The full village name, made its way onto a Monopoly board in October 2011.
His name, and also his payment for ferry crossings to Orkney in coins called groats, led to the village getting its name.
Four generations later the boy was born, in a land that no longer existed, in a village with no name.
Now the village has a name for his grown-up son, who's rather more versed in the modern age - Technical Pen.
Analysts in the U.S. and elsewhere call the launch facility Tongchang, because it is close to a small village by that name.
The woman listened politely, then gave him the name of a village in Normandy, a street, and a number.
The public will have its say on the Cambridgeshire village's claim to the name for its cheese from May.
In TriBeCa, Terroir (24 Harrison St, near Greenwich Street, www.wineisterroir.com) is the sister of a much-loved hole-in-wall wine bar of the same name in the East Village.
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Facebook may have its European headquarters in Dublin but the social networking site has wiped a small Irish village off the map because its name is deemed obscene.
The event was staged between Marathon, the village which gave the event its name, and the Panathinaiko marble amphitheater in the center of Athens where the modern Olympic Games were revived in 1896.
Battir is the Arab name for the ancient Jewish village Betar, the site of Bar- Kochba's last stand against the Roman Empire.
With the help of my friends, we were able to get the name of the head of the village, Epi Sopian, who accompanied us to the location.
But even crossing out the mistaken postcode failed to deter the card from coming to their house in Aylmerton, which had the same name as one in a nearby village.
In the Gazipur district north of Dhaka, Garments Export Village Ltd. was surprised to find its name on Wal-Mart's list and feared it would hurt the company's reputation, said Emrul Kayes Sujan, manager of human resources and compliance for Amtranet Group, the factory owner.
We cannot be certain that the man was Talib Hussain but I questioned him about his name, age, ethnicity, home village and the duration of his military service.
My name is Caroline Cannon, president for the Native Village of Point Hope.
These requirements led to a pretty big spreadsheet of name possibilities and many great nights in the East Village.
Well, exactly 58 letters, if the name happens to be Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch, the longest place name in the United Kingdom and one of the longest village names in the world.
Chenin reaches its greatest heights in the Loire Valley, but in keeping with French practice you won't see the name of the grape on the bottle, but rather the village or region where it's grown.
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Less memorable, but equally unpopular, has been the steady drumbeat of post-office closures, disappearing village shops and, more recently, the threat of shutting schools in the name of administrative efficiency.
The village of Ponte Leccia - population 1, 000 - is one that is getting a bad name.
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For the next couple of hours, Tarannum walked the narrow lanes of Nighasan village - 150km (100 miles) from the state capital, Lucknow - calling out Sonam's name and asking the neighbours if they had seen the girl.
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