guardia

La Guar·di·a

[luh gwahr-dee-uh]
noun
Fi·o·rel·lo H(enry) [fee-uh-rel-oh] , 1882–1947, U.S. lawyer, political reformer, and government administrator: mayor of New York City 1933–45.
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La Guardia (ləˈɡwɑːdɪə) [Click for IPA pronunciation guide]
 
n
Fiorello H(enry) (ˌfɪəˈrɛləʊ). 1882--1947, US politician. As mayor of New York (1933--45), he organized slum-clearance and labour safeguard schemes and suppressed racketeering

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Guardia is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
a calculus or concretion found in the stomach or intestines of certain animals, esp. ruminants, formerly reputed to be an effective remedy for poison.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
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