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Springfield sits at a natural crossroads, at the confluence of four rivers: to the west, the 78. 1 mile Westfield River, ( the Connecticut River's longest tributary river in Massachusetts ;) in the middle, the 418. 0 mile Connecticut River, then known as " The Great River ;" and to the east two smaller rivers: the 18. 0 mile Chicopee River, which featured the fast moving and the Connecticut River's largest water basin ; and also, the Mill River, which would become very important approximately 150 years later after George Washington's foundation of the U. S. Armory at Springfield.
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A 22 " Newtonian telescope | Newtonian reflector sits in front of the clubhouse at Stellafane, home of the Springfield Telescope Makers
The land on which Sykesville sits started out as part of the Springfield Estate, owned by wealthy Baltimore shipbuilder William Patterson.
The City of Springfield, Massachusetts, which sits beside the Connecticut River amid the wide Connecticut River Valley, is Western Massachusetts ' urban economic and cultural capital.
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This was taken after I came to live in Springfield, and it was made under the guidance of the Reverend Raymond Beardslee, a young preacher who came to the Congregational Church there at about the same time that I moved from New York.
They later met again at a party and married on November 4, 1842, in the Springfield mansion of Mary's married sister.
* In The Simpsons episode " Homer at the Bat ", Homer Simpson is hit in the head by a pitch while playing for the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant softball team, rendering him unconscious, but forcing in the winning run.
In early December 1891, Canadian American Dr. James Naismith, a physical education professor and instructor at the International Young Men's Christian Association Training School ( YMCA ) ( today, Springfield College ) in Springfield, Massachusetts, USA ), was trying to keep his gym class active on a rainy day.
Actor Clint Eastwood recalled seeing Wills when he was 18 or 19 ( 1948 or 1949 ) and working at a pulp mill in Springfield, Oregon.
In 1876 at Massasoit House in Springfield, Massachusetts, Harvard persuaded Princeton and Columbia to adopt an amalgam of rugby's laws and the rules that they were then playing, thus forming the Intercollegiate Football Association ( IFA ).
The defining event of the Stone wing of the movement was the publication of the Last Will and Testament of The Springfield Presbytery, at Cane Ridge, Kentucky, in 1804.
In this capacity Bellamy briefly served on the staff of the New York Post before returning to his native Massachusetts to take a position at the Springfield Union.
This conversion was principally carried out at the Army's Springfield Armory arsenal repair shops.
Klein served as rabbi at Kadimoh Congregation in Springfield, Massachusetts from 1934 – 1953 ; Temple Emanu-El, Buffalo, New York, 1953 – 1968 ; Temple Shaarey Zedek, Buffalo, ( which was created from the merger of Emanu-El with Temple Beth David in 1968 ), 1968-1972.
In 1852 John Hay went to the college at Springfield, and in 1855 was sent to Brown University, where he joined Theta Delta Chi.
* 1954 – Willie Mosconi sets a world record by running 526 consecutive balls without a miss during a straight pool exhibition at East High Billiard Club in Springfield, Ohio.
These include working as a nuclear technician alongside Homer at Springfield Nuclear Power Plant in " Marge Gets a Job " ( season four, 1992 ); selling houses in " Realty Bites " ( season nine, 1997 ); owning her own pretzel business in " The Twisted World of Marge Simpson " ( season eight, 1997 ), and working at an erotic bakery in " Sex, Pies and Idiot Scrapes " ( season 20, 2008 ).
They appeared at the celebratory Wembley Arena concert, on a bill which included the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, Dusty Springfield and the Animals.
After an observer, Alfred Halstead, noticed the volleying nature of the game at its first exhibition match in 1896, played at the International YMCA Training School ( now called Springfield College ), the game quickly became known as volleyball ( it was originally spelled as two words: " volley ball ").
His first job was as a grocery store clerk in Springfield, at the age of 15.
Wonder Mike ( left ) with a man at a rave in Springfield, Massachusetts.
1912 date-mark on the apex of a building at Springfield, Birmingham, England.
The Simpsons Apu was a graduate student at Springfield Heights Institute of Technology.
On March 9, 1947, he contracted pneumonia and died two days later at the Medical Center for Federal Prisoners in Springfield, Missouri.
" Following memorial services at the United Nations General Assembly Hall ( on July 19, 1965 ), and in Washington, D. C .; Springfield, Illinois ; and Bloomington, Illinois, Stevenson was interred in the family plot in Evergreen Cemetery, Bloomington, Illinois.
