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Cow Towns
COW TOWNS Cow towns were cities that sprang up at railroad terminals in the West. Abilene and Dodge City, Kansas, were two early and celebrated cow towns (also called cattle towns). Beginning in 1867, when the Union Pacific Railroad reached westward as far as Abilene, cowboys began driving large... Read more |
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Lerwick
Lerwick , island town (1991 est. pop. 7,336), Shetland Islands, extreme N Scotland. Lerwick is the northernmost town in Great Britain. Located on the southeastern coast of Mainland island, it has fishing and hosiery industries. It is the central market town of the Shetlands, dealing in produce,... Read more |
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Trenton (Canada)
Trenton, Canada, USA 1. Canada: settled as Trent Port in 1792 at the mouth of the Trent River from which it gets its name; it has also been called Trent Town.2. USA (Michigan): founded by Major Abram C. Truax and called Truaxton after him in 1834. It was renamed Truago in 1837 and Trenton ten... Read more |
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Kapilavastu
Kapilavastu , ancient town, S Nepal. According to legend, the Buddha, whose father ruled the state of Kapilavastu, was born nearby and passed his early years there.... Read more |
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Kumayri
Kumayri (Gyumri), Armenia Alexandropol′, Leninakan A very old city probably founded by the Greeks. The Russians built a fortress on the site in 1837 and founded the nearby town of Alexandropol′ ‘Alexandra's Town’, from pol(is), three years later. This was named after... Read more |
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Maldon
Maldon , town (1991 pop. 14,754) and district, Essex, E England, on the Blackwater estuary. Maldon is a market town with iron foundries and other small industries. The 13th-century Church of All Saints has a unique triangular tower with a hexagonal spire, and the town hall dates from the 15th cent.... Read more |
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Jean Chretien
J EANC HRÉTIEN Born: January 11, 1934 Shawinigan, Quebec, Canada Canadian prime minister and politician Jean Chrétien was elected ten times to Canada's House of Commons, held almost every major cabinet office, and in October 1993 was elected as... Read more |
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Huntsville
Huntsville town (1991 pop. 14,997), SE Ont., Canada, on the Muskoka River. It has lumber mills and a woodworking plant, but it is sustained mainly by its year-round tourist trade.... Read more |
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Palestrina
Palestrina , town (1991 pop. 15,802), in Latium, central Italy. It is an agricultural market. It is located on the site of Praeneste, a town founded by c.800 BC and later destroyed (and rebuilt) by the Romans in the 1st cent. BC Of note are the ruins of a temple of Fortuna (8th cent. BC), celebrated... Read more |
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San Gimignano
San Gimignano , town (1991 pop. 6,956), Tuscany, central Italy. It is a tourist center that has fully preserved its medieval aspect. The city walls, the palaces, and the celebrated 14 towers (out of an original 72) still stand as they did in the 13th cent. Also of note in the town are the cathedral... Read more |
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celebrating 50 years, girls inc. honors ten.(SportsU)
...Portsmouth Girls Club 50 years ago. "I had a place...Center for Youth, is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year. Events include...Other honorees this year will be Mae Breckenridge...came from all around town. Most of them...ages 6 to 13. A few years later, the ... |
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Polished designs after ten years of realising dreams; Alison Jones talks to...
...Architectural Design Ltd, which this year celebrates its 10th anniversary, he has...or businesses. But after spending two years building his own home from an old apple...mix. The airport was just starting a 10 year redevelopment plan. There was a small department of 10 of us, town planners and ... |
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CULTURE : Who needs London; After ten years as director of Birmingham Royal...
...David Bintley is already celebrating ten years as director of Birmingham...film crew had been in town recording an item forThe...500 educational events a year. In London when I was...south. One dancer in ten years. All the rest have retired... |
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THE OLDEST YOUTH CLUB IN TOWN... ; Pensioners fed up with bingo mark 10 years...
...Birmingham pensioners are celebrating ten years of playing volleyball...the oldest youth club in town. The Late Late Youth...anyone with half their years. Founder member Stan...grateful over the last ten years. "The friendship... |
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THE OLDEST YOUTH CLUB IN TOWN...; Pensioners fed up with bingo mark 10 years...
...Birmingham pensioners are celebrating ten years of playing volleyball...the oldest youth club in town. The Late Late Youth...anyone with half their years. Founder member Stan...grateful over the last ten years. "The friendship... |
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Whitby's lucky ducks celebrating its 50th year.
...in Sandgate, are celebrating their 50th anniversary...conceived in the new year of 1958 and in the...Dorothy was in her last year at school in Lancashire...invitation in New Year 1968. She said...as though all the years had rolled back...past 10 years as the town itself has ... |
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Celebrating the career of the Man in Black; BILLY KENNEDY looks back on the...
...US Air Force and spent four years in Germany, during the early...limited range. In his first year at Sun, Johnny recorded Folsom...Wilburn Brothers to stardom. Two years later, he signed with Columbia...Don't Take Your Guns to Town, sold half-a-million copies...The pair married in 1968, the ... |
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Nashville Symphony Strikes a Chord in Music City Just Ten Years After
...in Music City Just Ten Years After Facing...Three seasons after celebrating its 50th anniversary...After several years of balanced budgets...league."Also this year, Alan D. Valentine...executive director after ten years in the same capacity...that survived in the town ... |
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CELEBRATING 55 YEARS; Tri-State Defender; Then and Now
...s Independent Weekly"The year 2006, finds this historic Black...published "The Tri-State Defender Ten Point Program." Itstated...B. Wells, were run out of town in 1891 following aseries of...newspapers inMemphis over the years following that time including...andwould remain for another 10 ... |
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Inyour face: the ten-year-old, rapid-fire, celeb-loving, movie-marveling...
...paragraph] At Access Hollywood, the NBC show celebrating its tenth anniversary of disseminating...appearing, it seems, on nine out of ten episodes. So on a slow day Access arranged...and explaining that Parker was out of town with the team, he sending flowers via... |
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