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Dave Gibson is also an actor, and had a supporting part in the New Zealand made horror film The Locals in addition to a short stint on New Zealand soap Shortland Street.


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A Star Is Born Again

She slowly starts settling in with the locals, joining Marge's book club (where author Helen Fielding makes a brief appearance) and going shopping with Ned.

Al-Bireh, Lebanon

The locals usually come across artifacts dating back to Phoenician, Byzantine, Roman and Canaanite eras.

Bardarski Geran

In the village's centre, right next to the clock tower, there is a monument to a Soviet fighter plane crew that crashed in the vicinity in World War II, as well as a monument to the locals that perished in the Balkan Wars and World War I.

Battle of Calatafimi

Francesco Crispi, among others, landed before the Mille on Sicily to raise support among the locals for the Mille.

Battle of Raymond

Having discovered from the locals that a large Confederate force was waiting just up the road, Logan attempted to deploy the 20th Ohio Infantry into a broad skirmish line and march nearly a mile through the almost impassable tangles.

Bény-sur-Mer

The locals were apparently amazed to have been liberated by fellow francophones, expecting only English-speaking troops.

Bundesstraße 446

The section between the Holzerode and Ebergötzen is known as the Hölle ("hell") by the locals because of the high rock outcrops immediately to the side of the road and dense stands of trees (e.g. "You drive through the Hölle.").

CA Saint-Étienne Loire Sud Rugby

The 3,000 people in the stadium were not the only ones to witness the locals' 15–9 victory though, as the match was broadcast live on Eurosport, a first for a Fédérale 1 game.

Capillaria philippinensis

Witch doctors were hired by the locals to exorcise the curse placed on them by the river god, which they believed was responsible for this sudden disaster.

Chakesar

Supposedly Alexander the Great fought a battle against the locals here in 326 BC, at the mount Pir Sar (see Aornos).

Diamon Simpson

Despite not winning the Best Import award, he was able to lead the Aces in winning the championship over 18-time champions San Miguel Beermen which had returning import Gabe Freeman as well as Dondon Hontiveros and Arwind Santos for the locals.

Dobarsko

Many of the locals were merchants who bought cotton from Northern Greece and sold it in Central Europe and grazed large herds of cattle in the mountains and the plains around Drama and Serres.

Dominick Kirwin

The garrison and its commander, Captain Anthony Willoughby, had been harassing the locals and bombarding the town on a regular basis for several weeks, and negotiations had been held between Willoughby and Walter Lynch (Mayor), with the Earl of Clanricarde acting as mediator.

Dunkelgrafen

The Dunkelgraf/Dunkelgräfin (French : Comte et Comtesse des Ténèbres; English: Dark Count & Dark Countess), is the nickname given by the locals to a wealthy couple who resided from February 1807 until their deaths in the vicinity of Hildburghausen, Thuringia, Germany, mainly in the castle of Eishausen where they settled in 1810.

Eckerloch

In the 1920s the locals built the first ski jump on the Eckerloch, with the permission of the chamber of the prince of Stolberg-Wernigerode.

Ennerdale Water

The locals dubbed it the Girt (dialect: "great") Dog of Ennerdale, though it was said to have had the traits of both a dog and a large cat.

French Beach, Karachi

French Beach of Karachi is located half way between Hawkes Bay and Paradise Point, is a small fishing village frequented by Karachi's elite and known to the locals as Haji Ismill Goth.

Hallelujah Bay

Often during the summer season, night lines left out by the locals can be found around Hallelujah Bay, whilst the area at the end of the bay is a favourite point for boat anglers after Conger.

Hora Sfakion

The impenetrable White Mountains to the north combined with the rocky beaches on the south helped the locals fight off all invaders.

Horouta

The story goes that Kahukura, a man from Hawaiki, introduced kūmara (sweet potato), to the locals who had never had anything like it before.

Kinakin, Ifugao

However, the oldest account being set forth by the locals was through the work of Harold Conklin's Ethnographic Atlas of Ifugao (1980) where it states that the total land area of the barangay is 1,450 hectares.

Kingdom of Albania

In order to fight this religious ambiguity, in 1304, Dominicans were ordered by Pope Benedict XI to enter the country and to instruct the locals in the Latin rite.

Kotturu Dhanadibbalu

Many bricks of the stupa and vihara are presently used by the locals(ignorant about the importance of this heritage site and lack of Vigilance).

Lizzie Arlington

By other side, a writer for the Hartford Courant, anticipating her coming to play for the locals against the Newark team, commented, "It is said that she plays ball like a man and talks ball like a man and if it was not for her bloomers she would be taken for a man on the diamond, having none of the peculiarities of women ball players."

