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Some shipwrights and coopers left us their tools to ponder, but not the origin of the word hogshead, or (as far as I know) plans to build a cog or a hulk. Archeology has been helpful on ship design, but some mysteries will always remain. ... more articles in maritime history...
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Hogshead barrel ... Gallons in hogshead ... Hogshead pubs...
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Equal Play; Title IX and Social Change; A reader of influential essays on the history and future of Title IX edited by Nancy Hogshead-Makar and Andrew Zimbalist...
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Nancy Hogshead-Makar - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Nancy Hogshead-Makar won four medals at the 1984 Summer Olympics. After retiring from swimming, she became a lawyer, a spokesperson for asthma, an author, a gender-equity activist, a law professor an...
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Jul 8, 2007 ... The Most Influential People in Title IX History: Nancy Hogshead-Makar. Titlix_2 Title IX is now 35 years old, and Sports Illustrated is ...
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Two Hogsheads of wine [commonly, a hogshead = 63 gals.]; Four tuns of beer [commonly, a tun = 252 gals. That's 15 kegs per tun, for you frat boys]; ... Other than this list, MacKay offers an explanation of the price of tulips in Dutch florins, a rather dry notation which we here at History House will endeavor to replace.
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However, this masterpiece, by William Makepeace Thackeray, "manages to cram a hogshead of history and a ton of portrait-painting into a liqueur glass of prose and leave room for hundreds of tiny embellishments, showing Thackeray a master craftsman in the handling of words.
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