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Harrison

City and seat of Boone County, in northwestern Arkansas; population (2000) 12,200. Harrison is located in the Ozark Plateau, on Crooked Creek. Laid out in 1860, it became a commercial centre following the arrival of the Missouri and North Arkansas Railway in 1900.

Harrison ships fruit, timber, and livestock and manufactures wood products, cheese, flour, and clothing. Local lead, zinc, marble, dolomite, limestone, and silicon have contributed to its economy. North Arkansas Community College (founded 1974) is sited here.

Harrison

Town in Hudson County, northeastern New Jersey, on the Passaic River opposite Newark; population (1990) 13,400. Harrison is situated in a highly industrialized area; it has steel mills and foundries, and manufactures such products as lifts, pumps, electronic and refrigeration devices, and processed foods.

Harrison

Town in Westchester County, southeastern New York State, 40 km/25 mi northeast of New York City; population (1990) 23,300. It is a mainly residential settlement, but some parts, for example the village of Purchase, have extensive corporate development. The Westchester County Airport is located to the north of the town, on the Connecticut border.



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L'inovation sociale: emergence et effets sur la transformation des societes, sous la direction de Juan-Luis Klein et Denis Harrisson.
One of the great projects in preserving the voice of the common people in the twentieth century was the English Mass Observation Archive, which began in 1936 when Tom Harrisson decided that the everyday world of his neighbours in Bolton, Lancashire, was just as interesting for an anthropologist as the more exotic society of the cannibals he had studied in the South Pacific.
The ten paintings were the work of Jalong Liban, an accomplished Kenyah artist of Long Nawang, East Kalimantan, and were originally commissioned by Tom Harrisson and painted in 1966.
 
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