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- Cape Town (Afrikaans: Kaapstad; Xhosa: iKapa) is one of South Africa's three capital cities, serving as the legislative capital and seat ...27 KB (3,877 words) - 19:33, 25 November 2023
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- Built between the Old Town in the north and the New Town in the south ... decided to set up a small fortified town named Nanciacum. Between the ...10 KB (1,508 words) - 20:43, 9 April 2023
- The Grote Markt (Dutch) or Grand Place (French) is the central market square of Brussels. It is surrounded by guild houses, the city's Town ...12 KB (1,814 words) - 12:17, 24 January 2023
- and only two percent is boulder opal. The town of Coober Pedy in South Australia ... ==The town of Coober Pedy== The "Opal Capital of the World" ...11 KB (1,686 words) - 00:45, 18 November 2022
- Great Depression) has been criticized, the town they called "Middletown ... practices of people of one small American town. The choice eventually settled ...13 KB (1,965 words) - 02:18, 16 December 2022
- family moved to Stoughton, Massachusetts, a town located seventeen miles south ... partnership with his brother, he opened the town's first store. He very ...11 KB (1,581 words) - 02:41, 16 December 2022
- Juan de Salcedo attacked and secured the town, giving it the name Vigan ... Vigan constitutes the best example of a Spanish colonial town in the ...13 KB (1,737 words) - 20:19, 3 May 2023
- * United Kingdom: Cornwall (famously the town of Delabole) and Wales. * Northern Italy: Liguria, especially between the town of Lavagna ...5 KB (686 words) - 22:49, 29 January 2023
- the capital of Louangphrabang Province. The town of Luang Phrabang is best ... 2000), 453. Khun Lo had been awarded the town by his father, Khun Borom ...10 KB (1,520 words) - 04:17, 4 November 2022
- first president of the Garden Cities and Town Planning Federation in 1913 ... of slums and enjoying the benefits of both town—such as opportunity, amusement ...10 KB (1,579 words) - 17:59, 12 February 2024
- Some researchers dispute the authenticity of this town as Jesus' ... and the path by which she and Naomi returned to the town. ...17 KB (2,648 words) - 17:59, 29 September 2023
- row for Captains Courageous (1937) and Boys Town (1938). He was linked to actress ... in a row, for Captains Courageous (1937) and Boys Town (1938). ...13 KB (2,011 words) - 19:15, 7 February 2023
- The ruins of Pompeii are situated near the modern suburban town of ... The town was founded around the sixth century B.C.E. by the Osci or ...14 KB (2,204 words) - 08:49, 24 November 2022
- became both a source of great pride for the town's residents and a burden ... periodic uncontrolled fires which swept through the town. ...15 KB (2,381 words) - 00:43, 5 December 2023
- in the faces of Table Mountain itself. Cape Town is about 50 kilometers to ... on the Atlantic coast and Simon's Town on the False Bay coast. It ...15 KB (2,280 words) - 00:36, 13 January 2023
- Cape Town (Afrikaans: Kaapstad; Xhosa: iKapa) is one of South Africa's three capital cities, serving as the legislative capital and seat ...27 KB (3,877 words) - 19:33, 25 November 2023
- in the world. He also founded the company town of Derry Township, Pennsylvania ... employees to build their own houses. The town was named “Hershey” in 1906. ...10 KB (1,508 words) - 11:05, 10 March 2023
- in Israel. A predominantly Arab-Christian town until the Arab-Israeli war ... a small village of a few dozen persons to a town of up to 2,000. The Galilean ...14 KB (2,200 words) - 15:58, 11 November 2022
- The ancient town plan began from a central mosque, with the town radiating ... Enclosed by walls, each town had a main entrance for caravans. Cemeteries ...17 KB (2,566 words) - 04:37, 4 March 2023
- tend to take people away from the center of town, leaving the city-center bereft ... The majority of British shopping centers are in town centers, usually ...16 KB (2,407 words) - 01:55, 15 December 2022
- rest of the country as well, including the town. This act of defiance and ... and blocked all avenues of escape from the town. In the early morning all ...12 KB (1,879 words) - 22:48, 25 October 2022
- ceremonies held in local memorial or town parks. For many though, the ... for fallen soldiers who were from that town by holding a ceremony in a ...13 KB (1,956 words) - 04:27, 9 November 2022
- The town is known for the famous Paulist monastery of Jasna Góra ... contributing to the growth of the adjacent town. Before 1377 Częstochowa ...13 KB (1,981 words) - 07:32, 12 January 2024
- Baroque architecture of Salzburg's "Old Town" represents one of the best-preserved city centers in the German-speaking world, and was ...19 KB (2,898 words) - 01:56, 23 December 2022
- Pulitzer Prize for drama for his plays Our Town and The Skin of Our Teeth ... Wilder was the author of Our Town, a popular play (and later film ...12 KB (1,836 words) - 23:01, 30 April 2023
- Badrinath temple, sometimes called Badrinarayan temple, sits on the Alaknanda river, in the hill town of Badrinath in Uttarakhand state in India ...11 KB (1,669 words) - 05:36, 26 August 2023
- The town was named after a species of fish in the Nile River that ... C.E., the city was reestablished as a Greek town, called Oxyrhynchou Polis ...19 KB (2,886 words) - 06:03, 18 November 2022
- Pulitzer Prize. With his portraits of small-town life and settings rooted in ... dramas about a family in a midwestern town. The series with six continuing ...13 KB (2,098 words) - 11:04, 9 May 2023
- American father. He was born at Canawagus (now the town of Caledonia) on the Genesee River in present-day New York state. He was raised with his mother ...15 KB (2,354 words) - 19:04, 14 January 2023
- The play centers on the fictional German town of Güllen, which was ... the fathers, and she was shamed out of the town. Now that she has become rich ...14 KB (2,092 words) - 11:01, 11 April 2024
- spent the rest of her childhood in the same town that has been made famous ... Jim Burden, arrives in the fictional town of Black Hawk, Nebraska, on ...10 KB (1,563 words) - 12:02, 5 May 2023
