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Fort St. George (or historically, White Town) [1] is a fortress at the coastal city of Chennai, India. Founded in 1639, it was the first English (later British ) fortress in India. [ 2 ] The construction of the fort provided the impetus for further settlements and trading activity, in what was originally an uninhabited land. [ 3 ]
Hyphenate all numbers under 100 that need more than one word. For example, $73 is written as “seventy-three,” and the words for $43.50 are “Forty-three and 50/100.” You don’t need to ...
St. George is a city in the U.S. state of Louisiana's East Baton Rouge Parish.It has a population of 86,316 and is the fifth most-populous city in Louisiana. St. George is the newest incorporated city in Louisiana and was approved in a ballot initiative on October 12, 2019. [1]
St George Hospital is a multispeciality hospital near the Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Terminus (CSMT), in the Fort district of Mumbai.Originally known as the European General Hospital due to catering exclusively to European patients, was founded in 1677 after being sanctioned in 1675, and eventually transformed into a well-equipped multi-specialty hospital that opened for public use on ...
In 1856, an act creating the county specified that Tucker's county court was to be held on the lands of Enoch Minear, descendant of Jonathan Minear. The town was then renamed Saint George in honor of Henry St. George Tucker, Jr. (1828–63), the son of the county's namesake, Henry St. George Tucker, Sr. (1780–1848). [failed verification]
Year 436 was a leap year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Isodorus and Senator (or, less frequently, year 1189 Ab urbe condita ).
436 Air Defence Regiment was raised in 1985 and equipped with ZSU-23-4 Shilka self-propelled air defence weapon systems. [1] The weapon platform was subsequently changed to Osa-AK Missile Systems . The regiment consists of 4361, 4362 and 4363 air defence batteries.
Area code 440 was established on August 16, 1997, in a three-way split of area code 216, one of the original North American area codes, [1] to provide relief from central office prefix exhaustion from increasing popularity of cellular phones and population pressure. [2]