…short for my (representing the pronunciation used by lawyers in court to refer to or address the judge or a fellow barrister on the same side).…
…denoting commercial activity conducted electronically by means of mobile phones…
…the fundamental unit of length in the metric system, equal to 100 centimetres or approximately 39.37 inches…
…said by someone when offered a choice to indicate that they have no particular preference…
…commercial transactions conducted electronically by mobile phone…
…(b.1917), American architect, born in China; full name Ieoh Ming Pei. Notable works include the John F. Kennedy Memorial Library at Harvard University (1964) and the glass and steel pyramid in the forecourt of the Louvre (1989)…
…(1862–1936), English scholar and writer of ghost stories; full name Montague Rhodes James. He is noted for eerie tales collected in such volumes as Ghost Stories of an Antiquary (1904)…
…(1871–1909), Irish dramatist; full name Edmund John Millington Synge. He is best known for The Playboy of the Western World (1907), which caused riots at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin, because of its explicit language and its implication that Irish peasants would condone a brutal murder…
…(1887–1970), Australian-born British cartoonist; full name Henry Mayo Bateman. He is known for the series of cartoons entitled ‘The Man Who ...’, which illustrated social gaffes based on snobbery…
…(b.1940), South African novelist; full name John Maxwell Coetzee. He won the Booker Prize with Life and Times of Michael K (1983) and Disgrace (1999), becoming the first author to win the prize twice, and in 2003 was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature…
…(1898–1972), Dutch graphic artist; full name Maurits Corneille Escher. His prints are characterized by their sophisticated use of visual illusion and paradoxical perspective…
…(1879–1970), English novelist and literary critic; full name Edward Morgan Forster. His novels, several of which have been made into films, include A Room with a View (1908) and A Passage to India (1924)…
…(1825–94), Scottish author; full name Robert Michael Ballantyne. He wrote acclaimed adventure stories, such as The Coral Island (1857)…
…(1878–1942), US composer, playwright, actor, and producer; full name George Michael Cohan. Among his best known songs are “Yankee Doodle Dandy” (1904) and “Give My Regards to Broadway” (1904)…
…used to express one’s disbelief or as a way of underlining an emphatic assertion…
…(1874–1942), Canadian novelist; full name Lucy Maud Montgomery. She is noted for her bestselling first novel Anne of Green Gables (1908)…
…(1775–1851), English painter; full name Joseph Mallord William Turner. He made his name with landscapes and stormy seascapes, becoming increasingly concerned with depicting the power of light by the use of primary colours, often arranged in a swirling vortex. Notable works: Rain, Steam, Speed (1844); The Fighting Téméraire (1838)…
…(1823–78) US politician; known as Boss Tweed. As a New York City official and a state senator 1867–71, he became the leader of Tammany Hall, the executive committee of New York City’s Democratic Party and a ring of political corruption, that swindled the state treasury out of as much as $200 million. Convicted in 1873, he fled to Cuba and then Spain, but was extradited in 1876 and returned to a New York jail, where he died…
…(1860–1937), Scottish dramatist and novelist; full name James Matthew Barrie. Barrie’s most famous play is Peter Pan (1904), a fantasy for children about a boy who did not grow up…
…used to express one’s amazement at something…
…(1896–1969), US politician; full name Everett McKinley Dirksen. An Illinois Republican, he was a member of the US House of Representatives 1933–49 and a US senator 1951–69…
…used to express one’s astonishment…
…used before a statement or suggestion to point out that it is serious, however facetious or strange it may seem…
…commercial transactions conducted electronically by mobile phone…
…a New World songbird with dark plumage and a relatively short bill, typically laying its eggs in other birds' nests…
…a small semiaquatic stoat-like carnivore native to North America and Eurasia. The American mink is widely farmed for its fur, resulting in it becoming naturalized in many parts of Europe…
…a small deciduous tree with broad leaves, native to East Asia and long cultivated elsewhere…
