His club in fact used a number of other names, such as the Brotherhood of St. Francis of Wycombe, Order of Knights of West Wycombe, The Order of the Friars of St Francis of Wycombe and later, after moving their meetings to Medmenham Abbey, they became the Monks or Friars of Medmenham.

The first meeting at Sir Francis's family home in West Wycombe was held on Walpurgis Night, 1752 ; a much larger meeting, it was something of a failure and no large-scale meetings were held there again.

" Dashwood's garden at West Wycombe contained numerous statues and shrines to different gods ; Daphne and Flora, Priapus and the previously mentioned Venus and Dionysus.

When he died in 1774, as his will specified, his heart was placed in an urn at West Wycombe.

The West Wycombe Caves in which the Friars met are now a tourist site known as the " Hell Fire Caves ".

In 1876, a predecessor of the Royal College of Music, the National Training School for Music, was founded by the RSA, and the Society was instrumental in the preservation of West Wycombe, purchasing the entire village and handing it over to the National Trust.

Soon after other English gardens such as Stourhead, Stowe, West Wycombe, Holkham, and Rousham were to follow suit, creating a type of garden which eventually would become known internationally as the English Landscape Garden.

The stand is adjoined to the North West Corner which is an overspill zone for away fans ( 1, 337 seats ), though in the match against Wycombe Wanderers F. C.

In recent years it had only been used as overspill for away fans when both the upper and lower tiers of the West Stand have been filled, however in the 2011 – 12 season, with Wednesday needing to better or match the result of their neighbours to gain promotion on the final day of the season, the Corner was opened to visiting Wycombe Wanderers fans, with the West Stand used by home supporters.

* West Wycombe Park

Labyrinth was shot on location in Upper Nyack, Piermont and Haverstraw in New York, and at Elstree Studios and West Wycombe Park in the United Kingdom.

While most filming was conducted at Elstree Studios, a small amount of location shooting was carried out in England and the U. S. The park seen at the start of the film is West Wycombe Park in Buckinghamshire, England.

The historic village is largely a National Trust property and receives a large annual influx of tourists-being the site of West Wycombe Park, West Wycombe Caves and the Mausoleum on top of West Wycombe Hill.

Was it supposed, perchance, that A & M ( vocational training, that is ) was quite sufficient for the immigrant class which flooded that part of the New England world in the post-Civil War period, the immigrants having been brought in from Southern Europe, to work in the mills, to make up for the labor shortage caused by migration to the West??

what is new and compelling is that the West is now but one of several powerful civilizations, or `` systems '', and that one or more of the others may pose a mortal danger to the West.

Remembering the step-by-step fate of Danzig and the West German misgivings about `` salami '' tactics, it is to be hoped that the dispatch of General Clay to West Berlin as President Kennedy's representative will mark a stiffening of response not only to future indignities and aggressions but also to some that have passed.

That picture of the American prairie is as indelibly fixed in the memory of those who have studied the conquest of the American continent as any later cinema image of the West made in live-oak canyons near Hollywood.

The wizard who fashioned West Germany's astonishing industrial rebirth is the soul of free enterprise.

He is dedicated to building the nation's strength and, as are all West Germans, to a free Berlin and to reunion with captive East Germany.

The question left by the election is whether West Germany veers slightly toward more firmness or more flexibility.

The West Berlin crisis is being played up artificially because it is needed by the United States to justify its arms drive ''.

The `` West Berlin '' crisis is really an East Berlin crisis.

They are less vocal now, when it is the West Berliners who are migrating.

West Berlin morale is low and, in age distribution, the situation is unfavorable.

The weekly loss is partly counterbalanced by 500 arrivals each week from West Germany, but the hard truth, says Crossman, is that `` The closing off of East Berlin without interference from the West and with the use only of East German, as distinct from Russian, troops was a major Communist victory, which dealt West Berlin a deadly, possibly a fatal, blow.

Moreover, he had spent six months on the Galapagos islands, among the great turtles that Captain Cook had found there, and now and then he would disappear into some small island of the West Indies.

In West Asia and the Eastern Mediterranean early copper zinc alloys are now known in small numbers from a number of third Millennium BC sites in the Aegean, Iraq, the United Arab Emirates, Kalmykia, Turkmenistan and Georgia and from 2nd Millennium BC sites in West India, Uzbekistan, Iran, Syria, Iraq and Israel.

