These letters became the center of my existence.

Rich in Christian and Moslem art, Istanbul is today a fascinating museum of East and West that recently became a seaside resort as well with the development of new beaches on the Bosphorus and the Sea of Marmara only a short distance from the center of town.

It became apparent that, as the slavery issue took center stage, the slaveholding states were more reluctant to agree with the bill, with the primary antagonists being the senators in Virginia, Texas, North Carolina and Alabama.

Then he removed to Sura, on the Euphrates, where he established a school of his own, which soon became the intellectual center of the Babylonian Jews.

Under the rule of Frederick II Berlin became a center of the Enlightenment.

The Industrial Revolution transformed Berlin during the 19th century ; the city's economy and population expanded dramatically, and it became the main rail hub and economic center of Germany.

During the Weimar era, Berlin became internationally renowned as a center of cultural transformation, at the heart of the Roaring Twenties.

In 1462, Bordeaux obtained a parliament, but regained importance only in the 16th century when it became the center of the distribution of sugar and slaves from the West Indies along with the traditional wine.

North of Columbus Circle, Broadway retains planted center islands as a vestige of the central mall of " The Boulevard " that became the spine of the Upper West Side.

By cutting transportation costs in half or more it became a large profit center for Albany, New York and New York City as it allowed the cheap transportation of many of the agricultural products grown in the mid west of the United States to the rest of the world.

The city's commercial center began to shift from Harvard Square to Central Square, which became the downtown of the city around this time.

Marconi's station at Marconi Towers, on the outskirts of Glace Bay, became the chief communication center for the Royal Canadian Navy in World War I through to the early years of World War II.

In the 19th century, Concord became a hub for the railroad industry, with Penacook a textile manufacturing center using water power from the Contoocook River.

Under Schechter's leadership, JTS attracted a distinguished faculty, including Louis Ginzberg ( author of Legends of the Jews ), historian Alexander Marx, Arabist Israel Friedlander, and future founder of Reconstructionism Mordecai Kaplan, and became a highly regarded center of Jewish learning.

In response, Jacobs and many of the New West End congregants established the New London Synagogue, which became the center of Masorti Judaism in the United Kingdom.

In the 19th century, Chicago became the nation's railroad center, a title it still holds.

It was during this wave that Chicago became a center for jazz, with King Oliver leading the way.

Because of this, specialised secretaries became responsible for industry and transport from the center down to the city level.

Carson City's development was no longer dependent on the mining industry and instead became a thriving commercial center.

By 1916 the three of them became the center of radical anti-art activities in the United States.

Especially noteworthy is Matthew Tindal's Christianity as Old as the Creation ( 1730 ), which " became, very soon after its publication, the focal center of the deist controversy.

Detroit became the center of a new industry known as rum-running, which was the illegal smuggling or transporting of alcoholic beverages or any other illegal drinks during Prohibition.

Guayaquil also became the largest shipbuilding center on the west coast of South America before the end of the colonial period.

Through the activities of the theologian Origen ( 185 / 6 – 254 ) and the school of his follower Pamphilus ( later 3rd century – 309 ), Caesarea became a center of Christian learning.

Perhaps the most significant changes are in the pelvic region, where the long downwards facing iliac blade was shortened and became wide as a requirement for keeping the center of gravity stable while walking.

The anti-Soviet communist parties in western Europe ( e. g., the Trotskyist parties ), who felt that the fall of the Soviet Union vindicated their views and predictions, did not particularly prosper from it — in fact, some became less radical as well.

Radical elements became more vocal: anti-Soviet polemics appeared in the press ( after the formal abolishment of censorship on 26 June 1968 ), the Social Democrats began to form a separate party, and new unaffiliated political clubs were created.

His strongly anti-Soviet views became far more moderate, as he emerged as a critic of the Ronald Reagan Administration's hawkish Cold War policies, such as support for the Contras in Nicaragua.

from the City College of New York in 1940, where he majored in history and was part of a small but vocal Trotskyist anti-Soviet group who eventually became the New York Intellectuals.

The administration's new vigorously anti-Soviet policy also became evident when, at Kennan's suggestion, the U. S. changed its long-standing hostility to Francisco Franco's fascist regime in Spain in order to secure U. S. influence in the Mediterranean.

In Turkistan, Velidi became a leader of the National Liberation Movement, referred to as the anti-Soviet Basmachi Movement by the Russians.

