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"poncey" Definitions
  1. trying to be impressive in a way that is silly and not natural

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Poncey-Highland in Atlanta, Georgia, United States Poncey-Highland saw 242% growth. 13.
Old Fourth Ward / Poncey HighlandO4W's biggest trademark may now be the billboards for email marketing juggernaut Mailchimp.
Wayne wrote that the bar served its beers in "poncey" two-third pint glasses; much to his dislike.
In the Poncey-Highland neighborhood, the place to go for arguably the best wing/booze combo around is this hipster haven.
He does draw on what he's called "poncey IDM" (you can hear some of that in the melodic contortions of "Matryoshka"), but on the whole it's so much more open-hearted—hands-in-the-air even—than such influences might indicate.
They come up with these pursuits and poncey affectations and delicacies that seem, from the outside, not just strange but actively perverse, the result of too much comfort and too little, uh, whatever it is that keeps non-aristocrats from boiling tiny songbirds alive in armagnac.
On Sunday, November 5, Mr. Sagal (whose day job is host of NPR's "Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me") will be running in the New York Marathon — a proper marathon, the full 26.2 miles, not some poncey run like I do — to which I say "Best of luck" and "Swift running to you," not to mention "Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ..." That is an absurdly hard thing to put one's body through, and this particular marathon has runners putting their bodies through it in all five boroughs of New York City, if they run the whole thing.
Poncey-lès-Athée is a commune in the Côte-d'Or department in eastern France.
Poncey-sur-l'Ignon is a commune in the Côte-d'Or department in eastern France.
Frances Wilson married artist Charles Adolphe Huard in 1905. She was widowed when he died in 1965, at their home in Poncey-sur-l'Ignon. She died in 1969, aged 84 years.
The North Highland corridor connects multiple small business districts within each neighborhood in Morningside, Virginia-Highland, Poncey Highland, Inman Park and the Old Fourth Ward. Local businesses market the corridor as the "Highland Corridor".
The Telephone Factory Lofts is a mixed-use loft building along the BeltLine trail in the Poncey-Highland neighborhood of Atlanta. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as the Western Electric Company Building.
Athée is located in the Natural Region of Val de Saône immediately north of Auxonne and south of Poncey-lès-Athée. Access to the commune is by the D24 road from Auxonne which passes through the length of the commune and the village and continues north- west to Magny-Montarlot. The D976 comes from Poncey-lès-Athée in the north and passes through the village continuing south-west to join Route Nationale 5 west of Auxonne.Google Maps The first phase of the LGV Rhin-Rhône (140 km long) between Villers-les-Pots (Côte-d'Or) and Petit-Croix (Territoire de Belfort), opened in 2011, traverses the commune but there is no station.
Manuel's Tavern is a historic tavern in the Poncey–Highland district of Atlanta, Georgia. Established by Manuel Maloof in 1956, the location is notable as a meeting place for influential people in the Democratic Party. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2020.
Located from Chalon-sur-Saône, Givry is a small town, famous for its listed monuments and its wines. It is surrounded on the southeast by the commune's forest, and on the east by vineyards; the commune of Givry also includes three hamlets: Cortiambles, Poncey and Russilly.
Plan for Copenhill Park, 1887 Article about first sale of lots, 1890 Copenhill 1917 Copenhill, Copenhill Park, or Copen Hill was a neighborhood of Atlanta, Georgia which was located largely where the Carter Center now sits, and which now forms part of the Poncey-Highland neighborhood.
Poncey–Highland is an intown neighborhood on the east side of Atlanta, Georgia, located south of Virginia–Highland. It is so named because it is near the intersection of east/west Ponce de Leon Avenue and north/southwest North Highland Avenue. This Atlanta neighborhood was established between 1905 and 1930, and is bordered by Druid Hills and Candler Park across Moreland Avenue to the east, the Old Fourth Ward across the BeltLine Eastside Trail to the west, Inman Park across the eastern branch of Freedom Parkway to the south, and Virginia Highland to the north across Ponce de Leon Avenue. The Little Five Points area sits on the border of Poncey–Highland, Inman Park, and Candler Park. Clermont Hotel and Clermont Lounge Front and side view of the Ford Assembly Plant from Ponce de Leon Avenue Western Electric Company building at 820 Ralph McGill Plaza Theatre at Briarcliff Plaza Jimmy Carter Library and Museum, next to the Carter Center Poncey–Highland is home to the Jimmy Carter Presidential Library, established in 1982.
