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John McLoughlin
John McLoughlin More than any other man, John McLoughlin (1784-1857), Canadian pioneer and trader, opened Oregon to permanent settlement by proving its agricultural potential. John McLoughlin was born in Quebec of Irish and Scottish parents. He studied medicine in Quebec and Scotland,... Read more |
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Ardnacrusha
Ardnacrusha, the hydroelectric electricity generation plant constructed on the river Shannon 1925–9, was the first major public investment undertaken by the government of the Irish Free State, and a symbol of the new state's optimism in the aftermath of the Irish Civil War. The... Read more |
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Billy Sunday
Billy Sunday (William Ashley Sunday), 1863-1935, American evangelist, b. Ames, Iowa, in the era around World War I. A professional baseball player (1883-90), he later worked for the Young Men's Christian Association in Chicago (1891-95) and, during that time, became associated with the Presbyterian... Read more |
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Newry
Newry town (1991 pop. 19,246), Newry and Mourne dist., SE Northern Ireland, on the Clanrye River and the Newry Canal. It has canal connections with Carlingford Lough, the Bann River, and Lough Neagh. Newry is a seaport with linen mills, tobacco and food processing, and varied manufactures. In the... Read more |
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Hall Jackson Kelley
Hall Jackson Kelley 1790-1874, American propagandist for the settlement of Oregon, b. Northwood, N.H. A schoolmaster in Boston (1818-23) and later a railroad surveyor in Maine, he founded (1829) a society to promote American settlement in the disputed Columbia River country and wrote appeals to... Read more |
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Nathaniel Jarvis Wyeth
Nathaniel Jarvis Wyeth 1802-56, American explorer and trader in the far West, b. Cambridge, Mass. A businessman in Boston, he was fired with a desire to go to Oregon by the eloquence of Hall J. Kelley . When Kelley's plans for an expedition were long delayed, Wyeth formed one of his own and in... Read more |
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Vancouver (United States)
Vancouver city (1990 pop. 46,380), seat of Clark co., SW Wash., on the Columbia River opposite Portland , Oreg., with which it is connected by bridges; inc. 1857. A rapidly growing suburb of Portland and an important deepwater port, it has an extensive shipping industry, many lumber mills, and an... Read more |
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Charles Grandison Finney
Charles Grandison Finney 1792-1875, American evangelist, theologian, and educator, b. Warren, Conn. Licensed to the Presbyterian ministry in 1824, he had phenomenal success as a revivalist in the Eastern states, converting many who became noted abolitionists . In 1834 the Broadway Tabernacle, New... Read more |
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Treaty of Saint Germain
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Germaine Richier
Germaine Richier , 1904-59, French sculptor. She studied with Bourdelle (1925-29) and after 1940 developed a tortured awareness expressed in powerful, distorted figures. Richier's works embody a brittle tension between mass and surface that influenced numerous younger sculptors. Don Quichotte de la... Read more |
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NICHOLSON MAY NOT PLAY AGAIN Missing Albion player is fined by club
...axed reserve keeper Gary Germaine. The Scotland Under-21...past Alan Miller. Alan McLoughlin found Steve Claridge as...never gave Miller a prayer. McLoughlin grabbed the third when his...Flahavan, Pethick, Robinson, McLoughlin |
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NICHOLSON MAY NOT PLAY AGAIN; Missing Albion player is fined by club.
...axed reserve keeper Gary Germaine. The Scotland Under-21...past Alan Miller. Alan McLoughlin found Steve Claridge as...never gave Miller a prayer. McLoughlin grabbed the third when his...Flahavan, Pethick, Robinson, McLoughlin |
 "Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)")
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CAPITAL REGION ALMANAC.(CAPITAL REGION)
...vehicle, damaging the seat and a cellphone. Officer: Thomas McLoughlin. 9:06 p.m. LARCENY. A theft was reported from a store...a business on Troy-Schenectady Road. Officer: Patrick Germaine. AGGRAVATED HARASSMENT. A man, 58, of Algonquin Road... |
 "The Columbian (Vancouver, WA)")
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VITAL STATISTICS
...600, DWS/revoked. (Wulle, Feb. 17) Flentroy, Germaine T., 26, 904 S.E. 136th, $300, DWS/revoked. (Eiesland...Swanger, Feb. 25) Keller, Natalie Dawn, 31, 700 McLoughlin Blvd., No. 7, 3 days, $400, DWS/revoked. (Eiesland... |
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AMSTERDAM BREAKS CBA JINX.(SPORTS)
...Sainato had 17 saves for Amsterdam (5-0 league). Andy Germaine and Jon Crotty had two goals each for CBA (5-3, 3-1...4). Scotia 10, Glens Falls 4: Andrew Singer and Pat McLoughlin had three goals each to pace Scotia (1-5). Chris Fields... |
 "Liverpool Echo (Liverpool, England)")
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Is there a Scouse in the house; IS the next Celebrity Big Brother really...
...seemed to think she's a super-intelligent sex goddess). Germaine Greer . A little boy called Kenzie (where are the truancy...his "Oops, I've embarrassed him again" missus. Coleen McLoughlin? She looked like a TV natural on that documentary last weekend... |
 "Daily Post (Liverpool, England)")
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It's a WAG's world.(Features)
...that deep thought by Simone de Beauvoir, Gloria Steinem and Germaine Greer wasted? Is what women really want an in-depth analysis...Sartre nausea. Running the gamut from our own dear Coleen McLoughlin to the impossibly glamorous Carla Bruni, the unchanging goal... |
 "Sunday Mercury (Birmingham, England)")
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Coleen's sold out her sex for cash; HOW WOMEN HAVE KILLED OFF FEMINISM.(News)
...longer an ism - it's more of an isn'tJust look at Coleen McLoughlin. What kind of signal is she sending out? Her desperate attempts...turning into caricatures of their former indomitable selves. Germaine Greer, author of The Female Eunuch humiliated herself on... |
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