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    Pit brow women or pit brow lasses were female surface labourers at British collieries. They worked at the coal screens on the pit bank (or brow) at the...
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    dress". Concurrently, some female labourers, notably the pit brow women working at coal pits in the Wigan area, began wearing trousers beneath a short...
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    Trousers (category Women's clothing)
    [citation needed] Starting around the mid-nineteenth century, Wigan pit-brow women scandalized Victorian society by wearing trousers for their work at...
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    Mines and Collieries Act 1842 (category Women in mining)
    Retrieved 31 January 2020. {{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help) Davies, Alan (2006). The Pit Brow Women of the Wigan Coalfield. Tempus. ISBN 0-7524-3912-X....
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    dress". Concurrently, some female labourers, notably the pit brow women working at coal pits in the Wigan area, began wearing trousers beneath a short...
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  • club were part of the village. The workers, some of them pit brow women who worked on the pit brow screens sorting coal, were provided with hampers or turkeys...
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  • the Lancashire Coalfield, women, known as Pit brow lasses were employed on the surface to sort coal on the screens at the pit head. The colliery was linked...
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  • Trencherbone mines. The surface workers included women who sorted coal on the screens at the pit brow. In 1900 the company became the Astley and Tyldesley...
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  • were northern working women, prominent among these being pit brow women and mill workers, in all probability some Leigh women were represented. Despite...
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    Mabel and Kate King-May (category British women in World War I)
    excluded women from their historical trades. She spent a month working as a pit brow woman to prove that the work was not harmful for women, and published...
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    Roddy Piper (redirect from Piper's Pit)
    championships and hosted the popular WWF/WWE interview segment "Piper's Pit", which facilitated numerous kayfabe feuds. In 2005, Piper was inducted into...
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  • Coalfield. Some of the surface workers were women, known as pit brow lasses, who sorted coal on the screens at the pit head. As coal reserves were exhausted...
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    Bal maiden (category Women in England)
    closed, bringing metal mining in Cornwall to an end. Cornwall portal Pit brow womenwomen working coalfields in England Cornwall and West Devon Mining Landscape...
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  • workings. Pit Strictly refers to a shaft, though also used to refer to a colliery more generally. Pit brow lasses Pit brow (pit broo) lasses were women who...
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  • brick headquarters designed by Bolton architects Bradshaw, Gass & Hope. Pit brow women were admitted as members of the Federation after the first World War...
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  • Clay Pit Ponds State Park Preserve is 265-acre (1.07 km2) state park located near the southwestern shore of Staten Island, New York. It is the only state...
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  • Elizabeth; Vander Lugt, Kristin T. (eds.). Naziploitation!: The Nazi Image in Low-Brow Cinema and Culture. A&C Black. ISBN 978-1441183590. Shipka, Danny (2011)...
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    the original on September 4, 2015. Retrieved August 29, 2015. Andersen Brower, Kate (June 1, 2018). "Hillary Clinton's 'ass-covering' on bin Laden raid...
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    above ground. The surface workers included women, known as pit brow lasses, who sorted coal on the screens. Women were employed at Astley Green until the...
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    straight forehead whereas the "Queen's Lyre" curves slightly around the brow bone. It is held in the British Museum. The "Bull Headed Lyre" is 40 cm in...
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  • to Armenia (2008–2011), U.S. Ambassador to Kyrgyzstan (2005–2008) Greg Brower, District of Nevada (2008–2009) (Republican) Nick Brown, Western District...
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    of the entire silent era." du Brow, Rick (September 22, 1965). "Documentary On The Klan Made Quite An Impact On Du Brow". The Columbus Dispatch. p. 12...
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    Lancashire Coalfield, women, known as Pit brow lasses were employed on the surface to sort coal on the screens at the pit head. The first pit-head baths in the...
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    woman in public view in unskirted garments (to ride a bicycle) Wigan "pit brow lasses" scandalized by wearing trousers for dangerous work in coal mines...
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    stray-straw; ee-eye; lug-ear; delf-earthenware; gied-gave; moo'-mouth; broo'-brow; fun'-found. Sewell, John (23 July 2005). "His pottery poodles are prized...
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  • Chief of Staff to the Vice President (2019–2021) (endorsed Mike Pence) Greg Brower, assistant director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (2017), U.S....
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     23–28. ISBN 978-1-4429-9501-7. Reisler, Mark (1976). By the Sweat of Their Brow: Mexican Immigrant Labor in the United States, 1900–1940. Westport, Connecticut:...
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    Barbara Nessim (category American women illustrators)
    namely, Harpers Bazaar, Redbook, and the Ladies Home Journal, as well as "low brow" magazine titles such as, Escapade and Swank. Nessim's illustration work...
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    his Brow", the town elders claim it used to say "Beware" at the beginning, whereas the younger generation wishes to make it "Be the Furrow of his Brow"....
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  • Miscellaneous Sonnets 1819 Aerial Rock—whose solitary brow 1819 "Aerial Rock—whose solitary brow" Miscellaneous Sonnets 1819 The Wild Duck's Nest 1819...
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