Dole
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Dole may refer to:
- The Grain supply to the city of Rome in ancient times.
- Since the early 20th Century, a colloquial term referring to government public assistance programs; see Unemployment benefits. Originally it referred to any charitable gift of food, clothing or money. The dole has taken on many different forms in modern society, most notably welfare. Churches often hand out the dole to parishioners in hard times. Some churches still continue these hand outs as traditions in England, such as the Wayfarer's Dole, St Briavels Bread & Cheese Dole and the Tichborne Dole. The term was later applied to Outdoor relief.
- A flock of dove.
- A Scottish legal term for Mens Rea. Derived from the Latin Dolus, the term denotes an evil intent.[1]
- Things
- Dole Food Company, US agricultural corporation
- Dôle, a blend style of Swiss wine from the Valais
- DOLE, Department of Labor and Employment (Philippines)
- Dole Air Race, ill-fated 1927 air race named for sponsor James Dole (see below)
A dole/dule of doves (@see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_collective_nouns_for_birds) one can see the connection to feeding doves (often grain) and various charities described in this article.
- Places
- Dole, Jura, a commune in the département Jura in France
- Arrondissement of Dole, a French arrondissement containing the commune Dole
- La Dôle, a mountain in Switzerland
- Dole, Nepal, a village in Nepal
- Livery Dole, an area of Exeter in Devonshire, England
- Small Dole, a hamlet in the Civil parish of Upper Beeding in West Sussex, England
- People
- Bob Dole, (born 1923), U.S. politician, former U.S. Senator
- Charles Fletcher Dole (1845–1927), Unitarian minister and author
- Daniel Dole (1808–1878), missionary who founded Punahou School
- Edmund Pearson Dole (1850–1928), lawyer and Hawaii attorney general
- Elizabeth Dole, (born 1936), U.S. politician, former U.S. Senator and former U.S. Cabinet member, wife of "Bob" Dole
- James Dole (1877–1958), Hawaiian Pineapple planter
- Lester Dole (1855–1918), American baseball player
- Nathan Haskell Dole (1852–1935), Boston author
- Mary Phylinda Dole (1862–1947), American woman doctor
- Sanford B. Dole (1844–1926), first Governor of Hawaii
- Vincent Dole (1913–2006), American doctor
- Wigglesworth Dole (1779–1845), Deacon and patriarch of several others
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- ^ Criminal Law, Jones and Christie, Greens Concise Scots Law
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