These letters became the center of my existence.

Rich in Christian and Moslem art, Istanbul is today a fascinating museum of East and West that recently became a seaside resort as well with the development of new beaches on the Bosphorus and the Sea of Marmara only a short distance from the center of town.

It became apparent that, as the slavery issue took center stage, the slaveholding states were more reluctant to agree with the bill, with the primary antagonists being the senators in Virginia, Texas, North Carolina and Alabama.

Then he removed to Sura, on the Euphrates, where he established a school of his own, which soon became the intellectual center of the Babylonian Jews.

Under the rule of Frederick II Berlin became a center of the Enlightenment.

The Industrial Revolution transformed Berlin during the 19th century ; the city's economy and population expanded dramatically, and it became the main rail hub and economic center of Germany.

During the Weimar era, Berlin became internationally renowned as a center of cultural transformation, at the heart of the Roaring Twenties.

In 1462, Bordeaux obtained a parliament, but regained importance only in the 16th century when it became the center of the distribution of sugar and slaves from the West Indies along with the traditional wine.

North of Columbus Circle, Broadway retains planted center islands as a vestige of the central mall of " The Boulevard " that became the spine of the Upper West Side.

By cutting transportation costs in half or more it became a large profit center for Albany, New York and New York City as it allowed the cheap transportation of many of the agricultural products grown in the mid west of the United States to the rest of the world.

The city's commercial center began to shift from Harvard Square to Central Square, which became the downtown of the city around this time.

Marconi's station at Marconi Towers, on the outskirts of Glace Bay, became the chief communication center for the Royal Canadian Navy in World War I through to the early years of World War II.

In the 19th century, Concord became a hub for the railroad industry, with Penacook a textile manufacturing center using water power from the Contoocook River.

Under Schechter's leadership, JTS attracted a distinguished faculty, including Louis Ginzberg ( author of Legends of the Jews ), historian Alexander Marx, Arabist Israel Friedlander, and future founder of Reconstructionism Mordecai Kaplan, and became a highly regarded center of Jewish learning.

In response, Jacobs and many of the New West End congregants established the New London Synagogue, which became the center of Masorti Judaism in the United Kingdom.

In the 19th century, Chicago became the nation's railroad center, a title it still holds.

It was during this wave that Chicago became a center for jazz, with King Oliver leading the way.

Because of this, specialised secretaries became responsible for industry and transport from the center down to the city level.

Carson City's development was no longer dependent on the mining industry and instead became a thriving commercial center.

By 1916 the three of them became the center of radical anti-art activities in the United States.

Especially noteworthy is Matthew Tindal's Christianity as Old as the Creation ( 1730 ), which " became, very soon after its publication, the focal center of the deist controversy.

Detroit became the center of a new industry known as rum-running, which was the illegal smuggling or transporting of alcoholic beverages or any other illegal drinks during Prohibition.

Guayaquil also became the largest shipbuilding center on the west coast of South America before the end of the colonial period.

Through the activities of the theologian Origen ( 185 / 6 – 254 ) and the school of his follower Pamphilus ( later 3rd century – 309 ), Caesarea became a center of Christian learning.

Perhaps the most significant changes are in the pelvic region, where the long downwards facing iliac blade was shortened and became wide as a requirement for keeping the center of gravity stable while walking.

Dribbling only became a major part of the game around the 1950s, as manufacturing improved the ball shape.

As with the rest of the automotive industry, into the 20th century bus manufacturing increasingly became globalized, with manufacturers producing buses far from their intended market to exploit labour and material cost advantages.

Saint John became a centre of the timber trade and shipbuilding and is currently a centre for oil refining and some manufacturing.

Eastman also became executive director of the American Union Against Militarism, which lobbied against America's entrance into the European war and more successfully against war with Mexico in 1916, sought to remove profiteering from arms manufacturing, and campaigned against conscription and imperial adventures.

This reduced manufacturing costs and, combined with a wider use of colored glass, led to cheap glassware in the 1930s, which later became known as Depression glass.

Encouraged and subsidised by the Board of Trustees so it could compete with German products, merchant entrepreneurs became dominant in all stages of linen manufacturing and built up the market share of Scottish linens, especially in the American colonial market.

From 1924, HMBB became the exclusive supplier of car bodies for GM in Australia, with manufacturing taking place at the new Woodville, South Australia plant.

Industry in the sense of manufacturing became a key sector of production and labour in European and North American countries during the Industrial Revolution, which upset previous mercantile and feudal economies through many successive rapid advances in technology, such as the steel and coal production.

Around the same time the Derby-based clockmaker John Whitehurst became a friend, first of Boulton and subsequently of Darwin, through his business supplying clock movements to Boulton's ormolu manufacturing operation.

Court cards designed in the 16th century in the manufacturing centre of Rouen became the standard design in England, while a Parisian design became standard in France.

But his influence spread in other ways as well ; the build quality of his company's guns became famous, and its armories in America and England trained several seminal generations of toolmakers and other machinists, who had great influence in other manufacturing efforts of the next half century.

The origins of what became Škoda Auto go back to the early 1890s where, like many long-established car manufacturers, a company started out manufacturing bicycles.

After that, in the shakeup of British aircraft manufacturing, Vickers-Armstrongs ( Aircraft ) became a part of the British Aircraft Corporation and the individual manufacturing heritage names were lost.

But with the advent of the automobile, the city became best known for industrial manufacturing, although these industries have declined considerably in recent decades.

The manufacturing dependency continued into World War II when Toledo became involved in wartime production of several products, particularly the Willys Jeep.

As the more versatile combination of a personal computer and separate printer became commonplace, most business-machine companies stopped manufacturing the word processor as a stand-alone office machine.

The new manufacturing technique redefined the sport: skiboarding became wakeboarding.

" The cigar business was an important industry, and factories employed many people before mechanized manufacturing of cigars became practical.

Other manufacturers followed, and Key West became another important cigar manufacturing center.

During this time, Belarus became a major center of manufacturing in the western region of the USSR.

As the 19th century matured, manufacturing in the U. S. became more complex as the Industrial Revolution generated new inventions and business processes.

In 1994, with the LDP in opposition, Koizumi became part of a new LDP faction, Shinseiki, made up of younger and more motivated parliamentarians led by Taku Yamasaki, Koichi Kato and Koizumi, a group popularly dubbed " YKK " ( after the YKK Group well known for manufacturing zippers ).