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  Dower - LoveToKnow 1911
Dower ad ostium ecclesiae, by which the bride was dowered at the church porch (where all marriages used formerly to take place), and dower ex assensu patris, by the father of the bridegroom, though long obsolete, were formally abolished by the Dower Act 1834.
Dower is governed in the United Kingdom, so far as women married after the 1st of January 1834 are concerned, by the Dower Act 1834, and under it only attaches on the husband's death to the lands which he actually possessed for an estate of inheritance at the time of his death.
In this way dower proved an obstacle to the free alienation of land, for it was necessary for a husband wishing to make a valid conveyance to obtain the consent of his wife releasing her right to dower.
www.1911encyclopedia.org /Dower   (581 words)

  
 Religious Dower
These were received gratuitously and without dower and, although in no wise prohibited from presenting the monastery with a portion of their property, were supported out of the revenues assigned to the monastery for this purpose.
Dispensation from solemn vows was, it may almost be said, unknown, and the obligatory restitution of dower had not been provided for in the case of a religious leaving her community; it was the result of equity rather than law.
Each congregation of nuns should settle in its statutes the dower, equal in all cases, for the choir religious; it should even establish a lesser dower (but the same for each one) to be deposited by the lay, or assistant, sisters.
www.catholicity.com /encyclopedia/d/dower,religious.html   (790 words)

  
 History professor John Dower awarded Mellon prize - MIT News Office
John W. Dower, Ford International Professor of History, was formally notified on Friday, December 17, that he had won the prestigious humanities award, which provides funds of up to $1.5 million to deepen and extend humanistic scholarship over a 3-year period.
Dower was "caught completely by surprise" by the award, yet the funds come "right at the point when it looks like we can take off with a project to wed humanities at MIT with new technological opportunities and change the way we talk about and teach historical materials," he said.
Dower traces developments within his own approach to history and use of historical materials back to the 1960s and 1970s, when the disparity between official documents of events such as the Vietnam War and Watergate and lived experience became painfully clear.
web.mit.edu /newsoffice/2004/dower.html   (837 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: Embracing Defeat: Books: John Dower   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
Dower argues that the key to Japan's industrialization lies in the '15 years war', starting with the commencement of hostilities with China in 1931.
Dower describes the pathos of Japan's defeat and its difficult post-war journey to remake itself and its society - the backside of WWII in the Pacific.
Dower includes a fascinating discussion of an interesting dilemma facing America: how to break away from the racist vilification of the Japanese by wartime propaganda and now show that the Japanese could measure up to sustaining a democratic form of government.
www.amazon.ca /Embracing-Defeat-John-Dower/dp/0393320278   (3034 words)

  
 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Dower
So too in the special instance of a widow (herself poor and undotated) of a husband rich at the time of his death, an ordinance of the Christian Emperor Justinian secured her the right to a part of her husband's property, of which no disposition of his could deprive her.
Assignment of dower in his hand would nevertheless be postponed until the natural death of such a religious.
After the Reformation and the enactment of the English statute of 11 and 12 William III, prohibiting "papists" from inheriting or purchasing lands, a Roman Catholic widow was not held to be debarred of dower, for dower accruing by operation of law was deemed to be not within the prohibitions of the statute.
www.newadvent.org /cathen/05145c.htm   (936 words)

  
 John Dower
Dower is widely recognized for his work on postwar Japan and has played a prominent role in debates on the occupation of Iraq.
John Dower has published many works on modern Japanese history including his most recent book, Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II (1999), which won the Pulitzer Prize for Nonfiction, the National Book Award for Nonfiction, the John F. Fairbank Prize of the American Historical Association, the Bancroft Prize, and other honors.
Professor Dower received his B.A. in American Studies from Amherst College in 1959 and his Ph.D. in History and Far Eastern Languages from Harvard University in 1972.
www.swarthmore.edu /news/releases/04/dower.html   (371 words)

  
 Orals Reading Notes: War Without Mercy, John Dower
John Dower's War Without Mercy describes the ugly racial dimensions of the conflict in the Asian theater of World War II and their consequences on both military and reconstruction policy in the Pacific.
As Dower remarks, "these transitions and juxtapositions in the Western image of the Japanese were abrupt and jarring: from subhuman to superhuman, lesser men to supermen.
In "The Pure Self," Dower describes how Japanese came to see whites not in terms of color but of "purity." "Where racism in the West was markedly characterized by denigration of others," writes Dower, "the Japanese were preoccupied far more exclusively with elevating themselves.
www.kevincmurphy.com /dower.html   (932 words)

  
 John W. Dower - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
During the 1960s he was a member of a group of Asian scholars wishing to reconcile their work with the new political landscape that developed as a result of the Vietnam War.
Dower eventually sat on the editorial board of the journal alongside Noam Chomsky and Herbert Bix.
Dower has long been an advocate for international peace, and was the executive producer of the Academy Award-nominated documentary Hellfire - a Journey from Hiroshima in 1988.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/John_W._Dower   (732 words)

