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	France - Bourg
		Margaret of Austria, who built this chapel, was the daughter of Maximilian of Austria and Marie of Burgundy, and the granddaughter of Charles the Bold.
		Margaret left the court at Amboise with a hatred for France that remained with her until the end of her days.
		She laid the corner-stone in 15o5 according to the wishes of Margaret of Bourbon, mother of the dead prince, guided the hand of the blind architect whose magic transformed her dream into a symphony of stone, and personally supervised the work of building year after year until the chiseled walls and spires were well risen.
	www.oldandsold.com /articles07/burgundy-11.shtml (1091 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Margaret Haughery
		Margaret Haughery, "the mother of the orphans", as she was familiarly styled, b.
		Her parents, Charles and Margaret O'Rourke Gaffney, died at Baltimore, Maryland, in 1822 and she was left to her own resources and was thus deprived of acquiring a knowledge of reading and writing.
		Margaret first established a dairy and drove around the city delivering the milk herself; afterwards she opened a bakery, and for years continued her rounds with the bread cart.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/09652d.htm (574 words)

	NewsScan Publishing Inc. - NewsScan Daily Archives (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Today's Honorary Subscriber is the American inventor Margaret Knight (1838-1914), who has been called the Queen of Paper Bags for her invention of a machine that folded and glued paper into the flatbottomed brown bags used by shoppers.
		Knight first built a wooden model of her bag-making machine, which she brought to a machine shop to produce the working iron model required for a patent.
		Knight was born in York, Maine in 1838 and came up with her first invention at the age of twelve.
	www.newsscan.com /cgi-bin/findit_view?table=honorary_subscriber&id=767 (341 words)

	Margaret E. Knight
		Margaret-- or Mattie, as she was called by her brothers-- was born February 14, 1838 in York, Maine.
		Margaret was called a "_______ ___________," in tribute of her inventing ability.
		With her steady income, Margaret was able to establish a ___________ to do her inventing in.
	www.edhelper.com /BiographyReadingComprehension_36_1.html (605 words)

	Commentary: Knight/Paper bag from Bill Hammack's Engineering & Life Radio Program
		After this invention Margaret Knight doesn't appear in any public record until her first patents twenty years later, when she was thirty-two.
		Margaret Knight built a wooden prototype of her machine and made thousands of trial bags.
		Knight sued and then spent the incredible sum, at the time, of $100 a day plus expenses for sixteen days of deposition of herself and key witnesses.
	www.engineerguy.com /comm/3325.htm (435 words)

	knight (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Margaret Knight was born in Maine in 1838 and started inventing at the age of twelve.
		Knight also invented the square bottomed bag that is in use till today.
		Margaret Knight went on to invent dozens of other inventions--some cite as many as eighty-nine.
	www.csupomona.edu /~plin/inventors/knight.html (241 words)

	Excerpt from Passionate Destiny by Dee S. Knight
		Margaret stood again, twisting her hands and marching the length of the Oriental rug centered on the floor.
		Margaret re-read the letter, wondering who Maude Rawling was, and why she would leave anything to her.
		Margaret noticed with distaste that the glass on the front doors of the building was dark with grime of some sort, and that olive green paint was peeling off the front of the building.
	www.theromancestudio.com /blue/bluefeatures/knightex0504.htm (5586 words)

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		Margaret was a retired doctor when I first met her and her husband through a hiking & mountaineering club when I was 12.
		Margaret and Hugh Neave took me under their wing so to speak, and became family to me...
		Knight!" Natalie watched as Nick went into the kitchen, and pulled out a small box with a bunch of ticket stubs in it, and began to sort through them.
	www.fkfanfic.com /fanfic/m/mode2764.txt (17624 words)

	Margaret knight - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
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	www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/margaret_knight (168 words)

