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  • "The Thresher's Labour" is one of three poems written by Stephen Duck in 1730. It describes Duck's struggles as an agricultural labourer, and the situation...
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    tone." As she recounts in the preface to her 1762 collection, she was outraged when she read Stephen Duck's The Thresher's Labour (1730) and in response...
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  • The Thresher Poet. Second series, number eight. Orono: University of Maine Studies, 1926. Robert DeMaria's headnote and text of The Thresher's Labour...
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  • 1730 in literature (category Years of the 18th century in literature)
    – Sophonisba Edward Ward – The Prisoner's Opera Stephen Duck – Poems on Several Subjects (including "The Thresher's Labour") Matthew Pilkington – Poems...
    11 KB (1,027 words) - 18:36, 18 June 2024
  • Several Subjects (including "The Thresher's Labour") Walter Harte, Essay on Satire, criticism in verse Aaron Hill, The Progress of Wit George Lyttelton...
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    Threshing machine (category Commons link is defined as the pagename)
    machine or a thresher is a piece of farm equipment that separates grain seed from the stalks and husks. It does so by beating the plant to make the seeds fall...
    15 KB (1,895 words) - 21:37, 14 April 2024
  • done by beating or crushing the grain by hand or foot, and requires a large amount of hard physical labour. A simple thresher with a crank can be used to...
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    of the most economically important labour-saving inventions, significantly reducing the fraction of the population engaged in agriculture. Among the crops...
    37 KB (4,618 words) - 21:53, 13 May 2024
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    2024 Stroud District Council election (category May 2024 events in the United Kingdom)
    with the backing of the Green Party and Liberal Democrats. Labour lost their position as the largest party in the coalition in June 2022, following the resignation...
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    Pratt's Bottom (category Districts of the London Borough of Bromley)
    a village in Greater London, England, within the London Borough of Bromley and, prior to 1965, within the historic county of Kent. It is south of its parent...
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  • list of songs by their Roud Folk Song Index number; the full catalogue can also be found on the Vaughan Williams Memorial Library website. Some publishers...
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  • flowers. The concept of an organic farming seed village is promoted in the sub basins. E-velanmai technology will be tested on a pilot basis. Labour saving...
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    Trieste II (Bathyscaphe) (category Submarines of the United States Navy)
    Trieste II conducted dives in the vicinity of the loss site of Thresher – operations commenced by the first Trieste the year before. She recovered bits...
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    were a labour-saving device on farms, and helped farmers accomplish much more than they could previously. The engine was typically belted to the device...
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    USS Scorpion (SSN-589) (category Wikipedia articles incorporating text from the Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships)
    submarines the U.S. Navy has lost, the other being USS Thresher. She was one of the four submarine disappearances in 1968, the others being the Israeli submarine...
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  • Great Break (USSR) (category Ideology of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union)
    their skilled labour.: 156 : 5–8  However, a new generation of Soviet children educated in Soviet ideology would soon be ready to replace the bourgeois specialists...
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  • human rights activist. Bola Afonja, 81, Nigerian politician, minister of labour (1993). Marshall Allen, 52, American journalist (Las Vegas Sun, ProPublica)...
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    Outmigration leads to the shortage of labour to work the land and keep the paddies in good condition. Earthworms began invading the area in the late 1940s. They...
    29 KB (3,191 words) - 00:34, 23 April 2024
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    unfertilised eggs. After a lengthy labour, the female gives birth to 1 m (3.3 ft) long, fully independent offspring. The gestation period is approximately...
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  • Victorian Farm (category Reenactment of the late modern period)
    Much use was made of period sources such as The Book of the Farm: Detailing the Labours of the Farmer, Farm-steward, Ploughman, Shepherd, Hedger, Cattle-man...
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