  
 Newfoundland Books - The Ghost of Ellen Dower - Earl B. Pilgrim - Tide's Point
Edward Dower, an enterprising fishing captain, in the year 1872 prosecuted the northern cod and seal with a determination that amazed friend and rieighbour alike.
Ellen Dower, wife to Edward Dower and proprietress of their fishing firm, was a lady of standing in the little town of Conche, Newfoundland.
Ellen Dower, a beautiful woman in her forties, was failing fast, and much to the shock of the people of Conche, she would eventually succumb to her illness.
www.tidespoint.com /books/ellen_dower.shtml   (1625 words)

  
 Dower - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In case of a divorce, she won't have to give up her dower unless she is the one who requested the divorce.
If it was the later case, her husband may ask her to return the dower to him.
The dower, if the husband lives in a city, is nineteen mithqáls (approx.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Dower   (1898 words)

  
 James Dower Trio | Featuring Steve Skop and Mark Mahoney   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
Dower's piano takes the lead on “Night and Day” as he quotes a few bars from the opening theme for the old Lone Ranger Show.
Dower's piano takes on an inquiring mode on “In the Next Life” as he shatters rhythmically with Skop's bass which stays pretty much at the low end of the scale laying a very solid bottom for the proceedings.
Dower is a graduate of Berklee College of Music and has become very active with his trio as well as being part of the band The Search Party.
www.allaboutjazz.com /php/article.php?id=7502   (442 words)

  
 RULE 4:63. WASTE; PARTITION; ACCOUNT; DOWER; CURTESY
Except in unusual circumstances, the amount fixed by the court shall not be greater than that arrived at under this paragraph.
(b) The court shall also calculate the value of the dower or other interest upon the basis of the clear yearly income from the premises, applying the same principle and using the same table.
In ascertaining the clear yearly income, allowance shall be made for insurance, taxes and all repairs necessary to keep the premises in as good a condition as at the sale, including the renewal of any part of the buildings thereon required, because of deterioration or ordinary wear and tear.
www.judiciary.state.nj.us /rules/r4-63.htm   (444 words)

  
 CAS | John Dower
John Dower, MIT's Elting E. Morison Professor of History, has received international recognition for his scholarly use of visual materials and other expressions of popular culture in reexamining Japanese history and US-Japan relations.
Dower was also the executive producer of the documentary, Hellfire--A Journey from Hiroshima, which was nominated in 1988 for an Academy Award.
Following his visit to Boulder, Professor Dower will be a contributor to the bi-national celebration of 150 years of US-Japan relations in Washington DC in late March.
www.colorado.edu /cas/jdower.html   (637 words)

  
 Amazon.com: The Dower House: Books: Annabel Davis-Goff   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
Her home at Fern Hill was built as the dower house for widows of the Hassard family, displaced into a state of genteel poverty upon the death of their husbands and the marriage of their eldest sons.
If The Dower House were nothing but a coming-of-age novel, it could hold up its head with anything written since the time of Stendahl and Dickens.
Molly and her more privileged cousin Sophie are forced as they grow older to make choices between the romantic genteel poverty of the Anglo-Irish lifestyle in which they were raised and the comfort, prosperity and hard practicalities represented by life in London.
www.amazon.com /Dower-House-Annabel-Davis-Goff/dp/0312170289   (1766 words)

  
 Dower Realty, Dower Real Estate, Dower, Dower Real Estate of Hawaii, Dower Realty, Dower Real Estate Honolulu, Waikiki ...
Dower Realty, Inc. is a Hawaii-based company started by Elizabeth and Frank Dower of Honolulu, Hawai.
Dower's knowledgeable and diverse agents can assist clients with all of their real estate needs.
Dower Premier Properties specializes in luxury homes and estates, and beachfront/oceanfront properties on Oahu, from Waikiki to the North Shore.
www.dowerrealty.com   (183 words)

  
 MIT History
John Dower, Professor of Japanese history, received his Ph.D. in 1972 in History and Far Eastern Languages from Harvard University.
Professor Dower's interests lie in modern Japanese history and US-Japan relations.
He also was the executive producer of a documentary film entitled Hellfire -- A Journey from Hiroshima, which was nominated in 1988 for an Academy Award.
web.mit.edu /jdower/www/dower.htm   (129 words)

  
 Curious Cat Books - John Dower
Though his case is strong, Dower minimizes other factors, such as the protracted negotiations between the West and the Japanese.
Hiroshima Murals: The Art of Iri Maruki and Toshi Maruki by John W. Dower and John Junkerman, 1985.
A Warning from History: Don’t expect democracy in Iraq by John Dower.
www.curiouscat.com /books/dower.cfm   (461 words)

  
 Welcome to Dower House Country House Bed and Breakfast and Self Catering Apartments
There are four apartments with spacious living rooms and good views over the Furness Fells and Dower House’s own beautiful gardens.
The Dower House is surrounded by spectacular coastal and mountain scenery, nestled among which you will find interesting villages, historic buildings, stunning wildlife and much, much more.
Here at High Duddon we’re on the doorstep of some of the best walking country in the land; the quiet fells of Dunnerdale, the picturesque Yewdale and Coniston Fells and the spectacular and challenging peaks of Wasdale.
www.dowerhouse.biz   (216 words)

