Search results for "Grand" - New World Encyclopedia
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- A canyon or gorge is a deep valley between cliffs, often carved from the landscape by a river. A famous example is the Grand Canyon in Arizona ...14 KB (2,019 words) - 19:29, 25 November 2023
- Nicholas II of Russia was born to the Grand Duchess Maria Fyodorovna ... basis for the rule of the Russian Tsars, as grand dukes of Finland, during ...7 KB (1,132 words) - 07:09, 6 June 2021
- [[Image:Statue Sejong le Grand.jpg|right|thumb|250px|Statue of King ... style:solid; border-color:#000099;"|Grand PrinceJinan ...95 KB (11,477 words) - 06:43, 18 April 2024
- Frizzel, and George Jones. Joining the Grand Ole Opry in 1943, he opened ... brought Tubb to stardom. Tubb joined the Grand Ole Opry in February 1943 ...8 KB (1,315 words) - 19:33, 13 February 2024
- In 1954, Snow influenced the directors of the Grand Ole Opry to allow ... Ranger," he was invited to play at the Grand Ole Opry in 1950. That same ...7 KB (1,094 words) - 16:10, 22 January 2024
- Sima Qian (c. 145 B.C.E. – 90 B.C.E.) was a prefect of the Grand Scribes of the Han dynasty. He is regarded as the father of Chinese historiography ...11 KB (1,813 words) - 22:09, 29 January 2023
- During his playing career, he won three Grand Slam titles. Ashe is also ... tennis circuit. In 1970, he added a second Grand Slam title to his resume ...12 KB (1,843 words) - 11:06, 16 August 2023
- and final phase of construction of the Grand Egyptian Museum in Giza is ... ==Grand Egyptian Museum== The Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM) is sited ...12 KB (1,932 words) - 00:00, 13 February 2024
- Gediminas (c. 1275 – 1341) was the monarch of medieval Grand Duchy of Lithuania with the title of Grand Duke, but more correctly High King ...17 KB (2,688 words) - 06:32, 18 April 2024
- century. Members of the dynasty were Grand Dukes of Lithuania 1377–1392 ... The later construct for its translation is Grand Duke (for its etymology, ...13 KB (1,810 words) - 12:40, 6 November 2021
- choosing the youngest of his eight sons, Grand Prince Euian, as Crown Prince ... # Grand Prince Jin-an (진안대군), born as Yi Bangwoo (이방우 ...15 KB (2,284 words) - 19:06, 24 October 2022
- more than 800,000 acres (3,200 km²) of the Grand Canyon as a national monument ... John D. Rockefeller, Jr., for addition to Grand Teton National Park after ...19 KB (2,589 words) - 16:14, 11 November 2022
- Croce wrote less music in the grand polychoral style than Andrea and Giovanni Gabrieli, and as a result his music has not maintained the same ...6 KB (867 words) - 20:36, 29 August 2021
- The Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument covers 1.9 million acres (2,968.75 square miles) of land in the U.S. state of Utah. The area ...21 KB (3,138 words) - 14:39, 31 December 2022
- wrote settings of the Magnificat in the grand Venetian polychoral style ... humour which was characteristic of Italian grand opera down to the death of ...5 KB (733 words) - 05:27, 24 November 2022
- Officier (Officer), Commandeur (Commander), Grand Officier (Grand Officer) ... XIV founded it in 1693. It was comprised of grand crosses, commanders and chevaliers ...27 KB (4,236 words) - 04:42, 5 November 2022
- into ruin. Sima Qian, in his Records of the Grand Historian, ... matched those in the Records of the Grand Historian by Sima Qian, ...11 KB (1,657 words) - 11:14, 24 May 2023
- After Galileo's death on January 8, 1642, Grand Duke Ferdinando ... practical problem. Pump-makers of the Grand Duke of Tuscany attempted ...8 KB (1,143 words) - 04:50, 23 March 2024
- Gibson honed her talent to capture eleven Grand Slam championships during ... and in 1956, she won her first Grand Slam titles, capturing the ...19 KB (2,597 words) - 08:38, 23 July 2023
- In 1891, the Grand Army of the Republic, Department of Georgia, bought ... * Grand Army of the Republic. Dept. of Georgia. Roster and History ...11 KB (1,681 words) - 19:58, 26 July 2023
- his assassination in 1881. He was also the Grand Duke of Finland. ... some of his predecessors, Alexander had no grand, original schemes of his ...18 KB (2,638 words) - 14:23, 18 July 2023
- #039;s, he was able to develop his unique, grand ceremonial style, which was ... textures at climaxes, foreshadowing the grand style of his later years ...6 KB (961 words) - 20:07, 26 July 2023
- Crucial Considerations for Choosing Life. Grand Rapids: Kregel. ISBN 0825423554 Future of Medicine: A Christian Appraisal. Grand Rapids, Michigan: Wm. B. ...12 KB (1,586 words) - 17:53, 31 October 2023
- **Abies grandis - Grand Fir or Giant Fir ***Abies grandis var. idahoensis - Interior Grand Fir or Giant Fir ...9 KB (1,400 words) - 19:50, 26 March 2024
- [[Image:Duttonnp000077AAA2.jpg|thumb|left|300 px|The Grand Canon at ... illustrative material in an atlas of the Grand Canyon. During these years ...12 KB (1,723 words) - 10:58, 9 May 2023
