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  Arthur Arno Lampert
Arthur Arno was actively involved in community affairs, including the volunteer fire department and was the second born native Rapid Citian to serve as mayor.
Arthur Arno (2), second son of Arthur and Helen was born August 4, 1912, at Rapid City.
Arthur was given the name of Arno Willard Lampert at birth but during a severe illness (likely the influenza epidemic of 1918 at age 5 or 6), when he was near death his name was changed to Arthur Arno so he could have a name 'like his dad's'.
www.lamperts.com /arthura/arthura.html   (1822 words)

  
  Port Arthur, Tasmania - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Port Arthur is a town and former convict settlement on the Tasman Peninsula, in Tasmania, Australia.
Port Arthur is located approximately 60 km south east of the state capital, Hobart, on the Tasman Peninsula.
Port Arthur was secured naturally by shark-infested waters on three sides and the 30m wide peninsula of Eaglehawk Neck that connected it to the mainland was crossed by fences and guarded by prison guards and dogs.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Port_Arthur,_Tasmania   (1171 words)

  
 Arthur Industry   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Arthur has two employers of more than 600 persons each and numerous smaller employers with a total industrial workforce exceeding the resident population.
Arthur is located just 10 minutes from I-57, which connects to three other nearby interstates.
Arthur provides small and medium-sized businesses with everything they need to prosper including a favorable economic climate, visionary leadership, and plenty of room to grow.
www.arthuril.com /industry.htm   (491 words)

  
 Port Arthur, Tasmania -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Port Arthur is located approximately 60 (A metric unit of length equal to 1000 meters (or 0.621371 miles)) km south east of the state capital, (A port and state capital of Tasmania) Hobart, on the (additional info and facts about Tasman Peninsula) Tasman Peninsula.
In addition Port Arthur had some of the newest and strictest (A formal declaration that documents a fact of relevance to finance and investment; the holder has a right to receive interest or dividends) security measures of the Australian penal system.
Port Arthur was also the destination for juvenile convicts, receiving many boys, some as young as nine arrested for stealing (A nonfunctional replica of something else (frequently used as a modifier)) toys.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/p/po/port_arthur,_tasmania.htm   (1346 words)

  
 CASDE | Arthur -- Arthur County
Arthur was not only the county seat but also the center for shopping and community activities such as fairs, 4th of July celebrations, rodeos, churches, ball games, and schools.
In 1944 several Arthur businessmen, concerned for the welfare of their town and dissatisfied with the way things were being done, met with the county commissioners to discuss the problem.
While Arthur is a very small town with only about 100 people, we are proud its accomplishments throughout the years and are happy to claim this village as our home.
www.casde.unl.edu /history/counties/arthur/arthur   (1006 words)

  
 Caltrans Facts - Bay Area   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Highway 35 between Highway 9 and Highway 17 in the Santa Cruz Mountains is called the Goat Trail by Caltrans workers.
Arthur Younger is among the J's, not the Y's.
Carneros Highway Route 121 from Route 37 to Route 29 in Sonoma and Napa Counties.
www.dot.ca.gov /dist4/trivia.htm   (3403 words)

  
 Concepts in Federal Taxation, 2001 Edition: Chapter 12
Arthur's apartment building is condemned by the county to allow construction of a new highway.
Arthur paid $95,000 for the building, which had an adjusted basis of $55,000 when it was condemned.
Arthur receives $110,000 from the county and uses the proceeds to purchase an office building costing $140,000 to use in his business.
www.swlearning.com /tax/murphy/mquiz_01/ch12/ch12.html   (1107 words)

  
 South Carolina @ SouthEastRoads.com - U.S. Highway 17 & Arthur Ravenel Jr. Bridge
Views of the Silas Pearman, John C. Grace, and new Arthur Ravenel Jr.
Dedicated to Chief Highway Commissioner Silas N. Pearman, the northbound U.S. 17 bridge opened to traffic on April 29, 1966 at a cost of $15 million.
Ravenel was one of the staunch proponents in the drive to finance and replace the aging Cooper River Bridges of U.S. 17, and he was able to do so without the implementing of tolls.
www.southeastroads.com /us-017_sc.html   (1160 words)

