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Davis
Davis city (1990 pop. 46,209), Yolo co., central Calif.; settled in the 1850s, inc. 1917. It is an education center with light industry; machinery, processed foods, and computer equipment are produced. The extensive Univ. of California at Davis, which has a major agricultural research center as... Read more |
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Edmund Duncan Montgomery
MONTGOMERY, EDMUND DUNCAN(1835–1911) Edmund Duncan Montgomery, a Scottish-American philosopher, anticipated in his "philosophy of vital organization" ideas of emergent evolution, the energetic nature of matter, and the pragmatic functioning of knowledge. Born in Edinburgh, he studied... Read more |
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Communications
Communications. From the Revolutionary War to the present, the American military has used communications in order to command and control its forces and other assets, but the technology has changed dramatically. Methods employed during the nation's war for independence (messengers, signal lights, and... Read more |
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harvest
harvest in Ireland during at least the last three centuries has gone on throughout the summer, depending on the crop grown and the seasonal weather. Potatoes, hay, and flax could be harvested during July, while cereal crops were commonly reaped or mown during August and September.Harvest techniques... Read more |
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Frederick Law Olmsted
Frederick Law Olmsted 1822-1903, American landscape architect and writer, b. Hartford, Conn. Although his Walks and Talks of an American Farmer in England had appeared in 1852, Olmsted first attained fame for journalistic accounts of his travels in the American South during the early 1850s. In... Read more |
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American Protective Association
AMERICAN PROTECTIVE ASSOCIATION AMERICAN PROTECTIVE ASSOCIATION (APA), founded at Clinton, Iowa, in 1887 by attorney Henry F. Bowers, represented anti-Catholic and anticapitalist sentiments during the 1890s. The APA movement grew slowly until the economic unrest of the panic of 1893 fueled its... Read more |
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American Party
KNOW-NOTHING PARTY The Know-Nothing movement was actually a group of secret anti-Catholic, anti-Jewish and anti-immigrant political organizations that called itself the American party. The movement, comprised principally of native-born, white, Anglo-Saxon males, came into being in the 1850s, grew... Read more |
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William Winter
William Winter 1836-1917, American drama critic, biographer, and poet, b. Gloucester, Mass., grad. Harvard Law School, 1857. A member of the literary bohemians who met in Pfaff's Cellar in New York City in the 1850s, he summed up his memories of them—Bayard Taylor, Walt Whitman, and... Read more |
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San Juan Islands
SAN JUAN ISLANDS SAN JUAN ISLANDS. Approximately 172 islands make up the San Juan Islands, located eighty miles from Seattle in the northern reaches of Puget Sound. Together, they comprise San Juan County, one of the smallest but fastest-growing counties in Washington State. The islands cover 175... Read more |
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gang
gang group of people organized for a common purpose, often criminal. Gangs of criminals were long known on the American frontier and also flourished in urban settings. Notorious were the outlaws led by Jesse James and his brother, the Sydney Ducks of San Francisco (active in the 1850s), and the... Read more |
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Historic furniture highlights sales
A pair of long-neglected Chinese landscape paintings could...to the future of American furniture making...during the mid 1850s, Limbert set up...furniture, including a pair of garden benches...pair of Chinese ... |
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A BREATHTAKING TRAIN RIDE TO ARGENTINA'S PAMPAS IN THE CLOUDS.(Getaways)
...taking off as the landscape stretches out behind...Argentine in the mid-1850s to exploit the vast...rises on past a landscape of saguaro-like...snapshot out of the American southwest, 10 feet...backward up a second pair of tracks. ... |
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Local artwork will be highlighted at upcoming sales
...mostly realistic landscape view of a doorway...British-born American painter John Brown...Brooklyn in the 1850s, Brown specialized...also created a few landscape paintings, such as the "Autumn Landscape" on sale here...Egyptologists, a ... |
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Tasting Notes: Wines of the Wild West.(Lifestyle)
...Washington state's 10th American Viticultural Area...Sunnyside in the 1850s, namely cattle rancher...Floods, a rustic landscape that could be the...other shellfish. Pairs with: Totten Inlet...of sweet spice. Pairs with: Chicken thighs...of ... |
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Of gardens past Vintage pieces charm today's collectors.(Home & Garden)
...spotted the unusual pair of life-size metal...We saw another pair for $18,000 at...Kavanaugh's stock is American. Since money also...A semi-circular 1850s English bench is...Two Centuries of American Taste." The book...said Israel. ... |
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Chinese design, American style
...cabinetry from the 1850s that somehow manages...1stdibs find was a pair of 19th century Chinese...contemporary (even American) designers are using...featuring detailed landscapes, flowers and birds...1714 N. Damen. Pair of Chinese 19th ... |
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A show-stopping tour of the old New World; A collector loved American Indian...
...of the Native Americans," a fabulous...exotica as a pair of ivory goggles...bonnet from the 1850s decorated with...Convinced that American Indian art was...the American landscape. Ethnographers...side ... |
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The Arts: Marriages of wealth and taste A passion for French painting - from...
...style. And the pair of boots will not...have been for early American collectors of European...Baltimore from the 1850s onwards. Most of...rebuilder of the American railroads, found...Raphael to enter an American collection, for...the ... |
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NYC day trip puts fashion in spotlight.(Travel-Books)
...visits to both great American authors' homes...architecture and landscape, The Mount, located...guests as the great American author and her good...niece, renowned landscape designer Beatrix...into life in the 1850s, see how ... |
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Changing Portraits of the Empire City
...Her clothes are American, also from the...French ally of the American revolutionaries...York City to make a pair of silver vases...British craftsmen. Landscape painters were called...But, here, the American scenery appeared...history. By the ... |
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