Host Billy Crystal might have put it best when just halfway into Sunday's 76th annual Academy Awards, he said, It's now official â there's nobody left in New Zealand to thank. With the night's biggest awards yet to be presented, it already seemed like director Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King ruled the day.
Birthmark definition, a minor disfigurement or blemish on a person's skin at birth; nevus. See more.
For other uses, see Benchmark. The term bench mark, or benchmark, originates from the chiseled horizontal marks that surveyors made in stone structures, into which an angle-iron could be placed to form a bench for a leveling rod, thus ensuring that a leveling rod could be accurately repositioned in the same place in the future.