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Hilversum is also known for its architecturally important " Raadhuis " or town hall, designed by Willem Dudok ( 1884 – 1974 ).
From that time the town grew quickly with rich commuters from Amsterdam moving in, building themselves large villas in the wooded surroundings, and gradually starting to live in Hilversum permanently.
Some sources blame connections in the television world for attracting crime to Hilversum, and the town has had to cope with mounting drug-related issues in a community with higher than average unemployment and ongoing housing shortage.
The town lies about 8 km east of Hilversum.
Two train stations were built in the town, that still exist today: Naarden-Bussum and Bussum Zuid ( Dutch for Bussum South ), both on the connection between Amsterdam and Hilversum.
The stations and the road network fostered the town's status as a satellite town of Amsterdam, allowing for reverse commute also to Hilversum.
Designed by architect Reginald Uren 1933-1935, the building shows the influence of Hilversum town hall in the Netherlands and was awarded a bronze medal by the Royal Institute of British Architects.
Dudok became City Architect for the town of Hilversum in 1928 and designed and built about 75 houses, public buildings and entire neighborhoods there, best known for the brick Hilversum City Hall ( Raadhuis ), completed in 1931.
Horses were stabled in Hilversum, a town 30-km from Amsterdam and the location of the majority of the equestrian competition, with two jumping competitions taking place in the Olympic Stadium in Amsterdam.

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Since that time the telegraph office has shifted in location from the railroad station at the Depot and shops at the Center back to the town clerk's office and drugstore at the Village.
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.
Mr. Martinelli has, in recent weeks, been of the opinion that a special town meeting would be called for the vote, while Mr. Bourcier said that a special election might be called instead.
And I've been told that just about every town, no matter what its size, has its Lucille Warren.
The town has had a coat of arms since 1338, that of the Counts of Abensberg.
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 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.
Development in Canberra has been closely regulated by government, both through the town planning process, but also through the use of crown lease terms that have tightly limited the use of parcels of land.
The town has not changed since he went off to war ; however, he finds that he does " not belong here anymore, it is a foreign world.
It is developing as an annual autumn event in his native town of Legnago where a theater has been renamed in his honor.
The presence of several major manufacturers since the 19th century has given Albion the reputation of a factory town.
This has changed with the closure of several manufacturers, and Albion's culture is changing to that of a college town with a strong interest in technology and sustainability issues.
Since 1 April 1956, Aalen has the status of Große Kreisstadt (“ major district town ”).
The town was ruled from the " Rore " tower, which has been incorporated into the modern city hall.
The Madaba Map depiction of 6th-century Jerusalem has the Cardo Maximus, the town ’ s main street, beginning at the northern gate, today's Gates in Jerusalem's Old City Walls | Damascus Gate, and traversing the city in a straight line from north to south to Nea Church.
Afyon is the centre of an agricultural area and the city has a country town feel to it.
* the White Elephant-Afyon is twinned with the town of Hamm in Germany, and now has a large statue of Hamm's symbolic white elephant.
In recent decades the number of Welsh speakers in the town has increased dramatically.
The town has one of the two Welsh-medium primary schools in Monmouthshire, Ysgol Gymraeg y Fenni, which was founded in the early 1990s.
The story is set in an imaginary American town that has gone bankrupt.
The scheming Comptroller Schub, tells her that he has a plan to save her administration, and the town, promising “ It's highly unethical .” He tells her to meet him at the rock on the edge of town.
Schub has put the miracle on hiatus, but announces that they can easily turn the town against Hapgood by blaming him for it.
Again, Schub has the answer-since the Cookie Jar is still successful, they can turn the entire town into one big Cookie Jar!
As of late 2005, the area once devoted to a live-action facsimile of Dogpatch ( including a lifesize statue in the town square of Dogpatch " founder ," General Jubilation T. Cornpone ) has been heavily stripped by vandals and souvenir hunters, and is today slowly being reclaimed by the surrounding Arkansas wilderness.

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Gorton then moved to Providence and soon put the town in a turmoil.
( 16th century BC ) refers to it is improbable ; but we seem to be justified in holding Anah to be the town " in the middle of the Euphrates " opposite ( ina put ) to which
Choosing to resist, their town was besieged and conquered ; the males were put to death and the women sold into slavery ( see Melian dialogue ).
At this time, the community of Barcelonnette successfully purchased the seigneurie of the town as it was put to auction by the Duke of Savoy ; it thereby gained its own justicial powers.
The character Miss Marple, for instance, dealt with an estimated two murders a year ; De Andrea has described Marple's home town, the quiet little village of St. Mary Mead as having " put on a pageant of human depravity rivaled only by that of Sodom and Gomorrah ".
The inscription beneath this impressive mural expresses the desire of local people for the original canvas to be put on display in the town which inspired its creation: Guernica.
In 1290 the funeral procession of Eleanor of Castile stopped overnight in the town and an Eleanor cross was put up at a cost of £ 100 in the Market Place.
He roller-skated there as well as all over town, as he put it " hell-bent on getting autographs from glamorous stars.
One of the few comprehensive academic surveys of Mesoamerican city and town sizes arrived at a population of 212, 500 living on, although some popular sources put the number as high as 350, 000.
In the 1967 published story Noggin and the Moonmouse, a new horse-trough was put up in the middle of the town in the North-Lands.
In 1154 a town called Qlwn or Qalaven ( possible derivations of Kalevan or Kolyvan ) was put on the world map of the Almoravid by the Muslim cartographer Muhammad al-Idrisi, who described it as a small town like a large castle among the towns of Astlanda.
The town of Gonzales could not be defended by the Revolutionaries, so it was put to the torch.
The defenders of a town wall are trying to set the ram alight with torches and have also put a chain under it.
They were put up at Glomstua, then at the western outskirt of the town, and experienced the bombing raids personally.
No matter who took his place, the encirclement of the town by the enemy had put the entire division in peril.
Richard Burton's performance in The Night of the Iguana may be his finest hour on the screen, and in the process helped put the town of Puerto Vallarta on the map ( the Burtons later bought a house there ).
Hereford was again targeted by the Welsh during their conflict with the Anglo-Saxon King Edward the Confessor in AD 1056 when, supported by Viking allies, Gruffydd ap Llywelyn, King of Gwynedd and Powys, marched on the town and put it to the torch before returning home in triumph.
In the late 1980s, a proposal was put forth for the Two Forks Dam, which would have created a reservoir flooding the entire section from the North Fork confluence to the town of Deckers.
The arrival of such a large party with such great demands – and so soon after Spangberg had made similar demands – put a strain on the town.
" Doc gave Kate some money and put her on a stage out of town.
They also made sorties to set fires, burning 100 houses in the town, and then firing on anyone attempting to put out the flames.
The town of Port Leon was once a thriving cotton-shipping hub, with a railroad that carried over 50, 000 tons of cotton a year to be put on ships, usually for shipment direct to Europe.

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