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Nation, Carry Amelia Moore - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Nation, Carry Amelia Moore Protesting against Kansas state's flagrant disregard for the prohibition law, she marched into illegal saloons with a hatchet, lecturing the patrons on the abuses of alcohol and smashing bottles and bar. This information should not be considered complete, up to date, and is not intended to be used in place of a visit, consultation, or advice of a legal, medical, or any other professional. encyclopedia.farlex.com /Nation,+Carry+Amelia+Moore   (131 words)

Rogers Arkansas Temperance organizations like these and activists like Carry Nation helped foment the Prohibition movement and change laws. Carry Amelia Moore Gloyd Nation (1846-1911) was one such reformer. Her battles in Kansas over, Carry Nation took her message to the people, speaking before large audiences in the U.S., Canada, and the British Isles. www.rogersarkansas.com /museum/donationOfTheMonth/04-05.asp   (1801 words)

Carry Nation/Women; shelby county ohio historical society Carry and her second husband, David Nation, settled in Medicine Lodge, Kansas, in the early 1890’s where she soon launched her historic, nationwide crusade against drinking. Much later, remarried to attorney and preacher David Nation and immersed in the fight against alcohol, Carry Nation would attribute her crusade to the horrors she experienced while married to Shelby County’s Charles Gloyd. Oddly enough, the father-in-law of Carry Nation, that great anti-booze warrior, operated a tavern just west of Sidney in the tiny Cynthian Township hamlet of Newport. www.shelbycountyhistory.org /schs/archives/women/cnationwomena.htm   (413 words)

Carry Moore Nation Nation, Carry Amelia Moore (biography) (Her Heritage: A Biographical Encyclopedia of Famous American Women) Nation, Carry Moore, 1846–1911, American temperance advocate, b. The Use and Need of the Life of Carry Nation www.infoplease.com /id/A0834928   (413 words)

Carry Amelia Moore Nation, American temperance leader, dies June 9 in History Carry Amelia Moore Nation, American temperance leader, dies Carry Amelia Moore Nation, American temperance leader, dies June 9 in History To force a lawyer on a defendant can only lead him to believe that the law contrives against him. www.brainyhistory.com /events/1911/june_9_1911_74207.html   (52 words)

The Hutchinson Encyclopedia: Nation, Carry Amelia Moore (1846-1911)@ HighBeam Research The Hutchinson Encyclopedia: Nation, Carry Amelia Moore (1846-1911)@ HighBeam Research www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1P1:100161233&refid=ip_encycl...   (151 words)

The Canada Store: A simple and safe way to shop for Canadian items. We carry Nicorette Chewing Gum, both 2 mg and 4 mg strength in Mint or Fruit flavor. We carry Dristan and Otrivin Nasal Sprays for nasal decongestion. Lakota is an herbal medication for the relief of aches and pains of muscles and joints associated with arthritis, backache, strains and sprains. thecanadastore.35sites.net   (151 words)

Bush urges new effort to help poor Nation must carry on the anti-poverty work of Johnson and Clinton, president says Now we must confront the second problem: to revive the spirit of citizenship -- to marshal the compassion of our people to meet the continuing needs of our nation," Bush said, reading from a TelePrompTer. SOUTH BEND, Ind. -- President Bush yesterday urged a new generation of American voters to "revive the spirit of citizenship" and carry on the work of two Democratic presidents -- Lyndon Johnson's war on poverty and welfare reforms under Bill Clinton. seattlep-i.nwsource.com /national/23877_bush21.shtml   (151 words)

nation - OneLook Dictionary Search Phrases that include nation: most favored nation, nation state, nation of islam, carry nation, carry amelia moore nation, more... Words similar to nation: commonwealth, country, land, nationality, state, a people, body politic, res publica, more... Nation (f), nation, nation (f) : AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary [home, info] www.onelook.com /?w=nation&ls=a   (342 words)

Timeline 1841-1849 When Carry Nation's appeals to close the saloons were ignored, she took matters into her own hands--she drove a buggy, full of bricks and stones she had wrapped in newspapers, up to a saloon, smashed its mirrors, glasses, bottles and windows, and said to the proprietor as she left, "I have finished. 1846-1911 Carry Nation, early leader of the American temperance movement, was famous for using a hatchet to destroy saloons in her home state of Kansas. He was one of the first Union volunteers and fought at Shiloh and Chickamauga, and won a battlefield commission for carrying a wounded officer to safety under fire. timelines.ws /1841_1849.HTML   (14993 words)

