The Cathay Organisation, of which Dato Loke Wan Tho was its Chairman, not only owned and operated cinemas and film studios, produced Malay and Chinese films but also owned and operated hotels and restaurants in Singapore ( The Cathay Hotel and Ocean Park Hotel and their attendant restaurants ) and Fiji ( The Grand Pacific Hotel Suva and The Cathay Hotel Lautoka ).

* A " 00 ", " Double-Oh " or " Grand Concert " body style is the major body style most directly derived from the classical guitar.

The Countess and her descendants gained the title of Princess of Battenberg ( derived from an old residence of the Grand Dukes of Hesse ) and the style Durchlaucht (" Serene Highness ") in 1858.

The red, white, and blue coloring was derived from the Grand Duke's coat of arms, which dates from the 13th century.

The Chinese name for Tian Shan may be derived from the Xiongnu language name qilian (), which was described by Sima Qian in the Records of the Grand Historian as the homeland of the pre-Xiongnu peoples of the region, the Yuezhi, and has been said to refer to the Tian Shan rather than to the range further east now known by this name.

In contrast, the Pontiac Grand Prix and Chevrolet Monte Carlo, which were also derived from the intermediate A-body, were much better received because of their squared-off styling and formal rooflines with vertical windows.

Billionaire investor Kirk Kerkorian and his Tracinda Corporation were, until May 2009, the majority shareholders of MGM Mirage ; Kerkorian was the former owner of the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer movie studio, from which MGM Grand derived its name.

The flags of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg () and of the Kingdom of the Netherlands () are still distinguished only in the tint of their colours ( although the former is not derived from the latter ).

Thus she earned the names " Grand Woman of the revolution ", " Mother of Balintawak ", " Mother of the Katipunan ", " Mother of the Philippine Revolution ", and Tandang Sora ( Tandang is derived from the Tagalog word matandâ, which means old ).

Though the country houses many of the world's most successful franchises such as Tomb Raider, Grand Theft Auto, Fable, Dirt and Total War, the country is trying to find its identity, with many of the games without any cultural influence coming from the UK, with most influence derived from North America.

The first true herbal printed in Britain was Richard Banckes ' Herball of 1525 which, although popular in its day, was unillustrated and soon eclipsed by the most famous of the early printed herbals, Peter Treveris's Grete Herball of 1526 ( derived in turn from the derivative French Grand Herbier ).

The platform of the new Grand Siena derived from the new Palio ( codenamed Project 326 ) with long wheelbase: the front suspension was composed by the same MacPherson system of the new Palio but the rear suspension was the same of Brazilian Punto composed by a new type of torsion beam.

* Grand Pas Classique, derived from music taken from the opera-ballet Le dieu et la bayadère, ou La courtisane amoreuse.

The Great Standoff on the Ugra river ( in Russian, also ( Ugorschina in English, derived from Ugra ) was a standoff between the forces of Akhmat, Khan of the Great Horde, and the Grand Prince Ivan III of Russia in 1480, which resulted in the retreat of the Tataro-Mongols and is often taken as the end of Tatar rule over Russia.

Regarding its nomenclature, Paulownia is in honour of the Grand Duchess Anna Pavlovna of Russia, also known as Anna Paulowna, a princess of the Netherlands, with tomentosa being derived from the Latin meaning ‘ covered in hairs ’.

Alfa-Romeo derived FA1F at the 1984 Dallas Grand Prix, where Ghinzani achieved Osella's second and last points finish.

Zo is the Name derived from " Pu Zo " or " Grand Father Zo ".

The Grand Am, coined by Pontiac with a name derived from two other cars in its lineup (" Grand " signifying " Grand Prix luxury " and " Am " for " Trans Am performance ") was designed as America's answer to European luxury / sport sedans and available as a 4-door Colonnade sedan or a 2-door Colonnade coupe.

