Many of Freetown's sites of interest are derived from its strong history.

Freetown's high humidity is somewhat relieved November through to February by the famous Harmattan, a gentle wind flowing down from the Sahara Desert affording Freetown its coolest period of the year.

All of the twenty four members of the Sierra Leonean delegation were prominent and well-respected politicians including Sir Milton's younger brother lawyer Sir Albert Margai, the outspoken trade unionist Siaka Stevens, SLPP strongman Lamina Sankoh, outspoken Creole activist Isaac Wallace-Johnson, Paramount chief Ella Koblo Gulama, educationist Mohamed Sanusi Mustapha, Dr John Karefa-Smart, professor Kande Bureh, lawyer Sir Banja Tejan-Sie, former Freetown's Mayor Eustace Henry Taylor Cummings educationist Amadu Wurie, and Creole diplomat Hector Reginald Sylvanus Boltman.

Liberated African slaves landing in Freetown, sparking the foundation of Freetown's suburbs.

A page from the warrant ( town meeting ) | warrant for Freetown's 2004 Annual town meeting | Annual Town Meeting.

Freetown's fire department provides 24-hour ambulance service to the town, and coverage to surrounding communities such as Lakeville.

The Nigerians were stationed in and around Freetown's Western Area, trading mortar fire along the main highway into Freetown and around the Freetown International Airport.

In the aftermath of the scandal, the British revoked Freetown's rights to complete municipal self-government, believing that Africans, no matter how educated they were, could not govern themselves.

As a result of this space, the school is now home to Freetown's town meetings.

The bond issue will go to the state courts for a friendly test suit to test the validity of the act, and then the sales will begin and contracts let for repair work on some of Georgia's most heavily traveled highways.

Graft in the construction of highways and other public works has brought on state and Federal investigations.

Road transport incorporates a comprehensive network of state, county and local routes augmented by a network of highways for long-distance travelling.

Connecticut's rural areas and small towns in the northeast and northwest corners of the state contrast sharply with its industrial cities, located along the coastal highways from the New York border to New London, then northward up the Connecticut River to Hartford.

Within the city, there are three state highways: Route 763, Route 163, and Route 740.

The state highways carry 50 % of all New Zealand road traffic, with the motorways alone carrying 9 % of all traffic ( even though they represent only 3 % of the whole State Highway network, and even less of the whole road network ).

Today, all funding for state highways and around 50 % of funding for local roads comes directly from road users through the National Land Transport Fund.

Outside city limits, the Segway may not be used on federal motorways, federal highways, state roads, and district roads.

The canal's purpose was to connect the city of Cincinnati to Lake Erie because at that time no highways existed in the state and it was thus very difficult for goods produced locally to reach the larger markets east of the Appalachian Mountains.

The board collects taxes for state and local governments ; borrows and appropriates money ; fixes the salaries of county employees ; supervises elections ; builds and maintains highways and bridges ; and administers national, state, and county welfare programs.

Each state has its own Department of Transportation, which builds and maintains state highways, and depending upon the state, may either directly operate or supervise other modes of transportation.

Travel on the island involves use of an extensive county road system, or city infrastructure depending on location, all of which act as feeders to the two state highways State Route 525 and State Route 20.

As these highways were coordinated among the states, they are infrequently referred to as Federal Highways, but they have always been maintained by state or local governments since their initial designation in 1926.

And according to the Congressional Budget Office, in 2004 the U. S. invested $ 400 billion in infrastructure capital across federal, state, and local levels including the private sectors on transportation networks, schools, highways, water systems, energy, and telecommunications services.

The 99, 043 km long road network of the state includes 18 national highways.

California Vehicle Code, Sections 360, 590, define a " highway " as only a way open for use of motor vehicles, but the California Supreme Court has held that " the definition of ' highway ' in the Vehicle Code is used for special purposes of that act ," and that canals in the town of Venice, California, are " highways " that are entitled to be maintained with state highway funds.

* In some countries, like Croatia, E-roads are well signposted, but they sometimes follow the old state routes instead of highways.

As the official state flower of California Eschscholzia californica is pictured on welcome signs along highways entering California.

It should, however, be noted that state law makes it a misdemeanor to cut or remove any plant growing on state or county highways or public lands, except by authorized government employees and contractors ; it is also against the law to remove plants on private property without the permission of the owner ( Cal.

Principal among his achievements as Illinois governor were reorganizing the state police, cracking down on illegal gambling, and improving the state highways.

It is one of the ironic quirks of history that the viability and usefulness of nationalism and the territorial state are rapidly dissipating at precisely the time that the nation-state attained its highest number ( approximately 100 ).

The state universities of Maine, New Hampshire, And Vermont are older and more `` respectable '' ; ;

Strikes should be declared illegal against corporations because disagreements would have to be settled by government representatives acting as controllers of the corporation whose responsibility to the state would now be defined against proprietorship because employees and proprietors must be completely interdependent, as they are each a part of the whole.

Since the recognition of Israel as a nation state, claims are made in many cases which identify the claimant as a member of the new body politic.

When we consider the disorganized state of the world community, and the legacy of predispositions adversely directed against all who are identified as Jews, it is obvious that the struggle for the minds and muscles of men needs to be prosecuted with increasing vigor and skill.

The existence of a community is a state of mind -- a conviction that goals and values are widely shared, that effective communication is possible, that mutual trust is reasonably assured.

In the fevered, intoxicating, breathless state of being in love the usual signposts that guide you to lasting and satisfying relationships are sometimes obscured.

After three months of research, I can state unequivocally that Los Angeles drivers are considerably more courteous and competent than any other drivers I've ever encountered.

If it will simply delay the debates until the qualifications are closed next spring, and then carry all the candidates on a tour of debates, it can provide a service to the state.

These continuing pressures, social, economic and military, are doing much to keep China in a heightening state of tension.

and it is still very far from certain how valid the party's claim is that in `` a growing number of kolkhozes '' the peasants are finding it more profitable, to surrender their private plots to the kolkhoz and to let the latter be turned into something increasingly like a state farm.

Unit prices to the state are considerably lower than to the general public because of quantity purchases and no payment of state sales or federal excise taxes.

Mileage allowances for state employees are of two types: ( A ) actual mileage and ( B ) fixed monthly allowances.

Actual mileage allowances are itemized reimbursements allowed employees for the use of personally-owned vehicles on state business at the rate of $.07 per mile.

Actual mileage allowances are well-administered and not unduly expensive for the state.

Flat payments over $50 per month are more expensive to the state than the assignment of state-owned vehicles.

With few exceptions travelers on state business are allowed actual travel expenses and $15 per day subsistence.

Unit prices for state vehicles are invariably lower than to the general public.

The reasons are obvious: ( 1 ) the state is buying in quantity, and ( 2 ) it has no federal excise or state sales tax to pay.

In that ownership of all vehicles rests with the state motor pool, cars are paid for with funds appropriated to the agencies but transferred to the rotary fund mentioned earlier.

Probably the most important of all matters for review are the broad administrative policies governing the purchase, assignment, use, and management of state vehicles.

Notwithstanding state aid, the local governments are continuing to seek additional revenue of their own by strengthening the property tax.

On the basis that all citizens of the state are entitled to benefit equally in the development of its resources, plans for the provision of essential services ( such as water ) will be based on need regardless of arbitrary political boundaries, within the framework of the state plan.