The connective system, or network, is tailored to meet the requirements of the objective, and it is therefore not surprising that a military body acting as a single coordinated unit has a different communication network than a factory, a college, or a rural village.

An ivory tablet in the infant's cask recounts the story of his sinful origins and is preserved for the child by the monks of a monastery in the fishing village.

Likewise, and equally fascinating, is the news that such unlikely synonyms as `` pratakku '', `` sweathruna '', and the tongue-twister `` nnuolapertar-it-vuh-karti-birifw- '' all originated in the same village in Bathar-on-Walli Province and are all used to express sentiments concerning British `` imperialism ''.

Today Dogtown is the only deserted village in all New England that I know of.

Azincourt is twinned with the English village of Middleham in North Yorkshire.

Miss Marple is an elderly spinster who lives in the village of St. Mary Mead and acts as an amateur detective.

Most of the families moved to the nearby village of Dooagh, which is beside the sea, while some others emigrated.

The village was completely abandoned which is where the name ' Deserted Village ' came from.

The school is involved in a study of the prehistoric and historic landscape at Slievemore, incorporating a research excavation at a number of sites within the deserted village of Slievemore.

It was during his early trips to Achill prior to the outbreak of World War I that Henri painted extensively and is reputed to have done portraits of almost all the children in Dooagh village.

There is a monument to him in his native village.

The tiny village is home to the Association Internationale Albert Schweitzer ( AIAS ).

There is also the traditional village politics of the Samoa Islands, the " faamatai " and the " faasamoa ", which continues in American Samoa and in independent Samoa, and which interacts across these current boundaries.

The site of the ruins is within the borders of this village, though the expansion of the Limassol tourist area has threatened the ruins: it is speculated that some of the hotels are on top of the Amathus necropolis.

" They must guard a village that is being shelled too heavily.

Among the most exciting recent archaeological discoveries in Greece is the recognition that the sanctuary site near the modern village of Kalapodi is not only the site of the oracle of Apollon at Abai but that it was in constant use for cult practices from early Mycenaean times to the Roman period.

Portes is a fishing village on the east coast.

Aberdour (;, ) is a scenic and historic village on the south coast of Fife, Scotland.

Aberfoyle () is a village in the region of Stirling, Scotland, northwest of Glasgow.

Pentwyn, Torfaen is a small village located in the district of Abersychan.

The village has a cricket team ( Pentwyn CC ) and is located right next to the old railway line.

A small group of houses on Incline Road mark the beginning of the village and the village boundary is near Cwmavon.

As widespread inefficiencies in numbering ( such as the assignment of entire blocks of 10000 numbers to every competing carrier in every small village to support local number portability schemes ) have created shortages of available numbers, these prefixes are often " reclaimed " and issued as standard exchanges, moving the handful of numbers in them to one standard test exchange ( usually 958 ).

The River Ems, which is named after the village ( not, as often believed, the town named after the river ) also flows into the Slipper millpond, and although the mill is no longer in use it now houses a number of offices.

These short ( often one small reel ) films were often simple visual aids and accompaniments to live lectures and speeches, and were carried from city to city, town to town, village to village ( along with the lecturers ) to indoctrinate the entire countryside, even reaching areas where film had not been previously seen.

Genealogists sometimes specialize in a particular group, e. g. a Scottish clan ; a particular surname, such as in a one-name study ; a small community, e. g. a single village or parish, such as in a one-place study ; or a particular, often famous, person.

Local deities of different village regions in India were often identified with " mainstream " Hindu deities, a process that has been called " Sanskritization ".

In this plan, the manor house is set slightly apart from the village, but equally often the village grew up around the forecourt of the manor, formerly walled, while the manor lands stretched away outside, as still may be seen at Petworth House.

As concerns for privacy increased in the 18th century, manor houses were often located a farther distance from the village.

The documentary film One Day in September claims that security in the athletes ' village was intentionally lax and that athletes often came and went from the village without presenting proper identification.

In the past, many rural pubs provided opportunities for country folk to meet and exchange ( often local ) news, while others — especially those away from village centres — existed for the general purpose, before the advent of motor transport, of serving travellers as coaching inns.

The music would then be recorded by the two, along with other musicians – dubbed the Clangers ensemble – in a village hall, where they would often leave the windows open, leading to the sounds of birds outside being heard on some recordings.

A gold rush would often bring intensive but short-lived economic activity to a remote village, only to leave a ghost town once the resource was depleted.

" The leading group in each village was the Church Family, and it was surrounded by satellite families that were often named for points on the compass rose.

Columbia's nine " village centers " provide residents with nearby shopping as well, often including supermarkets, gas stations, liquor stores, dry cleaners, restaurants, and hair salons.

Contrary to popular belief, " oetel " in the name " Oeteldonk " is not a referral to a frog but is a facetious reference to the's-Hertogenbosch Bishop Adrianus Godschalk who came from the village of Den Dungen, and he often fulminated against the ' pagan ' Carnaval festivities.

To those living locally, the continuity leaps were often amusing — departing a house in the village the actors would find themselves immediately in an area distant.

A village is a clustered human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet with the population ranging from a few hundred to a few thousand ( sometimes tens of thousands ), Though often located in rural areas, the term urban village is also applied to certain urban neighbourhoods, such as the East Village in Manhattan, New York City and the Saifi Village in Beirut, Lebanon, as well as Hampstead Village in the London conurbation.

While peasants of central Russia lived in a village around the lord's manor, a Cossack family often lived on its own farm, called khutor.

For example, in areas such as the Lincolnshire Wolds, the villages are often found along the spring line halfway down the hillsides, and originate as spring line settlements, with the original open field systems around the village.

The term village often is used in reference to small planned communities such as retirement communities or shopping districts, and tourist areas such as ski resorts.