Because of its classical Greco-Roman style, the ruins of Mission San Juan Capistrano's Great Stone Church in California, United States has been called the " American Acropolis ".

Because of the effects of the Great Depression on the Detroit area, his father moved the family to Boothwyn, Pennsylvania, near the town of Chester, when Bill was seven years old.

Because of this, it has a transportation system which includes more than of roads, 10 major international airports, 300 smaller airports, of functioning railway track, and more than 300 commercial ports and harbours that provide access to the Pacific, Atlantic and Arctic oceans as well as the Great Lakes and the St. Lawrence Seaway.

Because the Cubs lost two seasons to the Great Chicago Fire, the Braves have played more seasons, although the Cubs hold the record for oldest team still in its original city.

Because of this new period of instability, the state was struck for several weeks in July and August 1789 by the Great Fear, a period of violent class conflict.

Because it is the shallowest, it is also the warmest of the Great Lakes, and in 1999 this almost became a problem for two nuclear power plants which require cool lake water to keep their reactors cool.

Because the Smyrnaean letter known as the Martyrdom of Polycarp states that Polycarp was taken on the day of the Sabbath and killed on the Great Sabbath, some believe that this is evidence that the Smyrnaeans under Polycarp observed the seventh day Sabbath.

Because there are no accounts of the custom in Great Britain prior to the 17th century, some historians and folklorists have theorised that it was not an ancient British custom but was in fact imported into Britain from continental Europe in the early modern period, possibly from Flanders in Belgium, where the tradition thrived in this period.

Because of this, each has been described as believing that human and God, regardless of the all immense difference, are sharing something of great importance that can bind them together: " You've got to understand that a seagull is an unlimited idea of freedom, an image of the Great Gull.

Because of the Great Salt Lake's high salinity, it has few fish, but they do occur in Bear River Bay and Farmington Bay when spring runoff brings fresh water into the lake.

Because Oklahoma is situated between the Great Plains and the Ozark Plateau in the Gulf of Mexico watershed, the western part of the state is subjected to extended periods of drought and high winds in the region may then generate Dust storms, and the eastern part of the state is humid subtropical climate zone.

Because the sacrifice of Jesus through his crucifixion is commemorated on this day, the Divine Liturgy ( the sacrifice of bread and wine ) is never celebrated on Great Friday, except when this day coincides with the Great Feast of the Annunciation, which falls on the fixed date of March 25 ( for those churches which follow the traditional Julian Calendar, March 25 currently falls on April 7 of the modern Gregorian Calendar ).

Because the United States supported Great Britain's proposal that priority be given to defeating Germany before Japan, the Pacific theater had to compete for personnel and resources with the European theater.

Because of conquests by Alexander the Great, Hellenistic civilization flourished from Central Asia to the western end of the Mediterranean Sea.

Because of the Great Depression, Frye and his associates sold the airline to Western Air Express in March 1930.

Because of the detailed depictions of homosexuality and drug addiction, as well as gang rape and other forms of human brutality and cruelty in the novel, it was prosecuted for obscenity in Great Britain in 1967.

Because of its elevation, Strumpshaw hosted, from the late 1790s through to the mid 1810s, a repeater station in the shutter telegraph chain linking the Admiralty in London with Great Yarmouth.

Because many of its early settlers came from Suffolk County in England, it is presumed that the name of the town derives from two small villages there — Great Wenham and Little Wenham.

Because Black Eagle is not an incorporated city, it does not have the same levels of emergency services as the neighboring city of Great Falls.

Because the fertile soil of the North China Plain gradually merges with the steppes and deserts of Central Asia, with no natural barriers between the two regions, the plain has been prone to invasion from Central Asia and Manchuria, prompting the construction of the Great Wall of China.

Because of the relatively inexpensive and more readily available ingredients, the dish was popular during the Great Depression in the United States.

Because of the family's wealth, Diane was insulated from the effects of the Great Depression while growing up in the 1930s.

Because the language of the Geneva Bible was more forceful and vigorous, most readers preferred this version strongly over the Great Bible.

