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  • The $2,022 fee charged by Longwood is not mentioned on the school's Web page devoted to tuition and fees.

    Athletic fees are a large, and sometimes hidden, cost at colleges Daniel de Vise 2010

  • The good folks in Longwood, FL, became a tad agitated this past weekend when they noticed a black bear walking down the street and roaming in and out of peoples’ yards.

    Black Bear Scare: Roaming bruin frightens Florida suburbanites Dave Hurteau 2006

  • Wolf, just behind the church, you can't see it from where I'm standing, but just down the hill there is what is called the Longwood medical area and Senator Kennedy had so much to do with the federal money and other assistance that brought Dana Farber, Children's Hospital, Brigham Women's, Harvard Medical School.

    CNN Transcript Aug 29, 2009 2009

  • The house was called Longwood, it lay in the very middle of the island of Saint Helena, and its most important prisoner had once been the Emperor of France.

    Sharpe's Devil Cornwell, Bernard 1992

  • The house was called Longwood, it lay in the very middle of the island of Saint Helena, and its most important prisoner had once been the Emperor of France.

    Sharpe's Devil Cornwell, Bernard 1992

  • Isolated and inaccessible as it is, the English placed Napoleon in its most sombre and remote part - a place called Longwood, at the summit of a mountain, and to the windward.

    The Life Of Napoleon Bonaparte Tarbell, Ida 1899

  • In a sea of elegant, pillared mansions, the bizarrely beautiful Byzantine fantasy known as Longwood stands out.

    The Jewish Week (BETA) 2010

  • In a sea of elegant, pillared mansions, the bizarrely beautiful Byzantine fantasy known as Longwood stands out.

    The Jewish Week (BETA) 2010

  • The reality is that, inscrutable cross-registration policies aside, Harvard's numerous schools are by and large isolated from one another - the Business School is across the river, in Boston, and the Medical School and the Public Health School are located somewhere called Longwood, which for all I know might actually be in Rhode Island.

    The Daily Princetonian, 2010-03-26 Daily Princetonian Web Staff 2010

  • A well preserved letter dated April 23d, 1864, from "Longwood," which Mrs. Kitty King wrote to her son contains the following which will show the war-time conditions as they existed on Bent Mountain: "Some of the people in the neighborhood are very bad off for provisions; corn is scarce and twenty dollars per bushel; flour three hundred dollars per barrel, and money of very little account."

    History of Roanoke County 1912

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