* Altenberg is also a lost town and archaeological site in the Kreis Siegen-Wittgenstein, North Rhine-Westphalia

The town of Accrington thus has the unique " distinction " of having lost two separate clubs from league football.

Over time, the town of Delphi gained more control of itself and the council lost much of its influence.

When Marcus Livius, the governor of Tarentum, claimed the merit of recovering the town, Fabius rejoined, " Certainly, had you not lost it, I would have never retaken it.

The Red Guards lost the western parts of the town between 4 and 5 April.

There, a new settlement was formed, being granted a council two years later ( 1706 ), with the name of San Roque, and being considered by the Spanish Crown as the heir to the lost town of Gibraltar ( historical objects and records predating 1704 were subsequently taken to San Roque where they remain to this day.

Despite a great deal of local opposition the town lost its rail service in 1969, when as part of the controversial Beeching Axe the ' Waverley Line ' from Carlisle to Edinburgh via Hawick was closed.

In 2000 there was a fatal rail crash on the line that runs through the town from London to York, in which four people lost their lives.

There, in the spring of 1797, he defended the coastal town of Saint Marc but lost Mirebalais and the Central Plateau to the forces of Toussaint Louverture, leader of the slave revolt.

The town, devastated in the preceding Battle of Kolberg, was rebuilt but lost its status as the regional center to the nearby Koszalin.

The purpose of the NEP was to resolve food-shortage riots among the peasantry, and allowed measures of private enterprise, wherein the profit motive encouraged the peasants to harvest the crops required to feed the people of town and country ; and to economically re-establish the urban working class, who had lost many men ( workers ) to the counter-revolutionary Civil War.

The town subsequently lost its charter in 1862 but regained it in 1875 when the community's economy rebounded, mainly due to a growing railway industry.

While searching for " Tom ", LaFarge hears that the Spaulding family in town has miraculously found their lost daughter Lavinia.

The Danish kings, who were also counts of Oldenburg at the time, were not much interested in the condition of the town and it lost most of its former importance.

Holly realizes that she is actually in love with Brad, that she has always loved him ; and takes command of the show, mounting a circus parade through the town nearest the crash and staging an open air show by the crash site ( as the Big Top and lighting were lost in the wreck ).

" The City of Brass " features a group of travellers on an archaeological expedition across the Sahara to find an ancient lost city and attempt to recover a brass vessel that Solomon once used to trap a jinn, and, along the way, encounter a mummified queen, petrified inhabitants, lifelike humanoid robots and automata, seductive marionettes dancing without strings, and a brass horseman robot who directs the party towards the ancient city, which has now become a ghost town.

In 1798 the Prussians nationalised the town, and it lost its status as a town of the bishops of Kuyavia.

As the walls lost their military importance, they became a pedestrian promenade which encircled the old town, although they were used for a number of years in the 20th century for racing cars.

Lipara prospered, but in 304 Agathokles took the town by treachery and is said to have lost pillage from it in a storm at sea.

To punish Toulon for its rebellion, the town lost its status as department capital and was briefly renamed Port-la-Montagne.

Shortly after his arrival in June 1587 the English-held port of Sluis was lost to Parma, Leicester being unable to assert his authority over the Dutch allies, who refused to cooperate in relieving the town.

" The connection with Provence continued until 1928, by which time John felt the town had lost its simple charm, and he sold his home there.

After the Lombard conquest ( 755 ) Terni lost any role of prominence, reducing to a secondary town in the Duchy of Spoleto.

He conquered Gotland, much to the displeasure of the League, which lost Visby, an important trading town located there.

Somebody in this town must still have some backbone ''.

Providence finally managed to get Gorton out of the town, and he and some friends bought land at Pawtuxet on the west side of Narragansett Bay, five miles south but still within the jurisdiction of the Providence colony.

They buy some supplies from our colored grocers and they are patronized by some of the best white gentlemen in town ''.

On Thursday evening we may go out of town together by some stage or mail about the distance of ten or twelve miles.

From the town surveyor, Hans learned drawing and mathematics and, from a university student, some academic subjects.

The 1946 town meeting voted to have the Selectmen appoint a committee to investigate and report on the feasibility of some system of sewage disposal and a disposal plant to serve Manchester Center, Depot, and Way's Lane.

One can assume that some of the brightest boys are out of town.

She told police about the prospective tenant she had heard quarreling with her father some weeks before the murders, but she said she thought he was from out of town because she heard him mention something about talking to his partner.

Zion was surprised when Roy's buggy stopped beside her on the pike one early summer day as she was walking home from the country school where she was teaching now that Eph Showers had had a call to preach in some mountain town.

People try to escape the town, but some are shot by armed sentries.

Abby May wrote in her journal on January 17, 1843, " A day of some excitement, as Mr. Alcott refused to pay his town tax ... After waiting some time to be committed jail, he was told it was paid by a friend.

The town of Nibutani ( Ainu: Niputay ) in Hidaka area ( Hokkaido prefecture ) has a number of Ainu households and a visit to some of the Ainu owned craft shops close to the Ainu museums ( there are two of them in Nibutani ) is an opportunity to interact with the Ainu people.

Anaxagoras appears to have had some amount of property and prospects of political influence in his native town of Clazomenae in Asia Minor.

Bœotus ( accompanied by Arne ) went to southern Thessaly, and founded Boeotia ; but Aeolus went to a group of islands in the Tyrrhenian Sea, which received from him the name of the Aeolian Islands ; according to some accounts this Aeolus founded the town of Lipara.

The town largely consists of the Milnshaw, Peel, Central, Barnfield and Spring Hill wards, although some parts of those wards are in other towns in the borough.

Local landmarks include the Christie Park, the Fountain ( a traffic junction in the town centre, although there has not been a working fountain there for some years ),

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 ...".

Ivinskaya writes that Pasternak " raced frantically all over town, telling everybody that he was not to blame and denying responsibility for Mandelstam's disappearance, which for some reason he thought might be laid at his door.

During the Hellenistic period, the town was of some mercantile importance, although by the first century it had dwindled greatly in size and significance.

She resumed life with her family, and they supported her fully, acknowledging her chosen path and demanding of her little in the way of household responsibilities, " I was never once asked to do an errand in town, some bit of shopping … so well did they understand.

The remains of a fort at Gallants Bower just outside the town are some of the best preserved remains of a Civil War defensive structure.

Also in Roman times, some Essenes settled on the Dead Sea's western shore ; Pliny the Elder identifies their location with the words, " on the west side of the Dead Sea, away from the coast ... the town of Engeda " ( Natural History, Bk 5. 73 ); and it is therefore a hugely popular but contested hypothesis today, that same Essenes are identical with the settlers at Qumran and that " the Dead Sea Scrolls " discovered during the 20th century in the nearby caves had been their own library.

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