" Some scholars suggest it is likely that these " strongholds " were fortified towns in southern Canaan, which would eventually become the five cities ( the Pentapolis ) of the Philistines.

`` Little Rock is, without any flattery, one of the dullest towns in the United States and I would not have remained two hours in the place, if I had not met with some good friends who made me forget its dreariness ''.

When, in March, 1640, the two towns were united under Coddington, Gorton claimed the union was irregular and illegally constituted and that it had never been sanctioned by the majority of freeholders.

But suppose she had not taken Mrs. Mathias' advice and lived on like thousands of women in towns, dispossessed of love, hanging on to makeshifts, and altogether and finally arid.

By the beginning of World War II, many towns and cities had built space, and there were numerous qualified pilots available.

The Reform Act 1867 extended the franchise by 938, 427 – an increase of 88 % – by giving the vote to male householders and male lodgers paying at least 10 pounds for rooms and eliminating rotten boroughs with fewer than 10, 000 inhabitants, and granting constituencies to fifteen unrepresented towns, and extra representation in parliament to larger towns such as Liverpool and Manchester, which had previously been under-represented in Parliament.

Before the 1704 campaign ended, the Allies had taken Landau, and the towns of Trier and Trarbach on the Moselle in preparation for the following year's campaign into France itself.

The leading Radicals were John Bright and Richard Cobden, who represented the manufacturing towns that had gained representation under the Reform Act.

In the strips, it is expressed that the two towns are rivals with each other and before The Dandy did a drastic format change they had an embassy in Beanotown which many of the town's citizens attempted to overrun, but failed ( the embassy had no existence in The Beano ).

Debates on the Reform Bill ( eventually the Reform Act 1832 ) had highlighted the variations in systems of governance of towns, and a Royal Commission was set up to investigate the issue.

English republican dictator, Oliver Cromwell's campaign was characterised by its uncompromising treatment of the Irish towns ( most notably Drogheda ) that had supported the Royalists during the English Civil War.

Members of noble families had the personal obligation to take part in the battle with men from their towns and villages.

But during these months not only was Agrippa continuing his descent upon Greek towns and coasts, but in various cavalry skirmishes, Octavian had so far prevailed that Antony abandoned the north side of the strait and confined his soldiers to the southern camp.

Immediately after its victory, the CPK ordered the evacuation of all cities and towns, sending the entire urban population into the countryside to work as farmers, as the CPK was trying to reshape society into a model that Pol Pot had conceived.

" The four National Gendarmerie legions each had a general staff, detached companies that were deployed in and around the major towns and population centers in their respective prefectures, and a small number of mobile squads for rapid reaction and general support.

This he did, and by the end of 1298 Colonna, Palestrina, and other towns had been captured and razed to the ground.

By the early 18th century, the custom had become common in towns of the upper Rhineland, but it had not yet spread to rural areas.

Hadrian's temple had actually been located there because it was the junction of the main north-south road with one of the two main east-west roads and directly adjacent to the forum ( which is now the location of the ( smaller ) Muristan ); the forum itself had been placed, as is traditional in Roman towns, at the junction of the main north-south road with the ( other ) main east-west road ( which is now El-Bazar / David Street ).

The residents had used the marble columns and structures as support beams and roofs for their improvised houses, a usual way of rebuilding towns that were partially or totally destroyed, especially after the earthquake in 1580, which demolished several towns in Phocis.

These towns had drinking water from the Ein Feshcha springs and other sweetwater springs in the vicinity.

By the end of his reign, Diocletian had secured the entire length of the Danube, provided it with forts, bridgeheads, highways, and walled towns, and sent fifteen or more legions to patrol the region ; an inscription at Sexaginta Prista on the Lower Danube extolled restored tranquilitas at the region.

The crusaders arrived at Jerusalem in June 1099 ; a few of the neighbouring towns ( Ramla, Lydda, Bethlehem, and others ) were taken first, and Jerusalem itself was captured on July 15.

The group demanded a demilitarized zone including two towns ( Florida and Pradera ) in the strategic region of Valle del Cauca, where much of the current military action against them has taken place, plus this region is also an important way of transporting drugs to the Pacific coast.

As a result, virtually all towns had to be taken, and that was usually a long, drawn-out affair, potentially lasting from several months to years, while the members of the town were starved to death.

Shortly thereafter, on 12 December, the towns of Gey and Strass were taken by American Forces.

Several towns with names possibly related to ' Alan ', such as Allainville, Yvelines, Alainville-en Beauce, Loiret, Allaines and Allainville, Eure-et-Loir, and Les Allains, Eure, are taken as evidence that a contingent settled in Armorica, Brittany.

A 2000 report of previous studies ' sampling found that 60 % of samples had been taken near towns or roads, where 22 % would be the average, had the samples been taken at random, ( or from equidistant points, or at specifically varying distances from towns, representative of the average terrain density ).

) By 1854 most of the Mormon towns, farms and villages were largely taken over by non-Mormons as they abandoned them or sold them for not much and continued their migration to Utah.

