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The town of St. Louis became the capital of French West Africa ( Afrique occidentale française, or AOF ) before it was moved to Dakar in 1902.
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In the town centre is St Elvan's Church, a Church in Wales church at the heart of the Parish of Aberdare.
St Athanasius was born in the city of Alexandria or possibly the nearby Nile Delta town of Damanhur ca.
St Athanasius was an Egyptian born in the city of Alexandria or possibly the nearby Nile Delta town of Damanhur.
In addition to popularizing the bikini swimming suit, Bardot has also been credited with popularizing the city of St. Tropez and the town of Armação dos Búzios in Brazil, which she visited in 1964 with her boyfriend at the time, Brazilian musician Bob Zagury.
St. Petroc founded a monastery in Bodmin in the sixth century and gave the town its alternative name of Petrockstow.
There are a further three primary ( or elementary ) schools within Bodmin ; Berrycoombe School in the north west corner of the town, St. Mary's Catholic Primary School and Robartes Primary Junior School, both situated west of the town centre.
Catullus came from a leading equestrian family of Verona in Cisalpine Gaul, and according to St. Jerome, he was born in the town.
The canton and town still bearing the name of St. Gall testify how well one disciple succeeded.
Rather than hold any games in the cross town rival Sox Park, the Cubs made arrangements with the August A. Busch, owner of the St. Louis Cardinals, to use Busch Stadium in St. Louis as the Cubs " home field " for the World Series.
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 town was an ancient borough, incorporated by Edward III, known formally as Clifton-Dartmouth-Hardness, and consisting of the three parishes of St Petrox, St Saviour and Townstall, and incorporating the hamlets of Ford, Old Mill and Norton.
Data has also more recently been collected from Enniskillen Airport / St Angelo, under 4 miles to the North of the town centre, which should, in time, give a more accurate representation of the climate of the Enniskillen area.
Old town and St. Nicholas Cathedral
The railroad town of Allenton is a former community on U. S. Highway 66 located ( now ) at the junction of Interstate 44 and Business Loop 44 in western St. Louis County.
As soon as Elihu Yale took over the administration of Fort St George on July 26, 1687, he implemented an order dated January 14, 1685 which required the English at Fort St George to make all attempts at procurement of the town of St Thome on lease.
St. Francis is the principal patron of the town, together with Mary ( mother of Jesus ) | Our Lady of Escalera.
In 1771 and again in 1775 the town of St. George, which was constructed solely of wood, was burnt to the ground-after which it was sensibly rebuilt using stone and brick.
Once that move away from the old town had begun, it led to the further expansion along the coast, eventually linking up with the new St Leonards.
In Victorian times and later the town has spread westwards and northwards, and now forms a single urban centre with the more suburban area of St Leonards-on-Sea to the west.
The original part St Leonards was laid out in the early 19th century as a new town: a place of elegant houses designed for the well-off ; it also included a central public garden, a hotel, an archery, assembly rooms and a church.
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`` The town of Buckhorn's only about six miles from here.
`` We didn't want town work '', Jones said.
You'll have to go to town to see the doc ''.
`` I mean, we don't have any way to get there and we can't expect you to quit work just to take us to town ''.
The two men whipped their horses into town and flung themselves up the steps of the saloon, crying their intelligence.
They were going to town, and they were both excited.
Wilson backed the team into the traces, and wished they weren't going to town at all.
Though only a relatively short walk separated it from my own part of town, its character was wholly foreign to me.
sufficiently, at least, to get them back into town.
McBride gave him his opportunity when he showed up in town with a pistol on his hip.
I'm not the only man in town with a gun, or the only one without a permit ''.
She wondered what had taken place in town, between him and his wife.
They reined in before the town marshal's office, a box-sized building on Main Street.
He wanted to show the town what happened to anyone who tried to start trouble ''.
Somebody in this town must still have some backbone ''.
While no larger than Dutch Springs, this mining supply town had the appearance of being far busier and more prosperous.
The insurance man informed them that he had talked to Crumley who was all right and that he would watch the men's personal effects until they towed the rig back to town.
He went to Key West every fall and winter and was the only man in town who did not know that his title of `` Commodore '' was never used without irony.
Blue Throat, nursing an aching jaw and a collosal dose of wounded pride, rode out of town with the survivors of the fight.
He'll shoot up the town ''.
Blue Throat, who had ruled the town with his six-shooter for the last six months, certainly had no intention of relinquishing his profitable dictatorship.
`` If I don't come out within half an hour ride back to town and bring out a posse ''.
Wiley Lynn, a self-styled prohibition officer, had hit town the previous day and had been drinking ever since.
Daddy left the car for me, and I'm going to town this afternoon ''.
A Southerner married to a New Englander, I have lived for many years in a Connecticut commuting town with a high percentage of artists, writers, publicity men, and business executives of egghead tastes.
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