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The Proctor tannery employed "several hundred" at wages between 50 cents and $1.75 a day, the employees living in one hundred twenty company houses, each renting for $2 a month. [ 6 ] [ 35 ] [ 44 ] Hemlock bark, used in the tanning process, was hauled to the tannery from up to 8 miles (13 km) away in both summer and winter, using wagons and sleds.
A group of cowboys round up a heard of horses. After getting the job done, they all relax and enjoy a can of Lone Star Beer. Pabst Blue Ribbon "Highwheelers" A group of men ride on vintage high wheel bicycles through a park. The narrator connects this to the old-time taste of Pabst Blue Ribbon beer. Car Ford "What You Want"
Images on pottery show that chariot racing existed in thirteenth century BC Mycenaean Greece. [a] The first literary reference to a chariot race is in Homer's poetic account of the funeral games for Patroclus, in the Iliad, combining practices from the author's own time (c. 8th century) with accounts based on a legendary past.
The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) has designated more than 1,000 statistical areas for the United States and Puerto Rico. [2] These statistical areas are important geographic delineations of population clusters used by the OMB, the United States Census Bureau, planning organizations, and federal, state, and local government entities.
The Milky Way may contain ten billion white dwarfs, a billion neutron stars, and a hundred million stellar black holes. [ f ] [ 154 ] [ 155 ] Filling the space between the stars is a disk of gas and dust called the interstellar medium .
In 1840, one hundred of those residents who did not have passports were arrested, leading to the Graham Affair, which was resolved in part with the intercession of Royal Navy officials. [52] John Marsh was the first doctor in California. His letters prompted the first wagon train to California (the Bartleson-Bidwell Party), which came to his ranch.
After the Conquest the Manors of Hampton and Isleworth (comprising the hundred of Hounslow) were granted to Walter of Saint-Valéry, from whose home town in Flanders, Saint Valery-sur-Somme, William had sailed in 1066. [h] [25] Walter probably never resided in Middlesex, and he and his heirs were active participants in the First and Second ...
The nearest part of Continental Europe is mainland Norway, about 970 km (525 nmi) away, while mainland North America is 2,070 km (1,120 nmi) away, at the northern tip of Labrador. Three typical Icelandic landscapes. Iceland is the world's 18th-largest island, and Europe's second-largest island after Great Britain and before Ireland.