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This Century

Produced by Colby Wedgeworth (The Maine, Lydia), their second full-length album includes hits “Bleach Blonde” and “Skeletons” as well as 11 new tracks.


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Aroostook War

On 24 January 1839, the Maine Legislature authorized the newly elected Governor John Fairfield to send Maine's land agent, Rufus McIntire, the Penobscot County sheriff, and a posse of volunteer militia to the upper Aroostook to pursue and arrest the New Brunswickers.

Bay of Fundy

The lower part of the bay is also home to four important sub-basins: Passamaquoddy Bay and Back Bay on the New Brunswick shore, Cobscook Bay on the Maine shore, and the Annapolis Basin on the Nova Scotia shore.

Ben Chipman

He worked in the Legislature from 2002-2006 as legislative aide to John Eder, also of the Maine Green Independent Party.

Carol Bachofner

In 2009, Bachofner was invited to be a presenter of poetry by indigenous writers at the Maine Literary Festival in Camden, Maine.

Cherré

Cherré, Maine-et-Loire, a commune in the Maine-et-Loire department, France

Denée

Denée, Maine-et-Loire, a commune in the Maine-et-Loire department in France

Donald Alexander

Donald G. Alexander, American lawyer and justice on the Maine Supreme Judicial Court

Donald G. Alexander

Donald G. Alexander was appointed to the Maine Supreme Judicial Court in 1998 by Governor Angus S. King.

Eagle Lake and West Branch Railroad

Spruce forests of the Maine North Woods were a source of pulpwood through the 20th century.

Easton, Maine

Daniel Wathen, Chief Justice of the Maine Supreme Judicial Court

Enoch Lincoln

In November 1818 Lincoln was elected as a Democratic-Republican, representing the Maine district, to the Fifteenth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Albion K. Parris.

Ernst Haas

Haas also taught frequently at photography workshops, including the Maine Photographic Workshop, the Ansel Adams Workshop in Yosemite National Park, and the Anderson Ranch Arts Center near Aspen, Colorado.

Gené

Gené, Maine-et-Loire, a commune in the Maine-et-Loire department in France

History of Maine

The Portland Company built early railway locomotives and the Portland Terminal Company handled joint switching operations for the Maine Central Railroad and Boston and Maine Railroad.

James B. Longley

The owner of a successful insurance agency in Lewiston, Longley got his first opportunity in statewide politics when then-Governor Kenneth M. Curtis asked him to lead a state government commission called The Maine Management and Cost Survey Commission, which was intended to make government more efficient, and cut costs.

Joe Warfield

Previously, he taught at Loyola University, New Orleans as well as the Maine International Film and Video Workshops in Rockport, Maine.

Joseph L. Gormley

He retired from the FBI in 1973, and moved temporarily to Maine to direct the Maine State Police Crime Laboratory.

Kofi Yamgnane

He became well known in France in 1989 after being elected mayor of a village of Brittany, Saint-Coulitz (less than 400 inhabitants), and at this time, one out of only two black mayors in Metropolitan France (and the only black man in his city), the other was Auguste Senghor, mayor of Le May-sur-Èvre, a town (3,891 inhabitants) in the Maine-et-Loire département, from 1989 to 2008, when he became mayor of another town, Saint-Briac (Ille-et-Vilaine).

Kuni Takahashi

Originally from Sendai, Japan, Takahashi came to the United States to study photojournalism at the Maine Photo Workshops, the New England School of Photography in Boston and the Eddie Adams Workshop in New York.

La Varenne

La Varenne, Maine-et-Loire, a commune in the Maine-et-Loire department in France

Last Chance to Reason

Delaney, a staple of the Maine music scene, became the vocalist for the band's first LP release, Lvl. 1, and would stay with the band until 2008.

Libertarian Party of Maine

As of the 2012 election cycle, it is active with a fully constituted State committee, securing the placement of 2012 Libertarian Party Presidential Nominee Gary Johnson onto the Maine general election ballot for the 2012 election and the endorsement of Andrew Ian Dodge the United States Senate election in Maine, 2012.

