These ties include family, friends, ethnic groups, neighborhood associations, religious brotherhoods, and hometown networks. |
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Sure, an occasional vehicle disappears from the streets of our hometown, but Des Moines is light on beaches and chop shops. |
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He began singing and playing in churches, socials, and fairs all around their hometown in Eastern Kentucky. |
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In my hometown of New York City, social circles would surely scoff at such behavior. |
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The Seattle Times found that in its hometown, airlines loaded unscreened baggage onto planes. |
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I felt it was entirely appropriate to honour my adopted country in my new hometown. |
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Desperate to escape her hometown for the bright lights, she looks on Heather as a stick-in-the-mud, as bad as her boyfriend. |
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Her campaign has a down-home feel, with money raised in part by a rummage sale in her hometown of Houghton. |
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Although born and bred in Lismore, over the last two years the article has been done from our new hometown, Brisbane. |
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Now he has returned to his hometown of Barnsley to be reunited with his sister Steph. |
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I benefited from that, and I understand that there's a place for some hometown boosterism, but at the same time it's patronizing. |
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At the age of six months, I was carried into the woods in a packsack, and this landscape became my hometown. |
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Following this prescription, Mr. Florida tells us, there's hope for any city, even his decidedly unhip hometown. |
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I Saw Ramallah is an intensely lyrical account of the poet's return to his hometown on the West Bank from protracted exile abroad. |
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In sound and in spirit, their music casually evokes beaches and boardwalks far more than the dirty harbor of their hometown. |
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During World War II, his hometown was successively occupied by Italians, Germans, and insurgent Communists. |
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In addition, they suggest their music is less influenced by Liverpool itself than their suburban hometown. |
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Sometimes I'd stay and smoke a little from Ali's shisha, a water pipe with strong, sweet tobacco he brought back from his hometown. |
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It seemed preposterously overdressed and overeager for the byways of my small hometown. |
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Go on a hike or nature walk in the wilderness two hours from your hometown. |
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He makes sculptures out of clay and bakes them into ceramics in his hometown in Shandong Province. |
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Every time I went back to the hometown, my stomach turned into knots, I couldn't eat or sleep, and I got the shakes. |
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And as this troupe climbs the high wire of fame it aims to keep the hometown crowd happy. |
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Their exposure as unashamed party girls destroyed their reputation in hometown Rotherham. |
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He is seeking financial backing to help re-launch the theatre in his hometown. |
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The game commentators also made the telegenic 20-year-old and his hometown the main topic of their banter between plays. |
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But we're also talking about a hometown paper with the rookie Senator from New York up to her elbows in scandal taint herself. |
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Asked by the seaman's hometown to design a memorial, Schutte prepared a number of sketches and maquettes, some fully sculptural. |
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It was his imaginative 2007 psychogeographic tale of his hometown, 'Alice In Sunderland', which really took the comic industry by storm. |
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And after serving a prison term for committing a financial crime, he convinced the prison librarian to move with him to his hometown. |
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His commitment to his hometown crowd was something to be admired, especially given his aggressive globetrotting schedule. |
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She grew up an orphan, her parents having been killed in a battle which overtook their hometown. |
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He used to enjoy streaking naked around the streets of his hometown and even got stopped by police for committing the lewd prank. |
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They could also optionally list the high school that they attended, as well as their phone number, hometown, homepage and picture. |
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His singing career started when he was working as a stoker in a glass factory in his hometown of Huzhou in neighbouring Zhejiang Province. |
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Bodin studied in his hometown and while still young, took the habit of the Carmelites and lived in the monastery of Notre-Dames-des-Carmes. |
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Why didn't they get a guernsey to write a song about the historic event that happened in their hometown? |
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It just so happened that the training camp for the world junior team was in Toronto, my hometown. |
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All week, he has weighed whether voting would help his downtrodden hometown. |
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Why else would a group of masked gunmen attack a Christmas party in my hometown? |
