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Gretna Green. 1754-1940. Scottish border village popular for runaway marriages. [Read more ...]

Grey, Edward. 1862-1933. British statesman. Triple Alliance. Treaty of London. [Read more ...]

Grey, Lady Jane. 1537-54. English Queen for 9 days, 1553. Executed. [Read more ...]

Grieg, Edvard. 1843-1907. Norwegian “miniaturist” composer: Peer Gynt 1875. Gentle and appealing music. [Read more ...]

Griffith, Arthur. 1872-1922. Founded Sinn Fein 1905. Irish President 1922. [Read more ...]

Griffiths, D.W. 1875-1948. US filmmaker. First visual effects. Birth of a Nation 1915. [Read more ...]

Grillparzer, Franz. 1791-1872. Austrian playwright. The Ancestress 1817. Sappho 1818. [Read more ...]

Grimaldi. 1297~. Ruling family of Monaco. [Read more ...]

Grimké, Sarah and Angelina. 1792-1873; 1805-79. US feminists, abolitionists. [Read more ...]

Grimm, Wilhelm. 1786-1859, Jacob 1785-1863. German writers of fairy tales 1812, founders of the German philology. [Read more ...]

Gringo. 1847. Mexican pejorative for American. From “Green grow the rushes, oh”, sung during Mexican War. [Read more ...]

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