Formerly a heavy industrial area dominated by warehouses and rail yards, since the Expo 86, it has been transformed into one of the most densely populated neighbourhoods in the city.

Formerly rife with slavery, dominated by female warriors who forces men to work in the underground mines before the gender inequality is put right by Prince Adam and Teela.

Formerly the centre of the north-west banking industry it has become progressively dominated by expensive shops.

Formerly the " Miner's Institute " ( Plas Mwynwyr ), which was built in 1926 and dominated the social and cultural life of the village ( citation ) until 1977 when it closed.

Formerly a mining town, its economy is now dominated by metallurgical companies such as ArcelorMittal, Schneider Electric, and Alstom.

Formerly dominated by lead mining, industrial growth began in the 1930s.

Formerly the Department of the Ancient Near East, with a collection numbering some 330, 000 works, the British Museum possesses by far the world's largest and most important collection of Mesopotamian antiquities outside Iraq.

Formerly, they were administered from Paris by an assisted by a secretary-general ; since December 2004, however, their administrator has been a préfet, currently Rollon Mouchel-Blaisot, with headquarters in Saint-Pierre on Réunion Island.

Formerly handwritten, these can now be generated by genealogical software.

Formerly a Liberal stronghold, the industrial districts switched to Labour by 1922, with a base in the Irish Catholic working class districts.

( Formerly, the year on the seal was 1664, the year of the provisional Articles of Transfer, ensuring New Netherlanders that they " shall keep and enjoy the liberty of their consciences in religion ", negotiated with the English by Pieter Stuyvesant and his council ).

Formerly little more than a gap in the customs wall, it was replaced by a much grander affair consisting of two matching Doric-style stone gate-houses, like little temples ( a nod to Friedrich Gilly perhaps ), facing each other across Leipziger Straße.

Formerly by law, and now by tradition, the highest positions, such as Rector or Dean, are only held by professors.

Peter B. Gustavson School of Business – Formerly the Faculty of Business, renamed following a donation by local entrepreneur Peter B. Gustavson.

Formerly the Danish West Indies, they were sold to the United States by Denmark in the Treaty of the Danish West Indies of 1916.

Formerly empowered local lords who did not want to be oppressed by greedy kings emigrated overseas.

Formerly the main population of the medieval state of Kievan Rus, by the seventeenth century they evolved into the Russian, Ukrainian, and Belarusian peoples.

Formerly, much time would be spent by the Casal faller preparing the ninots ( Valencian for puppets or dolls ).

Formerly known as Aeronautica Macchi, the company was founded in 1913 by Giulio Macchi at Varese in north-western Lombardy.

Formerly titled the W. C. Handy Awards, the International Blues Awards are presented by the Blues Foundation ( headquartered in Memphis ) for Blues music achievement, with weeklong competitions and an awards banquet including a night of performance and celebration.

Formerly, state legislatures appointed the U. S. Senators from their respective states until the ratification of the 17th Amendment in 1913 required the direct election of Senators by a state's voters.

Formerly in Pakistan most transportation was done by horse-drawn carriages called tongas, but more cost-effective auto rickshaws have now taken their place in small cities.

Formerly, all outside visitors to a public dance would be offered a meal in a Pueblo home, but because of the large number of visitors, such meals are now by personal invitation only.

Formerly treated as the only genus in the family Cuscutaceae, recent genetic research by the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group has shown that it is correctly placed in the morning glory family, Convolvulaceae.

Formerly a village in its own right, it lies to the southwest of the city and is bounded to the south by the White Cart Water.

Formerly it was a walled city surrounded by fortifications and gates ( doroshi ).

Formerly self-styled as the " World's Greatest Newspaper " ( for which WGN radio and television are named ), it remains the most read daily newspaper of the Chicago metropolitan area and the Great Lakes region and is currently the eighth largest newspaper in the United States by circulation ( and became the second largest under Tribune's ownership after the Chicago Tribune's parent company purchased the Los Angeles Times ).

Formerly managed jointly by Kent and Essex county councils, the crossing is now managed by Connect Plus ( M25 ) Limited on behalf of the Highways Agency.

Formerly it was obtained almost exclusively from the area of Miass in the Ilmen mountains, 50 miles southwest of Chelyabinsk, Russia, where it occurs in granitic rocks.

