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Yonkers, New York
Yonkers is the fourth largest city in the U.S. state of New York (behind Rochester) and the largest city in Westchester County, with a population of 196,086 (according to the 2000 census). A July 1, 2002 estimate showed the city's population to be 197,234. The population fell to 197,126 according to the 2004 estimate. Yonkers borders the New York City borough of the Bronx and is just 2 miles (3 km) north of Manhattan.
Townhouses
Historically in the United Kingdom, Ireland and in some other countries, a townhouse (or a "house in town") was a residence of a peer or member of the aristocracy in the capital or major city. Most such figures owned one or more country houses in which they lived for much of the year. However during the Social Season (when major balls and drawing rooms took place), and when parliament was in session, peers and the servants moved to live in their townhouse in the capital.
Stamford, Connecticut
Stamford is a city located in Fairfield County, Connecticut, USA. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 117,083. Stamford is ranked 3rd in having the most Fortune 500 companies, following directly after Chicago and New York City.
Sandy, Utah
Sandy is a city located in Salt Lake County, Utah and a suburb of Salt Lake City. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 88,418. A 2004 estimate placed its population at 89,979, making it the fourth largest city in Utah behind Salt Lake City, West Valley City, and Provo and just barely ahead of West Jordan, the rapidly-growing city located just west of Sandy.
Portsmouth, Virginia
Portsmouth (pronounced "Port-smith") is an independent city located in the U.S. Commonwealth of Virginia. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 100,565, but a July 1, 2002 Census estimate showed the city's population dropping to 99,790.
The Norfolk Naval Shipyard, often called the Norfolk Navy Yard, is a historic and active U.S. Navy facility which is actually located in Portsmouth, despite its name. The shipyard builds, remodels, and repairs the Navy's ships of all types.
Plymouth, Minnesota
Plymouth is a city located in Hennepin County, Minnesota. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 65,894. Plymouth operates under a council-manager form of government. The council comprises a mayor and six council members.
Paterson, New Jersey
Paterson is a city located in Passaic County, New Jersey. As of the United States 2000 Census, the city had a total population of 149,222. Census population projections indicate a population of 154,463 as of 2005, making it New Jersey's third largest city. It is the county seat of Passaic CountyGR6. Paterson is known as the Silk City for its dominant role in silk production during the latter 19th century.
Parma, Ohio
Parma is a city located in Cuyahoga County, Ohio. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 85,655.
Olathe, Kansas
Olathe is the fastest growing and fifth most populous city in the U.S. state of Kansas, and it is the second most populous city and county seat of Johnson County. As a suburb of Kansas City, the city is included in the Kansas City Metropolitan Area, it is the 5th largest city in the Kansas City Metropolitan area. It is bordered by the cities of Lenexa to the north and Overland Park to the east.
Nampa, Idaho
Nampa (IPA: [næm pə]) is the largest city in Canyon County, Idaho, and the second largest in the state. Only the capital city Boise is larger. As of the 2000 census, Nampa had a total population of 51,867 (2003 estimate: 64,269). Nampa's population has grown by well over 20 percent since 2000, making it the fastest-growing city in Idaho.
Medford, Oregon
Medford is a city located in Jackson County, Oregon. It was named in the 1880s by a civil engineer working for the Oregon and California Railroad for his home town of Medford, Massachusetts. As of the 2005, the city had a total population of 70,860. It is the county seat of Jackson CountyGR6. Medford's sister city is Alba, Italy.
Lancaster, California
Lancaster is a city located in the Antelope Valley in Los Angeles County, California, USA. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 118,718. As of 2005, the California Finance Dept. estimates the population at 133,703.
Joliet, Illinois
Joliet is a city located in both Will and Kendall County, Illinois and is a suburb southwest of Chicago. It is the county seat of Will CountyGR6. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 106,221; a 2003 special census revealed the city's population to be 120,782. A 2005 census shows the population at 129,519.
Homeowners Association
A Homeowners association is an organization comprised of all owners of units in the development. The vast majority of them are incorporated and are therefore governed by a board, which is a private government.
History of Egypt
The regularity and richness of the annual Nile River flood, coupled with semi-isolation provided by deserts to the east and west, allowed for the development of one of the world's great civilizations. A unified kingdom was founded circa 3200 BC by King Narmer, and a series of dynasties ruled in Egypt for the next three millennia.
Highlands Ranch, Colorado
Highlands Ranch is a census-designated place located in Douglas County, Colorado. As of the 2000 census, the CDP had a total population of 70,931.
