Very soon after his arrival in Little Rock, Pike had joined one of the most influential organizations in town, the Little Rock Debating Society, and it was with this group that he made his debut as an orator, being invited to deliver the annual Fourth of July address the club sponsored every year.

The town became a regional transportation hub in 1839 with the arrival of the Michigan Central Railroad, and a north — south railway connecting Ann Arbor to Toledo and other markets to the south was established in 1878.

Casablanca remained a modestly sized port, with a population reaching around 12, 000 within a few years of the French conquest and arrival of French colonialists in the town, at first administrators within a sovereign sultanate, in 1906.

Hastings, it is thought, was a Saxon town before the arrival of the Normans: the Domesday Book refers to a new Borough: as a borough, Hastings had a corporation consisting of a " bailiff, jurats, and commonalty ".

The beginning of Polish parish in modern times is connected to him In XIX century Polish population of the town consisted among others of Polish soldiers in Prussian service stationed in the city, salt refining specialists from Ciechocinek, political prisoners in local Prussian and permanent Polish inhabitants In the second half of XIX century the Polish community further increased with arrival of Polish workers During the period 1875-1914 an active Polish community grew and through its funds a Catholic school and the Church of Saint Marcin where masses in Polish were held ( initially throughout the season, after about 1890 all the year ), were established.

* 2007 – Riots in which over 50 people are killed and over 100 are injured take place in Karachi upon the arrival in town of the Chief Justice of Pakistan Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry.

" Time related Bryan's arrival in town with the disparaging comment, " The populace, Bryan's to a moron, yowled a welcome.

The Texian garrison was completely unprepared for the arrival of the Mexican army and had to quickly gather food from the town to supply the Alamo.

Arabic-Berbers ' arrival at the nearby Granitola mount in the VIII century entailed the resumption of commerce and the start of rebirth of the town, which was renamed Marsa ʿAlī " ʿAlī's harbour " or, maybe, Marsa ʿāliyy, " Big harbour ",-for the width of the ancient harbour, placed near Punta d ' Alga-or also Marsa Allāh, namely " God's harbour ", whence the current name.

At the end of 1700, an arrival from the sea changed again the future of the town: the landing of the English John Woodhouse who " invented " the wine marsala.

The French declaration of war against Tuscany led to his removal ( he was escorted by the Spaniard Pedro Gómez Labrador, Marquis of Labrador ) by way of Parma, Piacenza, Turin and Grenoble to the citadel of Valence, the chief town of Drôme where he died six weeks after his arrival, on 29 August 1799, having then reigned longer than any Pope ( except possibly St. Peter ).

With the arrival of the Kennebec & Portland Railroad in 1851, Augusta became an even more productive mill town.

In 1921, Nice then became the eleventh most populous town of France, then in 1931, the eighth, before being ranked sixth in 1946 ; thereafter the city reached its current demographic level thanks to the arrival of sixty thousand people including French citizens from Algeria.

Yet the town could not be taken due to the arrival of a Swedish relief army, which secured the Pomeranian pocket before turning west to defeat an allied army in the Battle of Gadebusch.

Shortly after his arrival in June 1587 the English-held port of Sluis was lost to Parma, Leicester being unable to assert his authority over the Dutch allies, who refused to cooperate in relieving the town.

The first county seat was Corning, established in 1873, with the arrival of the St. Louis, Iron Mountain and Southern Railway, as the first incorporated town in the county.

The arrival of such a large party with such great demands – and so soon after Spangberg had made similar demands – put a strain on the town.

Finally in 1859, with the arrival of Giuseppe Garibaldi, the town was freed from the Austrians and it became part of the newly formed Kingdom of Italy under the House of Savoy.

The arrival of the Islanders effectively doomed the Raiders ; they were forced to play in Madison Square Garden under onerous lease terms and were forced out of town in the middle of their second season.

In the late 14th and early 15th centuries, the population and economy of the town were bolstered by the arrival of craftsmen and merchants from France and the Low Countries who came to England to escape wars and religious persecution in their home countries.

Dining with William of Orange on his arrival, he was asked if " the English were minded to depart this town or not ", and wrote to William Cecil, Elizabeth's chief minister, " in alarm that he " liked none of their proceedings " but " apprehended great mischief ", and urged that the English government " should do very well in time to consider some other realm and place " for marketing English products.

Duckburg remained a quiet, small town until the arrival of wealthy businessman Scrooge McDuck.

When Matt reaches Abilene, he finds the town has been eagerly awaiting the arrival of such a herd to buy it and ship it east by rail.

There is however some evidence that the area had been occupied long before the alleged arrival of Mycenaeans ( at Enkomi ) and the town of Salamis was developed as a replacement when Engkomi was isolated from the sea.

The town greatly benefitted from the 1851 gold rush at Omeo as it was situated on the Port Albert to Omeo route and was an important base for the goldfields, until the arrival of the railways.

Man-made lake in the Sunnymead Ranch community of northern Moreno Valley. By the early 21st century, the arrival of so many newcomers to Riverside County and the soaring cost of living in Los Angeles and Orange County combined to make the less-developed southern half of the Inland Empire a very attractive place for industry.

