The area available at Heywood is approximately three times the size of the former Rochdale and Manchester locations.

In former times the alphorn maker would find a tree bent at the base in the shape of an alphorn, but modern makers piece the wood together at the base.

As the chief port of north-west Asia Minor, the place prospered greatly in Roman times, becoming a " free and autonomous city " as early as 188 BC, and the existing remains sufficiently attest its former importance.

Amakusa produces a little coal and fine kaolin, which was largely used in former times by the potters of Hirado and Satsuma Province.

The word " cipher " in former times meant " zero " and had the same origin: Middle French as < span lang =" fr "> cifre </ span > and Medieval Latin as cifra, from the Arabic صفر ṣifr = zero ( see Zero — Etymology ).

In former times, it was customary to have a portrait in Confucius Temples ; however, during the reign of Hongwu Emperor ( Taizu ) of the Ming dynasty it was decided that the only proper portrait of Confucius should be in the temple in his hometown, Qufu.

However, he allowed both Plectrude and the young Theudoald to live and treated them with kindness — unusual for those times, when mercy to a former gaoler, or a potential rival, was rare.

Initially in the United States, there was a market separation between " music " CD-Rs and " data " CD-Rs, the former being several times more expensive than the latter due to industry copyright arrangements with the RIAA.

Carmilla herself is mentioned several times as a former ( until her death at the hands of vampire hunters ) friend of the book's vampire heroine Geneviève.

By comparison, the former colony of the United Province of Canada ( divided into the District of Canada East, and the District of Canada West ) and the western provinces were dozens of times larger and in some cases were expanded to take in territory formerly held in British Crown grants to companies such as the Hudson's Bay Company ; in particular the November 19, 1869 sale of Rupert's Land to the Government of Canada under the Rupert's Land Act 1868 was facilitated in part by Maritime taxpayers.

The term " clipper " most likely derives from the verb " clip ", which in former times meant, among other things, to run or fly swiftly.

The name derives from the frequent mills in former times along the canal which took advantage of the decline between Mühlbach and Amper.

The current site of Fermanagh College ( now part of the South West College ) was the former Enniskillen Gaol, many people were tried and hanged here in the square during the times of public execution.

Fiji has been suspended various times from the Commonwealth of Nations, a grouping of mostly former British colonies.

: In ancient times, there was a ship, called the " Theseus " after its famous former owner.

Some of the most violent irredentist conflicts of recent times in Europe flared up as a consequence of the break-up of the former Yugoslavia in the early 1990s.

Daughter languages are said to have a genetic or genealogical relationship ; the former term is more current in modern times, but the latter is equally as traditional.

Since its economy was highly dependent on the rest of the former Soviet Union for energy and raw materials, the breakdown in trade following the breakup of the Soviet Union had a serious effect, exacerbated at times by drought and civil conflict.

Flutes and whistles made of wood, cane, or bone are also played, generally by individuals, but in former times also by large ensembles ( as noted by Spanish conquistador de Soto ).

Two miles ( 3 km ) to the south is the former village of Old Malden from which it gets its name, whose origins go back to Anglo-Saxon times, the name being Old English for Mæl + duna = the cross on the hill.

In former times, mass spectrometry was restricted to neutral molecules exhibiting some volatility, but advanced ionization techniques allow one to obtain the " mass spec " of virtually any organic compound.

" Statistical analysis demonstrates that the latter sense appears five times more than the former in all of ancient Greek literature.

A short distance away stood portions of the former Hotel Esplanade, including the Kaisersaal, used at various times as a much scaled-down hotel, cinema, nightclub and occasional film-set ( scenes from Cabaret were shot there ).

The most recent of these were Commodore Ronald Warwick, a former Master of the Cunard Line's RMS Queen Mary 2, who has traversed the Canal more than 50 times, and Captain Raffaele Minotauro, Master Senior Grade, of the former Italian governmental navigation company known as the " Italian Line ".

The lead singer of Splash was former Tight Fit singer Steve Grant.