	Harp Weekend - Harpist Christina Sonnemann - harp & voice from Tasmania (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Margaret is a graduate and prizewinner at the Royal Academy of Music London.
		Margaret has performed in all of the major London concert halls and her solo career has taken her to America, Turkey, Scandinavia, Germany, France, Switzerland, Russia and Japan.
		As a soloist, Margaret has performed in the presence of The Queen, The Duke of Edinburgh, Diana, Princess Anne and The Duchess of York as well as various British Prime ministers.
	myweb.ecomplanet.com /SONN4560/mycustompage0028.htm (654 words)

	Road to Romance -- PASSIONATE DESTINY by Dee S. Knight
		Margaret Amis-Hollings loses her tenure at the college she is teaching.
		As Margaret examines her options (or lack thereof) she receives notice that she inherited an old house from a distant relative in Virginia.
		Soon after Margaret moves in, she realizes that she is not the only inhabitant in the house.
	www.roadtoromance.ca /reviews6104/reviewpassionatedestiny.htm (489 words)

	Drabble, Margaret - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		DRABBLE, MARGARET [Drabble, Margaret] 1939-, English novelist, b.
		Drabble's realistic vision of an England split between traditional values and contemporary desires is apparent in such works as The Millstone (1965), The Waterfall (1969), and The Middle Ground (1980), and in her critical studies on Wordsworth (1966) and Arnold Bennett (1974).
		A WEIGHT OFF HER MIND; Novelist Margaret Drabble has finally conquered her fear of the gym and discovered that working out can exercise your mind as well as your body.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/D/Drabble.asp (350 words)

	KiteCD - Women Inventors (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Born in 1838 in Maine, Margaret Knight showed an interest in machinery even as a young girl.
		However, it wasn’t until Margaret Knight invented an improvement to the paper bag machine that the bag we recognize today was made.
		The Margaret Knight Page at The Inventors Museum and Alliance for American Innovation has an interesting biography as well as a page for women inventors.
	members.aol.com /kitecd/inventw.htm (1092 words)

	zzzebra Netz - zzzebra, das Web Magazin für Kinder - Margaret Knight
		Margaret (Mattie) Knight wurde 1838 in Maine geboren.
		Vor Gericht wies Annan darauf hin, dass er Recht bekommen müsse, weil Margaret Knight als Frau ja die Zusammenhänge in der Mechanik gar nicht verstehen könne.
		Das Gericht gab schließlich Margaret Recht und stützte sich dabei auf ihre Aufzeichnungen, Tagebucheintragungen und ihre Berechnungen.
	www.zzzebra.de /index.asp?themaid=386&titelid=2649&Weiterempfehlen=1 (504 words)

	Multicultural Resource Center: Mothers of Invention
		A cotton mill worker from age 9 through her late teens, Knight designed a machine that folded and glued paper to form the brown paper bags familiar today.
		Knight filed a successful patent interference lawsuit and was issued the patent in 1870.
		Pollution was a byproduct of the Industrial Revolution, and this New York City resident was a trailblazer in the fight against air and noise pollutants.
	www.inventions.org /culture/female/mothers.html (2788 words)

	Knight Family Tree Data
		ALEXANDER DUNCAN KNIGHT SR., born 21 Mar 1890 in Keith, Scotland, died 19 Sep 1957 in Victoria, BC, buried 21 Sep 1957 in Royal Oak Cemetary, Victoria, BC.
		FRANCIS EUGENE KNIGHT, born 10 Mar 1920 in Duncan, BC, died 4 Jan 1993 in Victoria, BC, buried 7 Jan 1993 in Victoria, BC.
		MARGARET ELIZABETH KNIGHT, born 26 Apr 1926 in Victoria, BC, died 15 Jul 2004 in Coquitlam, BC.
	members.shaw.ca /kcic2/knight.html (519 words)

