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Divisions existed in Finland because of the social structure of the country: ownership of even a small parcel of farmland created a motivation to fight against the Reds.
He and his nine siblings grew up on their parents ' farm, a small parcel of land granted to his father.
Nowadays, with most Serbs living in towns, most simply go to their church service to be given a small parcel of oak, wheat and other branches tied together to be taken home and set afire.
The Romans decide to parcel out land north of Rome ( the Ager Gallicus ) into small holdings for its poorer citizens whose farms have fallen into ruin during the First Punic War.
* Coal City-primarily in Grundy County, very small parcel in Will County
* Diamond-primarily in Grundy County, very small parcel in Will County
* Lemont-primarily in Cook County, very small parcel in Will County
* Orland Park-primarily in Cook County, very small parcel in Will County
* Sauk Village-primarily in Cook County, very small parcel in Will County
* Woodridge-partly in DuPage and a small parcel in Cook County
* East Dundee-very small parcel on eastern boundary in Cook County
* Hoffman Estates-primarily in Cook County, very small parcel in Kane County
A ballot initiative to obtain a parcel tax used to finance the long-term purchase of the school succeeded in keeping the school property from seeing a development that would have included 33 low-income houses packed tightly into the relatively small property.
" Whereas, there is a certaine parcel of land situated on the West side of Delaware Bay the which hath been certified by the Court at the Horekill and laide out for William Burton the saide Land being called the Long Neck lying on the South side of Rehoboth Bay and on the North side of the Greate River beginning at a point of woods and running West up the Greate River one thousand perches to a White Oak at the head of a small creek called Indian Cabin Creek and from thence North three hundred and fifty perches to a White Oak standing by a creek side called Middle Creek with a line of marked trees and from thence bounder upon the aforesaid Bay to the first bounded point Southeast one thousand perches containing One Thousand Acres of Land.
Sauk Village is a village in Cook County and small parcel south of 231st St. in Will County, Illinois.
The grant was named Hurd's Location and included five small islands in the Connecticut River, known as " Deer Islands ," and a parcel of land from below the present Village Bridge to the foot of Fifteen Mile Falls.
Even though Bernard Wilmore, at the time of his death ( 1844 ), had left a small parcel of land, in the center of town, to Father Gallitzin to be used as a church.
Hammer donated a small parcel of land ( less than 10 acres ) to the church, which in turn built a meeting hall and began holding annual church conventions there by the middle 1950s.
One small parcel of the city is located in Greene County.
A small parcel of fluid that does not straddle the axis will be rotated in one sense but sheared in the opposite sense, in such a way that the their mean angular velocity about their center of mass is zero.
It is most often made in small line or string, such as that used for hand baling, parcel tying, and binding roasts.
The individual sorting and handling systems of small parcel carriers can put severe stress on the packages and contents.
Stafford Castle, along with a small parcel of land, was restored to the Staffords, but they never regained the wealth or status of earlier years.
* Rudco – Once a small parcel of farmland before World War II, it was purchased in 1942 by IBM to expand upon.

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The double editorial on Two Aspects Of `` The U.S. Spirit '' was subtly calculated to suggest a moral sanction for gambles great as well as small, reflecting popular approval of this questionable attitude toward the highest office in the land.
Hino was the fourth son of an elderly farmer who lived on the coast, in Chiba, and divided his life between the land and the sea, supplementing the marginal livelihood on his small rented farm with seasonal employment on a fishing boat.
In 1838, a devastating fire gutted their small shop and soon thereafter David Brown moved west to Illinois, settling on a land grant in his declining years.
Three quarters to 1 acre of good land is enough for raising fruits and vegetables for home use, and for a small flock of chickens, a cow, and two pigs.
When surplus land is not expensive to buy or to keep up, it is usually better to buy it than to buy so small an acreage that the development of adjoining properties might impair the residential value of the farm.
In most of these, the male deposits a spermatophore, a small packet of sperm on top of a gelatinous cone, on the substrate either on land or in the water.
The land on the Arctic Circle is divided among eight countries: Norway, Sweden, Finland, Russia, the United States ( Alaska ), Canada, Denmark ( Greenland ), and Iceland ( where it passes through the small offshore island of Grímsey ).
Each family would then have two or three small pieces of land scattered about the village, which they used to grow crops.
Determined not to commit the same mistakes as his brother, Afonso III paid special attention to what the middle class, composed of merchants and small land owners, had to say.
In contrast with other continents, it is marked by the comparatively small area of either very high or very low ground, lands under occupying an unusually small part of the surface ; while not only are the highest elevations inferior to those of Asia or South America, but the area of land over is also quite insignificant, being represented almost entirely by individual peaks and mountain ranges.
Apart from the city of Canberra, the Australian Capital Territory also contains agricultural land ( sheep, dairy cattle, vineyards and small amounts of crops ) and a large area of national park ( Namadgi National Park ), much of it mountainous and forested.
Only pitifully small pieces of land are gained, about the size of a football field, which are often lost again later.
* 1870: In this cleared land a small Shinto shrine once in old Edo Castle was built.
Visual beacons range from small, single-pile structures to large lighthouses or light stations and can be located on land or on water.
The area of Berkeley was at this period mostly a mix of open land, farms and ranches, with a small though busy wharf by the bay.
Agriculture, while sufficient to support the small early settler population, has always been limited by the scarcity of arable land.
A small number of pockets of land on the right-hand side of the river Dragonja in Istria have remained under Croatian jurisdiction after the river was re-routed after the Second World War.
On land, mammals were a small and still relatively minor component of the fauna.
Canals need to be level, and, while small irregularities in the lie of the land can be dealt with through cuttings and embankments, for larger deviations, other approaches have been adopted.
The fossils of Mesosaurus, a freshwater reptile rather like a small crocodile, found both in Brazil and South Africa, are one example ; another is the discovery of fossils of the land reptile Lystrosaurus from rocks of the same age from locations in South America, Africa, and Antarctica.
In central Europe, kings and counts probably were willing to allow the inheritance of small parcels of land to the heirs of those who had offered military or other services in exchange for tenancy.
The majority of FARDC members are land forces, but it also has a small air force and an even smaller navy.
Another type of loaded die is hollow with a small weight and a semi-solid substance inside whose melting point is just lower than the temperature of the human body, allowing the cheater to change the loading of the die by applying body heat, causing the semi-solid to melt and the weight to drift down, making the chosen opposite face more likely to land up.
This battle marked the effective end of resistance to the expeditionary force, but the gunboats were called into service to transport troops to Fashoda, south along the White Nile, where a small force of French troops had made a difficult land crossing and staked a claim to the area.

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