Articles related to "Frontiers"



Frontier Christmas Celebrations
Isolated and often with limited resources, homesteaders and small town residents enjoyed the spirit of the season in ways similar and yet different to today.
• frontier christmas celebrations • great plains settlers • pioneer christmas • frontier christmas gifts • frontier celebrations

Hart Stillwell's Frontier Baked Beans
Here's a rough-and-tumble, he-man sort of baked beans from a writer of stories of the Old West. These beans feature the regular baked bean ingredients, but add doses of strong black coffee and bourbon, among other unusual things. If you're up for baked beans that'll put hair on your chest (so to speak), give these a try.
• baked beans • frontier • baked bean recipe • frontier beans recipe • coffee

Pioneer Women by Joanna Stratton
Pioneer Women: Voices from the Kansas Frontier tells the story of frontier wives and daughters who endured the hardships of the Kansas plains in hope of a better future.
• joanna stratton • pioneer women: voices from the kansas frontier • pioneer women • frontier wives • women on the frontier

FRONTIERS DAY IN PARIS
The 2001 Frontier Day Celebration took place around the Courthouse Square in Paris. The anticipated attendance at this years fall event was estimated to be between 3000 and 5000 people.
• frontiers day • highpoint rendezvous • frontier skills • fall event • parade

Savage Frontier
Rodney Liddell is a famous and highly regarded author in Queensland, Australia. His popular book "Savage Frontier" attacks Indigenous identity and claim to the land.
• savage frontier • queensland racism • cape york racism • aboriginal treason • australian treason

The Asian Golf Frontier
As China slowly modernizes and eases foreign investment restrictions, the golf industry is successfully taking advantage of the nearly limitless potential.
• asian golf • omega • mission hills golf club • world cup • olazabal course

A Dirty Verb
Growing numbers of individuals from Third World countries escape restricted, depleted and abusive environments to make a new life in the United States, perceiving it to be a kind of frontier. Americans resent the intrusion, and feel displaced, because they lack a similar opportunity.
• frontiers • american frontier • frontier theory • exploration • colonization

A Spring Day in the Life on the Frontier
With the coming of spring I thought it would only be fitting to show what a typical spring day on the frontier was like for a common man.
• cabin • hunting • farming • everyday • life

Frederick Jackson Turner and the Closing of the American Frontier
Frederick Jackson Turner introduced us to the idea that America had become another name for opportunity because of its frontier.
• frederick jackson turner • american history • frontier theory • immigrants • immigration

Frontier Airlines: Putting “Wild” in the Wild Blue Yonder
Usually an airline selects a logo and every jet bears that logo. Every tail is the same, all the colors are the same. Not so with Frontier. This airline decided to pay homage to the frontier by featuring wildlife on its tails.
• animals • wildlife • frontier • peopleexpress • denver

Frontier Doctor
Rex Allen had a long and distinguished career in TV and movies. Primarily known for his B Western films from Republic, his star rose high in the western radar. Born a few years earlier, his career would have taken a different path.
• rex allen • republic pictures • william witney • roy rogers • koko

J. Warren Reed, Frontier Lawyer
Warren Reed might have gone down in frontier history as just another lawyer. Except that he came up against the mighty Isaac Parker, the Hanging Judge. It would be Parker who would cave in first.
• j. warren reed • fort smith • indian territory • cherokee bill • isaac parker

Space the Final Frontier A continuation of the Sci-Fi Script
A further exploration of the sci-fi script.
• darrell j. banks • darrell banks • darrell • banks • wrting

The Cowboys and Cowgirls Behind the Chutes: Cheyenne Frontier Days Volunteers
Rodeo cowboys offer life and limb for the excitement of the eight-second ride, but what about those behind the chutes sweating alongside the cowboys without the promise of a large purse?
• cheyenne frontier days rodeo • cheyenne frontier days • cfd • prca • rodeo

