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    headquarters of the industry in Europe. During the Huguenot troubles, ribbon-weavers from St. Etienne settled at Basel, and there, established an industry...
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  • range of students from the UK and abroad. Their students included the ribbon weaver Charles Bray and the novelist George Eliot. Franklin was the eldest...
    4 KB (391 words) - 18:17, 16 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for 1913 Paterson silk strike
    The ribbon weavers were skilled workers who, having previous militant struggles, helped to educate the strikers on their rights. Ribbon weavers were...
    15 KB (1,865 words) - 19:52, 22 April 2024
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    Major General Paul A. Weaver Jr. is a retired United States Air Force officer who served as the director of the Air National Guard from 28 January 1998...
    9 KB (748 words) - 05:57, 15 October 2022
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    born in Rammenau, Upper Lusatia, and baptized a Lutheran. The son of a ribbon weaver, Fichte was born into a pious family that had lived in the region for...
    58 KB (7,073 words) - 18:51, 28 May 2024
  • positivism. Carnap's father had risen from being a poor ribbon-weaver to be the owner of a ribbon-making factory. His mother came from an academic family;...
    53 KB (5,887 words) - 03:13, 15 May 2024
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    Bookmark (redirect from Bible ribbon)
    (sewing), and plastic. Some books may have one or more bookmarks made of woven ribbon sewn into the binding. Furthermore, other bookmarks incorporate a page-flap...
    6 KB (789 words) - 04:40, 2 March 2024
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    Stevens worked for Pears and Franklin, a local ribbon weavers in Coventry, and by 1854 had created his own ribbon firm. In 1860, however, the Cobden–Chevalier...
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    aged 38, Samuel had married 32-year-old Ann, daughter of a Shrewsbury ribbon-weaver. They had four children: Anna, Mary, Emma and Charles. Their Queen Anne...
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    Oakham in Rutland. His father Samuel (1610–1683), of a family of Norwich ribbon-weavers, was a graduate of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, and became a minister...
    17 KB (2,001 words) - 19:21, 19 April 2024
  • were silk weavers. They adopted the Jacquard loom, invented in France in 1804. Coventry and Bedworth became known for their ribbon weavers. That trade...
    4 KB (375 words) - 21:42, 7 May 2024
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    Loom (redirect from Handloom weaver)
    to a fixed object and the other to the weaver, usually by means of a strap around the weaver's back. The weaver leans back and uses their body weight to...
    61 KB (6,508 words) - 21:14, 23 May 2024
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    obverse; only the colors of the ribbon differ. If for some reason an individual were to receive a second medal of the same ribbon colour, then a second medal...
    26 KB (2,112 words) - 03:55, 29 May 2024
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    throughout Africa; it is also known as the bearded finch, the ribbon finch, the cut throat, and the weaver finch. The cut-throat finch was formally described in...
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    as the property destruction at the hands of dye workers in the 1894 ribbon weavers' strike. On April 23, 1902, a walkout of silk dyers in Paterson, New...
    4 KB (445 words) - 15:17, 29 April 2024
  • game up to the wall of the mansion. A gang of 50 to 60 coalminers and ribbon-weavers invaded D.S.Dugdale's game preserve near Coventry and Nuneaton and advanced...
    8 KB (1,174 words) - 13:01, 22 March 2024
  • Greyfriars Lane, married Mary Catherine Ashton, aged 20, Spinster, Ribbon Weaver, of 30 Albion Street. Their son, Bailey, was born in their home in Cow...
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    and only briefly attended Nuneaton church school, starting work as a ribbon weaver at age 13. Being older than most of his siblings, he often had to care...
    11 KB (1,262 words) - 11:57, 6 June 2024
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    Weaving (redirect from Weaver (occupation))
    means—by adding embroidery, ribbons, brocade, dyeing, and other elements onto the finished woven textile—pre-Columbian Andean weavers created elaborate cloth...
    70 KB (8,414 words) - 12:32, 17 May 2024
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    Spirit were worn on a ribbon. When, in the late 17th century, orders were divided into several classes, the cross on a ribbon around the neck became...
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