- Taba is a small Egyptian town near the northern tip of the Gulf of ... forces were forced to withdraw from the town after a raid led by T. E. ...15 KB (2,306 words) - 08:25, 8 January 2024
- interest, The History of One Town, a satirical allegory of Russian ... In 1869-70 The History of a Town appeared, which sums up the achievement ...9 KB (1,305 words) - 17:53, 9 November 2022
- Bethel (בית אל, "House of God")—also written as Beth El or Beth-El—was an ancient Israelite town, located about ten miles ...13 KB (2,035 words) - 10:23, 4 March 2023
- to Prague. He was initially feted in the town when he arrived in June, welcomed ... 1523, he became pastor at Allstedt, a town of around 900 people in an ...11 KB (1,597 words) - 21:24, 30 April 2023
- to remove all troops from the center of town to a fort on Castle Island ... attorney Robert Treat Paine, hired by the town of Boston, handled the prosecution. ...9 KB (1,444 words) - 19:51, 20 November 2023
- Sāmarrā (Arabic,سامراء) is a town in Iraq that in ancient times may have been the world's largest city. With its majestic mosques ...9 KB (1,343 words) - 02:08, 23 December 2022
- renovation of Shrewsbury Castle, the town's prison (during the ... of Wrexham via the north-west Shropshire town of Ellesmere, with Chester ...13 KB (1,904 words) - 22:56, 30 April 2023
- Assisi, a beautiful medieval town, draws between four and five million ... The Ostrogoths of king Totila destroyed most of the town in 545. Assisi ...13 KB (1,967 words) - 05:01, 18 August 2023
- A small town has built up around the archeological site of Polonnaruwa engaged in tourism. Government institutions stand in a newly built area ...12 KB (1,690 words) - 08:40, 24 November 2022
- a port. In the early fifteenth century, the town became an independent state ... to build a military fortress in 1515. The town that grew up around it was ...20 KB (2,766 words) - 14:16, 29 November 2023
- Los Angeles grew from a small frontier town to a major urban area with ... the LA Times, Los Angeles grew from a small town of 12,000 people to a major ...10 KB (1,489 words) - 20:43, 29 January 2022
- of his name "Rhenanus"), and a town notable; he was president ... up late in the morning, taking walks in the town gardens, and sometimes meeting ...12 KB (1,792 words) - 10:18, 26 September 2023
- Harpers Ferry (originally Harper's Ferry) is a small town at ... The town was virtually indefensible, dominated on all sides by higher ...18 KB (2,860 words) - 09:46, 22 September 2023
- Kalimpong (Nepali: कालिम्पोङ), a hill station (a hill town) nestled in the Shiwalik Hills (or Lower Himalaya) in the Indian ...23 KB (3,408 words) - 02:28, 5 October 2022
- father's shop, now in the provincial town of Letschin in the Oderbruch ... consents to living in the small Baltic town of Kessin, where she is miserably ...11 KB (1,589 words) - 17:55, 30 April 2023
- of the dramas was taken over by town guilds, after which several ... built over wide open public spaces, such as town squares or cemeteries. They ...17 KB (2,612 words) - 02:40, 11 March 2023
- Sea Islands, South Carolina (1923), Mitla: Town of the Souls (1936) and Pueblo ... and folklore. Her two books Mitla, Town of the Souls (1936) and Pueblo ...11 KB (1,553 words) - 17:40, 13 February 2024
- His head was put on a tree in the town of Yaxzam (Scholes, 271-272). ... The modern-day Mexican town of Ixcateopan in the state of Guerrero ...8 KB (1,234 words) - 19:34, 8 July 2016
- Africa, approximately 6 miles (10 km) north of Cape Town. Its name comes from the Dutch Robbe Eiland, meaning "seal island." ...18 KB (2,791 words) - 21:08, 16 April 2023
- The Old Town, Aarhus, Denmark, is considered the oldest (architecture ... ====The Old Town, Aarhus==== The Old Town in Aarhus, Denmark, is an ...17 KB (2,491 words) - 00:49, 18 November 2022
- she would eventually be buried in that town's cemetery. ... first saloon-smashing was recorded in the town of Lawrence. Their efforts ...12 KB (1,895 words) - 14:52, 27 April 2023
- millennium B.C.E., the first signs of a town can be observed, with the ... seat was established in Byblos, and the town grew rapidly. Although a Persian ...14 KB (1,996 words) - 19:08, 24 November 2023
- them and stayed in their eponymous town, Chicasa, at present-day Lawrenceburg ... war, the villagers moved into a fortified town for protection. ...14 KB (2,099 words) - 15:20, 10 December 2023
- through the streets of Prague to the New Town Hall (Novoměstská radnice ... the eyes of the wealthy of Prague’s New Town (Nové Město) district and ...17 KB (2,723 words) - 09:09, 28 January 2024
- |South Africa||Pretoria (administrative), Cape Town (legislative) ... overseas territory of the United Kingdom)||Road Town |- ...20 KB (2,886 words) - 04:26, 29 October 2022
- Port Arthur is a small town and former penal colony on the Tasman Peninsula in Tasmania, Australia. It is considered one of the country's ...14 KB (2,020 words) - 05:41, 30 November 2022
- to three years of hard labor in the town of Vishera, in the North Urals. He was released in 1931 and worked in the town of Berezniki in construction ...8 KB (1,126 words) - 14:36, 3 May 2023
- most of his life as a teacher in his home town. In private he wrote Lun-Heng ... but spent most of his life teaching in his home town. Wang was an ...10 KB (1,654 words) - 22:51, 3 May 2023
- The city also enjoyed frequent periods of prosperity. The current ... The city of Magdeburg first entered the written record as a fortified ...14 KB (2,050 words) - 04:57, 5 November 2022
- of Herodotus. It promptly became the chief town of ancient Libya and established ... a restless minority. The ruler of the town, Apion bequeathed it to the ...13 KB (1,919 words) - 18:50, 12 May 2020
- under the Phoenicians and Romans, the town was later captured by the ... which the latter was expelled in 1408. The town remained in the possession ...23 KB (3,549 words) - 07:17, 23 August 2023
- In 1842, Botta started excavations in Kuyunjik, a town not far from ... relief depicting the sack of the Urartian town of Musasir during Sargon II ...8 KB (1,273 words) - 16:48, 21 November 2022
