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Fort Dunlop lends its name to the nearby The Fort Shopping Park, constructed on reclaimed land by the Birmingham Heartlands Development Corporation in 1996.
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It is based at Fort Dunlop, Birmingham, England.
Eric Gough was an automotive engineer and worked at Fort Dunlop, the Dunlop Tyres factory in Birmingham, England.
Castle Vale, near the Fort Dunlop tyre factory to the north-east of the city centre, was developed in the 1960s as Britain's largest postwar housing estate ; featuring a total of 34 tower blocks, although 32 of them had been demolished by the end of 2003 as part of a massive regeneration of the estate brought on by the general unpopularity and defects associated with such developments.
Nearby is Fort Dunlop, former home of Dunlop Rubber, a relic of Erdington's industrial past.
The area surrounding Fort Dunlop is used by logistics companies and also features showrooms operated by several car manufacturers, including Birmingham's only Lamborghini dealership.
The significant landmarks in the area include Jaguar Cars ' Castle Bromwich Assembly factory and Fort Dunlop.
Close by was Fort Dunlop, where the Dunlop Rubber company made pneumatic tyres, employing 10, 000 workers at the peak of production in the 1950s.
* Fort Dunlop, in Birmingham, England, once the main factory and head office of Dunlop Rubber
Developers Urban Splash recently completed the refurbishment of Fort Dunlop and The Rotunda and are involved in the redevelopment of the former Cincinnati Lamb factory in Erdington and the future refurbishment of three tower blocks on the Birchfield Road in Perry Barr.
1891: The Dunlop Rubber Company co-founded by John Boyd Dunlop established its Birmingham factory Fort Dunlop, later to become the focus of Dunlop as one of the largest multinational manufacturers of automotive and aeronautical tyres.
Foam rubber is also invented at the Dunlop Latex Development Laboratories, Fort Dunlop in 1929.
Urban Splash also developed Fort Dunlop, a former factory building next to the M6 motorway, which opened in December 2006.
The Post and Mail building, Birmingham, opened in 1965 to accommodate the Post and Evening Mail newspapers, but the Post and its sister titles relocated to the restored Fort Dunlop building, three miles out of the city centre, in August 2008.
There is still a Motorsport manufacturing operation located in a corner of the original Dunlop factory ( nicknamed " Fort Dunlop ") in Erdington, Birmingham, established in 1891.
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The Daggett Epidemiology of Upper Respiratory Tract Disease project, which provides supporting disease research for the Fort Irwin translocation project, lends an excellent example of the spread of disease across a landscape.
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In September 1822 two companies of infantry arrived at the mouth of the St. Peter's River, the head of navigation on the Mississippi, and began construction of Fort St. Anthony which, upon completion, was renamed in honor of its commander, Colonel Josiah Snelling.
As the time drew near for the drawing of the British-American frontier by terms of the agreement of 1818, the company suspected that the Pembina colony -- its own post and Fort Daer -- was on American territory.
Fort Donelson on the Cumberland River, although in a better location, also was not well – site, had a vulnerable land side and did not have enough heavy artillery for its defense against gunboats.
Edmonton, and more so its surrounding region ( Nisku, Leduc, Fort Saskatchewan ), is the site of most oil-and-gas related industry including refining and manufacturing.
In 1810, John Jacob Astor's Pacific Fur Company sent the Astor Expedition that founded Fort Astoria as its primary fur-trading post in the Northwest, and in fact the first permanent U. S. settlement on the Pacific coast.
The 1981 film Fort Apache, The Bronx is another film that used the Bronx's gritty image for its storyline.
The Château Trompette ( Trumpet Castle ) and the Fort du Hâ, built by Charles VII of France, were the symbols of the new domination, which however deprived the city of its richness by halting the wine commerce with England.
The team plays its home games at Cowboys Stadium in Arlington, Texas, within the Dallas – Fort Worth metropolitan area, which finished construction in time for the 2009 season.
* 1862 – American Civil War: The U. S. Navy gives the Union its first victory of the war, capturing Fort Henry, Tennessee in the Battle of Fort Henry.
The Nonsuch continued to the southern portion of James Bay, where its explorers founded Fort Rupert at the mouth of the Rupert River.
The company founded its first headquarters at Fort Nelson at the mouth of the Nelson River in present day northeastern Manitoba.
The expedition faced its second bitter winter, and voted on whether to camp on the south side of the Columbia river ( modern Astoria, Oregon ), building Fort Clatsop.
Luanda's reborn wealth has helped in the conservation of its historic sites, like the Fort of São Miguel of Loanda.
With the aid of Jay-Z, Fort Minor released its debut album, The Rising Tied, to critical acclaim .< ref >
* 1871 – The National Association, the first professional baseball league, opens its first season in Fort Wayne, Indiana.
