* 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 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.

* Åland islands: Thanks to a law revision by the Government of Åland concerning " small electrically powered vehicles ", the Segway and all other, mainly aimed to be one person electrical vehicles, are in Åland classified as bicycles since 14 March 2012.

Thanks to the bonds between the Spanish labor movement and the Spanish union movement, the election of Companys to this position gave the ERC great prestige amongst left-wing public opinion, whereas before, it had been considered a party of the small progressive bourgeoisie.

Some other small bit parts and cameos were also accepted by Crisp, such as a pageant judge in 1995's To Wong Foo Thanks for Everything, Julie Newmar.

Thanks to the disincorporation of the towns which the Quabbin Reservoir and its reservation lands now lie on, Hardwick gained a small portion of the former town of Greenwich along the northwest corner of town, though it is the smallest portion of land gained by any of the towns surrounding the reservoir.

Thanks in part to experimental archaeology, it is generally believed that the pilum's design evolved to be armour-piercing: the pyramidal head would punch a small hole through an enemy shield allowing the thin shank to pass through and penetrate a distance sufficient to hit the man behind it.

Thanks to back-room dealing and other intrigues, though, Japan walked away with a 5: 4 advantage in heavy cruisers, but this small gesture would not satisfy the populace of Japan which was gradually falling under the spell of the various ultra-nationalist groups spawning throughout the country.

Under the leadership of Byrnes, the program managed newly constructioned factories across the country which created raw materials, civilian and military production, and transportation for US military personal and was credited for providing the employment needed to officially bring an end to the Great Depression Thanks to his political experience, his probing intellect, his close friendship with Roosevelt, and in no small part to his own personal charm, Byrnes was soon exerting influence over many facets of the war effort which were not technically under his departmental jurisdiction.

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 drop action, spinet pianos could be made very small ; the top of a spinet rose only a few inches above the level of the keyboard itself.

Thanks in no small part to Cobbing's Writers Forum and its associated writers ' workshop, London was a hub for many young poets, including Bill Griffiths, Allen Fisher, Iain Sinclair, Gilbert Adair, Lawrence Upton, Peter Finch, Ulli Freer, Gavin Selerie, Frances Presley, Elaine Randell, Robert Sheppard, Adrian Clarke, Clive Fencott, Maggie O ' Sullivan, cris cheek, Tony Lopez and Denise Riley.

Thanks to its situation near the coast, the village had a small harbour of little importance on the river Touques.

Thanks to the efforts of an early 20th century Northern Irish clergyman, Noble Huston, the breed survived, but only in small numbers in the island of Ireland.

Thanks in no small part to the success of ABC's General Hospital, Texas remained in the bottom echelon of the ratings chart, tying with The Doctors for last place in 1980.

Thanks to this open ended design, a small community of fans have come together to work to improve realism, unlock unreleased features, and design new things to be included.

Thanks to a small group of mainly Finland-Swedish supporters, the work gradually started gaining wide acceptance and natives started seeing it as the spirit of the city.

Thanks to Cedars, Leighton was always able to punch above its weight for a Club from a relatively small town.

Thanks in part to a controversial density incentive program, much of the new development in Ithaca has centered on a small radius around the Commons.

After passing the Arcade mode, the player usually sees a small " Thanks for playing DJMax " video clip.

Thanks to the low recoil impulse of the small caliber ammunition and a very complex recoil buffer system, the rifle is claimed to be more controllable in automatic fire.

* Flexibility: Thanks to the small diameter of certain probes, surfaces can be scanned even inside hard-to-reach spaces, such as narrow crevices or small-diameter tubes.

Thanks to the huge size of the English-speaking North American media market, the United States has a large magazine industry with hundreds of magazines serving almost every interest, as can be determined by glancing at any newsstand in any large American city.

Thanks to its location, the town was a major staging post between London and the north: many old coaching inns still operate as pubs and hotels, and Baldock has a surprising number of pubs for its size.

Thanks to the RTP, created games can lessen their file size if a lot of material from the RTP was used.

Thanks to a bill introduced by Senator John Sparkman, the Eastern Wilderness Areas Act of 1975, the wilderness was finally designated with an original size of.

Thanks to its worth, Prussia is able to compete economically with Spain, a country twice its size with a capital worth not even a quarter as much.

Thanks to his shape-shifting abilities, he can grow his size and proportional strength to even higher levels.