Forty Acres
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- 40 Acres40 Acres40 Acres is the 1999 release from Caedmon's Call and made the band known to a wider, and even international, audience. The album explores the way God's redemption intersects with the places and ways people live their daily lives. The album was recorded at The Castle, Franklin, TN with engineers...
is the 1999 release from Caedmon's Call , a Contemporary Christian band which fuses traditional folk with world music and alternative rock. - 40 acres and a mule40 acres and a mule40 acres and a mule refers to the short-lived policy, during the last stages of the American Civil War in 1865, of providing arable land to black former slaves who had become free as a result of the advance of the Union armies into the territory previously controlled by the Confederacy,...
, a term for compensation that was supposedly to be awarded to freed slaves after the American Civil War - RKO Forty AcresRKO Forty AcresForty Acres was a film studio backlot that belonged to RKO Pictures and later Desilu Productions, located in Culver City, California. Best known as Forty Acres, or "the back forty", it had other names such as "Desilu Culver", the "RKO backlot" and "Pathé 40 Acre Ranch" depending on which studio...
, a former backlot - Forty Acres is the nickname of the original "College Hill" located within the Campus of The University of Texas at Austin
- The Forty Acres, the United Farm Workers compound founded by Caesar Chavez and designated a National Historic Landmark