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Look up: Blitz

  1. Blitz
    Blitz is British slang for to break into a building in order to rob it.
    Found on http://www.probertencyclopaedia.com/brow

  2. Blitz
    [Noun] A time in the Second World War, from 1940-41, when German planes bombed cities in Britain a lot. A blitz is when a city is damaged a lot by bombs dropped by planes.
    Example: His grandparents were killed in the Blitz. Origin:'Lightning war' in German (Blitzkrieg).
    See also: bomb
    Found on http://www.bbc.co.uk/skillswise/glossary

  3. blitz
    [n] - a rapid and violent military attack with intensive aerial bombardment 2. [v] - attack suddenly and without warning
    Found on http://www.webdictionary.co.uk/definitio

  4. Blitz
    Destroyer class [AH]
    Found on http://www.jedsite.info/index.html

  5. blitz
    blitzkrieg noun a swift and violent military offensive with intensive aerial bombardment
    Found on http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/web

  6. blitz
    verb attack suddenly and without warning; `Hitler blitzed Poland`
    Found on http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/web

  7. blitz
    a play where the defensive team sends players rushing towards the line of scrimmage as soon as the ball is snapped to try to sack the quarterback.
    Found on http://www.firstbasesports.com/football_

  8. blitz
    a defensive maneuver in which one or more linebackers or defensive backs, who normally remain behind the line of scrimmage, instead charge into the opponents' backfield.
    Found on http://www.instantactionsports.com/sport

  9. Blitz
    Blitz is British slang for to break into a building in order to rob it.
    Found on http://www.probertencyclopaedia.com/brow

  10. Blitz
    `Blitz`, German for "lightning", may refer to: Armed conflict: People: Computing: Computer games: Sports: Gridiron football: Other sports: Music: Toys and games: Fictional characters : Companies: Other:
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blitz

  11. Blitz
    (American football) In American football or Canadian football, a `blitz` or `red dog` is when players on or behind the line of scrimmage during a play, are sent across the scrimmage line to the offensive side to try to tackle the quarterback or disrupt his pass attempt. The name of the play i...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blitz

  12. Blitz
    (mascot) `Blitz` is the official mascot of the Seattle Seahawks, a team in the National Football Conference of the National Football League. A large blue bird, Blitz made his debut on September 13, 1998 at the Seahawks` home opener at the Kingdome in Seattle. After his inception Blitz`s appea...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blitz

  13. Blitz
    (video game) `Blitz` is an arcade-style game for the VIC-20 personal computer. The first game of this genre was written for the Commodore PET by Peter Calver and published under the name Air Attack by his company, Supersoft, in 1979. At that time it was common for computer magazines to...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blitz

  14. Blitz
    (band) <ref name="members.tripod.com">http://members.tripod.com/~voiceofageneration/ Blitz: Voice Of A Generation (unofficial Blitz site)--> They had success in the United Kingdom indie charts in the early 1980s. With both punk and skinhead members, they were enthusiastically cha...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blitz

  15. Blitz
    (newspaper) `Blitz` is a Portuguese music newspaper. It was founded in November 1984. In July 2002, the newspaper was acquired by Impresa, which gave the newspaper access to more advanced technology, like color treatment, starting a new phase in the life of the newspaper. External links:
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blitz

  16. Blitz
    (Brazilian band) `Blitz` is a Brazilian rock band. The band was the first to achieve mainstream success and to have hit singles (Você não soube me amar, A dois passos do paraíso, Ana Maria (biquíni de bolinha amarelinha tão pequenininho)) kick-starting the ...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blitz

  17. Blitz
    (movement) `Blitz` is an anarchist, communist and socialist youth community in Oslo, Blitzhuset-->) is an autonomism|autonomous house in the centre of Oslo, Norway. It started out as a squatted building in Skippergata 6 in downtown Oslo in the 1981 and has since been a centre of socialist, co...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blitz

  18. Blitz
    (comics) Blitz is Big Bang Comics` homage to Flash. Fictional character history: `Earth A` Jimmy Travis was a lady man-race car driver. One day, he was pushed off road by a fellow racer, Helmut Schletman. He discover an abandoned former-Nazi lab containing a suit label "Ubermensch" ...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blitz

  19. Blitz
    (film) `Blitz` is a 2011 film directed by Elliott Lester and starring Jason Statham, Paddy Considine, Aidan Gillen and David Morrissey. It is based on the novel of the same name by Ken Bruen, which features his recurring characters Detective Sergeant Tom Brant and Chief Inspector James...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blitz



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11 February 2012

This day in history:
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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