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Look up: Metro

  1. Metro
    abbreviation: Meteorology (weather); also,
    Found on http://www.apscharts.com/abbrev.html

  2. METRO
    abbreviation: Pilot-to-Metro voice call
    Found on http://www.apscharts.com/abbrev.html

  3. metro
    [n] - electric underground railway
    Found on http://www.webdictionary.co.uk/definitio

  4. metro
    tube 1 underground noun an electric railway operating below the surface of the ground (usually in a city); `in Paris the subway system is called the `metro` and in London it is called the `tube` or the `underground``
    Found on http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/web

  5. Metro
    (from the article `Media and Publishing`) ...in circulation year on year, and The Independent registered a 15% rise in circulation, its highest increase since 1997. The free commuter ...
    Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/m/81

  6. Metro
    The term used to denote an urban railway, often partly or wholly underground, carrying large numbers of passengers on trains at close headways. In the US synonymous with the term "subway". The word is a diminution of the Metropolitan Railway of London, the first urban underground railway in the worl...
    Found on http://www.railway-technical.com/newglos

  7. Metro
    `Metro` is an abbreviation of metropolitan, and is the name of many products and services relating to urban areas, especially public transport systems. Public transport: Rapid transit systems: Non rapid transit rail networks: These networks are not rapid transit systems, and are not in the list ment...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metro

  8. Metro
    (British newspaper) `Metro` is the trading name of a free daily newspaper, published by Associated Newspapers Ltd (part of Daily Mail and General Trust) in the United Kingdom. It is available from Monday to Friday (excluding bank holidays) each week on many public transport services ac...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metro

  9. Metro
    (Oregon regional government) `Metro`, formerly known as `Metropolitan Service District`, is the regional governmental agency for the Oregon portion of the Portland metropolitan area. It is the only directly elected metropolitan planning organization in the Carl Abbott-->--> As of 2002, the ag...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metro

  10. Metro
    (band) `Metró` was a very famous Hungarian rock band in the 1960s and early 1970s. When the Hungarian government cracked down on rock music that they considered subversive, Metró left the music industry. Band leader Zorán Sztevanovity has pursued an active solo career after his tenure with the band.
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metro

  11. Metro
    (Belfast) `Metro` is the trading name for bus company Citybus in Belfast, Northern Ireland. It is a subsidiary of the Northern Ireland Transport Holding Company, within the common management structure of Translink, along with Ulsterbus and Northern Ireland Railways. Metro operates 12 quality ...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metro

  12. Metro
    (supermarket, Indonesia) ) is a company based in Jakarta, publisher=The Jakarta Post | date=2008-03-31 | accessdate=2008-08-02 -->--> The Group owns the properties Metro Pasar Baru Building, Melawai Plaza Building and Metro Sunter Plaza. The Group also developed a housing and apartment comple...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metro

  13. Metro
    (magazine) | firstdate = | finaldate = | finalnumber = | country = New Zealand | --> `Metro` is a glossy monthly lifestyle magazine published in New Zealand by ACP Media. It has a strong focus on the city of Auckland, with reportage of issues and society. The magazine was first publish...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metro

  14. Metro
    (Sweden) `Metro` is a free daily newspaper in Sweden, published by Metro International. It is printed in 4 editions: Stockholm, Gothenburg, Skåne and National (Riks), which is distributed in 67 towns and cities throughout the country. `Metro Stockholm` was the first ve...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metro

  15. Metro
    (novel) `Metropoliteno` (trans. Subway, Underground, Metro) is a partly autobiographical novel written in Esperanto by Vladimir Varankin about suppression by the state in Germany and the Soviet Union. It was published in Amsterdam in 1933 (200 pages), again in Denmark in 1977, and a th...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metro

  16. Metro
    (supermarket, Greece) `Metro` is a supermarket chain in Greece. It was established in 1976 as a partnership of eight independent grocery stores. In the same year, Metro opened its first self-branded supermarket in Athens. Today (2006) the company has 69 stores all over Greece. 41 of its store...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metro

  17. METRO
    (supermarket) `METRO` is one of the leading supermarket chains in Cyprus. It currently operates with 3 stores in Nicosia and 1 store in Larnaca. Not to be confused with Metro Inc., a supermarket chain in Canada. History: In October 1982, `METRO Foods Trading Ltd` was established with its firs...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/METRO

  18. Metro
    (Belgian newspaper) `Metro` is a free newspaper in Belgium, distributed on working days and aiming in particular at 18-44 year old urban, active, mobile students and commuters.<ref name=overmetro> ``Metro`s revenue comes from advertising. Its news sources are mainly the longstanding...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metro

  19. Metro
    (department store) `Metro` is a department store in Singapore, Indonesia and other countries, operating 7 stores, 5 in Jakarta, one in Bandung and one in Makassar The first METRO store opened in 1991 at Mall Pondok Indah. The second store at Plaza Senayan opened in 1995. The third store follo...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metro

  20. Metro
    (Italy) `Metro` is an Italian free daily newspaper published in Italy by Metro International. Ten separate editions are produced for the cities of Bergamo, Bologna, Genoa, Florence, Milan, Padua, Rome, Turin, Venice and Verona, with other special editions (Metro Mag, Metro St...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metro

  21. Metro
    (musical) `Metro` is a musical with music by Janusz Stokłosa and lyrics by Agata and Maryna Miklaszewska. Its director and the choreographer was Janusz Józefowicz. It focuses on a story of a group of youngsters who, for various reasons, decide to live underground, in the subway ...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metro

  22. Metro
    (restaurant chain) `Metro` is an Icelandic fast food restaurant chain. It replaced McDonald`s after McDonald`s left Iceland in November 2009. However, some McDonald`s menu items are on the Metro menu instead with domestic products. See also :
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metro



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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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