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Articles relating to the Labrador Retriever, a British breed of retriever gun dog. It was developed in the United Kingdom from St. John's water dogs imported from the colony of Newfoundland (now a province of Canada), and was named after the Labrador region of that colony. It is among the most commonly kept dogs in several countries ...
Chester derives from the OE ceaster meaning an old Roman town or city. This itself stems from the Latin word castra, meaning 'camp' (or 'fort'). The city's former name was Legacæstir (circa 8th century) meaning 'City of the legions'. Cleveland: CV 1974 English: n/a Named after the Cleveland area of North Yorkshire, which encompasses the hills ...
Foxford & District Search & Rescue Unit County Mayo [84] Kilkee Marine Rescue County Clare, Ireland: Established 1981. Killarney Water Rescue County Kerry [85] Lahinch Sea Rescue County Clare [86] Limerick City (River Shannon) (CRBI) Ireland: Lough Foyle Rescue Northern Ireland and Republic of Ireland: Established 1993. Operates on the River ...
By 1870 the name Labrador Retriever had become common in England. [8] The liver (now usually called chocolate) Labrador emerged in the late 1800s, with liver-coloured pups documented at the Buccleuch kennels in 1892; [9] the first yellow Labrador on record was born in 1899 (Ben of Hyde, kennels of Major C.J. Radclyffe). [10]
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Nigger, a black Labrador, mascot of the Dambusters squadron around 1940. (At the time, in the UK, this name was not seen as an offensive word) Zeke the Wonder Dog, mascot and frisbee fanatic for the Michigan State Spartans; Alien, a black Lab who served as the team mascot for the Memphis Mad Dogs. Alien would charge the field following each ...
Chapman codes have no mapping, postal or administrative use. They can however be useful for disambiguation by postal services where a full county name or traditional abbreviation is not supplied after a place name which has more than one occurrence, a particular problem where these are post towns such as Richmond.
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