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420764 | Integrated pest management | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Integrated%20pest%20management | Integrated pest management
main target, has become increasingly resistant. Since 2008, outbreaks have devastated rice harvests throughout Asia, but not in the Mekong Delta. Reduced spraying allowed natural predators to neutralize planthoppers in Vietnam. In 2010 and 2011, massive planthopper outbreaks hit 400,000 hecta... | 57,400 |
420764 | Integrated pest management | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Integrated%20pest%20management | Integrated pest management
beneficial insects and decimates bird and amphibian populations. Pesticides are suspected of harming human health and became a common means for rural Asians to commit suicide.
In 2001, scientists challenged 950 Vietnamese farmers to try IPM. In one plot, each farmer grew rice using their usu... | 57,401 |
420764 | Integrated pest management | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Integrated%20pest%20management | Integrated pest management
and pesticide would boost yield, quality and income. Posters, leaflets, TV commercials and a 2004 radio soap opera that featured a rice farmer who gradually accepted the changes. It didn't hurt that a 2006 planthopper outbreak hit farmers using insecticides harder than those who didn't. Mekon... | 57,402 |
420764 | Integrated pest management | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Integrated%20pest%20management | Integrated pest management
companies offer bundles of pesticides with seeds and fertilizer, with incentives for volume purchases. A proposed law in Vietnam requires licensing pesticide dealers and government approval of advertisements to prevent exaggerated claims. Insecticides that target other pests, such as "Scirpop... | 57,403 |
420764 | Integrated pest management | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Integrated%20pest%20management | Integrated pest management
Food Security and Poverty Alleviation." Proceedings of the International Rice Research Conference, 31 March – 3 April 2000, Los Baños, Philippines. Los Baños (Philippines): International Rice Research Institute. 692 p.
- Jahn, GC, B. Khiev, C Pol, N. Chhorn and V Preap 2001. Sustainable pest... | 57,404 |
420764 | Integrated pest management | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Integrated%20pest%20management | Integrated pest management
agricole : (apparitions, répartition, importance) / University of Belgrade/Institut pour la protection des plantes
- US Environmental Protection Agency, "Pesticides and Food: What Does Integrated Pest Management Mean?"
- Regnault-Roger, Catherine; Philogene, Bernard JR (2008) Past and Curre... | 57,405 |
420764 | Integrated pest management | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Integrated%20pest%20management | Integrated pest management
) / University of Belgrade/Institut pour la protection des plantes
- US Environmental Protection Agency, "Pesticides and Food: What Does Integrated Pest Management Mean?"
- Regnault-Roger, Catherine; Philogene, Bernard JR (2008) Past and Current Prospects for the use of Botanicals and Plant... | 57,406 |
420746 | Frederic Remington | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Frederic%20Remington | Frederic Remington
Frederic Remington
Frederic Sackrider Remington (October 4, 1861 – December 26, 1909) was an American painter, illustrator, sculptor, and writer who specialized in depictions of the American Old West, specifically concentrating on scenes from the last quarter of the 19th century in the Western Unite... | 57,407 |
420746 | Frederic Remington | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Frederic%20Remington | Frederic Remington
of the Bascom line was of French Basque ancestry, coming to America in the early 1600s and founding Windsor, Connecticut. Remington's father was a Union army officer, a colonel, in the American Civil War whose family had arrived in America from England in 1637. He was a newspaper editor and postmaste... | 57,408 |
420746 | Frederic Remington | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Frederic%20Remington | Frederic Remington
is Frank Tenney Johnson, the "father of western moonlight painting."
Frederic Remington was also a cousin to Eliphalet Remington, founder of the Remington Arms Company, which is considered America's oldest gunmaker. He was also related to three famous mountain men—Jedediah Smith, Jonathan T. Warner ... | 57,409 |
420746 | Frederic Remington | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Frederic%20Remington | Frederic Remington
Bloomington, Illinois for a brief time and was appointed editor of the Bloomington "Republican", but the family returned to Canton in 1867. Remington was the only child of the marriage, and received constant attention and approval. He was an active child, large and strong for his age, who loved to hu... | 57,410 |
420746 | Frederic Remington | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Frederic%20Remington | Frederic Remington
father hoped discipline would rein in his son's lack of focus and perhaps lead to a military career. Remington took his first drawing lessons at the Institute. He then transferred to another military school where his classmates found the young Remington to be a pleasant fellow, a bit careless and laz... | 57,411 |
420746 | Frederic Remington | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Frederic%20Remington | Frederic Remington
a career for himself as a journalist, with art as a sideline.
