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7 unusual facts about abandonment


Bellacorick

Unfortunately, although the visually attractive chimney has been removed, the visually offensive derelict sixties-style block buildings, several storeys in height, are still standing, ungraciously draped with green netting, as a blot on the landscape.

Fincham

The village used to have two churches, though one became derelict and was destroyed by royal bequest.

Girsby

The settlement has fallen into disrepair, many of the remaining buildings are derelict, there are barely enough houses to constitute a hamlet.

Kings Park Psychiatric Center Spur

Kings Park Psychiatric run-off also known as KPPC is an abandoned spur off the Port Jefferson Branch of the Long Island Rail Road for the Kings Park Psychiatric Center.

Lezayre railway station

After the line closed, the station building spent a number of years in a derelict condition, before being fully restored for use as a private dwelling.

Oram Nincehelser House

The magnificent new residence was built primarily to impress his new bride, but the couple did not live long in the house: Mrs. Nincehelser deserted her husband after just a few years of marriage.

Shinobido: Way of the Ninja

Finding only a sword lying next to him on the ground, the man stumbles across an isolated and seemingly derelict shack, only to have an arrow shoot past his head and lodge itself into the shack's outer wall.


1469

February 4Battle of Qarabagh in Arran (Caucasus): The Aq Qoyunlu under Uzun Hassan defeat the Timurids of Samarkand under Abu Sa'id Mirza resulting in the latter's capture and execution (by Yadgar Muhammad Mirza) and abandonment of Timurid claims on Persia.

Abdul Rahman Ahmed Jibril Baroud

In 1948, when there was abandonment of his village, he and his family were captured by Zionists and settled in Jabalia refugee camp.

Amy Warner

After the abandonment of the Women's United Soccer Association, the Women's United Soccer League reigned supreme as the top tier women's soccer league in the country.

Clan MacLellan

The castle's beginnings lie in the Reformation of 1560 which led to the abandonment of the Convent of Greyfriars which had stood on the site now occupied by the castle since 1449.

Colony of Virginia

In 1609, with the abandonment of the Plymouth Company settlement, the London Company's Virginia charter was adjusted to include the territory north of the 34th parallel and south of the 39th parallel, with its original coastal grant extended "from sea to sea".

Concern for the Nation Functional Party

The party was established by former members of the Golkar Party who were dissatisfied with Golkar's abandonment of former president Suharto including former minister Hartono and Suharto's daughter Siti Hardiyanti Rukmana.

Cooperative Escapism in Familial Relations

Jeff later confesses that he faked Appendicitis while in grade school to gain sympathy from his classmates to cope with his abandonment issues after William Sr. left.

Custody battle for Anna Mae He

In May 2004 after a 10-day trial, Judge Robert L. Childers, a Tennessee circuit judge, terminated Hes' parental rights on grounds of willful abandonment, despite Hes' persistent effort to get custody back via Juvenile Court.

Debbe Magnusen

Received a resolution from the 37th State Senate District of California that recognized July 13, 2013 as Baby Abandonment Prevention Awareness day from State Senator Mimi Walters.

Elena Ferrante

Two of Ferrante's novels have been turned into films: Troubling Love (L'amore molesto) became the feature film Nasty Love directed by Mario Martone, while The Days of Abandonment (I giorni dell'abbandono) became a film of the same title directed by Roberto Faenza.

Germany–Holy See relations

The Catholic anti-liberalism was led by Pope Pius IX; his death in 1878 allowed Bismarck to open negotiations with Pope Leo XIII, and led to his abandonment of the Kulturkampf in stages in the early 1880s.

Gnaeus Julius Verus

The revolt had been led by the Brigantes tribe and had resulted in the abandonment of the Antonine Wall and a possible slaughter at the fort at Newstead.

Grierson Spring, TX

The subpost, consisting of a number of limestone buildings and corrals, was built, occupied, and maintained by detachments of Buffalo soldiers from the 16th, 24th, and 25th Infantry and the 10th Cavalry from the time of its construction in 1878 until its abandonment in September 1882; however, before being closed, the subpost, telegraph line, and supply road contributed materially to the US Army's 1879–1880 campaign against the Apache warrior, Victorio, and his followers.

Jewish assimilation

Such Jews consider assimilation a loss of Jewish identity of an individual either by marriage to a spouse who is not Jewish or by abandonment of the Jewish religion to adopt another religion.

L'abandon d'Ariane

L'abandon d'Ariane Op. 98 (The Abandonment of Ariane or, in German, Die Verlassene Ariadne) is an opera in one act by Darius Milhaud to a French libretto by Henri Hoppenot, based on Greek mythology.

Louis C. Midgley

Other topics Midgley has studied included the abandonment of a belief in the Book of Mormon as an ancient document by members of the Community of Christ.

Luzena Wilson

Abandonment of possessions by caravans traveling the perilous overland trek was common to lighten the loads of the wagons through dangerous or muddied roads.

Madurai massacre

Paul Dundas writes that the story represents the abandonment of Madurai by Jains for economic reasons or the gradual loss of their political influence.

