The individual, round cut-outs in the pages of dictionaries, encyclopedias, or other sectioned, often alphabetic, reference works, used to locate entries starting at a particular letter or section are called ______?______
A thumb index, also called a cut-in index, is a round cut-out in the pages of dictionaries,encyclopedias, or other sectioned, often alphabetic, reference works like Bibles, used to locate entries starting at a particular letter or section. The individual notches are called thumb cuts.
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Marian was first, and correct, with:
thumb index
Overstuffed Lois Of Oregon said:
Hey, I KNOW this one, 'cause I used to manually cut out and
apply the labels to bibles I INDEXED at the old book
warehouse where once I worked. It was kind of fun and a lot
easier than running around filling Amazon orders, I must
say! Having a hard time making a "dick" connection with
today's trivia question, although one could use the Index
Cutter for a designer circumcision, as it would achieve a
nice scalloped edge. I'm sorry. That wasn't funny. Too much
turkey. To make up for that, here is a picture of George W.
Bush eating a kitten.
Alan J wrote:
Thumb index, also called a cut-in index
Charlie replied:
Thumb, or cut-in indices (or indexes).
Jim from CA, retired to ID, responded:
Thumb index
Adam answered:
Thumb Index.
Sally said:
The individual, round cut-outs in the pages of dictionaries, encyclopedias, or other sectioned, often alphabetic, reference works, used to locate entries starting at a particular letter or section are called the thumb index.
I can still picture Sister Louise Claudia, pointer in hand, telling us, "Now girls, refer to your thumb index and go to," as if were yesterday...
Dale of Delightful Diamond Springs, in Norfallcali, responded:
Worked in a college library while attending an institution of higher learning - it's a Thumb Index. Suckers, hitchers, and something up the bum instead of the ole thumb!
MAM wrote:
A thumb index, also called a cut-in index.
BttbBob answered:
Damn, Boss! I searched every online encyclopedia and dictionary I could find and I couldn't find anything a-lookin' like THAT! Hoo ha, and ya got me on this-a one, dontcha know?
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And, Joe S said:
Thumb index.
Dictionary with Thumb Indices.
I tried to find a picture of a pretty girl, scantily clad, holding a dictionary.
I couldn't find one but I found this picture of a girl holding her surf board.
Best I could do.
CBS begins the night with 'The Flight Before Christmas', followed by 'The Story Of Santa Claus', then '48 Hours'.
NBC opens the night with the FRESH'The National Dog Show', followed by an hourlong RERUN'SNL'.
'SNL' is a RERUN, with Kerry Washington hosting, music by Eminem.
ABC fills the night with LIVE'College Football', then pads the left coast with local crap, and maybe an old 'Castle'.
The CW offers an old '2½ Men', followed by another old '2½ Men', then an old 'Family Guy', followed by another old 'Family Guy'.
Faux fills the night with LIVE'College Football', then pads the left coast with local crap.
MY has an old 'Burn Notice', followed by another old 'Burn Notice'.
A&E has 'Storage Wars', another 'Storage Wars', still another 'Storage Wars', yet another 'Storage Wars', 'Flipping Vegas', followed by a FRESH'Flipping Vegas'.
AMC offers the movie 'Above The Law', followed by the movie 'Under Siege', then the movie 'Hard To Kill'.
BBC -
[6:00AM] TOP GEAR - Season 8 - Episode 1
[7:00AM] TOP GEAR - Season 8 - Episode 2
[8:00AM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - Season 5 - Ep 2 - Leone's
[9:00AM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES UK - Season 3 - Ep 1 - La Parra de Burriana
[10:00AM] MASTERCHEF UK: THE PROFESSIONALS - Season 5 - Episode 21
[10:40AM] MASTERCHEF UK: THE PROFESSIONALS - Season 5 - Episode 22
[12:00PM] TOP GEAR - Season 14 - Episode 1
[1:00PM] TOP GEAR: TOP 41-Episode 6
[2:00PM] TOP GEAR - Season 14 - Episode 3
[3:00PM] TOP GEAR - Season 14 - Episode 4
[4:00PM] TOP GEAR - Season 14 - Episode 5
[5:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 3 - Ep 10 - The Defector
[6:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 3 - Ep 11 - The Hunted
[7:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 3 - Ep 12 - The High Ground
[8:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 3 - Ep 13 - Deja Q
[9:00PM] ATLANTIS - Season 1 - Episode 2 NEW
[10:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 3 - Ep 14 - A Matter of Perspective
[11:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 3 - Ep 13 - Deja Q
[12:00AM] ATLANTIS - Season 1 - Episode 2
[1:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 3 - Ep 11 - The Hunted
[2:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 3 - Ep 12 - The High Ground
[3:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 3 - Ep 13 - Deja Q
[4:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 3 - Ep 14 - A Matter of Perspective
[5:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 3 - Ep 10 - The Defector (ALL TIMES EST)
Bravo has the movie 'The Scorpion King', followed by the movie 'The Fast & The Furious', then the movie 'The Fast & The Furious', again.
