The beginnings of the Bobsleigh were humble, starting when English tourists were enticed to stay over the winter in the mineral spa town of St. Moritz, Switzerland by the successful marketing of hotelier Caspar Badrutt.

The tourism industry in the county may trace its beginnings to the restoration of Historic Stearns, the development of the scenic railway, the interpretive work at Blue Heron, and the reconstruction of Barthell, the site of Stearns Company's first coal mine and town in 1903.

The series follows his life and career from humble beginnings in an English provincial town, to reasonably successful London lawyer, to Cambridge don, to wartime service in Whitehall, to senior civil servant and finally retirement.

At the same time, another town was developing on the eastern bank of the Feather River, the beginnings of what later would become Marysville.

The beginnings of the town can be traced back to the opening of Sadler's Ordinary in 1648 — which is still in business today.

In its beginnings, the town was mainly made up of families that came to live during the winter.

Long referred to as Newmarket, the town arose from its beginnings in the late 17th and early 18th centuries to be a social and commercial center serving the northern hinterland region of Dorchester County, Maryland into the early 20th century.

Historic places in East Longmeadow include the numerous red and brown sandstone quarries that gave the town its industrial beginnings and from which the original Smithsonian Institution building in Washington was mined, and the Elijah Burt House, The Seward Pease House and the First Congregationalist Church.

Map showing land annexations and Richfield's original borders as a town in 1854 and present day borders as a city. The beginnings of Richfield date back to the 1850s, when it was still a small farming community.

The La Russell Water Pump ( circa 1904 ) conspicuously located in the middle of the road on Main Street is a local cultural icon which dates back to the early beginnings of the town.

Green City traces its beginnings to April, 1880 when Sullivan County farmer Henry Pfeiffer commissioned surveyor Thomas J. Dockery to lay out the town in what had previously been a cornfield.

The beginnings of the town of Byng were established in 1917 with the building of a post office and power plant ( about five miles north of Ada ).

In 1822, the beginnings of a town began when Stephen Phillips and John Graham purchased the property and established their " extensive boat yards " there.

* In the its beginnings the town was built around both Grain Mills and Saw Mills.

Pleasant Prairie had its beginnings as a political entity in April 1842 when the first town meeting was held and the first election of town officials took place.

The Leatherhead Museum has traced the history of the town from its beginnings in about AD 880 when it was known as Leodridan ( dative case of a compound of " leode " and " rida "), meaning " place where people ride the river " in Anglo-Saxon ).

In 394, Epiphanius claimed that after beginnings as an ascetic, Marcion seduced a virgin and was accordingly excommunicated by his father, prompting him to leave his home town.

The beginnings of both Davao Region and Davao del Sur was associated with that of the foundation of Davao, which is the first town to be founded south of the island of Mindanao in 1848, following the conquest of the area by Don Jose Uyanguren of Guipuzcoa, Spain.

These include a hydraulic ram known as the ' Cup and Saucer ' which is used to pump water from the park to Erddig Hall, and the remains of Wristleham motte and bailey which is thought to be the beginnings of Wrexham as a town in the 12th century.

The League of Gentlemen book, A Local Book for Local People, released between the second and third series, describes Royston Vasey's history in a brochure, from its beginnings, as mentioned in an appendix to the Domesday Book as " an hutte with a pigge outside " to the construction of the town hall in the late 1930s, as designed by Albert Speer.

The beginnings of permanent settlements near Konin were connected with the Amber Route leading from the Roman Empire to the Baltic Sea through the area of present-day town.

Big Tex's beginnings were in 1949 as a 49 foot ( 15 m ) tall Santa Claus constructed from iron drill casing and papier mache in Kerens, Texas to help encourage holiday sales in the town.

These are beginnings, but correctly learned they prepare for satisfying and exciting stunts that can be performed by a strong, flexible body ( we are not talking of eccentric extremes ).

The beginnings of badminton can be traced to mid-18th century British India, where it was created by British military officers stationed there.

The beginnings of modern-style classification systems can be traced to the 1500s – 1600s when several attempts were made to scientifically classify plants.

So it can be more useful to think in terms of broad " movements " that have rough beginnings and endings.

The beginnings of the habit in Europe of continual and increasingly rapid change in clothing styles can be fairly reliably dated to the middle of the 14th century, to which historians including James Laver and Fernand Braudel date the start of Western fashion in clothing.

The earliest recorded beginnings of geometry can be traced to early peoples, who discovered obtuse triangles in the ancient Indus Valley ( see Harappan Mathematics ), and ancient Babylonia ( see Babylonian mathematics ) from around 3000 BC.

Although air transport in Guyana had its beginnings in the 1920s when the first " bush " services were introduced, Government's earnest participation can be dated from 1947 when a Director of Civil Aviation was appointed to regulate the industry.

Alice Miller claims that " many people suffer all their lives from this oppressive feeling of guilt, the sense of not having lived up to their parents ' expectations .... no argument can overcome these guilt feelings, for they have their beginnings in life's earliest period, and from that they derive their intensity.

The beginnings of meteorology can be traced back to ancient India, as the Upanishads contain serious discussion about the processes of cloud formation and rain and the seasonal cycles caused by the movement of earth around the sun.

The beginnings of the living history museum can be traced back to 1873 with the opening of the Skansen Museum near Stockholm, Sweden.

Many of the beginnings for a theory can be found in an Earth-based laboratory where an X-ray source is built and studied.

Despite their evil beginnings, they are not purely destructive by nature, as can be seen by Smaug, who wants to be left in peace, though he did force out the dwarves in the Lonely Mountain.

The County is home to families that can trace their ancestry back to the very early beginnings of Virginia History.

The Raid is recalled in a number of lines in the poem, including: If you can make a heap of all your winnings / And risk it at one turn of pitch and toss / And lose, and start again from your beginnings / And never breathe a word about your loss ...

Western musical practice and theory of today can be traced in an unbroken line from this time to the present, thus it had its beginnings with Charlemagne.

Some of these distorted beginnings of new styles can be seen in the literature generally described as Matter of Rome, Matter of France and Matter of Britain.

Much of the band's early grunge sound can be attributed to their beginnings as a Nirvana cover band.

The network can also trace its beginnings to the Prime Time Entertainment Network, a joint venture between Warner Bros. and the Chris-Craft Industries group of stations.

Hegel's distinction between the unknowable and the circumstantially unknown can be seen as the beginnings of Hegel's rational system of the universe.

Thomas Jefferson, in the 1780s, awaited the fall of the Spanish empire: “… until our population can be sufficiently advanced to gain it from them piece by piece .” In turn, historian Sidney Lens notes that “ the urge for expansionat the expense of other peoplesgoes back to the beginnings of the United States itself .”

* 3000 BC-The beginnings of meteorology can be traced back in India to 3000 B. C. E, such as the Upanishads, contain serious discussion about the processes of cloud formation and rain and the seasonal cycles caused by the movement of earth round the sun.

Examples of individuals who rose from humble beginnings can be instanced, but Burke notes two major studies in this area that have found that the data do not clearly demonstrate an increase in social mobility.

Although its early beginnings can be traced to the kindred field of clinical psychology, four different approaches to health psychology have been defined: clinical, public health, community and critical health psychology.