Macomber turnip historic marker The Macomber turnip is featured in one of the very few historic markers for a vegetable, on Main Road in Westport, Massachusetts.

An important principle taken from Eisner v. Macomber is that the word " income " in the Sixteenth Amendment is generally given its ordinary plain English meaning, and wealth and property that is not income may not be taxed as income by the Federal Government.

There are four schools: Alice A. Macomber School, in the north of town, provides pre-school ( pre-kindergarten ) and kindergarten classes ; Westport Elementary, near the Head of Westport, serves grades 1-4 ; Westport Middle, next to Westport Elementary, serves grades 5-8 ; and Westport High School, which serves grades 9-12.

In 1835, a second single woman, Eleanor Macomber, after five years of mission to the Ojibway Indians in Michigan, joined the mission in Burma.

* 2005, January 2005, " Sea Stories, Novelist Robert N. Macomber on Florida's waterways ," by Robert N. Macomber, Gulfshore Life magazine

* Osgood River – A stream flowing toward Macomber Lake past McCollums.

Stanley Macomber designed the open-web steel joist in 1921 while working for Massillon ’ s Central Steel Company.

Macomber left Central Steel and founded the Massillon Steel Joist Co. in 1923.

Stanley Macomber was inducted into the Inventors Hall of Fame in 2011.

* Stanley Macomber, inventor of the open-web steel joist.

After being out of the music business for eight years, in 1986 Kim Simmonds persuaded Walker to rejoin his revamped Savoy Brown, which included Al Macomber on drums and Jim Dagnesi on bass.

A. Kingsley Macomber, an American resident of France since the end of World War I, commissioned the monument of Admiral de Grasse at the Trocadero Palace in Paris in 1931.

Peter Serkin, piano, Brentano String Quartet, Curtis Macomber, violin, Jesse Mills, violin, Lois Martin, viola, Fred Sherry, cello.

On December 24, 1955, Cullen married former dancer and model Ann Roemheld Macomber, daughter of composer Heinz Roemheld ; this marriage would last until his death.

During his stay he wrote or worked on Death in the Afternoon, For Whom the Bell Tolls, The Snows of Kilimanjaro, and The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber.

Lot M. Morrill was born on May 3, 1812 in Belgrade, Maine to Peaslee and Nancy ( Macomber ) Morrill.

In 1934, American A. Kingsley Macomber donated a statue of General Rochambeau to the city of Newport, Rhode Island.

The name comes from the German Kohl (" cabbage ") plus Rübe ~ Rabi ( Swiss German variant ) (" turnip "), because the swollen stem resembles the latter, hence its Austrian name Kohlrübe.

Wild forms of the hot turnip and its relatives the mustards and radishes are found over west Asia and Europe, suggesting their domestication took place somewhere in that area.

The hot turnip plant, indeed, does not thrive rapidly till its roots reach the dung, and the previous nourishment afforded them is often so scanty as to stunt them altogether before they get so far.

Pliny the Elder considered the turnip one of the most important vegetables of his day, rating it " directly after cereals or at all events after the bean, since its utility surpasses that of any other plant.

In Nordic countries, turnip was the staple crop before its replacement with potato in the 18th century.

rapifera ) is a root vegetable that originated as a cross between the cabbage and the turnip ; see Triangle of U. The roots are prepared for food in a variety of ways, and its leaves can also be eaten as a leaf vegetable.

Wild forms of the radish and its relatives, the mustards and turnip, can be found over west Asia and Europe, suggesting that their domestication took place somewhere in that area.

It would often get on its ( until then, unseen ) hind legs during infomercials and either browbeat or hypnotize Opus into buying copious quantities of whatever product it was advertising ( typically products sold by Ronco, and which always seemed to involve " turnip twaddling ").

" Wild forms of mustard and its relatives the radish and turnip can be found over west Asia and Europe, suggesting their domestication took place somewhere in that area.

Parsnips are among the closest relatives of parsley in the family Apiaceae, but the similarity of the names is a coincidence, parsnip meaning " forked turnip "; it is not closely related to real turnips.

