Although all bridges were destroyed, the historical center of Ansbach was spared during World War II and it has kept its baroque character.

For historical reasons, many point defects, especially in ionic crystals, are called centers: for example a vacancy in many ionic solids is called a luminescence center, a color center, or F-center.

During the siege of February 1945 the city infrastructure was 65 % destroyed, including most of the historical city center.

Some of the damaged historical city center was completely demolished and the bricks were used to rebuild Warsaw and Gdańsk.

The Skylab project, managed by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Marshall Space Flight Center, was seen by the Manned Spacecraft Center ( later Johnson Space Center ) as an invasion of its historical role as the NASA center for manned spaceflight.

The oblast's largest city and administrative center is Kaliningrad ( formerly known as Königsberg ), which has historical significance as both a major city of the historical state of Prussia and the capital of the former German province of East Prussia.

There are many other medieval buildings in Montalcino that make up its centro storico ( historical center ).

The Nez Perce National Historical Park includes a research center which has the park's historical archives and library collection.

The Muslim population has grown, for a number of historical factors, that include the city having served as administrative center under British rule, and the influx of internally displaced Palestinians absorbed into the city from neighbouring towns during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war.

Other notable shopping centers in the city include Galeria Malta, one of the largest in Central Europe, and the shops at the Hotel Bazar, a historical hotel and commercial center in the Old Town.

* Rhine Research Center A historical parapsychological research center featuring the first building ever made for experimental work in parapsychology.

The ancient part of the town is in a spectacular position on the top of a hill, where it preserves a particular medieval historical center, with ruins of a castle ( Castello della Fava ) and a square panoramic tower of the 13th century.

The UUA is headquartered at 25 Beacon Street on historic Beacon Hill, Boston, Massachusetts, the historical center of Unitarian Christianity in America.

A living museum of historical musical instruments was created at the University of Vienna as a center for the revival of the instrument.

The words Walloon and Wallons can be seen in the book of Charles White, The Belgic revolution ( 1835 ): " The restless Wallons, with that adventurous daring which is their historical characteristic, abandoned their occupations, and eagerly seizing the pike and the musket marched towards the center of the commotion .".

* August 25 – A fire destroys part of Chiado quarter, in Lisbon's historical center.

A major part of Bucharest's architecture is made up of buildings constructed during the Communist era replacing the historical architecture with high density apartment blocks – significant portions of the historic center of Bucharest were demolished in order to construct one of the largest buildings in the world, the Palace of the Parliament ( then officially called the House of the Republic ).

All real-time and historical statistical information can then be shared amongst call center sites.

Most of the historical center of Wiesbaden dates back to this time.

In modern-day Spain, it is usually considered to comprise a part of the autonomous community of Castile and León in the north-west, and Castile – La Mancha and Madrid in the center and the central-south-west of the country, sometimes including Cantabria and La Rioja in the north as well, for historical reasons.

Independence National Historical Park is the center of these historical landmarks.

Two notable episodes placed Sam directly at the center of historical events.

Marchese ( 1989 ) notes the fact that many of these peoples were recruited as “ crew ” by European seafarers ; “ the homonymy with crew is obvious, and is at least one source of the confusion among Europeans that there was a Kru / crew tribe ” Andrew Dalby noted the historical importance of the Kru languages for their position at the crossroads of African-European interaction and wrote that “ Kru and associated languages were among the first to be encountered by European voyagers on what was then known as the Pepper Coast, a center of the production and export of Guinea and melegueta pepper ; a once staple African seaborne trade ”.

One core result of Holzkamp's historical and comparative analysis of human reproductive action, perception and cognition is a very specific concept of meaning that identifies symbolic meaning as historically and culturally constructed, purposeful conceptual structures that humans create in close relationship to material culture and within the context of historically specific formations of social reproduction.

President William Howard Taft devoted a considerable portion of his First Annual Message to Congress ( December 7, 1909 ) to the Liberian question, noting the close historical ties between the two countries that gave an opening for a wider intervention:

Further south, Lesser Poland includes Frampol, and Biłgoraj, which lies in the southeastern corner on Lesser Poland's historical Lublin Voivodeship, close to the border with Red Ruthenia.

In contrast, Paglia argues that a close reading of historical texts find that men do not hate women but fear them.