Remington attended the art school at Yale University, studying under John Henry Niemeyer. Remington was the only male student in his freshman year. He found that football and boxing were more interesting than the formal art training, part... | 57,412 |
420746 | Frederic Remington | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Frederic%20Remington | Frederic Remington
had tuberculosis. His father died a year later, at age fifty, receiving respectful recognition from the citizens of Ogdensburg. Remington's Uncle Mart secured a good paying clerical job for his nephew in Albany, New York and Remington would return home on weekends to see his girlfriend Eva Caten. Aft... | 57,413 |
420746 | Frederic Remington | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Frederic%20Remington | Frederic Remington
operation then a mining interest but realized he did not have sufficient capital for either. In the American West of 1881, he saw the vast prairies, the quickly shrinking buffalo herds, the still unfenced cattle, and the last major confrontations of U.S. Cavalry and Native American tribes, scenes he ... | 57,414 |
420746 | Frederic Remington | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Frederic%20Remington | Frederic Remington
history. From that first trip, "Harper's Weekly" printed Remington's first published commercial effort, a re-drawing of a quick sketch on wrapping paper that he had mailed back East. In 1883, Remington went to rural Kansas, south of the city of Peabody near the tiny community of Plum Grove, to try hi... | 57,415 |
420746 | Frederic Remington | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Frederic%20Remington | Frederic Remington
sketching but at this point his results were still cartoonish and amateur. After less than a year, he sold his ranch and went home. After acquiring more capital from his mother, he returned to Kansas City to start a hardware business, but due to an alleged swindle, it failed, and he reinvested his re... | 57,416 |
420746 | Frederic Remington | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Frederic%20Remington | Frederic Remington
Remington started to sketch and paint in earnest, and bartered his sketches for essentials.
He soon had enough success selling his paintings to locals to see art as a real profession. Remington returned home again, his inheritance gone but his faith in his new career secured, reunited with his wife ... | 57,417 |
420746 | Frederic Remington | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Frederic%20Remington | Frederic Remington
and his hearty, breezy "cowboy" demeanor gained him credibility with the eastern publishers looking for authenticity. His first full-page cover under his own name appeared in "Harper's Weekly" on January 9, 1886, when he was twenty-five. With financial backing from his Uncle Bill, Remington was able ... | 57,418 |
420746 | Frederic Remington | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Frederic%20Remington | Frederic Remington
also made notes on the true colors of the West, such as "shadows of horses should be a cool carmine & Blue", to supplement the black-and-white photos. Ironically, art critics later criticized his palette as "primitive and unnatural" even though it was based on actual observation.
After returning Eas... | 57,419 |
420746 | Frederic Remington | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Frederic%20Remington | Frederic Remington
come to New York with $30 and catch on it 'art'."
For commercial reproduction in black-and-white, he produced ink and wash drawings. As he added watercolor, he began to sell his work in art exhibitions. His works were selling well but garnered no prizes, as the competition was strong and masters lik... | 57,420 |
420746 | Frederic Remington | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Frederic%20Remington | Frederic Remington
"The Century Magazine" before publication. The 29-year-old Roosevelt had a similar Western adventure to Remington, losing money on a ranch in North Dakota the previous year but gaining experience which made him an "expert" on the West. The assignment gave Remington's career a big boost and forged a l... | 57,421 |
420746 | Frederic Remington | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Frederic%20Remington | Frederic Remington
complex compositions with ease, as in "Mule Train Crossing the Sierras" (1888), and to show action from all points of view. His status as the new trendsetter in Western art was solidified in 1889 when he won a second-class medal at the Paris Exposition. He had been selected by the American committee ... | 57,422 |
420746 | Frederic Remington | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Frederic%20Remington | Frederic Remington
launched a massive promotional campaign for Remington, stating that "He draws what he knows, and he knows what he draws." Though laced with blatant puffery (common for the time) claiming that Remington was a bona fide cowboy and Indian scout, the effect of the campaign was to raise Remington to the e... | 57,423 |
420746 | Frederic Remington | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Frederic%20Remington | Frederic Remington
promoted some of the myths he encouraged about his Western experiences.
