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73 relations: Actor, Agriculture, American Revolutionary War, Animal husbandry, Boston Post Road, Bridgeport, Connecticut, Car, Carolyn Hax, Carriage, Cheryl Crawford, Colchester, Connecticut, Commuter town, Connecticut, Connecticut Colony, Connecticut Route 108, Connecticut Route 32, Dick Allen (poet), Ephraim Hawley House, Fairfield County, Connecticut, Freeman (Colonial), French and Indian War, Golden Hill Paugussett Indian Nation, Group Theatre (New York City), Half-Way Covenant, Harold Clurman, Helicopter, Highway, History of Trumbull, Connecticut, Igor Sikorsky, James Beebe, John Winthrop the Younger, Joseph Hawley (captain), Joseph Judson, King's Highway (Charleston to Boston), Lee Strasberg, List of highways numbered 1, Long Hill, Trumbull, Connecticut, Manufacturing, Merritt Parkway, National Register of Historic Places, Native American recognition in the United States, Native Americans in the United States, Nichols Farms Historic District, Norwich, Open space reserve, Panama Canal, Parish, Patriot (American Revolution), Pequonnock River, Pine Brook Country Club, ..., Pinewood Lake, Playwright, Preacher, Puritan migration to New England (1620–40), Robert Hawley, Schaghticoke people, Shelton, Connecticut, State-recognized tribes in the United States, Stratford, Connecticut, Suburb, The Reverend, The Washington Post, Theatre director, Theatrical producer, Truman Bradley (Native American), Trumbull, Connecticut, Village, Washington (state), Wealth, Western Connecticut, Will Geer, Woodbury, Connecticut, Zachariah Curtiss House. Expand index (23 more) »
Actor
An actor (often actress for women; see terminology) is a person who portrays a character in a performance.
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Agriculture
Agriculture is the cultivation of land and breeding of animals and plants to provide food, fiber, medicinal plants and other products to sustain and enhance life.
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American Revolutionary War
The American Revolutionary War (17751783), also known as the American War of Independence, was a global war that began as a conflict between Great Britain and its Thirteen Colonies which declared independence as the United States of America. After 1765, growing philosophical and political differences strained the relationship between Great Britain and its colonies. Patriot protests against taxation without representation followed the Stamp Act and escalated into boycotts, which culminated in 1773 with the Sons of Liberty destroying a shipment of tea in Boston Harbor. Britain responded by closing Boston Harbor and passing a series of punitive measures against Massachusetts Bay Colony. Massachusetts colonists responded with the Suffolk Resolves, and they established a shadow government which wrested control of the countryside from the Crown. Twelve colonies formed a Continental Congress to coordinate their resistance, establishing committees and conventions that effectively seized power. British attempts to disarm the Massachusetts militia at Concord, Massachusetts in April 1775 led to open combat. Militia forces then besieged Boston, forcing a British evacuation in March 1776, and Congress appointed George Washington to command the Continental Army. Concurrently, an American attempt to invade Quebec and raise rebellion against the British failed decisively. On July 2, 1776, the Continental Congress voted for independence, issuing its declaration on July 4. Sir William Howe launched a British counter-offensive, capturing New York City and leaving American morale at a low ebb. However, victories at Trenton and Princeton restored American confidence. In 1777, the British launched an invasion from Quebec under John Burgoyne, intending to isolate the New England Colonies. Instead of assisting this effort, Howe took his army on a separate campaign against Philadelphia, and Burgoyne was decisively defeated at Saratoga in October 1777. Burgoyne's defeat had drastic consequences. France formally allied with the Americans and entered the war in 1778, and Spain joined the war the following year as an ally of France but not as an ally of the United States. In 1780, the Kingdom of Mysore attacked the British in India, and tensions between Great Britain and the Netherlands erupted into open war. In North America, the British mounted a "Southern strategy" led by Charles Cornwallis which hinged upon a Loyalist uprising, but too few came forward. Cornwallis suffered reversals at King's Mountain and Cowpens. He retreated to Yorktown, Virginia, intending an evacuation, but a decisive French naval victory deprived him of an escape. A Franco-American army led by the Comte de Rochambeau and Washington then besieged Cornwallis' army and, with no sign of relief, he surrendered in October 1781. Whigs in Britain had long opposed the pro-war Tories in Parliament, and the surrender gave them the upper hand. In early 1782, Parliament voted to end all offensive operations in North America, but the war continued in Europe and India. Britain remained under siege in Gibraltar but scored a major victory over the French navy. On September 3, 1783, the belligerent parties signed the Treaty of Paris in which Great Britain agreed to recognize the sovereignty of the United States and formally end the war. French involvement had proven decisive,Brooks, Richard (editor). Atlas of World Military History. HarperCollins, 2000, p. 101 "Washington's success in keeping the army together deprived the British of victory, but French intervention won the war." but France made few gains and incurred crippling debts. Spain made some minor territorial gains but failed in its primary aim of recovering Gibraltar. The Dutch were defeated on all counts and were compelled to cede territory to Great Britain. In India, the war against Mysore and its allies concluded in 1784 without any territorial changes.