  
 Handbook of Texas Online: PORT ARTHUR, TX
In June 1896 the Port Arthur Channel and Dock Company was established, and in April 1897 it began cutting a canal along the western edge of the lake to deep water at Sabine Pass.
By 1909 Port Arthur had become the twelfth largest port in the United States in value of exports, and by 1914 it was the second largest oil-refining point in the nation.
From 900 residents in 1900, Port Arthur expanded to a population of 7,663 in 1910 and 50,902 in 1930.
www.tsha.utexas.edu /handbook/online/articles/view/PP/hdp5.html   (922 words)

  
 Arthur's Pass National Park
Arthur Dobson was the first European to find this route through the Southern Alps in 1864.
Highway 73 was a dangerous zig-zag down the scree, but is now upgraded by a bridge running along the valley rather than across it.
Further down the gorge, the highway is being clipped onto the side of the mountain, by drilling supporting struts into the rock face.
members.tripod.com /NZPhoto/pan/arthur.htm   (338 words)

  
 Port Arthur Chamber of Commerce
Arthur Stilwell, who founded what is now known as Kansas City Southern Railroad, envisioned Port Arthur as the southern terminus of his new railroad.
Port Arthur is a retail center in itself and is home to a major shopping mall, strip centers and several shopping areas that include large “anchor” stores such as Academy, Wal-Mart, Office Depot, Target, Dillard’s, JC Penny, Sears etc. Retail and wholesale trade, distribution, business and medical services are important elements of the local economy.
The Port Arthur Chamber of Commerce is made up of over 900 businesses, organizations and individuals working together as a team to achieve a sound economic environment and quality of life for the entire community.
www.portarthurtexas.com /custom2.asp?pageid=721   (6207 words)

  
 Port Arthur Massacre - Lies Exposed Part 2
All of the hard evidence at Port Arthur bears the distinctive trademark of a planned “psyop”, meaning an operation designed to psychologically manipulate the belief mechanisms of a group of people or a nation for geopolitical or military reasons.
Following these unpublished protocols precisely, the shooter at Port Arthur gained absolute control of the Broad Arrow Cafe in fifteen seconds flat, killing all of his victims with a single shot to the head.
His limited confession fits the known hard scientific facts exactly, and for many months after his arrest despite the severe disadvantage of his intellectual impairment, Bryant kept to his story in the face of tremendous pressure from police interrogators and psychiatrists to admit the enormity of his alleged crimes.
www.biblebelievers.org.au /palies2.htm   (4070 words)

  
 Deceit and Terrorism - David Icke - Tell the Truth!   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
The BMW was next reportedly seen by John Rooke, who saw the vehicle diverge across the Arthur Highway and park outside the Seascape Cottage, and then saw the gunman start shooting at passing traffic.
In fact, the Port Arthur Massacre was indeed a 'Terrorist Attack' in every sense of the word, and it was almost bought undone by one Tasmania Police SOG member at the Seascape Cottage.
In fact, Port Arthur was seen as an excellent example of the coordination skills required to cope with any possible terrorist attack, and ensured that SAC-PAV was in command of the security of the Sydney Olympics in 2000.
www.davidicke.net /tellthetruth/conspiracy/parthur1.html   (2704 words)

  
 Round Robin Parody
Arthur and Adelaide have broken out supplies and are just finishing a picnic.
Arthur: I saw a list of the rabbits the ILR was trying to recruit.
Arthur: It was the only way we could get their names into the story.
www.tealdragon.net /humor/startrek/rndrbn15.htm   (4673 words)

  
 JS Online: Creating road less-traveled
Suggestions included widening Highway 60 to six lanes, remaking Arthur Road, or using Highway K, on the border of the towns of Hartford and Addison, as a truck route between Hartford and Highway 41.
Highway 60 was expanded to four lanes between Hartford and Slinger in 1990 and 1991.
Tom Sackett, chairman of the Highway Committee and a County Board supervisor representing Hartford, said he has not made a decision on the best route for a highway to be built parallel to Highway 60.
www.jsonline.com /story/index.aspx?id=266589&format=print   (1285 words)