Remington's regular attendance at celebrity banquets and stag dinners, however, though helpful to his career, fostered prodigious eating and drinking which caused his girth to expand alarmingly. Obesity became a constant problem... | 57,424 |
420746 | Frederic Remington | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Frederic%20Remington | Frederic Remington
living space and extensive studio facilities, and also with the hope of gaining more exercise. The community was close to New York City affording easy access to the publishing houses and galleries necessary for the artist, and also rural enough to provide him with the space he needed for horseback ri... | 57,425 |
420746 | Frederic Remington | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Frederic%20Remington | Frederic Remington
on a prestigious promontory known as Lathers Hill. A sweeping lawn rolled south toward Long Island Sound, providing views on three sides of the beautiful Westchester County countryside. Remington called it ""Endion"", an Ojibwa word meaning ""the place where I live."" In the early years, no real stud... | 57,426 |
420746 | Frederic Remington | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Frederic%20Remington | Frederic Remington
less than adequate, and the surroundings were generally uninspiring. In the spring of 1896 Remington retained the New Rochelle architect O. William Degen to plan a studio addition to the house. An article in the New Rochelle Pioneer of April 26 touted the "fine architectural design" of the studio. Re... | 57,427 |
420746 | Frederic Remington | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Frederic%20Remington | Frederic Remington
made him a favorite of the Western Army officers fighting the last Native American battles. He was invited out West to make their portraits in the field and to gain them national publicity through Remington's articles and illustrations for "Harper's Weekly", particularly General Nelson Miles, an Indi... | 57,428 |
420746 | Frederic Remington | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Frederic%20Remington | Frederic Remington
Remington wrote that the "heat was awful and the dust rose in clouds. Men get sulky and go into a comatose state – the fine alkali dust penetrates everything but the canteens."
Remington arrived on the scene just after the 1890 massacre at Wounded Knee on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South D... | 57,429 |
420746 | Frederic Remington | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Frederic%20Remington | Frederic Remington
the artist as he wished he was, not the pot-bellied Easterner weighing heavily on a horse, but a tough, lean cowboy heading for adventure with his trusty steed. It was the image his publishers worked hard to maintain as well.
In "His Last Stand" (1890), a cornered bear in the middle of a prairie is ... | 57,430 |
420746 | Frederic Remington | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Frederic%20Remington | Frederic Remington
around the U.S., Mexico, and abroad to gather ideas for articles and illustrations, but his military and cowboy subjects always sold the best, even as the Old West was playing out. In 1892, he painted "A Cavalryman's Breakfast on the Plains". Gradually, he transitioned from the premiere chronicler-ar... | 57,431 |
420746 | Frederic Remington | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Frederic%20Remington | Frederic Remington
I add." Remington's focus continued on outdoor action and he rarely depicted scenes in gambling and dance halls typically seen in Western movies. He avoided frontier women as well. His painting "A Misdeal" (1897) is a rare instance of indoor cowboy violence.
Remington had developed a sculptor's 360-... | 57,432 |
420746 | Frederic Remington | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Frederic%20Remington | Frederic Remington
a very challenging subject. After several months, the novice sculptor overcame the difficulties and had a plaster cast made, then bronze copies, which were sold at Tiffany's. Remington was ecstatic about his new line of work, and though critical response was mixed, some labelling it negatively as "il... | 57,433 |
420746 | Frederic Remington | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Frederic%20Remington | Frederic Remington
with me". Sensing the political mood of that time, he was looking forward to a military conflict which would provide the opportunity to be a heroic war correspondent, giving him both new subject matter and the excitement of battle. He was growing bored with routine illustration, and he wrote to Howar... | 57,434 |
420746 | Frederic Remington | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Frederic%20Remington | Frederic Remington
membership by the Academy, likely because of his image as a popular, cocky, and ostentatious artist. Remington kept up his contact with celebrities and politicos, and continued to woo Theodore Roosevelt, now the New York City Police Commissioner, by sending him complimentary editions of new works. De... | 57,435 |
420746 | Frederic Remington | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Frederic%20Remington | Frederic Remington
including those led by Roosevelt. However, his heroic conception of war, based in part on his father's Civil War experiences, were shattered by the actual horror of jungle fighting and the deprivations he faced in camp. His reports and illustrations upon his return focused not on heroic generals but ... | 57,436 |
420746 | Frederic Remington | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Frederic%20Remington | Frederic Remington
"There could have been no more appropriate gift from such a regiment."
In 1898, he achieved the public honor of having two paintings used for reproduction on U. S. Postal stamps. In 1900, as an economy move, Harper's dropped Remington as their star artist. To compensate for the loss of work, Remingt... | 57,437 |
420746 | Frederic Remington | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Frederic%20Remington | Frederic Remington
the lost wax method, a higher quality process than the earlier sand casting method he had employed. By 1901, "Collier's" was buying Remington's illustrations on a steady basis. As his style matured, Remington portrayed his subjects in every light of day. His nocturnal paintings, very popular in his l... | 57,438 |
420746 | Frederic Remington | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Frederic%20Remington | Frederic Remington
which became a classic Western novel. A stage play based on "John Ermine" failed in 1904. After "John Ermine", Remington decided he would soon quit writing and illustration (after drawing over 2700 illustrations) to focus on sculpture and painting.
