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Brewer's: Cottonopolis
Manchester, the great centre of cotton manufactures. “His friends thought he would have preferred the busy life of Cottonopolis to the out-of-way county of Cornwall.” —Newspaper paragraph…Indiana NPR Member Stations
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A primitive almanac or calendar, originally made of a “clog,” or log of wood, with four faces or parallelograms, the sharp edge of each face or side was divided by notches into three…Brewer's: Blanketeers
The Coxeyites were so called in 1894. “General” Coxey of the United States induced 50,000 persons to undertake a 700 miles' march to Washington, with blankets on their backs, to terrorise…Brewer's: Peterloo
The dispersal of a large meeting in St. Peter's Field, Manchester, by an armed force, August 16th, 1819. The assemblage consisted of operatives, and the question was parliamentary reform.…Brewer's: Flash Men
and Flash Notes. Between Buxton, Leek, and Macclesfield is a wild country called the Flash, from a chapel of that name. Here used to live a set of pedlars, who hawked about buttons,…Brewer's: Iron Maiden of Nuremberg
(The). An instrument of torture for “heretics,” traitors, parricides, etc. It was a box big enough to admit a man, with folding-doors, the whole studded with sharp iron spikes. When the…Brewer's: Jemmy Dawson
was one of the Manchester rebels, who was hanged, drawn, and quartered on Kennington Common, Surrey, July 30th, 1746. A lady of gentle blood was in love with the gallant young rebel, and…November 2020 Current Events: Science and Technology News
Top of Page Disaster News | World News | US News The world is a very busy place, and it's hard to stay on top of everything. Infoplease has got you covered. Here are the world news events you need…Brewer's: Shakers
Certain agamists founded in North America by Ann Lee, called “Mother Ann,” daughter of a poor blacksmith born in Toad Lane (Todd Street), Manchester. She married a smith named Stanley, and…Trending
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