Formerly, a glance at a U. S. stock symbol and its appended codes would allow an investor to determine where a stock trades ; however in July 2007, the SEC approved a rule change allowing companies moving from the New York Stock Exchange to the Nasdaq to retain their three letter symbols ; DirecTV was one of the first companies to make this move.

Formerly Indians used these seeds to weigh gold using a measure called a Ratti, where 8 Ratti

Formerly, critics described any game where the primary design element was shooting as a " shoot ' em up ", but later shoot ' em ups became a specific, inward-looking genre based on design conventions established in those shooting games of the 1980s.

Formerly known as the Rizal Room, this was where Presidents from Quezon to Marcos and then Ramos received their daily stream of callers.

Formerly known as " Twitty City ", the former estate of country music legend Conway Twitty, the complex includes the 2000-seat Trinity Music City Church Auditorium where audiences attend TBN-produced concerts, dramas, seminars and special events.

Formerly in the islands of Maldives, there was a festival called Maulūdu, where religious songs were sung by groups of males within a pavilion ( haruge ) specially built for the occasion.

Formerly a janitor and inventor for Gizmonic Institute (" just another face in a red jumpsuit ", in reference to Star Trek TOS, where red-clad characters were expendable statists often killed ), Joel was launched into space by his boss Dr. Clayton Forrester and coworker Dr. Laurence Erhardt-later replaced by TV's Frank-as part of an experiment to see which bad movies were capable of destroying the human mind.

Formerly a merchant in Livorno, Italy, working for the Levant Company in Constantinople and scion of a well-connected English merchant family, Levett took up a large grant in Florida, which he later abandoned in favor of Georgia, where he was one of the first growers of Sea Island cotton.

Formerly a senior engineer for IBM, Bell was first elected to the Durham County Board of Commissioners in 1972, where he served until 1994, and again from 1996 to 2000.

Formerly known as Watson's Hotel, it was the site where films were introduced to India with a screening of the Lumiere Brothers Cinematograph in 1896.

Formerly an officer of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police ( RCMP ), he served with the Canadian Army in World War I, where he was severely wounded.

Formerly, Kang was the Director of Business Development for id Software where she worked on Quake III Arena and various mission packs and Quake II ports.

Formerly the point where ships arriving across the Irish Sea would dock, Ringsend went into decline in the 19th and 20th centuries, when the shipping moved to ports further south along the coast, although there is still some local container shipping.

Formerly a member of the First Baptist Church of Jackson, Mississippi, Phillips later was among five founding members of Northminster Baptist Church, where he was the first chairman of the deacon board and taught the men's Sunday School class.

Formerly known as the Municipality of Capiz, where the province got it's name, later renamed Roxas City after it became a chartered city on May 12, 1951., the city mayor is former city vice mayor Angel Alan Celino who was elected during the 2010 election.

Formerly a BBC news correspondent in 2009, he moved to a new post at Al Jazeera English, where he currently presents the nightly weekday documentary series Witness.

Formerly, in funerary processions where a group would proceed from a church to a graveyard carrying a coffin, the bearers would take a rest, or descanso in Spanish, and wherever they set the coffin down, a cross would be placed there in memory of the event.

Formerly, they were established, and their borders defined, by the central government, except in the case of the five autonomous regions ( see Regions of Italy ), where this was done at the regional level.

Formerly, she was Professor of e-learning and Learning Technologies at the University of Leicester, where she was responsible for the academic development and co-ordination of the University's distance learning programmes, providing leadership for research into e-learning, guidance to senior staff and committees throughout the University on the development of e-learning.

Formerly a Shinra employee, he retired to Cosmo Canyon — where he is the elder of the Bugah Tribe — to pursue the Study of Planet Life, and where he finds a peaceful harmony between technology and nature.

Formerly a municipal borough in the Faversham parliamentary division of Kent, is two miles south of Sheerness on the Isle of Sheppey, nearby the westward entrance to the Swale, where it joins the River Medway.

Formerly known as Târgu Mureș Vidrasău Airport ( for the locality outside of Târgu Mureș where it is located ), it was renamed Transilvania Airport in May 2006.