Loriga

São Gens, a Celtic saint, martyred in Arles na Gália, during the reign of Emperor Diocletian, and over time the locals began to refer to this saint as São Ginês, due to its easy of pronunciation.

Maury Island

Maury Island also is the center of controversy between the locals and Glacier Northwest, a company that supplies ready-mixed concrete owned by the Taiheiyo Cement Company of Japan.

Miracle on 1st Street

But after he befriends some of the locals, including female boxer Myung-ran and a group of young children, he starts to have a change of heart.

Mister Moses

He further astounds the locals when he discovers Emily, that he recognises as an Indian elephant in the village.

Mocha Island

Professor Lisa Matisoo-Smith of the University of Otago and José-Miguel Ramírez-Aliaga of the University of Valparaíso hope to win agreement soon with the locals of Mocha Island to begin an excavation search for Polynesian remains on the island.

Norðoyri

Norðoyri (in Danish Nordøre, or Oyri by the locals) is a village in the Faroe Islands on the northern island of Borðoy.

Northern State Parkway

While the compromise was a success for the residents of Wheatley Hills, according to Robert Caro in The Power Broker, the $175,000 was a smokescreen for the fact that the land purchasing would cost $2.25 million (1929 USD) and rather than the locals, the taxpayers would be stuck with the majority (over 90%) of the bill from the acquisition.

Okolehao

In Operation Pacific, a 1951 John Wayne movie, when Wayne's submarine crew get arrested for crashing and busting up a luau with the local Hawaiians asking for damages beyond Wayne's budget, he finds out the locals had illegal "okoolihau" which caused his men to get drunk.

Patalenitsa

The village has its own village hall, the present building of which dates to 1970, a cultural centre (chitalishte) established in 1909, and a monument to the locals who perished as Bulgarian Army soldiers in the Balkan Wars and World War I.

Peter Winterbottom

He was selected on two British and Irish Lions tours in 1983 and 1993, both to New Zealand, where he impressed the locals with his fine play, albeit on losing sides.

Polemon I of Pontus

Zenon encouraged the locals to resist the Roman General Quintus Labienus and King Pacorus I of Parthia, when their armies invaded Syria and Anatolia.

Pteleos

Ftelio, as the locals call it, is a village at the southern part of the Magnesia prefecture.

Régiment de la Chaudière

Le Régiment de la Chaudière came ashore at Bernières-sur-Mer along with The Queen's Own Rifles of Canada, surprising the locals who hadn't expected to find francophone troops in the liberating forces.

Seni gayong

In 1942 during the Japanese Occupation, Meor Abdul Rahman taught seni gayong publicly in Sudong island, Singapore when the locals feared an attack by the Japanese.

Siobhan Marsden

Lorna Cooper of MSN TV listed Siobhan of one of Soap Opera's "forgotten characters" and noted that during her time in the serial she managed to clash with all of the locals.

Strez

Some ruins by the Vardar River near Jegunovce west of Skopje were known to the locals as "Strez's Fortress" (Стрезово кале, Strezovo kale).

Transport in Anguilla

The ferry from Blowing Point to Marigot, St. Martin, known to the locals as the Haddad Express, runs all day on the half hour, into the night time.

TYME

Residents commonly referred to ATMs as a "Tyme machine," which has resulted in confusion when Wisconsinites visiting unfamiliar areas would ask the locals where they could find a "time machine".

Urumita

The locals celebrate the Festival y Reinado de las Flores y la Calaguala (Festival and Pageant of the Flowers and the Calaguala) in honor of the plant.

Užican dialect

These include Bela Reka, Kriva Reka, Seništa and others, which can often be heard as Bijela Rijeka, Kriva Rijeka, Sjeništa etc. in conversation among the locals.

Uzturre

The mountain is an iconic landmark towering over Tolosa at 730 m high, very popular with the locals of the town and villages around.

Vehmic court

In Fritz Langs M, the locals criminals of an unnamed city (probably Berlin) capture a child murderer and hold a vigilante court.

Vratko Nemanjić

The Church of Jug Bogdan in Prokuplje, known among the locals as "the Latin church" after Venetians lived in the city briefly, was built by Jug Bogdan in the 14th century on a hill on the previous location of a 5th-century church which in turn was at the location of a temple from the 2nd century dedicated to Hercules.

White-winged Sandpiper

The White-winged Sandpiper (Prosobonia ellisi) is an extinct member of the large wader family Scolopacidae that was endemic to the Moorea in French Polynesia, where the locals called it te-te in the Tahitian language.

You've Been Trumped

The film documents the construction of a luxury golf course on a beach in Balmedie, Aberdeenshire, Scotland by Real Estate Tycoon Donald Trump, and the subsequent struggles between the locals and Donald Trump and Scottish legal and governmental authorities.