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The park was designated as a " Globally Important Bird Area " by the American Bird Conservancy in 1998 for providing an " important habitat for globally significant numbers of Brown Pelicans, Redheads ( 5 % of the world's population ), Least Terns ( 8 % of the North American population ), Piping Plovers ( 10 % of the world's population ), Reddish Egrets ( 7 % of the biogeographic population ) and Peregrine Falcons ( 7 % of the North American population ).
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Her heart, her maternal feeling, in fact her being was too busy expressing itself, as quietly thrilled by this sight of her Nicolas curled asleep under a blanket, in a park like a scene from Poussin.
It is remembered and has been commemorated by a bust in a park and a square in the city which was renamed Piazzo Lauro Di Bosis after the war.
This had a pleasant effect upon the Sunday gate receipts as well as upon the intake of the rail and bus companies, some of which began to offer special excursion rates, including seats at the park, just as the trolley and ferry companies had when baseball was new.
While women had always attended ball games in small numbers ( it was the part of a `` dead game sport '' in the early years of the twentieth century to be taken out to the ball park and to root, root, root for the home team ), they had often sat in patient martyrdom, unable even to read the scoreboard, which sometimes seemed to indicate that one team led another by a score of three hundred and eighty to one hundred and fifty-one.
Radio, however, so increased the interest of women in the game that it was hardly necessary even to have `` Ladies' Days '' any longer to enable men to get to the ball park without interference at home.
I walked around breathing the cold wine of the air until I found a park, and I sat down on a snowy bench where the light was dim and came from the sky.
The park was originally part of a commercially unsuccessful housing site, the idea of Count Eusebi Güell, whom the park was named after.
On his rental agreement form for that house, Omari gave two license-plates authorized to park in his space, one of which was registered to Atta.
The park was a popular attraction during the 1970s but was abandoned in 1993 due to financial difficulties.
* Babe Ruth Field is a ballpark in Ventura, California, that was located at the Ventura County Fairgrounds and was used as a minor-league park from 1948 to 1955.
The landscaping of the park space and later the Winter Garden was designed by M. Paul Friedberg.
An ornate granite drinking bowl which serves the needs of thirsty dogs at the entrance to Bodmin ’ s Priory car park was donated by Prince Chula Chakrabongse of Thailand who lived at Tredethy.
The Swiss town of Vevey, where he was a resident during his final years, named a park in his honour in 1980 and erected a replica of the Doubleday statue there in 1982.
A new community park was installed and is a favorite place to enjoy some takeout food from the nearby restaurants and ice cream parlor.
Parking nightmares had plagued the city as far back as the 1950s, the little park lacked modern amenities, and New York City, which in 1957 had lost both its National League teams ( the Dodgers and the Giants ) to Los Angeles and San Francisco, respectively, was actively courting Reds owner Powel Crosley.
However, Crosley was adamant that the Reds remain in Cincinnati and tolerated worsening problems with the Crosley Field location, which were exacerbated by the Millcreek Expressway ( I-75 ) project that ran alongside the park.
The chief advocate and driving force for improving public health in Chicago was Dr. John H. Rauch, M. D., who established a plan for Chicago's park system in 1866, created Lincoln Park by closing a cemetery filled with festering, shallow graves, and helped establish a new Chicago Board of Health in 1867 in response to an outbreak of cholera.
On 26 March 2005 Paul Hester was found dead, after hanging himself from a tree in a park near his home in Melbourne.
She was one of the activists who took over Berkeley park in the People's Park demonstration, summer 1972.
The park was officially established in 1923, when the original of a military reserve was transferred to Washington State Parks.
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The only position that the Braves wanted Aaron to play was as the designated hitter because the game was held in an American League park ; at that time, however, the National League prohibited use of the DH even in scrimmages.
Sleeping accommodations at the park are limited to the lodge at Rock Harbor and 36 designated wilderness campgrounds.
Africa's first national park was established in 1925 when Albert I of Belgium designated an area of what is now Democratic Republic of Congo centred around the Virunga Mountains as the Albert National Park ( since renamed Virunga National Park ).
In 1926, the government of South Africa designated Kruger National Park as the nation's first national park, although it was an expansion of the earlier Sabie Game Reserve established in 1898 by President Paul Kruger of the old South African Republic, after whom the park was named.
In 1999 the park was designated a World Heritage Site by UNESCO and was added to " Ferrara, City of the Renaissance, and its Po Delta.
The city officially designated the land as a park on April 29, 1844, naming it Lake Park.
Other areas were also considered: for example, parts of the coast of Cornwall were considered as a possible national park in the 1950s but were thought to be too disparate to form a single coherent national park and were eventually designated as an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty ( AONB ) instead.
Approximately 95 % of the park is a designated wilderness area.
The area around Bryce Canyon became a U. S. National Monument in 1923 and was designated as a national park in 1928.
Since May 8, 2002, the entire Oosterschelde was designated a national park.
The entire island is a state park, designated to protect natural scenery and especially wildlife on the island, which includes bighorn sheep, pronghorn, and a bison herd.
The park is designated as a Trout Park and is stocked with trout from the state's hatcheries.
The park at the centre of the Square is bound by Cranbourn Street, to the north ; Leicester Street, to the east ; Irving Street, to the south ; and a section of road designated simply as Leicester Square, to the west.
The Park was the first public park in south London, and was created when the Common was enclosed in 1852, and designated one of the Royal Parks of London ( today, management of the Park is undertaken by Lambeth Council ).
The community features industrial park sites ( two of which are designated as shovel ready by the Indiana Economic Development Corporation ), advanced communications technology, low overall operating costs, superior quality of life and favorable business climate that have served to attract companies of various sizes to its business ranks.
The park, on land formerly designated as State forest ( i. e. production forest ) was proclaimed in January 1997.
Originally named Hervey Range by John Oxley in 1817, the area was reserved in 1897 as state forest because of its importance as a timber resource, and was designated a national park in 1995.
Most of the area has been designated as a national park.
In the 80's, after the area was designated Wrangell-St. Elias National Park ( 1980 ), it began to draw some adventurous tourists to the new national park.
Gardens and an olive grove, which had been designated as a park, surrounded the other sides.
To improve the internal transportation system within the city, Cyberview has launched a free Park & Ride system which operates a viable alternative for those wishing to park at the designated free parking areas in Cyberjaya and commuting to the various areas of the city.
Volunteers built a community center at the corner of Bryant and Avenue H, which had been designated a park site by the Redlands-Yucaipa Land Company.
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