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Grand National (disambiguation)
-Sports:*Grand National, an English horse race* Scottish Grand National, a Scottish horse race*The second name of NASCAR's Sprint Cup series, which was known as the Grand National from 1950 to 1971.

Grand Prix
- Competitions :* Grand Prix , a former name of the World Open* Six-red World Grand Prix, a former name of the Sangsom Six-red World Championship* IAAF Grand Prix Final, an athletics competitions replaced by the IAAF World Athletics Final

Grand Prix (Cannes Film Festival)
The Grand Prix is an award of the Cannes Film Festival bestowed by the jury of the festival on one of the competing feature films. It is the second-most prestigious prize of the festival after the Palme d'Or

Grand Slam
Grand Slam may refer to:-Card games:* In the game of contract bridge a bid to win all the tricks of that hand. By extension, the taking of all the important elements in an endeavour.-Equestrianism:

Grand Slam (band)
Grand Slam or Phil Lynott's Grand Slam were a rock band, formed in 1984 as the brainchild of ex-Thin Lizzy frontman Phil Lynott.The name 'Grand Slam' was invented after a plethora of other band names had been considered, including 'Reactor Factor', 'Catastrophe', 'Hell Bent On Havoc', 'Slam Anthem' and 'Slam' , before

Grand Slam (Fly-Fishing Caribbean)
In Caribbean fly-fishing, a Grand Slam is when an angler is able to catch a bonefish, tarpon and permit during one day of fishing. The International Game Fish Association defines an Inshore Grand Slam as catching any three of the following species on the same day: bonefish, tarpon, permit, snook.The surrounding seas of Cuba are one of the best espectacular places to accomplish

Grand Slam (horse)
Grand Slam is an American thoroughbred Stallion racehorse. Trained by D. Wayne Lukas, the dark bay son of Gone West was purchased at the September 1996 Keeneland Sales as a yearling for $300,000 by Robert & Christina Baker, William Mack and David Cornstein.Sired by Gone West and out of Bright Candles, Grand Slam was foaled in 1995.David Cornstein's wife

Grand Slam (Magic Slim)
Grand Slam Grand Slam Grand Slam (Rooster Blues (2618) is a studio album by Magic Slim and his band, the Teardrops, reissued in 1983 by Rooster Blues. This studio album is unusual in its spontaneity and energy. Magic Slim performs both early soul and blues songs with his fine vocals and vigorous electric guitar playing

Grand Slam (TV Series)
Grand Slam is a television quiz show first created for Britain's Channel 4 in 2003. In its first and only series in the UK, the main host was Carol Vorderman. She was joined in the studio by analyst James Richardson

Grand Slam (U.S. TV series)
-First Round:-Quarterfinals:-Semifinals:-Finals:A fifth round, Contemporary Knowledge, similar to the first round of the British series, was used in the Finals only.

Granda (Gijón)
Granda is a district of the municipality of Gijón / Xixón, in Asturias, Spain.Its population was 622 in 2003.Granda is a residential and rural area, bordering with the city district in the north and with Vega in the south.

Grandee
Grandee is the word used to render in English the Iberic high aristocratic title Grande , used by the Spanish nobility; Portuguese nobility, and Brazilian nobility.

Grandes
Grandes may refer to:*Agustín Muñoz Grandes, Spanish general and politician*Banksia ser. Grandes, a series of plant species native to Australia*Grandes , a group of three small islands in the Aegean Sea off the east coast of Crete

Grandes (Import)
Grandes is compilation album released by Latin American Mexican rock band Maná. They released this greatest hits album for distribution in Italy.-Track listing:

Grandeur
Grandeur may refer to:* 70 mm Grandeur film* Hyundai Grandeur, a car introduced in 1986* Grandeur of the Seas, a cruise ship placed in service in 1996* Delusions of grandeur

