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An issue of a rag mag dating from 1923, called Goblio, is in the archives of the University of Southampton. [citation needed] The University of Manchester published its Red Rag in 1924, and provides digital access to a selection of early magazines. Sheffield University Rag's Twikker was first produced in 1925.
The Rag was an underground newspaper published in Austin, Texas from 1966–1977. The weekly paper covered political and cultural topics that the conventional press ignored, such as the growing antiwar movement, the sexual revolution, gay liberation, and drug culture. It encouraged these political constituencies and countercultural communities ...
Manchester Township, deriving its name from the English Duke of Manchester, was laid out in 1742 by Thomas Cookson, a representative of the Lancaster County Courts, because at that time York County was a part of Lancaster County. In the entire township there were 300 inhabitants. The first settlers were English Quakers, with German immigrants ...
Manchester, Pennsylvania. Location in York County and the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. / 40.06083°N 76.71972°W / 40.06083; -76.71972. Manchester is a borough in York County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 2,798 at the 2020 census. [3]
William E. Strickland (born August 25, 1947, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) is an American community leader, author, and the former President and CEO of the non-profit Manchester Bidwell Corporation based in Pittsburgh. The company's subsidiaries, the Manchester Craftsmen's Guild and Bidwell Training Center, work with disadvantaged and at-risk ...
A rag-and-bone man or ragpicker [2] (UK English) or ragman, [3] old-clothesman, [4] junkman, or junk dealer [5] (US English), also called a bone-grubber, bone-picker, chiffonnier, rag-gatherer, rag-picker, bag board, or totter, [6] [7] collects unwanted household items and sells them to merchants. Scraps of cloth and paper could be turned into ...
Manchester (Pittsburgh) / 40.45500°N 80.02500°W / 40.45500; -80.02500. 51.6 acres (20.9 ha). Irregular pattern contained with Faulsey, Chateau, Franklin, and Bidwell Streets. Manchester is a North Side neighborhood in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The neighborhood is represented on Pittsburgh City Council by the District 6 (Northshore ...
Twikker was the Rag Mag of Sheffield University Rag. The name is a corruption of The Wicker, a well-known street in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England crossed at one end by the Wicker Arches (a railway viaduct). ('Twikker' is also the name of a rock climb in Derbyshire, first climbed (and therefore named) by a member of the Sheffield ...