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Riding trains, hitching hikes on trucks across Germany, slipping through guarded frontiers with the help of secret guides, he eventually reached Vichy France, and, by the winter of 1943, was back in Virginia.
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Riding and trains
Riding in a wagon afterwards, John D. Lee said he warned Smith that the Indians would likely attack emigrant trains, and that Mormons were anxious to avenge the blood of the prophets, and according to Lee, Smith seemed pleased, and said " he had had a long talk with Major Haight on the same subject ".
Trains were able to run from London to York via Knottingley, which was the station to change to and from trains into the heart of the West Riding, and so it became a major junction.
• Riding the blinds between trains on the way to training camp to avoid having to pay a fare, which earned him the nickname " The Vagabond Halfback.
Riding and hitching
Image: Riding with a houseboat. JPG | A small boat hitching a ride
Riding and on
Besides a number of appearances in films produced by her company, Flower Films, including Charlie's Angels, Barrymore had a dramatic role in the comedy / drama Riding in Cars with Boys ( 2001 ), playing a teenage mother in a failed marriage with the drug-addicted father ( based on the real-life story of Beverly D ' Onofrio ).
Riding the coattails of Dino De Laurentiis ' big-budget King Kong remake, The poster art showed Godzilla and Megalon battling on top of the World Trade Center, despite the fact that no scenes were set in New York City.
Gilbert Plains is situated on the Valley River, in the parkland country between Riding Mountain National Park and Duck Mountain Provincial Park.
Other studies of the use of proverbs in film include work by Kevin McKenna on the Russian film Aleksandr Nevsky, Haase's study of an adaptation of Little Red Riding Hood, and Elias Dominguez Barajas on the film Viva Zapata !.
James Gordon Bennett, Jr. on May, 6th 1876 organized what was billed as the first polo match in the United States at Dickel's Riding Academy at 39th Street and Fifth Avenue in New York City.
A cartoon based on the book of the same name, it retold classic tales such as Little Red Riding Hood and Cinderella, but with a twist.
Riding a Segway on sidewalks and in pedestrian zones for city tours requires a special permit.
Hughes was born on 17 August 1930 at 1 Aspinall Street, in Mytholmroyd, West Riding of Yorkshire to William Henry and Edith ( née Farrar ) Hughes and raised among the local farms of the Calder valley and on the Pennine moorland.
Louis Cha's Swordswoman Riding West on White Horse or The Book and the Sword are examples of possibly realistic wuxia stories.
Riding Couple ( 1907 ) depicts a man on horseback, holding a woman with tenderness and care as they ride past a Russian town with luminous walls across a river.
Three songs on the album, " Riding With Mary ", " Come Back To Me ", and the title track all directly relate to the tragedy.
* Cooper, Bruce C., " Riding the Transcontinental Rails: Overland Travel on the Pacific Railroad 1865 – 1881 " ( 2005 ), Polyglot Press, Philadelphia ISBN 1-4115-9993-4
* Dimebag Darrell – lead guitar on " King Size " and " Riding Shotgun " from Stomp 442 ( 1995 ); " Inside Out " and " Born Again Idiot " from Volume 8: The Threat Is Real ( 1998 ); and " Strap It On " and " Cadillac Rock Box " from We've Come for You All ( 2003 )
" Riding bitch " is a slang term for riding pillion, sitting behind the driver on a motorcycle.
He recovered and agreed to give the Abbot of Fountains Abbey land at Barnoldswick in the West Riding of Yorkshire ( now in Lancashire ) on which to found a daughter abbey.
Riding bicycles on sidewalks is discouraged since it is more dangerous than riding in the street.
Wilson was born at 4 Warneford Road, Huddersfield, in the West Riding of Yorkshire, England on 11 March 1916, an almost exact contemporary of his rival, Edward Heath ( 9 July 1916 – 17 July 2005 ).
Released in 2004 by Rhino Handmade in a limited edition of 1, 500 copies, this prestigious signed and numbered box set contains a " Riding Some Kind of Unusual Skull Sleigh " CD of Vliet-recited poetry, the Anton Corbijn film of Vliet Some YoYo Stuff on DVD and two art books.
Two books have been published specifically devoted to critique and analysis of his artwork: Riding Some Kind of Unusual Skull Sleigh: On The Arts Of Don Van Vliet ( 1999 ) by W. C. Bamberger and Stand Up To Be Discontinued, first published in 1993, a now rare collection of essays on Van Vliet's work.
Riding on a freight train is dangerous in itself.
The Battle of Stamford Bridge took place at the village of Stamford Bridge, East Riding of Yorkshire in England on 25 September 1066, between an English army under King Harold Godwinson and an invading Norwegian force led by King Harald Hardrada of Norway ( Old Norse: Haraldr harðráði ) and the English king's brother Tostig Godwinson.
The Michigan Shore-to-Shore Trail ( also known as the Michigan Riding and Hiking Trail ) is a long trail that runs between Empire on Lake Michigan and Oscoda on Lake Huron across the Lower Peninsula of Michigan.
Riding and across
Riding down Highway 9, they come across an expensive white hovercraft limousine.
