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Erle Stanley Gardner. Erle Stanley Gardner (July 17, 1889 – March 11, 1970) was an American author and lawyer, best known for the Perry Mason series of legal detective stories. Gardner also wrote numerous other novels and shorter pieces as well as a series of nonfiction books, mostly narrations of his travels through Baja California and other ...
A crossword(or crossword puzzle) is a word gameconsisting of a grid of black and white squares, into which solvers enter words or phrases ("entries") crossing each other horizontally ("across") and vertically ("down") according to a set of clues. Each white square is typically filled with one letter, while the black squares are used to separate ...
The Spanish treasure fleet, or West Indies Fleet (Spanish: Flota de Indias, also called silver fleet or plate fleet; from the Spanish: plata meaning "silver"), was a convoy system of sea routes organized by the Spanish Empire from 1566 to 1790, which linked Spain with its territories in the Americas across the Atlantic.
Taking this one stage further, the clue word can hint at the word or words to be abbreviated rather than giving the word itself. For example: "About" for C or CA (for "circa"), or RE. "Say" for EG, used to mean "for example". More obscure clue words of this variety include: "Model" for T, referring to the Model T.
2014 Gold Coast. 4×100 m freestyle. Michael Fred Phelps II[ 5 ] OLY (born June 30, 1985) [ 6 ] is an American former competitive swimmer. He is the most successful and most decorated Olympian of all time [ 7 ] with a total of 28 medals. [ 8 ] Phelps also holds the all-time records for Olympic gold medals (23), [ 9 ] Olympic gold medals in ...
Ralph Breyer, gold medalist in the men's 800-meter free relay at the Paris Olympics of 1924, four-time NCAA champion and recipient of the Big Ten medal of honor; Matt Grevers, winner of four gold and two silver Olympic medals in multiple events in 2008 and 2012; Bob Skelton, 1924 Olympic gold medalist in 200-meter breaststroke
105. Soundtrack albums. 5. The discography of American rhythm and blues singer Diana Ross, the former lead singer of the Supremes, consists of 26 studio albums and 116 singles. Throughout her career, Ross has sold over 100 million records worldwide. [ 1 ] Billboard ranked her as the 47th Greatest Artist of all time and the 11th Greatest Hot 100 ...
Map of Pre-Columbian states of Mexico just before the Spanish conquest. The pre-Columbian (or prehispanic) history of the territory now making up the country of Mexico is known through the work of archaeologists and epigraphers, and through the accounts of Spanish conquistadores, settlers and clergymen as well as the indigenous chroniclers of the immediate post-conquest period.