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  Atherton, California - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Atherton is a town located in San Mateo County, California.
In 1866, Fair Oaks (Atherton) was a flag stop on the San Francisco-San Jose Railroad line for the convenience of the owners of the large estates who lived north of Menlo Park.
Faxon D Atherton, a native of Massachusetts had spent several years in Chile and Hawaii as a trader in tallow, hides and merchandise.
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 Atherton
Atherton reported for duty in conjunction with the outfitting of the destroyer Meredith (DD-434) at the Boston Navy Yard.
Atherton (DE-169) was laid down on 14 January 1943 at Newark, N.J., by the Federal Drydock and Shipbuilding Co.; launched on27 May 1943; sponsored by Mrs.
Atherton left Norfolk on 11 December to escort a convoy bound for the Panama Canal but was back in Hampton Roads on 27 December.
www.history.navy.mil /danfs/a13/atherton.htm   (1209 words)

  
 Gertrude Atherton - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
She eloped with George H.B. Atherton when she was only 19, and had two children.
After her husband's death, in 1887, she was free to pursue her writing career, eventually writing 60 books and numerous articles.
Atherton's first signed novel, What Dreams May Come, was published in 1888 under the pseudonym Frank Lin.
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 Atherton - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Atherton, California, a town located in San Mateo County, California.
Atherton, Greater Manchester, a town in the borough of Wigan, Greater Manchester, United Kingdom.
Atherton, Queensland, a town located approximately 1 hour above Cairns in Far North Queensland, Australia.
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 glbtq >> social sciences >> Atherton, John
It is not clear why Atherton left England for Ireland in 1634, though he had possibly earned a reputation as a libertine that may have played a factor in the move.
Under the patronage of Thomas Wentworth, Earl of Strafford, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, Atherton was appointed Lord Bishop of Waterford and Lismore in 1636.
Atherton's fellow clerics rallied around him, partly to avoid the disgrace to the Church that a conviction would bring, but to no avail.
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 Haunted Bay - Atherton Mansion
Atherton was a notorious womanizer and traveled often.
She built the Atherton Mansion at 1990 California on the corner of Octavia and California streets in the exclusive Pacific Heights district in 1881.
George was somewhat of an embarrassment to the socially prominent Athertons, and the two strong-willed women with whom he lived constantly called his manhood into question.
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 Christian minister and attorney S. Atherton leads bible studies about Jesus Christ in VT and NH.
Atherton loves to minister in the streets and has been known to carry a large wooden cross on "fishing expeditions" to New Orleans during Mardi Gras and on various "commons" in Vermont and New Hampshire.
Atherton, who loves biblical and church history, is presently working on a comprehensive biblical chronology that he hopes to publish on the web, and possibly in book form.
Atherton is working on a book that documents their courtship and the extraordinary way the Lord moved to bring two people, who lived some 8,000 miles apart, together in marriage.
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 Atherton CA Real Estate - Housing Information, Tools & Resources   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Atherton, California was ranked number two in Worth Magazine's list of 250 Richest towns (2000) and ranked as the second richest community in America, with a per capita income of $112,408, according to the 2000 census bureau.
Atherton is part of the San Francisco, California metro area, located in San Mateo County, and is about half an hour from downtown San Francisco and only twenty to twenty five minutes from the San Francisco International airport.
Atherton is home to Holbrook-Palmer Park, a picturesque area surrounded by oak trees where community members often meet for picnics, birthday parties, corporate events or any of the number of scheduled activities and classes held in the parks abundant facilities.
www.atherton-ca-real-estate.org   (572 words)

  
 J. M. Atherton High School - Service, Scholarship, and Self Worth
Atherton will be a place where all persons relate to one another with integrity, fairness, and an appreciation for individual differences and worth.
Atherton will be a place made up of diverse backgrounds with everyone seeking to reach his or her fullest potential.
Atherton will be a place where young people live out what it means to be members of a community.
www.jefferson.k12.ky.us /Schools/High/Atherton   (554 words)