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Animal husbandry
Animal husbandry is the branch of agriculture concerned with animals that are raised for meat, fibre, milk, eggs, or other products.
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Boston Post Road
The Boston Post Road was a system of mail-delivery routes between New York City and Boston, Massachusetts that evolved into one of the first major highways in the United States.
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Bridgeport, Connecticut
Bridgeport is a historic seaport city in the U.S. state of Connecticut.
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Car
A car (or automobile) is a wheeled motor vehicle used for transportation.
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Carolyn Hax
Carolyn Hanley Hax is a writer and columnist for The Washington Post and author of the eponymous advice column Carolyn Hax (formerly titled Tell Me About It).
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Carriage
A carriage is a wheeled vehicle for people, usually horse-drawn; litters (palanquins) and sedan chairs are excluded, since they are wheelless vehicles.
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Cheryl Crawford
Cheryl Crawford (September 24, 1902 – October 7, 1986) was an American theatre producer and director.
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Colchester, Connecticut
Colchester is a town in New London County, Connecticut, United States.
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Commuter town
A commuter town is a town whose residents normally work elsewhere but in which they live, eat and sleep.
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Connecticut
Connecticut is the southernmost state in the New England region of the northeastern United States.
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Connecticut Colony
The Connecticut Colony or Colony of Connecticut, originally known as the Connecticut River Colony or simply the River Colony, was an English colony in North America that became the U.S. state of Connecticut.
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Connecticut Route 108
Route 108 in the U.S. state of Connecticut, locally called Nichols Avenue and Huntington Turnpike, is a two-lane state highway that runs northerly from US 1, Boston Post Road in Stratford, through Trumbull, to Route 110 in downtown Shelton.
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Connecticut Route 32
Route 32 is a primary north–south state highway in the U.S. state of Connecticut, beginning in New London and continuing via Willimantic to the Massachusetts state line, where it continues as Route 32 in that state.
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Dick Allen (poet)
Richard Stanley Allen (August 8, 1939 – December 26, 2017) was an American poet, literary critic and academic.
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Ephraim Hawley House
The Ephraim Hawley House is a Colonial American wooden post-and-beam timber-frame saltbox farm house on the Farm Highway, Route 108, on the south side of Mischa Hill.
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Fairfield County, Connecticut
Fairfield County is the most populous and the most affluent county in the U.S. state of Connecticut.
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Freeman (Colonial)
Freeman is a term which originated in 12th-century Europe and was common as an American Colonial expression in Puritan times.
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French and Indian War
The French and Indian War (1754–63) comprised the North American theater of the worldwide Seven Years' War of 1756–63.
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Golden Hill Paugussett Indian Nation
The Golden Hill Paugussett is a state-recognized Native American tribe in Connecticut.
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Group Theatre (New York City)
The Group Theatre was a theater collective based in New York City and formed in 1931 by Harold Clurman, Cheryl Crawford and Lee Strasberg.
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Half-Way Covenant
The Half-Way Covenant was a form of partial church membership adopted by the Congregational churches of colonial New England in the 1660s.
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Harold Clurman
Harold Edgar Clurman (September 18, 1901 – September 9, 1980) was an American theatre director and drama critic, "one of the most influential in the United States".
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Helicopter
A helicopter is a type of rotorcraft in which lift and thrust are supplied by rotors.
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Highway
A highway is any public or private road or other public way on land.
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History of Trumbull, Connecticut
Trumbull, a town in Fairfield County, Connecticut, in the New England region of the United States, was originally home to the Golden Hill Paugussett Indian Nation, and was colonized by the English during the Great Migration of the 1630s as a part of the coastal settlement of Stratford.
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Igor Sikorsky
Igor Ivanovich Sikorsky (a, tr. Ígor' Ivánovič Sikórskij; May 25, 1889 – October 26, 1972),Fortier, Rénald.
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James Beebe
James Beebe (1717–1785), Reverend, presided over the Unity Parish at North Stratford, now Trumbull, Connecticut, between 1747 and 1785.
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John Winthrop the Younger
John Winthrop the Younger (12 February 1606 – 6 April 1676) was governor of Connecticut.
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Joseph Hawley (captain)
Joseph Hawley (1603–1690), may have been born in Parwich, Derbyshire, England, was the first of the Hawley name to come to America in 1629.
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Joseph Judson
Joseph Judson (born 1619 in Kirkbymoorside, Yorkshire, England, died 8 October 1690) was a Connecticut settler, local official and militia officer.
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King's Highway (Charleston to Boston)
The King's Highway was a roughly road laid out from 1650 to 1735 in the American colonies.
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Lee Strasberg
Lee Strasberg (born Israel Strasberg; November 17, 1901February 17, 1982) was a Polish-born American actor, director, and theatre practitioner.
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List of highways numbered 1
The following highways are numbered 1.
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Long Hill, Trumbull, Connecticut
Long Hill is a village/neighborhood of Trumbull in Fairfield County, Connecticut in New England.
