Willow Run, General Electric's enormous installations at Louisville and Syracuse, the Pentagon, Boeing in Seattle, Douglas and Lockheed in Los Angeles, the new automobile assembly plants everywhere -- none of these is substantially served by any sort of conventional mass rapid transit.

* 315: 953 Syracuse / Utica, NY ( deprected, 953 is now a standard exchange in Vernon )

Oneida Lake, to the northeast of Syracuse, New York, is sometimes included as the " thumb ," although it is shallow and somewhat different in character from the rest.

Another possibility is that Rome received technical assistance from its seafaring Sicilian ally, Syracuse.

* 263 BC: Hiero II is defeated by consul Manius Valerius Messalla and is forced to change allegiance to Rome, which recognizes his position as King of Syracuse and the surrounding territory.

Archimedes ( 287-212 BC ), of Syracuse, Sicily, when it was a Greek city-state, is often considered to be the greatest of the Greek mathematicians, and occasionally even named as one of the three greatest of all time ( along with Isaac Newton and Carl Friedrich Gauss ).

* The lyric poet Bacchylides quoted / paraphrased Hesiod in a victory ode addressed to Hieron of Syracuse, commemorating the tyrant's win in the chariot race at the Pythian Games 470 BC, the attribution made with these words: " A man of Boeotia, Hesiod, minister of the Muses, spoke thus: ' He whom the immortals honour is attended also by the good report of men.

* 878 – Syracuse, Italy, is captured by the Muslim sultan of Sicily.

* 668 – Eastern Roman Emperor Constans II is assassinated in his bath at Syracuse, Italy.

Syracuse ( ; ; ; Syrakoúsai ) is a historic city in Sicily, the capital of the province of Syracuse.

Syracuse is located in the southeast corner of the island of Sicily, right by the Gulf of Syracuse next to the Ionian Sea.

The patron saint of the city is Saint Lucy ; she was born in Syracuse and her feast day, Saint Lucy's Day, is celebrated on 13 December.

The average age of Syracuse resident is 40 compared to the Italian average of 42.

The current birth rate of Syracuse is 9. 75 births per 1, 000 inhabitants compared to the Italian average of 9. 45 births.

Syracuse University, commonly referred to as Syracuse, ' Cuse, or SU, is a private research university located in Syracuse, New York, United States.

The campus is located in the University Hill neighborhood of Syracuse, east and southeast of downtown, on one of the larger hills.

SU is organized into 13 schools and colleges, with nationally recognized programs in information studies and library science, architecture, communications, business administration, public administration, engineering and the College of Arts and Sciences. The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, or FIRE, listed Syracuse University as 2nd among the " 12 Worst Colleges for Free Speech in 2012 ".

On occasional episodes he has mentioned leaving Sesame Street to attend " the annual Grouch convention in Syracuse, New York ".

The last condition is mentioned by Polybius in place of the one regarding not making war on Syracuse.

Possible cities mentioned for future campaigns included Fort Lauderdale, Florida and Syracuse, New York.

* Completion of the bridge mentioned above that would have made the line much more useful as many people arrive in Syracuse through the Transportation Center and may need public transportation to travel further into the city.

And it seems clear that many of them at least availed themselves of this permission, as we find the Himeraeans subsequently mentioned among the states that declared in favour of Dionysius I of Syracuse, at the commencement of his great war with Carthage in 397 BCE ; though they quickly returned to the Carthaginian alliance in the following year.

However other towns described as slightly further away do exist: Syracuse, Rome and Utica, New York ( mentioned, for example in Freddy and the Baseball Team From Mars ).

* In response to the above mentioned 2009 change of WOLF-FM / Syracuse, NY to country music, competitor WPHR-FM temporarily changed its usual urban adult contemporary format to country as " Young Country 106. 9 ," with WSYR changing back at the end of the weekend.

