It was officially opened on 28 April 1877 and for the first 28 years of its existence it was used almost exclusively by the London Athletics Club as an arena for athletics meetings and not at all for football.

Beneath the Colosseum, a network of subterranean passageways once used to transport wild animals and gladiators to the arena opened to the public in summer 2010.

The political liberalization Taiwan experienced leading up to the official end of martial law on July 15, 1987, opened a new public arena for dissenting voices and political movements against the centralized policy of the KMT.

The team's new state of the art home arena, the Amway Center officially opened on October 1, 2010.

Formerly known as Conseco Fieldhouse, the arena officially opened on November 6, 1999 and adopted its current name on December 22, 2011.

Initially, the accord opened up dialogue in Peru ’ s political arena, but within a year, the public considered it to be less effective than had been hoped.

The men's and women's basketball teams play at the J. Ollie Edmunds Center, an on-campus arena which opened in 1974 and seats approximately 5, 000 spectators.

This arena in the middle of Wichita opened in January 2010.

In 2001, the Verizon Wireless Arena, a venue seating more than 10, 000, opened for major concerts and sporting events, enhancing the city's downtown revitalization efforts with a major hotel and convention center already in place directly across the street from the arena.

The Heart of Oklahoma Exposition Center, opened in 1981, now boasts of exhibit space, a indoor arena that seats 1, 000, an outdoor arena seating 7, 500, and an RV park, all on.

The arena opened in October 2006.

The Garland Independent School District's Special Events Center, an arena and conference facility, opened in 2005, as did Firewheel Town Center, an outdoor mall with more than 100 businesses.

) The original Garden was demolished in 1889 and replaced by a new indoor arena designed by Stanford White that opened the following year.

This touring production opened at the Old Vic, and subsequently toured for two years, performing at, amongst other places, the Panasonic Globe Theatre in Tokyo, Japan ( as the inaugural play of the arena ), the Festival dei Due Mondi in Spoleto, Italy and at the Adelaide Festival of Arts in Australia.

This touring production opened at the Old Vic, and subsequently toured for two years, performing at, amongst other places, the Panasonic Globe Theatre in Tokyo, Japan ( as the inaugural play of the arena ), the Festival dei Due Mondi in Spoleto, Italy and at the Adelaide Festival of Arts in Adelaide, Australia.

This touring production opened at the Old Vic, and subsequently toured for two years, performing at, amongst other places, the Panasonic Globe Theatre in Tokyo, Japan ( as the inaugural play of the arena ), the Festival dei Due Mondi in Spoleto, Italy and at the Adelaide Festival of Arts in Adelaide, Australia.

Since it opened in 1996, it has consistently been listed as one of the world's busiest arenas, usually receiving the highest attendance of any arena in Canada.

" When Princeton opened their hockey arena in 1921, it was named the Hobey Baker Memorial Rink.

The arena opened on September 29, 2000.

The arena opened in 1939 and can seat 2, 600 people.

Construction on the Rose Garden began in 1993, and the arena opened on October 12, 1995.

As it turned out, a new arena in Pittsburgh wouldn't be built until the Pittsburgh Civic Arena opened in 1961.

The $ 36 million arena opened in September 2011, hosting basketball and volleyball ; in addition to graduation ceremonies, concerts and other events.

Prior to the ascendancy of Anwar Sadat to president of Egypt in 1970, the Middle East had been an important arena in the global superpower competition, most lucidly displayed in the arms sales and cooperation between the American and Soviet governments with Israel, Saudi Arabia, and Iran allied to The United States, and Egypt, Syria, and Iraq allied with the Soviet Union.

The arena was the home court for the ABA Pittsburgh Pipers from 1967 to 1968 and the Pittsburgh Condors from 1970 to 1972.

Terry Pastorino, who had worked for Kennedy, Brown & Trueblood, Inc., during the summer of 1970 on the project, later joined the firm working on the arena.

The arena hosted its first NHL game on October 9, 1970.

Platz had entered the arena of record production in the early 1960s, and having had a string of hits by licensing records to major labels ( most Essex artists were released on EMI's Regal Zonophone ), decided to start his own independent record label in 1970.

In February 1970, the arena was renamed Crisler Arena in honor of Crisler.