North of Hardee Street Northeast, the road becomes a divided highway, as it approaches a bridge under a railroad freight line shared by the MARTA Blue and Green Lines east of Inman Park / Reynoldstown (MARTA station). From there, the route runs between Inman Park, Atlanta and Candler Park briefly passing through the Little Five Points area, but then runs along the eastern edge of Poncey-Highland, where it encounters the eastern terminus of SR 42 Conn., which was originally intended to be part of the Stone Mountain Freeway. On the Poncey-Highland–Atkins Park neighborhood line, US 23 turns east on US 29-78-278/SR 8-10 (Ponce de Leon Avenue), while SR 42 continues north along Briarcliff Road.
George Harwell Bond (1891–1952) was an architect active in Atlanta, Georgia and worked at the firm of G. Lloyd Preacher.The Architectural Forum, vol. 34, p. 74 He designed the modernistEmerging Modernism Architecture: Overview"", New Georgia Encyclopedia Briarcliff Plaza shopping center (1939) in the Poncey-Highland neighborhood, the Plaza Theatre and Atlanta's first shopping center with off-street parking.
Over the years, the festival's primary venues have included theaters such as Piedmont Park, High Museum of Art, Fox Theatre, Landmark Midtown Art Cinema, Atlantic Station Regal Cinemas, 7 Stages Theatre in Little Five Points and The Rialto Center for the Arts at Georgia State University. In 2013, ATLFF moved its principle screening operations to The Plaza Theatre in the Poncey-Highland neighborhood.
Early Status Quo albums, up to 1971's Dog of Two Head, credited him as Mike Rossi. Interviewed in 1996, he explained that his own name was deemed "too poncey" by the band's original manager, "so I had to change it to Mike, a real man's name, apparently". Within the band, he is known as "Frame" or "The Gomorr" (The Grand Old Man of Rock and Roll).
"Murder Kroger to get a makeover? Grocer says 'no'" Creative Loafing. Accessed September 12, 2013. A few blocks further east is the intersection with North Highland Avenue (from which the name of Poncey-Highland is derived), and at this intersection are found the historic Plaza Theatre and Briarcliff Hotel, designed by the same architect as Atlanta City Hall and once home to Coca-Cola heir Asa G. Candler, Jr..
In 1991, compromise forged by Lt. Governor Howard and DOT Commissioner Wayne Shackleford, was reached to build the road as it exists today, and to the choice of the name "Freedom Parkway", in theory because it links the Carter Center with the Martin Luther King historic district."Carter Center, Neighbors Agree To End Atlanta's Bitter Road War", Orlando Sentinel, September 29, 1991 During this time the term "Great Park" was also used to refer to the corridor. Eventually the four-lane Freedom Parkway was built from Downtown to Copenhill only, ending in a northern stub to Ponce de Leon Avenue near Barnett in Virginia Highland, and an eastern stub to Moreland Avenue in Poncey Highland at the Druid Hills border. Largely due to the efforts of Druid Hills, Inman Park, Candler Park, Lake Claire and Poncey Highland residents, who filed a lawsuit, the right-of-way east of Moreland became a park but without a roadway.
France's second-longest river (after the Loire), the Seine then flows before it passes between the coastal communes of Le Havre and Honfleur, on the Normandy coast, into the English Channel. Source-Seine borders the communes of Frôlois to the north-west, Chanceaux to the north, Poncey-sur-l'Ignon to the north-east, Bligny-le-Sec to the south-east, Salmaise to the south and Boux-sous-Salmaise to the south-west.