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By 1685 Thomas Newcomen had established himself as an ironmonger in his hometown, Dartmouth. |
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This link will take you to a page in his hometown newspaper with a brief obit. |
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Now he had betrayed the hometown people by aiding and abetting their enemies. |
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I don't think that people really wore flat caps to go to work in my hometown during my lifetime. |
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It's her hometown, but she's as lost as if she'd been plunked down in the middle of a rainforest. |
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Her mother went around their hometown of Waterford, Mich., selling chocolate suckers to help fund Jean's first luge camp when she was a teenager. |
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Having acclimatised to the new conditions, the next step is becoming involved more in community life in his new hometown. |
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Mocking a few for not knowing the band's hometown heroes the MC5, the Suicide Machines joked and jested throughout a powerful set. |
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Try to arrange a meeting with the actual congressperson, not a hometown staffer who may not deal with policy issues. |
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Casey, who grew up near Pittsburgh, says he thought a lot about batting in the first inning of the first game at a new stadium in his hometown. |
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Far too often as I scan the list of regional death notices a name from my hometown jumps out. |
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Let me report just a little bit about some common ground that has begun to emerge in my hometown. |
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His adopted hometown of Santa Barbara actually welcomed back its favorite son with a parade this afternoon. |
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With a sizable stable of family and fans in the audience, she had to be considered the hometown favorite. |
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When he goes back to his hometown for Alfredo's funeral, he hooks up with grown-up Elena, his long-lost teenage love. |
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I well remember in my hometown of Sydney a place called the Elvis Pizzeria down in Rushcutters Bay that did a roaring trade as a theme noshery. |
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He mentions his years at Arbroath, his hometown club, and how one day he would love to rejoin them. |
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With the exception of a few newspaper wire squibs and profiles of hometown UNICEF volunteers, the story was completely ignored in the U.S. press. |
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Coetzee has obviously immersed himself in his adoptive hometown, and the city comes alive in all its banal, suburban Australianness. |
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There was a phone-in contest to win a Prince concert in your hometown, whose winner was a Mormon girl from rural Utah. |
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Today Breanna went to a tanning place in her hometown of Fayetteville, Arkansas to get a spray tan. |
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We understand and relate to sending letters, visiting relatives, journeys from our hometown. |
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Lu considers Honolulu his hometown and has a great fondness for Hawaiian aloha shirts. |
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In front of more than 10,000 fans in his hometown, Pender ground out a split decision, as he finished better than the older man. |
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In later days, the real power stemmed from his clansmen around his hometown. |
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The Bloor, Toronto's venerable rep cinema, was packed for opening night film, Lolo's Child, by hometown director Romeo Candido. |
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I see it weekly in the very lengthy wedding announcements reported in my hometown newspaper, The New York Times. |
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Its readings and its weekly radio show featuring visiting authors and local musicians have made it a hometown cultural institution. |
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Roberts is made of sterner stuff than her hometown image suggests. |
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I started going to Sunday school in a Pentecostal church in my hometown. |
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Darren Deon Vann's hometown has 10,000 abandoned houses, more than enough for him to hide six bodies. |
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Akron native King James has decided to take his talents back to his hometown Cleveland Cavaliers. |
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This is an altarpiece painted by Piero della Francesca in about 1470, for a patron in his hometown of Borgo San Sepolcro. |
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On Jan. 1, 2008, teenage sisters amina and Sarah Said were shot to death by their father in their hometown of Lewisville, Texas. |
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Or maybe they were blinded with excitement from witnessing a cameo by their hometown hero. |
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After hometown favorite boomer Banks is crowned Mr. International Escort 2014, BPM clears out. |
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Rather, he organized his own certifying program for ophthalmology based right there in his hometown of bowling green. |
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That side is volunteering extensively in his hometown of Flint, and recently, pastoring charity United Methodist Church. |
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Geoff Dyer takes the reader on a map-based tour of his hometown, Cheltenham, in Southwest England. |
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I heard of Lonnie Wheeler while doing research into Coleman Young, the first black mayor of my hometown, Detroit. |
