At the centre of Alfred's reformed military defence system was a network of fortresses, or burhs, distributed at strategic points throughout the kingdom.

At the centre of the Acropolis is the Parthenon or Temple of Athena Parthenos ( Athena the Virgin ).

At the centre of the Great Court is the Reading Room vacated by the British Library, its functions now moved to St Pancras.

At a certain point, reports of an IRA sniper operating in the area were allegedly given to the Army command centre.

At a very early period prior to 3000 BC, Nippur had become the centre of a political district of considerable extent.

At the start of each half, as well as after goals are scored, play is started with a pass from the centre of the field.

At that time Pergamon was a major cultural and intellectual centre, noted for its library ( Eumenes II ), second only to that in Alexandria,

At its prime, the site attracted around 80, 000 visitors a year, but in March 2010 BT announced that the visitor centre would be " Closed for Easter and beyond, until further notice.

At the centre of the Nouveau Jardin is Europe's highest garden fountain.

At the centre are the huge Marktkirche ( Market Church, preaching venue of the bishop of the Lutheran Landeskirche Hannovers ) and the Old Town Hall.

At one point during his career, in an effort to get fit after an injury, in March 1980 he joined the football club Scunthorpe United, where he played as a centre half and made 11 appearances in the Football League.

During 2007, Macquarie University faced a restructuring of its student organisation after an audit raised questions about management of hundreds of thousands of dollars in funds by student organisations At the centre of the investigation was Victor Ma, president of the Macquarie University Students ' Council, who had previously been involved in a high-profile case of student election fixing at the University of Sydney.

In 1939, Pius XII turned the Vatican into a centre of aid which he organized from various parts of the world At the request of the Pope, an information office for prisoners of war and refugees operated in the Vatican under Giovanni Battista Montini, which in the years of its existence from 1939 until 1947 received almost 10 million ( 9, 891, 497 ) information requests and produced over 11 million ( 11, 293, 511 ) answers about missing persons.

At the age of ten, he was apprenticed to the famous sculptor Lorenzo Ghiberti, designer of the doors of the Florence Baptistery, whose workshop was the premier centre for Florentine art at the time.

At that time, the city was a very important commercial centre and controlled a significant Mediterranean merchant fleet and navy.

At the same time, the Goetheanum developed as a wide-ranging cultural centre.

At the centre of the sling, a cradle or pouch is constructed.

At the same time, the university became a centre for the organised women's liberation movement, which emerged in the 1970s.

At first, the city was incorporated into the Byelorussian SSR, as the city was a centre for Belarusian culture and politics for over a century.

At its centre was the Crystal Palace, a modular glass and iron structure – the first of its kind.

At centre is Major General Heinz Guderian and at right is Brigadier Semyon Krivoshein.

** At least 50 people are killed in a car bomb attack on a police recruitment centre south of Baghdad.

At the centre of the society was the married couple, tusurthir.

At the beginning of 2004, Adnams purchased land in neighbouring village of Reydon to expand its business with a new distribution centre, designed by architect Jeremy Blake, which was nominated for the 2007 RICS East of England Award for Sustainability.

At 09: 37: 45, Flight 77 crashed into the west facade of the Pentagon, killing all 64 people aboard, along with 125 in the Pentagon.

At 09: 37, American Airlines Flight 77 crashed into the west facade of the Pentagon, killing all 64 aboard ( including the hijackers ), along with 125 on the ground in the Pentagon.

At 09: 37, American Airlines Flight 77 crashed into the west facade of the Pentagon, killing all 64 aboard ( including the hijackers ), along with 125 on the ground in the Pentagon.

At 09: 37, American Airlines Flight 77 crashed into the west facade of the Pentagon, killing all 64 aboard ( including the hijackers ), along with 125 on the ground in the Pentagon.

At the highest point of the old town the Portland stone and Coade stone facade of the Crown Court ( 1808 – 12, by John Johnson ), the brick Market Tower and florid War Memorial mark the historic centre, although trade has tended to concentrate on the lower land in modern times.

At 08: 46: 40, Mohamed Atta deliberately crashed Flight 11 into the northern facade of the North Tower ( Tower 1 ) of the World Trade Center.

At that time, only the lower part of the Tuscan gothic facade was finished.

At the Tudor House Hotel in the High Street however, although it is indeed chiefly a Tudor building, the frontage comprises artificial half-timbering attached to a brick-built facade.

At the centre of the facade, the largest and most lavish room, at Wilton the famed Double Cube Room, this was a gathering place for the court of the honoured guest.

At the north-west side is Vintners Court, a 1990s office block which has a classical facade of columns and pediment ; this was developed on the site owned by the Worshipful Company of Vintners whose Hall is behind it on Upper Thames Street ; the style was chosen to compliment the north-west end of London Bridge at which is the Fishmongers Hall.

At each end of this facade are two flanking canted bays each with a double height oriel window.

At his death, he was working on designs for a fountain commissioned by the city of Winterthur in 1991, Switzerland, and a new glass facade for a railroad station in Basel, Switzerland.

At Prince Eugene's Belvedere Palace, Vienna, a sunken parterre before the facade that faced the city was flanked in a traditional fashion with raised walks from which the pattern could best be appreciated.

At Lyme, while the central portico, resting upon a base reminiscent of Palladio's Villa Pisani, dominates the facade, the flanking wings are short, and of the same height as the central block, and the terminating pavilions are merely suggested by a slight projection in the facade.

At the top of the facade is the Barbaro family arms carved in relief

At its rear the visitor passes through the casina, which again has a hemispherical rear facade, enclosing paired flights of re-entrant marble steps that give access to the heart of the villa complex: a two-story Nympheum for alfresco dining during the heat of the summer.

At 08: 46: 40, Mohamed Atta deliberately crashed Flight 11 into the northern facade of the North Tower ( Tower 1 ) of the World Trade Center.

At the centre of the facade was an arcade of five arches, with buttresses and pinnacles.

At the time it was owned by the proprietors of one of the glass factories, who took their cue from the exterior mosaics on the facade of St Mark's Basilica.

There was usually an odd number of state rooms for the following reason: At the centre of the facade, the largest and most lavish room, ( for example at Wilton House the famed Double Cube Room ), or as at Blenheim Palace ( right ) this was a gathering place for the court of the honoured guest.

The facade has two stories, At the lower level are three arched doorways.

At Cross Roads at the western edge of The Valley is Wallblake House, a plantation home built around 1787 that is now owned by the Catholic Church ( the parish priest lives there ) and St. Gerard's Catholic Church, with its highly original facade of pebbles, stones, cement, wood and tile.

At the same time, the original Crescent Avenue facade of the Crescent Apartments would be restored so that visitors could experience the apartment building that Mitchell knew.