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  St Albans Cathedral - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
With the great quantities of brick, tile and other stone in Verulamium the Roman site became a prime source of building material for the abbeys, and other projects in the area, up to the 18th century.
Sculptural decoration was added, mainly ornaments, as it became more fashionable in the 12th century - especially after the Gothic style arrived in England around 1170.
The English Civil War slashed the monies spent on repairs, while the abbey was used to hold prisoners of war and suffered from their vandalism, as well as that of their guards.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/St_Albans_Cathedral   (4106 words)

  
 Humber oddd.org   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-31)
The River Ancholme is a river in North Lincolnshire, England, and a tributary of the River Humber.
Barton-upon-Humber or Barton is a small town in North Lincolnshire, on the south bank of the River Humber, and at the end of the Humber Bridge.
Cleethorpes is a town in North East Lincolnshire, England, situated at the mouth of the River Humber.
www.oddd.org /en/Humber   (9148 words)

  
 Lincolnshire Business Information Center - Properties - Vehicles - Tourist Information   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-31)
Harrington is in the Lincolnshire Wolds and is close to Somersby where Alfred Lord Tennyson was born and spent his early years.
Set in the Lincolnshire Wolds, Cadwell Park was opened as a 0.7 mile motorcycle road racing circuit in 1934.
A geometric ornamental vegetable garden was created by the Countess of Ancaster and John Fowler in 1961.
can-lincolnshire.com /interest.php   (4696 words)

  
 Leading the Ornamental Challenge
Since 1997 Lincolnshire Ornamental Challenge (LOC) has been underpinning ornamental horticulture - one of the major business sectors in the Lincolnshire area of Spalding, Boston and Holbeach.
LOC (Leading the Ornamental Challenge) was formed as a direct result of Lincolnshire Ornamental Challenge's success in accessing 5B funds which enabled many ornamental businesses to develop market opportunities that may not otherwise have been possible.
The LOC team have aquired a great deal of skill and knowledge to help facilitate future projects under ERDP and we are able to undertake the complete project development and project management role for the growers, from the initial eligibility checks to the preparation of final claims.
www.loc.org.uk /about.htm   (196 words)

  
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This pottery was not sun-dried, but burnt in a fire, though not made in a kiln, and the form of the vessels shows that the makers were ignorant of the use of a potter's wheel.
The ornamentation consisted of a series of straight lines made by a sharp-pointed instrument and by impressions of the finger nails or string, often revealing much skill and artistic workmanship.
The Upper Saltway was the communication between the sea-coast of Lincolnshire and the salt mines at Droitwich; and the Lower Saltway led from Droitwich, then, as now, a great centre of the salt trade, to the sea-coast of Hampshire.
www.gutenberg.org /dirs/9/1/9/9197/9197-8.txt   (20643 words)

  
 Regular Architectural Review Board Meeting Minutes - December 14, 2004
Silverberg responded that the cohesiveness will be in the hardscape and landscape of the project; however, he is aware of the challenge that is imminent with regard to the corporate/national retailers and their need for identity.
He assured that the Petitioners’ intentions are to blend their identity into the cohesiveness of the architecture to provide flavor and add to the value of the development.
However, in light of a recent challenge to the Village’s sign regulations from a Petitioner seeking relief to the current provisions, it was the opinion of Village Attorney, Adam Simon, to comprehensively amend the Sign Code “to further strengthen its regulatory authority.” Ms.
www.village.lincolnshire.il.us /gov/minutes/2004/minutes-041214arb.php   (3000 words)

  
 Sculptured Stones of Old Edinburgh
They were the testimony of the faith and philosophy, the record of the family pride and the industrial importance of dead and gone generations, graven in stone.
The gaunt and plain old four-story mansion of Craigentinnie House, reared by the Nisbets, was furnished with turrets and corbelling, after the fashion of a French chteau or Jacobian castle, at the close of the eighteenth century.
It is garnished without with many ornaments of stone, but none of them can lay probable claim to belong to the period of Nisbet occupancy, unless it be the weatherworn shield over the old moulded entrance door - it is no longer decipherable.
www.valacar.net /nisbet/origins/stones.htm   (9576 words)

