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unusual facts about Populous


Stony Brook Sports Complex

The design stage was completed by the architectural firm Populous (formerly HOK Sport), later on it was announced that the project was to be placed on hold until financing can be gathered in the present economic conditions.


28th Canadian Ministry

The reason given for the appointments of Emerson and Fortier was that the Conservatives were completely shut out of the three most populous cities in Canada – Montreal, Toronto, and Vancouver.

Abenhall

The parish includes the settlement of Plump Hill, which is actually more populous than Abenhall itself, and was once part of the Hundred of St Briavels (known as Dene at the time of the Domesday book in 1086).

Battle of Phuoc Long

The district of Phuoc Long and the military zones of Bố Đức, Đôn Luân, Đức Phong, the administrative centre of Phuoc Binh, and Bà Rá mountain lies at the centre of South Vietnam’s defensive line in III Corps, which served to defend Saigon and the populous southern provinces.

Byzantium

To this day it remains the largest and most populous city in Turkey (the successor to the Ottoman Empire), although Ankara is now the national capital.

Careliopsis modesta

This marine species is distributed in European waters, populous areas for this species include the Bay of Biscay, Mediterranean Sea and the Irish Sea.

Chu River

Chuy Oblast, the northernmost and most populous administrative region of Kyrgyzstan, is named after the river; so are the Chuy Avenue, the main street of Bishkek, and the city of Shu in Kazakhstan's Zhambyl Province.

Cisco Field

In a 2001 study, Populous (formerly HOK Sport) had suggested this as the prime site for a ballpark; however, plans to build a park there were canceled by then-Oakland Mayor Jerry Brown.

Croatian local elections, 2009

HDZ lost Split and Osijek, the second and the fourth most populous cities in the country respectively, but held Zadar.

Dakar Department

The département of Dakar is divided into four arrondissements: Almadies, Grand Dakar, Parcelles Assainies (which literally means "drained lots"; this is the most populous arrondissement of Dakar), and Plateau/Gorée (downtown Dakar).

Dakar-Plateau

The densest and most populous commune d'arrondissement in the arrondissement of Dakar-Plateau is Médina (136,697 inhabitants), while the smallest is the commune d'arrondissement of Île de Gorée (1,034 inhabitants).

Demographics of Goiânia

Despite being among the youngest capitals of Brazil, only being older than Brasília and Palmas, Goiânia is currently the twelfth most populous municipality in Brazil with 1,318,148 inhabitants, after eleven capitals.

Diamond City

Diamond City, North Carolina, an abandoned whaling village once the most populous on the Outer Banks

Geographic areas of Houston

Pasadena is Houston's most populous suburb and the former location of "Gilley's", the honky-tonk bar that inspired the hit 1980 movie Urban Cowboy, which was filmed in Pasadena.

Geography of Turkey

Toward the east, the extensive Çukurova Plain (historically known as the Cilician Plain) around Adana, Turkey's fifth most populous city, consist largely of reclaimed flood lands.

Granadero Baigorria

The city has a large public (provincial) hospital, Hospital Escuela Eva Perón, which together with two other such hospitals in Rosario supply free medical services to the populous metropolitan area around it.

Grand Trunk Pacific Railway

CPR occupied the more populous southern route in the prairies through Regina, Saskatchewan and Calgary, Alberta to Vancouver, British Columbia and was using land grants provided by the federal government as well as government incentives to draw immigrants and businesses to settle along its route.

Harris County

Harris County, Texas, the more populous of the two, and the most populous county in the state of Texas.

Hazeleigh

One of the reasons it fell into disuse was that an iron church was built in a more populous part of the village by the late-Victorian vicar, Rev. William Stuart (brother of Robert Stuart and father of William Horwood Stuart, both diplomats).

Horsham, Victoria

It is the largest city by population in the Wimmera region, and it is the main administrative centre for, and the most populous city within, the Rural City of Horsham local government area.

Kaberamaido District

The Langi at 4,617 people (3.5%) are the next most populous group.

Malesco

Malesco is the most populous comune in Val Vigezzo and has a station on the Domodossola–Locarno railway which runs along the valley.

Metropolitan Halifax

This urban area constitutes the most populous urban area on Canada's Atlantic coast, and the second largest coastal population centre in the country, after Vancouver.

Mumbai Consensus

Earlier, a rigid caste system has skewed political freedoms and achievement to the higher classes but Dalit or lower caste populist leaders like Mayawati, Chief Minister of the largest and most populous state of Uttar Pradesh, prove that such social barriers are gradually breaking down.

