Before arriving at Lud, the ka-tet hear the drum beat from the song Velcro Fly, by ZZ Top, playing from the city, although Eddie at first can't remember where it is he has heard these drums before.

The legendary British king Lud may therefore ultimately be derived from Nodens, traditionally associated with the city of London / Londinium ( see Ludgate ).

Lud is a fictional city in Stephen King's Dark Tower series and is briefly mentioned in Rose Madder.

Lud possibly belonged to a River Barony during the time of the Affiliation, and millennia before that, served as a capital city of the Imperium.

Lud was besieged by various armies for many years, but because of its fortunate location, the only way into the city was the " George Washington Bridge " and another bridge fallen to the river many years earlier.

Shortly before the Cataclysm created the waste lands next to Lud, its leaders installed large loudspeakers throughout the city.

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* David Harvey ( born 1935 ), world's most cited academic geographer and winner of the Lauréat Prix International de Géographie Vautrin Lud, also noted for his work in critical geography and critique of global capitalism.

* Allen J. Scott ( born 1938 ), winner of Vautrin Lud Prize in 2003 and the Anders Retzius Gold medal 2009 ; author of numerous books and papers on economic and urban geography, known for his work on regional development, new industrial spaces, agglomeration theory, global city-regions and the cultural economy.

* Doreen Massey ( born 1944 ), key scholar in the space and places of globalization and its pluralities, winner of the Vautrin Lud Prize.

* Lud Fiser ( 1908 – 1990 ), American football and baseball player and coach

* Lud Gluskin ( 1898 – 1989 ), Russian jazz bandleader

* Lud Kramer ( 1932 – 2004 ), American politican

* Lud Wray ( 1894 – 1967 ), professional American football player, coach

Thomas William Ludlow Ashley ( January 11, 1923 – June 15, 2010 ), usually known as Lud Ashley, was an American politician of the Democratic party.

Ludwig's parents were Daniel F. Ludwig ( 1873 – 1960 ), nicknamed " Lud ", and Flora Belle Ludwig ( 1875 – 1961 ).

By solving the riddle ( calculating all the prime numbers below 100 using the Sieve of Eratosthenes and pressing the corresponding buttons backwards ), Roland and his ka-tet are allowed to board Blaine and flee Lud, just as Blaine releases poison gas ( DEP3, a substance similar to what appears as a poison in another of King's books, Eyes of the Dragon.

* William Ludwig " Lud " Ullmann ( 1908, Springfield, Missouri-1993 ), American suspected spy

Others out there were by Roy Smeck & His Orchestra ( released by Decca Records as catalog number 649 ) Jan Garber & His Orchestra ( released by Decca Records as catalog number 651B ), singer Connee Boswell ( released by Decca Records as catalogue number 657A ), Lud Gluskin's Orchestra with vocal by a young Buddy Clark ( released by Brunswick Records as catalog number 7590 ), and the BBC Dance Orchestra of Henry Hall.

In The Dark Tower III: The Waste Lands, the book's protagonists, led by the gunslinger Roland, travel from Lud to an alternate reality version of Topeka, Kansas via a supersonic monorail called Blaine.

The affidavit concludes in the standard format " sworn ( declared ) before me, of commissioner for oaths / solicitor, a commissioner for oaths ( solicitor ), on the at in the county / city of, and I know the deponent ( declarant )", and it is signed and stamped by the commissioner for oaths.

In December 1988, the second largest city in the republic, Leninakan ( now Gyumri ), was heavily damaged by a massive quake that killed more than 25, 000 people.

It can be reached by underground railway ( although the stations are at a distance from the Park and at a much lower level below the hill ), by city buses, or by commercial tourist buses.

They demanded two churches in Milan, one in the city ( the basilica of the Apostles ), the other in the suburbs ( St Victor's ), to the Arians.

* Abydos ( Hellespont ), an ancient city of Mysia, in Asia Minor

Abydos ( Greek: Άβυδος ), an ancient city of Mysia, in Asia Minor, situated at Nara Burnu or Nagara Point on the best harbor on the Asiatic shore of the Hellespont.

An 87-day siege of a Croatian city by the Yugoslav People's Army ( JNA ), supported by various Serbian paramilitary forces, between August – November 1991 during the Croatian War of Independence

Damaged buildings included the medieval churches of St. Foillan, St. Paul and St. Nicholas, and the Rathaus ( city hall ), although Aachen Cathedral was largely unscathed.

Aachen's railway station, the Hauptbahnhof ( Central Station ), was constructed in 1841 at the Cologne-Aachen railway line and replaced in 1905, moving it significantly closer to the city centre.

Aachen is connected to the Autobahn A4 ( West-East ), A44 ( North-South ) and A544 ( a smaller motorway from the A4 to the Europaplatz near the city centre ).

The word acropolis literally in Greek means " city on the extremity " and though associated primarily with the Greek cities Athens, Argos, Thebes, and Corinth ( with its Acrocorinth ), may be applied generically to all such citadels, including Rome, Jerusalem, Celtic Bratislava, many in Asia Minor, or even Castle Rock in Edinburgh.

A marriage of sorts is arranged between Dido and Aeneas at the instigation of Juno, who was told of the fact that her favorite city would eventually be defeated by the Trojans ' descendants, and Aeneas's mother Venus ( the Roman adaptation of Aphrodite ), who realizes that her son and his company need a temporary reprieve to reinforce themselves for the journey to come.

By the time of Mesalim, whichever dynasty controlled the city of Kish was recognised as šar kiššati (= king of Kish ), and was considered preeminent in Sumer, possibly because this was where the two rivers approached, and whoever controlled Kish ultimately controlled the irrigation systems of the other cities downstream.

The conquest of the city of Marrakech by the Almohads in 1147 marked the fall of the dynasty, though fragments of the Almoravids ( the Banu Ghaniya ), continued to struggle in the Balearic Islands, and finally in Tunisia.

Afonso II (; English Alphonzo ), or Affonso ( Archaic Portuguese ), Alfonso or Alphonso ( Portuguese-Galician ) or Alphonsus ( Latin version ), nicknamed " the Fat " ( Portuguese o Gordo ), King of Portugal, was born in Coimbra on 23 April 1185 and died on 25 March 1223 in the same city.

During his brother's reign, he participated in the taking of Huesca ( the Battle of Alcoraz, 1096 ), which became the largest city in the kingdom and the new capital.

The epistates ( ἐπιστάτης ), an official selected by lot for a single day from among the currently presiding prytany, chaired that day's meeting of the boule and, if there was one, that day's meeting of the assembly ; he also held the keys to the treasury and the seal to the city, and welcomed foreign ambassadors.

* Antwerp ( pigeon ), a domestic breed of Rock Pigeon which originated in the Belgian city

Apart from the city of Canberra, the Australian Capital Territory also contains agricultural land ( sheep, dairy cattle, vineyards and small amounts of crops ) and a large area of national park ( Namadgi National Park ), much of it mountainous and forested.

In 1965, after a stadium ( Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium ), was built, the city of Atlanta felt the time was right to start pursuing professional football.

* In Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle's collaboration Oath of Fealty ( 1982 ), much of the action is set in and around Todos Santos, an arcology built in a burnt-out section of Los Angeles that has evolved a separate culture from the city around it.