- and under-served by many of the small town retailers on whom they had ... Energy and ambition drove him to seek employment in the town of St ...7 KB (1,133 words) - 21:15, 9 November 2022
- to build a mosque in this holy Ethiopian town, Orthodox residents, and the ... The major Aksumite monuments in the town are stelae; the largest number ...13 KB (2,015 words) - 07:23, 23 August 2023
- The city's old quarter, known as Stone Town, is a World Heritage Site. ... settled at what became Zanzibar City (Stone Town) as a convenient point from ...19 KB (2,660 words) - 05:43, 13 June 2023
- Saint Bernadette Soubirous (January 7, 1844 – April 16, 1879) was a shepherd girl from the town of Lourdes in southern France. She was canonized ...11 KB (1,754 words) - 19:13, 22 December 2022
- York, Pennsylvania, the largest Northern town to fall to the Confederacy ... and seized York, the largest Northern town to fall to the Confederates ...15 KB (2,251 words) - 20:40, 4 October 2022
- impact that the riches of this mountain town offered in its role as one ... in 1545, prompting the founding of the town the following year. Within ...14 KB (2,123 words) - 05:55, 30 November 2022
- quot;There'll be a Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight," which refers ... quot;There'll Be a Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight," once popular ...12 KB (1,865 words) - 00:08, 15 April 2023
- had been the original name of the town (now called Phu Kao) that ... The ancient town of Shrestapura had been replaced by a town whose ...11 KB (1,724 words) - 23:14, 3 May 2023
- Thomas Wolfe was born in the mountain resort town Asheville, North ... that he would feel safe enough to return to the town. Around this ...16 KB (2,496 words) - 22:56, 30 April 2023
- as a "dead man's hand." The town of Deadwood closed down for ... hauling machinery and supplies from town to the mining camps. She also ...8 KB (1,247 words) - 18:20, 25 November 2023
- father Ulrich was the chief magistrate in town, and his uncle Bartolomeus ... Zwingli became pastor at Glarus, the chief town of a canton by that name, ...22 KB (3,346 words) - 16:31, 11 November 2022
- A Town Like Alice is a characteristic example. Jean Paget, who has ... a wealthy and respected banker who lifts a town out of the depression by bringing ...19 KB (3,017 words) - 16:28, 11 November 2022
- ) refers to a town situated on the southwestern tip of Sri Lanka, ... Galle, the main town in the most southerly part of the island, has ...17 KB (2,690 words) - 03:58, 18 April 2024
- soon afterward, it is said that 500 of the town's boys created their ... of the Order of Enoch proved a failure, the town of Lamoni continued to grow ...14 KB (2,236 words) - 05:01, 7 May 2024
- The capital occupied twenty five square kilometers. The ruins of the ... established that certain areas of the town were allotted for trade and ...26 KB (3,693 words) - 02:16, 18 November 2022
- Alaska to the Arctic Ocean at the town of Deadhorse, Alaska along the North Slope. The town consists of facilities for the workers and companies ...9 KB (1,433 words) - 06:21, 12 August 2023
- he led the charge against the fortress town and David's future capital ... During the Israelite siege of the Ammonite town of Rabbah, one of ...18 KB (2,943 words) - 05:54, 5 April 2024
- location of the Annunciation is in the town of Nazareth, Israel. The feast ... In the sixth month, God sent the angel Gabriel to Nazareth, a town ...12 KB (2,039 words) - 05:11, 31 July 2023
- ===Town layout=== and the layout of today's Old Town was established. Initially ...18 KB (2,738 words) - 17:14, 29 September 2023
- (Nepali/Hindi: गंगटोक), the capital and largest town of ... of the East Sikkim district. The town lies on one side of a hill ...22 KB (3,354 words) - 04:26, 18 April 2024
- Professional speakers would tour from town to town, lecturing on history ... *Bode, C. American Lyceum Town Meeting of the Mind. Southern Illinois ...14 KB (2,070 words) - 03:09, 5 November 2022
- portion of the Penobscot River between Old Town and Bangor. Penobscot is also ... in whose honor the settlers named the town of Orono, Maine. ...23 KB (3,545 words) - 07:18, 23 November 2022
- herself as a temple prostitute in the town of Timnah and offered herself ... sheep-sheering festival at the nearby town of Timnah, she disguises herself ...15 KB (2,478 words) - 03:57, 27 February 2023
- the so-called Eisenachers (named after the German town Eisenach). Together with August Bebel and Wilhelm Liebknecht he prepared the Einigungsparteitag ...9 KB (1,198 words) - 18:16, 12 February 2024
- was divided among many local lords and town councils. Before the crusade ... Its people were not killed, but were forced to leave the town--naked ...18 KB (2,843 words) - 05:04, 17 June 2023
- sellers converge. Usually this is done in town squares, sidewalks, or designated ... jpg|thumb|left|250 px|The Mall, an out-of-town shopping centre at Patchway ...16 KB (2,486 words) - 08:16, 4 August 2022
- of the Flinders River, near where the town of Normanton now stands, on ... In 1862, a memorial was erected overlooking the town of Castlemaine ...8 KB (1,267 words) - 01:46, 16 December 2022
- A charter is a document bestowing certain rights on a town, city, ... Royal decree, perhaps giving a particular town the right to hold a weekly ...19 KB (2,837 words) - 07:42, 13 January 2023
- | tonyawards = Best Leading Actress - Musical1953 Wonderful Town ... Tony Award-winning performance in Wonderful Town in 1953. The play was a musical ...12 KB (1,728 words) - 19:15, 16 December 2022
- addition, the knights, often in debt to the town, were incessantly quarreling ... As guilds grew and urban populations rose, the town patricians were ...21 KB (3,237 words) - 23:30, 4 December 2022
- small Yaqui settlements even earlier. The town of Tubac, Arizona, had Yaquis ... named after Our Lady of Guadalupe. The town incorporated in 1979 as Guadalupe ...14 KB (2,202 words) - 10:14, 22 May 2023
