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Leavitt Algebras
Leavitt may refer to: People *Leavitt (surname) Places ;United States * Leavitt, California *Leavitt Lake, a lake in Minnesota *Leavitt Peak, California * Leavitt Township, Michigan *Leavittsburg, Ohio *Leavittstown, New Hampshire, name later changed to Effingham, New Hampshire ;Canada *Leavitt, Alberta ;Extraterrestrial *Leavitt (crater) * 5383 Leavitt, asteroid Structures ;United States *Leavitt Area High School, Turner, Maine * Blazo-Leavitt House, Parsonsfield, Maine *James Leavitt House, Waterboro Center, Maine *Thomas Leavitt House, Bunkerville, Nevada See also *Levett Levett is a surname of Anglo-Norman origin, deriving from eLivet, which is held particularly by families and individuals resident in England and British Commonwealth territories. Origins This surname comes from the village of Livet-en-Ouche, no ... * Lovett (other) {{disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leavitt (surname)
Leavitt is an Anglo-Norman surname variant or surname and may refer to: *Abby Fisher Leavitt (1836–1897), American social reformer *Rev. Ashley Day Leavitt (1877–1959), American Congregational minister * Benson Leavitt (1797–1869), American businessman *Rev. Bradford Leavitt (born 1868), pastor of San Francisco's First Unitarian Church *Caroline Leavitt (born 1952), American novelist * Charles Wellford Leavitt (1871–1928), American landscape architect, urban planner, and civil engineer *Dallin Leavitt (born 1994), American football player *Daniel Leavitt (1801–1851), American inventor *David Leavitt (1791–1879), New York City banker and financier *David Leavitt (born 1961), American writer *Rev. Dudley Leavitt (1720–1762), New Hampshire Congregational minister *Dudley Leavitt (1830–1908), Mormon pioneer *Dudley Leavitt (publisher) (1772–1851), American publisher * Edward Chalmers Leavitt (1842–1904), early New England painter * Elisha Leavitt (1714–1790), Hingh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Salem, Massachusetts
Salem ( ) is a historic coastal city in Essex County, Massachusetts, located on the North Shore of Greater Boston. Continuous settlement by Europeans began in 1626 with English colonists. Salem would become one of the most significant seaports trading commodities in early American history. It is a suburb of Boston. Today Salem is a residential and tourist area that is home to the House of Seven Gables, Salem State University, Pioneer Village, the Salem Maritime National Historic Site, Salem Willows Park, and the Peabody Essex Museum. It features historic residential neighborhoods in the Federal Street District and the Charter Street Historic District.Peabody Essex announces $650 million campaign WickedLocal.com, November 14, 2011 [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Leavitt House
Thomas Leavitt House, a brick house built in the nineteenth century in Bunkerville, Nevada, United States, is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The Thomas Leavitt House was built by Thomas Dudley Leavitt (1857–1933), who was born in Santa Clara, Utah, the son of Lemuel Sturdevant Leavitt and his wife Laura Melvina (Thompson). Thomas Dudley Leavitt settled in Bunkerville, Nevada, near Mesquite, Nevada. in 1877 with 22 other members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Leavitt's group harked back to church pioneer Joseph Smith, founding a utopian community based on an economic system based on cooperative labor and communal property ownership, principles that Mormon leader Brigham Young had set aside in favor of the tithing system. But Young permitted the settlement to proceed despite his differences with the utopian ideals of the United Order settlers. Thomas Leavitt built a two-story brick home in Bunkerville for his first wife Louella (Abb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Leavitt House
The James Leavitt House in Waterboro Center, Maine, is a mid-19th century Greek Revival home built of wooden weatherboard and resting on a granite foundation. Built in 1850 for wealthy merchant James Leavitt, the house is on the National Register of Historic Places and is now owned by the town of Waterboro, which operates the architecturally-significant structure as a house museum known as the Taylor/Frey/Leavitt House Museum. History and origins The builder of the Leavitt House, James Leavitt, moved to Waterboro Center with his family from nearby Alfred, Maine, between 1830 and 1840, and entered into business as "an astute businessman," as a local historian put it. The merchant had several lines of business: he bought and sold local produce in Portland and Boston, and operated a general store near his house. He also bought pre-cut fabric in Boston, which he pieced out to local women, who then assembled the fabric into men's suits, shirts and trousers, which Leavitt sold back to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leavitt Area High School
Leavitt Area High School is a public secondary school that serves grades 9–12 in Turner, Maine, United States. It is a regional high school and serves the communities of Turner, Leeds, and Greene Greene may refer to: Places United States *Greene, Indiana, an unincorporated community *Greene, Iowa, a city *Greene, Maine, a town ** Greene (CDP), Maine, in the town of Greene *Greene (town), New York ** Greene (village), New York, in the town ... and is run by Maine School Administrative District 52. History The school takes its name from an 1895 gift by James Madison Leavitt, a Turner native who became a wealthy New York City manufacturer of umbrellas and parasols. Leavitt donated $10,000 to the town of Turner to build a preparatory school. The school opened on Jan. 20, 1897, and was dedicated to Leavitt. In 1899 the first class of eight students graduated. The school later outgrew the initial building, which now houses the Turner Historical Museum and the Turner Public Lib ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leavitt (crater)
