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Aachen was the administrative centre for the coal-mining industries in neighbouring places to the northeast ; it never played any role in brown coal mining, however, neither in administrative or industrial terms.

Aachen's railway station, the Hauptbahnhof ( Central Station ), was constructed in 1841 at the Cologne-Aachen railway line and replaced in 1905, moving it significantly closer to the city centre.

At the centre of Alfred's reformed military defence system was a network of fortresses, or burhs, distributed at strategic points throughout the kingdom.

In early manhood ( c. 464 – 461 BC ) he went to Athens, which was rapidly becoming the centre of Greek culture.

From the Renaissance onward the chained nude figure of Andromeda typically was the centre of interest, and often she was shown alone, fearfully awaiting the monster.

It was known as Asuristan during this period, and became a main centre of the Church of the East ( now the Assyrian Church of the East ), with a flourishing Syriac ( Assyrian ) Christian culture which exists there to this day.

The second Abbasid caliph, Al Mansur ( 754 – 775 ) founded the city of Baghdad to act as a centre of learning, and included in its design a library-translation centre known as Bayt al-Hikma ‘ Storehouse of Wisdom ’, which continued to receive development from his heirs and was to provide a major impetus for Arabic-Persian translations of Hellenistic astrological texts.

Kabul University was a centre for political debate and activism during that time.

Nuremberg was then an important and prosperous city, a centre for publishing and many luxury trades.

In the summer of 2001 a new visitors ' centre was opened to the public beside the Abbey's west front.

An archaeological investigation of the site of the visitors ' centre before building started revealed the foundations of the medieval precinct wall, with a gateway, and stonework discarded during manufacture, showing that the area was the site of the masons ' yard while the Abbey was being built.

Aberdare, during its boom years, was considered a centre of Welsh culture: it hosted the first National Eisteddfod in 1861, again in 1885, and in 1956 at Aberdare Park where the Gorsedd standing stones still exist.

Abersychan was a thriving industrial centre in the 19th century and early 20th century, particularly for iron production.

The centre of this cult was in uten-ha / Sa-ka / Cynopolis, a place whose Greek name simply means " city of dogs ".

The Council recognized expert help was required to help shape what the town centre should look like over the next 10 – 15 years and how to make this happen.

In antiquity, Arcturus was closer to the centre of the constellation.

The town was redeveloped in the 1970s with a new town centre layout and traffic system.

The modern beef breed was developed in the 1950s by Professor Hanset, working at an artificial insemination centre in Liege province.

Both Benedict Biscop and Ceolfrith had acquired books from the Continent, and in Bede's day the monastery was a renowned centre of learning.

By 16: 00, with the enemy troops besieged in Blenheim and Oberglau, the Allied centre of 81 squadrons ( nine squadrons had been transferred from Cutts ' column ), supported by 18 battalions was firmly planted amidst the French line of 64 squadrons and nine battalions of raw recruits.

With the battle still not won, Marlborough had to rebuke one of his cavalry officers who was attempting to leave the field – " Sir, you are under a mistake, the enemy lies that way ..." Now, at the Duke's command, the second Allied line under von Bulow and the Count of Ost-Friese was ordered forward, and, driving through the centre, the Allies finally put Tallard's tired horse to rout, not without cost.

* François Arago ( 1786 – 1853 ), the physicist, astronomer and liberal politician, who secured the abolition of slavery in the French colonies in 1853, was born in the nearby village of Estagel ( Estagell ) and is memorialized in the eponymous Place Arago that bears his statue in the centre of the town.

While his reasons for leading a military expedition south remain unclear, it seems that he wanted to seal his newly secured grip on Burgundy, now threatened by Umayyad occupation of several cities lying in the lower Rhone, or maybe it provided the excuse he needed to intervene in this territory ruled by Gothic and Roman law, far off from the Frankish centre in the north of Gaul.

Further development of the concept occurred after Myer's 1953 visit to the USA, where he met with a number of architects involved with the design of shopping malls, and in 1954 Myer secured of land in Burwood for a shopping centre, but was ultimately not used for the project.

The condition of this threefold advance was of course that the enemy should not be able to defeat the armies in detail, i. e., that he should be fixed and held in the Thames valley ; this secured, there was no purely military objection against operating in separate armies from the circumference towards the centre.

Over the years, McNeely also managed to secure funding to replace the portable classrooms at St. Matthew High School and Lester B. Pearson High School with new school additions ; he secured $ 2. 5 million in provincial funding to establish the Shenkman Arts Centre Articipate Endowment Fund ; he spearheaded the campaign to bring a post-secondary campus to Orléans which led to the consrtuction of the Centre des Metiers trades centre by the Cité Collégiale ; and he secured the necessary funding to complete the Hunt Club extension and build an interchange at Hunt Club Road and Hwy.

