Plough also spelt plow , may refer to Plough , a tool used in farming for initial cultivation of soil Carucate Plough , a unit of medieval measurement Plough, a name for the asterism Big Dipper , in the constellation of Ursa Major Plough, a form of Backstaff The plough backstaff , a device for steering a ship Plough, a pair of Contact shoe shoes on a vehicle such as a tram , that draw power from a Conduit current collection pair of rails One positive, one negative to complete the cirquit underneath the road The Plough magazine The Plough magazine , a United Kingdom magazine Plough pose, a name for the Halasana pose in Yoga Plough, a bookbinding tool used to trim the edges of a book Plough, a slang term meaning to engage in sexual intercourse with See also Rotary snowplow Snow plough disambig ... more details
Orphan date February 2009 unreferenced date March 2007 The Classic of the Plough is a classical China Chinese text written by Lu Kuei Meng , ca 880 AD. He describes amongst other items an antique iron plough . manuscript stub Category Chinese classic texts Plough Category 9th century books DEFAULTSORT Classic of the Plough ... more details
Starry Plough may refer to Big Dipper , The seven brightest stars of the constellation Ursa Major, aka The Plough the Starry Plough flag , Flag of the former Irish Citizens Army, still used by Irish Republicans The Plough and the Stars , a play by Sean O Casey based on the Citizen Army s role in the Easter Rising The Starry Plough newspaper , Newspaper of the Irish Republican Socialist Party disambig ... more details
orphan date March 2010 refimprove date January 2009 Image Plough Sunday Gathering.jpg thumb right A Plough Sunday gathering outside a village church in Tickhill , Yorkshire, England Plough Sunday is a traditional English celebration of the beginning of the agricultural year that has seen some revival over recent years. Plough Sunday celebrations usually involve bringing a plowshare ploughshare into a church with prayers for the blessing of the land. It is traditionally held on the Sunday after Epiphany Christian Epiphany , the Sunday between 7 January and 13 January ref cite web url http www.sherborneabbey.com sermons PloughSunday.shtml title God Speed the Plough publisher Sherborne Abbey Sermon, Plough Sunday 2005 by Vicar Canon Eric Woods ref . Accordingly, work in the fields did not begin until the day after Plough Sunday Plough Monday . As well as a ploughshare, in rural areas, it is common for local farmers to attend the service with their tractor s both new and old see photo . References references Category English traditions Category January observances Category Church of England reli festival stub England stub ... more details
Unreferenced stub auto yes date December 2009 Orphan date August 2008 Plough back is defined in economics as to reinvest Profit economics profit into a business rather than distributing it to the current shareholders . DEFAULTSORT Plough Back Category Profit Econ stub ... more details
The Scotch plough or Scots plough was a wood and iron, Draft horse animal draft , primary tillage implement plough invented in the 19th century by James Anderson of Hermiston . Not to be confused with the Plough Scottish hand plough Scottish hand plough . ref cite web url http encyclopedia.jrank.org articles pages 7393 A HISTORY OF AGRICULTURE IN THE DEVELOPED WORLD.html title A History of Agriculture in the Developed World first last work encyclopedia.jrank.org year 2010 last update accessdate April 19, 2012 ref ref cite web url http www.worldburnsclub.com schools learning resources old and new ploughs.htm title Old and New Ploughs first last work worldburnsclub.com year 2008 last update accessdate April 19, 2012 ref See also References reflist Category History of agriculture Category Farming tools agriculture stub ... more details
Unreferenced stub auto yes date December 2009 Haswell Plough is a village in County Durham , in England . It is situated between Durham and Peterlee , south of Haswell, County Durham Haswell . External links Commons category inline Haswell Plough Coord 54 46.4 N 1 25.6 W region GB type city display title Category Villages in County Durham Durham geo stub pl Haswell Plough ... more details
