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Pinkie, battlefield, E of Edinburgh, Scotland. There the English under Edward Seymour, duke of Somerset, defeated a larger Scottish force on Sept. 10, 1547. Somerset's invasion of Scotland, to enforce a marriage treaty (arranged by Henry VIII) between the young Edward VI and Mary Queen of Scots, so angered the Scots that Mary was sent to France to avoid the marriage. pinkie, pinky Scot, US, and Canadian the little finger How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| A lot of people have old jewelry, a pinkie ring from the '70s, an earring you lost the mate to," said Steven Duncan, a mortgage broker who has a pirate tattoo, a skull-and-crossbones on his desk and a home decorated with pirate regalia. Whoever puts pen to paper or pinkie to keyboard over at the eldest L&O had pulled off one of the great writer jokes of all time--inconsequential, almost good-humored--unlike, say, those nasty people at Dynasty who herded the entire cast to Moldavia, peppered them with bullets, and let the audience stew all summer wondering who had survived. Arizona has mostly abandoned Pima production-the superhost for pinkie. |
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