After General Wrangel's death in 1928, he became the leader of the Russian All-Military Union and continued its anti-Soviet activities.

The anti-Soviet movement became more active in the Georgian SSR in 1988.

The unarmed police officers attempted to evacuate the panicked group of demonstrators, however a video taken secretly by opposition journalists showed that soldiers did not allow doctors and emergency workers to help the injured people ; even ambulances were attacked by the advancing soldiers Captured on film, the image of a young man beating a tank with a stick became a symbol of the Georgian anti-Soviet movement.

He then became an anti-Soviet mujahideen resistance commander for the Jamiat-e Islami.

The loyalty to the Union was gravely compromised and an anti-Soviet sentiment became an essential feature of the reemerging Georgian nationalism.

Some claim that he was the same Imre Nagy who later became Prime Minister of Hungary and was executed after the crushing of the anti-Soviet revolution of 1956 by the Red Army.

For 30 years, Julian Amery was an active member and later a Patron of the Conservative Monday Club, where he became friendly with General Sir Walter Walker, subsequently writing the foreword for Walker's anti-Soviet book, The Next Domino.

China became increasingly anti-Soviet in the 1970s.

At age 16 he helped found and became secretary of the Students Society of Gjirokastër, which protested against the monarchist government.

Rasputin soon became a controversial figure, becoming involved in a paradigm of sharp political struggle involving monarchist, anti-monarchist, revolutionary and other political forces and interests.

He became an associate of King Norodom Sihanouk, and by the late 1940s, when he set up a right-wing, monarchist, pro-independence political group, was becoming increasingly involved in the developing Cambodian political scene.

Touvier retained the services of the monarchist lawyer Jacques Tremollet de Villers, who later became president of the Traditionalist Catholic organization, La Cité Catholique.

Under the influence of Maurras, Action Française became monarchist, counter-revolutionary ( objecting the legacy of the French Revolution ) and anti-democratic, and supported integral nationalism and Catholicism.

After his dismissal, Michaelis worked in the fields of economic lobbying, in student organizations, in the synod of the Evangelical Church of the old-Prussian Union and became a member of the monarchist German National People's Party ( DNVP ).

Thus Alexandra became legitimate in the eyes of Greek law, but continued to be shunned and lacked the right of succession to the throne that dynastic princesses enjoyed under the monarchist constitution.

the end of his life, Cazotte became a follower of the Martinist mysticism of Martinez de Pasqually, and became a " mystical monarchist ".

King Boris III, an opponent of Zveno, orchestrated a coup through a monarchist Zveno member, General Pencho Zlatev, who became Prime Minister ( January 1935 ).

After the defeat of the German Empire in World War I, the monarchist policy had collapsed and Ståhlberg, as the first President of Finland elected on July 25 1919, became the leader of the Republic of Finland.

Maurice Pujo ( 26 January 1872, Lorrez-le-Bocage-Préaux, Seine-et-Marne – 6 September 1955 ) was a French journalist and co-founder, with Henri Vaugeois in 1898, of the Comité d ' Action Française, which subsequently became the nationalist and monarchist Action Française movement.

As a supporter of the monarchist and liberal constitution of 1791 he joined the Jacobin Club, and here and in the Assembly became an eloquent advocate of all the measures directed against real or supposed traitors to the Constitution.

After having written his first book, L ' Homme qui vient, he met the nationalist and monarchist writer Charles Maurras and became a member of his Action Française ( AF ) league, where he continued to follow the workers ' movement.

Initially a monarchist, Harden became a fierce critic of Kaiser Wilhelm II and his entourage around Prince Philip of Eulenburg and Kuno von Moltke.

He became a journalist and a poet and was involved with the integralist and monarchist journal Action Française, but turned towards the Left after the Spanish Civil War ( 1936 – 39 ).

In 2002, Maria became frustrated with the internal strife within the Russian monarchist movement.

Purishkevich was elected as a deputee into II, III and IV Russian State Duma, where he became a notorious leader of the radical monarchist right and gained fame because of his emotional speeches, flamboyant and scandalous behaviour, and his monarchist and anti-Semitic views.

In these early years she developed a strong sense of British nationalism, and became a staunch monarchist and imperialist.

As a rightwing conservative and monarchist who would have preferred to see Crown Prince Wilhelm, Kaiser Wilhelm II's eldest son, succeed Adolf Hitler, Popitz became active in the resistance circles beginning in 1938, including the group around Carl Friedrich Goerdeler.