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

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.

In former times, lead, silver, tin and copper were mined extensively on Dartmoor.

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 oldest known document using the German word Alphorn is a page from a 1527 account book from the former Cistercian abbey St. Urban near Pfaffnau mentioning the payment of two Batzen for an itinerant alphorn player from the Valais.

Ownership of the Amiga line passed through a few companies, from Escom of Germany in 1995, and then to U. S. PC clone maker Gateway in 1997, before an exclusive lifetime license was made to Amiga, Inc., a Washington company founded by former Gateway employees Bill McEwen and Fleecy Moss in 2000.

The Trabant is a car that was produced by former East German auto maker VEB Sachsenring Automobilwerke Zwickau in Zwickau, Sachsen.

Valmet Automotive ( former Saab-Valmet ) is a Finnish car maker.

* Focus Software, former name of Zemax Development Corporation, a maker of optical design software

Columbus Tustin, a carriage maker from Northern California, founded the city in the 1870s on of land from the former Rancho Santiago de Santa Ana.

Nearly two dozen participants, ranging from a local furniture maker to a former Chief of Police, borrowed camcorders from MPT and compiled more than 20 hours of footage to answer the question, what makes your community special?

** Langley Mill Pottery, a former pottery maker

Ligier is a French automobile maker created by former racing driver and rugby player Guy Ligier.

Louis Zocchi, Sergeant, USAF ( retired ), is a gaming hobbyist, former game distributor and publisher, and maker and seller of polyhedral game dice.

* Mauricio Lasansky, artist and print maker ; former University of Iowa art professor

On 14 July 2005, it was reported that Magma Holdings, a financial group including former Ford Motor Company and General Motors executives, working in conjunction with SAIC, would be making an offer for the assets of both MG Rover and engine maker Rover Powertrain which, if successful, would see at least some production being restarted at Longbridge, and that talks with the other two interested parties – China's Nanjing Automobile Group and Project Kimber ( a consortium of Birmingham businessmen led by David James ) – were still in progress.

Broadbent was born in Holton cum Beckering, the son of Doreen " Dee " Broadbent ( née Findlay ), a sculptor, and Roy Laverick Broadbent, an artist, sculptor, interior designer, and furniture maker who turned a former church into a theatre named after him.

Marcel Ophüls ( born November 1, 1927 ) is a documentary film maker and former actor.

He is also the former Chief Technology officer of Public Engines, maker of the CrimeReports. com service.

In 1999 it acquired Charlotte, North Carolina-based Coltec Industries for $ 2. 2 billion in stock and assumed debt, making the former tire maker the No. 1 supplier of landing gear and other aircraft parts.

* Pinnacle Brands, a former maker of trading cards

* Peter Wray ( born 1964 ), former Canadian writer, film maker and performer

* Tiger Telematics, a former maker of video gaming devices

The founder ’ s son, Robert Fauchon, and his son-in-law, both took over the business and the third generation after them sold the company in 1952 to Joseph Pilosoff, the former owner of the famous French chocolate company, Chocolat Poulain, of the silverware maker, “ Aux Ciseaux d ’ Argent ” in Saint Cloud, France, and of the well-known European shirt retailer, “ Aux 100. 000 Chemises ” in Belgium.

She also starred in the Sky TV series The Bombmaker as a former IRA bomb maker.

Other than the Greens, participants of the new political force included, among others, Massimo Scalia ( a former leading Green ), Bruno Mellano ( president of the Italian Radicals ), movie maker Mario Monicelli, writer Dacia Maraini, geologist Mario Tozzi and comedian Giobbe Covatta.

* Goggomobil, a former German car maker

GenCorp also sold its former flagship, General Tire, to German tire maker Continental AG in order to concentrate on Aerojet.

After the inauguration of the Kim Dae-Jung government and Park's rehabilitation and climb to power, most of these former managers were returned to their previous posts at the state owned steel maker.