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"Bickerstaff" is a common misspelling or typo for: Bicker staff. |
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Date "Bickerstaff" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1708. (references) |
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| Literature | Bickerstaff (Isaac ). A name assumed by Dean Swift in a satirical pamphlet against Partridge, the almanack-maker. This produced a paper war so diverting that Steele issued the Tatler under the editorial name of "Isaac Bickerstaff, Esq., Astrologer (1709). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. | ||
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| Bernie Bickerstaff | Bernie Bickerstaff (born November 2, 1944) is the current (2005) Head Coach of the Charlotte Bobcats. He also coached the Seattle Supersonics, Denver Nuggets and Washington Bullets. His total wins rank 33rd all-time amongst Head Coaches. He has served in numerous positions in the front office on these teams, including president, general manager, and assistant coach. (references) | ||
| Isaac Bickerstaff | “All Fools Day” (now known as April Fools Day which falls on the 1st of April) was Swift’s favorite of holidays and he often used this day to aim his satirically biting wit at non-believers in an attempt to “make sin and folly bleed.” Disgruntled by Partridge’s sarcastic attack about the “infallible Church” written in his 1708 issue of Merlinus Almanac, Swift projected carefully 3 letters and one Eulogy as an elaborate plan to “predict” Partridge’s “infallible death” to be revealed on April 1st, All Fools Day. (references) | ||
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Topics by Level of Interest: BICKERSTAFF | ||||
| Topics sorted by level of Interest | Level (1=low, 600=high) | Topics sorted Alphabetically | Level (1=low, 600=high) | |
| Bernie Bickerstaff | 12 | Bernie Bickerstaff | 12 | |
| Isaac Bickerstaff | 6 | Isaac Bickerstaff | 6 | |
| Steve Bickerstaff | 5 | Matt Bickerstaff | 3 | |
| Matt Bickerstaff | 3 | Steve Bickerstaff | 5 | |
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Source: the editor, created by/for EVE to gauge likely levels of human interest in linguistically triggered topics (compiled across various sources, such as Wikipedia and specialty expression glosses). | ||||
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| Japanese | 口論スタッフ (Bickerstaff). Additional references: Japanese, Japan, Taiwan, Bickerstaff. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Source: Eve, based on a combination of meta analysis and graph theory (for near and back translations). | Top | |||
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