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" Horn in the West ", a dramatization of the life and times of the early settlers of the mountain area, which features Daniel Boone as one of its characters, has been performed in an outdoor amphitheatre above the town every summer since 1952.
The series is set in the late 19th Century Western town of Four Feather Falls, Kansas and features the adventures of its sheriff, Tex Tucker.
The upper story of the Courthouse features a museum that includes furniture from the original Tudor Court, as well as exhibits about the castle and the town.
In a similar vein is First Blood ( 1982 ) which features John Rambo ( Sylvester Stallone in an iconic role ), as a Vietnam vet who comes into conflict with a small town police department.
" 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.
Monmouth is the focus of MonmouthpediA, the first Wikipedia GLAM project to cover a whole town, creating Wikipedia articles on interesting and notable features and aspects of the town.
The site features an Interpretive Center housed in the historically restored Manzanar High School Auditorium, which has a permanent exhibit that tells the stories of the incarcerees at Manzanar, the Owens Valley Paiute, the ranchers, the town of Manzanar, and water in the Owens Valley.
The main square of the town, Place du Marché, features a statue of Freddie Mercury facing Lake Geneva.
2, 600 loyalists and British regulars under General William Tryon, governor of New York, raided the 3, 500-person town in July 1779, but did not torch it as they had with Danbury in 1777, or Fairfield and Norwalk a week after the New Haven raid, leaving many of the town's colonial features preserved.
The Ziwiye hoard, a treasure of gold and silver metalwork and ivory found near the town of Sakiz south of Lake Urmia and dated to between 680 and 625 BC, includes objects with Scythian " animal style " features.
One of the show's best-known features is Keillor's News from Lake Wobegon, a weekly storytelling monologue, claiming to be a report from Keillor's fictitious hometown of Lake Wobegon, " the little town that time forgot and the decades cannot improve ... where all the women are strong, all the men are good-looking, and all the children are above average.
The busy town centre, centered on Katoomba Street, features dozens of cafes and restaurants, including the Paragon which dates to the early 20th century, as well as a number of second-hand book and antique stores.
Many poets, artists, environmentalists and numerous eccentric characters reside in Katoomba ( and the Blue Mountains, generally ) and the town hosts the well-patronised Winter Solstice festival, Winter Magic, that features local talent, art and handicraft.
Visitors are attracted to the town by its warm climate, the Murray River, recreational attractions, and historical features, such as the Port of Echuca which has the world's largest fleet of operating paddle steamers.
The museum, designed by the architect David Chipperfield, features information on the River Thames, the sport of rowing, and the town of Henley itself.
He also features briefly in the video game Virtual Springfield, introducing the town of Springfield to the player.
Since 2004, Shepton Mallet ’ s town centre buildings have benefitted from two conservation schemes, the Heritage Economic Regeneration Scheme and the Townscape Heritage Initiative Scheme, which provided grants for the repair of buildings, reinstatement of architectural features and enhancement of public spaces, as well as community involvement, education and training.
The main features distinguishing Moabite from fellow Canaanite languages such as Hebrew are: a plural in-în rather than-îm ( e. g. mlkn " kings " for Biblical Hebrew məlākîm ), like Aramaic and Arabic ; retention of the feminine ending-at which Biblical Hebrew reduces to-āh ( e. g. qryt " town ", Biblical Hebrew qiryāh ) but retains in the construct state nominal form ( e. g. qiryát yisrael " town of Israel "); and retention of a verb form with infixed-t -, also found in Arabic and Akkadian ( w -’ ltḥm " I began to fight ", from the root lḥm.
One of the town ’ s hallmark features is the giant sundial, located in the rose gardens in front of the planetarium on Franklin Street.
The town features a well preserved historic main street with a strong gallery scene, boutiques, ethnic and health food, and a historic arthouse movie theater.
The principal external features were the three, three-storey oriel windows on the east façade, facing the town and emphasising that this was a palace rather than a place of defence.
The film co-stars Barbara Hershey and Sheb Wooley, and features Dennis Hopper as the basketball-loving town drunkard.

