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This area was notorious in times past for highwaymen ; a Stephen Phillips who was a robber tried and convicted at the Old Bailey admitted to the Newgate chaplain to having stolen 150 guineas in gold on the road towards London in 1736.
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The area was deserted.
Fleischman with eight was to patrol the Leyte Gulf area, with his main task to get any kamikaze before they got to the ships.
The sun was not yet high and all of them were in the small area of shade cast by the boulder.
The Prince took her with him on every tour around the area, and it was rumored he was utilizing her knowledge of Constantinople as part of his espionage network.
Therefore, what we must prove or disprove is that there were Saxons, in the broad sense in which we must construe the word, in the area of the Saxon Shore at the time it was called the Saxon Shore.
There was no time in the short Mexican encounter to evolve a solution but the area provided a proving ground for new departures in the near future.
How foolish it was to try to fathom the truth in an area where only faith would suffice.
A project for the Air Force has been completed in which the NAIR infrared detecting device was developed for area monitoring of noxious or dangerous gases.
Mother even went so far as to trump up for me matrimonial opportunities with Pasadena debs who had been educated abroad, and with those of the more lenient Los Angeles area where a debutante was a girl who had been to high school.
Such items recall the California journalist who reported an accident involving a movie star: `` The area in which Miss N -- was injured is spectacularly scenic ''.
The mean temperature of the surface was then computed according to the following relation: Af where x is the fraction of the plug area covered by the hot spot.
From these dosage isopleths it can be seen that an area of over 34,000 square miles was covered.
As can be seen from Figure 2, an extensive area was covered by this aerosol.
As can be seen from these dosage isopleths, approximately 100 square miles was covered within the area sampled.
It is quite likely that an even greater area was covered, particularly downwind.
In all cases the activity against Af cells was spread over a wider area than that with Af cells, regardless of the type of test ( saline, albumin, indirect Coombs ) used for comparison.
The myocardium of the posterior base of the left ventricle was replaced by gray scar tissue over a 7.5 cm. area.
The mucosa of the stomach was atrophic and irregularly blackened over a 14 cm. area.
Not until the group was satisfied in this area were they willing to venture further to ( 2 ), Specific adjustment areas, such as sex, in-laws, religion, finance, and so on.
There was a particularly marvelous opportunity for study in this area since almost every stage of pregnancy was represented, from a childless couple to and including every trimester.
Though little democracy had ever been practised in this region, and much of it was still ruled by feudalistic means, it was taken for granted that at least the forms of Western democracy would be established in this area and Western capitalism preserved within it.
The Title 8, program of the National Defense Education Act of 1958 was a great spur to this trend toward area schools.
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By the 1970s the area was notorious for street robberies and drug dealing.
The Limehouse area in London was notorious for its opium dens, many of which catered for Chinese sailors as well as English addicts.
The area had also been home to a headquarters for Japanese military police during World War II, and was notorious for prisoner torture.
At the same time the notorious SS Einsatzgruppe D, operating in the area of the German 11th Army, committed summary executions of Jews under the pretext that they were spies, saboteurs, Communists, or under no pretext whatsoever.
The Mafia was present in the area but quiescent ; Tommaso Spadaro, a boy with whom he played ping-pong in the neighborhood Catholic Action recreation center, would later become a notorious Mafia smuggler and killer, but mafiosi were not a major presence in his childhood.
The area gained a notorious reputation for being a wild west with bandits and prostitutes.
" Warner claimed that he briefly belonged to a street gang based at Westlake's Crossing, a notorious neighborhood located just west of the city's downtown area.
Smugglers, cattle and horse rustlers, and numerous other desperadoes saturated the area, including notorious cattle rustler, J.
More recently, the popular graphic novels of Alan Moore, " From Hell " ( 1989 ) and " The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen " ( 1999 ) contain a number of references to the notorious criminality of the area in Victorian London.
The Civil War ( 1861 – 65 ) brought one of Georgia's most notable and notorious landmarks to the area, when a small village named Andersonville, nine miles ( 14 km ) north of Americus on the county's northern edge, was selected by Confederate authorities as the site for a prisoner of war camp.
The forcible ( sometimes at gunpoint ) removal of the Cherokee people, leading up to the notorious Trail of Tears, began in this area the year before, later accelerated by the discovery of gold in local streams.
While the slower growth preserved the quality of life for most residents and prevented the urban sprawl notorious in the Los Angeles basin, housing in the Santa Barbara area was in short supply, and prices soared: in 2006, only six percent of residents could afford a median-value house.
The Irish Sea area includes a large number of offshore rocks and islands and is notorious for strong tides.
The notorious Harpe brothers, murderous outlaws, terrorized the area in the late 18th century.
The area is notorious for the flooding it experiences every spring from the Grand River, which cuts through the eastern side of Comstock Park.
The area suffered greatly during the American Civil War, though Harrisonville was one of the few places exempted in Union General Thomas Ewing's notorious General Order No. 11 ( 1863 ), which ordered the depopulation of four entire Missouri counties.
The Loomis Gang, a notorious group of horse thieves, lived and operated in the Waterville area during the mid-nineteenth century.
The area surrounding Eufaula Lake has a colorful history, recalling such notorious characters as Belle Starr and the James-Younger Gang, who used the area north of the dam as their hideout.
Mahoning Mountain Road is a mile long hill that has many sharp curves and is known throughout the Lehighton area as a notorious road in winter time.
Such service would both add to the charm of the historical downtown area and make it easier for visitors and residents to get around and avoid the area's notorious traffic congestion.
An especially notorious case is that of Carmine " Mimi " Scialo-a feared and respected soldier of The Colombo Family who had control over the vast area of Coney Island.
In 1933 during the Great Depression, the notorious criminals Bonnie and Clyde spent some weeks in Joplin, where they robbed several area businesses.
During the Second World War, the town was bombed by the Luftwaffe at around midnight on 7 April 1941, as part of a series of raids on the Greater Glasgow area during early 1941, which included the notorious Clydebank Blitz some three weeks earlier.
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