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GNR may refer to: Military and paramilitary * Gunner (rank) * National Republican Guard (Italy) (Italian: '), active during World War II * National Republican Guard (Portugal) (Portuguese: ') Music * GNR (band), a Portuguese rock band * Guns N' Roses, an American hard rock band Transport * Dr. Arturo Umberto Illia Airport, serving General Roca, Río Negro, Argentina * Gambia International Airlines * Great North Road (other) * Great Northern Railway (other) **Great Northern Railway of Canada **Great Northern Railway (Great Britain) **Great Northern Railway (Ireland) **Great Northern Railway (Queensland) in Australia **Great Northern Railway (U.S.), now part of the BNSF Railway system * Green Road railway station, in England Other uses * Great North Radio, a radio station in North East England * Graphene nanoribbon * Great North Run The Great North Run (branded the AJ Bell Great North Run for sponsorship purposes) is the largest half marathon in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gunner (rank)
Gunner (Gnr) is a rank equivalent to private in the British Army Royal Artillery and the artillery corps of other Commonwealth armies. The next highest rank is usually lance-bombardier, although in the Royal Canadian Artillery it is bombardier. Historically, there was an inferior rank, matross. Monuments There is a bronze statue of a gunner called "The Ammunition Carrier" as part of the Royal Artillery Memorial in Hyde Park Corner, commemorating the Royal Artillery Regiment's service and memorializing its losses in World War I. The other bronze figures are "The Captain" (at the front), "The Driver" (at the left side), and "The Fallen Soldier" (at the rear) and it is topped with an elevated stone howitzer. The statues were done by Charles Sargeant Jagger and the stone monument was designed by Lionel Pearson. The gunner statue, along with the officer, the bombardier and the unknown soldier, are characters in Charlie Fletcher's '' Stoneheart''. See also * Britis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National Republican Guard (Italy)
The Italian National Republican Guard ( Italian: ''Guardia Nazionale Repubblicana'', or GNR) was a gendarmerie force of the Italian Social Republic created by decree on 8 December 1943, replacing the Carabinieri and the National Security Volunteer Militia (MVSN). General Renato Ricci appointed as its commandant. Major General Italo Romegialli was appointed vice commandant and Major General Niccolò Nicchiarelli became the chief of general staff. The GNR included former Carabinieri, MVSN militiamen, police officers, and members of the Italian African Police (PAI). While being an autonomous armed force before August 1944, on 15 August 1944, the National Republican Guard became a part of the army of the Italian Social Republic. However, it continued carrying out security tasks behind the lines and provided aid to German forces. On 21 August 1944 Benito Mussolini assumed direct command. On 23 August 1944, a separate division, GNR Division Etna, was formed in Brescia under the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National Republican Guard (Portugal)
The National Republican Guard () or GNR is the national gendarmerie force of Portugal. Members of the GNR are military personnel, subject to military law and organisation, unlike the agents of the civilian Polícia de Segurança Pública, Public Security Police (PSP). The GNR is responsible for the preventive police and highway patrol in 94% of Portuguese territory. At national level, GNR also has duties of customs enforcement, coastal control, nature protection, search and rescue operations and state ceremonial guards of honor. Since the 2000s, the GNR has provided detachments for participation in international operations in Iraq, East Timor and other Theatre (military), theatres. As October 2023, the GNR is now partly in charge of controlling the Portuguese borders (alongside the PSP), with the dissolution of the SEF force. Strength The GNR deploys over 22.608 personnel over 90 percent of Portuguese territory. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
GNR (band)
GNR is a Portuguese pop rock band formed in Porto in 1980 and currently consists of vocalist Rui Reininho, bassist Jorge Romão and the only remaining founding member drummer Tóli César Machado. The formation of the group, that shares its acronym (Grupo Novo Rock, Portuguese for New Rock Group) with the Guarda Nacional Republicana The National Republican Guard () or GNR is the national gendarmerie force of Portugal. Members of the GNR are military personnel, subject to military law and organisation, unlike the agents of the civilian Public Security Police (PSP). The GN ..., coincided with the so-called Boom of Portuguese Rock that took place during the eighties, of which GNR are one of the few survivors to this day. The band was formed by Alexandre Soares, Vítor Rua and Tóli César Machado and underwent several line-up changes throughout its long career. Despite the successive changes to their line-up, a series of internal conflicts and significant variations in their ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guns N' Roses
Guns N' Roses is an American hard rock band formed in Los Angeles, California in 1985 as a merger of local bands L.A. Guns and Hollywood Rose. When they signed to Geffen Records in 1986, the band's "classic" line-up consisted of vocalist Axl Rose, lead guitarist Slash (musician), Slash, rhythm guitarist Izzy Stradlin, bassist Duff McKagan, and drummer Steven Adler. The current line-up consists of Rose, Slash, McKagan, guitarist Richard Fortus, drummer Isaac Carpenter (drummer), Isaac Carpenter, and keyboardists Dizzy Reed and Melissa Reese. Guns N' Roses heavily toured the West Coast of the United States, West Coast club circuit during their early years. Their debut album ''Appetite for Destruction'' (1987), supported by the Appetite for Destruction Tour, eponymous tour, failed to gain traction, debuting at number 182 on the Billboard 200, ''Billboard'' 200, until a year after its release when a grassroots campaign for the "Welcome to the Jungle" music video brought the band ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gambia International Airlines
Gambia International Airlines Limited (GIA) is the national carrier of the Gambia and the most experienced and trusted ground handler in Banjul, The Gambia. GIA's mandate is to provide air transportation and related services to carriers operating at Banjul International Airport. Since its inception, GIA's core activities were categorized into flight operations, ground handling, cargo operations, Ticket sales and reservation, and Hajj and Umrah activities. However, the flight operation unit of GIA has been dormant for a while due to the lack of a viable partner to reactivate this activity. History Gambia International Airlines was established on 23 January 1996 and started operations on 1st March 1996. GIA was established to take over the activities of the then-defunct Gambia Airways. By its vision, mission, legal status, and mandate, the operation of international air services is meant to be the core business activity of GIA. However, mainly due to a lack of requisite financial ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Great North Road (other)