Leto and Kailea grow apart, and after the arrival into his household of the Bene Gesserit acolyte Jessica, whom Leto finds attractive, Kailea takes matters into her own hands by attempting to kill Leto.

This meant that the much-coveted early-morning peak time slots, which Air Europe needed to be able to operate at times that were attractive to business travellers as well as competitive with its rivals ' departure and arrival times, were in increasingly short supply.

To celebrate its centennial in 1983, la Croix-l ’ Événement took on a newer, more attractive layout, added new sections and saw the arrival as editor in chief of Noël Copin.

Columbia's purchase of the Bloomingdale Lunatic Asylum at around the same time as the Broadway line's arrival naturally made the neighborhood more attractive as well.

Before the arrival of Europeans, Banda had an oligarchic form of government led by orang kaya (' rich men ') and the Bandanese had an active and independent role in trade throughout the archipelago.

Prior to the arrival of the Spanish in the 16th century, northern and central Chile was under Inca rule while independent Mapuche inhabited south-central Chile.

Several months after qualifying as a lecturer in philosophy, Adorno delivered an inaugural lecture at the Institute for Social Research, an independent organization which had recently appointed Horkheimer as its director and, with the arrival of the literary scholar Leo Lowenthal, social psychologist Erich Fromm and philosopher Herbert Marcuse, sought to exploit recent theoretical and methodological advances in the social sciences.

While proso millet is not a member of the Neolithic Near East crop assemblage, it arrived in Europe no later than the time these introductions did, and proso millet as an independent domestication could predate the arrival of the Near East grain crops.

The earliest detailed records, dating from the Dutch arrival in 1624, describe the aborigines as living in independent villages of varying size.

With the widespread arrival of sound film in American theaters in 1929, many independent exhibitors began dropping the then-dominant presentation model, which involved live acts and a broad variety of shorts before a single featured film.

Bussum became independent from Naarden in 1817, yet it was not until the arrival of a railway line in 1874 that Bussum began to flourish.

Washington is primarily known in the rock community for its seminal influence on the evolution of hardcore punk, known locally as harDCore, particularly through bands such as Bad Brains, Minor Threat and The Faith, and labels like Dischord Records, but it had a vibrant musical community prior to hardcore's arrival with bands like the Razz, Slickee Boys and The Penetrators, putting out records on local independent labels like Limp, O ' Rourke, and Dacoit.

In recent years, particularly with the brief arrival of MTV on Canadian digital cable, the influence of MuchMusic has waned, and the channel has had to weather criticism that it focuses too much on " top 40 " acts and imported MTV " reality shows " like Newlyweds: Nick and Jessica and Pimp My Ride, thereby not giving enough time to smaller, independent, and Canadian performers.

There followed a period of growth with the arrival of coordinated pioneers from the United States finding national Brazilian converts and in 1961 an independent national Bahá ' í community was formed.

On June 30, 1941, with the arrival of Nazi troops in Ukraine, Bandera and the OUN-B declared an independent Ukrainian State.

Results improved with the arrival of the newly independent team's first foreign coach, Icelandic Teitur Thordarson.

Even though his arrival saved the delicate situation from enemies attacks, it also meant the creation of another political power led by count Cardona, with a military force independent from the Maulets and with no intention of allowing what they considered “ plebeian excesses ”.

The opening of displays in the refurbished Parliamentary Library and two adjacent wings of Old Parliament House in 1999 endorsed the Gallery ’ s status and arrival as an independent institution.

In April 2003 to mark the 50th anniversay of his arrival in Australia, Lowy established the Lowy Institute for International Policy, an independent international policy think tank devoted to foreign affairs, and Australia's role in the world.

From the Ukrainian perspective the army's arrival was a significant factor that that led to the eventual demise of the independent West Ukrainian People's Republic, and it's ultimate incorporation into the new Polish state.

After the 1999 NATO bombing of FR Yugoslavia and the arrival of the political changes during the 2000s, not only the mainstream scene saw a revival, but a new independent and underground scene started to develop.

On the arrival of José de San Martín in Peru, he was the first Peruvian officer to hoist the national flag in the north of Peru, and on 24 December 1820 proclaimed Trujillo independent.

Besides providing independent control of parameters such as ion energy, temperature and arrival rate of atomic species during deposition, this technique is especially useful to create a gradual transition between the substrate material and the deposited film, and for depositing films with less built-in strain than is possible by other techniques.

The current ‘ House Churches ’ in China are also independent churches because after 1949, with the arrival of Communist control and departure of all foreign missionaries, all Chinese Christian denominations had become independent and had to stand on their toes.

Not long after their arrival, and led by their Mother Superior, Mother Marie Louise De Meester, the Sisters went on to form an independent religious congregation called the Missionary Canonesses of St. Augustine, composed of many local Indian women as well as Europeans.

With the arrival of Turn 3, a 3rd independent faction would become available for pilots to transfer their allegiance to, the Right Brothers.

In contrast to the Ngonde in the south, the Nyakyusa were unsophisticated and isolated from contact with the outside world, had unfortified villages, little to do with the ivory trade, slavery, or Arabs, or anything east of the effectively protective Livingston Mountains, and kept their over one hundred small chiefdoms independent, at least until the arrival of the Europeans.