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Look up: Desperado

  1. desperado
    [n] - a bold outlaw (especially on the American frontier)
    Found on http://www.webdictionary.co.uk/definitio

  2. Desperado
    Des`per·a'do noun ; plural Desperadoes . [ OSp. desperado , past participle of desperar , from Latin desperare . See Desperate .] A reckless, furious man; a person urged by furious passions, and regardless of consequence; a wild ruffian.
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/D/47

  3. desperado
    desperate criminal noun a bold outlaw (especially on the American frontier)
    Found on http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/web

  4. Desperado
    • (n.) A reckless, furious man; a person urged by furious passions, and regardless of consequence; a wild ruffian.
    Found on http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning

  5. Desperado
    (from the article `Eagles, the`) ...release of their eponymous debut album. Clearly, from the band`s earliest laid-back grooves on hits like Take It Easy to the title song of their ...
    Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/d/36

  6. desperado
    desperado 1. A reckless and violent criminal; especially, in the early settlement of the western United States. 2. A bold or desperate outlaw; especially, of the earlier American frontier. 3. Etymology: from 'a person in despair', a mock-Spanish version of desperate, 'reckless criminal' (1563); from Latin desperatus.
    Found on http://www.wordinfo.info/words/index/inf

  7. Desperado
    (Eagles album) `Desperado` is the second studio album by the American rock band Eagles. It was recorded at Island Studios in London, United Kingdom and released in 1973. Desperado is a concept album, based on the Dalton gang and the Old West. Although the title track is one of t...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desperado

  8. Desperado
    (film) `Desperado` is a 1995 action thriller film written and directed by Robert Rodriguez. The film stars Salma Hayek and Antonio Banderas as the former mariachi who seeks revenge on the drug lord who killed his lover. Desperado is the sequel to Rodriguez`s independent film ...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desperado

  9. Desperado
    (song) "`Desperado`" is a soft rock song by the Eagles, an American rock band, written by group members Glenn Frey and Don Henley. It first appeared on the 1973 album Desperado, and has later appeared on numerous compilation albums although it was not a single. William Ruhlma...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desperado

  10. Desperado
    (roller coaster) `Desperado` is a hypercoaster located in Primm, Nevada at the Buffalo Bill`s Hotel and Casino a part of the Primm Valley Resorts complex. According to the roller coaster database, Desperado was one of the tallest adj=on--> lift hill; and top speeds around 80 mph. On ...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desperado

  11. Desperado
    (chess) In chess, a `desperado piece` is a piece that seems determined to give itself up, typically either (1) to sell itself as dearly as possible in a situation where both sides have hanging pieces or (2) to bring about stalemate if it is captured (or in some instances, to force a draw by p...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desperado

  12. Desperado
    (band) `Desperado` is a heavy metal band formed by Dee Snider in 1988, after Twisted Sister was disbanded. Besides Dee Snider (Twisted Sister, Van Helsing`s Curse, ex-Widowmaker, ex-Dee Snider), the band featured ex-Iron Maiden drummer Clive Burr and ex-Gillan guitarist Bernie Torme. Marc Rus...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desperado

  13. Desperado
    (Pat Martino album) `Desperado` is a 1970 post-bop jazz album by Pat Martino. “A key album in the shift in Pat Martino`s sound at the end of the 60s -- with one foot in the soul jazz camp in which he got his start, and the other in the freer, open-minded style he used a lot in th...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desperado



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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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