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Top Google Searches in the U.S., 2009
The following lists indicate what search terms were the most popular on Google in the United States in 2009. Google analyzes billions of search terms to compile the lists…November 2008 Current Events
Here are the key news events of the month organized into three categories: World News, U.S. News, and Business, Society, and Science News. World | Nation | Business/Science/Society U.S. Airstrike…Famous Firsts by American Women, 1901–Present
Here is a timeline about famous firsts by American women. This information includes such notable figures as the first published author in 1650 (Anne Bradstreet), to Elizabeth Blackwell receiving…Brewer's: Fight
(See Hudibras, Pt. iii. c. 3.) He that fights and runs away May live to fight another day; But he that is in battle slain Can never rise to fight again. SirJohnMennes: Musarum Delictæ. (…Brewer's: Palimpsest
A parchment on which the original writing has been effaced, and something else has been written. (Greek, palin, again; psao, I rub or efface.) When parchment was not supplied in sufficient…Brewer's: Palinode
(3 syl.). A song or discourse recanting a previous one. A good specimen of the palinode is Horace, book i. ode 16, translated by Swift. Watts has a palinode in which he retracts the praise…1979 Tony Awards
PlayThe Elephant ManMusicalSweeney ToddActor—PlayTom Conti, Whose Life Is It Anyway?Actresses—PlayConstance Cummings, WingsCarole Shelley, The Elephant ManFeatured Actor—PlayMichael Gough,…Lexington
(Encyclopedia) Lexington. 1 City (1990 pop. 225,366), seat of Fayette co., N central Ky., in the heart of the bluegrass region; inc. 1832, made coextensive with Fayette co. 1974. The outstanding…Brewer's: Palindrome
(3 syl.). A word or line which reads backwards and forwards alike, as Madam, also Roma tibi subito motibus ibit amor. (Greek, palin dromo, to run back again.) (See Sotadic.) The following…New York City Ballet
(Encyclopedia) New York City Ballet (NYCB), one of the foremost American dance companies of the 20th and 21st cents. It was founded by Lincoln Kirstein and George Balanchine as the Ballet Society in…Trending
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