  
 James Dower Trio
The James Dower Trio is a jazz piano trio consisting of Berklee College of Music graduates.
Their specialty is performing live jazz music ranging in styles from blues to swing to bebop to latin jazz.
The trio has just released it's debut CD, James Dower Trio (featuring Steve Skop and Mark Mahoney), and is currently engaged in performances around the New England area.
www.mbus.com /bands/genadm/James.Dower.Trio.htm   (103 words)

  
 :: Bríd Dower - News ::
The inaugural "Sunday at the Center" on Sunday, Feb 15 was a huge success.
Blessed by wonderful weather, the diverse program of Atlantic Crossing with guest Bríd Dower, D Squared, Sue Harris, and the McElligott Dancers was very well received.
The song has quickly become one of my most requested, and as has always been one of my goals as a singer, other musicians are now asking if they can borrow it!
www.briddower.com   (561 words)

  
 Dower Consulting, Inc - Atlanta, Georgia
Dower Consulting, Inc. (DCI) is a unique executive and senior operations management consulting company with innovative idea services and solutions, providing unusual value to its clients.
As a consulting firm, DCI maintains a core team, specializing in Business Requirements, Business Transformation and Business Practices that drive the competitive environment of an organization that’s focused on continuous improvement and change management processes.
Dower Consulting, Inc. : 3350 Riverwood Pkwy., Suite 1900 : Atlanta, GA 30339 : (678) 560-4403
www.dowerinc.com /index.htm   (177 words)

  
 CD Baby: JAMES DOWER TRIO: featuring Steve Skop and Mark Mahoney
The James Dower Trio has been performing for audiences in New England and New York for five years.
With a broad range of stylistic experience, James Dower (piano), Steve Skop (bass) and Mark Mahoney (drums) have assembled a CD of eight tracks featuring six original compositions.
A treat for any jazz enthusiast, the James Dower Trio CD is money well spent.
www.cdbaby.com /cd/dowertrio   (315 words)

  
 hadith_dower
'Abd al-Rahman reported: I asked 'A'isha, the wife of Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him): What is the amount of dower of Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him)?
She said: It was twelve 'uqiyas and one nash.
I said: No. She said: It is half of uqiya, and it amounts to five hundred dirhams, and that was the dower given by Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) to his wives.
www.matchpk.com /kalpoint/matrimonial/code/ver5.0/hadith_dower.asp   (226 words)

  
 Dower House Hotel, Woodhall Spa, Lincolnshire: Luxury Hotels, Accommodation and Golf in Woodhall Spa
Dower House Hotel, Woodhall Spa, Lincolnshire: Luxury Hotels, Accommodation and Golf in Woodhall Spa
The Dower House was originally built at the turn of the last century as a family home and this elegant Edwardian House still retains all of its original features, but modernised with great care and sensitivity.
Now under new ownership the hotel has recently undergone a £500,000 refurbishment and re-opened on 1st April 2004.
www.dowerhousehotel.co.uk   (258 words)

  
 eReader.com: Author: Kim Dower
Kim Dower is known throughout the publishing and publicity world as Kim-from-L.A., the name of the company she founded in 1985.
In addition to her work as a literary publicist, Kim cofounded Perfect Pitch Productions ("It takes more than a great idea, it takes the Perfect Pitch!"), a company specializing in training and coaching authors, speakers, and experts of all kinds in how to best present themselves to the media.
Notify me when new books by Kim Dower are released.
www.ereader.com /author/detail/10435?author=Kim_Dower   (119 words)

  
 Janice Dower - AOL Music
Paolo Dotto Janice G. Douglas Steven K. Dower Mitch Dowsett Thomas A. Ladanyi Ole Didrik Laerum Susan LaFlamme Robert Lafyatis Janice M. Lage...
The biggest names in music, including Mary J. Blige, Katharine McPhee, John Legend and more perform for the kids to benefit the JCPenney Afterschool Fund.
Download, listen and watch Janice Dower music, mp3's, song lyrics, music videos, Internet radio, live performances, concerts, and more on AOL Music.
music.aol.com /artist/janice-dower/72014/main   (130 words)

  
 Directions to the Dower House Hotel, Woodhall Spa, Lincolnshire
Please use the map below for directions to the Dower House Hotel in Woodhall Spa, or
Approaching from the centre of the village off the Broadway, turn into Spa Road and proceed a quarter of a mile.
Ahead you will see signs for Manor House and Dower House.
www.dowerhousehotel.co.uk /directions   (136 words)

  
 John Dower (I)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
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 Dower
Lecture: Development and Globalisation - the Ethical Challenges
Nigel Dower is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Aberdeen.
His main research interests are in the field of the ethics/philosophy of development, environment and international relations.
www.msu.edu /unit/phl/devconference/Dower.htm   (181 words)

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