In 1903, Remington painted "His First Lesson" set o... | 57,439 |
420746 | Frederic Remington | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Frederic%20Remington | Frederic Remington
of the Fairmount Park Art Association (now the Association for Public Art) commissioned Remington to create a large sculpture of a cowboy for Philadelphia's Fairmount Park, which was erected in 1908 on a jutting rock along Kelly Drive – a site Remington specifically chose for the piece after having a... | 57,440 |
420746 | Frederic Remington | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Frederic%20Remington | Frederic Remington
a slow down in his sales and in 1908, fantasy artists, such as Maxfield Parrish, became popular with the public and with commercial sponsors. Remington tried to sell his home in New Rochelle to get further away from urbanization. One night he made a bonfire in his yard and burned dozens of his oil pa... | 57,441 |
420746 | Frederic Remington | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Frederic%20Remington | Frederic Remington
that he was studio bound (by virtue of his declining health) and could not follow his peers who painted "plein air".
Frederic Remington died after an emergency appendectomy led to peritonitis on December 26, 1909. His extreme obesity (weight nearly 300 pounds) had complicated the anesthesia and the ... | 57,442 |
420746 | Frederic Remington | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Frederic%20Remington | Frederic Remington
Building.
# Style and influence.
Remington was the most successful Western illustrator in the "Golden Age" of illustration at the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century, so much so that the other Western artists such as Charles Russell and Charles Schreyvogel were known durin... | 57,443 |
420746 | Frederic Remington | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Frederic%20Remington | Frederic Remington
Edwin Church, Albert Bierstadt, and Thomas Moran, who glorified the vastness of the West and the dominance of nature over man. He took artistic liberties in his depictions of human action, and for the sake of his readers' and publishers' interest. Though always confident in his subject matter, Reming... | 57,444 |
420746 | Frederic Remington | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Frederic%20Remington | Frederic Remington
spawning the entire genre of Western fiction, films, and theater that followed. Remington provided the concept of the project, its factual content, and its illustrations and Wister supplied the stories, sometimes altering Remington's ideas. (Remington's prototype cowboys were Mexican rancheros but Wi... | 57,445 |
420746 | Frederic Remington | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Frederic%20Remington | Frederic Remington
(along with Thomas Eakins), as validated by the famous sequential photographs of Eadweard Muybridge. Previously, horses in full gallop were usually depicted with all four legs pointing out, like "hobby horses". The galloping horse became Remington's signature subject, copied and interpreted by many W... | 57,446 |
420746 | Frederic Remington | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Frederic%20Remington | Frederic Remington
was Remington's invention of "cowboy" sculpture. From his inaugural piece, "The Broncho Buster" (1895), he created an art form which is still very popular among collectors of Western art.
An early advocate of the photoengraving process over wood engraving for magazine reproduction of illustrative ar... | 57,447 |
420746 | Frederic Remington | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Frederic%20Remington | Frederic Remington
that his originals be handled carefully and returned to him in pristine condition (without editor's marks) so he could sell them. He carefully regulated his output to maximize his income and kept detailed notes about his works and his sales. In 1991 the PBS series "American Masters" filmed a document... | 57,448 |
420746 | Frederic Remington | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Frederic%20Remington | Frederic Remington
illustrations, and sculptures include:
- Frederic Remington Art Museum, Ogdensburg, New York;
- Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, Texas
- Sid Richardson Museum, Fort Worth, Texas
- Buffalo Bill Historical Center, Cody, Wyoming
- Gilcrease Museum, Tulsa, Oklahoma
- Metropolitan Museum, New York Ci... | 57,449 |
420746 | Frederic Remington | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Frederic%20Remington | Frederic Remington
Figurine
# Legacy.
- Frederic Remington Art Museum in Ogdensburg, New York
- Frederic Remington High School in Brainerd, Kansas
- Frederic Remington House in Ridgefield, Connecticut, a National Historic Landmark
- Frederic Remington Post Office Building in Ogdensburg, New York
- Liberty Ship na... | 57,450 |
420746 | Frederic Remington | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Frederic%20Remington | Frederic Remington
price at Christie's
- "Cold Morning on the Range", a Remington painting
- "", 1991 "American Masters" documentary
- Earl W. Bascom, cowboy sculptor and cousin to Remington
- Arthur Roy Mitchell, Colorado artist
- J. K. Ralston, western artist
- Charles M. Russell, western artist
# References.
... | 57,451 |
420746 | Frederic Remington | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Frederic%20Remington | Frederic Remington
NY, 2001, .
