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mesa (geology)
MESA MESA, a flat-topped area of land with bluffy walls, sometimes hundreds of feet high, that stands above eroded terrain. A mesa may comprise an acre or a thousand acres. This geological formation is characteristic of the southwestern United States. Acoma, New Mexico, the "city in the sky, " is... Read more |
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siege of Acre
Acre, siege of, 1189–91. The siege and capture of Acre during the Third Crusade was a great event. Acre was the largest port and chief town of the kingdom of Jerusalem and the siege commenced in 1189. Richard I joined the besiegers in June 1191, bringing heavy siege-engines. Despite efforts... Read more |
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acre
acre measure of land area used in the English units of measurement . The acre was originally the area a yoke of oxen could plow in a day and therefore differed in size from one locality to another. It is now fixed as 10 square chains or 160 square rods, i.e., 4,840 sq yd, 43,560 sq ft, or 1/640 sq... Read more |
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defence of Acre
Acre, defence of, 1799. Bonaparte, in Egypt, advanced into Syria to menace the Turks, then in alliance with Britain. Sir Sidney Smith flung troops and guns into the fort of Acre, which resisted the French for two months. Bonaparte attempted to represent the rebuff as a great victory, explaining... Read more |
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Morris Birkbeck
Morris Birkbeck 1764-1825, English pioneer in the United States. One of the most advanced agriculturists in England, he had a huge farm in Surrey. In 1817 he emigrated to the United States. He and another English traveler, George Flower, sought to create a settlement in Illinois. The two quarreled,... Read more |
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Rio Branco
Rio Branco city (1996 pop. 228,907), capital of Acre state, NW Brazil, on the Acre River. Rubber and Brazil nuts are its chief products; there is also some farming. Rio Branco has air connections with the major cities of Brazil, but river travel is still an important means of transportation. Rio... Read more |
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Andersonville
Andersonville village (1990 pop. 277), SW Ga., near Americus; inc. 1881. In Andersonville Prison, officially known as Camp Sumter, tens of thousands of Union soldiers were confined during the Civil War under conditions so bad that nearly 13,000 soldiers died. Its location is part of ... Read more |
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Onondaga
ONONDAGA ONONDAGA, a reservation of 7,300 acres just south of Syracuse, New York, is both the geographic and the political center of the Iroquois Confederacy in New York State. The community is also the religious center of the Gaiwiio, the traditional religion of the Iroquois founded in... Read more |
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Kew Gardens
Kew Gardens , Kew, Surrey, S England, on the Thames just W of London; Royal Botanic Gardens is the official name. The gardens were founded by the dowager princess of Wales in 1761 and consisted of about 9 acres (3.6 hectares). In 1841 they were presented to the nation as a royal gift. They now cover... Read more |
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wilderness
wilderness land retaining its primeval character with the imprint of humans minimal or unnoticeable. In the United States, the Wilderness Act of 1964 established the National Wilderness Preservation System with a nucleus of 9 million acres (3.6 million hectares) of land in 54 different areas,... Read more |
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Ford, Henry
...the day‐to‐day operations at his company's massive River Rouge plant, and lived reclusely on his two‐thousand‐acre Dearborn estate, Fairlane, where he pursued various pet projects and philanthropies, including Detroit's Henry... |
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Parks, Urban
...large (three hundred or more acres) and so arranged that a strolling or...landscape plan for the 778‐acre park in 1858. (It was soon expanded to 843 acres.) Their design of open meadows...size from several to several thousand acres, were ... |
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New York City
...purchased Manhattan Island (fifteen thousand acres) from local Indians, probably Carnarsies...the population stood at three thousand, and trade in furs and flour was thriving...The population grew from sixty thousand in 1800 to nearly one million... |
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Valley Forge
...until June 1778, the army camped on approximately two thousand acres bounded by the Schuykill River, Valley Creek, and a natural ridge. Approximately twelve thousand men lived in huts, and an outer and inner line of defensive... |
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Mount Vernon
...tobacco plantation, from his half‐brother Lawrence in 1761, George Washington gradually enlarged it to eight thousand acres and diversified its economy with grain cultivation, a grist mill, a fishery, and a ferry.The Revolutionary War... |
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Smiley, Jane
Smiley, Jane (1951– ) American novelist, born in Los Angeles, best known for her novel A Thousand Acres (1992, Pulitzer Prize). In this grim retelling of the King Lear story, set like much of Smiley's work in the American Midwest... |
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Morrill Land Grant Act
...secession and was signed into law by President Abraham Lincoln.The Morrill Act entitled each state to a grant of thirty thousand acres of federal land for each member of Congress. Funds from the sale of these lands were to be used as a permanent endowment... |
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Northwest Ordinance
...mile‐square (640 acre) “sections” to be auctioned off for a dollar an acre. One section in each township...male population reached five thousand, an elected assembly and...population reached sixty thousand free inhabitants, the residents... |
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Freedmen's Bureau
...supposed to parcel out abandoned and confiscated lands in forty‐acre plots to freedmen, but President Andrew Johnson, a staunch...work with northern philanthropic groups to establish some three thousand freedpeople's schools by 1869. Congress renewed the Bureau... |
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Euclid v. Ambler Realty Co.