The Next Frontier
We know more about the back side of the moon than we do of the ocean floor. A group of Japanese and New Zealand oceanographic scientists are attempting to rectify this oversight.
• fiji • lau basin • islands • pacific • minerals

The Southern Frontier
A short history of the continuing colonisation of Chechnya and its neighbours in the Caucuses.
• chechnya • dagestan • caucuses • russia • sufism

Airline Meltdowns
Bad weather, terrorism, and labor shortages are typically to blame when an airline's routine operations collapse.
• jetblue • united • us airways • frontier • northwest airlines

Alaska's Inside Passage Resorts
Alaska Inside Passage Resorts offers an exciting number of premier vacation experiences in wild Alaska
• last frontier • alaska • inside passage • southeast alaska • adventure vacations

Film Review, The Proposition
Nick Cave's film "The Proposition" shows great courage in its portrayal of the covered-up frontier Aboriginal war. But does that courage extend to the marketing?
• marginalised indigenous • frontier guerilla warfare • australian frontier conflict • liberal masochists • irish bushrangers

Pokémon keeps going, and going ...
Pokémon's 10th anime series, Pocket Monsters: Diamond & Pearl, will hit TV Tokyo this fall.
• pokémon • anime • tv • tv tokyo • pocket monsters: diamond & pearl

Balkan Triage
If you want to understand genocide, pick up this book at your local (academic) library. Just don't believe the conclusion.
• holocuast • frontier theory • population explosion • population elimination • overpopulation

Classic Authors: Laura Ingalls Wilder
A brief biography of Laura Ingalls Wilder
• little house on the prairie • pioneer • frontier

First Principles
There is a reason why life seems harder, competition stiffer, politics sharper. It is not that we have multiplied too much, but that we have gone forth too little.
• frontier theory • exploration • enclosure • england • greenhouse effect

Greenpeace Wins Right to Protect Whales
Greenpeace received notice this week that it has won the right to challenge the Government in court for failing to protect whales, dolphins and other marine species from the impacts of oil exploration on the Atlantic Frontier.
• greenpeace • whales • atlantic frontier • court decision

Legend
After thirty years, the adventure of Apollo 11 still resonates in the human soul.
• american frontier • thomas jefferson • lewis and clark • space • apollo

Mars Waits
Will desperate immigrants, fleeing poverty and despair, overwhelm the social systems of the developed nations? Will armed despots hold the world's resources hostage, break the economies of the industrialized countries, and, in doing so, doom themselves? Only one thing is certain.
• frontier theory • atomic bomb • nuclear weapons • hiroshima • space colonization

News Update
The latest News on the Sci-Fi front.
• first frontier • sci-fi news

Picking a Candidate
One of the most revealing questions you can ask a candidate at any level of government is "What happens after the space station". The answer will guide you straight to the core of how the candidate thinks.
• international space station • politics • political campaigns • space exploration • mars pathfinder

The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly about Copy Protection, Part III
This is part III of my husband, <a href="http://www.suite101.com/welcome.cfm/18146">Thomas Williams</a>'s, essay on copy protection.
• thomas williams • copy protection • riaa • electronic frontier foundation • recording industry

Two new shows to watch out for....
In this article I look at two of the new upcoming shows.
• first • frontier • privateers

Cities in the Sky
<b><i>The</i></b> plan. Well, OK, <b>a</b> plan.
• space development • politics • moon mining • space studies • trojan orbit

Ludwig Lew Wetzel Indian Fighter
In the 18th century Ohio frontier Ludwig "Lewis" Wetzel served as the boogeyman of the forests on his one-man revenge-fueled warpath
• obsession • frontiersman ludwig wetzel • lew wetzel • lewis wetzel • virginia colony

Using Bark to Add Winter Beauty
Learn how to use the beauty of bark in your garden to add subtle, or not so subtle, interest to the winter landscape.
• winter interest in the garden • bark • textured bark • colorful bark • sugar maple

