A domestic warren is an artificial, enclosed establishment of animal husbandry dedicated to the raising of rabbits for meat and fur. It evolved from the Anglo-Norman concept of free warren, which had been, essentially, the equivalent of a hunting license for a given woodland.
The cunicularia of the monasteries may have more closely resembled hutches or pens, than the open enclosures with specialized structures which the domestic warren eventually became. Such an enclosure or close was called a cony-garth, or sometimes conegar, coneygree or "bury" (from "burrow").
To keep the rabbits from escaping, domestic warrens were usually provided with a fairly substantive moat, or ditch filled with water. Rabbits generally do not swim and avoid water. A pale, or fence, was provided to exclude predators.
The most characteristic structure of the "cony-garth" ("rabbit-yard") is the pillow mound. These were "pillow-like", oblong mounds with flat tops, frequently described as being "cigar-shaped", and sometimes arranged like the letter <E> or into more extensive, interconnected rows. Often these were provided with pre-built, stone-lined tunnels. The preferred orientation was on a gentle slope, with the arms extending downhill, to facilitate drainage. The soil needed to be soft, to accommodate further burrowing. See Schematic diagram of a pillow mound.
Warren Station will be a light rail station on the M-1 Rail Line in Detroit, Michigan. The station is expected to open for service in late 2016, and is located in Midtown. The station services the Medical Center and Cultural Center neighborhoods as well as Wayne State University.
The Warren Station is sponsored by Wayne State University.
Suikoden (Japanese: 幻想水滸伝, Hepburn: Gensō Suikoden, listen ) is a role-playing game published by Konami as the first installment of the Suikoden series. Developed by Konami Computer Entertainment Tokyo, it was released initially in 1995 for the PlayStation in Japan. North American and British releases followed one year later, and a mainland European release came the following March. The game was also released for the Sega Saturn in 1998 only in Japan, and for Microsoft Windows in 1998 in Japan. On December 22, 2008, Suikoden was made available on the PlayStation Store for use on the PlayStation 3 and PlayStation Portable consoles.
The game centers on the political struggles of the Scarlet Moon Empire. The player controls the son of a Scarlet Moon Empire general who is destined to seek out 108 warriors (referred to as the 108 Stars of Destiny) in order to revolt against the corrupt sovereign state and bring peace to a war-torn land. The game is loosely based on the Chinese novel Shui Hu Zhuan, and features a vast array of characters both controllable and not, with over ninety characters usable in combat and many more able to help or hinder the hero in a variety of ways.
Ruth (or its variants) may refer to:
R. U. Reddy (Winthrop Roan, Jr.) is a mutant and a member of the Thunderiders. He first appeared in Captain America #269 (May 1982), and was created by J. M. DeMatteis and Mike Zeck. Winthrop Roan, Jr. was the singer in a rock band known as Ruff Stuff. With Honcho and Wolf, he formed the professional motorcyclist team called Team America, which was eventually known as the Thunderiders. R.U. Reddy is a mutant who shares a mental link with the four other members of the Thunderiders. The five mutants can project their collective physical skills, strength, and knowledge into another person without diminishing their own abilities in any way.
Radion the Atomic Man first appeared in Marvel Two-in-One #9 (May 1975), and was created by Steve Gerber, Chris Claremont and Herb Trimpe. Exposure to radioactive isotopes caused Dr. Henri Sorel to mutate into an inhuman being who could generate blasts of nuclear energy, and warped his personality. The Puppet Master agreed to assist Radion in exchange for his help. Radion amplified the radiation in the Puppet Master's clay, enabling him to use Thor to attack the Fantastic Four. When Wundarr the Aquarian arrived to help, he absorbed Radion's powers, causing Radion to flee. Sorel then constructed a suit of armor to contain his energies and protect himself from reaching critical mass. He renamed himself the Ravager and traveled to London. He is also known as the Atom.
The steamboat Ruth operated from 1895 to 1917 on the Willamette River in the U.S. state of Oregon.Ruth played an important role in the transport of goods and agricultural products in Oregon, and was one of the fastest steamboats ever to operate on the upper Willamette. This vessel should not be confused with the sternwheeler Ruth built at Libby, Montana in 1896.