orphan date April 2010 Image The Plough and Stars, Cambridge MA.jpg thumb right 250px The Plough and Stars The Plough and Stars is a bar located in Cambridge, Massachusetts . Founded in 1969, and named after the play by Sean O Casey , the bar has a rich literary history and is today a popular music venue. Ploughshares , the literary journal, was founded here and named after the bar. Past and Current Patrons Philip Roth , author DeWitt Henry , author and founder of Ploughshares Dana Colley , musician Mark Sandman , musician Bonnie Raitt , musician Margo Lockwood , poet Kenneth Reeves , politician Lawrence Ferlinghetti , poet, activist, and co founder of City Lights Bookstore City Lights Booksellers & Publishers David Mamet , writer and director Seamus Heaney , poet John Hume , politician Jarrett Barrios , politician and former employee Mickey Bones , musician External links http www.ploughandstars.com, The Plough and Stars website http www.bostonphoenix.com boston news features other stories multipage documents 01791877.htm, a review of The Plough and Stars http www.boston.com ae music articles 2009 11 06 plough stars marks 40 years in cambridge, The Plough and Stars celebrates its 40th anniversary http www.pshares.org Ploughshares coord 42 22 5.9 N 71 6 31.4 W region US display title DEFAULTSORT The Plough And Stars Category Drinking establishments in Massachusetts Category Buildings and structures in Cambridge, Massachusetts Category Visitor attractions in Middlesex County, Massachusetts pub stub ... more details
Orphan date February 2009 File Pflug von walle.jpg thumb The Walle Plough The Walle Plough lang de Pflug von Walle is a plough discovered in 1927 by peat cutters outside Walle, near Aurich , East Frisia Germany . It is one of the oldest known ploughs found in Europe . Location and discovery The plough was discovered on 9 July 1927 by Jann Han en and his son Heye at the bottom edge of a 1.7 metre m deep layer of peat . As a reward, Han en received 50 German Reichsmark Reichsmark , which he had to share with the landowner, a man called Weinstock. Extent of excavation The ploughbeam is made from a single oak branch and circa 3 m long the ploughshare originally measured about 60 cm. The handle is set in a rectangular opening of the share and stabilised by additional wedges. The front part of the share is missing, because the plough had been accidentally cut into several pieces by its finders. Pollen samples were already taken in 1927 for Palynology palynological analysis . This showed that the plough dates to the Bronze Age Early Bronze Age at the earliest. Since it represents a fairly developed form of the scratch plough , the Walle find could also date to the later Bronze Age or Iron Age Early Iron Age . A similar plough, also of oak and of similar measurements, was found at Papau near Toru . The scratch plough type is known through finds and images from the Neolithic , the Bronze and Iron Ages, as well as from Hallstatt culture , Etruscans Etruscan , Ancient Greece Greek and Ancient Rome Roman contexts. The basic form is still in use in the Mediterranean region . Why the Walle Plough had been deposited in a bog is not known. Perhaps it was meant to be temporarily ... was found nearby. Date After the plough had begun to physically deteriorate around 1937, it was brought ... there. The examination of pollen and peat samples indicated that the plough could not be allocated ... BC, but in the 1950s this was revised to a date around 2000 BC. A replica of the plough is on display ... more details
Image railroad plough.jpg thumb right Railroad plough from Military Museum Belgrade Military museum in Belgrade . The hook can be raised up for transportation or lowered down for track destruction. File Bundesarchiv Bild 101I 279 0901 31, Russland, Einsatz des Schienenwolf .jpg thumb right The plough in action File Bundesarchiv Bild 101I 279 0901 36, Russland, Einsatz des Schienenwolf .jpg thumb right Track, destroyed by the railroad plough A railroad plough also known as a Schienenwolf rail wolf or Schwellenpflug sleepers plough is a railroad car rail vehicle which supports an immensely strong, hook shaped plough . It is used for destruction of rail track in war fare, as part of a scorched earth policy, so that it becomes unusable for the enemy. In use, the plough is lowered to rip up the middle of the track as it is hauled along by a locomotive . This action breaks the wooden railroad tie ties which forces the steel rails out of alignment, making the line impassable by later rail vehicles bridges and signalling equipment also suffer serious damage. World War II