- Michael D. Greenbaum, "Icons of the West: Frederic Remington's Sculpture", Frederic Remington Art Museum, Ogdensburg, NY, 1996, .
# External links.
- Bronco Buster statue in Manawa, Wisconsin
- Sid Richardson Museum; includes biography
- Works from the Permanent Collection of the U... | 57,452 |
420746 | Frederic Remington | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Frederic%20Remington | Frederic Remington
rt Museum, Ogdensburg, NY, 1996, .
# External links.
- Bronco Buster statue in Manawa, Wisconsin
- Sid Richardson Museum; includes biography
- Works from the Permanent Collection of the Utah Museum of Fine Arts
- Frederic Remington The Online Art Museum
- Frederic Remington Art Museum in Ogdens... | 57,453 |
420779 | Marc Racicot | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Marc%20Racicot | Marc Racicot
Marc Racicot
Marc Racicot (; born July 24, 1948) is an American attorney, lobbyist, politician and member of the Republican Party who served as the 21st Governor of Montana from 1993 until 2001. After leaving office, Racicot worked as a lobbyist for the law firm Bracewell & Giuliani. His notable clients i... | 57,454 |
420779 | Marc Racicot | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Marc%20Racicot | Marc Racicot
running mate for Bush. "The Washington Post" described him as "one of Bush's closest friends and advisers".
# Early life and education.
Racicot was born in Thompson Falls, Montana. His ancestors came to the Montana Territory in the 1860s. Marc's grandfather arrived in Libby in 1917 to work as a logging c... | 57,455 |
420779 | Marc Racicot | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Marc%20Racicot | Marc Racicot
College in 1970. He was a starting basketball player in high school as well as Carroll College. He earned a law degree in 1973 from the University of Montana in Missoula, Montana.
# Early political career.
As an Army ROTC graduate, Racicot was immediately assigned as a prosecutor in the Army JAG Corps fr... | 57,456 |
420779 | Marc Racicot | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Marc%20Racicot | Marc Racicot
1977. After that, he became a special prosecutor for Montana statewide in 1977, and served in that position until 1988. During this time, he had a conviction rate of 95%. He lost only two cases in twelve years. He convicted Don and Dan Nichols, who both abducted Kari Swenson, an Olympic athlete, and murder... | 57,457 |
420779 | Marc Racicot | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Marc%20Racicot | Marc Racicot
both elections.
# Attorney General of Montana.
In 1988, he ran for Attorney General of Montana. He defeated Democratic nominee Mike McGrath, the Lewis and Clark County Attorney, 52%-48%. He served in this position until 1993.
# Governor of Montana.
## Elections.
In 1992, incumbent Governor Stan Stephe... | 57,458 |
420779 | Marc Racicot | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Marc%20Racicot | Marc Racicot
1996, Racicot ran for re-election. He easily defeated Rob Natelson in the Republican primary, 76%-24%. He was challenged in the general election by long-time state State Senator Chet Blaylock. Polls showed that Racicot maintained a sizable lead over Blaylock during the campaign. A few weeks before the elec... | 57,459 |
420779 | Marc Racicot | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Marc%20Racicot | Marc Racicot
Racicot defeated Jacobson, 79%–21%, winning every county in the state.
## Tenure.
After working with the Montana State Legislature to eliminate the $200 million deficit in 1993, the Racicot Administration produced a $22.4 million budget surplus the year after. They used the surplus to cut taxes.
As gove... | 57,460 |
420779 | Marc Racicot | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Marc%20Racicot | Marc Racicot
deregulation of Montana's utilities was a drastic rise in rates for most of the power customers in Montana. Workers with pensions from Montana Power were suddenly left without income.
# Chairman of the RNC.
On December 5, 2001, President George W. Bush announced that he would appoint Racicot, a strong Bu... | 57,461 |
420779 | Marc Racicot | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Marc%20Racicot | Marc Racicot
connected to Enron. On January 18, 2002 the 165-member RNC unanimously ratified Racicot.
Racicot was extremely successful as the Republican party performed very well in the 2002 midterm elections. Republicans took control the U.S. Senate, making Bill Frist the Senate Majority Leader. In the wake of the Mc... | 57,462 |
420779 | Marc Racicot | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Marc%20Racicot | Marc Racicot
just a utility infielder." Racicot called Bush's opponent, U.S. Senator John Kerry, "out of the mainstream" and dismissed all polls suggesting Kerry would win. He also said Kerry's "record on defense and intelligence funding is not defensible."
