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Panama City, Panama, USA 1. Panama: founded as Panamá near a village of that name in 1519. It was destroyed in 1671 but rebuilt three years later on a site a few miles west of the old town. Traditionally, the name is said to mean ‘(Place with) an Abundance of Fish’. However, some... Read more
Pied Piper of Hamelin Pied Piper of Hamelin
Pied Piper of Hamelin legendary figure of Hameln, Germany. He rid the town of its rats and mice by charming them away with his flute playing. When the citizens refused to pay him the price they had agreed upon, he charmed away their children out of revenge. Allegedly this occurred in 1284. Among... Read more
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Bill Walsh Bill Walsh
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Levant, the an archaic name for the eastern part of the Mediterranean with its islands and neighbouring countries. The name comes from French, literally ‘rising’, the present participle of lever ‘to lift’, used as a noun in the sense ‘point of sunrise,... Read more
Ballinasloe Ballinasloe
Ballinasloe, Co. Galway, the site of Ireland's best known fair. While patents were granted for fairs on this site in the 17th century, they did not prosper until the early 18th century. There were a number of fairs in the town by the 1750s, each of which performed a different economic function. The... Read more
Roanoke Island Roanoke Island
Roanoke Island 12 mi (19 km) long and 3 mi (4.8 km) wide, NE N.C., off the Atlantic coast between Croatan (W) and Roanoke (E) sounds in the Outer Banks . Manteo is the chief town, and tourism and fishing are the principal industries. The English navigators Philip Amadas and Arthur Barlowe,... Read more
Donnie McClurkin Donnie McClurkin
Donnie McClurkin Singer For the Record … Selected discography Sources Ordained in May of 2001, the Reverend Donnie McClurkin has taken a long road toward establishing his own ministry not far from the Long Island town where he grew up. The victim of childhood sexual abuse that left long-term... Read more
Dawn Powell Dawn Powell
Dawn Powell 1896-1965, American novelist, b. Mt. Gilead, Ohio. She came to New York City in 1918 and settled several years later in Greenwich Village, where she spent most of the rest of her life and became a member of a stellar literary set. These two locales are reflected in Powell's 15 novels:... Read more

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