Poor people lived in very small houses in cramped streets.

Poor people must be able to develop and strengthen their own organizations, so they can advance their own interests and dismantle the obstacles that prevent many of them from creating better lives for themselves.

Pope's phrase, " Lo the Poor Indian ", became almost as famous as Dryden's " noble savage " and, in the 19th century, when more people began to have first hand knowledge of and conflict with the Indians, would be used derisively for similar sarcastic effect.

Societal legacies are showcased in the way many institutions responded to the people left destitute because of the wars, some of the oldest homeless shelters in London were a direct response to this, such as The Society for the Relief of the Homeless Poor.

A workhouse to accommodate 150 people was built at West Hill in Henley in 1790 and later enlarged to accommodate 250 as the Henley Poor Law Union workhouse.

Poor people at one time often ate willow catkins that had been cooked to form a mash.

* Henry Poor ( disambiguation ), multiple people

In August 1838, after a speech by Chartist leader Feargus O ' Connor, a mob of between five and seven thousand people besieged the Dewsbury Poor Law Guardians in the town ’ s Royal Hotel.

Poor people, therefore, could not vote ; they could only support members of the Creole middle classes that opposed big-business candidates.

The Poor People ’ s Campaign led to systematic changes in US Federal Policies and Legislation creating a national Food Stamp Program, a free meal program for low income children, assistance programs for the elderly, CEDAR and other work programs, day care and health care programs for low income people across America.

The " Poor Hermits " of Monte della Majella, near Sulmona, were also Fraticelli and adherents of Angelo da Clareno, and at one time afforded protection to the famous tribune of the people, Cola di Rienzi ( 1349 ).

The welfare reforms of the Liberal Government made several provisions to provide social services without the stigma of the Poor Law, including Old age pensions and National Insurance, and from that period fewer people were covered by the system.

Poor people are represented as dark-skinned and with more undiluted African ancestry.

After nine days of partying, the people of Pamplona meet in the Townhall Plaza at midnight on 14 July, singing the traditional mournful notes of the Pobre de Mí (' Poor Me '), in a candlelit ending.

Poor people usually fall below that breakeven point.

Poor people find creative and often collaborative ways to meet these needs, primarily through creating and exchanging different forms of non-cash value.

Poor people borrow from informal moneylenders and save with informal collectors.

# Poor people need not just loans but also savings, insurance and money transfer services.

Parfit gives the Rich and Poor example, in which two people live in separate societies, and are unknown to each other, but are both known to you, and you have to make a choice between helping one or the other.

Until 1834 it was a parish workhouse, but in 1836 the Uppingham Poor Law Union began, and a new Union workhouse was built on Leicester Road to house 158 people to a design by architect William Donthorne.

However, Franklin's endearing character of " Poor " Richard Saunders, along with his wife Bridget, was ultimately used to frame ( if comically ) what was intended as a serious resource that people would buy year after year.

The Brothers of the Poor also serve persons with AIDS and people who ask for help regardless of their religion or their social / economic background.

In 1921 the Borough Council, under George Lansbury and the Poor Law Union were engaged in a dispute with the London County Council and central government over poor law rates-it wished to pay out of work people more than usually permitted ; and to get wealthier West End boroughs to contribute to its expenses.

Poor housing and lack of any proper sanitation led to a cholera epidemic in 1849 when 292 people died.

Some also began to use the phrase to refer to non-marital unions: a man interviewed in Mayhew's London Labour and the London Poor admitted: " I never had a wife, but I have had two or three broomstick matches, though they never turned out happy.

Even the embryonic art of the motion picture turned to Pierrot before the century was out: he appeared, not only in early celluloid shorts ( Georges Méliès's The Nightmare, The Magician ; Alice Guy's Arrival of Pierrette and Pierrot, Pierrette's Amorous Adventures ; Ambroise-François Parnaland's Pierrot's Big Head / Pierrot's Tongue, Pierrot-Drinker ), but also in Emile Reynaud's Praxinoscope production of Poor Pierrot ( 1892 ), the first animated movie and the first hand-colored one.