Veteran sportscaster Gary Thorne is the current lead television announcer, with Jim Hunter as his backup along with Hall of Fame member and former Orioles pitcher Jim Palmer and former Oriole infielder Mike Bordick as color analysts.

On March 30, 2006, as a response to the controversy of the use of performance-enhancing drugs and the anticipated career home run record to be set by Barry Bonds, Selig asked former senator George Mitchell to lead an independent investigation into the use of steroids in baseball's recent past.

** Trace Cyrus ( born 1989 ), American musician ; ( former ) lead guitarist of Metro Station

Boles returned to his previous position as director of player development, and former Pittsburgh Pirates manager Jim Leyland was hired to lead the club in.

In radical left politics the concept of gradualism is frequently distinguished from reformism, with the former insisting that short-term goals need to be formulated and implemented in such a way that they inevitably lead into long-term goals.

The Social Democrats are since the electoral defeat lead by the new party chairman Sigmar Gabriel, a former federal minister and state prime minister, and by Frank-Walter Steinmeier as the head of the parliamentary group.

Some elements can play multiple roles ; e. g. lead can act both as a network former ( Pb < sup > 4 +</ sup > replacing Si < sup > 4 +</ sup >), or as a modifier.

The title of a work of Cardano's, published in 1552, ' De Subtilitate ' ( corresponding to what would now be called Transcendental Philosophy ), would lead us to expect, in the chapter on minerals, many far fetched theories characteristic of that age ; but when treating of petrified shells, he decided that they clearly indicated the former sojourn of the sea upon the mountains.

On 20 June 2012, Samaras successfully formed a coalition with PASOK ( now lead by former Finance Minister Evangelos Venizelos ) and DIMAR.

Roads from the Old Town valley lead towards the Victorian area of Clive Vale and the former village of Ore, from which " The Ridge ", marking the effective boundary of Hastings, extends north-westwards towards Battle.

Jello Biafra ( born Eric Reed Boucher ; June 17, 1958, Boulder, Colorado, United States ) is the former lead singer and songwriter for San Francisco punk rock band Dead Kennedys, and is currently a musician and spoken word artist.

* 1974 – The Greek military junta collapses, and former Prime Minister Konstantinos Karamanlis is invited to lead the new government.

He is best known as the lead vocalist, bassist, principal songwriter and the founding and sole constant member of the rock band Motörhead as well as a former member of Hawkwind.

During 2006, Hart teamed up with fellow Grateful Dead bandmate Bill Kreutzmann, Phish bassist Mike Gordon and former The Other Ones lead guitarist Steve Kimock, to form the Rhythm Devils, a nickname that refers to Hart and Kreutzmann's drum duets and improvisation.

* 1979 – Ahn Chil-Hyun ( Kangta ), lead singer of the former South Korean group H. O. T.

Early in 1976, London SS broke up before ever performing publicly, spinning off two new bands: The Damned and The Clash, which was joined by Joe Strummer, former lead singer of The 101 ' ers.

The judging panel consisted of Abdul, Cowell, music executive L. A. Reid, and former Pussycat Dolls lead singer Nicole Scherzinger ( who replaced Cheryl Cole ).

Dylan's lead was also followed by The Byrds, joined by Gram Parsons to record Sweetheart of the Rodeo ( 1968 ), helping to define the genre of country rock, which became a particularly popular style in the California music scene of the late 1960s, and was adopted by former folk rock artists including Hearts and Flowers, Poco and New Riders of the Purple Sage.

She wrote and sang lead vocals on Surfer Rosas " Gigantic ", and the single " Bam Thwok ", credited as Mrs. John Murphy on the former composition — at the time she was married and she used this name as an ironic feminist joke.

The link between pessimism and nihilism is present, but the former does not necessarily lead to the latter, as philosophers such as Albert Camus believed.

* Richard Butler ( singer ) ( born 1956 ), lead singer of The Psychedelic Furs and former lead singer of Love Spit Love