Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
In 1926, 1,471 Jews lived in the city, making up 15.5% of the city’s population, including 980 Mountain Jews. [1] In 1932, the Mountain-Jewish collective farm (Russian: Новый быт) - "New Life" was created in the Buynaksk District with 170 people. [4] In 1939, only 196 Jews lived in the city. [4]
SOCM's focus later grew beyond the Cumberland Plateau and Cumberland Mountains regions, to include all of Tennessee. In 2008, SOCM changed its name from Save Our Cumberland Mountains to Statewide Organizing for Community eMpowerment to reflect its growing work in social, economic, and environmental justice .
Gate Hill Cooperative was founded in 1953 by former Black Mountain College (BMC) students Paul and Vera Williams.Its inspiration came from playwright and critic Paul Goodman's publication Communitas: Means of Livelihood and Ways of Life and his teaching when he served as faculty at the BMC Summer Institute of 1950.
At the time, West Asheville—a community across the French Broad River from downtown—was still a sleepy neighborhood, home to the odd vacuum cleaner repair shop or diner, but with no real scene.
This list is from the Database of British and Irish Hills ("DoBIH") in October 2018, and are peaks the DoBIH marks as being Wainwrights ("W"). [b] [13] DoBIH also updates the measurements as surveys are recorded, so these tables should not be amended unless the entire DoBIH data is re-downloaded; these measurements may differ slightly from the "By Book" section, which are from older sources.
The Mountain Jewish community of Nalchik was the largest Mountain Jewish community occupied by Nazis, [31] and the vast majority of the population has survived. With the help of their Kabardian neighbors, Mountain Jews of Nalchik convinced the local German authorities that they were Tats , the native people similar to other Caucasus Mountain ...
The indigenous peoples of the Cordillera in northern Luzon, Philippines, often referred to by the exonym Igorot people, [2] or more recently, as the Cordilleran peoples, [2] are an ethnic group composed of nine main ethnolinguistic groups whose domains are in the Cordillera Mountain Range, altogether numbering about 1.8 million people in the early 21st century.
The opposition illustrated the challenges in getting residents to recognize the collective importance of measures such as putting fire-resistant siding on a house or clearing out nearby vegetation.