- A
poorhouse or
workhouse is a government-run (usually by a
county or muni****lity)
facility to
support and
provide housing for the
dependent or needy...
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Scottish poorhouse,
occasionally referred to as a workhouse,
provided accommodation for the
destitute and poor in Scotland. The term
poorhouse was almost...
- "
Poorhouse Rock" is the twenty-second and
final episode of the thirty-third
season of the
American animated television series The Simpsons, and the 728th...
- The
Poorhouse Fair (1959) was the
first novel by the
American author John Up****. A
second edition (New York : Knopf, 1977)
included an
introduction by...
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towns across Scotland,
Aberdeen and its twin city of Old
Aberdeen had
poorhouses to
complement the
provision for the poor and need
provided by the church...
- The
Petropavlovskaya Poorhouse (Russian: Петропавловская богадельня) was a
poorhouse in Rostov-on-Don
constructed in the 1860s.
Andrey Matveyevich Baykov [ru]...
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Locked in the
Poorhouse: Cities, Race, and
Poverty in the
United States is a 30-year
update of the
final report of the
National Advisory Commission on...
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County opened the
Wellington County House of
Industry and Refuge, or
Poorhouse as it was called, on
Wellington Road 18
between Fergus and Elora. Over...
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attempt was made to open a
poorhouse on the site,
resulting in the
destruction of the
Great Chamber around 1700. This
poorhouse failed too, and in 1729 a...
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Osage County Poorhouse is a
historic poorhouse located near Linn,
Osage County, Missouri. It was
built in 1893, and is a 2+1⁄2-story, V-shaped, brick...
