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Look up: spiro-

  1. Spiro
    The Spiro was an Argentinean minesweeper of 450 tons displacement that saw service during the Second World War launched in 1937. The Spiro was powered by two sets of MAN 2-cycle diesel engines providing a top speed of 15 knots and a range of 4800 km. She carried a complement of 62 and was armed with...
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  2. Spiro
    Spiro is a Greek boy name. The meaning of the name is `Spirit` Where is it used? The name Spiridon is mainly used In Greek.How do they say it elsewhere? Spyridon ( In Greek and In Russian) The name Spiro doesn`t appear In the US top 1000 most common names over de last 128 years. The name Spiro seems to be unique!
    Found on http://i-am-pregnant.com/names/boys/Spir

  3. Spiro
    (name) `Spiro(s)` or `Spyro(s)` (Greek: Σπύρος - with a nominative final s, that is usually dropped when Anglicised) is a male given name fairly common in Greek-speaking population (Greece, Cyprus, Greek diaspora). It is a shortened form of the archaic-sounding Spyridon. (...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spiro

  4. Spiro
    (band) `Spiro` are an instrumental musical group based in Bristol, England. They formed in 1993 as The Famous Five, soon settling on a line-up which remains unchanged to this day. They released one album (Lost in Fishponds, 1994) under that name before changing it to Spiro in 19...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spiro

  5. Spiro Agnew
    `Spiro Theodore Agnew` (, Spiros Theódoros Agkniou) (; November 9, 1918September 17, 1996) was the 39th Vice President of the United States (1969-1973), serving under President Richard Nixon, and the 55th Governor of Maryland (1967-1969). He was also the first Greek American to hold these offices...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spiro_Agnew

  6. Spiro compound
    A `spiro compound` is a bicyclic organic compound with rings connected through just one atom. The rings can be different in nature or identical. The connecting atom is also called the `spiroatom`, most often a quaternary carbon ("spiro carbon"). All spiro compounds have the infix spiro<...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spiro_compo

  7. spiro compounds
    A group of compounds consisting in part of two rings sharing one carbon atom in common. ... (12 Dec 1998) ...
    Found on http://www.mondofacto.com/facts/dictiona

  8. Spiro Dine
    `Spiro Risto Dine` (1846–1922) was an Albanian rilindas, writer and playwright. His most known work "Waves of the Sea" was at the time of its publication the longest book printed in Albanian. Life : Spiro Dine was born in 1846 in Vithkuq, in the region of Korçë, southeastern A...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spiro_Dine

  9. Spiro Hill
    `Spiro Hill` () is a hill, 120 m, lying at the head of Edgell Bay, Nelson Island, in the South Shetland Islands. The present toponym replaces the provisional "Sudeste" and was approved by the Geographic Coordinating Committee of Argentina in 1956. It memorializes the mariner of Greek origi...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spiro_Hill

  10. Spiro Ii
    The Spiro is an Argentinean Meko 140 Type Frigate. She was built by Afne in Rio Santiago and launched on the 24th of June 1983. She has a displacement of 1470 tons and is armed with four Aerospatiale Exocet MM40 missiles, one OTO Melara 3in gun, four Breda 40 mm guns, six 324 mm ILAS 3 (2 triple) to...
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  11. Spiro Kostof
    Dr. `Spiro Konstantine Kostof` (7 May 1936 - 7 December 1991) was a leading architectural historian and inspirational teacher at the University of California, Berkeley. His books continue to be widely read and some are routinely used in collegiate courses on architectural history. A Bulgarian born i...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spiro_Kosto

  12. Spiro Kourkoumelis
    `Spiro Kourkoumelis` is a former Australian rules footballer who played with Carlton and St Kilda in the Australian Football League (AFL). He attended Princes Hill Secondary college in Carlton North. He is currently proprietor of Avanti Cycles in Sydney road Brunswick. Notes : -->
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spiro_Kourk

  13. Spiro Malas
    `Spiro Malas` (born 28 January 1933 in Baltimore, Maryland) is an American bass-baritone opera singer. Malas made his operatic debut in 1959 in his native Baltimore and in 1960 he won the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions. He made his New York debut at the New York City Opera where he ca...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spiro_Malas

  14. Spiro Moisiu
    `Spiro Moisiu` (1900–1981) was the Commander General of the Albanian National Liberation Army during World War II. He was the father of the former President of Albania, Alfred Moisiu. Early life: Spiro Moisiu was born in 1900 in the small city of Kavajë, Albania. in the well known family o...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spiro_Moisi

  15. Spiro Mounds
    -->--> | refnum=69000153 --> `Spiro Mounds` is an important pre-Columbian Caddoan Mississippian culture archaeological site located in present-day eastern Oklahoma in the United States. The site it located seven miles north of Spiro and is the only prehistoric Native American archaeological site in ...
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  16. Spiro Nikolouzos
    `Spiro Nikolouzos` (1936-May 30, 2005) was a Texas man incapacitated from bleeding related to a cerebral shunt, whose care was the subject of an appeal of The Texas Futile Care Law. Nikolouzos was hospitalized on February 10, 2005 at St. Luke`s Episcopal Hospital, Houston, Texas, and was in a persis...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spiro_Nikol

  17. Spiro Sports Center
    `Spiro Sports Center` is a 2,100-seat multi-purpose arena located on the campus of Wagner College in Staten Island, New York. It was built in 1999 as an extensive addition to the Sutter Gymnasium which was constructed in 1951. The center is home to the Wagner College Seahawks men`s and women`s baske...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spiro_Sport

  18. Spiro T. Agnew
    Spiro T Agnew was an American politician. He was a Republican governor of Maryland from 1967 until 1969.
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  19. Spiro Xega
    `Spiro Xega` (1861-1953) was an Albanian painter. He was a painter of the Albanian National Awakening and its ideals. He worked for the movement in the years of Independence and in the following years. He was always proud to be Albanian and so was inspired for a long time in his extensive patriotic ...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spiro_Xega

  20. Spiro Zavos
    `Spiro Zavos` (born in 1937 in Wellington, New Zealand of Greek immigrant parents) is an Australasian historian, philosopher, journalist and writer. He also played one first-class cricket match for Wellington in the 1958-59 season. After gaining a Bachelor of Arts from the Victoria University of Wel...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spiro_Zavos

  21. spiro-
    1. Coil, coil-shaped. ... Origin: G. Speira ... 2. Breathing. ... Origin: L. Spiro, to breathe ... (05 Mar 2000) ...
    Found on http://www.mondofacto.com/facts/dictiona

  22. spiro-
    Type: Term Definitions: 1. Coil, coil-shaped. 2. Breathing.
    Found on http://www.medilexicon.com/medicaldictio

  23. spiro-index
    Vital capacity divided by the height of the individual. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...
    Found on http://www.mondofacto.com/facts/dictiona

  24. spiro-index
    Type: Term Pronunciation: spī′rō-in′deks Definitions: 1. Vital capacity divided by the person's height.
    Found on http://www.medilexicon.com/medicaldictio

  25. Spiro, Melford Elliot
    (1920) US cultural anthropologist. He taught at Washington University (St Louis), the University of Connecticut, and Chicago before becoming chairman of the anthropology department at the University of...
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/local/20688



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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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