725 Ponce is a 190-million-dollar mixed-use development under construction at 725 Ponce de Leon Avenue along the Atlanta BeltLine in the Poncey-Highland neighborhood of Atlanta, Georgia. It includes a 360,000-square-foot, 12 story office tower atop a new Kroger supermarket replacing the Kroger (nicknamed "Murder Kroger") store demolished in 2016, which will connect to the BeltLine trail via a set of "M.C. Escher-esque steps", restaurants and a covered outside patio.
The Carter Center occupies an area of land that was originally the neighborhood of Copenhill, and which was razed to build an interchange between eight-lane highways: Interstate 485 (now Stone Mountain Freeway) east and west, and Georgia 400 and Interstate 675 north and south. The development was successfully stopped by the surrounding neighborhoods, leaving Freedom Parkway in the area where GDOT had already demolished over 500 homes. Poncey–Highland has numerous historic buildings, including: :• Ford Motor Company Assembly Plant (c.
Tudor Revival architecture in downtown Avondale Estates Willis' Druid Apartments (1917, demolished), which once stood in Atlanta's Poncey-Highland neighborhood 1916 ad for Tanlac 1920 ad for Zonite George Francis Willis (1880, Waynesville, North CarolinaAtlanta and Environs: A Chronicle of Its People and Events, 1880s-1930s, Franklin M. Garrett, p.806 \- July 20, 1932Avondale Estates, Terry Martin-Hart, p.60; year is corrected in an addendum later in the book) was an American millionaire who made his fortunes with patent medicines.
1916) :• Western Electric Company building at 820 Ralph McGill :• Briarcliff Plaza, containing the Majestic Diner (c. 1929) and the Plaza Theatre (1939), an art- deco cinema hosting numerous film events and the focal point of independent cinema in Atlanta :• Hotel Clermont (c. 1924), and its basement Clermont Lounge, a landmark strip club open since 1965. The BeltLine, a multi-use corridor of walking and biking paths and eventually a light rail line, built on the old Southern Railway tracks that form the western boundary of Poncey–Highland.
A mural on the side of the store as pictured from the Atlanta Beltline in November 2014. Murder Kroger is the name by which the Kroger supermarket at 725 Ponce de Leon Avenue in Poncey-Highland, Atlanta has been known for decades, a name which remains common as of 2020. Despite ongoing development in the area, it has been described as a nickname "that just won't die". Kroger reopened a new store on October 16, 2019 at the same location, as part of the 725 Ponce development.
The BeltLine Eastside Trail borders Poncey-Highland. Around the intersection of North Avenue and North Highland are: :• Manuel's Tavern, a local political hangout and one of Atlanta's oldest taverns :• Videodrome, an independent DVD and video rental retail :• The Highland Inn, one of Atlanta's only independent hotels :• Highland Ballroom, a bar and event space located in the Highland Inn's basement area So-called Murder Kroger at 725 Ponce de Leon Ave. was razed in 2016 and replaced by 725 Ponce, a mixed-use development with a new Kroger store.
Meat fruit, a chicken liver mousse created to look like a mandarin orange Mark Hix in The Independent described the restaurant as producing the best food he'd had in two years. He described the meat fruit starter as "astonishing", and said it could have been seen as gimmicky, but "when it tastes that good, it's difficult to complain". Tracey Macloed dined with Mark Hix, and also praised the restaurant describing it as "no-fuss" and "direct". She also wrote that Hix remarked that the restaurant "could change the face of poncey dining".
The oldest mention of Athée recognised by the majority of historians was in 679 in a Charter of the Cartulary of the Abbey Saint-Bénigne of Dijon. The Lordship of Athée - consisting of Athée, Poncey, the "Grange Lochère" located at the end of a bridge over the Saône, and Auxonne,Courtépée C., General description and particulars of the Duchy of Burgundy, Vol. 2, Causse, Dijon, 1777. pp. 268-269 as well as Magny-lès-AuxonneCourtépée C., General description and particulars of the Duchy of Burgundy, Vol. 2, Causse, Dijon, 1777. p.
