Nearly any lad with a modicum of skill might find a payday awaiting him in the Three I League, or the Pony League, or the Coastal Plains League, or the fast Eastern League, if not indeed in one of the hundreds of city leagues that abounded everywhere.

Each of the seven military commands has its headquarters in a major city: Eastern Military Command ( Comando Militar do Leste-CML ), Rio de Janeiro ; Southeastern Military Command ( Comando Militar do Sudeste-CMSE ), São Paulo ; Southern Military Command ( Comando Militar do Sul-CMS ), Porto Alegre ; Northeastern Military Command ( Comando Militar do Nordeste-CMN ), Recife ; CMO, Campo Grande ; CMP, Brasília ; and CMA, Manaus.

: For the city in the late Roman and the Eastern Roman or Byzantine periods ( 330 – 1453 ), see Constantinople.

The city is situated on a massive natural harbour on the Eastern coast of Africa, with sandy beaches in some areas.

Eastern Washington has a much drier climate than Western Washington, and some Seattle-area residents have moved to the city and commute over Snoqualmie Pass on Interstate 90 to jobs located in the Puget Sound region.

Located in Kashubia in Eastern Pomerania, Gdynia is part of a conurbation with the spa town of Sopot, the city of Gdańsk and suburban communities, which together form a metropolitan area called the Tricity ( Trójmiasto ), with a population of over a million people.

The area of the later city of Gdynia shared its history with Pomerelia ( Eastern Pomerania ); in prehistoric times it was the center of Oksywie culture ; it was later populated by Slavs with some Baltic Prussian influences.

Ferry services from Hobart's Eastern Shore into the city were once a common form of public transportation, but with lack of government funding, as well as a lack of interest from the private sector, there has been the demise of a regular commuter ferry service – leaving Hobart's commuters relying solely on travel by automobiles and buses.

While initial talk existed of a race to Berlin by the Allies, after Stalin successfully lobbied for Eastern Germany to fall within the Soviet " sphere of influence " at Yalta, no plans were made by the Western Allies to seize the city by a ground operation.

It is also a transition between the Eastern and Western United States, as St. Louis is often called the " western-most Eastern city " and Kansas City the " eastern-most Western city ".

The city is mentioned again in the Battle of Nineveh in 627 AD, which was fought between the Eastern Roman Empire and the Sassanian Empire of Persia near the ancient city.

The Ottoman Turks blocked all land routes to Europe by conquering the city of Constantinople, the capital city of the Byzantine Empire, and Europeans had to find other ways to trade with Eastern countries.

The Lombards to the north of Rome had captured Ravenna, capital of the Eastern Roman Empire Exarchate of Ravenna, in 751, and began to put pressure on the city of Rome.

In May 2006, Rostelecom launched a new fiber-optic data transmission line linking Russia's Far Eastern cities of Belogorsk and Blagoveshchensk with the Chinese city of Heihe on the Chinese-Russian border.

An Eastern body of Christian Sabbath-keepers mentioned from the 8th century to the 12th is called Athenians (" touch-not ") because they abstained from uncleanness and intoxicating drinks, called Athinginians in Neander: " This sect, which had its principal seat in the city of Armorion, in upper Phrygia, where many Jews resided, sprung out of a mixture of Judaism and Christianity.

Along with the Battle of Stalingrad, the Siege of Leningrad on the Eastern Front was the deadliest siege of a city in history.

At approximately 9: 40 AM Eastern Daylight Time on April 27, 2012 Enterprise took off from Dulles International Airport en-route to a fly-by over the Hudson River, New York's JFK International Airport, the Statue of Liberty, the George Washington and Verrazano-Narrows Bridges, and several other landmarks in the city ; in an approximately 45-minute " final tour ".

Truso was situated in a central location upon the Eastern European trade routes, which led from Birka in the north to the island of Gotland and to Visby in the Baltic Sea and later included the Hanseatic city of Elbląg.

