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Waldo

[wawl-doh, wol-]

noun

  1. Pierre or Peter, died c1217, French merchant and religious reformer, declared a heretic: founder of the Waldenses.



waldo

/ ˈɔːəʊ /

noun

  1. a gadget for manipulating objects by remote control

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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of Waldo1

C20: named after Waldo F. Jones, inventor in a science-fiction story by Robert Heinlein
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While the phrase originates from Ralph Waldo Emerson’s “Concord Hymn” and refers specifically to the Battle of Concord, the first shots of the Revolutionary War were actually fired earlier that day in Lexington.

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Security camera video shows the suspects walking by a pool at a home on Waldo Place and ducking out of sight behind a trampoline, before climbing up a hill.

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For e.e. cummings, like earlier American transcendentalist poets like Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau, paying attention was everything.

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Police officers were directed to the back of a residence in the 5300 hundred block of Waldo Place, where one of the suspects was seen running.

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Although 17 years have passed since the Latin American cyberpunk film debuted at Sundance — where it won the Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award and the Alfred P. Sloan Prize — its political relevance has not waned.

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