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	Australia encyclopedia : Cultural Information , Maps, Australia politics and officials, Australian History. Travel to ...
		Cape Agulhas Municipality is a municipality located in the Western Cape Province of South Africa.
		The mayor of the municipality is Willem Petrus Schonken of the DA Party.
		In the municipality the population is spread out with 27.7% under the age of 15, 15.3% from 15 to 24, 30.0% from 25 to 44, 18.6% from 45 to 64, and 8.3% who are 65 years of age or older.
	www.australiaiworld.com /wiki-Cape_Agulhas_Local_Municipality (687 words)

	Cape Town - LoveToKnow 1911 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		CAPE TOWN, the capital of the Cape Province, South Africa, in 33° 56' S., 18° 28' E. It is at the north-west extremity of the Cape Peninsula on the south shore of Table Bay, is 6181 m.
		Cape Town, being in the event of the closing of the Suez Canal on the main route of ships from Europe to the East, is of considerable strategic importance.
		Cape Town is the seat of the legislature of the Union of South Africa, of the provincial government, of the provincial division of the Supreme Court of South Africa, and of the Cape University; also of an archbishop of the Anglican and a bishop of the Roman Catholic churches.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Cape_Town (2103 words)

	Cape Colony - LoveToKnow 1911 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Cape Point (Cape of Good Hope) stands 840 ft. above the sea; Cape Agulhas 455 ft. Farther on the green-clad sides of the Uiteniquas Mountains are plainly visible from the sea, and as the traveller by boat proceeds eastward, stretches of forest are seen and numbers of mountain streams carrying their waters to the ocean.
		Cape Colony entered the Union as an original province, being represented in the Union parliament by eight members in the Senate and fifty-one in the House of Assembly.
		Municipalities at the Cape date from 1836, and are now, for the most part, subject to the provisions of the General Municipal Act of 5882.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Cape_Colony (17067 words)

	George Municipality
		George, the administrative capital of the South Western Cape, was formerly known as George Town, named after the reigning English monarch, King George III.
		This bustling town at the foot of the majestic Outeniqua Mountain was declared a drostdy by the Earl of Caledon on 23 April 1811.
		Progress is synonymous with George and to experience the warm and hospitable 'Heart of the Garden Route’, visit us.
	www.george.org.za /tourism.htm (167 words)

	George, Western Cape - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		George is a town in South Africa's Western Cape Province.
		It is situated on a 10 kilometre plateau between the majestic Outeniqua Mountains to the north and the Indian Ocean to the south.
		George is the tertiary hub of the Southern Cape, with the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, together with a number of private colleges, offering a variety of first choice courses.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/George,_Western_Cape (978 words)

	History of Cape Vincent, NY
		In many respects the history of Cape Vincent is unlike that of any other town of the county, for within its territorial boundaries is one of the most interesting localities from a purely historic point of view to be found in northern New York.
		In Cape Vincent, unlike nearly all other towns of the county, early settlement was accomplished and all the institutions and interests were established previous to the time of organization.
		St. Vincent de Paul's church (Catholic) of Cape Vincent village was organized as a parish in 1850, by the priest in charge of the older church in the central part of the town, and was in a manner the offshoot from that as the mother society.
	history.rays-place.com /ny/cape-vincent-ny.htm (9521 words)

	Armoria civica - Cape Town
		The wording was first used heraldically in the arms of the South African College (now the University of Cape Town and the SA College Schools in Newlands), and is found also in the arms of the Cape Colony, the Cape Province and the Western Cape Province.
		In 1867 Cape Town was officially proclaimed a city, but in terms of the usage of the time it had already become a cathedral city on 20 February 1848 when Robert Gray, first Anglican Bishop of Cape Town, landed.
		Following the successful campaign to resist the Cape Colony’s becoming a penal settlement in 1849-50, the British parliamentarian Charles Bowyer Adderley was honoured by the renaming of this street as Adderley Street and given £100 by the municipal council.
	uk.geocities.com /muurkroon/CapeTown.html (3305 words)

