Ribstone pippin; Etymology . Named after Ribston in Yorkshire, where Sir Henry Goodricke (1642-1705) first introduced them. Noun . Ribston pippin (plural Ribston pippins) A triploid cultivar of winter apple with firm flesh and a yellow skin streaked with red. 1836, Charles Dickens, The Pickwick Papers 55
Cherokee County is a county located in the US state of Georgia. As of the 2010 census, the population was 214,346. The county seat is Canton. The county Board of Commissioners is the governing body, with members elected to office. The county is under the jurisdiction of the Cherokee County Sheriff's Office, which is headed by Sheriff Frank Reynolds. The Cherokee County Sheriff's office is accredited by CALEA. The major cities within the county have individual police departments, such as Woodstoc
Our Government. The Cherokee Nation is the federally-recognized government of the Cherokee people and as such has sovereign status granted by treaty and law. Its capitol is the W.W. Keeler Complex near Tahlequah, Oklahoma the capital of the Cherokee Nation. Cherokee Nation has operated under a constitutional form of government since 1827. Today there are more than 320,000 registered Cherokee citizens, making us the largest Native American tribe in the United States. The modern Constitution of the Cherokee Nation was approved by the Commissioner of Indian Affairs on Sept. 5, 1975, and ratified by the Cherokee people on June 26, 1976.