Riding across country, he found the King with a tiny army at Leicester Abbey, and was promptly appointed General of Horse, a coveted appointment at the time in European warfare.
Travelling across the River Humber between the historic counties of the East Riding of Yorkshire and Lincolnshire, he posed as a horse trader, and often hunted alongside local gentlemen.
There have been many modern uses and adaptations of Little Red Riding Hood, generally with a mock-serious reversal of Red Riding Hood's naïveté or some twist of social satire ; they range across a number of different media and styles.
* Riding with the locomotive engineer ( engine driver ) across the former intra-German frontier in 2005
The Fairfaxes had been fighting in the West Riding since January 1643, with such troops from the Hull region as they had been able to bring across Newcastle's lines.
An additional father-son collaborative project resulted in the Winter Riding School ( Winterreitschule ) across from the Stallburg ( and where the first Austrian parliament sat in 1848 ) and in the Imperial Chancellory Wing ( Reichskanzleitrakt ) across from the Leopold Wing.
Riding across one of the most deceptively hook-laden melodies ever conceived ... ' A Lover ’ s Concerto ' marks the apogee of the Girl Group sound.
Riding and Germany
Riding a wave of publicity and hype, the group's second single, " Rivers of Joy ", became a top ten hit, while third single, " There Must Be an Angel ", a cover version of the 1985 hit by British pop duo Eurythmics, continued the group's high record sales by topping the charts once again in Austria and Germany.
The division was disbanded in Germany in 1946, but reformed in the Territorial Army in 1947, having been renamed the 49th ( West Riding ) Armoured Division.
On Saturday the ( 31 March 2007 ) the stand of the 1st Battalion, Duke of Wellington's Regiment ( West Riding ) Regulation colours, taken out of service in 2002, in Osnabrück, Germany, at the Regiments Tercentenary parade, were laid up in the Parish church.
Riding and through
**** Riding: local branch reporting through a province
* Michigan Shore to Shore Riding & Hiking Trail passes through Grayling.
* Michigan Shore to Shore Riding & Hiking Trail runs from Empire passes through Grayling and on to Oscoda, and points north and south.
* Michigan Shore to Shore Riding & Hiking Trail passes through Mio.
To the west of Flesquières, the 62nd ( 2nd West Riding ) Division swept all the way through Havrincourt and Graincourt to within reach of the woods on Bourlon Ridge and on the British left, the 36th ( Ulster ) Division reached the Bapaume-Cambrai road.
Historically a part of the West Riding of Yorkshire, after undergoing a period of major growth in the 19th century as a mill town, Dewsbury went through a period of decline.
In the latter years of the 20th century, the West Riding suffered from economic decline through the gradual closure of its textile and engineering industries.
Nevertheless, Berthelot rushed two newly-arrived British infantry divisions, the 51st ( Highland ) and 62nd ( West Riding ), through the Italians straight into attack down the Ardre Valley ( the Battle of Tardenois ()— named after the surrounding Tardenois plain ).
Riding atop a horse carriage while tailed and serenaded by a brass orchestra, they're drunkenly singing and shooting their way through the city's downtown.
Riding with companions, they are denied safe passage through Doriath because they seek the sons of Fëanor.
Riding on the waves of new communication technology, manzai quickly spread through the mediums of stage, radio, and eventually, television.
Little Red Riding Hood ( 1697 ), an early example of a psycho-stalker story, is a fairy tale about a girl who walks through the woods to deliver food to her sick grandmother.
Riding through the glen!
The line from London to Edinburgh via York and Newcastle passed through the town ( as indeed it still does ), as did the line linking the industrial West Riding with the port and steel town of Middlesbrough.
Riding the crest of a 14-mile advance, five Nazi divisions knifed through the fog and engaged CCB in the pre-dawn darkness of 19 December. Tigers posing in captured German Bunker
Riding in a station wagon with a few friends ( Paul Clayton, Victor Maymudes, and Pete Karman ), Dylan began the trip in New York, taking numerous detours through many states before ending the trip in California.
At the time of the Survey of English Dialects, much of the East Riding was partially rhotic: a final r on a word, as in letter, hour, and quarter would be pronounced in a rhotic manner, but an r mid-way through a word, as in start, yard, and ' burn ' would be pronounced in a non-rhotic manner.
# Riding Backwards-You go through exactly the same motion as a 360, but instead of pulling yourself through the 360, you pause while both hands are behind your back.
Action Medical Research have a regular charity cycling event, the ' Castle 100 ' every year that runs through Riding Lane and Shipbourne http :// www. kent. gov. uk / leisure-and-culture / explore-kent / cycling / Tonbridge-Castle-charity-ride. htm
Geographically, the Lincolnshire Wolds are a continuation of the Yorkshire Wolds, which run up through the East Riding of Yorkshire.
Riding through the night in the pouring rain, Mia and Jimmy set up a tent in the woods.
Sir Thomas Fairfax with a picked body of cavalry rode through Newcastle's lines into the West Riding to help them, and about the end of January 1643, Newcastle gave up the attempt to reduce the towns.
In Yorkshire, Sir Thomas Fairfax, advancing from Lancashire through the West Riding, joined his father.
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