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Ore, Silverhill and Hollington were once villages that have since become part of the Hastings conurbation area during rapid growth.
The Giant Barred Frog, Fleay's Barred Frog, Spotted-tailed quoll and the Hastings River Mouse are listed as endangered species, once more commonly found in the Goomburra section of the park.
Hastings ’ first wife, Mary, had died in 1759 and he planned to marry the Baroness once she had obtained a divorce from her husband.
Bourbaki at once went to England, with Prussian connivance, as though he had a recognized mission, only to discover from the empress at Hastings that a trick had been played on him ; and as soon as he could manage he returned to France.
Hastings is also chivalrous, possessing a pronounced weakness for pretty women with auburn hair ( a fact that gets him and Poirot into trouble more than once ).
Hythe was once the central Cinque Port, between Hastings and New Romney to the west and Dover and Sandwich to the east.
Hastings, however, appeared only intermittently in those Poirot novels and stories written after 1925 and only once in those written after 1937.
The earldom was assumed by the late Earl's distant relative ( his fifth cousin once removed ) Reverend Theophilus Henry Hastings.
In the 21st century, with the closure of the line to Hailsham and the once direct route to Hastings, its importance as a railway hub has gone.
* Bob Hastings once again reprises his role of Commissioner Gordon in Batman: Mystery of the Batwoman.
Willis, who also fended off a leadership challenge from George Hastings at the convention, once again became leader of the opposition.
Indeed so deplorable was his condition that he once had to refuse meeting Mrs. Hastings on her visit to London for lack of adequate clothing.
It was later acquired by The Local Radio Company in 2000 and was, for 12 months, once again managed by co-founder Mark Briggs, who also managed neighbouring sister stations Arrow FM in Hastings and Neptune Radio in Dover / Folkestone.
The examinations required to become a barrister were not particularly difficult or expensive, but once a student passed all the exams he would be expected to pay the then-enormous sum of £ 100 when he was called to the Bar – £ 100 in 1901 would be worth approximately £ as of – and Hastings was literally penniless.
Despite Avory's reputation as " cold and hard " he agreed to this idea, and even let Hastings keep the furniture, including Avory's valuable chair which had once belonged to Harry Poland.
Broadwell ( like the neighbouring villages of Leamington Hastings, Hill and Kites Hardwick ) was once a manor in its own right.
Wellesbourne was once two villages – Wellesbourne Mountford and Wellesbourne Hastings, the two villages being divided by the River Dene.
The Night Patrol was cured, after which Russell was drawn into a conflict involving the Midnight Sons and was slain by Switchblade ( the insane Darkhold-powered Blade ), but Jack was revived once Professor Louise Hastings broke Switchblade's spell.
Ore station was once adjoined to the north by a depot for electric trains but this closed in May 1985 following the electrification of the Hastings to Tonbridge line and relocation of electric units for servicing and cleaning to St Leonards depot.
Trains run once every sixty minutes during the day in each direction, north to Ashford and south to Hastings and beyond to / from Brighton via Lewes and Eastbourne.
" He observed that Poirot, " shows all of his usual acumen ; Captain Hastings – happily once more at Poirot's side – more than all his usual stupidity, and there is nothing left for the critic but to offer his usual tribute of praise to another of Mrs. Christie's successes.

Hastings and more
For instance, John Stuart Mill famously suggested that " the Battle of Marathon, even as an event in British history, is more important than the Battle of Hastings ".
John Stuart Mill's famous opinion was that " the Battle of Marathon, even as an event in British history, is more important than the Battle of Hastings ".
Seaside resorts were starting to go out of fashion: Hastings perhaps more than most.
The description Ideal Utilitarianism was first used by Hastings Rashdall in The Theory of Good and Evil ( 1907 ) but is more often associated with G. E. Moore.
The algorithm was named after Nicholas Metropolis, who was an author along with Arianna W. Rosenbluth, Marshall N. Rosenbluth, Augusta H. Teller, and Edward Teller of the 1953 paper Equation of State Calculations by Fast Computing Machines which first proposed the algorithm for the specific case of the Boltzmann distribution ; and W. Keith Hastings, who extended it to the more general case in 1970.
The British historian Max Hastings has labelled the operation both costly and unnecessary, writing that " Operation Varsity was a folly for which more than a thousand men paid for with their lives ..."
Eventually, Davis brought her case to court in Britain, hoping to get out of her contract with Warner Bros. She later recalled the opening statement of the barrister, Sir Patrick Hastings, who represented Warner Bros. Hastings urged the court to " come to the conclusion that this is rather a naughty young lady and that what she wants is more money ".
These confiscations led to revolts, which resulted in more confiscations, in a cycle that continued virtually unbroken for five years after the Battle of Hastings.
Hastings had four brickyards and in 1911 was producing more bricks than any other city in Nebraska, and all the paving bricks.
Following Hastings ' retirement in 2001, the newspaper published several more book reviews by her until her death in 2003.
If the trial could demonstrate the misrule of British India by Hastings and the East India Company more widely, then Fox ’ s India Bill of 1784 – the point on which the Fox-North Coalition had been dismissed by the King – would be vindicated.
It is said that farmers from as far afield as Hastings to the east and Findon to the west visited, and at its peak, more than 9000 lambs were sold at the fair, together with numerous horses, cattle and sheep.
By at least the 1950s, " Skid Road " was commonly used to describe the more dilapidated areas in the city's Downtown Eastside, which is focused on the original " strip " along East Hastings Street due to a concentration of single room occupancy hotels ( SROs ) and associated drinking establishments in the area.
Hastings had already developed a philosophy that was grounded in trying to establish a more understanding relationship with India's inhabitants and their rulers and he often tried to mediate between the two sides.
Hastings supports Buckley's conclusion, acknowledging that although the Tiger was " incomparably " more deadly than the British Cromwell tank, the " shambles " caused by Wittmann's tanks reflected poorly on the tactical handling of the British force.
Like much of Greater Vancouver, Burnaby has always had large ethnic and immigrant communities: to cite two examples, North Burnaby near Hastings Street has long been home to many Italian restaurants and recreational bocce games, while Metrotown's ever-sprouting condominium towers in the south have been fuelled in part by more recent arrivals from China ( Hong Kong and Macau ), Taiwan, South Korea, and the former Yugoslavia.
His service, loyalty and ability, along with the fall of his Neville in-laws, meant that Hastings was an even more important figure during the second half of Edward IV's reign.
The execution of the popular Hastings was controversial among contemporaries and has been interpreted differently by historians and other authors: while the traditional account, harking back to authors of the Tudor period including William Shakespeare, considered the conspiracy charge invented and merely a ploy to remove Hastings, who was too formidable an obstacle to Richard's royal ambitions, others have been more open to the possibility of such a conspiracy and that Richard merely reacted to secure his position.
The Normans who invaded England did it with a strong contingent from a wide cross-section of north western and central France, from Maine, Anjou, Brittany, Poitou and “ France ” ( today Ile-de-France ), altogether accounted for more a quarter of the army at Hastings.
While in this time agriculture was the most important industry in Hastings County, by 1822 ( when the Marmora Iron Works was approaching its peak production ) mining was playing an increasingly more important role in the area's economy.

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