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unusual facts about Peasants, Pigs



1921–22 famine in Tatarstan

More than 2,000,000 peasants starved, particularly in Arsk, Sviyazhsk, Mamadysh, Menzelinsk, Spassk, Tetyushi and Chelny kantons.

A Walk with Love and Death

The story is based on the 1961 novel by Hans Koningsberger, set at the time of the 1358 uprising of the peasants of northern France known as the Jacquerie.

Agriculture in Paraguay

A more suitable location for crops was the central region in the vicinity of Asunción, where traditional crop production had dominated since peasants were pushed toward the capital at the end of the Paraguayan War.

All India Kisan Sabha

Shanin, Teodor, 1978, "Defining Peasants: Conceptualisations and Deconceptualisations: Old and New in a Marxist Debate", Manchester University.

Australian Yorkshire

The pigs sold in Singapore were fed barley grains and soy beans, rather than whey powder, as the latter "gives the meat a milky taste that Singaporeans don't take well to".

Bernard de Nogaret de La Valette d'Épernon

He fought in Picardy (1636), in Guyenne, and finally against the Spaniards, and repressed the Peasants' Revolt (Révolte des Croquants) in 1637.

Birds of New Zealand

The most damage however was caused by habitat destruction and the other animals humans brought with them, particularly rats (the Polynesian rat or kiore introduced by Māori and the Brown Rat and Black Rat subsequently introduced by Europeans), but also mice, dogs, cats, stoats, weasels, pigs, goats, deer, hedgehogs, and Australian possums.

Black Company

The Black Company or the Black Troops was a unit of Franconian mercenaries during the Peasants' Revolt in the 1520s, during the Protestant Reformation in Germany.

Burning of the Spanish Embassy

In January 1980 a group of K'iche' and Ixil peasant farmers organized a march to Guatemala City to protest the kidnapping and murder of peasants in Uspantán in El Quiché department by elements of the Guatemalan Army.

Charles Rivière-Hérard

By the end of March 1844, a rebel army composed of peasants and farmers began to muster near the city of Les Cayes on the southwest peninsula.

Charquicán

This dish was commonly eaten by merchants travelling between the port of Arica and the mines of Potosi and by peasants travelling with herds of livestock.

Charroux Abbey

Excommunication was established as the punishment for attacking or robbing a church, for robbing peasants or the poor of farm animals, and for robbing, striking or seizing a priest or clergyman who was not bearing arms.

Chichibu District, Saitama

1884: The Chichibu Incident: uprising of impoverished peasants under the influence of the Freedom and People's Rights Movement.

Christina Rokiczana

Christina plays a major role in the novel King of the peasants (1884), by Józef Ignacy Kraszewski.

Cilicia

In fact, the Cilician highlands were densely populated by Armenian peasants in small but prosperous towns and villages such as Hadjin and Zeitun, two mountainous areas where autonomy was maintained until the 19th century.

Controversy over linguistic and ethnic identity in Moldova

Quoting Emmanuel de Martonne, historian Irina Livezeanu mentions that, around the time of the union, Bessarabian peasants "still called thesemlves Moldovans".

Cripplegate

Additionally the body of St. Edmund the Martyr was said to have been carried through it in 1010 on its way from Bury St Edmunds to St. Gregory's church to save it from the Danes and Lydgate, a monk of Bury, claimed that the body cured many lame peasants as it passed through the gate.

Emmanuel Mounier

Mounier, who was the child of peasants, was a brilliant scholar at the Sorbonne.

Eubuleus

In keeping with his ritualist approach to myth and other preoccupations in The Golden Bough, J.G. Frazer thought that the pigs, rather than merely accompanying Persephone in her descent, were an original feature of the story, representing the "corn spirit" that was later anthropomorphized as the young goddess.

Feodosiy Tetianych

Among his forefathers are registered Christians (peasants) and registered Cossacks in the Russian Empire, descendants of Cossacks of Ukrainian Rus.

Flag of Poland

Such armbands were worn by Polish freedom fighters during the Greater Poland Uprising (1918–1919) and Silesian Uprisings (1919–1921), as well as during the Second World War (1939–1945) by the soldiers of the Home Army (AK) and Peasants' Battalions (BCh) – usually emblazoned with the acronyms of their formations.

Franciszek Smuglewicz

Among the notable surviving works of that period are A Meeting of the Four Years' Sejm (1793) and Kościuszko's Oath at Kraków's Old Town Market (1797), Lithuanian Peasants, Freeing Peasants from Serfdom in Merkinė.

Friulian Revolt of 1511

It was the magi or event that raised the public opinion since for various years all the region was shaken by disputes and skirmishes stirred up by the peasants against the nobility, their families, soldiers, servants or their representatives (clashes occurred with Spilimbergo, Maniago, Valvasone, Portogruaro, Colloredo, Tarcento).

