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Town legend claims the name was chosen by a church ceremony where a Bible was opened blindly and the first proper name encountered was that of Porcius Festus, the governor of Judea around 60 AD ( Acts 24: 27 ).
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On Tuesday 9 May 2006, Banks was the first " legend " to be inducted into a new Walk of Fame, by having a plaque installed in the pavement in front of the Town Hall.
According to legend the Polish voivode Piotr Włostowic of Dunin ( 1080 – 1153 ) had a fieldstone church built on the hill in the west of Lubin, where about 1230 a castellany and a village arose that until today is called the Old Town ().
Contrary to popular legend, the city is not named after a mythological Chief Munsee, rather it was named after Munsee Town, the white settlers ' name for the Indian village on the site, " munsee " meaning a member of the Delaware tribe.
The border between Smithtown and the Town of Huntington is partially defined by Bread and Cheese Hollow Road ( Suffolk County Road 4 ), so named after Bread and Cheese hollow, which according to legend is where Smith stopped on his ride to have a lunch of bread and cheese.
The legend Kingston Town won the race three times.
This legend is re-enacted each year by the Cub and Brownie groups of Ottery St. Mary, with a specially constructed Pixies ' Parlour in the Town Square ( the original Pixie's Parlour can be found along the banks of the River Otter ).
This legend is re-enacted each year by the Cub and Brownie groups of Ottery St. Mary, with a specially constructed Pixie's Parlour in the Town Square ( the original Pixie's Parlour can be found along the banks of the River Otter ).
This legend is re-enacted each year by the Cub and Brownie groups of Ottery St. Mary, with a specially constructed Pixie's Parlour in the Town Square.
The ska legend Byron Lee & the Dragonaires covered the song on their 2002 album Shanty Town.
Evans scored the winning goal with a diving header in his last appearance for Plymouth Argyle against Ipswich Town, to secure the club a 14th place finish in the Football League Championship ( the highest finish for the club in two decades ) and forever sealing his status as a Plymouth Argyle " legend " amongst the club's fans.
* 27 October 2005 — England legend Paul Gascoigne, 38, is named manager of Conference North club Kettering Town.
Julija's Town is known for the legend of Đula who threw herself into the abyss of the River Dobra because of an unhappy love affair.
In a club statement, managing director Gary Sweet branded Nicholls a Luton Town " legend " and " arguably the club's most successful captain ".
Batty made his debut for Leeds in November 1987 as an 18-year-old during a 4 – 2 win over Swindon Town, and quickly earned a reputation as a fiercely competitive midfielder in the mould of Leeds legend Billy Bremner.
The France legend also took part in a friendly competition for Kettering Town FC with Gianfranco Zola, Les Ferdinand and Gus Poyet.
He has become a firm fan-favourite and is the son of the former Athlone Town, St. Patrick's Athletic and Finn Harps legend, John Minnock.
He joined Ipswich Town in 1978 as an apprentice, being scouted from the north-west where Town legend Kevin Beattie was also born and went on to make 329 appearances for Town, standing as a record of consecutive appearances until 2001, being beaten by Goalkeeper Richard Wright.
The band went on to perform alongside local legend Miriam Makeba, as well as Stanley Clarke and Femi Kuti at the North Sea Jazz Festival, held during April in Cape Town.
A Swindon Town legend, Trollope holds the record for the number of league appearances made for one club-turning out for the Town in 770 games between 1960 and 1980, an achievement which saw him receive the MBE.
Many turf mazes in England were named Troy Town, Troy-town or variations on that theme ( such as Troy, The City of Troy, Troy's Walls, Troy's Hoy, or The Walls of Troy ) presumably because, in popular legend, the walls of the city of Troy were constructed in such a confusing and complex way that any enemy who entered them would be unable to find his way out.
Town and claims
North of Chios Town lies the large suburb of Vrontados ( population 4, 500 ), which claims to be the birthplace of Homer.
The place, known as Owen's Ordinary, took on greater prominence when, on April 14, 1755, Major General Edward Braddock stopped at Owen's Ordinary on a start of a mission from George Town ( now Washington, D. C .) to press British claims of the western frontier.
Ripley claims to host the " Biggest Small Town Fourth of July Celebration " in the nation.
The result is that the City of Rochester claims the entire eastern shore of the Genesee, and the border of the Town of Irondequoit never reaches the river.
The Town Hall Deli in South Orange claims to have invented the New Jersey sloppy joe in the 1930s.
