Pembroke

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Pembroke, Massachusetts

Pembroke is a town in Plymouth County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 17,837 at the 2010 census.

The southwestern section of Pembroke is also known as Bryantville. For geographic and demographic information on the village of North Pembroke, please see the article North Pembroke, Massachusetts.

History

The earliest European settlers were Robert Barker and Dolor Davis, who settled in the vicinity of Herring Brook in 1650. Up until that time, the Wampanoag and the Massachusett were the only residents, fishing and farming along the rivers; they called the area Mattakeesett, which means "place of much fish", because of the annual springtime run of herring in the local rivers. The land was part of the Major's Purchase, a large tract of lands bought from Josias Wampatuck of the Massachusetts by a group of English investors. The area was once a part of Duxbury, before incorporating as a separate town in 1712, and was ultimately named for the town of Pembroke, Wales, the name of Brookfield being rejected because it was already in use by the town in Worcester County that still bears this name.

Pembroke, Pembrokeshire

Coordinates: 51°40′34″N 4°54′57″W / 51.67604°N 4.9158°W / 51.67604; -4.9158

Pembroke (/ˈpɛmbrʊk/; Welsh: Penfro pronounced [pɛnˈvroː]) is an historic settlement and former county town of Pembrokeshire in West Wales. The town features a number of historic buildings and complexes and is one of the major population centres in the county. It was the birthplace of Henry Tudor, later Henry VII of England.

History

Pembroke Castle, the remains of a stone mediæval castle was the birthplace of King Henry VII of England. Gerald de Windsor was Constable of Pembroke. Pembroke town and castle and its surroundings are linked with the early Christian church. Later this was the site of the Knights of St John in the UK.

Monkton Priory has very early foundations and was renovated by the Knights in the last century. The first stone building was a defensive tower, now known as the Medieval Chapel, 69a Main Street, built on a cliff edge between 950 AD and 1000 AD. There are the remains of a great hall to the north and recently filled-in arched cellars. The building was used as an early church. The layout is the same as St. Govan's Chapel and it was used by John Wesley from 1764 to preach Methodism. In 1866 it became the brewery for the York Tavern which was Oliver Cromwell's headquarters at the Siege of Pembroke during the English Civil War.

Versa

Versa or VERSA may refer to:

Versa (query language)

Versa is an RDF query language, that is, a query language for databases, able to retrieve and manipulate data stored in Resource Description Framework (RDF) format. Versa differs from most other RDF query languages, which are typically based on SQL or specialized XML vocabularies. Although the design of Versa was inspired by XPath, its compact, functional syntax also somewhat resembles Lisp. As of 2006, the only Versa implementation is in the Python-language, open source 4Suite XML framework.

History and status

Versa's origins can be traced to 2000, when professional XML consultancy Fourthought, Inc. began developing RIL, an open, XML-based RDF Inference Language. RIL was implemented briefly in Fourthought's 4Suite Server product, which allowed for persistent storage and querying of an RDF model and associated XML document store.

In October 2001, the query portion of RIL was spun off into a separate project named Versa, with the intent that after Versa stabilized, development would resume to establish RIL as a formal language for working Versa query results. RIL development never resumed, however; inference abilities in 4Suite were easily handled by XSLT extensions and did not need a separate language.

Versa (Tanaro)

The Versa, a left tributary of the Tanaro, is a 35-kilometre (22 mi) torrent in the Province of Asti in north-west Italy. It is the river of the valley called Valle Versa. In 1836 the Versa was identified, along with the Rotaldo, the Grana, the Stura and the Gattola, as one of the five torrents of the still extant Province of Casale.

Its source is a little to the north of Cocconato near the border with the Province of Turin. After a generally southerly course of 35 kilometres it enters the Tanaro just to the east of Asti.

This river is not to be confused with the Versa that is a tributary of the Po.

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Coordinates: 44°53′19″N 8°16′10″E / 44.88861°N 8.26944°E / 44.88861; 8.26944