Others require a specified degree of Indian ancestry but an unspecified share of ancestry from the ancestral tribe or tribes from which the modern tribal entity is derived, such as the Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians and the Poarch Band of Creek Indians.

The wet maquis forests of Grand Terre are low shrub forests found on rocky soils derived from ultramafic rocks.

The wheel is driven by a stream derived from the Grand Lake and is only a decorative element.

Its name is derived from the Princes Radziwiłłs of Grand Duchy of Lithuania ( later, the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth ), who kept it in their Nesvizh Castle ( Nieśwież ) in the 17th and 18th centuries.

They first appeared in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania in the late 15th century as Mirski, a name probably derived from the town of Miory in the former Kievan Rus principate of Polotsk, although it is possible that the family had been local rulers for some centuries beforehand.

Oh-the-pain-of-it, that convention of Russian ballet whereby the girls convey the idea that they are all the daughters of impoverished Grand Dukes driven to the stage out of filial piety, is totally absent from the Kirov.

But Grand makes an unexpected recovery, and deaths from the plague start to decline.

* 1810 – Napoleonic Wars: The French Navy defeats the British Royal Navy, preventing them from taking the harbour of Grand Port on Île de France.

The distinction of a Knight Commander of the Indian Empire was conferred upon him by Queen Victoria in 1897 ( and later Knight Grand Commander in 1902 by Edward VII ) and he received like recognition for his public services from the German Emperor, the Sultan of Turkey, the Shah of Persia and other potentates.

For want of funds, Alexander was unable to resist the Grand Master of the Teutonic Knights or prevent Grand Duke of Muscovy Ivan III from ravaging Grand Duchy of Lithuania with the Tatars.

Realising the danger, the Duke of Marlborough resolved to alleviate the peril to Vienna by marching his forces south from Bedburg and help maintain Emperor Leopold within the Grand Alliance.

The overwhelming Allied victory ensured the safety of Vienna from the Franco-Bavarian army, thus preventing the collapse of the Grand Alliance.

" Nevertheless, although the war dragged on for years, the Battle of Blenheim was probably its most decisive victory ; Marlborough and Eugene, working indivisibly together, had saved the Habsburg Empire and thereby preserved the Grand Alliance from collapse.

During an absence from Clairvaux, the Grand Prior of Cluny went to Clairvaux and enticed away Bernard's cousin, Robert of Châtillon.

Sunset from North Side beach, Grand Cayman

* Columbus Open, a defunct Grand Prix-affiliated tennis tournament played from 1971 to 1984

The Xia Dynasty of China ( from c. 2100 to c. 1600 BC ) is the first dynasty to be described in ancient historical records such as Sima Qian's Records of the Grand Historian and Bamboo Annals.

They range from the one-day road race, criterium, and time trial to multi-stage events like the Tour de France and its sister events which make up cycling's Grand Tours.

During the War of the Grand Alliance, on orders from the province of New York, Massachusetts, Kidd captured an enemy privateer, which duty he was commissioned to perform off of the New England coast.

Records of the Grand Historian is the first among Twenty-Four Histories, a collection of Chinese historical books covering a period of history from 3000 BCE to the Ming Dynasty in the 17th century.

33 % of national industrial exportations, MAD 27 billions come from the Grand Casablanca.

An example from the later Middle Ages is Dieudonné de Gozon, third Grand Master of the Knights of Rhodes, famous for slaying the dragon of Malpasso.

Grand Rapids, MI: Abacus Software ( translated from the original German edition, Düsseldorf: Data Becker GmbH ).

Their work soon attracted attention from the Grand Ole Opry.

After 2 more years without a race the Dutch Grand Prix was back on the World Championship ( s ) calendar in 1958 and from then on remained a permanent fixture ( with the exception of 1972 ) until, when it was held for the last time.

Circuit Park Zandvoort played host to the first race in the 2006 / 07 season of A1 Grand Prix from 29 September-1 October 2006.

Trumbo graduated from Grand Junction High School.