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From there the family could raise a lantern on a flagpole to signal fleeing slaves in Kentucky when it was safe for them to cross the Ohio River .< sup ></ sup > Rankin also constructed a staircase leading up the hill to the house for slaves to climb up to safety on their way further north .< sup ></ sup > For over forty years leading up to the Civil War, many of the 2000 slaves who escaped to freedom through Ripley stayed at the family's home, and none was ever recaptured there.
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From above one could only occasionally catch a glimpse of life on the floor of this green sea: a neighbor's gingham skirt flashing into sight for an instant on the path beneath her grape-arbor, or the movement of hands above a clothesline and the flutter of garments hung there, half-way down the block.
From the night of August 30 to the morning of September 2 there was no Union cavalry east of the Macon railway to disclose to Sherman that he was missing the greatest opportunity of his career.
From New Jersey, Morgan hastened to the headquarters of Washington at Whitemarsh, Pennsylvania, arriving there on November 18th.
From there it looked across at Westchester County and the Hudson River where the manor houses, estates, and big farms of the original ( non-Indian ) landowners began.
From there on, each Junior was going to be judged individually.
From there I turned left along Cumhuriyet Cadesi past more hotels and a park on the left, Republic Gardens, and came in a few moments to Taksim Square, one of the hubs of the city, with the Monument of the Republic, erected in 1928, in its center.
`` From time to time since the present war began there have been reports that one or more of the Axis powers were seriously contemplating use of poisonous gas or noxious gases or other inhumane devices of warfare.
From there he chipped back and sank his putt for a par 4.
From the time he had been at college he had achieved a certain tranquility and composure by accepting the fact that there were certain things he could never know.
From 1764 onwards, there was a gradual change from a slave-based society to one based on production for domestic consumption and export.
From there, his body was taken to the home of Colonel William Inge, which had been his headquarters in Corinth.
From there he conducts and dispatches military expeditions to all parts of the world.
From there they went to Saxland ( Germany ) and to the lands of Gylfi in Scandinavia ( Section 5 ).
From there Alaric escaped with difficulty, and not without some suspicion of connivance by Stilicho, who supposedly had again received orders to depart.
From there she negotiated with the emperor for the safety of family members left in the capital, while protesting her sons ' innocence of hostile actions ; under the falsehood of making a vesperal visit to worship at the church, she deliberately excluded the grandson of Botaneiates and his loyal tutor, met with Alexios and Isaac and fled for the forum of Constantine.
From there, he was sent to the Theresianum at Vienna to continue his studies.
From there he waged an intermittent civil war against his grandfather, which first secured him recognition of his post as co-emperor, and ultimately led to the deposition of Andronikos II in 1328.
From time to time there has been debate over repealing the clause that prevents " Papists " ( Roman Catholics ) or those who marry one from ascending to the British throne.
From there we see Jesus ' ministry move from Galilee ( chapters 4 – 9 ), through Samaria and Judea ( chs.
From Kola, there are indications of a similar situation, suggesting a population of around 20 adults.
From the time of the Spanish colonies there has existed a type of sorbet made from fallen hail or snow.
From there, the Acadians spread throughout the Valley, in various communities, building dykes to claim the tidal lands along the Annapolis and Cornwallis Rivers.
From there Route N193 readily connects to the center of the city.
From the early 1940s to the late 1950s, there were scores of Sunday strip-style magazine ads for Cream of Wheat using the Abner characters, and in the 1950s, Fearless Fosdick became a spokesman for Wildroot Cream-Oil hair tonic in a series of daily strip-style print ads.
From the beach there are also views of the San Francisco skyline and the San Francisco – Oakland Bay Bridge.
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From L'Turu, I heard that until about 1850 the people of this island -- which was about the size of Guam or smaller -- had been of both sexes, and that the normal family life of Melanesian tribes was observed here with minor variations.
From here they proceeded to ( 3 ) These same areas in relation to their own future family life stages, developing these to the extent of examining various crises which could be expected to confront them at some time or other.
From early family portraits, painted before he entered the schools of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, the chronology extends to a group of paintings executed in his last year ( 1951 ) and still part of his estate.
From the memoirs written by Agrippina the Younger, Tacitus used the memoirs to extract information regarding the family and fate of Agrippina the Elder, when Tacitus was writing The Annals.
From his death, Polish became the sole language of the family, thus fully Polonising the Jagiello family.
From the 1860s until the present, the party has supported strong central government, and supported the Catholic Church, especially its role as protector of the sanctity of the family, and opposed separation of church and state.
From the time of year ( close to the autumnal equinox ) and the elves ' association with fertility and the ancestors, it might be assumed that it had to do with the ancestor cult and the life force of the family.
From the Renaissance to the 19th century in Western culture, epitaphs for notable people became increasingly lengthy and pompous descriptions of their family origins, career, virtues and immediate family, often in Latin.
From the back left of the painting you can see the artist himself looking out at the viewer, and the painting behind the family depicts Lot and his daughters, thus once again echoing the underlying message of corruption and gat.
From this time, Barnave became a counselor and supporter of the royal family.
From then on, he used ' Ray ', after " having ascertained that such had been the practice of his family before him ".
From 1970 until 1998, Jardine Matheson operated a pan-Asian investment banking joint venture, Jardine Fleming, with Robert Fleming & Co., a London merchant bank controlled by the Fleming family.
From 1803, the Cardiff Arms Hotel and the Park had become the property of the Bute family.
From 1945 to 1960, the U. S .- owned Nicaraguan Long Leaf Pine Company ( NIPCO ) directly paid the Somoza family millions of dollars in exchange for favorable benefits to the company, such as not having to re-forest clear cut areas.
From an ancient senatorial family, Gregory worked with the stern judgement and discipline typical of ancient Roman rule.
From 14th century he is referred to as a member of the aristocratic family of Bandinelli, but this is not proven.
From the 16th century he is commonly identified as member of the family of Paganelli di Montemagno, which belonged to the Pisan aristocracy, but this has not been proven and contradicts earlier testimonies that suggest he was a man of rather humble origins.
From his captivity, Moro sent letters to his family, to his political friends, to the Pope, pleading for a negotiated outcome.
From the beginning of times, W had in Swedish been considered as a mere decoration of V. In Swedish typography, blackletter ( fraktur ) used W where antiqua used V. With orthographic standardization and spelling reform, W was abandoned except for some family names and a few loan words such as whisky, whist, wienerbröd and wobbler ( also spelled visky and vobbler ).
From 1934 to 1944 the Commeinhes family ( René and his son Georges ) from Alsace invented and successfully tested a demand regulator, but the main inventor, Georges, was killed in 1944 during the liberation of Strasbourg and Cousteau's regulator had no competitors immediately after the war.
From 1854 to 1858, Grant labored on a Dent family farm near St. Louis, Missouri, using slaves owned by Julia's father, but it did not succeed.
From this inscription the archaeologist Dr. G. Q. Giglioli nearly concludes that Vitruvius and Mamurra are from the same family ; his argument is presented by Ettore Pais:
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