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  1. Fortune
    HMS Fortune was a British Fearless Class destroyer of 1350 tons displacement launched in 1934. She was armed with four 4.7-inch guns; six smaller guns; two depth-charge throwers and eight 21-inch torpedo tubes. She was powered by three Admiralty 3-drum type boilers providing a top speed of 36.7 knot...
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  2. fortune
    [n] - your overall circumstances or condition in life (including everything that happens to you) 2. [n] - a large amount of wealth or prosperity
    Found on http://www.webdictionary.co.uk/definitio

  3. Fortune
    For'tune (fôr'tun; 135) noun [ French fortune , Latin fortuna ; akin to fors , fortis , chance, probably from ferre to bear, bring. See Bear to support, and confer Fortuitous .] 1. The arrival...
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/F/66

  4. Fortune
    For'tune transitive verb [ Old French fortuner , Latin fortunare . See Fortune , noun ] 1. To make fortunate; to give either good or bad fortune to. [ Obsolete] Chaucer. 2. To provid...
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/F/67

  5. Fortune
    For'tune intransitive verb To fall out; to happen. « It fortuned the same night that a Christian, serving a Turk in the camp, secretely gave the watchmen warning.» Knolles.
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/F/67

  6. Fortune
    • (n.) To make fortunate; to give either good or bad fortune to. • (n.) The arrival of something in a sudden or unexpected manner; chance; accident; luck; hap; also, the personified or deified power regarded as determining human success, apportioning happiness and unhappiness, and distribu...
    Found on http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning

  7. Fortune
    (from the article `Evans, Walker`) During the late summer of 1936 Evans was on leave from the FSA to work for Fortune magazine with writer James Agee on a study of three sharecropping ... ...successively at Harvard and Princeton universities until 1942. During World War II and the postwar period, he held a variety of government posts .....
    Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/f/49

  8. Fortune
    Fortune is a English girl name. The meaning of the name is `Fortunate` Where is it used? The name Fortune is mainly used In English. From Old English. The name Fortune doesn`t appear In the US top 1000 most common names over de last 128 years. The name Fortune seems to be unique!
    Found on http://i-am-pregnant.com/names/girls/For

  9. fortune
    good or bad luck, fate
    Found on http://www.eslgold.com/acad_vocab_defini

  10. Fortune
    Fortune is a variety of apple.
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  11. Fortune
    (magazine) `Fortune` is a global business magazine published by Money Group. Founded by Henry Luce in 1930, the publishing business, consisting of Time, Life, Fortune, and Sports Illustrated, grew to become Time Warner. In turn, AOL grew as it acquired Time ...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortune

  12. Fortune
    `Fortune` (or `Fortuné`) may refer to: `People`: `Places`: `Ships`: In `music`: In `entertainment`: `Fictional characters`: `Theatres`: In `business`: `Other uses`: See also:
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortune

  13. Fortune
    (Unix) `<tt>fortune</tt>` is a simple program that displays a pseudorandom message from a database of quotations that first appeared in Version 7 Unix. The most common version on modern systems is the BSD <tt>fortune</tt>, originally written by Ken Arnold. Distributions of fortune...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortune

  14. Fortune
    (band) `Fortune` is an 80s AOR band that had a number of minor hits in the early 80`s including "Airwaves" from the "The Last American Virgin" movie soundtrack and from their second 1985 album release including: "Dearborn Station", and "Thrill of it All"...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortune

  15. Fortune
    (Nami Tamaki song) "`Fortune`" is the seventh single release from J-pop artist Nami Tamaki and was released on January 26, 2005 as a limited edition, and a regular edition. It claimed the 6th spot on the Oricon chart. Fortune was also used as a theme for the PlayStation 2 game Radia...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortune



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10 February 2012

This day in history:
On 10th February 1996, a computer, Deep Blue, beat Russian Garry Kasparov, the greatest chess player on the planet, and mankind’s place in the order of things was reshuffled. The match immediately became an iconic symbol of the advances made in artificial intelligence and supercomputing. Kasparov has since retired, like Deep Blue, which now resides in a museum. He has become a vocal advocate for democracy in today’s Russia. read more

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