- County. Abbeville is named after a town in France located in northern ... The town of Abbeville developed around a spring which was set aside ...17 KB (2,385 words) - 04:41, 14 June 2023
- state of ancient Canaan and an important town in the later Kingdom of Israel ... settlement, Megiddo was an important town of ancient Canaan, overlooking ...12 KB (1,897 words) - 21:46, 28 October 2022
- Two of the angels arrive in Sodom on their mission to destroy the ... asks instead to find shelter in the small town of Zoar. The angels agree ...14 KB (2,337 words) - 22:02, 30 January 2023
- * In the town of Penzance, in Cornwall, a statue of Davy, its most famous son, stands in front of the imposing Market House at the top of Market ...12 KB (1,863 words) - 20:56, 9 February 2024
- ) refers to a town in the Indian state of West Bengal, the headquarters ... Himalayan Railway, connecting the town with the plains, a World Heritage ...33 KB (4,712 words) - 06:27, 15 January 2023
- around Christiansborg, Accra (later Ussher Town) around the Dutch fort, and ... 1898 a municipal council was formed to improve the town. ...15 KB (2,198 words) - 07:30, 14 June 2023
- was built to the coast, passing through the town of Ghinda, under the direction ... " The Italians changed the face of the town. The city is littered with ...18 KB (2,473 words) - 21:16, 30 January 2023
- and an earthquake. Old sections of the town are subject to flooding, but ... Founded in 1436 as a monastery town, Chişinău was part of the Moldavian ...21 KB (3,032 words) - 17:07, 10 December 2023
- by Charcas Indians, who called the town Chuquisaca. In 1538, the Spanish ... Nearby is the town of Tarabuco, which is known as the home of the ...15 KB (2,191 words) - 13:44, 28 April 2023
- Abiezrite, of the tribe of Manasseh, in the town of Ophrah. The family, like ... Gideon lived to a ripe old age and was buried in his home town of ...9 KB (1,479 words) - 22:57, 28 August 2021
- nicknamed "The Golden City," is a town in the state of Rajasthan ... The town is named after its founder Rawal Jaisal, and the full name ...15 KB (2,331 words) - 12:43, 6 November 2021
- cultural manners and mores from small town provincialism to religious ... He was an avid reader and town legend had it that he read every book ...15 KB (2,252 words) - 22:29, 29 January 2023
- Aihole (Kannada ಐಹೊಳೆ) is a town in the Bagalkot district of Karnataka, India. Ancient inscriptions reveal the earlier names "Ayyavole ...10 KB (1,455 words) - 06:56, 16 June 2023
- in his fifth century attempt to seize the town. In the division of the empire ... of attrition on the French armies. The town of Verdun-sur-Meuse was chosen ...14 KB (2,192 words) - 01:41, 26 September 2023
- procession of Morris dancers through the town on the May Bank Holiday. A ... 1st with unaccompanied singing around the town starting at the Golden Lion ...20 KB (3,175 words) - 09:20, 10 March 2023
- Dead are not universal and often vary from town to town. For example, in the ... In contrast, the town of Ocotepec, north of Cuernavaca in the state ...19 KB (2,926 words) - 08:42, 28 January 2024
- to death, in a modern, rural American town. This story raised a disturbing ... a deeply unsettling underside to bucolic, small town America. ...12 KB (1,830 words) - 14:20, 27 January 2023
- systematized in his work Tobati: Paraguayan Town (1954), which he wrote with ... * Service, Elman R. 1954. Tobati: Paraguayan Town. Chicago, IL: University ...10 KB (1,368 words) - 17:15, 13 February 2024
- , roughly meh’-joo-gor-yeh) is a town located in Bosnia and Herzegovina ... When word spread of these visions, millions flocked to the town for ...28 KB (4,419 words) - 09:37, 10 March 2023
- quot;), Norma and Kathleen, moved from town to town, counting on the kindness of friends and relatives. Though poor, Cora never traveled without ...9 KB (1,450 words) - 18:15, 12 February 2024
- Indian sepoys at the garrison in the nearby town of Nasirabad joined the revolt ... Pushkar, a town in the state of Rajasthan in India, about ...14 KB (1,997 words) - 07:13, 16 June 2023
- naked and ride through the streets of the town. Lady Godiva took him at his ... may have originated from a trip through town as a penitent, in her shift ...16 KB (2,352 words) - 05:33, 4 March 2023
- of the Nectar of Immortality." The town growing up around the holy ... Guru, Guru Amar Das, at the neighboring town of Goindval expressed admiration ...15 KB (2,334 words) - 18:54, 23 June 2020
- be seen on the Shubenacadie River near the town of Truro and the village of ... problem on the historic waterfront of the town of Annapolis Royal, as well ...16 KB (2,540 words) - 03:10, 26 September 2023
- The Avenue of the Republic in the center of town has numerous stores, coffee ... upper Ishim River in 1824. This became the town of "Akmolinsk," ...14 KB (2,138 words) - 05:07, 18 August 2023
- at the Piarist high school in the same town. From 1921 to 1924, Tiso served ... Tiso continued to work actively as the parish priest of the town of ...13 KB (1,972 words) - 02:02, 8 September 2022
- especially the destruction of his home town, Cologne. Böll's ... Böll was deeply rooted in his home town of Cologne, with its strong ...12 KB (1,890 words) - 15:15, 25 January 2023
- and Orthodox faiths. His cathedral at the town now named for him is one of ... annual festival held in a historic Swiss town, is named after Saint Alban ...10 KB (1,607 words) - 19:04, 22 December 2022
- Orthodox Christian Serbs and Muslims in the town of Višegrad in eastern Bosnia ... mother's family in the eastern Bosnian town of Višegrad on the river ...10 KB (1,459 words) - 07:47, 12 March 2024
- Georgetown began as a small town in the eighteenth century. Originally ... The French captured the colony in 1782 and developed this town, making ...22 KB (3,061 words) - 20:14, 13 December 2023
- for slavers. The old Arab slave-trading town of Ujiji, on the eastern shore ... * The port town of Kigoma is the railhead for the railway from Dar ...12 KB (1,887 words) - 23:20, 21 October 2022
- Mount Gerizim, located near the ancient town of Shechem, was the location ... near Mount Gerizim and in the suburban town of Holon, outside of Tel Aviv. ...12 KB (1,793 words) - 22:25, 26 September 2023
