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Full wool Merino sheep Merino sheep and red goats. Madrid, Spain. The Merino is a breed or group of breeds of domestic sheep, characterised by very fine soft wool.It was established in Spain near the end of the Middle Ages, and was for several centuries kept as a strict Spanish monopoly; exports of the breed were not allowed, and those who tried risked capital punishment.
In 1889, a Rambouillet Association was formed in the United States by Larmon Bronson Townsend & Larmon George Townsend in Ionia, Michigan, with the aim of preserving the breed. [3] An estimated 50% of the sheep on the US western ranges are of Rambouillet blood. [4] Rambouillet stud has also had an enormous influence on the development of the ...
2396754 [ 2 ] Website. www.merrillville.in.gov. Merrillville (/ ˈmɛrəlvɪl / MAIR-əl-vil, locally [ˈmɛərvɪl]) is a town in Ross Township, Lake County, Indiana, United States. The population was 35,246 at the 2010 census. Merrillville is in east-central Lake County, in the Chicago metropolitan area.
Website. townofshoals.com. Shoals is a town in Center and Halbert townships and the county seat of Martin County, [ 5 ] in the U.S. state of Indiana. [ 6 ] The population was 677 at the 2020 census. [ 3 ] Shoals is best known for the Jug Rock, the only free-standing table rock formation east of the Mississippi River.
The lowest point in the state of Indiana is located on the Ohio River in Posey County, where the Wabash River flows into it, and Posey County's highest point (590 feet/180 meters ASL) is a small rise 1.6 miles (2.6 km) SSW from Saint Wendel, near the county's southeast corner. [8] Posey county lies at the tripoint of Indiana, Kentucky and Illinois.
Big Merino. The Big Merino is a 15.2 metres (50 ft) tall concrete statue of a merino ram located in Goulburn, New South Wales, Australia. It was modeled after Rambo, a stud ram that lived on a local property. [ 1 ] The Big Merino was built near the Hume Highway in 1985. [ 2 ] In 1992 the highway rerouted to bypass the town of Goulburn, which ...
The first symbol was the Seal of Indiana, which was made official in 1801 for the Indiana Territory and again in 1816 by the state of Indiana. [2] It served as the state's only emblem for nearly a century until the adoption of the state song in 1913. [3] For many years, Indiana was the only state without a flag. The official state banner was ...
Second oldest county in Indiana. Clark County is a county in the U.S. state of Indiana, located directly across the Ohio River from Louisville, Kentucky. At the 2020 census, the population was 121,093. [ 1 ] The county seat is Jeffersonville. [ 2 ] Clark County is part of the Louisville/Jefferson County, KY –IN Metropolitan Statistical Area.