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The village mascot is a fox, after a local legend relating to a rabid fox who is reported to have been responsible for spreading the disease to the Duke of Richmond's dog, who subsequently bit the Duke, killing him.
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The village at one time had an official mascot which was a real life crow, named Rocky the Crow.
The Limestone Central School District ( mascot: the Tigers ) was headquartered in the village until 1995, when it merged with Allegany Central School to form the current Allegany-Limestone Central School.
The London 2012 Summer Paralympics mascot, Mandeville, is named after the village due to its legacy with the Games.
The Cirl Bunting is the mascot on the signs for the village of Stokeinteignhead.
The village mascot is named Mohei, after a historical ninja from the village whose name was Kusaka Mohei.
The first of these, located on the side of the Village Hall, features the village mascot — the Aller Dragon — and was created by Newman and Aller resident Chiggy Little.
This CGI-animated feature-length special features the mascot climbing up a tree in a village called Koalaland.
village and is
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.
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Quorn Hall, off Meynell Road on the eastern edge of the village, became the home of renowned fox hunter Hugo Meynell in 1753.
The badger went into the village, and accused the governor of being the fox, so the bodyguards of the governor beheaded him.
The arms show a fox as a representative of the local wildlife and also for the fox farming in the village.
The game is similar to rock, paper, scissors, but the three hand positions signify a fox, a hunter, and a village headman.
The village hunt disbanded around 1997 on the death of the then hunt Master, thereby anticipating the ban on fox hunting by nearly a decade.
The Pytchley Hunt is a famous fox hunt based near the village.
The climber is then spurred on by a large crowd to climb all the way to the top of the pole, to spin ' the fox ' weather vane ( a custom thought to bring good luck to the village ).
The sculpture combines references to the water wheels that once powered industry in Menstrie, a pet fox kept by a Menstrie child years ago, and the buzzards that frequent the skies over the village.
The Quorn Hunt at one time met regularly throughout the fox hunting season on Fridays in the village, at the Nether Hall, built in 1709.
The Hunt would move off and hunt fox coverts along Covert Lane to the east of the village towards Ingarsby.
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after all, the large ( and probably unreliable ) Reader's Digest literature on the `` most unforgettable character I ever met '' deals with village grocers, country doctors, favorite if illiterate aunts, and so forth.
Finally we got them out of the house, after the boy had run away four times looking for other Nazis, threatening to murder village schoolchildren and bragging that he was to be the next Fuhrer.
When the telephone rang on the day after Hino went down to the village, Rector had a hunch it would be Hino with some morsel of information too important to wait until his return, for there were few telephones in the village and the phone in Rector's office rarely rang unless it was important.
When the visitors, after losing this game, rode along the village streets toward home, the youngsters who could keep abreast of them for a moment or two screamed triumphantly, `` You bunch of hay-shakers!!
In the earliest age of Christian monasticism the ascetics were accustomed to live singly, independent of one another, not far from some village church, supporting themselves by the labour of their own hands, and distributing the surplus after the supply of their own scanty wants to the poor.
* Latoreia, who had a small village near Ephesus named after her.
The present village Amfipoli (), named after the ancient city, occupies the site.
Bauxite was named after the village Les Baux in southern France, where it was first recognised as containing aluminium and named by the French geologist Pierre Berthier in 1821.
Potter and Warne may have hoped that Hill Top Farm would be their holiday home, but after Warne's death Potter went ahead with its purchase as she had always wanted to own that farm and live in " that charming village ".
It is named after the village of Mayo, which is now generally known as Mayo Abbey.
The village was incorporated as a city in 1877 and renamed Cadillac, after Antoine Laumet de La Mothe, sieur de Cadillac, a Frenchman who made the first permanent settlement at Detroit in 1701.
In a 1985 interview on Yorkshire Television's Arthur C. Clarke's World of Strange Powers, Elsie said that she and Frances were too embarrassed to admit the truth after fooling Conan Doyle, the author of Sherlock Holmes: " Two village kids and a brilliant man like Conan Doyle – well, we could only keep quiet.
Anne further honoured Churchill, after his leadership in the victories against the French of 13 August 1704 near the village of Blenheim ( German Blindheim ) on the river Danube ( Battle of Blenheim ), by granting him the royal manor of Woodstock, and building him a house at her own expense to be called Blenheim.
He named the new element after the village of Ytterby where large concentrations of yttria and erbium are located.
He became mayor of the village after Louis XVIII returned to the throne in 1814.
On 28 July 1829 Galois's father committed suicide after a bitter political dispute with the village priest.
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.
* 1996 – At the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in China, a Long March 3 rocket, carrying an Intelsat 708, crashes into a rural village after liftoff, killing many people.
Suddenly the Stars and Stripes flew — as it does today, and especially as it did after the September 11 attacks in 2001 — from houses, from storefronts, from churches ; above the village greens and college quads.
The village of Oakley, burnt to the ground by the dragon early in the story, may also be named after Oakley, Buckinghamshire, near to Thame.
Mesmer was born in the village of Iznang, on the shore of Lake Constance in Swabia, AUSTRIA, a son of master forester Anton Mesmer ( 1701 — after 1747 ) and his wife Maria / Ursula ( 1701 — 1770 ), née Michel.
Verdi was born the son of Carlo Giuseppe Verdi and Luigia Uttini in Le Roncole, a village near Busseto, then in the Département Taro which was a part of the First French Empire after the annexation of the Duchy of Parma and Piacenza.
On the morning of 28 September 1106, exactly 40 years after William had made his way to England, the decisive battle between his two surviving sons, Robert Curthose and Henry Beauclerc, took place in the small village of Tinchebray, in Lower Normandy.
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