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  CliftonPark.org - Southern Saratoga's #1 Resource for Shopping, Restaurants, and Entertainment
We are committed to being relevant to the times in which we live.
The Town of Clifton Park sponsors a special day for household hazardous waste cleanup.
The Town of Clifton Park is pleased to offer residents a Tax Rebate.
www.cliftonpark.org   (550 words)

  
  GENUKI: Clifton, Lancashire genealogy
CLIFTON, a township in Eccles parish, Lancashire; on the Bury and Bolton canal, and on the Manchester and Bolton railway, at the junction of the East Lancashire railway, 4½ miles NW of Manchester.
In 1835 Clifton was a township in the parish of Eccles.
For probate purposes prior to 1858, Clifton was in the Archdeaconry of Chester, in the Diocese of Chester.
www.genuki.org.uk /big/eng/LAN/Clifton   (274 words)

  
 About Lucille Clifton
Clifton is Distinguished Professor of Humanities at St. Mary’s College in Maryland and has a position at Columbia University from 1995 to 1999.
Clifton addresses the fears, joys, and pain of children, reassures them, teaches them self-reliance, self-acceptance, and the assumption of responsibility for their actions.
At the same time that Clifton accepts the weight of this history, however, she refuses to be trapped or defeated by it.
www.english.uiuc.edu /maps/poets/a_f/clifton/about.htm   (1870 words)

  
 The Best Things - Clifton Woodworking Tools
The Clifton line of shoulder planes are the direct descendants of the legendary Preston planes of old.
The Clifton bench planes, like their Lie-Nielsen counterparts, are based on the classic Stanley Bedrock line of planes that were produced before the second World War.
Clifton spoon bits are hand forged from the best carbon-steel and then ground with the highest precision.
www.thebestthings.com /newtools/clifton.htm   (1147 words)

  
 Clifton, Kansas—Home   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
In 1859 a town called Clifton was established in Clay County.
Clifton is located on the northern edge of the Republican River Valley, and has the unique distinction of being in two counties.
Highway 9, Clifton's main street, divides the two counties with Washington County on the north and Clay County on the south.
www.cckansas.org /clifton/index.php   (77 words)

  
 Clifton Arizona Arizona   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Clifton is approximately 30 miles from the New Mexico border and 169 miles northeast of Tucson.
The town is sometimes referred to as the “Gateway to the Coronado Trail.” The famous trail leads from Clifton north to the town of Springerville and is noted as one of the most scenic drives in Arizona.
Clifton was incorporated in 1909 and the town was recognized as the county seat.
www.arizonan.com /Clifton   (1084 words)

  
 azcentral.com travel | Historic Clifton
CLIFTON, Ariz. - Most of the single- and two-story brick buildings lining both sides of narrow Chase Creek Road are boarded and vacant.
Clifton is a town of about 2,800 today, with 55 buildings listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Nearly all are concentrated in the low-lying townsite historic district, a 37-acre area encompassing the confluence of the San Francisco River and its Chase Creek tributary.
www.azcentral.com /travel/arizona/features/articles/archive/ghostclifton.html   (648 words)

  
 Clifton, Cape Town
Clifton is a series of four beaches, each separated by a stretch of granite boulders.
A distinct vibe is felt at Clifton, owing in part to the mystique of Table Mountain, which looms in the beach's background, and in part to the glamorous pulse of the surrounding neighborhood.
Depending on the clouds the sky might be filled with candyfloss-wisps of pink, or a fading rainbow of colour from blood red on the horizon to midnight blue on the mountains behind.
www.sa-venues.com /attractionswc/clifton.htm   (389 words)

  
 Jim on the Web - Comics (C)
Clifton is asked to assist Callahan in the inquest, but now Callahan is killed as well and Clifton will have to work on his own.
Clifton is asked to finish the training of Sir Jason, a young man who didn't really ask to be in her Majesty's Secret Service.
Clifton decides to take Michael, as he "baptized" him, home to try to find out who he really is. Some people, less nice people, seem to know more...
jim-on-the-web.com /comics.php?comic=Clifton   (883 words)

  
 History of Clifton, Texas
Although Clifton celebrated its centennial in 1952, the first public buildings were not recorded until the early 1860s.
Clifton's history can be divided into two time periods as well as two geographic locations.
One of Clifton's earliest settlers was Francis Marion Kell, who moved to Bosque County in 1852 and owned much of the land now in the city.
clifton.centraltx.com /History.htm   (339 words)

  
 Clifton, New Jersey - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Clifton is a city in Passaic County, New Jersey, United States.
Clifton is located 10 miles west of New York City off both Route 3 and Route 46.
Clifton is in the Eighth Congressional District and is part of New Jersey's 34th Legislative District
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Clifton,_New_Jersey   (813 words)

  
 Clifton Karhu
Clifton Karhu has become one of the most successful contemporary Western artists working in Japanese woodblock style.
Clifton Karhu was born in Duluth, Minnesota in 1927.
Clifton Karhu.  Reproduction, public display and any commercial use of these images, in whole or in part, require the expressed written consent of Mr.
www.artelino.com /articles/clifton_karhu.asp   (682 words)