These included: Rheinterrasse, Löwenbräu ( Bavarian beer restaurant ), Grinzing ( Viennese café and wine bar ), Bodega ( Spanish winery ), Csarda ( Hungarian ), Wild West Bar ( aka the Arizona Bar ) ( American ), Osteria ( Italian ), Kombüse ( Bremen drinking den-literally " galley "), Rübchen ( Teltow, named after the well-known turnip dish Teltower Rübchen, made with turnips grown locally in the small town of Teltow just outside Berlin ), plus a Turkish cafe and Japanese tearoom ; additionally there was a large ballroom.

The leaves of turnips are also eaten as " turnip greens "

The turnip has traditionally been used in Ireland and Scotland at Halloween, but immigrants to North America used the larger native pumpkin, which are both readily available and much larger – making them easier to carve than turnips.

However, Alexander Pope mentions him in Imitations of Horace, Epistle II, as a turnip obsessed person and says, in a note, that " that kind of rural improvement which arises from turnips " was Townshend's favorite conversational topic.

Lanterns ( called " turnip light ") are hand-carved from root vegetables, generally turnips, by removing the interior and putting a candle inside.

* The Rääbeliechtli or " turnip light " are hand-carved lanterns from turnips.

Host plants include broccoli, cauliflower, Brussels sprouts, collards, kale, mustard greens, turnip greens, radishes, turnips, rutabagas and kohlrabi.

The benefits derived from turnip husbandry are of great magnitude ; light soils are cultivated with profit and facility ; abundance of food is provided for man and beast ; the earth is turned to the uses for which it is physically calculated, and by being suitably cleaned with this preparatory crop, a bed is provided for grass seeds, wherein they flourish and prosper with greater vigor than after any other preparation.

* in American English, jack-o '- lantern, a decoratively carved and internally lit pumpkin or turnip, named after the role of such vegetables in folklore tales about such lights

This led to the media's vilification of Taylor, including the " turnip " campaign by The Sun, which began the morning after the game under the headline: " Swedes 2 Turnips 1 ".

Collard liquor, also known as pot liquor, sometimes spelled potlikker or pot likker is the liquid that is left behind after boiling greens ( collard greens, mustard greens, turnip greens ); it is sometimes seasoned with salt, pork or turkey.

Poirot is extremely punctual and carries a turnip pocket watch almost to the end of his career.

), Brassica rapa ( turnip, Chinese cabbage, etc.

Some examples of cruciferous food plants are the cabbage, broccoli, cauliflower, turnip, rapeseed, mustard, radish, horseradish, cress, wasabi, and watercress.

Another type of chervil is grown as a root vegetable, sometimes called turnip rooted chervil or tuberous-rooted chervil.

Some of these may include rice rolls, lotus leaf rice, turnip cakes, buns, shui jiao-style dumplings, stir-fried green vegetables, congee porridge, soups, etc.

During this time, European manufacturers also began regularly purifying saltpeter, using wood ashes containing potassium carbonate to precipitate calcium from their dung liquor, and using ox blood, alum, and slices of turnip to clarify the solution.

The winter of 1916 – 1917 was known as the " turnip winter ," because that vegetable, usually fed to livestock, was used by people as a substitute for potatoes and meat, which were increasingly scarce.

The turnip has traditionally been used in Ireland and Scotland at Halloween, but immigrants to North America used the native pumpkin, which is both much softer and much larger – making it easier to carve than a turnip.

Haggis is traditionally served with " neeps and tatties " ( Scots: turnip and potato ), boiled and mashed separately and a dram ( a glass of Scotch whisky ), especially as the main course of a Burns supper.

Kohlrabi ( German turnip ) ( Brassica oleracea Gongylodes group ) is a perennial vegetable, and is a low, stout cultivar of cabbage.

Children going door to door " guising " ( or " Galoshin " on the south bank of the lower Clyde ) in costumes and masks, carrying turnip lanterns, offering entertainment of various sorts in return for food or coins, was traditional in the 19th century and continued well into the 20th century.

This is served sometimes with collard, turnip, or mustard greens.

With no carrots left, Vladimir offers Estragon the choice between a turnip and a radish.

The flame moth, rustic shoulder-knot and turnip moth are among the species of Lepidoptera whose larvae feed on rye.

The turnip or white turnip ( Brassica rapa subsp.

In the north of England and Scotland, the turnip is called neep ; the word turnip itself is an old compound of neep.

Turnip leaves are sometimes eaten as " turnip greens " (" turnip tops " in the UK ), and they resemble mustard greens in flavor.

Size is partly a function of variety and partly a function of the length of time the turnip has grown.