Fort Benton is located at 47°49'10" North, 110°40'11" West (47.819307, -110.669726)GR1. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 5.4 km² (2.1 mi²). 5.4 km² (2.1 mi²) of it is land and none of it is covered by water. ...

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Montmorillonite is a very soft phyllosilicate mineral that typically forms in microscopic crystals, forming a clay. Montmorillonite, a member of the smectite family, is a 2:1 clay, meaning that it has 2 tetrahedral sheets sandwiching a central octahedral sheet. The particles are plate-shaped with an average diameter of approximately 1 micrometre. The particle thickness is extremely small (~ 1 nm). It is the main constituent of the volcanic ash weathering product, bentonite. Montmorillonite's water content is variable and it inc ...

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Bentonite is an absorbent aluminium phyllosilicate generally impure clay consisting mostly of montmorillonite, (Na,Ca)0.33(Al,Mg)2Si4O10(OH)2·nH2O. Two types exist: swelling bentonite which is also called sodium bentonite and non-swelling bentonite or calcium bentonite. It forms from weathering of volcanic ash, most often in the presence of water. Bentonite expands when wet - sodium bentonite can absorb several hundred percent of its dry wei ...

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Missoula is located at 46°51'45" North, 114°0'42" West (46.862633, -114.011593)GR1. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 61.9 km² (23.9 mi²). 61.6 km² (23.8 mi²) of it is land and 0.3 km² (0.1 mi²) of it is water. The total area is 0.46% water. Missoula is located in a deep valley surrounded by mountains and is cut by three major rivers, the Clark Fork River, the Bitterroot River and the Blackfoot River. The city is the namesake and center of the large, ancient ...

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The Blackfoot First Nation called the site Okotoks meaning “rock” named after the world's largest known glacial erratic rock. The 15,000 tonne (16,500 short ton) rock was transported far from its place of origin by glacial ice. When the ice melted approximately 10,000 years ago, it left the rock behind. Before European settlement, journeying First Nations used the rock as a marker to find the river crossing situated at Okotoks. The tribes were nomadic and often followed large buffalo herds for their sustenance. David Thompson expl ...

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As of the census2 of 2000, there are 5,970 people, 2,226 households, and 1,613 families residing in the county. The population density is 1/km² (2/mi²). There are 2,776 housing units at an average density of 0/km² (1/mi²). The racial makeup of the county is 84.00% White, 0.08% Black or African American, 14.62% Native American, 0.23% Asian, 0.10% Pacific Islander, 0.23% from other races, and 0.72% from two or more races. 0.6 ...

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Louis Riel - The amnesty question. It was not until September 2 that the new lieutenant-governor Adams George Archibald arrived and set about the establishment of civil government. In the absence of an amnesty, and with the Canadian militia beating and intimidating his sympathisers, Riel fled to the safety of the St. Joseph's mission across the border in the Dakota Territory. However the results of the first provincial election in December 1870 were promising for Riel, as many of his supporters came to power. Nev ...

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Neihardt was born in Sharpsburg, Illinois; his family moved to Wayne, Nebraska, when he was 10. A graduate of Nebraska Normal School in Wayne at the age of 16, he taught in rural schools near Hoskins. Neihardt had been writing poetry since the age of 12; he published his first book, The Divine Enchantment, at the age of 19. The book is based on Hindu mysticism, certainly an ambitious project for a young writer, but a forerunner of many of his p ...

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Meagher (pronounced Mayor) came from an established Catholic Tipperary County family of tailors & vintners. His father, Thomas Meagher (1796–1874), was born in St John's Newfoundland to Thomas Meagher (1763–1837) and Mary Crotty and was a merchant for the "Waterford-Newfoundland" trade. He was an MP for Waterford and its first Roman Catholic Lord Mayor in over two hundred years, thanks to Daniel O'Connell's successful agitation. His wife Alicia Quan (1798–1827) was the second eldest daughter of Thomas Quan and Alicia Forristall. < ...