  
 Cifton's of Cornwall - Joyn Henry Clifton
John Henry Clifton was born in a small village called Carn Entrail.
While visiting Olive Sorkin, a niece of John Henry Clifton in Camborne, her husband David mentioned that the poor miners who had enough trouble buying food for their families were forced to donate money for this monument while the Basset family lived in the lap of luxury.
She was the first wife of Joseph Clifton, and John was their first child.
www.clifton.com /jhenry.html   (933 words)

  
 Clifton
The Clifton Neighborhood District was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983 based on the area’s significance related to architecture, education, and industry between the years 1870 and 1930.
Institutional and ecclesiastical buildings in Clifton are generally formal in appearance (well balanced and/or symmetrical), of solid masonry construction, although some were of frame construction, stand one to three stories in height, exhibit some level of sophistication in detail, and were constructed before 1953.
In establishing integrity standards for buildings in the Clifton Local Landmark District, a strong emphasis must be placed on the historic evolution of the neighborhood and how it represents the broad patterns of Clifton’s past within the context of community planning and development over the years.
home.insightbb.com /~mike-and-elwood/Designation_Report_to_Metro_Council.htm   (6880 words)

  
 History
Another addition to Clifton was, to give it its full name, the Bristol, Clifton and West of England Zoological Society which opened in 1836, making it the second oldest Zoo in Britain.
The increasing middle classes continued to settle in Clifton on the hill and the fields which were once market gardens and grazing land soon became covered in Victorian villas and semi-detacheds and Gallows Acre Lane, at the end of which once stood the gibbet, was re-christened Pembroke Road.
To the north and south of Clifton the scene was not one of prosperity.
www.cliftononline.net /history.asp   (2433 words)

  
 USN Ships--USS Clifton (1862-1863)
USS Clifton, an 892-ton light-draft side-wheel gunboat, was built in 1861 at Brooklyn, New York, as a civilian ferryboat.
Clifton steamed from New York to the Gulf of Mexico in February-March 1862.
USS Clifton is shown to the left, aground and returning fire from the Confederate fortifications.
www.history.navy.mil /photos/sh-usn/usnsh-c/clifton.htm   (554 words)

  
 Clifton Webb   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Clifton Webb was born as Webb Parmalee Hollenbeck on November 19, 1889 in Beech Grove, Indiana.
Ethel Hollenbeck, 4392 Maryland avenue, and a son, Clifton Webb Hollenbeck, by a former marriage, who as Clifton Webb is a well-known Broadway musical comedy star.
Clifton Webb, first known to millions of moviegoers as the "Nation’s Number One Baby-Sitter" since he created the role of Mr.
members.aol.com /Rdkone/CliftonWebb.html   (2567 words)

  
 Clifton - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Clifton Reynes, village in the Borough of Milton Keynes, England
Clifton, Karachi, a township, neighborhood and beach in southern Karachi, Pakistan
Clifton Suspension Bridge, suspension bridge spanning the Avon Gorge and linking Clifton in Bristol to Leigh Woods in North Somerset, UK Clifton Williams, NASA astronaut and USMC Major who was killed after a mechanical failure caused the flight controls in a T-38 he was piloting to stop responding
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Clifton   (602 words)

  
 Clifton
The first Clifton, a side wheel steam ferryboat, was built in Brooklyn, N.Y., in 1861 and purchased 2 December 1861 by the Navy Department.
She was outfitted by J. Westervelt of New York, and placed in commission late in 1861 or early 1862, Acting Lieutenant C. Baldwin in command.
Clifton sailed from New York 22 February 1862 and arrived at Ship Island, La., 18 March for duty with the Mortar Flotilla of the West Gulf Blockading Squadron.
www.history.navy.mil /danfs/c10/clifton-i.htm   (173 words)

  
 Press Release Oct. 19, 2005 Superintendent's Office, Clifton Public Schools   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
These scores were the highest in language arts and math for Clifton third graders in the two years of the test’s existence.
The scores of Clifton students on both the language arts and math HSPA tests this past year were the highest that they have been in the last four year.
In addition, 63 percent of the students are scoring 3 or better on year-end AP exams, making them eligible for college credit at many colleges and universities, an increase of 14.3 percent from the 49 percent scoring at that level three years ago.
www.clifton.k12.nj.us /pressrel10_19_05.htm   (902 words)

  
 Clifton Chenier - The King of Zydeco
I love my father, and I love the fact that he had the strength to do it, even after everybody ridiculed him in the beginning about what he was trying to do with that accordion, because they had a misconception of what the thing could do.
Call it Clifton ‘in wonderful voice’ or even ‘the recording session blessed by God.’ Personally, I just refer to it as my great fortune to have.
Considered to be among the finest recording sessions ever made by Clifton and his Red Hot Band, this album is as super-charged and caffeinated as Sings the Blues is laid back.
www.coldbacon.com /music/clifton.html   (866 words)

  
 Poetry: Lucille Clifton
Clifton's page is one of many at the larger, intriguing Literature and Medicine Web site, part of the Hippocrates Project from the NYU School of Medicine.
The American Academy of Poets presents a biography of Clifton, links to the text and audio recordings of a selection of her works, and links to other Clifton sites.
From 1971 to 1974 she was poet-in-residence at Coppin State College in Baltimore, and in 1979 she was named poet laureate of the state of Maryland.
www.bedfordstmartins.com /litlinks/poetry/clifton.htm   (303 words)

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