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Ellsworth Adhesives is the World's largest distributor of specialty chemicals such as adhesives, sealants, coatings, encapsulants, lubricants, releases, tapes, and other products used in the manufacturing industry.
Ellsworth Adhesives To Participate in 2007 Electronics Assembly Show, September 25-27 in Chicago, Illinois
Ellsworth Adhesives Welcomes Visitors to 2007's Medical Device and Manufacturing Expo, October 17-18, Minneapolis, Minnesota
www.ellsworth.com   (147 words)

  
  From Revolution to Reconstruction: Biographies: Oliver Ellsworth
Oliver Ellsworth was born on April 29, 1745, in Windsor, CT, to Capt. David and Jemima Ellsworth.
Ellsworth also served on the Committee of Five that prepared the first draft of the Constitution.
Ellsworth favored the three-fifths compromise on the enumeration of slaves but opposed the abolition of the foreign slave trade.
odur.let.rug.nl /~usa/B/oellsworth/elsworth.htm   (495 words)

  
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Lincoln Ellsworth (1880-1951) was lucky enough to have a rich father and thus the freedom to realize his dreams.
Ellsworth proposed to combine Shackleton's idea and Byrd's technique in a crossing of Antarctica by aircraft: 'The last great adventure!' He wanted to fly from Bay of Whales to the Weddell Sea and back again.
Ellsworth economized neither on the ship, which he as a Western fan christened Wyatt Earp, nor on the aircraft, a special manufacture, which for its time flew at the remarkable speed of 370 kilometres per hour.
www.oneworldmagazine.org /focus/southpole/hist9.htm   (648 words)

  
 Ellsworth County, Part 1
ELLSWORTH County is comprised in that portion of the State of Kansas which commences at the east line of Range 6, west of the Sixth Principal Meridian, running thence west to the west line of Range 10, and embracing Townships 14, 15, 16 and 17.
The east line of Ellsworth County is one hundred and eighty miles west of the east line of the State.
Ellsworth County, however, is one more adapted by nature for sheep and stock-raising, than it is for agriculture, but that portion which may be termed agricultural possesses every advantage that nature could give it.
www.kancoll.org /books/cutler/ellsworth/ellsworth-co-p1.html   (1931 words)

  
 Antarctic Explorers: Lincoln Ellsworth
Ellsworth's initial exposure to polar adventures began on May 21, 1925, when he, Roald Amundsen and four other men set out in two Dornier flying boats, the N-24 and N-25, on a mission to be the first to fly to the North Pole.
Ellsworth consented to attaching his name as scientific advisor to the expedition and when Ellsworth spoke of his Antarctic dream, Wilkins gave the impression that he would be willing to enlist as his advisor.
Ellsworth raised the American flag and claimed the land between 80° W and 120° W for the United States and named the area, as before, in honor of his father.
www.south-pole.com /p0000110.htm   (6320 words)

  
 Ellsworth Revisited
The general outline of Ellsworth's life used to be fairly well-known for its stark simplicity and the way it lent credence to the American Dream.
But maybe this story remembers Ellsworth too much for the way he died rather than for the way he lived, and it is in the latter respect that he deserves to be not only remembered but celebrated.
Ellsworth knew this; Ellsworth realized that this was a dangerous position to take; and Ellsworth knew that morally, he had to follow his conscience wherever it led him, even if to an early grave.
www.mechanicville.com /history/ellsworth/ellsworth_revisited.htm   (767 words)

  
 Ellsworth, Maine - A Brief History   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Ellsworth was first settled by the Passamaquoddy and Penobscot tribes.
The small town was incorporated as Ellsworth in 1800 and was named the County Seat of Hancock County in 1837.
Another major catastrophe struck Ellsworth in May, 1933 when much of the downtown area was destroyed in a fire.
ci.ellsworth.me.us /stathist.html   (448 words)

  
 Lincoln Ellsworth - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Along with Amundsen, Ellsworth is credited as being the first people to have sighted the Geographic North Pole.
On November 23, 1935, Ellsworth discovered the Ellsworth Mountains of Antarctica when he made a trans-Antarctic flight from Dundee Island to the Ross Ice Shelf.
He gave the descriptive name Sentinel Range, which was later named for the northern half of the Ellsworth Mountains.
encyclopedia.worldsearch.com /lincoln_ellsworth.htm   (154 words)

  
 Ellsworth, Nebraska   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Ellsworth, Nebraska is a small town in the heart of the Nebraska Sandhills.
Ellsworth accommodates about twenty-five individuals, a general store- Morgans, a small post office, and a regionally recognized three lane bowling alley.
The Spade Ranch is a historically recognized ranch north of Ellsworth that was developed by one of the first and most famous Nebraska ranchers, Barlett Richards, in the late 1800's.
www.geocities.com /heartland/plains/6461/Ellsworth.html   (472 words)

  
 Ellsworth Air Force Base - Home
ELLSWORTH AFB, S.D. -- Ellsworth to recognize the Air Force's 60th birthday and the 20-year anniversary of the B-1's arrival Sept. 22.
ELLSWORTH AFB, S.D. -- Some of Ellsworth's Airmen, 166 in all, reported for duty this morning to discover they are the newest batch of Airmen about to step into the non-commissioned officer corps.
ELLSWORTH AIR FORCE BASE, S.D. -- The local military retiree population and their families are invited to Ellsworth's Military Retiree Appreciation Day Sept. 18.
www.ellsworth.af.mil   (515 words)

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