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| Abraham Lincoln For writing about Abraham Lincoln: debate, campaign, Civil War, Robert E Lee, slavery, Emancipation Proclamation, Gettysburg, assassination … created: 6 January 2009 words: 700 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 6K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary |
Afghanistan For writing about Afghanistan: empire, artefact, Genghis Khan, Hindu Kush, Khyber Pass, Islam, border, Taliban, mujahideen, landmine … created: 7 October 2008 words: 1,000 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 6K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary |
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| Age of Discovery For writing about European explorations beginning in the 15th century: navigation, trade route, spice, rumour, gold … created: 2 March 2011 words: 1000 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 12K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary |
American Revolution For writing about the American War of Independence — people, places, events: tax, rebel, George Washington, Boston Tea Party … revised: 10 October 2005 words: 900 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 6K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary |
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| Ancient Assyria Words and phrases for writing about life in Ancient Assyria: Nineveh, Mesopotamia, palace, winged statue, military … revised: 12 October 2005 words: 1100 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 6K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary |
Ancient Babylon Words and phrases for writing about life in Ancient Babylon: law, astronomy, Hammurabi, Hanging Gardens, Mesopotamia, Nebuchadnezzar … revised: 12 October 2005 words: 1100 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 6K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary |
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| Ancient Egypt 1 Basic words for writing about everyday life in ancient Egypt, including buildings, kings, queens, pyramids, and religion. revised: 1 February 2006 words: 1100 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 6K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary |
Ancient Egypt 2 Same as Ancient Egypt 1 with the addition of advanced words and names: artisan, conquest, decline, plunder … Amon-Re, Hyksos, Senusret. revised: 1 February 2006 words: 1400 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 6K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary |
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| Ancient Greece 1 Basic words and phrases about the arts, sciences, politics, and everyday life in Ancient Greece. created: 17 January 2002 words: 1400 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 6K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary |
Ancient Greece 2 Basic AND advanced words and phrases about the arts, sciences, politics, and everyday life in Ancient Greece. created: 16 January 2002 words: 1800 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 6K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary |
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| Ancient Rome 1 Basic words for writing about everyday life in Ancient Rome. Names of famous people and places in Roman Britain and the rest of the Roman empire. revised: 12 October 2005 words: 1000 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 6K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary |
Ancient Rome 2 Words for Roman religious beliefs, legends, entertainments, achievements, and legacies. Names of people and places in the Roman empire. revised: 12 October 2005 words: 1300 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 6K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary |
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| Ancient Sumer 1 Words and phrases for BASIC writing about life in Ancient Sumer: Ur, Mesopotamia, Babylon, ziggurat, trade route, cuneiform, clay tablet, burial … created: 19 April 2002 words: 700 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 6K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary |
Ancient Sumer 2 Words and phrases for basic AND advanced words for writing about life in Ancient Sumer: Ur, Mesopotamia, Babylon, ziggurat, trade route, cuneiform, clay tablet, burial … revised: 26 January 2006 words: 900 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 6K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary |
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| Antarctic Explorers For writing about the exploration of Antarctica: Captain Cook, Robert F Scott, South Pole, the Endurance, Mawson, Richard Byrd … created: 6 May 2009 words: 800 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 6K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary |
Arctic Explorers For writing about Arctic explorations: John Franklin, Baffin Bay, starvation, expedition, Roald Amundsen, harbour, Inuit, ice, the Northwest Passage … created: 23 May 2006 words: 900 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 6K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary |
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| Aztecs For writing about the Aztecs: their way of life, religious beliefs, achievements, and legacies. revised: 12 October 2005 words: 600 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 6K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary |
Battle of Britain For writing about the Battle of Britain at the beginning of World War II: battle, pilot, Spitfire, English Channel, attack, parachute, coastal defence … created: 23 March 2006 words: 600 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 6K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary |
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| Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee For writing about ‘Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee,’ a history of the West from the Native American point of view … created: 2 March 2011 words: 800 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 12K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary |
Canadian Confederation For writing about the unification of Canada: British Empire, colony, treaty, convention, Fathers of Confederation, Canada East … created: 5 May 2010 words: 700 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 6K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary |
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| Canada PreConfederation For writing about the colonial history of Canada: Samuel de Champlain, fur trade, missionary post, Hudson’s Bay Company, Iroquois, settlement, administration … created: 5 August 2010 words: 900 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 6K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary |
China For writing about the geography and history of China: Great Wall, Ming dynasty, defence, Sun Yat-sen, Mao Zedong, modernisation … created: 16 October 2008 words: 900 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 6K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary |
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| Dinosaurs 1 basic Basic words for writing about dinosaurs: fossils, bones, reptile, plant-eater, T rex, Stegosaurus, Triceratops, Velociraptor, armour, claw, lizard. revised: 7 October 2005 words: 700 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 6K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary |
Dinosaurs 2 advanced Basic AND advanced words, including over 200 dinosaur names, from Alamosaurus to Microceratops to Zephyrosaurus. revised: 7 October 2005 words: 1300 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 6K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary |
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| Economic Issues For writing about current economic issues: bail-out, credit crisis, default, oversight, deregulation, bankruptcy, globalisation … Updated Feb 2011. revised: 7 February 2011 words: 900 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 6K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary |
Eleanor Roosevelt For writing about Eleanor Roosevelt: Hyde Park, marriage, FDR, politics, speaking tour, the UN, Universal Declaration of Human Rights … created: 6 August 2009 words: 800 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 6K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary |
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| European Union For writing about the European Union: parliament, policy, programme, EU, democratic, legislate … created: 2 March 2011 words: 500 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 12K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary |
First Nations Eastern Native Americans and First Nations of the eastern US and SE Canada, from the Atlantic to the Mississippi: history, communities, places, way of life. revised: 25 October 2005 words: 900 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 6K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary |
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| First Nations Northern Peoples of the Arctic, Subarctic, and Northwest Coast: Inuit, First Nations, Native Americans — communities, places, history, way of life. revised: 25 October 2005 words: 900 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 6K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary |
First Nations Plains Native Americans and First Nations of the central Great Plains in the US and Canada: history, communities, places, and way of life. created: 25 October 2005 words: 1,000 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 6K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary |
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| First Nations Western Native Americans and First Nations west of the Rocky Mountains, including parts of the US, Canada and Mexico: history, people, locations, way of life. revised: 25 October 2005 words: 1200 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 6K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary |
Florence Nightingale For writing about Florence Nightingale, pioneer of nursing: Crimea, hospital, honour, military, campaign … created: 5 April 2010 words: 600 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 12K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary |
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| Frederick Douglass For writing about Frederick Douglass: abolitionist, slavery, escape, orator, honour, education, Baltimore, the North Star, Reconstruction … created: 6 January 2009 words: 800 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 6K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary |
French Revolution For writing about the French Revolution: Estates — General, taxes, Louis XVI, Robespierre, the Reign of Terror, tricolour, guillotine … created: 2 October 2007 words: 1,000 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 6K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary |
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| General Election UK For writing about the UK General Election: ballot, campaign, democratic, candidate, vote … created: 4 November 2009 words: 300 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 6K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary |
George W Carver For writing about the African-American scientist, George Washington Carver: Tuskegee, crop rotation, peanut, cotton, soya bean, slavery … created: 2 May 2006 words: 500 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 6K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary |
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| George Washington For writing about George Washington, the first President of the United States: plantation, commander in chief, army, Constitutional Convention, honour … created: 10 January 2011 words: 600 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 6K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary |
Gladiators Words for writing about gladiators in Roman times: amphitheatre, contest, Spartacus, trident, net … revised: 13 October 2005 words: 400 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 6K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary |
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| Gunpowder Plot For writing about the people, causes, events, and consequences of the Gunpowder Plot in 17th-century Britain: Guy Fawkes, plot, conspirator, religion … revised: 14 October 2005 words: 400 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 6K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary |
Henry VIII For writing about King Henry VIII of England: male heir, armoury, monastery, church, Pope Clement, execution, treason, marry, navy … created: 3 April 2009 words: 700 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 6K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary |
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| Highland Clearances For writing about the causes and effect of the Highland Clearances in Scotland: crofter, sheep, farm, emigrate, harbour, factor, tenant, poverty, Scots … created: 4 April 2008 words: 400 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 6K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary |
Holocaust Words and phrases for writing about the Holocaust: Nazi, Jew, genocide, racism, gas chamber, concentration camp, anti-Semitism, Hitler … revised: 13 October 2005 words: 600 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 6K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary |
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| Immigration History North America For writing about the history of immigration to the USA and Canada: refugee, Ellis Island, labour, quota, assimilation … created: 10 March 2008 words: 800 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 6K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary |
Industrial Revolution For writing about the Industrial Revolution: steam engine, factory, Henry Bessemer, capitalism, labour pool, tenement … created: 6 November 2007 words: 1,000 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 6K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary |
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| Iraq War For writing about the attack on Iraq by coalition forces: the people, places, equipment, and events before, during, and after the war. revised: 11 November 2010 words: 2000 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 6K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary |
Iron Age Britain For writing about life in Iron Age Britain: hill fort, decoration, metal, plough, agricultural … created: 7 February 2011 words: 400 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 12K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary |
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| Labour History North America For writing about labour history in the USA and Canada: Samuel Gompers, Taft-Hartley Act, injunction, collective bargaining … created: 17 August 2008 words: 700 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 6K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary |
Mahatma Gandhi For writing about the life of Mahatma Gandhi: non-violence, injustice, India, Pakistan, demonstration, partition, fast, honour … created: 10 December 2007 words: 700 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 6K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary |
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| Martin Luther King Jr For writing about Dr Martin Luther King Junior and his role in the civil rights movement: desegregation, bus boycott, inequality, non-violence … revised: 27 January 2006 words: 600 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 6K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary |
Mary Seacole For writing about the pioneering nurse Mary Seacole: herb, Jamaica, entrepreneur, Crimea, British Hotel … created: 2 July 2010 words: 300 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 12K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary |
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| Mexican History For writing about the history of Mexico: Aztec, conquistador, Spain, independence, Miguel Hidalgo, Emiliano Zapata … created: 21 April 2005 words: 800 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 6K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary |
Middle Ages For writing about the Middle Ages: fief, monk, Charlemagne, crusade, armour, feudalism, the Book of Kells … created: 7 February 2011 words: 1000 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 12K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary |
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| Napoleon Bonaparte For writing about Napoleon Bonaparte: First Empire, Trafalgar, blockade, Napoleonic Wars, St Helena, Waterloo, exile … created: 2 October 2007 words: 800 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 6K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary |
Native American History Native Americans and First Nations of North America: history, communities, places, ways of life. To narrow geographic focus, use a FIRST NATIONS dictionary. created: 28 October 2005 words: 2000 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 6K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary |
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| Nelson Mandela For writing about the life of Nelson Mandela: early years, protests against apartheid, imprisonment, and presidency of South Africa. revised: 27 October 2005 words: 1000 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 6K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary |
Odyssey For writing about the Greek epic story of Odysseus: heroic, harbour, Penelope, suitor, disguise, Calypso … created: 1 April 2011 words: 400 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 12K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary |
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| Olaudah Equiano For writing about the author and anti-slavery campaigner Olaudah Equiano: freedom, autobiography, labour, writer, African … created: 6 January 2009 words: 300 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 6K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary |
Ottoman Empire For writing about the history, politics, and culture of the Ottoman Empire: sultan, Islam, Turk, architecture, jewellery … created: 9 March 2010 words: 800 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 12K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary |
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| Panama Canal For writing about the Panama Canal: Theodore Roosevelt, Cape Horn, Colombia, malaria, labourer, locks, channel, mudslide … Created: 1 May 2008 words: 700 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 6K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary |
Pilgrim Fathers For writing about the Puritans who sailed on the Mayflower: religion, Plymouth, colony, harbour, dissent … created: 8 October 2010 words: 400 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 12K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary |
