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was and born
Heidenstam was born in 1859, of a prosperous family.
Sherlock Holmes, the ancestor of all private eyes, was born during the 1890s.
Henrietta was discovering in the process of writing, as the born writer does, not merely a channel for the discharge of accumulated information but a stimulus to the development of the creative powers of observation, insight and intuition.
She was born Lilian Steichen, her parents immigrants from Luxemburg.
`` My mother read a book right after I was born and there was a Lilian in the book she loved and I became Lilian -- and eventually I became Paula ''.
By now she was sure she was going to have a baby, deciding it would be born in India or Burma that November.
He was born in Savannah, Georgia, in 1909.
About the only time the Hetman seemed excited was when one of his own pet ideas was born.
On April 10, 1904, his first child was born, a son named George after the late Senator.
Modern warfare was born in this campaign -- periscopes, camouflage, booby traps, land mines, extended order, trench raids, foxholes, armored cars, night attacks, flares, sharpshooters in trees, interlaced vines and treetops, which were the forerunners of barbed wire, trip wires to thwart a cavalry charge, which presaged the mine trap, and the general use of anesthetics.
Deppy is Despina Messinesi, a long-time member of the Vogue staff who, although born in Boston, was born there of Greek parents.
Samuel Gorton was born at Gorton, England, near the present city of Manchester, about 1592.
Whether the Fathers, who died before Christ was born of the Virgin Mary, were justified and saved only by the blood which he shed, and the death which he suffered after his incarnation??
Whether the only price of our redemption were not the death of Christ on the cross, with the rest of his sufferings and obediences, in the time of his life here, after he was born of the Virgin Mary??
In the judgment of Chief of Staff Scott it was ironic that the draft policy of a Democratic President, aimed at Germany, had to be pushed through the House of Representatives by the ranking minority member of the Military Affairs Committee -- a Republican Jew born in Germany!!
Thus, the Church was born and because of its intrinsic character was soon identified as a conservative institution, determined to resist the forces of change, to identify itself with the political rulers, and to maintain a kind of splendid isolation from the masses.
And she replied, `` I was born in America, but I was conceived in Vienna ''.
I was born angry.
He kept his attacks on Republicanism for partisan campaigns, but that is part of the game he was born to play.

was and Forbidden
Chiang's portrait hung over the gate of the Forbidden City before Mao's portrait was set up in its place.
Puyi, the last emperor of China, abdicated from the throne in 1912, and was briefly restored in 1917, but was allowed to keep his titles and Forbidden City | palace until 1924.
The institutions which had been inherited from the Ming Dynasty formed the core of the Qing " outer court ," which handled routine matters and was located in the southern part of the Forbidden City.
In order not to let the routine administration take over the running of the empire, the Qing emperors made sure that all important matters were decided in the " Inner Court ," which was dominated by the imperial family and Manchu nobility and which was located in the northern part of the Forbidden City.
After defeating the remnants of the Ming forces, the Manchu Banner Army of approximately 200, 000 strong at the time was evenly divided ; half was designated the Forbidden Eight Banner Army () and was stationed in Beijing.
The northern walled city called " Inner Citadel " () was portioned out to the remaining Manchu Eight Banners, each responsibled for guarding a section of the Inner Citadel surrounding the Forbidden City palace complex (; Ma: 40px Dabkūri dorgi hoton ).
The halftime show was titled " Indiana Jones and the Temple of the Forbidden Eye " and was produced by Disney to promote their Indiana Jones Adventure attraction at Disneyland that opened later that year.
In Beijing, a community of Uyghurs was clustered around the Mosque near the Forbidden City, having moved to Beijing in the 1700s.
In the late 1990s they relented, and in September 1998 the opera was performed for eight nights at the Forbidden City, complete with opulent sets and soldiers from the People's Liberation Army as extras.
In October 2008, it was announced that Straczynski was engaged to pen a remake of the science fiction classic Forbidden Planet.
At the center was the political node of the Imperial City, and at the center of this was the Forbidden City, the palatial residence of the emperor and his family.
Forbidden by James to pay Mary a projected visit in the spring of 1687, Anne corresponded with her and was aware of William's plans to invade.
In 1997, a made-for-television film, Forbidden Territory: Stanley's Search for Livingstone, was produced by National Geographic.
The Last Emperor was the first feature film ever authorized by the government of the People's Republic of China to film in the Forbidden City.
He was granted unprecedented permission to film in the Forbidden City of Beijing, and the film's central character Puyi undergoes a decade-long communist re-education under Mao which takes him from the peacock colors of the palace to the grey suit worn by his contemporaries to live out his life as a gardener.
He was captivated by movies from an early age, particularly the westerns of Howard Hawks and John Ford, as well as 1950s low budget horror films, such as The Thing from Another World and high budget science fiction like Forbidden Planet and began filming horror shorts on 8 mm film even before entering high school.
Forbidden Planet was the first science fiction film that was set entirely on another planet in deep space, away from the planet Earth.

was and City
Thus, to cite but one example, the Pax Britannica of the nineteenth century, whether with the British navy ruling the seas or with the City of London ruling world finance, was strictly national in motivation, however much other nations ( e.g., the United States ) may have incidentally benefited.
City editor Victor Watson of the New York American was a man of brooding suspicions and mysterious shifts of mood.
A lone pro-Hearst voice from New York City was that of William Devery, who had been expelled as a Tammany leader but still claimed strong influence in his own district.
That spring Welcome To Our City was selected for production by the 47 Workshop and it was staged in the middle of May.
Another evidence of the spreading rule of reason was provided from Mexico City with the daily hijacking of an American plane by a demented Algerian with a gun.
The reaction of certain City Council members to California's newest anti-secrecy laws was as dismaying as it was disappointing.
Guns were going off all over Washington City these days, because of the celebrations, and the theatre was not soundproof.
No epidemic was initiated nor was one expected because the population in City A was not lousy.
On the other hand, a similar attack might have been made on City B whose population was known to be lousy.
The last time I saw Bird, at Jimbo's Bob City, he was so gone -- so blind to the world -- that he literally sat down on me before he realized I was there.
With the development of the Red Bridge Subdivision south of Kansas City, Missouri, the developer was faced with the problem of providing adequate sewage disposal.
The sewage system from Kansas City was not expected to serve the Red Bridge area for several years.
Chandler had been commissioned in the Medical Service Corps and was serving as a personnel officer for the Kansas City Medical Depot when he decided that if he was going to make the Army his career, he wanted to be in the fighting part of it.
Walton dropped everything to serve as a district co-ordinator in the hard-fought Wisconsin primary and proved so useful that he was promoted to be liaison officer to critically important New York City.
Gun knew it was Car 12, the wagon, returned from delivering Ingleside's drunk-and-disorderlies to the City Jail.
As I was walking back to the Police Station, which was in the same building with the City Hall and Post Office, I saw Mrs. Tim Williams sneaking into the back of my car.
The jury further said in term-end presentments that the City Executive Committee, which had over-all charge of the election, `` deserves the praise and thanks of the City of Atlanta '' for the manner in which the election was conducted.

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