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Spears, Britney Jean

(Encyclopedia) Spears, Britney Jean, 1981- , b. McComb, Ms. Spears studied singing and dance as a young child in her hometown and enrolled in New…

spear

(Encyclopedia) spear, primitive weapon consisting of a wooden shaft tipped with a sharp point, usually 8 to 9 ft (2.4–2.7 m) in length. The point may be carved from the shaft and hardened in a fire,…

Lynn

(Encyclopedia) Lynn, city (1990 pop. 81,245), Essex co., E Mass.; inc. as a town 1631, as a city 1850. Lynn is an old industrial center. The first ironworks (1643) and the first fire engine (1654) in…

Fontanne, Lynn

(Encyclopedia) Fontanne, Lynn: see Lunt, Alfred, and Lynn Fontanne.

King's Lynn

(Encyclopedia) King's Lynn, town (1991 pop. 37,323), Norfolk, E England, on the Great Ouse River near its influx into The Wash, an inlet of the North Sea. Its large harbor serves foreign as well as…

Lynn Canal

(Encyclopedia) Lynn Canal, natural inlet, c.90 mi (145 km) long, 7–12 mi (11–19 km) wide, SE Alaska. It connects in the S with Chatham Strait and Stephens Passage and thrusts north between mountains…

Thorndike, Lynn

(Encyclopedia) Thorndike, Lynn, 1882–1965, American historian, b. Lynn, Mass. He taught history at Northwestern Univ. (1907–9), at Western Reserve Univ. (1909–24), and at Columbia (1924–50). Among…

Britney Spears

Oops!...I Did It AgainJive Teen dream queen Britney Spears' debut disc sold nine million copies, but still, she's got problems. The trouble is, that at 18 years old, she sounds torn between…

Brewer's: Spear

Cairbar asks if Fingal comes in peace, to which Mor-annal replies: “In peace he comes not, king of Erin, I have seen his forward spear.” If a stranger kept the point of his spear forward…

Britney Spears

BritneyJive Just like Madonna in her early days, teen temptress Britney Spears is proving that you don't have to make great albums to become a superstar of the highest degree. Her third Jive…