The last baby farmer to be executed in Britain was Rhoda Willis, who was hanged in Wales in 1907.

In the founding myth of Gordium, the first Gordias was a poor farmer from Macedonia who was the last descendant of the royal family of Bryges.

In Scotland and Ireland, the first farmer to finish the grain harvest made a corn dolly, representing the Cailleach ( also called " the Carlin or Carline "), from the last sheaf of the crop.

* Aaron Stafford ( 1787 – 1885 ), early settler, farmer, state legislator, last surviving American officer of the War of 1812.

In southern parts of India, particularly in Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu and Mumbai, the Bhogi festival is celebrated on the last day of the of ' Maarkali ' which is also the first day of the farmer festival Pongal.

He was the seventh and last child of Beatrice Helen Booth ( 1920 – 1994 ) OAM and Peter McCloy FitzSimons ( 1916 – 1992 ), a citrus fruit farmer who had seen active service in World War II as an AIF artilleryman.

Over the years, he was known locally for being a farmer, selectman, Justice of the Peace and Town Clerk ( the last position being held for over 25 years ).

The very last machines were sold to a farmer and known as the Sussex Miniscooter.

During the last eight years of his life ( 1981 to 1989 ), he worked as a farmer on the Inkilänhovi ( Inkilä Court ) farm in Juva, Eastern Finland, while continuing his official career as an opera singer.

The last straw comes when the farmer ( Jack Walters ) asks them to kill Henrietta the Hen for their evening meal.

The last two were concessions to Western farmer interests in exchange for support of the tariff and would become central tenets of the Populist Party later in the decade.

The last uprising prior to the " farmer ` s parliament " from 1836 took place in 1818, once again because of high taxes and hard times.

The Romanian version is " Țăranul e pe câmp " ( The farmer is on the field ) but the hey-o is replaced with " Ura, drăguţa mea " ( Hooray, my sweet heart ) and the last verses are – the child has a nurse, the nurse has a cat, the cat catches a mouse, the mouse eats a cheese, the cheese was in a cask, the cask is in the garbage, the farmer to choose.

After trying his hand as a teacher and a tenant farmer, he at last became a parson like his father and from 1825-1847 served in the parish at Spentrup.

In 1651, Henry Hodgetts, a farmer, of Sedgley was dying and his wife summoned an itinerant priest, Fr Peter Turner, SJ to gave him the last sacraments.

In haste he labored to finish some last abstract paintings: a three-panel frieze, with a flying figure and a fallen figure ; ;

Our last joint venture, Sainted Lady, a deeply religious film based on the life of Mother Cabrini, and timed so that its release date would coincide with the beatification of America's first saint in November, 1938, was a fiasco from start to finish.

As the 87th Congress began its sessions last week, liberal Democrats were ready for a finish fight to open the sluice gates controlled by the House Rules Committee and permit the free flow of liberal legislation to the floor.

They are en route to finish last in the major leagues.

Behind an improved defense the team would finish 7 – 9 in 1983, but it would be their last season in Baltimore.

The Wizards would finish the 1999 season with a disastrous record of 8 – 24, which put them in last place in the Western Conference once again.

After coming within a few plays of Super Bowl XLIV, Minnesota ended the 2010 season with a 6 – 10 record and a last place finish in the NFC North for the first time since 1990.

The Brewers were in contention to repeat in 1983, but the team fell on a rough September to finish in 4th place with an 87 – 75 record, their last winning season until 1987.

In Bologna, he was commissioned to finish the carving of the last small figures of the Shrine of St. Dominic, in the church dedicated to that saint.

During the last year of this Civil War, 1949, the United States increased its military aid to the Greek Government by introducing a new weapon to finish off the war: napalm B.

The 2011 NFL season for the Eagles was a major disappointment, as they only managed to finish 8-8 and did not qualify for the playoffs, although they did win the last 4 games of the season.

This last variant managed a 7th place overall finish and spent the least time out of any other car in the pits.

The Padres would finish dead last in the strike-shortened 1994 season, but Gwynn hit. 394 that year ( the most since Ted Williams hit over. 400 in 1941 ).

Many preseason predictions picked the Padres in 2010 to finish the season in last place in the NL West.

But after head coach Tom Landry settled on Staubach, the Cowboys won their last seven regular season games to finish with an 11 – 3 record.

This was the last Super Bowl to kickoff as early as 2: 00 p. m. ( EST ), thereby allowing a finish time before commencement of many of the nation's evening church services.

This was the first Super Bowl game to match both conference's # 1 seeds, and was the last Super Bowl ( and first one held in the Rose Bowl ) to finish under daylight.

Keirin races involve pacing 6 – 9 riders with a motorcycle until the last lap and a half when a sprint for the finish determines the winner.

After the ballet had been composed, it emerged during the 1867 rehearsal period that, without further cuts, the opera would not finish before midnight ( the time by which patrons would need to leave in order to catch the last trains to the Paris suburbs ).

After a series of operettas, Leoncavallo tried for one last serious effort ( Edipo Re ), but he died before he could finish the orchestration, which was completed by Giovanni Pennacchio.

At age 62, it was Snead's third consecutive top ten finish at the PGA Championship, but his last time in contention at a major.

Races last approximately 45 minutes, each race a sprint from start to finish without pitting for fuel or tyres.

The last year in which Villeneuve would win a championship level race and finish the season in the top three was 1997.

In 2009 he was invited again to run in two out of the three major races in the season: one at Interlagos on July 19 ( did not finish after contact with Leonel Pernía and spun ) and the other being the second edition of La Carrera del Año at the Buenos Aires circuit on September 20, the last mentioned race being its better results in the series, finishing 13th.

In his last years he strove to finish The Tales of Hoffmann, but died before the premiere of the opera, which has entered the standard repertory in versions completed or edited by other musicians.

The cooks had prepared one of the best meals we'd had in a long time, and on Montero's orders had baked enough bread to last the day.

In the last analysis, though, Wilson had little cause to complain.

Stevens was grunting over the last empty pocket when Russ abruptly rose and lunged toward Carmer's hat, which had tumbled half-a-dozen feet away when he first fell.

'' For the last half hour Mary Jane had criss-crossed half the length of the Gardens and, at last, come upon her knight.

But in the middle of the last century an island woman named `` Karipo '' seized a spear in the heat of an inter-tribal battle and rallied the women after their men had fled.

The Reverend James Doran had scarcely completed Pat Conyers' last rites on Boot Hill in the township of Petrie, when shots were heard in the distance.

Blue Throat, who had ruled the town with his six-shooter for the last six months, certainly had no intention of relinquishing his profitable dictatorship.

Till one day the last freight had been jumped, the last pint had been killed, the last beat had been rapped.

When they had licked the last of the wieners' taste from their fingers, they settled back, and Cappy offered Ernie a cigarette.

I knew that a conversation with the author would not settle such questions, because a man is not the same as his writing: in the last analysis, the questions had to be settled by the work itself.

It was symbolized ( at least for those of us who recognized ourselves in the image ) by that self-consuming, elegiac candle of Edna St. Vincent Millay's, that candle which from the quatrain where she ensconced it became a beacon to us, but which in point of fact would have had to be as tall as a funeral taper to last even the evening, let alone the night.

I managed to do this by the time the great A.B. returned to the place where he last had seen the fierce nihilist.

Papa, I should emphasize, had been an invalid the last several years of his life ; ;