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| | Farthing (coin) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | The George IV farthing was produced in two types, between 1821 and 1823, 1825, and 1826 it weighed 4.5 – 4.8 grams, with a diameter of 22 millimetres, and from 1826–1830 it weighed 4.6 – 4.9 grams with a diameter of 22 millimetres. | | | Besides, farthings were not produced in anything like the quantities of the penny and halfpenny because, although they were useful to ordinary people, they were not so much used by the wealthy and powerful; also there was less profit and more trouble in manufacturing them for the moneyers than there was for the larger denominations. | | | Farthings weighing 2.7 – 2.9 grams and of 20 millimetres diameter (which was to remain the standard size of the coin for the remainder of its existence) were minted in all years of Edward VII's reign (1901–1910) except 1901. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_farthing
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| | Anvil Creek Colliery |
| | Further protection was provided by a lien on William Farthing's ten rail coal wagons, a horse-gin, and a railway track. | | | The mortgage contained a lien on William Farthing's 10 rail coal wagons made by J. and A. Rodgers of Newcastle, a horse and gin utilised to sink the shafts, together with the railway and rails extending from the then Great North Railway to the new coal pit. | | | In late April 1872 William Farthing was forced to form a new company, "Anvil Creek Coal Mining Company", to provide capital for restoration and development. |
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http://www.amol.org.au/newcastle/greta/acreek.html
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| | Bicycle History & Collecting Books |
| | These books cover the history of cycling, and many are aimed at collectors of classic bicycles. | | | Tony Hadland has concentrated on the period from when the mould-breaking Moulton was launched in the 1960s up to early 1996, while John Pinkerton has covered the time from the Victorian era through to the 1960s. | | | Pope's company was the world's largest manufacturer of bicycles (under the Columbia label) in the late 1800s. |
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http://peteandedbooks.com/30.htm
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| | Penny Farthing Bicycle Home Decorations |
| | The Large Penny Farthing measures 35" wide x 33 1/2" tall. | | | Also offer antique catelogs, parts and prices and tidbits of information like "how to mount a Penny Farthing". | | | The Rusty Spoke- Vintage Bicycles, Classic bikes, Antiques, we have the best selection on the Net. |
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http://35bell.com/PennyFarthingBicycles.html?ID=026&sku=124-2&type=A1QN1&...
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| | Encyclopedia: British coinage |
| | The silver Three Farthings (¾d) coin was introduced in Queen Elizabeth Is third and fourth coinages (1561-1582) as part of a plan to produce large quantities of coins of varying denominations and high metal content. | | | Victoria half farthing 1844 The half farthing British coin (1/8th of a penny, 1/1920th of a pound) was produced in various years between 1828 and 1856 (although proof coins were anomalously produced in 1868). | | | The quarter farthing British coin (1/16th of a penny, 1/3840th of a pound) was produced for circulation in Ceylon in various years between 1839 and 1853 (although proof coins were anomalously produced in 1868). |
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http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/British-coinage
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| | cleaveland |
| | By 1806, small coinage was once again hard to find and so the ship guilder coins along with shillings and pennies were put into circulation. | | | Indian rupees were imported from Mauritius but the residents did not like them. | | | South Africa’s early commerce transpired in much the same way as any other part of the world, with the use of barter. |
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http://facweb.furman.edu/~dstanford/41papers/cleaveland.htm
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| | Others have been waiting for news about the Grand Society and about forthcoming adventures. | | | We are about to embark upon an instructional elucidation of Theatre through the many-doored hallways of History, so that you might appreciate that our ancestors were just as good at acting bad as we are. | | | King Solomon tells us (a long time ago, admittedly) that there is nothing new under the sun. |
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http://www.midcoast.com/~vanreid/moosepathian252.htm
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| | Useful dates in British history |
| | A copper farthing was produced, as a silver coin would be too small | | | In addition to the penny, the halfpenny and farthing were minted, and also a fourpenny piece called a 'groat' (from the French 'gross') | | | Useful dates in British history for the local historian or genealogist |
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http://www.johnowensmith.co.uk/histdate
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| | NodeWorks - Encyclopedia: HI: HIS |
