Crawley's 13 neighbourhoods are as follows: Bewbush Broadfield Furnace Green Gossops Green Ifield Langley Green Maidenbower Northgate Pound Hill Southgate Three Bridges Tilgate West Green Other areas within Crawley include: Manor Royal - An industrial zone (falls under Northgate) Worth - A disputed area falling within Pound Hill. The historic parish of Worth also falls in Mid Sussex, whi ...

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The original pattern of 32 counties evolved over many years from the original Norman conquest of Ireland. The Local Government (Ireland) Act 1898 was a significant milestone in the framing of the counties and their status. Some of the 32 counties are no longer the main basis for local government, planning and community development purposes, although unlike the counties in Great Britain, the Republic's traditional county boundaries are still respected for other purposes (counties on occasion being sub-divided). In the Republic o ...

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In the United Kingdom, all local authorities are overseen by elected councillors. These include: unitary authorities county councils, district, borough or city councils, civil parish, town or community councils. Councillors are typically elected as members of political parties. Once elected they are meant to represent all their constituents and not just those who voted for them. They are bound by a code of conduct enforced by standards boards.

Councillor, Councillor - United Kingdom, Councillor - Renumeration, Councillor - Regional government

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The Brooklyn Cyclones are a minor league baseball team, affiliated with the New York Mets. The Cyclones play at KeySpan Park just off the boardwalk on Coney Island. In 1999, New York mayor Rudolph Giuliani announced a deal that would bring two minor-league baseball teams to the outer boroughs of the city. New stadiums would be constructed for the Staten Island Yankees and an as-yet-unnamed team to play at Coney Island. A name-the-team contest was held, and the club became known as the Cyclones, named for the f ...

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The Brooklyn Nets Arena is a proposed US$3.5 billion sports arena, business and residential complex to be built partly on a platform over the Metropolitan Transportation Authority-owned Atlantic Yards at Atlantic Avenue in the New York City borough of Brooklyn. The site is intended to serve as a new home for the New Jersey Nets, currently based at Continental Airlines Arena in East Rutherford, New Jersey. The MTA site is 8.3 acres (34,000 m²); the A ...

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United Kingdom This article is part of the series: Politics of the United Kingdom Parliament The Crown: Queen Elizabeth II House of Lords Lord Chancellor: Lord Falconer House of Commons Speaker: Michael Martin Prime Minister: Tony Blair Cabinet Government departments Scottish Parliament Scottish ExecutiveIncluding:

• Parliament of the United Kingdom - History
• Parliament of the United Kingdom - Parliament of England
• Parliament of the United Kingdom - Parliament of Scotland
• Parliament of the United Kingdom - Parliament of Ireland
• Parliament of the United Kingdom - Parliament of Great Britain
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• Parliament of the United Kingdom - Modern era
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• Parliament of the United Kingdom - Term
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• Parliament of the United Kingdom - Judicial functions
• Parliament of the United Kingdom - Relationship with the Government
• Parliament of the United Kingdom - Sovereignty
• Parliament of the United Kingdom - Privileges

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Burgage is a medieval land term used in England and Scotland, well established by the 13th century. A burgage was a town ("borough") rental property (to use modern terms), owned by a king or lord. The property ("burgage tenament") usually, and distinctly, consisted of a house on a long and narrow plot of land, with the narrow end facing the street. Rental payment ("tenure") was usually in the form of money, but each "burgage tenure" arrangement was unique, and could include services. As populations grew, "burgage plots" could be split into smaller additional units. Burgage tenures were usually monetary based, in contrast to ru

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The Bronx is one of the five boroughs of New York City in the United States. It is coterminous with Bronx County of the State of New York. It is the northernmost and only borough of New York City on the North American mainland, located south of Westchester County. It also includes several small islands in the East River and Long Island Sound. GR6. The Harlem River separates The Bronx from the island of Manhattan. The Bronx takes its name from Bronck's Farms, after an early settler (164 ...

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• The Bronx - Neighborhoods
• The Bronx - Demographics
• The Bronx - Trivia

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Edgar John Bergen (born February 16, 1903; died September 30, 1978) was an American actor and radio performer, best known as a ventriloquist. He was born in Decatur, Michigan to a Swedish family, where he attended Lake View High School and worked at a silent movie house. He taught himself ventriloquism from a pamphlet when he was 11. A few years later he commissioned a woodcarver to make a likeness of a rascally Irish newspaperboy he knew. The head went on a puppet named Charlie M ...

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Charlottenburg is an area in Berlin, formerly a borough, now part of Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf. It is home to Gedenkstätte Plötzensee, a memorial to those murdered by the Nazi justice system between 1933 and 1945. It is also known for the Schloss Charlottenburg, the largest palace in Berlin. Elector Frederick III had a summer residence built for his wife Sophie Charlotte by the architect Johann Arnold Nering between 1695 and 1699. After Frederick became the first Prussian King in 1701 (Frederick I of Prussia), ...