Bush won re-election to a second term, defeating Kerry 51%-48... | 57,463 |
420779 | Marc Racicot | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Marc%20Racicot | Marc Racicot
place under questionable circumstances, and that Racicot was on record as stating that a bloody palm print not belonging to Beach found at the scene of the murder was of "no probative value" to the case. The case against Beach relied entirely on a taped confession that was later erased, as well claims in o... | 57,464 |
420779 | Marc Racicot | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Marc%20Racicot | Marc Racicot
had been coerced with a brutal interrogation and threats of execution. Barry Beach was sentenced to 100 years without the possibility of parole. Years of advocacy and journalistic investigation resulted in Montana Governor Steve Bullock signing an executive order granting Beach's request for clemency, and ... | 57,465 |
420779 | Marc Racicot | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Marc%20Racicot | Marc Racicot
I am looking forward to beginning this next chapter of my career, and immersing myself in the industry challenges that must be resolved in the immediate future, such as extension of the national terrorism insurance program, as well as longer-term priorities, such as addressing lawsuit abuse and modernizing... | 57,466 |
420779 | Marc Racicot | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Marc%20Racicot | Marc Racicot
r-term priorities, such as addressing lawsuit abuse and modernizing the industry's regulatory system."
He serves as a current member of the Board of Directors for MassMutual, Jobs for America's Graduates, and is on the Board of Visitors for University of Montana School of Law. He is also a past member of ... | 57,467 |
420810 | Beneficial insect | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Beneficial%20insect | Beneficial insect
Beneficial insect
Beneficial insects (sometimes called beneficial bugs) are any of a number of species of insects that perform valued services like pollination and pest control. The concept of "beneficial" is subjective and only arises in light of desired outcomes from a human perspective. In farming... | 57,468 |
420810 | Beneficial insect | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Beneficial%20insect | Beneficial insect
conditions, is a pest control strategy, often used in organic farming, organic gardening or integrated pest management. Companies specializing in biological pest control sell many types of beneficial insects, particularly for use in enclosed areas, like greenhouses.
# Types.
Some species of bee are ... | 57,469 |
420810 | Beneficial insect | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Beneficial%20insect | Beneficial insect
bee balm and pineapple sage for honeybees, or Apiaceae like Queen Anne's lace and parsley, for predatory bees.
Ladybugs are generally thought of as beneficial because they eat large quantities of aphids, mites and other arthropods that feed on various plants.
Other insects commonly identified as ben... | 57,470 |
420810 | Beneficial insect | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Beneficial%20insect | Beneficial insect
Borage
- Calendula
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- Cosmos
- Dandelion
- Dill
- Echinacea
- Fennel
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- Rudbeckia
- Sunflower
- Wildflowers
- Yarrow
- Zinnia
# See also.
- Beneficial organism
- B... | 57,471 |
420810 | Beneficial insect | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Beneficial%20insect | Beneficial insect
smos
- Dandelion
- Dill
- Echinacea
- Fennel
- Hyssop
- Lupin
- Marigold
- Milkweed
- Nasturtium
- Parsley
- Phacelia
- carotaQueen Anne's lace
- Rose
- Rudbeckia
- Sunflower
- Wildflowers
- Yarrow
- Zinnia
# See also.
- Beneficial organism
- Beneficial weeds
- International Orga... | 57,472 |
420809 | Seaforth, Ontario | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Seaforth,%20Ontario | Seaforth, Ontario
Seaforth, Ontario
Seaforth (2016 population: 2,680) is a Southern Ontario community in the municipality of Huron East, in Huron County, Ontario, Canada.
# History.
Originally known as "Four Corners" and "Steene's Corners" after an early settler, much of the area of what is now Seaforth was acquired... | 57,473 |
420809 | Seaforth, Ontario | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Seaforth,%20Ontario | Seaforth, Ontario
Ontario and its hierarchy of small urban centres unique.
The name 'Seaforth' may be derived from the Scottish Seaforth Highlanders regiment or Loch Seaforth in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland.
A post office was established in Seaforth in 1859. Incorporation as a Village followed in 1868 and as a Town... | 57,474 |
420809 | Seaforth, Ontario | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Seaforth,%20Ontario | Seaforth, Ontario
structures which we see today, more than a century later.
Seaforth's Main street was designated in 1984 as a heritage Conservation District because of its distinguished late 19th-century architecture. This architectural composition of two storey brick buildings is unique in its uniformity of scale an... | 57,475 |
420809 | Seaforth, Ontario | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Seaforth,%20Ontario | Seaforth, Ontario
architecture from the nineteenth century.