| | History of rail transport in the United States | | | History of standard time in the United States | | | History of United States Naval Operations in World War II |
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http://pedia.nodeworks.com/H/HI/HIS
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| | HISTORY OF BOXING .... title boxing, hbo boxing, boxing shoes, kickboxing exercise, kickboxing austin, kickboxing shorts |
| | HISTORY OF BOXING : catching crayfish with his hands, in tracking game by scent, in snaring quails, in training hawks, in capturing the nightingales who had the greatest variety of history of boxing... | | | The history of boxing began barking in the yard. | | | One thing he could not do, train history of boxing dog; he had not patience enough. |
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http://www.spring-forward.org/history_of_boxing.html
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| | The Origins of the Farthing Surname |
| | Being unfamiliar with the history and meaning of the name, they tended to change it to an easily recognizable form. | | | To date I have been unable to find any data that would support two other theoretical origins, namely "one that paid a ferthing for rent", and "one that lived on a parcel of land that was a ferthing in size." | | | These are just a few of the many examples of how a man that played a vital role in English local history was all but forgotten, and his namesake changed to something totally unrelated to its original meaning. |
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http://www.geocities.com/farthegn
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| | Department of Coins and Medals |
| | A number of significant single coins have also been purchased in recent years. | | | The silver farthing, which was acquired in 1991, represents the earliest issue of English farthings and is currently the first and only specimen from that issue known to exist. | | | Notably, in 1996 the museum bought the entire collection of Chinese coins of the Reverend S. Box, who served as a missionary in China from 1926 to 1952. |
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http://www.thebritishmuseum.ac.uk/cm/cmcoll3.html
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| | NetSERF: Middle Ages in the News |
| | She is also immensely proud of the end result of six years' work as editor of A History of County Durham IV: Darlington. | | | Opening in 2009, these galleries will be the culmination of the £75 million first phase of the V&A's FuturePlan project to transform the museum through new galleries and beautiful displays. | | | The building dates from the 14th Century and was an open hall. |
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http://www.netserf.org/Features/News
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| | (GCA6C0) Farthing Downs (Surrey) by element14 |
| | Farthing Downs is one of six commons in the south of the London Boroughs of Croydon and Bromley which is under the care of the Corporation of London and protected by specific legislation of 1878 which was produced in response to concern at the rapid disappearance of open spaces around London. | | | Found using OS map only and no GPS. | | | The cache is located on Farthing Downs, Surrey between the pretty village of Chaldon and Coulsdon. |
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http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.asp?ID=42688
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| | Local history and heritage |
| | The local history collections are made up of thousands of books and pamphlets, maps and plans, photographs, illustrations and cuttings files. | | | It is the story of the landscape and its communities, and of the many changes that have taken place over the years. | | | The Units contain a wide variety of material relating to the history, topography and development of the locality. |
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http://www.sefton.gov.uk/content-2718&theme=textonly
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| | juggler.org - wheel(s) |
| | Penny Farthing: History, How To Ride, Gallery, Mini Farthing. | | | Not to be outdone by an indie, Trek has stepped up to the plate with their own line of cruisers. |
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http://www.juggler.org/wheels
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| | Meaning of the Lunt Surname |
| | Lunt is an ancient village that, because of its small size, has escaped the roving eye of historians. | | | Lunt: A Place with a name, a name with a history | | | this definition fits the pre-Norman history of the locality. |
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http://www.lunt-family.co.uk/meaning
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| | The Mountain Times Online |
| | Aubyn Farthing also owned and operated the general store across the street from the bed and breakfast. | | | The history of the Farthing Family of the Valley Area is a great jumping off point for visitors to the area who would like to see some of the older churches, graveyards and buildings of the High Country. | | | That store is now home to the Mast Store Annex. |
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http://www.mountaintimes.com/mtweekly/2004/0812/altavista.php3