Leavitt is a crater on the far side of the Moon. It is a moderately eroded crater, but only a few minor craterlets lie along the edge and interior. Most of these features lie within the northern half of the crater, but the largest lies along the southern inner wall. The crater has a low central ridge near the midpoint. There is a patch of higher-albedo material along the eastern rim, centered on a tiny craterlet. Nearly attached to the northern outer rim is the satellite crater Leavitt Z, a formation that appears similar to Leavitt but somewhat more worn. Less than two crater diameters to the northwest of Leavitt is the huge walled plain Apollo. To the northeast is the crater Buffon. The crater is named after Henrietta Swan Leavitt, a Harvard astronomer. The crater was named to honor deaf people, like Leavitt, who have made substantial contributions to science. Leavitt was a major figure in the history of astronomy, providing the key to determining the size of the cosmos, and cha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leavitt, Alberta
Leavitt is a hamlet in southern Alberta, Canada within Cardston County, located about west of Cardston on Highway 5. It falls within the Canadian federal electoral district of Medicine Hat—Cardston—Warner. History The first settler of the area was Thomas Rowell Leavitt, a Latter-day Saint from Utah Territory who came to Alberta fleeing a United States government crackdown on polygamy during a wave of late nineteenth century Latter-day Saint emigration to Canada and Mexico. The settlement's first name was Buffalo Flats, but it was subsequently changed to Leavitt in honour of the early Latter-day Saint settler. Cardston was the first Latter-day Saint settlement in Canada, and Leavitt was founded by a like-minded Latter-day Saint. Thomas Rowell Leavitt was born in Hatley, Quebec, Canada in 1834. Early converts to Mormonism, his parents subsequently moved to Utah. He had 26 children: 12 with his wife Ann Eliza; 9 with wife Antoinette; and 5 with Harriet Martha. Four chil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alaska North Slope
The Alaska North Slope ( Iñupiaq: ''Siḷaliñiq'') is the region of the U.S. state of Alaska located on the northern slope of the Brooks Range along the coast of two marginal seas of the Arctic Ocean, the Chukchi Sea being on the western side of Point Barrow, and the Beaufort Sea on the eastern. Petroleum resources The Alaska North Slope region includes the National Petroleum Reserve–Alaska, with the bulk of Alaska's known petroleum until the Prudhoe Bay Oil Field was discovered in 1968, followed by the Kuparuk River oil field in 1969. The region also includes the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, which itself has been the subject of controversy surrounding the possibility of petroleum drilling within its boundaries. The petroleum extracted from the region is transferred south by means of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System to Valdez on the Pacific Ocean. Under the North Slope is an ancient seabed, which is the source of the oil. Within the North Slope, there is a geologic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leavitt Island
Leavitt may refer to: People *Leavitt (surname) Places ;United States * Leavitt, California *Leavitt Lake, a lake in Minnesota *Leavitt Peak, California * Leavitt Township, Michigan *Leavittsburg, Ohio *Leavittstown, New Hampshire, name later changed to Effingham, New Hampshire ;Canada *Leavitt, Alberta ;Extraterrestrial *Leavitt (crater) * 5383 Leavitt, asteroid Structures ;United States *Leavitt Area High School, Turner, Maine * Blazo-Leavitt House, Parsonsfield, Maine *James Leavitt House, Waterboro Center, Maine *Thomas Leavitt House, Bunkerville, Nevada See also *Levett Levett is a surname of Anglo-Norman origin, deriving from eLivet, which is held particularly by families and individuals resident in England and British Commonwealth territories. Origins This surname comes from the village of Livet-en-Ouche, no ... * Lovett (other) {{disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hingham, Massachusetts
Hingham ( ) is a town in metropolitan Greater Boston on the South Shore of the U.S. state of Massachusetts in northern Plymouth County. At the 2020 census, the population was 24,284. Hingham is known for its colonial history and location on Boston Harbor. The town was named after Hingham, Norfolk, England, and was first settled by English colonists in 1633. History The town of Hingham was dubbed "Bare Cove" by the first colonizing English in 1633, but two years later was incorporated as a town under the name "Hingham." The land on which Hingham was settled was deeded to the English by the Wampanoag sachem Wompatuck in 1655. The town was within Suffolk County from its founding in 1643 until 1803, and Plymouth County from 1803 to the present. The eastern part of the town split off to become Cohasset in 1770. The town was named for Hingham, a village in the English county of Norfolk, East Anglia, whence most of the first colonists came, including Abraham Lincoln's an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