- Green River in Utah was known as the "Grand River," the origin of ... the headwaters of the Colorado River. The Grand River in Colorado was later ...24 KB (3,618 words) - 22:40, 7 January 2024
- during time he spent on the European "grand tour." The furniture ... Their first major commission was the decoration of the grand state ...10 KB (1,385 words) - 03:09, 15 December 2022
- sentimental, chivalrous, yet cunning grand-uncle Alexander I of Russia ... and inadequate training of an ordinary grand-duke of that period, which ...18 KB (2,859 words) - 14:23, 18 July 2023
- can be found in its greater successor, the Grand testament. ... In 1461, at the age of only thirty years old, Villon wrote the Grand ...11 KB (1,757 words) - 04:59, 9 April 2024
- the Conservatoire there. In 1862, he won a Grand Prix de Rome and spent three ... *La grand'tante - 1867 *Don César de Bazan - 1872 ...6 KB (931 words) - 21:06, 4 October 2022
- #039;s father Ezra declined offers from the Grand Ole Opry to move the family ... In 1968, 12 years after they had first met backstage at the Grand ...8 KB (1,302 words) - 21:16, 4 October 2022
- * Berkhof, Louis. Systematic Theology. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans ... Three Views on the Millennium and Beyond. Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 1999 ...19 KB (2,732 words) - 07:00, 25 July 2023
- as the naming rights sponsor of the Australian Grand Prix and Belgian Grand Prix in a three-year deal; the "ING Australian Grand Prix" ...15 KB (2,077 words) - 16:53, 10 February 2024
- that time on. Parsons advocated the "grand theory" approach, encompassing ... Parsons was an advocate of "grand theory," an attempt to ...14 KB (1,904 words) - 21:04, 13 November 2020
- ===Grand Central Depot=== at one terminal at West 42nd Street called Grand Central Depot, which was ...13 KB (1,982 words) - 03:32, 8 January 2024
- Tianqi Emperor, who later made Wei his Grand Secretary of the State, giving ... partisans found themselves opposed to the Grand Secretary Wen Tiren, and ...12 KB (1,805 words) - 18:43, 2 May 2023
- === Grand unification === grand unification theory the strong interaction into a single 'grand unified theory' (GUT ...18 KB (2,400 words) - 16:06, 13 February 2024
- becoming the first player to complete the Grand Slam of golf in 1930. Jones ... still the only player ever to have won the Grand Slam, or all four major championships ...19 KB (3,121 words) - 05:16, 17 November 2023
- Surrounding the square are the Town Hall, Grand Hotel, Nancy Opera House ... the Hôtel de Ville, now centered on its grand square, and the Hôtel du ...10 KB (1,508 words) - 20:43, 9 April 2023
- works included voluminous notes on the Grand Tour of Europe that Boswell ... * Boswell on the Grand Tour: Germany and Switzerland, 1764 ...10 KB (1,514 words) - 08:53, 18 March 2024
- Among his numerous achievements were ten Grand Slam singles titles ... His last Grand Slam victory was in 1930, when at age 37, he was Wimbledon ...13 KB (1,978 words) - 16:08, 31 October 2023
- Among his remaining sons, the third son, Grand Prince Chungnyeong ... :# Grand Prince Yangnyeong (양녕대군) :# Grand Prince Hyoryeong ...13 KB (1,835 words) - 19:15, 24 October 2022
- the four major tournaments that compose the Grand Slam, a feat he accomplished ... he became the first player ever to win the Grand Slam in tennis. ...15 KB (2,399 words) - 17:17, 30 January 2024
- |country =Duchy of Florence, Grand Duchy of Tuscany |titles = ... (Cosimo I the Great) (1519 – 1574), First Grand Duke of Tuscany who restored ...13 KB (1,977 words) - 04:04, 9 November 2022
- were the first Europeans to view the Grand Canyon. In 1544, after his ... this river. This expedition did find the Grand Canyon and the Colorado River ...12 KB (1,997 words) - 04:55, 9 April 2024
- [[Image:Court of Honor and Grand Basin.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Court ... nation, the fairground was complete with grand boulevards, classical building ...11 KB (1,511 words) - 18:15, 24 January 2024
- (May 30, 1220 – November 14, 1263) was the Grand Prince of Novgorod and Vladimir during some of the most trying times in the country's ...15 KB (2,202 words) - 14:33, 18 July 2023
- William Sinclair of Roslin became the first Grand Master of the Grand Lodge ... * Cooper, Robert L.D. (ed.) An Account of the Chapel of Roslin. Grand ...15 KB (2,311 words) - 22:26, 16 December 2022
- descended from the marriage of a Romanov grand duchess to the Duke of Holstein ... could devolve either on a Brunswick grand-nephew of Anna (Ivan VI of ...20 KB (3,088 words) - 04:57, 16 December 2022
- to Gojoseon. Similarly, the Records of the Grand Historian, written soon after ... Records of the Grand Historian (Hong Kong: Renditions-Columbia University ...8 KB (1,218 words) - 06:55, 14 December 2022
