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Benjamin Edes
1754-1783: Communications: Chronology IMPORTANT EVENTS OF 1754-1783 IMPORTANT EVENTS OF 1754-1783 1754 As postmaster general, Benjamin Franklin makes an inspection of branch offices in British North America, instructing local postmasters in how to improve mail... Read more |
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corner
corner securing of all or nearly all the supply of any commodity or stock so that its buyers are forced to pay exorbitant prices. Corners may be planned deliberately or may be brought about unintentionally, as through a fight for controlling interest in a corporation's stock. In the first type the... Read more |
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Pegasus
Pegasus , in astronomy, northern constellation lying SW of Andromeda and SE of Cygnus. It is named for the mythological winged horse Pegasus. The constellation is easily recognized by the Great Square formed by the bright stars Markab (Alpha Pegasi) at the southwest corner, Scheat (Beta Pegasi) at... Read more |
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clew
clew. 1. In a fore-and-aft rig, the lower aftermost corner of the sail; in a square-rigged ship, the two lower corners of the square sail. In cases where sails on a fore-and-aft rig are not normally laced to a boom, such as jibs, staysails, etc., it is the corner of the sail to which the sheet is... Read more |
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Corner Brook
Corner Brook city (1991 pop. 22,410), W Newfoundland, N.L., Canada, on the Humber River. It is Newfoundland's second largest city and has a large pulp and paper mill. Other industries include lumbering, salmon fishing, and quarrying. Sir Wilfred Grenfell College is there. Nearby is Gros Morne... Read more |
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Sylvia Townsend Warner
Sylvia Townsend Warner 1893-1978, English novelist and poet. Her first published work was poetry, The Espalier (1925), but she became more generally known with two novels of gentle fantasy, Lolly Willowes (1926) and Mr. Fortune's Maggot (1927). In The Corner That Held Them (1948), generally... Read more |
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Bethesda
Bethesda , pool in Jerusalem, perhaps the one discovered under the Crusaders' Church of St. Anne near St. Stephen's Gate in the northeast corner of the city. According to the Gospel of St. John, its healing properties, which made it the resort of the sick, were the result of an angel's visits.... Read more |
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Gallatin
Gallatin river, c.120 mi (190 km) long, rising in the Gallatin Range in the northwest corner of Yellowstone National Park, NW Wyo., and flowing generally northwest to join the Madison and Jefferson rivers at the Three Forks of the Missouri, SW Mont. The river is used for irrigation.... Read more |
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herm
herm , in 6th-century Greek art, vertical pillar surmounted by a bearded human head and often having a phallus below. These structures were considered sacred to Hermes. They were placed on street corners in Athens and used outside the city as milestones. By the end of the Hellenistic era the form... Read more |
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Are we seeing red?(Speaker's CORNER)(Letter to the editor)
...with an offer "to place some material in the Gazette." Editor, Bob McBride, followed up on that offer, so you will find...Rangers Uniform" on page 24 of this issue. Here is the original letter from Calvin Arnt that starting things rolling: We are a Butler... |
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Photographer fond of photo.(Speaker's CORNER)(Letter to the editor)
...photographer at the Canada Winter Games 2011. --Frank H. Scheme, Photographer & Travel Writer Editor's Note: Below is an excerpt of a letter by the man who photographed the Rideau Hall guard appearing on last issue's cover. He received... |
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Re-enactor's reaction.(Speaker's CORNER)(Letter to the editor)
...with a magazine of the calibre of The Loyalist Gazette. Keep up the good work. --Dave Putnam Editor's Note: Our thanks to The Yorker Courant editor, David Putnam, for his permission to use his material in the Gazette. To read dozens of issues... |
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Singapore Mulls a Speakers' Corner
...2000 Singapore Mulls a Speakers' Corner SINGAPORE (AP...sets up its proposed Speakers' Corner, don't...though, the proposed Speakers' Corner is a sign...Singaporeans, in letters to the ... |
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The gloves are off in the Speaker's corner
...interview given by the Speaker Betty Boothroyd to the...reason that I hear the Speaker has recently summoned...the state apartments of Speaker's House, to ask for...things like that". The editor of GHK (who has two...for women) to the two ... |
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speaker's corner.
...finger first down the left side of the keyboard (hitting the letters shrdlu) and then down the right (cmfwyp). Alas, shrdlu...ground." (Telegraph and Argus) And sometimes, when an editor tries to correct something, nothing goes right: "Footnote... |
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Speaker's corner: Novelists may be ten a penny, but a good critic is hard to...
...task of trying to survey the undulating swamp of contemporary letters, while irradiated by the harsh light of the canonical empyrean...burden felt by most literary critics, and certainly by literary editors: the sheer weight of Jiffy bags arriving every day. Fiction... |
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Letters to papers provide great feedback
...Letters to the Editor", where the writers...a very popular "Letters" page. Many of...are appreciative letters from those impressed...hand. None of the letter-writers seem to...included poison pen letters and did not ... |
 "The Independent (London, England)")
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Letters: Silence from No10
...access to the No 10 website. It has a section called "Speakers' Corner". All very democratic, transparent, accountable...it would appear, we have overworked the web-site editor. If I was he/she and had read all those critical... |
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Letter from the editor
...and interviews. In A to Z we observe the passing show of London life. We also provide a soapbox for opinions in Speakers' Corner, comment on the arts in Cultural Capital, and propose new ideas in Thought for the Day. In London Lives we will... |
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