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    Ribbon farms (also known as strip farms, river lots, long-lot farms, or just long lots) are long, narrow land divisions for farming, usually lined up...
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    name. The settlement was connected to the Detroit River ribbon farm communities and other farms connected to the Rouge River and the Sauk Trail. The community...
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    inefficiency and limited growth potential. Eyeball planet Reihendorf Ribbon farm Zeilendorf English heritage thesaurus Archived 2007-09-14 at the Wayback...
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  • The green ribbon can have a variety of symbolic meanings. Mitochondrial disease awareness is represented by a green ribbon. Mitochondrial disease (mito)...
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  • Strip farm may refer to: Strip farming, a method of farming used when a slope is too steep or too long Ribbon farm, a long, narrow land division, usually...
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  • train passed their little farm on the outskirts of town. If his family had forgiven him, they were to put up a white ribbon in the big apple tree which...
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    streets were named after the owners of each farm, such as Livernois being named after the Livernois Family ribbon farm. In Monroe County, Michigan, land on the...
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  • Brown ribbons are worn in South Africa in protest against farm attacks. These brutal attacks targeting farmers increases every year (South African Farm Attacks)...
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    the "Cass Farm" area, after the name of one of the original ribbon farms that ran north from the river through the area. The original Cass Farm ran between...
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  • The White Ribbon (German: Das weiße Band - Eine deutsche Kindergeschichte) is a 2009 German-language mystery drama film, written and directed by Michael...
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    brick house once known as La Ferme locally, and was a French-Canadian ribbon farm which was a long narrow tract fronting endwise on the Detroit River....
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    properties, Mowry's estate was a "ribbon farm", a long, narrow strip with a short section of riverfront allowing each farm access to the Allegheny. Mowry...
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    Hubbard Farms is a neighborhood located in Detroit, Michigan. It is located on one of the old plots which used to be a ribbon farm along the Detroit River...
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  • successful sire. Bred in Kentucky by Peter E. Blum and raced under the Blue Ribbon Farm banner, he had a record of 41: 11-12-3 with career earnings of $3,920...
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  • Sulpicians, the grant citing his service at the mission. He was given a ribbon farm on the north end of the island, adjacent to Jean Carpentier and his family...
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    found the position powerless and soon resigned himself. He owned the ribbon farm immediately adjacent to Detroit, along which Brush Street now runs. Brush...
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    the National Register of Historic Places. Originally part of a French ribbon farm, Brush Park was developed beginning in the 1850s as an upscale residential...
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    The White Ribbon Association (WRA), previously known as the British Women's Temperance Association (BWTA), is an organization that seeks to educate the...
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    1808 and 1810, five ribbon farms were registered under the family names of Little, Rivard, Fournier and Tremble. These five farms were later subdivided...
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    card before drawing the farm landscape. The opening song is also sung to completion where it was truncated for the Blue Ribbon re-release. The sequence...
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    illustrates ribbon farms flanking Fort Detroit (center, above Detroit River) and across the river at what is now Windsor, Canada. The ribbon farm concept...
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  • French arpent land divisions are long narrow parcels of land, also called ribbon farms, usually found along the navigable streams of southern Louisiana and...
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    introduced the seigneurial system, a semi-feudal system of farming based on ribbon farms that remained a characteristic feature of the St. Lawrence valley until...
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    the blue ribbon in his class. He continued to teach riding and train horses, eventually moving to Virginia, where he owned a breeding farm. Snowman and...
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  • Moray East Wind Farm is an offshore wind farm located in the Moray Firth off the coast of Scotland. The wind farm received consent in 2014, and received...
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    State Farm Stadium is a multi-purpose retractable roof stadium in Glendale, Arizona, United States, west of Phoenix. It is the home of the Arizona Cardinals...
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    were French Canadians, who in the 1780s developed their traditional ribbon farms in Frenchtown. These had narrow fronts on the river so that more farmers...
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    property was lost; there was just some property in Albany and a 600-acre farm on the Huron River of Lake St. Clair. Although these were significant holdings...
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  • album, Ribbons and Sugar, in 2003. As indicated by the title, the album is based loosely around the George Orwell fable Animal Farm. Ribbons and Sugar...
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  • SimFarm: SimCity's Country Cousin is a video game in which players build and manage a virtual farm. It was developed by Maxis and released in 1993 as...
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