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Virginia Water Lake on the southern edge of Windsor Great Park Hand-drawn map of Oxford, Buckinghamshire and Berkshire by Christopher Saxton from 1576. All of the county is drained by the Thames. Berkshire divides into two topological [ clarification needed ] (and associated geological) sections: east and west of Reading .
Frank Howard Field at Clemson Memorial Stadium, known as "Death Valley", is home to the Clemson Tigers, an NCAA Division I FBS football team located in Clemson, South Carolina. Built in 1941–1942, the stadium has seen expansions throughout the years with the most recent being the WestZone with Phase 1 construction beginning in 2004 and ...
Annexation of town lands into cities and villages has eroded some towns to a fraction of their original size. Frequently a village or city may have the same name as a town. As of 2002 there are 1,266 towns, some sharing the same name. See List of towns in Wisconsin, and political subdivisions of Wisconsin for more information.
Founded in 1565 by the Spanish conquistador Pedro Menéndez de Avilés, St. Augustine is the oldest continuously occupied settlement of European origin in the contiguous United States. [11] [12] It is the second-oldest continuously inhabited city of European origin in a United States territory, after San Juan, Puerto Rico (founded in 1521). [13]
The Jamestown [a] settlement in the Colony of Virginia was the first permanent English settlement in the Americas.It was located on the northeast bank of the James River, about 2.5 mi (4 km) southwest of present-day Williamsburg. [1]
Ten Thousand Villages is a nonprofit fair trade organization that markets handcrafted products made by artisans from more than 120 artisan groups in more than 35 countries.. As one of the world’s largest and oldest fair trade organizations, [1] Ten Thousand Villages cultivates long-term buying relationships in which artisans receive a fair price for their work and consumers have access to ...
City formed by combining the towns of Christianburg, MacKenzie, and Wismar. 1970: Cancún: Quintana Roo: Mexico: Development of the area as a resort was started on April 20, 1970 1974: Inírida: Guainía: Colombia: 1989: Palmas: Tocantins: Brazil: Founded one year after the creation of the State of Tocantins.
South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the southernmost country in Africa.It is bounded to the south by 2,798 kilometres (1,739 mi) of coastline that stretches along the South Atlantic and Indian Ocean; [18] [19] [20] to the north by the neighbouring countries of Namibia, Botswana, and Zimbabwe; and to the east and northeast by Mozambique and Eswatini.