- Central Committee met in the Romanian town of Giurgiu and decided that ... headquarters of the Ottoman police in the town and proclaimed the insurrection ...16 KB (2,460 words) - 20:16, 13 December 2023
- extreme weight. He then sent out the town's children who, miraculously, quite easily brought the body ashore. In works of art he is often ...11 KB (1,622 words) - 19:13, 22 December 2022
- Leopold von Buch named gabbro after a town in the Italian Tuscany region. This rock often contains valuable amounts of sulfides of various metals ...5 KB (628 words) - 07:32, 15 April 2024
- Nachman was born in the town of Medzhybizh in the Ukraine from a lineage ... In 1800, Rebbe Nachman decided to move to the town of Zlatopol, where ...16 KB (2,514 words) - 23:00, 10 November 2022
- Gaborone was planned as a small town, and its rapid development has ... of Gaborone was Reverend J. D. Jones, whose town council led the planning and ...17 KB (2,344 words) - 09:18, 4 December 2023
- During the early- and mid-twentieth century, when town gas (also known as "manufactured gas" or "syngas") was produced, tar was ...10 KB (1,437 words) - 04:53, 18 August 2023
- Vrindavan (alternate spellings Vrindaban or Brindavan or Brundavan), or Vraj in Mathura district, Uttar Pradesh, India, is a town on the site ...13 KB (1,859 words) - 21:50, 3 May 2023
- average elevation of 434 metres (1423 feet). The town exists as a nagar panchayat (town committee or council) in Raisen district in the Indian state ...10 KB (1,469 words) - 03:10, 23 December 2022
- Claudia Alta Taylor was born in Karnack, Texas, a town in Harrison ... with another family during weekdays in the town of Jefferson, Texas, ...20 KB (3,091 words) - 22:46, 21 October 2022
- disappear from among his family or from the town records. (4:9-10) The town elders, members of Boaz' own tribe of Judah, witness ...10 KB (1,594 words) - 00:40, 19 November 2023
- Kingdom of Tonga, and in 1920 moved to Cape Town, South Africa, to become professor ... similar to that in the University of Cape Town, with even greater success ...15 KB (2,175 words) - 18:05, 20 July 2023
- sends his trusted servant Eliezer to the town of Nahor, in northwest Mesopotamia ... Patriarchs still exists in the West Bank town of Hebron. ...13 KB (2,094 words) - 01:43, 8 December 2022
- at such places as parks, fairgrounds, and town squares. ... Peter entitled The Psalm of Joy. The town claims to be the first public ...20 KB (2,843 words) - 22:00, 4 February 2023
- features have been "Goings On About Town," a listing of cultural ... and the masthead above The Talk of the Town section. The gentleman on ...15 KB (2,229 words) - 15:41, 30 April 2023
- the Latin Aluviana after a flood in the town. Another possible sources ... up of two districts: one includes Ljubljana town hall; the other, the neighborhood ...26 KB (3,718 words) - 07:46, 9 March 2023
- From his Vila do Infante, or Town of the Prince, on the Sagres Peninsula, Henry sponsored voyages down the coast of Mauretania that were primarily ...10 KB (1,543 words) - 17:47, 19 December 2017
- might be explained by saying that Adam and Alex left town. those two facts: If Adam and Alex leave town (and everyone else stays put ...13 KB (1,960 words) - 02:59, 8 December 2022
- province. His father was gobernadorcillo (town head), and, as members of ... from his great-aunt and later attended the town's elementary school. ...20 KB (2,922 words) - 18:15, 13 February 2024
- native of Tionesta, Pennsylvania—a small town located on the Allegheny River ... necessitated the elimination of the small town of Corydon, which was located ...19 KB (2,637 words) - 18:26, 21 July 2023
- Islands was opened as well as the George Town Public Hospital. The British ... Democratic Alliance won two seats in George Town, Team Cayman won one in Bodden ...26 KB (3,769 words) - 16:23, 3 December 2023
- in Lake County, Colorado, near the town of Leadville. It enters the ... Range of the Rocky Mountains near the town of Leadville Colorado, the ...11 KB (1,582 words) - 03:27, 30 January 2023
- of Puebla, "Far up in the gold country town of Columbia (now Columbia ... Cape Town, South Africa, Kayli Vee, [http://www.food-blog.co.za/cinco ...18 KB (2,441 words) - 22:02, 10 December 2023
- Oscar for directing Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936), which also won the ... It Happened One Night, Mr Deeds Goes to Town (1936), You Can't Take ...21 KB (3,350 words) - 05:01, 9 April 2024
- above the extensive rice plain to the west, although the town is at ... The settlement eventually became a town of some 80,000 inhabitants. ...13 KB (1,867 words) - 05:19, 31 July 2023
- or technology, monumental arts, town-planning or landscape design"; ... Image:Bermuda-Harbour and Town of St George.jpg|Site #983: St. George ...15 KB (2,151 words) - 22:17, 6 October 2023
- and takes place in a remote hot-spring town somewhere north of the mountainous ... place in the remote hot spring (onsen) town of Yuzawa (although Kawabata ...14 KB (2,136 words) - 17:16, 5 October 2022
- country. The village of Irvington, New York, and the town of Irvington, New Jersey, were named after the author, and also, it is believed, the city of ...11 KB (1,727 words) - 23:12, 3 May 2023
- a barber from Castellammare di Stabia, a town about 15 miles south of Naples ... triumphs, the takeover of Cicero's town government in 1924. ...18 KB (2,835 words) - 04:20, 17 June 2023
- century many famous collegiate and town libraries—i.e., libraries ... Other early town libraries of the UK include those of Ipswich (1612 ...23 KB (3,301 words) - 23:36, 2 December 2022
- against him by raiding and burning his town of Ziklag and taking his property ... David is fortunate that the Amalekites do not kill all of the town ...15 KB (2,384 words) - 02:37, 24 July 2023
- The Old Town and New Town districts of Edinburgh were listed as a ... crag, and the long sweep of the Old Town trailing after it along the ...33 KB (4,767 words) - 18:11, 12 February 2024
