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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A borough of south-central England east-northeast of Bristol.
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- proper noun A town in
Wiltshire ,England
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Saturday 23 November 1974: SWINDON TOWN 4 READING 0 (FA Cup First Round) Swindon - sitting second in the Division Three table - were in confident mood as they faced their rivals from along the M4, opened less than three years earlier.
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SWINDON TOWN WILL NEVER DIE mikek, Swindon says ...
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Once he heard that, he seemed to lose interest in Swindon Usain Bolt's ex-lover Gemma Jones recalls their heady days together
This week: George Osborne, Katrin Radmacher and Wayne Rooney Lucy Mangan 2010
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Peter Scott's Library Blog: Bodleian Library store to be built in Swindon, UK skip to main | skip to sidebar
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It was champagne for breakfast at Goddard Park primary school in Swindon on the morning when it became the latest "outstanding" school to gain academy status.
One of the first primary academies celebrates its new status Louise Tickle 2010
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The proposed issue offers a diverse set of ideas that explore a number of possible ‘Near Futures’ — futures that may be influenced the resurgence of gout in Swindon, or take precedent from an analysis of the political landscape of Southern Italy where in some areas a state of effective lawlessness exists.
Ballardian » 'Architectures of the Near Future': An Interview with Nic Clear 2008
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Yet when I visit my mother in Swindon, just 80 miles away, the local paper is full of muggings _ almost invariably committed by white people _ why the difference?
British Racists Must Be Condemned Newmania 2007
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Yet when I visit my mother in Swindon, just 80 miles away, the local paper is full of muggings _ almost invariably committed by white people _ why the difference?
British Racists Must Be Condemned Newmania 2007
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It was little wonder that we called Swindon "the Jewel on the M4."
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A tooth that was allegedly yanked from Napoleon Bonaparte's pie hole will go up for auction next week at the Dominic Winter auction house in Swindon, England.
- Boing Boing 2005
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