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Carroll| City in west-central Iowa, USA; seat of Carroll County; population (2000 est) 10,150. The major employer is a window and door manufacturing company, which employs 650 workers. |
Carroll| Town in Fairfield County, central Ohio, USA, 31 km/19 mi southeast of Columbus; population (1990) 545. Sited in an agricultural district, tool manufacture is an important local industry. |
| World heavyweight boxing champion James A Jeffries was born here (1875). |
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
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Carroll, Anna Ella
Carroll, Charles
Carroll, James
Carroll, John
Carroll, Lewis
Carroll, Vinnette
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McIntosh, William
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| She is adopted by the Liddell family, meets Charles Dodgson and tells him her story, but he gets it all wrong when he writes it down in a book. These, too, emerge from a kind of confusion, this time between the identities of Henry Darger and Charles Dodgson. Still, this is a careful and balanced account of a man's life, concluding with a value judgment that "there is something noble, selfless, and generous in what Charles Dodgson fashioned of himself and in the way he reined in his impulses and set them to serve his family, his young friends, his society, his God--and himself. |