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Look up: Ayr

  1. Ayr
    [n] - a port in southwestern Scotland
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  2. Ayr
    noun a port in southwestern Scotland
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  3. Ayr
    town, northeastern Queensland, Australia, on the delta of the Burdekin River. The settlement was surveyed and gazetted in 1881. Declared a town in ...
    Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/a/133

  4. Ayr
    port town, South Ayrshire council area, historic county of Ayrshire, Scotland, at the mouth of the River Ayr where it enters the Firth of Clyde. The ...
    Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/a/133

  5. Ayr
    Ayr, former county, Scotland: see Ayrshire.
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  6. Ayr
    Ayr (âr) , town (1991 pop. 49,493), South Ayrshire, SW Scotland, at the mouth of the Ayr River on the Firth of Clyde. Ayr is a sea resort and a port for fishing, the export of iron and agricultural produce, and the import of phosphates and timber. It manufactures farm and mining machinery, carp...
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  7. Ayr
    Administrative headquarters of South Ayrshire, southwest Scotland, at the mouth of the River Ayr; population (2001) 46,400. Ayr has strong associations with the Scottish poet Robert Burns. Industries include fishing, electronics, and aircraft parts. Burns National Heritage Park, situated in Alloway, 4 km/2.5 mi south of the town centre, inc...
    Found on http://www.talktalk.co.uk/reference/ency

  8. Ayr
    `Ayr, South Ayrshire, United Kingdom` ( Mouth of the River Ayr) is a town and port situated on the Firth of Clyde in south-west Scotland. With a population of around 46,000, Ayr is the largest settlement in Ayrshire, of which it is the county town, and has held royal burgh status since 1205. Ayr is ...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayr

  9. Ayr
    (UK Parliament constituency) `Ayr` was a county constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1950 to 2005. It elected one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first-past-the-post system of election. History : The constituency was created by merging the Ayr bur...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayr

  10. Ayr
    (Scottish Parliament constituency) `Ayr` is a constituency of the Scottish Parliament (Holyrood). It elects one Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) by the plurality (first past the post) method of election. Also, however, it is one of nine constituencies in the South of Scotland electoral...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayr

  11. Ayr
    (clan) `Ayr` (var. `Cayr`, `Ceyr`) is a Somali clan, part of the Habar Gidir group (itself a Hawiye subclan). Relations with the Islamic Courts Union: Members of the Cayr have been leaders or supporters of the Islamic Courts Union which rose to power over much of Somalia in 2006, and were def...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayr

  12. Ayr
    (original) `Ayr railway station` was a railway station serving the town of Ayr, South Ayrshire, Scotland. The station was originally part of the Glasgow, Paisley, Kilmarnock and Ayr Railway. History : The station opened on 5 August 1839.<ref name="butt22">Butt, p. 22--> The line ...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayr



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12 February 2012

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/calendar/ On February 12, 1809, Charles Robert Darwin was born at The Mount in Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England. Darwin was one of the last of the eclectic scientists who preceded the age of professional specialization. His genius lay in his ability to select, from the facts which he so diligently collected, every relevant point and fit it into his bold and far-reaching theories. He was not the first to advance a theory of evolution; but his massive weight of evidence carried conviction where earlier theorists had failed. He was shy and modest and shrank from controversy, an unfortunate trait in the author of the most controversial book of the century. read more

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