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| | Philanthropy Magazine @ The Philanthropy Roundtable |
| | The OSS officer in charge of Penny Farthing was Henry Baldwin Hyde, the grandson of the founder of the Equitable Life Insurance Company and later the first director of the William J. Donovan Memorial Foundation in Manhattan. | | | But as a tumultuous century draws to a close, the Donovan Foundation has opened a new chapter in its history, "to ensure that our work continues in the decades to come," says foundation president Jones. | | | Before the Rangers stormed Omaha Beach, a scene so powerfully captured in Saving Private Ryan, American soldiers were already on the ground engaged in an operation critical to the success of the Normandy invasion. |
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http://www.philanthropyroundtable.org/magazines/1999/march/mckivergan.html
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| | Depressed Man Diagnoses as 'British' - Ecademy |
| | George Farthing may be a miserable **** but he gets around. | | | Doctors described Farthing as suffering with Pervasive Negative Anticipation - a belief that everything will turn out for the worst, whether it's trains arriving late, England's chances at winning any international sports event or even his own prospects to get ahead in life and achieve his dreams. | | | Mr Farthing had six months of therapy but seemed to mainly want to talk about the weather - how miserable and cold it was in winter and later how difficult and hot it was in summer. |
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http://www.ecademy.com/node.php?id=38313
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| | Farthing, Wyoming WY, profile (Laramie County) - hotels, festivals, genealogy, newspapers - ePodunk |
| | The community was named after Charles Farthing, who donated land for the local railroad station | | | Churches, other places of worship in or near Farthing | | | Sections below provide additional information and links about Farthing travel and tourism, nearby airports, cemeteries, the Laramie County economy, education, environment, genealogy, government, historic sites, Cheyenne area jobs, libraries, maps, museums, newspapers and other media, nonprofit groups, real estate, recreation, religion, transportation, and weather. |
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http://www.epodunk.com/cgi-bin/genInfo.php?locIndex=23352
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| | FARTHING family history and genealogy information .. Farthing ancestry links |
| | posting surname and ancestry data for Farthing items as well as allowing the public to search for Farthing details will remain free of charge. | | | genealogy software and family history research database for the Farthing name will likely be included in the updates along with an automated form to submit data for Farthing family history.. | | | OVERVIEW -- As this genealogical help and research area is a new part of our website, and is currently under development.. |
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http://www.museumstuff.com/zg.cgi?w=farthing
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| | 1961 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | January 1 - The farthing coin, used since the 13th century, ceases to be legal tender in the United Kingdom. | | | July 21 - Mercury program: Gus Grissom piloting the Mercury 4 capsule "Liberty Bell 7" becomes the second American to go into space (sub-orbital). | | | This will later be thought of as the founding of the human rights organization Amnesty International. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1961
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| | The Idealist.org Nonprofit Design Contest |
| | The image, the Penny Farthing Bicycle, portrays one of the means of transportation used in the early years of Colorado Springs history. | | | The Penny Farthing Bicycle Video describes the history of the Penny Farthing, how people rode them and concerns of the riders. | | | The purpose of this project is to teach our students about one of the historical images painted on a wall of our school. |
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http://www.idealist.org/competitions/gallery/multimedia-student.html
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| | Silver Coins Value : Silver Jewelry |
| | For related topics see: British Banknotes Pound Sterling Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Current Coinage 1.1 Coins and Dates 1.2 Demonetised Decimal Coins 2 Pre-decimal system 2.3 Slang 3 Silver Content 4 History of the Penny 5 Historical Coins 6 Denominations of pre-decimal coins and their years of production... | | | See live article History of the farthing This article discusses the history of the Farthing (fourth-thing) or quarter penny coin from its introduction in the twelfth century to its demise in 1960. | | | Interested readers are advised to read the parallel articles on the penny and halfpenny, which gives detailed descriptions of the contemporary penny and halfpenny coins, of the dynastic struggles in British history, and of the politics and economics of the production of copper coinage, which it is not intended to repeat here. |
