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Look up: Fife

  1. FIFE
    acronym: First ISLSCP Field Experiment
    Found on http://cdiac.ornl.gov/pns/acronyms.html#

  2. fife
    [n] - a small high-pitched flute similar to a piccolo
    Found on http://www.webdictionary.co.uk/definitio

  3. Fife
    A place in Scotland to worth fishing for the abundance of red cod in the summer. Also a great winter venue for east coast cod fishing. Home of the fife open.
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/visitor-contrib

  4. Fife
    Fife noun [ French fifre , Old High German pfīfa , Late Latin pipa pipe, pipare to play on the pipe, from Latin pipire , pipare , to peep, pip, chirp, as a chiken. See Pipe .] (Mus.) A sm...
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/F/26

  5. Fife
    Fife intransitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Fifed ; present participle & verbal noun fifing .] To play on a fife.
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/F/26

  6. fife
    noun a small high-pitched flute similar to a piccolo; has a shrill tone and is used chiefly to accompany drums in a marching band
    Found on http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/web

  7. Fife
    • (n.) A small shrill pipe, resembling the piccolo flute, used chiefly to accompany the drum in military music. • (v. i.) To play on a fife.
    Found on http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning

  8. Fife
    council area and historic county of eastern Scotland, covering a peninsula bounded on the north by the Firth of Tay, on the east by the North Sea, on ...
    Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/f/23

  9. fife
    small transverse (side-blown) flute with six finger holes and a narrow cylindrical bore that produces a high pitch and shrill tone. The modern fife, ... [1 related articles]
    Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/f/23

  10. Fife
    A fife is a small shrill pipe of the flute kind, resembling the piccolo flute, used chiefly to accompany the drum in military music. It is pierced with six finger-holes, and usually has one key. Its ordinary compass it is two octaves from D on the fourth line of the treble staff upwards. A combinati...
    Found on http://www.probertencyclopaedia.com/brow

  11. Fife
    HMS Fife was a British County Class destroyer of 5440 tons displacement, launched in 1964. She had a top speed of 30 knots, a range of 3500 miles at 28 knots and carried a crew of 470 including 36 officers. In 1987 she was sold to the Chilean navy. The USS Fife is an American Spruance Class guided missile destroyer.
    Found on http://www.probertencyclopaedia.com/brow

  12. fife
    fife, small transverse flute with six to eight finger holes adopted for military music by Swiss regiments serving in France in the late 15th cent. The fife was used in the British army until the end of the 19th cent. The piccolo has largely replaced the fife in modern use.
    Found on http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/ent/A08186

  13. Fife
    Fife, council area (1993 est. pop. 351,200), 510 sq mi (1,322 sq km), and former county, E Scotland, between the Firth of Forth and the Firth of Tay. The land rises to 1,500 ft (457 m) in the Lomond Hills. Fishing villages of great antiquity dot the eastern coast. One of Scotland's most prosperous a...
    Found on http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/world/A081

  14. Fife
    Unitary authority in eastern Scotland, which was formerly a region of three districts (1975–96) and a county until 1974. Area 1,321 sq km/510 sq mi Towns Cupar, Dunfermline, Glenrothes (administrative headquarters), Kirkcaldy, St Andrews Physical coastal area, predominantly low lying, undula...
    Found on http://www.talktalk.co.uk/reference/ency

  15. fife
    Small transverse flute, originally with finger holes, without keys, and of similar range to the piccolo. Of Swiss origin, the fife is a popular military band instrument, played with the side drums and associated with historic parades. The name is now used for a military flute in B flat, with six finger holes and several keys
    Found on http://www.talktalk.co.uk/reference/ency

  16. Fife
    ) is a council area and former county of Scotland. It is situated between the Firth of Tay and the Firth of Forth, with inland boundaries to Perth and Kinross and Clackmannanshire. It was originally one of the Pictish kingdoms, known as Fib, and is still commonly known as the `Kingdom of Fife...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fife

  17. Fife
    (musical instrument) A `fife` is a small, high-pitched, transverse flute that is similar to the piccolo, but louder and shriller due to its narrower bore. The fife originated in medieval Europe and is often used in military and marching bands. Someone who plays the fife is called a `fifer`. T...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fife

  18. Fife
    (UK Parliament constituency) `Fife` was a county constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1708 until 1885, when it was divided into East Fife and West Fife. It elected one Member of Parliament (MP) using the first-past-the-post voting syste...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fife



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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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