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The city is mainly a tourist and resort centre, serving many ski lodges.
The seaside resort of Bundoran, located in the very south of the county, along with nearby Rossnowlagh, have been ' reborn ' as the centre of surfing in County Donegal.
Most tourists to Palau stay in Koror, which is the centre for Palau's resort services and house modern conveniences.
Today it is an important convention centre and tourist resort, offering a wide range of sport activities ( golf, fishing, horseback-riding ) and is a starting point for mountain treks and hikes especially within the nearby Triglav National Park.
A resort town, Queenstown is a centre for adventure tourism.
The Malangen Brygger resort on the water's edge has opened on the Malangen Peninsula and will expand further in May 2010 when a hotel and conference centre open.
Transportation links with Toronto and Georgian Bay stimulated Orillia's development as a commercial centre and summer resort.
Since the end of the 19th century, Ustka has been recognised as a summer holiday resort and various illnesses treatment and recovery centre.
Additionally there are ABC cinemas, " Jaks " ( an adults-only nightclub ), " Crazy Horse " ( an older style cabaret bar ), " Hotshots " 10-pin bowling centre with bar and snooker tables, " Green Baize " snooker hall ( originally at all camps but now at Skegness only ), and several additional bars, pubs, and cafes which vary from one Butlins resort to another.
Situated in the centre of the pleasure-going Westend population, the Haymarket is a great place for hotels, supper-houses, and foreign cafés ; and it need hardly be added here, that so many of its taverns became the resort of the loosest characters, after the closing of the theatres, who turned night into day, and who were so constantly appearing before the sitting magistrates in consequence of drunken riots and street rows, that the Legislature interfered, and an Act of Parliament was passed, compelling the closing of such houses of refreshment at twelve o ' clock.
Sandown Pier hosts a large amusement centre with arcade games and children's play areas, typical of a seaside resort.
The town soon prospered as the site of Hastings Mill sawmill, seaport, and quickly became a general centre of trade and commerce on Burrard Inlet as well as a rough-and-rowdy resort for off-work loggers and fishermen as well as the crews and captains of the many sailing ships which came to Gastown or Moodyville, on the north side of the inlet ( which was a dry town ) to load logs and timber.
From 1858 holidaymakers were brought to the resort and the steamers by the Glasgow, Dumbarton and Helensburgh Railway terminus built in the centre of the town, and in 1894 a second railway station was opened higher up the hill on the West Highland Railway to Fort William.
Helensburgh today acts as a commuter town for nearby Glasgow, with a population at the 2001 census of 14, 626, and also serves as a main shopping centre for the area and for tourists attracted to the seaside resort.
It is a busy urban centre and seaside resort, with a population of 31, 872 making it the fourth largest in Ireland ( excluding the five cities ) as of the 2011 census.
* Wooden summer resort houses, nowadays some of them located in the centre of Legionowo
The town is now best known as a seaside resort, with two golf courses, a community centre / mid-scale arts venue ( Nairn Community & Arts Centre ), a small theatre ( called The Little Theatre ) and one small museum, providing information on the local area and incorporating the collection of the former Fishertown museum.
It remains a popular tourist resort today and is particularly known as a centre for hillwalking, surrounded by mountains such as Ben Vrackie and Schiehallion.
A-class roads centre upon Hull and the coastal resort of Bridlington.
The town has prospered as an important port, a centre of cotton production, and a Victorian and Edwardian holiday resort.
The village is a commuter centre for workers in Downpatrick and Belfast, a seaside resort and a local service centre providing housing and a variety of shops and services largely concentrated in Castle Place, Quay Street, Kildare Street and Bath Street.
Located to the east of Bournemouth town centre and west of Southbourne, It developed rapidly from a small village as a seaside resort alongside Bournemouth after the first Boscombe pier was opened in 1889.
The base is being converted to a tourist resort and natural and cultural heritage centre.

