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3 unusual facts about angora


Angora, Minnesota

Angora is an unincorporated community in Angora Township, Saint Louis County, Minnesota, United States.

Angora, Philadelphia

The neighborhood was founded by Robert and George Callaghan in 1863, who named it for Ankara, the city in Turkey.

Hemingford, Nebraska

KDUH resumed full-power broadcasts one year later from a new tower near Angora.


Angora project

The Angora rabbit project was a project administered by the SS for breeding Angora rabbits.

Angora wool

Ed Wood, a filmmaker known for his love of Angora wool, to the extent of wearing it and featuring it prominently in his own films.

Fiber festival

Fiber festivals bring together producers and vendors of mostly animal fibers such as wool, qiviut, camelid, mohair, and angora) is displayed.

Pyotr Papkov

In 1833 Papkov was elected member of the Main Moscow Society for improvement of the sheep-breeding (Главное Московское Общество улучшения овцеводства) and into its periodical The Sheep-breeding Journal, where he published the following articles: On the Flock of Fine-wool Sheep (1833), On Angora goats (1833), On Sales of Angora goats (1839) and statistics on sheep-breeding in the same journal in 1844.


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