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Mendham's Point

Gerald Aungier, Governor of Bombay, had planned extensive fortifications for Bombay from Dongri in the north to Mendham's Point in the south.


Andrew B. Dickinson

Andrew Bray Dickinson (August 29, 1801 Mendham, Morris County, New Jersey – April 21, 1873 León, Nicaragua) was an American politician from New York.

Armstrong's Point

Armstrong's Point is represented by Jenny Gerbasi in the constituency of Fort Rouge - East Fort Garry at the municipal level, Rob Altemeyer in the constituency of Wolseley at the provincial level, and Pat Martin in the constituency of Winnipeg Centre at the federal level.

Bird's Point, Missouri

Union cavalry under David P. Jenkins guarded the region for the early part of the war, deterring Confederate attempts to regain control of the supply routes.

The railroad ran from Bird's Point through Pine Bluff, Arkansas, Texarkana, Texas and to Gatesville, Texas, offering planters a convenient route to transfer their cotton bales to the Mississippi for water transport to markets in the Midwest.

Brandon C. Rodegeb

Brandon was born in San Francisco, CA at San Francisco General Hospital and raised in the public housing projects between Palou and Oakdale Avenue in the Hunter's Point District of San Francisco, California.

Brooke's Point, Palawan

Although Palawan stands outside the Ring of Fire, hot springs flow a few meters from the waterfall.

The name Brooke’s Point comes from an Englishman Sir James Brooke, first white Rajah of Sarawak and founder of the Brooke Dynasty.

Named after Sir James Brooke, the municipality has become famous for its promotion of ecotourism.

Edward Swann

Edward Swann (March 10, 1862 Madison, Madison County, Florida – September 19, 1945 Sewall's Point, Martin County, Florida) was an American lawyer and politician from New York.

Ennal's Point

Veteran actress Rachel Thomas also appeared in the series, which used an instrumental segment of Hazel O'Connor's hit, "Will You?", as its theme.

Ernest van den Haag

Ernest van den Haag (September 15, 1914, The Hague – March 21, 2002, Mendham, New Jersey) was a Dutch-American sociologist, social critic, and John M. Olin Professor of Jurisprudence and Public Policy at Fordham University.

H. Reid

He and his wife Virginia (née Ewell) Reid lived in Norfolk near the Virginian Railway (VGN) tracks leading to Sewell's Point.

Hardy Monument

From the top of the monument at a height of 850 feet above sea level it is possible to see on a clear day: Start Point, Devon, St. Catherine's Point on the Isle of Wight both of which are 90 kilometres distant and to the North can be seen Pen Hill in the Mendip Hills which is 65 kilometres away.

Inishowen

Then as the road heads South along Lough Foyle it passes through Moville town, Quigley's Point and the Village of Muff where the road turns right and heads back to Bridgend where the journey started.

John Lorimer Worden

During that engagement, the Southern warship sank the sloop Cumberland and severely damaged Congress and Minnesota before retiring behind Sewell's Point.

Joseph Mendham

This came to his nephew, the Rev. John Mendham, on whose death his widow, Sophia, placed the books at the disposal of Charles Hastings Collette, solicitor in Lincoln's Inn Fields, by whom a selection was made and presented to the Incorporated Law Society in Chancery Lane, London.

Joseph Mendham bequeathed manuscripts concerned with the Council of Trent to the Bodleian Library.

Josiah Tattnall

Tattnall, by then a flag officer in the Confederate Navy as well as the Navy of Georgia, directed CSS Jamestown and other warships in captures of Federal merchantmen off Sewell's Point in April 1862.

Lambert's Point

The Norfolk and Petersburg Railroad (N&P) was built under the oversight of William Mahone, young civil engineer from Southampton County, Virginia who had been educated in the first graduating class of Virginia Military Institute (VMI).

Leonard Warden Bonney

During World War I he became an Army instructor at Garden City, New York, and a naval instructor at Smith's Point, New York.

Mayo, Maryland

Saunder's Point, Shoreham Beach, Beverly Beach, Cloverlea, Turkey Point, Holly Hill Harbor, Selby Beach, and Cape Loch Haven are some of the neighborhoods found in Mayo.

McInroy's Point

In the early 1970s, a pier was constructed here to form the departure point for Western Ferries services to Dunoon.

Minnesota State Highway 172

The former northern section of Highway 72 between State Highway 11 (at Baudette) and Wheeler's Point (at Lake of the Woods) was then renumbered 172 at this time.

State Highway 172 serves as a north–south route between Baudette, Hackett, Wheeler's Point, and the Lake of the Woods.

Minnesota State Highway 72

The section of present day Minnesota 172 between State Highway 11 (at Baudette) and Wheeler's Point (at Lake of the Woods) was originally designated Minnesota 72 as well between 1934 and 1963.

Navajo music

Notably the Nez Family of Hunter's Point, Arizona and Pinedale, New Mexico, who are very well known for their singing and playing of the game.

Nepenthes gantungensis

It has only been recorded from the upper slopes of Mount Gantung in Brooke's Point municipality, where it has an altitudinal distribution of 1600–1784 m above sea level.

NS Savannah

In 1981, Savannah was obtained via bareboat charter for display at the Patriots Point Naval and Maritime Museum near Mount Pleasant, South Carolina.

Paul Georges Dieulafoy

Dieulafoy's triad: hyperesthesia of the skin, exquisite tenderness and guarding over McBurney's point, considered a classic sign of acute appendicitis

Point-free

Whitehead's point-free geometry, a geometry whose primitive ontological notion is region rather than point.

Riverwood Academy

The school is located in Wing's Point, Gander Bay and the principal is Tyrone Power.

Sewall's Point, Florida

Willie Gary, attorney, lives in Sewall's Point and has on office in Stuart.

Sulphur-crested Cockatoo

Cocky Bennett of Tom Ugly's Point in Sydney was a celebrated Sulphur-crested Cockatoo who reached an age of 100 years or more.

Walker's Point

The Bush compound in Kennebunkport, Maine, formally known as Walker's Point.

West Grand Bahama

Communities within West Grand Bahama include the settlements of Mack Town, Hunters, Lewis Yard, Pinder's Point, Eight Mile Rock, Hepburn Town, Bartlett Hill, Hanna Hill, Pine Dale, Martin Town, Russell Town, Jones Town, Sea Grape, Holmes Rock, Bootle Bay and the westernmost settlement of West End.

William Ronckendorff

On 27 December 1861, he took command of the steamer “San Jacinto,” with which he was present in Hampton Roads to fight the “Merrimac,” and participated in the attack on Sewell's Point, 15 May 1862, and in the capture of Norfolk on 18 May.


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