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Word: englands (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Capri pants are casual women s slacks which reach to the lower calf. The term derives from capric acid, an organic acid (C10H20O2) found as a glyceride in goat fat. Capri pants earned their name in England in the 1920s when a gentleman remarked that a woman wearing ankle-length summer pants looked like a pudgy goat...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Groovy Train: 1999 Post-Spring Break Quiz | 4/8/1999 | See Source »

Most Harvard students left campus last weekend for points south and west for Spring Break in an attempt to escape the nasty New England weather. HARVARD 4 PEPPERDINE 3 HARVARD 4 NEW MEXICO STATE 3 HARVARD 3 BOISE STATE...

Author: By Keith S. Greenawalt, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: No. 16 M. Tennis Breaks Pepperdine Jinx | 4/5/1999 | See Source »

...Louise Brown, the world's first test-tube baby, is born in England...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Century of Science | 3/29/1999 | See Source »

...Charles Dawson announces that he has found the fossilized remains of a human-like creature on Piltdown Common in Sussex, England. Christened Eoanthropus dawsoni, "Piltdown Man" will be exposed as a fraud...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Century of Science | 3/29/1999 | See Source »

...Alec Jeffreys and colleagues at the University of Leicester, England, develop "genetic fingerprinting," which uses unique sequences of DNA to identify individuals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Century of Science | 3/29/1999 | See Source »

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