Railroad ploughs were in use by the Czechoslovakian army in 1938. ref http jetrichovicko.euweb.cz bunkryen.htm Pre war fortification of Czechoslovakia in Czech Switzerland entry for 24th September 1938 Retrieved 15 November 2007 ref A captured German World War II example was kept at the Longmoor Military Railway . This may have since been transferred to the care of the UK s National Army Museum . but online research has failed to ascertain what happened to it. See also Nero Decree &ndash Hitler s unfulfilled plan to destroy German infrastructure, during retreat, to avoid it being used by the Allied forces References Reflist External links Commons category inline Railroad ploughs http forum.axishistory.com viewtopic.php?t 122619 Photos of Rail wolf in action and resultant damage http www.youtube.com watch?v kRBN6oFt2hw Video of German soldiers using a rail plough. Category Military railway equipment Category ... more details
Image PloughMonday.jpg thumb 450px Plough Monday, from George Walker s The Costumes of Yorkshire , 1814. Plough Monday is the traditional start of the English agricultural year . While local practices may vary, Plough Monday is generally the first Monday after Epiphany Christian Twelfth Day Epiphany , 6 January. ref name hone cite book last Hone first William title The Every Day Book publisher Hunt and Clarke location London year 1826 page 71 ref ref name oed cite web title Plough Monday publisher Oxford English Dictionary online edition, subscription required url http dictionary.oed.com accessdate 1 December 2006 ref References to Plough Monday date back to the late 15th century. ref name oed The day before Plough Monday is sometimes referred to as Plough Sunday . The day traditionally saw ... and East England, a plough was hauled from house to house in a procession, collecting money. They were ... in the role of the Clown fool . Plough Pudding is a boiled suet pudding, containing meat and onions. It is from Norfolk and is eaten on Plough Monday. ref name hone William Hone made use of Observations ... Henry Ellis mentions a northern English Plough Monday custom also observed in the beginning of Lent . Evidently the Plough dance depicted by Phiz in his illustrations for Harrison Ainsworth s 1858 ... Hone s Every Day Book at http www.hymnsandcarolsofchristmas.com Text Hone plough monday.htm . The material is omitted from the Plough Monday entry in the Revised edition of Brand of 1905. http www.hymnsandcarolsofchristmas.com Text Brands plough monday.htm ref Image Twelfth001.jpg thumb 450px right ... by Phiz , depicting the northern Fool Plough dance. cquote The FOOL PLOUGH goes about a pageant consisting of a number of sword dancers dragging a plough , with music one, sometimes two, in very ...&hl en Plough Monday , The Every day Book and Table Book or, Everlasting Calendar ... and Diversion. Vol III. , ed. William Hone, London 1838 p 81. Retrieved on 6 June 2008 ref The Plough ... more details
Infobox company company name Schering Plough Corporation company logo Image Schering Plough.svg 200px company type Subsidiary foundation 1971 by merger with Plough, Inc. location Kenilworth, New Jersey ... United States dollar US 20.7 billion Oct. 2008 Schering Plough Corporation was a United States based ... Schering AG in Germany . In 1971, the Schering Corporation merged with Plough founded by Memphis area entrepreneur Abe Plough in 1908 ref name TenCulture http tennesseeencyclopedia.net imagegallery.php?EntryID P033 Abe Plough 1892 1984 , Tennessee Encyclopedia of History and Culture, on line. ref to form Schering Plough. On November 4, 2009 Merck & Co. was merged with Schering Plough with the new company taking the name of Merck & Co. Schering Plough manufactured several pharmaceutical Medication ... products home.html accessdate November 10, 2010 ref Schering Plough also owned and operated ... 2005 , Schering Plough had 1.4 market share in the U.S., placing it seventeenth in the top twenty pharmaceutical corporations by sales compiled by IMS Health . Schering Plough was a full member ... date October 2009 Plough, Incorporated was founded by the Memphis, Tennessee area entrepreneur Abe Plough in 1908 http www.societyofentrepreneurs.com hall honor plough.asp . He borrowed 125 from his father to start the business at age sixteen. As a one man business, he mixed Plough s Antiseptic ... POV date June 2009 Plough s acquisitions included St Joseph s Aspirin for children, ref name TenCulture Maybelline cosmetics, and Coppertone girl Coppertone skin care products. Plough also had a broadcasting ... 19840915&id p3kUAAAAIBAJ&sjid xQIEAAAAIBAJ&pg 7046,2499030 Toledo Blade September 15, 1984 Abe Plough Obituary ref In 1971, the Schering Corporation merged with Plough, Inc. At the time of the merger, Abe Plough became Chairman of the combined company. ref http www.answers.com topic schering plough corp Hoover s Profile Schering Plough Corporation ref In 2000, Schering Plough bought a new campus ... more details
