The Madaba Map depiction of 6th-century Jerusalem has the Cardo Maximus, the town ’ s main street, beginning at the northern gate, today's Gates in Jerusalem's Old City Walls | Damascus Gate, and traversing the city in a straight line from north to south to Nea Church.

* Gates of Heaven ( 1978 ) has long been on Roger Ebert's list of the ten greatest films ever made.

Lucas has pledged to give half of his fortune to charity as part of an effort called The Giving Pledge led by Bill Gates and Warren Buffett to persuade America's richest individuals to donate their financial wealth to charities.

Anyone who has done good in their life are flown from Limbo to the Gates of Heaven by a large griffin ( which might be Ziz ).

In April 2010 United States Secretary of Defense Robert Gates claimed that the Hezbollah has far more missiles and rockets than the majority of countries.

" With an estimated net worth of $ 36 billion, the foundation is unofficially the world's largest charitable organisation, beating out the much better known Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, which has a net worth of approximately $ 33 billion.

The rugby ground has two main entrances, the south entrance, and the Gwyn Nicholls Memorial Gates ( north entrance ), which was unveiled on 26 December 1949 in honour of the Welsh international rugby player Gwyn Nicholls.

The rise of the computer industry has allowed many " nerdy " people ( most notably Bill Gates ) to accumulate large fortunes.

The university has most recently completed building the Gates Hillman Complex and continues renovating historic academic and residence halls.

Microsoft has received a great deal of bad press surrounding their Palladium software architecture, evoking comments such as " Few pieces of vaporware have evoked a higher level of fear and uncertainty than Microsoft's Palladium ", " Palladium is a plot to take over cyberspace ", and " Palladium will keep us from running any software not personally approved by Bill Gates ".

On the southern face are the Hulda Gates — the triple gate ( which has three arches ) and the double gate ( which has two arches, and is partly obscured by a Crusader building ); these were the entrance and exit ( respectively ) to the Temple Mount from Ophel ( the oldest part of Jerusalem ), and the main access to the Mount for ordinary Jews.

Arnold took up the task with relish, and Gates rewarded him with command of the fleet, writing that " has a perfect knowledge in maritime affairs, and is, besides, a most gallant and deserving officer.

Kreutzberger in his show has interviewed many celebrities, including Roberto Durán, Cristina Saralegui, Sussan Taunton, Charytín, Bill Clinton, George Bush, Barack Obama, Bill Gates and many others.

For many years, the foundation topped annual lists compiled by the Foundation Center of United States foundations with the most assets and the highest annual giving ; however, the foundation has fallen a few places in those lists in recent years, especially with the establishment of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation in 2000.

Gates County has five Commissioners, one from each district.

Gates County has five volunteer fire departments with six fire stations, and one EMS station consisting of paid and volunteer members.

The region has been a seasonal home to the rich, famous, and powerful, including Arnold Schwarzenegger, Mark Zuckerberg, Mats Wilander, Warren Buffett, Walter Annenberg, Adam West, Ernest Hemingway, Tom Hanks, Oprah Winfrey, Steve Miller, Demi Moore, Peter Cetera, Clint Eastwood, Bruce Willis, Ashton Kutcher, Richard Dreyfuss, Jamie Lee Curtis, Steve Wynn, Justin Timberlake, Mohamed al-Fayed, Barbara Kent, Bill Gates, and Tony Robbins.

* Clifton has an old sewerage system, accessible to intrepid urban explorers and evidently not actively maintained by any municipal authority or utility, known to some as the " Gates Of Hell.

Wegmans Food Markets has its headquarters in the Town of Gates.

The village has also been called " Victory Mills ," likely owing its name to the large ( now defunct ) factory / mill ( Saratoga Victory Manufacturing Company, 1846 ) centrally located on the primary road through town, Gates Avenue.

Gates Mills also has two private schools that serve the Greater Cleveland area.

Hawken Upper School also lies in Chesterland, although it has a Gates Mills address because its mailbox lies on the opposite side of County Line Road.

