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Just over 208, 000 residents live in the Springfield Metropolitan Statistical Area, which includes Sangamon County and adjacent Menard County.

* Menard County ( east )

Menard County is a county located on the Edwards Plateau in the U. S. state of Texas.

* 1858 State legislature forms Menard County from Bexar County The county was named for Michel Branamour Menard, the founder of Galveston.

* 1871 Menard County residents elect their own officials.

* National Register of Historic Places listings in Menard County, Texas

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* Menard County ( southwest )

* Mason ISD ( mostly in Mason County ; small portions in Kimble, Menard, and San Saba counties )

* Menard County ( west )

* Menard County ( north )

On September 6, 1875, Kimble County was separated from Gillespie County and attached to Menard County for judicial purposes.

Jorge Luis Borges's ( 1939 ) short story Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote, is often considered as predicting postmodernism and conceiving the ideal of the ultimate parody.

The Michel B. Menard House, built in 1838 and oldest in Galveston, is designed in the Greek revival style.

Its seat is Menard.

Menard County is a county located in the U. S. state of Illinois.

Menard County is part of the Springfield, Illinois, Metropolitan Statistical Area.

Greenview is a village in Menard County, Illinois, United States.

Tallula is a village in Menard County, Illinois, United States.

The History of Menard & Mason Counties, Illinois credits Spears with the name, and notes that it was said to mean " dropping water ", but nothing in the area is especially related to dropping water ; the county tourist bureau claims that William G. Greene named the town, that it means " trickling water ", and that it is related to " abundant springs in the area ".

It is at the center of Tallula Precinct, Menard County, Illinois.

The city is represented by Senator Joan M. Menard ( D-Fall River ) who serves as the Assistant Majority Leader of the State Senate, in the First Bristol and Plymouth district, which includes the city and the towns of Freetown, Lakeville, Rochester, Somerset and Swansea.

The town is represented by Senator Joan M. Menard ( D-Fall River ), Assistant Majority Leader in the state senate in the First Bristol and Plymouth district, which also includes Fall River, Freetown, Rochester, Somerset and Swansea.

Menard spent the winter in what is presently known as Pequaming on Keweenaw Bay, and left the area for Fond du Lac the following spring, never to be heard from again.

Menard is a city in and the county seat of Menard County, Texas, United States.

Sacred Heart Catholic Church ( 1899 building ) in Menard: On the right outside wall of the church is a plaque recalling the massacre and destruction in 1758 of the Mission Santa Cruz de San Sabá three miles to the east of Menard.

Menard is located at ( 30. 919519 ,-99. 784446 ).

It is situated along the banks of the San Saba River at the junction of U. S. Highways 83 and 190, approximately 140 miles northwest of Austin and San Antonio in central Menard County.

The first settlement at the site of what is now Menard was the Spanish Mission San Sabá and the Presidio of San Luís de Amarillas, both established in April 1757.

Public education in the City of Menard is provided by the Menard Independent School District and home to the Menard High School Yellow Jackets.

Several other fictional books were invented by the same author, including an entire bibliography for the fictional author Pierre Menard, as well as an imaginary novel, purportedly written by a Bombay lawyer named Mir Bahadur Ali, entitled " The Approach to Al-Mu ' tasim ," which was " reviewed " by Borges in his story of the same name.

The park for which the neighborhood is named is located a few blocks to the northwest between Northwest Highway and Milwaukee, on Menard Avenue.

In " Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote ", a fictional poet named Pierre Menard attempts to recreate Don Quixote exactly as Miguel de Cervantes wrote it.

In 1836, Canadian Michel Branamour Menard and several associates purchased of land for $ 50, 000 to found the town that would become the modern city of Galveston.

For many years, the town served as the principal shipping point for Menard County.

The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad discontinued its service to Menard in 1972, but donated the depot to the county for use as a history museum.

Then people went to look for Pierre Menard and they found a Pierre Menard, but a doubled Pierre Menard, the one that Borges had invented.

At Talladega, Stewart struggled to lead a lap, and eventually did so ; with assistance from Ryan Newman, Paul Menard, and Joey Logano, he led an additional 29 laps and captured the two-point bonus for leading the most laps.

Eau Claire alumni include Ann Devroy, the former White House correspondent at The Washington Post ; T. Keith Glennan, the first administrator of NASA ; Mark Andrew Green, a congressman and ambassador known for his work with malaria ; Stanford University climate scientist Pamela Matson, winner of the MacArthur Fellowship ; Forbes 400 billionaire and entrepreneur John Menard ; stage and film actress Laila Robins ; chemist Richard Saykally, 1932 Professor Chair at the University of California, Berkeley ; Justin Vernon, Grammy Award-winning lead singer of Bon Iver ; and poet and literary critic Elizabeth Willis, winner of the National Poetry Series and the Guggenheim Fellowship.

Mark Martin would join Dale Earnhardt, Jr., Martin Truex, Jr., and Paul Menard as a driver for DEI starting at the 2007 Allstate 400 at the Brickyard.

Ongais was asked by John Menard to fill in for Scott Brayton who was killed during Friday Practice for the 1996 Indianapolis 500.

Menard also owns an engine shop in the United Kingdom that produced engines for Team Menard and Robby Gordon Motorsports and was the owner of Team Menard which won the 1997 and 1999 Indy Racing League championships, almost won the Indy 500 in 1999 as a team owner with driver Robby Gordon the car ran out of fuel before taking the white flag lap.

* Pierre Menard ( musician ), American violinist and concertmaster for The Neon Philharmonic

Menard, who is of Métis descent, is best known for her work on the television series Moccasin Flats ( 2003 ) ( in which she played a Police Officer with the Regina Police Service in the city of Regina, Saskatchewan ) and for her starring role as Constable Tara Wheaton in the television series Rabbit Fall ( 2007 – 2008 ).