The section of lower Broadway from its origin at Bowling Green to City Hall Park is the historical location for the city's ticker-tape parades, and is sometimes called the " Canyon of Heroes " during such events.

In October 2001, Bowie opened The Concert for New York City, a charity event to benefit the victims of the September 11 attacks, with a minimalist performance of Simon & Garfunkel's " America ", followed by a full band performance of " Heroes ".

His statue stands today in the Crypt of Heroes beneath the Column of Independence in Mexico City.

His film credits include Flesh + Blood, Blind Fury, Blade Runner, The Hitcher, Nighthawks, Wedlock, Sin City, Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, Ladyhawke, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, The Osterman Weekend, The Blood of Heroes, Batman Begins, Hobo with a Shotgun, The Rite and he won a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor for Escape from Sobibor.

In superhero role-playing games, such as Hero Games ' Champions, Green Ronin Publishing's Mutants and Masterminds, Cryptic Studios ' MMORPG City of Heroes and Champions Online, superheroes are formally organized into categories or archetypes based on their skills and abilities.

There is a statue, by Henry Poole of Gerald in City Hall, Cardiff, and he was included in the vote on 100 Welsh Heroes for his Descriptio Kambriae and Itinerarium Kambriae.

* Red River, a fictional river in City of Heroes

* " Trigger ", a song by Zion I & The Grouch from Heroes in the City of Dope

In the City of Heroes universe, a faction called " Fir Bolg " battles a faction named Tuatha Dé Danann based on the Irish history, although not in human form.

Breaking with the philosophy set forth in the ' 90s, Mattel revamped the Matchbox line almost completely in 2003, introducing " Ultra Heroes ", a series of fantasy vehicles, as part of a " Hero City " theme.

A massively multiplayer online roleplaying game based on the license was announced by Cryptic Studios, who had developed the popular City of Heroes and the cancelled Marvel Universe Online.

The MMORPG " City of Heroes " features a Player vs Player ( PvP ) zone called Recluse's Victory.

Among its most notable parts are the Inner City, including the Hungarian Parliament, Heroes ' Square and Andrássy Avenue.

For instance, a Mises blog entry notes that a bakery is refusing to put Disney characters on its customized birthday cakes, lest it be liable for infringement ; another blog criticizes the Marvel Comics lawsuit over the City of Heroes game that allows players to create characters that resemble those from its comic books.

* SuperGroup, a concept in City of Heroes, the equivalent of " guilds " or " clans "

< center >" Caravan Approaching a City in the Vast Desert of Sahara ", from: Stanley and the White Heroes in Africa, by H. B. Scammel, 1890 </ center >< center > Camel train transporting a house, Kalgoorlie, Western Australia, ca.

The thirteenth century carving " Nine Good Heroes " ( known as " Neun Gute Helden " in the original German ) at Cologne City Hall | City Hall in Cologne, Germany is the earliest known representation of the Nine Worthies.

Ten days after their release, the former hostages were given a ticker tape parade through the Canyon of Heroes in New York City.

* Supergroup ( City of Heroes ), the term for player guilds in the City of Heroes MMORPG

: 2003: City of Heroes ( for PC )

He assists Zzzax into attacking Super Hero City only to be defeated by Heroes for Hire and end up remanded to the Vault.

* The complementary video games City of Heroes / City of Villains, referred to singularly as CoH or CoV, and dually as CoX

Lawmaking power is removed from the Board of Estimate and made a partnership responsibility of the City Council and the Mayor.

The Inter-american Press Association, which blankets the Western Hemisphere from northern Canada to Cape Horn, is meeting in New York City this week for the first time in eleven years.

The City Government is not united in an all-out, to-the-death drive to stamp out gangs, delinquents, thugs, murderers, rapists, subversives.

As this year marks the centennial of the beginning of the Civil War, this fact is being commemorated with several exhibits throughout the State, but most of all paying tribute to the first Rhode Island Volunteers who rushed to the defense of the City of Washington, putting at the disposal of President Lincoln the only fully equipped and best trained regiment at this time.

This is an official preliminary contest of the Miss America Pageant held each September in Atlantic City.

A new waterfront site for the bureau is now being built at Atlantic City, New Jersey, to provide the most modern marine testing facilities as a further tool to keep the sport safe.

Another scenic spot in Tennessee is Chattanooga where the Rock City Gardens are not to be missed.

Sixty miles north of New York City where the wooded hills of Dutchess County meet the broad sweep of the Hudson River there is a new home development called `` Oakwood Heights ''.

Its president is Otis M. Waters, partner in the law firm of Timen & Waters, 540-K Chrysler Bldg., New York City.

You will realize why Rome is indeed the Eternal City.

The City Purchasing Department, the jury said, `` is lacking in experienced clerical personnel as a result of city personnel policies ''.

`` Actually, the abuse of the process may have constituted a contempt of the Criminal court of Cook county, altho vindication of the authority of that court is not the function of this court '', said Karns, who is a City judge in East St. Louis sitting in Cook County court.

In Nassau County, for example, the heavily settled Long Island suburb of New York City, the system is credited by the state with serving one million persons, a figure that has doubled since 1950.

Several times it came near breaking, and there were in fact some lovely peals of thunder from Jerry Mulligan's big band, which is about as fine an aggregation as has come along in the jazz business since John Hammond found Count Basie working in a Kansas City trap.

The movie, which is influenced by Nikolai Gogol's The Government Inspector, centers around two Mexicans who are mistaken for government inspectors from Mexico City by the corrupt mayor of a small town.

Alfonso Cuarón was born in México City and is the son of Alfredo Cuarón, a nuclear physicist who worked for the United Nations ' International Atomic Energy Agency for many years.

On flowing out of the lake it passes through Thun, and then flows through the city of Bern, passing beneath eighteen bridges and around the steeply-flanked peninsula on which the Old City is located.

* 1519 – Panama City, Panama, is founded.

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* 1870 – The New York City Metropolitan Museum of Art is founded.

* 1896 – Officially recognised date of the Cry of Pugad Lawin, the start of the Philippine Revolution is made in Pugad Lawin ( Quezon City ), in the province of Manila ( actual date and location is disputed ).

Andronikos is the main protagonist in Michael Arnold's Against the Fall of Night ( Garden City, New York: Doubleday 1975 ), as well as Ange Vlachos ' Their Most Serene Majesties ( Vanguard Press, 1964 ).

* 1922 – The first radio advertisement is broadcast on WEAF-AM in New York City.