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.
As of February 2006, the company announced that it would begin offering Discover Debit cards to banks, made possible by the Pulse payment system, which Discover acquired in 2005. Discover Card is the third-largest credit card brand in the United States, with nearly 61 million cardholders.