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Look up: Blighty

  1. Blighty
    Blighty is British slang for Britain.
    Found on http://www.probertencyclopaedia.com/brow

  2. Blighty
    Arabia/India Lit. Kingdom, but used by British soldiers to describe Britain.
    Found on http://www.britishempire.co.uk/glossary/

  3. Blighty
    [n] - a slang term for England used by English troops serving abroad
    Found on http://www.webdictionary.co.uk/definitio

  4. Blighty
    British Army slang for Britain.
    Found on http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/FWW

  5. Blighty
    Popular name for England among British troops in World War I. The term was also used to describe serious but non-fatal wounds requiring hospitalization in Britain; for example, `He caught a...
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/local/20688

  6. Blighty
    noun a slang term for England used by English troops serving abroad
    Found on http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/web

  7. Blighty
    Blighty is British slang for Britain.
    Found on http://www.probertencyclopaedia.com/brow

  8. Blighty
    [Naval Acronyms and Slang] the U.K. It used to be commonly used by the RAF but now it’s a more general term to refer home
    Found on http://www.hmforces.co.uk/Join_The_Force

  9. Blighty
    (TV channel) `Blighty` is a television channel broadcasting in the United Kingdom as part of the UKTV network of channels. The channel was launched on 8 March 2004 as `UKTV People`. Along with UKTV Documentary (now known as Eden), it was a replacement for the channel UK Horizons, which closed...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blighty

  10. Blighty
    `Blighty` is a British English slang term for Britain, deriving from the Hindustani word vilāyatī (विलायती) (pronounced bilāti in many Indian dialects and languages), from Persian vilayet and ultimately from Arabic wilayah, ori...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blighty



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11 February 2012

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On 11th February, 1858, a 14 year old French peasant girl, Bernadette Soubirous claimed to have seen visions of the Virgin Mary at her native Lourdes. She also revealed that the waters of a spring near a grotto in Lourdes had been given healing powers by the Virgin. Eventually, the Roman Catholic church decided that the visions were authentic. Franz Werfel wrote the novel, Song of Bernadette, based on the story of Bernadette's visions. read more

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