| Webster's Online Dictionary |
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| Adjective | 1. The ordinal number of forty-two in counting order.[Wordnet]. | |
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Date "42nd" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1801. (references) |
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| 42nd New Zealand Parliament | The 42nd New Zealand Parliament was a term of the Parliament of New Zealand. Its composition was determined by the 1987 elections, and it sat until the 1990 elections. (references) | ||
| 42nd parallel north | The 42nd parallel forms the northern border of the U.S. states of California and Nevada and part of Utah, and the southern border of Oregon and Idaho. (references) | ||
| 42nd Street (IND Sixth Avenue Line station) | 42nd Street-Bryant Park, located at 42nd Street and Sixth Avenue, connects the IND Sixth Avenue Line and the IRT Flushing Line via a long underground tunnel. It consists of four tracks and two platforms. A mezzanine originally extending from south 42nd Street to 34th Street was closed down in the mid 1980s after a murder took place there, which proved the long, dim, and lightly traveled passageway, now used for storage, was a dangerous place for passengers. (references) | ||
| 4th Battalion 42nd Field Artillery | The 4th Battalion 42d Field Artillery (4/42 FA) —nicknamed the Straight Arrows— is a field artillery battalion in the United States Army. Their motto is Festina Lente ("hurry slowly"). (references) | ||
| British 42nd (East Lancashire) Division | The British 42nd (East Lancashire) Division was a Territorial Army division. Originally called the 'East Lancashire Division', it was redesignated as the 42nd Division in 1915. It was the first Territorial division to be sent overseas during the First World War. The division fought at Gallipoli, in the Sinai desert and on the Western Front in France. (references) | ||
| Hollywood/Northeast 42nd Avenue Transit Center (MAX station) | The Hollywood/Northeast 42nd Avenue Transit Center station is a light rail station on the MAX Blue and Red lines in Portland, Oregon. It is the 12th stop eastbound on the Eastside MAX. (references) | ||
| S 42nd Street Shuttle (New York City Subway service) | The 42nd Street Shuttle (also Grand Central-Times Square Shuttle) is a line and service of the IRT division of the New York City Subway. It runs at all times but late nights, connecting Times Square to Grand Central Terminal under 42nd Street. It is the shortest regular service in the system, running.8 mile (1.3 km) in officially one minute. (references) | ||
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