...regulation. In 1922, Euclid was a community of fewer than ten thousand citizens located in the Cleveland metropolitan area and in the path...Euclid. It apparently was holding this sixty‐eight‐acre parcel for investment, planning to sell it for industrial development... |
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thousand
...to the product of a hundred and ten; 1,000: a thousand meters two thousand acres thousands have been killed. (Roman numeral: m, M) ∎ (thousands) the numbers from one thousand to 9,999: the cost of repairs could be in the... |
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Horseshoe Bend, Battle of
...entered the Creek civil war under Gen. Andrew Jackson. Five thousand American troops attacked the Red Stick at Tohopeka, near...accepted the Treaty of Fort Jackson, which ceded 22 million acres of Creek land to the U.S. government. |
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Former IBM Employee Takes on Thousand-Acre Ranch Near Oakwood, Texas.
...22--BEAUMONT, Texas--Wesley Ratcliff bought a thousand-acre cattle ranch in Oakwood, southwest of Palestine, last...500 pounds apiece. I'm looking for a couple of thousand apiece for them. With the track record of this sale... |
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'A THOUSAND ACRES' RICH IN THEMES.(Show)
Byline: Linnea Lannon "A Thousand Acres." By Jane Smiley. Alfred A...markers in the landscape of "A Thousand Acres" - death, blinding, betrayal...stop you from the journey. "A Thousand Acres" is a marvelous and moving... |
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`A THOUSAND ACRES' IS TOO MUCH ADAPTATION OF SMILEY NOVEL OVERGROWN WITH...
...Rocky Mountain News Film Critic A Thousand Acres Grade C+ Rose Cook Lewis, Michelle...re not all that bad. Consider A Thousand Acres, the grim, overstuffed...for the present. In short, A Thousand Acres is no Hee-Haw episode ... |
 "The Cincinnati Post (Cincinnati, OH)")
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'THOUSAND ACRES' WALLOWS IN DYSFUNCTION.(LIVING)
...writer You would think that ''A Thousand Acres'' would be the kind of movie...novel. But, sadly, these ''Thousand Acres'' yield so many dysfunctions...too. The Cook family has had a thousand acres of prime farmland in the... |
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`Thousand Acres' is teary soap opera.(VARIETY)(Review)
...The soap operatic drama "A Thousand Acres" follows the same pattern...his kingdom - a 1,000-acre farm - among his three daugthers...instead of sympathetic. "A Thousand Acres" gets buried under a thousand tears. 1/3 A ... |
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TWO THOUSAND ACRES.. BYE BYE; EXCLUSIVE Kaye quits hit Scottish island TV...
...sensationally quit hit BBC drama Two Thousand Acres of Sky - casting a cloud over the...deteriorated in the isolation of the Two Thousand Acres film set. Despite playing...romance blossomed on the set of Two Thousand Acres ... |
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Incest in a thousand acres: Cheap trick or feminist re-vision?
...the Pulitzer Prize-winning A Thousand Acres,2 Jane Smiley rewrites King Lear3...describing her composition of A Thousand Acres, Smiley explains that in...6 As Smiley points out, A Thousand Acres is "a response to the play... |
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`Thousand Acres': Fallow Melodrama
...JANE SMILEY'S "A Thousand Acres" would become a movie...father, whose 1,000-acre farm -- and its inheritance...millions of admirers. "A Thousand Acres"-the-movie, which...Hundred Acres." A THOUSAND ... |
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MICHELLE PFEIFFER IN "A THOUSAND ACRES"
...a new movie called "A Thousand Acres," which was first a best...leaves his 1,000- acre farm to them. (clip from "A Thousand Acres") JASON ROBARDS, Jr...Jane Smiley book, "A Thousand Acres," I thought, This... |
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'A Thousand Acres' rivalry on the farm.(Time Out)
...Gire Daily Herald Film Critic "A Thousand Acres" * * Written by Laura Jones...Touchstone Pictures reportedly took "A Thousand Acres" away from director Jocelyn...the annoying narrator of "A Thousand Acres," a drama based on ... |
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