* 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 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 its larger area, barrio Canas was by far the most populated ward of the municipality.

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 the parking lot and road built next to the castle it currently welcomes a great number of visitors.

Ernie joins the company as it goes down the road, narrating its conclusion: " For those beneath the wooden crosses, there is nothing we can do, except perhaps to pause and murmur, ' Thanks pal, thanks.

Thanks to its position, it was also used to control the road linking up Cavallina and Seriana valleys.

Thanks to the redesigned carriage with bigger wheel base, the MT-12 can be towed by the MT-LB, at speeds up to 60 km / h on road or 25 km / h cross-country.

Thanks to the use of pure notation, a mnemonics system and a hierarchical decimal place system, it is generally easier to use.

Thanks to various processes overseen by capitalism, such as urbanisation, the working class, the proletariat, should grow in numbers and develop class consciousness, in time realising that they have to and can change the system.

Thanks to the cache coherence of the distributed shared memory, SN systems scale along several axes at once: as CPU count increases, so does memory capacity, I / O capacity, and system bisection bandwidth.

Thanks to the former Soviet system of game preserves and the efforts of the Society for Nature Conservation and the Academy of Sciences, flora and fauna receive some protection in the republic ; however, " hard-currency hunts " by wealthy Western and Arab businesspeople already are depleting animals on preserves.

Thanks to this system of irrigation, the cultivation of the soil was highly advanced in Babylonia.

In June 2007, he announced he would no longer be on Team Pokerstars due to changes in the U. S. legal system that would cause poker sites to have to focus on European and Asian markets and held a farewell Pokerstars tournament on June 5, 2007, which he titled So Long and Thanks for All the Chips.

Thanks to these agreement, Venevisión later began using the videotape system.

Thanks to improvements to the trail system ( including opening new routes that would connect to the Sihanouk Trail in Cambodia ), the amount of supplies transported during 1965 almost equalled the combined total for the previous five years.

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 a system of grants, Danish artists are able to devote themselves to their work while museums, theatres, and the film institute receive national support.

Thanks to the development of active and passive sonar devices, coupled with increasingly deadly anti-submarine weapons, the convoy system reduced British losses to U-boats to a small fraction of their former level.

Thanks to the efforts of Oregon Populist Party State Representative William S. U ' Ren and his Direct Legislation League, voters in Oregon overwhelmingly approved a ballot measure in 1902 that created the initiative and referendum processes for citizens to directly introduce or approve proposed laws or amendments to the state constitution, making Oregon the first state to adopt such a system.

* The character Ford Prefect in Douglas Adams ' So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish played an elaborate prank by using a ship's advanced telecommunications system to place a collect call to the London Speaking Clock, keeping the call indefinitely connected in an attempt to run up the ship's phone bill.

Thanks to their fuel injection system, 190E models made more power and were more fuel efficient when compared to non-fuel injected 190 models.

Thanks to a system of shoe anchorages and fixed rails in the heart of the pylons, a new layer of concrete could be poured every 20 minutes.

Thanks to Hiroyuki Ito, lead designer on the game, it also successfully implemented a modified job system, previously used in Final Fantasy V, which allowed the player to change a unit's character class at any time during the game and learn new abilities from job points earned with each class.

Thanks to the resources of the Jovian sub-system, the Confederacy is the richest nation in the solar system.

Thanks to the low speed limit, motorcycle riders enjoy riding through the parkway system.

Thanks to a reform in the Brazilian multi-party system, the Republic Party ( Partido da Republica, PR ) was founded on December 21, 2006 by the merger of the Liberal Party ( Partido Liberal, PL ) and PRONA.

Thanks to the Democratic Revolution in 1990, Mongolia became a country with a multi-party system.

Thanks to the cooperation of various club owners, and the management skills of Dave Van Ronk's wife, Terri Thal, Dylan was able to record a number of performances during that time on a reel-to-reel tape recorder patched into the house PA system.

Thanks to a lucky hire of Thomas Rudloff, an Amiga / Macintosh CPU board wizard, Metabox shipped the first commercial Macintosh-compatible system to run at 300 MHz.