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Look up: Winchester

  1. Winchester
    [n] - a city in southern England 2. [n] - (trade mark) a shoulder rifle
    Found on http://www.webdictionary.co.uk/definitio

  2. Winchester
    old-fashioned term for a hard disc
    Found on http://www.archivemag.co.uk/

  3. Winchester
    noun a shoulder rifle
    Found on http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/web

  4. Winchester
    noun a city in southern England; administrative center of Hampshire
    Found on http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/web

  5. Winchester
    (from the article `Winchester`) town and city (district), in the central part of the administrative and historic county of Hampshire, England, best known for its cathedral. The town ...
    Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/w/41

  6. Winchester
    town and city (district), in the central part of the administrative and historic county of Hampshire, England, best known for its cathedral. The town ...
    Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/w/41

  7. Winchester
    city, seat (1738) of Frederick county (though administratively independent of it), northern Virginia, U.S. It lies at the northern end of the ...
    Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/w/41

  8. Winchester
    HMS Winchester was a British Escort Type destroyer of 900 tons displacement launched in 1918. After being rearmed for escort duties in 1938-1939 she was armed with four 4-inch guns and two multiple-machine-guns. She was powered by two White-Forster oil boilers providing a top speed of 28 knots.
    Found on http://www.probertencyclopaedia.com/brow

  9. winchester
    (hardware) An informal generic term for floating head magnetic disk drives in which the read-write head planes over the disk surface on an air cushion. The name arose because the original 1973 engineering prototype for what later became the IBM 3340 featured two 30-megabyte volumes; 30--30 became 'W...
    Found on http://foldoc.org/winchester

  10. Winchester
    Winchester (win'chistur) , town (1991 pop. 34,127) and district, county seat of Hampshire, S central England. Winchester was called Caer Gwent by the Britons, Venta Belgarum by the Romans, and Wintanceastre by the Saxons. The town was the capital of the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Wessex. Even after ...
    Found on http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/world/A085

  11. Winchester
    Winchester (win'che"stur, win'chistur) . 1. Town (1990 pop. 11,524), Litchfield co., NW Conn., in the Litchfield Hills; settled 1732, inc. 1771. It includes Winsted (1990 pop. 8,254), an industrial center where ball bearings, paper and metal products, building materials, electrical equip...
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  12. Winchester
    The Winchester Model 1866 carbine was an American lever action, repeating rifle based upon the earlier Henry rifle with improvements by Nelson King. The Winchester took a .44 inch calibre round from a 13-round tubular magazine and had an effective range of 275 metres.
    Found on http://www.probertencyclopaedia.com/brow

  13. Winchester
    (UK) Cathedral city and administrative headquarters of Hampshire, England, on the River Itchen, 19 km/12 mi northeast of Southampton; population (2001) 41,400. Tourism is important, and there is also light industry. Originally a Roman town, Winchester was capital of the Anglo-Saxon...
    Found on http://www.talktalk.co.uk/reference/ency

  14. Winchester
    Term used to report expenditure of all ordnance of a particular type.
    Found on http://www.f-16.net/glossary-W.html

  15. Winchester
    `Winchester` (archaically known as `Winton` and `Wintonceastre`) is a historic cathedral city and ancient capital of Wessex and the Kingdom of England. It is the county town of Hampshire, in South East England. The city lies at the heart of the wider City of Winchester, a local government district, ...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winchester

  16. Winchester
    (disambiguation) `Winchester` is a historic city in southern England. `Winchester` may also refer to: Features associated with Winchester, England: Places: In `Canada:` In `New Zealand:` In the `United States:` In `Space` Persons: Fictional characters: Chemistry: Computers and software: Film:...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winchester

  17. Winchester
    (UK Parliament constituency) `Winchester` is a parliamentary constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It elects one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election. Boundaries: The constituency is centred around the Winc...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winchester

  18. Winchester
    (San Jose) The `Winchester` area of San Jose, California gains its name from early resident Sarah Lockwood Winchester, a Connecticut native and heiress to fifty percent ownership of the Winchester Repeating Arms Company, who built the famous Winchester Mystery House. Located between San Tomas...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winchester

  19. Winchester
    (HM Prison) `HM Prison Winchester` is a Category B men`s prison, located in Winchester, Hampshire, England. The prison is operated by Her Majesty`s Prison Service. History: Winchester Prison was built to a Victorian radial design, with five `spokes` radiating from a central hub. Four of these...
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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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