| Webster's Online Dictionary |
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| Adjective | 1. The ordinal number of one hundred one in counting order.[Wordnet]. | |
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Date "101st" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1897. (references) |
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| 101st Grenadiers | The 101st Grenadiers was a regiment of the British Indian Army. (references) | ||
| 101st kilometre | Upon the release from the Gulag, the former inmate's rights would typically still be restricted for a long period of time. Instead of regular documents, they would receive a temporary substitute, a "wolf ticket" (волчий билет in Russian, or "volchiy bilet"), confining them to internal exile without the right to settle closer than 100 km from large urban centers. This has resulted in many resident communities established at 101 km away from city borders. (references) | ||
| 101st SS Heavy Panzer Detachment | Schwere SS-Panzer-Abteilung 101, commonly abbreviated as s.SS-Pz. Abt. 101 was one of Waffen-SS's elite armored units, acting as a fire brigade and a crack assault unit on all fronts. With the introduction of new Tiger II - Royal Tiger tanks in late 1944, it was re-designated Schwere SS-Panzer-Abteilung 501. (references) | ||
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