  
 Arts Tasmania - Residencies - Port Arthur Historic Site
Arts Tasmania and the Port Arthur Historic Site Management Authority have come together to offer the Port Arthur Historic Site Natural and Cultural Residency for an individual or collaboration of practising artists working in any art form to develop their work in response to the natural environment and cultural heritage of Tasmania.
However, since Port Arthur was one of the few secondary punishment stations operating in the colonies, it still received a large proportion of colonially sentenced men, as well as the old transportees still within the system.
Staff at the Port Arthur Historic Site Management Authority office may not always be able to schedule an artist for their preferred residency dates; however they will do their best to fit you in.
www.arts.tas.gov.au /grants/program/residencies/port_arthur.htm   (2119 words)

  
 Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
When Arthur Dent is seen at the start of the film in his house and the table starts to vibrate (due to the demolition team outside), the table seen in the background does not vibrate at all.
Arthur's house is about to be bulldozed, his best friend turns out to be an alien and, to top things off, it appears that Planet Earth will be demolished in mere seconds to make way for a hyperspace freeway.
Arthur Dent's adventure begins the minute he finds out that his earthly best friend, Ford Prefect, is really an alien stranded on Earth and a roving reporter for The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy longing to get back to his beat.
www.rottentomatoes.com /m/hitchhikers_guide_to_the_galaxy/about.php   (10412 words)

  
 Highway Patrol
Miller graduated from the DPS Academy in July 1997 and was stationed at the Highway Patrol office in Freer.
Highway Patrol trooper Billy J. Zachary was killed Sunday, January 1, 2006 when he was struck by a pickup truck while conducting a traffic stop on IH-20 near Monahans.
Highway Patrol Trooper Matthew Dewayne Myrick, 36, lost control of his patrol unit while responding to an accident south of Hereford at 11 p.m.
www.txdps.state.tx.us /memorial/Gallery.htm   (3279 words)

  
 Station Datums - Division of Nearshore Research
The bench mark is a brass disk crimped to a stainless steel rod driven 16.8 m (55.1 ft) to refusal, and encased in a 6-inch PVC pipe with concrete kickblock.
It is 58 feet southest of telephone pole, 19 feet north of centerline of bridge and 1 foot south of north edge of the abutment.
The bench mark is 58.16 m (190.81 ft) West-Northwest of the centerline of State Highway 82, 21.37 m (70.11 ft) Southwest of a wood utility pole and 0.88 m (2.89 ft) Northwest of a wood utility pole.
lighthouse.tamucc.edu /datum/506   (904 words)

  
 Arthur: Tomson Highway: A Pianist Who Doesn’t Know How To Blow His Own Horn
Tomson Highway was introduced by David Newhouse, an old friend and former colleague alongside Highway back in 1975, who described him as a “dangerous artist.” Newhouse went on to set the tone for the night, joking about how mismatched of a pair they were when they were University students.
The son of a champion dog-sledder and a quilt-maker, and born in a snowbank in Northern Manitoba, Tomson Highway has been described as a “national treasure.” I, like most of the audience, was not quite prepared for the hilarity that ensued when Highway took to the stage.
Highway also emphasized the importance of demanding a Native presence in bookstores and on theatrical stages across the country.
www.trentarthur.info /archives/000747.html   (848 words)

  
 Fresh from the Festivals: January 2001's Film Reviews   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
While she was driving through the Western portion of the country on the Trans Canada Highway, Arthur captured time-lapse images with a Pentax 35mm still camera, zooming in with a 200 mm lens.
In contrast, Arthur's images are united only thematically, as his goal was to abstract fundamental differences among regions of Canada.
Arthur also explains that his inspiration came in part from Bart Testa's 1989 book, Spirit in the Landscape, which focuses on Canadian avant-garde landscape films in terms of the Canadian landscape-painting tradition.
www.awn.com /mag/issue5.10/5.10pages/5.10festival2.php3   (970 words)

  
 TexasFreeway > Houston > Photo Gallery > IH-10 East, the Baytown-East Freeway > East Freeway's 2 sides   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
The problem, said state highway engineer Quincy Allen, is giving work crews enough room to do their jobs while still routing two lanes of traffic in each direction.
The federal interstate highway act called for all cities with populations above 100,000 to be served by an interstate, said Port Arthur City Councilman Bob Bowers, who is also chairman of the Port Arthur chamber's highway committee, a former state highway engineer and historian of local roads.
After 69 years, Texas 73 into Port Arthur is only now being widened to two lanes in each direction, with work expected to be complete next year.
www.texasfreeway.com /houston/photos/i10e/chron_i10e_25-july-1999.shtml   (963 words)

