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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