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| Rosa Parks For writing about Rosa Parks and her part in the civil rights movement: bus boycott, Montgomery, segregation, Jim Crow laws, colour, courage … created: 18 January 2006 words: 600 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 6K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary |
Russian Revolution For writing about the Russian Revolution: Bolshevik, Lenin, labour union, riot, Duma, Romanov, abdicate, civil war, Marxism … created: 4 April 2008 words: 900 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 6K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary |
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| Samuel Pepys For writing about Samuel Pepys, the diarist: restoration, plague, favour, Fire of London, the Thames, manuscript … created: 5 August 2010 words: 700 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 12K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary |
Sitting Bull For writing about Sitting Bull: chief, Lakota, Black Hills, Fort Laramie Treaty, honour, lie, sacred, George Armstong Custer … created: 1 May 2008 words: 600 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 6K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary |
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| Slave Trade Britain For writing about the abolition of the slave trade throughout the British Empire: slavery, abolition, labour, Africa, West Indies, plantation … created: 27 March 2007 words: 800 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 6K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary |
Slavery in USA For writing about slavery in the United States: plantation, cotton, forced labour, overseer, Emancipation Proclamation, Civil War, abolition … created: 5 May 2007 words: 800 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 6K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary |
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| South Africa For writing about the history and geography of South Africa: apartheid, veld, colour, Mandela, Boer … created: 3 December 2010 words: 700 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 12K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary |
Thomas Edison For writing about Thomas Edison: light bulb, carbon filament, inventor, research laboratory, rivalry, patent, honour … created: 4 April 2008 words: 800 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 6K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary |
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| Titanic Sailing on the Titanic, its parts & passengers; the disaster of the iceberg; the discovery and exploration of the sunken ship. revised: 14 October 2005 words: 1000 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 6K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary |
Trafalgar For writing about the Battle of Trafalgar: Horatio Nelson, ship, battle, French, Spanish, navy, HMS Victory … created: 24 July 2005 words: 700 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 6K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary |
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| Tudors and Stuarts Famous people, places, & events, plus everyday clothing, food, occupations, transport, and entertainment for the time of the Tudors and the Stuarts. revised: 13 October 2005 words: 2700 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 6K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary |
Victorian Engineers Engineers and engineering achievements of the Victorian Age — especially bridges, railways, tunnels, and ships. revised: 11 March 2001 words: 600 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 6K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary |
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| Vietnam War For writing about the Vietnam War: Viet Cong, Ho Chi Minh, Henry Kissinger, Tet Offensive, Agent Orange, manoeuvre, jungle … created: 7 September 2007 words: 1,000 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 6K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary |
Viking Explorations Basic words for writing about the Vikings — people, places, way of life — and their discovery of North America: longship, Norsemen, Eric the Red, Icelander … created: 16 May 2004 words: 1000 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 6K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary |
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| Vikings and AngloSaxons People, places, events, objects, artefacts, and everyday actions for the era of Vikings & Anglo-Saxons. revised: 14 October 2005 words: 2400 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 6K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary |
William Wallace For writing about the Scottish hero William Wallace: patriot, rebel, victory, battle, armour, betray, Stirling … created: 10 March 2008 words: 400 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 6K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary |
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| Women's Vote UK For writing about women's suffrage in the UK: franchise, Emmeline Pankhurst, arrest, protest, hunger strike, Women's Social and Political Union … created: 8 June 2009 words: 400 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 12K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary |
Women's Vote North America For writing about women's suffrage in the USA and Canada: ballot, reform, Susan B Anthony, franchise, prison, hunger strike, Nineteenth Amendment … created: 8 June 2009 words: 500 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 12K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary |
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| World War I For writing about World War I: trench warfare, shell, Somme, armour, assassination … created: 21 August 2006 words: 1300 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 6K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary |
World War II For writing about World War II: battle, invade, Nazi, bomb, evacuee, Battle of Britain, D-Day, soldier, pilot, navy, Allies … created: 11 December 2005 words: 1800 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 6K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary |
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| Wright Brothers For writing about the Wright Brothers, their invention of the first controlled, powered airplane, and the first flights in it. revised: 14 October 2005 words: 800 author: Don Johnston Incorporated use with: 6K Main Dictionary or higher download this dictionary |