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 the centre of the facade is a neoclassical projecting bow of three bays.

** 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 the time of his death, Bosschaert commanded a thousand amateur painters for the production of one floral painting.

At this time he was awarded WPA Project Number 1262 – an opportunity to oversee a group of artists creating murals and to supervise their painting for the Harlem Hospital.

At a time when history painting was considered the supreme classification for public art, Chardin's subjects of choice were viewed as minor categories.

At Francis C. Hammond High School in Alexandria, Virginia, he did poorly academically, having little interest in school work, but was popular with other students, and after leaving decided that he wanted to study painting at college, thereby beginning his studies at School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston in 1964, where he was a roommate of Peter Wolf.

At 14, he was painting portraits for $ 5 apiece.

At one point, however, Munch's father, perhaps swayed by the negative opinion of Munch's cousin Edvard Diriks ( an established, traditional painter ), destroyed at least one painting ( likely a nude ) and refused to advance any more money for art supplies.

At the same time there was from the latter part of the 18th century an increased interest in depicting in the form of history painting moments of drama from recent or contemporary history, which had long largely been confined to battle-scenes and scenes of formal surrenders and the like.

At the same time scenes of ordinary life with moral, political or satirical content became often the main vehicle for expressive interplay between figures in painting, whether given a modern or historical setting.

* 2002 – At a Sotheby's auction, Peter Paul Rubens ' painting The Massacre of the Innocents is sold for £ 49. 5million ( US $ 76. 2 million ) to Lord Thomson.

At the 1924 Summer Olympics in Paris, Yeats ' painting The Liffey Swim won a silver medal in the arts and culture segment of the Games.

At this time Raphael was also busy painting the Stanze, various altarpieces, painting versions of Madonna and child and being the principal architect in Rome after the death of Bramante, which gave him little time to do “ The Transfiguration ”.

At the start of the 19th century his interest in painting was restored, when he painted four scenes from Terence's comedy Andria.

At the Carolingian abbey of Corvey in Westphalia, a unique ninth-century wall painting depicts, among other things, Odysseus ' fight with Scylla, an illustration not noted elsewhere in medieval arts.

At one performance, Ono set a painting on fire ; fortunately John Cage had advised her to treat the paper with flame retardant.

** At a Sotheby's auction, Peter Paul Rubens ' painting " The Massacre of the Innocents " ( first version ) is sold for £ 49. 5million ( US $ 76. 2 million ) to Kenneth Thomson, 2nd Baron Thomson of Fleet.

At the time, the group collaborated with art groups Irwin ( painting ) and Crveni Pilot ( theatre ).

At the age of fourteen he was apprenticed to a manufacturer of porcelain at Lambeth, where he was at first employed in painting the small ornamental pieces of china, but was promoted to modeller.

At the outbreak of the Franco-Prussian War in 1870, Degas enlisted in the National Guard, where his defense of Paris left him little time for painting.

His 1879 painting At The Bourse is widely regarded as strongly anti-Semitic, with the facial features of the banker taken directly from the anti-Semitic cartoons rampant in Paris at the time.

Pablo Picasso's 1905 oil painting " At the Lapin Agile " helped to make this cabaret world famous.

At the time, the painting was believed to be lost forever, and it was two years before the real thief was discovered.

At first Turner showed a keen interest in architecture but was advised to continue painting by the architect Thomas Hardwick ( junior ).

He followed it by painting At the Piano in 1859 in London, which he adopted as his home, while also regularly visiting friends in France.

The Big Raspers At Aintree, 1927 painting of an incident at the Grand National