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Wednesday, November 11, 2009
Keith Urban (l.) and Brad Paisley  
Keith Urban (l.) and Brad Paisley
Answer of the Day
Who is the youngest artist ever to be nominated for CMA Entertainer of the Year? That would be nineteen-year-old Taylor Swift, among the nominees for the association's top prize this year. Just two years ago she won the CMA Horizon Award for Best New Artist. This year, she's up for four awards. If you're a country music lover, tonight's a big night — the CMA Awards air live from Nashville at 8 PM ET on ABC. Brad Paisley and Carrie Underwood host the event, which will have performances by all this year's nominees for Entertainer of the Year: Paisley, Swift, Kenny Chesney, George Strait and Keith Urban. Paisley, the front-runner for tonight's prizes, was nominated for a total of seven awards. The first person to win CMA Entertainer of the Year, when it was first presented in 1967, was Eddy Arnold. Kenny Chesney was Entertainer of the Year in 2004, 2006, 2007 and 2008.
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"Social topics may hit too close to home for people, but then again, if you pull a heartstring, then that's what country music is." Kenny Chesney
U.S. Route 66  
U.S. Route 66
Today in History
Leonardo DiCaprio  
Leonardo DiCaprio
Today's Birthdays
Word of the Day
 xylem

Part of a plant's vascular system that conveys water and dissolved minerals from the roots to the rest of the plant and furnishes mechanical support. Xylem constitutes the major part of a mature woody stem or root and the wood of a tree, and consists of specialized water-conducting tissues made up mostly of several types of narrow, elongate, hollow cells.

  Encyclopedia Britannica, Inc.)
X-rays were discovered by William Röntgen 114 years ago this week — so-called because they were previously unknown to him. In their honor, let's examine a week's worth of words that start with x (yes, there are others besides xylophone).
Previous words: xenophile, xenon, xenodochium

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