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  Borden Ladner Gervais LLP, Canadian Law Firm, patent and trademark agents
Borden Ladner Gervais LLP, Canadian Law Firm, patent and trademark agents
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  Robert Laird Borden: biography and encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Borden also introduced the first Canadian income tax (A personal tax levied on annual income), which at the time was meant to be temporary, but was never repealed.
Borden responded by pointing out that since Canada had lost more men than the U.S. in the war she at least had the right to the representation of a "minor" power.
Borden would be the last prime minister to be knighted (additional info and facts about knighted) after Parliament abolished all future titles for Canadians in 1919 by passing the Nickle Resolution (additional info and facts about Nickle Resolution).
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/R/Ro/Robert_Laird_Borden.htm   (853 words)

  
 MSN Encarta - Robert Borden
Borden led the Canadian government during the critical years of World War I (1914-1918), when Canada was coming to political and economic maturity.
Borden started a law practice in Kentville, Nova Scotia, and in 1882 was invited to join one of the largest law firms in Halifax.
Borden's first speech was an attack on the inefficiency and corruption of the civil service.
encarta.msn.com /encnet/refpages/RefArticle.aspx?refid=761577089   (709 words)

  
 Borden, Indiana - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Borden is a town located in Clark County, Indiana.
In the late 1800's the Borden Institute was founded by John Borden as a college.
Borden is served by the CSX (formally Monon) rail system.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Borden,_Indiana   (632 words)

  
 LIZZIE BORDEN
Andrew Borden himself was not much of a churchgoer or a socialite; his community activities were reserved for the many boards of directors to which he belonged.
Abby Borden was a short, shy, obese woman of 64, who had been a spinster until the age of 36, when she married the widowed Andrew Borden.
Borden was lying on the floor of the guestroom.
www.geocities.com /inhell_2000/lizzieborden.html   (3662 words)

  
 Find A Grave - Millions of Cemetery Records and Online Memorials
Borden died first at approximately 9AM from receiving 19 blows with a heavy bladed object in an upstairs bedroom to be followed by her husband who is estimated to have been killed two hours later by receiving 11 blows with a similar weapon.
Lizzie Borden’s biggest gaffes during the trial would be admitting the strained but cordial relationship she held with her stepmother (to whom she exclusively referred to as "Mrs.
Lizzie Borden is remembered most by the school yard rhyme which erroneously states: "Lizzie Borden took an ax and gave her mother forty whacks, when she saw what she had done, she gave her father forty-one".
www.findagrave.com /cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=115   (650 words)

  
 Lizzie Borden Murderabilia, Fall River, Massachusetts
Lizzie was charged with the August 4, 1892 hatchet murders of Andrew and Abbey Borden, her well-to-dad and step-mom, but acquitted.
Borden sprawled dead on behind the bed (the back of her head smashed in) and Mr.
Borden sprawled dead on the couch (his face smashed in).
www.roadsideamerica.com /attract/MAFALliz.html   (392 words)

  
 BORDEN Genealogy
Gail BORDEN, III, (1801-1874) was the son of Gail BORDEN II (1777-1863), son of Gail BORDEN I (1745-1777), son of John BORDEN (1710-1761), son of John BORDEN (1675-c.1719), son of John BORDEN (1640-1716), son of Richard BORDEN (1595/6-1671), the immigrant.
Lizzie Andrew BORDEN (1860-1927) was the daughter of Andrew J. BORDEN (1822-1892), son of Abraham B.
Thomas BORDEN, yeoman, was of the Parish of Headcorn, County Kent, England.
www.thecolefamily.com /hobby/borden.htm   (2822 words)

  
 Straight Dope Staff Report: Did Lizzie Borden kill her parents with an ax because she was discovered having a lesbian ...
Borden, a wealthy but tight-fisted businessman, refused to allow him into the house, claiming he was in fine health and would be damned if he would pay for a house call from Dr. Bowen.
Borden died with the first blow reduced the amount of blood flow, the murder scenes were much less bloody than you'd expect.
Old man Borden was going to change his will, it was said, and Lizzie would get a pittance compared to Abby Borden and her family (Lizzie was Abby's step-daughter, and Abby was much closer to her own sisters than to her step-children).
www.straightdope.com /mailbag/mlizzieborden.html   (2303 words)

  
 Borden Chemical: About Us   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Borden Chemical has a rich history of developing innovative solutions that dates back to the early 1800s and our founder, Gail Borden.
Borden died in 1874, but his milk company grew into an international dairy, food, chemicals and packaging conglomerate.
Borden, Inc. was acquired by the investment firm of Kohlberg, Kravis, Roberts and Company in 1995.
www.bordenchem.com /aboutUs/history.asp   (451 words)

  
 Lizzie Borden
The truth is the Borden's only received 29 whacks, and the public is still fascinated with the 1893 murder case trial of lizzie Borden.
Police came to the conclusion that the murders must have been committed by someone within the Borden home, but there was a lack of blood anywhere except on the bodies of the victims and their inability to uncover any obvious murder weapon.
Borden were reported to have been, the attacker and the rooms the bodies were found in would be covered in blood.
www.angelfire.com /sc3/cjrp/lizzie.html   (643 words)

