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Chinese sorcery scares refer to a series of moral panics or mass hysteria events in Imperial China, occurring in 1768, 1810, 1876, and 1908. [1] These scares were characterized by widespread fears of sorcery practices, particularly "soul-stealing," a form of alleged magic believed to cause illness or death.
Its narrow-front tricycle design, high ground clearance to clear crop plants while cultivating (helped by a portal axle [drop gearset]), power take-off (a feature on which IH was an early leader [9]), and standard mounting points for cultivators and other implements on the tractor's frame (a Farmall first [10]) gave it some competitive ...
1768 was a leap year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar, the 1768th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 768th year of the 2nd millennium, the 68th year of the 18th century, and the 9th year of the 1760s decade. As of the start of 1768, the ...
Joseph Wright, An Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump, 1768, National Gallery, London. John Singleton Copley – Portrait of Thomas Gage; Thomas Gainsborough. Elizabeth and Thomas Linley (circa) [2] Ignatius Sancho; Sir Joshua Reynolds. Mrs Abington as the Comic Muse (approximate date) Portrait of the Marquess of Rockingham
27 John Street, London WC1N 2BX www.eandtbooks.com This electronic sample edition published 2012 by Elliott & Thompson ISBN: 978-1-908739-59-9 Print ISBN: 978-1 ...
A John Deere combine harvesting corn. The combine harvester, or combine, or thresher, is a machine that combines the tasks of harvesting, threshing, and cleaning grain crops. The objective is to complete these three processes, which used to be distinct, in one pass of the machine over a particular part of the field.
Big Bud 747 The Big Bud 747 pulls a 69 foot FRIGGSTAD chisel plow across a field in Central Montana. A Big Bud 540 with an air drill follows on the next pass. The Big Bud 747 or 16V-747 Big Bud is a large, custom-made farm tractor built in Havre, Montana, in 1977. It has 1100 horsepower.
The Ford N-series tractor helped revolutionize modern mechanized agriculture with its Ferguson three point hitch. A tractor is an engineering vehicle specifically designed to deliver a high tractive effort (or torque) at slow speeds, for the purposes of hauling a trailer or machinery such as that used in agriculture, mining or construction.