Farmers would grow wheat in the Willamette Valley, then bring it by wagon to river ports where it would be bagged and loaded onto steamboats bound downriver to Portland. One of the key centers to the wheat trade was the now-abandoned town of Lincoln, Oregon, in Polk County. Originally known as Doak's Ferry, Lincoln was about 6 miles (9.7 km) south of Salem, Oregon. Lincoln, was once the most important wheat port on the Willamette, as historian Corning describes:
By the 1890s, rail construction in the Willamette Valley had caused a sharp decline in steamboat traffic, as more and more freight was shipped by rail rather than water. Lincoln remained an exception, and well into the 1890s three steamboats a day called at the town. The vessels would leave Portland in the morning, pass through the Willamette Locks, and arrive at Lincoln at about 3:00 p.m.Ruth, when newly launched, was able to beat this time, and under Captain Miles Bell, set what may have been a record time for the Lincoln run, as historian Corning describes:
Actors: Diamond Geary (actor), James Hogue (actor), Louis Homyak (actor), Herb Klinger (actor), Roy MacArthur (actor), John MacKay (actor), Marcus Powell (actor), Stefan Rudnicki (actor), Henry Senft (actor), Dave Simonds (actor), Kurt Sinclair (actor), Gary Stevens (actor), Goddess Ambrosia (actress), Jessica Dublin (actress), Dwayne Coles (actor),
Plot: A rich actress who has gotten too old for leading roles employs a scientist who is working on a formula for eternal youth. The formula involves withdrawing certain fluids from the human brain. She takes the serum, but its unforseen side effects turn her into a murderous monster.
Keywords: anti-aging, creature-feature, drug, gore, independent-film, monster, rejuvenation, remake, transformation, youth-serumActors: Alexander Allerson (actor), Friedrich G. Beckhaus (actor), Rainer Brandt (actor), Ricky Cooper (actor), Harald Dietl (actor), Heinz Engelmann (actor), Horst Frank (actor), Toni Herbert (actor), Gert Günther Hoffmann (actor), Claus Jurichs (actor), Georg Lehn (actor), Richard Münch (actor), George Nader (actor), Joachim Nottke (actor), Werner Abrolat (actor),
Plot: A big shipment of Nitroglycerine, enough to make a shambles of New York, mysteriously vanishes! It's a race between agent Jerry Cotton and the underworld to see who can find the deadly explosive first. To complicate things further, the nitro must be found before a torrid heat wave causes it to blow much of the city sky high. 35mm.
Keywords: sequelActors: Ralph Bucko (actor), Roy Bucko (actor), Bob Burns (actor), Robert Dudley (actor), Charles King (actor), Tom London (actor), Ken Maynard (actor), Frank Mayo (actor), Bud McClure (actor), Lafe McKee (actor), Jack Rockwell (actor), Tarzan (actor), Blackjack Ward (actor), Frances Dade (actress), Aileen Manning (actress),
Plot: Hap Connors, not Conners(Ken Maynard)is an escaped convict looking for the man who framed him into a prison sentence.He runs into a prison companion, known as "Old" Frisco(Lafe McKee)who broke out a few days earlier than Hap. They hear some shots, reckon it is only some deer hunters, but it is a stage holdup engineered by Jim Blount(Frank Mayo) and staged by his chief henchmen "Bull" Legal(Charles King.)A worried Blount has heard about Hap's escape and tells Legal and his other henchmen that he will double the state's reward offer to the man who brings Hap to him---dead. Hap picks up a pair of slippers on the trail and at the next ranch meets the girl to whom they belong; Ruth Warren(Frances Dade),the ranch owner who gives him a job.At a town dance, Hap meets Ruth again and she tells him she is to be married the next day to Blount. Blount confronts Hap, calls him an escaped convict and Hap draws his guns and makes an exit through a window.Outside, Legal has been planted to shoot Hap but Frisco comes up behind him and clubs him down with a pistol.Hap rides back to town to try to persuade Ruth not to marry Blount but is caught by Blount and the sheriff(Jack Rockwell) and jailed. Frisco, disguised as a Mexican woman,smuggles Hap a saw and he escapes. He hurries to the ranch and breaks up the wedding somewhat by kidnapping the bride and taking her to Frisco's hideout.But this is a Ken Maynard film and something cute has to happen and cute this time is Mary crying about a basket-full of newly born kittens at her house that will starve unless they are fed, so there's nothing for Hap to do except go feed the kittens.Some more things happen including Hap(or Cliff Lyons)going over a cliff into some rapids, Ruth wandering off and discovering evidence that will clear Hap and convict Blount, and Blount and Legal catching Hap feeding the kittens.
