Square pianos were built in great numbers through the 1840s in Europe and the 1890s in America, and saw the most visible change of any type of piano: the iron-framed, over-strung squares manufactured by Steinway & Sons were more than two-and-a-half times the size of Zumpe's wood-framed instruments from a century before.

Square Europe, Ltd. was established in December 1998 to localize and market Square-developed games in Europe and Australia.

Located in London, UK, Square Europe was granted exclusive publishing rights in Europe and other PAL territories for all interactive entertainment titles developed by Square.

Following the release of the album, the band again went on a tour through Europe, opening on Kharkiv's Freedom Square in front of 350, 000 Ukrainian fans.

In response to the growing corruption, the economic dislocation, and the sense that reforms in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe were leaving China behind, the Tiananmen Square protests erupted in 1989.

The city also hosts another rock festival, Down by the Laituri, and one of the largest electronic music festivals in Northern Europe, UMF ( Uuden Musiikin Festivaali, " New Music Festival "), in addition to a vibrant nightlife, centred around the Market Square.

Square dances were first documented in 17th century England but were also quite common in France and throughout Europe.

Some smaller, more isolationist Hasidic groups actually founded their own small towns, such as New Square, New York, and Kiryas Joel, New York, patterned after the communities they left in Europe.

Square sails mounted on yardarms perpendicular to the boat's hull are very good for downwind sailing ; they dominated in the ancient Mediterranean and spread to Northern Europe, and were independently invented in China and Ecuador.

* Odeon Leicester Square, which dominates the east side of the square, had the first digital projector in Europe ( 1999 ), hosting most premieres with capacity for 1683 people, arranged in circle and stalls.

Square Enix Europe has its head office in the Wimbledon Bridge House in Wimbledon.

Square Enix Europe has its head office in the Wimbledon Bridge House in Wimbledon in the London Borough of Merton.

He also introduced drinking chocolate milk to Europe and gave his name to Sloane Square in London, and Sir Hans Sloane Square in his birthplace Killyleagh.

The Town Hall stands at the foot of the Great Market Square regarded as one of the most beautiful 16th century squares in Europe.

Franklin D. Roosevelt ’ s four freedoms in Europe at the end of World War II, young people behind the Iron Curtain listening to radio Free Europe, Chinese students symbolizing their protests in Tienanmen Square by creating a replica of the Statue of Liberty, newly liberated Afghans in 2001 asking for a copy of the Bill of Rights and young Iranians today surreptitiously watching banned American videos and satellite television broadcasts in the privacy of their homes.

SCi and Eidos went on to focus on other projects, while Square Enix Europe obtained the series IP rights.

The party went on until nearly dawn, and Harry and Caresse made plans to see Crane again on December 10 to see the popular Broadway play Berkeley Square before they left for Europe.

) In the winter, he toured Europe and North America in support of Washington Square Serenade, performing both solo and with a disc jockey.

When the Royal Panopticon ( afterwards the Alhambra in Leicester Square ) was originated in 1854 as a scientific institution, Buckingham was selected to write and deliver the explanatory description of the views of various countries, and more recently at the Egyptian Hall he was the lecturer engaged to illustrate Hamilton's Tour of Europe.

This structure can be also seen as a series of concentric circles, where the gospel begins in the center, Jerusalem, and is expanding ever outward to Judea & Samaria, Syria, Asia Minor, Europe, and eventually to Rome.

The city has traditionally been a pole of attraction, and was a major center for refugees from various ethnic backgrounds who immigrated to Anatolia from the Balkans during the loss of the Ottoman territories in Europe between the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

During the Viking Age, Birka ( Birca in medieval sources ), on the island of Björkö ( literally: " Birch Island ") in Sweden, was an important trading center which handled goods from Scandinavia as well as Central and Eastern Europe and the Orient.

" Though apparent to very few historians at the time, these defeats were the beginning of the decline of Europe as the center of world politics.

In 19th century Europe, the length of civil wars fell significantly, largely due to the nature of the conflicts as battles for the power center of the state, the strength of centralized governments, and the normally quick and decisive intervention by other states to support the government.

In October 2008, Engdahl told the Associated Press that the United States is " too insular and ignorant to challenge Europe as the center of the literary world " and does not really " participate in the big dialogue of literature.

There, in 1703, he had already founded the city that was to become Russia's new capital, Saint Petersburg, as a " window opened upon Europe " to replace Moscow, long Russia's cultural center.

Still, city leaders yearned to create a center for musical arts that could rival the best halls of Europe.

Europe was being transformed into the manufacturing center of the world.

The surrealists and modern artists from every cultural center of Europe had fled the onslaught of the Nazis for safe haven in the United States.

The Netherlands, which had become the financial center of Europe by being its most efficient trader, had little interest in seeing trade restricted and adopted few mercantilist policies.

The recently built Stary Browar shopping center contains many high-end shops and is considered one of the best in Europe.

Other notable shopping centers in the city include Galeria Malta, one of the largest in Central Europe, and the shops at the Hotel Bazar, a historical hotel and commercial center in the Old Town.

Over the last two decades some new sources of funding for parapsychology in Europe have see a " substantial increase in European parapsychological research so that the center of gravity for the field has swung from the United States to Europe ".

By this time it had developed into the busiest traffic center in all of Europe, and the heart of Berlin's nightlife.

Southeastern Europe, bordering the Black Sea and Danube, with the Carpathian mountains in its center.

While hippies also gathered in New York, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, Seattle, Portland, Washington, D. C., Chicago, Houston, Atlanta, New Orleans, Miami, Montreal, Toronto, Vancouver, and across Europe, San Francisco was the center of the hippie revolution, a melting pot of music, psychoactive drugs, sexual freedom, creative expression, and politics.

After the death of Hai Gaon, however, the center of Talmud scholarship shifts to Europe and North Africa.

With the elimination of pirates along the Dalmatian coast, the city became a flourishing trade center between Western Europe and the rest of the world ( especially the Byzantine Empire and the Islamic world ).

The conquest of the Byzantine Empire, center of the Eastern Orthodox Church, by the Muslim Ottoman Empire in the 15th century, and the gradual fragmentation of the Holy Roman Empire ( which had replaced the Frankish Empire ) led to a change of the importance of Roman Catholic / Protestant vs. Eastern Orthodox concept in Europe.

The Mongols destroyed the Kingdom of Dali in Laos, and captured the Goryeo kingdom in Korea, eastern Galicia in Europe, Anatolia in Turkey, and the Islamic center of Baghdad, where tens or hundreds of thousands were killed as the city was burned to the ground.

Soon Prague emerged as the intellectual, vacationing, and cultural center of Central Europe.

In the 19th century, after the Mexican Independence War, Monterrey rose as a key economic center for the newly formed nation, especially due to its balanced ties between Europe ( with its connections to Tampico ), the United States ( with its connections to San Antonio ), and the capital ( through Saltillo ).

Before the Dutch Revolt, Antwerp had played an important role as a distribution center in northern Europe.