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James IV of Scotland ( r. 1488 – 1513 ) reportedly had a great liking for Scotch whisky, and in 1506 the town of Dundee purchased a large amount of whisky from the Guild of Surgeon Barbers, which held the monopoly on production at the time.
Sir George Stuart White, commanding the British division at Ladysmith, had unwisely allowed Major-General Penn Symons to throw a brigade forward to the coal-mining town of Dundee ( also reported as Glencoe ), which was surrounded by hills.
Dundee is a town in Polk County, Florida, United States.
* State Road 17-The Scenic Highway going through the center of town, paralleling US 27 and leading southward to downtown Dundee and Lake Wales
The Earl was president of the Dundee Improvement company, a Scottish company formed for the purpose of founding a town in southwest Minnesota.
The Dundee Improvement company played no role in founding the nearby town of Dundee.
* Dundee – A village on NY-14A in the west part of the town.
The unincorporated communities of Armstrong, Dundee, and Waucousta are located in the town.
Newport-on-Tay is a small town in the north east of Fife in Scotland, acting as a commuter suburb for Dundee.
Thomas Telford built a new harbour in the 1820s, and the town expanded and grew into a commuter suburb of Dundee as the prosperous jute manufacturers, industrialists and the middle and upper working class of Dundee established fashionable residences in Newport.
The town has one primary school, Newport Primary, with older pupils attending secondary school in St Andrews, Cupar or the High School of Dundee, the nearest independent school.
The town lies in Strathmore and is situated just off the main A90 road between Perth and Aberdeen, with Dundee ( the nearest city ) being 13 miles ( 21 km ) away.
The town lies south-southeast of Glenrothes, east-northeast of Dunfermline, west-southwest of Dundee and north-northeast of Edinburgh.
" The town of Dundee agreed to support the garrison and resist the Governor of Scotland, Regent Arran on 27 October 1547.
The town is situated between Dundee and the New Town of Glenrothes.
There was a significant movement with the intention of moving the entire university to Dundee ( which the Royal Commission observed was now a " large and increasing town ") or the establishment of a college along very similar lines to the present United College.
Stagecoach Strathtay provide all the bus services to and from Blairgowrie with routes to Perth, Dundee, Alyth, Coupar Angus, Dunkeld, Aberfeldy, Kirkmichael and Glenshee as well as a circular town service.
The title is a rhyming couplet when read in the Scottish accent of the Beano's Dundee home town.
The Ritchie family had long been connected with the town of Dundee.
The town expanded and grew into a commuter suburb of Dundee after the rail bridge opened in 1887 as the more wealthy Dundonians built their residences in Wormit.
The additional meaning, to interrupt speakers with awkward or embarrassing questions, was added in Scotland, and specifically perhaps in early nineteenth century Dundee, a famously radical town where the hecklers who combed the flax had established a reputation as the most radical and belligerent element in the workforce.
Brian Molko has referred to a period spent in his mother's home town of Dundee, Scotland, as " where I grew up ".< ref >

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`` I mean, we don't have any way to get there and we can't expect you to quit work just to take us to town ''.
It usually turned out well for him because either he liked the right people or there were only a few wrong people in the town.
It had been there 50 years or more and everybody in town, black and white, knew of it.
The backing from the white town was greater and there was little publicity.
The older men would be there at noon, and maybe rest for a time before they took their guns off to the creek or drove down the road towards town.
They had cleaned up an old ice box and begun to buy fifty-pound blocks of ice in town, as the electric refrigerator came nowhere near providing enough ice for the crowds who ate and drank there.
To summarize, it may be said that there is no one prevailing practice in Rhode Island with respect to the taxation of movable property, that assessors would like to see an improvement, and of those who have an opinion, that assessment by the town of location is preferred on the basis of their present knowledge.
Under the circumstances, I had difficulty keeping up with the conversation on the phone, but when I hung up I was reasonably certain that Francesca had wanted to remind me of our town meeting the next evening, and how important it was that Hank and I be there.
On the one hand, there are ecumenists who are so stirred by the crises of the church in its encounter with the world at large that they have no eyes for what the church is doing in their own town.
Paneloux is at pains to emphasize that God did not will the calamity: " He looked on the evil-doing in the town with compassion ; only when there was no other remedy did He turn His face away, in order to force people to face the truth about their life " In Paneloux's view, even the terrible suffering caused by the plague works ultimately for good.
The house of his birth still stands in the middle of town and there is a monument to him on Front Street.
The solution to the puzzle as well as explaining the historical circumstances leading to the choice of the Agri Decumates as a defensive point and the concentration of Germans there are probably to be found in the German attack on the Gallic fortified town of Vesontio in 58 BC.
The town of Nibutani ( Ainu: Niputay ) in Hidaka area ( Hokkaido prefecture ) has a number of Ainu households and a visit to some of the Ainu owned craft shops close to the Ainu museums ( there are two of them in Nibutani ) is an opportunity to interact with the Ainu people.
In the Islamic times, a pseudo-etymology was produced by the historian Ahmad ibn Yahya al-Baladhuri ( d. 892 ) quoting a folk story that the town was presumably founded by one " Abbad bin Hosayn " from the Arabian Tribe of Banu Tamim, who established a garrison there during the governorship of Hajjaj in the Ummayad period.
The polygonal walls of the acropolis may still be seen in a fair state of preservation on a circular hill standing about above the little plain of Exarcho ; one gateway remains, and there are also traces of town walls below.
Bremen was a major trading town, and ships, traders and missionaries went from there to many different locations.
The most detailed illustrations are to be found on the ' ship fresco ' at Akrotiri on the island of Thera ( Santorini ) preserved by the ash fall from the volcanic eruption which destroyed the town there.
A myth explaining this servitude states that a bear had formed the habit of regularly visiting the town of Brauron, and the people there fed it, so that, over time, the bear became tame.
There have been settlements there since the medieval period, likely in the Grange Lane and Black Abbey area, and the King's Highway which passes above the town was at one time used by the kings and queens of England when they used the area for hunting when the Forest of Accrington was one of the four forests of the hundred of Blackburnshire.
By the mid-nineteenth century there were Wesleyan, Primitive Methodist, United Free Methodist, Congregationalist, Baptist, Swedenborgian, Unitarian, Roman Catholic and Catholic Apostolic churches in the town.
Local landmarks include the Christie Park, the Fountain ( a traffic junction in the town centre, although there has not been a working fountain there for some years ),
" Since no one in the raiding party is carrying any change, nor do they realize that there is nothing stopping them from simply riding around the tollbooth, Taggart sends someone back to town to " get a shitload of dimes ".
In the years that followed the end of Calvin and Hobbes, there were many attempts to locate Watterson in his home town of Chagrin Falls.
Sometimes in desert warfare, there is no nearby town name to use ; map coordinates gave the name to the Battle of 73 Easting in the First Gulf War.

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