Gaspar García Laviana

Through his missionary work with Father Pedro Regalado in the parishes of San Juan del Sur and Tola in the department of Rivas, García Laviana worked closely with the Nicaraguan peasants and was intimately aware of the many hardships they faced.

Kay Dudman

The cavy family Caviidae includes the domestic guinea pig; and Dudman has given a home to and cared for several rescue guinea pigs over the years.

Kogălniceanu family

Originally Bessarabian peasants, the first Kogălniceanus accumulated wealth and, as owners of the Scrivulenii (Râpile) estate, climbed into the boyar elite.

Lady Carcas

Charlemagne and his men, believing that the city was full of food even to the point of wasting pigs fed with wheat, raised the siege.

Last Farewell

"Last Farewell", a song by the British psychedelic rock band Kula Shaker, from their 1999 album Peasants, Pigs & Astronauts

Lois Mailou Jones

Elected Fellow of The Royal Society of Arts in London; receives Franz Bader Award for Oil Painting from National Museum of Art for Peasants on Parade (1962)

Lord Emsworth

He later enters his prize sow, the Empress of Blandings, who wins the coveted Fat Pigs contest several years in a row.

Luis Sepúlveda

He worked in close contact with Indian organizations and drafted the first literacy teaching plan for the Imbabura peasants' federation, in the Andes.

Madras Presidency Legislative Assembly election, 1937

The Governor of Madras, Lord Erskine reported to the then Secretary of State Zetland in February 1937, that the peasants in South India had become fed up with the Justice Party and "every sin of omission or commission of the past fifteen years is put down to them Justice Party".

Madras Presidency Legislative Council election, 1937

The Governor of Madras, Lord Erskine reported to the then Secretary of State Zetland in February 1937, that the peasants in South India had become fed up with the Justice Party and

Olaf II of Denmark

He could speak not a single word of Danish and on questioning admitted he was a Prussian who was the son of peasants: Adolph and Margaret from Eger.

Pabna Peasant Uprisings

Pabna Peasant Uprising was a resistance movement by the peasants ("Ryots") against the lords of the lands in Bengal ("zamindars") in the Yusufshahi pargana (now the Sirajganj District, Bangladesh) in Pabna.

Porcos Cegos

Porcos Cegos (previously known as Blind Pigs) is a punk rock band formed in 1993 in the city of Barueri, Brazil, mainly influenced by Forgotten Rebels, Misfits and Ramones.

Rural Solidarity

The peasants were helped by such personalities, as Lech Wałęsa, Andrzej Gwiazda, Andrzej Stelmachowski and Jadwiga Staniszkis.

San Fabiano

When Count Giuseppe and Countess Giovanna Fiorentini bought the San Fabiano farm estate, there were some 300 people farming the land, producing 180,000 liters of wine yearly, breeding Chianina cows, producing meat for the local specialty, the Fiorentina steak, pigs, pheasants and chickens.

Sea pig

Scotoplanes, a genus of deep-sea holothurians (sea cucumbers) commonly called Sea pigs.

Seaboard Corporation

In 1998, Pulitzer Prize investigative journalists Donald Barlett and James Steele published a Time Magazine investigative article, "The Empire of the Pigs," which chronicled "how an extremely resourceful corporation plays the welfare game, maximizing the benefits to itself, often to the detriment of those who provide them."

Special Tribunal of the Ruling Senate

The Special Presence consisted of 6 senators (chairman and 5 members) and 3 representatives from different social estates - Marshal of the Nobility (nobility), mayor (urban commoners), and volost foreman (peasants).

Suspended animation

The pigs were anaesthetized and major blood loss was induced, along with simulated - via scalpel - severe injuries (e.g. a punctured aorta as might happen in a car accident or shooting).

The Goose Woman

The Rex Beach short story is based in part on the then already sensational Hall-Mills murder case in which a woman named Jane Gibson is described as a pig woman because of the pigs she raised on her property.

Three Little Bops

The Three Little Pigs and The Big Bad Wolf make a cameo appearance on the bleachers watching the basketball playoff against the Monstars and the Toon Squad in Space Jam.

Tong Seal

The festivity includes dancing, consumption of the alcoholic beverage Zozu, butchering animals such as cows, goats, pigs, Mithun and other animals for the meals.

Victor Andres Triay

In 2001 he was awarded the Samuel Proctor History Prize by the Florida Historical Society for his book, Bay of Pigs: An Oral History of Brigade 2506.

Villa Tunari Massacre

The Villa Tunari Massacre or Massacre of Villa Tunari was a 27 June 1988 mass killing committed by UMOPAR (Rural Patrol Mobile Unit) troops, and according to some accounts United States DEA military trainers, against peasants and cocaleros in the town of Villa Tunari in Chapare Province, Bolivia.

Yan Xishan

After Yan's time Shanxi became of site of Mao Zedong's "model brigade" of Dazhai: a utopian communist scheme in Xiyang County that was supposed to be the model for all other peasants in China to emulate.


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