Grandfather (solitaire)
Grandfather is a solitaire card game within KPatience. According to the KPatience documentation, there is no other known software implementing this game. While there are other solitaire games with names including Grandfather, including Grandfather's Clock and Grandfather Solitaire , these games do not have comparable rules

Grandfather clause
Grandfather clause is a legal term used to describe a situation in which an old rule continues to apply to some existing situations, while a new rule will apply to all future situations. It is often used as a verb: to grandfather means to grant such an exemption

Grandi
-People:*Alessandro Grandi , Italian composer*Bruno Grandi , Italian gymnast*Dino Grandi , Italian politician*Ercole Grandi , Italian painter* Guido Grandi , Italian priest and mathematician

Grandis
Grandis may refer to:* Grandis , a company producing Magnetoresistive random access memory* Grandis * Mitsubishi Grandis, a large multi-purpose vehicle* Pizza Grandis, the most popular frozen pizza in Norwaysubspecies and hybrids

Grandma
Grandma is a female grandparent.Grandma may also refer to:*Grandma , a comic strip from 1948 to 1969*Khonnor or Grandma, an electronic musician-See also:*Grandmama *Granma

Grandmaster (DC Comics)
The Grandmaster is a fictional character, a type of Manhunter agent in DC Comics publications that first appeared in Millennium #1.-Fictional character biography:

Grandpa (disambiguation)
Grandpa is a male grandparent.Grandpa, grampa, or granpa may also refer to:* Granpa, an animated film starring Peter Ustinov and Sarah Brightman* Grandpa , a character on The Munsters

Grandparent
Grandparents are the parents of a person's own parent, whether that be a father or a mother. Every sexually-reproducing creature who is not a genetic chimera has a maximum of four genetic grandparents, eight genetic great-grandparents, sixteen genetic great-great-grandparents, etc

Grandsire
Grandsire is one of the standard change ringing methods, which are methods of ringing church bells or handbells using a series of mathematical permutations rather than using a melody

Grandson
Grandson has multiple meanings:*Grandson *Grandson, Switzerland, a municipality in Switzerland*Grandson , a district in Switzerland

Grandstand
A grandstand is a large and normally permanent structure for seating spectators, most often at a racetrack. This includes both auto racing and horse racing. The grandstand is in essence like a single section of a stadium, but differs from a stadium in that it does not wrap all or most of the way around

Grange
-Buildings:* Grange House , Bo'ness, Scotland, built in 1564, and demolished in 1906* Hamilton Grange National Memorial, a historic house in New York City

Grange (Middlesex cricketer)
Grange was an English professional cricketer who made 9 known appearances in major cricket matches from 1789 to 1792.-External sources:*

Granger (Middlesex cricketer)
Granger was an English professional cricketer who made 3 known appearances in major cricket matches from 1789 to 1792.-External sources:*

Granger (name)
Granger is a surname of English and French origin. It is an occupational name for a farm bailiff. The farm bailiff oversaw the collection of rent and taxes from the barns and storehouses of the lord of the manor

Granger (Tourtechot)
Granger , was a French physician and traveller, with a major interest in natural history.According to the preface of the only work attributed to him, his real name was Tourtechot, and for reasons not explained he changed it to Granger. Granger or Tourtechot is presumably his surname

Granica
- Poland :* Granica, Lower Silesian Voivodeship * Granica, Subcarpathian Voivodeship * Granica, Warsaw West County in Masovian Voivodeship * Granica, Opole Voivodeship

Granita (restaurant)
Granita was a restaurant in Islington, London, England. In late May 1994 it was the alleged setting for the "Blair-Brown deal" between the then shadow Home Secretary Tony Blair and the then shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer, Gordon Brown.