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Hollywood can't get enough of Wellywood, with stars of The Hobbit gushing praise for director Sir Peter Jackson at the film's world premiere in his hometown of Wellington. |
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After 44 adventuresome years living and working in New York City, I returned to rural Clarksville, Tennessee, my hometown, to care for my ailing parents. |
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That blend of art and whimsy epitomizes both Frank and his hometown. |
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She began riding to school and through the streets of her hometown, delighting in the freedom she felt. |
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During the height of his disenchantment, he visited his hometown where an old friend gave him some liquid acid. |
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A 55-year-old tourist died of a heart attack while dreaming of his hometown, Briansk. |
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There is only the faintest trace of nostalgia for her hometown, and little for American culture. |
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It wasn't as easy as predicted, but the Mexican lightweight backed up his words using quickness and ring savvy to punish and befuddle hometown hero, Gary Balletto. |
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The lyrics are in Asturian, the local lingo of their hometown Xixon. |
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Coping with pain is not new to Stupak or Laurie, a former mayor of their hometown of Menominee. |
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His only run-in with the law has been for possession of hashish on the beach near his hometown Bari. |
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Ali Mumin, a Madurese who has been living in Bali for 10 years, said Idul Fitri celebrations on the island were still less joyous than in his hometown. |
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That my current hometown of Washington hasn't gnawed its way into this rating is a bit shocking, considering the ample avoirdupois on the streets of your nation's capital. |
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She agrees to smuggle Lukas into occupied Turkish territory so he can see his hometown again, but he keeps almost getting them killed by sassing every Turk in sight. |
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On Sunday, Saban said he often writes letters to the editors of his hometown paper, the Los Angeles Times. |
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Deng Yujiao was an ordinary girl from Hubei Province in central China, a receptionist in a massage parlor in her hometown. |
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Tonight's showing of New York's hometown celestial alignment, known as Manhattanhenge, was a spectacular success that more than made up for the washout in May. |
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Natural Pigments offers terra alba imported from Cennino Cennini's hometown in northern Italy and near the same location where he undoubtedly obtained his own gesso. |
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When Ryan kept mentioning his hometown of Janesville, it seemed like something he was told to say. |
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In 1978 Coleman was working as a janitor in Sacramento, hometown to both Kelso and Kennedy. |
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Kane spoke to The Daily Beast about his Las supper venture, posing semi-nude with Madonna, and his hometown of Brooklyn. |
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When Jesse M. Robredo became mayor of Naga, his hometown, the city had seriously deteriorated from its glory days as queen of the Bikol region southeast of Manila. |
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Unlike other parts of the Caribbean, where seeing the hometown boys in the bigs is a source of pride, the Mexican baseball powers have decided to keep the product local. |
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The little town of midland Park is a middle-class suburb of New York City, just north of my hometown of Paramus. |
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This kept coming up also in another radio show I did Monday out of my hometown of Morgantown, West Virginia. |
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He still feels that way, but his keen focus on becoming mayor of his hometown has dulled somewhat now that he's started a family and established roots in Houston. |
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With those words, LeBron James, the reigning King of the NBA, announced his return to his hometown Cleveland Cavaliers. |
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Our man Harvey Pekar, for those still unacquainted, has made ends meet with a steady gig as a V.A. hospital file clerk in his hometown of Cleveland for the past 30-odd years. |
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The year is 1998, and the group performs before an overflowing hometown hall of writhing, bouncing, pushing and skanking mop-haired kids and mod hipsters. |
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We grew up skiing, horseback riding, hiking, and building fires at summer camp in our hometown of Winchester, Mass. |
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Yes, as some wiseacre will point out in the comments, this is the hometown of the Chiefs. |
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My first memories of Peking duck are at age 14 when I washed woks at a Peking duck restaurant in my hometown of Hong Kong. |
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I left my hometown, Nizhny Novgorod, as a teenager in the midst of perestroika. |
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After a few middling seasons from the revered hometown team, a few of the neighbors raised their eyebrows in surprise at the news. |
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When Michele relocated from Lake Havasu City, Arizona, to Reno, Nevada, in 2001, she tried to acquaint herself with the churchwomen in her new hometown. |
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One of that small group of committed people was a man named Mike, a really good guy who cared deeply about the hometown he loved and the people in it. |
