Long Acre is a street in the City of Westminster in central London. It runs from St Martin's Lane, at its western end, to Drury Lane in the east. The...
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The acre (/ˈeɪkər/ AY-kər) is a unit of land area used in the British imperial and the United States customary systems. It is traditionally defined as...
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Times Square (redirect from Long Acre Square)
been given a name, and city authorities called it Longacre Square after Long Acre in London, where the horse and carriage trade was centered in that city...
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Drovers' road (redirect from Long acre (road verge))
standards, 20 metres across, with wide grazing verges on either side, the "long acre". In medieval Spain the existence of migratory flocks on the largest scale...
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It stood on the corner of Long Acre (formerly Charles Street) and Endell Street, with entrances in Wilson Street and Long Acre. The site is within the modern...
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Acre (/ˈɑːkər, ˈeɪkər/ AH-kər, AY-kər), known locally as Akko (Hebrew: עַכּוֹ, ʻAkkō) and Akka (Arabic: عكّا, ʻAkkā), is a city in the coastal plain region...
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acre-foot equals approximately an eight-lane swimming pool, 82 ft (25 m) long, 52 ft (16 m) wide and 9.8 ft (3 m) deep. As the name suggests, an acre-foot...
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"Covent Garden". The district is divided by the main thoroughfare of Long Acre, north of which is given over to independent shops centred on Neal's Yard...
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The Lady from Long Acre is a 1918 romance novel by the British writer Victor Bridges. It was published in the United States the following year. In 1921...
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stations and is in Travelcard Zone 1. The station is at the corner of Long Acre and James Street and the street-level concourse is a Grade II listed building...
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The Hundred Acre Wood (also spelled as 100 Aker Wood, Hundred-Acre Wood, and 100 Acre Wood; also known as simply "The Wood") is a part of the fictional...
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The Long Grazing Acre is a collaborative album released by uilleann piper Paddy Keenan and guitarist/singer Tommy O'Sullivan in 2001, featuring a combination...
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Republic of Acre (Portuguese: República do Acre, Spanish: República del Acre) or the Independent State of Acre (Portuguese: Estado Independente do Acre, Spanish:...
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Bow Street (category CS1: long volume value)
is a thoroughfare in Covent Garden, Westminster, London. It connects Long Acre, Russell Street and Wellington Street, and is part of a route from St...
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Furlong (redirect from Acres length)
(furrow) and lang (long). Dating back at least to early Anglo-Saxon times, it originally referred to the length of the furrow in one acre of a ploughed open...
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Vaudeville and The Long Acre re-mastered with bonus tracks on CD (five bonus tracks on "Vaudeville" and three bonus tracks on "The Long Acre"). Both albums...
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Earthworks (engineering) Bund Moroccan Wall Marches Limes (Roman Empire) Long acre Flood-meadow Floodplain Oxford English Dictionary. Oxford, England: Oxford...
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The siege of Acre (also called the fall of Acre) took place in 1291 and resulted in the Crusaders' losing control of Acre to the Mamluks. It is considered...
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than a standard acre. Whereas a one-acre area ten times as long as wide would have dimensions of 66 feet × 660 feet, the Cheshire acre of that shape would...
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pdf p. 2. Russell, Lee; Mendez, Albert (1985). Grenada 1983. 12-14 Long Acre, London WC2E 9LP: Osprey Publishing Ltd. p. 3.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint:...
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that runs from High Holborn in the north to Long Acre and Bow Street, Covent Garden, in the south. A long tall narrow building on the west side is an...
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School in Shelton Street (then called Castle Street), to the north of Long Acre. The Gilbert-Garret Competition for Sketching Clubs was founded at Saint...
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(c. 1760 – 25 December 1833) was an English coachmaker who worked on Long Acre, London, England. He was a pioneer bicycle-maker. Johnson was married...
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Richard Ridings Oliver Twist (1868) – Lionel Brough at the Queen's Theatre, Long Acre Oliver! (1960) – Paul Whitsun-Jones / Robert Bridges / Rob Inglis (original...
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the Dunlop factory in Nechells, less than a mile to the north-west in Long Acre. This site was named Manor Mills. The company made its six millionth bicycle...
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The Croppies' Acre (Irish: Acra na gCraipithe), officially the Croppies Acre Memorial Park, is a public park in Dublin, Ireland. It contains a memorial...
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The Acres, also known as Galesburg Country Homes, is a naturalistic residential plat designed by Frank Lloyd Wright in Charleston Township, Michigan....
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Long Island is a densely populated continental island in southeastern New York state, extending into the Atlantic Ocean. It constitutes a significant share...
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Hill, and finally in 1901 to Long Acre Street. The Kirby Street works were closed in 1920 and moved to Aylesbury and Long Acre Street. In 1878 the Aylesbury...
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