Federal Way, Washington
Federal Way is a city located in King County, Washington, United States. Federal Way is a bedroom community located between Seattle and Tacoma. Its western boundary is Puget Sound. It is bordered by Des Moines on the north, Kent, unincorporated King County, and Milton on the east and Tacoma and Fife on the south. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 83,259. The population estimates for 2005 are 85,800 making it Washington’s 7th largest city.
Egyptian Pyramids
The pyramids of Egypt, among the largest constructions ever built by humankind, constitute one of the most potent and enduring symbols of Ancient Egyptian civilization. It is generally accepted by most archaeologists that they were constructed as burial monuments associated with royal solar and stellar cults, and most were built during the Old and Middle Kingdom periods.
Egyptian Mythology
Egyptian mythology or Egyptian religion is the succession of tentative beliefs held by the people of Egypt for over three thousand years, prior to major exposure to Christianity and Islam.
Egyptian Language
Written records of the ancient Egyptian language have been dated from about 3200 BC. Egyptian is part of the Afro-Asiatic group of languages and is related to Berber and Semitic (languages such as Arabic, Amharic and Hebrew). The language survived until the 5th century AD in the form of Demotic and until the Middle Ages in the form of Coptic. Thus it had a lifespan of over four millennia. Egyptian is one of the oldest recorded languages known.
Egyptian Godess Bast
In Egyptian mythology, Bast (also spelt Ubasti, and Pasht) is an ancient goddess, worshipped at least since the Second Dynasty. The centre of her cult was in Per-Bast (Bubastis in Greek), which was named after her. Originally she was viewed as the protector goddess of Lower Egypt, and consequently depicted as a fierce lion. Indeed, her name means (female) devourer.
Egyptian Goddess Nephthys
In Egyptian mythology, Nephthys (spelt Nebet-het, and Nebt-het, in transliteration from hieroglyphs) is one of the Ennead of Heliopolis, a daughter of Nut and Geb, and the wife of Set. She was originally Set's dualistic counterpart, representing the air, whereas Set originally represented the desert. In ancient Egypt, the oldest female in the house was given the honorary title of Nephthys, and she was popular even in the Greco-Roman period.
Egyptian Goddess Isis
Isis is a goddess in the Egyptian belief. She was most prominent mythologically as the wife of Osiris and mother of Horus, and was worshipped as the archetypal wife and mother.
Egyptian God Thoth
Djehuty was considered one of the more important gods of the Egyptian pantheon whose feminine counterpart was Maàt. His chief shrine was at Khemennu, where he was the head of the local company of gods, later renamed Hermopolis by the Greeks (in reference to him through the Greeks' interpretation that he was the same as Hermes) and Eshmûnên by the Arabs. He also had shrines in Abydos, Hesert, Urit, Per-Ab, Rekhui, Ta-ur, Sep, Hat, Pselket, Talmsis, Antcha-Mutet, Bah, Amen-heri-ab, and Ta-kens.
Egyptian God Set
In Egyptian mythology, Set (also spelt Sutekh, Setesh, Seteh) is an ancient god, who was originally the god of the desert, one of the two main biomes that constitutes Egypt, the other being the small fertile area either side of the Nile. Due to developments in the Egyptian language over the 3,000 years that Set was worshipped, by the Greek period, the t in Set was pronounced so indistinguishably from th that the Greeks spelt it as Seth.
Egyptian God Satis
In Egyptian mythology, Satis (also spelt Satjit, Sates, and Sati) was the deification of the floods of the Nile River, and originated in the region around Aswan, the southern edge of Egypt.
Egyptian God Ra
Ra (sometimes spelled R¨º) is the sun-god of Heliopolis in ancient Egypt. It seems likely that the Egyptians pronounced this "ray", but the common pronunciation today is "rah".[citation needed] Ra originally meant "mouth" in the Egyptian language, and was a reference to his creation of the deities of the Ogdoad system, excluding the 8 concepts which created him, by the power of speech (compare how YHWH was said to have created the world).
Egyptian God Ptah
In Egyptian mythology, Ptah (also spelt Peteh) was the deification of the primordial mound in the Ennead cosmogony, which was more literally referred to as Ta-tenen (also spelt Tathenen), meaning risen land, or as Tanen, meaning submerged land.
Egyptian God Osiris
Osiris (Greek language, also Usiris; the Egyptian language name is variously transliterated Asar, Aser, Ausar, or Ausare) is the Egyptian God of the dead and the underworld. At the height of the ancient Nile civilization, Osiris was regarded as the primary deity of a henotheism. Osiris was not only the merciful judge of the dead in the afterlife, but also the underworld agency that granted all life, including sprouting vegetation and the fertile flooding of the Nile River.
Egyptian God Khepri
In Egyptian mythology, Khepri (also spelt Khepera, Kheper, Chepri, Khepra) is the name of a minor god. The origin of belief in Khepri lies in the observation that dung beetles have a habit of pushing large balls of dung around, and so some Egyptians came up with the idea that the sun moved across the sky because it was being pushed by such a beetle. Since Khepri was considered to push the sun, he gradually came to embody aspects of the sun itself, and therefore was a solar deity.
Egyptian God Imhotep
Imhotep was a wizard, and the first architect and physician known by name to written history. As one of the officials of the Pharaoh Djosèr he designed the Pyramid of Djzosèr (Step Pyramid) at Saqqara in Egypt around 2630-2611 BC, during the 3rd Dynasty. He may also have been responsible for the first known use of columns in architecture. His name means the one who comes in peace.
Egyptian God Anubis
Anubis is the Greek name for the ancient god in Egyptian mythology whose hieroglyphic is more accurately spelt Anpu (also Anup, Anupu, Wip, Ienpw, Inepu, Yinepu, or Inpw). He is also known as Sekhem Em Pet. Prayers to Anubis have been found carved on the most ancient tombs in Egypt; indeed, the Unas text (line 70) associates him with the Eye of Horus. Anubis is the ruler of the underworld.
Egyptian God Amun
Amun (also spelt Amon, Amoun, Amen, and rarely Imenand, and spelt in Greek as Ammon, and Hammon) was the name of a deity, in Egyptian mythology, who gradually rose to become one of the most important deities, before fading into obscurity.
Egyptian God Aker
In Egyptian mythology, Aker (also spelt Akar) was one of the earliest gods worshipped, and was the deification of the horizon. There are strong indications that Aker was worshipped before other known Egyptian gods of the earth, such as Geb.
Egyptian God Aken
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Egyptian Art
Ancient Egyptian art is five thousand years old. It emerged and took shape in ancient Egypt, the civilization of the Nile Valley. Expressed in paintings and sculptures, it was highly symbolic and fascinating — this art form revolves round the past and was intended to keep history alive.
Columbia, Maryland
Columbia is a census-designated place and planned community located in Howard County, Maryland. It began with the idea that a city could enhance its residents' quality of life. Creator and developer James W. Rouse saw the new community in terms of human values, not just in terms of economics and engineering. Opened in 1967, Columbia was designed to not only eliminate the inconveniences of then-current subdivision design, but also eliminate racial, religious, and income segregation.
Clinton County, Michigan
Clinton County is a county in the U.S. state of Michigan, and is part of the Lansing Metropolitan Area. As of the 2000 census, the population was 64,753. It is named after the seventh Governor of New York State, DeWitt Clinton. The county seat is St. Johns.
Clarksville, Tennessee
Clarksville is a city located in Montgomery County, Tennessee, USA. As of the 2005 census, the city had a total population of 123,395, retaining its position as Tennessee's fifth largest city. It is the county seat of Montgomery CountyGR6. Clarksville is the home of Austin Peay State University.
Chandler, Arizona
Chandler (Pima: Canli) is a city located in Maricopa County, Arizona, USA. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 176,582. But a July 1, 2004 Census estimate put the fast-growing suburb's population at 220,705--a 25% population increase in just four years.
Chandler is noted for its annual Ostrich Festival.
Broken Arrow, Oklahoma
Broken Arrow is a city located in northeastern Oklahoma. It is the largest suburb of Tulsa. As of the 2004 census estimates, the city had a total population of 100,399.
Brockton, Massachusetts
Brockton is a city located in Plymouth County, Massachusetts. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 94,304. The city and Plymouth are the county seats of Plymouth CountyGR6. Brockton is the 6th largest city in Massachusetts and claims to be the "City of Champions", mainly due to the success of native boxers Rocky Marciano and Marvin Hagler, as well as its extremely successful high school sports programs (especially the football team).
Brandon, Florida
Brandon, Florida
Beaumont, Texas
Beaumont is a city and county seat of Jefferson County, Texas and is within the Beaumont-Port Arthur metropolitan area. As of the 2000 U.S. Census, the city had a population of 113,866. With Port Arthur and Orange, it forms the Golden Triangle, a major industrial area on the Gulf Coast.
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