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  Chester - HighBeam Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Chester has a long military history, and it was a significant port for centuries.
Chester served the English crown as a defensive bastion and was used as a base for operations against Wales from 1275 to 1284.
Its role as a port peaked from c.1350 to 1450; silting and the rise of Liverpool contributed to the decline of port trade by the late 18th cent.
www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-chestere1ng.html   (410 words)

  
 Lee Greenwood - Music Downloads - Online
Greenwood was initially reluctant to record, but he eventually travelled to Nashville, where he recorded a set of demos.
Greenwood's initial success was helped enormously by the similarity between his husky voice -- toughened up by years of working in smoky casinos -- and that of Kenny Rogers.
None of Greenwood's music was close to pure country -- it was adult contemporary country-pop, in the vein of Rogers.
musicstore.connect.com /artist/100/111/2/1001112.html   (860 words)

  
 Beautiful Warm Ear Muffs For Winter's Chill   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
According to The Wall Street Journal, "Chester Greenwood’s ears were so sensitive that they turned chalky white, beet red, and deep blue (in that order) when the mercury dipped." Talk to the Greenwood descendants and the facts of the matter are different.
Chesters ears itched fiercely at the touch of wool, so the everyday muffler most kids wrapped about their heads was out of the question.
To shield his ears, Chester decided on a combination of beaver fur on the outside and fl velvet for the surface against the ear.
www.glacierwear.com /ear-muffs.htm   (897 words)

  
 thinkingland : faith+raw materials = creativity
Earmuff enthusiasts and Greenwood family members come from all parts of the country to celebrate the earwarming invention of Chester Greenwood (and the yearly Greenwood family reunion).
Greenwood's invention (here's one going on ebay) was born in March of 1873.
Chester used his brain to alleviate his frustration instead of letting the emotion limit his activity.
www.thinkingland.com /2001_12_02_archive.html   (500 words)

  
 Inventor of the Week: Archive
Maine native and lifelong inventor Chester Greenwood helped to alleviate one of the most persistent of discomforts associated with brutal winter weather with his invention of earmuffs in 1873.
Before Greenwood's patent had come through, he had already been testing various versions of his ear mufflers around town and it wasn't long before local men, women and children began latching onto the idea and trying to make their own pairs of earmuffs at home.
Greenwood, meanwhile, continued to innovate, acquiring more than 100 patents over the course of his lifetime including U.S. patent No. 2,066,036 issued in 1936 for the invention of the steel-tooth rake.
web.mit.edu /invent/iow/greenwood.html   (535 words)

  
 Farmington folly
Chester Greenwood is portrayed by Clyde Ross of Farmington.
Greenwood patented about a hundred inventions, from a smarter mousetrap to self-priming spark plugs, from a spring-tooth steel rake to a kettle with a wide bottom.
Greenwood great-grandson George Greenwood, of Veazie, paused while settling in among 14 cousins, grandchildren and other relatives on the family float before the start of the parade.
morningsentinel.mainetoday.com /news/local/2206402.shtml   (754 words)

  
 Maine Secretary of State Kid's Page - Famous People
Chester Greenwood also invented the wide bottom kettle, spring steel rake, shock absorber that is an ancestor to today's airplane-landing gear, a new type of spark plug, a simple donut hook, a folding bed, and bearings to keep wheels from wrenching off.
Greenwood was 15 when he designed his first pair of ear protectors out of wire, beaver fur and cloth.
By age 28 Chester Greenwood and Company factory was producing and shipping Champion Ear Protectors worldwide.
www.state.me.us /sos/kids/allabout/people/c_greenwood.htm   (148 words)

  
 The Weather Doctor Almanac 2002
Chester was unable to wear the conventional headscarf most kids wrapped about their ears; his ears itched fiercely under the touch of wool.
The Act reads: "December 21st of each year shall be designated as Chester Greenwood Day and the Governor shall annually issue a proclamation inviting and urging the people of the State of Maine to observe this day in suitable places with appropriate ceremony and activity.
Chester Greenwood Day is also celebrated on the first Saturday in December, (the 7th in 2002), in Farmington, Maine.
www.islandnet.com /~see/weather/almanac/arc2002/alm02dec.htm   (2399 words)

  
 The Critical Response to Chester Himes — www.greenwood.com
Silet made a wise selection of the best critiques, analyses, and reviews....Since Himes's work has been adapted for motion pictures, thereby making the author a focal point of contemporary interest, this is a necessary and useful book for students and scholars who want to look at the large body of work by this prolific author.
Charles L. Silet's The Critical Response to Chester Himes is a valuable one--volume reference to which the beginning Himes scholar can turn in order to see...the effect Himes's writing has had on critics and creative writers, fl and white, American and European, for more than 50 years.
The Chester Himes Mystique by Gwendoline Lewis Roget
www.greenwood.com /catalog/GR9941.aspx   (600 words)

