1) Somme. The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth
Edition. 2000.
...the English Channel. Tanks were first used in warfare during the devastating Battle of the Somme (1916)....
2) Somme, river, France. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...Somme, river, France, river, c.150 mi (240 km) long, rising near Saint-Quentin, N France, and flowing generally NW past Amiens into the English Channel; connected...
3) Somme, department, France. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...Somme, department, France, (som) (KEY) , department (1990 pop. 548,300), N France, in Picardy, on the English Channel. Amiens is the capital....
4) 11588. Chaucer, Geoffrey. The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996
...NUMBER:11588 QUOTATION:Somme seyde, wommen loven best richesse,Somme seyde, honour, somme seyde, jolynesse;Somme, riche array, somme seyden, lust abedde,And ofte...
5) Peronne. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...Péronne, (paron´) (KEY) , town (1993 est. pop. 9,200), Somme dept., N France, in Picardy, on the Somme River. It is a farm trade center, and its manufactures include...
6) Amiens. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...Amiens, (amyaN´) (KEY) , city (1991 pop. 136,234), capital of Somme dept., N France, in Picardy, on the Somme River. It is a rail hub and a large market for the truck...
7) Abbeville, town, France. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...Abbeville, town, France, (abvel´) (KEY) , town (1990 pop. 24,588), Somme dept., N France, in Picardy, on the Somme River. Sugar refining, brewing, iron working, and...
8) Picardy. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
..., Fr. Picardie, region and former province, N France, on the English Channel. It includes the Somme, Oise, and Aisne depts. and has three main geographical regions:...
9) 37. Bough of Nonsense, The. Graves, Robert. 1918. Fairies and Fusiliers
... BACK from the Somme two Fusiliers Limped painfully home; the elder said, S. Robert, I ve lived three thousand years This Summer, and I m nine parts dead. R. But...
10) All and Some. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898
..."One and all." (Old English, ealle oet somme, all at once, altogether.) 1 "Now stop your noses, readers, all and some."Dryden: Absalom and Achitophel....
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