Checkers (disambiguation) — Checkers (or chequers) may refer to: Draughts, the board game called checkers in American English. The most popular variants of this group of board games are American checkers, also called English draughts, and International draughts. Other board … Wikipedia
Checkers speech — Senator Richard Nixon delivers the Checkers speech Date September 23, 1952 Time 6:30 p.m. Location Los Angeles, California … Wikipedia
Checkers (fast food) — Checkers, Inc. Rally s, Inc. Checkers Drive In Restaurants, Inc. Type Private Industry Fast Food Founded 1986 in … Wikipedia
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American Pie (Song) — American Pie ist ein Lied von Don McLean. Aufgenommen wurde der Titel 1971 und im selben Jahr auf dem Album American Pie veröffentlicht. Das Lied erreichte 1972 den ersten Platz in den US amerikanischen Singlecharts und Platz 2 in Großbritannien … Deutsch Wikipedia
Checkers — the name of a dog that belonged to Richard Nixon. Nixon was accused of accepting money illegally when he was a candidate for Vice president in 1952. He made an emotional speech on television and said the only gift he had accepted was his dog.… … Universalium
American Cocker Spaniel — Infobox Dogbreed image caption = name = American Cocker Spaniel altname = Cocker Spaniel,Cockers country = America fcigroup = 8 fcisection = 2 fcinum = 167 fcistd = http://www.google.com/search?q=cache:lD03zlhFpq4J:www.fci.be/uploaded… … Wikipedia
American and British English spelling differences — Spelling differences redirects here. For other uses, see Category:Language comparison. For guidelines on dialects and spelling in the English language version of Wikipedia, see Wikipedia:Manual of Style#National varieties of English. Differences… … Wikipedia
American board games, 1843–1935 — Game of the District Messenger Boy (1886) was one of the first board games based on materialism and capitalism published in the United States. American board games published between 1843 and 1935 were principally of two distinct thematic types:… … Wikipedia
checkers — check|ers [ tʃekərz ] noun uncount AMERICAN a game for two people, played on a board with black and white squares using 24 round pieces. British draughts … Usage of the words and phrases in modern English