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  Vermont - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Famous for its scenery, dairy products and maple syrup (it is the leading producer of maple syrup in the United States[1]), Vermont has a long history of independent political thinking (see Ethan Allen, Matthew Lyon, George Aiken, Jim Jeffords and Bernie Sanders.).
This famous display of color that occurs so abundantly in Vermont is not due so much to the presence of a particular variant of the sugar maple; rather it is caused by a number of soil and climate conditions unique to the area.
Among the most famous of the Vermont units were the 1st Vermont Brigade, the 2nd Vermont Brigade, and the 1st Vermont Cavalry.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Vermont   (8383 words)

  
 Political Animal: Comment on Famous Canadians
That said, there were many silly choices on the list (http://www.cbc.ca/greatest/greatcanadians/), but that's the chance you take when you throw the balloting open to the general public.
Garand famous from the Garand rifle which was a fine rifle and was US army standard up until the early parts of the Vietnam war was born in Quebec, moved down to the US NE in his early years.
As far as this list is concerned, I think Pearson is too low at 6 - he was the one who actually implemented/forced medicare nationally on reluctant provinces and some pretty crusty doctors.
www.washingtonmonthly.com /mt/mt-comments.cgi?entry_id=5228   (6612 words)

  
 Hurdy-Gurdy Mailing List Archive, November 2000
Normally if a woman is sculptured on a hurdy-gurdy this should be a portrait of George Sand (she was a famous french writer/feminist) who had a relationship to Chopin.
It could be that you are posting to the list from a different address than the one that you're signed up with.
It features hurdy-gurdies played by Riccardo Delfino and Matthias Loibner, though they don't appear on one longish piece, a serenade, and are somewhat buried by the rest of the band, including two musettes, on the rest of the CD.
www.hurdygurdy.com /mailinglist/hg_arch_0011.htm   (4472 words)

  
 Book Reviews - The Gaullist Attack on Canada, 1967-1997
Many Quebecois were aware of de Gaulle's French imperial connections, but separatists in Quebec, encouraged by his famous "Vive la Quebec libre!" speech in July 1967, ignored the fact that de Gaulle interpreted history to serve his own political ambitions.
While the RCMP carried out surveillance on separatists, it was the FLQ Crisis in October 1970 which alerted Canadian government officials that the Gaullist activities in Quebec were more than a "part of the normal intellectual process in the world of la francophonie" (p.142).
While the appendix with the chronology of events is useful some may find the list of names confusing.
www.quasar.ualberta.ca /css/Css_36_3/BRgaullist_attack.htm   (546 words)

  
 Mail to the Klez Pages
Archives of the list are searchable, and other list information is available, under jewish-music, at my list page.
Quebecois musicians are extremly curious and interested in "la musique d'ailleurs", music from elsewhere.
We were an offshoot of the famous Aman Folk Ensemble, and we definitely began as a Balkan folk dance band.
www.klezmershack.com /mailto.html   (6949 words)

  
 Hotlist Site 2
It was a small place,old and architecturally rich with the 'bistro' look, small tables, original tin ceilings, with no more than 10 tables, the kitchen was an 'open' afffair, designated by a stainless steel island no bigger than a third of the room, there were two chefs working.
The menu listed no more than 3 to 4 entrees in each category; my wife opted for the grilled magret, and I the grilled venison.
He steered me toward a Canadian wine on the long international list: the 2000 Sumac Ridge merlot-cabernet sauvignon ($32), which was surprisingly elegant and fruity.
home.nycap.rr.com /joge/hotlist.htm   (2288 words)

  
 Quebec - InfoSearchPoint.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Their activities culminated in events referred to as the October Crisis when James Cross, the British trade commissioner to Canada, was kidnapped along with Pierre Laporte, a provincial minister and Vice-Premier, who was murdered a few days later.
In 1977, the recently elected Parti Quebecois government of Rene Levesque introduced the Charter of the French Language.
Known as "Bill 101", it defined French as the only official language of Quebec and strictly regulated the use of other languages.
www.infosearchpoint.com /display/Quebec   (1088 words)

  
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Hoequist responds to a comment that francophone Quebecois seem to be succeeding in gaining control of their own destiny by saying, "I would hope they're successful; they don't have any competition".
The problem, of course, is that the Quebecois are BOTH an overwhelming majority (relative to the Anglophones in the province) AND a tiny minority (relative to the rest of North America).
The data are not listed, nor is there any discussion of the particular cases, that is, how D. decided that a particular pair was cognate or that a word was a loan.
www.umich.edu /~archive/linguistics/linguist.list/volume.2/no.201-250   (16353 words)

  
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I am on the digest version of this mailing list and it seems to have been eons since the last digest came through.
Again, sorry to put this to the whole list, but we might be having trouble getting a hold of some folks.
This was partly because I am retentive and like making lists, but partly because I was hoping the page would be a beacon to other 80's fans, especially fans of rare stuff.
www.xmission.com /pub/lists/hats/archive/hats.9703   (8997 words)