Poor then turned to his left and gave support to Ebenezer Learned and Morgan's men.

The earnestness and gravity of moral purpose which is so constant a note in the work of Hogarth is indeed far less characteristic of Leech, but there are touches of pathos and of tragedy in such of the Punch designs as the Poor Man's Friend ( 1845 ), and General Février turned Traitor ( 1855 ), and in The Queen of the Arena in the first volume of Once a Week, which are sufficient to prove that more solemn powers, for which his daily work afforded no scope, lay dormant in their artist.

Poor where they had once been rich, humbled where they had been arrogant, having no longer any hope of sharing in the leadership of the nation, the rebels who would not surrender in spirit drew comfort from the sympathy they felt extended to them by the mother country.

The Punch years gave Mayhew the opportunity to meet talented illustrators who he later employed to work from daguerreotypes on London Labour and the London Poor.

Hamlet arrives with Horatio and banters with one of them, who unearths the skull of a jester whom Hamlet once knew, Yorick (" Alas, Poor Yorick ; I knew him, Horatio .").

Following Gregory the Great, Catholics emphasize the role of images as the Biblia Pauperum, the " Bible of the Poor ," from which those who could not read could nonetheless learn.

In 1787, Britain had started to resettle the Black Poor of London in the colony of Freetown in modern-day Sierra Leone, many of whom were Black Loyalists who had been freed in exchange for their services during the American Revolution.

" At the age of 8, he had been sexually molested by a camp counselor, who had also taken nude pictures of him .... Poor Mike had spent his whole life racked with guilt and in constant fear that these pictures would someday surface in a way that might embarrass him and, especially, his adoptive father.

One of the most comprehensive recipe books for pre-and post-coital contraception was written by a " Pedro Hispano ", who offered advice on birth control and how to provoke menstruation in his immensely popular Thesaurus Pauperum ( Treasure of the Poor ).

This was organized by the Committee for the Relief of the Black Poor, composed of British philanthropists who preferred it as a solution to continuing to financially support them in London.

Many of the " Black Poor " were African Americans, who had been given their freedom after seeking refuge with the British Army during the American Revolution, but also included other West Indian, African and Asian inhabitants of London.

Poor w is so infamous and unknown that many barely know either its name or its shape, not those who aspire to being Latinists, as they have no need of it, nor do the Germans, not even the schoolmasters, know what to do with it or how to call it ; some call it we, others call it uu, [...] the Swabians call it auwawau

One such young writer was Edwin Chadwick, who wrote on hygiene, sanitation and policing and was a major contributor to the Poor Law Amendment Act.

By 1170 he had gathered a large number of followers who were referred to as the Poor of Lyons, the Poor of Lombardy, or the Poor of God who would spread their teaching abroad while disguised as peddlers.

As with the first marriage, this too produced two children: a daughter Jane ( 1677 – 1702 ); and a son William, " Poor Billy " born June, 1679, who was developmentally delayed.

The " Poor Clares " ( a Franciscan order ) and those Dominican nuns who live a cloistered life take the threefold vows of poverty, chastity and obedience.

He hates Christmas, calling it " humbug ", refuses his nephew Fred's dinner invitation, and rudely turns away two gentlemen who seek a donation from him to provide a Christmas dinner for the Poor.

It was the birthplace of St. Francis, who founded the Franciscan religious order in the town in 1208, and St. Clare ( Chiara d ' Offreducci ), the founder of the Poor Sisters, which later became the Order of Poor Clares after her death.

Others who recorded there include Daniel Amos, Poor Old Lu, Starflyer59 and Randy Stonehill.

Jean's first husband's neurotic sister Penny ( Moyra Fraser ), who always calls Jean " Poor Jean ", and her dentist husband, Stephen ( Paul Chapman ), who once accidentally declined the OBE, also make many appearances.