As a RORO ferry rolls, vehicles can break free and slide down if not firmly secured, adversely altering the centre of gravity, accelerating the roll, and possibly turning an otherwise recoverable roll into a capsize.

Under the headline " Fashion legend George Davies has secured a raft of shopping centre deals for his new venture Give ", the magazine correctly confirmed GIVe's first chosen store sites.

Hanke again secured a task for Albert Speer in July 1932, having him build a headquarters for the Berlin NSDAP in the centre of the city ( at Voßstraße 11 ).

In July 2010 English Hertitage announced that they had secured over £ 1m from the Heritage Lottery Fund to develop a new visitors centre, car parking, exhibition space and accessible paths.

Infantry taking position in centre wings were secured by cavalry.

In 1998 they secured a more detailed and broad ranging planning permission for redevelopment of the entire centre.

After he had secured his position, al-Muʻizz transferred the royal residence from Al-Mansuriya to the newly founded city of al-Qāhiratu l-Muʻizzīyatu " al-Muʻizz's Victory ", i. e. Cairo, thereby shifting the centre of gravity of the Fatimid realm eastwards.

On 24 August 1998, after twenty years of legal struggles with the Queensland state government, the Musgrave Park Aboriginal Corporation ( MPAC ) secured a lease to build a cultural centre on portions of the park.

Before his death, Reid had expressed a wish to have a new community centre built in the village ; a number of donations have since been secured from his family and others, and this is likely to go ahead in the near future.

Van Vogt and his wife opened their own Dianetics centre, partly financed by his writings, until he " signed off " around 1961.

Renaissance architects included Alberti, Brunelleschi and Bramante. Many of these artists came from Florence and it remained an important centre for the Renaissance into the 16th century eventually to be overtaken by Rome and Venice.

Astronomers measure the angular separation of two stars by imagining two lines through the centre of the Earth, each intersecting one of the stars.

; Assault on a secure training centre custody officer: This offence is created by section 13 ( 1 ) of the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994 ( c. 33 ).

A 2003 study by TD Bank Financial Group found the corridor is the only Canadian urban centre to amass a U. S. level of wealth while maintaining a Canadian-style quality of life, offering universal health care benefits.

There is, however, in the centre a circular basin occupied by Lake Tsana.

The early 1960s and 1970s ( up until his death in 1976 ) were marked by key works in Helsinki, in particular the huge town plan for the void in centre of Helsinki adjacent to Töölö Bay and the vast railway yards, and marked on the edges by significant buildings such as the National Museum and the main railway station, both by Eliel Saarinen.

One land, however, has eclipsed all others in the Aegean by the wealth of its remains of all the prehistoric ages — Crete ; and so much so that, for the present, we must regard it as the fountainhead of Aegean civilization, and probably for long its political and social centre.

The town is served by Aberdare railway station and Aberdare bus station, opposite each other in the town centre.

A tourist information office run by VisitScotland sits in the centre of town, offering free information, selling souvenirs and acting as a booking office for many of the local B & B's and hotels.

The Stuart Highway runs from north to south through the centre of the continent, roughly paralleled by the Adelaide-Darwin railway.

Economically however, financial services associated with the territory's status as an offshore financial centre are by far the more important.

The service courts are marked by a centre line dividing the width of the court, by a short service line at a distance of 1. 98 metres ( 6 ft 6 inch ) from the net, and by the outer side and back boundaries.

The centre, commanded by the Duke's brother, General Charles Churchill, consisted of 18 battalions of infantry arranged in two lines: seven battalions in the front line to secure a foothold across the Nebel, and 11 battalions in the rear providing cover from the Allied side of the stream.

The centre was formed by the mass of Dutch, German, Protestant Swiss and Scottish infantry – perhaps 30, 000 men – facing Offus and Ramillies.

It is clear that a single bishop was expected to lead the church in each centre of Christian mission, supported by a council of presbyters ( a distinct and subordinate position ) with a pool of deacons.

A string is run out down the centre of the lane & wherever the jack lands it is moved across to the string and the length is called out by a sighted marker, when the woods are sent the distance from the jack is called out, in yards, feet and inches-the position in relation to the jack is given using the clock, 12. 00 is behind the jack.

Place Manuel was named after the Restoration politician Jacques-Antoine Manuel ; the fountain in the centre of the square contains his image sculpted by David d ' Angers.