It is called Grana Padano and not Grana Padana because the Italian word grana is the masculine noun, il grana, describing this specific cheese, and not the feminine noun la grana, which means grain. Grana Padano has protected designation of origin status since 1996.
Discover Card is the fourth largest credit card brand in the U.S., behind Visa, MasterCard and American Express, with nearly 44 million cardholders.
In the United States, Discover, as a card brand, competes primarily with Visa, MasterCard, and American Express. Unlike Visa and MasterCard, Discover directly issues its cards, through its Discover Bank unit.