The town is now called Defiance, with a population of about 6, 000 people of different races.

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The most posh restaurant in town is a Cajun place called The Double Musky.

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As a tour operator, the east end of town--which most of the nation now knows is called The Point--that was our canvas.

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The so-called "town-gown" divide is becoming more apparent across the UK as universities grow.

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It is called the Long Island Breakfast Club and was founded in the town of Hempstead.

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Barnabas is a young man from a wealthy family, the builders of a town called Collinsport.

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One out of every four people in town is a dues-paying member of a group called Friends of the Fossil Library.

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The most despondent place in the U.K. is an hour or so west of London, in a town called Slough.

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Dubs says the Chinese kept the ex-legionaries as frontier guards, installing them in a specially created town called Liqian in what is now Gansu.

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Smiling on the other side of town, no doubt, is White Sox owner Jerry Reinsdorf, whose stadium, now called U.S. Cellular Field, came courtesy of the taxpayers in 1991.

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The place is less a town than a gathering spot, consisting of a general store, two motels (optimistically called "resorts") and RV parks adjacent to them.

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