  
 Mike Atherton -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Michael Andrew Atherton (born March 23, 1968) is a broadcaster, journalist and retired (A game played with a ball and bat by two teams of 11 players; teams take turns trying to score runs) cricket player.
By 1993, Atherton had become assured of a regular place as opening batsman and following the retirement of (Click link for more info and facts about Graham Gooch) Graham Gooch was elevated to the post of captain, aged just 25.
As captain, Atherton presided over very few major victories, yet was appointed an (Click link for more info and facts about OBE) OBE in 1997 for services to cricket.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/m/mi/mike_atherton.htm   (511 words)

  
 Atherton Foundation
Atherton transferred 20 percent of the outstanding shares of the Atherton Estate to her children, Charles H. Atherton, Mary A. Richards and Frank C. Atherton.
Atherton was vitally interested in throughout her life.
The Atherton Family Foundation is now one of the largest endowed grantmaking private resources in the State of Hawai‘i devoted exclusively to the support of charitable activities.
www.hawaiicommunityfoundation.org /atherton/about/history.php   (665 words)

  
 Steven Atherton, Attorney at Law: business, real estate, litigation, dispute resolution, church law
Atherton's diverse legal and ministerial experience provide him with a unique perspective that is attractive to many who desire to resolve their dispute outside of the court room.
Atherton's current litigation practice is highly selective, but he is willing to help those whose cases he chooses not to take on secure for themselves competent legal counsel.
Atherton's blend of personal experiences as a minister and street preacher, coupled with his professional interest in the diversity of First Amendment and other legal issues that the body of Christ faces, equip him with a practical perspective that is helpful to many Christians.
www.shalaw.com   (398 words)

  
 Times Community Newspapers - Local News - 07/27/2004 - Harry Atherton recalls schoolmate John Kerry
Kerry was a year ahead of Atherton at the tony St. Paul's School, in Concord, N.H. "He and I were not close," Atherton said yesterday, explaining that being a class apart was like being an ocean apart.
Atherton said competition and ambition were not things you wore on your sleeve at a New England prep school in those days.
Atherton was awarded a Purple Heart in Vietnam because he was shot by a swift boat -- yes, friendly fire.
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 Charles Gordon Atherton - Portraits of State and National Legislators and Others (First Floor)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
The son of a famous New Hampshire lawyer, Atherton studied law in his father's law office for three years and was admitted to the New Hampshire Bar in 1825.
Atherton shared with his fellow Democrats a great unease over the issue of slavery.
For the rest of his political career he was known as "Gag" Atherton because of his effort to push the slavery issue under the rug.
www.state.nh.us /nhdhr/legport1/atherton.html   (373 words)

  
 Walter Gilbert Genealogy: Humphrey Atherton, (Gen.) & Mary Wales
Humphrey Atherton, (Gen.) was baptized in Winwick, Lancashire, England, on Friday, September 4, 1607, and died in Boston, Massachusetts, on September 16, 1661.
Hope Atherton, (Rev.) [#1656]: He was baptized in First Church of Dorchester, Suffolk, Massachusetts, on August 30, 1646, and died in Hatfield, Massachusetts, on June 8, 1677.
Atherton finally led his men to the door of the wigwam, entered himself with pistol in hand, leaving his men without, and, seizing Pessacus by the hair of his head, drew him forth from the midst of a great number of his attendants, threatening, if any of them interfered, that he would despatch them.
www.otal.umd.edu /~walt/gen/htmfile/3312.htm   (686 words)

  
 Queensland Atherton Tablelands Cairns Australia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
The tablelands are areas of rich volcanic land at altitudes between 600 and 1000 metres, 656.2 and 1093.6 yards.
Atherton forms the agricultural hub of the tablelands.
The Atherton Tablelands are a combination of nature and lifestyle at its finest.
www.discoveraustralia.com.au /explore_by_state_queensland_cairns_atherton_tablelands.html   (661 words)

