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The American Heritage Dictionary traces the passage of the words bunk ( noun ), debunk ( verb ) and debunker ( noun ) into American English in 1923 as a belated outgrowth of " bunkum ", of which the first recorded use was in 1828, apparently related to a poorly received " speech for Buncombe " given by North Carolina representative Felix Walker during the 16th United States Congress ( 1819 – 1821 ).
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According to The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Asgard is derived from Old Norse āss, god + garðr, enclosure ; from Indo-European roots ansu-spirit, demon ( see cognate ahura ) + gher-grasp, enclose ( see cognates garden and yard ).< ref >; See also ansu-and gher -< sup > 1 </ sup > in " Appendix I: Indo-European Roots " in the same work .</ ref >
* The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 3rd edition, Houghton Mifflin ( 1992 ), hardcover, 2140 pages, ISBN 0-395-44895-6
The term baccalaureus is a pun combining the prosaic baccalarius with bacca lauri ' " laurel berry "— according to the American Heritage Dictionary, " bacca " is the Old Irish word for " farmer " + laureus, " laurel berry ," the idea being that a " baccalaureate " had farmed ( cultivated ) his mind.
* American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Houghton Mifflin Company ( 2006 ).
In 1998, Steven Longbaugh and David Heritage, two American deckhands from a fishing boat based in California, were stranded on the island for three weeks.
* American Heritage Dictionary, " Conspiracy theory "
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The fourth edition of The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language endorses both computer mice and computer mouses as correct plural forms for computer mouse.
The History of Cash Registers ", Museum of American Heritage, Palo Alto, California, March 29 to July 7, 1996, Exhibit Companion
The American Heritage Dictionary defines design as: " To conceive or fashion in the mind ; invent ," and " To formulate a plan ", and defines engineering as: " The application of scientific and mathematical principles to practical ends such as the design, manufacture, and operation of efficient and economical structures, machines, processes, and systems .".
The Detroit River is designated an American Heritage River and a Canadian Heritage River — the only river to have this dual designation.
The Detroit River was designated as an American Heritage River in 1998 and a Canadian Heritage River in 2001 — the only river to have dual designations.
Allenton and other parts of Eureka have become part of a $ 500 million redevelopment plan proposed by a partnership including The Jones Company and American Heritage Homes.
* Leonard, John, The Ed Sullivan Age, American Heritage, May / June 1997, Volume 48, Issue 3
In 1999, American Heritage magazine rated Elihu Yale the " most overrated philanthropist " in American history, arguing that the college that would later bear his name ( Yale University ) was successful largely because of the generosity of a man named Jeremiah Dummer, but that the trustees of the school did not want it known by the name " Dummer College ".
In economics, a study ( done by Pew Charitable Trusts, the American Enterprise Institute, the Brookings Institute, the Heritage Foundation and the Urban Institute ) challenged the notion that each generation will be better off than the one that preceded it.
The Indo-European root of the " pour " derivation would be * gheu-d-as it is listed in the American Heritage Dictionary ( AHD ).
Both pronunciations are given as correct by the Oxford English Dictionary and the American Heritage Dictionary.
Maple Leaf Heritage Investments is a subsidiary of B-Bay Inc. Its CEO and chairman is American businesswoman, Anita Zucker, widow of Jerry Zucker.
According to the American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, the Indo-European root is * ser meaning " to protect ".
The American Heritage Dictionary claims that a hogshead can consist of anything from ( presumably ).
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Stokoe used it for his 1965 A Dictionary of American Sign Language on Linguistic Principles, the first dictionary with entries in ASL — that is, the first dictionary which one could use to look up a sign without first knowing its conventional gloss in English.
According to the Dictionary of American Hymnology, " Amazing Grace " is John Newton's spiritual autobiography in verse.
The Dictionary of American Hymnology claims it is included in more than a thousand published hymnals, and recommends its use for " occasions of worship when we need to confess with joy that we are saved by God's grace alone ; as a hymn of response to forgiveness of sin or as an assurance of pardon ; as a confession of faith or after the sermon.
The Dictionary of Politics: Selected American and Foreign Political and Legal Terms defines the term Alford plea as: " A plea under which a defendant may choose to plead guilty, not because of an admission to the crime, but because the prosecutor has sufficient evidence to place a charge and to obtain conviction in court.
" Benjamin Franklin ," Dictionary of American Biography ( 1931 ) – vol 3, with hot links online
William Safire considered this the coinage, but the Random House Dictionary of American Slang considers the usage " metaphorical or perhaps proverbial, rather than a concrete example of the later slang term ", and Popik likewise does not consider this the coinage.
* Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships
The Oxford English Dictionary records the first use of the phrase " conspiracy theory " to a 1909 article in The American Historical Review .< ref >" conspiracy ", Oxford English Dictionary, Second edition, 1989 ; online version March 2012.
However, he took a more conspicuous and personal part in the preparation ( with Baptist scholar Horatio B. Hackett ) of the enlarged American edition of Dr. ( afterwards Sir ) William Smith's Dictionary of the Bible ( 1867-1870 ), to which he contributed more than 400 articles, as well as greatly improving the bibliographical completeness of the work.
This also has to do with the different models preferred by British and American players .< ref name =" Harvard Dictionary of Music ">
The Barnhart Concise Dictionary of Etymology: the Origins of American English Words.
* — Extensive database of hymns and hymnology resources ; incorporates the Dictionary of North American Hymnology
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The American explorations of the Argive Heraeum, concluded in 1895, also failed to prove that site to have been important in the prehistoric time, though, as was to be expected from its neighbourhood to Mycenae itself, there were traces of occupation in the later Aegean periods.
American tort liability for defamatory speech or publications traces its origins to English common law.
The history of Olympic volleyball traces back to the 1924 Summer Olympics in Paris, where volleyball was played as part of an American sports demonstration event.
The American explorations of the Argive Heraeum, concluded in 1895, also failed to prove that site to have been important in the prehistoric time, though, as was to be expected from its neighbourhood to Mycenae itself, there were traces of occupation in the later Aegean periods.
Interstate 81 largely traces the paths created down the length of the Appalachian Mountains by migrating animals, American Indians, and early settlers.
The township traces its history to 1821, when Rix Robinson obtained a French-Canadian trading post at the junction of the Grand and Thornapple Rivers from Madeline La Framboise on behalf of John Jacob Astor's American Fur Company.
Grove City traces its beginnings to land grants bestowed upon American Revolutionary War veterans General Daniel Morgan and Colonel William Washington.
Marysville military heritage traces its roots back to the American Revolutionary War.
The town traces its roots to 1788, when a group of American pioneers to the Northwest Territory led by Gen. Rufus Putnam traveled overland from Massachusetts and stopped at this location to build boats.
No traces of any regular or permanent fortification appear on Citadel Hill until the commencement of the American Revolution.
IGAS traces its beginnings back to 1929, when Milton N. Bunker formed The American Grapho Analysis Society.
Philosopher Douglas Kellner traces the identification of American exceptionalism as a distinct phenomenon back to 19th century French observer Alexis de Tocqueville, who concluded by agreeing that the U. S., uniquely, was " proceeding along a path to which no limit can be perceived.
Focusing on interviews that relate to Friedan's views on men, women and the American Family Sheman traces Friedan's life and explores The Feminine Mystique.
The first volume, however, is complete in itself, and traces the original settlement of the different American colonies, and the progressive changes in their constitutions and forms of government as affected by the state of public affairs in the parent kingdom.
" Few traces of its agricultural past can still be found, but the Santa Clara Valley American Viticultural Area remains a large wine-making region.
The position of Public Printer traces its roots back to Benjamin Franklin and the period before the American Revolution, when he served as " publick printer ," whose job was to produce official government documents for Pennsylvania and other colonies.
Robinia is now a North American genus, but traces of it are found in the Eocene and Miocene rocks of Europe.
There are the traces of the early Norse settlement and a replica of the first Christian church on the American continent.
Much of modern popular music traces its roots to the emergence in the late 19th century of African American blues and the growth of gospel music in the 1920s.
Douglas Reichert Powell's book Critical Regionalism: Connecting Politics and Culture in the American Landscape ( 2007 ) traces the trajectory of the term critical regionalism from its original use in architectural theory to its inclusion in literary, cultural, and political studies and proposes a methodology based on the intersection of those fields.
Lindenwood University traces its roots back to George Champlin Sibley, an early 19th century American explorer, soldier, Indian agent, and politician, and his wife Mary Easton Sibley, an educator.
Glazer's most recent book is the 2007 publication From a Cause to a Style: Modernist Architecture ’ s Encounter With the American City, an essay collection " that traces the diminishment of Modernist architecture from a social revolution — which asserted that traditional architecture ' had come to an end ' — down to a mere style, and one almost universally resented outside the profession.
The Improved Order of Red Men traces its origin to certain secret patriotic societies founded before the American Revolution.
Despite these changes, traces of the original version remain: the Sao Rican ships still have American names ( the Peary and the Kentucky Star ) and Tintin uses a World War II Arado 196 German reconnaissance aircraft.
Fort Myer traces its origin to the American Civil War.
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