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http://www.simply-sterling.com/176-Silver-Coins-Value.html
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| | Comments & Feedback We Receive From Our Web Site |
| | Actually the farthing was not Britain's smallest coin, there were half farthings, third farthings and quarter farthings, but none of these had been issued since 1913. | | | I have never personally been a coin collector but I am finding out why people enjoy the historical beauty behind the coins as I explore the history behind the various coins that my family had been interested in collecting. | | | Just read the appropriate page on the website, bugger, I heard the £2 coin was worth, £40, and having had a look in my holiday fund, found I had three. |
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http://www.24carat.co.uk/commentsandfeedback.html
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| | Values of Coins of the UK - Farthings |
| | Values of Coins of the UK - Farthings | | | Please note that the rare copper 1860 farthing does NOT have the denomination on it, whereas the much more common bronze version does. | | | If you have done this and still wish to ask for advice, feel free to mail me via my Advice page but please do not send me unsolicited scans or other binary files. |
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http://www.tclayton.demon.co.uk/values/farth.html
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| | Buried Treasure Books: Weblog » Same Old, Same Old |
| | Mary Emma and Company by Ralph Moody, aloud to my children | | | If you could time travel, which period of history would you most want to avoid? | | | No: for we should not be wiser than God, who will not have His people taught by dumb idols, but by the lively preaching of His Word. |
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http://buriedtreasurebooks.com/weblog?p=840
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| | Cromford in Derbyshire: History |
| | Earth is at least 4,500 million years old, its history measured in geological eras. | | | New coinage, all silver: grout (fourpenny piece), round farthing and halfpenny. | | | Here there was a constant supply of water - Bonsall Brook and Cromford sough - which wa |
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http://www.pandyweb.freeserve.co.uk/crom_his.html
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| | News-Star OnlineOBU students working through questions, one year later 09/13/02 |
| | Farthing reviewed the events of the past year. | | | A panel of professors, representing varied academic fields, worked through recent concerns about future potential for war, the United States' unpopularity in the Muslim world, stereotyping, religious characteristics of Muslims, and implications of the war on terrorism on civil liberties. | | | Farthing concluded by questioning how an invasion of Iraq would affect the United States and the Arab world. |
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http://www.news-star.com/stories/091302/spe_2.shtml
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| | An Early History |
| | From Caithness, quantities of butter made up in the shape of globes were carried in open boats to Moray, up to 1800, and the "pastry of the baker's shops at Elgin and Forres were then enriched with their importation". | | | Since butter, and especially cheese, are easily portable, they were particularly useful for trade. | | | While researching for the History of Scottish Weights and Measures, he came across records which clearly show the extent to which cheese formed a vital part of the royal revenue. |
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http://www.efr.hw.ac.uk/SDA/cheese1.html
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| | Surname Meanings on Almondnet |
| | In all, two billion names spanning 15 decades of history. | | | Check criminal and driving records, get unlisted phone numbers, family histories and much more. | | | Study family history by accessing these genealogy records and research tools. |
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http://www.motor-insurance-quotation-uk.co.uk/motorinsurance/surname_meanings.html
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| | Legal tender |
| | In the case of the euro, coins and banknotes of former national currencies were considered as legal tender from January 1 1999, until February 28 2002 (in some cases), even if their corresponding currencies had ceased to exist. | | | Individual coins or banknotes may be demonetised and cease to be legal tender, for example, the pre-decimal United Kingdom History of the farthingfarthing/ or the Bank of England 1 pound note. |
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http://www.infothis.com/find/Legal_tender
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| | Bryn Ffyliaid Publications |
| | BRYN FFYLIAID PUBLICATIONS is a small publishing house whose major emphasis is documentation of family history in some of the early counties of Virginia. | | | Evans adds to the basic source material upon which a history of the county and its families can be based." -- THE VIRGINIA GENEALOGIST | | | Several hardcover books of family history are included in the collection, as well as paperbound abstracts of census data, wills, deeds, guardian accounts, marriage licenses, orders, and land taxes. |