in the country, for among so many rocks, a plough can do little or nothing, and where there are no rocks ... in deeply. In the Western Isles, with a foot plough though, perhaps one man can do the work of four men with an ordinary spade, so while it is disadvantaged compared to a horse plough, it is also well suited to the country. South America and New Zealand The foot plough was also used by Peruvian s circa ... used the chakitaqlla, a type of foot plough. Before Europeans arrived in New Zealand 1642 , the M ori people used the k , a version of the foot plough. ref http www.teara.govt.nz en farm mechanisation ... and corrections See also Laia tool Laia the Basque h shaped tool, also described as a foot plough ... more details
Refimprove date May 2010 Image AncientPlough.jpg thumb right center Ancient plough similar to Ard File Plough marks 2.JPG right thumb center Ard marks on a boulder in a Clearance cairn clearance cairn. The ard or scratch plough is a type of simple plough . It consists of a frame mounting a nearly vertical wooden spike, which is dragged through the soil by draught animals. Rather than cutting and turning the soil to produce furrow s, it breaks up a narrow strip of soil, leaving intervening strips undisturbed. Cross ploughing is often used, where the soil is ploughed again at right angles to the original direction. Ards may be drawn by ox en, Domestic buffalo water buffalo , donkey s, camel s, or other animals. Evidence of its use in prehistory is sometimes found at archaeological site s where the long, shallow scratches it makes can be seen cutting into the subsoil . Ards were used in Agriculture in ancient Greece Ancient Greek agriculture , and were described by Hesiod . ref Signe Isager and Jens E. Skydsgaard, Ancient Greek Agriculture An Introduction , Routledge, 1995 small ISBN 0 415 11671 6 small p.46 ref Ards are still used in many areas, mainly in tropical parts of the world. See also Clearance cairn Stones with ard marks. References Reflist External links http www.shef.ac.uk archaeology research cladh hallan cladh hallan02.html Ard marks in South Uist Prehistoric technology DEFAULTSORT Ard Plough Category Animal equipment Category Archaeological artefact types Category Gardening tools Category History of agriculture euro archaeology stub cs R dlo da Ard fr Araire lt Arklas nl Haakploeg no Ard nn Ard pl Rad o ru fi Aatra sv rder wa Eraire ... more details
Paines Plough is touring theatre company founded in 1974 by writer David Pownall ref http www.davidpownall.co.uk ref and director John Adams. They named the company after their favourite pub, the Plough, where they would drink pints of Paines. br The company specialises exclusively in commissioning and producing new plays and helping playwrights develop their craft. In 2005, Paines Plough launched Future Perfect in conjunction with Channel 4 . The scheme is a year long attachment for emerging playwrights. Writers who have taken part include Lizzie Nunnery ref http www.lizzienunnery.co.uk ref , Tom Morton Smith and Duncan Macmillan. ref http www.doollee.com PlaywrightsM macmillan duncan.html ref br Over the past 4 decades, Paines Plough has established itself as a leading new writing company producing work by a wide range of playwrights across the UK and abroad. Collaboration with other theatre organisations is a vital feature of the company s work. Founder John Adams handed the Artistic Directorship to John Chapman in 1982. Pip Broughton succeeded in 1985, followed by Anna Furse 1990 , Penny Ciniewicz 1994 , Vicky Featherstone 1997 and Roxana Silbert 2005 . The current Artistic Directors James Grieve and George Perrin took up post on 1 February 2010. In October 2010, the company won a TMA award for special achievement in regional theatre. ref http www.thestage.co.uk news newsstory.php 30180 paines plough wins the stage award for ref References references External links http www.painesplough.com Official website UK theat stub Category British theatre companies ... more details
