Word: seventeen
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...Members of the Class of 1808 participate in a 1807 student protest against the quality of College food. Seventeen students are eventually expelled for their participation in the revolt, which would become known as the “Rotten Cabbage Rebellion...
...have I found? What friendships have I formed? What lessons have I learned? The first two are easy—the answer to both is David Archuleta. If you don’t know who he is, Archie (as insiders call him), is a current Idol finalist, an adorable seventeen-year-old phenom who, if there is any justice in the world, will soon be declared this season’s winner...
...Marion joined the IRA when she was seventeen, showing up at an IRA "call house" every day after school. She was never sure what the night's mission would be, but often as not it involved delivering a car bomb. She was (and still is) beautiful, and easily passed through the British checkpoints. "You never forget the smell of sodium nitro benzene" - the improvised explosive used by the IRA in the early days. "It smelled like marzipan...
...Seventeen-hundred scholars contributed to the project over the course of seven years. The only other similar reference source, entitled the Dictionary of American Negro Biography, was published over 25 years ago and included just 626 entries...
ATOOSA RUBENSTEIN, controversial former editor in chief of Seventeen magazine and founder of CosmoGIRL!, on why she decided to get out of the magazine industry...