Indigenous Peoples and Nation-States: A New Relationship The respect for indigenous peoples that is found in museums does not always carry over to real life, and real people are often left at the margins politically, culturally and economically. International agencies that provide financing and technical cooperation continue to establish norms to ensure that their projects promote respect for and management by indigenous peoples. Such a legal instrument would benefit not only the 40 million indigenous Americans, but all the peoples and governments of North, Central and South America and the Caribbean, who need all their cultural capital in order to develop more democratic societies and meet the challenges of the new millenium. www.oas.org /OASNews/1999/English/March-April99/article3.htm   (630 words)

The Seattle Times: Nation & World: Mother kills raped daughter to restore 'honor' While honor killings committed in the heat of the moment — for example, by a husband who catches his wife in bed with another man — generally carry a six-month to one-year jail term, Qaoud will likely be sentenced to three to five years in prison, Tarifi says. The fact she is a mother who was trying to protect her family's honor mitigates the crime of premeditated murder, which is punishable by death under Palestinian law, he adds. ABU QASH, West Bank — Raped by her brothers and impregnated, Rofayda Qaoud refused to commit suicide, her mother recalls, even after she bought the 17-year-old a razor with which to slit her wrists. seattletimes.nwsource.com /html/nationworld/2001793273_honorkilling17.html   (984 words)

Cool Things, Carry Nation's Hammer, Kansas State Historical Society Nation returned to Topeka to find Home Defenders angry at being excluded from the meeting and distressed that joint owners had been allowed to keep their bar equipment. Nation traveled to Kiowa, 20 miles from Medicine Lodge, where she used rocks and brickbats to smash three joints. The path from obscurity to fame appears to be a short one for Nation, but its roots were in her early life. www.kshs.org /cool2/hammer.htm   (1129 words)

Mosquito Control -- The Bug Stomper - Automatic Insect Control System -- P. O. Box 704, Springhill, LA 71075 (318) 539-5608 Mosquitoes carry a far greater potential threat of even more lethal diseases than the ones we are accustomed to preventing, including, the deadly West Nile Virus. Mosquitoes are one of the most common flying insects found around and in the home or office or on and around pets and livestock. Mosquitoes tend to congregate in shady, moist areas and move around most, during the late evening hours and at night. www.thebugstomper.com /mosquito_control.htm   (1129 words)

006960.shtml If we carry this comparison to the final year of high school using the 1998 12th-grade TIMSS results (the most recent available), we discover that America’s top students placed last in combined science and math achievement among all the industrialized nations for which data were available. Two allegations, in particular, have been common: first, that other nations have not tested as large a percentage of their student population, and hence their scores have been inflated; and second, that our best students are among the world’s best, with our average being brought down by a large cohort of low-achievers. If all of these nations had participated in TIMSS 2003, it seems likely that U.S. performance at the eighth-grade level would have been considerably further below the average of industrialized nations than it already was. commonsensewonder.com /mtarchives/006960.shtml   (1129 words)

The Draft Horse in Amercia:Power for an Emerging Nation The offspring of the heavy horse imported for the farms of the Midwest soon found additional uses as the nation moved toward the pacific. Although two draft type horses, the Conestoga Horse and the Vermont Drafter, were developed in the new nation, both were absorbed into the general horse population by 1800. The railroads employed thousands of draft crosses, working side by side with mules and oxen, to carry ties, rails and supplies to the rail heads, and to haul dirt and rock from the excavation of mountain tunnels. www.imh.org /imh/draft/dr1.html   (1129 words)

The Seattle Times: Nation & World: Japanese WW II sub found off Oahu They were 400 feet long and nearly 40 feet high and could carry a crew of 144. The submarine is from the I-400 Sensuikan Toku class of subs, the largest built before the nuclear-ballistic-missile submarines of the 1960s. In 2002, researchers found the wreckage of a much smaller Japanese sub that was sunk on Dec. 7, 1941, off Pearl Harbor. seattletimes.nwsource.com /html/nationworld/2002214428_sub21.html   (1129 words)

CNN - Satellite TV companies rush to sell local service - November 30, 1999 WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Capitalizing on a new law that allows satellite providers to carry local programming, some of the nation's largest satellite TV companies are launching the service in major metropolitan areas. Satellite TV providers currently do not have the capacity to fulfill that requirement, according to a company representative. The new legislation also requires satellite TV providers, once they start offering local channels, to negotiate retransmission agreements with the networks six months later. www.cnn.com /TECH/ptech/9911/30/satellite.tv   (625 words)

Carry A. Nation: The Famous and Original Bar Room Smasher, Kansas State Historical Society If you get into trouble all you have to do is to tell Mother Nation and she'll be around quick enough to do what she can for you. And if you die Mother Nation will be the one who will close your eyes in death and see that you get a Christian burial. If you get sick and tell Mother Nation, she'll come around and nurse you. www.kshs.org /exhibits/carry/newspaper.htm   (590 words)