  
 On January 24
I investigated Columbia, SC to the Southeast of Clinton, Chester to the Northeast, and Greenwood to the Southwest.
Greenwood is approximately 26 miles from Clinton (www.encarta.com).
Greenwood reported 4 inches of snow, and Chester reported a snow total of 8 inches.
www.personal.psu.edu /students/a/c/acm194/forensics.htm   (806 words)

  
 Book Lee Greenwood - Booking Corporate Event, Meeting, Private Party - Your Booking Agent for Lee Greenwood
Lee Greenwood was initially reluctant to record, but he eventually travelled to Nashville, where he recorded a set of demos.
None of Lee Greenwood's music was close to pure country -- it was adult contemporary country-pop, in the vein of Rogers.
Unlike Rogers, however, Lee Greenwood rarely crossed over into the pop charts, and when he did, it was only in 1983, when slickly produced country-pop could make inroads on adult contemporary radio.
www.grabow.biz /Country/LeeGreenwood.htm   (1093 words)

  
 Earmuff History - Invention of Earmuffs   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Chester s ears itched fiercely at the touch of wool, so the everyday muffler most kids wrapped about their heads was out of the question.
Chester Greenwood Day shall commemorate and honor Chester Greenwood, whose inventive genius and native ability, which contributed much to the enjoyment of Maine's winter season, marked him as one of Maine's outstanding citizens.
Greenwood went on to create more than 100 other inventions.
www.ideafinder.com /history/inventions/story091.htm   (1156 words)

  
 Golden Rams   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
In the fall of 1975, Nancy Stevens embarked on a career in field hockey that began as a captain of West Chester State’s AIAW National Championship team and continues with her stellar success as the head coach at the University of Connecticut.
During the summer of her junior year at West Chester, she was a starting midfielder for the U.S. National Team in the 1975 World Championships and continued playing on the team until 1979.
Greenwood’s mother - WCU Athletic Hall of Fame member Mimi Greenwood - served as a coach, teacher and top women’s athletic administrator at West Chester with Dickie often nearby to lend a hand.
www.wcupagoldenrams.com /news_general.php?news_id=291   (4074 words)

  
 IN MEMORIAM ROBERT E. GREENWOOD   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Greenwood recalled that as a high-ranking Naval officer he use to drop by the White House to report in (as a courtesy call) when visiting Washington, D.C. Many brief professional appointments provided Professor Greenwood with a variety of experiences.
Professor Greenwood was particularly fond of telling stories of some students in his courses who were doing poorly at the beginning and he was able to help turn around their mathematical thinking so that they finished with good performances on the final exam.
Professor Greenwood was active as the Mathematics Departmental historian (knowing almost all of the faculty who had ever served) and in archiving and cataloguing papers for the American Mathematical Archives of the MAA located at the Humanities Research Center, UT Austin.
www.ma.utexas.edu /CNA/greenwood.html   (2856 words)

  
 Chester Greenwood - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Chester Greenwood (1858-1937) of Farmington, Maine is the inventor of the earmuff.
Chester Greenwood invented the earmuff in 1873, at the age of 15.
In addition to being an inventor, Greenwood was the owner of a bicycle business and was involved in the introduction of the first telephone system in Farmington.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Chester_Greenwood   (189 words)

  
 The Herald - Life. Captured Every Day. - Serving York, Chester, and Lancaster Counties.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Johnson is one of three finalists for superintendent in the Chester and Greenwood districts.
Greenwood schools chief William Steed and Chester superintendent Barry Campbell are both retiring.
Greenwood, the largest of three districts in Greenwood County, has 9,400 students.
www.heraldonline.com /109/story/2286.html   (529 words)

  
 Chester - HighBeam Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
There are ship transfer facilities and factories making metal, food, and paper products; marine anchors; machinery; communications equipment; and consumer goods.
The Commodore Barry Bridge, with one of the world's longest cantilever main spans, crosses the Delaware to Bridgeport, N.J. The oldest city in the state, Chester (established as Upland) was the site of William Penn 's first landing (1682) in America.
Chester is home to Widener Univ. (1821) and Crozer Theological Seminary (1867).
www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-chesteru1s1.html   (327 words)

  
 Earmuffs | Chester Greenwood | Kid | Invention | Warm | Girl | Fur | Fleece   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
It was March of 1873 and Chester was testing out a new pair of ice skates.
To solve his problem Chester made two ear shaped loops from wire and asked his grandmother to sew beaver fur and cloth on them.
December 21st is Chester Greenwood Day and people all over the State of Maine join in the celebration.
www.kidzworld.com /site/p880.htm   (279 words)

  
 Greenwood - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Colin Greenwood (born 1969), British musician, bassist for Radiohead (brother of Jonny Greenwood)
Jonny Greenwood (born 1971), English musician, guitarist for Radiohead (brother of Colin Greenwood)
Thomas Greenwood, alias of Thomas Green, one of the Fourth Group of Carthusian Martyrs
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Greenwood   (639 words)

