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Mr. Greenhut finished three days ahead of schedule. It took two-and-a-half weeks to complete all the restorations. Casey stood in the front yard staring up at the farmhouse admiring all the changes that had taken place. All the ideas jotted down on scraps of paper had turned out better than she expected. There was one final project on her list—planting a small herb and vegetable garden in the backyard, possibly even erecting a hydroponic greenhouse. She had become intrigued with hydroponic gardening

In 1888 on a Thursday afternoon 235 people were killed by a blizzard on their way home from school. Taking place in the Northwest Plains region of the United States the blizzard came without a warning temperature went down 100 degrees in a 24 hour. On a Thursday afternoon, a day before the storm it was unusually warm from Montana east to the Dakotas and south to Texas. Then suddenly within a couple hours the Arctic air that came from Canada went South. In North Dakota temperatures went forty degrees

Phillips has a rich history and is celebrating its 80th anniversary this year. The pet industry has changed a lot over those eight decades, and all the while, Phillips has stayed on top of those changes. And especially recently, Phillips has not only stayed on top of the changes, but has been the force of change. In addition to its promise to provide “customers with the products and services that will contribute to the growth and profitability of their business,” Phillips says it is “committed to

Micah Moore March 17, 2014 History 2020 Death on the Prairies: The Murderous Blizzard of 1888 On January 12, 1888, the weather in the west was mild, compared to previous weeks. Little did the people know that a massive cold front was in route and would be catastrophic to the people, their livestock, and the economy in the dekota and nebraska praries. The cold front would cause one of the worst blizzards for the region, killing close to 500 people. The factors that made the death toll so high

The blizzard of 1888 was known for how many students died. During the storm, over 200 students died and in total, almost 1000 people died. The article “ The Blizzard”! of 1888” by Jeanie Mebane and the poem, “Woman’s Voice” by Ted Kooser shows how a Blizzard took over many states while students were in school and how the families and students survived during the storm. The Blizzard of 1888 is portrayed as violent, horrifying for families, and life-changing. The Blizzard of 1888 is portrayed as violent

Chinese Jack the Ripper Caught Finally, the women in Baiyin, China can breathe a little easier. For more than 28 years, the residents of this city in the Northwestern province of Gansu lived in fear of the serial killer called the Chinese Jack the Ripper. But, that all ended on August 26, 2016, with the arrest of 52 year old Gao Chengyong by the local police. Gao was working in his Baiyin grocery store when he was taken into custody. As reported by London’s BBC News on August 29, 2016, http://www

The Blizzard of 1888 tested how much the human spirit could take. Stacking problems on problems, it was unforgiving to everybody in the area. Though the immigrants who came to the US all took different paths and ended up settling in different places of the Great Plains, in the end they both went through the same cold, unpredictable blizzard. The Rollag family, originating from Norway, came to the US because her husband, Ole, was assigned five years of military service, their farms were being reduced

Thesis: The Children’s Blizzard of January 12, 1888 was the worst blizzard to experience from the Dakotas to south Texas of all the damage from the winds and the snow, the amount of people that died,and the buildings destroyed. So many children died so that's why the name of the blizzard the Children’s Blizzard. Cause of disaster How blizzards are formed Below freezing air is used to make snow and snowflakes. Moisture from lakes and oceans to form clouds.warm, rising air to form precipitation.

This research paper is about Jack The Ripper, a legendary killer in London,1888. This legendary killer has said to be committed an unknown number of murders including 5 canonical. He terrorized London and was never captured or even identified. The fact that he did all this and stayed a mystery is why I believe he is real. I was sceptical about the legend about him thinking the other possibilities like the fact about other killers during that time murdering about the same time as Jack and why he is

Thomas Stearns Eliot, or T.S. Eliot, was born in 1888 on the Mississippi River in St. Louis, Missouri. Throughout his life, Eliot wrote and published several pieces of writing that are highly regarded and still studied in the world of literature today. Eliot was an American-British author, critic, playwright, and poet. After attending Smith Academy, and Milton Academy, he went on to graduate in just 3 years at Harvard University. He also got his masters and did doctoral work. He attended Oxford,