Great North Road may refer to: Roads * Great North Road (Great Britain), a historical coaching route partly used by the A1 road in the United Kingdom * Great North Road (Ancestral Puebloans), a road used by the Ancestral Puebloans of the American Southwest, part of the Chacoan road system * Great North Road, Gibraltar, a lorry sized tunnel * Great North Road (New South Wales), a historical road in Australia leading from Sydney to the Hunter Valley ** Great North Road (Mount Manning to Wollombi Section) * Great North Road, Auckland, a road in Auckland * Great North Road, Zambia, a road running north from Lusaka * Great North Road (Ontario), a 19th-century road from Parry Sound to Nipissing, see Magnetawan * Cape to Cairo Road, an historically planned route through Africa * Cariboo Road, an historical route in British Columbia, Canada * New Zealand State Highway 1 State Highway 1 (SH 1) is the longest and most significant road in the New Zealand state highway network, New Zeal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Great Northern Railway (other)
Great Northern Railway or Great Northern Railroad may refer to: Australia *Great Northern Railway (Queensland) in Australia * Great Northern Rail Services in Victoria, Australia *Central Australia Railway was known as the great Northern Railway in the 1890s in South Australia *Main North railway line, New South Wales (Australia) Canada *Great Northern Railway of Canada Ireland *Great Northern Railway (Ireland) New Zealand * Kingston Branch (New Zealand) in Southland *Main North Line, New Zealand and Waiau Branch in Canterbury United Kingdom *Great Northern Railway (Great Britain) **Thameslink and Great Northern, a former operator of trains on this route, now merged with Govia Thameslink Railway (GTR) **West Anglia Great Northern, a former operator of trains on this route **Great Northern route, a brand of GTR United States * Beaumont and Great Northern Railroad, predecessor of the Waco, Beaumont, Trinity and Sabine Railway, a defunct Texas shortline *Great Northern Railwa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Great Northern Railway Of Canada
Most transportation historians date the history of Canada's railways as beginning on February 25, 1832, with the incorporation of British North America's first steam-powered railway, the Champlain and St. Lawrence Railroad (C&SL). This line opened for traffic on July 21, 1836, although there are cases of animal-drawn mining tramways in Nova Scotia from the 18th century onward. Thousands of railways followed the C&SL and were given a charter by the federal or provincial governments, although in most cases these charters never resulted in an actual line being constructed. Many of these charters were so-called "paper railways" and were absorbed into other railways, that is they existed on paper with the actual trains bearing the name of another railway or system of railways. For example, Canadian National Railways alone consisted of over some 400 railways (see List of Canadian National Railways companies). The reason for these "paper" railways was the ease of getting a charter. Thi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Great Northern Railway (Great Britain)
The Great Northern Railway (GNR) was a British railway company incorporated in 1846 with the object of building a line from London to York. It quickly saw that seizing control of territory was key to development, and it acquired, or took leases of, many local railways, whether actually built or not. In so doing, it overextended itself financially. Nevertheless, it succeeded in reaching into the coalfields of Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire and Yorkshire, as well as establishing dominance in Lincolnshire and north London. Bringing coal south to London was dominant, but general agricultural business, and short- and long-distance passenger traffic, were important activities too. Its fast passenger express trains captured the public imagination, and its Chief Mechanical Engineer Nigel Gresley became a celebrity. Anglo-Scottish travel on the East Coast Main Line became commercially important; the GNR controlled the line from London to Doncaster and allied itself with the North Easte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Great Northern Railway (Ireland)
The Great Northern Railway (Ireland) (GNR(I), GNRI or simply GNR) was an Irish gauge () railway company in Ireland. It was formed in 1876 by a merger of the Irish North Western Railway (INW), Northern Railway of Ireland, and Ulster Railway. The governments of Ireland and Northern Ireland jointly nationalised the company in 1953, and the company was liquidated in 1958: assets were split on national lines between the Ulster Transport Authority and CIÉ, Córas Iompair Éireann. Foundation The Ulster, D&D and D&BJct railways together formed the main line between Dublin and Belfast, with the D&BJct completing the final section in 1852 to join the Ulster at . The GNRI's other main lines were between Derry and and between Omagh and Portadown. The Portadown, Dungannon and Omagh Junction Railway together with the Londonderry and Enniskillen Railway enabled GNRI trains between Derry and Belfast to compete with the Belfast and Northern Counties Railway, and both this and the Dundalk rou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Great Northern Railway (Queensland)
The Great Northern Railway is a 3 ft 6 in gauge railways, 1067 mm gauge Glossary of rail terminology#Railway line, railway line in Queensland, Australia. The line stretches nearly 1,000 kilometres linking the port city of Townsville, Australia to the mining town of Mount Isa in north-west Queensland. Along with a passenger service called The Inlander (Queensland Rail), the Inlander, it is a major freight route connecting the Mount Isa Mines to the Port of Townsville. In 2010, the line moved 5.8 million tonnes of cargo, and this is expected to increase significantly in coming years. History Originally approved in 1877, its construction over nearly thirty years along with the building of other lines in Queensland was dictated by the pressing need to transport minerals and wool from isolated inland areas to the coast for shipment. To the goldfields In Townsville's case, it was given impetus by the discovery of gold at Ravenswood, Queensland and Charters Towers, Queensl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
