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Emmett Till
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Agricultural Machinery
AGRICULTURAL MACHINERY AGRICULTURAL MACHINERY. Before the late eighteenth century, farmers tilled their fields with wooden moldboard plows. In order to prevent the moldboard from wearing out quickly, plowrights or blacksmiths plated it with thin iron strips. Wooden moldboard plows could not be... Read more |
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Dry Farming
DRY FARMING Dry farming was an agricultural method that allowed crops to be cultivated on the prairie, which typically received low levels of rainfall and endured very hot summers and harsh winters. Growers who practiced dry farming cultivated some fields while allowing others to lie fallow, so... Read more |
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Recreation
RECREATION RECREATION. America's indigenous peoples enjoyed a wide array of recreational activities. Indians in the upper Midwest played lacrosse, while those living in the Spanish borderlands played versions of a Mesoamerican ball game. Native Americans throughout California chewed milkweed gum... Read more |
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Till
Till Till is the general term for any sediments that were deposited solely by glacial ice . Till is distinguished from other glacial deposits formed by forces other than ice, such as glaciofluvial (or glacial melt water ) deposits. A similar term is moraine, but it connotes more specific... Read more |
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Till Eulenspiegel
Till Eulenspiegel [Ger.,=owl-mirror, hence English Owlglass], a north German peasant clown of the 14th cent. who was immortalized in chapbooks describing his practical jokes on clerics and townsfolk. The first Till chapbook (c.1500) was probably in Saxon, but the story it told spread all over... Read more |
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John Comyn earl of Buchan
Buchan, John Comyn, earl of [S] (d. 1308). Buchan's career shows the difficulties faced by prominent Scots who wished to maintain the integrity of their country. Like the rest of his family he was a supporter of John Balliol, and hostile to the claims of Edward I. Yet he had at times to... Read more |
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Scheherazade
Scheherazade in the Arabian Nights, the daughter of the vizier of King Shahriyar, who married the king and escaped the death that was the usual fate of his wives by telling him the tales which compose that work, interrupting each one at an interesting point, and postponing the continuation till the... Read more |
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drift
drift deposit of mixed clay, gravel, sand, and boulders transported and laid down by glaciers. Stratified, or glaciofluvial, drift is carried by waters flowing from the melting ice of a glacier. The flowing water sorts the particles, generally depositing layers of coarser particles nearer the point... Read more |
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