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Brewer's: Maiden Town

i.e. a town never taken by the enemy. Edinburgh. The tradition is that the maiden daughters of a Pictish king were sent there for protection during an intestine war. Source: Dictionary…

Brewer's: Troy-town

has no connection with the Homeric “Troy,” but means a maze, labyrinth, or bower. (Welsh troi, to turn; troedle, a trodden place [? street], whence the archaic trode, a path or track;…

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…

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…

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…

Amy Lowell: Towns in Colour

Towns in ColourRed SlippersThompson's Lunch Room — Grand Central StationAn Opera HouseAfternoon Rain in State StreetAn Aquarium

Charles 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…

Fishers (town), IN Census Data

People QuickFactsFishersIndianaPopulation, 2003 estimate 47,7906,195,643Population, percent change, April 1, 2000 to July 1, 2003 26.3%1.9%Population, 2000 37,8356,080,485Population, percent…