Sentences with phrase «mining town after»

It was chartered as a city in 1894 and rose to prominence as a coal - mining town after the discovery of anthracite coal in Wyoming Valley.

It was chartered as a city in 1894 and rose to prominence as a coal - mining town after the discovery of anthracite coal in Wyoming Valley.

It was chartered as a city in 1894 and rose to prominence as a coal - mining town after the discovery of anthracite coal in Wyoming Valley.

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According to Col. Eric Aggrey - Quarshie, Director of Public Relations, Ghana Armed Forces (GAF), the body of the late Captain arrived Tuesday evening from the Dunkwa - on - Offin Government Hospital in the region where it was initially kept after the assassination in a town where illegal mining (popularly called galamsey) activities are at their peak.

13 After a 1992 drug trial in the Welsh mining town of Merthyr Tydfil, male subjects reported that sildenafil citrate hadn't done much for their angina, but it did have an unusual side effect on another part of their anatomy.

Ground Collapses: Some of the swampy ground around the coal - mining town of Brüx, Bohemia (now called Most, in the Czech Republic), turned to quicksand after a heavy rainstorm on July 19, 1895.

Of course, El Machino starts suffering from quakes and mining hazards right after Rusty's appearance and Dorothy's journey to find him and the cause of the town's misfortunes begins.

The first trailer has debuted for writer - director Adriana Trigiani's upcoming romantic comedy Big Stone Gap which stars Ashley Judd, Patrick Wilson and Whoopi Goldberg.Watch it below after the official synopsis... Based on her best - selling novel of the same name, writer / director Adriana Trigiani brings the story of a coal mining town nestled in the Appalachian Mountains -LSB-...]

Baumbach's 1995 debut, «Kicking and Screaming,» mines this territory to hilarious effect, following a group of aimless best friends who continue living in their college town after graduation.

«Little Accidents» (Not rated) A teenager goes missing in a small town just after ten men die in a coal mining accident in this dark, atmospheric, well - acted indie starring Elizabeth Banks and Boyd Holbrook.

After students had wondered why the water in the stream behind the school was orange, teachers and administrators learned that the discoloration was due to the area's history as a mining town.

A compelling story of love and loss in a western Pennsylvania mining town in the years after World War II.

A stunning follow - up to her bestselling debut, Mrs. Kimble, Jennifer Haigh returns with Baker Towers, a compelling story of love and loss in a western Pennsylvania mining town in the years after World War II.

Adele «Addie» Maine is returning to Dire, a Wyoming coal - mining town, forty years after the deadly events that nearly took her life and drove her away without a word to her husband.

It's the story of Adam Raine whose life is repeatedly transformed by fate, first when his mother dies in an accident and his father moves him to a mining town in Northern England, and later when he is adopted by a wealthy family after his father's death.

It has a rich industrial history of coal mining particularly in the main town of Longyearbyen, named after its most famous coal mining entrepreneur.

I was born in Mount Isa, a small outback mining town populated largely by Finnish immigrants who migrated to Australia after World War II.

After visiting the salt mines, and a spectacular descent into the Sacred Valley we will have a delicious lunch and continue to Ollantaytambo Archaeological site, one of the best - preserved towns of the Inkas.

Then we will visit the town center of Maras where we will stop for a few minutes to continue towards the archaeological center of Moray and after a visit of approximately 45 minutes, we will go to the salt mines of Maras where we will appreciate the artisanal extraction of this mineral.

Day 7: We travel up the west coast from the old mining town of Zeehan, named after Able Tasman's ship, onto Roseberry, beautiful Hellyer Gorge and the north coast to Stanley and a most unusual feature «The Nut» where there is a chairlift.

Day Three — Parachilna to Adelaide — After a hearty breakfast, depart and travel through the Parachilna Gorge to Blinman, an old copper mining town.

Day Ten — Depart after breakfast for old copper mining town of Blinman, then south through the Flinders Ranges National Park.

However the decline of mining soon followed after World War I, which saw the population shrink and the town become the supply centre or hub of the Dalrymple Shire.

There are many stories of how it got the name but the one we hear the most is that a committee member thought it reminded them of the woodsy mining area they came from in Cambria County, Pennsylvania, named after a Welsh town.

After an ancient salt mine dating back to at least the first millennium BC was discovered in the hills above the town, UNESCO awarded Hallstatt World Heritage status, which only served to improve the pretty town's popularity.

Longyearbyen, the «capital» of Svalbard and its main town, is named after John Munro Longyear, an American who owned the Arctic Coal Company which surveyed and mined on Svalbard (the islands have a rich mining history) at the turn of the 20th century.

Day 12 — After breakfast we spend some time visiting mines and interpretive centres which offer a great insight into the town and its mining operations.

Day Eight — This morning after breakfast we start the day with a tour of the historic Cornish mining town of Moonta.

After lunch, enjoy a guided tour through this intriguing mining town.

After a short stop depart through the Parachilna Gorge to Blinman, another historic town famous for copper mining.

After lunch you will travel south through spectacular gorges to the old copper mining town of Blinman, your destination for tonight.

After a brief city tour this morning, depart Auckland and travel south over the Bombay Hills and through the gold mining town of Waihi known for its stunning beaches.

Then we reach the village of Maras; Maras is a little town that still keeps a good parts of its architectural Colonial beauty (you can see amazing facades made of thin stone, lintels with sculptures in bas - relief) After the tour Maras Moray we continue our drive down a dirt road to the Inca salt mines.

Who arrives in the dusty town of Tumbleton (Population 3), after receiving the deed to a mine from a long - lost Uncle Joe.

Ore - Giron began developing this body of work after learning that China recently purchased the mining town of Morococha, Peru with plans to relocate the entire municipality in order to extract the copper reserves underneath it.

Born in 1888 in an obscure German mining town, Albers joined the Bauhaus in 1920, the year after it was founded, and was quickly promoted from student to master.

He was an optical engineer who repaired aircraft instruments in Alaska in WWII, a mountain man who could turn a canoe into a sailboat with a folding machete, bed sheets and a few sticks, who taught me diffraction, color theory and relativity on paper when other kids were learning multiplication tables, who designed a potentiometer that went to the Moon by pointing the world's fastest camera at the world's fastest oscilloscope, who designed those traffic lights which only appear bright when you are in the appropriate lane, who didn't have to help me at all when I built my own Heathkit dual - channel scope in grade school, nor had to help me program my Apple II in machine language, who quit Honeywell to work for 3M when the Space Program turned into the nuclear missile program, who studied mining geology in college after growing up in a mining town in Utah, it was he who taught me, early on: make sure your contraption works!