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Thomas Austin Preston Jr. (December 31, 1928 – April 29, 2012), known as Amarillo Slim, was an American professional gambler known for his poker skills and proposition bets. He won the 1972 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event and was inducted into the Poker Hall of Fame in 1992.
Clue "Vintage Edition" (2005, 2009), [39] also released as Cluedo "Vintage Edition", is a re-formatted nostalgia edition into a "vintage" bookshelf collection along with a series of other popular board games. In the Cluedo version, they continued to use the 1963 design and adapted it for the UK market for the first time with localised ...
The number of words in the answer is not given in the clue—so a one-word clue can have a multiple-word answer. [28] The theme, if any, will be applied consistently throughout the puzzle; e.g., if one of the theme entries is a particular variety of pun, all the theme entries will be of that type. [9] Theme answers will tend to be the longest ...
Dawn Sturgess, 44, died after being exposed to the chemical weapon which was left in a discarded bottle in Amesbury, Wiltshire, in July 2018. Novichok perfume bottle contained enough poison to ...
Norman Quentin Cook [1] (born Quentin Leo Cook, 31 July 1963), [2] best known as Fatboy Slim, is an English musician [3] who helped to popularise the big beat genre in the 1990s. In the 1980s, Cook was the bassist for the Hull -based indie rock band the Housemartins , who achieved a UK number-one single with their a cappella cover of " Caravan ...
Codd-neck bottle. A Codd-neck bottle (more commonly known as a Codd bottle or a marble bottle) is a type of bottle used for carbonated drinks.It has a closing design based on a glass marble which is held against a rubber seal, which sits within a recess in the lip.
Crosswordese is the group of words frequently found in US crossword puzzles but seldom found in everyday conversation. The words are usually short, three to five letters, with letter combinations which crossword constructors find useful in the creation of crossword puzzles, such as words that start or end with vowels (or both), abbreviations consisting entirely of consonants, unusual ...
The skull and crossbones has long been a standard symbol for poison. In 1829, New York State required the labeling of all containers of poisonous substances. [8] The skull and crossbones symbol appears to have been used for that purpose since the 1850s. Previously a variety of motifs had been used, including the Danish "+ + +" and drawings of ...