Keywords: cowboy, henchman, horse, revenge, sheriff, tarzan-the-horseActors: David Butler (actor), Jack Carlyle (actor), William De Vaull (actor), Bert Hadley (actor), Carl Stockdale (actor), Will Walling (actor), Edwin Wallock (actor), Doris Pawn (actress), Kate Toncray (actress), Sol Lesser (producer), Raymond Leslie Goldman (writer), Vance Wethered (writer), Fred J. Butler (director),
Genres: Comedy,Actors: George Fawcett (actor), Kenneth Harlan (actor), James Harrison (actor), Frank Webster (actor), Flora Finch (actress), Louise Lee (actress), Florence Short (actress), Constance Talmadge (actress), Grant Carpenter (writer), Douglas Murray (writer), Chester Withey (director), Willard M. Reineck (miscellaneous crew), Joseph M. Schenck (miscellaneous crew),
Genres: Comedy, Romance,Actors: Ernest Butterworth Jr. (actor), Ward Crane (actor), James Kirkwood (actor), Buddy Messinger (actor), Harry Northrup (actor), Rose Dione (actress), Louise Lester (actress), Gertrude Messinger (actress), Anna Q. Nilsson (actress), Claire Windsor (actress), Allan Dwan (producer), Harold McGrath (writer), Allan Dwan (director),
Genres: Drama,Actors: Herbert Barrington (actor), William J. Butler (actor), Charles Perley (actor), Augusta Anderson (actress), Helen Wright (actress), George Reehm (director),
Genres: Drama, Short,Actors: Matty Roubert (actor), Ben F. Wilson (actor), Lois Alexander (actress), Dorothy Phillips (actress), William Addison Lathrop (writer), Ben F. Wilson (director),
Genres: Drama, Short,Woke up this morning and I looked around
So disappointed, I laid back down
Oh, what a dream, what a dream
I had last night
Dreamed I held you in my arms
But I'm still waitin' for that day to come
Oh, what a dream
(What a dream)
What a dream
(What a dream)
I had last night
Oh, what a dream
(What a dream)
What a dream
(What a dream)
I had last night
Dreamed we were walkin' down the aisle
The organ was playing "Here Comes the Bride"
You looked out at me and you began to smile
When I looked around everybody began to cry
I opened my eyes, you weren't there
All of my happiness just disappeared
Oh, what a dream
(What a dream)
What a dream
(What a dream)
I had last night
I opened my eyes, you weren't there
All of my happiness just disappeared
Oh, what a dream
(What a dream)
What a dream
(What a dream)
I had last night
Oh, what a dream
(Oh, what a dream)
What a dream
(Oh, what a dream)
A domestic warren is an artificial, enclosed establishment of animal husbandry dedicated to the raising of rabbits for meat and fur. It evolved from the Anglo-Norman concept of free warren, which had been, essentially, the equivalent of a hunting license for a given woodland.
The cunicularia of the monasteries may have more closely resembled hutches or pens, than the open enclosures with specialized structures which the domestic warren eventually became. Such an enclosure or close was called a cony-garth, or sometimes conegar, coneygree or "bury" (from "burrow").
To keep the rabbits from escaping, domestic warrens were usually provided with a fairly substantive moat, or ditch filled with water. Rabbits generally do not swim and avoid water. A pale, or fence, was provided to exclude predators.
The most characteristic structure of the "cony-garth" ("rabbit-yard") is the pillow mound. These were "pillow-like", oblong mounds with flat tops, frequently described as being "cigar-shaped", and sometimes arranged like the letter <E> or into more extensive, interconnected rows. Often these were provided with pre-built, stone-lined tunnels. The preferred orientation was on a gentle slope, with the arms extending downhill, to facilitate drainage. The soil needed to be soft, to accommodate further burrowing. See Schematic diagram of a pillow mound.
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