He is a Craig's wife who agonizes about tobacco ash on the living room rug and he is a forgetful genius who goes boating with the town baker when dignitaries from the local university have come to call.

This land is in various stages of development in several locations throughout the town.

If they are to be commended for foresight in their planning, what then is the judgment of a town council that compounds this problem during the planning stage??

The `` fruitful course '' of metropolitanization that you recommend is currently practiced by the town of East Greenwich and had its inception long before we learned what it was called.

Rhode Island law specifies that all real estate is taxable in the town in which it is situated.

Although a similar situs for tangible property is mentioned in the statute, this is cancelled out by the provision that definite kinds of property `` and all other tangible property '' situated or being in any town is taxable where the property is situated.

The Smithfield tax assessor, in turn, claims the tax under the provision of law `` and all other tangible personal property situated or being in any town, in or upon any place of storage shall be taxed to such person in the town where said property is situated ''.

Eighteen voted for assessment by the town in which it is located and eleven preferred assessment by the town in which the owner resides.

To summarize, it may be said that there is no one prevailing practice in Rhode Island with respect to the taxation of movable property, that assessors would like to see an improvement, and of those who have an opinion, that assessment by the town of location is preferred on the basis of their present knowledge.

It should be kept in mind that the ease or difficulty with which a town or city can convert to the proposed plan is directly dependent upon the financial condition of that town or city.

Another spot with an image-provoking name is the Black Hills where you can visit the old frontier mining town of Deadwood.

Rich in Christian and Moslem art, Istanbul is today a fascinating museum of East and West that recently became a seaside resort as well with the development of new beaches on the Bosphorus and the Sea of Marmara only a short distance from the center of town.

For example, the officials of Poughkeepsie town ( township ) where the project is located think highly of it because it simplifies their snow clearing problem.

Raymond Vernon reports that residents of East St. Louis have been driving across the Mississippi, through the heart of downtown St. Louis and out to the western suburbs for major shopping, simply because parking is easier at the big branches than it is in the heart of town.

Decide first what the place is worth to you and your family as a home in comparison with what it would cost to live in town.

`` I have these appointments in town for Saturday, and I'll probably spend Sunday with Dolly or the Thaxters ''.

It probably was a Thracian town, as Strabo has it, but was afterwards colonized by Milesians, with the consent of Gyges, king of Lydia, around 700 BC.

The solution to the puzzle as well as explaining the historical circumstances leading to the choice of the Agri Decumates as a defensive point and the concentration of Germans there are probably to be found in the German attack on the Gallic fortified town of Vesontio in 58 BC.

In historical times, around 300 BC it was the settlement of a Celtic tribe, the Bituriges Vivisci, who named the town Burdigala, probably of Aquitainian origin.

Since it is physically impossible for any Swedish town to face Jumne, the latter being situated along River Oder, Adam's statement is probably a misunderstanding.

Finberg pointed out, however, that a document of 1651 refers to Tavistock's guildhall as Guilehall, so Guilebridge is more likely to be guild bridge, probably because it was built or maintained by one of the town guilds.

Geoffrey's description of Caerleon is probably based on his personal familiarity with the town and its impressive Roman ruins ; it is less clear that Caerleon was associated with Arthur before Geoffrey.

Much of Carter's childhood was spent in the Norfolk market town of Swaffham ( probably due to ill-health ).

Jerusalem, while probably not totally abandoned, was much smaller than previously, and the town of Mizpah in Benjamin in the relatively unscathed northern section of the kingdom became the capital of the new Babylonian province of Yehud Medinata.

The obverse depicted the nymph of the local spring, Larissa, for whom the town was named ; probably the choice was inspired by the famous coins of Kimon depicting the Syracusan nymph Arethusa.

Founded by Charlemagne in 805 as Magadoburg ( probably from Old High German magado for big, mighty and burga for fortress ), the town was fortified in 919 by King Henry I the Fowler against the Magyars and Slavs.

The name Poznań probably comes from a personal name Poznan ( from the Polish participle poznan ( y ) – " one who is known / recognized ") and would mean " Poznan's town ".

After his death a monastery ( Lanwethinoc, the church of Wethinoc an earlier holy man ) was established here which was of great importance until the town was raided by the Vikings in 981 ( the Vikings laid waste " Petroces stow " ( probably Padstow ) according to the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle ).

Originally displayed within a temple, the stele was probably moved during the early Christian or medieval period and eventually used as building material in the construction of Fort Julien near the town of Rashid ( Rosetta ) in the Nile Delta.

In 1569 Juan Troche Ponce de León built the " town of the Circumcision ", probably around modern Laventille.

* The Battle near Silistra occurs in the spring near the Bulgarian town of Silistra, but most probably on the modern territory of Romania.

The two armies clashed at the Battle of Hastings, at Senlac Hill ( near the present town of Battle ) close by Hastings on 14 October, where after nine hours of hard fighting and probably less than 30 minutes from victory Harold was killed and his forces routed.

