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Offa's Dyke

(Encyclopedia) Offa's Dyke, ancient entrenchment of W England and E Wales, from the Dee estuary to near the estuary of the Wye River. It was built in the 8th cent. by Offa, king of Mercia, as a…

Wirral

(Encyclopedia) Wirral, metropolitan borough (1991 est. pop. 322,100), NW England, on the peninsula between the Mersey and Dee estuaries, in the Greater Manchester metropolitan area. Sometimes…

Dee Ward Hock Biography

Dee Ward Hockfinancial services pioneerBorn: 1930Birthplace: Utah Lack of a formal education did not prevent Hock from foreseeing the future of financial services, where he catapulted his own…

Frances Dee 2004 Deaths

Frances DeeAge: 96 striking movie star of Hollywood's golden era who starred in An American Tragedy and Little Women. She was married to actor Joel McCrea for 57 years. Died: Norwalk, Conn.,…

Sandra Dee 2005 Deaths

Sandra DeeAge: 62 spunky actress who played innocent tomboys in several teeny-bopper films in the late 1950s, including Gidget and A Summer Place. She was married to singer Bobby Darin from…

Brewer's: Fiddle-de-dee!

An exclamation signifying what you say is nonsense or moonshine. Fiddle-de-dee is meant to express the sound of a fiddle-string vocalised. Hence “sound signifying nothing.” Source:…

Llangollen

(Encyclopedia) LlangollenLlangollenhlän-gôhlˈĕn, lăn-gôthˈlĭn [key], town (1991 pop. 3,058), Denbighshire, NE Wales, at the head of the Vale of Llangollen on the Dee River. It is a resort for anglers…

Aberdeen, city, Scotland

(Encyclopedia) Aberdeen, city (2020 pop. 229,060) and council area, NE Scotland, on the North Sea at the mouth of the Dee River. It is Scotland's third largest city in population.…

Cairngorms

(Encyclopedia) CairngormsCairngormskârngôrmzˈ, kârnˈgôrmz [key], group of mountains forming part of the Grampian Mts, in Highland, Moray, and Aberdeenshire, central Scotland, between the Dee and the…

Louth, county, Republic of Ireland

(Encyclopedia) LouthLouthlouᵺ [key], county (1991 pop. 90,724), 317 sq mi (821 sq km), NE Republic of Ireland. The county seat is Dundalk. The region borders the Irish Sea from the mouth of the Boyne…