Evans, who had been struggling with religious doubts for some time, became intimate friends with the progressive, free-thinking Brays, whose home was a haven for people who held and debated radical views.

Under early English rule Jamaica became a haven of privateers, buccaneers, and occasionally outright pirates: Christopher Myngs, Edward Mansvelt, and most famously, Henry Morgan.

As the " wild west " of the Islamic world, Morocco quickly became a haven for many dissidents, rebels and refugees from the eastern caliphate.

Chicago became notorious as a haven for prohibition dodgers during the time known as the Roaring Twenties.

Catherine Clinton suggests that anger over the 1857 Dred Scott decision may have prompted Tubman to return to the U. S. Her land in Auburn became a haven for Tubman's family and friends.

During the final months of World War II, Dresden became a haven to some 600, 000 refugees, with a total population of.

Epirus, and the city of Ioannina in particular, became a haven for Greek refugees from Constantinople for most of the century.

Although Vermont initially supported the American Revolutionary War and sent troops to fight John Burgoyne's British invasion from Quebec in battles at Hubbardton and Bennington in 1777, Vermont eventually adopted a more neutral stance and became a haven for deserters from both the British and colonial armies.

The colony became a safe haven for people who were persecuted for their beliefs including Baptists, Quakers, and Jews.

Most of the elites who became political refugees found safe haven in Bohemia.

: The ancient haven was " repaired " by King Eärnil I, and it became the main naval base during the Ship-kings ' conquests.

Rivendell also became a prominent haven for the Elves and other races.

During this period the port became a corsairs haven.

Prohibition was unpopular in the area and the countless inlets and islands in the area became haven for rumrunners bringing in liquor from Cuba.

The county also became a popular haven for outlaws that used the areas hilly terrain and dense cedar brakes as hideouts.

Magnetic Springs, following the discovery of natural healing waters, became a tourist haven in the late 19th century until the innovation of modern medicine in the early 20th century.

During the American Civil War, Jones County and neighboring counties, especially Covington County to its west, became a haven for Confederate deserters.

As a result of this dispute the area became a haven for outlaws.

It was at this time that Bisbee became a haven for artists and hippies fleeing the larger cities of Arizona and California and, later, the increasing gentrification of places like Aspen, Colorado.

Pacific Grove, like Carmel-by-the-Sea and Monterey, became an artists ' haven in the 1890s and subsequent period.

Wood construction replaced adobe, as American settlers moved in ; and during the Gold Rush years and following, the town became a haven for bandits and gamblers, and a dangerous and lawless place.

It subsequently became a haven for shipwreck survivors.

After the 1996 murder of JonBenét Ramsey, who spent her summers in Charlevoix and had won a pageant in the town, Charlevoix became a regular haven for tabloid photographers, hoping to catch a glimpse of the Ramsey family.

A barn-like building known as the Harbor House was established and run by a Miss Clara Potter and quickly became a haven for many young girls.

During the 19th century, the community became a popular haven of wealthy estate owners.

Isfahan became more of a legend than a place, and now it is for many people simply a name to which they attach their notions of old Persia and sometimes of the East.

This schedule became too strenuous, even for the energetic and conscientious Mr. Steinberg.

The need for monitoring became greater when radio was adopted for military signaling.

It was symbolized ( at least for those of us who recognized ourselves in the image ) by that self-consuming, elegiac candle of Edna St. Vincent Millay's, that candle which from the quatrain where she ensconced it became a beacon to us, but which in point of fact would have had to be as tall as a funeral taper to last even the evening, let alone the night.

The more Adoniram looked at the Greek word for baptism, the more unhappy he became over its true meaning.

Relieved of the major part of his responsibility for the safety of the ship, the pilot's oaths became fewer.

In the face of a clear judgment from archaeology, therefore, it became impossible for a time for scholars to re-adopt the `` shore settled by '' theory.

But as the more concrete plans for the work of the Council gradually became known, there was a rather sharp and abrupt disappointment on all sides.

At the age of 17 he became an apprentice machinist at the shop of Walcott & Harris in Valley Falls, Rhode Island, and following two or three other jobs in quick succession after graduation, he went into business for himself in 1831, making lathes and small tools.

Here, Prokofieff became a workman in the vineyards of Socialism -- producing music for the masses.

After Gagarin became the Greatest Man in the World, for a nation that does not believe in the cult of personality or in careerism, Moreland wrote me a letter in which he said: `` I am not interested in how long a bee can live in a vacuum, or how far it can fly.

The lower limit was determined by the fact that for smaller flow rates the arc started to strike to the anode holder instead of to the porous graphite plug and that it became highly unstable.

Serum potassium at this time was 3.8 mEq. per liter, and the hemoglobin was 13.9 gm. By Dec. 1, 1958, the weakness in the pelvic and quadriceps muscle groups was appreciably worse, and it became difficult for the patient to rise unaided from a sitting or reclining position.

The pain became thus the symbol for food and elicited salivary secretion ( conditioned reflex ).

Law became a conscious process, something more than simply doing justice and looking to local customs and a common morality for applicable norms.

When the power of the latter was made both limited and explicit -- when norms were clarified and made more precise and the creation of new norms was placed exclusively in parliamentary hands -- two purposes were served: Government was made subservient to an institutionalized popular will, and law became a rational system for implementing that will, for serving conscious goals, for embodying the `` public policy ''.

During the summer of 1960, it became the setting for a bitter and basic labor-management struggle.

This meant, concretely, that the patient could not read at all without making writing-like movements of the head or body, became easily confused by `` hasher marks '' inserted between hand-written words and thus confused the mark for one of the letters, and could recognize a simple straight line or a curved one only by tracing it.

In 1846 Matthew B. Goodwin, jeweler and watchmaker, became the town's first telegrapher in a dwelling he built for himself and his business `` two doors north of the Equinox House '' or `` one door north of the Bank, Manchester, Vermont ''.

Although slab stock appeared first, it soon became apparent that for the production of cushions with irregular shapes, crowned contours, or rounded edges, the cutting of slab stock is a wasteful and uneconomical process.

Still more jealous bitterness was engendered by the O'Banion gang's seizure from a West Side marshalling yard of a freight-car load of Canadian whisky worth $100,000 and by one of the biggest coups of the Prohibition era -- the Sibley warehouse robbery, which became famous for the cool brazenness of the operation.