Other uses Starry Plough disambiguation Infobox play name The Plough and the Stars image Psra.jpg image size caption Publicity poster writer Se n O Casey chorus characters Fluther br Uncle Peter, Mrs Gogan Bessie Burgess br Nora Clitheroe br The Young Covey br Jack Clitheroe br Mollser br Cpl. Stoddart br Sgt. Tinley mute setting Dublin A tenement house and a pub premiere Start date 1926 02 08 place Abbey Theatre , Dublin , Irish Free State orig lang English language English series subject Easter Rising genre web playbill ibdb id 7150 iobdb id The Plough and the Stars is a Play theatre play by the Irish writer Se n O Casey first performed on February 8, 1926 by the Abbey Theatre in the writer s native Dublin . ref http www.universalteacher.org.uk drama ploughandstars.htm UniversalTeacher.com Plough and the Star page ref ref http en.internationalism.org wr 292 1916 rising.html Internationalism.org 1916 Rising Information ref It is the third of his well known Dublin Trilogy the other two being The Shadow of a Gunman 1923 and Juno and the Paycock 1924 . The Abbey most recently presented the play from July to September 2010, directed by Wayne Jordan. ref Cite news title Plough and the Stars Review author Caitr ona McKenna newspaper The Liberty.ie date url http www.theliberty.ie ?p 1803 accessdate 15 April 2011 ref Plot File Starry plough flag.gif thumb right 250px Starry Plough flag The Starry Plough represents the turning over of the soil of capitalist society by class struggle , the patient work of planting the seed s of the future, but also the need to harvest their fruit s when ... enter the bar, in uniform and carrying Starry Plough flag The Plough and the Stars flag and a green ... of Irish genius? In performance ibdb show 7150 Film adaptation main The Plough and the Stars film In 1936 in film 1936 , the play was adapted into The Plough and the Stars film a film by American ... drama ploughandstars.htm Academic play description DEFAULTSORT Plough and the Stars ... more details
Use dmy dates date March 2012 Advice to editors this article is about Plough Lane. Please do not add further material about Wimbledon FC s move to Milton Keynes as this is already well covered in other articles. Infobox Stadium nickname image File PloughLane.jpg 300px caption The South Stand, pictured in 2000 location Wimbledon, London , England coordinates coord 51 25 42.5 N 0 11 22.8 W type landmark ... Plough Lane was a association football football stadium in Wimbledon, London Wimbledon , south ... agreement with Crystal Palace F.C. Crystal Palace . Both clubs reserve teams then used Plough ... of Plough Lane and Haydons Road was purchased by Wimbledon F.C. Wimbledon Football Club ... to be made to the ground during the World War I First World War , and Plough Lane soon became ... reckoned the distance between Kingston market and Plough Lane to be five and a half miles, so no market ... 04 15 accessdate 2009 06 04 ref the board of the club decided that Plough Lane could not be redeveloped ... 2009 06 05 ref The work required to modernise Plough Lane would have been difficult and expensive ... Wimbledon s final first team match at Plough Lane came on 4 May 1991, ironically against ... darkest day date 6 April 2004 ref After Wimbledon F.C. Plough Lane continued to be used by both Wimbledon ... Wilson Homes in November 2002. ref name ploughlanesold cite news title Plough Lane Sale Agreed ... 570 flats, ref name ploughlaneupdate cite news title Plough Lane Update url http www.wisa.org.uk ... cite news title Plough Lane, Wimbledon, SW19 url http www.summertimeproperties.com owner images development23 Plough Lane brochure.pdf publisher King Sturge Residential date 2007 02 22 accessdate ... . ref name ploughlanenaming cite news title Naming Ceremony at Plough Lane url http www.wisa.org.uk ... date 2008 12 01 accessdate 2009 06 05 ref Records Wimbledon s highest ever attendance figure at Plough ... Sport in Merton Category Wimbledon F.C. no Plough Lane pl Plough Lane ... more details
