A number of characters and incidents from the novel were omitted-notably David's time at Salem House boarding school, although one character he met at Salem House ( Steerforth ) was retained for the film as a head boy at the school David attended after his aunt Betsey Trotwood gained custody of him.

For instance, in the film David never attends Salem House boarding school, and so the characters he met there do not appear, with the exception of Steerforth, who instead made his appearance as head boy of David's school he attended after going to live with Betsey Trotwood.

* Clara Copperfield – David's kind mother, described as being innocently childish, who dies while David is at Salem House.

* Tommy Traddles – David's friend from Salem House.

of the January 1994 Northridge earthquake, which damaged his Los Angeles apartment, Norman moved into a small room in his parents ' house in Salem, Oregon so that he could help take care of his father who had developed Alzheimer's disease, and who would eventually require admission to an adult care facility.

Still later, a three-part song came over the wire from Somerville, and Mr. Bell told his audience “ I will switch off the song from one part of the room to another, so that all can hear .” At a subsequent lecture in Salem, Massachusetts, communication was established with Boston, eighteen miles distant, and Mr. Watson at the latter place sang “ Auld Lang Syne ”, the National Anthem, and " Hail Columbia ”, while the audience at Salem joined in the chorus.

According to a local legend of Salem, Massachusetts, the ghost of Giles Cory appears in Salem and walks his graveyard each time a disaster is about to strike the town.

Salem partakes in voodoo rituals at the graveyard, along with Doctor le Croix, a voodoo sorcerer, Madame Sarita, and Lula Chevalier, a girl who is never seen.

On the " Voodoo " album, the character Salem uses graveyard dust ( referred to as goofer dust ) to send the spirits of dead people into Sarah's head during the song " Sarah's Night ".

Today's largest employer in Dent County, U. S. Foodservice, is an institutional food business and began in Salem as Craig Distributing.

In 1988, F. Ross Johnson was the President and CEO of RJR Nabisco, formed in 1985 by the merger of Nabisco Brands and R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company, a leading producer of food products ( Shredded Wheat, Oreo cookies, Ritz crackers, Planters peanuts, Life Savers, Del Monte Fruit and Vegetables, and Snickers Chocolate ) as well as Winston, Camel and Salem cigarettes.

The mall has over 120 stores as well as a large food court and is, making it the third largest mall in New Hampshire after the Mall at Rockingham Park in Salem, and the Pheasant Lane Mall in Nashua, which opened in 1991 and 1986, respectively.

Nurse Ratched is the head administrative nurse at the Salem, Oregon State Hospital, a mental institution where she exercises near-absolute power over the patients ' access to medications, privileges, and basic necessities such as food and toiletries.

In June 1630, the Winthrop Fleet arrived in what would later be called Salem, which on account of lack of food, " pleased them not.

* 1692 – Salem witch trials: in Salem, Massachusetts, Province of Massachusetts Bay, five people, one woman and four men, including a clergyman, are executed after being convicted of witchcraft.

:" Mr Cotton Mather was the most active and forward of any Minister in the Country in those matters Goodwin children and Goody Glover, taking home one of the Children, and managing such intrigues with that Child, and after printing such an account of the whole, in his Memorable Provinces in 1689, as conduced much to the kindling of those Flames, that in Sir Williams time Salem Witch Trials threatened the devouring of this Country.

The only death by peine forte et dure in American history was Giles Corey, who was pressed to death on September 19, 1692, during the Salem witch trials, after he refused to enter a plea in the judicial proceeding.

* 1692 – Giles Corey is pressed to death after refusing to plead in the Salem witch trials.

Airport surveillance video from Washington's Dulles Airport shows four of the five hijackers, including Salem al-Hazmi, being pulled aside to undergo additional scrutiny after setting off metal detectors.

Shortly after the attacks, several sources reported that Salem al-Hazmi, 26, was alive and working at a petrochemical plant in Yanbu, Saudi Arabia.

), Shem is believed to have been Melchizedek, King of Salem whom Abraham is recorded to have met after the battle of the four kings.

Salem had a population of 154, 637 at the 2010 census, making it the third largest city in the state after Portland and Eugene.

There were many names suggested and even after the change to Salem, some people, such as Asahel Bush ( editor of the Oregon Statesman ), believed the name should be changed back to Chemeketa.

In 1851, Salem became the territorial capital after it was moved from Oregon City.

The first cherry festival in Salem was held in 1903 and was an annual event, with parades and the election of a cherry queen, until sometime after World War I.

Besides renaming Gally to Alita, the North American version of the manga also changed the city of Salem to Tiphares, after Tiferet.

Since Kishiro also used the name Jeru for the facility atop Salem, Jeru was renamed Ketheres in the translation, after Keter.

Soon after David goes back to Salem House, his mother and her baby die and David has to return home immediately.

The first mayor of Salem was appointed or elected just after the Missouri state legislature passed the laws relating to village government in 1860.

Some in the area resented the sale for private use after the Council had originally planned to sell the property to the town of Salem for $ 500, 000. 00.

There has been some specualation on how Prescott was named, whether it was named after William Hickling Prescott, of Salem, Massachusetts, who was a friend of Thomas Allen and Henry Marquand, ( Cairo & Fulton Railroad officials ) or from County Surveyor, W. H. Prescott.

Salem is the site of one of the very first rural electrifications in the country, at the farm of Frederick C. Rawolle, Jr. Rawolle was an engineer from New York who retired at the age of 32 after he sold to a major manufacturer the patent rights of an explosive device he had invented to fracture oil wells.

Until the expansion of New Salem after the building of the Quabbin Reservoir in the 1930s, Colrain was the largest town in the county.

Aboard the Arabella from Yarmouth, England, Winthrop and Dudley sailed, and after a difficult ten week voyage, they landed on the shores of the New World, with Salem and Boston Harbor being the Arabella's earliest destinations.

The Kettell family, once reunited, moved back to Salem, Massachusetts after selling their farm.

* Sabrina, The Teenage Witch has a black magical talking cat named Salem.

Sabrina's story takes place in the fictional town of Westbridge, Massachusetts, where she grew up with her two aunts, Hilda and Zelda Spellman, and the talking cat, Salem Saberhagen.

She also learned that her two aunts were witches themselves and that their black cat Salem was a warlock who had been turned into a talking household pet as a punishment for attempting worldwide domination.

She lives with her 500-year-old aunts, European witches Hilda ( played by Caroline Rhea ) and Zelda ( played by Beth Broderick ), and their magical talking cat Salem ( voiced by Nick Bakay ) in the fictional town of Westbridge, Massachusetts.

In the early 1950s, James Carpenter discovered a large living American chestnut in a grove of dead and dying trees in Salem, Ohio that showed no evidence of blight infection.

The day's New Hampshire dead were later buried in the Salem Street Burying Ground, Medford, Massachusetts.

By the mid-late 1990s, the Salem Mall was officially considered a dead mall.

The townspeople, led by Thackary and Emily's parents come and capture the sisters to hang them ; however Winifred casts a curse that on Halloween night when the moon is full a virgin will summon them back from the dead so they can claim all the lives of the children in Salem.