Historically, Manama has been restricted to what is now known as the Manama Souq and the Manama Fort ( now the Ministry of Interior ) to its south.
The construction of the Ninth Fort ( its numerical designation having stuck as a proper noun ) began in 1902 and was completed on the eve of World War I.
From its measurement of the natural resonance frequency of caesium — which is used to define the second — NIST broadcasts time signals via longwave radio station WWVB at Fort Collins, Colorado, and shortwave radio stations WWV and WWVH, located at Fort Collins, Colorado and Kekaha, Hawaii, respectively.
Place-name evidence from Dunragit ( possibly " Fort of Rheged ") suggests that, at least during one period of its history, Rheged extended into Dumfries and Galloway.
In 1929, following the addition of more programs, schools, and faculties, the University moved to its permanent site in Fort Garry, Manitoba.
* February 6 – American Civil War: General Ulysses S. Grant gives the United States its first victory of the war, by capturing Fort Henry, Tennessee.
The 1755 British capture of Fort Beauséjour on the border separating Nova Scotia from Acadia was followed by its policy to deport the French inhabitants.
The ROC should not be confused with the Orthodox Church in America ( OCA ), a self-governing part of the Russian Orthodox Church that traces its existence in North America from the time of the Russian Orthodox missionaries in Alaska in the late 18th century and the Russian settlement at Fort Ross on the Pacific coast in California in the early 19th century.
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Fort Garland, located within the city of the same name in Colorado, was the location where Kit Carson briefly re-located his family while he served as commandant of a company of roughly 100 New Mexico Volunteers in 1866-1867.
The song " Hold the Fort " " Storm the Fort ", a Knights of Labor pro-labor revision of the hymn by the same name, became the most popular labor song prior to Ralph Chaplin's IWW anthem " Solidarity Forever ".
This is the origin of the name of the Hewanorra International Airport in Vieux Fort.
Schiphol's name is derived from a former fortification named Fort Schiphol which was part of the Stelling van Amsterdam defence works.
In 1892, the school's name was changed to the University of Utah, and John R. Park began arranging to obtain land belonging to the U. S. Army's Fort Douglas on the east bench of the Salt Lake Valley, where the university moved permanently in 1900.
* November 25 – Seven Years ' War: French and Indian War: French forces abandon Fort Duquesne to the British, who then name the area Pittsburgh.
The defense group, centered around Fort Wayne, IN, remained independent under the Magnavox Electronic Systems name, first under Philips and later in the Carlyle Group, until it was acquired by Hughes Electronics in 1995.
Fort Montgomery is the name of a fortification built in 1776 by the Continental Army on West Bank of the Hudson River during the American Revolution.
When he arrived in New York to join General Washington and the main part of the Continental Army, Washington chose to show his appreciation of General Lee ( who was a very popular general officer among not only the army, but Congress ) by changing the name of Fort Constitution, which was located on the New Jersey side of the Hudson opposite Fort Washington, to Fort Lee.
Although an intended insult, the name Panther City was enthusiastically embraced when in 1876 Fort Worth recovered economically.
The name, nevertheless, continued to be used for three decades thereafter to refer to the depressed lower end of Fort Worth.
The name " Kikanamaso " was also recorded by Father Pierre Potier, a Jesuit missionary for the Huron-Wendats at the Assumption mission ( south shore of Détroit ), while en route to Fort Saint-Joseph during the fall of 1760.
It received its name during the French and Indian War when it was used by General Edward Braddock and George Washington in the Braddock expedition, an attempt to assault Fort Duquesne.
# The seventh is Kampala Hill, ( also known as Old Kampala ), meaning " the hill of the impala " and whence Kampala got its name, is where the ruins of Lugard's Fort were.
Nearby Fort Boyard, an ancient maritime fort, is currently used for a television game show series of the same name.
In August 1782 he made his name by capturing two English forts ( Prince of Wales Fort and York Fort ) on the coast of Hudson Bay, but allowed the survivors, including Governor Samuel Hearne of Prince of Wales Fort, to sail off to England in exchange for a promise to release French prisoners held in England.
* Millerton, California, former name of Fort Miller, California
The name Fort Nassau was used by the Dutch in the 17th century for several fortifications, mostly trading stations, named for the House of Orange-Nassau.
If it is Cornish then ' Dun ' would = Fort ( Oliver Padel proposes ' Dun ' '- tagell ' ( narrow place ) in his book on place name elements and may be right ); there is a possible cognate form in the Channel Islands: Tente d ' Agel, but that still leaves the question subject to doubt.
The Fort Lee Film Commission of Fort Lee, New Jersey, successfully petitioned the Borough to change the name of the intersection of Main Street and Central Road to John Barrymore Way on February 15 ( Barrymore's birthday ) in 2010.
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