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Oxford Dictionary has 273,000 headwords; 171,476 of them being in current use, 47,156 being obsolete words and around 9,500 derivative words included as subentries. The dictionary contains 157,000 combinations and derivatives, and 169,000 phrases and combinations, making a total of over 600,000 word-forms. [ 37][ 38]
Anonymous broadside, Angus, Newcastle, 1774–1825. "The Twelve Days of Christmas" is a cumulative song, meaning that each verse is built on top of the previous verses. There are twelve verses, each describing a gift given by "my true love" on one of the twelve days of Christmas. There are many variations in the lyrics.
On 6 and 9 August 1945, the United States detonated two atomic bombs over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The bombings killed between 150,000 and 246,000 people, most of whom were civilians, and remain the only use of nuclear weapons in an armed conflict. Japan surrendered to the Allies on 15 August, six days after the bombing of ...
978-0375857942. Preceded by. Great Day for Up! Followed by. The Cat's Quizzer. Oh, the Thinks You Can Think! is a children's book written and illustrated by Theodor Geisel under the pen name Dr. Seuss and published by Random House on August 21, 1975. [1] [2] The book is about the many amazing 'thinks' one can think and the endless possibilities ...
2 [32] 6 [32] 1 1 1 2 1 1 1 1 Thou shalt have no other gods before me: 3 [33] 7 [33] 2 2 2 2 1 1 1 1 Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image: 4–6 [34] 8–10 [34] 3 3 3 3 2 2 2 2 Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain: 7 [35] 11 [35] 4 4 4 4 3 3 3 3 Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy: 8–11 [36] 4 4 4 4 3 3 3 3
I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles) " I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles) " is a song written and performed by Scottish duo the Proclaimers, and first released in August 1988 by Chrysalis as the lead single from their second album, Sunshine on Leith (1988). The song reached number 11 in the UK Singles Chart on its initial release and topped the charts of Australia ...
"Say Say Say" is a song by Paul McCartney and Michael Jackson, released in October 1983 as the lead single from McCartney's 1983 album Pipes of Peace. Produced by George Martin , it was recorded during production of McCartney's 1982 Tug of War album, about a year before the release of " The Girl Is Mine ", the pair's first duet from Jackson's ...
"Words" was the Bee Gees third UK top 10 hit, reaching number 8, and in a UK television special on ITV in December 2011 it was voted fourth in "The Nation's Favourite Bee Gees Song". [1] The song has been recorded by many other artists, including hit versions by Rita Coolidge in 1978 and Boyzone in 1996. This was Boyzone's fifth single and ...