmas or other holidays, they are also sent on 'non-occasions' to say 'hello' or 'thank you'.
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Greg Norman
Gregory John Norman is an Australian professional golf and entrepreneur who spent 331 weeks as the world's number one Official World Golf Rankings golfer in the 1980s and 1990s. He is nicknamed "The Great White Shark", a reference to a shark inhabiting Australian waters as well as Norman's size and blond locks.
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Gregor Mendel
Gregor Johann Mendel was an Augustinians abbot who is often called the "father of genetics" for his study of the biological inheritance of Trait s in pea plants. Mendel showed that the inheritance of traits follows particular Mendelian inheritance, which were later named after him.
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Gregorian calendar
The Gregorian calendar is the calendar that is used nearly everywhere in the world. A modification of the Julian calendar, it was first proposed by the Calabrian doctor Aloysius Lilius, and was decreed by Pope Gregory XIII, for whom it was named, on 24 February 1582 via the papal bull Inter gravissimas.
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Gregorian chant
Gregorian chant is the central tradition of Western plainsong, a form of monophony, unaccompanied religious music of the Roman Catholic Church. Gregorian chant developed mainly in the Franks lands of western and central Europe during the 9th and 10th centuries, with later additions and redactions.
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Gregorian telescope
The Gregorian telescope is a type of reflecting telescope designed by Scotland mathematician and astronomer, James Gregory in the 17th century.
He described the design in his 1663 publication Optica Promota. Early attempts to build a Gregorian telescope failed, and it wasn't until ten years later, aided by the interest of experimental scientist Robert Hooke, that a working instrument was actually constructed.
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Gregory Goodwin Pincus
Gregory Goodwin Pincus, United States biologist and researcher, was co-inventor of the contraception pill. Pincus began studying hormonal biology and steroidal hormones early in his career. He was instrumental in persuading Searle to market the pill at a time when Pfizer and Parke-Davis would not consider doing so.
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Gremlin
A gremlin is a mythological mischievous creature. Gremlins are depicted as mechanically oriented and extremely wikt:devious.
The concept of the Gremlins as responsible for sabotaging aircraft is first recorded among airmen of United Kingdom's Royal Air Force during World War II, in particular the men of the high altitude Photographic Reconnaissance Units of RAF Benson, Wick and St Eval.
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Gremlins
Gremlins is an Cinema of the United States horror film-comedy film film directed by Joe Dante and released in 1984 in film. It is about a young man who receives a strange creature named Gizmo as a pet, which then spawns other creatures who transform into small, destructive monsters.
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Grenada
Grenada is an island nation in the southeastern Caribbean Sea including the southern Grenadines. Grenada is the second-smallest independent country in the Western Hemisphere . It is located north of Trinidad and Tobago, and south of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines.
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Grenoble
Grenoble is a city and commune in France in south-east France, situated at the foot of the Alps, at the confluence of the Drac River into the Isre River. Located in the Rhne-Alpes rgion in France, Grenoble is the prfecture of the dpartement in France of Isre.
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Greta Garbo
Greta Garbo was a Sweden actor, by reputation one of the greatest and most inscrutable movie stars ever to be produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and the Hollywood studio system. In 1954 she received an Academy Honorary Award "for her unforgettable screen performances" , and Guinness World Records named her "the most beautiful woman who ever lived." She has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
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Grevillea
Grevillea is a diverse genus of about 250 species of evergreen flowering plants in the protea family Proteaceae, native to Australia and New Caledonia. The species range from prostrate shrubs less than 0.5 m tall to trees 35 m tall. Common names include Grevillea, Spider Flower, Silky-oak and Toothbrush.
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