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Cincinnatus
Cincinnatus (Lucius or Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus) , fl. 5th cent. BC, Roman patriot. He was consul in 460 BC and dictator twice (458 and 439). According to tradition, in his first dictatorship he came from his farm to defeat the Aequi and Volscians, who were threatening the city from the east... Read more |
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Farms
Farming Farming, or agriculture, is the science or art of cultivating the soil, growing and harvesting crops, and the raising of animals. Beginning some 10,000 years ago, people in various places around the world began to grow plants and domesticate animals. Slowly and over ... Read more |
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Woodland
Woodland city (1990 pop. 39,802), seat of Yolo co., N central Calif., in a fertile farm area yielding tomatoes, wheat, rice, beans, vegetables, walnuts, almonds, melons, safflower, and sugar beets; inc. 1871. It is a growing manufacturing center with numerous plants for vegetables canning, rice... Read more |
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George Alexander Kelly
George Alexander Kelly 1905-1967 American psychologist best known for developing the psychology of personal constructs. George Alexander Kelly, originator of personal construct theory of personality , was born on farm near Perth Kansas. He was the only child of Elfleda Merriam Kelly and... Read more |
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Way Down East
Way Down East (1898), a play by Lottie Blair Parker, revised by Joseph R. Grismer. [Manhattan Theatre, 152 perf.] After being seduced and losing the child of that liaison, Annie Moore ( Phoebe Davies) wanders aimlessly until she finds refuge as a servant in the New England farm of Squire... Read more |
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Ellen H. Richards
Ellen H. Richards Ellen H. Richards (1842-1911), a chemist and leader in applied science, was instrumental in creating the field of home economics and in broadening opportunities for women in science education. Peter and Fanny Swallow valued a good education, and they instilled in their only... Read more |
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Montebello
Montebello , village (1991 pop. 1,022), SW Que., Canada, on the Ottawa River NE of Ottawa. It is a summer resort in a lumbering and farming area. The political leader Louis Joseph Papineau made his home there after 1854.... Read more |
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Dual-Earner Families
Dual-Earner Families The language of dual-earner families developed in research on families in industrialized societies. The term was needed to describe what was then a new family form that arose when women who had once worked inside the home, doing everything from nurturing work to family... Read more |
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Chun Doo Hwan
Chun Doo Hwan Chun Doo Hwan (born 1931), an army general turned politician, was elected to a seven-year term in 1981 as president of the Republic of Korea (South Korea). Chun Doo Hwan was born on January 18, 1931, in a remote mountainous farm village in Hapch'ongun, South Kyongsang Province.... Read more |
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