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Frederick

[fred-rik, -er-ik]

noun

  1. a city in central Maryland.

  2. Also Frederic. a male given name: from Germanic words meaning “peace” and “ruler.”



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“Power concedes nothing without a demand,” she told a crowd gathered in Sproul Plaza on that October Thursday in 1964, quoting abolitionist Frederick Douglass.

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Services coming into Newtownards will terminate at Frederick Street until further notice.

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Prosecutor Frederick Hookway observed that small variations of the speeds involved in the case were unlikely to have an impact given the defendant had reached "top speeds of over 140mph".

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In 1965, Stamp starred in an adaptation of the John Fowles novel The Collector, as the repressed Frederick Clegg who kidnaps a girl and imprisons her in his cellar.

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“This thing is a clown car she’s got going on,” Fredericks said.

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