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Making Of Bread, Etc. Act 1800
The Making of Bread, etc. Act 1800 (41 Geo. 3. (G.B.) c. 16), also called the Making of Bread Act 1800, popularly named the Brown Bread Act or the Poison Act,Osborn, The Industrial Ecosystem, 1997vol 2 p 314. was an Act of Parliament, act of the Parliament of Great Britain that prohibited millers from producing any flour other than wholemeal flour. Background The act was introduced as one of a series of measures to deal with a severe food shortage, caused at least partly by the poor wheat harvest of 1799. Labourers and their families at that time lived very largely on bread, the price of which could account for more than half of their weekly wages. The act The act directed that only wholemeal flour was to be produced. Effect The act proved to be very unpopular, and impossible to enforce. So concerned was the government by the civil unrest that resulted, the act was repealed after less than two months by the Use of Fine Flour (No. 2) Act 1801 (). One account from Horsham, i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
41 Geo
41 may refer to: * 41 (number) * one of the years 41 BC, AD 41, 1941, 2041 Art and entertainment * 41 (film), ''41'' (film), a 2007 documentary about Nicholas O'Neill, the youngest victim of the Station nightclub fire * ''41'', a 2012 film by Glenn Triggs * ''41'', a 2012 documentary about President George H. W. Bush. * 41 (song), "#41" (song), a song by the Dave Matthews Band * ''Survivor 41'', the 41st installment of CBS's reality program ''Survivor'' * "Forty One", a song by Karma to Burn from the album ''Appalachian Incantation'', 2010 People * George H. W. Bush, or "Bush 41" (to distinguish him from his son, George W. Bush), 41st President of the United States * Nick "41" MacLaren, member of the New Zealand hip hop duo Frontline (band), Frontline See also * HP-41C, a series of calculators made by Hewlett-Packard ** FOCAL (Hewlett-Packard) (Forty-one calculator language), the language used to program HP-41 calculators {{Numberdis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |