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When Elizabeth was 3 years old, the family moved to 142 Long Acre, where they were to live for 2 years, whilst two more children were born and her father moved up in the world, becoming not only the manager of a larger pawnbroker ’ s shop, but also a silversmith.
For centuries before the first meeting of the Football Association in the Freemasons ' Tavern on Long Acre, London on 26 October 1863, there were no universally accepted rules for playing football.
Long before the Acre reached its maximum boundaries, local citizens had become alarmed at the level of crime and violence in their city.
The district is divided by the main thoroughfare of Long Acre, north of which is given over to independent shops centred on Neal's Yard and Seven Dials, while the south contains the central square with its street performers and most of the elegant buildings, theatres and entertainment facilities, including the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, and the London Transport Museum.
After the Dissolution of the Monasteries in 1540, Henry VIII took for himself the land belonging to Westminster Abbey, including the convent garden and seven acres to the north called Long Acre ; and in 1552 his son, Edward VI, granted it to John Russell, 1st Earl of Bedford.
The commission had been prompted by Charles I taking offence at the condition of the road and houses along Long Acre, which were the responsibility of Russell and Henry Carey, 2nd Earl of Monmouth.
Historically, the Bedford Estate defined the boundary of Covent Garden, with Drury Lane to the east, the Strand to the south, St. Martin's Lane to the west, and Long Acre to the north.
However, over time the area has expanded northwards past Long Acre to High Holborn.
Shelton Street, running parallel to the north of Long Acre, marks the boundary between Westminster Council and Camden London Borough Council.
The area to the south of Long Acre contains the Royal Opera House, the market and central square, and most of the elegant buildings, theatres and entertainment facilities, including the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, and the London Transport Museum ; while the area to the north of Long Acre is largely given over to independent retail units centred on Neal Street, Neal's Yard and Seven Dials ; though this area also contains residential buildings such as Odhams Walk, built in 1981 on the site of the Odhams print works, and is home to over 6, 000 residents.
Long Acre has a range of clothes shops and boutiques, and Neal Street is noted for its large number of shoe shops.
Covent Garden has 13 theatres, and over 60 pubs and bars, with most south of Long Acre, around the main shopping area of the old market.
Covent Garden is served by the Piccadilly line at Covent Garden tube station on the corner of Long Acre and James Street.
Drury Lane looking south from Long Acre ( street ) | Long Acre towards Aldwych
The drama is a production of Luigi Pirandello's The Man With the Flower in His Mouth ; it is broadcast by the BBC from Baird's studios at 133 Long Acre, London.
In 1867 Terry performed in several pieces by John Taylor, including A Sheep in Wolf's Clothing at the Adelphi Theatre, The Antipodes at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, and Still Waters Run Deep at the Queen's Theatre, Long Acre.
At first, he worked for the mason-sculptor John Stone, who had a workshop on Long Acre, until he set up his own studio after Stone's death in 1667.
Stothard was born in London, the son of a well-to-do innkeeper in Long Acre, London.

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More typical is the case of a suburban Long Island housewife described by a marriage counselor.
In Nassau County, for example, the heavily settled Long Island suburb of New York City, the system is credited by the state with serving one million persons, a figure that has doubled since 1950.
* 1929 – Huey P. Long Governor of Louisiana is impeached by the Louisiana House of Representatives.
* 1776 – The Battle of Long Island: in what is now Brooklyn, New York, British forces under General William Howe defeat Americans under General George Washington.
La Longue Marche à travers la théorie de Galois Long March Through Galois Theory is an approximately 1600-page handwritten manuscript produced by Grothendieck during the years 1980 – 1981, containing many of the ideas leading to the Esquisse d ' un programme ( see below, and also a more detailed entry ), and in particular studying the Teichmüller theory.
The Cobble Hill Tunnel ( popularly the Atlantic Avenue Tunnel ) of the Long Island Rail Road is an abandoned railroad tunnel beneath Atlantic Avenue in downtown Brooklyn, New York City.
His surname, Arika ( English, " Long "— that is, " Tall "; it occurs only once — Hullin 137b ), he owed to his height, which, according to a reliable record, exceeded that of his contemporaries.
It is also heard on Daft Punk's Alive 2007 album in the track " Too Long / Steam Machine ".
* Long bones are characterized by a shaft, the diaphysis, that is much longer than it is wide.
Another logician, Gongsun Long, told the famous When a White Horse is Not a Horse dialogue.
It is bordered by Rhode Island to the east, Massachusetts to the north, and the state of New York to the west and the south ( with which it shares a water boundary in Long Island Sound ).
Connecticut is bordered on the south by Long Island Sound, on the west by New York State, on the north by Massachusetts, and on the east by Rhode Island.
This character is based on Long John Silver from the book Treasure Island.
It also gave impetus to the never-ending treasure hunts conducted on Oak Island in Nova Scotia, in Suffolk County, Long Island in New York where Gardiner's Island is located, Charles Island in Milford, Connecticut ; the Thimble Islands in Connecticut and on the island of Grand Manan in the Bay of Fundy.
This service is made available, at no additional cost, to Optimum Broadband subscribers, and is available at over 14, 000 locations across Long Island, NY, parts of NJ and CT. Cablevision has reported a double digit reduction in subscriber churn since launching Optimum Wi-Fi, even as Verizon has rolled out FiOS, a competitive residential broadband service in the Cablevision footprint.
A county park in East Meadow, New York ( Long Island ) is named in his honor.
The track " Long May You Run " is a different mix to that found on the album of the same name, featuring the harmonies of the full Crosby Stills & Nash before David Crosby and Graham Nash left the recording sessions.
* 1966 – The first Kwanzaa is celebrated by Maulana Karenga, the chair of Black Studies at California State University, Long Beach.
* 1845 – Ether anesthetic is used for childbirth for the first time by Dr. Crawford Williamson Long in Jefferson, Georgia.
* Riverdale is an island surrounded by the Charles River and Long Ditch.
One example this is Lawnchair Larry, who attached helium filled weather balloons to a lawn chair and floated far above Long Beach, California, in July 1982.
This divine right is called Daulat, and although presently, the notion of divine right is somewhat obsolete, one can still see banners and posters with pictures of the reigning sultan with words Daulat Tuanku, similar to the European proclamation of " Long live the King ", on streets and buildings.

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The main relief presenters are Martine Croxall, Gavin Esler ( BBC News at Five ), Sophie Long ( mainly weekday afternoons ), Rachel Schofield ( Monday mornings ), Tim Willcox and Julian Worricker ( Friday afternoons ), while Fiona Armstrong, Ellie Crisell, Ben Geoghagen, Roger Johnson, Kasia Madera, Chris Rogers, Babita Sharma, Julia Somerville, Sue Thearle and Carole Walker also fill in for regular presenters.
An unusual clause in the colonial land grant outlined the territory that the proprietors of New Jersey would receive as being " westward of Long Island, and Manhitas Island and bounded on the east part by the main sea, and part by Hudson's river ", rather than at the river's midpoint, as was common in other colonial charters.
According to the International Triathlon Union, and USA Triathlon, the main international race distances are Sprint Distance, which has a swim, cycling, run ; Intermediate ( or Standard ) distance, commonly referred to as " Olympic distance " ( swim, bike, run ; the Long Course ( swim, ride, run, such as the Half Ironman ), and Ultra Distance ( swim, ride, and a full marathon: run ); the most recognized branded Ultra Distance is the Ironman triathlon.
The name of the brand is borrowed from the novel Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson, in which the pirate Long John Silver is one of the main characters.
Its main competitors are Long John Silver's and Captain D's.
Zhou was sent to oversee the event, but the moving figures seem to have been Tan Pingshan and Li Lisan, while the main military figures were Ye Ting and He Long.
In 1626, Director of the WIC Peter Minuit purchased the island of Manhattan from the Lenape and started the construction of Fort Amsterdam, which grew to become the main port and capital, New Amsterdam The colony expanded to outlying areas at Pavonia, Brooklyn, Bronx, and Long Island.
Historically, only members of Pop were entitled to furl their umbrellas or sit the wall on the Long Walk, in front of the main building.
The Long March most commonly refers to the transfer of the main group of the First ( or Central ) Red Army, which included the leaders of the Communist Party of China, from Yudu in the province of Jiangxi, to Yan ' an in Shaanxi.
After the organization of these first two main forces, the Second Red Army formed in eastern Guizhou by unifying the Second and Sixth Army Groups under He Long and Xiao Ke.
Bideford's 13th century Long Bridge was temporarily converted into a railway bridge to carry the locomotives and rolling stock onto the main line railway near Bideford Station.
The main interiors were filmed aboard the decommissioned aircraft carrier USS Valley Forge ( CV-45 ), which was docked at the Long Beach Naval Shipyard in Long Beach, California.
In The Number of the Beast, the main characters discover a way to travel to fictional worlds, and in the course of their explorations, visit the world of Lazarus Long.
Long used as a military prison throughout the 18th to mid-20th century, it is now under civilian control, being one of the main tourist attractions of the island, as well as the seat for the city's History Museum.
The Long platform of social programs and populist rhetoric created the state's main political division.
Minnesota State Highways 28 and 29 ( co-signed ) serve as a main route in Long Beach.
For many years, Central Avenue, the area's main business district, was considered the Rodeo Drive of Long Island, offering upscale shops and boutiques to discriminating shoppers from around the area.
Long Beach Road, Oceanside Road, Lawson Boulevard, Waukena Avenue, and Merrick Road are some of the main roads in Oceanside.
The Polo Club was served by the former Central Branch of the Long Island Rail Road, terminating at a now-demolished station across Merrick Avenue to the immediate north of the park's main entrance.
Before 1854 " peaches were produced in large quantities and at profitable returns on the backbone hills of the island, which lie north of the main line of the Long Island railroad, near West Deer Park or Wyandance station.
Its main roads include Bitting Road, Conrad Road, Forgedale Road / Baldy Hill Road, Huff Church Road, Landis Store Road, Long Lane, and Oysterdale Road.
Though the general geographic reference to this land feature is " Long Neck Point ", therein are two different neighborhoods, each with their own main road and distinct features.
Like the Long Depression in Europe, the main features of the U. S. depression included deflation, rural decline, and unemployment, which aggravated the bitter social protests of the " Gilded Age "— the Populist movement, the free-silver crusade, and violent labor disputes such as the Pullman and Homestead strikes.

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