- identified with Sepph, a fortified Jewish town in the Upper Galilee mentioned ... Jews and Arabs occasionally flared in the town. About 20 Jewish residents ...13 KB (1,970 words) - 18:37, 22 December 2022
- Today, Delphi is both an archaeological site and a modern town in Greece. ... in the area and established a small town about 600 C.E. by the name Kastri. ...21 KB (3,318 words) - 09:23, 28 January 2024
- Ocean. From c. 1200 to 1500 C.E., the town of Kilwa, on Tanzania's ... European to land in Mzizima ("healthy town"). Dar es Salaam fell ...19 KB (2,649 words) - 22:16, 25 January 2024
- was the hereditary chief of a small town in Edo. When Natsume was born ... was the hereditary chief of a small town in Edo. The position of chief ...14 KB (2,244 words) - 15:18, 11 November 2022
- Most pilgrims to the Char Dham embark from the famous temple town ... requires walking six kilometers from the town of Hanuman Chatti. Pilgrims ...11 KB (1,617 words) - 01:45, 4 December 2023
- [[Image:Xidi1024x1360.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Gate in front of the town ... right|280px|A street in Zhide (至德), a [[town of China|town]], historically ...19 KB (2,812 words) - 06:03, 28 July 2023
- Felix Farley's Bristol Journal for the Town and County Magazine and other ... also been a contributor to Hamilton's Town and County Magazine, and speedily ...14 KB (2,111 words) - 18:41, 30 April 2023
- By 1765, he was a leader in Boston's town meetings, drafting protests ... later. After the incident Adams chaired a town meeting which formed a petition ...14 KB (2,136 words) - 02:17, 23 December 2022
- Dillinger further embarrassed the town, as well as then-42-year-old ... by Emil Wanatka, in the northern Wisconsin town of Manitowish Waters. The ...13 KB (2,104 words) - 18:51, 5 April 2024
- province, after Montreal. Quebec's Old Town (Vieux-Québec), the only ... The first version of the town was a single large walled building, ...26 KB (3,912 words) - 00:04, 15 April 2023
- [[Image:Dias statue (cropped), Cape Town.jpg|thumb|right|Statue of ... G.C. Martin. Dias and his Successors. Cape Town, ZA: Saayman & Weber, ...10 KB (1,706 words) - 11:00, 20 September 2023
- hundred pro-slavery supporters at the town of Osawatomie. ... slavery settlers rode into the free soil town of Lawrence, Kansas and razed ...12 KB (1,759 words) - 02:44, 5 October 2022
- #039;aqov on the southern slope, the Druze town of Carmel City on the more ... In the Bible, Carmel is first mentioned as the location of Jokneam ...10 KB (1,644 words) - 01:44, 11 March 2023
- desert, Pachomius chanced upon an abandoned town called Tabennesi. There, he ... After receiving this calling, he converted the town into a monastic ...11 KB (1,740 words) - 00:48, 23 December 2022
- amount of further research, not least on the town's lost Eleanor Cross. He was subsequently appointed rector of a parish in Bloomsbury, London. ...11 KB (1,651 words) - 20:32, 13 May 2023
- Djenné, a town in south-central Mali, was founded in approximately ... The weekly market, when buyers and sellers converge on the town from ...20 KB (2,929 words) - 16:28, 29 January 2024
- :The time you won your town the race :We chaired you through the market ... :Townsman of a stiller town. :Smart lad, to slip betimes away ...10 KB (1,687 words) - 06:50, 13 June 2023
- family moved to Jyväskylä. Today, the town is famous for housing about ... *1949–1952: Säynätsalo Town Hall, 1949 competition, built 1952 ...15 KB (2,163 words) - 08:41, 23 July 2023
- Erbium (for Ytterby, a town in Sweden) was discovered by Carl Gustaf Mosander in 1843. Mosander separated "yttria" from the mineral ...11 KB (1,419 words) - 19:19, 13 February 2024
- relation of Jan Hus, though of the same town—left Prague. They held meetings ... at the Hussites from the windows of the town-hall of the "new town ...28 KB (4,454 words) - 21:23, 9 February 2024
- for over 50 miles (80 km) from near the town of Escalante to the south ... Escalante is a small town (population 818 in the 2000 census) in Garfield ...21 KB (3,138 words) - 14:39, 31 December 2022
- A great deal of Kingston is pure shanty town. Two parts make up the ... and New Kingston, a business area which embodies modern tropical town ...22 KB (3,252 words) - 23:13, 3 March 2023
- in America by revivalists moving from town to town in New England. John Wesley had introduced the idea of "The Doctrine of Perfection" ...11 KB (1,744 words) - 15:41, 6 May 2023
- The Battle of Gettysburg (July 1 – July 3 1863), fought in the town of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, was the bloodiest Gettysburg was the battle ...29 KB (4,435 words) - 12:46, 20 September 2023
- Harper Lee, known as Nelle, was born in the Alabama town of Monroeville ... of Monroeville, Alabama, transforming the town into a tourist destination ...21 KB (3,359 words) - 09:25, 19 January 2024
- the K'iche' steward of the town sent word to Q'umarkaj ... Umán's namesakes include a small town in the department of San Marcos ...12 KB (1,982 words) - 02:50, 19 April 2023
- and military departed, many of the town’s shops, offices, and businesses ... for the French governor) at the center of town, colonial-era hotels, the ...21 KB (2,973 words) - 18:57, 22 December 2022
- a popular Saracen target. Thereafter, the town was named Leopoli in his honor ... Leo rebuilt Portus, the ancient harbor town on the right bank of the mouth ...11 KB (1,773 words) - 09:41, 24 November 2022
- in the suburb of Rondebosch in Cape Town, South Africa. Bishops was ... *McIntyre, Donald. A Century of Bishops. Cape Town and Johannesburg: ...17 KB (2,434 words) - 20:03, 8 December 2022
- have yet to uncover. In 1861, he became a town constable in Nebraska. He ... Hickok invented the practice of "posting" men out of town ...21 KB (3,433 words) - 18:45, 4 May 2023
- an influential, prosperous, and populated town, though it was not untill ... of the town having been the victim of a severe famine during the Buddha ...11 KB (1,637 words) - 02:42, 11 March 2023
- amp;dq=Crook+met+him+in+front+of+town&pg=PA220 Military Reminiscences ... By September 5, Jenkins was at the small town of Buffalo located on the ...38 KB (5,738 words) - 19:45, 30 March 2024