coord 50.919 4.209 display title region GB scale 5000 Image The plough torrington 05041.jpg thumb 300px right The Plough arts centre on Fore Street in the centre of Great Torrington. The Plough Arts Centre is a theater theatre , movie theater cinema and art gallery in Great Torrington Torrington , north Devon , England . The Plough is situated in a former Territorial Army United Kingdom Territorial Army drill hall on Fore Street in the centre of Great Torrington Torrington . The Plough was founded in 1975. The venue was named The Plough after a public house which had stood on the site during the nineteenth century. In 1991 financial problems threatened The Plough with closure it was saved through a merger with the nearby Beaford Centre . Beaford withdrew in 2002, and The Plough is now again independent. Workshops The Plough Arts Centre runs many creative workshops for people of all ages and is the home of the Plough Youth Theatre now in their 6th Year. External links http www.theploughartscentre.org.uk The Plough arts centre DEFAULTSORT Plough Arts Centre Category Cinemas in England Category Theatres in Devon Category Arts centres in England UK theat stub Devon struct stub ... more details
Other uses2 The Starry Plough primarysources date March 2008 The Starry Plough is the official newspaper of the Irish Republican Socialist Party . It states on its website The Starry Plough is the only paper that stands firmly against United Kingdom British rule and the destruction of capitalism in Ireland . ref http irsm.org irsp starryplough Starry Plough An Camch achta Bot generated title ref The paper also focuses on socialist solidarity issues around the world. The name of the paper is taken from the The Starry Plough flag flag of the same name . The decision to use the name Starry Plough was inspired by a newspaper produced by Official Sinn F in in Derry Derry City in the early 1970s. This was at the suggestion of Derry Members to the IRSP Ard Comhairle in early 1975. The Irish translation An Camcheachta was provided by the late Mairin Bean Ui Chionnaith, an Irish scholar and a staunch Republican. The first edition of the new Starry Plough was published in April 1975 under the editorship of Mick Ahern. Subsequent editors included Osgur Breatnach, James Daly, Mary Reid, and again Mick Ahern. Important contributors have included Bernadette McAliskey, Tom Hayes, Ite Ni Chionnaith, Eamonn McCann, Niall Lenoach, Redmond O Hanlon, Gery Lawless, Siobhan Molloy, and London SWP cartoonist Phil Evans. References 1. The Starry Plough 1975 2. Hibernia 1978 Reflist External links http www.starryplough.net Official Website DEFAULTSORT Starry Plough Newspaper Category Newspapers published in Ireland Category Works about The Troubles Northern Ireland Ireland newspaper stub ... more details
Other uses Starry Plough disambiguation Refimprove date November 2006 Image StarryPlough.svg thumb right 300px The modern Starry Plough flag. The Starry Plough banner was originally used by the Irish Citizen Army , a socialist, Republican movement. James Connolly , co founder of the Irish Citizen Army with Jack White trade unionist Jack White , said the significance of the banner was that a free Ireland would control its own destiny from the plough to the stars. This was flown by the Irish Citizen Army during the 1916 Easter Rising . The flag depicts the constellation of Ursa Major , known as The Plough in Ireland and Britain, or in the US, the Big Dipper . Ursa Major Latin for Great Bear orig. Greek Megali Arktos , is one of the most prominent features of the night sky over Ireland throughout the year. While similar to the state flag of Alaska , it predates Alaska s by more than a decade. Starry Plough, 1930s to present The original Starry Plough showed silver stars on a green background. ref cite web url http www.angelfire.com space derryirsp flaghistory.htm title History of Starry Plough Flag publisher Angelfire.com date 1914 04 05 accessdate 2010 07 23 ref During the 1930s the design changed to that of the blue banner on the right, which was designed by members of the Republican Congress , and was adopted as the emblem of the Irish Labour movement, including the Irish Labour Party . Labour adopted the rose as its official emblem in 1991 but continue to use the Starry Plough for ceremonial occasions. It is also claimed by Irish republicans and has been carried alongside the Irish tricolour and Flag of Ireland Other flags Irish provincial flags and the sunburst ... TD Tony Gregory during his funeral. The older banner featuring the plough is still occasionally ... , formerly Official Sinn F in . See also The Plough and the Stars , the pacifist play by Se n O Casey 1926 References Reflist DEFAULTSORT Starry Plough Flag Category Flags of Ireland ... more details