Massachusetts Central Railroad

Conrail operated the line between Palmer and Ware and applied for abandonment of the remainder of the line.

McCreary County v. American Civil Liberties Union

The appeal from that decision, argued by Mathew Staver of Liberty Counsel, urged reformulation or abandonment of the "Lemon test" set forth in Lemon v. Kurtzman, which has been applied to religious displays on government property and to other Establishment Clause issues.

Mrs. Leslie Carter

In 1887 she filed for divorce on the grounds of physical assault and abandonment, but in 1889, Mr. Carter obtained the divorce naming actor, H. Kyrle Bellew, as co-respondent.

Muslim Bandhmati

Like other Muslim communities of the Doab, they are undergoing a process of Islamization, and this has led to the abandonment of clan exogamy.

Ontario Central Railroad

The plan for forming Conrail involved the abandonment of all the trackage that became the ONCT; but several rail customers wanted to keep rail service.

Perkasie Tunnel

This portion of the Bethlehem Branch was saved from abandonment when short line railroad company East Penn Railway (EPRY) leased the portion between Telford and Quakertown in 1997 to continue operations under the name East Penn Railroad (ESPN).

Pewsey Vale

Economic issues during the Great Depression in the 1920s caused the Pewsey Vale winery to go downhill, which eventually led to a long period of abandonment.

Quiggly hole

The reason for the abandonment is believed to have been the collapse of a slide which had blocked the Fraser River, forming a lake reaching upstream many miles, such that the location at Keatley Creek was near the shoreline (it is today on a benchland high above the river's canyon).

Rally for the Republic

Furthemore, the abandonment of the Gaullist doctrine was criticized by Charles Pasqua and Philippe Séguin.

Renaissance architecture in Portugal

The definitive abandonment of Gothic architecture and the first "pure" Renaissance structures appear later in the 16th century, under King John III, like the Chapel of Nossa Senhora da Conceição in Tomar (1532–40), the Porta Especiosa of Coimbra Cathedral and the Graça Church at Évora (c. 1530-1540), as well as the cloisters of the Cathedral of Viseu (c. 1528-1534) and Convent of Christ in Tomar (John III Cloisters, 1557–1591).

Sirr Al-Khatim Al-Khalifa

In 1950, after the abandonment of the Southern Policy, a colonial policy that isolated Southern Sudan from education and economic development, Al-Khalifa was appointed as a Provincial Education Officer at Equatoria Province in Juba.

Skatin First Nations

The site of the hot springs was used by travellers on the old Douglas Road prior to the abandonment of that route by most traffic in about 1864, when the Cariboo Road via the Fraser Canyon became the main access to the BC Interior from the Lower Mainland.

Small Heath, Birmingham

The fall of France had not been anticipated in Government planning and the encirclement of a large part of the British Expeditionary Force into the Dunkirk pocket resulted in a hasty evacuation of that part of the B.E.F following the abandonment of their equipment.

Still Life with Profile of Laval

Vincent van Gogh had suggested a portrait exchange among the small group of artists (also including Émile Bernard) gathered at Pont-Aven in order to create a greater sense of community, a tradition known as Freundschaftsbild. By rendering them all in new artistic styles, the collective announced their abandonment of naturalism and adoption of Symbolism.

Supaatphaa

This period saw the ruthless power grab of Debera Borbarua and Laluksola Borphukan's abandonment of Guwahati and oppression via Sulikphaa Lora Roja.

Taj al-Din Shah-i Shahan Abu'l Fath

It then destroyed the fortress of Taq and several dams and irrigation canals before making its way to Bust and ravaging it, which led to the abandonment of the old city (the location of which is marked by Qala-e-Bost).

Tetradrachm

525-510 BC; the abandonment of the "heraldic"-type didrachms and the Archaic tetrardachms (early "owls") of the polis of Athens apparently took place shortly after the Battle of Salamis, 480 BC.

Third Avenue Railway

After the system's abandonment, 42 cars of the largest and newest type, built by TARS itself in 1938–1939 (on Brill trucks), were sold to the operator of the Vienna, Austria, streetcar system, Wiener Stadtwerke Verkehrsbetriebe (now Wiener Linien), for operation there.

U.S. Route 67 in Illinois

The original US-67 road passed through Virginia on what is now IL-78 (Jacksonville to Virginia) and then on IL-125 (Virginia to Beardstown), which follows the historic Beardstown Post Road and Ohio & Mississippi Railroad right-of-way (later part of Baltimore and Ohio Railroad (B&O) system before abandonment) between Beardstown and Springfield.

Washington County, Nebraska

As a result of this Council, Fort Atkinson was established in 1819 and served as a key midwestern outpost until its abandonment in 1827.

Xue family murder and abandonment

The Xue family murder and abandonment case involves the abandonment of a three-year-old girl, Qian Xun Xue (薛千寻 in Simplified Chinese) also known as Clare Xue, at Southern Cross Station in Melbourne, Australia, the murder of her mother, Anan (Annie) Liu (劉安安), in Auckland, New Zealand, and the search for and subsequent capture of her father, Nai Yin (Michael) Xue (薛乃印), in the United States of America.


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