The city has been called an " architectural museum ," because the downtown features numerous well-preserved historic structures, such as the 1741 Golden Plough Tavern, the 1751 General Horatio Gates House, the 1766 York Meetinghouse, the 1863 Billmeyer House, the 1888 York Central Market, and the 1907 Moorish Revival Temple Beth Israel.

Whitkirk is 4 miles east of Leeds city centre, and about 1 mile from Cross Gates Railway Station, which has services to Leeds City station and York railway station, and is close to the A63 dual carriageway and M1 motorway, meaning it is an ideal location for commuters.

Hoover's reasons for his surprising reorganization of the RFC included: the broken health and resignations of Eugene Meyer, Paul Bestor, and Charles Gates Dawes ; the failure of banks to perform their duties to their clientele or to aid American industry ; the country's general lack of confidence in the current board ; and Hoover's inability to find any other man who had the ability and was both nationally respected and available.

Following the surrender at Saratoga, Gates became overconfident in the ability of the American troops, which was displayed during this battle as he rushed his tactical deployment.

After surviving a forbidden ritual of sacrifice during a solar eclipse, Haruto Sohma gains the ability to transform into Kamen Rider Wizard, making use of his new magical powers to confront the creatures that performed the ritual: the Phantoms, who seek to invoke despair in humans with strong magical potential called " Gates " to transform them into other Phantoms and increase their numbers.

The Vilna Gaon wrote an extensive commentary on the Sefer Yetzira, Kol HaTor, in which it is said that he had tried to create a Golem to fight the power of evil at the Gates of Jerusalem.

Allen later convinced Gates to drop out of Harvard University in order to create Microsoft.

Throughout the height of barbed wire sales in the late 19th century, Washburn, Ellwood, Gates, and Haish competed with one another, but Ellwood and Gates eventually joined forces again to create the American Steel and Wire Company, later acquired by The U. S. Steel Corporation.

In the same year PLU matched a $ 1 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to create a $ 2 million dollar endowment to assist low-income students to participate in study away programs.

Several prominent academics like Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Addison Gayle, Jr., established a new “ Black Aesthetic ” that “ placed the sources of contemporary black literature and culture in the communal music and oral folk tradition .” This new respect coupled with a growing Black Feminism led by Mary Helen Washington, Audre Lorde, Alice Walker, and others would create the space for the rediscovery of Hurston.

* 2005 in art-Death of Philip Johnson, former gallerist and curator David Whitney, Al Held, Eugene J. Martin, Neil Welliver, R. C. Gorman, Fritz Scholder, Clement Meadmore, and Arman ; Christo and wife Jeanne-Claude create The Gates in New York's Central Park ;

The book's theme of the ubiquity of television ( or the Tube ) comes to a head when Hector, a Tube addict who has actually not been working with Brock, finds funding to create his pet project of a movie telling the story of the depraved sixties, with Frenesi Gates as the star, and the pomp and circumstance surrounding this big-money deal create a net of safety that allows Frenesi to come out of hiding.

Supported by a grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the Coalition of Essential Schools is engaged in a five-year initiative to establish ten new CES high schools, create a network of 22 CES Mentor High Schools to be actively engaged in helping to support the creation of new small schools, convert two large high schools into several new CES small schools, and document the CES principles and mentoring approach through an online resource, a " Mentor Schools Guide ," and its network of Centers.

* July – Microsoft's Bill Gates agrees to create an operating system for the new IBM Personal Computer.

A discussion he had with Mary Maxwell Gates while they were both serving on the board of United Way resulted in an IBM contract being placed with her son Bill's company Microsoft to create an operating system for IBM's first personal computer.

In 2001, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation granted Wildwood the funds to create an Outreach Center.

Gates remained active after leaving the LAPD, working with Sierra to create the computer game Police Quest IV: Open Season, an adventure game set in Los Angeles where gamers play the role of a Robbery-Homicide detective trying to solve a series of brutal murders.

The developers spent some time consulting with LAPD SWAT, including a real-life SWAT element leader and LAPD SWAT founder Daryl F. Gates in order to create an accurate, realistic simulation.

The explorers, including the leader Joshua Gates, videotaped a glowing flying object that seemed to correspond to local native ideas about the glowing ropen.