Ascent of the A-Word: Assholism, the First Sixty Years is a 2012 book by the American linguist Geoffrey Nunberg which analyzes the history of the epithet...

let him intervene in a Westminster Hall debate on hospice funding. He later publicly defended his comment. Ascent of the A-Word The No Asshole Rule Watkins...

The Ascent of Man is a 13-part British documentary television series produced by the BBC and Time-Life Films first broadcast in 1973. It was written and...

letter "a". Usually rendered "the A-word". A (disambiguation) Ascent of the A-Word All pages with titles beginning with A Word This disambiguation page lists...

Watch: The Ascent of a New Pet Name". Visual Thesaurus. Retrieved May 15, 2017. Barrett, Grant (December 21, 2013). "A Wordnado of Words in 2013". The New...

Song of Ascents is a title given to fifteen of the Psalms, 120–134 (119–133 in the Septuagint and the Vulgate), each starting with the superscription...

Word and Object is a 1960 work by the philosopher Willard Van Orman Quine, in which the author expands upon the line of thought of his earlier writings...

the second ascent and first solo ascent of the traverse but completed the route in reverse, which he called the Moonwalk Traverse. He was awarded a Piolet...

Years of Talking Dangerously (2009). He's one of the contributors to The Cambridge grammar of the English language. His last book, Ascent of the A-Word: Assholism...

The first ascent of the Matterhorn was a mountaineering expedition made by Edward Whymper, Lord Francis Douglas, Charles Hudson, Douglas Hadow, Michel...

surface. During takeoff, the spent descent stage was used as a launch pad for the ascent stage which then flew back to the command module, after which...

rocket, blowing the bolts that attached the ascent and descent stages, switching control and power to the ascent stage, and igniting the ascent rocket while...

most of the other great Alpine peaks had been attained and became the subject of an international competition for the summit. The first ascent of the Matterhorn...

The Ladder of Divine Ascent is a late-12th-century Christian icon in the monastery of Saint Catherine, located at the foot of Mount Sinai in Egypt. The...

a guide for the 1870 ascent of Mount Rainier. Longmire would go on to locate a mineral claim at the base of Mount Rainier, leading to an increase of prospectors...

made the first documented ascent of Everest in 1953, using the southeast ridge route. Norgay had reached 8,595 m (28,199 ft) the previous year as a member...

Capitan, including the first female ascent of Golden Gate in 2011, the first female ascent of Pre-Muir Wall in 2012, and a three-day ascent of Freerider in...

anthology of word and image published to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the first ascents of Kangchenjunga. Well illustrated with reproductions of paintings...

generalisation of the word Ketu: "A new word, ketu, meaning 'big peak', seems to be entering the Balti language." Maraini, Fosco (1961). Karakoram: the ascent of Gasherbrum...

16, 2013. Stuck, Hudson (1988). The ascent of Denali (Mount McKinley): a narrative of the first complete ascent of the highest peak in North America. Wolfe...

Scheidegg at its base, on the eponymous pass connecting the two valleys. The first ascent of the Eiger was made by Swiss guides Christian Almer and Peter...

June to mid-September, with an average of 50% of sunny days favorable to the ascent of the summit. However, the winds, dominated by westerly air masses...

The Ascent of Rum Doodle is a short 1956 novel by W. E. Bowman (1911–1985). It is a parody of the non-fictional chronicles of mountaineering expeditions...

The crew encountered some problems during the flight: pogo oscillations during the launch phase and a brief, uncontrolled tumble of the LM ascent stage...

myths recount ascents throughout the range by local goatherds. According to the anthropologist Christopher Elliott, many accounts demonstrate a strong oral...

with a maximum gradient of one in five. The opening of the path and the observatory made the ascent of the mountain increasingly popular, all the more...

years before a second successful ascent of the highest, western summit. The Himalayan Index lists another ascent of the peak in 1980 and a Spanish team...

necessarily have the same meaning or origin. The etymology of the term is closely linked to that of the place name Arabia. The root of the word has many meanings...

computers on Earth. The Gemini Guidance Computer was responsible for the following functions: Ascent – serves as a backup guidance system. The switchover is...

The Hekhalot literature (sometimes transliterated Heichalot) from the Hebrew word for "Palaces", relating to visions of ascents into heavenly palaces...