Word: 17th
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...does not consider controversial legislation. It does not make Crimson headlines. But in the shadows of some of the UC's more attention-grabbing actions. the 17th Council's Finance Committee has spent the spring term of 1999 quietly distributing its share of the student term bill fees to student groups. Thus far, the council has considered 63 applications for regular semester and spring-fall year-long grants, 15 project-based grant applications in the March round, and will shortly consider another 16 project-based grant applications in the April Round. The Finance Committee has recommended $22,893.64 for regular...
Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Philip Levine reads from his 17th collection of poetry tonight, this one centering on the blue collar worker in Detroit factories. Sackler Museum Lecture Hall. 8 p.m. FREE...
...amounts of data, are ideal. Remember that for each generation back, the number of parents doubles; by the time you hit 20 generations, it's up to more than a million. In two decades, genealogolist Cyr has collected data on 88,000 relatives and in-laws--going back to 17th century France--and stored the information on his desktop, using Family Tree Maker software (see box, next page...
...listing everyone in the family by name, age, occupation and place of birth. Starting with 1900, one can find out the year of immigration, whether English was spoken and whether a home was owned or rented. Robert Stokes, a retired Dallas high school principal, has traced his family from 17th century Maryland through Virginia, the Carolinas, Georgia and Mississippi to Texas. "It is such a thrill when you find a census about an old relative that shows he owned 26 pigs and a wagon," he says. "Then you have to go to the next census to see how he made...
...would argue that in 1999 there is probably more regular religious action going on than at any point since the 17th century...