* 1960s: Thanks to advanced technology, the rival Nipponbashi district of Osaka took its position as an equally prominent Electric Town, selling vast volumes of household consumer durable goods such as televisions, refrigerators and washing machines.

Thanks to a well-designed set of chips designed by MOS Technology, the Commodore 64, ( also referred to as C64 ), possessed remarkable sound and graphics for its time and is often credited with starting the computer demo scene.

Thanks to its radial road system, all of these routes touch Budapest.

Thanks to its many entrepreneurs and engineers, and its large stock of easily mined coal, Scotland became a world centre for engineering, shipbuilding, and locomotive construction, with steel replacing iron after 1870.

Thanks to its long runway ( 4, 000 m ), even the largest types of plane are able to use its facilities.

Thanks to the persistence of the band's management, the album was eventually released in the US and the UK six months after its Australian release.

Thanks to his intervention, Napoleon, with a letter delivered to Gasparre Monge, scientist and commissary of the French Government for Science and Art, promised to guarantee and protect the independence of the Republic offering to extend its territory according to its needs.

Thanks to its architectural heritage Toruń is visited by more than 1. 5 million tourists a year ( 1. 6 million in 2007 ).

Thanks to its natural harbour, it became an entrepot for goods from Argentina, Brazil and Paraguay.

Thanks to its important museums, theatres and landmarks ( including the Milan Cathedral, the fourth largest cathedral in the world, and Santa Maria delle Grazie, decorated with Leonardo da Vinci paintings, a UNESCO World Heritage Site ) Milan attracts two million annual visitors.

Thanks to its daytime and primetime schedules, CBS prospered in the 1930s.

Thanks in part to its success in organizing labor unions and its early opposition to fascism, the Communist Party of the United States ( CPUSA ) increased its membership through the 1930s, reaching a peak of about 75, 000 members in 1940 – 41.

Thanks to its clear air and lovely golden sand, this romantic stretch of sand was voted the best place in the UK to watch the sun set ( Country Living magazine 2005 ) and one the top romantic spots in the country ( The Guardian 2007 ).

Thanks to technological advances in electronic toll collection, Singapore upgraded its system in 1998 ( see Singapore's Electronic Road Pricing ).

Thanks to the success of " Twist Español " and " Florida Twist ", among others, the band had continued success in Mexico and Latin America over the next few years, selling many recordings of Spanish and Spanish-flavored material and simulated live performances ( overdubbed audience over studio recordings ) on the Orfeon label and its subsidiary, Dimsa.

Thanks to its small size and an acceptable public transport service, there are no major transport problems.

Thanks to its vast forests ( more than a third of the department's surface ) the timber industry employed in September 2007 approximately 4, 500 workers.

Thanks to the productivity of its agriculture, Gates County helped supply food to the Confederate States of America ( CSA ).

Thanks to these and many other attributes within its community, the overall economic outlook for the parish is promising.

Thanks to educational opportunities made possible by commercial printing and the reinvigorated examination system, a massively larger literate population emerged who relied on poetry to express personal emotion and to engage with each other socially.

Thanks to ongoing recruitment in England, a somewhat larger mercenary contingent was formed, but a full battalion was never realized.

Thanks to increased availability of modern editions, the OLD editors had access to a larger variety of classical works.

Thanks to the presence of preclearance facilities in Toronto and Nassau, the airlines can conveniently direct their flights from these locations to land at LaGuardia Airport, rather than the much larger and busier John F. Kennedy International Airport.

Thanks to the offshore Leeuwin Current the area numbers in the top six regions for marine biodiversity, containing the most southerly coral reefs in the world.

Thanks to these laws, Livorno became an enlightened European city and one of the most important ports of the entire Mediterranean area.

Thanks to Okaji's developments, the area became an important region for the growing of rice and grain in the Matsue area.

Thanks to the moderate climate and beautiful landscape, fishing, agriculture, and tourism bring a lot of income to the area as well.

Thanks to its wide forest areas ( a total of 57 % of the surface area ), forestry is also an important industry.

Thanks to the penetration of Swedish missionaries into the area in the 1880s and 1890, the northeast section of Kongo was converted to Protestantism in the early twentieth century.

Thanks to grassroots efforts by local citizens, educational institutions, and organizations the state government was convinced that the area should be set aside and protected due to significant natural communities, plants and animals, intrinsic beauty, and unique recreational opportunities.

Thanks to the strongly held Catholic faith in the Eichsfeld, particularly in Holungen, the SED found it difficult to get a foothold in the area.

Thanks to the large amount of greenery, especially around the midsection called Central Ferencváros and further to the south, especially in the low-rise Attila József housing estate, the area has healthy outdoor spaces unequalled in central Pest.

