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unusual facts about Free Land


Free Land

Many of the events described in the book, actually happened to either her parents (Laura Ingalls Wilder and Almanzo Wilder), or her grandparents (Caroline and Charles Ingalls).



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Arthur Arnold

He beliefs were reflected in his presidency of the Free Land League and his membership of the London Anti-Vivisection Society.

Avrom Reyzen

In 1910, he began the Warsaw literary weekly Eyropeyishe literatur (European Literature) and another called Fraye erd (Free Land).

Bapuji Mudgal Deshpande

Bapuji had unique idea to handle this issue without war, he convinced Muslim Killedar of Kondhana by offering huge “Inam” tax free land near Shivapur village in return of this fort’s control and thus avoided battle and blood lash.

Calton weavers

They were granted some help with their passage and free land in the Rideau Valley, a strategically important part of Upper Canada where the government was anxious to settle loyal Scots.

Colony of Vancouver Island

The result was that emigration was slow, and the landless labourers frequently fled the colony either to obtain free land grants in the United States, or work the newly discovered goldfields of California.

Foreign relations of Nigeria

In 2006 the Governor Otunba Gbenga Daniel of the Nigerian state of Ogun announced that Barbadians would be given free land if they wished to move to Nigeria.

Ryssby Church

In 1862, Sven J. Johnson, an agent for the White Star Line, along with Bengt Johnson, Aaron Peterson, Sven Magni, Peter Johnson, Lars J. Johnson and Samuel Gummeson, set off from their homeland in Ryssby, Sweden, to come to America seeking free land under the Homestead Act.