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http://bryn.ffyl.home.att.net/bryn.ffyl.html
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| | Dirac Angestun Gesept: Worldcon: Saturday |
| | Alternate history mystery, which means it combines two things I like, from a writer I like, hooray hooray hooray; another book to look forward to impatiently. | | | Off to the LMB mailing list gathering, stayed there for a bit, then off to Jo Walton's reading from her upcoming Farthing. | | | Ashcroft and the secret laws (now with extra secrecy sauce on the government's legal arguments) was simply "I am appalled". |
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http://blogs.ckdhr.com/dag/archives/000111.html
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| | Local Studies Group of CILIP : North west |
| | There must be many more similar examples out there - let us know and we will publicise them. | | | As you may know, the Manchester Region History Review for this year is not yet out, and there are rumours that it has ceased publication. | | | Latchford Locks, Manchester Ship Canal, Warrington - still sees many ships passing through carrying grain, cement and other goods. |
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http://www.cilip.org.uk/groups/lsg/nw_newsletter2.htm
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| | Bicycle Links |
| | With a lot of useful information on bicycles and cycling history. |
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http://wabakimi.carleton.ca/~jnoakes/bike/links.html
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| | In Henrico County,Virginia, 14 Jul 1637, Richard Ward was granted 50 acres due Barthlomew FARTHING for the transportation of a servant called Sarah Breman. | | | of which 916 acres, newly taken up due for the transportation of 19 persons, Charles FARTHING being one named. | | | Here it is written that the land was due in right of his now wife, Dorothy Gardiner, late widdowe to Edward Gardiner, to whom it was due for the transportation of the 22 people including Barr. |
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http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~bfbonham/immigr.htm
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| | The First Original Official Repository of the Farthing Family History in America |
| | The First and Original Official Repository of the Farthing Family History in America is brought to you by Thomas M. | | | The First and Original Official Repository of the Farthing Family History in America | | | The First Original Official Repository of the Farthing Family History in America |
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http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Plains/6880
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| | Voce Populi Coins |
| | In the February 2005 issue of NUMISMATIST (page 63), William Anton offered a Voce Populi Small Letters Farthing for $175,000.00, describing it as follows: "Finer of two known. |
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http://www.coinfacts.com/colonial_coins/voce_populi/voce_populi_coins.htm
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| | The Appalachian Online Entertainment |
| | dancers from the company will be giving a free lecture and demonstration on “The History of Hip-Hop” Farthing Auditorium. | | | Tickets are on sale in the Farthing Auditorium box office at $16 for the public, $14 for seniors and Appalachian faculty and staff and $8 for students. | | | The Office of Cultural Affairs (OCA) will prove this point with the Rennie Harris Puremovement in Farthing Auditorium tomorrow. |
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http://www.theapp.appstate.edu/archives_02-03/01-30-03/entertainment.html
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| | Pay attention! This is a new America! |
| | But all this reevaluation of history, and even cartoons, can make one’s head spin. | | | As we move more and more rapidly toward becoming a Christian theocracy sometimes all this just makes you weary. | | | Ah well, the evil, Godless Jefferson is long gone. |
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http://www.justabovesunset.com/id623.html
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| | SAS supports highway patrol with computer donation |
| | Through a generous financial and in-kind grants program, the company demonstrates corporate citizenship on a global level, but remains committed to its North Carolina roots. | | | “Having a foundation in North Carolina is an important part of SAS’ history,” said George Farthing, community relations manager for SAS. |
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http://www.sas.com/news/preleases/041304/news1.html
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| | Timeline 1879-1882 |
| | 1879-1955 Wallace Stevens, American poet and author: "All history is modern history." | | | 1880 May 29, Oswald Spengler, German philosopher of history, was born. | | | He revealed in painful detail the small foibles of a bourgeois life and believed in perfection of form and the absolute value of art. |
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http://timelines.ws/1879_1882.HTML
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