Because of these and other artists, like Amaldus Nielsen and Olaf Isaachsen, the town is sometimes called " The Little Town with the Great Artists ".

Because much of this pollution drained into and affected Lake Erie, the lake itself was considered " dead " and unable to support aquatic life.

Because of the uniform water flow from Lake Ladoga to Neva over the whole year, there is almost no floods and corresponding water rise in the spring.

Because of its depth and relative ease of access, the US Navy uses Seneca Lake to perform test and evaluation of equipment ranging from single element transducers to complex sonar arrays and systems.

Because the Swans and the Saints used to be towards the bottom of the ladder on a regular basis after the Second World War up until St Kilda's move away from the Junction Oval, clashes between both sides used to be dubbed " The Lake Premiership ".

Because the territorial boundary line between the U. S. and Canada ran through the middle of Lake Erie and then up the Detroit River, combined with the prevailing belief regarding the location of the southern tip of Lake Michigan, the framers of the 1802 Ohio Constitution believed it was the intent of Congress that Ohio's northern boundary should certainly be north of the mouth of the Maumee River, and possibly even of the Detroit River.

Because the western end of Lake Erie offered the shortest overland route to the frontiers of Indiana and Illinois, Maumee Harbor was seen as a site of immediate importance and great value.

Because the idea of EPCOT was never implemented, the Disney Corporation remained almost the sole landowner in the district allowing it to maintain control of the RCID and the cities of Bay Lake and Lake Buena Vista ; Disney further cemented this control by deannexing Celebration from the RCID.

Because of its prolific use during this period, the American Dialect Society voted " weapons of mass destruction " ( and its abbreviation, " WMD ") the word of the year in 2002, and in 2003 Lake Superior State University added WMD to its list of terms banished for " Mis-use, Over-use and General Uselessness ".

Because Lake Chad is very shallow — only at its deepest — its area is particularly sensitive to small changes in average depth, and consequently it also shows seasonal fluctuations in size of about 1 m every year.

Because of this, most of Lake Victoria's nutrients are thought to be locked up in lake-bottom deposits.

Because his force was inferior, he chose the narrow, rocky body of water between the western shore of Lake Champlain and Valcour Island ( near modern Plattsburgh, New York ), where the British fleet would have difficulty bringing its superior firepower to bear, and where the inferior seamanship of his relatively unskilled sailors would have a minimal negative effect.

Because of its large number of lakes, the northwestern corner of Waukesha County is referred to as " Lake Country " by local residents.

Because of the natural hazards of the strait, where the waters of Green Bay meet the open body of Lake Michigan, they gave it the French appellation Porte des Morts Passage, which in English means the " Door to the Way to Death ," or simply, " Death's Door.

Because of poor transportation connections with the rest of Oregon, the early economic orientation of Lake County was toward California: both the San Francisco Chronicle and the San Francisco Examiner arrived in Lakeview daily, often before The Oregonian.

Because of the new roads and bridge built for use during construction, it has become the gateway to the Glen Canyon National Recreation Area and Lake Powell, attracting more than 3 million visitors per year.

Because it is deep with no power limit, water skiing is allowed on Lake Ann.

Because there is also a Lakeview in Baxter County, many residents want to rename Lakeview to " Lake Helena ".

Because of Bay Lake statistics, legislators have to be careful not to use the words " maximum " and " average " in the computations used for the State of Florida's 2007 property tax reform debate.

Because of encroaching annexations by the City of Frostproof, the town is exploring the possibility of annexing Crooked Lake and nearby shores which would increase the size of the town to.

Because many adults work out of town, notably in Chicago, social life in Crystal Lake is determined largely by whom people's children go to school with, and who lives nearby.

Because of its location, Crown Point is known as the " Hub of Lake County ".

Because of its shape, that of a pan, it was called Panbowl Lake.

Because of the closing of the Lake Champlain Bridge in the fall of 2009, as of October 2009 a temporary pedestrian ferry service runs from the Westport Marina across Lake Champlain to Vermont on a limited basis during morning and evening commuting hours.