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Vacant/Occupied:
Vacant: of a benefice, office
or position - unfilled or not occupied; containing nothing, empty, uninhabited,
untenanted; not occupied or in use.
Occupied: of a country,
town or strategic position - taken by military conquest or by settlement;
forcibly entered and held, often as a form of protest; taken up, used, filled; kept
busy, engaged, employed; of a position or office - filled, held by an
individual; lived in, tenanted.
'Carol returned home after
her business trip to discover the house vacant. The note, scribbled in red crayon
above the dead fire in the grate, explained that her husband, Dave, tired of
her continued absence, had run off with the willing barmaid from the Cuckold
Arms and taken all the furniture to set up home with her.'
'When Roger returned from
his four week holiday in the Caribbean, he discovered his detached home
occupied by travellers who'd assumed it was unused.'
1799 - George Washington was
eulogized by Col Henry Lee as 'First in war, first in peace and first in the hearts
of his countrymen'.
1860 - The first ever
inter-club football match took place, between Hallam F.C. and Sheffield F.C.,
at the Sandygate Road ground in Sheffield, England. That is soccer, not the
game now played in the US.
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