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Great Ouse

(Encyclopedia) Great Ouse, river: see Ouse (1,) England.

Great Plains

(Encyclopedia) Great Plains, extensive grassland region on the continental slope of central North America. They extend from the Canadian provinces of Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba south through…

Great Society

(Encyclopedia) Great Society, in U.S. history, term for the domestic policies of President Lyndon Johnson. In his first State of the Union message, he called for a war on poverty and the creation of…

Great Trek

(Encyclopedia) Great Trek: see Trek, Great.

Great War

(Encyclopedia) Great War: see World War I.

Great Zimbabwe

(Encyclopedia) Great ZimbabweGreat Zimbabwezĭmbäbˈwā [key] [Bantu,=stone houses], ruined city, SE Zimbabwe, near Masvingo (formerly Fort Victoria). Its mortarless, curving granite walls and buildings…

Khingan, Great

(Encyclopedia) Khingan, Great, mountain range, China: see Hinggan Ling, Da.

Trek, Great

(Encyclopedia) Trek, GreatTrek, Greattrĕk [key], the journey by Afrikaner farmers (Boers) who left the Cape Colony to escape British domination and eventually founded Natal, Transvaal, and the Orange…

Schism, Great

(Encyclopedia) Schism, Great, or Schism of the West, division in the Roman Catholic Church from 1378 to 1417. There was no question of faith or practice involved; the schism was a matter of persons…