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  • Thumbnail for Plough
    surface while burying weeds and crop remains to decay. Trenches cut by the plough are called furrows. In modern use, a ploughed field is normally left to...
    68 KB (9,017 words) - 20:20, 31 October 2024
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    Big Dipper (redirect from The Plough)
    The Big Dipper (US, Canada) or the Plough (UK, Ireland) is a large asterism consisting of seven bright stars of the constellation Ursa Major; six of them...
    32 KB (3,569 words) - 01:41, 9 September 2024
  • "To a Mouse, on Turning Her Up in Her Nest With the Plough, November, 1785" is a Scots-language poem written by Robert Burns in 1785. It was included in...
    8 KB (599 words) - 13:18, 28 October 2024
  • The Plough and the Stars is a four-act play by the Irish writer Seán O'Casey that was first performed on 8 February 1926 at the Abbey Theatre. It is set...
    15 KB (2,062 words) - 01:32, 7 October 2024
  • The Plough and the Stars is a 1937 American drama film directed by John Ford and starring Barbara Stanwyck and Preston Foster. It is based on the play...
    7 KB (781 words) - 17:19, 11 March 2024
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    The Plough is a Grade II listed public house at 927 Hyde Road, Gorton, Manchester M18 7FB. It is on the Campaign for Real Ale's National Inventory of Historic...
    1 KB (93 words) - 07:22, 4 December 2021
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    "To a Mountain Daisy", On Turning one Down, With The Plough, in April 1786 is a Scots poem written by Robert Burns in 1786. It was included in the Kilmarnock...
    2 KB (194 words) - 07:29, 15 April 2022
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    Horticulture is also sometimes defined simply as "agriculture minus the plough". Instead of the plough, horticulture makes use of human labour and gardener's hand...
    13 KB (1,581 words) - 23:58, 3 August 2024
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    The Plough at Eaves is a public house on Eaves Lane in Eaves, Lancashire, a hamlet of Woodplumpton. It is owned by Thwaites Brewery. Dating to 1625, when...
    5 KB (273 words) - 22:11, 13 February 2023
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    the river. The Lambourn runs through the middle of Eastbury, and past the Plough Inn, which holds the Great Eastbury Duck Race on the river in May. Wikimedia...
    3 KB (255 words) - 17:58, 12 March 2023
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    headland, while the plough continued as long as possible in the furrow (the strongest oxen were yoked at the back, and could draw the plough on their own...
    11 KB (1,442 words) - 11:43, 27 June 2024
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    Regis. Wingfield forms part of the Chalgrave civil parish, and is home to The Plough Inn public house. The Icknield Way Path passes through the village on...
    2 KB (145 words) - 01:13, 28 March 2020
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    conduit beneath the car. The plough had two metal shoes attached to springs that pushed sideways against the power rails. The plough was normally connected...
    12 KB (1,617 words) - 21:58, 18 August 2024
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    "God Spede the Plough" is the name of an early 16th-century manuscript poem which borrows twelve stanzas from Geoffrey Chaucer's Monk's Tale. It is a short...
    1 KB (149 words) - 00:30, 9 January 2024
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    dedicated to St Mary the Virgin; the village pub is The Plough. In June 2024 the closure of the Plough was announced. The meaning of the word Ripple, stems...
    9 KB (1,076 words) - 09:45, 24 October 2024
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    live bands.[citation needed] Epworth has hosted the Epworth Festival of the Plough agricultural fair for a number of years. Beside John and Charles Wesley...
    15 KB (1,556 words) - 23:06, 12 October 2024
  • Song of the Plough, later re-released with the alternative title Country Fair, is a 1933 British drama film directed by John Baxter and starring Stewart...
    3 KB (208 words) - 11:44, 30 August 2024
  • the Flood, whose followers were the first to bring animal husbandry, the plough, houses and brewing to Ireland. Ten years later, Partholón defeated Cichol...
    2 KB (184 words) - 01:24, 4 March 2024
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    climate change toward European conditions. The error of this "rain follows the plough" concept was exposed by the droughts of the 1890s. Many of the stations...
    5 KB (384 words) - 12:15, 20 October 2024
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    tools in prehistoric times, picks have evolved into other tools such as the plough and the mattock. They also have been used in general construction and...
    6 KB (643 words) - 13:14, 20 October 2023
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