halifax

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Capital city of Nova Scotia, Canada

An industrial town in Yorkshire England, 20km south-east of Leeds

An industrial center northeast of Manchester, England. Pop: 200,000

Provincial capital of Nova Scotia (Canada)

{i} capital city of Nova Scotia (Canada); city in northern central England

City (pop., 2001: 119,292), capital of Nova Scotia, Canada. Located on Halifax Harbour, an inlet of the Atlantic Ocean, it was settled by the British in 1749 as a counterbalance to French holdings at Cape Breton. It served as a British army and navy base until its defenses were taken over by the Canadian government in 1906. The city suffered from a munitions-ship explosion in 1917 that killed nearly 2,000 people. During World Wars I and II, Halifax was Canada's most important naval base. The city is Nova Scotia's leading commercial and industrial centre, and its port is one of the busiest in Canada. Its educational institutions include Dalhousie University (1818); historic buildings include St. Paul's Church (1750), Canada's oldest Protestant church. In 1996 Halifax amalgamated with several surrounding communities to form Halifax Regional Municipality (pop., 2001: 359,183)

That is, halig fax or holy hair Its previous name was Horton The story is that a certain clerk of Horton, being jilted, murdered his quondam sweetheart by cutting off her head, which he hung in a yew-tree The head was looked on with reverence, and came to be regarded as a holy relic In time it rotted away, leaving little filaments or veins spreading out between the bark and body of the tree like fine threads These filaments were regarded as the fax or hair of the murdered maiden See Hull

provincial capital and largest city of Nova Scotia

Clamp across lamina of C-1 and C-2

Relevante Übersetzungen

Halifax Explosion

explosion of the French munitions ship "Mont Blanc" on the 6th of December 1916 in Nova Scotia (Canada), greatest man-made explosion until the Atom bomb drop on Hiroshima in 1945

go to Halifax

go to hell

Edward Frederick Lindley Wood 1st earl of Halifax

born April 16, 1881, Powderham Castle, Devonshire, Eng. died Dec. 23, 1959, Garroby Hall, near York, Yorkshire British statesman. He was elected to Parliament in 1910. As viceroy of India (1925-31), he worked on terms of understanding with Mohandas K. Gandhi and accelerated constitutional advances. His tenure as foreign secretary (1938-40) in Neville Chamberlain's government was controversial because of Chamberlain's policy of appeasement toward Adolf Hitler, but Halifax kept the post into Winston Churchill's ministry. As ambassador to the U.S. (1941-46), he greatly served the Allied cause in World War II, for which he was created earl of Halifax in 1944

Silbentrennung

Hal·i·fax

Türkische aussprache

hälîfäks

Aussprache

/ˈhaləˌfaks/ /ˈhælɪˌfæks/

Etymologie

() Halifax is believed to be a descendant of Old English hāliġfeax (literally “holy hair”). The town is said to have received the name from the fact that the hair of a murdered virgin was hung up on a tree in the neighborhood, which became a resort of pilgrims. Compare also Fairfax.