The result was a Madison Square Garden sellout when Verdu faced Sammartino in June 1970, the first for the company in five years and a then-record gate for a wrestling event in that arena.

It is best known for its use as a basketball arena, serving as the home of the University of Louisville Cardinals men's team from 1956 to 2010, the Kentucky Colonels of the American Basketball Association from 1970 until the ABA-NBA merger in June 1976, and the Louisville Cardinals women's team from its inception in 1975 to 2010.

The arena, which opened in 1970, is home to the WVU Mountaineers men's and women's basketball teams, men's wrestling, as well as WVU's women's teams in volleyball and gymnastics.

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The arena, originally known as the Assembly Center, opened for its first basketball game on December 1, 1970.

Originally designed to seat 8, 500 fans, the seating capacity has fluctuated over the years and by 1970 the arena had been adjusted to hold 13, 508.

Construction on the arena began on May 24, 1968 and the venue opened in 1970 as the first large multi-purpose arena in the Hampton Roads region and the state of Virginia, opening a year prior to Norfolk's Scope.

In 1970, when amending the Clean Air Act, the United States Congress was inspired by similar legislation in the civil rights arena to begin including specific provisions for citizens to bring suit against violators or government agencies to enforce environmental laws.

Since its return to democracy in 1990, Chile has been an active participant in the international political arena.

The semi-presidential system has been described by some as " conflictogenic " and " dictatogenic ", as it ensures frictions, and a reduction of pace in government life, should the President and the Prime Minister be from different sides of the political arena.

Founded in 1998 to provide a non-political arena to discuss and implement changes to the profession of Hypnotherapy, UKCHO currently represents 9 of the UK's professional hypnotherapy organisations and has developed standards of training for hypnotherapists, along with codes of conduct and practice that all UKCHO registered hypnotherapists are governed by.

Kemerovo has the first indoor arena in Russia only used for bandy.

As noted above, offshore banking has been one arena into which Nauru has traversed, however, the rewards are limited by growing concern about the ethical parameters of this business.

As noted by many scholars, Nevisians have often referred to a structural imbalance in Saint Kitts ' favour in how funds are distributed between the two islands and this issue has made the movement for Nevis secession a constant presence in the island's political arena, with many articles appearing in the local press expressing concerns such as those compiled by Everton Powell in " What Motivates Our Call for Independence ":

The international border-line has been a matter of pivotal dispute between Pakistan and India ever since 1947, and the Siachen Glacier in northern Kashmir has been an important arena for fighting between the two sides since 1984, although far more soldiers have died of exposure to the cold than from any skirmishes in the conflict between their National Armies facing each other.

In the economic investment arena, the Panamanian Government has been very successful in the enforcement of intellectual property rights and has concluded with the U. S. a very important Bilateral Investment Treaty Amendment and an agreement with the Overseas Private Investment Corporation ( OPIC ).

The Undertaker has adopted one of the most notable entrances, taking around 4 to 5 minutes, darkening the whole arena, and performing a slow, intimidating walk.

Forest City Velodrome in London, Ontario, Canada, is the world's shortest at 138 m. Built to fit a hockey arena, it too has steep banking.

Wilsonianism calls for the United States to enter the world arena to fight for democracy, and has been a contentious position in American foreign policy.

" Mars has become a kind of mythic arena onto which we have projected our Earthly hopes and fears.

Each side has one hundred soldiers who fight with rifles, mortars, and machine guns in a large natural arena.

Declining sales and increased competition during the 1970s eventually forced the company to drop its medium-and heavy-duty models, an arena the company has only recently begun to reenter.

Finally, Internet interconnection has become an issue in the international arena under something known as the International Charging Arrangements for Internet Services ( ICAIS ).

Each has letters assigned to positions around the arena for dressage tests to specify where movements are to be performed.

The dressage arena also has a centerline ( from A to C, going through X in the middle ), as well as two quarter-lines ( halfway between the centerline and long sides of each arena ).

Since it has the power to draft initiatives, it makes it ideally suited as an arena for interest representation.

Part of the arena floor has been re-floored.

" The Wing Tsun long pole expert, much like a gunslinger from the Old West, has the advantage of superior experience and wisdom in the dangerous arena of weapons fighting.

Also as a result of this, synthetic vision for piloting has not caught on in the UAV arena as it did with manned aircraft.