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6 unusual facts about Urban


Benjamin D'Urban

Sir Benjamin D'Urban's remains now rest at the Last Post Fund National Field of Honour, a military cemetery owned by the Last Post Fund in Pointe-Claire where there is an obelisk to his memory.

However, the graves had to be moved because they were in the way of building a new access ramp to the Jacques Cartier Bridge.

Brickdam Cathedral

Governor Sir Benjamin D'Urban laid the foundation stone of the first church on 12 December 1825.

National Field of Honour

At the center of this circle stands an obelisk dedicated to Sir Benjamin D'Urban, commander of the British Forces in North America who died in Canada in 1849.

Tracked Hovercraft

One thing that did surface was that Hawker Siddeley and Tracked Hovercraft were in the process of entering a bid for the GO-Urban system in Toronto.

Urban settlement

Urban-type settlement, an official designation for a certain type of urban locality used in some of the former republics of the Soviet Union


1859 in Denmark

April 15 – An act provides for the Royal Danish Navy as well as the Botanical Gardens to leave Gammelholm which is instead to undergo urban redevelopment.

Aquiles Priester

Aquiles endorses: Paiste, Mapex, Evans, Pro-Mark, Audio-Technica, DW Pedals, Gibraltar Hardware, Zoom, Staff Drum, Santo Angelo, Urban Boards, Ciclotron, Shred Cases, AeroRic Custom Drums, Tander Tattoo Studio and Lady Snake Rock Wear.

Automated guideway transit

The VAL (Véhicule Automatique Léger) system in Lille, France, opened in 1983, is often cited as the first AGT installed to serve an existing urban area.

Automobile Alley

Automobile Alley Historic District is an upscale Urban neighborhood in Oklahoma City, located roughly along North Broadway Avenue in Downtown Oklahoma City.

Barrio 19

Barrio 19 is a television program shown on MTV showcasing a diversity of street talents and urban underground pursuits in cities such as Tokyo, Paris, Berlin, London, Osaka, Hamburg, Mexico City, Rio de Janeiro, and São Paulo.

Bates Dance Festival

New works by Doug Varone, David Dorfman, Rennie Harris, Tamango/Urban Tap, Liz Lerman, Bebe Miller, Jane Comfort and many others have received festival commissioning support.

Beloyarsky

Beloyarsky Urban Settlement, a municipal formation in Beloyarsky Municipal District which the town of okrug significance of Beloyarsky in Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug, Russia is incorporated as

Coubalan

Coubalan is a small city in the urban community of the same name, located in Tenghory, Bignona, Ziguinchor, Casamance.

Craig Steven Wilder

He received his Ph.D. from Columbia University focusing on urban history, under the tutelage of Kenneth T. Jackson, as well as Barbara J. Fields, and Eric Foner.

Crime prevention through environmental design

An editor for Architectural Forum magazine (1952–1964), she had no formal training in urban planning, but her work emerged as a founding text for a new way of seeing cities.

Darryl Payne

Darryl Raymond Payne (born 1961) is an American post-disco record producer and songwriter who worked on dance and urban hits of artists like Sharon Redd or Sinnamon, and also produced music mostly centered to SAM and Prelude Records.

David Treuer

It was named for a fleet of trains operated by the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad (and by allusion the epic poem The Song of Hiawatha by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.) The novel features a Native American family who migrate to Minneapolis in the mid-twentieth century under the federally sponsored urban relocation program.

Electoral district of Mermaid Beach

A compact urban, coastal electorate, Mermaid Beach includes the Gold Coast suburbs of Mermaid Beach, Mermaid Waters, Broadbeach Waters, Merrimac, Florida Keys, Miami Keys and parts of Robina.

Electoral division of Greatorex

Greatorex is a mostly urban electorate, covering an area of 76 km², and encompassing the Alice Springs suburbs of Sadadeen and Traeger Park.

Els Vilars d'Engordany

It is part of the contiguous urban area of Escaldes-Engordany and Andorra La Vella, and has panoramic views over the capital and the Gran Valira river valley.

Firdaus Kanga

This, along with the story of a young disabled man's sexual awakening as family life crumbles around him makes Sixth Happiness an interesting exploration of modern, urban India.

Gary Bikman

After the 2012 election, he faced some controversy when, in an interview with CTV News shortly after the his election, he attributed his party's defeat to urban voters, who largely remained loyal to the governing Progressive Conservatives, possessing less "common sense" than the rural voters who turned to the Wildrose Party.

Gekido

Gekido (known as Gekido: Urban Fighters in Europe) is a beat 'em up for the PlayStation game console. The game uses a fast paced beat 'em up system, with many bosses and a colorful design in terms of graphics. The game features the music of Fatboy Slim and Apartment 26. Marvel comic book artist Joe Madureira also contributed. A version of Gekido was also released on the Game Boy Color in Europe.

Gilberto Hirata

Gilberto Antonio Hirata Chico (born January 17, 1953) in Valle de Guadalupe, Baja California) was state deputy representing the XIV electoral district (corresponding to the urban area of Ensenada, Baja California).

