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Hardly a window has been broken since Dunbar first was opened ( and vandalism in schools is a major problem in many slum areas ).
The battle of Dunbar was a crushing defeat for the Scottish Covenanters
This proved to be Dunbar ; the nearest shrine was 10 miles distant at Whitekirk.
According to Henry Petroski, transcendentalist philosopher Henry David Thoreau discovered how to make a good pencil out of inferior graphite using clay as the binder ; this invention was prompted by his father's pencil factory in Concord, which employed graphite found in New Hampshire in 1821 by Charles Dunbar.
Comyn had been much more resolute in his opposition to the English ; he was the most powerful noble in Scotland and was related to many more powerful nobles both within Scotland and England including relatives that held the earldoms of Buchan, Mar, Ross, Fife, Angus, Dunbar and Strathearn.
According to the first, on 9 November 1966 Lennon went to the Indica Gallery in London, where Ono was preparing her conceptual art exhibit, and they were introduced by gallery owner John Dunbar.
It originated as the Buick Auto-Vim and Power Company in 1899, an independent internal combustion engine and motor-car manufacturer, and was later incorporated as the Buick Motor Company on May 19, 1903, by Scottish born David Dunbar Buick in Detroit, Michigan.
He was born David Henry Thoreau in Concord, Massachusetts, into the " modest New England family " of John Thoreau ( a pencil maker ) and Cynthia Dunbar.
The boy was raised and known as Bobby Dunbar throughout the rest of his life.
However, DNA tests on Dunbar's son and nephew revealed the two were not related, thus establishing that the boy found in 1912 was not Bobby Dunbar, whose real fate remains unknown.
John de Warenne had won a victory over the aristocracy of Scotland at the Battle of Dunbar and his belief that he was now dealing with a rabble proved that he had greatly underestimated the Scottish forces.
Cuthbert may have been from the neighbourhood of Dunbar at the mouth of the Firth of Forth in modern-day Scotland, though the lives record he was fostered as a child near Melrose.
At the Battle of Dunbar, Scottish resistance was effectively crushed.
Dunbar Cave was explored by prehistoric Indians.
The earliest account of the tree was given by William Dunbar, a Scottish explorer, in his narrative of a journey made in 1804 from St. Catherine's Landing on the Mississippi River to the Ouachita River.
The Battle of Dunbar was the only significant field action in the campaign of 1296.
The next objective in the campaign was the Earl of March's castle at Dunbar, a few miles up the coast from Berwick.
There is little evidence to suggest that Dunbar was anything other than an action between two bodies of mounted men-at-arms ( armoured cavalry ).
For example, towards the end of the 15th century William Dunbar was using Erse to refer to Gaelic and in the early 16th century Gavin Douglas was using Scottis as a name for the Lowland vernacular.
The Queen's arrival was celebrated by the poet William Dunbar in poems including The Thrissil and the Rois, Gladethe, thoue Queyne of Scottis Regioun, and the song Now Fayre, Fayrest of Every Fayre.
Among their grievances was the King's failure to promptly pay the soldiers ' wages, his favour towards Dunbar, his demand that the Percies hand over their Scottish prisoners, his failure to put an end to Owain Glyn Dŵr's rebellion through a negotiated settlement, his increasing promotion of his son Prince Henry's military authority in Wales, and his failure to ransom the Percies ' kinsman, Henry Percy's brother-in-law, Sir Edmund Mortimer ( 1376 – 1409 ), whom the Welsh had captured in June 1402, and who had a claim to the crown as the grandson of Lionel, 1st Duke of Clarence, second surviving son of King Edward III.
In 1955, the first African-American President of the World Alliance of YMCAs, Mr. Charles Dunbar Sherman from Liberia, was elected.
In 1913, the Dunbar Elementary school, named after Paul Lawrence Dunbar, was established for the black children of South Kinloch.