File Sea Plough, Goonhilly Satellite Earth Station geograph.org.uk 1397955.jpg thumb A sea plough is a cable laying plough for submarine operation. A pipe and cable laying plough is a trenchless method to bury cables or pipes. The machinery is a form of a subsoiler with a single blade. It is used to lay buried services of virtually any description, for drainage, water, electricity, telecommunications, gas supply etc.. A coil of the service pipe cable is mounted on the tractor and is led down a guide behind the blade, and is left buried behind the plough, without the need to dig a deep trench and re fill it. This process is normally used in rural areas where previously buried services will not be encountered and there are no hardened surfaces, e.g. tarmac concrete etc.. There are also specialised laying ploughs for cable laying behind traffic barriers, in stream or lake beds or even for the laying of submarine cables in deep sea, so called sea ploughs. Sea ploughs are pulled behind cable ship s and bury the cable in the sea bed. Burying submarine cables helps protect them from anchors, trawlers and other risks. Category Trenchless technology de Verlegepflug ... more details
Infobox film name The Plough and the Stars image The Plough and the Stars 1936.jpg caption director John Ford producer writer Dudley Nichols br Se n O Casey starring Barbara Stanwyck br Preston Foster music cinematography Joseph H. August editing George Hively distributor RKO Pictures RKO Radio Pictures released film date 1936 12 26 runtime 72 minutes country Film US language English budget The Plough and the Stars is a 1936 drama film directed by John Ford based on the The Plough and the Stars play of the same name by Se n O Casey . Cast Barbara Stanwyck Nora Clitheroe Preston Foster Jack Clitheroe Barry Fitzgerald Fluther Good Denis O Dea The Young Covey F. J. McCormick Capt. Brennan Una O Connor Maggie Gogan Arthur Shields Padraig Pearse Moroni Olsen Gen. Connally J. M. Kerrigan Peter Flynn Bonita Granville Mollser Gogan Erin O Brien Moore Rosie Redmond Neil Fitzgerald Lt. Langon Robert Homans Timmy the Barman Brandon Hurst Sgt. Tinley Cyril McLaglen Cpl. Stoddard Wesley Barry Sniper D Arcy Corrigan Priest Mary Gordon actor Mary Gordon Woman at Barricades Doris Lloyd Woman at Barricades External links imdb title id 0028112 title The Plough and the Stars John Ford DEFAULTSORT Plough And The Stars Category 1936 films Category American films Category English language films Category Black and white films Category 1930s drama films Category Films directed by John Ford Category RKO Pictures films Category Films based on plays Category Irish War of Independence films 1930s drama film stub ca The Plough and the Stars fr R volte Dublin ... more details
File Stump jump plough.jpg thumb Stump jump plough Image Stump jump plough.jpg thumb Plan of the original single furrow plough The stump jump plough is a kind of plough invented in South Australia in the late nineteenth century by Richard Bowyer Smith to solve the particular problem of preparing Mallee habit mallee lands for cultivation. The problem Mallee biogeographic region Mallee scrub originally covered large parts of southern Australia, and when farmers moved into these areas they found it peculiarly difficult to clear the land. After the trees were cut down, the roots energetically produced regrowth. These young shoots and the old roots could be killed by repeated burning see below , but the large roots remained in the ground, making it impossible to plough the soil. Grubbing the roots out was a slow and labour intensive activity, and the problem was seriously hindering agricultural expansion. In South Australia, land was being offered under the Scrub Act of 1866 to farmers on lease, with the option of purchasing after 21 years at the price of 1 per acre. However, grubbing the scrublands was proving costly, at approximately 2 per acre, and solutions to the problem were desperately sought. Solutions The situation had grown so frustrating by 1878 that the South Australian government offered a reward of 200 to anyone who could develop an effective mechanical stump puller although myriad devices were developed, none proved to be a breakthrough success. Many of these machines ... the mallee died, though stumps remained underground. Breakthrough In 1876 a special plough ... agriculture jump plough.html 100 Years of Australian Innovation stump jump plough ref , on the Yorke Peninsula where the problem was particularly acute . The plough consisted of any number of hinged ..., the plough in action appearing like a ship in a storm , ref D.W. Meinig, On the Margins of the Good Earth , Rigby, 1962, 106 ref it proved remarkably effective, and was dubbed the stump jump plough ... more details