Blythe House in West Kensington is used by the Museum for off-site storage of small and medium-sized artefacts, and Franks House in East London is used for storage and work on the " Early Prehistory "-Palaeolithic and Mesolithic-and some other collections.

WIlls and the Playboys also played small towns on the West Coast.

Most cities in the West, and many outside it, support a sizeable and visible industry of cycle couriers who deliver documents and small packages.

In the West, this food may be served in a small portion as a soup.

A recent study revealed the use of such advanced tools as spears, which West African chimpanzees in Senegal sharpen with their teeth, being used to spear Senegal bushbabies out of small holes in trees .< ref >

Besides the main island, there are three small islets at the mouth of the lagoon: West Island ( 3. 4 ha / 8. 4 acres ); Middle Island ( 6 ha / 14. 8 acres ); and East Island ( 11. 75 ha / 29 acres ).

He took a small but pivotal role as Andy Warhol in Basquiat, artist / director Julian Schnabel's 1996 biopic of Jean-Michel Basquiat, and co-starred in Giovanni Veronesi's Spaghetti Western Il Mio West ( 1998, released as Gunslinger's Revenge in the US in 2005 ) as the most feared gunfighter in the region.

The small directorate of Naval Intelligence ( while the headquarters and personnel, facilities, and directions were coordinated by West ) had vital role in directing special and reconnaissance missions, and intelligence gathering, also was charged with taking reasonable actions to slow down the Indian threat.

The Falkland Islands comprise two main islands, West Falkland and East Falkland ( in Spanish Isla Gran Malvina and Isla Soledad respectively ), and about 776 small islands.

It came to refer specifically to the County of Flanders, lasting from 862 to 1795, whose territory was situated in the northwestern part of what is now Belgium ( the Belgian provinces of West Flanders and East Flanders ), with extensive portions in what is now northern France ( French Flanders ), and a small area that is now part of the Netherlands ( Zeelandic Flanders ).

After the Federation of the West Indies collapsed in 1962, the British government tried to form a small federation out of its remaining dependencies in the Eastern Caribbean.

Former German territories east of the Oder and Neisse rivers, mainly the Prussian provinces of Pomerania, East Prussia, West Prussia, Upper Silesia, Lower Silesia, the eastern Neumark of Brandenburg, and a small piece of Saxony were thus detached from Germany.

Hellbender species are present in a number of eastern states that stretch “ from southern New York to northern Georgia ,” including parts of Ohio, Pennsylvania, Maryland, West Virginia, Virginia, Kentucky, Illinois, Indiana, Tennessee, North Carolina, South Carolina, Alabama, Mississippi, Arkansas, Missouri, and even a small bit of Oklahoma and Kansas.

The Samaritans, a very small community located entirely around Mount Gerizim in the Nablus / Shechem region of the West Bank and in Holon, near Tel Aviv in Israel, regard themselves as the descendants of the Israelites of the Iron Age kingdom of Israel.

The West was hesitant to send large-scale expeditions ; for the next few decades, only small armies came, headed by minor European nobles who desired to make a pilgrimage.

The North Island Brown Kiwi ; the Okarito Brown Kiwi ( Rowi ), whose distribution is restricted to a single site on the West Coast of the South Island of New Zealand ; and a third distinct population of the North Island Brown Kiwi, the Southern Tokoeka, distributed in the lowland forest to the north of Franz Josef glacier in the South Island and on Stewart Island / Rakiura, with a small population near Haast being another possibly distinct species, the Haast Tokoeka.

The logo of the Judean People's Front, designed by Terry Gilliam, was a Star of David with a small line added to each point so it resembled a swastika, most familiar in the West as the symbol of the anti-Semitic Nazi movement.

Stalin gave it absolute priority and the project was completed in under five years in no small part due to Soviet espionage against the West organized by Beria's NKVD.

He also had a small, uncredited role as one of the river pirates in 1962's How the West Was Won.

The term " municipality " is a generic term, and can describe any political jurisdiction from a sovereign state, such as the Principality of Monaco, or a small village, such as West Hampton Dunes, New York.

The closet in the master bedroom was converted into a beauty parlor and dressing room, and the West bedroom was made into a small gymnasium.

The 50 % devaluation of the West African CFA franc in January 1994 boosted exports of livestock, cowpeas, onions, and the products of Niger's small cotton industry.