The club won its first AFL Premiership by defeating Essendon 15. 18 ( 108 ) to 12. 10 ( 82 ) in the 2001 AFL Grand Final.

Lions utility player Shaun Hart won the Norm Smith Medal as best on ground in the Grand Final.

Essendon again won the premiership in 1901, defeating Collingwood in the Grand Final.

The 1947 Grand Final has to go down in the ledger as ' one of the ones that got away ', Essendon losing to Carlton by a single point despite managing 30 scoring shots to 21.

Essendon did manage to make the 1968 VFL Grand Final, but lost a heartbreaker to Carlton by just three points and would not make it back to the big stage for a decade-and-a-half.

The club played, and beat, Hawthorn in the 1984 VFL Grand Final to win their 13th premiership — their first since 1965.

The teams met again in the 1985 Grand Final, which Essendon also won.

The team won the 1993 Grand Final against Carlton and that same year, Gavin Wanganeen won the Brownlow Medal, the first awarded to an Essendon player since 1976.

Also based in London, Le Nouveau Guignol form the UK's only permanent reparatory Grand Guignol company ; plays within their current repertoire include French Guignol classics such as " The Final Kiss ", " Tics ... Or Doing the Deed ", " The Lighthouse Keepers ", " Private Room Number Six " and " The Kiss of Blood ".

Despite playing in five losing Grand Finals, four between 1989 – 1995, its fans waited 44 years until it won another premiership — an AFL-record 119-point victory in the 2007 AFL Grand Final.

Despite recording the most successful home and away season in the game's history, the club went one win short of back-to-back premierships in losing the 2008 AFL Grand Final, but won the 2009 Grand Final against St Kilda.

The 1937 Grand Final is widely regarded as a game of the highest quality, remembered for its long and accurate kicking and high marking.

In 1953, Collingwood defeated Geelong in the Grand Final.

The stadium fills to capacity for the AFL Grand Final in late September, or early October.

Until the 1970s, more than 120, 000 people sometimes crammed into the venue – the record crowd standing at around 130, 000 for a Billy Graham evangelistic crusade in 1959, followed by 121, 696 for the 1970 VFL Grand Final.

Since redevelopment, the highest attendance was the 2010 Grand Final of the AFL with 100, 016.

They failed to make the Grand Final that year ( eventually won by Essendon ), but in 1950 they did reach the final, defeated by a more efficient Essendon.

Barassi took North to a Grand Final ( defeated by Richmond ) in 1974 and brought success in his 1975 and 1977 seasons.

In that year, North Melbourne won a third Minor Premiership with 16 wins and 6 losses for the season, but failed to make the Grand Final.

Erich Rader, Grand Admiral: The Personal Memoir of the Commander in Chief of the German Navy From 1935 Until His Final Break With Hitler in 1943.

* Grand Final Saturday

* Location of Roger B. Chaffee Memorial Drive in Grand Rapids

Location of Grand Cayman ( circled ), under Cuba, south of the Florida peninsula.

Location of the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument 90 to 95 million years ago, seen here as sea bottom of the Cretaceous Interior Seaway, before the sediments in the region were uplifted.

* Grand Final Location: Kingston City Hall

* Grand Final Location: Senate of Canada

Location of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg ( circled ), illustrating its proximity to other countries.

The Location of the District of East Grand Bahama

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* Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St Michael and St George ( Honorary GCMG )-1891

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Category: Knights Grand Cross of the Order of St Michael and St George

Category: Honorary Knights Grand Cross of the Order of St Michael and St George

Alexander thus chose to retire from the army and take up the new position, and, in anticipation of his viceregal posting, was on 26 January 1946 appointed Knight Grand Cross of the Order of Saint Michael and Saint George.

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Michael " Mick " Doohan AM ( born in Brisbane, Australia ) is a former Grand Prix motorcycle road racing World Champion, who won five consecutive 500 cc World Championships.

* 1878 – Grand Duke Michael Alexandrovich of Russia, younger brother of Tsar Nicholas II ( d. 1918 )

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The February Revolution of 1917 resulted in abdication of Nicholas II in favor of his brother Grand Duke Michael Alexandrovich.

It was reported that Lewis had offered to upgrade Askin's knighthood from Knight Commander ( KCMG ) to Knight Grand Cross ( GCMG ) of the Order of St Michael and St George, while Willis was uncommitted.

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Their 5th record, Ain't Love Grand !, was produced by pop-metal producer Michael Wagener.

* Zork: The Undiscovered Underground ( 1997, written by Michael Berlyn and Marc Blank ( original Infocom implementors ) and released by Activision to promote the release of Zork Grand Inquisitor )

* June 12 – Grand Duke Michael of Russia is murdered, thereby becoming the first of the Romanovs to be murdered by the Bolsheviks.

* June 12 – Grand Duke Michael Romanov ( b. 1878 )

) – Grand Duke Michael Alexandrovich of Russia refuses the throne, and power passes to the newly formed Provisional Government under Prince Georgy Lvov.

Patrese's record of 257 Grand Prix entries stood for 15 years, surviving the Schumacher era when Michael Schumacher retired on 250 race entries.

* January 7 – Michael Küchmeister von Sternberg becomes the 28th Grand Master of the Teutonic Order.

* December 15 – Michael Küchmeister von Sternberg, Grand Master of the Teutonic Knights

Prior to round one of the 1998 season, Carey booted six second half goals in the Ansett Cup Grand Final against St Kilda, earning himself the Michael Tuck Medal, as the best on ground in the pre-season Grand Final, and issuing an ominous warning to the rest of the competition that he was over his injury woes of the previous year.

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