" Meyer and Hume figured since Lawrence was a real town, that it would be more believable and besides, Lawrence was a perfect choice to be a representative of Middle America.

Through the influence of Alexander, he was permitted to return to Chios about 333, and figured for some time as one of the leaders of the aristocratic party in his native town.

The cave itself has figured prominently in the history of the town.

Beginning about four miles ( 6 km ) south of town along Elk Hills Road, between Buttonwillow and Taft, is the enormous Elk Hills Oil Field, formerly the Naval Petroleum Reserve No. 1, which figured prominently in the Teapot Dome scandal that tarnished the administration of President Warren G. Harding.

It is not clear whether the road figured in the early history of the town, or if it was long forgotten before Royalton came into existence.

Through the town also flows the stream called Mill Brook, which historically figured largely into Arlington's economy.

* Jack Kerouac's " The Dharma Bums " contains the passage: " Pretty soon we headed into another siding at a small railroad town and I figured I needed a poor-boy of Tokay wine to complete the cold dusk run to Santa Barbara.

Fans from all around the world found their way to the small town of Oswestry to hear the band perform, and the response was so great that the band also figured they had to tape the thing.

Shelby also figured people would be attracted to running into Dempsey in town, or maybe another member of the Big Five, should they make it to Montana to see the fight.

After the war, the church figured in substantial restoration work in the town, completed in 1953.

The town figured in the virulently anti-Semitic novel The Jew of Chamant, published in 1898 by George H. D. Gossip under the pseudonym " Ivan Trepoff ".

Natalie had earlier directed day-camps for kids in her town so she figured she had all the experience she needed to run a summer-camp.

The town figures prominently in the labour camp literature of Varlam Shalamov and in the eponymous song by Michael Krug.

Bree, and all of Bree-land, is featured prominently in the PC game Lord of the Rings Online: Shadows of Angmar, which allows the player to explore the town.

The town is mentioned prominently in a darkly humorous Irish song called " The Hiring Fair ", in which the singer is persuaded to apprentice with a nefarious character called " Brady of Strabane ".

The town also features prominently in the thriller Cross of Fire written by novelist Colin Forbes, as well as the nearby villages of Dunwich, Snape Maltings.

The Pinaleno Mountains sit prominently to the southwest of town.

The town features prominently in the song " Queen of King City ," on the Red Meat album We Never Close.

The January 4, 2007, episode of CSI entitled Leaving Las Vegas prominently featured old-town Fillmore as the fictional town of " Larkston, Nevada ".

He is later picked up by the FBI and driven prominently around town to make it appear that he may be cooperating with them.

The town, the mine and surrounding farms are prominently featured in a number of the stories.

The name " Dornbirn " derives from ' torrin puirron ', meaning the ' Settlement of Torro ' ( the name of an Alemannic farmer living there ) and thus has nothing to do with " pears " ( German " Birnen "), although this fruit is prominently portrayed on the town emblem.

A broad range of mainstream Christian denominations have places of worship in the town, and several others used to be represented ; Protestant Nonconformism has featured especially prominently for the last two centuries, in common with other parts of northern Sussex.

Its proximity to Great Hampden, home of John Hampden has made of Hampden a local hero: his silhouette is on the emblem used by Aylesbury Vale District Council and his statue stands prominently in the town centre.

Chełm figures prominently in the Jewish humor as the legendary town of fools.

* The Tontine Hotel in Ironbridge, Shropshire, stands prominently at one end of the Iron Bridge from which the town takes its name: it was built in 1780-84 by the proprietors of the bridge to accommodate tourists who came to view this wonder of the industrial age.

Consistent with the Filipino trait of celebrating our defeats, a monument of Candido Iban and the failed uprising called El Levantamiento de los 82 de Lilo-an stands prominently beside the town hall.

Both the House and the town feature prominently in Benson's Mapp and Lucia novels, as Mallards House and Tilling respectively.

The southern arm appears prominently close to Oldbury town centre, which gives it its name, but can be traced back to an industrial area at Titford, just west of the M5 motorway, between Whiteheath and Langley Green.

His poems are prominently inscribed in many places around town.

Once the major centre of Portuguese settlement in the hinterland of southern Angola, it was built in a Portuguese style of architecture, with a cathedral, commerce hall, industrial hall, and a secondary school, and, like every Portuguese city or town in the mainland and the overseas territories, it would have the Portuguese town hall, the hospital and the typical CTT post office, besides banking ( most prominently the Banco Nacional Ultramarino-BNU ), insurance and other services as well.

The Great hall is located prominently in the center of the town adjacent to the Cloisters and School House, it is used for a variety of functions throughout the year including concerts, receptions, lectures, debates and assemblies.

