Arbor Day reached its height of popularity on its 125th anniversary in 1997, when David J. Wright, noticed that a Nebraska nonprofit organization called the National Arbor Day Foundation had taken the name of the holiday and commercialized it for their own use as a trademark for their publication " Arbor Day ," so he countered their efforts, launched a website, and trademarked it for " public use celebrations " and defended the matter in a federal district court in the United States to ensure it was judged as property of the public domain, the case was settled in October 1999.

King Alfred the Great and the chronicler Æthelweard identified this place with the district that is now called Angeln, in the province of Schleswig ( Slesvig ) ( though it may then have been of greater extent ), and this identification agrees with the indications given by Bede.

It comprises the lower course of the river Aare, which is why the canton is called Aar-gau ( meaning Aare district ).

Whereas, the bishop of the larger administrative district, diocese, came to be called an exarch.

The district was originally called Sacopenapã ( translated from the tupi language, it means " the way of the socós ( a kind of bird )") until the mid-18th century.

An angry Atchison called on pro-slavery Missourians to uphold slavery by force and " to kill every God-damned abolitionist in the district " if necessary.

Highest elevation of the district is the so called " Schlossberg ", the lowest point is located near the neighbourhood of Prittlbach, at the border to the next community of Hebertshausen.

By the first century BC Germanic languages had become prevalent, and the inhabitants were called Belgæ while the area was the coastal district of Gallia Belgica, the most northeastern province of the Roman Empire at its height.

Near Fonni, too, are several menhirs ( called pietre celtiche in the district ) and other prehistoric remains like nuraghes.

However, a gerrymander may also be used for purposes that some perceive as positive, such as in US federal voting district boundaries that produce a majority of constituents representative of African-American or other racial minorities ( these are thus called " majority-minority districts ").

These refugees were held in a detainment area called Camp Bulkeley until United States district court Judge Sterling Johnson Jr. declared the camp unconstitutional on June 8, 1993.

But splinter groups broke off and headed back south ; settling in modern day northern Malawi, particularly Mzimba district where they mixed with another migrant group coming from across Lake Malawi called the Bawoloka.

* Karaburun, a town and district in Turkey, formerly called Mimas in reference to the Giant

Having been warned in a dream, he withdrew to the district of Galilee, and he went and lived in a town called Nazareth.

The Republic of Colombia ( 1819 – 1830 ) or ‘ Gran Colombia ’ as it began to be called only after 1886, more or less corresponded in territory to the old colonial administrative district called the Viceroyalty of New Granada ( 1717 – 1819 ).

It was not called that until 8 July 1831, but the area outside the Potsdam Gate began to develop in the early 19th century as a district of quiet villas, for as Berlin became even more congested, many of its richer citizens moved outside the customs wall and built spacious new homes around the trading post, along the newly developing boulevards, and around the southern edge of the Tiergarten.

In the Middle Ages, Posada was main town of an historical district called Baronia di Posada or Baronia Alta ( to be distinguished from Baronia Bassa or Baronia di Orosei / Galtelli '), on the Tyrrhenian coast of the island.

In order to defend against Saxon raiders, the Romans created a military district called the Litus Saxonicum (" Saxon Coast ") on both sides of the English Channel.

In old Scandinavian sagas, Saaremaa is called Eysysla and in the Icelandic Sagas Eysýsla, which means exactly the same as the name of the island in Estonian: " the district ( land ) of island ".

* Bristol, England, which has a district called Saint George and also a park bearing that name

The district called Dardania ( within Moesia Superior ) was formed into a special province by Diocletian, with the capital at Naissus.

Tübingen is the capital of an eponymous district and an eponymous administrative region ( Regierungsbezirk ), before 1973 called Südwürttemberg-Hohenzollern.

Tours is famous for its original medieval district, called le Vieux Tours.

Despite being called Centrum, the district is lying far southeast of the geographical center.

The Prussian administration assigned the city to the district of Hamelin, which was renamed to Hamelin-Pyrmont.

In 1923 Hamelin became a district-free city and was not part of the district until 1973, when it was reincorporated.

The Weser River enters the district in the south, runs through Hamelin and leaves in the northwest towards Rinteln.

The district is located in the Weserbergland mountains, roughly between Hamelin and Göttingen.

It was established in a couple of buildings in the shopping district, with only a few professors, but all eminent men, and a few hundred eager students housed in nearby dwellings.

A lone pro-Hearst voice from New York City was that of William Devery, who had been expelled as a Tammany leader but still claimed strong influence in his own district.

Ultimately Fosdick's `` Fit to fight '' slogan swept across the country and every well-known red-light district in the United States was closed, a hundred and ten of them.

A little later the district attorney woke up, emerged from under the couch, looked at his watch, and realized he had an engagement that very hour to address a meeting of the Culture Forum on `` The Civic Spirit of the Southland '', in the Byzantine room of the hotel where his wife, as president of the forum, was to preside.

In a course for supermarket operators, a district manager who had been recently appointed to his position after being outstandingly successful as a store manager, found that in supervising other managers he was having a difficult time.

However, in this case the district manager was led to see the errors of his ways.

The choice of the single member district was dictated to a certain extent by problems of communication and understanding in the more remote areas of the country, but it also served to minimize the national political value of the elections.

Walton dropped everything to serve as a district co-ordinator in the hard-fought Wisconsin primary and proved so useful that he was promoted to be liaison officer to critically important New York City.

West of the Mobile district was the lower Mississippi district, of which New Orleans was headquarters.

Mobile was also supplied by New Orleans with goods for the Mobile district.

During the first administration of Bienville, the peltry trade of the Mobile district was a lucrative source of revenue.

Diron D'Artaguette, the most prominent trader in the district, was energetic and resourceful, but his methods often aroused the ire of the French governors.

The company was impressed with some ideas of the danger from Carolina, and when Perier came over as governor in 1727, he was given special instructions regarding the trade of the Mobile district.

Mr. Black's life was an open book, so to speak, from his birth in Jackson, Mississippi, through his basketball-playing days at L.S.U. and his attainment of a B.A. degree, which had presumably prepared him for his career as district sales manager for Peerless Business Machines.

`` I was out in the district, sir ''.

He sucked in his breath and kept quiet while Killpath laid down the sheet again, wound the gold-wire stems of his glasses around his ears and then, eying the report as it lay before him on the desk, intoned, `` Acting Lieutenant Gunnar Matson one failed to see that the station keeper was properly relieved two absented himself throughout the entire watch without checking on the station's activities or the whereabouts of his section sergeants three permitted members of the Homicide Detail of the Inspector's Bureau to arrogate for their own convenience a patrolman who was thereby prevented from carrying on his proper assignment four failed to notify the station commander Acting Captain O. T. Killpath of a homicide occurring in the district five frequented extralegal establishments known as after-hours spots for purposes of an unofficial and purportedly social nature and six '' -- he leaned back and peeled off his glasses `` -- failed to co-operate with the Acting Captain by returning promptly when so ordered.

It was a district of small factories and loft buildings and occasional tenements, and he could see the police radio car as he rounded the corner and slammed on the brakes.

Vincent G. Ierulli has been appointed temporary assistant district attorney, it was announced Monday by Charles E. Raymond, District Attorney.

A bond issue which would have provided some $3.5 million for construction of the two 900-student schools was defeated by district voters in January.

Then Rudy Bond was simply grand as Ben, the distraught Republican Party district chieftain.