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2. Land use in Wales - Wikipedia

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   Land use in Wales. Wales has a surface area of 2,628,779 km 2 or 2,077,900 ha. It has a border with England to the east, and is bounded by the Irish Sea to the north and west, and by the Bristol Channel to the south. It has an oceanic temperate climate which is markedly influenced by the North Atlantic Current carrying warm water from tropical ...

3. Treaty of Pontotoc Creek - Wikipedia

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   The Treaty of Pontotoc Creek was a treaty signed on October 20, 1832 by representatives of the United States and the Chiefs of the Chickasaw Nation assembled at the National Council House on Pontotoc Creek in Pontotoc, Mississippi. The treaty ceded the 6,283,804 million acres of the remaining Chickasaw homeland in Mississippi in return for ...

4. Georgia Tann - Wikipedia

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   Georgia Tann. Beulah George "Georgia" Tann (July 18, 1891 – September 15, 1950), was an American social worker and child trafficker who operated the Tennessee Children's Home Society, an unlicensed adoption agency in Memphis, Tennessee. Tann used the home as a front for her black market baby adoption scheme from the 1920s to 1950.

5. Live Oak Plantation, Florida - Wikipedia

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   Coordinates: 30.491654°N 84.264407°W. Live Oak Plantation was originally a small cotton plantation of 1,560 acres (630 ha) located in central Leon County, Florida, United States established by John Branch who arrived in Florida in 1832 and served as Florida Territorial Governor while living at Live Oak for 15 years.

6. La Grange Plantation - Wikipedia

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   The Leon County Florida 1860 Agricultural Census shows that the La Grange Plantation had the following: Improved Land: 3,150 acres (1,270 ha) Unimproved Land: 1,000 acres (400 ha) Cash value of plantation: $ 55,200. Cash value of farm implements/machinery: $3425. Cash value of farm animals: $13,134. Number of persons enslaved: 232.

7. Morrill Land-Grant Acts - Wikipedia

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   Pub. L. Tooltip Public Law (United States) 51–841, 26 Stat. 417, enacted August 30, 1890. The Morrill Land-Grant Acts are United States statutes that allowed for the creation of land-grant colleges in U.S. states using the proceeds from sales of federally owned land, often obtained from Native American tribes through treaty, cession, or ...