The Industrial Revolution in Western Europe and North America, but perhaps most especially in Great Britain and in New England, led to a proliferation of manufacturing and invention.

In 893 or 894, Great Moravia probably lost a part of its territory — present-day Western Hungary — to him.

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 ).

The supporters of these views feel that the Afrikaner designation ( or label ) was used from the 1930s onwards as a means of unifying ( politically at least ) the white Afrikaans speakers of the Western Cape with those of Trekboer and Voortrekker descent ( whose ancestors began migrating eastward during the late 17th century and throughout the 18th century and later northward during the Great Trek of the 1830s ) in the north of South Africa, where the Boer Republics were established.

1880 saw the Great North Western Telegraph Company established to connect Ontario and Manitoba but within a year it was taken over by Western Union, leading briefly to that company's control of almost all telegraphy in Canada.

Great North Western Telegraph, facing bankruptcy, was taken over in 1915 by Canadian Northern.

A number of conflicts with Western Christianity over questions of doctrine and authority culminated in the Great Schism.

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.

* The Great Tang Records on the Western Regions, compiled by Bianji ; a recount of Xuanzang's journey.

Pleger ( 2000 ) The Old Copper Complex of the Western Great Lakes

Although many scholars today consider the Treatise to be Hume's most important work and one of the most important books in Western philosophy, the critics in Great Britain at the time did not agree, describing it as " abstract and unintelligible ".

Chicago, London & Toronto: Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc., 1952 ( Great Books of the Western World coll .).

The medieval universities of Western Christendom were well-integrated across all of Western Europe, encouraged freedom of enquiry and produced a great variety of fine scholars and natural philosophers, including Thomas Aquinas of the University of Naples, Robert Grosseteste of the University of Oxford, an early expositor of a systematic method of scientific experimentation ; and Saint Albert the Great, a pioneer of biological field research The University of Bologne is considered the oldest continually operating university.

** Council of Pisa ( 1409 ) attempted to solve the Great Western Schism. The council is not numbered because it was not convened by a pope and its outcome was repudiated at Constance.

Council of Constance ( 1414 – 1418 ) resolved the Great Western Schism and condemned John Hus.

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 ).

View of the prayer hall of the Mosque of Uqba | Great Mosque of Kairouan ( also called the Mosque of Uqba ) considered as the oldest place of worship in the Western Islamic World, it is located in the city of Kairouan in Tunisia.

* The Pan-Arab colors, green, white, red and black, are derived from the flag of the Great Arab Revolt as seen on the flags of Jordan, Libya, Kuwait, Sudan, Syria, the United Arab Emirates, Western Sahara, Egypt, Iraq, Yemen and Palestine.

" In 1901 the Great Western sugar processing plant was built in the neighboring city of Loveland.

Along with revitalization came many changes, including the closing of the Great Western sugar factory in 1955, and a new city charter, adopting a council-manager form of government in 1954.

The Great Victoria Desert is a sparsely populated desert area in Western Australia and South Australia.

Habitat is also preserved in the large Aboriginal local government area of Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara in South Australia and in the Great Victoria Desert Nature Reserve of Western Australia.

* 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.

Molecular evidence indicates that the lineage of gibbons ( family Hylobatidae ) diverged from Great Apes some 18-12 million years ago, and that of orangutans ( subfamily Ponginae ) diverged from the other Great Apes at about 12 million years ; there are no fossils that clearly document the ancestry of gibbons, which may have originated in a so-far-unknown South East Asian hominoid population, but fossil proto-orangutans may be represented by Sivapithecus from India and Griphopithecus from Turkey, dated to around 10 million years ago.

The reform of harsh felony laws that had originated in Great Britain was deemed " one of the first fruits of liberty " after the United States became independent.

The glagolitic alphabet, however it originated, was used between 863 and 885 for government and religious documents and books, and at the Great Moravian Academy ( Veľkomoravské učilište ) founded by the missionaries, where their followers were educated.

In Western culture, the custom of a newlywed couple going on a holiday together originated in early 19th century Great Britain, a concept borrowed from the Indian elite, in the Indian Subcontinent.

This tradition was part of the eastern stream of Bantu expansion ( sometimes called Kwale ) which originated west of the Great Lakes, spreading to the coastal regions of southeastern Kenya and north eastern Tanzania, and then southwards to Mozambique, south eastern Zimbabwe and Natal.

The Missouria or Missouri ( in their own language, Niúachi, also spelled Niutachi ) are a Native American tribe that originated in the Great Lakes region of United States before European contact.

Mormonism, originated in the 1820s in western New York during a period of religious excitement known as the Second Great Awakening.

The city has its origin in the shrine of Saint James the Great, now the city's cathedral, as destination of the Way of St. James, a leading Catholic pilgrimage route originated in the 9th century.

The Great Depression originated in the United States in late 1929 and quickly spread to the world.

On the contrary, the Silk Road passed Chinese products and inventions to the Western regions, including paper: papermaking originated in China and is considered one of Four Great Inventions.

Near the end of the short election campaign, there appeared in the press the text of a letter purporting to have originated from Grigory Zinoviev, head of the Executive Committee of the Communist International ( Comintern ) and Arthur MacManus, the British representative to ECCI, and addressed to the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Great Britain.

A 2008 study of the genetics of Trogon suggested the genus originated in Central America and radiated into South America after the formation of the Isthmus of Panama ( as part of the Great American Interchange ), thus making trogons relatively recent arrivals in South America.

Both tribes originated in the Great Lakes region by the 16th century had settled near the Missouri and Grand Rivers in Missouri.

The name originated from the language of the Higganumpus Indians which means Great Bend in River.

New Orleans historian Keith Weldon Medley, author of We As Freemen: Plessy v. Ferguson, The Fight Against Legal Segregation, said the words in Justice Harlan's " Great Dissent " originated with papers filed with the court by " The Citizen ’ s Committee.

* Great Lakes Folk Festival originated after The National Folk Festival, which made East Lansing its home for 3 years, moved to a new city for another 3 years.

They originated in South America, invaded North America during the Great American Interchange, and went extinct at the end of the Pleistocene epoch.

Anthropologists believe the Niitsitapi had not originated in the Great Plains of the Midwest North America, but rather migrated from the upper Northeastern part of the country.

Peter Huston originated this phrase in his book More Scams from the Great Beyond!

originated by Charles Chilton as a radio play, The Long Long Trail in December 1961, and transferred to stage by Gerry Raffles in partnership with Joan Littlewood and her Theatre Workshop created in 1963, which was itself inspired by " The Donkeys ," Alan Clark's 1961 attack on Great War generalship.

The term originated in Great Britain as the value of a pound ( weight ) of silver.

Rather than believe that significance began with man, we should prefer to regard the entire history of life on the earth as one Great Event that is significant above all else in its integrity and relevance to a plan that originated beyond the earth itself.

The Six Flags chain originated in 1959 with the creation of The Great Southwest Corporation by Angus G. Wynne and other investors.