quebracho
quebracho , name for a tanning substance and for the trees from which it comes, chiefly the red quebracho, or quebracho colorado ( Schinopsis lorentzii ), of the family Anacardiaceae ( sumac family). This hardwood tree, native to the Paraguayan subtropics, supplies one of the most durable and heavy of timbers. It also provides much of the vegetable tannin for the leather industry although the populations are being depleted. The heartwood, stripped of its bark and subjected to extraction processes, is about 30% tannin. Quebracho is obtained chiefly from wild trees of the forests of the Gran Chaco of Argentina, Paraguay, and Bolivia. White quebracho ( Aspidosperma quebracho-blanco ) of the dogbane family is one of the other hardwoods similarly used and is native to the same region. Red quebracho is classified in the division Magnoliophyta , class Magnoliopsida, order Sapindales, family Anacardiaceae.
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OPINION: It's Time for Corporations to Stop Paying Danegeld.
Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News; 5/16/2004; 700+ words
; ...attacking you. Tenth century England paid Danegeld to buy off its Viking invaders -- who...Today, companies pay their environmental Danegeld with vast glossy brochures showing how...planet. And they pay their stakeholder Danegeld by agreeing to consult everyone imaginable...
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 "The Birmingham Post (England)")
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Probably the heaviest tax in the world.(Features)
Newspaper article from: The Birmingham Post (England); 1/24/2008; 700+ words
; ...for this kind of thing. They called it Danegeld , and from that point onwards the English...mints (mostly silver pennies) went in Danegeld. Not surprisingly, then, if you...picked up on this fact in a poem called Danegeld: But we've proved it again and again...
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Strange times
Magazine article from: Review - Institute of Public Affairs; 3/1/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...the ALP doesn't have to. THE MODERN DANEGELD Southcorp recently gave a huge donation...discrediting competitors, corporate payers of Danegeld to green advocacy groups should remember...took the entire kingdom. Corporate Danegeld means trading away your legitimacy to...
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 "The Daily Mail (London, England)")
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Fed up with paying tax? Blame it on the French!
Newspaper article from: The Daily Mail (London, England); 3/7/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...hordes led to the rise of a tax called Danegeld. An unprepared England was unable to...the East coast. So King Alfred levied Danegeld - literally money for the Danes - in...to 1016, that things got so bad that Danegeld had to be raised on an annual basis...
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'Success' in N. Korea will fail in long run
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times; 2/20/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...And that is called paying the Danegeld; But we've proved it again and...That if once you have paid him the Danegeld You never get rid of the Dane...the United States -- i.e., Danegeld. Is it really that simple? No...
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Is Aethelred the Unready Now at Helm of State?
Magazine article from: Human Events; 2/14/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...fighting them. These payoffs, known as danegeld, continued sporadically until 1012...pursuing a proposal to raise money for danegeld, er, that is, a pension fund for jihad...they had grasped that once you pay the danegeld, you never get rid of the Dane. [Author...
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My heart aches for Kenneth Bigley and his family. But it will be the road to hell if we pay to win his freedom.
Newspaper article from: The Daily Mail (London, England); 9/30/2004; 700+ words
; ...his astonishingly perceptive poem Danegeld, about the money paid by Anglo...And that is called paying the Danegeld, But we've proved it again and...That if once you have paid him the Danegeld, You never get rid of the Dane...
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The past is another profit centre
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 3/30/1995; ; 700+ words
; ...stunt might be to send out a demand for Danegeld. You know, the money the Vikings demanded...issued several thousand demand notes for Danegeld, on forms not unlike the poll tax...pounds 20,000. Can you imagine that? Danegeld, still being gladly paid in the late...
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Will Alex ever be bought off with handouts?
Newspaper article from: The Daily Mail (London, England); 2/20/2008; 700+ words
; ...concession after another. He called it 'paying the Danegeld'. Originally Danegeld was money paid by Ethelred the Unready to persuade...again andagain, that if once you have paid him the Danegeld, you never get rid of theDane'. Quite so. Will...
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Facts the favourite
Newspaper article from: Evening Mail; 2/23/1999; 700+ words
; ...Foster (7) 2-1 fav (W Halliday) 14 ran FORECAST: 7-2 Danegeld, 4-1 Mullingar Con, Press To Sting, 9-2 Hopies Delight...Cottage, 12-1 Triple Eaves, 16-1 others. FORM GUIDE: DANEGELD - 9-2 (12-0) 2nd of 13, 1 1/2l behind Concerto Collonges...
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Danegeld
Book article from: A Dictionary of British History
Danegeld The term is often wrongly applied to tribute payments made to the Vikings in the reign of Æ...pay for their own forces. It was this tax which Norman administrative documents called ‘Danegeld’.
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Ethelred II
Book article from: World Encyclopedia
...x2013;1013; 1014–16). Following continuous Danish attacks, he paid off the raiders with money raised by the Danegeld (994). The Danes returned nevertheless in 997, and again in 1002 when they were massacred by Ethelred's forces. The...
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Sweyn
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...Danes defeated and killed King Olaf I of Norway and divided his kingdom. Sweyn had previously invaded England and exacted Danegeld from King Æthelred . He invaded England again in 1003-4 and in 1013, when the English finally submitted and accepted...
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Dane
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology
...ON. Danir pl. (late L. Danī ); superseding OE. Dene , which is repr. in Denmark (OE. Denemearc ). So danegeld tax imposed c. 1000. XI. — ON. * Danagjald (ODa. Danegjeld ), f. g. pl. of Danir Danes + gjald payment...
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Ethelred II (the Unready)
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History
...misfortunes the Danes renewed their invasions. Ethelred bought them off on five occasions (991, 994, 1002, 1007, 1012) with DANEGELD . His attempt (1002) to massacre all the Danes in his kingdom was answered (1013) by the invasion of the King of Denmark...
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