Word: josiah
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Grinch Army Faction will make its first appearance this Friday at a Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) lecture on anarchism, Fucella said. He added that the group will sing two "dis-Christmas carols" before the speech, entitled "Josiah Warren--The First American Anarchist...
...grade schoolers all across the country, the sky has begun to poke its way into the classroom. At Boston's Josiah Quincy School, Pat Keohane's first- graders play an animated game of hangman, filling in seven blanks that form the word cumulus. In Pittsburgh local Meteorologist Brian Sussman creates mini-planetariums for fifth-graders by piercing the shape of the Big Dipper on the bottom of plastic cups. In a fifth-grade classroom at the Hillside School in Needham, Mass., students think up celestial similes: trees become the "roots of the sky"; sunlight is "butter pouring through a hole...
With the dean's wife, Valerie, and sons Josiah and Caleb, looking on, Gov. Michael S. Dukakis swore Epps in at a private ceremony at the State House...
...family line led to the plantation. She was able to make the connection when she discovered a bill of sale in the Chowan County courthouse showing that her earliest known antecedent, Elsy Littlejohn, born in 1796, and eight children were sold by the Littlejohn plantation in Edenton to Josiah Collins, owner of Somerset. In the North Carolina state archives, she found a private collection of some 2,000 pages of letters, slave inventories, bills and memorandums from the Somerset plantation. How did the breakthroughs feel? Says Redford: "With the past opening up, you feel more complete, you feel whole...
When Charles Rowe, now 61, and Josiah, 58, inherited the paper from their father in 1949, only 55,000 people lived in Fredericksburg and four neighboring counties. The Star had six editorial employees, type was set by hand, and circulation fell shy of 6,500. Today the population is 134,800 and Spotsylvania is one of the fastest-growing counties in Virginia. Meanwhile, the Star has entered the high-tech age, with 23 computer terminals in the cramped newsroom and an offset printing press next door...