Thus, to cite but one example, the Pax Britannica of the nineteenth century, whether with the British navy ruling the seas or with the City of London ruling world finance, was strictly national in motivation, however much other nations ( e.g., the United States ) may have incidentally benefited.

Plaque in the City of London noting the restoration of the Roman walled city by Alfred

In some cities, such as the Victorian era London sewers or much of the old City of Toronto, the storm water system is combined with the sanitary sewer system.

In the preceding general election, Lionel de Rothschild had been returned for the City of London.

Lord John Russell, the Whig leader who had succeeded Peel as Prime Minister and like Rothschild a member for the City of London, introduced a Jewish Disabilities Bill to amend the oath and permit Jews to enter Parliament.

The Bank's headquarters has been located in London's main financial district, the City of London, on Threadneedle Street, since 1734.

The Bank's original home was in Walbrook in the City of London, where during the building's reconstruction in 1954 archaeologists found the remains of a Roman temple of Mithras ( Mithras was – rather fittingly – worshipped as being the God of Contracts ); the Mithraeum ruins are perhaps the most famous of all twentieth-century Roman discoveries in the City of London and can now be viewed by the public.

Sir Herbert Baker's rebuilding of the Bank of England, demolishing most of Sir John Soane's earlier building was described by architectural historian Nikolaus Pevsner as " the greatest architectural crime, in the City of London, of the twentieth century ".

However, in some cities it is a subdivision of the city ( for example, London, New York City, Montreal, and Tokyo ).

They include the Olympics in Barcelona in 1992, Atlanta in 1996, Sydney in 2000, Salt Lake City in 2002, Athens in 2004, Turin in 2006, Beijing in 2008, Vancouver in 2010, and London in 2012.

" In this state of uncertainty, Chaplin decided to attend the London première of City Lights in February 1931.

On his birthday, 16 April, City Lights was screened at a gala at the Dominion Theatre in London, the site of its British premiere in 1931.

One role of the Swedish central bank was lending to the government, which was likewise true of the Bank of England, created in 1694 by Scottish businessman William Paterson in the City of London at the request of the English government to help pay for a war.

Three years before Davis ' lectures, Henry Edward Armstrong taught a degree course in chemical engineering at the City and Guilds of London Institute.

Among metropolitan areas, Chicago has the fourth-largest gross domestic product ( GDP ) in the world, just behind Tokyo, New York City, and Los Angeles, and ranking ahead of London and Paris.

The Charlottetown Conference ended with an agreement to meet the following month in Quebec City, where more formal discussions ensued, culminating with meetings in London and the signing of the British North America Act.

The first film is in three sections: Kal-El's infancy on Krypton ( shot in London on the 007 stage ), Clark Kent's teen years in Smallville, and Kent / Superman's adult life in Metropolis ( shot in New York City ).

In medieval Europe, churches became incorporated, as did local governments, such as the Pope and the City of London Corporation.

( London's first deep-level tube railway, the City & South London Railway, had earlier also been built for cable haulage but had been converted to electric traction before opening in 1890.

Memorial to " Daniel De-Foe ", Bunhill Fields, City Road, London.

Other non-fiction books include The Complete English Tradesman ( 1726 ) and London, the Most Flourishing City in the Universe ( 1728 ).

Category: People from the City of London

A lone pro-Hearst voice from New York City was that of William Devery, who had been expelled as a Tammany leader but still claimed strong influence in his own district.

Instead, he went down to New York and submitted Welcome To Our City to the Theatre Guild, which had asked him to let them have a look at it after Professor Baker had recommended it highly.

Blackman had brought news from Kansas City.

Geneva, instead of becoming the City of God, as John had dreamed, had in the two years since he had been there, continued to be a godless place where all manner of vice flourished.

Chandler had been commissioned in the Medical Service Corps and was serving as a personnel officer for the Kansas City Medical Depot when he decided that if he was going to make the Army his career, he wanted to be in the fighting part of it.

And no wonder, for Vientiane, the old City of Sandalwood, had become the City of Bullet Holes.

Two weeks ago she had gone west to Pearson City.

The jury further said in term-end presentments that the City Executive Committee, which had over-all charge of the election, `` deserves the praise and thanks of the City of Atlanta '' for the manner in which the election was conducted.

The Mayor declined in two interviews with reporters yesterday to confirm or deny the reports that he had decided to run and wanted Mr. Screvane, who lives in Queens, to replace Abe Stark, the incumbent, as the candidate for President of the City Council and Mr. Beame, who lives in Brooklyn, to replace Mr. Gerosa as the candidate for Controller.

City Controller Alexander Hemphill charged Tuesday that the bids on the Frankford Elevated repair project were rigged to the advantage of a private contracting company which had `` an inside track '' with the city.

City Finance Director Richard J. McConnell indorsed the higher fees, which, he said, had been under study for more than a year.

Alhazred had been kidnapped in Damascus and brought to the Nameless City, where he had earlier studied and learned some of the Necronomicons lore.

Chairman Mills himself, who had been a Civil War colleague of Doubleday and a member of the honor guard for Doubleday's body as it lay in state in New York City, never recalled hearing Doubleday describe his role as the inventor.

