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Though some of the masonry in the ruins is certainly pre-Roman, the Suda's identification of it with Cyinda, famous as a treasure city in the wars of Eumenes of Cardia, cannot be accepted in the face of Strabo's express location of Cyinda in western Cilicia.
To the east of Batalha is the world famous location of Fátima and a point of pilgrimage for the Roman Catholic religion due to the vision of the Virgin Mary in 1917 by three young children whilst tending their flock.
Bolventor is the location of the famous Jamaica Inn coaching inn.
It is arguably most famous as the location of the greatest works of James Joyce, including Ulysses, which is set in Dublin and full of topical detail.
Because of the ballpark's age and constrained location in the dense Fenway – Kenmore neighborhood, the park has had many renovations and additions over the years not initially envisioned, resulting in unique, quirky features, including " The Triangle ," " Pesky's Pole ", and most notably the famous Green Monster in left field.
Just like foodservice establishments with names ending with the Chinese character ju, when catering at the customers ’ homes, foodservice establishments of this category would also only provide the few specialty dishes they are famous for, but they would mostly bring the already cooked dishes to the location, and would only cook on locations occasionally.
While there, John inadvertently finds out that the verses from Blackbeard's locket contain a code which will reveal the location of his famous diamond.
The Agoyan dam was placed in that location specifically to leave the famous Falls of Agoyan, about 5 km further downstream, intact.
After the construction of the Berlin Wall in 1961, the steps of Rathaus Schöneberg were the location where U. S. President John F. Kennedy held his famous speech on 26 June 1963, proclaiming " Ich bin ein Berliner ".
Its farming activity and its location on the road from Paris to Dreux and Normandy brought prosperity to the village, culminating in the end of the 13th century, the so-called " century of Saint Louis ", famous for the prosperity of northern France and the building of Gothic cathedrals.
Turbo Pascal came with the famous " Book License ": " You must treat this software just like a book ... may be used by any number of people ... may be freely moved from one computer location to another, so long as there is no possibility of it being used at one location while it's being used at another.
The location is especially noteworthy not only since Carmen Miranda's footprints are preserved in concrete at the Chinese Theater's famous collection, but in remembrance of an impromptu performance at a nearby Hollywood Boulevard intersection on V-J Day where she was joined by a throng of servicemen from the nearby USO.
Douglass, impressed by Flagstaff's elevation, named it as an ideal location for the now famous Lowell Observatory, saying: " other things being equal, the higher we can get the better ".
West made the tree, already a local landmark, famous by incorporating it into his painting after hearing legends ( of unknown veracity ) about the tree being the location of the treaty.
Further out in the Bay of Marseille is the Frioul archipelago which comprises four islands, one of which, If, is the location of Château d ' If, made famous by the Dumas novel The Count of Monte Cristo.
West made the tree, already a local landmark, famous by incorporating it into his painting after hearing legends ( of unknown veracity ) about the tree being the location of the treaty.
Bay of Skaill is the location of the famous Neolithic settlement, Skara Brae, and a large residence, Skaill House, the property of the laird on whose estate Skara Brae was discovered.
Also, Alpine is famous for its location of the YMCA Camp Cosby which was established in 1922.
Other Colognes were launched over 100 years after Farina's one, such as the famous Cologne 4711, named after its location at " Glockengasse No. 4711 ".
It also includes location footage with Bowie and Cyrinda Foxe ( a MainMan employee and a friend of David and Angie Bowie ) shot in San Francisco outside the famous Mars Hotel, with Fox posing provocatively in the street while Bowie lounges against the wall, smoking.
It is also home to Wintergreen Resort, a local ski area ; Swannanoa ( mansion ), a " summer home " for James H. Dooley of Richmond, VA ; and is the location of Walton's Mountain made famous by the television show, The Waltons.
Greenwich is world famous as the traditional location of the Prime Meridian, on which all Coordinated Universal Time is based.
Sidcup is mentioned in two famous plays and their film adaptations, Noël Coward's Relative Values and Harold Pinter's The Caretaker, and it was the location of the 2004 Dasani scandal.

location and battle
The invaders — Angles, Saxons, Jutes, and Frisians — gained control of parts of England, but lost a major battle at Mons Badonicus ( the location of which is not known ).
Armageddon ( from Harmagedōn, Late Latin: ) is, according to the Bible, the site of a battle during the end times, variously interpreted as either a literal or symbolic location.
* Richard III Society: history society, which contains photos and articles that present several competing theories about the location of the battle
Military operations, many of which result in battle, are given codenames, which are not necessarily meaningful or indicative of the type or the location of the battle.
Discovering their location from some peace envoys they had sent to him, he lured them into battle near the Tsibritsa by a stratagem.
More recently, a discovery of Roman artefacts in Kings Norton close to Metchley Camp has suggested another possibility, and a thorough examination of a stretch of Watling Street between St. Albans, Boudica's last known location, and the Fosse Way junction has suggested the Cuttle Mill area of Paulerspury in Northamptonshire, which has topography very closely matching that described by Tacitus of the scene of the battle.
While the crew spent six weeks shooting on location in Scotland, the major battle scenes were shot in the Republic of Ireland using members of the Irish Army Reserve as extras.
Map of the invasions and the location of the battle.
The location of the battle itself is unidentified.
For all its fame, the site of the battle is uncertain and several sites have been advanced, with Bromborough on the Wirral the most favoured location.
Symeon of Durham records a battle fought at an unidentified location near Hastings in 771, at which Offa defeated the Haestingas tribe, effectively ending its existence as a separate Kingdom.
In Norse mythology, Hoy is the location of the never-ending battle between Hedin and Högni.
Thus, with knowledge of the location of the enemy, the Romans marched upstream, ready for battle.
He was killed by the Mercians at the Battle of Maserfield, at a place generally identified with Oswestry ( although other candidates for the location of the battle have been suggested ) in 642, and his body was dismembered.
The Church of Saint Oswald stands on the location of the wooden cross left by Oswald at Heavenfield, the night before the battle.
Their conclusion was that there is regularly a consistency between the location of Troy as identified by Schliemann ( and other locations such as the Greek camp ), the geological evidence, and descriptions of the topography and accounts of the battle in the Iliad.
* Waterloo, Belgium, location of the battle
Most of the battle scenes were filmed using five Panavision cameras simultaneously — from ground level, from 100 foot towers, from a helicopter, and from an overhead railway built right across the location.
The plot meanders around the globe to such far-flung locations as Las Vegas ( where a potentially deadly, secret U. S. government-developed mutated anthrax epidemic has been accidentally unleashed ); Atlantis ( where Howard, the talking porpoise, and his porpoise aides help Hagbard battle the Illuminati ); Chicago ( where someone resembling John Dillinger was killed many years ago ); and to the island of Fernando Pó ( the location of the next great Cold War standoff between Russia, China and the USA ).
* Die-Hard scenario-Which the story takes place in limited location ; a single building, plane, or vessel-which is seized or under threat by enemy agents, but are opposed by a single hero who fights an extended battle within the location using stealth and cunning to attempt to defeat them.
The site is open to the public and is the location of annual re-enactments of the battle.
The location of Stirling Bridge at the date of the battle is not known with certainty, but four stone piers have been found underwater just north () and at an angle to the extant 15th century bridge, along with man-made stonework on one bank in line with the piers.

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