* In 1865 Brunel's ship the SS Great Eastern laid the first successful transatlantic telegraph cable.

The usual Eastern arrangement is exemplified in the plan of the convent of the Great Lavra, Mount Athos.

Athanasius is counted as one of the four Great Doctors of the Church in the Roman Catholic Church as well as one of the Great Doctors of the Church in Eastern Orthodoxy, where he is also labeled the " Father of Orthodoxy ".

The strategic significance of the strait was one of the factors in the decision of the Roman Emperor Constantine the Great to found there in AD 330 his new capital, Constantinople, which came to be known as the capital of the Eastern Roman Empire.

In Europe, the major source for tin was Great Britain's deposits of ore in Cornwall, which were traded as far as Phoenicia in the Eastern Mediterranean.

Instead, from 1 January 1923, almost all the remaining companies were grouped into the " big four ", the Great Western Railway, the London and North Eastern Railway, the London, Midland and Scottish Railway and the Southern Railway companies ( there were also a number of other joint railways such as the Midland and Great Northern Joint Railway and the Cheshire Lines Committee as well as special joint railways such as the Forth Bridge Railway, Ryde Pier Railway and at one time the East London Railway ).

There is some controversy over the identity of the disease, but in its virulent form, after the Great Plague of Marseille in 1720 – 1722, the Great Plague of 1738 ( which hit Eastern Europe ), and the Russian plague of 1770-1772, it seems to have gradually disappeared from Europe.

Throughout the 19th century, the Great Powers shared different aims over the " Eastern Question " and the integrity of the Ottoman Empire.

Constantine's foundation gave prestige to the Bishop of Constantinople, who eventually came to be known as the Ecumenical Patriarch, a situation that contributed to the Great Schism that divided Western Catholicism from Eastern Orthodoxy from 1054 onwards.

However, according to Justinus, 38. 3. 6, more than a decade later, at some time in 90-88 BCE, Mithridates the Great sent ambassadors to the Cimbri to request military aid ; judging from the context they must have been living in North Eastern Europe at the time.

All Christian monasticism stems, either directly or indirectly, from the Egyptian example: Saint Basil the Great Archbishop of Caesaria of Cappadocia, founder and organizer of the monastic movement in Asia Minor, visited Egypt around AD 357 and his rule is followed by the Eastern Orthodox Churches ; Saint Jerome who translated the Bible into Latin, came to Egypt, while en route to Jerusalem, around AD 400 and left details of his experiences in his letters ; Benedict founded the Benedictine Order in the 6th century on the model of Saint Pachomius, but in a stricter form.

The Eastern Orthodox Church and Eastern Catholic Churches celebrate the feast day of the " Holy Righteous Prophet and King David " on the Sunday of the Holy Forefathers ( two Sundays before the Great Feast of the Nativity of the Lord ), when he is commemorated together with other ancestors of Jesus.

The London Docklands Development Corporation ( LDDC ), needing to provide public transport cheaply for the former docks area to stimulate regeneration, considered several proposals and chose a light rail scheme using dock railway infrastructure to link the West India Docks to Tower Hill and to run alongside the Great Eastern line out of London to a northern terminus at, where a disused bay platform at the west of the station was available, for interchange with the Central Line and main lines.

In Eastern Christianity, the spiritual preparation for Pascha begins with Great Lent, which starts on Clean Monday and lasts for 40 continuous days ( including Sundays ).

This is one of the readings at Vespers on Great Feasts of the Theotokos in the Eastern Orthodox and Byzantine Catholic Churches.

The sometimes subtle differences between Eastern and Western conceptions of authority and its exercise produced a gradually widening rift between the Churches which continued with some occasional relief throughout the following centuries until the final rupture of the Great Schism ( marked by two dates: 16 July 1054, and the Council of Florence in 1439 ).

From the time of Otto the Great onward, much of the former Carolingian kingdom of Eastern Francia became the Holy Roman Empire.

In the 5th century, Oriental Orthodoxy separated from Chalcedonian Christianity ( and is therefore separate from both the Eastern Orthodox and Roman Catholic churches ), well before the 11th century Great Schism.

The best known of these writings is the Prayer of Saint Ephrem which is recited at every service during Great Lent and other fasting periods in Eastern Christianity.

In the Roman Catholic Church he is numbered among the Doctors of the Church ; in Eastern Orthodoxy and the Eastern Catholic Churches he is revered as one of the Three Holy Hierarchs, along with Basil the Great and John Chrysostom.

* 1906 – The London Underground's Great Northern, Piccadilly and Brompton Railway opens.

* Gopher ( train ), a passenger train operated by the Great Northern Railway, USA

Greenwich Mean Time was adopted across the island of Great Britain by the Railway Clearing House in 1847, and by almost all railway companies by the following year, from which the term " railway time " is derived.