  
 Little League tourney set
Baseball and softball champions for the various age-groups — 9- and 10-year-olds, juniors, majors and seniors — will be determined in the coming weeks, followed by state tournament play.
Greenwood Lake-Maybrook at Town of Newburgh, 10 a.m.
Greenwood Lake-City of Newburgh at Chester, 10 a.m.
www.recordonline.com /archive/2000/06/28/littlebr.htm   (192 words)

  
 AmericanHeritage.com / POSTCRIPTS
At the age of fifteen, Chester Greenwood (18581937), a local boy, fashioned a pair of muffs to protect his ears from the cold while skating.
Whatever he chose to call them, what Greenwood had done was to invent earmuffs, and for more than sixty years he made it his business to manufacture and sell them.
Myron Starbird, past chairman of the Chester Greenwood Day Committee, was kind enough to pass along further information about Greenwood: “As an inventor, he was granted more than one hundred patents, and was selected by the Smithsonian Institution as one of the fifteen outstanding American inventors.
www.americanheritage.com /articles/magazine/ah/1979/1/1979_1_106.shtml   (930 words)

  
 December 1 - Chester Greenwood Day, Farmington, Maine
The first Saturday in December, the 4th this year (2004), is celebrated as Chester Greenwood Day in Farmington, Maine.
Chester, in case you didn't know, invented earmuffs, so in his honor Farmington, where earmuffs have doubtless saved dozens of ears, has an annual earmuff-themed parade with flag raising.
December 21st of each year shall be designated as Chester Greenwood Day and the Governor shall annually issue a proclamation inviting and urging the people of the State of Maine to observe this day in suitable places with appropriate ceremony and activity.
www.goatview.com /december1.htm   (448 words)

  
 chester greenwood -- chester greenwood (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.tamu.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Chester Greenwood invented earmuffs when he was just 15 years old.
Chester Greenwood from the United States was 15 years old in 1873 when he invented earmuffs.
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www.dochester.com.cob-web.org:8888 /chestergreenwood   (3277 words)

  
 Maine Office of Tourism - Group Travel Planner
Farmington is home to Chester Greenwood, the man who invented earmuffs.
At age 15 he got frustrated at trying to find a way to protect his ears from the cold while ice skating, so he had his grandmother sew some fur onto two ear-shaped loops of wire.
Greenwood went on to make other inventions including the steel tooth rake.
www.visitmaine.com /gtm/notes.php?id=5   (717 words)

  
 Daily Celebrations ~ Lawrence Durrell, Our Secret Wishes ~ December 4 ~ Ideas to motivate, educate, and inspire   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
In the case of Chester Greenwood (1858-1937), born in Farmington, Maine, his invention was born from a "secret wish" when he was just 15 years old.
As Thomas Edison once said, "To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk." Greenwood bent wire to make two ear shaped loops then had his grandmother sew beaver fur and velvet on them.
Since 1977, the state of Maine has annually celebrated Chester Greenwood Day on the first Saturday in December to "honor Chester Greenwood, whose inventive genius and native ability, which contributed much to the enjoyment of Maine's winter season, marked him as one of Maine's outstanding citizens."
www.dailycelebrations.com /120403.htm   (249 words)

  
 The Weather Notebook | Ear Muffs
Unfortunately, Chester Greenwood's ears itched fiercely under the everyday wool muffler most kids wrapped about their heads.
Other skaters teased Chester when he returned to the pond with the strange device but his ears were warm!
The following winter, at the tender age of 16, Chester Greenwood began mass producing his ear protectors.
www.weathernotebook.org /transcripts/2003/03/10.php   (296 words)

  
 Inventor Taylor Hernandez Biography
The Chester Award, named after Chester Carlson, the inventor of xerography, symbolizes the spirit of innovation that all children possess.
Each Chester Award winner receives a licensing contract from BKFK, legal support to patent their invention (if patentable), professional expertise to bring their product to market, and a Xerox Phaser printer (worth about $1,000).
Erlbach uses the success of 15-year-old Chester Greenwood, who invented earmuffs in 1873, as the takeoff point for introducing more than a dozen contemporary children who have created their own inventions.
www.ideafinder.com /history/inventors/hernandez.htm   (888 words)

  
 The Discovery of Ear Muffs - Aviva Trivia Blog (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.tamu.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Chester Greenwood was fifteen years old and lived in Farmington, Maine.
However, long after they had gone home, Chester continued to skate on the pond and his ears were perfectly warm.
Today Chester’s invention is known as earmuffs and hundreds of pairs are purchased each year.
www.avivadirectory.com.cob-web.org:8888 /trivia/30-the-discovery-of-ear-muffs   (238 words)

  
 Live & Work (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.tamu.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
A parade is held on the first Saturday in December honoring Chester Greenwood.
Born here in 1858, Chester Greenwood invented earmuffs at the age of 15.
Townspeople and visitors gather to honor and celebrate Chester Greenwood wearing their ear protectors as they were called back then.
www.fwcoc.org.cob-web.org:8888 /live_work/farmington.htm   (328 words)

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