  
 FindLaw for Legal Professionals - Case Law, Federal and State Resources, Forms, and Code
Borden's extra expenses in connection with its own milk are more relevant to the cost justification issue than to the question we have before us.
Borden packs its private label brands for national distribution, so that this case is essentially different from those in which geographical price discriminations are involved.
A witness for Borden testified that the principal dangers of long storage were discoloration of the milk, precipitation of calcium and other minerals, and separation and hardening of fat from the milk.
caselaw.lp.findlaw.com /scripts/getcase.pl?navby=case&court=us&vol=383&page=637   (7285 words)

  
 Handbook of Texas Online: BORDEN COUNTY
In 1900, there were 129 ranches and farms in Borden County, and the population had increased to 776.
Cotton farming in 1910 comprised 2,206 acres, and in 1920, 3,820 acres; by 1929 more than 20,000 acres of county land was planted in cotton, while only 28,000 acres of cropland was harvested in the entire county.
The discovery of considerable oilfields in 1949 did not arrest the decline of Borden County population, although it did provide fortunate ranchers and farmers with another source of income.
www.tsha.utexas.edu /handbook/online/articles/view/BB/hcb9.html   (918 words)

  
 Handbook of Texas Online: BORDEN, TX
Borden is between Interstate Highway 10/U.S. Highway 90 and the Southern Pacific Railroad, four miles northeast of Weimar in southwestern Colorado County.
Borden also built a school for white children and a freedmen's' school for fl children.
Although the processing plant operated for several years after Gail Borden's death in 1874, the higher rates charged by the railroad for shipping processed meat instead of live cattle ultimately forced the plant to close.
www.tsha.utexas.edu /handbook/online/articles/view/BB/hrb46.html   (520 words)

  
 Gail Borden, Jr.
Borden applied for a patent on his most important invention in 1853.
Borden opened two factories in Connecticut to produce his condensed milk but failed at both.
Borden created jobs for people in Bastrop, Texas, by opening a sawmill and a copperware factory there.
www.harcourtschool.com /activity/biographies/borden   (428 words)

  
 Madera Method - Dr. Joseph Borden; Transplanted Pioneer   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Visitors to this beautifully kept cemetery are reminded that at this spot lie the remains of Doctor Joseph Borden, who was born in Carteret County, North Carolina, on June 5, 1806, and departed this life on April 9, 1875.
For, as any school child can tell you, the town of Borden was named for this physician who, as a member of the Alabama Colony, settled the area in 1868.
To be sure, the community was well acquainted with his descendants, but the man whose name gave the area definition was always a bit mysterious--until Gwynn Harris and her fifth grade class at Sierra View School (Chawanakee School District) conducted a year-long search into the life of one of Madera County's most significant pioneers.
sunsite.berkeley.edu /MaderaMethod/portrait_valley10.html   (908 words)

  
 Lizzy Borden
Borden, Lizzie (1860-1927), accused murderer, who allegedly killed her father and stepmother with an ax in Fall River, Massachusetts, in 1892.
When Lizzie was two years old, her mother died; her father's second marriage a few years later supposedly caused dissension within the family over matters of inheritance and because of the lower social status of his new wife's family.
In addition to the rhyme, the Lizzie Borden story has been made into an opera and a ballet, and is the subject of numerous books.
www.fortunecity.com /roswell/bailey/65/borden.html   (288 words)

  
 glbtq >> arts >> Borden, Lizzie
Bisexual filmmaker Lizzie Borden gained fame in the mid-1980s among gay audiences and fans of independent movies for her visionary films about the unexplored politics of women's lives.
Borden was born on February 3, 1958, the daughter of a Detroit stockbroker.
Borden herself was not happy with the film and felt the need to move out of Hollywood again to gain more control of her work.
www.glbtq.com /arts/borden_l.html   (712 words)

  
 Borden Group
Borden in Clark County, Ind., which was the site of the Borden Institute that W. Borden founded, was formerly called New Providence and is unique in that the same town serves as the source of the names for the Borden Group and for one of its formations, the New Providence Shale.
The Borden Group rests on the Rockford Limestone or, where that is absent, on the New Albany Shale.
The Borden is overlain with apparent disconformity by the Ramp Creek Formation and the laterally equivalent Muldraugh Formation.
igs.indiana.edu /geology/structure/compendium/html/comp5z8k.cfm   (895 words)

  
 HistoryBuff.com -- The Borden Murders
Andrew Borden was hacked to death with an axe.
They were Brigitte Sullivan, the Borden's maid, Lizzie Borden, the daughter of Andrew Borden and step-daughter of Abby Borden, John Morse, Andrew Borden's brother-in-law by his previous marriage, and an unknown vagrant who may or may not have been seen in the vicinity of the Borden house on the morning of the murders.
In the end Lizzie Borden was legally acquitted but still lived out her life in Fall River with public opinion convicted of her guilt.
www.historybuff.com /library/refborden.html   (923 words)