It seems to have received a colony in the time of Augustus, whence we find mention in inscriptions of the Ordo et Populus splendidissimae Coloniae Augustae Himeraeorum Thermitanorum: and there can be very little doubt that the Thermae colonia of Pliny in reality refers to this town, though he evidently understood it to be Thermae Selinuntiae ( modern Sciacca ), as he places it on the south coast between Agrigentum ( modern Agrigento ) and Selinus There are little subsequent account of Thermae ; but, as its name is found in Ptolemy and the Itineraries, it appears to have continued in existence throughout the period of the Roman Empire, and probably never ceased to be inhabited, as the modern town of Termini Imerese retains the ancient site as well as name.

* The Faradda di li candareri ( The Descent of the Candelieri ): it's a devotional procession, in which enormous wooden candles are carried by members of the city guilds from the town centre to the church of Santa Maria of Betlem, in commemoration of the end of the plague in 1582, but it probably has older origins, from a cultural tradition from Pisa that as early as in the second half of the 13th century was practiced in some parts of Sardinia.

The old town in the hilly inland was probably founded in the 10th century AD by some people from Locri, who had fled to the area to defend themselves from Saracen incursions ; in the following century it became a hamlet of the county of Grotteria and was home to various feudal lords.

It probably is the most traditional square of the town, with its daily flower market.

The town was for long a mere village, and started its expansion when the Norman Kings of Sicily chose the area as their hunting resort, building here a palace ( probably identifiable with the modern Town Hall ).

The town is believed to have been founded by the Counts of Andechs probably around the mid-12th century, but was first mentioned in 1194 as Baierrute in a document by Bishop Otto II of Bamberg.

The name of the town, Eleusís seems to be Pre-Greek and it is probably a counterpart with Elysium and the goddess Eileithyia.

The resultant town, platted in 1847 and named for the patron of Father Galtier's mission, St. Paul, was to become an important center of the fur trade and was to take on a new interest for those Selkirkers who remained at Red River.

It was said to have been named after the Greek town of Aegae, or after Aegea, a queen of the Amazons who died in the sea, or Aigaion, the " sea goat ", another name of Briareus, one of the archaic Hecatonchires, or, especially among the Athenians, Aegeus, the father of Theseus, who drowned himself in the sea when he thought his son had died.

Quilmes is the national brand of pale lager, named after the town of Quilmes, Buenos Aires, where it was first produced.

An area of the town is named ' Black Abbey ' a possible reference to the murders.

Battles are usually named after some feature of the battlefield geography, such as the name of a town, forest or river, commonly prefixed " Battle of ...".

The name of the Bavarian town of Passau descends from the Roman Batavis, which was named after the Batavi.

The town is named for famous American pioneer and explorer Daniel Boone, and every summer since 1952 has hosted an outdoor amphitheatre portrayal of the life and times of its namesake.

In their heyday, there were hundreds of building societies: just about every town in the country had a building society named after that town.

Brewers in Bohemia ( today's Czech Republic ) generally named a beer after their town with the suffix " er.

A number of other European languages have cognate words that were borrowed from the Germanic languages during the Middle Ages, including brog in Irish, bwr or bwrc, meaning " wall, rampart " in Welsh, bourg in French, burg in Catalan ( in Catalonia there is a town named Burg ), borgo in Italian, and burgo in Spanish ( hence the place-name Burgos ).

In 1966, the " Finn VC Estate " was named in honour of Victoria Cross winner James Henry Finn who once lived in the town.

One of them, Frederick Billings, thought of the lines of the Anglo-Irish Anglican Bishop George Berkeley, ' westward the course of empire takes its way ,' and suggested that the town and college site be named for the eighteenth-century Anglo-Irish philosopher.

* Bannack, Montana, town named after the tribe, today a ghost town

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.

Coolidge's great-great-grandfather, also named John Coolidge, was an American military officer in the Revolutionary War and one of the first selectmen of the town of Plymouth Notch.

The town was known as Tiptonia, named in honor of General Tipton.

She was the daughter of Tommaso di Benvenuto da Pizzano ( Thomas de Pizan ; named for the family's origins in the town of Pizzano, south east of Bologna ), a physician, court astrologer, and Councillor of the Republic of Venice.

Dubnium ( ), is a chemical element with the symbol Db and atomic number 105, named after the town of Dubna in Russia, where it was first produced.

The Massachusetts General Court overruled them and named the town after Dedham, Essex in England, where some of the original inhabitants were born.

The town ( and county ) were named for him.

Shoudy named the town after his wife, Mary Ellen Shoudy, and officially began the city of Ellensburgh around 1872.

The River Ems, which is named after the village ( not, as often believed, the town named after the river ) also flows into the Slipper millpond, and although the mill is no longer in use it now houses a number of offices.