  
 Walkabout - Atherton
Atherton, at the heart of the Atherton Tablelands, is an attractive service town.
Atherton finally settled at Emerald End on the Upper Burdekin River and remained there for 37 years.
If most of the towns on the Tablelands have a single reason for their existence then Atherton's was as a stopover point on the roads from the coast to the Herberton tin fields.
walkabout.fairfax.com.au /locations/QLDAtherton.shtml   (645 words)

  
 Atherton.net
Initially set up as a plumbing firm, Atherton and Sons was expanded in the early 1900s to include such mechanical services as the provision of heating, ventilation, and a hot water system.
Atherton has committed to a continuous improvement of its products, both in efficiency and reliability.
Atherton products are sold and serviced throughout Australia and Southeast Asia with offices in major cities.
www.atherton.net   (238 words)

  
 WHMC-Columbia--Atherton, Lewis E., Papers, 1919-1979 (C3848)--INVENTORY
Lewis Elden Atherton was born March 1, 1905 in Bosworth, Missouri to Caleb Franklin and Ethel France Atherton.
Atherton taught at the New Mexico Military Institute, Roswell, New Mexico from 1928-1929, the St. Joseph Junior College, St. Joseph, Missouri from 1930-1931 and the Wentworth Military Academy Junior College, Lexington, Missouri from 1931-1936.
The letters of Barbara Atherton, a nurse for six months in Vietnam as part of a University of Missouri research project in 1968, are highly informative about Vietnamese life and the Vietnamese reaction to American politics and events like the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.
www.umsystem.edu /whmc/invent/3848.html   (935 words)

  
 Atherton Baptist Homes
Atherton Baptist Homes began as an idea in the mind of a young girl, Hannah Atherton, who overheard two elderly ministers praying in her father's home more than a century ago.
Atherton is accredited by the Continuing Care Accreditation Commission of the American Association of Homes and Services for the Aging.
Atherton is the home for retired teachers, engineers, social workers, clergy persons and others who, because they have given of themselves in service to society, now find themselves in need.
www.abh.org /web/history.htm   (285 words)

  
 Atherton House Bed & Breakfast Accommodation in Lake Wanaka, New Zealand
Situated in a quiet cul-de-sac, Atherton House was built in 2001 on the shores of Lake Wanaka.
Atherton House was created to give guests a tranquil and relaxing experience as well as offering warm and friendly hospitality.
Guests are well looked after at Atherton House, with the use of a separate wing, but are also warmly welcomed by hosts Roy and Kate Summers to enjoy the rest of the house.
www.atherton.co.nz   (171 words)

  
 Atherton Tablelands Travel Guide
The Atherton Tablelands is Tropical North Queensland’s highland getaway.
Accommodation at the Atherton Tablelands includes hotels and motels, bed and breakfast homes, backpackers, farm stays, and caravan and camping parks.
The Atherton Tableland is an ideal self-drive destination, and we are happy to assist you with car hire, should you be taking up this option.
www.tablelands.org   (363 words)

  
 Atherton, Gertrude Franklin Horn
Her life at the Atherton estate, Fair Oaks (now Atherton), California, dominated by her mother-in-law, was an unhappy one.
Atherton wrote more than 40 novels in her long career, as well as many nonfiction works.
Her work is uneven in quality, perhaps because of the rapidity with which she wrote, but at its best it displays strength and a talent for vivid description.
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 Atherton Tablelands Official Site - Information, Maps on Atherton Tableland.
The Atherton Tableland in the Cairns Highlands is a blend of the best attractions of the tropics; a combination of nature and lifestyle at its finest.
The farm and grazing lands are "the food bowl" of the northern tropics - yielding a constant supply of fruit, vegetables and grains to local and export markets.
The rural landscape of the Atherton Tableland is green throughout most of the year, with a temperature which rarely exceeds 30 degrees C. Everything, including the people, thrives on this cool tropical plateau some 600-1100 metres above sea level where temperatures and humidity are lower than on the coastal plain.
www.athertontableland.com   (497 words)