Kwanza Hall is an American politician and businessman who served as a member of the Atlanta City Council for the 2nd district. He was first elected in 2005 and re-elected without opposition in 2009. He represented the neighborhoods of Atlantic Station, Castleberry Hill, Downtown, Home Park, Inman Park, the Marietta Artery, Sweet Auburn and the Martin Luther King Historic District, Midtown, Poncey-Highland, and the Old Fourth Ward. He opted to not run for re- election in 2017, and was a candidate in the 2017 Atlanta mayoral election.
Ponce de Leon Avenue then passes under a former rail bridge which is part of the BeltLine trail, after which it forms the border between the Poncey-Highland neighborhood to the south and Virginia-Highland to the north. After the now-redeveloped Ford Motor Company Assembly Plant bordering the BeltLine, it passes the Clermont Hotel and Clermont Lounge and then the north end of Freedom Parkway, where it also picks up the route designation Georgia 10 east. It then passes 725 Ponce, a mixed- use development on the former site of a supermarket nicknamed "Murder Kroger".Thomas Wheatley (April 6, 2011).
The BeltLine bisects Reynoldstown north-south. It functions as a paved walking and biking trail, and possibly for transit use (either light rail or streetcar). Just north of Reynoldstown in Inman Park adjacent the intersection of Krog St and Irwin St, The East Side Trail, part of The Beltline, is paved from here to Piedmont Park through Inman Park, Old Fourth Ward, Poncey-Highland and Virginia-Highland. The CSX railroad Hulsey Yard forms the northern border of the neighborhood, a current issue is how to connect the southeast BeltLine to the Eastside Trail portion of the BeltLine across the yard.
North Avenue as it passes the Coca-Cola Headquarters North Avenue is a major avenue in Atlanta, Georgia that divides Downtown Atlanta from Midtown Atlanta. North Avenue stretches continuously in Atlanta from Candler Park in the east, across Interstate 75 & Interstate 85, along the southern boundary of the Georgia Institute of Technology, to Joseph E. Lowery Boulevard (formerly Ashby Avenue) just southwest of Georgia Tech, where it ends. North Avenue passes through the neighborhoods of Poncey-Highland, Old Fourth Ward, and Midtown Atlanta. North Avenue was named at least 150 years ago and was built along the northern city limits of a young Atlanta.
Early in his administration, Carter indicated interest in having his presidential library be built in Georgia. The site chosen was in the Poncey–Highland neighborhood of Atlanta, on land that had been acquired by the state of Georgia Department of Transportation, for an interchange between two redundant highways that were cancelled by Carter when he was governor of Georgia, in response to the Atlanta freeway revolts. (See Interstate 485, Georgia 400, Interstate 675, and the Stone Mountain Freeway.) The Atlanta firm of Jova/Daniels/Busby was selected as architects, in cooperation with Lawton/Umemura/Yamamoto of Hawaii. During design and construction, Carter's papers were temporarily housed at the former post office building in downtown Atlanta.
Although chemists at the time branded it quackery, as it was simply fortified wine with herbs and a laxative, the tonic sold very well nevertheless. Willis sold his firm in 1922 but then made another fortune with Zonite, an antiseptic preparation based on Dakin's solution, widely used in World War I. In 1922, as head of its finance committee, Willis led a $2 million fundraising drive for Georgia Tech. Willis was also active in real estate development in the Atlanta area. Willis commissioned the 1917 Druid Apartments at the corner of Ponce de Leon Avenue and Highland Avenue in Atlanta's Poncey-Highland neighborhood, now the site of the Briarcliff Plaza, Atlanta's first shopping center.
The Ford Motor Company Assembly Plant at 699 Ponce de Leon AvenueGoogle Maps location in the Poncey-Highland neighborhood of Atlanta, Georgia was the headquarters of the Ford Motor Company's southeastern US operations from 1915 to 1942. As a result of good sales in Atlanta, and a desire to decentralize production, Ford established a combined assembly, sales, service and administration facility on Ponce de Leon Avenue, selling a peak of 22,000 vehicles per year. The assembly plant produced Model Ts, Model As and V-8s until 1942, when the plant was sold to the War Department and a new plant was opened in the Atlanta suburb of Hapeville. The building was designed by Ford's in-house architect, John Graham.
