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Early modern period – The chronological limits of this period are open to debate. It emerges from the Late Middle Ages (c. 1500), demarcated by historians as beginning with the fall of Constantinople in 1453, in forms such as the Italian Renaissance in the West, the Ming dynasty in the East, and the rise of the Aztecs in the New World.
Corroborating evidence tends to support a proposition that is already supported by some initial evidence, therefore confirming the proposition.
The abbreviation is not always a short form of the word used in the clue. For example: "Knight" for N (the symbol used in chess notation) Taking this one stage further, the clue word can hint at the word or words to be abbreviated rather than giving the word itself. For example: "About" for C or CA (for "circa"), or RE.
The Los Angeles Times is a daily newspaper that began publishing in Los Angeles, California, in 1881. [3] Based in the Greater Los Angeles city of El Segundo since 2018, [ 4 ] it is the sixth-largest newspaper in the U.S. and the largest in the Western United States with a print circulation of 118,760.
Leonard Dawe, Telegraph crossword compiler, created these puzzles at his home in Leatherhead. Dawe was headmaster of Strand School, which had been evacuated to Effingham, Surrey. Adjacent to the school was a large camp of US and Canadian troops preparing for D-Day, and as security around the camp was lax, there was unrestricted contact between ...
(v.) to cultivate (a crop) for the last time lead (rhyming with "speed") a cable (US: cord), or a dog's leash to guide through (n.) a clue or potential source of information (esp. in context of journalistic investigation) * leader: newspaper editorial main violin in an orchestra (US: concertmaster) see also Leader of the Opposition: one who leads
Steinberg's first crossword publication was in The New York Times on June 16, 2011. [5] Since then he has published nearly 500 puzzles in The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Chronicle of Higher Education, Newsday, Orange County Register, Fireball Crosswords, Daily Celebrity Crossword, the American Values Club Crossword, BuzzFeed, 10-4 Magazine, The Jerusalem ...
The lowest word count in a published weekday-size 15x15 puzzle is the June 29, 2013 The New York Times crossword by Joe Krozel, with just 50 words. [57] The fewest shaded squares in a 15x15 American crossword is 17 (leaving 208 white spaces), set by the July 27, 2012 Times crossword by Joe Krozel. [58]