Thanks to recent funding the park now has many leisure facilities ; a bowling green, tennis and basketball courts, a boating lake and a children's play area.

Thanks to its favourable location and mild climate, the area of Boboshevo has been populated since antiquity.

Thanks to the trade the nearby area merchants became rich, and when the King Václav I gave them the privileges of township, the town of Město Pražské ( the town of Prague ) was formed.

Thanks to its picturesque, charming nature, clean seaside, the coexistence of peacefulness and the cosmopolitan life and mainly the clean environment and the hospitality of the local people, have made the town one of the biggest tourist resorts of the area.

Thanks largely to the market a number of new restaurants and boutiques have opened in the area.

Thanks to the " selective immigration law " enacted in 1845, more than 6, 000 families ( between 30, 000 and 40, 000 Germans ) settled in the area of Valdivia, Osorno and Llanquihue in the towns of Frutillar, Puerto Octay, Puerto Varas, Faja Maisan and Puerto Montt all areas known as Northern Patagonia, in the south of the country.

Thanks to the genial natural lightning in the top area of the building, Wiesner dedicated this part to residential apartments.

William Irwin writes in his book Philosophy and the Interpretation of Pop Culture that this " burst of banjo " must convey a message even if the viewers do not " get " the reference to Deliverance: " Thanks to prevailing connotations of banjo music, viewers who do not recognize the banjo tune as the theme from Deliverance will not laugh, but the mere sound of banjo tells the audience that Homer has entered a backward, redneck area.

Thanks '', was her answer the next day.

Thanks to Lawrence's connection to the powerful Fairfax family, at age 17 in 1749, Washington was appointed official surveyor for Culpeper County, a well-paid position which enabled him to purchase land in the Shenandoah Valley, the first of his many land acquisitions in western Virginia.

* TFTH – ( Thanks For The Hunt or Hide or Hike ) It shares the same purpose as TFTC, but can also be used when the cache was not found.

Thanks to her father's important role on the estate, she was allowed access to the library of Arbury Hall, which greatly aided her self-education and breadth of learning.

Thanks to Thomas Symmes a new idea of how to sing hymns spread throughout the churches in which anyone would sing a hymn any way they felt led to ; this was opposed by the views of Symmes colleagues who felt it was " like Five Hundred different Tunes roared out at the same time.

Thanks to coal ( the French word " houille " was coined in Wallonia ), the region geared up to become the 2nd industrial power in the world after England.

Thanks to this rescue, the French Navy was able to reuse the sphere of the bathyscaphe to construct the FNRS-3.

Thanks to Schwitters ' lifelong patron and friend Katherine Dreier, his work was exhibited regularly in the US from 1920 onwards.

Thanks to the intelligent foresight of the queen Tanaquil however, the sons of Ancus were not chosen, but rather Tarquinius ' son-in-law Servius Tullius, husband of his daughter Tarquinia, was elected as his successor.

Thanks to the literary renditions of Ovid and Fulgentius it was a well-known myth through the Middle Ages, but emerged more prominently as a classicizing theme, with erotic overtones, in the Italian Renaissance.

Thanks in part to these successes there was a high expectation that the 1970 budget would be a more generous one.

Thanks in large part to this particular Gatorade dunking, a tradition of sorts was formed that continues to this day.

Sondheim famously hated his mother ; he once wrote a thank-you note to close friend Mary Rodgers that read, " Dear Mary and Hank, Thanks for the plate, but where was my mother's head?

Thanks to this arrangement principal photography was completed 15 April 2008 on schedule.

Thanks to the success of The Jazz Singer, the studio was cash-rich.

Thanks to Spofforth who took 14 wickets in the match, Australia won by 7 runs and the legend of The Ashes was born immediately afterwards.

His only answer was " Thanks be to God!

Thanks to the betrayal of the Krakow townspeople and the help of the Franciscans ( who even hid him in their monastery ), Henry IV took the city and was recognized as High Duke.

Thanks to Anne's intervention, her widowed sister Mary received an annual pension of £ 100, and Mary's son, Henry Carey, was educated at a prestigious Cistercian monastery.

Thanks to his position commanding the only troops in the city and making gifts of money, Justin was able to secure election as emperor in 518.

Thanks to the money Paganini had given him after hearing Harold, Berlioz was able to pay off Harriet's and his own debts and suspend his work as a critic.

Thanks to coded messages transmitted over the BBC radio, each Maquis group was alerted of the impending D-Day by listening for seemingly meaningless messages such as " the crow will sing three times in the morning " or any other pre-arranged messages read in a continuous flow over the British airwaves.