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With bird dogs and field trials so much a part of its local history and culture, the city of Union Springs saw an opportunity to recognize its hometown stars. |
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They realized that the store needed to evolve to meet the needs of modern consumers, and so in 1986, Chesterton's hometown five-and-dime metamorphosed into a craft store. |
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It's been a whole coupla seasons since I've played a show in my hometown. |
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He could not have looked more suave or debonair had he walked out of the window of a fashion house in Recoleta, the upmarket district of his hometown Buenos Aires. |
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It's like having a getaway without leaving your own hometown. |
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Let me assure you that her hometown was glad to welcome her back. |
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The first 13 years of the prophethood of Muhammad were at his hometown of Makkah, where he and his fellow Muslims were severely persecuted by the pagans of Makkah. |
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The corporation is fighting a push by creditors to move the former energy trading giant's bankruptcy case from New York to its hometown of Houston. |
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It is time to leave Ashley and Zach, along with their quiet little hometown, along with the beauty and the grotesqueries that lay hidden beneath it. |
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If you want to make a case for your hometown, please drop us a line. |
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I am love with the classics and hearth is my hometown favorite. |
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It's very hard to get work done in your hometown without it being noticed afterward. |
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While some additional information points to her being from Baghdadi's hometown of Samarrah, this again is insufficient evidence. |
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He returned for his Father's funeral in his hometown of Loughor, South Wales, where the revival began. |
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The success of this centre led to a request to help create a similar one in Malungeni, Xapile's hometown in the former Transkei. |
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It is also the hometown of guitarist Mark Parry of Vancouver rock band The Manvils. |
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As a native Torontonian my heart glowed with warm pride as I read Trina McQueen's account of the cultural ascendency of my hometown. |
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He started working on the album in 2006 after he moved back from living in London to his hometown of Dumfries, Scotland. |
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On March 9, 2010 in Zippori, hometown of the redactor of the Mishnah, archaeologists destroyed a burial cave from the Mishnaic period. |
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At 17, DJ Coqui Selection was playing at a discotheque in his hometown of Valencia, Spain. |
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The sprint champion, has bought a run-down corner store which he plans to rebuild in his hometown of Sale, near Manchester. |
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What would a jet plane pass over if it flew from your hometown to Bangalore, India? |
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Nutini also has an Honorary Doctorate from his hometown university in Paisley, the University of the West of Scotland. |
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The film follows Claudio, a small-timer looking to bring U2 to his Monterrey hometown. |
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In October 2014 Nutini was forced to pull out of shows in his hometown of Glasgow, Cardiff and London due to tonsillitis. |
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Eubank had already made Brighton in England his adopted hometown and set his sights on Benn, believing he could beat him. |
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On 19 July 2012, Emin carried the Olympic torch through her hometown of Margate. |
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For Tim Curtright, life in his quiet Kansas hometown seems boringly ordinary. |
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At the age of one, child Jonathan was taken by his wet nurse to her hometown of Whitehaven, England. |
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The novel follows an unnamed man who returns to his hometown for a funeral and remembers events that began forty years earlier. |
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Shah told the media in his hometown that Talibanization was on rise in Karachi and the government was trying to contain it. |
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Georgian authorities have removed a historic statue of Joseph Stalin in the former Soviet leader's hometown of Gori, officials have said. |
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Banging the journalistic drum loudest for these buttinsky interventions is modern progressivism's hometown newspaper, The New York Times. |
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Meri Yulanda, 17, arrived on her own Wednesday in her hometown of Meulaboh city on a bus from the provincial capital Banda Aceh. |
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In his hometown, the Mancunian fight fans were stunned to see their hero hit the deck in the second round. |
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His mother, Aviva, made an emotional speech in the family's hometown of Mitzpeh Hila. |
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Mayo's famous balladeers held a hometown celebration in Mulranny to celebrate 40 years in showbusiness. |
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Kim Bain looks out a window and examines the sprawl of new houses that have popped up across the desert canyons of his hometown. |
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Meanwhile, their Missouri hometown appears to be on the brink of chaos. |