Comedy Central has the movie 'Role Models', followed by the movie 'Dumb & Dumber', then the movie 'American Pie 2'.
FX has the movie 'What Happens In Vegas', followed by the movie 'Just Go With It', then the movie 'Just Go With It', again.
IFC -
[6:00AM] Comedy Bang! Bang! -Clark Gregg Wears a Navy Blazer & White Collared Shirt
[6:30AM] I Think I Love My Wife
[8:30AM] The Birthday Boys -Skewered!
[9:00AM] The Birthday Boys -Paychecks!
[9:30AM] The Birthday Boys -Goofy Roofers
[10:00AM] The Birthday Boys -Catching up on Shows
[10:30AM] The Birthday Boys -Rock and Roll
[11:00AM] The Birthday Boys -Cool Machine
[11:30AM] The Birthday Boys -Helpful Tips
[12:00PM] The Birthday Boys -Skewered!
[12:30PM] Malcolm in the Middle -Malcolm Visits College
[1:00PM] Malcolm in the Middle -Polly in the Middle
[1:30PM] Malcolm in the Middle -Experiment
[2:00PM] Malcolm in the Middle -Dewey's Special Class
[2:30PM] Malcolm in the Middle -Victor's Other Family
[3:15PM] DeepStar Six
[5:30PM] Slither
[7:30PM] Once Upon a Time in Mexico
[9:45PM] Once Upon a Time in Mexico
[12:00AM] Splice
[2:15AM] Splice
[4:30AM] Malcolm in the Middle -Malcolm Visits College
[5:00AM] Malcolm in the Middle -Polly in the Middle
[5:30AM] Malcolm in the Middle -Experiment (ALL TIMES EST)
Sundance -
[6:00AM] Don't Say a Word
[8:30AM] Amadeus
[12:30PM] The Outsiders
[2:30PM] Bullitt
[5:00PM] A Few Good Men
[8:00PM] Traffic
[11:15PM] Cliffhanger
[1:45AM] Lost Highway
[4:45AM] This Way Up
[5:00AM] Dream School-Music With Swizz Beatz (ALL TIMES EST)
SyFy has the movie 'Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country', followed by the movie 'Star Trek: Generations'.
This Nov. 18, 2013 photo shows American singer-songwriter Kenny Loggins posing for a portrait to promote his new album "Finally Home For Christmas," released by his band Blue Sky Riders, in New York.
Photo by Victoria Will
Film star and animal rights campaigner Brigitte Bardot called on Belgium Thursday not to change its retirement system for police horses, warning they could end up at the slaughterhouse as a result.
"The cost savings planned by the police threaten the future and security of horses at the end of their working lives," Bardot said in a letter released by her animal welfare foundation.
"That is why I ask you not to undermine a system which has proved its worth by ensuring a well deserved retirement for many horses," she said, adding that the cost savings were minimal.
Belgian Interior Minister Joelle Milquet is currently considering plans to end the system, with government finances tight.
Since 1991, police horses past working age have gone to 'adoptive families' which must meet strict criteria to ensure the animals' welfare and be subject to annual inspections.
In this Nov. 25, 2013 photo, a rare Gibson double-necked guitar belonging to Elvis Presley hangs at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum in Cleveland.
Photo by Mark Duncan
A federal appeals court has ordered immigration officials to review their decision not to grant asylum to a gay man who said he was attacked for his sexual orientation in 2002 and 2003 in his native Russia and feared he would be persecuted if forced to return there.
The U.S. Department of Justice's Board of Immigration Appeals was wrong when it concluded that the man had failed to show that government officials in Russia were either unwilling or unable to control his attackers, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled on Wednesday.
The man was only identified as "John Doe" in the opinion.