  
 LOC - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
LoC from the Microsoft Xbox game Steel Battalion: Line of Contact
L.O.C: Life out of Control, an Indian comedy TV Series broadcast on STAR Plus around the world.
L.O.C., a musical group which created the song "Ring Ding Ding (Frog)", based on the Crazy Frog ringtone/sound.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/LOC   (169 words)

  
 Dart Final Results   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-31)
Unfortunately, the company was recently unsuccessful in a re-tender by Sainsbury's for its UK primary produce and horticulture distribution (from supplier to regional distribution centre).
Progress was made in both the general freight and ornamental fish importing and distribution businesses and in increasing its USA business with the appointment of a dynamic new agent, with offices throughout the USA.
The Lincolnshire region is largely a produce growing area within which several leading chilled prepared foods suppliers, who are customers of the company, are also based, whilst Kent is, of course, traditionally the centre of the country's fruit growing and packing industry.
www.advfn.com /news_final-results_7943732.html   (3307 words)

  
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In 1846 a Sheffield line was vehemently opposed by a Liverpool gentleman, on the ground that it would materially injure the prospect from a mansion, which had been the seat of his ancestors for centuries.
A stone pulpit, ornamented with gilt tracery, on a blue ground, has been removed in favour of an oak one, with the chancel.
The castle itself was levelled to the ground by order of her son, James I. On leaving Oundle we pass a station appurtenant to Wansford in England, of which we shall say a word presently.
www.ibiblio.org /pub/docs/books/gutenberg/1/3/2/7/13271/13271.txt   (15437 words)

  
 www.freesia.co.uk - Fresh Flowers Direct From The Grower
Only the best stems are dispatched, having been pampered with flower food, chilled for greater freshness on delivery and placed in flower-friendly boxes for posting.
Lincolnshire Scented Freesia are available all year round, fresh from the nursery.
This project is partly financed by Lincolnshire Ornamental Challenge which is assisted by the European Agriculture Guidance and Guarantee Fund and the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food under the Lincolnshire Objective 5b Programme
www.freesia.co.uk /freshflowers/aboutus.jsp   (249 words)

  
 Biography: Samuel Johnson, writer (12 Dec 1784)
As a youth, he developed a fondness for disputation, and often, as he admits, chose the wrong side of the debate because it would be more challenging.
When Johnson was at a country house in the summer of 1762, a young lady said that she could outrun anyone there.
Johnson expressed his disapprobation of ornamental architecture, such as magnificent columns supporting a portico, or expensive pilasters supporting merely their own capitals, "because it consumes labor disproportionate to its utility."
cs.rowan.edu /~kilroy/JEK/12/12.html   (6197 words)

  
 Regular Village Board Meeting Minutes - August 23, 2004
The Challenge recognizes those agencies for their efforts throughout the entire calendar year to address traffic safety issues in its jurisdiction.
The Lincolnshire Police Department placed second in the state in the areas of speed enforcement, occupant restraint enforcement, and public information and education programs.
Sandy Saltiel, 26 Regent Lane, a resident, commented on the fact that Lincolnshire is the only Village on the North Shore that does not have a Plan Commission since it was dissolved in May, 2003.
www.village.lincolnshire.il.us /gov/minutes/2004/minutes-040823vb.php   (2215 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | UK | England | Jobs boost for plant growers
Hundreds of new jobs could be created in Lincolnshire after plant growers were awarded a £500,000 government grant.
The Department of Rural Affairs has awarded the money to a group called Leading the Ornamental Challenge (LOC), which is based in Swineshead near Boston.
The LOC will receive about £100,000 a year over the next five years to help the county's horticultural businesses expand.
news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/uk_news/england/2329027.stm   (148 words)

  
 Gardening - Garden Centres - Florists Boston Lincs England, Lincolnshire UK
Freesia - Specialist growers of Lincolnshire scented freesia.
Kingfisher Nursery - Kingfisher Nursery is one of the country's leading wholesale heather specialists, producing around 900,000 heathers annually in a range of varieties and pot sizes.based in Spalding.
Lincolnshire Ornamental Challenge - LOC can help growers to access funding available from DEFRA and the EU, an online database to help find a wealth of plants in Lincolnshire.
www.linc2u.com /boston/sites/garden.htm   (387 words)

