DIGGERS

members of a small English religio-economic movement (fl. 1649–50), so called because they attempted to dig (i.e., cultivate) the wastelands. They were an offshoot of the more important group of Puritan extremists known as the Levelers. Gerrard Winstanley was the leader of the Diggers and the exponent of their egalitarian and communistic philosophy in his New Law of Righteousness (1649). The little band planted the common land at St. George's Hill, Surrey, and at nearby Cobham, but their project was met with suspicion by their neighbors and resistance from the landowners on whose property they encroached. In the spring of 1650 their community was destroyed by mob violence, and the experiment was abandoned. Winstanley's Law of Freedom (1652) extended his thesis that English law and institutions should be modified immediately to bring social and economic equality to all men through common ownership of the land.

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Diggers at the Well: Proceedings of a Third International Symposium on the Hebrew of the Dead Sea Scrolls and Ben Sira
Book by T. Muraoka, J. F. Elwolde; Brill, 2000
Subjects: Bible--O.T--Apocrypha--Ecclesiasticus--Language, Style--Congresses, Dead Sea Scrolls--Congresses, Hebrew Language, Post-Biblical--Congresses
DIGGERS AT THE WELL Proceedings of a Third International Symposium on the Hebrew of the Dead Sea Scrolls and Ben Sira EDITED BY T MURAOKA J.F. ELWOLDE BRILL LEIDEN BOSTON KOLN 2000
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Aleksandr Nikolaevich Engelgardt's Letters from the Country, 1872-1887
Book by Cathy A. Frierson, Aleksandr Nikolaevich Engelgardt; Oxford University Press, 1993
Subjects: Agriculture--Economic aspects--Russia, Peasantry--Russia--History--19th century, Peasantry--Russia--Social conditions, Russia--Social conditions--1801-1917
...the peculiarities of diggers work which requires skill, but the diggers are very intelligent...the fact that a real digger splendidly figures...the muzhik," value diggers. In fact, one has only to tell a digger to build such and such...
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Defiled Trades and Social Outcasts: Honor and Ritual Pollution in Early Modern Germany
Book by Kathy Stuart; Cambridge University Press, 1999
Subjects: Occupations--Germany--History, Social Classes--Germany--History
...Augsburgs grave-diggers were recruited from...position of grave-digger and was hired. In...stonemason and grave-digger. In 1665 Martin...weaver. Grave-diggers and their sons seemed...salary of a grave-digger, an assumption which...since most grave-diggers came from the weavers...
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Van Gogh 100
Book by Joseph D. Masheck; Greenwood Press, 1996
Subjects: Gogh, Vincent Van--1853-1890--Criticism And Interpretation--Congresses
...time, not one work with a digger is mentioned, either. The word "dig" or "digger," becheur in French or...that van Gogh depicted a digger in his works during this...that he depicted far fewer diggers in this period. Aside from...
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The American Miners' Association: A Record of the Origin of Coal Miners' Unions in the United States
Book by Edward A. Wieck; Russell Sage Foundation, 1940
Subjects: American Miners' Association
...for the advanced price. The diggers will get the seven cents...Indeed, some have put their diggers in already at the advanced...formed on this subject with the diggers it must be between them and...will be all the better if the digger demands ten or fifteen cents...
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Aloneness in 'The Gold Diggers.'
Journal article by Gene Frumkin; The Review of Contemporary Fiction, Vol. 15, 1995
Subjects: Creeley, Robert--Works, Isolation (Philosophy)--Analysis, The Gold Diggers, and Other Stories (Book)--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
...we can observe in The Gold Diggers is the search for so simply...short of terror. "The Gold Diggers" concludes: He heard nothing...not) has provoked his fellow digger, dreamer, to react against...that sin lives in The Gold Diggers. I mean this as the highest...
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Graham Seal, Inventing Anzac: The Digger and National Mythology
Journal article by David Ritter; Journal of Australian Studies, 2006
Subjects: Books--Book reviews, Inventing Anzac: The Digger and National Mythology (Book)--Book reviews
...6) The content of the digger stereotype is mostly well known...makes. Seal declares that the Digger-Anzac tradition operates...the impression left of the diggers approach to women is of naivete...describe the content of the digger tradition with such apparent...
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Unravelling Digger Yarn-Spinning in World War I
Journal article by Graham Seal; Journal of Australian Studies, 1997
Subjects: Soldiers--Personal narratives, War stories--Australia, World War, 1914-1918--Personal narratives
...demands of the diggers: Do you know who I am? One digger turns to the other...this particular digger nor, by implication...that of all other diggers. The defiant...1932, p. 3. Diggers Diary, Western...1929. (44) The Digger, vol. I no...
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Diggers, Ranters, and Women Prophets: The Discourse of Madness and the Cartesian 'Cogito' in Seventeenth-Century England
Journal article by Tom Hayes; CLIO, Vol. 26, 1996
Subjects: Descartes, Rene--Influence, Mental illness--Religious aspects, Subject (Philosophy)--History
...a Common Treasury, Called Diggers (February 1650), he explains...previous to the rise of the Diggers and Ranters, Thomas Gataker...After the destruction of the Digger colony in 1650, Winstanley...with Winstanley and another Digger leader, William Everard...
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Buy Australiana: Diggers, Drovers and Vegemite
Journal article by Susie Khamis; Journal of Australian Studies, 2004
Subjects: Trademarks--Analysis
...Kiwi Boot Polish even used the digger in a 1916 advertising film...clean. Luckily, A kindly Digger befriends two boys who have...boys got the job, and the digger became a key figure in the...not more than, Australian diggers, was not deemed at all problematic...
