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Look up: Dawn

  1. dawn
    [n] - the first light of day 2. [n] - an opening time period 3. [n] - the earliest period 4. [v] - appear or develop 5. [v] - become light
    Found on http://www.webdictionary.co.uk/definitio

  2. DAWN
    Drug Abuse Warning Network
    Found on http://www.geocities.com/~mlshams/acrony

  3. Dawn
    Dawn intransitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Dawned ; present participle & verbal noun Dawning .] [ Middle English dawnen , dawen , dagen , daien , Anglo-Saxon dagian to become day, to dawn, from dæg day; akin to Dutch dagen , German tagen , Icelandic daga , D ...
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/D/9

  4. Dawn
    Dawn noun 1. The break of day; the first appearance of light in the morning; show of approaching sunrise. « And oft at dawn , deep noon, or falling eve.» Thomson. « No sun, no moon, no morn, no noon, No dawn , no dusk, no proper time of day.» Hood. 2. First opening or expansion; first appearance; beginning; rise. 'The dawn ...
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/D/9

  5. dawn
    dawning noun the first light of day; `we got up before dawn`; `they talked until morning`
    Found on http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?

  6. dawn
    verb become light; `It started to dawn, and we had to get up`
    Found on http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?

  7. dawn
    noun the earliest period; `the dawn of civilization`; `the morning of the world`
    Found on http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?

  8. Dawn
    `Dawn` is the period of time immediately preceding sunrise. It is recognized by the presence of weak sunlight, while the sun itself is still below the horizon. There are a number of more technical definitions of dawn, including the following: *`Astronomical dawn` is the moment after which the sky is no longer completely dark, formally defined as the time at which the sun is 18 degrees below the horizon in the morning. *`Nautical dawn` that time...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dawn

  9. DAWN
    `DAWN` as an acronym (all caps) may refer to: * Dawn (spacecraft), a space orbiter launched in 2007 to the asteroid Vesta and the dwarf planet Ceres * DAWN, an English-language newspaper in Pakistan * DC Anti-War Network, a Washington DC-based anti-war organization * Discipling a Whole Nation, a Christian organization focusing on making `disciples from all nations` * Drug Abuse Warning Network a program to collect statistics on emergency room me...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DAWN

  10. Dawn
    • (v. i.) To began to give promise; to begin to appear or to expand. • (v. i.) To begin to grow light in the morning; to grow light; to break, or begin to appear; as, the day dawns; the morning dawns. • (n.) The break of day; the first appearance of light in the morning; show of approaching sunrise. • (n.) First opening or expan...
    Found on http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning

  11. Dawn
    jurist and philosopher who was chiefly responsible for maintaining the traditions of Islmic philosophy in the 15th century.
    Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/d/14

  12. dawn
    (from the article `sunlight`) ...During this long passage the dominant blue wavelengths of light are scattered and blocked, leaving the longer, unobstructed red wavelengths to ...
    Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/d/14

  13. Dawn
    (from the article `Michelangelo`) ...perhaps implies inner fire. Both female figures have the tall, slim proportions and small feet considered beautiful at the time, but otherwise ... ...the Madonna and Christ Child with the Medici patron saints, Cosmas and Damian; and beneath the two sarcophagi respectively lie the recumbent ... [2 ...
    Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/d/14

  14. Dawn
    (from the article `Ucicky, Gustav`) ...in Austria, the movie launched a string of films that were approved for the German public by Joseph Goebbels, Nazi minister of propaganda. ...
    Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/d/14

  15. Dawn
    (from the article `Physical Sciences`) NASA launched its Dawn mission to explore asteroid Vesta and dwarf planet Ceres on September 27. It carried a visual and infrared spectrometer and a ...
    Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/d/14

  16. Dawn
    Dawn is a English girl name. The meaning of the name is `Sunrise` Where is it used? The name Dawn is mainly used In English. From Old English. Dawn doesn`t appear In 2007`s top-1000 name list.The last time Dawn appeared In the top-1000 was 8 years ago, In 2000. It ranked #913 In that year. The name reached the top-100 3 times. 1970 was a `top ye
    Found on http://i-am-pregnant.com/names/girls/Daw

  17. Dawn
    Dawn is a English girl name. The meaning of the name is `dawn` Where is it used? The name Dawn is mainly used In English. Dawn doesn`t appear In 2007`s top-1000 name list.The last time Dawn appeared In the top-1000 was 8 years ago, In 2000. It ranked #913 In that year. The name reached the top-100 3 times. 1970 was a `top year` for the name Dawn
    Found on http://i-am-pregnant.com/names/girls/Daw

  18. Dawn
    Dawn Greek: Eos (goddess) Latin: Aurora (goddess)
    Found on http://www.wordinfo.info/words/index/inf

  19. dawn
    1. the first light of day
    2. the earliest period
    3. an opening time period

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  20. DAWN
    The first appearance of light in the eastern sky before sunrise. It marks the beginning of morning twilight. The visual display is created by the scattering of light reaching the upper atmosphere prior to the sun's rise to the observer's horizon. Related term: daybreak
    Found on http://www.weather.com/glossary/d.html

  21. Dawn
    Artist's impression of Dawn probe in space. Image credit: William K. Hartmann and UCLA Dawn baseline interplanetary trajectory for primary mission. Dashed lines represent orbits of Mars, Vesta, and Ceres. Image credit: NASA A NASA probe designed to explore the largest asteroid in the s...
    Found on http://www.daviddarling.info/encyclopedi

  22. dawn
    The first light in the sky before sunrise, equivalent to morning astronomical twilight. The dawn side of a planet or moon is the hemisphere that lies nearest the morning terminator.
    Found on http://www.daviddarling.info/encyclopedi


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21 November 2009

This day in history:
On 21st November 1974 the Provisional IRA plants bombs in two Birmingham pubs: the Mulberry Bush and the Tavern in the Town. Twenty-one people die and 182 are injured. A few minutes before the explosions a warning had been telephoned to the local newspaper, the Birmingham Post and Mail, but it was far too late. The first Birmingham bomb, at the Mulberry Bush pub in the basement of the Rotunda, a 20-storey office and retail complex and it exploded six minutes after the telephone warning. There was not enough time for police to clear the area. Earlier that year nine soldiers were killed when a bomb exploded on a coach on the M62 near Bradford, while two bombs in Guildford killed four soldiers and injured scores of other people. read more

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