WSB-TV, virtual channel 2 (UHF digital channel 32), is an ABC-affiliated television station licensed to Atlanta, Georgia, United States. It is the flagship television property of locally based Cox Media Group, and is sister to radio stations WSB (750 AM), WSB-FM (98.5 MHz), WSBB-FM (95.5 MHz), WSRV (97.1 FM) and WALR-FM (104.1 MHz). The stations share studios at the WSB Television and Radio Group building on West Peachtree Street in Midtown Atlanta; WSB-TV's transmitter is located on the border of the city's Poncey- Highland and Old Fourth Ward neighborhoods. On cable, the station is available on Charter Spectrum channel 2 in both standard and high definition, and on Comcast Xfinity channels 3 (SD) and 803 (HD).
Plaza Theatre at Briarcliff Plaza Majestic Diner at Briarcliff Plaza Briarcliff Plaza, also known as Ponce de Leon Plaza, is a strip mall-type shopping center designed by architect George Harwell Bond and opened in 1939 at the southwest corner of Ponce de Leon Avenue and Highland Avenue in the Poncey-Highland neighborhood of Atlanta. Braircliff Plaza was developed by Relnac Inc., and was proposed to cost $300,000. Construction began after the last home on the block was purchased by Relnac Inc., the Dr. Robin Adair estate, and Briarcliff Plaza opened throughout 1939 with businesses such as Dupree Dry Cleaners, Blick’s Bowling Alley, Holcomb Flowers, the Georgia Fruit & Vegetable Company and Nick Caruso’s Big Place which offered shoe repair, hat cleaning, pressing, repairing and hat cleaning.
Ramsey was very sensitive about his personal background. He strove to mask his working-class Essex origins and to present himself as erudite and worldly, going so far as to adopt an accent that the journalist Brian Glanville called "sergeant-major posh". A widely held perception that Ramsey's accent had become more upper-class during his time as England manager fuelled speculation that he had received elocution lessons, and prompted constant joking from members of the England team who came from similar Essex or East London backgrounds, such as Bobby Moore and Jimmy Greaves. Rodney Marsh, a forward from the East End who played in Ramsey's England team from 1971 to 1973, later said: > Alf tended to speak in a very poncey plum-in-the-mouth way.
Emory Village, a small historic commercial node Emory University, including its hospitals, is the third largest employer in Metro Atlanta as of 2007/8.. The CDC is also an employer of note. Commercial areas include Emory Village, a small node first developed in the 1920s at the terminus of the streetcar line to Emory. A revitalization of the area was completed in 2011 with new sidewalks, street furniture and two new roundabouts. The other, larger commercial areas fall just outside the community's boundaries, such as the Clairmont Road corridor in North Decatur, the Sage Hill shopping center in Atlanta's Morningside/Lenox Park, and the Ponce de Leon Avenue corridor just west of Druid Hills in Atlanta's Poncey-Highland/Virginia-Highland.
Little Five Points is surrounded by the Inman Park, Edgewood, Candler Park and Poncey-Highland neighborhoods of Atlanta. Immediately to the south on Moreland, just through the DeKalb Avenue and Georgia Railroad underpass, is the Edgewood Retail District, a late-2000s urban infill land development of former Atlanta Gas Light Company land. This provides the area its big-box stores (Lowe's, Target, Kroger, Ross, Best Buy, Office Depot and others), mostly at the opposite end of the spectrum from the historic Little Five Points. Its smaller shops constructed along Caroline Street, occupied by many chain stores, are done in a small-town "main street" style (with underground parking), and the entire development is done in brick, as Little Five Points originally was.
After 6 years centered at Landmark, the festival moved its home base to Atlanta's oldest continually operating cinema, The Plaza Theatre on Ponce de Leon Avenue, and added 7 Stages Theatre as a secondary venue. Taking advantage of the Poncey-Highland and Little 5 Points areas, the change pushed the event to be more of a walkable festival. The move was praised by locals and introduced out-of-town guests to Atlanta's unique neighborhoods. In the years since, ATLFF has reactivated the historic Hilan Theatre on North Highland Avenue in Virginia-Highland and incorporated several local landmarks as venues, such as The Highland Inn & Ballroom, The Church at Ponce & Highland, Ponce City Market, The Hotel Clermont and Dad's Garage Theatre Company.