The story that Anniceris ransomed Plato from Dionysius, tyrant of Syracuse for twenty minas, must refer to an earlier Anniceris, possibly the celebrated charioteer mentioned by Aelian.

Many of the scenarios in the book would be enacted as performance pieces throughout Ono's career and have formed the basis for her art exhibitions, including one highly publicized show at the Everson Museum in Syracuse, New York, that was nearly closed when besieged by excited Beatle fans who broke several of the art pieces and flooded the toilets.

* 1938: The Boys from Syracuse ( book, director, producer )

The Syracuse James Joyce Club holds an annual Bloomsday celebration at Johnston's BallyBay Pub in Syracuse, New York, at which large portions of the book are either read aloud, or presented as dramatizations by costumed performers.

Public Enemy rapper Chuck D, journalist George Curry, writer Keith Boykin, comic book creator Christopher Priest, filmmaker Spike Lee, Syracuse University professor of finance Dr. Boyce Watkins and cartoonist Aaron McGruder ( who, in addition to numerous critical references throughout his series, The Boondocks, made a particular episode criticizing the channel ), all have protested BET's programming and actions.

The book was dedicated to " Her Royal Highness Cynthia II of Syracuse " — actually the daughter ( born in the previous year, 1909 ) of the author's younger brother, Henry Clay " Harry " Baum.

Wallace wrote the book while living in Syracuse, New York.

During his tenure at Syracuse University, he was informed by leaders of the Onondaga Tribe about the Native American religious traditions and practices, which resulted in an additional chapter in his book on the world's religions.

From December 1813 to February 1814 he was in Syracuse, Sicily working on drawings for a projected book on Aegina, Phigalia and the Bassae Frieze, he left to return to Athens where he continued work on the book, only to fall ill again on 22 August, he was still ill on 10 November, when he wrote to his sister.

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The first references in the western historical tradition begin at Syracuse in 399 BC and these devices were widely employed by the Roman Legions in Republican times well before the Christian era.

Following high school, he was majoring in communications and rhetorical studies at Syracuse University, before he dropped out of school.

Leaving the Carthaginians alone at Messana would give them a free hand to deal with Syracuse ; after the Syracusans had been defeated, the Carthaginian takeover of Sicily would essentially be complete.

He was recruited to work on a variety of projects, including the S. I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University and the Sundrome terminal at Idlewild Airport in New York City, and dormitories at New College of Florida.

Advocates of declarative representations were notably working at Stanford, associated with John McCarthy, Bertram Raphael and Cordell Green, and in Edinburgh, with John Alan Robinson ( an academic visitor from Syracuse University ), Pat Hayes, and Robert Kowalski.

* 1923 – Hamilton Sisters and Fordyce, singer's / songwriter's ,( aka, 1930s Three X Sisters ) first documented performance at BF Keith's Theater, Syracuse, NY.

Papyrus plants at Syracuse, Sicily

Also in the 18th century, Sicilian Saverio Landolina manufactured papyrus at Syracuse, where papyrus plants had continued to grow in the wild.

He returned to New York, enrolling at Syracuse University, but he recalled in his 2006 memoir, Just One More Thing, that he was unsure what he wanted to do with his life for years after leaving high school.

Falk obtained a Master of Public Administration degree at the Maxwell School of Syracuse University in 1953.

Falk married Alyce Mayo, whom he had met when they were both students at Syracuse University, on April 17, 1960.

* Epicycle and Deferent Demo – at Rosemary Kennett's website at the University of Syracuse

Instead of attacking at once, Nicias procrastinated and the campaigning season of 415 BC ended with Syracuse scarcely damaged.

** Syracuse: There was a harvest festival of Demeter and Persephone at Syracuse when the grain was ripe ( about May ).

The citizens of Syracuse at one point attempted to convince the Holy See to officially endorse the sainthood of the pope, but this was not successful.

Anthony was invited to speak at the third annual National Women's Rights Convention held in Syracuse, New York in September 1852.