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Demographics Fremont County, Iowa

2000 census age pyramid fremont county as of census of 2000, there 8,010 people, 3,199 households, , 2,242 families residing in county. population density 16 people per square mile (6/km²). there 3,514 housing units @ average density of 7 per square mile (3/km²). racial makeup of county 98.01% white, 0.04% black or african american, 0.24% native american, 0.24% asian, 0.96% other races, , 0.51% 2 or more races. 2.17% of population hispanic or latino of race. there 3,199 households out of 30.20% had children under age of 18 living them, 58.90% married couples living together, 8.20% had female householder no husband present, , 29.90% non-families. 26.30% of households made of individuals , 14.90% had living alone 65 years of age or older. average household size 2.45 , average family size 2.93. in county, population spread out 25.10% under age of 18, 6.00% 18 24, 24.30% 25 44, 24.70% 45 64, , 19.80% 65 years of age or older. median age 41 years. every 100 females there 95.50 males. ev...

Political developments in Romania Soviet occupation of Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina

a train refugees the territorial concessions of 1940 produced deep sorrow , resentment among romanians, , hastened decline in popularity of regime led king carol ii of romania. 3 days after annexation, romania renounced 1939 anglo-french guarantee. new government of ion gigurtu sworn in on july, 5th, 1940, withdrew country league of nations (july 11, 1940), , announced desire join axis camp (july 13, 1940). series of measures taken romanian prime minister ion gigurtu, including official persecution of jews inspired german nuremberg laws in july , august 1940, failed sway germany awarding northern transylvania hungary in second vienna award on august 30, 1940. red cross helping refugees in romania in government newsreel this led near uprising in country. on september 5, king carol ii proposed general (later marshal) ion antonescu, chief of army, form new government. antonescu s first act force king abdicate (for fourth , last time) , flee romania. alliance government formed ion antonesc...

History Eastwoodhill Arboretum

1 history 1.1 founding 1.2 extension 1.3 trust established history founding the history of eastwoodhill arboretum remain permanently connected life of william douglas cook (1884–1967). douglas cook, cookie close friends, born 28 october 1884 @ new plymouth, new zealand. in 1910, established farm of 250 hectares in ngatapa settlement, calling property eastwoodhill , after mother s family home in thornliebank near glasgow. first foundations present arboretum laid then. douglas cook started creating garden immediately. planted trees, roses, flowers, shrubs , vegetables. during first world war, cook volunteered serve in army. in france, lost sight of right eye , subsequently stayed in scotland family recover. inspired gardens , parks of england , came in contact sir arthur william hill, later become director of kew gardens. in 1918, @ eastwoodhill, douglas cook started planting thousands of pinus radiata wood production , fire-wood. planted eucalyptus viminalis , e. macarthurii. started c...

Copland Mac OS 8

starting in 1988, apple s next generation operating system, envisioned system 8 codenamed copland. announced in march 1994 alongside introduction of first powerpc macs. apple intended copland modern system, including native powerpc code, intelligent agents, microkernel, customizable interface named appearance manager, hardware abstraction layer, , relational database integrated finder. copland followed gershwin, promised memory protection spaces , full preemptive multitasking. system intended full rewrite of mac os, , apple hoped beat microsoft windows 95 market development cycle of 1 year. the copland development hampered many missed deadlines. release date first pushed end of 1995, mid-1996, late 1996, , end of 1997. dedicated team of 500 software engineers , annual budget of $250 million, apple executives began grow impatient project continually falling behind schedule. @ worldwide developers conference in january 1997, apple chief executive officer (ceo) gil amelio announced that...

History Chicago

1 history 1.1 beginnings 1.2 founding , 19th century 1.3 20th , 21st centuries 1.3.1 1900 1939 1.3.2 1940 1979 1.3.3 1980 present history beginnings traditional potawatomi regalia on display @ field museum of natural history. the name chicago derived french rendering of miami-illinois word shikaakwa, known botanists allium tricoccum. first known reference site of current city of chicago checagou robert de lasalle around 1679 in memoir. henri joutel, in journal of 1688, noted wild garlic, called chicagoua , grew abundantly in area. according diary of late september 1687: when arrived @ said place called chicagou which, according able learn of it, has taken name because of quantity of garlic grows in forests in region. in mid-18th century, area inhabited native american tribe known potawatomi, had taken place of miami , sauk , fox peoples. first known non-indigenous permanent settler in chicago jean baptiste point du sable. du sable of african , french descent , arrived in 1780s. ...

Cities and towns Occitan cross

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Stanford 2008 USC Trojans football team

before 2007 season, stanford head coach jim harbaugh, in first year cardinal, garnered attention first stating 2007 going carroll s last year @ usc, then, during pac-10 media day, usc may best team in history of college football. cardinal stunned trojans in major upset, 24–23, ending trojans 35-game home winning streak , causing major obstacle trojans national title hopes. during 2008 pac-10 media day, noted aftermath of cardinal s victory on usc water under bridge. given previous season, before season named game watch espn.com. the game marked first sell out of new stanford stadium since opening in 2006; large portion of crowd in support of usc.