New Zealand has two commuter rail systems: in Auckland and in Wellington ( Tranz Metro ).

The university has also educated 26 foreign Heads of State, including President of Georgia Mikheil Saakashvili, President of East Timor Jose Ramos Horta, President of Estonia Toomas Hendrik Ilves and other historical figures such as Wellington Koo, Gaston Eyskens, and T. V. Soong.

The Baron has an agent in the Atreides household: Leto's own physician, the trusted Suk doctor Wellington Yueh.

This praise has earned him a strong reputation in the modern world, and he was regarded as a great strategist by men like Napoleon Bonaparte and the Duke of Wellington.

In recent years, Victoria has had to expand out of its original campus in Kelburn, and new campuses have been set up in Te Aro ( architecture and design ), Pipitea ( opposite Parliament, housing the law, and commerce and administration schools ) and Karori ( education )-the Wellington College of Education, established in 1880, merged with the University to become its revived Faculty of Education on 1 January 2005.

Victoria University of Wellington has more than 40 research centres and institutes, including

In July 2011 a J D Wetherspoon public house opened in Withering's birthplace, Wellington, and has been named after him.

The Brown Corpus has also spawned a number of similarly structured corpora: the LOB Corpus ( 1960s British English ), Kolhapur ( Indian English ), Wellington ( New Zealand English ), Australian Corpus of English ( Australian English ), the Frown Corpus ( early 1990s American English ), and the FLOB Corpus ( 1990s British English ).

In the foreground, he has grouped the leading statesmen from the Lords: Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey ( 1764 – 1845 ), William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne ( 1779 – 1848 ) and the Whiggy ( British political faction ) | Whigs on the left ; and Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington ( 1769 – 1852 ) and the Tories ( political faction ) | Tories on the right.

They are common in hilly cities, such as Wellington, New Zealand which has about 300.

The International Society for Krishna Consciousness has a presence in New Zealand, running temples in Auckland, Hamilton, Wellington and Christchurch.

A colony of male fur seals has long been established near Red Rocks on the Makara Coast, west of Wellington.

The University has campuses in Palmerston North ( sites at Turitea and Hokowhitu ), Wellington ( in the suburb of Mount Cook ) and Auckland ( at Albany ), with the largest in terms of student numbers being the Turitea site.

Massey University has campuses in the Manawatu at Palmerston North ( sites at Turitea and Hokowhitu ), at Wellington ( in the suburb of Mt Cook ) and on Auckland's North Shore at Albany.

The Wellington campus primarily specializes in Design ( College of Creative Arts ) and Music ( New Zealand School of Music ), and has around 4, 000 students.

On Wellington Street the Woolwich Grand Theatre ( formerly the ABC Regal Cinema and Flamingo's Nightclub ) has recently reopened as an arts centre with a cafe.

Yarmouth has two piers, Britannia Pier and Wellington Pier.

Barbara O ' Keefe has served as mayor of the village of Wellington since 1993.

Wellington has one sister city, as designated by the Sister Cities International:

He has the late Duke of Wellington class of nose, and his eyes, which have a serious and almost sad expression, are rather sunken, or appear so from the prominence of the curve nasal appearance.

Mr. Wellington offers Peter a drink, and immediately afterwards, Peter realizes that he has been drugged, presumably because Mr. Wellington doesn't believe him and wants him quiet.

The town has a medical practice on Wellington Road, and a dental surgery on Bollington Road.

Crucially, they retreated not to the east, along their own lines of communication and away from Wellington, but northwards, parallel to Wellington's line of march and still within supporting distance, and remained throughout in communication with Wellington.

However, this army was not strong enough to resist the combined coalition forces, so it retreated toward Paris with the armies of Wellington and Blücher and other Coalition forces advancing on the same objective.

" It is also said that not even the British government knew about the forts and was stunned when Wellington first said in despatches he had retreated to them.

After Soult's defeat by Wellington at the Battle of Orthez in late February 1814, the French Marshal retreated north behind the Adour River to Saint-Sever.

He was one of those who, when Wellington raised the siege of Burgos and retreated to the Douro, hung upon his rear and took some prisoners and artillery.

Although Wellington took Madrid on 6 August 1812, he retreated not long after back to Portugal.

Queen Charlotte Sound defines its western side, while to the south lies Tory Channel, which is on the sea route from Wellington in the North Island to Picton.

The sole survivor ( Cindy Mosey ) was travelling with her family and the other from Nelson to Wellington to attend a gymnastics competition.

The opening ceremony of the L & MR, on 15 September 1830, was a considerable event, drawing luminaries from the government and industry, including the Prime Minister, the Duke of Wellington.

The New Zealand Wellington Battalion reached, and briefly occupied, the high point of Chunuk Bair before being beaten back by Turkish troops, who were never again dislodged from the summit.

Greater Hobart area from Mount Wellington

The most famous story, first published in a collection called Break of Dark, is titled Blackham's Wimpy, the name of a Vickers Wellington Bomber featured in the story, whose nickname comes from the character J. Wellington Wimpy from the Popeye comics and cartoons ( the Wellington was named for Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, victor over Napoleon ).

Richmond's also dispatched 53 soldiers from the 96th Regiment from Auckland to Wellington.

Following on from this the local paper noted that the No 1 Company of the Wellington Militia had been called out, while the troops stationed in the town had been in the Hutt.

Young Person railcard rail ticket from Wellington, Shropshire | Wellington to Shrewsbury

The desire for South Island independence was one of the main factors in moving the capital of New Zealand from Auckland to Wellington that year.

Pictures from the Surface of the Earth, touring exhibition: Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin ( 2001 ), Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao ( 2002 ), Haunch of Venison, London ( 2003 ); Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney ( 2003 ); City Art Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand ; Millennium

Born in Wellington, Shropshire, England, he attended Edinburgh Medical School from 1762 to 1766.

Category: People from Wellington, Shropshire

* George Wellington ( 1852 – 1927 ) U. S. Senator from Maryland ( 1897 – 1903 )