Description of the word: A long-haired sporting dog which belongs to one of several breeds performing the same function as a pointer; probably developed by breeding spaniels with pointers.
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Events for 10 March
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1903 Birth of (Leon) Bix Beiderbecke in Davenport, Iowa (d.1931), cornettist and composer, who was a celebrated jazz performer of the 1920s.
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1876 British educationist and inventor Alexander Graham Bell (1847–1922) made the first telephone call, to his assistant Thomas Watson.
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1885 Birth of Tamara Karsavina in St Petersburg, Russia (d.1978), ballet dancer, one of the original members of Diaghilev's Ballets Russes in Paris.