  
 Blade Loc   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-31)
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Lincolnshire Ornamental Challenge (or "Leading the Ornamental Challenge"; Lov.org.uk  (http: www.loc.org.uk))
www.super8filmmaking.com /tail/6321-blade-loc.html   (376 words)

  
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Consumers benefit from lower costs of growing GM varieties The report challenges the conventional wisdom that consumers do not benefit from the cost savings generated by the biotechnology.
The study stresses that the savings to the farmer from genetically modified varieties are the latest stage in a long history of technological improvements which have reduced the real cost of food to the consumer.
After the government inspections found fault with the trial site in Rothwell, Lincolnshire, the genetically modified crops were destroyed, along with all other rapeseed plants within a 50-meter radius of the field.
archives.foodsafetynetwork.ca /agnet/1999/2-1999/ag-02-17-99-01.txt   (6504 words)

  
 The Sensory Garden Project : Past the Raised Bed
The brilliance of the Ornamental Poppy - Papaver orientalis 'Allegro' is a very showy hardy perennial, grown in the Raised Bed for the colour of the large, fiery orange-red flowers which bloom from June.
During February, young new shoots start to emerge from the fertile, well-drained soil in the Raised Bed growing steadily to form an ornamental feature with magnificent clumps of wispy leaves, airy and feather-like.
Growing up to 6 foot tall, they are crowned in late summer with large heads of tiny flowers.
beehive.thisislincolnshire.co.uk /default.asp?WCI=SiteHome&ID=9908&PageID=55616   (1975 words)

  
 Top 20 Encyclopedia
Historians who challenge the traditional narrative of a "Saxon conquest" point out a marked lack of archaeological evidence for a major invasion.
It includes the Benedictional of St. Æthelwold manuscript, which drew on Hiberno-Saxon art, Carolingian art and Byzantine art for style and iconography.
The Harley Psalter was a knockoff of the Carolingian Utrecht Psalter—all of which underscore the larger trend of an Anglo-Saxon culture coming into increasing contact with, and under the influence of, a wider Latin Mediaeval Europe.
encyc.connectonline.com /index.php/Anglo-Saxon   (2869 words)

  
 Circular Chess Society | Organisers of the World Circular Chess Championship
Whilst it is a serious international event with a significant first prize (traditionally £200 for the winner), events are open to intermediate and novice players and the atmosphere is relaxed.
The annual world championship is complemented by a popular Chrimbo Challenge tournament which is held in the New Year at the Tap and Spile, the home of the Circular Chess Society for the last 10 years.
The first world championship was a knock-out tournament staged at the Tap and Spile in 1996.
www.circularchess.co.uk /gamesociety.htm   (473 words)

  
 ASPT NEWSLETTER8(4)
Ornamental plant cultivation is one of the most popular activities in many American homes, whether it be growing plants in pots or in gardens.
The genera are arranged alphabetically, and brief comments on their characteristics, distribution, and ornamental value are provided.
It was not surprising to find Dryopteris, Polystichum, and Cheilanthes listed as the genera with the most ornamental species, but it was interesting to learn that the majority of cultivated species and variants are North American.
www.inhs.uiuc.edu /~kenr/ASPT/newsletter08_4.html   (18412 words)

  
 Alphabetical Listing of Boston Lincs Sites
Lincolnshire Boxer Rescue - Lincolnshire and Essex Boxer rescue.
Lincolnshire Film Archive - Listings of all Archive films dating from 1901 and recorded throughout Lincolnshire.
Lincolnshire Pet Crematorium - Lincolnshire Pet Crematorium - A personal service to help you through the pain of losing your much loved pet.
www.linc2u.co.uk /boston/sites/alphalist.htm   (4794 words)

  
 Sportsturf -  Jan 99 - A Seminar and a Challenge   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-31)
Rich Genoff, field manager for the San Francisco 49ers, addressed challenges faced by his crew at the 49ers' training facility in Santa Clara, CA.
San Jose, CA Brief field tours of San Jose State University and an Equipment Show brought the seminar to a close.
The Northern California Chapter challenges any chapter to a mower competition at next year's STMA Conference Jan. 12-16, 2000, in St. Louis, MO.
www.greenmediaonline.com /st/1999/0199/199semi.asp   (757 words)