Nevada's 2nd congressional district election, 2006

After the primary, Angle refused to concede, complaining of voting irregularities that disenfranchised many voters in her popular home base of Washoe County, which includes Reno and is by far the district’s most populous and vote-rich jurisdiction.

New Nashville Ballpark

Sulphur Dell was one of three possible sites identified by Populous as being suitable for a new stadium; the other two being on the east bank of the Cumberland River and the in North Gulch area.

Obihiro, Hokkaido

The next most populous municipality in Tokachi is the adjacent town of Otofuke, with less than a third of Obihiro's population.

Off-year election

Many major cities around the country elect their mayors during off-years, including the top five most populous cities: New York City, Los Angeles, Chicago, Houston, and Philadelphia.

Peire Guilhem de Luserna

"Luserna" more probably refers to Luserna in the Piedmont, rich and populous in Peire’s time, a town on the left bank of the Pellice lying on the road into the Viennois and Dauphiné, Occitan-speaking territories.

Pimicikamak Cree Nation

Pimicikamak Cree Nation is sometimes used as a name for Pimicikamak, one of the more populous Cree indigenous peoples in Canada.

Pons Aelius

Corstopitum (Corbridge), being a major arsenal and supply centre, was much larger and populous than Pons Aelius.

Priyayi

Priyayi (former spelling: Prijaji) was the Dutch era class of the nobles of the Robe nobility, as opposed to royal nobility or bangsawan (Indonesian) or ningrat (Javanese), in Java, Indonesia's most populous island.

Ratu

They are the heirs of Seru Epenisa Cakobau, the Vunivalu of Bau or Tui Levuka (Paramount Chief of Bau, on the eastern side of Viti Levu, Fiji's most populous island), who was the first chief to unite the entire country under his authority in 1871, when he was proclaimed Tui Viti (King of Fiji).

Raúl Uranga – Carlos Sylvestre Begnis Subfluvial Tunnel

Until the opening of the Rosario-Victoria Bridge, this was the only road link between two commercially important and populous regions of Argentina, and the only one between the two provinces (more to the south, Entre Ríos is connected to the province of Buenos Aires by the Zárate-Brazo Largo Bridge).

Reaction Motors

Though test flights are recorded from 1933 forward, the group would rename themselves the American Rocket Society and continue experimentation in the relatively populous area of Staten Island until incorporating Reaction Motors, Inc. under Lovell Lawrence in 1938 in pursuit of a war-time contract from the United States Navy.

San Carlos, Chile

Today, San Carlos is the second most populous city of Ñuble Province.

Silverthorne, Colorado

The Town of Silverthorne is a Home Rule Municipality that is the second most populous town in Summit County, Colorado.

Sirikot

To the west of Haripur Tehsil there is another very beautiful and populous village of the Mashwani's known as Gudwalian (Goodvalley), it is located between Haripur city and Sirikot(Ghazi).

Solar eclipse of November 13, 2012

The most populous city to experience totality was Cairns, which had 2 minutes of totality an hour after daybreak (06:39 AEST, 20:39 UTC) with the sun at an altitude of 14°.

St. Antony's Forane Church

When Thrissur Vicariate Apostolic was erected in 1887, Ollur was the richest, most populous, and influential parish, so much that the Vicar of the Ollur parish and a priest from the parish were included in Adolph Medlycott's four-member diocesan apex council.

State of Mexico election, 2005

Voters in Mexico's most populous state went to the polls to elect a governor to replace former incumbent Arturo Montiel Rojas of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI).

Thomas Rennell

His father soon resigned his prebendal stall at Winchester in his favour, and in 1787 he undertook the charge of the populous parish of Alton.

Tomiyama, Aichi

The completion of the Sakuma Dam in 1955 flooded much of the arable land in the village, forcing the resettlement of most of the inhabitants, and leaving Tomiyama with the distinction of being the least populous village in Japan (aside from some isolated islets).

Trinidad

Trinidad (Spanish: "Trinity") is the largest and most populous of the two major islands and

United States presidential election in Illinois, 2000

Gore's key to victory was Cook County, home of Chicago, by far the most populous county in the state and one of the most populated counties in the nation.

Welcome to Lagos

Narrated by David Harewood, the observational documentary series looked at life in the urban environment of Lagos, the most populous conurbation in Nigeria and one of the fastest growing cities in the world.


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