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  • Thumbnail for Plough Monday
    References to Plough Monday date back to the late 15th century. The day before Plough Monday is referred to as Plough Sunday, in which a ploughshare is...
    11 KB (1,181 words) - 21:44, 3 June 2024
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    Plough Sunday is a traditional English celebration of the beginning of the agricultural year that has seen some revival over recent years. Plough Sunday...
    3 KB (281 words) - 02:10, 19 February 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 (607 words) - 02:39, 26 September 2023
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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 (3,525 words) - 18:39, 16 April 2024
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    plough, or scratch plough is a simple light plough without a mouldboard. It is symmetrical on either side of its line of draft and is fitted with a symmetrical...
    11 KB (1,550 words) - 11:11, 11 March 2024
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    Plowshare (category Ploughs)
    agriculture, a plowshare (US) or ploughshare (UK; /ˈplaʊʃɛər/) is a component of a plow (or plough). It is the cutting or leading edge of a moldboard which...
    4 KB (383 words) - 01:29, 14 October 2022
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    Domesday Book (/ˈduːmzdeɪ/ DOOMZ-day; the Middle English spelling of "Doomsday Book") is a manuscript record of the Great Survey of much of England and...
    46 KB (5,444 words) - 03:46, 1 June 2024
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    Traction engine (redirect from Steam plough)
    A traction engine is a steam-powered tractor used to move heavy loads on roads, plough ground or to provide power at a chosen location. The name derives...
    41 KB (4,871 words) - 11:50, 29 May 2024
  • a steam plough. The plough cost £500 (about £63,600 today) and was manned by three men. The steam plough inspired the Marquess of Stafford to order a...
    6 KB (665 words) - 22:44, 24 October 2019
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    Football League in 1977. A series of club owners believed that its long-term potential was limited by its home ground at Plough Lane, which never changed...
    206 KB (19,780 words) - 18:40, 29 May 2024
  • and World Vision. The Bruderhof's Plough Publishing House publishes books and a magazine called Plough Quarterly. Plough publishes spiritual classics, inspirational...
    38 KB (4,145 words) - 23:33, 29 May 2024
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    of Vegetable Mould Through the Action of Worms, with Observations on their Habits (sometimes shortened to Worms) is an 1881 book by Charles Darwin on...
    23 KB (2,760 words) - 13:03, 9 January 2024
  • south-west London, in 1889 and based at Plough Lane from 1912 to 1991. Founded as Wimbledon Old Centrals, the club were a non-League team for most of their...
    77 KB (6,560 words) - 20:03, 6 June 2024
  • includes the Plough Bakery, Persian, Japanese and Italian restaurants, a hairdresser, a barber, a dentist and two convenience stores Plough Pond Plough Green...
    10 KB (907 words) - 08:24, 20 January 2024
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    Mummers' play (redirect from Plough Play)
    near Plough Monday. These are therefore known as Plough plays and the performers as Plough-jags, Plough-jacks, Plough-bullocks, Plough-stots or Plough witches...
    43 KB (5,199 words) - 15:22, 8 June 2024
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    Sankarshana. The first two epithets associate him with hala (langala, "plough") from his strong associations with farming and farmers, as the deity who...
    43 KB (4,524 words) - 00:44, 3 June 2024
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    Heavy ploughs were needed to cut through the soil and the ox or horse teams which pulled the ploughs were expensive, and thus both animals and ploughs were...
    26 KB (3,671 words) - 18:04, 24 April 2024
  • Mr. Plow (redirect from Mr Plough)
    authors of the book I Can't Believe It's a Bigger and Better Updated Unofficial Simpsons Guide, enjoyed the episode. They said that it is: "A good one. The...
    20 KB (2,333 words) - 12:11, 29 May 2024
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    has been called the "Big Dipper", "the Wagon", "Charles's Wain", or "the Plough", among other names. In particular, the Big Dipper's stellar configuration...
    43 KB (4,777 words) - 04:02, 25 March 2024
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    British Agricultural Revolution (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the ODNB)
    manure when it was ploughed under after one or two years. The addition of clover and turnips allowed more animals to be kept through the winter, which...
    54 KB (6,949 words) - 13:07, 18 March 2024
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