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Brighton Beach is a community on Coney Island in the borough of Brooklyn, New York City, USA. It is bounded by the community of Coney Island proper on the west, Manhattan Beach on the east, and the Atlantic Ocean on the south. Brighton Beach was developed as a beach resort in 1878 and was named in a contest; the winning name evoked the resort of Brighton, England. The centerpiece of the resort was the large Hotel Brighton or Brighton Beach Hotel, placed on the beach at what is now the foot of Coney Island Avenue and accessed by the Brooklyn, Flatbush, and Coney Island Railway, known then and now as t ...

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Centralia is a borough located in Columbia County, Pennsylvania. Although as recently as 1981 there were over 1,000 residents, the population has dwindled to 11 as a result of a 40 year old mine fire burning beneath the borough, one of at least 38 in Pennsylvania alone. Centralia Pennsylvania - History. Centralia was incorporated in 1866, but it had existed since 1841 when the Bull's Head Tavern was opened by Johnathan Faust. In 1854, Alexander W. Rea, a civil and mining engineer for the Locust Mountain Coa ...

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• Centralia Pennsylvania - History
• Centralia Pennsylvania - The mine fire
• Centralia Pennsylvania - Centralia today
• Centralia Pennsylvania - Mineral rights
• Centralia Pennsylvania - Geography
• Centralia Pennsylvania - Demographics
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Canterbury is a cathedral city in the City of Canterbury district of Kent in South East England. Canterbury is the seat of the Archbishop of Canterbury, the primate of the Church of England, and head of the world-wide Anglican Communion. In this latter role, he is the second most important Christian leader in Europe. Canterbury - History. Canterbury - Early history. There has been a settlement in Canterbury since prehistoric times. Bronze Age finds, and Neo ...

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• Canterbury - Early history
• Canterbury - Religious significance
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• Canterbury - Demographics
• Canterbury - Government
• Canterbury - Transport
• Canterbury - Railway
• Canterbury - Road
• Canterbury - Educational establishments
• Canterbury - Sundry information

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Burgher can refer to: A title. In the European Middle Ages, a burgher was any freeman of a burgh or borough; or any inhabitant of a borough, a person who lives in town. (Even in modern German the word for citizen is Bürger, and in Dutch the word for citizen is Burger) Also a member of the middle class such as in bourgeois, not, for example, of the upper (manor lord) or lower (serf farmer) class. In pre-modern Sweden and Finland, burghers were an independent Estate, with a monopoly in trade. The label ...

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Augsburg is a city in south-central Germany. It is the capital of the Swabia administrative region of Bavaria, and is located at the confluence of the Wertach and Lech rivers. The population was 276,193 in 2004. Augsburg - Districts. There are 17 districts Stadteile in Augsburg: Innenstadt Antonsviertel Bärenkeller Bergheim (includes Neubergheim, Wellenburg, Radegundis and Fuchssiedlung) Firnhaberau Göggingen mit Schafweidsiedlung H ...

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• Augsburg - Education
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1984 (MCMLXXXIV) is a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. 1984 - Events. 1984 - January. January 1 - Brunei becomes a fully independent state. January 1 - AT&T is broken up into 24 independent units. January 5 - Richard Stallman starts developing GNU. January 7 - Brunei becomes the sixth member of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). January 9 - Clara Peller is fea ...

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42nd Street is a major crosstown street in the New York City borough of Manhattan, known for its theaters, especially near the intersection with Broadway at Times Square. It is also the name of the region of the theater district (and, at times, the red-light district) near that intersection. 42nd Street has held a special place in New York lingo since at least the turn of the twentieth century. The Lincoln Highway, conceived in 1913 as America's first transcontinental highway, used the portion of 42nd Street west of Times Squar ...

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Queens is the largest of the five boroughs of New York City in area. It is coterminous with Queens County in the U.S. state of New York and is located on western Long Island. It is the most ethnically diverse county in the United States. Established on November 1, 1683, it was named for the then-queen consort, Catherine of Braganza, wife of Charles II. As of 2000, the population is 2,229,379. Its county seat is the district of JamaicaGR6, a neighborhood of New York City. The United States Post ...

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Paris is the capital and largest city of France. Located on the river Seine in the country's north, it is a major cultural and political centre of Europe and the world's most visited city. Nicknamed "the City of Light" (la Ville Lumière) since lighting its main boulevards with gas street lamps in 1828, the city of Paris also has a reputation as a "romantic" city and the "heart of Europe". It is instantly recognised by the 324-metre brown metal Eif ...

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• Paris - The future: muséification?
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• Paris - Paris as a commune
• Paris - Paris as a département
• Paris - Paris as the prefecture of Île-de-France
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Alan Morton Dershowitz (born September 1, 1938) is an American lawyer and jurist. He has spent most of his career at Harvard Law School, where at the age of 28 he became the youngest full professor in the law school's history, and is now the Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law. In addition to his teaching, Dershowitz is a prolific author who makes frequent media and public speaking appearances a ...

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• Alan Dershowitz - Views and positions
• Alan Dershowitz - Torture warrants
• Alan Dershowitz - The debate with Finkelstein
• Alan Dershowitz - Selected bibliography
• Alan Dershowitz - Notes

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