The idea of running characters was taken a stage further with shows like The Red Green Show and The League of Gentlemen, where sketches centered around the various inhabitants of the fictional towns of Possum Lake and Royston Vasey, respectively.

The three lions which flank the Norman barbican and the star and crescent, similar to those on the coat of arms of Portsmouth, are taken from Richard The Lionheart's coat of arms who gave both towns their charters.

Nowadays, with most Serbs living in towns, most simply go to their church service to be given a small parcel of oak, wheat and other branches tied together to be taken home and set afire.

His walled towns were captured and the complete Amorite country was taken by the Israelites, who killed the king and " all his people.

In the 18th century the community was called " Newbury ", a name that came from the three towns from which its land was taken – New Milford, Newtown, and Danbury.

* Bus Éireann runs regular bus services to other major towns which can be taken from the Mart Road.

* Treat all water taken from rivers / creeks-there are towns ( e. g. Mittagong ) upstream, so there is likely to be Giardia in the water.

As time went by, bits and pieces of Ross Township were taken by Hobart and Crown Point when those towns incorporated.

The residents of the town are devoted to keeping the town a classic and quiet New England town and have taken measures to prevent the town from having the developments that have grown in many small towns in western Massachusetts.

: Richfield was formed from Town of Otsego, New York on April 10, 1792. towns of Exeter and Plainfield were taken off in 1799.

As this town had no separate organization until 1844, its early history is blended with that of adjacent towns from which it was taken.

Jerusalem has been divided to form other towns in the county: in 1803, the Town of Benton was taken from Jerusalem, and itself later divided to make other towns.

As the camp emptied, it was refilled by a draining of the camps and towns around Lublin, then by deportees from outside Poland.

For many years a state tax on cities and towns was paid by the several municipalities to the state from the proceeds of the general property tax.

There the matter stands with the prospect that soon Manchester may be removed from the roster of towns contributing raw sewage to its main streams.

Most of the basins take their names from cities or towns located at their rims.

The theme is also present in the many other nameless citizens who are separated from loved ones in other towns or from those who happened to be out of town when the gates of Oran were closed.

In the 19th century, Chinese in San Francisco operated sophisticated and sometimes luxurious restaurants patronized mainly by Chinese, while restaurants in smaller towns served what their customers requested, ranging from pork chop sandwiches and apple pie to beans and eggs.

The size of the burhs ranged from tiny outposts such as Pilton to large fortifications in established towns, the largest at Winchester.

Recreating the fyrd into a standing army, ringing Wessex with some thirty garrisoned fortified towns, and constructing new and larger ships for the royal fleet were costly endeavours that provoked resistance from noble and peasant alike.

Despite this, some towns, like Alcácer do Sal in 1217, were conquered from the Moors by the private initiative of noblemen.

The Land Act was promulgated in 1913 forcing many non-whites from their farms into the cities and towns to work, and to restrict their movement within South Africa.

However, as more people gradually moved from working the land to living in towns ( especially those who could read and write, the only people whose use of language we now know ), the word harvest lost its reference to the time of year and came to refer only to the actual activity of reaping, and autumn, as well as fall, began to replace it as a reference to the season.

The rest volunteered from other east Lancashire towns such as Burnley, Blackburn and Chorley.

The first written records of towns in the area of present-day Berlin date from the late 12th century.

Since 1992 cities and towns statewide were able to sell on Sundays from the Sunday prior to Thanksgiving to New Years Day.

Pomponius Mela mentions it among the small towns of the district, probably as it was eclipsed by its neighbour Tarraco ( modern Tarragona ), but it may be gathered from later writers that it gradually grew in wealth and consequence, favoured as it was with a beautiful situation and an excellent harbour.

With the Spanish New Laws of 1552 Cuban Indians were freed from encomienda, and some seven Indian towns were set up.

The population was rising ( estimates for Constantinople in the 12th century vary from some 100, 000 to 500, 000 ), and towns and cities across the realm flourished.

The marketplace where farmers brought in crops from surrounding towns to sell survives today as the small park at the corner of John F. Kennedy ( J. F. K.

Thieves turn to highway robbery and attacking small villages and towns far away from the royal capital where they won't be detected.

In 1991 the percentage of Comorians residing in cities and towns of more than 5, 000 persons was about 30 percent, up from 25 percent in 1985 and 23 percent in 1980.

Connecticut's rural areas and small towns in the northeast and northwest corners of the state contrast sharply with its industrial cities, located along the coastal highways from the New York border to New London, then northward up the Connecticut River to Hartford.

There is an Avenue in Mexico City Called Cuitláhuac ( Eje 3 Norte ) that runs from Avenue Insurgentes to Avenue Mexico-Tacuba and that is part of an inner ring ; also many streets in other towns and villages in Mexico are so called.

This theory, which was repeated by later antiquaries, is bolstered, or may have derived from, Cadbury's proximity to the River Cam and towns Queen Camel and West Camel, and remained popular enough to help inspire a large-scale archaeological dig in the 20th century.