Silvester Gardiner
Silvester Gardiner 1708-86, American colonial physician and landowner, b. South Kingstown, R.I. He studied medicine in London and Paris, built up a large practice in Boston, and established a chain of apothecary shops. Gardiner was the chief promoter of the Kennebec Company, which obtained (1753) a large strip of land on either side of the Kennebec River in Maine. He built the towns of Pittston and Gardiner in the development of this holding. Because he was an ardent Loyalist, his land was confiscated at the beginning of the American Revolution, and he fled to Halifax and later (1778) to England. He returned to the United States in 1785 and recovered part of his land in Maine, but his Boston property had been destroyed.
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This Land Is Your Land.
Magazine article from: Highlights for Children; 7/1/1999; ; 133 words
; This land is your land, This land is my land, From California to the New York Island, From the redwood forest to the Gulf Stream waters; This land was made for you and me. As I went walking that ribbon of highway, I saw above me that endless skyway...
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George on land speculation and the winner's curse.(Symposium on Echos of Henry George's Economics in Modern Analysis)
Magazine article from: The American Journal of Economics and Sociology; 11/1/2004; ; 700+ words
; Adam Smith knew about the neutrality of taxes on land. He says of a tax on land, As it has no tendency to diminish the quantity, it...people (1937 [1776], p. 780). Smith's view of taxes on land has been the general view among economists since then...
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Environmental land use, indirect source controls and California's south coast plan; is the day of attainment coming?
Magazine article from: Environmental Law; 6/22/1993; ; 700+ words
; I. INTRODUCTION From the beginning, land use boards and environmentalists have butted...testimony to this developing relationship, the land use reform movement of the 1970s sprang...need to preserve the environment. Thus land use planning began to weigh, balance and...
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Land, Power and Economics on the Frontier of Upper Canada. (Reviews).(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Journal of Social History; 3/22/2003; ; 700+ words
; Land, Power and Economics on the Frontier of Upper Canada. By...was a preindustrial, agrarian community in which access to land was of primary importance to settlers and residents because...of life and of economic and social prestige. (p.xxxiii) In Land, Power and Economics on the Frontier of Upper Canada, ...
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Land: a green investment.(green home resource[TM]: GREEN ROOTS)
Magazine article from: New Life Journal; 2/1/2007; ; 700+ words
; Q. I have money ready to invest in land. Can you recommend the most eco-friendly...can purchase acreage and envision a green land use plan? An eco-minded client once asked...I choose to buy acreage? Good question! land has intrinsic value, I answered. A lengthy...
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The human land dialectic: anthropic landscapes of the center for Land Use Interpretation.
Magazine article from: Afterimage; 9/1/1997; ; 700+ words
; [F]or the Land itself knows nothing, except that which...or human-made landscapes, the Center fur Land Use interpretation (CLUI) has also provoked...Through three separate divisions - the Land Use Database, the Land Use Museum, and the...
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Henry George's Land Reform: The Distinction between Private Ownership and Private Possession.
Magazine article from: The American Journal of Economics and Sociology; 4/1/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...Henry George stated that the taxation of land rent would amount to the abolition of the institution of private ownership of land, thereby alienating all those who, whether...reasons, regard the private ownership of land as essential for social order and progress...
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Sparks fly over land ownership. (new land ownership policy)
Magazine article from: African Business; 10/1/1997; ; 700+ words
; ...controversial plans to ban ownership of land by foreigners and companies and to disallow...the 1994 recommendations for a national land tenure commission by introducing the required...legislation before July next year: The new Land Act will provide for the agricultural land...
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County may cede land deal leadership.(Government)(The Nature Conservancy could take a role in talks on the sale of Wildish property)
Newspaper article from: The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR); 2/21/2007; 700+ words
; ...Cooper The Register-Guard An international land-protection group could take the lead in...purchase of 1,200 acres from the Wildish Land Company for parkland near Mount Pisgah...increasingly complicated offer to buy the land from the Eugene gravel company for $26...
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Sacred real estate: in the Bible Israel is a caretaker. "The land is mine," says God. "You are but strangers resident with me".
Magazine article from: The Christian Century; 7/25/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...exclusive Jewish Sovereignty over the Holy Land is a theological right and necessity, a...to maximize territorial control of the land. Although Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert...ignores the rights of those families whose land was expropriated for reasons having nothing...
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