The former county school superintendent, George P. Callan, shot himself to death March 18, four days after he resigned his post in a dispute with the county school board.

His earliest years were passed in the monastery of Siresa, learning to read and write and to practice the military arts until the tuition of Lope Garcés the Pilgrim, who was repaid for his services by his former charge with the county of Pedrola when Alfonso came to the throne.

The area formerly known as " County Dublin " is now defined in legislation solely as the " Dublin Region " under the Local Government Act, 1991 ( Regional Authorities ) ( Establishment ) Order, 1993, and this is the terminology officially used by the four Dublin administrative councils in press releases concerning the former county area.

In 1969, the county was abolished and Carson City and a few small surrounding settlements within the former county were merged into a newly formed independent city called Carson City Consolidated Municipality.

* the geographical area comprising the two westernmost provinces of the Flemish Region, West Flanders and East Flanders, parts of a former county named Flanders.

It is one of the farthest towns from the sea in Scotland, in the heart of Teviotdale, and the biggest town in the former county of Roxburghshire.

* Hol, Nordland, a former municipality in Lofoten, Nordland county

The counties remain in use for some purposes, including the three-letter coding of vehicle number plates, the Royal Mail postcode address file ( which records counties in all addresses although they are no longer required for postcoded mail ) and Lord Lieutenancies ( for which the former county boroughs are also used ).

" County town " is the current or former administrative capital of the county.

Also not shown are the former county boroughs of Londonderry ( now Derry City ) and Belfast which in Northern Ireland had the same legal status as the six counties until the reorganisation of local government in 1973.

* Limburg an der Lenne, now called Hagen-Hohenlimburg, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, the former chief town of the county of Limburg-Hohenlimburg

Maggieknockater ( Magh an Fhucadair in Scottish Gaelic ) is a hamlet on the A95 road between Craigellachie and Mulben in Scotland in the Moray council area, in the former county of Banffshire.

** Monmouthshire ( historic ), former Welsh county

A former RCA facility in Taiwan's northern county of Taoyuan polluted groundwater with toxic chemicals and led to a high incidence of cancer among former employees.

Perpignan was the capital of the former province and county of Roussillon ( Rosselló in Catalan ), also known as Northern Catalonia, and continental capital of the Kingdom of Majorca in the 13th and 14th centuries.

Anjou () is a former county ( in the sense of being ruled by a count, from c. 880 ), duchy ( 1360 ) and province centred on the city of Angers in the lower Loire Valley of western France.

Colloquially, Staines remains associated with the former, historical, or geographic county of Middlesex, through its cultural and sporting affiliations, and the form of mail addressing preferred by the Post Office ( officially the use of a county on postal addresses was phased out over the period 1996-2000, but is still widely used in practice ).

for the county and a former Irish Government minister.

named after its former county town, Antrim ) is one of six counties that form Northern Ireland, situated in the north-east of the island of Ireland.

* Decatur County, Alabama, a short-lived former county whose area was divided between Madison County and Jackson County, Alabama

To this effect I had already severed all connections which bound me to my former existence.

In two minutes the body of Tilghman's former comrade, who had been killed by Blue Throat in a gambling brawl the previous night, was carried into the town's funeral parlor to be prepared for decent burial.

The injured German veteran was a former miner, twenty-four years old, who had been wounded by shrapnel in the back of the head.

Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara, former President of the Ford Motor Company, comes from a generation different from that of Eisenhower's own first Secretary of Defense, Charles Wilson, who had been head of General Motors.

At last count, sixteen former Rhodes Scholars ( see box on page 13 ) had been appointed to the Administration, second in number only to its Harvard graduates.

The old Belasco Theater, over which many people had grown sentimental, was only a shell of its former self after arduous years as a USO Center.

In the evening the former Oregon State science teachers met for dinner at the New Tokyo Restaurant where I had my first raw fish and found it good.

The first witness, Moses Winston Mardis, 5835 Michigan Av., a real estate agent and former bail bondsman, took the stand after opening statements had been made.

She had been sentenced to 180 years in prison, but former Gov. Stratton commuted her term to 75 years, making her eligible for parole, as one of his last acts in office.

We are in a transitional stage in which many of the connotations of former usage have had to be revised or rejected.

Since the deciding bodies he had chosen were more concerned with the former, the prizes went to scientists and not to engineers, technicians or other inventors.

Newly independent Armenia needed the income from foreign sales of Nairit rubber and chemical products, many of which had been assigned exclusively to that plant under the Soviet system and were still unavailable elsewhere to the former Soviet republics in the early 1990s.

Some had no briefing about the intermediate state in the former life.

The ABC had been examined by John Mauchly in June 1941, and Isaac Auerbach, a former student of Mauchly's, alleged that it influenced his later work on ENIAC, although Mauchly denied this ( Shurkin, pg.

All Israel and Judah flocked to his side, and David, attended only by the Cherethites and Pelethites and his former body guard that had followed him from Gath, found it expedient to flee.

She answered her accusers that she received tuition from Thomas Reid, a former barony officer who had died at the Battle of Pinkie some 30 years before and also from the Queen of the Elfhame which lay nearby.

As they had left their tribal homes behind, they probably took over all the former Celtic cantons along the Danube.

The earliest documented event in Alaric's reign concerned providing refuge to Syagrius, the former ruler of the Domain of Soissons ( in what is now north western France ) who had been defeated by Clovis I King of the Franks.

" The Franks then imprisoned Syagrius, and once his control over Syagrius ' former kingdom was secure Clovis had him beheaded.

He had a lasting effect on Italy and the Pannonian Basin ; in the former his invasion marked the beginning of centuries of Lombard rule, and in the latter his defeat of the Gepids and his departure from Pannonia ended the dominance there of the Germanic peoples.

William of Malmesbury says that Ealdred, by " amusing the simplicity of King Edward and alleging the custom of his predecessors, had acquired, more by bribery than by reason, the archbishopric of York while still holding his former see.

Along with his sister Laodice VI, the youngster Alexander was " discovered " by Heracleides, a former minister of Antiochus IV and brother of Timarchus, an usurper in Media who had been executed by the reigning king Demetrius I Soter.

The Puerto Rican activist Julio Vizcarrondo had moved the Spanish Abolitionist Society from San Juan de Puerto Rico to Madrid at the request of premier Miguel Prim, himself a former Puerto Rico governor.

During 1228, Andrew's two sons started again to take back the former royal domains in their provinces, and they persuaded Andrew to confiscate the estates of the barons who had taken part in the conspiracy against their mother.

Amalric was born in 1136 to King Fulk, the former count of Anjou who had married the heiress of the kingdom, Melisende, daughter of King Baldwin II.