USATODAY.com - CDC urges more action against West Nile virus Mosquitos can carry the virus from birds to humans and other animals. Around the South, mosquitos are being trapped and hundreds of dead birds collected as health officials test for the virus. "The best advice I have is not to get the mosquito bite in the first place," Ostroff said. www.usatoday.com /news/health/2001-07-26-west-nile.htm   (590 words)

Native American, the White Buffalo A message I carry for your people from the buffalo nation. And as she entered into the circle of the nation, she sang a sacred song and took the sacred bundle to the people who were there to take of her. Indeed, the Lakota nation mounted the longest court case in U.S. history in an unsuccessful effort to regain control of the Black Hills, the sacred land on which the White Buffalo Calf Woman appeared 2,000 years ago. www.merceronline.com /Native/native05.htm   (590 words)

The Nation It is equally important for him and his ministry to coordinate with PIA to ensure better travel facilities to the intending pilgrims as well as with the Interior Ministry to prevent the immigration staff from insulting the people travelling by other airlines for lower fares compared to the national flag career’s. But while PIA is the target of pilgrims’ ire, it alone cannot be blamed for this lapse, given that it is beyond its capacity to cater to a huge travel load of pilgrims through regular or special flights, especially when most went with their return tickets open. There are also unconfirmed reports of officials’ charging 200 to 500 riyals per pilgrim to confirm a seat which need to be thoroughly investigated. www.nation.com.pk /daily/nov-2004/19/editorials3.php   (590 words)

CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Anglicanism Both accepted the Henrician basis of rejection of the Papacy and erection of the Royal Supremacy, but built upon it the admission of the doctrinal and liturgical changes which make up mainly the Anglican Reformation, and brought the nation within the great Protestant movement of the sixteenth century. At the same time she reasserted in the full the claim made by Henry VIII as to the Authority of the Crown in matters ecclesiastical, and the great religious changes made after her accession were carried out and enforced in a royal visitation commissioned by the royal authority. Notable portions of the baptismal, marriage, and confirmation services are derived from the "Simplex et Pia Deliberatio" which was compiled by the Lutheran Hermann von Wied, with the aid of Bucer and Melanchthon. www.newadvent.org /cathen/01498a.htm   (590 words)

Lost in the kitchen? But after Heidi, now 33 and mother to a 4-year-old son, read "Fast Food Nation," a book by Eric Schlosser that claims the fast industry is unsanitary, she tossed out her takeout menus and acquainted herself with the kitchen. NPD reports the average American took out 118 meals from restaurants in 2002, a 64 percent increase from 1984, a demand businesses in Indianapolis are trying to meet. While three out of five Americans say nutrition plays a significant role in deciding what groceries to purchase, only 21 percent say they choose convenience foods for a healthy alternative, according to an InsightExpress survey of 500 grocery shopping Americans. www.intakeweekly.com /articles/0/020628-2130-142.html   (590 words)

[Editorial] SNU 'Autonomy' Must Carry 'Responsibility' : English Editorials : Internet Hankyoreh SNU's position is that it must be guaranteed autonomy and that its "integrated essay" is not a variety of a bon'gosa, an entrance examination specific to a particular university. Professors are right to say that "university scholarship and education, and the future of the nation, requires that universities have autonomy." Even so, SNU must be given autonomy on the premise it has social responsibility to bear. [Editorial] SNU 'Autonomy' Must Carry 'Responsibility' : English Editorials : Internet Hankyoreh www.hani.co.kr /section-001100000/2005/07/001100000200507090806001.html   (590 words)

AM Archive - Olympians carry the hopes of an emerging nation. Olympians carry the hopes of an emerging nation. AM Archive - Olympians carry the hopes of an emerging nation. It's a remarkable journey for the three Timorese men and one woman who come from an emerging nation only recently free of turmoil. www.abc.net.au /am/stories/s170762.htm   (590 words)

Caribbean Net News: Government takes steps in making Antigua and Barbuda a JOHN’S, Antigua: The Government of Antigua and Barbuda has moved closer towards implementing its educational policy of making the entire nation multilingual. To this end, a Cuban expert will shortly visit Antigua and Barbuda to carry out preliminary diagnosis and establish a plan of action. During his official visit to the Republic of Cuba, Prime Minister Baldwin Spencer requested assistance from the Cuban government in the provision of tutors in the area of Spanish, the second official language of the Caribbean. www.caribbeannetnews.com /2005/04/29/takes.shtml   (299 words)

NPR : Mosquitos Talk of the Nation, July 15, 2003 · You know that mosquitoes are annoying and sometimes carry disease. Learn what you need to know about the mosquito... Here's what you may not know: Only the females bite. www.npr.org /templates/story/story.php?storyId=1337725   (299 words)

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