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An anemometer measures wind speed A wind vane shows the wind direction
When you name a wind. You name it in the direction it is coming from, so a wind blowing toward the north comes from the south. It is therefore a South Wind.
This is a wind vane.
A wind that blows from west to east is called a westerly wind. The direction of origin is the name of the wind.
The Beaufort Scale is used to measure wind.
Ashley Wilkes' plantation was called Twelve Oakes.
The Wilkes' plantation was called Twelve Oaks.
There are only two mentioned in Gone with the wind. Tara (the O'Hara's plantation) 12 Oaks (the Wilkes plantation) GWTW also mentions Mimosa, the home of the Tarelton twins or the McIntosh's
Twelve Oaks is the name of the plantation where Ashley Wilkes lives. Ashley is the man that Scarlet O'Hara thinks she is in love with. The plantation near Twelve Oaks is Tara.
Tara
Yes, Tara is the name of Scarlett O'Hara's plantation in Gone with the Wind; on her return home, Scarlett wonders if Tara still stands or if it has been destroyed by the Yankees and is "gone with the wind." Ashley Wilkes, whom Scarlett loves throughout much of the novel, lives at a nearby plantation named Twelve Oaks.
Tara
There are actually two plantations in Gone with the Winds. Scarlett O'Hara's family plantation was named Tara. Ashely Wilkes homestead was named Twelve Oakes.
There were two main plantations in Gone With The Wind - The Wilkes family had Twelve Oaks and the O'Hara family had Tara.
Tara was the name of the O'Hara plantation in Gone With The Wind. It is the most important thing to Scarlett, and is what partly drives her to make more money. Twelve Oaks is the Wilkes' plantation, and where the barbecue int the becoming of the book is held, and is burned to the ground during Sherman's March. Mimosa is the Fontaine plantation which faired the best after the Yankees went through the County again because Sally Fontaine saw them coming. Pine Bloom was the name of the Calgary plantation where Cathleen and her Yankee husband lived before he lost it. There are several more plantations whose names are mentioned in the book. Like the Carleton plantation, which was the largest horse ranch in the state before the war, and the Mallory place, where Scarlett and the others fleeing the Atlanta awake to find it burned to the ground.
Fountenoy Hall
Twelve Oakes.