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Obituary for the apostrophe?
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IT SEEMS that the apostrophe, that tadpole-shaped punctuation mark
which spawns grammatical chaos throughout the land, is wriggling its
way into more inappropriate situations than ever before. Witness red
faces at Marks & Spencer earlier this week when the company admitted
publicly to making "a silly mistake" after including a misplaced
apostrophe in a slogan on its range of children's Christmas pyjamas.
Borrowing from the song White Christmas, it included the line "just
like the one's we used to know".
The much put-upon apostrophe must be the most misused and abused
item of punctuation in ...
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Ghosts of Cape Sabine: the harrowing true story of the Greely expedition.
Magazine article from: Arctic
; ...Charles Henry Buck, whom Greely executed for stealing...specific terms for the Greely project. In between...tirelessly promoted around Washington his idea of a temporary...left the 25 men of the Greely expedition at Lady Franklin...scheduled for 1883. Adolphus Greely, an ambitious...
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Chances for Arctic survival: Greely's expedition revisited.
Magazine article from: Arctic
; ...retournes sur le site du campement de A. W. Greely qui, en 1883-1884, connut une famine...Bay at Ellesmere Island, known as the "Greely Expedition" after its leader Adolphus Washington Greely, has been covered in great detail in popular...
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BOOK WORLD; Frozen in Time: The Greely Arctic Expedition
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post
; ...The Harrowing True Story of the Greely Expedition By Leonard F. Guttridge...27.95 In 1881, 1st Lt. Adolphus Washington Greely led a U.S. Army Signal Corps...and auroral phenomena. But when Greely--by then a 91-year-old...
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RECONSTRUCTING AN ILL-FATED ARCTIC EXPEDITION
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe
; ...the Arctic commanded by Adolphus Greely of Newburyport. Twenty...Howgate, prominent on the Washington social scene, was an...erratic Lieutenant Greely. He was unpopular among...were relations between Greely and his second in command...
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COMING UP...
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post
; ...Earlier this century, Rose Greely stepped out from the shadow...army general and explorer Adolphus Greely -- and became a pioneer in...reverse that in an exhibition of Greely's work at the Washington Histori- cal Society. The...
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`Ghosts' is haunting tale of disastrous Arctic trip
Newspaper article from: The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
; ...Harrowing True Story of the Greely Expedition. By Leonard...the Arctic commanded by Adolphus Greely. Twenty-five men...Howgate, prominent on the Washington social scene, was an...erratic Lieutenant Greely. He was unpopular among...
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Classified info
Newspaper article from: Concord Monitor
; ...a member of the 1881 Greely Expedition to the Arctic...information about the Greely Expedition and its Lisbon...named for its leader, Adolphus Greely - has received considerable...weather station atop Mount Washington, Winslow said. Other...
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 "Talk of the Nation (NPR)")
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Analysis: Great Americans who never made it into the history books
Transcript from: Talk of the Nation (NPR)
; ...invisible giant you've chosen Adolphus Washington Greely. First of all, tell us how...daughters of a family called Greely, who we became friendly with...soldiers led by this man, Adolphus Washington Greely, and it had suffered the...
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Thomas Jefferson, American geographers, and the uses of geography.
Magazine article from: The Geographical Review
; ...in 1896. Its author, General Adolphus Washington Greely, was himself a noted Arctic explorer...d'occasion, a brief speech Greely had given at the National Geographic...site. An expanded version of Greely's remarks was published a few...
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The Arctic Hedonist. (At Large And At Small).(arctic explorer Vilhjalmur Stefansson)
Magazine article from: American Scholar
; ...scurvy, starvation, and lead poisoning), to George Washington De Long's 1879 attempt to reach the North Pole from...dead of exposure, starvation, and drowning), to Adolphus Greely's 1881 expedition to Ellesmere Island (19 dead...
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