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Sousse
Sousse (Sūsah), Tunisia Hadrumetum, Hunericopolis, Justinianopolis A governorate and a city founded by the Phoenicians perhaps as early as the 9th century bc. Known to the Romans as Hadrumetum from c.146 bc, Julius Caesar† incorporated it into the Roman province of Africa Nova. When... Read more |
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West Des Moines
West Des Moines , city (1990 pop. 31,702), Polk co., S central Iowa, a growing suburb W of Des Moines; inc. 1893 as Valley Junction, renamed 1938. Hybrid seed corn and sorghum are grown, and there is diversified manufacturing.... Read more |
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Ussuriysk
Ussuriysk, Primorskiy Territory/Russia Nikolskoye, Nikolsk‐Ussuriyskiy, Voroshilov Named after the Ussuri River, although it does not lie on it. Nikolskoye was founded in 1866 and named after Emperor Nicholas I†. It merged with Ketritsevo in 1898, the name being changed with the... Read more |
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Sam Moore Walton
Sam Moore Walton Businessman Sam Moore Walton (born 1918) built Wal-Mart into one of the nation's largest retailers and became one of the richest Americans. Sam Moore Walton was born in Kingfisher, Oklahoma, March 29, 1918. The older of two boys, his father was a banker. A product of the... Read more |
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Catherine Wheel
Catherine Wheel Rock band Signed after Their First Gig Style Change Found a Sense of Place Selected discography Sources Commented Catherine Wheel’s.... Read more |
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metropolitan diocese of York
York, metropolitan diocese of. The present province of York, founded in 735, comprises the fourteen dioceses of northern England. The York diocese itself, founded by Paulinus in 625, is now conterminous with eastern Yorkshire. Though Roman York, capital of north Britain, had a bishop who attended... Read more |
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metropolitan diocese of Canterbury
Canterbury, metropolitan diocese of. The diocese, comprising east Kent, was founded in 601 at the instigation of Pope Gregory the Great, four years after Augustine's arrival in Kent. The boundaries of the diocese itself have changed little, though from 1375 to 1558 Calais fell within it. The... Read more |
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Placentia
Placentia, Canada, USA Canada (Newfoundland): originally Plasencia, probably after the place with that name in Spain given by Basque fishermen who arrived here in the 16th century. In 1662 the French altered the spelling to Plaisance, but this was changed to Placentia by the British when they took... Read more |
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Buchanan
Buchanan, Canada, Liberia, USA 1. Liberia: founded in 1835 by black Quakers from Pennsylvania and named by them Grand Bassa after the Bassa people. As more Quakers arrived Thomas Buchanan (&–1841), who had been active in the anti‐slavery movement and been governor of Bassa Cove,... Read more |
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