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  • 21Ash Wednesday — Ash′ Wednes′day n. rel the first day of Lent • Etymology: 1250–1300 …

    From formal English to slang

  • 22Ash Wednesday fires — Infobox wildfire title= Ash Wednesday Fires location= South Eastern Australia: Victoria South Australia date= 16 February 1983 time= timezone= acres= convert|513979|acre|km2|0|abbr=on in South Australia and convert|518921|acre|km2|0|abbr=on in… …

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  • 23Ash Wednesday (poem) — This article is about a poem by T. S. Eliot. For other uses of this term, see Ash Wednesday (disambiguation). Ash Wednesday (sometimes Ash Wednesday ) is the first long poem written by T. S. Eliot after his 1927 conversion to Anglicanism.… …

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  • 24Ash Wednesday Storm of 1962 — Infobox winter storm|name=Ash Wednesday Storm of 1962 image location=AshWedStormDamageMarch62.jpg Virginia Beach, Virginia in March, 1962 photo by U.S. Army Corps of Engineers stormtype=Winter storm date formed=March 6, 1962 date dissipated=March …

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  • 25Ash Wednesday (album) — Infobox Album | Name = Ash Wednesday Type = Album Artist = Elvis Perkins Released = February 20, 2007 (U.S.) July 9, 2007 (UK) Recorded = 2006 Genre = Folk rock Length = 50:52 Label = XL Recordings Producer = Reviews = *Allmusic Rating|3.5|5… …

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  • 26Ash Wednesday (film) — Infobox Film name = Ash Wednesday director = Edward Burns writer = Edward Burns starring = Elijah Wood Edward Burns producer = Glen Basner original music by = David Shire cinematography = Russell Lee Fine editing = David Greenwald Production… …

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  • 27Ash Wednesday —    Some children s seasonal games used traditionally to begin on this date, notably *marbles. In Sussex, Hampshire, and Middlesex up to the 1950s, children brought an ash twig with a black bud on it to school; any who were caught without one… …

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  • 28Ash Wednesday — /æʃ ˈwɛnzdeɪ/ (say ash wenzday) noun 1. the first day of Lent. 2. 16 February, 1983, which marked the start of three days of bushfires in Victoria and SA, claiming 71 lives …

  • 29Ash Wednesday — noun Date: 14th century the first day of Lent see Easter table …

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  • 30Ash Wednesday — noun A Christian day of penitence, the first day of Lent. It is a movable feast which takes place 40 days before Easter (excluding Sundays) …

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