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Called the town " two miles long and two yards wide " because it was developed atop a narrow ridge overlooking the Mississippi River, it was the commercial and cultural center of the surrounding plantation country.
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Called Olbia in the Roman age, Civita in the Middle Ages ( Giudicati period ) and Terranova Pausania before the 1940s, Olbia was again the official name of the town after the period of Fascism.
Called Sugar Mill Pond, it will be home to over 2, 000 housing units, a school, and town center with commercial establishments.
Called " the most beautiful town site along the Northern Pacific Railroad between Brainerd and Fargo ", the townsite of Verndale was situated east of the Wing River, on the edge of a beautiful prairie which was sheltered on the north and west by groves of small pines.
Called Pasangen ( the rough English translation of which is " town ") by natives, it hosts the Basilan Provincial Capitol, the provincial offices of the executive departments and line agencies as well as most of the municipal offices of its neighboring municipalities.
Called such because of a large boulder outside the town which, when viewed correctly looks vaguely like a dog sitting down.
A possible literary inspiration is the character of Dr. Humphrey Lathrop in Herbert Gorman's The Place Called Dagon ( 1927 ), who, like Allen, is a drinker who knows the secret history of his town.
Called the flax capital, the town is situated at the centre of the Pays de Caux, the chalk plateau in High Normandy and one widely known for its fields of blue-flowered flax.
Called Riding the rail the victim was often carried through town in this predicament, often in conjunction with the punishment of tarring and feathering.
Called simply Ocumare, the colonial town sits at the skirts of the Venezuelan Coastal Range, adding the peculiar natural elements of the Henri Pittier National Park.
Called and two
Called the National Security Entry-Exit Registration System ( NSEERS ), it comprised two programs, the tracking of arrivals and departures on the one hand, and voluntary registrations of those already in the U. S., known as the " call-in " program.
(“ A Powder Keg Called Islam ”) During his two trips to Iran, Foucault was commissioned as a special correspondent of a leading Italian newspaper and his articles appeared on the front page of that paper.
Called in Turkish Yanartaş ( flaming rock ), it consists of some two dozen vents in the ground, grouped in two patches on the hillside above the Temple of Hephaestus about 3 km north of Çıralı, near ancient Olympos, in Lycia.
Called Sinking Spring in a land grant given a Union officer for distinguished service, Ebbing and Flowing Spring is one of only two known springs in the world to exhibit tidal characteristics.
In May 2012, Harvey composed two songs, " Horse " and " Bobby Don't Steal ," for Mark Cousins ' film What is This Film Called Love ?, which also features " To Bring You My Love.
Called the " 50 hp ", only two or three were completed, including one for Rolls.
Called the Land Camera, it was in commercial sale less than two years later.
It was a hit, as were two follow-up shows, A Show Called Fred and Son of Fred.
Called Kati its played by two teams.
They became the only band other than the Beatles to perform two songs (" Town Called Malice " and " Precious ") on one edition of Top of the Pops.
Called the " Tatsumi " turret, the southeast turret looks like it has two stories, but actually has three.
It was preceded by two more Top 40 singles, " So Called Friend " ( UK # 30 ) and " You Owe It All to Me " ( UK # 39 ).
After two single releases of " A Girl Called Johnny " in March 1983, The Waterboys was released that July ( see 1983 in music ).
Here, Everett began his professional musical career with two major-label albums: A Man Called E and Broken Toy Shop.
Four singles were released from Permission to Land: " Get Your Hands off My Woman ", " Growing on Me ", " I Believe in a Thing Called Love " and " Love Is Only a Feeling "; " I Believe in a Thing Called Love " was the most successful, reaching number two on the UK Singles Chart.
Called the TH425 in FWD form, the transmission's torque converter was separated from its planetary gearset, with the torque converter driving the gearset through a 2 " wide silent chain-drive called Hy-Vo, riding on two 12 " sprockets.
The album featured major stylistic differences from those recorded with the previous band, and featured the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra on several tracks, including the first two singles, " Weapon " and " In a World Called Catastrophe ".
The first, entitled " The First Book of Athlyi Called Athlyi ", has only two chapters.
Ed Nasserden, leader of the Progressive Conservative Party Called for the merger of the two parties in November 1970.
Crichton gained two Academy Award nominations for A Fish Called Wanda ; one for Best Director and the second for Best Original Screenplay ( which is shared with John Cleese ).
After two coupes had been finished, a spider version, Called the SMM for Spider Mille Miglia, was completed which would adorn all subsequent competition cars bearing the MM designation.
Called and miles
Traditionally a site of the Wishram tribe ( Called Echeloots by Lewis and Clark ), who lived on the north bank of the Columbia about 10 miles in both directions from The Dalles, Oregon.
Called La Agüera when it was a Spanish colonial possession, La Agüera came into existence in 1920, when Spain established an air base on the western side of the peninsula, just a few miles away from the French Fort Etienne ( now Nouadhibou ) on the eastern side of the same peninsula.
Called Istrouma by the natives and Baton Rouge by the French, this marker was at a site some five miles above Bayou Manchac on the east bank of the Mississippi.
Called the Trans-Mexican Volcanic Belt, the region stretches about 700 miles ( 1, 120 kilometers ) from east to west across southern Mexico.
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Called " Reinforcing Supernatural Powers ", it is a meditation intended to be maintained as long as possible.
Called the cashew apple, better known in Central America as " marañón ", it ripens into a yellow and / or red structure about 5 – 11 cm long.
Originally entitled Called Home ( which is the Amish term for death ), it ran 182 pages long, the equivalent of three hours of screen time.
Called blackwater because, if left in the blackwater tank long enough, it turns black.
Called " Black Sam " in Cape Cod folklore because he eschewed the fashionable powdered wig in favor of tying back his long black hair with a simple band, Bellamy became known for his mercy and generosity toward those he captured on his raids.
Stories told of him are characteristic: Called to a gentleman who had been subjected to the lowering treatment, and finding him in a pitiful state of hysterical upset, he conceived that this was occasioned partly by his long illness, partly by the previous evacuations, and partly by emptiness.
Called “ a demagogue of extraordinary power ,” he frequently gave long and caustic speeches that focused on four general topics: contempt for the press, for capitalists, for politicians, and for Chinese immigrants.
Called the peixe-boi anão in Brazilian Portuguese, it is about long and lives in fast-flowing streams.
Called " KF10 " it shared the 3K engine with the Toyota Corolla, coupled to a four-speed manual transmission. It was nicknamed " Kijang Buaya " () because of the long engine hood.
Called the " Talon Class " in Star Trek Fiction, the scout ship itself was approximately 24m long, had a crew of 1 to 4, and was an intermediate step between the shuttlecraft and the larger Danube Runabouts.
In 1883 Fargus published through J. W. Arrowsmith his first long story, Called Back, of which over 350, 000 copies were sold within four years.
Hong Ying has long been interested in the stories of homosexuals living in China, a theme explored here and in her short story collection, A Lipstick Called Red Pepper: Fiction About Gay and Lesbian Love in China 1993 – 1998.
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