	MVTimes Online - The Martha's Vineyard Times: Island News Now (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		It's five days before the debut of “Lightness and Dark,” the show she's presenting with Laura Sargent Hall at the Chilmark Community Center this weekend, and the mood in the studio is one of deliberate calm.
		Sargent Hall, Margaret Knight, Bonnie Alexander, and Roberta Kirn - are practicing Ms.
		Knight hold each other's hands and lean back in perfect equilibrium.
	www.mvtimes.com /calendar/05122005/dance.html (717 words)

	Freethought of the Day
		There are 2 entries for this date: Marie Bashkirtseff and Margaret Knight.
		On this date in 1903, British freethinker Margaret Knight, nee Margaret Horsey, was born in Hertfordshire, England, earning her Bachelor's degree at Girton, Cambridge, in 1926 and her Master's in 1948.
		Knight" and describing her as "a menace." The BBC lectures appeared in her 1955 book, Morals Without Religion.
	www.ffrf.org /day/?sel=1&day=23&month=11 (580 words)

	Curriculum Connections: Horseback on the Boston Post Road, 1704
		Margaret Knight lived from 16661727, She was known as Madam Knight in connection with her writing school and her work as a recorder of public documents.
		When Lawlor wrote her fictional account of Madame Knight's journey -- a great portion of the narrative is dependent on the perspective presented by Knight in her journal.
		Read an excerpt from Knight's diary From the Electronic Text Center, University of Virginia Library, "Colonial Children - The Dangers of the Way by Madame Sarah Knight (1704)." Discuss the mood that Knight sets in her diary as compared with the mood set by Lawlor's account.
	www.laurielawlor.com /curriculum/horsebackcurriculum.html (557 words)

	Thatcher, Margaret (Harpers.org)
		Baroness Margaret Thatcher accused British Prime Minister Tony Blair of trying to “abolish Britain.” Venus Williams won the U.S. Open tennis championship.
		Margaret Thatcher was said to be losing her mind.
		This is Thatcher, Margaret, a human being and a political leader.
	www.harpers.org /MargaretThatcher.html (230 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| The Guardian \| Is this England's oldest teabag?
		Triangular paper bags, rolled from a single sheet of paper, are known from the 18th century, but mass production had to wait for cheap rolls of paper replacing handmade single sheets.
		The "mother of the paper bag" was Margaret Knight, an American also dubbed "the Female Edison".
		She was an inventor from childhood, who at the age of 12 invented a safety cut-out to shut down factory machinery and protect workers.
	www.guardian.co.uk /uk_news/story/0,3604,1221378,00.html (354 words)

	West Seattle Junction Association - Business News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		In 1870 Margaret Knight of Boston invented the first machine that folded flat-bottoms onto bags, thereby dramatically reducing their cost and transforming the paper bag into an everyday useful item.
		Margaret Knight's creativity and efforts of so many years ago have made our lives better than they would otherwise have been.
		The first American woman to become a self-made millionaire as a result of her individual entrepreneurial efforts was Madam C. Walker, daughter of former slaves, who invented hair care products for African-American women and sold them door-to-door.
	www.wsjunction.com /news/girl_power.html (271 words)

	Reznet : Sports: : Game, Set, Match (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Knight said he tries to participate every year and last year he hosted the tournament in Albuquerque, which drew 117 entries.
		Reznet is a project of The University of Montana School of Journalism and the Robert C. Maynard Institute for Journalism Education.
		Major funding is provided by a grant from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation.
	www.reznetnews.org /sports/040929_tennis (412 words)

	Margaret Walters - For The Future And The Past
		For this album Margaret has selected little known Australian folk songs - some old some new but all imbued with strength and vigour.
		The growing environmental movement is a sign that people are getting in touch with their ancient tribal heritage and re-establishing a relationship with the earth and the trees.
		Dorothy wrote this poem when she was living in Perth, Western Australia and her husband, Merv Lilley, also a poet, was away at sea for lengthy periods.
	www.folktrax.com /folktrax2/FEA005.php (1382 words)

