An old English name for the letter Z (zed), it can also be used as a [synonym] for last.
> If you have any five-year-old children get them to tell their teacher that the last letter of the alphabet is uzzard.

Russia's currency and stock market have suffered substantial losses since the outbreak of hostilities in Georgia three weeks ago. VOA Moscow correspondent Peter Fedynsky reports investors are nervous going into the weekend over the possibility that

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Russia's currency and stock market have suffered substantial losses since the outbreak of hostilities in Georgia three weeks ago. Investors are nervous going into the weekend over the possibility that European heads of state may apply sanctions again

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Ichiro Suzuki is probably the best-known and most successful Japanese baseball player to play outside of Japan. He moved to Major League Baseball in 2001 and immediately started breaking records and making history. He is the first MLB player to join

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HEIDI COLLINS, CNN ANCHOR: Your safety is the focus today at the White House. President Obama is meeting with his top national security team to review the attempted terrorist bombing of Northwest flight 253. What went wrong and how can the system be

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By Peter Fedynsky Kara Suu, Kyrgyzstan 29 August 2007 When the vast lands of the former Soviet Union comprised a single nation, borders between constituent republics did not significantly hinder trade and travel among them. But after the Soviet colla

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A combination of pictures shows supporters from various countries playing vuvuzela horns during the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa The football World Cup is entering its second round in South Africa and fans are gearing up for another two weeks

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Steve Baragona | Port-au-Prince 22 March 2010 Haitian officials say less food aid and more jobs are needed to get the economy running again. Some major organizations are scaling back donation efforts beginning April 1st. But many Haitians are still i

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By Claudia Blume Hong Kong 09 June 2006 Soccer crazy Asia is getting ready for the World Cup, which is kicking off in Germany. Retailers, bar owners and gambling outlets are ready for the action. Many people in Asia will go to work bleary-eyed in th

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TORONTO, April 26 (Xinhua) -- Toronto Raptors guard Ben Uzoh recorded 12 points, 11 rebounds and 12 assists to lead the Raptors to a 98-67 victory over the New Jersey Nets in NBA action on Thursday night. Uzoh's triple double was the tenth in franchi

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人类的大脑是一个迷 对于我们的身体来说,它是出奇地大。它的重量和那一个奇形怪状的密集的大脑皮层消耗了大量的能量。但是:为什么?神经学家苏珊娜带上她的侦探帽,带领我们探索这

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addressing method
adheringjunction
around-the-clock
as still as still
assayeth
Auwers synthesis
average train technical speed
Baby Face Nelson
baeoura trichopoda
Ban Tao
bauhaus school
Benllech
both sheets aft
Briggean system of logarithm
byoyomi
cajon
carbohydrate binder
carragcheen
cinaciguat
combined supercharging
compensation rate of luggage and parcel
conchologists
contract-rate tariff (two-part tariff)
cuticle layer
dehydration experiment
determination of center lines
devil-may-cares
Di-Te-Tuss
Dorothy Rothschild Parker
East China Sea Coastal Current
eragrostis nevinii
exotransferase
extracting block coal-water rise
flexible curtain
forced heir
grocery paper
HDMS
heapers
Heffen
Hewittia sublobata
high pressure gas container
highly-qualified
hypertrophic scar
immunomodulative
isonymous marriage
KIA killed in action
koldflo
linear programming solving
lithographic ink
litispendency
lollygagged
long-range plan
medium high frequency
Meltzer's reaction
momentum separator
mucous thread
N-glycosylation
narrow topology
national air and space museum (nasm)
Ninnescah R.
nuclear injury
objecthood
obliteratingly
off course
one flue boiler
Orlické Hory (Orlice Mts.)
oscillating cylinder
osmium(iii) chloride
OSV
over-ran
over-soft
patchboard
performance variance
placabler
PPI operator
pseudo-duplexing
pukin'
radiological environment
rain tip
relevant value
remote power controller
runy
Sefīd, Dārya-ye
skirt dipole
sludge moisture content
spielman
spill money
Spirillospora
stably parallelizable
steering universal joint
Stenocarpus sinuatus
sunscreen lotion
thermionic ion source
third land
tin liquor
ultimate apex
under-utilize
unrecited
vachey
valley shifting
VoIM
wahida