- Missouri, Adair County, Iowa, and the town of Adair, Iowa. ... Missouri, Adair County, Iowa, and the town of Adair, Iowa, were named ...12 KB (1,815 words) - 04:05, 3 August 2022
- Essentially a modern resort town, it was originally settled by Celts ... Cannes is a resort town, tourism is the city’s main source of revenue ...16 KB (2,525 words) - 19:24, 25 November 2023
- Lucila (the future Gabriela) was born in Vicuña, a small town in ... She was a school director in his home town of Temuco. She introduced ...12 KB (1,797 words) - 07:38, 15 April 2024
- on Behalf of the British Museum: The Town Defences. British Museum Press ... Museum: The Excavations in the Inner Town and the Hittite Inscriptions ...12 KB (1,752 words) - 21:47, 25 October 2022
- from a particularly community, usually a town, and included both the local ... and held a monopoly on its trade in the town in which it operated: handicraft ...29 KB (4,314 words) - 03:51, 11 July 2023
- Webster, an attorney who had moved to the town of Amherst to escape the high ... Amherst Academy and Amherst College were both named for the town of ...16 KB (2,313 words) - 06:57, 25 July 2023
- Picchu was more likely a country retreat town for Inca nobility. It is estimated ... buses carrying tourists to and from the town of Aguas Calientes]] ...16 KB (2,638 words) - 04:50, 5 November 2022
- *Small Town Girl (1953) (choreographer) *Easy to Love (1953) (choreographer) *Rose Marie (1954) (choreographer) *Billy Rose's Jumbo (1962 ...12 KB (1,782 words) - 18:48, 22 November 2023
- including Roman Scandals, Ali Baba Goes to Town and If You Knew Susie. ... " The song, Santa Claus Is Coming to Town, had immediate orders for ...14 KB (2,054 words) - 18:05, 12 February 2024
- social contract would expand in New England town meetings and traditions of ... self-government in New England evolved into town meetings and gradually spread ...12 KB (1,842 words) - 02:22, 9 November 2022
- view; little else is preserved of the old town, which was not well built ... to a position completely overlooking the town, and the rest was completed ...15 KB (2,370 words) - 06:36, 28 July 2023
- between Poland and Lithuania. The present-day town of Halych is situated 5 km away from the ancient capital of Galicia, on the spot where the old town ...16 KB (2,454 words) - 03:54, 18 April 2024
- " with her discovery of the joys of town life, especially the fascinating ... comedy Eunuchus by Terence. The upper-class town rake Harry Horner mounts a ...21 KB (3,484 words) - 15:19, 14 May 2023
- the Sogdian word kanda, which means "town" or "city." ... The principality of Chach had a main town with a square citadel built ...23 KB (3,205 words) - 00:48, 21 April 2023
- the dead still outnumber the living in this small town. ... short distance outside the walls of the old town of Arles, France. It was one ...26 KB (3,983 words) - 04:27, 11 March 2023
- Montgomery. The family lived in the small town of Clifton (now New London ... she was often considered a spinster by the town. Needless to say, it was a ...12 KB (1,894 words) - 02:29, 5 November 2022
- " and Sogdian kand, "fort," "town." ... he needed with which to pay an army. The town took many decades to recover ...15 KB (2,116 words) - 01:14, 21 April 2023
- main commercial center of the park is the town of Banff, in the Bow River valley. ... The Town of Banff, established in 1883, is the main commercial center ...34 KB (5,022 words) - 03:27, 17 September 2023
- , claims that Hesiod lies buried at Orchomenus, a town in Boeotia. According to Aristotle's Constitution of Orchomenus, when the Thespians ravaged ...12 KB (1,937 words) - 15:44, 25 January 2023
- and astronomy. He returned to his native town of Vilnius/Vilna in 1748, ... founded the first yeshiva in his home town of Volozhin, Belarus. The ...13 KB (1,989 words) - 16:13, 13 February 2024
- Hobhouse returned to Cape Town in October 1901, but was not permitted ... The southernmost town in Eastern Free State is named Hobhouse, after ...12 KB (1,900 words) - 10:22, 21 January 2023
- set in a seventeenth-century Puritan town, Hester Pryme is forced to ... with Arthur Dimmesdale, the highly regarded town minister, and becomes pregnant ...15 KB (2,272 words) - 21:23, 27 October 2023
- diamond ever found, was discovered in the town of Cullinan near Pretoria ... of the whole of South Africa, with Cape Town the legislative capital. Between ...25 KB (3,503 words) - 00:35, 12 April 2023
- Albert Chanel and Jeanne Devolle in the small town of Saumur, Maine-et-Loire, France. Her parents married in 1883, the year after she was born. She ...11 KB (1,773 words) - 22:18, 7 January 2024
- Europeans and Asians for the defense of the town. This force was placed under ... led them at once to the relief of Chansu, a town 40 miles north-west of Shanghai ...21 KB (3,345 words) - 19:07, 4 December 2023
- and upper classes of the citizens, mostly town-dwellers, replacing these ... their sacred Mt. Gerizim, and the Israeli town of Holon, just outside of Tel Aviv. ...22 KB (3,530 words) - 01:14, 21 April 2023
- decided to build a similar museum in home town of Chicago. Chicago's ... New Mexico, United States, located near Old Town Albuquerque. Explora opened ...12 KB (1,786 words) - 02:35, 21 April 2023
- Place of birth = Cape Town, South Africa| Year of Aliyah = 1940| ... Born in Cape Town, South Africa, Eban moved to England at an early ...12 KB (1,691 words) - 07:15, 13 June 2023
- further enraged when the British occupied the town of Mahé, which was a French concession but within his jurisdiction. They had requested permission ...12 KB (1,977 words) - 18:40, 31 July 2023
- church building. Rather than setting the town church in the central plaza ... necessitating the establishment of the town of Nueva Coveta, the present ...20 KB (2,841 words) - 08:18, 20 September 2023
- 3:15, means tell—an ancient mound formed when a town is built on its own debris for thousands of years—of spring. The name was later applied to ...12 KB (1,882 words) - 17:56, 30 April 2023
