Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An abbreviation of
London .
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- abbreviation
London
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Nothing about Appalachia makes it memorable or distinct, except perhaps the setting, though a reader can find the same setting for a religious dystopia in Lon Prater's 2005 short story, "Deadglass."
Archive 2008-08-01 2008
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Nothing about Appalachia makes it memorable or distinct, except perhaps the setting, though a reader can find the same setting for a religious dystopia in Lon Prater's 2005 short story, "Deadglass."
August Christian Science Fiction/Fantasy Blog Tour: Broken Angel 2008
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By that point, the news cycle was revolving around the fact that the terrorism-related death toll of the innocent in London had belatedly risen to 53.
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I mean, a couple days after the London bombings I rendez-voused with people who had been in London that day ..
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Some of this disparity is driven by the fact that there are a lot more American (& ‘Western’) reporters in London than in Cairo.
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A subsequent entry reads "Lon is very much taken with my ‘guess 'patterns and tried on my waist, & Thursday I'm going to her house to cut her a blue percale by my pattern."
"Make It Yourself": Home Sewing, Gender, and Culture, 1890-1930 2006
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I’m having trouble calculating the Lat/Lon from the X/Y position in JavaScript.
Smart Mobs » Blog Archive » Location-enhanced web: get people out of the house 2003
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Every door-step had its occupants, every fence rail its leaning groups (though fences were scarce in Littleton), and the left-overs gathered in and around the saloon, familiarly known as Lon's.
Joyce's Investments A Story for Girls Fannie E. Newberry
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They over - run that part of Italy aow called Lon - hardy, 114.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1788
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Prosecutors say there were plans to leverage the power of the governor's office into a moneymaking enterprise, and that it involved Blagojevich, top campaign fundraiser Tony Rezko, fundraiser Chris Kelly and the governor's chief of staff, Alonzo "Lon" Monk.
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