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  • The remainder of the essays display Raban's versatility and eclectic interests, from rather highbrow reviews of art and poetry to inspired reportage, like his take on the Makah whale hunt near Neah Bay, Washington, in 2000, and a pitch-perfect essay called "Homesteading" about the settlement patterns of the American West.

    The Seattle Times 2011

  • Free Fiction and Stuff [courtesy of QuasarDragon] @Book View Cafe: "Homesteading" by Nancy Jane Moore (2008).

    Free Fiction and Stuff for 7/10/09 2009

  • ACORN volunteers served tens of thousands of families, collected petition signatures in support of Obama and ACORN's demand for a 90-day moratorium, and invited residents to join ACORN's "Homesteading" foreclosure campaign.

    Bertha Lewis: Stop Foreclosures Now! ACORN's Anti-Foreclosure Campaign Escalates to Include Civil Disobedience 2009

  • ACORN volunteers served tens of thousands of families, collected petition signatures in support of Obama and ACORN's demand for a 90-day moratorium, and invited residents to join ACORN's "Homesteading" foreclosure campaign.

    The Jawa Report 2009

  • "Homesteading" has also become popular, with more people asking about how to keep poultry and livestock in their backyards.

    theithacajournal.com - 2009

  • The following is from my free "Homesteading" book, available at www. bisonpress.com / homestead. html.

    bison survival blog 2008

  • As in the American West and something in the manner of "Homesteading," these were and are (Ottoman Land Law having been absorbed into both Israel and Jordan Law) lands outside of cities and public spaces connected to cities whose title according to the Ottoman Land Law of 1856 (and, in fact, strict Islamic legal theory and customary practice upon which it was based) had never either been determined or registered by anyone, but which carried with it a right of "Vivification," that is, if you fenced off an uninhabited area of this kind with no registered legal title and cultivated it for three years continuously, you had the right to register it as "mulk" - freehold property.

    Robert Eisenman: Christiane Amanpour's God's Warriors, "the Jews," and "the Occupied Territories": Is this for Real? 2008

  • "Homesteading," these were and are (Ottoman Land Law having been absorbed into both Israel and

    Elder of Ziyon 2010

  • At the same time that Bronx Legal Services was going to court, two more nonprofits, the Urban Homesteading Assistance Board and the Northwest Bronx Community and Clergy Coalition, commissioned an architectural study that concluded that the buildings needed up to $25 million in repairs.

    The Mortgage Hangover Nicole Gelinas 2011

  • Dina Levy, a director at the Urban Homesteading Assistance Board who has opposed Mr. Gluck on other projects, said her organization reluctantly gave this deal its blessing because Stellar was the best candidate to get the renovations done quickly.

    Landlord Soothes Former Foes Craig Karmin 2010

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