The Strand National Historic Landmark District is a National Historic Landmark District of mainly Victorian era buildings that now house restaurants, antique stores, historical exhibits, museums and art galleries.

* Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry: Louise Glück for Ararat, and Mark Strand for The Continuous Life

Merwin for his The Carrier of Ladders ( Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, 1971 ) and The Shadow of Sirius ( Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, 2009 ); Mark Strand for Blizzard of One ( Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, 1999 ); Robert Hass for his Time and Materials, which won both the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award for Poetry in 2008 and 2007 respectively ; and Rita Dove for her Thomas and Beulah ( Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, 1987 ).

* Just west of the town stretches Portstewart Strand, a clean two mile long blue flag beach, protected by the National Trust.

Walsh began his career as a researcher in the National Dairy Research Centre at Moorepark, near Fermoy, before becoming Managing Director of Strand Dairies in Clonakilty, County Cork.

On July 15, 1947, in the Swedish National Championships at Malmö, Eriksson and Strand had a very close 1500 m race, which Strand won with a new world record of 3: 43. 0.

Silver Strand Falls drops 574 feet ( 175m ) along Meadow Brook, at the western end of Yosemite Valley, within Yosemite National Park.

The Strand Historic District, also known as the Strand District, in downtown Galveston, Texas ( USA ), is a National Historic Landmark District of mainly Victorian era buildings that now house restaurants, antique stores, and curio shops.

The Strand sustained significant and catastrophic damage from the storm surge of Hurricane Ike on September 13, 2008 prompting the National Trust for Historic Preservation to add the district to the 2009 list of America's Most Endangered Places.

* Strand Theatre ( Jennings, Louisiana ), listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Jefferson Davis Parish, Louisiana

* Strand Theatre ( Shreveport, Louisiana ), listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Caddo Parish, Louisiana

* Strand Theatre ( Rockland, Maine ), listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Knox County, Maine

* Strand Theatre ( Lakewood, New Jersey ), listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Ocean County, New Jersey

* Strand Theatre ( Ithaca, New York ), listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Tompkins County, New York

* Strand Theater ( Plattsburgh, New York ), listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Clinton County, New York

* Strand Theatre ( Grafton, North Dakota ), listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Walsh County, North Dakota

* Strand Theater ( Washington, D. C .), listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Washington, D. C.

The overall programme consists of two main interdisciplinary academic strands ; Strand 1 and 2 and other components such as Individualised Study Option ( ISO ), Philosophy of Disciplines ( POD ), National Education ( NE ), Pastoral Care & Career Guidance ( PCCG ), Physical Education ( PE ), Co-curricular Activities ( CCA ) and enrichment options.

At the Strand in early 1887 he played Roy Carlton in Jack-in-the-Box, which his biographer in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography describes as his first substantial success in London.

The former terminal port area for the canal is now Kingston's Rondout-West Strand Historic District, listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

In 1832 Perkins established the National Gallery of Practical Science on Adelaide Street, West Strand, London.

Memorial marker along the Strand Historic District indicating a building that survived the 1900 hurricane.

Restoration efforts financed by motivated investors, notably Houston businessman George P. Mitchell, gradually created the Strand Historic District and reinvented other areas.

The city's tourist attractions include the Galveston Schlitterbahn waterpark, Moody Gardens botanical park, the Ocean Star Offshore Drilling Rig & Museum, the Lone Star Flight Museum, Galveston Railroad Museum, a downtown neighborhood of historic buildings known as The Strand, many historical museums and mansions, and miles of beach front from the East End's Porretto Beach, Stewart Beach to the West End pocket parks. Also there is a pier-turned-amusement park that opened May 2012. it is called Galveston Island Historic Pleasure Pier.

* Strand Historic District, Galveston, Texas

* Kingston: The former port of Rondout, the north end of the barges ' route, has been recognized as the Rondout-West Strand Historic District and revitalized, still in use as a waterfront and a draw for visitors to the city.

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* Strand Theater ( Lexington, Mississippi ), a Mississippi Landmark

* Strand Theater ( Louisville, Mississippi ), a Mississippi Landmark

Located in the Strand District, the Grand 1894 Opera House is a restored historic Romanesque Revival style Opera House that is currently operated as a not-for-profit performing arts theater.

Prior to 1900, the area occupied by what would become the Metropolitan Borough of Westminster had been administered by five separate local bodies: the Vestry of St George Hanover Square, the Vestry of St Martin in the Fields, Strand District Board of Works, Westminster District Board of Works and the Vestry of Westminster St James.

It was grouped into the Strand District in 1855 when it came within the area of responsibility of the Metropolitan Board of Works.

* Strand District ( Metropolis )

All of these parishes and places became part of the Strand District in 1855, except St Martin in the Fields which was governed by a vestry.

The Strand District Board of Works was based at 22 Tavistock Street.

Strand District was abolished in 1900 and became part of the City of Westminster.

Previous to the borough's formation it had been administered by five separate local bodies: the Vestry of St George Hanover Square, the Vestry of St Martin in the Fields, Strand District Board of Works, Westminster District Board of Works and the Vestry of Westminster St James.

* The Strand District.

Westminster itself has a more convoluted history and the metropolitan borough council established in 1900 had replaced the Vestry of the Parish of St George Hanover Square, the Vestry of the Parish of St Martin in the Fields, the Strand District Board of Works, the Westminster District Board of Works and the Vestry of the Parish of Westminster St James.

Today, " the Strand " is generally used to refer to the entire five-block business district between 20th and 25th streets in downtown Galveston, very close to the city's wharf.

Throughout the 19th century, the port city of Galveston grew rapidly and the Strand was considered the region's primary business center.

The Strand plays host to a yearly Mardi Gras festival, Galveston Island Jazz & Blues Festival and a Victorian-themed Christmas festival called Dickens on the Strand ( honoring the works of novelist Charles Dickens, especially A Christmas Carol ) in early December.

* Dickens on the Strand, annual Christmas festival in Galveston, Texas, U. S.

The street labeled " The Strand " is actually named Avenue B, which runs parallel to Galveston Bay.

Today " the Strand " is generally used to refer to the entire five-block business district between 20th and 25th streets in downtown Galveston, very close to the city's wharf.

Throughout the 19th century, the port city of Galveston boomed ; and the Strand, which is very close to the harbor, grew into the region's main business center.

The Galveston hurricane of 1900 was devastating to much of the city, and the Strand district was no exception.

In 1973 the Galveston Historical Foundation followed suit, creating a trust fund for dramatic restorations of the Strand district that has sparked significant private investment as well.

* Virginia Eisenhour, The Strand of Galveston ( Galveston, 1974 ).

Giant chessboard in Saengerfest Park on The Strand in Galveston, Texas ; taken by this user.

A historical marker placed on one of the buildings along The Strand in Galveston, Texas.

Street scene, The Strand, Galveston, Texas.

Street scene, The Strand, Galveston, Texas.

Street performer, The Strand, Galveston, Texas.