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    Central Railroad Rumford Branch is a railroad line in Maine now operated as part of the CSX Transportation system. The Rumford Branch leaves the mainline...
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    Maine Bear River, Newry, Maine Ellis River, Rumford, Maine Concord River, Rumford, Maine Swift River, Rumford and Mexico, Maine Webb River, Dixfield, Maine...
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    Waterville into single track to Bangor and points east. Branch lines served the industrial center of Rumford, a resort hotel on Moosehead Lake and coastal communities...
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    measure that amended the California state constitution to nullify the 1963 Rumford Fair Housing Act, thereby allowing property sellers, landlords and their...
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    tinware factory, and an iron foundry. It remains the business center. The Rumford Branch of the Maine Central Railroad passed through the town in the late 1850s...
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    The Rumford Medal is an award bestowed by the Royal Society for "outstanding contributions in the field of physics". The award is named in honour of British...
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    in 1789 by Sir Benjamin Thompson (1753–1814), later Count Rumford (Reichsgraf von Rumford), for Prince Charles Theodore, Elector of Bavaria. Thompson's...
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    Littlefield's Corner crossing of the Grand Trunk Lewiston branch bridge over the Maine Central Rumford branch Grand Trunk Railway underpass Danville siding with...
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  • Maine and Vanceboro, Maine until 1947. It then spent two years pulling Rumford Branch passenger trains before conversion to unpowered maintenance of way tool...
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    Milepost 32.9: Rumford Junction with the Portland and Rumford Falls Railway completed in 1894 and operated as the Maine Central Rangeley branch from 1907 to...
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  • into subdivisions, most of which consist of a single main line with short branches. List of Norfolk Southern Railway lines "Cape Rail cuts track deal for...
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    as Count Rumford. The Count was a prominent advocate of hunger relief, writing pamphlets that were widely read across Europe. Count Rumford's message was...
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    Penacook,: 107  and it was incorporated on February 9, 1734 as the Town of Rumford. Governor Benning Wentworth gave the city its current name in 1765 following...
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    The East Junction Branch (formerly known as the India Point Branch) is a rail line in Rhode Island and Massachusetts, in the United States. Originally...
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    Revolutionary War. They were founded by Colonel Benjamin Thompson, later Count Rumford, in 1781. They were initially formed from the remnants of other British...
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    accession to the throne: Hardly any of the units were at full strength, the Rumford uniforms were unpopular and impractical, and the troops were badly-trained...
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    Nobel Prize in Chemistry, as well as the Francqui Prize in 1955 and the Rumford Medal in 1976. Prigogine was born in Moscow a few months before the October...
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    ministerial rank with Charles Theodore's backing and became Count von Rumford. Charles Theodore is also known for disbanding Adam Weishaupt's order of...
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  • went to work in paper mills in northern Maine cities like Millinocket and Rumford. Irish Catholics had also made gains in municipal politics, along with...
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  • River Assonet River Cedar Swamp River Segreganset River Three Mile River Rumford River Wading River Mill River Snake River Canoe River Forge River Cotley...
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    for his supposedly enlightened ideas. In 1785 Karl Theodor invited Count Rumford Benjamin Thompson to take up residency in Munich and implement stringent...
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  • Augusta Bangor Calais Caribou Ellsworth Kennebunk Lewiston Portland Rockland Rumford Scarborough Springvale Topsham Department of Motor Vehicles Government...
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    helmet with a horsehair plume, known as the "Rumford Casket" after the then Minister for War Count Rumford. However, Maximilian IV found the army in abject...
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    membership of the French Academy of Sciences (l'Académie des sciences), and the Rumford Medal of the Royal Society in England. In 1892, he was elected a member...
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    villages are located in East Providence: East Providence Center Riverside Rumford The city of East Providence is governed by an elected mayor and a five-member...
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    would eventually become president in 1969). The legislature passed the Rumford Fair Housing Act, which provided that landlords could not deny people housing...
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    Edmund Muskie (category People from Rumford, Maine)
    nominee for vice president in the 1968 presidential election. Born in Rumford, Maine, he worked as a lawyer for two years before serving in the United...
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    The other three were Mervyn M. Dymally, F. Douglas Ferrell and Byron Rumford. He continued to be reelected to the Assembly until 1995. In the 1960s...
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    contacted Garret Schenck, vice president of the International Paper mill at Rumford Falls and an expert in the industry, about building a pulp and paper mill...
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    April 2015. Associated Press. Retrieved 13 April 2015. "Rumford Police Department". Rumford Police Department. Retrieved 30 May 2022. "Town of Islesboro...
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