Granite
Granite is a common and widely occurring type of intrusive, felsic, igneous rock. Granite usually has a medium- to coarse-grained texture. Occasionally some individual crystals are larger than the groundmass, in which case the texture is known as porphyritic. A granitic rock with a porphyritic texture is sometimes known as a porphyry

Granite (Northern Rock vehicle)
Granite is a securitisation vehicle created by the British bank Northern Rock, based in Guernsey.The purpose of Granite is to parcel up the mortgages provided by the bank and sell the value to investors

Granite (song)
"Granite" is the first single from Australian drum and bass band Pendulum's second studio album In Silico. It was released through Warner Music UK, and through the band's new Ear Storm imprint with Warner Music Group. The song entered the UK Singles Chart on 11 November 2007, peaking at number 29 on 2 December

Grannies
Grannies may refer to:* Grannies , the mother of a person's own father or mother* Raging Grannies, activist organizations

Granny
Granny is a word for a female grandparent.Granny may also refer to:Fictional characters*Granny , a Looney Tunes character

Granny (song)
"Granny" is a song by Virginia-based jam band Dave Matthews Band. Though never released on an official studio album, "Granny" was dropped from the Under the Table and Dreaming sessions

Granola
Granola is a breakfast food and snack food, popular in North America, consisting of rolled oats, nuts, honey, and sometimes rice, that is usually baked until crisp. During the baking process the mixture is stirred to maintain a loose, breakfast cereal-type consistency

Granpa (film)
Granpa is a 1989 English family-oriented animated film, based on a 1984 children's illustrated story book by John Burningham. The film initially appeared on Channel 4 Television and was later released on VHS by Universal Studios.

Grans
Grans is a commune in the Bouches-du-Rhône department in southern France.-Population:-References:*

Grant
-United States:*Grant, Alabama*Grant, Inyo County, California*Grant, Sonoma County, California*Grant, Colorado*Grant-Valkaria, Florida*Grant, Iowa*Grant, Michigan*Grant, Minnesota*Grant, Nebraska*Grant, Wisconsin

Grant (automobile)
The Grant Motor Co was a United States automobile manufacturing company which produced automobiles from 1913 to 1922. The company was based in Findlay, Ohio. The company produced several thousand four and six cylinder automobiles and even exported cars to England as the Whiting-Grant. In 1916, the five passenger Touring car sold for US$795.

Grant (name)
Grant can be both a surname and a given name. The name is of Scottish origin , and there are several possible origins for the name.

Grant-in-aid
A grant-in-aid is money coming from central government for a specific project. This kind of funding is usually used when the government and parliament have decided that the recipient should be publicly funded but operate with reasonable independence from the state.In the United Kingdom, most bodies in receipt of grants-in-aid are non-departmental public bodies.A grant-in-aid is funds

Granularity
Granularity is the extent to which a system is broken down into small parts, either the system itself or its description or observation. It is the "extent to which a larger entity is subdivided

Granulation
Granulation can refer to:*Granulation is the act or process of forming or crystallizing into grains*Granulation tissue, a product of healing in major wounds;*Granular synthesis, a sound synthesis method;

Granule
Granule is a generic term used for a small particle or grain. The generic term is employed in a variety of specific contexts.* Granule , visible structures in the photosphere of the Sun arising from activity in the Sun's convective zone

Granule (Oracle DBMS)
In computing, a granule is a unit of contiguous virtual memory allocated to a process.In the Oracle DBMS, the Oracle server allocates the system global area in granule units at the time of instance startup. During the startup, each component acquires as many granules as it requires

Granulocyte
Granulocytes are a category of white blood cells characterized by the presence of granules in their cytoplasm. They are also called polymorphonuclear leukocytes because of the varying shapes of the nucleus, which is usually lobed into three segments

Granville (horse)
Granville was an American Hall of Fame Thoroughbred racehorse. Owned and bred by prominent horseman William Woodward, Sr. at his Belair Stud in Bowie, Maryland, Granville was sired by U.S

GRAP
GRB2-related adapter protein is a protein that in humans is encoded by the GRAP gene.This gene encodes a member of the GRB2/Sem5 /Drk family. This member functions as a cytoplasmic signaling protein which contains an SH2 domain flanked by two SH3 domains