  
 The Comics Journal: ¡Journalista!
Comics newssite Sequential lists the sudden flurry of positive press for books published by Drawn & Quarterly, notes that company's recent hiring of former DC Comics PR rep Peggy Burns, and puts two and two together.
Attorney and weblogger Eugene Volokh has filed an amicus brief on behalf of the Authors Guild and a host of famous writers, asking the U.S. Supreme Court to hear the McFarlane vs. Twist case.
Curiously enough, I now have an excuse to list one of them here: 365 Days is a temporary archive hosted by Otis Fodder, a Seattle-based musician and sound collagist who has challenged himself to post a different "thrift-store score" or just plain odd little record in MP3 format every day for a year.
www.tcj.com /journalista/zarch200311D.html   (3071 words)

  
 Hurdy-Gurdy Mailing List Archive, January 2003
Puppeteers of America got that straight with their video library-- they pay for the films out of their funds, or they are donated by members forever, and so if something happens to the films, nobody is personally affected.
I send this to the list because it would be good to hear people's views.
They were all children of famous people, but just never made it big.
www.hurdygurdy.com /mailinglist/hg_arch_0301.htm   (15736 words)

  
 Canadian Action Party   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
The Canadian Islamic Congress reported in its press release of January 13, 2006 that the application of a 35-year-old Canadian citizen to renew his passport on Dec. 22, 2005 was put on hold for "security" reasons.
The famous Niemoeller quote references that he did not speak up when they came first for the communists, then the Jews, then the trade unionists, then the Catholics.When they came for him, there was no one left to speak for him.
But equally so is the fact that not one of the main stream parties is raising this Draconian civil liberty issue in this election," decried Fogal.'"Hidden from the public is the fact that each one of the Liberals, Conservatives, NDP and Bloq Quebecois know about these lists and are complicit in their implementation.
www.canadianactionparty.ca /temp/press_releases/Unannounced_No_Fly_List.asp   (433 words)

  
 Flip Side Records: Easy_Listening/female_vocal
Famous Garland album recorded live at Carnegie Hall with orchestra conducted by Mort Lindsey and Judy at the top of her game.
Complete track list: Leaves Are The Tears Of Autumn/Poppa Says (Dawn Holds Another Day)/Happy State Of Mind/You Only Think Of Me (When You're Lonely)/Going, Going, Gone//Wake Up To Me Gentle/Almost Like Being With You/It Keeps Right On A-Hurtin'/The French Song/Sweet Child Of Sunshine.
Interestingly, mono copy has a different back cover from the stereo copy we currently have (stereo copy has image of Patti in sleeveless gown-this mono copy has 4 small images of her.) A-1 copy that lists for $30 is offered here for a fraction of that amount.
www.flipsideweb.com /pages/Easy_Listening/female_vocal   (6854 words)

  
 Famous Cousins of Jacques L'Heureux
Some 737 of these women married and the resultant population explosion gave rise to the success of the colony.
From this list, at least 47 were my ancestors.
See the list of people he is working on.
www.happyones.com /genealogy/lheureux/famous.html   (588 words)

  
 Notorious Canadian Prisoner to Be Freed - The Crime library
Many in this French-speaking city believe Homolka has done her time and should be given her second chance at life, which she got after making a deal with the state in exchange for testifying against her ex-husband.
Dubbed "English-Canada's monster," by Quebecois, the 35-year-old former veterinarian assistant who grew up near Niagara Falls has said she intends to settle in Montreal, hoping for anonymity amid those perhaps less familiar with her crimes.
Those offenses, when made public through her testimony at her ex-husband's murder trial in 1995 and from homemade videotapes of their sexual killing sprees, knocked the wind out of the nation.
www.crimelibrary.com /news/ap/0705/0307_holmoka_release.html   (1101 words)

  
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A chronology of Brontë's readings and literary activities and an appendix listing the library locations of many of her widely scattered letters is provided.
Although many of these articles were indeed harsh in their treatment of the Jews, Diderot's thinking evolves to reveal a genuine regard for this group.
It contains a list of three hundred francophone women directors from all over the world, and the titles of their films.
www.fdu.edu /newspubs/fdupress/01backlist.txt   (19782 words)

  
 ...an endless banquet: Two Quebecois Classics
I came back and I knew it was time for a bouilli, that classic Quebecois harvest meal.
There’s no question that the meat component can be important—and this is a meal that’s famous for getting families to fight over the beef bone or ham bone that’s so central to its flavor—but as any true Quebecois will tell you, it’s the vegetables that are key.
That’s why this meal is a classic high summer/harvest time meal—a meal that’s at its tastiest when the vegetables are at their peak, a meal where the onions, turnips, carrots, potatoes, greens, and other goodies that you find in your garden or your local markets or farm stands are the real stars of the shows.
endlessbanquet.blogspot.com /2006/09/two-quebecois-classics.html   (1787 words)

