Before the end of World War II, the vast majority of the town's population was composed of Protestants.

It is located in the Connecticut River Valley with a majority of the town's eastern border along the Connecticut River.

At 6: 45am CST on 19 March 1948, a tornado that originated in Alton, Illinois blew through Bunker Hill, destroying the majority of the town's buildings and killing nineteen people.

During this time, the majority of the town's growth was due to white flight from Gary.

The Bass River and its tributaries make up the majority of the town's border with Dennis.

Route 8 runs concurrently with U. S. 20 for five miles starting at the center of town, with the majority of the town's population residing around Robin Hood Lake south of this stretch.

Today, in addition to the apple orchard the farm is home to a certified organic Community Supported Agriculture program ; this program attracts the majority of the town's residents.

The majority of the town's 8, 000 inhabitants commute to the nearby city Groningen.

The majority of the town's residents live in the 263 mobile homes, across four trailer parks, that sit within the city's borders.

The street is home to the majority of the town's businesses, notably the Harvest Moon Saloon, Belt Valley Grocery, Belt Valley Bank, Belt Brew Pub, and the Belt Creek Animal Shelter.

Foley began to buy commercial property in Whitefish around 2006, including several of the town's most popular restaurants, the private jet facility at the local airport, and a voting majority of shares in Winter Sports, Inc., the private company which runs Whitefish Mountain Resort on Big Mountain.

When Plate was selected as the CCC candidate again in 2003 ( violating the committee's precedent of one term per mayor ), Bergmanson ran again, and won, gaining the majority in all but one of the town's districts.

The reason that Red House is so sparsely populated is due to the fact that the vast majority of the town's land was used for the creation of Allegany State Park, which has no permanent population.

However, Democrats have now succeeded in securing a majority of the town's enrolled voters, and won majority control of the Town Board for the first time in over 20 years at the 2007 elections.

According to the 2000 Census, the town's population is well diversified by age with the majority of residents ( 36. 4 %) between the ages of 45 and 64 ( see chart below ).

The town is located within the Tar Creek Superfund site ; the vast majority of its residents accepted federal buyout offers, and the town's population dropped to zero in November 2010.

The majority of the town's listed buildings were originally residential ; churches, chapels, public houses, schools, banks, almshouses and workhouses are also well represented.

Hotel manager Rafferty ( Michael Currie ) reveals the source of the town's prosperity is Irishman Conal Cochran and his factory and that the majority of the town's population are descendants of Irish immigrants.

Of these, the majority of the town's population resides in Lynnhurst, Pleasant Hills, Cliftondale, East Saugus and Saugus Center ; Oakland Vale and North Saugus are much less densely populated.

The areas west of the northerly two miles of the three-mile-long Nantasket Beach constitute the majority of the town's landed area.

Much of the city was destroyed during World War II and for several years during the following reconstruction the Soviet authorities prohibited the return of any of Narva's pre-war residents ( among whom ethnic Estonians had been the majority, forming 64. 8 % of the town's population of 23, 512 according to the 1934 census ), thus radically altering the city's ethnic composition.

Although the town's ethnic minority population is below 25 %, in some schools the vast majority of pupils are from the ethnic minority population, whilst other schools are almost entirely white.

Primitive Baptists in the Appalachian region often used " New Britain " with other hymns, and sometimes sing the words of " Amazing Grace " to other folk songs, including titles such as " In the Pines ", " Pisgah ", " Primrose ", and " Evan ", as all are able to be sung in common meter, of which the majority of their repertoire consists.

Notable Nova Scotian folklorist and cultural historian Helen Creighton spent the majority of her lifetime recording the various Celtic musical and folk traditions of rural Nova Scotia during the mid-20th century, prior to this knowledge being wiped out by mass media assimilation with the rest of North America.

The folklorist Sabina Magliocco came to a somewhat different conclusion based upon her ethnographic research of pagans in California, remarking that the majority were " white, middle-class, well-educated urbanites " but that they were united in finding " artistic inspiration " within " folk and indigenous spiritual traditions.

Those who neither know nor care are the vast majority, and are a happy folk, to be envied by the minority classes.

Many of the words used by Rambling Syd were invented by the Round The Horne scriptwriters Barry Took and Marty Feldman, who wrote the majority of the songs lyrics, based upon traditional folk songs.

Oceanport is also an easy getaway for New Yorkers and North Jersey folk who make up the majority of the track crowd.

Like the 1950s Beat Generation before them, the vast majority of the urban folk revivalists shared a disdain for the values of mainstream American mass culture.

Country folk music usually displays a softer, more laid-back feel than the majority of country music and is often complemented by introspective lyrics, thus preserving its folk singer-songwriter roots.

The folk story notwithstanding, the vast majority of Hasidim now use the original Hungarian name " Satmar ".

In addition, this was one of the great periods for the composition of folk songs in both languages, and the majority of the traditional singer's repertoire is typically made up of 19th century songs.

Chinese folk religion ( simplified Chinese: 中国民间宗教 or 中国民间信仰, pinyin: Zhongguo minjian zongjiao or Zhongguo minjian xinyang ) or Shenism ( Shenjiao, 神教 ) are labels used to describe the collection of ethnic religious traditions which have been the majority belief system in China and among Han Chinese ethnic groups for the most part of the civilization's history till today.

The Eagles were ruled by Thorondor, who dwelt ( apparently with the majority of his folk ) in the Encircling Mountains to the west of Dorthonion.

The majority of Haris are nominally Muslims while practicing what is generally known as folk Hindu beliefs all over rural Pakistan like head tonsuring and sacred thread ceremonies.

By far the majority of the poetry of the time, however, was in the tradition of the folk-inspired " syllabist " movement ( Beş Hececiler ), which had emerged from the National Literature movement and which tended to express patriotic themes couched in the syllabic meter associated with Turkish folk poetry.

While some lamas and monks are credited for composing certain Bhutanese folk music, the majority of its creators are unknown or anonymous.

By far the majority of the poetry of the time, however, was in the tradition of the folk-inspired " syllabist " movement ( Beş Hececiler ), which had emerged from the National Literature movement and which tended to express patriotic themes couched in the syllabic meter associated with Turkish folk poetry.

In the early years, Subway to Sally played Irish / Scottish inspired folk rock, as reflected by the tracklist of their first album, being the only album where the majority of songs are in English ( for this they hired a friend to write lyrics in English ).

At this time, he emerged as an extraordinarily popular messianic folk hero and his country's leading nationalist ; MESAN became the majority party in the Territorial Assembly elections in March 1952.

This version of events is supported by the lyrics of the first verse of " Awa Yoshikono Bushi ", a local version of a popular folk song which praises Hachisuka Iemasa for giving the people Awa Odori and is quoted in the majority of tourist brochures and websites.

From the ratio of sedentary to nomadic graves, Bichir concludes that the sedentary folk constituted the majority of the population of Moldavia.

The epic nature of the majority of the songs made them unsuitable for radio play so the band prepared " Single Again ," a take on a traditional folk song as a substitute.

To begin with, the religious beliefs, practices, and identities of East Asians ( who comprise the majority of the world's Buddhists by any measure ) often blend Buddhism with other traditions including Confucianism, the Chinese folk religion, Daoism, Shinto, and Korean shamanism.

The majority of Jèrriais-language songs are composed pieces dating from the 19th and 20th centuries, and not of folk origin.