Word: polese
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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At sunset everything was ready. Some 200 Moslem Boy Scouts gathered in a schoolyard, ready to be issued their torches: tin cans stuffed with oil-soaked sawdust and mounted on poles. In their midst appeared a burly, bearded nationalist name Taha al Waly, a follower of the fanatic ex-Mufti...
Since Beaumont's day, however, Britain's Property Acts have wiped out most of the manorial lord's "perks" (or perquisites;. Today the best a lord of the manor can hope for is a few pounds a year from public utilities for putting telegraph poles on his...
Last year there was muted joy in Comacchio and fury among authorized archaeologists; genuine Etruscan antiquities began to appear again on the black market. Stealthy detective work told the authorities where the treasures were coming from. Another lagoon, the Valle Pega, was being drained, and as the waters shallowed, the...
* The magnetic equator, inclined 11° from the geographical equator, is perpendicular to the earth's magnetic axis, i.e., the line between its two magnetic poles.
New York also has the biggest, most varied collection of nationality groups in America. Minority groups--Jews, Negroes, Irish, Italians, Germans and Poles make up a majority of the state's population. Although all are normally Democratic, these groups have divided sharply over some of the most important issues affecting...