The City of Dawson and the nearby ghost town of Forty Mile are featured prominently in the novels and short stories of American author Jack London, including The Call of the Wild.

These events led to Owain being proclaimed Prince of Wales on 16 September 1400, by a small band of followers which included his eldest son, his brothers-in-law, and the Dean of St Asaph in the town of Corwen, possibly in the church of SS Mael & Sulien.

In the town of Rio Bravo, Texas, sheriff's deputy Dude ( Dean Martin ), who has acquired the contemptuous nickname " Borrachón ", enters a saloon to get a drink.

Mendocino was depicted as turn-of-the-20th-century Monterey in the James Dean classic East of Eden, and it served as a New England resort town in Summer of ' 42 ( the latter film featuring numerous local Mendocino High School students as extras ).

The town is governed by the Village Board led by Mayor Barry Dean Taylor, who is a life long resident.

* Frank Douglas Garrett-Born July 19, 1944-University Dean, Speaker, Author-All Marine Basketball 1964-66, JUCO All American Basketball, 1967-69-Honored by town of Odon at Old Settler's of 2006.

The town of Westmoreland was first settled in 1748 by James Dean, a missionary among the members of the Oneida tribe.

In 1908 on a high hill on the east side of town, Barber began construction of an experimental farm and estate, comprising a French Renaissance Revival mansion, completed in 1909, and lush gardens, dozens of barns and other structures in the same style, and greenhouses, which he called Anna Dean Farm.

On January 16, 2002, tragedy hit the town when Appalachian School of Law Dean Anthony Sutin, Professor Thomas Blackwell, and 1L student Angela Dales were shot and killed by disgruntled student Peter Odighizuwa, 43, of Nigeria on the law school's campus.

Certain that something is wrong, Macreedy sees the town sheriff, Tim Horn ( Dean Jagger ), but the alcoholic lawman is clearly afraid of Smith.

1928 Kansas: Wilma Dean " Deanie " Loomis ( Natalie Wood ) is a teenage girl who follows her mother's advice to resist her desire for sex with her boyfriend, Bud Stamper ( Warren Beatty ), the scion of one of the most prosperous families in town.

Conservatives were disliked in the Forest of Dean and on the polling day of 1874 in the market town of Cinderford there was a riot in which the conservative's party headquarters and nearby houses were ransacked and damaged.

Here also is the Dean Church of Lord's Conversion on Mount Tabor, built in 1516 in the style of the Bohemian Renaissance, and the town hall, in connection with which a museum has been founded, which contains interesting memorials of the Hussite period, such as farm carts which doubled as battle wagons.

Its good road communications have encouraged commuting to larger centres in South Wales and Bristol, although the 2001 census showed more people travelling into the town for work, mainly from other parts of Monmouthshire and the Forest of Dean, than travelling out.

As well as its own attractions, including the castle, the town is close to other attractions including the Royal Forest of Dean, Tintern Abbey and the Wye Valley, the Marriott St Pierre Hotel and Country Club, and the National Diving and Activity Centre at Tidenham.

* Numerous well-known snooker players come from the town, the best-known being Ray Edmonds ( b 1936 ), Dean Reynolds ( b 1963 ), Mike Hallett ( b 1959 ), and Sean Storey ( b 1971 ).

Collieries owned by the Dean and Chapter of Durham Cathedral were brought to a standstill by the strike, causing much hardship amongst the people of the town.

The small town's charm and the supernatural events inspire Charles to pitch his boss Maxie Dean ( Robert Goulet ) on transforming the town into a tourist hotspot, but Maxie wants proof of the ghosts.

The Hertfordshire town of Berkhamsted unveiled a set of 32 blue plaques in 2000 on some of the town's most significant buildings, including Berkhamsted Castle, the birthplace of writer Graham Greene and buildings associated with the poet William Cowper, John Incent ( a Dean of St Paul's Cathedral ) and Clementine Churchill.

Bobsleigher and Paratrooper Dean Ward, who won a bronze medal at the 1998 Winter Olympics was also born in the town.

Roger Dean the artist featured on Yes ' album covers, Frederick Forsyth the author of The Day of the Jackal and Dudley Pope, a writer, were born in the town.

Ira Joe Fisher, a poet who is also a weatherman on CBS television, lives in town as does veteran newsman Morton Dean.

The town, however, contains several parks such as Howard Park, Dean Park and Kay Park, and residential areas including London Road, Dundonald Road, McLelland Drive and Howard Park Drive.

The town was officially settled and incorporated in 1655, named for Groton in Suffolk, England, the hometown of Dean Winthrop, an early selectman.

Historically Buckfastleigh has grown as a mill town known for its woollen mills, corn and paper mills and a tannery supported by the rivers Dart, Mardle and the Dean Burn — water being an essential natural resource used in the manufacturing of wool and other products.