colour blindness
colour blindness (kul-er) n. any of various conditions in which certain colours are confused with one another. True lack of colour appreciation is extremely rare (see
monochromat); the most common type of colour blindness is red-blindness (see
Daltonism). See also
deuteranopia,
tritanopia.
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Ghost Towns Offer Glimpse of Past
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times; 10/23/1994; ; 700+ words
; ...out quickly and the town had the dubious distinction...is one of hundreds of ghost towns, most of them deserted...historical park. "There are ghosts if you believe in them...re not going to a ghost town where ghosts pop out at appropriate...la Disneyland. Real ghost ...
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 "The Santa Fe New Mexican (Santa Fe, NM)")
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HISTORY COMES ALIVE IN STATE'S GHOST TOWNS.(Main)
Newspaper article from: The Santa Fe New Mexican (Santa Fe, NM); 7/18/2009; 700+ words
; ...writer once defined a ghost town as "a shadowy semblance of...leaves room for the inclusion of towns that are merely on their way...from Santa Fe as the "Ghost Town Highway." Today, it has...Turquoise Trail. The original ghost towns were Cerrillos, Madrid, ...
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GHOST TOWNS: VANISHED VILLAGES DOT OHIO LANDSCAPE
Newspaper article from: Dayton Daily News; 6/28/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...Oddly enough, "the town disappeared, but I...Ohio may have 9,000 ghost towns - far more than chicken...the cinematic Western town of ramshackle wood buildings...For a county survey of ghost towns, he "runs the maps...marking "X" when a town name shows up. Being...
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 "Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)")
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HISTORY OF OLD GHOST TOWNS IS `DYING' ACROSS AMERICA.(NEWS)
Newspaper article from: Daily News (Los Angeles, CA); 9/15/1996; 700+ words
; ...has turned up 35,000 ghost towns in the United States...he said. A ghost town is any town or community...usually not referred to as ghost towns. ``You ask for a ghost town, and they don't know...buildings. That's a ghost town.'' Speck also writes a ...
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Ghost towns offer exciting legends
News Wire article from: University Wire; 8/23/2000; ; 700+ words
; ...couple to see on their way to a ghost town but sagebrush, shrubs...rounded a corner and suddenly a town appeared where for miles there...state park and historic ghost town, in November with the temperature...back her family to the ghost town. She landed a job there the...write ...
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 "Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)")
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Gone BUT NOT forgotten; Ghost towns continue to have a real presence in Carver County.(NEWS)
Newspaper article from: Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN); 10/29/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...one of the earliest ghost towns. "He just couldn...as farmland." Paper town Most of the lost towns disappeared because...Swedish Baptists." Some ghost towns, such as Mound St...Clair is a "paper town" because it never progressed...
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 "Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO)")
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MISTAKE ON STATE MAP UNVEILS `GHOST TOWNS' MISPRINT ON TOURIST GUIDE SENDS PEOPLE SEEKING RUINS OF MOUNTAIN COMMUNITIES.(Local)
Newspaper article from: Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO); 7/15/1997; ; 700+ words
; ...tourists that they live in a ghost town. Likewise for the...Where's the ghost town?' '' said Bernell...mistakenly list the four towns as ghost towns. People...current map lists the four towns under the heading ``ghost towns'' with texts ...
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 "The Economist (US)")
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History in a half-brick; Ghost towns.
Magazine article from: The Economist (US); 12/22/2007; 700+ words
; ...has all but swallowed the town. He also uses it to scrape...whose boyish enthusiasm for ghost towns belies his years. America has a lot of ghost towns. There are 1,000 in Texas...days, Thurber was a coal town. Immigrants flocked there...
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Investigating ghost towns: activities for upper elementary and middle school students.
Magazine article from: The Social Studies; 1/1/1993; ; 700+ words
; ...and fall of America City, a nearby ghost town. Through their investigations...economic needs. And, like other ghost towns, America City's population gradually...activities guided the students' ghost town investigations. The primary purpose...
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 "The Daily Mail (London, England)")
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Ghost towns; Rise of the supermarkets could shut down 20,000 small stores, MPs told.
Newspaper article from: The Daily Mail (London, England); 10/19/2005; 700+ words
; ...be wiped out within a decade creating 'ghost towns' across Britain, it was claimed yesterday...for big supermarkets in or on the edge of towns has had a devastating effect. 'They leave a ghost town centre ... it kills the town centre...
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Ghost Towns
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History
...citizens of neighboring Ruby City decided their town was too far from their diggings, and moved...City Post Office was discontinued, making the town a true ghost town. In addition to mining towns, deserted mill towns (Fayville, Vermont...
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ghost town
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
ghost town term for any once flourishing...reasons. While most of the towns have little or no population...Elmo, Colo. Other ghost towns were former milling centers...communities. In Texas several ghost towns were originally settled by...
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Ghost
Book article from: Contemporary Fashion
...New York Update—Ghost," in WWD, 11 April 1994. Orlean, Susan, "The Talk of the Town: Fashion Designers Uptown and...November 1994. Fallon, James, "Ghost readies Trendy G2 for Spring...x2014;—, "Ghost Focuses on Growth," in WWD...
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ghost
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable
...crushed at the Battle of Wounded Knee. ghost in the machine the mind viewed as...regarded as completely misleading. ghost town a deserted town with few or no remaining...where the vein is now exhausted. the ghost walks money is available and salaries...
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Mining Towns
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History
...production and profits. Mining towns became famous for working...battles occurred in mining towns, such as the great anthracite...molded in America's mining towns. BIBLIOGRAPHY Francaviglia...Merithew See also Boomtowns ; Ghost Towns .
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