File RansomeVictoryPloughZambia.JPG thumb right 250px Ransome Victory Plough, Monze, Zambia Ransome Victory Plough American spelling plow is a type of single share mouldboard plough commonly used throughout Southern Africa. Introduced into much of Southern Africa in the mid 1920s via European farmers and missionaries, it was quickly adopted over earlier, heavier models that required multiple spans teams of oxen. The Ransome Victory s relatively light weight allowed it to be pulled by a single span of oxen, allowing more smallholder farmers who owned fewer cattle to utilize the technology ref Rowland, J.R.J. Dryland Farming in Africa. AJ Wageningen, The Netherlands Technical Centre Form Agricultural and Rural Cooperation CTA . 1993. ref ref Kenneth Powers Vickery, Black and White in southern Zambia Greenwood Publishing Group, 1986 . ref . The Ransome Victory plough s most recognizable feature is the vertically adjustable pivot wheel in front of the ploughshare as opposed to a cutting knife or wheel . This pivot wheel, combined with an offset tension bar to which the chain from the yoke is connected, causes the forward motion of oxen to force the blade into the soil. However, the tension bar is typically far weaker than the main plough beam, and is likely the first part of the plough to break. The difficulty of accessing spare parts causes many farmers to simply chain the oxen to the front of the beam, after which the ploughman must use his own strength to keep the plowshare in the soil ... Rhodesia now Zambia , the use of the R.V. plough on the Southern Province, Zambia Tonga Plateau allowed ... greater amounts of land utilizing the plough, as compared to hand cultivation. The success of maize ... Victory plough are that it is relatively cheap 100 200 USD , allows farmers to cultivate ... an uneven, smeared furrow in clayey soils unless well handled. Furthermore, the Ransome Victory plough ... the soil. In the context of subsistence farming in Southern Africa, the Ransome Victory plough ... more details
Thomas R. Plough is an American sociologist most notable for having served as president of North Dakota State University and Assumption College . Plough is a graduate of Michigan State University . He began his career at Alma College , where he rose to serve as dean of students. He moved to the Eisenhower College and later the Rochester Institute of Technology where he was eventually appointed provost. ref Citation last Gordon first Dane R. publication date 2007 title Rochester Institute of Technology Industrial Development and Educational Innovation in an American City, 1829 2006 edition 1 publication place Henrietta, New York publisher RIT Press page 381 isbn 9781933360249 oclc 80360669 year 2007 ref Plough assumed the presidency of North Dakota State University in 1995 and moved to Assumption College in 1998. He announced his retirement in August 2006. References reflist s start s aca s bef before Robert G. Quinn s ttl title Provost of the Rochester Institute of Technology years January, 1983 1995 s aft after Stanley D. McKenzie s bef before J. L. Ozbun s ttl title Presidents of North Dakota State University President of North Dakota State University years 1995 30 June 1998 s aft after Joseph A. Chapman s bef before Joseph H. Hagan s ttl title President of Assumption College years 1 July 1998 30 June 2007 s aft after Francesco Cesareo end Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Plough, Thomas R. ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Plough, Thomas R. Category Alma College faculty Category American Roman Catholics Category American university and college presidents Category Living people Category Michigan State University alumni Category North Dakota State University people Category People from Traverse City, Michigan Category Rochester Institute of Technology Category Rochester Institute of Technology faculty Category Year of birth missing living people Category Presidents of Assumption ... more details
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