  
 Browse Packages - Last Minute Deals
Explore famous antebellum mansions, Spanish-moss-drapped oak groves, and down-home cuisine.
Throw back a few piffches, and taste why this viney German region on the River Rhine boasts a Ministry of Viticulture.
Waikiki Beach is most famous, but Oahu's lesser-known landscapes and hidden gems of old Hawaii culture have equal share of the island's beauty.
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 Eye Weekly - Student Guide Listings - 08.25.05
BISTRO 422 The Beast is famous for the "Punker's Puke" -- a shooter that combines five types of liquor, never the same.
Their famous hot and sour soup comes highly rated.
They compile a close-to-comprehensive list of all the all-ages shows happening in the Toronto area weeks in advance.
www.eye.net /eye/issue/issue_08.25.05/plus/sg-listings.html   (2920 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Over the next 20 days send emails, call the campaign offices of the candidates (the phone numbers are listed in each ridings info as well) if at an event ask the politician for their position.
In the interim, the Ministry of the Environment is proposing to amend Ontario Regulation 127/01 to reduce the contaminant list and to remove some unnecessary reporting requirements.
This recommendation (number 12 in a list of 19) would have a "law of the sea" imposed on road users, as opposed to the "law of the jungle" that applies today.
list.web.net /archives/getsmart-l/2006.txt   (19675 words)

  
 drawn and quarterly
Some schools use it as their own summer reading list, while others use it more informally for readers' advisory or as an ordering tool.
The story -- a thinly veiled autobiography -- is told in two parts: first is a series of flashbacks that relate how the pair met; the second follows them through their first year of living together.
I don’t know if Quebecois culture is going to survive; I want it to be printed somewhere.” He keeps photography books of old Montreal street scenes, for inspiration, and with his own camera has filled an album with shots of the city’s streets and houses, all of which finds its way into his panels.
www.drawnandquarterly.com /newsList.php?st=art&art=a3e4e9282482ce   (9210 words)

  
 Favorite Munchy Food (List Your Favorite UNUSUAL Munchies)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
You can list potato chips as long as it is an offbeat flavor or type.
After all, the bar was a family affair and so were the wings it has become famous for.
Some things make the list regardless of the skill and care with which they were prepared.
www.freerepublic.com /focus/chat/697749/posts   (16289 words)

  
 Stage Listings | San Francisco Bay Guardian
Stage listings are compiled by Cheryl Eddy and Laurie Koh.
Composer Andrew Lloyd Webber and lyricist Tim Rice got famous and, eventually, knighted by the Queen of England for musicals like this one based on the life of Argentina's Eva Peron, and featuring, rather ridiculously, Che Guevara as its unlikely narrator.
Meanwhile, the convicts (dwarfed by a wall of steel bars and costumed in ingeniously refashioned prison garb) create a slightly surreal version of the 1912 town, with its bigots and eccentrics, including Vallier's charmingly not-all-there mother, the deeply theatrical Countess Marie-Laure de Tilly (Gregory Wallace).
www.sfbg.com /39/26/x_list_stage.html   (3302 words)

  
 African Literature and Writers on the Internet
Lists authors by country with brief biographies and photograph.
Their web site has information on subscribing, an archive of past discussions, a listing of important events, conferences, African literature & cinema reviews, etc. The co-editors include Ken Harrow, Sandra Barkan, and others.
Listing of print sources on African literature at Stanford University.
www-sul.stanford.edu /africa/lit.html   (6838 words)

  
 New Gibraltar Encyclopedia of Progressive Rock EM-EZ
Emerson's sheer mastery of the moog and flamboyant technical ability were incredible; his talent along with the dynamo drumming antics of Carl Palmer, won the band a legion of fans.
In your section on The Enid you list an album, Rhapsody In Rock, which you believe was unissued and ask for details [Editor's note: Formerly, in the discography section of this entry, I asked about this.
It was pulled at the last minute but not before track listings and a release date had been given out.
www.gepr.net /em.html   (15408 words)

  
 Wikinfo | Quebec   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Progress on the constitutional issue resulted in the Meech Lake Accord in 1987, but it collapsed in 1990.
Another constitutional deal, the Charlottetown Accord, which sought to resolve a long list of unrelated issues at the same time as it resolved the nation's relationship with Quebec, was rejected by countrywide referendum in 1992.
The Parti Québécois was re-elected to office in 1994, led by Jacques Parizeau, and held another referendum on sovereignty.
www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Quebec   (1980 words)

  
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Fred Hersh has a group with Michael Moore and Gerry Hemingway, for instance and the "famous" Braxton Quartet was described as "one woman, one African American, one Jew and a WASP" by someone in Graham Lock's book.
In Montreal, for instance, to be simplistic, since few native born anglo or allophones live in the Far East End, the chances of having many of them in a band dominated by Nationalstic Quebecois is slim (I know there are exceptions).
A non-digest (direct mail) version of this list is also available; to subscribe to that instead, replace all instances of "zorn-list-digest" in the commands above with "zorn-list".
www.xmission.com /pub/lists/zorn-list/archive/v03.n403   (2770 words)

  
 blog.myspace.com/lyrasinsanity
As you can see from this list, America indeed has its own cultural values which set it apart from other nations.
Here are two more lists of cultural values which may change your mind.
There is a long list of things I'd like to be, but I am not nearly evolved enough to call myself any of those things.
blog.myspace.com /index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.ListAll&friendID=64732680&MyToken=279d52f8-9e70-43e8-a15f-ce4b85ca8114ML   (14844 words)

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