	CAPE TOWN - Online Information article about CAPE TOWN
		Grey, governor of the Cape from 1854 to 1861.
		division, which includes Cape Town, had in 1865 a population of 50,064, in 1875 57,319, in 1891 97,238, and in 1904 213,167, of whom 120,475 were whites.
		Cape Town is the seat of the legislature of the Union of South Africa, of the provincial government, of the provincial division of the Supreme Court of South Africa, and of the Cape University; also of an archbishop of the Anglican and a bishop of the See also:
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /CAL_CAR/CAPE_TOWN.html (2720 words)

	Bermuda's Town of St. George
		Welcome to the fifth oldest Northern European municipality in the Western Hemisphere, after St. John's in Newfoundland founded by the British; Annapolis Royal (formerly Port Royal) founded by the French in Nova Scotia, in 1605; Jamestown, Virginia, founded by the British in 1607 and Quebec City founded by the French in 1608.
		George's Parish in Bermuda; Georgetown in the Cayman Islands, Georgetown of Guyana in South America and St. George's of Grenada in the Caribbean.
		George's in particular, became the second-largest, after Nassau, Bahamas, transshipment base for large British-built but not British-approved (because Britain was officially neutral) ships crossing the Atlantic and smaller but faster, also mostly British-built but Confederate-owned fleet of blockade runners.
	www.bermuda-online.org /seetown.htm (5305 words)

	The Herald Online News
		THE Western Cape has the highest incidence of foetal alcohol spectrum disorder in the world and prevalence in the Southern Cape is reaching alarming proportions.
		THE controversial guidelines for golf and polo estates in the Western Cape were necessary for the future sustainability of the province, Western Cape MEC for Environment, Planning and Economic Development Tasneem Essop said yesterday.
		Cape Town — A register meant to list the names of abused, neglected and malnourished children to ensure they are monitored had not a single entry from the Eastern Cape, the National Assembly heard yesterday.
	www.theherald.co.za /herald/2006/03/30/news/hnews.htm (926 words)

	Western Cape cabinet announces major plans for George airport
		A special audit by the municipality of Plettenberg Bay is to be conducted by a forensic team and the Auditor-General.
		The Western Cape Minister of Agriculture, Gerrit van Rensburg, would be visiting the area within the next three weeks to discuss the possibility of establishing new farming units and to find land on which such units could operate.
		A meeting with the Garden Route/Klein Karoo District Municipality, attended by all the mayors from the various regions, was followed by a joint undertaking at closer co-operation between the three spheres of government with the emphasis on service delivery.
	www.info.gov.za /speeches/2001/010516145p1004.htm (671 words)

	Bookeasy SA - Cape Town
		Cape Town (Afrikaans: Kaapstad Xhosa: iKapa) is the third most populous city in South Africa, forming part of the metropolitan municipality of the City of Cape Town.
		Cape Town is famous for its harbour as well as its natural setting in the Cape floral kingdom, including such well-known landmarks as Table Mountain and Cape Point.
		Cape Rose Rose is nestled in a quiet lane on the lower slopes of Signal Hill in the well-established and popular suburb of Three Anchor Bay....
	www.bookeasysa.com /cape_town___southafricaaccommodation.html (683 words)

	City of Bay Village \| Cuyahoga County, Ohio
		George Serb, resident of Bay Village along with the Villager and Westlife newspapers.
		One of Bay's memorable landmarks is the cape cod-type brick building at the corner of Wolf and Dover Roads.
		One was on the west side of Clague Road between Wolf and East Oakland Roads where quite a few homes were concentrated after World War I. The Lakeshore Electric Railway station was nearby as well as the Dover Bay nine hole golf course and summer homes north of the Club House.
	www.cityofbayvillage.com /history/georgeserb.cfm (4069 words)

	Routes Travel Info Portal: George
		Victoria Bay is the closest seaside resort to George, 9Km away.
		An old oak tree with a chain embedded in its trunk is known as the Slave Tree.
		George was laid out as a town in 1811 by the magistrate (or landdrost) Adrianus van Kervel, who named the town Georgetown.
	www.routes.co.za /wc/george/index.html (108 words)

