For example, Lieutenant J. Paterson, of the Bengal establishment, persuaded the British Government that sugar cane could be cultivated in British India with many advantages and at less expense than in the West Indies.

* Woodland Park ( formerly West Paterson ) ( borough )

On March 25, 1914, portions of the township were taken to form the borough of West Paterson ( now Woodland Park ).

The Totowa Patent and land acquired through the " Garret Mountain Purchase " included modern-day Totowa, Woodland Park ( formerly West Paterson ) and Little Falls.

The regional public high school serves students from Little Falls, Totowa, and Woodland Park ( formerly West Paterson ).

Woodland Park ( formerly West Paterson ) is a borough in Passaic County, New Jersey, United States.

Woodland Park was formed as a borough under the name West Paterson, by an Act of the New Jersey Legislature on March 25, 1914, from portions of Little Falls Township, based on the results of a referendum held on May 1, 1914.

On November 4, 2008, the citizens of West Paterson voted to change the official name of the borough from West Paterson to Woodland Park.

In case the recount demand was unsuccessful, the group discussed filing a petition to change the name back to West Paterson, including discussion of how to raise the $ 33, 000 needed to cover the cost of a special election in spring 2009 for voters to reconsider the name.

This close decision — the majority was only 33 votes according to early results — marked the fourth attempt to change the borough's historic name of West Paterson: voters rejected the names " Whispering Pines ", " West Park ," and " Garret Mountain " in 1989, 1995, and 2001 respectively.

Both East and West Paterson changed their names in hopes of dissociating themselves from the larger city of Paterson, which is significantly poorer and faces higher levels of crime, while preserving their E. P.

Conversely, opponents of changing saw no need to change, with businesses and the fire department fearing the expense of changing and the consequences of forgetting the community's history as West Paterson.

Some Paterson residents and advocates have suggested renaming Paterson to East Woodland Park and West Elmwood Park.

Residents who voted " NO " to the name change petitioned the municipal government in an attempt to change the name back to West Paterson.

* Data for the West Paterson School District, National Center for Education Statistics

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During the South African occupation of Namibia, Ethiopia was one of the country's leading proponents abroad ; Ethiopia and Liberia were the first two states to bring the question of independence for then South West Africa to the United Nations.

A distinctive West Coast rap scene spawned the early 1990s G-funk sound, which paired gangsta rap lyrics with a thick and hazy sound, often from 1970s funk samples ; the best-known proponents were the rappers 2Pac, Dr. Dre, Ice Cube and Snoop Dogg.

One persistent theme that both proponents and opponents of Islam as a political movement note is that Muslims are actively persecuted by the West and other foreigners.

Generally, the short Filipino karambit has found favor in the West with some martial artists because such proponents allege the biomechanics of the weapon allow for more powerful cutting strokes and painful " ripping " wounds, and because its usability is hypothesized as more intuitive, though there continues to be debate about this matter.

However, the efforts by a few proponents from the Dagar family have led to its revival and eventual popularization in India and in the West.

Though the contents of these offers ( which amounted to a version of the concessions demanded by Spain ) were not known in the Republic, the fact of the secret negotiations became known, and disquieted the proponents of restarting the war, like the investors in the Dutch West India Company, that after a long delay was now finally about to be founded with as a main objective bringing the war to the Spanish Americas.

In the West, proponents of scientific social planning, such as the sociologist Auguste Comte, and social researchers, such as Charles Booth, contributed to the emergence of social policy in the first industrialised countries.

This West Coast rap scene spawned the early 1990s G-funk sound, which paired gangsta rap lyrics with a thick and hazy tone, often relying on samples from 1970s P-funk ; the best-known proponents of this sound were the breakthrough rappers Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dogg.

A bunch of young buckaroos from out West, who go by the name of Texas Boys Choir, loped into Town Hall last night and succeeded in corralling the hearts of a sizable audience.

The High King of the Elves in the West was Ingwë, an echo of the name Yngvi often found as a name for Frey, whose abode was in Álfheim according to the Grímnismál.

Place name scholars have found a number of place names through the Midland dialect regions of Britain that incorporate the ambre-element: examples include Ombersley in Worcestershire, Ambrosden in Oxfordshire, Amberley in Herefordshire, Amberley in Gloucestershire and Amberley in West Sussex.

The name " Apus " is derived from the Greek " apous ", meaning " without feet ", which referred to the Western conception of a bird-of-paradise as one without feet, a misconception perpetuated by the fact that the only specimens available in the West had both feet and wings removed.

An alternative name for the ACC is the West Wind Drift.

Extreme Unction was the usual name for the sacrament in the West from the late twelfth century until 1972, and was thus used at the Council of Trent and in the 1913 Catholic Encyclopedia.

Peter Lombard ( died 1160 ) is the first writer known to have used the term, which did not become the usual name in the West till towards the end of the twelfth century, and never became current in the East.

In the Churches mentioned here by name, the oil used ( called " oil of the sick " in both West and East ) is blessed specifically for this purpose.

The origin of the name Berlin is unknown, but it may have its roots in the language of West Slavic inhabitants of the area of today's Berlin, and be related to the Old Polabian stem berl -/ birl-(" swamp ").

The official name of the Territory is still simply the " Virgin Islands ", but the prefix " British " is often used to distinguish it from the neighbouring American territory which changed its name from the " Danish West Indies " to " Virgin Islands of the United States " in 1917.

The naming scheme for " Bollywood " was inspired by " Tollywood ", the name that was used to refer to the cinema of West Bengal.

The Batavi ( the name is believed to derive from a West Germanic root also present in " better " ( possibly meaning " superior men ")) moved into the Betuwe in the late 1st century BC.

This, his maiden Test century in his fifth Test, was the turning point of the series as West Indies won the final two Tests to win the series 2 – 1. Lara went on to name his daughter Sydney after scoring 277 at SCG.

A group of Liberal opponents of the merger with the Social Democrats, including Michael Meadowcroft ( formerly Liberal MP for Leeds West ) and Paul Wiggin ( who served on Peterborough City Council as a Liberal ), continued under the old name of " the Liberal Party ".

" Bongo " is derived from a West African native name.

Until June 2007, The New York Times, from which the Square gets its name, was published at offices at 239 West 43rd Street ; the paper stopped printing papers there on June 15, 1997.

Whatever my mistakes or failings, I could not imagine that I should find myself at the center of such a political campaign as has been worked up round my name in the West.

Cannibalism ( from Caníbales, the Spanish name for the Carib people, a West Indies tribe formerly well known for their practice of cannibalism ) is the act or practice of humans eating the flesh or internal organs of other human beings.

The West Coast Offense, is the popular name for the high-percentage passing scheme designed by former Bengals assistant Bill Walsh.

At Capitol's behest, the band's name was changed to Crowded House, which alluded to the lack of space at the West Hollywood apartment they shared during the recording of the album Crowded House.

The name " Cheddar cheese " is widely used and has no Protected Designation of Origin ( PDO ) within the European Union, but only Cheddar produced from local milk within four counties of South West England may use the name " West Country Farmhouse Cheddar.