  
 Little Hills Press | Travel Info | TAS: Port Arthur
Port Arthur is 95km (60 miles) south-east of Hobart on the Tasman Peninsula.
There are quite a few motels and hotels on the road to Port Arthur, and as it can be visited in a day from Hobart there is no problem ensuring you have a bed for the night.
In one case, the sentence of death for stealing 24/- was commuted to transportation for life.
www.littlehills.com /travel_information/tas.portarthur.shtml   (1478 words)

  
 Deceit and Terrorism - David Icke - Tell the Truth!   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
She was aware of what had been happening at Port Arthur and when the male caller said, "I know where Mr Hyland is." She felt like she'd collapse on the floor.
To the east of the property was the bay, and on the west the hills rise to form a precipitous backdrop.
Then McCreadie comments on page 9 of the EMA Port Arthur Seminar papers, "At 0730 on 29 April, several SOG members heard the offender shout from the Seascape Cottage, 'Come on, come on', or 'Come in, come in' which indicated that the offender was enticing police to storm the building.
www.davidicke.net /tellthetruth/conspiracy/parthur4.html   (10555 words)

  
 Handbook of Texas Online: LAMAR UNIVERSITY
Bonds for construction of a new campus were approved, and in June 1942 classes were held on the present campus on the Port Arthur highway, three blocks east of South Park High School.
The Lamar University System, consisting of Lamar University–Beaumont, Lamar University at Orange, Lamar University at Port Arthur, and the John Gray Institute, a privately funded, state-operated, nonprofit research center located on the southern edge of the Beaumont campus, was established by the legislature in August 1983.
The transfer became official in 1995, with the campuses in Orange and Port Arthur and the university's Institute of Technology, founded in Beaumont in 1990, becoming separate components of the system.
www.tsha.utexas.edu /handbook/online/articles/LL/kcl2.html   (643 words)

  
 King's Highway 24 - www.OntHighways.com
Highway 24 was downloaded to Haldimand-Norfolk between Highway 59(also downloaded) and Highway 3.
At Highway 24's new southern terminus in Simcoe.
After 1997 Highway 24 was logically rerouted along Rest Acres Road and Highway 403 to avoid downtown Brantford.
www.onthighways.com /highway_24.htm   (886 words)

  
 LA Rare Bird Alert --21Sept99
It is found with other geese south of highway 14 along the East side of Goose Island Road near a hunt club.
The site is accessed by going to the caution light on Highway 32 in Cameron near the Catholic church and turning south.
A Yellow Rail was found north of Mud Lake near Magnolia Road off of Highway 27 near Cameron.
losbird.org /bulletin/bline991223.htm   (713 words)

  
 bryant2
All of the hard evidence at Port Arthur bears the distinctive trademark of a planned "psyop", meaning an operation designed to psychologically manipulate the belief mechanisms of a group of people or a nation for geopolitical or military reasons.
It is beyond doubt that many of the armed police noticed Bryant's wild undisciplined performance at Seascape bore absolutely no resemblance at all to that of the deadly shooter at port Arthur and some must have told their senior officers about it, though it seems they were ignored or simply told to shut up.
In short there is no case for Bryant to answer with regard to Port Arthur, though he must still explain why he was at Seascape or, more to the point perhaps, tell us who talked him into going there when he did.
members.fortunecity.com /able_j/bryant2.html   (3854 words)

  
 Bed & Breakfast Port Arthur TX Texas Cabins & Rentals - City guide
Comfort Inn 8040 Memorial Blvd., Port Arthur, TX 77642, This AAA, Two Diamond hotel is located near the airport, Central Mall, and just 10 Miles from Gulf of Mexico beaches.
Visit Arthur's Restaurant for fine dining, serving steaks, sandwiches and a seafood buffet.
You may also relax at Arthur's Pub, play a game of tennis, or swim in the outdoor pool.
www.discoverourtown.com /TownPage.php?Town=362&Cat=Dining   (276 words)

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