In Peru and Rio de la Plata many powerful figures proposed an American Monarchy such as those who wanted an independent Peruvian king of the still alive Inca Royal House, and those who requested a Prince of the Spanish house of Bourbon to come and rule directly in Lima, Mexico City or Bogota, as the Portuguese House of Orleans-Braganza had done in Rio de Janeiro.

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Arizona had postseason victories over the St. Louis Cardinals ( 3 – 2 in the NLDS ) and the Atlanta Braves ( 4 – 1 in the NLCS ) to advance to the World Series where, in the wake of the September 11 terrorist attacks in New York City, they beat the three-time reigning champions, the New York Yankees, 4 to 3, to become the youngest expansion franchise to win the World Series ( in just their fourth season of play ).

A cappella has been used as the sole orchestration for original works of Musical Theater that have had commercial runs Off-Broadway ( theaters in New York City with 99 to 500 seats ) only three times.

On February 11, 2010, he was rushed to Columbia Presbyterian Hospital in New York City after complaining of chest pains, and had two coronary stents implanted in his heart.

Carson City has never hosted any professional team sports.

Dave Thomas was born on July 2, 1932 in Atlantic City, New Jersey to a young unmarried woman he never knew.

In 1997, the state filed suit to establish its jurisdiction, leading New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani to remark dramatically that his father, an Italian who immigrated through Ellis Island, never intended to go to New Jersey.

Ramone and 49 other recording artists — including Bruce Springsteen, Keith Richards, Lou Reed and Run DMC — collaborated on the song " Sun City ", in which they pledged they would never perform at the resort.

* 1557 – King Philip II of Spain, consort of Queen Mary I of England, sets out from Dover to war with France, which eventually results in the loss of the City of Calais, the last English possession on the continent, and Mary I never seeing her husband again.

In 1975, Friedman and his band taped an Austin City Limits show which was never aired.

The Mesopotamians believed their kings and queens were descended from the City of Gods, but, unlike the ancient Egyptians, they never believed their kings were real gods.

Miguel de Icaza was born in Mexico City and studied at the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de México ( UNAM ) but never received a degree.

In her remarks, Smith explained that in 1967 when she moved to New York City ( Brooklyn ), she would never have been accepted into Pratt, but most of her friends ( including Mapplethorpe ) were students at Pratt and she spent countless hours on the Pratt campus.

Hell never finished high school, instead moving to New York City to make his way as a poet.

Afterwards mayor Rudy Giuliani breaks his policy of never making public comments after the funeral, saying " All eyes are on New York City.

* Convince friends that you have a high powered job in the City by leaving for work at 6 am every morning, arriving home at 10 at night, never keeping social appointments and dropping down dead at the age of 36

where they needed to find a distributor for Walt's new Alice Comedies, which he had started making while in Kansas City but never got to distribute.

Other films shot in widescreen were the musical Happy Days ( 1929 ) which premiered at the Roxy Theater, New York City, on February 13, 1930, starring Janet Gaynor and Charles Farrell and a 12 year old Betty Grable as a chorus girl ; Song o ’ My Heart, a musical feature starring Irish tenor John McCormack and directed by Frank Borzage ( Seventh Heaven, A Farewell to Arms ), which was shipped from the labs on March 17, 1930, but never released and may no longer survive, according to film historian Miles Kreuger ( the 35mm version, however, debuted in New York on March 11, 1930 ); and the western The Big Trail ( 1930 ) starring John Wayne and Tyrone Power, Sr. which premiered at Grauman's Chinese Theatre in Hollywood on October 2, 1930, all of which were also made in the 70mm Fox Grandeur process.

The western pincer, under the command of Barry St. Leger, was repulsed when the Siege of Fort Stanwix failed, and the southern pincer, which was to progress up the Hudson valley from New York City, never started since General William Howe decided instead to capture Philadelphia.

Clayton's event did not have repercussions outside of Fairmont for several reasons, among them: the city was overwhelmed by other events, the celebration was never promoted outside of the town itself and no proclamation was made in the City Council.

The City of London ( which is not, and never has been, the seat of government ) has a unique status in British local government ; it is part of Greater London for most administrative purposes, but remains a separate ceremonial county, and retains many independent local government powers and civic identity, most notably its own police force and Lord Mayor.

Likewise, Gygax's version of the city of Greyhawk had never been published, although Frank Mentzer believed the reason for that was because " the City of Greyhawk was a later development, originally being but a location ( albeit a capital ).

Jowett knew the primary reason why Gell would attract hostility was that he had never worked for the Press nor been a Delegate, and he had sullied himself in the City with raw commerce.

Over a dozen people were killed in Beirut as a result of the chaos and in Jerusalem, roughly 75, 000 Arabs marched through the Old City chanting " Nasser will never die.

Just west of the Bridge was the ' Clink Liberty ' manor, which was never controlled by the City, technically held under the Bishopric of Winchester's nominal authority.

Asimov did once say that these encapsulated cities represented the kind of place in which he'd like to live ( in real life, Asimov was an agoraphobic individual who spent virtually all his time writing inside his New York City apartment ; he seldom travelled and when he did, only by train and never by airplane ).

Atlantic City historically has never enjoyed much success as a venue for professional sports teams and baseball has been no exception.

After acquiring the Great Northern & City Railway ( GN & C ) in 1913 ( the current Northern City Line ), the Metropolitan Railway made plans to join the GN & C to the Waterloo & City or to the Circle Line, but these never came to fruition.