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Benjamin Cutter, William R. Cutter, History of the town of Arlington, Massachusetts, ormerly the second precinct in Cambridge, or District of Menotomy, afterward the town of West Cambridge. 1635-1879 with a genealogical register of the inhabitants of the precinct. 127 1 Browse Search
HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF MEDFORD, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, FROM ITS FIRST SETTLEMENT, IN 1630, TO THE PRESENT TIME, 1855. (ed. Charles Brooks) 54 0 Browse Search
The writings of John Greenleaf Whittier, Volume 4. (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier) 30 0 Browse Search
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 1. 13 1 Browse Search
James Redpath, The Public Life of Captain John Brown 12 0 Browse Search
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 1, Colonial and Revolutionary Literature: Early National Literature: Part I (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 10 0 Browse Search
History of the First Universalist Church in Somerville, Mass. Illustrated; a souvenir of the fiftieth anniversary celebrated February 15-21, 1904 6 0 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Poetry and Incidents., Volume 3. (ed. Frank Moore) 6 0 Browse Search
Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 1 4 0 Browse Search
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight) 4 0 Browse Search
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Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), B. (search)
rofessional bakers in Rome till after the war with King Perseus, more than 580 years after the building of the city. The occupation formerly belonged to the women. They ate their bread moist; it was sometimes kneaded with the must of the grape, with raisin-juice, or with butter for shortening, or with eggs and milk, and often soaked in milk and honey before eating. Vinegar, to soak the bread, was a regular ration with the Roman soldiery. It is much older than that, however: Boaz said unto Ruth, Eat of thy bread, and dip thy morsel in the vinegar. After the conquest of Macedon, 148 B. C., Greek bakers came to Rome and monopolized the business. Loaves of bread, or their pseudomorphs, are found in the excavations of Pompeii, partially buried A. D. 79. Bread was made with yeast by the English bakers in 1634. Was made by machinery in England in 1858. Was artificially inflated with carbonic-acid gas, with which the water of mixing was impregnated, by Dr. Dauglish, in 1859. Aera
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), T. (search)
x was thrashed by drawing across a comb-like instrument. See Fig. 4341. The practice was, and is, to gather the grain to a spot which is exposed to the wind, and there lay floors of sheaves about a foot thick. As the grain in the sheaf is thrashed, it is heaped in the center of the circular track on which the operation is performed, awaiting a favorable day for winnowing. Barley harvest preceded that of wheat in Egypt and Palestine, and Boaz winnowed barley at his thrashing-floor when Ruth waited upon him. Syrian Mowrej. 1. The thrashing by flails was adopted for the more tender kinds of grain. 2. The drag was a frame of wood shod with iron (or sharp pieces of lava in Palestine); it was sometimes toothed, making it a new, sharp thrashing instrument, having teeth. （Isaiah XLI. 15) This may have resembled the Roman tribulum, which was a sled drawn by oxen. The driver rode upon it. Egyptian Mowrej. 3. The wain was a frame with a number of axles on which were place