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Gold Diggers & Playa Haters
Magazine article by Maya Grinberg; Risk Management, Vol. 54, March 2007
Subjects: Brand image, Hip hop music, Market potential, Risk management, Success factors, United States
Gold Diggers Playa Haters by Maya Grinberg In an interview with The Economist in early 2006, the managing director of Louis Roederer Champagne...
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Ditch Digger
Magazine article by Dawn Stover; Popular Science, Vol. 246, June 1995
Subjects: Construction accidents & safety, Construction equipment, Product development, Soft Trencher, Trenching machinery
Ditch Digger by Dawn Stover A conventional trench-digging machine can easily sever...sliced electric lines can electrocute the machines operator. A new ditch digger minimizes these dangers by blasting supersonic jets of air through dirt...
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President Gold Digger
Magazine article; The Progressive, Vol. 61, March 1997
Subjects: Campaign funds--Investigations, Clinton, Bill--Cases, Jones, Paula--Media coverage
President Gold Digger Funny how the insults the Clinton Administration...of Newsweek--called Jones a "gold digger" and "trailer trash," and implied...Clinton himself look more like a gold digger and a prostitute every day. Clintons...
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Cinephile
Magazine article by Kyle Buchanan; The Advocate, May 8, 2007
Subjects: Diggers (Motion picture)--Movie reviews, Hot Fuzz (Motion picture)--Movie reviews, Motion pictures--Movie reviews, Paris, je t'aime (Motion picture)--Movie reviews
...Another good-natured comedy just out is Diggers, written by and costarring Ken Marino...Summer). Marino and Paul Rudd play clam diggers getting slowly squeezed out of business...obsolete. Marinos father worked as a clam digger, and his affection for the man suffuses...
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The Cop on the Boat; Tightening the Net against Unsafe Shellfish
Magazine article by David R. Zimmerman; FDA Consumer, Vol. 20, February 1986
Subjects: New York (State)--Economic policy, Shellfish fisheries--Health aspects, Shellfish gathering--Laws, regulations and rules
...Pestinger reminds the clam diggers of some of the applicable regulations...and revocation of a clam diggers license for up to five years...of course, is that clam diggers recognize the patrol boats...of fog or darkness, when a digger may be tempted to rake up a...
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Diggers' Day after Park's Big Night Out
Newspaper article; The NewsMail (Bundaberg, Australia), August 31, 2011
Subjects: Premier League
Diggers Day after Parks Big Night Out. Byline...FOOTBALL: Saturday was a red-letter day for Diggers, as they clinched the Bundaberg Toyota...a perfect record in their 15 matches. Diggers Green picked up the under-14 boys Division...
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Defeat Throws Open Classic; Diggers Win Rocks Comp
Newspaper article; The Morning Bulletin (Rockhampton, Australia), February 3, 2011
Defeat Throws Open Classic; Diggers Win Rocks Comp. Byline: Alan Kennedy alan...was rocked on their own greens by the visiting Diggers Memorial club. It was another close match with Diggers coming out on top by 3-2. It has not been...
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Proud Diggers Show Fight in Narrow Loss; Ipswich Pipped by Gold Coast in Challenge Clash
Newspaper article; The Queensland Times (Ipswich, Australia), May 9, 2011
Proud Diggers Show Fight in Narrow Loss; Ipswich Pipped...Byline: JAY BUCHAN STATE of PLAY Ipswich Diggers lost their opening Chairmans Challenge...pride has been restored. The Ipswich Diggers went down 24-22 to the Gold Coast in...
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Diggers Boast the Firepower for Title Rivals Tip Diggers to Push Mets
Newspaper article; The Chronicle (Toowoomba, Australia), September 28, 2011
Diggers Boast the Firepower for Title Rivals Tip Diggers to Push Mets. Byline: Tim Braban thechronicle.com.au RIVAL clubs are tipping Northern Brothers Diggers to end a six-year premiership drought and Metropolitan...
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'Diggers' Dredges Up Some Laughs, Seriously; Story of Clammers Poignant, but Script Also Often Contrived
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, April 27, 2007
Subjects: Fishing boats, Fishing vessels, Motion pictures--Movie reviews
Diggers Dredges Up Some Laughs...out there for a clam digger. There have been less...mind. Luckily, "Diggers" isnt a documentary...the characters in "Diggers" seems to care much...his father, also a digger. The old mans scow...
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Diggers
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
DIGGERS members of a small English religio-economic movement (fl. 1649 50...extremists known as the Levelers . Gerrard Winstanley was the leader of the Diggers and the exponent of their egalitarian and communistic philosophy in his...
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Digger Indians
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
DIGGER INDIANS term indiscriminately applied to many Native Americans of the central plateau region of W North America, including tribes...
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Cockle
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...exceed 3 in. (7.5 cm) in length. Rock cockles are poor diggers and inhabit packed mud, or gravel mixed with sand, usually...cockles ( Clinocardium nuttalli, or Cardium corbis ) are good diggers and have a large foot. Lacking siphon tubes, basket cockles...
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Berkeley, Busby
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...height of his style was reached in the 1930s in such films as 42nd Street (1933), Dames (1934), and a series of Gold Diggers movies, for which he directed either the dance sequences or the entire production. Although his kind of spectacular became...
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Winstanley, Gerrard
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
WINSTANLEY, GERRARD see Diggers . ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University Press. Used with the permission of Columbia University Press. All rights reserved.
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