	Technology (General) - 0761317562 - Margaret Knight : girl inventor / Marlene Targ Brill ; illustrations by Joanne ...
		Technology (General) - 0761317562 - Margaret Knight : girl inventor / Marlene Targ Brill ; illustrations by Joanne Friar.
		Margaret Knight : girl inventor / Marlene Targ Brill ; illustrations by Joanne Friar.
		Describes how Mattie Knight developed her first invention, a stop-motion device to make looms safer for workers.
	www.pitbossannie.com /iss-t-0761317562.html (163 words)

	HistoryWired: A few of our favorite things
		In 1879, Maine-born Margaret Knight patented this machine for folding and pasting paper bags of what was called the "satchel bottom class." Knight is one of the few women involved in inventing and patenting machinery in the United States in the mid-1800s.
		Her models were among the hundreds of patent models received by the Smithsonian from the U.S. Patent Office in 1858.
		Brown paper bags are still made with machinery based on Knight's original concept.
	historywired.si.edu /object.cfm?ID=400 (156 words)

	Humanist Anthology : From Confucius to Attenborough
		When this remarkable anthology was first compiled by renowned humanist and psychologist Margaret Knight in 1961, it brought together a wide range of humanist thought from classical China, Greece, and Rome; the Renaissance and Enlightenment; and the nineteenth- and twentieth-century rationalist tradition.
		This revised edition, by acclaimed writer and skeptic James Herrick, has updated and expanded an already impressive roster by adding Islamic skeptic Averroes; novelists Mark Twain, George Eliot, and E. Forster; and scientists J. Bronowski, Richard Dawkins, and David Attenborough.
		Margaret Knight was lecturer in psychology at Aberdeen University.
	www.2think.org /hii/humanist.shtml (273 words)

	Finding Aids
		In the mid-1930's Doe married Margaret Beery and moved to Vista, California in 1946 where he became an avocado and macadamia nut farmer.
		Hans and Margaret Doe with Richard and Pat Nixon during campaign, ca.
		Aqueduct trip, Hans and Margaret touring dam facilities; with a group in a dining room, 1984.
	www.sandiegohistory.org /findaid/ac040.htm (762 words)

	Kep-Ku: Positive Atheism's Big List of Quotations
		So I argued at length that the social, or altruistic, impulses are the real source of morality, and that an ethic based on these impulses has far more claim on our allegiance than an ethic based on obedience to the commands of a God who created tapeworms and cancer-cells.
		-- Margaret Knight, introductory matter in "Christianity: The Debit Account" (1975), regarding her change in viewpoints in her BBC series of Freethought lectures began on January 5, 1955, quoted from Annie Laurie Gaylor, Women Without Superstition, p.
		Jesus, in fact, was typical of a certain kind of fanatical young idealist: at one moment holding forth, with tears in his eyes, about the need for universal love; at the next, furiously denouncing the morons, crooks and bigots who did not see eye to eye with him.
	www.positiveatheism.org /hist/quotes/quote-k2.htm (2852 words)

	Kiwibox.com - Articles - Teen Magazine for Music, Entertainment, Games, Fashion and more
		A female inventor by the name of Margaret Knight made it a point to prove legally that women did indeed possess enough sense not only to run a machine, but to invent one as well.
		When she filed an interference suit he claimed that because she was a woman, she was incapable of understanding the intricacies of the workings of a machine.
		Margaret was meticulous by nature and was able to provide enough documentation that the court ruled in her favor in the end.
	www.kiwibox.com /article.asp?a=20823 (806 words)

	Knight
		MARGARET ELLEN FIZELLE (THOMAS, JACOB) was born 1872, and died October 04, 1928.
		EDITH5 KNIGHT (MARGARET ELLEN4 FIZELLE, THOMAS3, JACOB2, JOHN1) was born 1900, and died August 20, 1972.
		MARGARET KNIGHT (GILBERT CLIFFORD, MARGARET ELLEN FIZELLE, THOMAS, JACOB) married (1) YOUREN.
	www.fizell.org /knight.htm (159 words)

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