	Armoria patriæ - Republic of Transkei
		On 10 November 1882 the municipality of Umtata came into being on the right (western) bank of the Mthatha River.
		In 1884, the Cape and Natal simultaneously annexed the strategically important estuary of Port St Johns.
		Between 1884 and ’86, the Cape also annexed Galekaland (Willowvale district; the land of the Gcaleka Xhosa; see Ciskei), Bomvanaland (the land of the amaBomvana) and Tembuland (Kentani district; the territory occupied by the abeThembu when they first came into contact with the British).
	www.geocities.com /haigariep/TkeiE.html (2359 words)

	Cosy-Corner Guest House \| accommodation, western cape. Luxury bed & breakfast in george (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		The George Museum at the top of York Street was the old Drostdy or magistrate's court built in 1811 and occupied by Adrian van Kervel, first magistrate of George.
		George is located in the Cape Wildflower Floral Kingdom next to the coast at the eastern end of the Western Cape Province and has a low rainfall Mediterranean type climate with activities to keep you busy all year round.
		George is at the center of Nature´s `Garden Route´ and nestles at the foot of the Outeniqua Mountains.
	www.exploringsa.co.za /pages/cosy_corner_info_photo.php (1428 words)

	Beaufort West
		Beaufort West, the capital city of the Karoo, is situated on the N1 route half way between Cape Town and Bloemfontein and is a real oasis where the traveller can relax a while.
		The municipality was the first to be proclaimed in South Africa during 1837.
		Alternatively there are three bed Cape Dutch style bungalows, each with bathroom and kitchenette with basic equipment.
	www.africa4u.co.za /WesternCape/beaufortwest.htm (576 words)

	GEORGE COMMUNITY HAD ENOUGH OF INSENSITIVE, CONTEMPTUOUS DA ADMINISTRATION (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		The community of George say they have had enough of the insensitive, contemptuous attitude of the local DA administration.
		Tomorrow (Wednesday 6 August) they will participate in a mass protest march to the municipality to express their anger and disgust with the municipality for their treatment of the squatter community in Protea-Park.
		The George Municipal Manager Tom Lotter has been quoted in a local publication as saying that it was more hygienic for the people to use the bush than the drums provided by Ms Stoffberg.
	www.anc.org.za /ancdocs/pr/2003/pr0805.html (599 words)

	USA-Presidents.Info - Teddy Roosevelt Seventh State of the Union Address
		Any plan must, of course, guard the interests of western and southern bankers as carefully as it guards the interests of New York or Chicago bankers, and must be drawn from the standpoints of the farmer and the merchant no less than from the standpoints of the city banker and the country banker."
		This exposition is not sentimental in its conception, but seeks to exploit the natural resources of Alaska and to promote the commerce, trade, and industry of the Pacific States with their neighboring States and with our insular possessions and the neighboring countries of the Pacific.
		The State of Washington and the city of Seattle have shown the characteristic western enterprise in large donations for the conduct of this exposition in which other States are lending generous assistance.
	www.usa-presidents.info /union/roosevelt-7.html (18741 words)

	Western Cape News
		By Caryn Dolley In what firefighting officials are hailing as a "world-first in fire combating methods", water-bombing helicopters in the Western Cape will be assisted by the activation of new cameras to help...
		Western Cape local government and housing MEC Richard Dyantyi tried to derail a plot by the left-wing faction of the ANC to remove Cape Town Mayor Helen Zille’s government.
		The Western Cape's network of fire alarm cameras has been increased to alert waterbombers even faster to shack and wildfires in the province, disaster workers said on Wednesday.
	www.topix.net /za/western-cape (852 words)

