( In a separate land giveaway in 1955 tied to the Sergeant Preston of the Yukon television show, Quaker Oats offered in its Puffed Wheat and Puffed Rice cereal boxes genuine deeds to land in the Klondike.

In 1940, Quaker Puffed Wheat Sparkies became the show's sponsor and brought fictional aviator Captain Sparks to the show.

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She endorsed Postal Telegraph, Sperry Drifted Snow Flour, the Grunow Teledial radio, Quaker Puffed Wheat, General Electric, and Packard automobiles.

* Quaker Crispy Minis ( Rice Chips and Rice Cakes ) ( known as Snack-a-Jacks in the UK )

At Rugeley ’ s Mill, Washington with 60 troops bluffed 112 Loyalists into surrendering a strongly fortified homestead without firing a shot by use of a " Quaker Gun ", mounting a felled tree trunk on wagon axles to resemble a cannon.

Unlike a Quaker gun, a Wooden cannon is a functional weapon, albeit notoriously weak and only able to fire a few shots, sometimes even just one shot, before bursting.

On November 7, 1859, the Providence Daily Journal reprinted a letter sent to John Brown from `` E. B. '', a Quaker lady in Newport.

Keys has no such objections to Metrecal, Quaker Oats's Quota and other 900-calorie milk formulas that are currently winning favor from dieters.

He was raised in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and New Hampshire in various Protestant and Quaker schools, eventually graduating from Friends ' Central School.

It was originally settled by Quaker missionaries who built a penitentiary so to isolate prisoners from each other so they could contemplate the gravity of their sins.

In his preaching, he often emphasized the Quaker rejection of baptism by water ; this was a useful way of highlighting how the focus of Friends on inward transformation differed from what he saw as the superstition of outward ritual.

As professor at the Royal Institution, Davy would later repeat many of the ingenious experiments which he had learned from his Quaker instructor.

Lovelock worked at a Quaker farm before a recommendation from his professor led to him taking up a Medical Research Council post working on ways of shielding soldiers from burns.

The philibeg or small kilt, also known as the walking kilt ( similar to the modern kilt ) was invented by an English Quaker from Lancashire called Thomas Rawlinson sometime in the 1720s for the use of the Highlanders he and Iain MacDonnell, chief of the MacDonnells of Inverness employed in logging, charcoal manufacture and iron smelting, for which the belted plaid was " cumbrous and unwieldy ".

Samuel Galton, Jr., unusual as a Quaker who was also a gun-manufacturer, appears in the letters of other Lunar members as attending meetings from July 1781, and his daughter Mary Anne Schimmelpenninck was to provide one of the few first-hand accounts of the Lunar Society's activities.

Warner Bros. acquired the rights to the film from the film's financer The Quaker Oats Company in 1977 ( around the same time they bought out Wolper itself ), after Paramount no longer had any interest to own the distribution rights to the film due to the initial box office failure of Willy Wonka.

His mother was from a prominent Quaker family of mixed ancestry: African, Anglo-American, and Lenape.

In 1660, one of the most notable victims of the religious intolerance was English Quaker Mary Dyer who was hanged in Boston, Massachusetts for repeatedly defying a Puritan law banning Quakers from the colony.

Other historical non-Sabbatarians from more recent times include the Anglicans Peter Heylin, William Paley and John Milton ; the nonconformist Philip Doddridge ; the Quaker Robert Barclay ; and Congregationalist James Baldwin Brown.

In Rochester, she attended the local Unitarian Church and began to distance herself from the Quakers, in part because she had frequently witnessed instances of hypocritical behavior such as the use of alcohol amongst Quaker preachers.

A Quaker wedding ceremony in a Friends meeting is similar to any other meeting for worship, and therefore often very different from the experience expected by non-Friends.

Although short in both duration and number, the Quaker settlement in the British Virgin Islands from 1727 to 1768 would play an important part in the history of the Territory for two reasons.

In 1893 Müller-Ury painted from miniatures portraits of Yerkes ' Quaker grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Silas Yerkes.

The M ' Clintocks came to Waterloo from a Quaker community in Philadelphia.

They rented property from Richard P. Hunt, a wealthy Quaker and businessman.

The document itself drew from writings by the evangelical Quaker Sarah Grimké to make biblical claims that God had created woman equal to man and that man had usurped God's authority by establishing " absolute tyranny " over woman.

As a Quaker, Dingle was exempt from military service during World War I.

The American Cereal Company ( Quaker Oats ) created a cereal made from oats in 1877, manufacturing the product in Akron, Ohio.

* The Quaker Tapestry ( 1981 – 1989 ) is a modern set of embroidery panels that tell the story of Quakerism from the 17th century to the present day.

The Quaker Tapestry consists of 77 panels illustrating the history of Quakerism from the 17th century up to the present day.

* Quaker town ' with no crime ' urged to keep guns

" Quaker guns " ( logs used as ruses to imitate cannons ) in former Confederate fortifications at Manassas Junction March 1862.

Quaker guns made of pine logs were mounted in a ruse to fool the Union into believing that the Confederates were much better armed at the Siege of Port Hudson, Louisiana in 1863.

Quaker guns were used by both the Northern and Southern sides in the American Civil War.

Morris has directed hundreds of commercials for various companies and products, including Adidas, AIG, Cisco Systems, Citibank, Kimberly-Clark's Depend brand, Levi's, Miller High Life, Nike, PBS, The Quaker Oats Company, Southern Comfort, EA Sports, Toyota and Volkswagen.

It later produced a series of popular television commercials for Quaker Oats cereals Cap ' n Crunch, Quisp and Quake.

The character Windy Miller and his famous windmill appeared in September 2005 along with some other Camberwick Green characters in commercials for Quaker Oats on UK television.

In the 1980s, the Quaker Oats Company used a version of " What Have They Done To My Song Ma " in their commercials for Instant Oatmeal with the revised lyrics " Look what they've done to my oatmeal ".

Brimley has also done television commercials, including advertisements for Quaker Oats and Liberty Medical.

He also wrote many commercials for General Mills because General Mills had bankrolled much of The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show, and the Quaker Oats Company, most notably those for Cap ' n Crunch cereal.