  
 Christopher Kendrick: "Majestic Unaffected Style": Quakerism and Improvement in PARADISE REGAINED"
Lexically, this means a reduction of the copious element: fewer ornamental words, less variation, less profuse redundance.
Its publication authorized by Samuel Hartlib when the large-scale draining of the fens in and around Lincolnshire was on the government's agenda, Dymock's short pamphlet was on its face simply about fenlands, about how they should be drained and what they should look like afterwards.
A more proximate analogy would be with large parts of the later eighteenth-century English landscape, after the great wave of Parliamentary enclosures which permitted the streamlining of as yet unenclosed land.
emc.eserver.org /1-4/kendrick.html   (7463 words)

  
 Lindsey oddd.org   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-31)
The Parts of Lindsey lasted until April 1 1974 when, as a result of the Local Government Act 1972, the northern zone (not the North Riding) of Lindsey was placed in the newly-formed non-metropolitan county of Humberside while a new Lincolnshire authority took over the remainder.
This is the former administrative districts of Glanford and Scunthorpe, as well as the Isle of Axholme which had become the southern part of Boothferry District.
The Isle of Axholme is the part of Lincolnshire west of the River Trent.
oddd.org /en/Lindsey   (9859 words)

  
 Ash Buckingham - High Meadow Studio
In contrast, the second picture is a watercolour of the little stream at Tealby Thorpe, captured as it rushes away through the trees.
Springtime is painted in pure watercolour, using delicate washes with a hint of daffodil yellow on the ground.
The first demonstration is at Great Limber - a pretty village with a large pond surrounded by assorted trees with a small white house in the background.
www.ashbuckingham.co.uk /videos.htm   (866 words)

  
 WebRoots Library U.S. Women   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-31)
This spice by reason of its fragrancy and palatable taste, may justly challenge the precellency of most other Spices; it comforteth the Spirits, and opens obstructions both in Men and Women; it helpeth a Woman in her delivery, furthereth Urine, and is good for Concoction.
What things belong to a Country Gentlewoman: Of Daries, and making Butter and Cheese Gentlewomen, that you may be delighted with your own experience, as well as satisfied in the labours of your servants, I shall give you an account of what must be pre-observed in the keeping of a Dayry.
This you see England affords variety enough of extraordinary good Cows for the good Housewife to make choice of as she pleaseth; but withal let her be careful that the Bull be of as good a breed as the Kine themselves, otherwise the encrease will degenerate, and your Dairy in time run to ruin.
www.webroots.org /library/usawomen/tgcgfs04.html   (4721 words)

  
 The Builder Magazine - December 1919
I deliberated long on the most feasible method of bringing the Order before the world as an institution in which Christianity was imbedded and morals and religion incorporated with scientific attainments; and without the remotest idea that I was to be the instrument for its development.
Only a structure satisfying both needs can be called architecture; therefore a mere pergola which is ornamental only, or a pigsty, which is practical only, cannot be described as architecture.
When we turn to a study of the art of building we find that Morris' definition is borne out by facts, for always, from the first rude hut down to the last erected dwelling house or public building, men have made their buildings to house both the mind and the body.
www.phoenixmasonry.org /the_builder_1919_december.htm   (11911 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-31)
Chlorine gas is the most heavily used pesticide in the United States, and the majority of its uses are critical to public health.
Chlorine gas is used as a disinfectant for drinking water, food processing plants, swimming pools, and sewage systems, and as an algaecide for cooling towers and ornamental ponds and aquaria.
By EPA's action, chlorine gas may continue to be used, provided that risk mitigation measures are followed by the applicators and certain data are submitted.
archives.foodsafetynetwork.ca /agnet/1999/3-1999/ag-03-05-99-02.txt   (4287 words)

  
 merrywiveswindsor
Although this alone is not proof that he wrote The Merry Wives of Windsor, when added to the other evidence of his authorship of the 'Shakespeare' works, plus the internal evidence in the play demonstrating that he was the author, the matter rises to a "case closed" level.
This area covered a large part of southern Lincolnshire, almost all of Cambridgeshire and parts of Norfolk and Northamptonshire.
The challenge is to determine the nature whose form is to be determined through the inquiry operation of Bacon's discovery device.
www.sirbacon.org /merrywiveswindsor.htm   (9276 words)

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