Gryazovetsky

Gryazovetskoye Urban Settlement, a municipal formation which the town of district significance of Gryazovets and two rural localities in Gryazovetsky District of Vologda Oblast, Russia are incorporated as

Gun politics in Pakistan

According to law, open carry is prohibited without the approval of the Home Ministry, but in practice are considered misdemeanors in urban areas and permitted in rural areas.

Guttman Community College

Guttman offers 2-year associate degree programs with majors in Business Administration, Human Services, Information Technology, Liberal Arts and Sciences, and Urban Studies.

In Coena Domini

Under Urban V (1363) the list contained seven cases; under Gregory XI (1372) nine; under Martin V (1420) ten; under Julius II (1511) twelve: under Paul III (1536) seventeen; under Gregory XIII in 1577 twenty, and under the same pontiff in 1583 twenty-one; under Paul V (1606 and 1619) twenty; and the same number in the final shape given to it by Urban VIII.

Joseph Urban

Most of Urban's architectural work in the United States has been demolished, with the exceptions of Mar-A-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida and The New School and the base of The Hearst Tower in New York City.

Kamka Kura

It was broadcast over 36 local radio stations nationwide, both in urban and rural areas including State radio, Radio Nepal.

KPSR-LP

KPSR-LP is Modesto's only true Urban formatted radio station playing Hip Hop, R&B, Old School, Classic soul and Gospel music, catering to the mainstream and adult audiences in the relatively demographically small African American community.

Louise Fagan

Additional performances took place at Urban Stages, New York City, and The University of the South, Sewanee, Tennessee.

Markwell

Clyde Markwell, architect and urban designer from Northern Ireland

Mayte Macanás

The album is set to have an urban/R&B feel in the vein of Craig David and Mary J. Blige.

Medvedevsky

Medvedevskaya, Lalsk, Kirov Oblast, a rural locality (a village) under the administrative jurisdiction of the urban-type settlement of Lalsk, Kirov Oblast, Russia

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.

Mukono Town

The town is administered by Mukono Town Council, an Urban Local Government within Mukono District Administration.

Naum Senyavin

Currently it is an urban-type settlement in Kirovsky District of Leningrad Oblast, Russia.

Overseas Vietnamese

Most Vietnamese in France live in Paris and the surrounding Île-de-France area, but a sizeable number also reside in the major urban centers in the south-east of the country, primarily Marseille and Lyon.

Pascal Delannoy

Delannoy then served in a parish in Roubaix for two years, after which he was made responsible for diocesan activities in independent sites (1991–1999), and in 1997 was also named the Dean of the urban district of Roubaix and of Bailleul.

Phantom social workers

It is thought that reports of unidentified "social workers" attempting to take children away from their parents were merely scare stories or urban legends fuelled by the story of Marietta Higgs, a paediatrician from Cleveland, England who diagnosed 121 children as being victims of sexual abuse from their parents without any evidence or reason.

Qingshanqiao Town

Qingshanqiao, Xiangtan, an urban town in Xiangtan County, Xiangtan City, Hunan Province

Raymond Pace Alexander

Many accounts of the black civil rights struggle in the United States focus on the large-scale events, urban rebellions and nationwide efforts that characterized the years after the Supreme Court’s 1954 decision in Brown v. Board of Education.

Reality Serum

'Trans-urban' is a new genre which is a unique blend of Alternative Hip Hop and Psychedelic Rock music... fans of Gary Numan, Cake, Tricky, Linkin Park, Placebo, Black Sabbath, Meat Beat Manifesto, Crazy Town, Monster Magnet, etc., will definitely be intrigued.

Stefan Heidemann

Co-operation with several archaeological missions especially in Syria among them at the citadels in Aleppo, Damascus and Masyaf, urban sites such as ar-Raqqa, and Kharab Sayyar, but also in Portugal, Mongolia, and Afghanistan Balkh.

The Second Nun's Tale

In an effort to prove his love and to gain the ability to see the angel, Valerian embarks on a voyage to see Urban, who would become Pope Urban I.

Urban anthropology

Ulf Hannerz quotes a 1960s remark that traditional anthropologists were "a notoriously agoraphobic lot, anti-urban by definition".

Urbanus Rhegius

Urbanus Henricus Rhegius or Urban Rieger (May 1489, Langenargen – 23 May 1541, Celle) was a Protestant Reformer who was active both in Northern and Southern Germany in order to promote Lutheran unity in the Holy Roman Empire.

Vedat Dalokay

Later in 1952, he completed his post-graduate studies at the Institute of Urbanism and Urban Development of Sorbonne University in Paris, France.

Veliki brat

The house is located in Belgrade, urban neighborhood of Košutnjak.

Washington's 39th legislative district

This urban district is represented by state senator Kirk Pearson and state representatives Dan Kristiansen (pos. 1) and Elizabeth Scott (pos. 2), all Republicans.

Wojciech Orliński

Mark Barber – Urban Legends (RM 2007) – preface to the Polish edition and a chapter about Polish urban legends

Wolf Tegethoff

Tegethoff studied art history, urban design, economic history and social history at the University of Bonn and Columbia University, New York.

Woos Whoopee

The short opens with a long shot of a large, urban building swaying in time to the loud strains of There'll Be a Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight within, added to the film in later years.


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