"The government failed to present any evidence to rebut Doe's undisputed testimony that he suffered serious assaults at the hands of individuals on account of his homosexuality or to show that the Russian government was able and willing to control non-governmental actors who attack homosexuals," the court said.
It ordered the board to review the case and said federal officials had to show circumstances had changed in Russia to allay the man's fears, or that he could be relocated to a safe area in the country.
With his face hidden behind sunglasses and a white surgical mask, the artist is almost as invisible as the radioactive contamination he is protesting against - yet his stickers are graphic reminders of the Fukushima nuclear disaster.
Known as 281 Antinuke, Japan's answer to Banksy has covered Tokyo streets in images depicting politicians as vampires and children being shielded from radioactive rain to highlight the consequences of a meltdown at the Fukushima nuclear plant after an earthquake and tsunami on March 11, 2011.
The disaster and the response by plant operator Tokyo Electric Power Co (Tepco) stoked anti-nuclear sentiment and the biggest public protests in Japan since the 1960s, but the movement has since lost momentum.
"Perhaps because everyone believes people telling them on television that everything is fine, they don't seem so worried," 281 Antinuke told Reuters. "I hope by leaving my art I can remind people that we're not safe at all ... and that they will do something to protect themselves."
281 Antinuke is a rare instance in a country where graffiti writers face heavy penalties and strong social disapproval. Online commentators have called for his arrest and his agent says the artist has received death threats.
America's plain old telephone network is rapidly being overtaken by new technology, putting US regulators in a quandary over how to manage the final stages of transformation.
Though the timing remains unclear, the impact of change and what it means for roughly 100 million Americans who remain reliant on the dated but still-functional system of copper wires and switching stations is up for debate.
The Federal Communications Commission is working toward drafting rules in January to formalize the IP transition -- switching communications systems to Internet protocol.
"Almost everyone will be off this network in the next four years. It is a dead model walking," said Scott Cleland, of the research and consulting firm Precursor LLC, noting that three quarters of the transition is done.
Cleland, a former White House telecom policy adviser, said that even if people wanted to keep the old system, "they are not making the switches anymore for this. And the engineers they need to keep it alive are retiring."
A sudden surge in U.S. oil output could derail plans to build the massive Keystone XL pipeline to ship Canadian oil from Alberta to refineries on the American Gulf Coast, Canada's U.S. ambassador was warned in internal emails.
In a series of emails unearthed by an access to information request from energy think tank Pembina Institute and provided to CBC News, Canadian energy counsellor Paul Connors warned ambassador Gary Doer in the summer that America's current oil boom could alter the viability of cross-border pipeline plans.
Keystone XL is a proposed 1,900-kilometre pipeline being pitched by Calgary-based TransCanada that aims to bring Canadian oilsands oil from Hardisty, Alta., south through five U.S. states to oil refineries on the Gulf Coast in Texas.
But recent events may have changed those economics somewhat. A series of oil discoveries in the Bakken, Eagle Ford and Permian basins scattered across the continental U.S. have increased America's possible oil output to a far higher level than previously believed.
The U.S. now has so much recoverable oil that it's now expected to surpass Saudi Arabia as the world's largest oil producer at some point in the next 10 to 20 years.
Teresa Treuheit, dressed as a gold-foiled Christ Child, recites the traditional prologue for the opening ceremony of Germany's oldest Christkindlesmarkt (Christ Child Market) in Nürnberg November 29, 2013. The first official record of this pre-Christmas market dates back to 1628. A list of notices for stall holders from 1737 shows that almost all of Nürnberg's craftsmen were represented. Every year, Germany's traditional markets, such as the centuries-old Christkindlesmarkt in medieval Nürnberg, draw millions of visitors, both local and foreign. They open before the first Sunday of Advent and usually continue until December 24 at 12 noon.
Photo by Michaela Rehle
A Toronto woman denied a flight to New York as part of a cruise trip wants to know who told U.S. border agents about her history of mental illness.
Ellen Richardson says she was turned away by a U.S. customs agent at Pearson International Airport on Monday because she had been hospitalized for clinical depression in June 2012.
She missed her flight to New York City and a Caribbean cruise, for which she had paid $6,000, as a result.
Though U.S. officials have access to police records, medical records are supposed to be held in the strictest confidence.
Richardson's stay in hospital was preceded by a 911 call, placed by her mother, but she says police were never involved, just an ambulance.