In July 2011, the Jamestown property development company acquired City Hall East (the former Sears building) located where Ponce de Leon Avenue crosses the BeltLine, immediately adjacent to Virginia Highland. Jamestown plans to develop the building into Ponce City Market, with office, retail and residential space. It is to include a nationally significant gourmet food hall, which Jamestown compares to Chelsea Market in New York City, which Jamestown developed, or also to Seattle's Pike Place Market and San Francisco's Ferry Building."Slideshow: Jamestown reveals Ponce City Market", Atlanta Business Journal, June 29, 2011 It is hoped that this significant development will anchor the area of the four neighborhoods (Virginia Highland, Midtown, the Old Fourth Ward and Poncey–Highland) that meet at the property's edge.
"Pensée" from Fleurs Animées by J. J. Grandville (1803–1847) Nathaniel Hawthorne published his last literary effort, an unfinished piece, entitled Pansie, a Fragment, sometimes called Little Pansie, a fragment in 1864. D. H. Lawrence's Pansies: Poems by D. H. Lawrence was published in 1929, and Margaret Mitchell originally chose Pansy as the name of her Gone with the Wind heroine, but settled on Scarlett just before the book went into print. The word "pansy" has indicated an effeminate male since Elizabethan times and its usage as a disparaging term for a man or boy who is effeminate, as well as for an avowedly homosexual man, is still used. The word "ponce" (which has now come to mean a pimp) and the adjective "poncey" (effeminate) also derive from "pansy".
Despite being accident-prone, a target of physical harm and losing his best friend Poncey to a freak accident: he does not believe in the Kennedy curse - "Nothing bad ever happens to the Kennedys" and "I'm a Kennedy, I'm not accustomed to tragedy". His plan of living up to John F. Kennedy is simply by being a womanizer and he is shown to be attractive to women, he seems not to know much about his clonefather besides that he conquered the moon. It is shown that he likes Joan, which is possibly because she is one of the few girls that is immune to his charm. Another reason why JFK likes her is because she is more compassionate and has always seen more to her than Abe did.
From 1237 the Count of Auxonne was replaced in the chain of vassalage by the Duke of Burgundy following an exchange of lands between Hugh IV, Duke of Burgundy and John, Count of Chalon. From 1366 to the French Revolution the Lordship of Athée was held by co-lords who were canons of Sainte-Chapelle de Dijon on the one hand and Lay Lords (the Laverne, Senevoy, Moussier families) on the other. In 1516 the lordship became subject to the Kingdom of France and depended on the bailiwick of Auxonne and the Généralité de Bourgogne (Generality of Burgundy).An administrative division created in 1542 with its seat in Dijon Between 1790 and 1794 Athée, separately from Poncey and Magny, became a French commune depending on the Canton of Auxonne, the district of Saint-Jean-de-Losne, and the department of Côte-d'Or.
Ponce de Leon Springs were natural springs located on the site of Ponce City Market (formerly the Sears building, then City Hall East) in Atlanta, where Ponce de Leon Avenue crosses the BeltLine, and where the Old Fourth Ward, Virginia Highland, Midtown and Poncey-Highland neighborhoods of Atlanta meet. In the 1860s, trips to the springs on John Armistead's beech grove became a popular day trip among Atlantans. An Atlanta physician, Dr. Henry L. Wilson, named them in honor of Juan Ponce de León, asserting that they kept one young;Sarah Toton, "Vale of Amusements: Modernity, Technology, and Atlanta's Ponce de Leon Park, 1870-1920", Southern Spaces, 2008-01-15 today's Ponce de Leon Avenue is named after the springs. On June 20, 1874 the Ponce de Leon line of the horse-drawn Atlanta Street Railway was extended to the springs, with service every 15 minutes from 5:30 A.M. to 10 P.M., for a fare of 10 cents.

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