Dunbar and on
In 1893, the Badminton Association of England published the first set of rules according to these regulations, similar to today's rules, and officially launched badminton in a house called " Dunbar " at 6 Waverley Grove, Portsmouth, England on September 13 of that year.
Cheerleader Nation is a 60 minute television series based on the Paul Laurence Dunbar High School cheerleading team's ups and downs on the way to nationals, of which they are the three time champions.
Further petitions organised by him were presented on 1 May 1838 ( from Dunbar and Cupar ), 14 May 1838 ( from the county of Forfar ) and 12 June 1839.
The Scots were defeated at Dunbar and the English took Dunbar Castle on 27 April 1296.
The horror begins with the attack on the undefended Italian mountain village, with the following chapters involving despair ( Doc Daneeka and the Chaplain ), disappearance in combat ( Orr and Clevinger ), disappearance caused by the army ( Dunbar ) or death ( Nately, McWatt, Mudd, Kid Sampson, Dobbs, Chief White Halfoat and Hungry Joe ) of most of Yossarian's friends, culminating in the unspeakable horrors of Chapter 39, in particular the rape and murder of Michaela, who represents pure innocence.
That same year Oliver Cromwell came to Perth following his victory in the Battle of Dunbar and established a fortified citadel on the South Inch, one of five occupation forts built to control Scotland.
Aswad also provided backing on his next studio album, Social Living ( 1978 ), which also featured Sly Dunbar and Rico Rodriguez.
In this he said, " The Prime Minister must realise that in this country there is a taunt on everyone's lips that if Rommel had been in the British Army he would still have been a sergeant ... There is a man in the British Army who flung 150, 000 men across the Ebro in Spain, Michael Dunbar.
The delay allowed Cromwell to launch his attack on 3 September one year to the day since his victory at the Battle of Dunbar.
Arran summoned some of the barons of East Lothian to meet her at Berwick, and the gentlemen of Selkirk, Jedburgh and Duns, Peebles and Lauder, Haddington, Dunbar and North Berwick were summoned to meet her at Our Lady Kirk of Steill on 24 November 1551.
In March 1402 Henry IV appointed Percy royal lieutenant in north Wales, and on 14 September 1402 Percy, his father, and the Earl of Dunbar and March were victorious against a Scottish force at the Battle of Homildon Hill, taking prisoner among others Archibald Douglas, 4th Earl of Douglas.
Dunbar was founded in 1856 by John Dunbar on the intersection of the properties of John Dunbar, T. H. Dunbar, J. Wilson, and John McGinley.
* Dunbar – A hamlet near the north town line on NY 46.
Located at Dunbar is the Dutch Hollow Wine Cellars, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1970.

Dunbar and April
In April, the Scots were defeated at the Battle of Dunbar in East Lothian and by July, Edward had forced John to abdicate.
* April 27 – Battle of Dunbar: The Scots are defeated by Edward I of England.
The Scots forayed into England in March 1296 — this incursion together with the French treaty angered the English king and provoked an invasion of Scotland taking Berwick on 30 March before defeating the Scots army at Dunbar on 27 April.
The British forces occupied northern China until April 1862, then under General Charles William Dunbar Staveley, withdrew to Shanghai to protect the European settlement from the rebel Taiping army.
On Saturday, 16 April 1994, at about 11: 30 pm and again at 1: 15 am central time, Jay Apt used Endeavour's Shuttle Amateur Radio to talk with fellow astronauts Norm Thagard and Bonnie Dunbar and two Russian cosmonauts at the Star City training center outside Moscow.
It was the death of Edward IV on 9 April 1483 that finally destroyed Albany's position of strength in the kingdom, and shortly afterwards he fled south, letting an English garrison into Dunbar Castle as he went.
* " Paul Lawrence Dunbar ", Voice of the Negro ( April 1906 ), 271-277
Dunbar Cave was purchased by Roy Acuff on April 26, 1948 for $ 150, 000.
Andrew and his father were both captured in the rout after the Battle of Dunbar in April 1296.
In this turbluent year he appears to have been betrayed by his wife, who took the Scottish side and retained the castle of Dunbar for Balliol, but was obliged to surrender it to King Edward I of England in April 1296.
In April, Dylan participated in a recording session with Sly Dunbar and Robbie Shakespeare ( better known as Sly & Robbie ), playing harmonica on “ No Name On The Bullet .” The song was released on ‘’ Language Barrier ’’, issued in August on Island Records.
** 28 April, he again swears fealty to Edward I and fights for Edward, at the Battle of Dunbar Castle.
Karen Dunbar ( born 1 April 1971 in Ayr, Scotland ) is a Scottish comedienne and entertainer.
* Dunbar James Douglas, 6th Earl of Selkirk 29 May 1845 – 11 April 1885

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