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Whatever professionalism there was tended to disguise itself ; it was possible to pay for the services of a speechwriter ( logographos ) but this was not advertised in court ( except as something your opponent had to resort to ), and even politically prominent litigants made some show of disowning special expertise.
Ajaigarh Fort has been sold to Oberoi Group and they plan to develop a tiger resort there.
In North Africa, as in Europe, there are references to cannibalism as a last resort in times of famine.
Apart from threats within the ruling family, there was the omnipresent challenge from the independent tribes of the interior who rejected the authority of the sultan, recognizing the imam as the sole legitimate leader and pressing, by resort to arms, for the restoration of the imamate.
This is the most strict form of the doctrine of stare decisis ( one not applied, previously, in common law jurisdictions, where there was somewhat greater flexibility for a court of last resort to review its own precedent ).
It turns out that there is a way to perform a canonical quantization without having to resort to the noncovariant approach of foliating spacetime and choosing a Hamiltonian.
By the late 18th century Lyme Regis had become a popular seaside resort, especially after 1792 when the outbreak of the French Revolutionary Wars made travel to the European mainland dangerous for the English gentry, and increasing numbers of wealthy and middle class tourists were arriving there.
On both coasts there are several resort towns, including Portrush ( with well-known golf links ), Portballintrae and Ballycastle ; on the east Cushendun, Cushendall and Waterfoot on Red Bay, Carnlough and Glenarm, Larne on the Sea of Moyle, and Whitehead on Belfast Lough.
Tribal development there, such as the recently opened $ 80 million Lake of Isles golf resort, has proven to be a welcome addition to the town's tax base.
In all other states, there is a single court of last resort.
Animals may also resort to the consumption of ragwort when there is shortage of food.
Before Clerkenwell became a built-up area, it had a reputation as a resort a short walk out of the city, where Londoners could disport themselves at its spas, of which there were several, based on natural chalybeate springs, tea gardens and theatres.
The town became a popular resort in the 17th century and many grand houses were built there, such as Vanbrugh Castle ( 1717 ) established on Maze Hill, next to the park.
The race track would have also been used as a road to the resort of Skegness when there was no racing.
The town became a somewhat resort town for its picturesque peaks at the end of the 19th century, drawing many wealthy from the Fort Smith area to summer there.
Emerald Lake Hills was originally conceived as a resort community for city-weary San Franciscans during World War I. Emerald Lake Hills actually consists of two large subdivisions created around 1920: Emerald Lake ( even though there are two lakes ) and Emerald Hills.
Due to Royal Lakes ' status as a " resort " area, a lack of zoning regulations meant that there had been no provisions for the developer to provide basic infrastructure.
A popular belief, supported by previously published histories, is that William Denham discovered the mineral springs on his property and that a health resort quickly grew up there.
Thompsonville, MI is best known for the ski resort located there, Crystal Mountain.
In the wood Hulkesteinse Bos there is the nudist resort Flevo-Natuur, with recreation bungalows, a camp site, and the possibility of day recreation.
In the Oceanview section of the resort community, there was formerly a 9-hole golf course, bathing beach, and a small amusement park.
It was revealed that the Ben Parker who had died in the alleyway was the Uncle Ben of the alternate reality, while the Ben Parker who killed Spider-Man 2211 was, in fact, the Chameleon of 2211 ; the Chameleon had attempted to convince Ben to resort to murder, but Spider-Man correctly guessed that there were no circumstances under which Ben would do such a thing.
As expected of a summer resort town, there is a great gama of wonderful hotels, apartment rentals, lively nightlife activities and excellent seafood and international cuisine restaurants.
At the mouth of Saleh Bay there is an 30, 000 hectares islet called Moyo ( Indonesian: Pulau Moyo ) which has a guest shelter or luxurious resort where celebrities such as Princess Diana once stayed.
As tentatively expressed by economic historian Charles Kindleberger, in 1929 there was no lender of last resort effectively present, which, if it had existed and were properly exercised, would have been key in shortening the business slowdown that normally follows financial crises.

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