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The resultant town, platted in 1847 and named for the patron of Father Galtier's mission, St. Paul, was to become an important center of the fur trade and was to take on a new interest for those Selkirkers who remained at Red River.
It was said to have been named after the Greek town of Aegae, or after Aegea, a queen of the Amazons who died in the sea, or Aigaion, the " sea goat ", another name of Briareus, one of the archaic Hecatonchires, or, especially among the Athenians, Aegeus, the father of Theseus, who drowned himself in the sea when he thought his son had died.
Quilmes is the national brand of pale lager, named after the town of Quilmes, Buenos Aires, where it was first produced.
An area of the town is named ' Black Abbey ' a possible reference to the murders.
In historical times, around 300 BC it was the settlement of a Celtic tribe, the Bituriges Vivisci, who named the town Burdigala, probably of Aquitainian origin.
Battles are usually named after some feature of the battlefield geography, such as the name of a town, forest or river, commonly prefixed " Battle of ...".
The name of the Bavarian town of Passau descends from the Roman Batavis, which was named after the Batavi.
The town is named for famous American pioneer and explorer Daniel Boone, and every summer since 1952 has hosted an outdoor amphitheatre portrayal of the life and times of its namesake.
In their heyday, there were hundreds of building societies: just about every town in the country had a building society named after that town.
Brewers in Bohemia ( today's Czech Republic ) generally named a beer after their town with the suffix " er.
A number of other European languages have cognate words that were borrowed from the Germanic languages during the Middle Ages, including brog in Irish, bwr or bwrc, meaning " wall, rampart " in Welsh, bourg in French, burg in Catalan ( in Catalonia there is a town named Burg ), borgo in Italian, and burgo in Spanish ( hence the place-name Burgos ).
In 1966, the " Finn VC Estate " was named in honour of Victoria Cross winner James Henry Finn who once lived in the town.
One of them, Frederick Billings, thought of the lines of the Anglo-Irish Anglican Bishop George Berkeley, ' westward the course of empire takes its way ,' and suggested that the town and college site be named for the eighteenth-century Anglo-Irish philosopher.
* Bannack, Montana, town named after the tribe, today a ghost town
The Swiss town of Vevey, where he was a resident during his final years, named a park in his honour in 1980 and erected a replica of the Doubleday statue there in 1982.
Coolidge's great-great-grandfather, also named John Coolidge, was an American military officer in the Revolutionary War and one of the first selectmen of the town of Plymouth Notch.
The town was known as Tiptonia, named in honor of General Tipton.
She was the daughter of Tommaso di Benvenuto da Pizzano ( Thomas de Pizan ; named for the family's origins in the town of Pizzano, south east of Bologna ), a physician, court astrologer, and Councillor of the Republic of Venice.
Dubnium ( ), is a chemical element with the symbol Db and atomic number 105, named after the town of Dubna in Russia, where it was first produced.
The Massachusetts General Court overruled them and named the town after Dedham, Essex in England, where some of the original inhabitants were born.
The town ( and county ) were named for him.
Shoudy named the town after his wife, Mary Ellen Shoudy, and officially began the city of Ellensburgh around 1872.
The River Ems, which is named after the village ( not, as often believed, the town named after the river ) also flows into the Slipper millpond, and although the mill is no longer in use it now houses a number of offices.

town and Weed
" They are fleeing from their previous employment in Weed where they were run out of town after Lennie's love of stroking soft things resulted in an accusation of attempted rape when he touched a young woman's dress.
Carrick is located just outside the town of Weed, uses Weed in its mailing addresses and is generally viewed by locals as a neighborhood of Weed, though located outside of the city proper.
Edgewood is located three miles north of the town of Weed.
The town of Weed gets its name from the founder of the local lumber mill and pioneer Abner Weed, who discovered that the area's strong winds were helpful in drying lumber.
California State Route 265 also runs through the town of Weed, locally known as North Weed Boulevard.
Annually since 1954, the town has held the Weed Italian Carnevale in June or July, although recently dropping " Italian " from its name while maintaining the Italian spelling of carnival and the traditional bocce ball tournaments.
* Weed Mines – A location by the north town line.
Thurlow Weed, political boss and publisher, came to this town with his family in 1808.
U. S. Route 97 begins in town of Weed, California.
It then crosses under the interstate, winds past a ridge, and passes the town of Weed.
During the later months of 2004, Cog recorded their debut album, The New Normal, in the small logging town of Weed, California with producer Sylvia Massy ( System of a Down and Tool ).
Since 1996, Route 83 begins inland from Weed Junction as the Joseph P. Leong Highway and bypasses Haleiwa town on the inland side, rejoining Kamehameha Highway north of Haleiwa.

town and is
He is a Craig's wife who agonizes about tobacco ash on the living room rug and he is a forgetful genius who goes boating with the town baker when dignitaries from the local university have come to call.
This land is in various stages of development in several locations throughout the town.
If they are to be commended for foresight in their planning, what then is the judgment of a town council that compounds this problem during the planning stage??
The `` fruitful course '' of metropolitanization that you recommend is currently practiced by the town of East Greenwich and had its inception long before we learned what it was called.
Rhode Island law specifies that all real estate is taxable in the town in which it is situated.
Although a similar situs for tangible property is mentioned in the statute, this is cancelled out by the provision that definite kinds of property `` and all other tangible property '' situated or being in any town is taxable where the property is situated.
The Smithfield tax assessor, in turn, claims the tax under the provision of law `` and all other tangible personal property situated or being in any town, in or upon any place of storage shall be taxed to such person in the town where said property is situated ''.
Eighteen voted for assessment by the town in which it is located and eleven preferred assessment by the town in which the owner resides.
To summarize, it may be said that there is no one prevailing practice in Rhode Island with respect to the taxation of movable property, that assessors would like to see an improvement, and of those who have an opinion, that assessment by the town of location is preferred on the basis of their present knowledge.
It should be kept in mind that the ease or difficulty with which a town or city can convert to the proposed plan is directly dependent upon the financial condition of that town or city.
Another spot with an image-provoking name is the Black Hills where you can visit the old frontier mining town of Deadwood.
Rich in Christian and Moslem art, Istanbul is today a fascinating museum of East and West that recently became a seaside resort as well with the development of new beaches on the Bosphorus and the Sea of Marmara only a short distance from the center of town.
For example, the officials of Poughkeepsie town ( township ) where the project is located think highly of it because it simplifies their snow clearing problem.
Raymond Vernon reports that residents of East St. Louis have been driving across the Mississippi, through the heart of downtown St. Louis and out to the western suburbs for major shopping, simply because parking is easier at the big branches than it is in the heart of town.
Decide first what the place is worth to you and your family as a home in comparison with what it would cost to live in town.

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