| Webster's Online Dictionary |
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| Adjective | 1. The ordinal number of fifty in counting order.[Wordnet]. | |
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Date "50th" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1655. (references) |
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| 50th Academy Awards | The 50th Academy Awards were held at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles, California on April 3 1978. This incarnation of the awards show was notable for a politically-charged acceptance speech by Vanessa Redgrave. (references) | ||
| 50th Georgia | The 50th Georgia Volunteer Infantry was a regiment raised by the state of Georgia to fight for the Confederacy in the American Civil War. (references) | ||
| 50th Grey Cup | The game started normally on Saturday, December 1, 1962. However, by the second quarter, a thick smog started to roll in over the field, a combination of cold, moist, humid air off of Lake Ontario and Toronto's pollution. The fog was thick enough that fans could not see the action on the field, receivers lost sight of the ball after it left the quarterbacks' hand, and punt returners could not find punts until they hit the ground. (references) | ||
| 50th National Hockey League All-Star Game | The 50th National Hockey League All-Star Game was part of the 1999-2000 NHL season, and took place in Toronto's Air Canada Centre on February 6, 2000. (references) | ||
| 50th Space Wing | The 50th Space Wing (50 SW) is a wing of the United States Air Force under the major command of Air Force Space Command (AFSPC). It was activated on January 30, 1992, replacing the 2d Space Wing, which was inactivated on the same date. The unit is the host wing at Schriever Air Force Base, located east of Colorado Springs, Colorado. Their primary responsibility is to track and maintain the command and control, warning, navigational, and communications satellites for AFSPC. (references) | ||
| 50th Street (IND Queens Boulevard Line station) | 50th Street station is a two level station on the Independent Subway System (IND), with the C being on the upper level, and the E being on the lower. The A's express tracks are also on the upper level. The southbound side is wheelchair accessible, while the northbound is not. After this station, the E has a choice of going via the 8th Avenue Local or Express. Until recently it could also go to the abandoned lower level of 42nd Street but now must connect to the upper level. Currently, it operates as an IND 8th Avenue Local. (references) | ||
| 50th Street/Minnehaha Park (Hiawatha Line station) | 50th Street/Minnehaha Park is a light rail station on the Hiawatha Line in Minneapolis, Minnesota. It is the tenth stop southbound. (references) | ||
| British 50th (Northumbrian) Division | The British 50th (Northumbrian) Division was a first-line Territorial Force division. The division was sent to France in April 1915 and served on the Western Front for the duration of the First World War. The division suffered heavily during the Second Battle of the Aisne in May-June 1918 and underwent a reorganisation in July 1918. (references) | ||
| NBA's 50th Anniversary All-Time Team | To mark its 50th anniversary during the 1996-1997 season, the National Basketball Association (NBA) announced its 50th Anniversary All-Time team (otherwise known as the 50 Greatest Players in NBA History). (references) | ||
| On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the war's end | On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the wars end (also known as Murayama Danwa) is a war apology statement made by Tomiichi Murayama, then the Prime Minister of Japan, on August 15, 1995. (references) | ||
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