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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.
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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.
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 ).
village and deserted
Today Dogtown is the only deserted village in all New England that I know of.
At Ailt, Kildownet, you can see the remains of a similar deserted village.
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.
Realising his tactical mistake had contributed to Tallard's defeat in the centre, Clérambault deserted Blenheim and the 27 battalions defending the village, and reportedly drowned in the Danube while attempting to make his escape.
The nearest population centres are the two hillside villages of Lithi and Sidirounta, while further inland lie the villages of Elata, Vessa, Agio Giorgi, Avgonyma and the deserted village of Anavatos.
Thirty-one days later on October 6, Carson chanced to meet Kearny and his 300 dragoons at the deserted village of Valverde
* Palmer's Village, a deserted village in Westminster
There was a Palestinian village at the site which, however, became deserted in the 1920s.
By the time Russian explorers began making contact with the native population along the mid Kuskokwim valley in the early 19th century, the native village of Aniak had been deserted.
* Rowland's Mills, a deserted village on the South Branch Raritan River
A passenger ferry operates across Ocracoke Inlet to the deserted village of Portsmouth, at the northern end of the Core Banks.
Shannopin's Town, a Seneca tribe village on the east bank of the Allegheny, was the home village of Queen Aliquippa, but was deserted after 1749.
:" When at 10 a. m. they entered the village in the wake of a police armored vehicle, the village was nearly deserted.
* Grip, Norway, an archipelago, former municipality, and deserted fishing village in Norway
The village became deserted, but a well marked on the map could be excavated and reconstructed to prove the accuracy of the map.
They find him there in the ruins of his family house in a deserted village, then the three climb into Lola's car to return to the city.
In a deserted field with half the village present, Gradisca celebrates her marriage to a balding pot-bellied officer.
In 1626 Nicholas Ferrar and his extended family left London and moved to the deserted village of Little Gidding in Huntingdonshire.
The village is deserted, and the few remaining houses are derelict.
In the battle that follows, Hols and Coro chase the wolves to a deserted village, where he meets a mysterious young girl named Hilda.
The parish of Chippenham Without encompasses the deserted medieval village of Sheldon, devastated by plague ; all that remains today is Sheldon Manor, Wiltshire's oldest inhabited manor house, dating from 1282.
In 1992, the Palestinian historian Walid Khalidi described the village: " Only three houses remain ; two are deserted and one has been turned into a warehouse.
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