- district, past Hạ Long city, Cẩm Phả town to Vân Đồn district, bordered ... store to Quang Hanh commune, Cẩm Phả town and the surrounding giants ...12 KB (1,782 words) - 23:30, 29 July 2023
- Croce was born in Chioggia, a fishing town on the Adriatic coast south of Venice. He came to Venice early, becoming a member of the boy's ...6 KB (867 words) - 20:36, 29 August 2021
- in Lexington and Concord because the town has had several names since ... battle fought on this day was in the town of Menotomy, now Arlington ...16 KB (2,205 words) - 18:57, 23 March 2023
- almost failed. Céspedes attacked the small town of Yara on October 11, from ... On April 10, 1869, a constitutional assembly took place in the town ...12 KB (1,919 words) - 05:40, 27 February 2023
- capital by conducting a campaign to the town of Aquae Calidae, near modern ... a ship. In 922, the Bulgarians captured the town of Vizye and burned the palaces ...15 KB (2,004 words) - 20:31, 28 March 2024
- exact locations of which had been lost. The town therefore had been regarded ... in Galilee rather than the biblical town of the same name in the territory ...16 KB (2,585 words) - 14:13, 27 January 2023
- Plutarch was probably born in 46 C.E. in the small town of Chaeronea ... and is known to have represented his town on several occasions, including ...17 KB (2,619 words) - 08:08, 24 November 2022
- ἠχώ, Hierē ēchō (Holy echo) is a town in the West Bank, Palestine ... a viable commercial center and a market town for local agricultural products ...16 KB (2,400 words) - 02:27, 1 August 2022
- Baltic Sea), in a conurbation with the spa town of Sopot, the city of Gdynia ... The Old Town area of Gdansk is situated two miles (three kilometers ...22 KB (3,336 words) - 06:28, 18 April 2024
- the 1989 Purple Rain Protest, and the Cape Town Peace March, which defied ... #039;s Parliament on Burg Street in Cape Town. Protesters were warned to ...28 KB (4,286 words) - 22:27, 10 December 2023
- the people go?”—the choices being “Town,” “Country” or “Town ... planning of Tel Aviv, Israel. Contemporary town planning charters like New ...23 KB (3,351 words) - 13:43, 3 May 2023
- to De Smet and rented a small house in town. The Wilders entered their ... piece of undeveloped property just outside town that they named Rocky Ridge ...19 KB (2,983 words) - 17:50, 25 October 2022
- The Battle of Largs was an military engagement fought between the armies of Norway and Scotland near the present-day town of Largs in North ...12 KB (1,997 words) - 10:04, 22 September 2023
- It was inscribed on a cliff near the modern town of Bisistun, in the foothills ... studying the inscription in earnest. As the town of Bisistun's name was ...13 KB (1,988 words) - 10:27, 26 September 2023
- Huttig was referred to as a "plantation town," as most people in town made a living at the sawmill, rented houses owned by the mill, and even ...13 KB (1,959 words) - 07:47, 12 January 2024
- South African Anglican Archbishop of Cape Town, South Africa, and primate ... at the Oasis Frail Care Centre in Cape Town on December 26, 2021, at the ...30 KB (4,335 words) - 09:58, 29 January 2024
- an earth-lodge village may be seen at New Town, North Dakota. The village ... for certain mounds, including the mound at Town Creek Indian Mound and some ...18 KB (2,809 words) - 17:35, 12 February 2024
- in the Italian town from which he takes his name, now Abano Terme ... Pietro d’Albano was born around 1257, in the Italian town from which ...12 KB (1,811 words) - 05:30, 24 November 2022
- the fourth century B.C.E., laying out the town and its suburbs according ... in the course of sanitizing the town, constructed a hospital. Authorities ...16 KB (2,446 words) - 05:50, 11 August 2023
- merchants, in and near the ancient castle town of Lancaster, in northern ... of Edinburgh, especially that of the New Town that was building, surely ...12 KB (1,857 words) - 20:42, 13 May 2023
- Lin was born on October 10, 1895 in the town of Banzai in Zhangzhou ... by Taipei-based Soochow University. The town of Lin's birth, Banzi ...17 KB (2,538 words) - 08:46, 8 March 2023
- law and in 1821 became inspector of the town's schools. In 1820, following a short lived revolution in the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies, Francesco ...12 KB (1,791 words) - 05:44, 11 August 2023
- back to the fourth millennium BCE, but the town was formally founded as Israel ... his disciples: "Do not... enter any town of the Samaritans." However ...17 KB (2,670 words) - 02:05, 23 December 2022
- Wounded Knee (Lakota language: Chankwe Opi) is a small town in Shannon County, South Dakota, United States. The population was 328 in the 2000 ...36 KB (5,349 words) - 14:00, 20 May 2023
- Manjiro from ever leaving his home town "for travel abroad, needless ... #039;s rescue and the kindness of the town. It continued to be displayed ...17 KB (2,559 words) - 02:42, 11 March 2023
- indicates he may have come from the town of Laerte in Cilicia (ancient Turkey) or from the Roman family of the Laërtii. The period when he lived ...7 KB (941 words) - 15:25, 29 January 2024
- of radium that a druggist in the same town had recently discovered. ... or Asia, or people Larry would have met in town, on the beach, or while fishing ...13 KB (2,017 words) - 19:19, 23 May 2023
- guidelines, on the basis of rather Utopian town-planning. The colonists inhabit ... Abidjan was a village in 1898, became a town in 1903, and was a rail ...16 KB (2,261 words) - 04:48, 14 June 2023
- carried with him to his first parish in the town of Dolores, now called Dolores ... at San Miguel. When a mob ran through the town, Allende tried to calm its ...16 KB (2,562 words) - 17:46, 9 November 2022
- in India that was designed and planned by Indian town planners in service with the State Government. Since it is relatively new, it is also considered ...12 KB (1,834 words) - 04:23, 18 April 2024
- often resist them. In most cases, the local town governments continued operating ... region's heavy prevalence of English town and county names, and its ...32 KB (4,620 words) - 09:13, 11 March 2023
