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    they met the miners, joined pickets and raised funds. The songs of the South Wales Striking Miners' Choir and the speeches of Kent miner Alan Sutcliffe...
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  • settlement with few if any businesses. Locations were generally inhabited by miners, people with mining-related jobs such as running the smelters, and their families...
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    The UTEP Miners football program represents University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP) in the sport of American football. The Miners compete in the Football...
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    primary fuel, coal miners have figured strongly in labor and political movements since that time. After the late 19th-century coal miners in many countries...
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  • flower and no longer finds it beautiful, nor does he find the miners ugly: As always, the miners were looking down at me from their barracks, chin on hand...
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    Rachel Miner (born July 29, 1980) is an American actress. She made her feature film debut in Woody Allen's Alice (1990), and came to prominence with her...
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  • domain, so miners were operating on federal land. However, Congress passed no legislation regulating property rights for miners until 1866. Miners could hold...
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    dust cloud caused by the rock fall blinded the miners for as much as six hours. Initially, the trapped miners tried to escape through ventilation shafts,...
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    the Miners’ printed on it. The members of LGSM gave their support to the miners from a socialist standpoint, they did not intend or expect the miners to...
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  • Bitcoin is added to the Bitcoin pool, it is inflationary because as miners (people who find Bitcoin by using algorithms to solve mathematical puzzles)...
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  • Oskari Tokoi (category Western Federation of Miners people)
    Colorado, and the Dakota Territory, joining the radical Western Federation of Miners in connection with his employment. Loss of employment in the mines later...
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    Bill Haywood (category Western Federation of Miners people)
    his only support came from other miners. When Haywood listened to Ed Boyce of the WFM addressing a group of miners in 1896, he discovered radical unionism...
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    The Guaire River Miners, also known as Guaire River Garimpeiros, is the name given to the people who search for metals in the Guaire River, a 72-kilometer-long...
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    show that the noisy miner has benefited primarily from landscaping practices that create open areas dominated by eucalypts. Noisy miners are gregarious and...
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  • Thumbnail for 1926 United Kingdom general strike
    strike, with many of those who were not miners and not directly affected striking to support the locked-out miners. The government was well prepared, and...
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  • Thumbnail for West Virginia coal wars
    workers, the miners demanded better pay, better work conditions, the right to trade where they pleased (ending the practice of forcing miners to buy from...
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    the poem in direct response to the Minnie Pit Disaster in which 156 people (155 miners, 1 rescue worker) died. After his discharge from Craiglockhart and...
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    Garcia, "Kate Lang Johnson and Musician Justin Miner Get Married", People, September 10, 2012 "Miner". "Hart of Dixie Music - Season 3: "Should've Been...
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  • Thumbnail for 1912 United Kingdom national coal strike
    attempt by the Miners Federation of Great Britain, the main trade union representing coal miners, to secure a minimum wage for miners in their district...
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  • Thumbnail for Jan Miner
    Janice Miner (October 15, 1917 – February 15, 2004) was an American actress best known as the character Madge the manicurist in Palmolive dish-washing...
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  • Thumbnail for Sacramento Gold Miners
    The Sacramento Gold Miners were a Canadian football team based in Sacramento, California. The franchise was the first American team in the Canadian Football...
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  • Thumbnail for Bob Miner
    people to work extremely late hours and that they should have the chance to see their families. According to Ellison, Miner was "loyal to the people before...
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  • David Miner may refer to: David M. Miner (born 1962), American politician, member of the North Carolina General Assembly, 1993–2004 David Miner (musician)...
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  • united miners in the quest for safer working conditions. Yablonski pushed for cleaner air in the mines for miners, to reduce food contamination miners and...
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    gold mines. Miners began to organize and protest the taxes; miners stopped paying the taxes en masse. The October 1854 murder of a gold miner, and the burning...
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    merger of several miners' unions representing copper miners from Butte, Montana, silver and lead miners from Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, gold miners from Colorado...
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    western scarp of the Great Dividing Range. Stanthorpe was founded by tin miners. People came from many countries to mine tin from 1872. Prior to 1872 this area...
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  • 000 to 3,000 miners returned in 1775. The local government regarded returned miners as unstable factors in the border area, so that 63 people who involved...
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  • leaving 70 miners trapped underground. The miners were rescued after a brief period of time, but two people died. In August 2010, 33 miners were trapped...
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    Durham Miner Project – Banners of Durham Miners' Union 1869 to the present Archived 27 September 2007 at the Wayback Machine Roy Lambeth's Durham Miners Gala...
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