- I think both are hugely deluded morons - and that the old 'Albion' - where giants once dwelt within the white cliffs of Dover - is a much better name for those horribly overcrowded islands that are nearly the 52nd State:
They are all welcome to such GREATNESS.
The GREAT SMOG of London , early December (5th - 9th) 1952 killed some 12,000 people. I REMEMBER IT .. at times you couldn't see your raised hand or your feet when looking down.
THE GREAT WAR needs little introduction with some 16 MILLION Deaths 1914-1918.
In 1851 London held THE GREAT EXHIBITION in Hyde Park - Conservative aristocrats of that era were in panic that the visiting crowds would form a Revolutionary Mob.
In July & August 1858 we had THE GREAT STINK when London's main sewer - the River Thames caused three outbreaks of cholera and eventually lead to Parliament doing something about the crap that was making their lives so unpleasant in Westminster's riverside Houses of Parliament.
Some time earlier (1st May 1707) The Kingdom of GREAT BRITAIN became a sovereign European State - Well they couldn't call those islands "The United Kingdom" because there were so many uprisings & attempted revolts there.
The use of the word "GREAT" with "Britain" actually originates in the French language, which uses Bretagne for both Britain and Brittany. - French therefore distinguishes between the two by calling Britain la Grande Bretagne.
"Let's Take England Out Of Europe." !!
THE GREAT DANE was so called in England because breeders feared that anti-German feelings would prejudice dog owners against Deutsche Dogge or 'German Mastiffe'. They're known as "gentle giants".
THE GREATEST GUN might be Adolf Hitler's GUSTAV GUN - when he specified "a gun able to pierce a meter of steel, seven meters of concrete, or thirty meters of dense earth." - Krupp quickly complied, presenting Hitler with the Gustav Gun—named in honor of family patriarch Gustav Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach.
The biggest gun ever built, it weighed a crushing 1344 tons, including its railway carriage. With its breech block, the entire machine stood 4 stories tall, 20 ft. wide and 140 ft. long. Moving, positioning, loading and maintaining this monster required a 500-man crew commanded by a major general.
The Gustav's 800mm bore accepted either of two giant projectiles: a 10,584-pound high-explosive shell or a 16,540-pound concrete-piercing shell. Though it didn't deliver the range of the Paris Gun, the Gustav could strike targets up to 29 miles away.
THE GUSTAV GUN. (Schwerer Gustav)
- The last of THE GREAT AUKS was killed in the mid 1840s by collectors wanting specimens - before they were all gone - poor little seabirds.
The last British GREAT BUSTARD passed in 1832 - but just to finish on an 'UP' note - these birds are being re-introduced with RUSSIAN chicks.
- Great eh,
Marty K.
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