Louis B. Goodall

He became president of the Sanford National Bank from its organization in 1896, and became chairman of the Maine commission to the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, St. Louis, Mo., in 1904.

Maine Diner

The Maine Diner has served some famous guests, including boxing announcer Bob Sheridan, a Boxing Hall of Fame member; and Eddie Andelman, a sports radio talk host.

Maine Mariners

After five seasons in Portland, the Maine Mariners franchise was moved to Providence, Rhode Island following the 1991–92 season and renamed the Providence Bruins.

Maine Prairie, California

During the American Civil War, it was a township large enough to support a California Militia Company (the Maine Prairie Rifles) from Sept. 19, 1863 to June 23, 1868.

Maine School of Science and Mathematics

After the announcement that Loring Air Force Base would be closed, funding from the Defense Reauthorization Bill provided for the creation of the Maine School of Science and Mathematics at the site of Limestone High School, which was going to lose many of its students upon the closure of the base.

Maine State Pier

During the 2011 Portland mayoral campaign, several candidates, including former State Senator Ethan Strimling made the lack of redevelopment at the Maine State Pier a key campaign issue.

Métis of Maine

The Maine Eastern Tribal Indian Society (MÉTIS), often referred to as The Métis of Maine is a cultural and educational organization based in Dayton, Maine.

Nicholas Mark Harding

He co-wrote The Notebooks of Cornelius Crow, shown in Cannes in 2004, and Folie a Deux, premièred at the Maine International Film Festival in 2012, with director Sean Martin.

Perhamite

Perhamite is named after Frank Croydon Perham (born 1934), an American geologist and pegmatite miner of West Paris, Maine who is currently part of the faculty of The Maine Pegmatite Workshop and has over 45 years experience in mining pegmatites.

Peter Kellman

When paper workers in Jay, Maine began tough collective bargaining talks with the International Paper (IP) in 1987, the Maine AFL-CIO assigned Kellman to work with the local.

Philip Wheeler Conkling

Conkling also serves as an alternate commissioner of the Roosevelt Campobello International Park, and is on the Maine state board of the Conservation Law Foundation.

Port Perry

Port Perry has attracted many film crews over the years, both for feature film and television; it doubled as the Maine town of Mooseport in the 2004 film Welcome to Mooseport and was used briefly as a small town in New Hampshire during the sixth season of The West Wing.

Presumpscot Formation

The Presumpscot formation is a late Pleistocene glacial deposit of predominantly submarine clays, located along the Maine and New Hampshire coast and inland along their major river valleys.

Saint-Hilaire-du-Bois

Saint-Hilaire-du-Bois, Maine-et-Loire, a former commune in the Maine-et-Loire département that is now a part of Vihiers

This Century

In support of the album, This Century joined The 8123 Tour with management label-mates The Maine as well as A Rocket To The Moon and Brighten.

Thomas Martin, Jr.

During his re-election campaign, the Maine Republican Party criticized Lachowicz for comments she made while playing World of Warcraft.

University of Maine School of Law

Many of Maine's judges, legal scholars, politicians and community leaders graduated from the law school, including the Chief Justices of the Maine Supreme Judicial Court, Leigh Saufley and Daniel Wathen, state Attorney General G. Steven Rowe, State Senate President Libby Mitchell, U.S. District Court Judge John A. Woodcock, former Governor John McKernan and the U.S. Attorney for the District of Maine, Paula D. Silsby.

Wells National Estuarine Research Reserve

These conservation lands are owned by the Maine Department of Conservation (533 acres), United States Fish and Wildlife Service/Rachel Carson National Wildlife Refuge (1,428 acres), Town of Wells (249 acres), and Wells Reserve Management Authority (40 acres).

Westmanland, Maine

On March 23, 1870 the Maine State Legislature passed an Act authorizing a Board of Immigration and William W. Thomas, Jr. was named Commissioner of Immigration.

Whittier Field

Located in Brunswick, Maine, it is the field for Bowdoin football, Bowdoin outdoor track and field, and the Maine Distance Festival.