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    Whole Foods History

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    It rebranded to “whole foods” in 1979 after four local businessmen decided to merge “Safeway's” and “Clarksville Natural Grocery”, to form what is now the most successful natural foods store in the

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    When Travis was fully grown he was 6ft tall, with brilliant blue eyes, and radiant red hair to match. His everyday clothes were red pantaloons, white hat, and coal black boats. At he was 19 he began a successful law practice in Claiborne and Clarksville, with James Dellett, leading criminal lawyer in Alabama. While studying law he met Rosanna Cato. At age 20 he married the lovely Rosanna Cato on October 26, 1828. To William and Rosannas’ surprise, a son was born nine and a half months later.

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    Tommie Smith was the seventh of twelve kids destined to Richard and Dora Smith, transient specialists close Clarksville, Texas, a country town near the Oklahoma outskirt. His family subsisted on what they could make by picking cotton, chasing, and angling, however when Smith was six-years of age, his dad chose they could improve an existence in California, and heaped the family into an old truck. In the end, they made it to California, where, as Smith disclosed to John Maher in the Austin-American

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    Gun Control Laws Will NOT Reduce Crime Essay

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    Gun control laws aim to restrict or regulate firearms by selecting who can sell, buy and possess certain guns. Criminals do not obey laws and stricter gun control laws or banning guns will have little effect on reducing crimes. There are many myths about gun control reducing acts of gun violence, which are simply not true according to research. People are responsible for the crimes, not the guns themselves. Taking guns away from United States citizens that use them for many reasons, shooting practice

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    The National Weather Service records indicate that on August 23, 2005, Hurricane Katrina initially developed as a tropical depression in the Atlantic Ocean, and on August 24 was upgraded to a tropical storm. The storm moved on a northwesterly and then westerly track through the Bahamas, strengthening to a Category 1 hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson scale by the time it reached landfall near North Miami Beach, Florida, on August 25. Katrina weakened slightly as it moved southwesterly across Florida

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    Abigail, and Ava. The 9th District of Indiana is an area in South-Central Indiana that is made up of thirteen counties from Johnson County following down through IN-37 and I-65 South. The major cities and towns include: Bedford, Bloomington, Clarksville, Corydon, Franklin, Greenwood, Jeffersonville, Martinsville, Mitchell, New Albany, Paoli, Salem, Seymour, and Scottsburg. “Many of those cities and towns in the district are known for

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    The Edward Good Family

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    Civil War Impact on the Edward Good Family Edward Good enlisted in the Union Army on 14 July 1862 in Clarksville, Indiana as a Corporal in Company “I” in the seventy-fifth regiment of Indiana volunteers. By the end of November 1862, he was dead in hospital at Louisville, Kentucky of pneumonia. Where did the family live in the 1860? The 1860 U.S. Census for Jackson Township, Hamilton, Indiana recorded Edward Good, his wife, Elizabeth and nine of their children living on the farm which was valued

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    Asd Mission Statement

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    In 1850, the Arkansas school for the deaf,ASD, first opened located in Little rock, Arkansas. Opened with 6 students enrolled.The school was a K-12 residential school the students stay from sunday night till friday afternoon.. The school consists of a elementary school, middle school, and a high school.The mission statement for ASD is to “work together to create learning opportunities for academic excellence and personal independence”.The school board for ASD is a mixture of hearing and deaf people

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    post with my dad’s department. Law enforcement explorers are boy scouts for kids interested in law enforcement. I enlisted into the Army as a Military Policeman at the age of 17. At the completion of my contract in the military, I joined the Clarksville Police Department and completed the Tennessee Law Enforcement Training Academy in October 2008. Since my graduation from the academy, I have

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    The show was very successful in its first season, winning an emmy award and high ratings. “The last train to Clarksville” was a top ten hit. Some other successful songs were “I’m a Believer” and “Daydream Believer”. The Monkees featured the antics and music of a fictional pop-rock group which, due to the necessities of the program and the massive success of the records

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