The Great Eastern Hotel was closed in 1923 by the newly formed LNER, the hotel having suffered a decline resulting from the opening of the new passenger port up-river at Parkeston Quay where a new hotel with the same name had been opened by the Great Eastern Railway.

* GWR Iron Duke Class, the name of a famous class of locomotive built by the Great Western Railway in England

* Iron Duke was one of the GWR 3031 Class locomotives that were built for and run on the Great Western Railway between 1891 and 1915.

* 1803 – The Surrey Iron Railway, arguably the world's first public railway, opens in south London, England, Great Britain.

* 1910 – The worst avalanche in United States history buries a Great Northern Railway train in northeastern King County, Washington, killing 96 people.

In " His Last Bow " ( 1917 ), he served Crown and Country as a double agent, transmitting false intelligence to Imperial Germany on the eve of the Great War.

One year the king forgot to include Great " Artemis of the Golden Throne " in his offerings Insulted, Artemis, the " Lady of the Bow ", loosed the biggest, most ferocious boar imaginable on the countryside of Calydon.

Chiuta literally means Great Bow and is symbolised in the sky by the rainbow.

Her father, a physical education teacher ( who had represented Great Britain in the 1912 Summer Olympics ), taught briefly at Sidcot School, and sometime during this period Simmons followed her elder sister on to the village stage and sang songs such as " Daddy Wouldn't Buy Me a Bow Wow ".

* Thunder Basin National Grassland -- eastern Wyoming on the Great Plains, administered as part of the Routt-Medicine Bow National Forests

Recurve bows depicted in the British Isles ( see illustrations in " The Great War Bow ") may have been composite weapons, or wooden bows with ends recurved by heat and force, or simply artistic licence.

The affix ' Great ' was added in the 12th century to differentiate from nearby Bow Brickhill and Little Brickhill.

After a time in grief and in honour of his friend, Túrin made and sang the Laer Cú Beleg, the Song of the Great Bow.

The 1939 edition of " Inland Waterways of Great Britain ", an early attempt to provide a guide for the leisure use of canals, noted that the River Lee had " several subsidiary canalised waterways ", and listed Bow Creek, Old River Lee, City Mills River and Waterworks River, but did not describe them collectively.

Boyes and Russell writing in 1977 referred to them as the Bow Back Rivers or Stratford Back Rivers, and by the sixth edition of " Inland Waterways of Great Britain ", published in 1985, they were referred to as Bow Back Rivers.

It was opened on the south side of Bow Road in 1876 by the Great Eastern Railway, between Stratford station and the now closed Burdett Road station.

The short line it stood on, between Gas Factory Junction on the London, Tilbury and Southend Railway and Bow Junction on the Great Eastern Main Line, has been reduced to a single track used only for emergency diversions and stock moves.

Creating Hollywood stars becomes its own industry, resulting in the Hollywood Star System, from which came Clara Bow, Lillian Gish, and John Gilbert, successor to Rudolph Valentino as " The Great Lover ".

File: 021 Bow Fell Rocks and South East view. JPG | The view southeast from the Great Slab, looking towards Pike of Blisco

File: Bow Fell Great Langdale. jpg | Bowfell from Great Langdale

Most Great Bow Makers of the 19th century collaborated with his workshop including Jean Pierre Marie Persois, Jean Adam / bow maker, Dominique Peccatte, Nicolas Remy Maire, François Peccatte, Nicolas Maline, Pierre Simon, François Nicolas Voirin, Charles Peccatte, Charles Claude Husson, Joseph Fonclause, Jean Joseph Martin, Prosper Colas are among the most celebrated.

Panorama shot from the summit of Hard Knott showing from left to right the fells of Slight Side, Scafell, Scafell Pike, Great End, Esk Pike, Bow Fell and Crinkle Crags.

From its summit each of the ring of fells known as the Eskdale Horseshoe can be clearly seen: Sca Fell, Scafell Pike, Broad Crag, Great End, Esk Pike, Bow Fell and Crinkle Crags.

His books on Colonial Defence and Colonial Opinions ( 1873 ), The Defence of Great and Greater Britain ( 1879 ), Naval Intelligence and the Protection of Commerce ( 1881 ), The Use and the Application of Marine Forces ( 1883 ), Imperial Federation: Naval and Military ( 1887 ), followed later by other similar works, made him well known among the rising school of Imperialists, and he was returned to parliament ( 1886 – 1892 ) as Conservative member for Bow and Bromley, and afterwards ( 1895 – 1906 ) for Great Yarmouth.

The Southern Fells include the highest ground in England, a horseshoe which begins with Scafell and Scafell Pike in the west and then curves around the north of Upper Eskdale to take in Great End, Esk Pike, Bow Fell and Crinkle Crags.