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speck and span
speck and span variant of spick and span.1614 T. Tomkis Albumazar ii. ii. (1615) D ij b, Of a starke Clowne I shall appeare speck and span Gentleman. 1767 S. Paterson Anoth. Trav. I. 48, I became desirous of seeing one of the last speck-and-span new things. 1840 Thackeray Paris Sk.-bk. I. 51 No man ...
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spick and span
spick and span, a., n., and adv. Also spick-and-span (occas. spic). [Shortening of next. See also speck and span.] A. adj. 1. = next.1665 Pepys Diary 15 Nov., My Lady Batten walking through the dirty lane with new spicke and span white shoes. 1731 Swift On Death Dr. Swift xxv, His way of writing now...
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Bearded Vulture - eBird
Breathtakingly majestic inhabitant of high and remote mountain ranges, where they build large nests on cliff ledges or in caves. Even as a distant speck, this is an unmistakable raptor, with an almost albatross-like wing shape and span, coupled with a long diamond-shaped tail. Adults are orange-rust below with a dark underwing, and slate gray above. The young are gray with a dark head. Cruises ...
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Debinha
During this span, she scored ten goals (eight regular season and two postseason) and tallied seven assists. Challenge Top scorer: 2021
IFFHS CONMEBOL Woman Team of the Decade 2011–2020
Personal life
Debinha is openly lesbian, having a relationship with Meredith Speck
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spick
▪ I. † spick, n.1 Obs. Forms: α. 1, 3 spic, 4–5 spyk (5 spike), 6 spycke. β. 3 spiche. [OE. spic (= ON. and MSw. spik), var. of spec (once): see speck n.4] Fat meat or bacon; fat, grease, lard.α c 832 Charter in O.E. Texts 446, ii weᵹa spices & ceses. 835 Ibid. 449 An weᵹ spices & ceses. a 1000 Sax....
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July 1965
A little more than a year later, Speck would murder eight nurses in Chicago. London Corporation announced that the famous London Bridge over the Thames River, last rebuilt in 1831, was cracking and gradually sinking, and that the span
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Sea turtle migration
out in 1873: "Even if we grant animals a sense of the points of the compass ... how can we account for [green sea turtles] finding their way to that speck From this north and south pole span magnetic fields.
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taper
▪ I. taper, n.1 (ˈteɪpə(r)) Also 1 tapor, -ur; 3–5 tapere, 4–5 tapre, -ur, -ir, 5 -yr, 5–7 tapper, 6 tapar, -ire, 7 tapor, -our. [OE. tapur, -or, -er: not in the cognate langs. According to Kluge, Engl. Stud. XX. 335, a dissimilated form of *papur, ad. L. papyrus, which in glossaries (a 1100) is ren...
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Native American flute
The root keys of contemporary Native American flutes span a range of about three and a half octaves, from C2 to A5. Music
Extensive ethnographic recordings were made by early anthropologists such as Alice Cunningham Fletcher,
Franz Boas,
Frank Speck,
Frances Densmore
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pinion
▪ I. pinion, n.1 (ˈpɪnjən) Forms: 5 pynyon, 6 pynnyon, -nion, pinnyan, 6–7 pynion, pin(n)eon, (-oun), -nion, 7 pyneon, 6– pinion. [a. OF. pignon, in Froissart c 1400 in pl. ‘wing-feathers, wings, pinions’, a collateral form of OF. penon, pennon (also ‘feather of an arrow’, and ‘streamer, pennon’) = ...
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Brian Keane
Keane has scored every one of Burns' award-winning films ever since, and their ongoing collaborations span three decades. American Ballet Theatre, the joint BBC and PBS special of The Pilgrims, a world music symphony commission resulting in finishing his first symphony A Speck
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Sea kayak
Short Greenland paddles (generally one arm-span in length), called storm paddles, are used with a sliding stroke, during which the hands are shifted along His crossing from the Canary Islands and toward Puerto Rico took 58 days at sea but he was lost in a hurricane trying to get to New York
1930s
Oskar Speck
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ocean
ocean, n. (a.) (ˈəʊʃən) Forms: 3–6 occean, -ian, (4 oxian, 4–5 occion(e, occyon, 5 -an), 4–6 occeane, 5–6 -iane, 6 -æan, ocian, -eane, -yane, 6– ocean. [a. F. océan (occean 12th c. in Littré), ad. L. ōcean-us, f. Gr. ὠκεανός, orig. the great stream or river (cf. ῥόος Ὠκεανοῖο, Ὠκεανός ποταµός, in Ho...
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John Cooke Bourne
another picture "the grand ventilator shaft conveys an equally good idea of the appearance of this vast passage diminishing in the distance into a mere speck massive piers, further secured by buttresses and narrow arches of the ancient fort bridge, afford a curious contrast to the great altitude and extensive span
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Solar eclipse of August 21, 2017
Other celestial bodies
During the eclipse for a long span of its path of totality, several bright stars and four planets were visible. There was a watch party on campus for the students at the University of Missouri coordinated by Angela Speck, and the MU Health Care system released eye
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