	Tulbagh Accommodation \| Accommodation in Tulbagh
		Tulbagh is a town in the Tulbagh valley located in the Witzenberg Local Municipality, near to Wolseley, Prince Alfred's Hamlet, Gouda and Ceres in the Boland (Highland) district of the Western Cape Province.
		Church Street in Tulbagh is now graced by the largest number of original Cape- Dutch, Edwardian and Victorian National Monuments in one street in South Africa and is a major tourist attraction of the town to the present day.
		Tulbagh is situated in a bowl surrounded by imposing mountain ranges, with the Obiqua Mountains to the west, the Winterhoek Mountains in the north and the Witzenberg Mountains to the east.
	www.africaninvitation.com /towns/Tulbagh (279 words)

	Western and Northern Europe History and Politics: Media Resources Center, UC Berkeley
		This episode, the fourth of eight, examines the military operations of the Western Front through the eyes of the soldiers who manned the trenches and fought the battles.
		In 1415, Cape Bojador along the northwest coast of Africa marked the point at which the known world ended and superstition began.
		Voyages of exploration spearheaded by Portugal's Prince Henry the Navigator conquered that fear of the unknown-- launching the colonial era and establishing a slave trade that decimated the African continent.
	www.lib.berkeley.edu /MRC/EuroVid.html (15584 words)

	Smithfield
		The town had its start in 1848 when sir Harry Smith, governor of the Cape Colony, laid the foundation stone for a church planned as the focal point of a town north of the Orange River, to be named in his honour.
		Smithfield became a municipality only in 1948 although its first village board was constituted back in 1860.
		In 1855 the village, barely six years old, was chosen as the site of a peace parely between Moshesh and Sir George Grey, governor of the Cape Colony, who acted as mediator.
	www.places.co.za /html/smithfield.html (459 words)

	Beaufort West News
		Motorists travelling between Cape Town and Port Elizabeth have been encouraged to use the N1 to Beaufort West, then take the R61 to Graaff-Reinet and the R75 to the coast as there has been heavy rain in the...
		GEORGE meteorologist Koot Kamfer can give you a long list of strange questions that people have asked him in his more than 30 years in the weather business.
		The African National Congress in the Western Cape on Wednesday condemned overtures allegedly made to disgraced former party members, Truman Prince and Jeffrey Donson, by the Democratic Alliance.
	www.topix.net /za/beaufort-west (685 words)

	BioMed Central \| Full text \| Diagnostic accuracy of an integrated respiratory guideline in identifying patients with ...
		The study was conducted at a large primary care clinic in Cape Town, South Africa, from November 2002 to December 2003.
		The study was approved by the research ethics committee of the University of Cape Town.
		Cape Town: Statistics South Africa: Western Cape; 2001.
	www.biomedcentral.com /1471-2466/6/22 (4590 words)

	George Accommodation Garden Route Real Estate Tourism South Africa - Stalemate over George croc farm (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		The George municipality has hit stalemate with the owner of a crocodile farm who has refused to vacate his premises.
		The land on which the controversial crocodile farm is built, has now become valuable to the municipality, which wants to sell it at current property prices.
		Seyer has also received a lawyer‘s letter from the municipality regarding the dumping of carcasses at his property and in September a criminal case linked to the illegal transportation of horse carcasses was opened.
	www.george.co.za /content/view/2038/51 (581 words)

	GCIS: Opening of George MPCC in the Western Cape
		All media are invited to the opening of the George Multi-Purpose Community Centre (MPCC) in the Western Cape Province.
		The Western Cape Department of Social Services has invested R 5 million via the George Municipality for the construction of the MPCC.
		Journalists wishing to attend the launch are requested to reply no later than Thursday morning for transport arrangements.
	www.gcis.gov.za /media/releases/020514.htm (111 words)

	George Accommodation Garden Route Real Estate Tourism South Africa - Speaker quits as divisions hit DA in George (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		As the Democratic Alliance in Knysna celebrates victory after snatching the mayoral seat from the ANC, the party is facing a potentially lethal split in nearby George following the abrupt resignation of the speaker of the council.
		Eden executive mayor Rudi Laws cancelled a private meeting to make an urgent appearance at the George municipality meeting in his role as DA councillor.
		It is believed that DA councillor Eugene von Brandis, whose current portfolio is electro-technical services, has been nominated as the new speaker of the George council.
	www.george.co.za /content/view/2115/51 (648 words)

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