Assigned federal inmate number 07255-008, he was transferred from the Federal Correctional Institution in Tucson, Arizona to the U. S. Medical Center for Federal Prisoners in Springfield, Missouri due to ill health at his advanced age and released on November 1, 1986.
Springfield and natural
Springfield, Massachusetts — the " shire town " for which Hampden County was initially carved out of Hampshire County in 1814 — is located in southern Hampden County, at a natural crossroads where three significant rivers flow into Connecticut River, ( the Westfield, the Chicopee, and the Mill.
On February 14, 1969, Genovese died of natural causes at the United States Medical Center for Federal Prisoners in Springfield, Missouri.
The Springfield Science Museum displays elements of natural and physical science from the Eco-Center featuring live animals, to the African Hall, which gives visitors a ground-sky perspective of an ecosystem on the Savannah.
Springfield and confluence
Built atop high bluff overlooking the Connecticut River, Washington and Knox agreed that Springfield provided an ideal location — beside a great river and at the confluence of major highways — that was also easily defensible, due to its citadel-like location, and its position upstream the Connecticut.
Located entirely in Bucks County, in southeastern Pennsylvania, it rises in Springfield Township and has its confluence with the Delaware at Point Pleasant.
Green Spring is located north of Springfield on Green Spring Road ( West Virginia Secondary Route 1 ) near the confluence of the North and South Branches of the Potomac River.
Springfield and four
* 1787 – Shays ' Rebellion: The rebellion's largest confrontation, outside the Springfield Armory, results in the killing of four rebels and the wounding of twenty.
* 2011 – A rare tornado outbreak occurs in New England ; a strong EF3 tornado strikes Springfield, Massachusetts during the event, killing four people.
The four largest urban areas are St. Louis, Kansas City, Springfield, and Columbia.
Among other items, Roosevelt brought with him four tons of salt for preserving animal hides, a lucky rabbit's foot given to him by boxer John L. Sullivan, a Holland and Holland double rifle in. 500 / 450 donated by a group of 56 admiring Britons, a Winchester 1895 rifle in. 405 Winchester, an Army ( M1903 ) Springfield in. 30-06 caliber stocked and sighted for him, a Fox No. 12 shotgun, and the famous Pigskin Library, a collection of classics bound in pig leather and transported in a single reinforced trunk.
Another indoor sport, basketball, was catching on in the area, having been invented just ten miles ( sixteen kilometers ) away in the city of Springfield, Massachusetts, only four years before.
The Lutheran Church-International, based in Springfield, Illinois, presently uses a traditional diocesan structure, with four dioceses in North America.
Only four teams have won more than one championship: Springfield in 1996 and 1998, Johnstown in 1995 ( as the Steal ) and in 2000 ( as the Johnnies ), Richmond ( now Traverse City ) in 2001 and 2002, and Windy City in 2007 and 2008.
Over the next four years, settlers flocked to parts of Lima, Springfield, and Van Buren Townships.
For cable, the Springfield affiliates can be received as well as a couple of stations in Fayetteville / Fort Smith as well as all four Little Rock stations.
MODOT is improving four lane Highway 65 south to Springfield, connecting with 4 lanes south to Branson and Buffalo, MO.
In 2007, MoDOT began construction of the new four lane highway 65 from Springfield to Buffalo.
A militia raised as a private army defeated a Shaysite ( rebel ) attempt to seize the federal Springfield Armory in late January 1787, killing four and wounding 20.
The township contains these four cemeteries: Saint Paul, Saint Rachael, Saint Raphael and Springfield.
Interstate 70 has four exits that serve the city of Springfield.
Springfield has four sister cities, as designated by Sister Cities International:
Oreland is one of four towns that shares the Springfield Township Public School District.
Springfield is characterized by four distinct seasons.
Although the Can-Am League never operated with more than six teams, after the 1935 – 36 season it reduced down to just four member clubs – Springfield, Philadelphia, Providence, and New Haven – for the first time in its history.
The Ozarks consist of four primary physiographic sections: the Springfield Plateau, Salem Plateau, Saint Francois Mountains, and Boston Mountains.
The route passes under Interstate 78 without an interchange and becomes a two-lane road that passes through the downtown of Springfield, eventually widening to four lanes again.
He was appointed U. S. Pension Agent in 1869 for four years and served three terms as mayor of Springfield beginning in 1876.
There are four lower schools in the urban area: Balliol Lower School, Bedford Road, Camestone and Springfield.
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