Carr served as a Sergeant with Colonel William Edmeston in the French and Indian War and was later employed as an agent for Edmeston and his brother Robert in establishing claims on tracts of land on the eastern bank of the Unadilla River just west of George Croghan's Otsego patent near what is now the hamlet of South Edmeston in the Town of Edmeston.
In addition, the regiment ( along with the Cape Town Highlanders Regiment ) still claims fifteen " missing " battle honours awarded for service in France and Flanders to the 4th South African Infantry ( South African Scottish ) battalion ; these include some of the most famous in South Africa ’ s military history:
To allow the jury to explore the plausibility of these claims, a mock-up wall was erected in the Laigh Hall, below Parliament Hall within Parliament House, across the road from the High Court of Justiciary building in Edinburgh's Old Town, where the trial was being heard.
In Zazen Town, Goemon finds Yae, who claims the troublemakers responsible are Flake Gang members named the Peach Mountain Shoguns.
With a landmass of 531 square kilometres and a year round population of 841 in the Canada 2011 Census, Kearney claims to be the " Biggest Little Town in Ontario.
The Town of Pasadena claims the name is Spanish for " crown of the valley ".
According to the Fiji Sun, he was responding to claims made by Chaudhry at the FLP campaign launch in Ba Town on the 11th that the government itself was full of terrorists, but said that he would not be suing Chaudhry because he did not want to " waste time " on him.
Fred is first introduced to this peculiar character in Misty Town jail, where he claims to be the regular.
Town and name
A bunch of young buckaroos from out West, who go by the name of Texas Boys Choir, loped into Town Hall last night and succeeded in corralling the hearts of a sizable audience.
** Town of Christchurch, the prior name of the Christchurch ( New Zealand electorate )
When the Town was incorporated, the residents wanted to name it Contentment.
The name of Kington Magna means great ' King's Town, and the parish " figures conspicuously in the Domesday Book.
Soon after the Kansas Town Company, a group of investors, began to settle the area, taking their name from an English spelling of " Cansez.
The legislature gave the settlement the temporary name of the " Town of Michigan ".
* Stuyvesant and his family were large land owners in the northeastern portion of New Amsterdam, and the Stuyvesant name is currently associated with the Stuyvesant Town housing complex as well as Stuyvesant Square, a park in the area.
Bulwar Filadelfijski ( Philadelphia Boulevard ), both a 2 km long street running mostly between Vistula River and walls of the Old Town, and the boulevard itself ( bearing the same name ), honours sister relationship with Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
The full name of the college is " The Master, Fellows and Scholars of the College of the Most Holy and Undivided Trinity in the Town and University of Cambridge ".
California has abolished its townships, though may general law cities continue to use the word " Town " as part of their name ( e. g. " Town of Atherton " when it is, legally, the City of Atherton ).
Despite being physically located in the Town of Groton, the name New London became associated with the Navy Yard.
Molde is nicknamed the Town of Roses, a name which originated during Molde's era as a tourist destination of international fame in the late 19th century.
Boom Town was the last movie Tracy made in which his name did not feature in pole position.
Gaithersburg was settled in 1765 as a small agricultural settlement known as Log Town near the present day Summitee Hall on Ralph Crabb's 1725 land grant " Deer Park ", gaining the name Gaithersburg a few years later.
Its name stems from its location in the greater area of the Town of Brookhaven.
* Montage ( Yen Town Band album ), a 1996 album by Chara under the name of Yen Town Band
Seri Begawan was named after the Sultan's late father Omar Ali Saifuddien on 5 October 1970, its original name being Bandar Brunei or Brunei Town.
As the name suggests Sheep Street, which leads down from the Town Hall to Waterside and the RST, was from early times and until the late 19th century, the area where sheep, brought from the neighbouring Cotswold Hills, were slaughtered and butchered.
They changed their name to Glastonbury Town in 2003.
Throughout the pre-production and the early principal photography, the project still retained Kelland's original title, Opera Hat, although Capra tried out some other titles including A Gentleman Goes to Town and Cinderella Man before settling on a name that was the winning entry in a contest held by the Columbia Pictures publicity department.
The town, whose name would translate to English as Academy Town, was founded in the 1950s by the Soviet Academy of Sciences.
Jacques owned a trendy nightclub and restaurant in Montreal called Newtown, which is the English translation of his French last name (' Ville ' means ' Town ', and ' Neuve ' means ' new ').
The name, which means " New Town " in Tamil, is or in Tamil and Pondichéry in French.
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