lovely old villages and a rugged seashore among its many worthwhile sights.

Agatha Christie attributed the inspiration for the character of Miss Marple to a number of sources: Miss Marple was " the sort of old lady who would have been rather like some of my grandmother's Ealing cronies – old ladies whom I have met in so many villages where I have gone to stay as a girl ".

The last is a picturesque trip starting in the south of the Black Forest going north and includes numerous old wineries and tiny villages.

Midwifery in Greco-Roman antiquity covered a wide range of women, including old women who continued folk medical traditions in the villages of the Roman Empire, trained midwives who garnered their knowledge from a variety of sources, and highly trained women who were considered female physicians.

In some villages, the old Slavic beliefs and customs were continued until the 16th century.

As a result of the immigration of new townsfolk from the surrounding villages a new settlement, later called Neustadt, grew up on the northeastern edge of the old town.

The name " Leeuwarden " ( or old spelling variants ) first came into use for Nijehove, the most important one of the three villages that later merged into one, in the early 9th century ( Villa Lintarwrde ' c. 825 ).

" The old fable of a living Richard was revived ", notes one account, " and emissaries from Scotland traversed the villages of England, in the last year of Henry's reign, declaring that Richard was residing at the Scottish Court, awaiting only a signal from his friends to repair to London and recover his throne.

Barangays more correspond to the villages of old times, and the chairman ( formerly a village datu ) now settles administrative, intrapersonal, and political matters or polices the village, though with much less authority and respect than in Indonesia or Malaysia.

Numerous old wooden buildings from villages in the Angara valley, which have been flooded after the construction of the Bratsk Dam and Ust-Ilimsk Dam, have been transported to the museum and reassembled there.

Dravot and Carnehan succeeded in becoming kings: finding the Kafirs, who turn out to be white (" so hairy and white and fair it was just shaking hands with old friends "), mustering an army, taking over villages, and dreaming of building a unified nation.

The site and remains of the 700 year old priory stand today neighbouring a light industrial estate, and disused airfield, and lies between the villages of Colmworth and Little Staughton.

The Indians at Captive Town were going hungry because of insufficient rations, and in February 1782, more than 100 returned to their old Moravian villages to harvest the crops and collect the stored food they had been forced to leave behind.

Harry Carter, the Grammar School's art teacher of the 1960s, was responsible for a great number of the carved village signs that are now found in many of Norfolk's towns and villages, most notably perhaps Swaffham's own sign commemorating the legendary Pedlar of Swaffham, which is in the corner of the market place just opposite the old school's gates.

Negroes old, or infirm, or too young were weeded out and sent to Federal contraband villages and camps located along the river, where they had to be cared for by the provost marshals.

When the Willem Sophia mine was opened around 1900, the town grew even more rapidly, absorbing old villages like Chèvremont.

New villages were formed, while old were abandoned.

The municipality consists of the old towns of Strängnäs and Mariefred and the villages of Åkers styckebruk and Stallarholmen.

Coventry has a large number of old villages dating from the 19th century, they are:

In 1924, King George VI recommended that the old custom of identifying villages with carved or painted name signs could be revived.

Further inland lies fertile farmland, dotted with the old villages of Karlstrup, Solrød, Jersie, Kirke Skensved, and Gammel Havdrup.

In fact, during the Taliban rule in Afghanistan, the government ( who also considered themselves as protector of the state as well as religious students ) collected the ushar from the people in villages and towns, thus reviving an old tradition of alms giving in the Islamic States of the past.

The new city of Matsumoto is the city comprising the mergers of the old city of Matsumoto and four villages.

Later, browsing in an old issue of the Gazette Des Beaux-Arts, she found a description of a handsome gilt pier-table purchased in 1817 by President James Monroe.

Monroe largely ignored old party lines in making appointments to lower posts, which reduced political tensions and enabled the " Era of Good Feelings ", which lasted through his administration.

James Monroe ( 1911 ) 312 pages ; old barely adequate biography.

The Life of James Monroe ( 1921 ) 484 pages ; old and barely adequate biography.

( This part of SH 3 — on Winkler Drive and Monroe Road — is not part of old US 75.

The current Hopewell District of Dan Beard Council, formed during the 2006 redistricting process when Middletown and Lemon Township ( including Monroe Ohio ) were recombined, very closely resembling the lines of the old Mound Builders Area Council territory.

Holly Hill at that time had no name, and in discussion among the settlers Mrs. Monroe would have liked to have had it named Newport News, after her old home.

The town features plantations open to the public, a historic downtown, a large farmer's market, and a 320 year old oak tree at the corner of Monroe and Crawford streets.

Objections to this arose, and two years later the Legislature was asked to overrule the Board's decision ; it did, by recreating the old Town of Monroe.

Lebanon is also home to the Lebanon Mason Monroe Railroad, where passengers follow an old stage coach route passing meadow, pasture, a rippling creek and wildflowers along the way.

In 1899 the grammar school was relocated from its old site in Park Place to a new site in Monroe and the town's newspaper, The Monroe Monitor, began publication on January 14 of the same year.

This old house near the center of Monroe was once used as an antique shop.

The Doloff-Key building at the very center of old Monroe, the corner of Main and Lewis Streets, dates back to 1901.

Now the Village is considered Downtown Historic Chester where the Heritage trail starts at the old train station, connecting the towns of Monroe and Goshen.

Other ideas were the Bert Stern Marilyn Monroe photographs, a sandpaper sleeve that would scratch the album itself as well as anything else that it was shelved by ( an old Situationist prank, this idea was used by Guy Debord for his first book Mémoires and by The Durutti Column for their first album The Return of the Durutti Column ) as well as several other famous religious paintings.

Hawley was born on a farm in the old Belknap settlement near Monroe in Benton County, Oregon, on May 5, 1864.

He had every advantage of education, social and political connection, ability and self-confidence ; he was only fifty-four years old, which was also the age of Monroe ; but he suffered from the reputation of indolence and intrigue.

This was officially articulated in Theodore Roosevelt's Big Stick Doctrine, which modified the old Monroe Doctrine, which had simply aimed to deter European intervention in the hemisphere.

The original line-up of Hanoi Rocks consisted of Michael Monroe on vocals, former Pelle Miljoona Oy guitarist Stefan Piesnack, Monroe's old friend guitarist Nasty Suicide, bassist Nedo Soininen and drummer Peki Sirola.

By then Peki had left the band, and when the band relocated to Stockholm, they hired an old friend of Monroe and McCoy's, drummer Gyp Casino.

Monroe was reelected without opposition in 1820, and the old caucus system for selecting Republican candidates collapsed in 1820.

Mary E. Sawyer ( 1846-1902 ), better known as Mollie Monroe, was an American old west woman who was known for crossdressing and for her liaisons with multiple men, among other things.

In the 1820s, the old capital had been enveloped by the waters of Tellico Lake in Monroe County.