In China it was a baby sitting on a railroad platform, smudged, blood-specked, with the village burning about him and shells exploding.

After a year in a studio on Sheridan Square, having married an American girl who was a native of Virginia, Helion moved to a village in the Blue Ridge mountains, where he produced some of the most imposing of his abstract canvases.

This showed that common sense had not died out at the county and village level -- though why the unhappy and obviously unbalanced woman was not restrained remains a puzzle.

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.

His first move was to send Hino to the village to spend a few days.

In any event Rector sent him to the local hospital to have it checked, telling him to keep his ears open while he was in the village to see if he could find out what Kayabashi was planning.

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.

His father Soeren was the village apothecary whose slender income made it difficult to feed his family, let alone educate them in a town without even a school.

They had been kind to us and we were indebted to them for one or two pleasant dinners, and for information as to where to shop, which dentist, doctor, plumber, and sitter to call ( not that there was much of a choice, since Catatonia was just a village ; ;

In the morning the fog was still thick so that to go to the village I crept along with my headlights full on.

This meant that the land around a village was rented from a landlord.

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

This village was deserted in 1855 when the tenants were evicted by the local landlord so the land could be used for cattle grazing, the tenants were forced to rent holdings in Currane, Dooega and 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.

Due to the crowded nature of Rome at the time, Octavius was taken to his father's home village at Velletri to be raised.

Alfred Wallace was born in the Welsh village of Llanbadoc, near Usk, Monmouthshire.

Finally a deal was reached in 1881 and the Ainu decided to settle in the village of Yavin.

Another village, Golygino was founded later.

In legend, Amarynthus ( a form of Amarantus ) was a hunter of Artemis and king of Euboea ; in a village of Amarynthus, of which he was the eponymous hero, there was a famous temple of Artemis Amarynthia or Amarysia ( Strabo x.

The child was born at Treveri, near the village of Ambitarvium, just before the junction of the Moselle River and the Rhine River ( modern Koblenz Germany ).

Birkenau, the German translation of Brzezinka (= " birch forest "), referred originally to a small Polish village that was destroyed by the Germans to make way for the camp.

Cadillac was originally named Clam Lake and was incorporated as a village in 1874.

At the age of four, his family, originally from Bağlıca village of Emirdağ, moved to Germany.

Tolkien insists, tongue in cheek, that the village of Thame originally referred to the Tame Dragon housed in it, and that " tame with an h is a folly without warrant.

What was originally a self-standing village ( which has now been subsumed within the city ) lies to the north of the toll bridge, originally built by Sir Piers Edgcumbe in 1525, that crossed what used to be the Deadlake or Stonehouse Creek, to the west of Pennycomequick, the south of Stoke village and to the east of Stoke Church.

The old name of the town / village ( originally the island Kirkelandet ) was Fosna or Fosen ( Old Norse: fólgsn ) which means " hiding place " ( here ' hidden port ').

The airport is located northeast of Northampton and was originally opened in 1928 on the edge of Sywell village.

He was the fifth child and third son of James Longstreet ( 1783-1833 ), of Dutch descent and Mary Ann Dent ( 1793-1855 ) of English descent, originally from New Jersey and Maryland respectively, who owned a cotton plantation close to where the village of Gainesville would be founded in northeastern Georgia.

His father, Claude-François Proudhon who worked as a brewer and a cooper, was originally from the village of Chasnans, near the border with Switzerland.

* Ambridge still has a village shop and post office, originally thanks to Jack Woolley's philanthropy.

The new village, the nucleus of modern Haifa, was originally named al-imara al-jadida ( Arabic: " the new construction "), but locals called it Haifa al-Jadida ( Arabic: " New Haifa ") at first, and then simply Haifa.

Dushanbe means " Monday " in Tajik, and the name reflects the fact that the city grew on the site of a village that originally was a popular Monday marketplace.

* Hillside Inn, opened originally as a spa at mineral springs on the hill above Wyoming village around 1841, has entertained many important persons, including Theodore Roosevelt and his family and Susan B. Anthony,

This gave rise to the theory that nunchaku were originally developed from an Okinawan horse bit ( muge ), or that nunchaku were adapted from a wooden clapper called hyoshiki carried by the village night watch ; made of two blocks of wood joined by cord, the night watch would hit the blocks of wood together to attract people's attention and then warn them about fires and other dangers.

Socorro was originally the name given to a Native American village ( see: Puebloan peoples ) by Don Juan de Oñate in 1598.

The Hopi reservation was originally a rectangle 55 by, in the middle of the Navajo Reservation, with their village lands taking about half of the land.

The outpost was originally established as La Misión Santa Clara de Thamien ( or Mission Santa Clara de Thamien ) at the Indian village of So-co-is-u-ka ( meaning " Laurelwood ", located on the Guadalupe River ) January 12, 1777.

Tintagel (; ; originally Trevena from ) is a civil parish and village situated on the Atlantic coast of Cornwall, England, United Kingdom.

The most famous krofi come from the village of Trojane in central Slovenia, and are originally filled with apricot jam filling.

Cheddar cheese, originally made in the village of Cheddar, is by far the most common type, with many variations.

A fishing village in the originally flooded coastal area of the English Channel south of the Western Scheldt arose in the late years of the first century, when the area was held by the Counts of Flanders, vassals of the French Crown.

Dundalk ( named after Dundalk in Ireland ), originally called McDowell's Corners, was incorporated as a village in 1887, and on January 1, 2000, was amalgamated with the Township of Proton and the Township of Egremont to form the Township of Southgate, located in the southeast corner of Grey County.