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Look up: SAGA

  1. SAGA
    acronym: Soviet-American Gas and Aerosol Experiment
    Found on http://cdiac.ornl.gov/pns/acronyms.html#

  2. saga
    [Noun] A very long, detailed story
    Example: The 'Lord of the Rings' saga has been made into three feature films.
    Found on http://www.bbc.co.uk/skillswise/glossary

  3. saga
    [n] - a narrative telling the adventures of a hero or a family
    Found on http://www.webdictionary.co.uk/definitio

  4. saga
    Prose narrative written down in the 11th-13th centuries in Norway and Iceland. The sagas range from family chronicles, such as the Landnamabok of Ari (1067-1148), to legendary and anonymous...
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/local/20688

  5. Saga
    Sa'ga (sā'gȧ) noun ; plural Sagas (-gȧz). [ Icelandic , akin to English saw a saying. See Say , and confer Saw .] A Scandinavian legend, or heroic or mythic tradition, among the Norsemen and kindre...
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/S/5

  6. saga
    noun a narrative telling the adventures of a hero or a family; originally (12th to 14th centuries) a story of the families that settled Iceland and their descendants but now any prose narrative that resembles such an account
    Found on http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/web

  7. Saga
    • (pl. ) of Sagum • (n.) A Scandinavian legend, or heroic or mythic tradition, among the Norsemen and kindred people; a northern European popular historical or religious tale of olden time.
    Found on http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning

  8. Saga
    (from the article `Saga`) city and ken (prefecture), northern Kyushu, Japan. Saga was the castle town of the lord (daimyo) Nabeshima Kans. Traces of feudal days remain in the ...
    Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/s/5

  9. Saga
    city and ken (prefecture), northern Kyushu, Japan. Saga was the castle town of the lord (daimyo) Nabeshima Kans. Traces of feudal days remain in the ...
    Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/s/5

  10. saga
    in medieval Icelandic literature, any type of story or history in prose, irrespective of the kind or nature of the narrative or the purposes for ... [4 related articles]
    Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/s/5

  11. saga
    saga 1. A prose narrative usually written in Iceland between 1120 and 1400, dealing with the families that first settled Iceland and their descendants, with the histories of the kings of Norway, and with the myths and legends of early Germanic gods and heroes. 2. A modern prose narrative that resem...
    Found on http://www.wordinfo.info/words/index/inf

  12. SAGA
    Trademark for ranch-raised Scandinavian mink and fox pelts
    Found on http://sekasinternational.com/glossary.a

  13. Saga
    The Saga was a Japanese gunboat of 685 tons displacement launched in 1912. The Saga was powered by two Kanpon coal-fired boilers providing a top speed of 15 knots and carried a complement of 99. She was armed with one 4.7 inch gun; three 3 inch anti-aircraft guns and six machine-guns.
    Found on http://www.probertencyclopaedia.com/brow

  14. saga
    (jargon) (WPI) A cuspy but bogus raving story about N random broken people. Here is a classic example of the saga form, as told by Guy Steele (GLS): Jon L. White (login name JONL) and I (GLS) were office mates at MIT for many years. One April, we both flew from Boston to California for a week on re...
    Found on http://foldoc.org/saga

  15. Saga
    Saga is a cultivated variety of potato.
    Found on http://www.probertencyclopaedia.com/brow

  16. Saga
    Saga (sä'gä) , city (1990 pop. 169,963), capital of Saga prefecture, W Kyushu, Japan. It is a railroad and coal-distribution center. Cotton textiles and ceramics are produced in the city. A castle town in feudal times, Saga was the center of a rebellion in 1874. Saga prefecture (1990 p...
    Found on http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/world/A084

  17. saga
    saga, in Old Norse literature, especially Icelandic and Norwegian, narrative in prose or verse, centering on a legendary or historical figure or family. Sagas may be divided into sagas of the kings, mainly of early Norwegian rulers; Icelandic sagas, both biographical and historical; contemporary sag...
    Found on http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/ent/A08429

  18. Saga
    In Norse mythology, Saga was the daughter of Odin. She was the goddess of poetry.
    Found on http://www.probertencyclopaedia.com/brow

  19. saga
    Prose narrative written down in the 11th–13th centuries in Norway and Iceland. The sagas range from family chronicles, such as the Landnamabok of Ari (1067–1148), to legendary and anonymous works such as Njal's Saga (c. 1280). The term `saga` is generally applied to an...
    Found on http://www.talktalk.co.uk/reference/ency

  20. Saga
    (disambiguation) `Sagas`, are stories in Old Norse about ancient Scandinavian and Germanic history, etc. `Saga` may also refer to: ; Business ; Organisations ; Music ; Media ; Gaming ; Mythology ; Places ; People ; Computers ; Science ; Cuisine ; Maritime ; Other
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saga

  21. Saga
    The `sagas` (from Icelandic saga, plural sögur) are stories about ancient Scandinavian and Germanic history, about early Viking voyages, the battles that took place during the voyages, about migration to Iceland and of feuds between Icelandic families. They were written in the Old N...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saga

  22. Saga
    (band) `Saga` is a progressive rock quintet, formed in Oakville, Ontario, Canada. Jim Crichton and Welsh-born vocalist Michael Sadler have been the principal songwriters for Saga. Ian Crichton is the band`s guitarist; apart from his work with Saga, he has recorded several solo albums as well ...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saga

  23. Saga
    (singer) `Saga` is a Swedish nationalist singer-songwriter. She started as the vocalist for Symphony of Sorrow, but has since become known for her tribute CDs to the white power skinhead band Skrewdriver, and for her softer physical representation of the white power message. In 2001, the Sout...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saga

  24. SAGA
    (computing) The `Simple API for Grid Applications` (SAGA), is an open standard defined and maintained by the Open Grid Forum that describes an interface for high-level Grid application programming. Scope : The SAGA API does not strive to replace Globus or similar Grid middleware systems, and ...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SAGA

  25. Saga
    (album) `Saga` is the first studio album by the Canadian progressive rock band Saga and was originally released in 1978. The Chapters: Two of the songs, "Will It Be You? (Chapter 4)," and "Tired World (Chapter 6)," were part of a series of eight (but later sixteen) ...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saga



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12 February 2012

This day in history:
/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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