Some articles on original settlement, settlement:
... The name Conimbriga derives from an early, possibly pre-Indo-European element meaning "rocky height or outcrop" and the Celtic briga, signifying a defended place ... Others think that the element coni may be related to the conii people ...
... of the United States include Patterns of original settlement Original settlement of the Americas by a variety of Native American peoples, including Alaska Natives ... Original settlement of Pacific islands by Polynesian people, including Native Hawaiians, Samoans, the Chamorro people in Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands ... Original settlement of Puerto Rico by the Taíno people ...
... The name St Budeaux comes from Saint Budoc, the Bishop of Dol (Brittany) ... Around 480, Budoc is said to have founded a settlement and built a small church ...
... Remains of a prehistoric settlement dating to between 27,000 and 19,000 BC were found by divers in 1991 at the Cosquer Cave, an underwater cave in a calanque on the coast near Marseille ... They called their settlement Massalia ... Traces of the original settlement have been found on the west side of the butte Saint-Laurent in Marseille ...
Famous quotes containing the words settlement and/or original:
“The Settlement ... is an experimental effort to aid in the solution of the social and industrial problems which are engendered by the modern conditions of life in a great city. It insists that these problems are not confined to any one portion of the city. It is an attempt to relieve, at the same time, the overaccumulation at one end of society and the destitution at the other ...”
—Jane Addams (1860–1935)
“What is most original in a man’s nature is often that which is most desperate. Thus new systems are forced on the world by men who simply cannot bear the pain of living with what is. Creators care nothing for their systems except that they be unique. If Hitler had been born in Nazi Germany he wouldn’t have been content to enjoy the atmosphere.”
—Leonard Cohen (b. 1934)