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    Laws". U.S. Bureau of Land Management Homesteading Timeline Homestead Act. – Library of Congress Text of 1862 Homestead Act Homestead Act of 1862. – National...
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  • school. Additionally, the company is commonly known for its Desert Boot, an ankle height boot with crepe rubber sole, usually made out of calf suede leather...
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  • List of inventors (section U)
    U.S. – greenhouse effect, boot soles Enrico Forlanini (1848–1930), Italy – Steam helicopter, hydrofoil, Forlanini airships Eric Fossum (born 1957), U...
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    Singularity: The 1787 Northwest Ordinance, the 1862 Homestead and Morrill Acts, and the 1944 GI Bill (U of Georgia Press, 2008) Sarah T. Phillips et al...
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    both Dutch Americans from New York. Her widowed mother owned a shoe and boot store and later ran a boarding house in New Orleans. In 1827, When she was...
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    leaving spoon in the glass. By the 1860s, as illustrated by Jerry Thomas's 1862 book, basic cocktail recipes included Curaçao or other liqueurs. These liqueurs...
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  • chain Jesse Boot (1850–1931), British businessman and transformer of the Boots Pharmacy/Drug Company into a national retailer John Boot (1815–1860),...
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    Idaho City, Idaho (category Boot Hill cemeteries)
    Idaho Metropolitan Statistical Area. Idaho City was founded in December 1862 as “Bannock” (sometimes given as “West Bannock”), amidst the Boise Basin...
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  • (1845–1874), husband of Belle Starr Nathanial "Texas Jack" Reed (1862–1950) Bass Reeves deputy U.S. Marshal (1832–1910) Frank H. Reid (1844–1898) Frank Reno...
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  • complicated motion. 1862 - The English inventor Peter Hubert Desvignes received an Honourable Mention "for ingenuity of construction" at the 1862 International...
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