  
 Atherton Holiday Accommodation - Woodlands Big4 Cabin and Van Park
Atherton Woodlands Big4 Van and Cabin Park is located in the heart of the famous Atherton Tablelands with it's world heritage rainforests, historic townships, unique fauna and flora and of course the Platypus - Australia's most fascinating creature.
The Atherton Tablelands are a year round destination being naturally air conditioned by the vast and dense forest surroundings.
The Atherton Tablelands are always up to 10 degrees cooler than the far north coastal regions.
www.woodlandscp.com.au   (119 words)

  
 "ATHERTON"   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Atherton is at the hub of the rich agricultural area known as the Atherton Tableland, and is surrounded by rainforest.
Potatos, tomatos, avocados and peanuts are among the crops which thrive in the fertile basalt soil of one of Australia's oldest land regions.
Atherton is included on many tours from Cairns and is a short drive by hire car or private vehicle.
www.wilmap.com.au /atherton.html   (228 words)

  
 Relocating and Moving to Atherton, California   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
In 1866, Atherton was a flag stop on the San Francisco-San Jose Railroad line for the convenience of the owners of the huge estates who lived north of Menlo Park.
Today the Town of Atherton desires, insofar as possible, to preserve its character as a scenic, thick wooded, residential area, with abundant open space with streets designed primarily as scenic routes rather than for speed of travel." Atherton is located on the peninsula nestled between the San Francisco Bay and the Pacific Ocean.
In Atherton there are a number of active community organizations; the Atherton Heritage Association, the Atherton Arts Committee, the Atherton Tree Committee, the Friends of the Atherton Community Library, the Holbrook-Palmer Park Foundation, the Atherton Dames, the Police Task force, and the Atherton Civic Interest League.
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 Atherton Shire Council Online welcomes you to its Tableland Paradise on the Atherton Tablelands
To travel to Atherton Shire which is 90kms south-west of Cairns in the highlands (and ranges from 500m to 1280m above sea level covering 620km² in area), can be by air (arriving in Cairns), and road.
You will enjoy the tropical climate that the Atherton Tablelands/Cairns Highlands is renown for - pleasant temperatures ranging between 17°C and 25°C, September to June and between 5°C and 14°C from July to August, cool summer nights and mild, sunny winter days without the high humidity experienced in coastal areas.
Atherton, in the heart of the Atherton Tablelands (Cairns Highlands), has much to offer, and we invite you to tour our site and enjoy.
www.athertonsc.qld.gov.au   (857 words)

  
 Humphrey Atherton   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
One of his descendants Charles H. Atherton, says, "he arrived in Boston in the ship James in 1635, and was between fourteen and fifteen years of age when he married, his wife being between thirteen and fourteen, and that they brought children with them.
As the years went on, Humphrey Atherton became more and more a prominent in the town and the colony,In 1644 there were "wardens" appointed to take care of and manage the affairs of the first public school in Dorcheser.
The estate of Gen. Humphrey Atherton after his death, included in the inventory a "Farme of seven hundred acres at Waronoco." The death of Major General Humphrey Atherton, by accident, in 1661, deprived the colony of one of its principal men.
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 Discussion of Gertrude Atherton's The Dead and the Countess | The Literary Gothic   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
But note the important differences: Atherton tells the tale not from the first-person perspective — Poe's protagonist is of course the one buried — but from the perspective of a credulous village priest who has a great deal of interest in the dead even before the living Countess is accidentally interred.
And this prior interest adds an additional dimension to the work: unlike Poe's study of morbid or extreme psychology, Atherton's story is, among other things, a critique of industrial technology.
Atherton's protagonist, the superstitious village priest, can also be compared to the narrator of
www.litgothic.com /Texts/countess_note.html   (161 words)

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