The town is from Mullingar ( along the N52 ) and is the setting of the book Valley of the Squinting Windows by Delvin native Brinsley MacNamara, described under the fictitious name of " Garradrimna ".

So it was that New Castle lawyer Thomas McKean denounced the Stamp Act in the strongest terms, and Kent County native John Dickinson became the " Penman of the Revolution.

His father was Joseph Hallie " Joe " Keaton, a native of Vigo County, Indiana.

There are 14, 829 Irish language speakers in County Cork with 3, 660 native speakers in the Cork Gaeltacht.

Nellie Davis Tayloe was born near Amazonia, in Andrew County, Missouri ( now part of the St. Joseph Metropolitan Statistical Area ) to James Wynn Tayloe, a native of Stewart County, Tennessee, and his wife, Elizabeth Blair Green, who owned a plantation on the Missouri River.

The current Dutchess County Court House | county courthouse, built in 1903, stands on the same site as the original 1720 building. Fun at the Dutchess County FairPrior to Anglo-Dutch settlement, what is today Dutchess County was a leading center for the native Wappinger peoples.

Pseudotsuga macrocarpa, commonly called the bigcone Douglas-fir, is an evergreen conifer native to the mountains of southern California, occurring from the San Rafael Mountains in central Santa Barbara County and the southwest of the Tehachapi Mountains of southwestern Kern County, south to Julian in San Diego County.

Fluger claimed to have been a Yankee native of Rockingham County, New Hampshire and was a former militia colonel.

An early settler of 1823 was James Hutchinson Woodworth, a native of Washington County, NY.

In August 2010, former Luzerne County Commissioner Greg Skrepenak, a former professional football player and Wilkes-Barre native, was sentenced to 24 months in prison for accepting a bribe unrelated to his involvement with the for-profit juvenile detention center.

Before the 2009 season, the Bluefish hired Willie Upshaw, a Major League Baseball alumnus and Fairfield County native, as their bench coach.

Estimates of the woodlands in County Kilkenny include the Forest Inventory Planning System ( 1998 ) which estimated Kilkenny had 2251 ha of mixed woodland and broadleaf woodland not dominated by beech, representing 1. 09 % of the county and the National Forest Inventory 2004 and 2006 which estimated that 4430 ha of the county is native forested land, Scots pine was regarded as non-native, representing 2. 15 % of the county .< ref name = native-woodlands >

Captain William Butler, native of Virginia, previous member of Georgia Legislature and captain of Georgia militia, came to Butler County in search of adventure, but was soon killed by native Americans near Butler Springs on the morning of 20 March 1818.

UNCG is now coached by Roxboro, Person County native and former WNBA player Wendy Palmer.

Lancaster County was named after the city of Lancaster in the county of Lancashire in England, the native home of John Wright, one of the early settlers.

From 1978-1982, Carbon County was represented in the Wyoming House of Representatives by Democrat Thomas E. Trowbridge ( 1930-2009 ) of Saratoga, a Nebraska native.

" The county was named for Culpeper County native Colonel William Russell, who assisted in the drafting of the Declaration of Independence.

Patrick County native Herb Hash was a major league baseball player for the Boston Red Sox in the late 1930s and early 1940s.

Patrick County native Gerald L. Baliles served as Governor of Virginia from 1986 through 1990.

Patrick County native Mary Sue Terry served as Attorney General of Virginia from 1986 until 1993.

According to The New York Times the book is a multigenerational story of a dairy-farming family in Nolan ’ s native county of Westmeath.

John was a native of Westmeath, Ireland and at 19 years of age was sentenced to transportation for life for “ assaulting habitation ”.

Larry G. Sale ( October 19, 1893-October 27, 1977 ) was the sheriff of Claiborne Parish from 1936 to 1944 and one of his state's most decorated soldiers of World War I. A native of Haynesville, Sale entered the United States Army in 1917 at the age of twenty-two and reached the rank of corporal with service in France.

The Crawfish Festival has featured many art exhibits over the years, of the works of noted Texas artist Larry D. Alexander, who is a native of Dermott.

* Dr. Larry P. Arnn, a Pocahontas native, is currently president of Hillsdale College, Hillsdale, Mich.

Another notable Elida native is former Texas Tech Red Raiders baseball coach Larry Hays.

In 1972, Maurice added vocalist Jessica Cleaves, a former member of the R & B group The Friends of Distinction, Ronnie Laws on the flute and saxophone, rhythm guitarist Roland Bautista, keyboardist Larry Dunn, percussionist Ralph Johnson, and vocalist and Denver native Philip Bailey to the group.

He was the first New Jersey native so honored, and remains the only one from the northern part of the State, although Goose Goslin was from Salem and Alabama-born Monte Irvin grew up in East Orange and South Carolina-born Larry Doby grew up in Paterson.

His major competitor in those games was Larry Stanley, a native of Kildare, Ireland, and Ireland's entrant in the 1924 Olympics.

American Tony Award-winning actor and game show host Larry Blyden died at the age of 49 in an automobile accident whilst driving to Tan-Tan to shop for native jewelry on 6 June 1975, seventeen days before he would have reached the age of 50.