The Nova Scotia Eastern Institute of Technology ( NSEIT ) opened in 1968 on Grand Lake Road ( Trunk 4 ) several kilometres east of the Sydney city limits.

Conservation has six specialist areas: ceramics & glass ; metals ; organic material ( including textiles ); stone, wall paintings and mosaics ; Eastern pictorial art and Western pictorial art.

Many Orthodox homes have an area set aside for family prayer, the icon corner, on which icons of Christ, the Virgin Mary and the Saints are placed typically on an Eastern facing wall.

File: 2010 Sandstorm over Eastern China. jpg | On November 11, 2010, a wall of sand blew across northern China, covering much of the North China Plain and Shandong Peninsula.

Some people in Eastern Germany engage in " Ostalgia ", which is a certain nostalgia for the time before the wall came down.

In 1508 – 1516, the Italian architect Aloisio the New arranged for the construction of a moat in front of the Eastern wall, which would connect the Moskva and Neglinnaya and be filled in with water from Neglinnaya.

Old Arabic Love Poem on Persian Carpet: When Laura comes to see Alec at his friend's flat, there is a Middle Eastern rug hung on the wall.

A City of London Corporation plaque commemorating the station's construction hangs on the wall of the adjoining former Great Eastern Hotel, which was designed by Charles Barry, Jr. ( son of Sir Charles Barry ) and his brother Edward Middleton Barry, and also built by Mowlem.

There is a plaster mold on the Eastern wall frieze.

The standing of Constructivism in international relations | constructivism as an international relations theory increased after the fall of the Berlin wall ( pictured ) and Communism in Eastern Europe as this was something not predicted by the existing mainstream theories.

In Eastern Christianity an iconostasis ( plural: iconostases ) is a wall of icons and religious paintings, separating the nave from the sanctuary in a church.

During its 28-year active life, the infrastructure on the Eastern side was expanded to include not only the wall, watchtower and zig-zag barriers, but a multi-lane shed where cars and their occupants were checked.

Most of the residents lived in circular or rectangular houses which they built between the river and the Eastern secondary wall.

Seven Sages of the Bamboo Grove from a picture from the brick wall of a tomb located near the Eastern Jin capital ( modern Nanjing, China ).

" Learning from their experiences on the Eastern Front, the Germans ran their main line of resistance down the center of towns located in the defensive wall, taking advantage of narrow streets to limit the mobility of enemy armored vehicles.

This Karnak temple wall depicts a list of city states conquered by Shoshenq I in his Near Eastern military campaigns.

After the fall of the Berlin wall in 1989, Moyer participated in many workshops in Eastern Europe about nonviolence and social change.

The writing was on the wall for Ryton when Peugeot announced that the new 207 would not be assembled at the former Rootes plant, and in April 2006, after years of speculation surrounding Ryton's future, the PSA Group announced that residual 206 production would move to Eastern Europe.

He had initiated the idea of this institution in June 1989, before the fall of the Berlin wall, in order to support the reconstruction of Eastern European countries.

This Karnak temple wall depicts a list of city states conquered by Shoshenq I in his Near Eastern military campaigns.

A much more serious and challenging climb is the famous East Face ( Watzmann-Ostwand ), which rises from the Hirschau peninsula at lake Königssee to the main peaks in a vertical ascent of around 1800m ( the longest wall in the Eastern Alps ).

With the collapse of the Communist governments of Eastern Europe and, eventually, the Soviet Union itself, the tearing down of the wall epitomized the collapse for history.

In 1906, a major earthquake devastated the entire city wall except the Eastern Gate.

The small brass plaque, the size of one brick, is located on the brick wall of the Eastern ( Weld Boathouse ) side of the bridge, just North of the middle of the bridge span, about eighteen inches from the ground in a small alcove.

The Washington D. C Fire and Emergency Serices Department determined officially that the fire originated outside of the Eastern Market between a dumpster and the exterior of the west wall, and that the fire was caused by an electrical failure on the electric supply wire for a nearby trash compactor.