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List of famous dogs - Famous pets of Presidents and their wives. Barney, U.S. President George W. Bush's Scottish Terrier Buddy, U.S. President Clinton's chocolate Labrador Retriever Checkers, U.S. President Nixon's Cocker Spaniel, made famous in the Checkers speech Dash, U.S. President Benjamin_Harrison and wife Caroline. Him and Her, U.S. President Lyndon Johnson's Beagles, made famous by Johnson lifting them by their ears Jack, U.S. President Theodore Roosevel ...

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Louis Riel - Background. The majority population of the Red River had historically been Métis and First Nations people. But upon his return, Riel found that religious, nationalistic, and racial tensions were being exacerbated by an influx of anglophone Protestant settlers from Ontario. The political situation was also uncertain, as ongoing negotiations for the transfer of Rupert's Land from the HBC to Canada had not addressed the political terms of transfer. Finally, despite warnings to the Macdonald government ...

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Okotoks Alberta - Water conservation. The Sheep River runs through Okotoks year round. Artesian wells near the river supply the town with its water. In September 1998, Okotoks became one of the first communities in Canada to recognize its environmental limits to growth were restricted by the carrying capacity of the local watershed. In concern for the supply of water, the town announced a unique and controversial suggestion of capping its population at 25,000 residents. On several occasions the town has had to pu ...

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Okotoks had its own lumber mill. Established in 1891, for 25 years John Lineham's sawmill was a major part of the local economy. At one time it employed 135 people, producing an average of 30,000 feet (9,000 m) of lumber per day. The growth of the Canadian Pacific Railway created a demand for railway ties and the mill helped meet that demand. Logs were brought down from the west via the Sheep River. The mill has long since shut down, but the building (one of the oldest remaining in the township) still stands. It housed an award-winning (butter) dairy from the 1920s to the 1940s. It curr ...

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The Texas Gulf sulphur plant (known as CanOxy) opened in 1959, employing 45 people. It was not unusual to see the bright yellow, three-story high, block-long, block-wide sulphur storage waiting to be melted or ground up and poured into railway cars. Since the 1974, Okotoks has been hosting a collector car auction in late May. It is the longest running collector car auction in Canada. Okotoks was one of the few communities its size to have its own airport. A number of small air shows were held there over the years. It was the ho ...

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Missoula holds the highest-percentage Democratic voting district in the state, and in the 2000 presidential election, it had one of the highest percentages of votes in the country for left-wing candidate Ralph Nader. NORML's state office is in Missoula and it holds a yearly Hemp Festival. The city is home to community gardens run by Garden City Harvest and Missoula Urban Demonstration Project, which seek to improve both urban environments and agricultural practices. Other organizations that call Missoula home include the Jeannette Rankin Pea ...

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As of the censusGR2 of 2000, there are 57,053 people, 24,141 households, and 12,336 families residing in the city. (A 2004 estimate puts the city's population at 61,790.) The population density is 925.6/km² (2,397.1/mi²). There are 25,225 housing units at an average density of 409.2/km² (1,059.8/mi²). The racial makeup of the city is 93.57% White, 0.36% African American, 2.35% Native American, 1.23% Asian, 0.10% Pacific Islander, 0.51% from other races, and 1.87% from two or more races. 1.76% of t ...

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Prior to his execution, Riel was reconciled with the Catholic church, and assigned Father André as his spiritual advisor. He was also given writing materials so that he could employ his time in prison to write a book . Boulton writes in his memoirs that, as the date of his execution approached, Riel regretted his opposition to the defense of insanity and vainly attempted to provide evidence that he was not sane. After several requests for a retrial and an appeal to the Privy Council in England were denied, Louis Riel was ...

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The Red River Settlement was a community in Rupert's Land nominally administered by the Hudson's Bay Company (HBC), and largely inhabited by First Nations tribes and the Métis, an ethnic group of mixed Cree, Ojibway, Saulteaux, French Canadian, Scottish, and English descent. Louis Riel was born there in 1844, near modern Winnipeg, Manitoba, to Louis Riel Sr. and Julie Lagimodière. Riel was the eldest of eleven children in a locally well-respected French Canadian-Métis family—his father had gained prominence in this community by o ...

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