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Taken during the count for the election of Keith Brown back in May 2007. Scottish Parliament election returned a SNP government.
Thirty years ago to the day the future Mrs B. and I 'met' at a Guy Fawkes party.
Here is a snap from about from about that era astride a horse called Nimrod and with said fine seat.
As part of Hospice Care Week 2013 (7th to 13th October 2013) Weldmar Hospicecare Trust asked for supporters to make the pledge to tell five people about why hospice care counts.
Blake Andersen def. (Count out) Sir Philip Charles Hyde
Info on the match : Count Out
( Ce samedi , la BWS (Belgian Wrestling School) et la BCWF (Belgian Catch Wrestling Federation) organisent un show a Pietrebais . )
Pinelawn Memorial Park is connected to Long Island National Cemetery (directly to the north). It's in Suffolk County, New York -- just over the border from Nassau County -- and easily reachable via the Long Island Railroad. From Penn Station in Midtown Manhattan, it's exactly one hour via train to the Pinelawn station, whence you can see the cemetery as soon as you step off the train.
There are a few famous folks in the non-military part of the cemetery, most notably some jazz musicians. John & Alice Coltrane are buried here. Count Basie and the Lombardo Brothers (bandleader Guy and his saxophonist brother, Carmen) are in the mausoleum west of the main road. Others interred here are former NAACP Executive Secretary (from the civil rights years, 1955-63) Roy Wilkins and, more recently, Biz Markie is here as well.
The first traces of human inhabitation of the area that is now Hill Count date back to the year 1300. By the eighteenth century, groups of Waco and Tawakoni had established hunting camps in the eastern portions of the county.
European settlement began with the Spanish expeditions, with the first Anglo settler arriving (and rather promptly being killed in after ignoring Spanish warning to leave) 1801. Stephen F. Austin's 1822 survey map included the Hill County area. The area later became Navarro County.
In 1852, a petition was circulated to divide Navarro county, and in 1852, Hill county was formed, and named after George Washington Hill, who had served as Sam Houston's Secretary of War.
By 1870, the county's population had doubled, reaching 7,453 people, and sometime in 1871 or 1872, the Chisholm Trail had reached the northwest corner of the county, and the Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railway reached the county in 1881.
Originally spelled "Hillsborough", the county seat of Hillsboro was established when the county was formed in 1853, and soon had a school and post office, as well as a wood framed courthouse. The town grew rapidly after the railroads reached the area in the 1880s. An increase in cotton production between 1890 and 1910 resulted in a building boom, including numerous Queen Anne style houses in the community, and the current courthouse.
The three story 1890 Second Empire style building in the town square is either the the county's third or fourth courthouse, depending on which source is cited.
On January 1, 1993, an electrical short started a fire that caused the bell tower to collapse, and destroyed most of the rest of the building. An extensive restoration was embarked upon, including fundraising concerts by Hill County native Willie Nelson. Restoration was completed, and the courthouse rededicated, in 1999.
In 1995, the Texas Historical Commission undertook a two year project to document the 55 oldest courthouses in the state, and the Hill County Courthouse because something of a poster child for what turned into their Courthouse Preservation Program that began in 1999.
Book talk and signing by Gordon A. Martin, Jr., author of "Count Them One by One: Black Mississippians Fighting for the Right to Vote" on April 28, 2011 at Busboys and Poets in Washington, D.C. Sponsors: American Constitution Society (http://www.acslaw.org/) and Teaching for Change's Busboys and Poets Bookstore (http://bbpbooks.teachingforchange.org/).