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Brewer's: Golden Town
(The). So Mainz or Mayence was called in Carlovingian times. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Golden ValleyGolden Tooth A B C D E F G H I J K L M…Brewer's: Down Town
I am going down town, i.e. to the business part of the town. Down the country properly means down the slope of the land, or as the rivers run. We say “I am going up to town” when we mean…Brewer's: Hanse Towns
The maritime cities of Germany, which belonged to the Hanseatic League (q.v.). “The Hanse towns of Lübeck, Bremen, and Hamburg are commonwealths even now (1877).” —Freeman: General Sketch…Charles Hard Townes
Charles Hard Townes Born: 1915 Birthplace: Greenville, South Carolina Masers—Townes constructed the maser (microwave…Wacky Town Names
Wacky Town Names Taking a road trip to Monkey's Eyebrow? compiled by Holly Hartman America's a big country. From the easternmost reaches of Maine to the western Alaska islands…Amy Lowell: Towns in Colour
Towns in ColourRed SlippersThompson's Lunch Room — Grand Central StationAn Opera HouseAfternoon Rain in State StreetAn AquariumCharles Hanson Towne: The City
The CityCharles Hanson TowneWhen, sick of all the sorrow and distress That flourished in the City like foul weeds, I sought blue rivers and green, opulent meads, And leagues of unregarded…The Celtic Twilight: The Old Town
by W. B. Yeats Earth, Fire and WaterThe Man and His BootsThe Old Town I fell, one night some fifteen years ago, into what seemed the power of faery. I had gone with a young man and his…Brewer's: Town and Gown Row
(A), A collision, often leading to a fight, in the English universities between the students or gownsmen, and non-gownsmen - principally bargees and roughs. (See Philistines.) Source:…Utopia: Of Their Towns, Particularly of Amaurot
Discourses of Raphael Hythloda... Of Their Magistrates Of Their Towns, Particularly of Amaurot "He that knows one of their towns knows them all-they are so like one another, except…Trending
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