Snowshoes were first produced in Philadelphia when a Siamese breeder's cat gave birth to three kittens with white feet.

On March 13, 1758, at the Second Battle on Snowshoes, Rogers ' Rangers ambushed a French-Indian column and, in turn, were ambushed by enemy forces.

Some of his books, including Shut Up and Eat Your Snowshoes ( 1970 ), were set in Northern Ontario, where Jack and Reiko Douglas lived for several years.

Snowshoes are used in winter when the snow is too deep.

Snowshoes are made by lashing reindeer sinew and hide strips to a tennis racket-shaped birch bark or willow hoop.

Snowshoes can be rented from the Camp Ranger for a nominal fee.

Snowshoes can be rented from the Fundy Guild at the Visitor's Centre.

There are reports of a Lieutenant Boyle Roche in Rogers ' Rangers who was captured by the French during The Battle on Snowshoes ( near what is now Lake George, New York in March 1758 ) and later returned to his regiment.

Despite having existed for 45 years, Snowshoes are rare due to the difficulty of reproducing the correct coat markings.

Snowshoes are also very vocal, though their voices are not as loud as the Siamese, a cat found in their breed heritage.

Snowshoes are also fully recognized by the Fédération Internationale Féline, the American Association of Cat Enthusiasts, and the Cat Fanciers Federation.

As such, pet-quality Snowshoes usually have too much white, too little white, or white features are mismarked.

Snowshoes are generally affectionate, sweet-tempered, and mellow.

Snowshoes are very social and docile, and show great devotion and love towards their owners.

Snowshoes may express themselves and their complaints vocally, though their meows are not as loud as the Siamese.

Snowshoes also enjoy water, particularly running water, and may on occasion swim.

On January 21, 1757, at the First Battle on Snowshoes, Rogers ' force of 74 rangers ambushed and captured seven Frenchmen near Fort Carillon at the south end of Lake Champlain.

Daniel Charles " Snowshoes " Maloney ( born September 24, 1950 ) is a former ice hockey left winger in the NHL and former NHL coach.

There he acquired the nickname " Snowshoes " for his slow, plodding skating style, but he was a strong stay-at-home defender and an important part of the Leafs teams that won four Stanley Cups in six years in the 1960s in 1962, 1963, 1964, 1967.

This idea was further supported after the French questioned deserters and captives taken during periodic scouting and raiding expeditions that both sides conducted, including one resulting in the January Battle on Snowshoes.

It is noteworthy that the majority of the delegates to the Congress were from the less developed, former colonial nations.

Visual and operable training aids developed by the Medical Illustration Service, were used in support of Army Medical Service mass casualty exercises.

The British and Canadian Liaison Officers, as well as Office of Civil and Defense Mobilization, the American Red Cross, and similar interested organizations were informed from time to time as training aids were developed.

Nine veterinary lantern slide teaching sets were developed and distributed, and lantern slide teaching sets on 21 pathology subjects were added to the loan library of the Medical Illustration Service.

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In their place came local variations within the common style -- tentative, as it were, in Protogeometric products but truly distinct and sharply defined as the Geometric spirit developed.

Greek civilization was swirling toward its great revolution, in which the developed qualities of the Hellenic outlook were suddenly to break forth.

Wavy lines, feather-like patterns, rosettes of indefinitely floral nature, birds either singly or in stylized rows, animals in solemn frieze bands ( see Plates 11 - 12 ) -- all these turned up in the more developed fabrics as preliminary signs that the potters were broadening their gaze.

Hardy's two productive decades were separated by forty years, yet between them he developed only in that he became more steadily himself -- it was a narrowing, not an expanding process.

The next day I visited International Christian College which has developed since the war under the leadership of people who were interned and who know Japan well.

Although federal and city narcotic agents sometimes worked together, Sokol continued, rivalries developed when they were `` aiming at the same criminals ''.

The conventions of this representation, head tilted, lips slightly parted, large-eyed, curling hair cut in locks grazing the neck, were developed in the 3rd century BCE to depict Alexander the Great.

Some fish had developed primitive lungs to help them breathe air when the stagnant pools of the Devonian swamps were lacking in oxygen.

) While Rotokas has a small alphabet because it has few phonemes to represent ( just eleven ), Book Pahlavi was small because many letters had been conflated — that is, the graphic distinctions had been lost over time, and diacritics were not developed to compensate for this as they were in Arabic, another script that lost many of its distinct letter shapes.

Portuguese explorer Paulo Dias de Novais founded Luanda in 1575 as " São Paulo de Loanda ", and the region developed as a slave trade market with the help of local Imbangala and Mbundu peoples who were notable slave hunters.

Even though this period-known in its earlier part as the Spring and Autumn period and the Warring States period-in its latter part was fraught with chaos and bloody battles, it is also known as the Golden Age of Chinese philosophy because a broad range of thoughts and ideas were developed and discussed freely.

He also developed his own highly unusual theories of physics, according to which such concepts as " penetrability ", " suction and pressure " and " zig-zag-and-swirl " were discoveries on par with Einstein's Theory of Relativity.

Gemini missions developed some of the space travel techniques that were necessary for the success of the Apollo missions.

These three propositions were further developed by his followers, who maintained that God revealed Himself in a threefold revelation, the first in the Biblical patriarch Abraham, marking the epoch of the Father ; the second in Jesus Christ, who began the epoch of the Son ; and the third in Amalric and his disciples, who inaugurated the era of the Holy Ghost.

Two of Ammonius's students-Origen the Pagan, and Longinus-seem to have held philosophical positions which were closer to Middle Platonism than Neoplatonism, which perhaps suggests that Ammonius's doctrines were also closer to those of Middle Platonism than the Neoplatonism developed by Plotinus ( see the Enneads ), but Plotinus does not seem to have thought that he was departing in any significant way from that of his master.