## The Van Egmond Reserve.
Built by the eldest son of Colonel Anthony Van Egmond in 1846, it represents an example of Georgian architecture and Classical Revival styles. The house was restored with assistance from the Ontario Heritage Trust. The bricks were ... | 57,476 |
420809 | Seaforth, Ontario | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Seaforth,%20Ontario | Seaforth, Ontario
a group of community volunteers. Funds were raised to purchase the property and restore it to how it might have been prior to 1867. It was recognized as an Ontario Heritage property and signs indicative of that direct travelers to the Reserve. The Province of Ontario supported the restoration of the p... | 57,477 |
420809 | Seaforth, Ontario | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Seaforth,%20Ontario | Seaforth, Ontario
River, the grounds are a rural retreat offering a quiet spot for a picnic.
# Local media.
- The Huron Expositor
The local radio stations are Country 104.9 - country1049.ca; 101.7 The One, AM920, 94.5 The Bull - www.cknxradio.com
# Famous people.
- Jim Balsillie (born 1961) Billionaire philanthrop... | 57,478 |
420809 | Seaforth, Ontario | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Seaforth,%20Ontario | Seaforth, Ontario
Detroit Red Wings and Chicago Blackhawks.
- Ron Mason (1940–2016) Former hockey coach with Lake Superior State University, Bowling Green University and Michigan State University. Also former MSU Athletic Director. Inducted into the United States Hockey Hall of Fame in 2013.
- Colonel Anthony Van Egm... | 57,479 |
420809 | Seaforth, Ontario | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Seaforth,%20Ontario | Seaforth, Ontario
brother to Cal.
- Cal O'Reilly - AHL Player for the Iowa Wild, brother to Ryan.
- Boyd Devereaux - Former NHL player with the Edmonton Oilers, Detroit Red Wings, Phoenix Coyotes and Toronto Maple Leafs. Member of the Detroit Red Wings 2002 Stanley Cup Championship team. Brother to Kathy.
- Kathy (D... | 57,480 |
420809 | Seaforth, Ontario | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Seaforth,%20Ontario | Seaforth, Ontario
- Former Iron Man participant, team owner and manager in the Intercounty Baseball League.
- Lloyd Eisler - Former Canadian pair skater. Along with skating partner Isabelle Brasseur, the pair were the 1992 and 1994 Olympic bronze medalist and the 1993 World Champion. Inducted into Canada's Sports Hall... | 57,481 |
420809 | Seaforth, Ontario | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Seaforth,%20Ontario | Seaforth, Ontario
eafs and Ottawa Senators.
- Pat Murray - Former NHL player with the Philadelphia Flyers. Brother to Greg and Rem.
- Rem Murray - Former NHL player with the Edmonton Oilers, New York Rangers and Nashville Predators. Brother to Greg and Pat.
- Derek Nesbitt - Professional hockey player with the Atlan... | 57,482 |
420790 | Judy Martz | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Judy%20Martz | Judy Martz
Judy Martz
Judith Helen Martz (née Morstein; July 28, 1943 – October 30, 2017) was an American politician who served as the 22nd Governor of Montana, the first and to date only woman to have held the office. She served from January 1, 2001 to January 3, 2005. She previously served as the 31st Lieutenant Gov... | 57,483 |
420790 | Judy Martz | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Judy%20Martz | Judy Martz
Early career.
Martz was a speed skater at the 1964 Olympics (1500 metres), 1962 Miss Rodeo Montana, and owner and operator, with her husband, Harry, of a garbage disposal service in her hometown of Butte, Montana. She was one of the first two Montana women to appear in the Olympics.
In 1996, Martz became t... | 57,484 |
420790 | Judy Martz | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Judy%20Martz | Judy Martz
State Auditor Mark O'Keefe, in the general election by a margin of 51 percent to 47 percent. She was Montana's first female governor.
## Tenure (2001–2005).
Upon becoming governor, Martz's first legislative session resulted in the single largest increase in the education budget in Montana history, as well ... | 57,485 |
420790 | Judy Martz | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Judy%20Martz | Judy Martz
Democratic Party alleged that Martz had assisted ARCO in her position as Lieutenant Governor. However, the Montana Commissioner of Political Practices found that the allegations lacked merit.
Also during her term, her chief policy adviser, Shane Hedges, was involved in a drunk driving accident near Marysvil... | 57,486 |
420790 | Judy Martz | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Judy%20Martz | Judy Martz
in Ohio, Arizona, and other swing states, and sparring with incoming Democratic governor Brian Schweitzer over transition of state government.
# Career after Governorship.
In September 2005 Martz was named chair of Montanans for Judge Roberts (Chief Justice nominee John Roberts) and spoke at a rally in sup... | 57,487 |
420790 | Judy Martz | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Judy%20Martz | Judy Martz
Family and personal life.
