Kristianstad
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Kristianstad, Sweden ‘Kristian's Town’. A county and a city founded as a frontier post in 1614 by, and named after, King Christian IV
† when the county of Skåne belonged to Denmark. It was ceded to Sweden in 1658, recovered by Christian V (1646–99), King of Denmark‐Norway (1670–99), in 1676, and finally taken by the Swedes in 1678.
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RUFFIN-4178942.(Business)
Newspaper article from: Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL); 9/18/2009; 554 words
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Nature's Management: Writings on Landscape and Reform, 1822-1859
Magazine article from: Environmental History; 1/1/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...and Reform, 1822-1859. By Edmund Ruffin, edited by Jack Temple Kirby...notes, index. $70.00. Edmund Ruffin is a forgotten man among American...environmental historians with Edmund Ruffin, first in Poquosin: A Study...
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Nature's Management: Writings on Landscape and Reform, 1822-1859.(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: Journal of Southern History; 5/1/2002; ; 700+ words
; By Edmund Ruffin. Edited with an introduction by Jack...in the agricultural reform efforts of Edmund Ruffin. Better known for his defense of states...Cambridge, Mass., 1961); The Diary of Edmund Ruffin, edited by William Kauffman Scarborough...
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Soldier saw North as fate worse than death.(Local)
Newspaper article from: The Virginian Pilot; 1/9/2005; 700+ words
; ...helping a direct descendant of Edmund Ruffin (1794-1865), the "Father...discovered a letter titled "Death of Edmund Ruffin" on pages 193 to 195 in that...20th, 1865," it was written by Edmund Ruffin Jr. to his sons. It begins...
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TWO SHARE AMBITIOUS HISTORY LONG PARTNERSHIP FORGED IN A VISION FOR THE RESORT CITY: A BRIGHTER FUTURE.(FRONT)
Newspaper article from: The Virginian Pilot; 8/22/2004; 700+ words
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a moment in time. A true son of the South.(Local)
Newspaper article from: The Virginian Pilot; 9/24/2006; 700+ words
; ...eater would be an understatement : Edmund Ruffin. On April 12, 1861, the tension...the approaches to the harbor. Ruffin is said to have fired the first...CAPTION(S): the national archives Edmund Ruffin - agricultural reformer, political...
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EVELYNTON PLANTATION SYMMETRY AND BALANCE, ALONG WITH FAMILY AND HERITAGE, FIGURE IN HOME'S DESIGN.(DAILY BREAK)
Newspaper article from: The Virginian Pilot; 9/30/2001; 700+ words
; ...heartbreaking blow to the plantation owners, the Ruffin family, whose ancestor, Edmund Ruffin, was a pioneer of modern agriculture. Two...plantation and namesake of Evelynton; and Edmund Ruffin, a relentless secessionist who is said to...
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HE MAY NOT HAVE FIRED THE FIRST SHOT, BUT HE'S STILL A SOUTHERN HERO.(LOCAL)
Newspaper article from: The Virginian Pilot; 1/6/1997; 700+ words
; ...s quintessential Yankee hater Edmund Ruffin fired the first shot on Fort Sumter...Ruffin, the Longs continued: ``Edmund Ruffin, Virginia agriculturalist and...important to remember is that Edmund Ruffin fired the movement for scientific...
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Hatred of Yankees fueled secessionist.(Saturday)(The Civil War)
Newspaper article from: The Washington Times; 8/30/1997; ; 700+ words
; ...The Civil War had begun, and for Edmund Ruffin, the man who pulled the lanyard...publisher, politician and soldier, Ruffin was humorless and bigoted. Born...Williamsburg. She would die in 1846, and Ruffin devoted his efforts to managing his...
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Evocative Evelynton
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 11/8/1991; ; 700+ words
; ...of a broken heart before the age of 30. Edmund Ruffin Jr., son of the man who fired the first...the family, and in 1937, John Augustine Ruffin Jr., great-great grandson of Edmund Ruffin, and John's wife, Mary Saunders Ruffin...
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Edmund Ruffin
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
Edmund Ruffin Edmund Ruffin (1794-1865), American editor and publisher, was a prominent scientific agriculturist as well as his period's most renowned advocate of establishing an independent Southern nation. Edmund Ruffin was born in Prince...
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Ruffin, Thomas (1787-1870)
Book article from: American Eras
...jurisdictions. The foremost exception was Thomas Ruffin, the best-known member of the southern...rural King and Queen County, Virginia, Ruffin was related to the famous southern nationalist Edmund Ruffin. He received his early education in Warrenton...
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Fire-Eaters
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History
...Barnwell Rhett, Virginia planter Edmund Ruffin, and William Lowndes Yancey, a...Democrat from Alabama. Although Rhett, Ruffin, Yancey, and other Fire-Eaters...BIBLIOGRAPHY Allmendinger, David F. Ruffin: Family and Reform in the Old South...
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Draper, John William
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography
...which had been inspired by the writings of the celebrated pioneer of scientific agriculture in America, the Virginian Edmund Ruffin. A projected school of mineralogy never materialized, but many of the projectors were trustees of Hampden-Sidney...
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fire-eaters
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...history, term applied by Northerners to proslavery extremists in the South in the two decades before the Civil War. Edmund Ruffin , Robert B. Rhett , and William L. Yancey were the most notable of the group. As early as 1850, at a convention...
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