A German policeman has been arrested after the chopped-up body of a man he met on a fetishist website for cannibalism was found buried in his garden, police in the eastern city of Dresden said on Friday.
"The victim had been fantasizing about being killed and eaten by someone else since his youth," Dresden police chief Dieter Kroll told a news conference. It was not immediately clear whether any act of cannibalism had taken place.
The investigation recalled the case of Armin Meiwes, dubbed the "Cannibal of Rothenburg", who killed and ate a man who had advertised on the Internet for someone to kill him "and leave no trace". Meiwes, who filmed the act, received a life sentence in 2006.
Dresden police said the suspect was a 55-year-old who worked as a technical expert in the criminal investigation department. The victim was identified only as a 59-year-old man from Hanover and the case was being treated as murder, they said.
Workers disassemble a Louis Vuitton pavilion shaped like a giant suitcase as Kremlim's Spasskaya Tower is pictured behind in central Moscow November 29, 2013. President Vladimir Putin's government found itself struggling on Wednesday to contain an uproar over the gigantic Louis Vuitton suitcase set up to house an exhibit on the travel and possessions of the rich and famous.
Photo by Tatyana Makeyeva
The grand mufti of Saudi Arabia said a ban on women driving in the conservative Gulf state protects society from "evil", in remarks published in the press on Thursday.
Sheikh Abdul Aziz bin Abdullah al-Sheikh, in a speech delivered Wednesday in the western city of Medina, said the issue of giving women the right to drive should not be "one of society's major concerns".
The kingdom's most senior cleric called for "the matter to be considered from the perspective of protecting society from evil" which, according to him, included letting women drive.
His comments came as activists said they had been assured by Interior Minister Prince Mohammed bin Nayef that authorities were reassessing the controversial Saudi ban on women drivers.
The absolute monarchy is the only country in the world where women are barred from driving, a regulation that has drawn condemnation from the international community.
Encrypted email, secure instant messaging and other privacy services are booming in the wake of the National Security Agency's recently revealed surveillance programs. But the flood of new computer security services is of variable quality, and much of it, experts say, can bog down computers and isn't likely to keep out spies.
In the end, the new geek wars -between tech industry programmers on the one side and government spooks, fraudsters and hacktivists on the other- may leave people's PCs and businesses' computer systems encrypted to the teeth but no better protected from hordes of savvy code crackers.
Encryption isn't meant to keep hackers out, but when it's designed and implemented correctly, it alters the way messages look. Intruders who don't have a decryption key see only gobbledygook.
A series of disclosures from former intelligence contractor Edward Snowden this year has exposed sweeping U.S. government surveillance programs. The revelations are sparking fury and calls for better encryption from citizens and leaders in France, Germany, Spain and Brazil who were reportedly among those tapped. Both Google and Yahoo, whose data centre communications lines were also reportedly tapped, have committed to boosting encryption and online security. Although there's no indication Facebook was tapped, the social network is also upping its encryption systems.
British actor Lewis Collins, star of the cult television crime drama "The Professionals", has died at the age of 67, his agent said on Thursday.
Collins, who played the taciturn tough guy Bodie alongside co-star Martin Shaw in the action-packed cop show, died in Los Angeles after a five-year battle with cancer.
With its memorable theme tune and high-octane stunts, "The Professionals" was one of the biggest hits on British television during its run from 1977 to 1981.
Collins also starred in the 1982 film "Who Dares Wins" about the British army's elite Special Air Service (SAS).
He said he had auditioned for the role of James Bond after that but subsequently dropped out of acting and set up a computer business in the United States.
Born in Merseyside, northwest England, he initially worked as a hairdresser and a musician in local bands.
Monarch butterflies fly at the El Rosario butterfly sanctuary on a mountain in the Mexican state of Michoacan November 27, 2013. Monarch butterflies have started arriving at a butterfly sanctuary in the central Mexican state of Michoacan - an annual spectacle that draws tourists, scientists and locals alike, but not in the arrival numbers expected. Biologist Felipe Martinez, Sub-Director of the Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve, said the arrival has been delayed due to several cold fronts hitting Mexico and continued rain storms. In 2000, Mexico established a 56,000 hectare reserve for the butterflies in Michoacan and part of the State of Mexico, containing some 6.7 million trees.
Photo by Edgard Garrido
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