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FALMOUTH GAZETTE AND WEEKLY ADVERTISER

The Falmouth Gazette and Weekly Advertiser was an American newspaper, the first printed in Maine. It was established at Portland, Maine, by Titcomb and White in 1785. In 1786 it was changed to the Cumberland Gazette and in 1792 to the Eastern Herald. In 1796 it was consolidated with the Gazette of Maine and was published as the Eastern Herald and Gazette of Maine. Again in 1804 it was united with the Portland Gazette. In 1831 it was established as a daily under the title of the Advertiser but was suspended for two years beginning with 1866. In 1868 its publication was once more resumed, and continued in connection with the weekly edition, under the name of the Advertiser.
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LAKES

Lakes are accumulations of water in hollows on the earth's surface. When they are drained by rivers their waters are fresh, but when they have no outlet they are salty, e.g. the Dead Sea, Sea of Aral, etc.
Lakes may owe their origin to:

1. The formation of a barrier across a river.


2. Earth movements.


3. Ice erosion.


4. Volcanic action.

The nehrungs of East Prussia are sand-spits which enclose the shallow salt-water lagoons or halls, such as Kurische Haff. Earth movements cause lake formation when subsidence occurs. This is most easily seen in rift valleys. Examples of rift valley lakes are the Dead Sea, Lakes Nyasa and Tanganyika in Africa, and Lake Torrens in Australia. These are all long, narrow, and very deep lakes.
In Cheshire, the removal of underground beds of salt has caused subsidence resulting in the 'meres' of the Weaver Valley. The 'folding' of the earth across the line of a river valley may partially block a river and help to form a lake. The study of a good physical map will reveal the connection between mountain building and the formation of Lake Geneva and Lake Constance in Switzerland. Where there are large areas of depressed lowland wide and shallow lakes are formed in the lowest part of the depression, for example the Sea of Aral in Asiatic Russia, Lake Balaton in Hungary, and Lake Eyre in Australia. Ice sheets and valley glaciers may scoop out hollows to form 'rock basins'. Mountain tarns and corrie lakes in North Wales and Scotland have been formed in this way. Water also accumulates in the hollows of unevenly- distributed glacial drift. Such are the lakes of East Prussia, and also those of the Cheshire-Shropshire borders near Ellesmere. Subsidence of the land surface and consequent lake formation may be directly related to volcanic action. Lough Neagh in Northern Ireland is a shallow lake formed by subsidence of this type. Lakes are often formed by the accumulation of water in the craters of extinct volcanoes, for example the Laachersee in the Eifel region of Germany.
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MAINE LAW

The Maine Law was a law prohibiting the sale of intoxicating liquors as a beverage, first adopted in the Americans state of Maine in 1851. Maine Law was passed after a lengthy campaign by the mayor of Portland, Neal Dow. In 1855 twelve other American states adopted Maine Law and declared prohibition.

In June 1855 Portland, Maine was the scene of a riot when an angry pro-liquor crowd congregated outside Portland City Hall. The Governor, Anson Morrill, a prohibitionist, called out the militia and Mayor Dow the leader of the militia force, ordered the militia to open fire on the crowd, killing one man and injuring several others.

In 1885 the state of Maine adopted Maine Law into its constitution, and in 1919 the American Congress through the Volstead Act introduced the Eighteenth Amendment thereby adopting Maine Law nationwide. So began American prohibition on January the 16th 1920. However, by 1930 it was clear that most Americans were ignoring the law and were continuing to drink liquor illegally, and in 1933 the ' noble experiment', was repealed by the twenty-first Amendment. Almost a year later Maine repealed its own Maine Law, although it was not until 1970 that liquor could be sold on a Sunday in Maine and then only in Class A restaurants. In 1973 Sunday trading of beer and wine was finally allowed in Maine.
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PORTLAND VASE

The Portland Vase or Barberini Vase is an ancient dark-blue glass and enamel Greek vase, with raised figures and devices in white enamel, discovered in the 17th century near Rome, in the supposed tomb of Alexander Severus and his mother. The vase was placed in the Berberini Palace at Rome, and was bought in 1770 by Sir William Hamilton, who sold it to the Duchess of Portland. In 1810 it came into the possession of the British Museum, and in 1845 was maliciously smashed by a visitor - William Lloyd, but was skilfully repaired.
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ARUM

Arum is a genus of plants of the natural order Aracese. Arum maculatum (the common wake-robin, or lords-and-ladies) is abundant in woods and hedges in England and Ireland. It has acrid properties, but its corm yields a starch, which is known by the name of Portland sago or arrow-root. At one time this was prepared to a considerable extent in Portland Island. All the species of this genus develop much heat during flowering.
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DORSET HORN

The Dorset Horn is a British breed of domestic sheep renowned for their unique ability to lamb naturally at any time of the year. The Dorset Horn evolved from cross breeding of Spanish sheep with the native English stock during the 16th century producing the Portland, and the modern breed evolved in 1707 from crossing the Potland with the Southdown to produce the Dorset Horn. The
Dorset Horn is bred for meat and wool, producing lean meat with a low proportion of bone in fast growing lambs and high quality fleeces. The Dorset Horn is a large sheep, white in colour with a tan-coloured face. The horns are long, curving downward in a circular pattern and then upwards, creating almost a full circle. In the USA Polled or hornless strains of the Dorset Horn were developed by North Carolina State University in the early 1950's and in the USA these have gradually been replacing the horned varieties.
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PORTLAND MOTH

The Portland Moth (Ochropleura praecox) is a local and rather rare moth of the family Noctuidae found in sandy regions throughout Europe and Asia where its single generation flies from July to September.
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GEORGE CANNING

George Canning was an English orator and statesman. He was born in 1770 at London and died in 1827. Educated at Eton and at Oxford, he was first brought into parliament by Pitt in 1793, and in 1796 became under-secretary of state. In 1797 he projected, with some friends, the Anti-Jacobin, of which Gifford was appointed editor, and to which George Canning contributed the Knife-grinder and other poems and articles. In 1798 he supported Wilberforce's motion for the abolition of the slave-trade. In 1807 he was appointed secretary of state for foreign affairs in the Portland administration, and was slightly wounded in a duel with Lord Castlereagh arising out of the dispute which occasioned the dissolution of the ministry.

In 1810 he opposed the reference of the Catholic claims to the committee of the whole House, on the ground that no security or engagement had been offered by the Catholics, but supported in 1812 and 1813 the motion which he had opposed in 1810. In 1814 he was appointed minister to Portugal, and remained abroad about two years. He refused to take any part in the proceedings against the queen, and in 1822, having been nominated Governor-general of India, he was on the point of embarking when the death of Castlereagh called him to the cabinet as foreign secretary. One of his earliest acts in this situation was to check the French influence in Spain. He continued to support the propositions in favour of Catholic emancipation, arranged the triple alliance for the preservation of Greece, but opposed parliamentary reform and the Test and Corporation Acts. April 12, 1827, his appointment to be prime-minister was announced, but his administration was terminated by his death on the 8th of August following. On all the leading political questions of his day, with two exceptions - the emancipation of the Catholics and the recognition of the South American republics- he took the high Tory side.
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GEORGE EVANS

George Evans was an American politician. He was born in 1797 at Portland, Maine and died in 1867. He was a member of the State Legislature from 1825 until 1828. He represented Maine in the House of Representatives from 1829 until 1841, and was elected to the Senate, serving from 1841 to 1847. He was chairman of the Committee on Finance, and was an authority on questions of the tariff and finance.
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HENRY LONGFELLOW

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was an American poet. He was born in 1807 at Portland and died in 1882.
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