Weber's position was close to historicism, as he understood social actions as being heavily tied to particular historical contexts and its analysis required the understanding of subjective motivations of individuals ( social actors ).

The 8th-century Chiesa di San Callisto is close by, with its beginnings apparently as a shrine on the site of his martyrdom, which is attested in the 4th-century Depositio martyrum and so is likely to be historical.

Raku ware marked an important point in the historical development of Japanese ceramics, as it was the first ware to use a seal mark and the first to focus on close collaboration between potter and patron.

The sequence and details of the events are very close to the historical record, including the seasickness experienced by many of the soldiers as the landing craft moved toward the shoreline, significant casualties among the men as they disembarked from the boats, and difficulty linking up with adjacent units on the shore.

Although the legend itself is not likely to be a historical fact, Aizu is rather close to southern Tōhoku, where the north end of keyhole kofun culture as of late 4th century is located.

Surprisingly this is very close to the calculation of the founding given by Rome's first native historical writer, Quintus Fabius Pictor, who wrote that Rome was founded in the first year of the eighth Olympiad, 747 BC ( Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Book 1, ch.

An historical feature of these friends and relations is that their close relationships all predated their fame as writers, artists, and thinkers.

His literary style interweaves close natural observation, personal experience, pointed rhetoric, symbolic meanings, and historical lore, while displaying a poetic sensibility, philosophical austerity, and " Yankee " love of practical detail.

* Henry is a prominent character in Sharon Kay Penman's historical novel Falls the Shadow ; his portrayal is very close to most historical descriptions of him as weak and vacillating.

Ussher's chronology represented a considerable feat of scholarship: it demanded great depth of learning in what was then known of ancient history, including the rise of the Persians, Greeks and Romans, as well as expertise in the Bible, biblical languages, astronomy, ancient calendars and chronology, Ussher's account of historical events for which he had multiple sources other than the Bible is usually in close agreement with modern accounts – for example, he placed the death of Alexander in 323 BC and that of Julius Caesar in 44 BC.

As well, historical musicology has " an ideology slanted by the origins and development of a particular body of music and its aesthetic ... It arose at a specific moment, in a specific context-nineteenth-century Europe, especially Germany-and in close association with that movement in the musical practice of the period which was codifying the very repertory then taken by musicology as the centre of its attention.

It is only since the close of the 18th century that this kind of deviation from historical reality has jarred on a general audience.

Indeed, in order to understand the historical context that led to the development of these paradigmatic picaresque novels in Spain during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, it is essential to take into consideration the circumstances surrounding the lives of conversos, whose ancestors had been Jewish, and whose New Christian faith was subjected to close scrutiny and mistrust.

It may be argued that the historical tendency of power holders in all times and places to limit the activities of market actors combined with the natural impossibility of monitoring and constraining all market actors has resulted in the fact that, as we understand a " mixed economy " being a combination of governmental enterprise and free-enterprise, nearly every economy to develop in human history meets this definition ; though some systems may be so close to being completely one way or the other that to call them mixed is redundant and it is more meaningful just to call them a free market economy or a command economy.

It portrays a Cyrano very close to the historical personage without diminishing his love for freedom and individuality.

Sheets-Johnstone compares Rank's thought to that of three major Western philosophers — René Descartes, Martin Heidegger and Jacques Derrida: " Because immortality ideologies were originally recognized and in fact so named by Rank, a close examination of his writings on the subject is not only apposite but is itself philosophically rewarding ... Rank was a Freudian dissident who, in introducing the concept of immortality ideologies, traced out historical and psychological roots of ' soul-belief ' ( Seelenglaube )... chapter points up the extraordinary cogency of Rank's distinction between the rational and the irrational to the question of the human need for immortality ideologies " ( Sheets-Johnstone, 2008, p. 64 ).

Following the close of the war, Buchan turned his attention to writing on historical subjects, along with his usual thrillers and novels.

Marcellus ’ early career came to a close in 222 BC, at which time he achieved greater historical importance upon his election as consul of the Roman Republic — the highest political office and military position in ancient Rome.

There are several panels containing historical information about the site spread around as part of the popular Railway Reserves Heritage Trail which runs close to the quarry.

In 1950, John Dickson Carr produced a novel called The Bride of Newgate, set at the close of the Napoleonic Wars, possibly the second full-length historical whodunnit.