Martz and her husband, Harry, were married in 1965. They had two children: Justin and Stacey Jo.
In May 2003, Martz made it into the news, through no action of her own, because of a perceived similarity to the face and hair of a nude bordello dancer sculpted by Seattle artist Kris... | 57,488 |
420790 | Judy Martz | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Judy%20Martz | Judy Martz
nd placed in a new development in downtown Helena. Both Martz and Veith deny the similarity, with Martz stating, possibly partially tongue-in-cheek, "I'm a very modest person, no one would ever see me like that. My husband doesn't ever see me like that".
# Death.
On November 11, 2014, it was announced that... | 57,489 |
420766 | Ahmadou Ahidjo | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ahmadou%20Ahidjo | Ahmadou Ahidjo
Ahmadou Ahidjo
Ahmadou Babatoura Ahidjo (24 August 1924 – 30 November 1989) was a Cameroonian politician who was the first President of Cameroon, holding the office from 1960 until 1982. Ahidjo played a major role Cameroon's independence from France as well as reuniting the French and English-speaking p... | 57,490 |
420766 | Ahmadou Ahidjo | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ahmadou%20Ahidjo | Ahmadou Ahidjo
of being behind a coup plot against Biya in 1984, Ahidjo was sentenced to death in absentia, but he died of natural causes.
# Early life.
Ahidjo was born in Garoua, a major river port along the Benue River in northern Cameroun, which was at the time a French mandate territory. His mother was a Fulani o... | 57,491 |
420766 | Ahmadou Ahidjo | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ahmadou%20Ahidjo | Ahmadou Ahidjo
later. Ahidjo spent the next three years attending secondary school at the Ecole Primaire Supérieur in Yaoundé, the capital of the mandate, studying for a career in the civil service. At school, Ahidjo also played soccer and competed as a cyclist.
In 1942, Ahidjo joined the civil service as a radio oper... | 57,492 |
420766 | Ahmadou Ahidjo | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ahmadou%20Ahidjo | Ahmadou Ahidjo
emeritus of political science at Haverford College and scholar of African politics, responsible for fostering his sense of national identity and provided him the sagacity to handle the problems of governing a multiethnic state.
# Political career.
In 1946, Ahidjo entered territorial politics. From 1953... | 57,493 |
420766 | Ahmadou Ahidjo | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ahmadou%20Ahidjo | Ahmadou Ahidjo
towards the Church and the Muslim aristocracies in the north of the country and succeeded in embodying the union of conservative currents concerned about the growing number of protest movements in the 1950s. While serving as Prime Minister, Ahidjo had administrative goals to move toward independence for ... | 57,494 |
420766 | Ahmadou Ahidjo | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ahmadou%20Ahidjo | Ahmadou Ahidjo
and Cameroonian independence was set by Cameroon's National Assembly for 1 January 1960. During and immediately after Cameroon was decolonized, Ahidjo recruited follow northern, Muslim Fulani and Peuhl into the army and an elite guard.
Ahidjo's support and collaboration in allowing for continued French ... | 57,495 |
420766 | Ahmadou Ahidjo | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ahmadou%20Ahidjo | Ahmadou Ahidjo
plan. Influenced by Cold War tensions, the United Nations expressed concern about the UPC due to the party's pro-communist disposition. The United Nations moved to end French trusteeship in Cameroon without organizing new elections or lifting the ban that France had imposed on the UPC. Ahidjo experienced... | 57,496 |
420766 | Ahmadou Ahidjo | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ahmadou%20Ahidjo | Ahmadou Ahidjo
counterpart. In addressing the United Nations, Ahidjo and his supporters favored integration and reunification whereas more radical players such as the UPC preferred immediate reunification. However, both sides were seeking a plebiscite for reunification of the separated Cameroons. The UN decided on the ... | 57,497 |
420766 | Ahmadou Ahidjo | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ahmadou%20Ahidjo | Ahmadou Ahidjo
conditions for merging the Cameroons were made and later adopted by both the National Assemblies of the Francophone and Anglophone Cameroons. Ahidjo and Foncha met in Bamenda in order to create a constitution for the united territories. In their meetings, Ahidjo and Foncha agreed not to join the French c... | 57,498 |
420766 | Ahmadou Ahidjo | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ahmadou%20Ahidjo | Ahmadou Ahidjo
1961, the two separate Cameroons were merged, establishing the Federal Republic of Cameroon with Ahidjo as the president and Foncha as the Vice President.
The issue of territorial administration was a topic of disagreement between Foncha and Ahidjo. In December 1961, Ahidjo issued a decree that split th... | 57,499 |
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