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Earl

A slang term sometimes used in finance and trading for oil. The term derives from the way the word "oil" is said to be pronounced in an American Southern accent.

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Earl the dog, legally freed Tuesday morning by a Lane County Circuit Court judge from his previous owner, will be placed in the home of a Eugene police officer who helped save the dog in April from a nearly fatal attack, authorities announced Tuesday afternoon.

Dog finds 'forever home' with cop who saved him

Branson, Missouri-based Earls Family Broadcasting's Charles C.

Earls Family Broadcasting gets new investors

M2 EQUITYBITES-March 28, 2014-London's Earls Court 1 & 2 to be developed by Capco and TfL joint venture

London's Earls Court 1 & 2 to be developed by Capco and TfL joint venture

KEITH EARLS knows only too well that life happens when you're busy making plans.

EARLSY LEARNING CENTRE; IRELAND v ITALY ONE DAY TO AVIVA STADIUM SHOWDOWN

MAKING HISTORY: Thomas Stanley, the first Earl of Derby in 1485 REMARKABLE: A portrait of Edward Smith Stanley, the 13th Earl of Derby who created his own menagerie in the 19th century License granted courtesy of the Rt Hon The Earl of Derby MAGNIFICENT: Knowsley Hall, ancestral home of the Earls of Derby NEVER MIND: Visitors remain cheerful despite finding themselves in the breakdown lane CHEEKY MONKEY: Stanley the baboon tries to steal some cake meant for all the monkeys REMEMBER WHEN: How the Liverpool ECHO reported the opening of Knowsley Safari Park BEST PALS: A charming 1974 snapshot of an elephant and a rhino who became friends at the Safari Park

History of earls past and present

The big news and talking point at this year's Business Travel Show at Olympia, and parallel Travel Technology Exhibition last week were not the shows themselves, but that they are both to relocate to Earls Court Two in 2007.

The Business Travel Show in London

Earls may not be as common as Johns or Joes, but the name will start to gain in popularity as a result of the new NBC comedy series, "My Name is Earl", which has just started its first season in the UK on Channel 4.

If your name is Earl you're in for a treat

The equation of English earls with French counts began, unsurprisingly, with the Norman Conquest.

The king's companions: from Godwin to Warwick to Leicester: for more than a thousand years the English earls have been key players in many of the great events of English history. But what did it mean to be an earl, and where did the title come from? Marc Morris looks at the relationship between the Norman and plantagenet kings and their earls

Julian Earls, director of the NASA Glenn Research Center in Cleveland, has turned down an offer to become president of Alabama A&M University.

Head of NASA Research Center declines presidency of Alabama A&M

Three Percy Earls were killed in battle, two were executed and two murdered.

The dramatic history of the Percy family

But a pair of Earls will make your legs look longer, your thighs look sleeker and your bottom look smaller.

Fashion: The Earl of Denim; Elle MacPherson wore them customised when pregnant, Kate Moss wears hers with everything and Kylie won't subject her pert posterior to any other brand. They're the dukes of denim, the aristocrats of indigo: they're Earl Jean..

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