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LAREDO , a See also:city and the See also:county-seat of See also:Webb county, See also:Texas, U.S.A., and a sub-See also:port of entry, on the Rio Grande opposite Nuevo Laredo, See also:Mexico, and 150 M. S. of See also:San See also:Antonio. Pop. (1900) 13,429, of whom 6882 were See also:foreign-See also:born (mostly Mexicans) and 82 negroes; (1910 See also:census) 14,855. It is served by the See also:International & See also:Great See also:Northern, the See also:National of Mexico, the Texas Mexican and the Rio Grande & See also:Eagle Pass See also:railways, and is connected by See also:bridges with Nuevo Laredo. Among the See also:principal buildings are the U.S. See also:Government See also:Building, the City See also:- HALL
- HALL (generally known as SCHWABISCH-HALL, tc distinguish it from the small town of Hall in Tirol and Bad-Hall, a health resort in Upper Austria)
- HALL (O.E. heall, a common Teutonic word, cf. Ger. Halle)
- HALL, BASIL (1788-1844)
- HALL, CARL CHRISTIAN (1812–1888)
- HALL, CHARLES FRANCIS (1821-1871)
- HALL, CHRISTOPHER NEWMAN (1816—19oz)
- HALL, EDWARD (c. 1498-1547)
- HALL, FITZEDWARD (1825-1901)
- HALL, ISAAC HOLLISTER (1837-1896)
- HALL, JAMES (1793–1868)
- HALL, JAMES (1811–1898)
- HALL, JOSEPH (1574-1656)
- HALL, MARSHALL (1790-1857)
- HALL, ROBERT (1764-1831)
- HALL, SAMUEL CARTER (5800-5889)
- HALL, SIR JAMES (1761-1832)
- HALL, WILLIAM EDWARD (1835-1894)
Hall and the County See also:Court See also:House; and the city's institutions include the Laredo See also:Seminary (1882) for boys and girls, the See also:Mercy See also:Hospital, the National Railroad of Mexico Hospital and an Ursuline See also:Convent. Loma Vista See also:Park (65 acres) is a See also:pleasure resort, and immediately W. of Laredo on the Rio Grande is Fort McIntosh (formerly See also:Camp See also:Crawford), a See also:United States military See also:post. Laredo is a jobbing centre for See also:trade between the United States and Mexico, and is a sub-port of entry in the Corpus Christi Customs See also:District. It is situated in a See also:good farming and See also:cattle-raising region, irrigated by See also:water from the Rio Grande. The principal See also:crop is Bermuda onions; in 1909 it was estimated that 1500 acres in the vicinity were devoted to this crop, the See also:average yield per See also:acre being about 20,000 lb. There are See also:coal mines about 25 M. above Laredo on the Rio Grande, and natural See also:gas was discovered about 28 m. E. in 1908. The manufacture of bricks is an important See also:industry. Laredo was named from the seaport in See also:Spain, and was founded in 1767 as a Mexican See also:town; it originally included what is now Nuevo Laredo, Mexico, and was See also:long the only Mexican town on the See also:left See also:bank of the See also:river. It was captured in 1846 by a force of Texas Rangers, and in 1847 was occupied by U.S. troops under See also:General See also:Lamar. In 1852 it was chartered as a city of Texas.
LA ROLE, a town of See also:south-western See also:France, See also:capital of an See also:arrondissement in the See also:department of See also:Gironde, on the right bank of the Gironde, 38 m. S.E. of See also:Bordeaux by See also:rail. Pop. (1906) 3469. La Reole See also:grew up See also:round a monastery founded in the 7th or 8th See also:century, which was reformed in the 11th century and took the name of See also:Regula, whence that of the town. A See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
church of the end of the 112th century and some of the buildings (18th century) are left. There is also a town hall of the 12th and 14th centuries. The town fortifications were dismantled by See also:- ORDER
- ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
- ORDER, HOLY
order of See also:Richelieu, but remains dating from the 12th and 14th centuries are to be seen, as well as a ruined See also:chateau built by See also:- HENRY
- HENRY (1129-1195)
- HENRY (c. 1108-1139)
- HENRY (c. 1174–1216)
- HENRY (Fr. Henri; Span. Enrique; Ger. Heinrich; Mid. H. Ger. Heinrich and Heimrich; O.H.G. Haimi- or Heimirih, i.e. " prince, or chief of the house," from O.H.G. heim, the Eng. home, and rih, Goth. reiks; compare Lat. rex " king "—" rich," therefore " mig
- HENRY, EDWARD LAMSON (1841– )
- HENRY, JAMES (1798-1876)
- HENRY, JOSEPH (1797-1878)
- HENRY, MATTHEW (1662-1714)
- HENRY, PATRICK (1736–1799)
- HENRY, PRINCE OF BATTENBERG (1858-1896)
- HENRY, ROBERT (1718-1790)
- HENRY, VICTOR (1850– )
- HENRY, WILLIAM (1795-1836)
Henry II. of See also:England. La Reole has a sub-prefecture, a tribunal of first instance, a communal See also:college and an agricultural school. The town is the centre of. the district in which the well-known breed of Bazadais cattle is reared. It is an agricultural See also:market and carries on trade in the See also:wine of the region together with liqueur distillery and the manufacture of casks, rope, brooms, &c.
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