The change of name was due to the fact that the Quakers, a large colony of whom were among the earliest settlers in Talbot County, having no reverence for saints, persisted in dropping the word saint and calling the river Michaels River, which readily became corrupted into Miles.

Miles of waterfront along the James River, and tributaries such as Deep Creek and Lucas Creek, are occupied by higher-end single family homes.

The Dan River runs from the Northwest Corner to the Southeastern section of Stokes County ( Covering over 56 Miles of River Recreation ).

The site where Terry is located was first called Joubert's Landing, in recognition of the man who built a supply point along the Yellowstone River for freighters traveling from Bismarck, Dakota Territory, to Miles City, Montana Territory.

The first county court was held that same year at Miles Manser's general store which stood nearby Ansted's current location along the James River and Kanawha Turnpike, an early roadway built to connect the canals on the James and Kanawha Rivers.

It is home to Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, an interdenominational, evangelical seminary ; the Pingree School ; Hamilton-Wenham Regional High School ; and the Miles River Middle School.

His great-grandson Ernie LaPointe contends that family tradition says he was born at the Yellowstone River near present-day Miles City, Montana.

In 1814, Miles MacDonell, Governor of the Red River Colony ( the area around present-day Winnipeg, Manitoba ), issued the Pemmican Proclamation, which prohibited the export of pemmican from the colony for the next year.

* Miles Glacier Bridge ( built 1910 ), also known as the Million Dollar Bridge, converted from railroad to motor vehicle use and located at the northern end of the unfinished Copper River Highway near Cordova Alaska.

The Tongue rises in Wyoming in the Big Horn Mountains, flows through northern Wyoming and southeastern Montana and empties into the Yellowstone River at Miles City, Montana.

The river forms the eastern boundary of the Northern Cheyenne Indian Reservation from about 25 miles north of the reservoir to a point north of Ashland, Montana, after which the river continues to flow in a broad valley to its mouth on the Yellowstone River near Miles City, Montana.

As the river approaches Miles City the valley changes appearance to grassy rolling hills, as the river leaves the Tongue River formation and flows through the Lebo shale and the Tullock sedimentary formations.

Miles and elements of infantry units constructed the Tongue River Cantonment at the mouth of the Tongue River.

On January 8, 1877 Colonel Miles and infantry units engaged in one of the last battles of the Great Sioux War of 1876-77 near Birney, Montana in the Tongue River Valley.

Colonel Miles, leading elements of the 5th and 22nd infantry, avoided an ambush by Oglala Sioux under Crazy Horse, and segments of Cheyenne under White Bull and Two Moons, and then engaged the Indian forces driving them back up the Tongue River.

The battle is also referred to by various other names, including the Battle of Pyramid Butte, the Battle of the Butte, and Miles Battle on the Tongue River.

An experimental vineyard, Tongue River Vineyard and Winery, is located on the Tongue, a mile upriver from Miles City, Montana.

The Vineyard & Winery are owned and operated by Bob and Marilyn Thaden of Miles City and may be seen at www. tongueriverwinery. com or on Facebook at " Tongue River Winery ".

A railroad spur line, if built, would have to come up the Tongue River from Miles City, a distance of some 65 to 70 miles.

In the Tongue River valley, starting from Miles City and going up the river there are about 30 miles of pavement to the community of Garland, then 35 miles of gravel, followed by about 7 miles of paved road into Ashland, where U. S. Highway 212 is encountered.

There are good roadside services at Miles City, Montana at the mouth of the Tongue River basin, and also in the upper reaches of the basin at Dayton and Ranchester and in the vicinity of Sheridan, Wyoming.

Since the settlement of Miles City, at the mouth of the Tongue, and the related settlement of Sheridan, Wyoming, located approximately 125 air miles to the south there has been much discussion of a north-south railroad connecting the cities and corridored along the Tongue River valley.

Incumbent William Brod is opposed in his re-election bid by Barbara Njust, Miles C. Bubenik and Frank Lee.

* There is also mention of the Analytical Engine ( or the Clockwork Ouroboros as it is also known there ) in The Book of the War, a Faction Paradox anthology edited by Lawrence Miles.

* 1959 – Kind of Blue by Miles Davis, the much acclaimed and highly influential best selling jazz recording of all time, is released.

Unfortunately ( as the two find out when they pay a visit on Lycus ), Philia has been promised to the renowned warrior Miles Gloriosus, who is on his way to claim her.

When Miles Gloriosus arrives to claim his courtesan-bride, Pseudolus hides Philia on the roof of Senex's house ; told that she has " escaped ," Lycus is terrified to face the Captain's wrath.

Displeased and suspicious, Miles insists that his soldiers accompany Pseudolus, but the wily slave is able to lose them in Rome's winding streets.

Unfortunately, it turns out that Miles Gloriosus has just returned from Crete, where there is of course no actual plague.

The first ghola produced is that of their recently-deceased military genius, Miles Teg.

The grail is central in many modern Arthurian works, including Charles Williams's novel War in Heaven and his two collections of poems about Taliessin, Taliessin Through Logres and Region of the Summer Stars, and in feminist author Rosalind Miles ' Child of the Holy Grail.

That denouement plus Alden's engagement with rivaling Indians who plotted to kill newcomers is told elaborately in Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's poem, The Courtship of Miles Standish.

The alternate mix was remastered by legendary sound engineer Steve Hoffman, who is best-known for his meticulousness in remastering high quality audiophile back catalogue recordings of artists such as Miles Davis and Joni Mitchell ( Hoffman gained international prominence for his classic work on gold-plated CDs for the DCC label ).

The typeface is still in use today although substantially modified in 1979 by Eiichi Kono at Banks & Miles to produce " New Johnston ".

The peculiar policy of the government in employing so weak and vacillating a person as General Miles to look after the uneasy Indians, has resulted in a terrible loss of blood to our soldiers, and a battle which, at best, is a disgrace to the war department.

Air Miles is Canada's largest loyalty program-Air Miles can be earned at more than 100 different sponsors and almost a thousand different rewards.

Lemmy is one of the characters in the book Sex Tips from Rock Stars by Paul Miles.

The gift was the reason why the jazz program at UNCG is named the " Miles Davis Jazz Studies Program.

Paul Atreides is a Mentat duke ( and later emperor ) in Dune, and in Heretics of Dune ( 1984 ) and Chapterhouse: Dune ( 1985 ), Miles Teg is a Mentat bashar ( or general ) and the most formidable military commander in the known universe.

The point of view characters include women ( Cordelia in Shards of Honor, Barrayar ; Ekaterin in Komarr and A Civil Campaign ), a gay man ( Ethan of Athos ), and a pair of brothers, one of whom is disabled and the other a clone ( Miles and Mark Vorkosigan ).

Miles Naismith Vorkosigan, the protagonist of most of the series, is the son of a Betan mother and a Barrayaran aristocrat, embodying this contrast.

The society of Miles Vorkosigan ’ s lifetime is almost paperless.

By the time Miles Vorkosigan is 20, in The Vor Game, Beta Colony has begun to develop garments which protect the wearer from nerve disruptors.

Though his frailties are gradually mended, Miles ' physical development is severely affected and, as an adult, he is subtly but noticeably misshapen and no taller than an adolescent boy.