Larry befriends a lovely native girl named Claudia ( Troy Beyer ), whose father is a medical doctor who can cure Richard if he can get the blood of a virgin ( which Larry confesses he can provide ).

Larry, a Wisconsin native from a large family, has just moved into his first apartment in Chicago, Illinois and is savoring his first taste of privacy when Balki, a hitherto-unknown cousin from a Mediterranean island, Mypos, arrives intending to move in with him.

On August 25, 2008, the JetHawks announced its new General Manager, Antelope Valley native Larry Thornhill.

Baxter, a Harrisburg native, he is the oldest of three sons ( Rev Charles Wayne Baxter and Larry Baxter ) to the Late Elder Belgium N. Baxter and Augusta Baxter.

A native of Reggio Emilia, DJ / producer Benassi, started DJing alongside cousin Alle Benassi in the late 1980s in their hometown, before moving to Larry Pignagnoli's Off Limits production studio in the mid 1990s, creating music for various acts, including Whigfield, J. K. and Ally & Jo.

The founding members of 98 Degrees met after Canton, Ohio native Jeff Timmons decided to quit university and pursue a music career.

Rebuilt by the emperor Justin I after an earthquake in the 6th century, it became Justinopolis ( 525 ); but the old native name persisted, and when Thoros I, king of Lesser Armenia, made it his capital early in the 12th century, it was known as Anazarva.

Louisiana Creole ( also called French Créole ) refers to native born people of the New Orleans area who are descended from the Colonial French and / or Spanish settlers of Colonial French Louisiana, before it became part of the United States in 1803 with the Louisiana Purchase.

Led by native Ohioan Cy Young, the Spiders became a contender in the mid-1890s, when they played in the Temple Cup Series ( that era's World Series ) twice, winning it in 1895.

Around 190 AD under the leadership of the scholar Pantanaeus, the school of Alexandria became an important institution of religious learning, where students were taught by scholars such as Athenagoras, Clement, Didymus, and the native Egyptian Origen, who was considered the father of theology and who was also active in the field of commentary and comparative Biblical studies.

Nguema introduced a campaign of ' authenticity ', replacing colonial names with native ones: the capital Santa Isabel became Malabo, the main island of Fernando Po was renamed Masie Nguema Biyogo after himself, and Annobón became Pagalu.

On his return Eustaquio became mayor over his native people.

Subsequently, Germanic languages became dominant among many European countries but in Southern and Eastern Europe the Germanic elite eventually adopted the native Slavic or Latin dialects.

From 1544 to 1551, Palestrina was organist of the principal church ( St. Agapito ) of his native city, and in 1551 he became maestro di cappella at the Cappella Giulia, the papal choir at St Peter's.

However, economic and administrative problems multiplied in Castile, and the weakness of the native economy became evident in the following century.

It became a weed of native grasslands and pastures where it was introduced with settlers ’ livestock, and was first declared under noxious weeds legislation.

While in Hawaii he became a controversial figure for his vehement opposition to the activities of Christian missionaries seeking to convert the native population.

Through bribes, diplomacy, and manipulation of weak native rulers, the company prospered in India, where it became the most powerful political force, and outrivaled its Portuguese, and French competitors.

" My playmates were native Greenlanders ; from the earliest boyhood I played and worked with the hunters, so even the hardships of the most strenuous sledge-trips became pleasant routine for me.

In 1944, he became an American citizen, completing his severance from his native Germany.

He has stated that his mother tongue was Russian, but he also spoke Yiddish and Polish ; and that became the native language of his children.

Kościuszko, mentioned in a stanza now missing from the anthem, became a hero of the American Revolutionary War before coming back to Poland to defend his native country from Russia in the war of 1792 and a national uprising he led in 1794.

Because Teriipia was a native French speaker, Brando became fluent in the language and gave numerous interviews in French.

In 2005, Albert officially became the lead play-by-play man for the New Jersey Nets franchise and started calling their games in the 2005 – 2006 basketball season on the YES Network, often teaming with Brooklyn native and NBA veteran, Mark Jackson.

As successful English settlement of North America began to take place in 1607 in the face of the hostile intentions of the powerful Spanish, and of the native populations, it became immediately necessary to raise militia amongst the settlers.

On July 1, 2009, Jonathan Veitch, formerly dean of The New School's Eugene Lang College, became Occidental's 15th president, and the first to be a native Angeleno.

A Pope at Avignon, the successor of Clement VI, he was a native of the hamlet of Les Monts, Diocese of Limoges ( today part of the commune of Beyssac, département of Corrèze ), and, after having taught civil law at Toulouse, he became successively Bishop of Noyon and Bishop of Clermont.

The Pyrenean Ibex mysteriously became extinct in January 2000 ; the native Pyrenean brown bear was hunted to near-extinction in the 1990s, but it was re-introduced in 1996 when three bears were brought from Slovenia.

It was the native file format for PC Paintbrush ( PCX = " Personal Computer Exchange ") and became one of the first widely accepted DOS imaging standards, although it has since been succeeded by more sophisticated image formats, such as GIF, JPEG and PNG.