• the position of a prominent or well-known object in a particular landscape
• an event marking a unique or important historical change of course or one on which important developments depend
• a mark showing the boundary of a piece of land
• an anatomical structure used as a point of origin in locating other anatomical structures (as in surgery) or as point from which measurements can be taken
• A graph in which every node has three branches, and the edges cannot be coloured in fewer than four colours without two edges of the same colour meeting at a point.
• A fluke or unrepeatable result or detection in an experiment.
• United States civil rights leader who refused to give up her seat on a bus to a white man in Montgomery (Alabama) and so triggered the national Civil Rights movement (born in 1913)
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