Grape
A grape is a non-climacteric fruit, specifically a berry, that grows on the perennial and deciduous woody vines of the genus Vitis. Grapes can be eaten raw or they can be used for making jam, juice, jelly, vinegar, wine, grape seed extracts, raisins, molasses and grape seed oil. Grapes are also used in some kinds of confectionery

GRAPE
GRAPE , or GRAphics Programming Environment is a software development environment for mathematical visualization, especially differential geometry and continuum mechanics.

Grapefruit
The grapefruit , is a subtropical citrus tree known for its sour fruit, an 18th-century hybrid first bred in Barbados. When found, it was named the "forbidden fruit"; it has also been misidentified with the pomelo or shaddock , one of the parents of this hybrid, the other being sweet orange The grapefruit (Citrus × paradisi), is a subtropical citrus tree known for its sour fruit, an 18th-century hybrid first bred in Barbados. When found, it was named the "forbidden fruit"; it has also been misidentified with the pomelo or shaddock (C. maxima), one of the parents of this hybrid, the other being sweet orange The grapefruit (Citrus × paradisi), is a subtropical citrus tree known for its sour fruit, an 18th-century hybrid first bred in Barbados. When found, it was named the "forbidden fruit"; it has also been misidentified with the pomelo or shaddock (C. maxima), one of the parents of this hybrid, the other being sweet orange (C

Grapefruit (book)
Grapefruit is an artist's book written by Yoko Ono, originally published in 1964. It has become famous as an early example of conceptual art, containing a series of "event scores" that replace the physical work of art – the traditional stock-in-trade of artists – with instructions that an individual may, or may not, wish to enact.-Origins of the event score:Event scores were

Grapeshot
In artillery, a grapeshot is a type of shot that is not a one solid element, but a mass of small metal balls or slugs packed tightly into a canvas bag. It was used both in land and naval warfare. When assembled, the balls resembled a cluster of grapes, hence the name

Grapevine
Grapevine is the common name for plants of the genus Vitis. Other meanings include:*Grapevine , a term often used to describe a form of communication by means of gossip or rumor, as in "heard it through the grapevine"

Graph
Graph may refer to:* A graphic depicting the relationship between two or more variables used, for instance, in visualising scientific data.In mathematics:* Graph , is a set of vertices and edges.

Graph (software)
Graph is an open source program that can generate two dimensional plots of mathematical functions and data sets.-Features:Graph supports entering functions on regular cartesian as well as parametric and polar form. Functions can be traced and at a given coordinate the function value and the two first derivatives is displayed. Graph is available in 23 different languages

Graph paper
Graph paper, graphing paper, grid paper or millimeter paper is writing paper that is printed with fine lines making up a regular grid. The lines are often used as guides for plotting mathematical functions or experimental data and drawing diagrams. It is commonly found in mathematics and engineering education settings and in laboratory notebooks

Graphesthesia
Graphesthesia is the ability to recognize writing on the skin purely by the sensation of touch. Its name derives from Greek graphē and aisthēsis

Graphical user interface
In computing, a graphical user interface is a type of user interface that allows users to interact with electronic devices with images rather than text commands. GUIs can be used in computers, hand-held devices such as MP3 players, portable media players or gaming devices, household appliances and office equipment

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 images

Graphite
The mineral graphite is one of the allotropes of carbon. It was named by Abraham Gottlob Werner in 1789 from the Ancient Greek γράφω , "to draw/write", for its use in pencils, where it is commonly called lead . Unlike diamond , graphite is an electrical conductor, a semimetal

Graphology
Graphology is the pseudoscientific study and analysis of handwriting, especially in relation to human psychology. In the medical field, it can be used to refer to the study of handwriting as an aid in diagnosis and tracking of diseases of the brain and nervous system