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Manufacturing
Manufacturing is the production of merchandise for use or sale using labour and machines, tools, chemical and biological processing, or formulation.
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Merritt Parkway
The Merritt Parkway (also known locally as "The Merritt") is a historic limited-access parkway in Fairfield County, Connecticut, the first of its kind.
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National Register of Historic Places
The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures, and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance.
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Native American recognition in the United States
American Indian tribal recognition in the United States most often refers to the process of a tribe being recognized by the United States federal government, or to a person being granted membership to a federally recognized tribe.
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Native Americans in the United States
Native Americans, also known as American Indians, Indians, Indigenous Americans and other terms, are the indigenous peoples of the United States.
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Nichols Farms Historic District
Nichols Farms is a historic area within the town of Trumbull, Connecticut.
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Norwich
Norwich (also) is a city on the River Wensum in East Anglia and lies approximately north-east of London.
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Open space reserve
An open space reserve (also called open space preserve, open space reservation, and green space) is an area of protected or conserved land or water on which development is indefinitely set aside.
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Panama Canal
The Panama Canal (Canal de Panamá) is an artificial waterway in Panama that connects the Atlantic Ocean with the Pacific Ocean.
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Parish
A parish is a church territorial entity constituting a division within a diocese.
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Patriot (American Revolution)
Patriots (also known as Revolutionaries, Continentals, Rebels, or American Whigs) were those colonists of the Thirteen Colonies who rejected British rule during the American Revolution and declared the United States of America as an independent nation in July 1776.
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Pequonnock River
The Pequonnock River is a U.S. Geological Survey.
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Pine Brook Country Club
Pine Brook Country Club began when Benjamin Plotkin purchased Pinewood Lake and the surrounding countryside on Mischa Hill in the historic village of Nichols, Connecticut.
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Pinewood Lake
Pinewood Lake is a natural lake located northwest of tall Mischa Hill in the Nichols Farms Historic District section of Trumbull, Connecticut.
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Playwright
A playwright or dramatist (rarely dramaturge) is a person who writes plays.
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Preacher
A preacher is a person who delivers sermons or homilies on religious topics to an assembly of people.
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Puritan migration to New England (1620–40)
The Puritan migration to New England was marked in its effects in the two decades from 1620 to 1640, after which it declined sharply for a time.
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Robert Hawley
Robert Hawley (1729–1799), Captain, raised provisions for the Continental soldiers and fought in the American Revolutionary War.
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Schaghticoke people
The Schaghticoke are a Native American tribe of the Eastern Woodlands who historically consisted of Mahican, Potatuck, Weantinock, Tunxis, Podunk, and their descendants, peoples indigenous to what is now New York, Connecticut, and Massachusetts.
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Shelton, Connecticut
Shelton is a city in Fairfield County, Connecticut, United States.
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State-recognized tribes in the United States
State-recognized tribes are Native American Indian tribes, Nations, and Heritage Groups that have been recognized by a process established under assorted state laws for varying purposes.
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Stratford, Connecticut
Stratford is a town in Fairfield County, Connecticut, United States.
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Suburb
A suburb is a mixed-use or residential area, existing either as part of a city or urban area or as a separate residential community within commuting distance of a city.
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The Reverend
The Reverend is an honorific style most often placed before the names of Christian clergy and ministers.
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The Washington Post
The Washington Post is a major American daily newspaper founded on December 6, 1877.
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Theatre director
A theatre director or stage director is an instructor in the theatre field who oversees and orchestrates the mounting of a theatre production (a play, an opera, a musical, or a devised piece of work) by unifying various endeavours and aspects of production.
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Theatrical producer
A theatrical producer is a person who oversees all aspects of mounting a theatre production.
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Truman Bradley (Native American)
Truman Bradley or Truman Mauwee (ca. 1826–1900) was a Schaghticoke Native American who lived in the village of Nichols in Trumbull, Connecticut.
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Trumbull, Connecticut
Trumbull is a town located in Fairfield County, Connecticut.
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Village
A village is a clustered human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town, with a population ranging from a few hundred to a few thousand.
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Washington (state)
Washington, officially the State of Washington, is a state in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States.
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Wealth
Wealth is the abundance of valuable resources or valuable material possessions.
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Western Connecticut
Western Connecticut is a geographic region of Connecticut, defined by the Connecticut Council of Governments as being located in the southwest corner of the state.
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Will Geer
Will Geer (March 9, 1902 – April 22, 1978) was an American actor and social activist, known for his portrayal of Grandpa Zebulon Tyler Walton in the 1970s TV series The Waltons.
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Woodbury, Connecticut
Woodbury is a town in Litchfield County, Connecticut, United States.
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Zachariah Curtiss House
The Zachariah Curtiss Houses are located at 2950 Nichols Avenue on the Farm Highway or Route 108 on the south side of Mischa Hill, and are among the oldest houses in the village of Nichols in Trumbull, Connecticut in New England.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nichols,_Connecticut
