A traitor's death? The identity of a drawn, hanged and quartered man from Hulton Abbey, Staffordshire

Analysis of a set of bones redeposited in a medieval abbey graveyard showed that the individual had been beheaded and chopped up, and this in turn suggested one of England's more gruesome I execution practices. Since quartering was generally reserved for the infamous, the author attempts to track down the victim and proposes him to be Hugh Despenser, the lover of King Edward II

Schooling and the AFQT: evidence from school entry laws

Is the Armed Forces Qualifying Test (AFQT) a measure of achievement or ability? The answer to this question is critical for drawing inferences from studies in which it is employed. In this paper, we test for a relationship between schooling and AFQT performance in the NLSY 79 by comparing test-takers with birthdays near state cutoff dates for school entry. We instrument for schooling at the test date with academic cohort—the year in which an individual should have entered first grade—in a model that allows age at the test date to have a direct effect on AFQT performance. This identification strategy reveals large impacts of schooling on the AFQT performance of racial minorities, providing support for the hypothesis that the AFQT measures school achievement.Education

Land Grant Application- Lewis, Abijah (Hiram)

Land grant application submitted to the Maine Land Office on behalf of Abijah Lewis for service in the Revolutionary War, by their widow Elizabeth.https://digitalmaine.com/revolutionary_war_me_land_office/1560/thumbnail.jp

Food Preferences of the Brushtail Possum (Trichosurus vulpecula)

The common brushtail possum (Trichosurus vulpecula) has been reported to eat vegetation, fruit, invertebrates, and occasionally fungi, eggs and meat. The relative preference between food types found in the wild, however, has not been investigated systematically in a controlled laboratory study. This research investigated captive possums’ food choice using two different methods of preference assessment. The first experiment involved a single stimulus assessment of possums’ (n = 20) consumption of individually presented food items. More than 75% of possums consumed berries, locusts and mushrooms but fewer than 50% of possums consumed fivefinger, raw chicken and eggs. The second experiment that used a paired stimulus assessment to establish relative preference for those foods revealed that no single food was preferred by all possums. Overall locusts were the most preferred food, followed in order of preference by berries, egg, mushrooms, chicken and foliage. The single stimulus preference assessment confirmed the palatability of foods. The paired stimulus assessment provided a rank order of food preferences

Interview with John Marsh(2)

John Marsh talks about food and politics.https://digital.kenyon.edu/fft_interviews/1017/thumbnail.jp

Interview with Mark Arnold

Mark Arnold, who works for the Farm Service Agency at Mount Vernon, talks about the different services that the organization provides to farmers.https://digital.kenyon.edu/fft_interviews/1016/thumbnail.jp

Interview with Carlton Simpson

Carlton Simpson talks about bee-keepinghttps://digital.kenyon.edu/fft_interviews/1020/thumbnail.jp

Interview with Charles Fry

Charles Fry, Executive Director of the Innovative Farmers of Ohio, talks about how his organization helps farmers learn about sustainable agriculture practices.https://digital.kenyon.edu/fft_interviews/1019/thumbnail.jp

Interview with Ed Snavely

Ed Snavely, an organic hog farmer, talks about his corn production.https://digital.kenyon.edu/fft_interviews/1018/thumbnail.jp