beat a (hasty) retreat
101Taishi Ci — Three Kingdoms infobox Name=Taishi Ci Caption= Title=Military General Kingdom=Sun Ce Born=166 Died=206 Simp=太史慈 Trad=太史慈 Pinyin=Tàishǐ Cí WG=T aishih Tz u Zi=Ziyi (子義) Other=Taishi Ci (166–206) was a military general of the Three Kingdoms period… …
102Adwa — Infobox Settlement official name = Adwa other name = native name = nickname = settlement type = motto = imagesize = image caption = The landscape of Adwa flag size = image seal size = image shield = shield size = city logo = citylogo size =… …
103Ain't She Tweet — Infobox Hollywood cartoon cartoon name = Ain t She Tweet series = Looney Tunes director = Friz Freleng| animator = Manuel Perez Ken Champin Arthur Davis | voice actor = Mel Blanc | musician = Carl Stalling producer = David H. DePatie distributor …
104lam — I v Slang. Usu. lam out or into beat, strike, thrash, batter, pound, lay on, pummel, pelt, Sl. paste; flog, lash, switch, birch, scourge; strap, thresh, flail, spank, Inf. tan [s.o. s] hide, Inf. trim, Inf. thump, Inf. lace, Inf. lambaste, Inf.… …
105literature — /lit euhr euh cheuhr, choor , li treuh /, n. 1. writings in which expression and form, in connection with ideas of permanent and universal interest, are characteristic or essential features, as poetry, novels, history, biography, and essays. 2.… …
106World War II — the war between the Axis and the Allies, beginning on September 1, 1939, with the German invasion of Poland and ending with the surrender of Germany on May 8, 1945, and of Japan on August 14, 1945. Abbr.: WWII * * * or Second World War (1939–45)… …
107international relations — a branch of political science dealing with the relations between nations. [1970 75] * * * Study of the relations of states with each other and with international organizations and certain subnational entities (e.g., bureaucracies and political… …
108United States — a republic in the N Western Hemisphere comprising 48 conterminous states, the District of Columbia, and Alaska in North America, and Hawaii in the N Pacific. 267,954,767; conterminous United States, 3,022,387 sq. mi. (7,827,982 sq. km); with… …
109Battle of Chickamauga — Part of the American Civil War Battle of Chickamauga (lithograph by Kurz and Allison, 1890) …
110War of the Third Coalition — Infobox Military Conflict conflict=War of the Third Coalition partof=Napoleonic Wars caption= Napoléon at the Battle of Austerlitz , by François Pascal Simon, Baron Gérard. date=1805 place=Central Europe, Italy, and Trafalgar result=French… …