town and Persian
Anah, or Ana, is an Iraqi town on the Euphrates river, approximately mid-way between the Gulf of Alexandretta and the Persian Gulf.
A Persian geographer recorded in the mid-9th century that a well preserved and much venerated church existed in the town.
The Persian force then sailed for Attica, landing in the bay near the town of Marathon.
The town was within the Persian empire at that time and maybe the young Herodotus heard local eye-witness accounts of events within the empire and of Persian preparations for the invasion of Greece, including the movements of the local fleet under the command of Artemisia.
In the fourth century AD, the Bishop Acacius of Amida, touched by the plight of Persian prisoners captured in a recent war with the Roman Empire — who were held in his town under appalling conditions and destined for a life of slavery, took the initiative of ransoming them, by selling his church's precious gold and silver vessels, and letting them return to their country.
* In the film The Music Man ( based on the 1957 musical ), town librarian Marian Paroo draws down the wrath of the mayor's wife for encouraging the woman's daughter to read a book of " dirty Persian poetry.
Its name is thought to come from the ancient Arabian town of Suluk, Libya, although in the modern era it has also been called the Gazelle Hound or Persian Greyhound.
One derives the name from the Old Persian asmara, " stone ", " rock ", and Sogdian kand, " fort ", " town ".
The word Astana in Kazakh literally means Capital but the word itself originates from Persian Astane ( means " sublime threshold ," " royal porte " implying a royal capital city or a holy shrine town, ( from the Persian verb Istadan ( آستان ) ' to stand ' ( in respect )), and literally means " threshold " ( royal or sacred, where people stand in respect or awe ), implying where the court is seated ( the capital city ) or the body of a sacred person is interred ( a shrine town ).
Kand, qand, kent, kad, kath, kud — all meaning a city — are derived from the Persian / Sogdian کنده kanda, meaning a town or a city.
His name Razi in Persian means " from the city of Rey ", an ancient town called Ragha in old Persian and Ragâ in Avestan.
" Sharbān ", translated from modern Persian, literally means " town keeper "; ( شهر " shahr ", meaning " town ", بان " bān " meaning " keeper ").
* Renee Gardens – A small subdivision located on the north side of the town near Persian Terrace.
Bardiya's death was not known to the people, and so in the spring of 522 BCE a usurper pretended to be him and proclaimed himself king on a mountain near the Persian town of Paishiyauvada.
Previously called Slepe, its name was changed to St Ives after the body, claimed to be that of a Persian bishop, of Saint Ivo ( not to be confused with Ivo of Kermartin ), was found buried in the town in about 1001 / 2.
The world Shahrestan comes from the Persian words shahr and ostan, which mean city ( or town ) and province, respectively.
In keeping with his principles of bridging the gaping relations between the Persian Ismailis and the broader Sunni world, Imam Jalal al-Din Hasan invited a number of religious scholars from the town of Qazvin to visit the castle ’ s library and burn any books they deemed heretical.
At the end of the 18th century, the British and Dutch transferred their regional commercial offices to Bushehr, and during the 19th century the town was prominent as the home of the British political agent for the Persian Gulf.

town and Baths
The town is also well known due to its mythological history, including the site of the " Baths of Aphrodite ".
* Artefacts recovered from the Baths and the Roman town.
Baths are recorded as part of a village or town life throughout this period, with a split between steam baths in Europe and America and cold baths in Asia.
In 1902 the Pilliga Artesian Bore Baths were constructed as a permanent town water supply.
In 1879, He composed the music for the Zarzuela " Los Baños de Coamo " ( The Baths of Coamo )" which was originally written by Genaro de Arazamendi, in honor of the hot springs in the town by the same name.
Finds from the Roman town, particularly the Roman Fortress Baths excavations, are displayed in the Royal Albert Memorial Museum in Exeter.
There is a direct connection between the spring in Beluša Baths and the one in the spa resort town of Trenčianske Teplice.
The Hector McNeil Memorial Baths was a swimming pool in the town of Greenock named in honour of McNeil.

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