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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. The slave states of Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, Kentucky, and Missouri that were adjacent to the free states of the North during the Civil War. Virginia joined the Confederacy in 1861, causing its western counties to form the new state of West Virginia. It and other Border States remained tied to the Union despite strong Southern sympathies.

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  • Serendipitous" Collaboration of The New York Times with the Bush White”

    William E. Jackson Jr.: Foggy Bottom Memos: The Hemorrhaging of Iraq War Minutes

  • “You can read other reviews of this novel at: Fantasy Book Critic; Devourer of Books; It's Dark in the Dark; Serendipitous Readings”

    Archive 2010-04-01

  • Serendipitous for Alba that Sweden was neutral in WWII.”

    Matthew Yglesias » Sweden is Neutral, O’Reilly is Stupid

  • “- Serendipitous discoveries that spark off brilliant new ideas (often made in unlikely places, such as the pages of a dusty research book or the aisles of a supermarket) - Sharing your stories, characters and ideas with readers; communicating something worthwhile; touching others”

    Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » Good Things

  • Serendipitous finds for readers: Deciding Whether to Read a Book/How to Read.”

    August 2008

  • “The Serendipitous Discovery ...or why Amazon need...”

    :Acquired Taste

  • “For those of you who were following the Serendipitous Kitty Saga in 2005, concerning kit_kindred and my attempts to tame a pair of feral kittens -- he's finally succeeded in trapping the female (Napoleon), and her two current babies.”

    patience, rewarded.

  • Serendipitous typo of the month: Good steal was probably more valuable than gold in a warrior society.”

    Staffordshire Hoard

  • Serendipitous and accidental aspects of the innovation-development process are unlikely to be fully reported in research publications written by the inventors and researchers.”

    Simon & Schuster: Diffusion of Innovations

  • Serendipitous might have been a better term, given that we had visited both the West Bank (Hebron) and the poorer Arab neighborhoods of East Jerusalem in the past few days, all of which would be either off limits or too potentially dangerous in the wake of the school shooting.”

    Raymond Leon Roker: Broken Promise Land: What I Saw In Israel

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