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This Land Is Your Land.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
In 1785, Thomas Hutchins, the first Geographer of the United States, began the improbable task of literally measuring the expanding new nation, yard by yard. Inching west from the Pennsylvania-Ohio border, and equipped with Gunter's chain--a handy surveying device stretching exactly twenty-two yards long--Hutchins' crew chopped the tangled frontier into Enlightenment-friendly six-mile-by-six-mile townships, the effect of which can still be seen from any airplane window. MEASURING AMERICA (Walker), by the British journalist Andro Linklater, tells the eye-opening story of how this "immaculate" grid gave birth to the radical notion of fixed measures (the variable cooms, kilderkins, and rundlets quickly went out the window), the uniquely American idea of land ownership (yeomen farmers were drawn westward to such would-be new states as ...
- Hospital saves with energy-conserving lighting/utility rebates. (Millard...
- Magazine article from: Buildings August 1, 1991 700+ words
...conserving lighting/utility rebates Millard Fillmore Hospitals in Buffalo, NY, recently...lighting system. The idea of relamping Millard Fillmore Hospitals, a healthcare system comprised of Millard Fillmore Hospital, Millard Fillmore Suburban...
- Millard Fillmore, Mon Amour: a Novel.(Book Review)
- Newspaper article from: Reviewer's Bookwatch Colt, Jennifer October 1, 2004 700+ words
Millard Fillmore, Mon Amour: A Novel John Blumenthal...lifelong quest to discover the true "Millard Fillmore," penning a ten volume biography...tumbling down around his ears. Millard Fillmore, Mon Amour is romantic comedy of...
- Millard Fillmore fans are frantic for Kia's soap on a rope.(Adages)
- Magazine article from: Advertising Age Wheaton, Ken February 25, 2008 700+ words
...Requests are trickling in for the Millard Fillmore soap on a rope featured in Kia's...one for each of the members of the Millard Fillmore Society of Ohio. When contacted by...for Ed Darrell, who dubs his blog Millard Fillmore's Bathtub. The blog debunks the...
- She taught a president to read.(Abigal Powers, teacher and wife of Millard...
- Magazine article from: Hopscotch Thomas, Colleen McCormack February 1, 1994 700+ words
...hadn't been for Abigail Powers, Millard Fillmore would never have been elected 13th...than her appearance that captured Millard Fillmore's attention when he entered Abigail...of marrying a country bumpkin like Millard Fillmore?" Abigail knew her heart. She had...
- Millard Fillmore--seriously.(Flashback: to know nothing of what happened before...
- Magazine article from: The American Enterprise Kauffman, Bill April 1, 2004 700+ words
...dove to none other than Buffalo's Millard Fillmore, 13th President of the United States...before Jimmy Carter pounded a nail, Millard Fillmore was the best ex-President. He is...polls of 1948, 1962, and 1996, Millard Fillmore ranked "below average" every time...
- ALL ABOUT MILLARD FILLMORE; FRENCHMAN EXPLORES LIFE OF THIS NATION'S 13TH...
- Newspaper article from: The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY) April 28, 2004 700+ words
...Byline: Scott Rapp Staff writer Credit Millard Fillmore, this country's 13th president...laughing. What do you know about Millard Fillmore? Political party: Whig Born: Jan...week as he searched for material on Millard Fillmore. They shake hands Tuesday. Color...
- Millard Fillmore's `vision' lives on; Annual dinner is coming up; so is party...
- Newspaper article from: Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN) Kimball, Joe March 28, 1997 700+ words
Strange, isn't it, that Millard Fillmore is the godfather of St. Paul's riverfront development...continuity and to keep the effort on track, they have a Millard Fillmore dinner each year, aiming toward a reenactment of the riverboat...
- MILLARD FILLMORE RITE SLATED.(Main)
- Newspaper article from: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY) January 7, 1987 700+ words
Millard Fillmore will be remembered today in New York and Maryland, although he...the Maryland-based Society to Promote Respect and Recognition of Millard Fillmore will pause for a "Millard Moment of Meditation." A wreath from...
