Hanover is a centre for Water sports.

Hanover Square in Downtown Syracuse, New York, is a triangular-shaped public park located at the intersection of Warren, Water, and East Genesee streets.

Hanover Square in 1910-Horsedrawn carriage on Water Street to the right.

Legend has it that Handel composed Water Music to regain the favour of King George I. Handel had been employed by the future king before he succeeded to the British throne when he was Elector of Hanover.

Building continued on an extended Hanover Street, here named Dundas Street, almost 1 km to the Water of Leith at Canonmills.

In 1963, Harvey Ball, an American commercial artist, was employed by State Mutual Life Assurance Company of Worcester, Massachusetts ( now known as Hanover Insurance ) to create a happy face to raise the morale of the employees.

* Manufacturers Hanover Trust Company

York County is home to Martin's Potato Chips in Thomasville, Utz Quality Foods, Inc. in Hanover, Snyder's of Hanover in Hanover, Gibble's Potato Chips in York, Wolfgang Candy in York, The Bon-Ton in York, Dentsply in York, and a major manufacturing branch of Harley-Davidson Motor Company.

He enrolled in nearby Hanover College in 1863 and studied for about one year until patriotism inspired him to enlist with the Union Army in 1864 as a corporal in Company I of the 137th Regiment Indiana Volunteers during the American Civil War.

It was named for Hanover, New Hampshire by a consortium of land speculators called the Hanover Company.

, members of the North Hanover Township Committee ( with committee assignments listed in parentheses ) are Mayor Jim Durr ( Liaison to County Land Use Office and Small Cities Grant Matters ), Deputy Mayor Mike Moscatiello ( Sub-Standard Housing Commissioner, Military Liaison and Liaison to Administration ), Deb Butler ( Recreation Commissioner and Liaison to Municipal Drug Alliance ), Lou Delorenzo ( Public Works Commissioner, Landfill Commissioner / Recycling Commissioner and Mobile Home Commissioner ) and Bill Tilton ( Police Commissioner, Liaison to Jacobstown Fire Company and COAH Liaison ).

Hanover Hose Company # 1 ( Hanover Center )- Hanover Hose Co. # 1 started as Silver Creek Hose Co. # 2 before separating from the Silver Creek Fire Department in 1959.

The Hanover Junction Railroad Station, Howard Tunnel, Northern Central Railway, and York Iron Company Mine are listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

He founded The Berliner Gramophone Company in 1895, The Gramophone Company in London, England, in 1897, Deutsche Grammophon in Hanover, Germany, in 1898 and Berliner Gram-o-phone Company of Canada in Montreal in 1899 ( chartered in 1904 ).

Record made in 1908 in Hanover, Germany by Emile Berliner's Gramophone Company

The latter had been designed by Theodore Birnbaum, an executive of the Gramophone Company pressing plant in Hanover, Germany.

The State Mutual Life Assurance Company of Worcester, Massachusetts ( now known as Hanover Insurance ) purchased Guarantee Mutual Company of Ohio.

He worked in the financial department at the Manufacturer's Hanover Trust Company.

The park in Hanover County was originally built and owned in a joint venture between the Taft Broadcasting Company and the Kroger Company.

Hanover is known as the Mallard Capitol of the World: Whistling Wings, the world's largest mallard duck hatchery, annually supplies hundreds of thousands of ducks to restaurants, wildlife refuges and research facilities all over the world.

Three days before the battle, another detachment of Virginia cavalry had briefly occupied Hanover, collecting supplies and horses from local citizens.

White's Virginians and Marylanders had followed the railroad to Hanover from nearby Gettysburg, and taken horses, food, supplies, clothing, shoes, and other desired items from the townspeople, often paying with valueless Confederate money or drafts on the Confederate government.

The facility also provides water to the surrounding area through wholesale contracts with Henrico, Chesterfield, and Hanover counties.

According to the United States Census Bureau, East Hanover township had a total area of 8. 136 square miles ( 21. 074 km < sup > 2 </ sup >), of which, 7. 892 square miles ( 20. 441 km < sup > 2 </ sup >) of it is land and 0. 244 square miles ( 0. 633 km < sup > 2 </ sup >) of it ( 3. 00 %) is water.

Pyrmont contained a mineral spring of cold water bubbling out of a rock and was thus named for a similar natural spring in Bad Pyrmont, close to Hanover, Germany.

Work-outs for the week are as follows: Plain Scotch, 3 ( by Scotch Victor ), Demon Law, 3 ( by Demon Hanover ), Coffee Royal, p ( by Royal Blackstone ) and Beauty Way, p, 3 ( by Demon Hanover ) in 25 ; ;

Eleazar, pausing on the Hanover plain, found its great forests and remoteness good and with his own hands built the first College Hall, a log hut dedicated `` for the education & instruction of Youth of the Indian Tribes in this Land in reading, writing & all parts of learning which shall appear necessary and expedient for civilizing & christianizing Children of Pagans as well as in all liberal Arts and Sciences ; ;

There were thirty-eight patients on the bus the morning I left for Hanover, most of them disturbed and hallucinating.

How would you feel about it if I were to ask you for a date when I get through at Hanover ''??

The Act of Settlement provided that the throne would pass to the Electress Sophia of Hanover – a granddaughter of James VI of Scotland and I of England, niece of Charles I of Scotland and England – and her Protestant descendants who had not married a Roman Catholic ; those who were Roman Catholic, and those who married a Roman Catholic, were barred from ascending the throne " for ever ".

The year 1705 proved almost entirely barren for the Duke whose military disappointments were only partly compensated by efforts on the diplomatic front where, at the courts of Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Vienna, Berlin and Hanover, Marlborough sought to bolster support for the Grand Alliance and extract promises of prompt assistance for the following year ’ s campaign.

The College also maintains the Dartmouth Skiway, a skiing facility located over two mountains near the Hanover campus in Lyme Center, New Hampshire that serves as the winter practice grounds for the nationally dominant Dartmouth ski team.

It is eponymous for the first four British monarchs of the House of Hanover — George I of Great Britain, George II of Great Britain, George III of the United Kingdom, and George IV of the United Kingdom — who reigned in continuous succession from August 1714 to June 1830.

There are a number of trails and nature preserves in Hanover, and the majority of these trails are suitable for snowshoes and cross-country skis.

With a population of 522, 686 ( 31 December 2010 ) the city is a major centre of northern Germany, known for hosting annual commercial trade fairs such as the Hanover Fair and the CeBIT.

The Hanover fairground, due to numerous extensions, especially for the Expo 2000, is the largest in the world.

Hanover was thus a gateway to the Rhine, Ruhr and Saar river valleys, their industrial areas which grew up to the southwest and the plains regions to the east and north, for overland traffic skirting the Harz between the Low Countries and Saxony or Thuringia.

Hanover was an important road junction, railhead and production centre that was a target for strategic bombing during World War II, including the Oil Campaign.

Today the City of Hanover is a Vice-President City of Mayors for Peace, an international Mayoral organization mobilizing cities and citizens worldwide to abolish and eliminate nuclear weapons by the year 2020.

* Zoo ( for the zoo itself, see Hanover Zoo )

There are / were two big international competitions for classical music in Hanover:

Arminia Hannover is another very traditional soccer team in Hanover that has played in the first league for years and plays now in the Niedersachsen-West Liga ( Lower Saxony League West ).

But Hanover is not only one of the most important Exhibition Cities in the world, it is also one of the German capitals for marksmen.