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When Des, from Richard Burton's hometown of Pontrhydyfen, near Port Talbot, was just 17, his adoptive father died from lung cancer. |
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She left her hometown, attracted to the glamour of the big city. |
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The Briton lost his WBA and IBF belts in a hotlydisputed loss to Peterson in the Washington fighter's hometown last December. |
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Kandel, turns out, was always a product of his artsy hometown. |
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Great Britain Olympian Craig Dawson, represented hometown club Rochdale and Bolton Wanderers at football. |
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The settlement was originally called Newtown, but it was changed to Hartford in 1637 in honor of Stone's hometown of Hertford, England. |
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Now, with Suisham enjoying a career season, those in his hometown are pumping his tires. |
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Oregon native Matt Groening, creator of The Simpsons, has incorporated many references from his hometown of Portland into the TV series. |
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Two inscriptions identifying the hometown of Pliny the Younger as Como take precedence over the Verona theory. |
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When he was five, the family moved to Wallasey, but settled in his parents' hometown of Port Talbot three years later. |
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Some observers felt it was a hometown robbery as Peterson is from Washington DC, while many felt that Khan wasn't treat fairly. |
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Hadi managed to flee from Sana'a to Aden, his hometown and stronghold in the south, on 21 February. |
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Gordonvale's own rugby league star Nate Myles will receive hometown hero status when signs bearing his name are unveiled today. |
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Corporal Samuel Jones, from Treherbert, was presented with the engraved gold pocket watch and chain by his hometown in 1917 in recognition of the military medal he had won. |
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In 1903, Hershey began construction of a chocolate plant in his hometown, Derry Church, Pennsylvania, which was later renamed Hershey, Pennsylvania. |
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Later, a religious blessing was conducted by a Vicar from her hometown. |
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This is despite their appearance together at a prayer rally, a military parade, and a road campaign in her hometown in Bicol, southern Luzon, sources said. |
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Sadly, by the end of her life Van Lew had more friends in Boston than in her hometown of Richmond, Virginia, where she had become a social outcast. |
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The two 14-year-olds and one 13-year-old were arrested last weekend after a hold-up at a bank in their hometown of Surrey, a suburb south of the city. |
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Role Models pays homage to Baltimore, Waters's muse and hometown, whose culture spawned many magnificent oddballs, as well as the bars and barkeeps who nursed his imagination. |
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Karen Stokes, a native Houstonian and director of Travesty Dance Group, has made a collection of short works about her beloved hometown called Hometown. |
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One half of Britain's Got Talent impressionist double act The Mimic Men Cal Halbert lives in Newcastle after relocating from his hometown of Shrewsbury. |
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MegHan O'Neill is busting to support the Save the Dalriada campaign in her hometown of Ballycastle, Co Antrim, and has come up with the breast way to do it. |
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According to the police, Shiozawa often baby-sat Minaho as they lived in the same quarters and Shiozawa and Tanaka's mother were from the same hometown. |
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Lindsay Monroe and Nathan Bloch miss their hometown of Eugene. |
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In my hometown of Portsmouth there was a riot in 1943, with the locals scorning attempts by American military policemen to enforce a color bar in the pubs. |
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Bill Cosby will eye spy Philadelphia, his hometown, on a new TV tour, and Grace Kelly, who also grew up in Philadelphia, is ready with a razzle tour of her Princessipality. |
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In 1466, Nikitin left his hometown of Tver on a commercial trip to India. |
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A Mexican woman, who suffered from werewolf syndrome and travelled with a circus, has been laid to rest in her hometown 150 years after her death. |
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Now they're living in a rundown trailer in her mother's old hometown, and Alexandra hates every thing about it, fantasizing about the father who left them years ago. |
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Chinese Taipei had swept all its matches in the first round, including a five-point game against the Philippines that left the hometown crowd in shock. |
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And the hometown blues deepened yesterday when golden boy Lewis Hamilton, olden boy David Coulthard and beardie boy Jenson Button all fell short of their personal targets. |
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The couple then flew back to Khan's hometown of Bolton where a second celebration, a traditional Walima, took place in Manchester, which included 4,000 guests. |
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It was a Saturday morning and all of our partners for Southwestern Consulting were in my current hometown of Nashville, Tennessee, for a visioneering retreat. |
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Once the trees leave the hometown, the fruit becomes bitter and acerb. |
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