Airline Rankings Lower Than Ever
Awful service from airline staffers - more than high fares or new fees - have turned fliers into crankier customers than ever, says a leading market research firm.
• airlink rankings • bad airlines • jetblue • united airlines • northwest airlines

Alaska’s Impact on TV-Part I
To many people, Alaska is a mystery. It's a land of snow and tundra and the North Pole. However, by watching TV, you can get a glimpse into The Last Frontier.
• alaska • the last frontier • north pole • northern exposure • reality television

American Colonies Book Review
Alan Taylor produces a fresh look at colonial America. He covers Native American tribes, European contact, slavery, wars, and the opening of the western frontier.
• alan taylor • tribes • what is the bering strait theory • western frontier • james fennimore cooper

First, Buy Time
I choose the beginning of a new year to restate the point of Frontier Theory, which is that the absence of physical frontiers is hurtful and eventually fatal for human beings.
• frontiers • exploration • space colonization • enclosure • family

Homestead Act Records
The Homestead Act of 1862 led to millions of people being given large tracts of land, for free. These claims resulted in lots of documentation that you may want to find.
• homestead act • homesteading • homestead land records • free land • western frontier

Superman Doomsday DVD release
Warner Home Video will release its animated feature film Superman: Doomsday direct-to-DVD on September 18th.
• superman: doomsday • dc comics • warner home video • adam baldwin • anne heche

The Emperor Diocletian
Diocletian stabilized the Roman Empire, introducing economic, administrative and social reforms. His actions laid the foundations for the division of the empire.
• diocletian • emperor diocletian • roman emperor • emperor rome • roman empire

The Point Loma Legacy
Before the space shuttle, before the giant Saturn rockets, there was a classified program to launch flying cities propelled by atomic bombs.
• project orion • nuclear pulse rockets • freeman dyson • theodore taylor • nuclear propulsion

The Zero-Sum Syndrome
In the absence of territorial expansion, you must take what you need from others, or have what others need taken from you.
• zero-sum games • frontiers • business • unemployment • raises

Virginia travel facts and trivia
Information on the Frontier Culture Museum, the first Thanksgiving, JFK's grave, Foamhenge, Richmond Money Museum, Mt Vernon, Arlington, PETA & Norfolk naval base.
• information • frontier culture museum • first thanksgiving • jfk grave • foamhenge

Abilene, Kansas, part 1
Timothy F. Hersey, a migrant from Illinois, was the first settler to claim land near the site of the future Abilene. In July of 1857, he staked a claim on the bare west bank of Mud Creek just north of the Smoky Hill.
• abilene • kansas • plains • hersey • smoky hill

Abilene, Kansas, part 2
Early on, in the late 1860s, one of the most important businesses in Abilene was the Frontier Store, ran by William S. “Doc” Moon.
• abilene • kansas • frontier • general store • doc

ANNIE OAKLEY - “LITTLE SURE SHOT”
A biographical account of the life of Annie Oakley, Markswoman of Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show.
• annie oakley • buffalo bill • bill cody • markswoman • hunting

Chinese-Canadian Dreams and Disillusions: 'Tales from Gold Mountain'
<u>Tales from Gold Mountain</u> is a picture book for readers of all ages who are interested in, or would like to learn, about the history of the first Chinese immigrants to Canada's west coast.
• chinese • canadian • history • chinese-american • chinese-canadian

Freedom's Women
Whether arriving as mail-order brides or looking to start their own business, these women came west in search of a better life.
• african american • women • west • clara brown • mail-order brides

Life at Fort Loudon
Second in a series about a fort that finds itself threatened once again after 200 years. This week I tell about the daily life at the Fort.
• fort loudon • fort loudoun • french & indian war • cherokee • frontier life

Stormy Petrel and the Blizzard of 1871: part 2
Stormy attempts Kansas frontier housekeeping while her brothers scratch the prairie ground and plant their seeds, then lounge upon the porch waiting for their crops to grow and for the rain that never comes.
• blizzard of 1871 • kansas • stormy petrel • frontier • prairie


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