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 this, the students let out a yell, knowing full well the actual frontier was beyond the town of Kehl.

At any cost, he must leave the dreary Pennsylvania mining town where his father was a pharmacist.

At Sturbridge Village, Massachusetts, you'll find a completely-restored New England town.

At the last session of the General Assembly, the town was authorized to adopt such an ordinance as a means of making enforcement of minor offenses more effective.

At age six, young Bronson began his formal education in a one-room schoolhouse in the center of town but learned how to read at home with the help of his mother.

* 1813 – At the final stage of the Peninsular War, British-Portuguese troops capture the town of Donostia ( now San Sebastián ), resulting in a rampage and eventual destruction of the town.

At the end of the war, 19-year old student Robert Limpert tried to get the town to surrender to the US Forces without a fight.

At this time, the community of Barcelonnette successfully purchased the seigneurie of the town as it was put to auction by the Duke of Savoy ; it thereby gained its own justicial powers.

At one time, Glace Bay was known as the largest town in Nova Scotia, based on population.

At the age of nine, Brâncuși left the village to work in the nearest large town.

At various periods, and particularly during the Middle Ages, the citadel-having its own fortifications, independent of the city walls-was the last defence of a besieged army, often held after the town had been conquered.

At the first public meeting on August 15, 1636, eighteen men signed the town covenant.

At the first Town Meeting following the annual town election he is to appoint, subject to Town Meeting's confirmation, a Deputy Moderator from the elected Members.

At that point it was a part of Naarden, the oldest town in the Gooi area.

At the end of the 9th century the northern and southern parts of the town were abandoned for the central section.

At Economy the Harmonists intended to become more involved in manufacturing and their new town on the Ohio River provided better access to eastern markets and water access to the south and west than they had in Indiana.

At that time, the town of Kuwait was settled by migrants from central Arabia who arrived at what was then a lightly populated fishing village under the suzerainty of the Bani Khalid tribe of Arabia.

At the southern edge of the Kambos plain lies the town of Thymiana.

At the end of the war, Madagascar ceded the northern port town of Antsiranana ( Diego Suarez ) to France and paid 560, 000 francs to Lambert's heirs.

At the time of Michelangelo's birth, his father was the Judicial administrator of the small town of Caprese and local administrator of Chiusi.

At later times, during the prolonged illness and after the death of his mother in 1481 when he was just six years old, Michelangelo lived with a stonecutter and his wife and family in the town of Settignano, where his father owned a marble quarry and a small farm.

At a fundraiser in a small town outside of Portland, the group stood up and outed him in front of the crowd.

At the same time, travelling virtuoso performers such as the young Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart would write concerti that showed off their skills, and they would travel from town to town, arranging concerts along the way.