  
 Victor M. H. Borden CV
Borden's primary research interests are in the areas of student progress and performance, enrollment management, and institutional and program performance indicators.
Borden is an active contributor to several professional associations, most notably, the Association for Institutional Research, of which he is a Past President.
Borden, V. Chalmers, D. Olssen, M and Scott, I. (2003) International perspective on brokerage in higher education, In N. Jackson (ed) Engaging and changing higher education through brokerage.
www.imir.iupui.edu /imir/vborden.html   (7053 words)

  
 Gail Borden, Jr. (1801-1871)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
With Joseph Baker and his brother Thomas as partners, Borden launched the Telegraph and Texas Register, a newspaper that would serve as the voice of the government of the Republic of Texas after the revolution.
Borden, however, sold his interest in the paper in June of 1837.
It was Borden's inventions that resulted in his greatest failures, and ultimately in his greatest achievement.
www.lsjunction.com /people/borden.htm   (449 words)

  
 Borden Chemical   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Borden Chemical can give no assurance that the information contained on the Borden Chemical web site or any of its linked sites is current, accurate or complete.
Borden Chemical shall not be liable for damages of any kind arising out of your access or inability to access the Borden Chemical web site or your reliance on the information in Borden Chemical web site.
Borden Chemical, Inc. ("BCI") shall not be responsible for the use of any information, recommendations, products, methods or apparatus set forth in the Site.
www.bordenchem.com /legalNotices.asp   (1763 words)

  
 Headcorn Church in County Kent, England
Apparently, Bordens have been attending the church for the last 600 years; however, the last member of the family died a few years ago.
The plaque reads: "In the memory of William Borden of this parish who died 1531 and was buried in this chapel between his wives, Joan and Thomasine, this brass was placed here AD 1904 by Mrs.
Leslie and he agreed to send me a packet of Borden information to the U.S. I sent him a 5 pound note for his expenses and the information was waiting for me when we returned home last week.
www.thecolefamily.com /hobby/headcorn.htm   (548 words)

  
 Albany GateWAy - Town\Borden
Borden is a small rural community with a population of approximately 300 people made up of mostly farming families
The Borden Hall was opened in 1927 and was built with the help of community contributions.
With the building of the new pavilion the Borden Hall will now be revamped to combine local businesses and visiting proffesionals and will open in the spring with the new title of Magpie Manor.
www.albanygateway.com.au /Town/Borden   (829 words)

  
 Borden Drops Elsie The Cow Mascot   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
After losing $1.6 billion between 1992 and 1994, Borden was acquired in 1995 by the New York investment firm Kohlberg, Kravis, Roberts & Co., which began reorganizing and selling Borden businesses.
Borden's work force at its Columbus headquarters has dwindled from 1,800 employees to 150.
Morrison said he is evaluating all of Borden Chemical's operations and hopes to expand the company's presence overseas.
www.wcpo.com /news/2002/local/08/27/borden.html   (367 words)

  
 BORDEN History
Borden imparted to me the great secret of his school of medicine as he understood it.
Gail Borden was a member of an 1833 Texas delegation to Mexico that advocated defending their rights by force of arms if Mexico did not right their grievances.
Samuel May Williams was hired by Austin in 1823, and performed a prodigious amount of work as secretary, title clerk and agent for Austin, and ultimately was his partner in the final colony contract.
www.geocities.com /MotorCity/1949/borden1.htm   (1185 words)

  
 UNSOLVED MYSTERIES on LIFETIME TV
Lizzie Borden murdered her stepmother and father in the family's home in Fall River, Massachusetts.
Abby Borden's body was found between the bed and bureau, in the guest room.
He was found laying with his head on the sofa arm, next to the door, in the downstairs sitting room.
www.unsolved.com /0115-BordenHouse.html   (406 words)

  
 Gail Borden - Civil War   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
In the process that Borden developed, milk was evaporated in a vacuum over low heat to remove much of its water content.
The New York Condensed Milk Company (later renamed the Borden Company) became truly profitable during the war when the Union Army purchased all the condensed milk Borden could produce.
Borden also experimented with the preservation of meat, and he commercially produced a dried meat biscuit similar to the pemmican prepared by Native Americans.
americanrevwar.homestead.com /files/civwar/borden.html   (325 words)

  
 Lizzie Borden: Did she really kill her father & stepmother? - The Crime Library - The Crime library
Borden had been slain by the use of some sharp and terrible instrument, inflicting upon her head eighteen blows, thirteen of them crushing through the skull; and below stairs, lying upon the sofa, was Mr.
Borden's dead and mutilated body, with eleven strokes upon the head, four of them crushing the skull."
The Lizzie Borden case has mystified and fascinated those interested in crime for over one hundred years.
www.crimelibrary.com /notorious_murders/famous/borden/index_1.html   (809 words)

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