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Stafford Stafford
Stafford city (1991 pop. 60,915) and district, Staffordshire, W central England, on the Sow River, above its junction with the Trent. Stafford's chief industry is the manufacture of electrical goods; other products are concrete, shoes and shoe-repairing machinery, and salt. The county seat of... Read more
cottage cottage
cottage. 1. Small single-storey dwelling, sometimes with sleeping-quarters in the roof-space, inhabited by agricultural workers, built of cheap materials such as adobe, cob, pisé, rubble, etc., and roofed with thatch, turf, etc. During C17 many cottages were built for weavers, and some... Read more
Aran Islands Aran Islands
Aran Islands , 18 sq mi (47 sq km), Co. Galway, W Republic of Ireland, in Galway Bay. The three islands are Inishmore (the largest), Inisheer, and Inishmaan. The islands are barren; farming and fishing prevail economically, and the knitting of woolen sweaters is an important cottage industry. Gaelic... Read more
Grasmere Grasmere
Grasmere village, Cumbria, NW England, in the Lake District, near Lake Grasmere. Dove Cottage was the home of William Wordsworth from 1799 to 1808; the Wordsworth museum is also there, and the Jerwood Center is nearby. The Wordsworth family and the writer Hartley Coleridge are buried in the... Read more
Lillehammer Lillehammer
Lillehammer , town (1995 pop. 24,170), capital of Oppland co., S Norway, at the northern end of Lake Mjøsa. It is a commercial center for the fertile Gudbrandsdalen valley and is a popular summer and winter resort. Its open-air museum, Maihaugen (founded 1887), features complete farms,... Read more
Comilla Comilla
Comilla , city (1991 pop. 135,313), E Bangladesh, on the Gumti River. An administrative center on the main railroad and highway linking Chittagong with Dhaka, it is a collection point for hides and skins. It has a cottage industry in cane and bamboo basketry. Other industries include jute milling... Read more
bungalow bungalow
bungalow [Indian bangla, =house], dwelling built in a style developed from that of a form of rural house in India. The original bungalow typically has one story, few rooms, and a maximum of cross drafts, with high ceilings, unusually large window and door openings, and verandas on all sides to... Read more
Saint Elizabeth (Hungary) Saint Elizabeth (Hungary)
Saint Elizabeth 1207-31, daughter of King Andrew II of Hungary and wife of Landgrave Louis II of Thuringia. She is called St. Elizabeth of Hungary. She led a simple life, personally tended the sick and the poor, and spent long hours at prayer. After the death of her husband (1227) she saw to it... Read more
Bed and Breakfast Bed and Breakfast
Bed and Breakfast BUSINESS PLAN RED BARRON BED AND BREAKFAST 824 Springhill Dr. Los Amos, CA 77385 April 27, 1990 The Gothic-styled Red Barron Bed and Breakfast currently supports five guest suites in the main house featuring a number of amenities. ... Read more
Pieter de Molyn Pieter de Molyn
Molyn, Pieter de (or Pieter de Molijn) (bapt. London, 6 Apr. 1595; bur. Haarlem, 23 Mar. 1661). Dutch landscape painter, born in England (it is not known why his parents had moved there) and active mainly in Haarlem. With Jan van Goyen, and Salomon van Ruysdael, also active in Haarlem, he... Read more

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Colorado's Elktrout: A school for fishing
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times ...into waters. This is the kind of fishing dedicated Izaak Waltons pay thousands of dollars to find. They walk into jumbo...when one of the owners is not around - is the Owners Cottage, a beautiful two-bedroom log home that has a kitchen...

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