In May 1975, Wakeman released The Myths and Legends of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table, with the album was performed live at the Empire Pool on ice.

Pulitzer Prize winning author Richard Russo ( Empire Falls, The Risk Pool ) was raised in Gloversville.

In 1934, the Empire Pool was built nearby.

Also Faust, Bomber, Doctor Who: The Vengeance of Morbius, Empire of the Sun, Brighton Rock, Fair Stood the Wind for France, Fluke, Great Speeches in History, How Proust Can Change Your Life, Lady Windermere's Fan, Peter Pan, The Alchemist, The Day of the Triffids, The Hairy Hands, The Lives of Christopher Chant, The Man Who Made Husbands Jealous, The Queen's Man, The Solitaire Mystery, The Swimming Pool Library, The Two Destinies, The Velveteen Rabbit, The Way I Found Her, The Way to Dusty Death, The Woodlanders, Under the Net, Wuthering Heights and Philip Pullman's Grimm Tales for Young and Old.

** The Monkees fly in to London at the start of their concerts at the Empire Pool, Wembley.

They were held at the White City Stadium in London, England, United Kingdom from 4 – 11 August 1934, apart from the cycling at Fallowfield Stadium, Manchester, and the swimming, which took place at the Empire Pool in Wembley.

Starting in Bristol, the tour took them to Australia ( November ), Europe ( March 1976 ), the United States ( May / June ), and Europe again ( September ), before ending in a four-night grand finale at London's Wembley Empire Pool.

In the same year he appeared in Ringo Starr's film Born to Boogie, a documentary showing a concert at Wembley Empire Pool on 18 March 1972.

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| align = left | Empire Pool, Wembley, London, England, United Kingdom

| align = left | Empire Pool, Wembley, London, England, United Kingdom

| align = left | Empire Pool, Wembley, London, England, United Kingdom

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Venues included the Royal Albert Hall and the Empire Pool, Wembley.

During the early 1960s he co-hosted ( with Jimmy Savile ) New Musical Express Poll Winners ' Concert, annually held at Empire Pool, Wembley, with acts such as The Beatles, Cliff Richard And The Shadows, Joe Brown And the Bruvvers, The Who, and many others.

On 11 April 1965, Them made a guest appearance at the NME Pollwinners Concert at Wembley Empire Pool: Jimmy Savile was MC for this event, which also included The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, The Kinks, The Animals, The Searchers, The Moody Blues and Dusty Springfield.

Wembley Arena ( originally the Empire Pool ) is an indoor arena, at Wembley, in the London Borough of Brent.

It was built for the 1934 British Empire Games, by Arthur Elvin, and originally housed a swimming pool, as reflected by its former name, Empire Pool.

When the venue was known as the Empire Pool, it hosted the annual New Musical Express Poll Winners ' concert during the mid-1960s.

In the 1990s the Mill Lane cafe quarter was developed in partnership with the Welsh Development Agency, a pedestrian forecourt was created for the refurbished Central railway station, a new walkway was constructed alongside the Taff and the Millennium Stadium was built on the site of the National Ground and Empire Pool.

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However, when he faced the same opponent at the Empire Pool at Wembley for both the British and Commonwealth titles in September 1975, he prevailed on points after 15 rounds.

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| align = left | Empire Pool, Wembley, London, United Kingdom

About a thousand years after that, when the Roman Empire was divided, it became capital of the Eastern section.

In 1453 when the last vestige of ancient Roman power fell to the Turks, the city officially shifted religions -- although the Patriarch, or Pope, of the Orthodox Church continued to live there, and still does -- and became the capital of the Ottoman Empire.

In the 6th century BC the kingdom of Lydia almost expanded to the whole of Asia Minor, until it became a satrapy of the Persian Empire.

The region became a province of the Roman Empire, with the same name Asia.

After the division of the Roman Empire, Anatolia became part of the East Roman, or Byzantine Empire.

However, to minimize the extent of the movement ignores the facts that at least two Roman emperors, Constantius II and Valens, became Arians, as did prominent Gothic, Vandal and Lombard warlords both before and after the fall of the Western Roman Empire.

The resulting constitutional framework became known as the Principate, the first phase of the Roman Empire.

Although the western Emperor Gratian held orthodox belief in the Nicene creed, the younger Valentinian II, who became his colleague in the Empire, adhered to the Arian creed.

Following the treaty of Verdun of 843, Alemannia became a province of the eastern kingdom of Louis the German, the precursor of the Holy Roman Empire.

By the middle of the 19th century, industrialisation swept away most of the city's medieval rules of production and commerce, although the entirely corrupt remains of the city's mediæval constitution was kept in place ( compare the famous remarks of Georg Forster in his Ansichten vom Niederrhein ) until 1801, when Aachen became the " chef-lieu du département de la Roer " in Napoléon's First French Empire.

On the day that Agrippina married her uncle Claudius as her third husband / his fourth wife, she became an Empress and the most powerful woman in the Roman Empire.

Mutinies became frequent in all parts of the Empire ; in Rome, the Praetorian Guard became infuriated by the actions of the praetorian praefect Ulpian.

The Empire in 1180 A. D when Alexios II became EmperorOn Manuel's death in 1180, Maria, who became a nun under the name Xene, took the position of regent ( according to some historians ).

In retrospect his reign may be said to end before the situation of the Byzantine Empire became untenable.

However, as Andronikos ' rule went on, the Emperor became increasingly paranoid and violent – in September 1185, Andronikos ordered the execution of all prisoners, exiles and their families for collusion with the invaders – and the Byzantine Empire descended into a terror state.

After Rome became an Empire under Augustus, the nominal independence of Athens dissolved and its government converged to the normal type for a Roman municipality, with a Senate ( gerousia ) of decuriones.

During his reign, Jerusalem became more closely allied with the Byzantine Empire, and the two states launched an unsuccessful invasion of Egypt.

In the 5th century BCE, it became a province of the Achaemenian Empire and later became part of the Seleucid Empire.

The area thrived during the Ottoman Empire, as the centre of opium production and Afyon became a wealthy city with the typical Ottoman urban mixture of Turks, Armenians and Greeks.