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The town was noted for its trade fair in the 17th and 18th centuries, while the seat of the pasha of Thessaly was also transferred there in 1770.
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The town was about what Wilson expected: one main street with its rows of false-fronted buildings, a water tower, a few warehouses, a single hotel ; ;
Though only a relatively short walk separated it from my own part of town, its character was wholly foreign to me.
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.
In town after town my companion pointed out the Negro school and the White school, and in every instance the former made a better appearance ( it was newer, for one thing ).
First, Wright said, he was choked by the smoke, which fortunately kept him from seeing the dreadful town.
There was only one hitch: the small town of Kehl, on the other side of the Rhine, was still under French jurisdiction.
At this, the students let out a yell, knowing full well the actual frontier was beyond the town of Kehl.
Potemkin's Army of Ekaterinoslav, totaling, it was claimed, 40,000 regular troops and 6,000 irregulars of the Cossack Corps, had invested Islam's principal stronghold on the north shore of the Black Sea, the fortress town of Oczakov, and was preparing to test the Turk by land and sea.
Very soon after his arrival in Little Rock, Pike had joined one of the most influential organizations in town, the Little Rock Debating Society, and it was with this group that he made his debut as an orator, being invited to deliver the annual Fourth of July address the club sponsored every year.
Mr. Banks was always called Banks the Butcher until he left town and the shop passed over to Meltzer the Scholar who then became automatically Meltzer the Butcher.
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.
The doctor, since Scotty was no longer allowed to make his regular trips into town to see him, came often and informally to the house.
The clock you heard strike -- it's really the town clock -- was installed last April by Mrs. Shorter, on her birthday ''.
`` P. J. '' -- as Ludie called the town -- was crowded with summer people who came to the mountains to escape the heat in the big cities.
When he was going to town, nothing was good enough -- he had cursed at Winston once for leaving a fleck of polish on his shoelace.
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Following on from this the local paper noted that the No 1 Company of the Wellington Militia had been called out, while the troops stationed in the town had been in the Hutt.
In a visit to the town sometime around 1540, King's Antiquary John Leland noted that Kidderminster " standeth most by clothing ".
In the late 1940s, town planners noted that the country was " possibly the third most urbanised country in the world ", with two thirds of the population living in cities or towns.
In the Super Nintendo game Socks the Cat Rocks the Hill, London was noted as the home town of mid-boss Wigglearms Williams.
At the end of December 1585 Leicester was received in the Netherlands, according to one correspondent, in the manner of a second Charles V ; a Dutch town official already noted in his minute-book that the Earl was going to have " absolute power and authority ".
* Manlius, New York, The name of a town and a village, possibly named due to the classic references noted above.
Edgartown is noted for its rich whaling tradition, and is the island's largest town by population and area.
The antiquity of the association of the site with the birth of Jesus is attested by the Christian apologist Justin Martyr ( c. 100 – 165 CE ), who noted in his Dialogue with Trypho that the Holy Family had taken refuge in a cave outside of town:
" He noted that the prosecution claimed that the Cowboys ' purpose was to leave town, yet Ike Clanton and Billy Claiborne did not have their weapons with them.
In the town of Haro there is an annual Wine Festival that is noted for its Batalla de Vino where participants conduct a food fight of sorts with wine.
As well, the original planned introduction of Wilson galloping into town was replaced with him simply walking in on his horse, which was noted as improving the entrance by making him seem more threatening.
The town is noted for its small, pedestrian-friendly downtown, with boutique shops, upscale Michelin Star restaurants, and thriving arts community.
Film critics have noted the moral ambiguity, where small town lawyers triumph by guile, stealth and trickery.
Like its near-neighbour, East Bergholt, Hadleigh was also known during the 16th century for its Protestant radicalism, Rowland Taylor, a noted preacher from the town ( and his curate, Richard Yeoman ), was martyred during the reign of Queen Mary I.
The noted 20th century painter and plantsman Cedric Morris moved to Hadleigh in the 1930s, establishing the East Anglian School of Painting and Drawing at Benton End, a rambling farmhouse on the edge of the town.
As noted above, the artist Thomas Gainsborough was born in Sudbury and fellow painter John Constable worked in and near the town.
* Amaravati, Andhra Pradesh, a small town in Guntur District, on the river Krishna, noted for an early Buddhist stupa and a major Hindu temple
It has been noted that if the town of Holt had not been destroyed by the fire in 1708 it would now look very similar to the town of Lavenham in Suffolk.
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