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This refers to what had happened after the Earl of Warwick died in 1590, when the town petitioned Burghley for the right to name the vicar and schoolmaster and other privileges but Greville bought the lordship for himself.
Another spot with an image-provoking name is the Black Hills where you can visit the old frontier mining town of Deadwood.
Undoubtedly none of the residents realize the influence their town has had on American military history, or the deeds of valor that have been done in its name.
You ain't kidding me -- the kid don't know the name of this town ''??
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.
The earliest written reference to the town, under the name of Habensperch, came from this time, in around 1138.
The name of the town was then changed to Anbar (" granaries ").
Auschwitz had for a long time been a German name for Oświęcim, the town by and around which the camps were located ; the name " Auschwitz " was made the official name again by the Germans after they invaded Poland in September 1939.
On 25 May 1824, the town plat was registered with Wayne County as " Annsarbour "; this represents the earliest known use of the town's name.
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.
It was granted town status and given its current name in 1931.
Augustus dismantled their native capital Bibracte on Mont Beuvray, and substituted a new town with a half-Roman, half-Gaulish name, Augustodunum ( modern Autun ).
The chief resided at the town of Nowgong, at the foot of the hill-fortress of Ajaigarh, from which the state took its name.
The Seljuq Turks then arrived in 1071 and changed its name to Kara Hissar (" black castle ") after the ancient fortress situated upon a volcanic rock 201 meters above the town.
" The town name is a play on Hyannisport, Massachusetts, where a number of the Kennedy clan have lived.
Thus the discovery report by the Berkeley group reads: " It is suggested that element 97 be given the name berkelium ( symbol Bk ) after the city of Berkeley in a manner similar to that used in naming its chemical homologue terbium ( atomic number 65 ) whose name was derived from the town of Ytterby, Sweden, where the rare earth minerals were first found.
The route has to be changed, which will require it to go through Rock Ridge, a frontier town where everyone has the last name of " Johnson " ( including a " Howard Johnson ", a " Dr. Samuel Johnson ", a " Van Johnson " and an " Olson N. Johnson ").
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 ...".
Sometimes in desert warfare, there is no nearby town name to use ; map coordinates gave the name to the Battle of 73 Easting in the First Gulf War.
The name of the Bavarian town of Passau descends from the Roman Batavis, which was named after the Batavi.
His name means " comforter ," and he was from the town of Alqosh, ( Nahum 1: 1 ) which scholars have attempted to identify with several cities, including the modern ` Alqush of Assyria and Capharnaum of northern Galilee.

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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.
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.

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I won't be in town for a couple of days, though, and there's that case I was supposed to handle this afternoon.
The first one is supposed to have been near Alba Longa before the town was destroyed by the Romans.
: Can it be supposed that the moment the electors are allowed a freedom of choice they will immediately be seized with a desire to vote for some distant candidate with whom they are unacquainted, rather than for those whom they know – who are near to them, whose speeches they have heard and who have personal recommendations to the favour and respect of the town and neighbourhood.
The wines that made Syrah famous were those from Hermitage, the hill above the town Tain-l ' Hermitage in northern Rhône, where an hermitage ( chapel ) was built on the top, and where de Stérimberg is supposed to have settled as a hermit after his crusades.
The members in a given locality, e. g. a town, were supposed to have UEA member conventions and elect a delegito ( plural delegitoj ), a delegate.
The region around Tantanoola, a town in the south-east of South Australia was supposed to have been the stalking ground of The Tantanoola Tiger during the late nineteenth century.
There is a popular assumption in the town that the statue of Britannia was supposed to face out to sea but now faces inland due to a mistake during construction, although it is thought she is meant to face Nelson's birthplace at Burnham Thorpe.
This name, by reason of its brevity and historic interest, received popular approval and was supposed to be a permanent fixture, but in 1882 when the railroads crossed eath other at a point four miles to the southwest of it, a fatality similar to that which happened in 1876 robbed the township of the county seat ruthlessly robbed the town of its pretty, romantic name and left it to be called by yet again another new name-Parvin.
The next morning, William Nevins, who was a miller there, came to town and with others was surveying the ruins when they discovered the iron bands of a wooden barrel which was supposed to have contained the kerosene used in the fire.
Originally the railroad was supposed to go through Veseli ( named after a town in the Czech Republic and spelled Wessely in the early years ) but the route was changed at the last minute.
Despite the fact that the fictional town is supposed to be in New England, one may see a train, clearly marked New Jersey Transit, crossing through Waverly Place in one of the scenes.
The town was supposed to be the county seat for Encinal County which was established on 1 February 1856 and was to consist of the eastern portion of Webb County, Texas.
" One story suggests that the town was simply named after Milan, Italy, because of similarities in the climate, but truly, the climate of Milan in Northern Italy, is cold and continental ; another says that the name was supposed to have been " Milam ," but the United States Post Office Department either got it wrong or changed it intentionally because another Milam, Texas, already existed.
* Many of the characters from Mark Twain's fiction ( primarily The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn ) were from the fictional town of St. Petersberg, which was supposed to parallel Hannibal
( No filming was done in the Czech spa town of Marienbad-and the film does not allow the viewer to know with certainty which, if any, scenes are supposed to be located there.
Assaults south of town, which were supposed to be the main avenue of attack, were also mismanaged, and initial Union breakthroughs went unsupported.
Whilst during this supposed séance Prodi thought the word Gradoli referred to a town on the outskirts of Rome, it probably referred to the Roman address of a Red Brigades safe house, located at no.
This is noteworthy if only because people claimed to have seen her in town after her supposed demise.
Andrew arrives in town, looking for Melanie at the Carmichael Plantation, her " supposed " home.
According to the commentaries published in “ El Regañón de La Habana ”, we can conclude that those “ guarachas ” were very popular within the Havana population at that time, because in the same previously mentioned article the author says: “… but most importantly, what bothers me most is the liberty with which a number of chants are sung throughout the streets and town homes, where innocence is insulted and morals offended … by many individuals, not just of the lowest class, but also by some people that are supposed to be called well educated …”.
The ancient physician Hippocrates is thought to have been born on Kos, and in the center of the town is the Plane Tree of Hippocrates, a dream temple where the physician is traditionally supposed to have taught.
The town itself it thought to have developed around the minster which, it is supposed, was on the same site as the current church.
Macondo is often supposed to draw from García Márquez's childhood town, Aracataca.

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