The city is named for Andries Pretorius, the hero of the Battle of Blood River in 1838, when a few hundred Boers tough Afrikaners fleeing the dominant (and slavery-abolishing) British authorities on the Cape defeated a 12,000-strong Zulu army.With its jacaranda-lined avenues and rolling hills, it's a pleasant, dull city, far more relaxed than Jozi.
The squatter camps of Diepsloot may be an unsightly conflux of scabrous shacks, but to the east, on the other side of a busy avenue, lie the rolling hills of the open veldt.
In addition to possibly paving an avenue toward monetization, rolling out stickers to Snapchat's chat interface could make the app a better rival to the dominant mobile messaging applications today, as would the new audio and video calling features.
"It's about standing on Commercial Avenue, and clouds are rolling off a hill on Mount Erie, and it's windy".
Two of the pieces – versions of the Helmsley Building, a one-time railroad company headquarters, and the Sherry Netherland apartment-hotel – appear to be rolling down the avenue.
When I gaze out my window in 2025 and see driverless vehicles rolling down the avenue, I want to see them full of people, even if there is no one behind the wheel.
As I pushed open the door to my building, I was met by January rain cascading through the darkness and the swish of trucks' wet tires rolling up First Avenue in Manhattan.
Ms. Berg, who was recruited by Mr. Jackson in 2009, acknowledged in an interview that though she had not seen the "Paradise Lost" films, they "got the ball rolling," while leaving "so many avenues that needed to be investigated".
A further avenue of future research includes the use of the rolling configuration of the robot to improve its speed in traversing the environment.
For years, the limousines of a pampered few, rolling up to private schools like Dalton and more recently Avenues, have caused rolled eyes and tsks about excess and overprivileged youth.
The man with the smock, dog and staff is pausing among avenues of sheaves cut sharp as straw, with the rolling hills around Shoreham in the distance.
