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The team are now involved in the first stage of development at West Beach for an extreme sports centre.
The goddess ' appearance offered contrasting colours to the eye, for her body was dazzling white, intimating her descent from heaven and her robe was dark blue, denoting her emergence from the sea ... But now becomingly took the centre of the stage to the great acclamation of the theatre, and smiled sweetly ... still more affectingly began to gently stir herself ; with gradual, lingering steps, restrained swaying of the hips, and slow inclination of the head she began to advance, her refined movements matching the soft wounds of the flutes.
He came out of detention to an altered political scene — the Muslim League for example, which a few years earlier had appeared marginal, " now occupied the centre of the political stage " and the topic of Jinnah's campaign for Pakistan was a major talking point.
Moreover, Joel Braslow argues that from malarial therapy onward to lobotomy, physical psychiatric therapies " spiral closer and closer to the interior of the brain " with this organ increasingly taking " centre stage as a source of disease and site of cure.
Lundin Oil was the lead operator of a consortium that worked in an area that had become the centre stage of Sudan's civil war.
The band enjoyed a modest charting single, " Go " ( No. 46 ) with Meyer's guitar heroics centre stage.
* The Grand Place is the centre of the historic town and the stage for the annual mock-battle of the Lumeçon.
Research shows that Zug was important as an administrative centre of the Kyburg and the Habsburg office, then as a local market place, and, thereafter, as a stage town for the transport of goods ( particularly salt and iron ) over the Hirzel hill towards Lucerne.
As Oriana Palusci says in her article " When Boys or Women Tell Their Dreams: Cleopatra and the Boy Actor ," “ Cleopatra constantly occupies the centre, if not of the stage, certainly of the discourse, often charged with sexual innuendos and disparaging tirades, of the male Roman world ”.
The negative characters, in contrast to their proletarian foils who performed boldly centre stage, were identifiable by their darker make-up and relegation to the outskirts of the stage until direct conflict with a positive character.
At a certain point in time the choirs, which had previously chanted to right of the altar or stage, and then to left of it, combined and sang in unison, or permitted the coryphaeus to sing for them all, while standing in the centre.
Politics then take centre stage as Thomas Howard, Duke of Norfolk, plans Cromwell's downfall by playing on Henry's infatuation with his young niece, Catherine Howard.
In his inaugural address, he said: That the nation has found a consensus for its highest office in some one who has sprung from the grass-roots of our society and grown up in the dust and heat of this sacred land is symbolic of the fact that the concerns of the common man have now moved to the centre stage of our social and political life.
Another triumph was the band ’ s headline slot on the electronic stage at the Berlin Festival, which is held at an old military airport in the centre of the city.
With William's health deteriorating ( himself estimating he had but a short time to live ), and with the Earl's undoubted influence over his successor Princess Anne, the King decided that Marlborough should take centre stage in European affairs.
Liverpool skiffle group The Quarrymen playing their first full show in 1957: John Lennon is centre stage.
In the late seventies, the development of engines reached a stage where the ‘ heat range ’ of conventional spark plugs with solid nickel alloy centre electrodes was unable to cope with their demands.
At this point, the issue of Joanna's mental incompetence moved from courtly annoyance to the centre of the political stage, since it was clear that Philip and his Burgundian entourage would be the real power-holders in Castile.
Hyderabadi haleem a type of meat stew is a popular dish during the month of Ramadan, it takes centre stage and becomes the main course at Iftar ( the breaking of the fast ).
Herzl obviously took centre stage, making the first speech at the Congress ; Nordau followed him with an assessment of the Jewish condition in Europe.
The LVF then linked up with Johnny Adair's C Company for a time as their feud with the UVF took centre stage.
The stage is always in the centre with the audience arranged on all sides.
* Metallica have been known to use a rectangular or oval shaped stage in recent years that is placed in the centre of an arena at their concerts.

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Renaissance architects included Alberti, Brunelleschi and Bramante. Many of these artists came from Florence and it remained an important centre for the Renaissance into the 16th century eventually to be overtaken by Rome and Venice.
During World War II, Turing worked for the Government Code and Cypher School ( GCCS ) at Bletchley Park, Britain's codebreaking centre.
A centre for the arts, learning and philosophy, home of Plato's Academy and Aristotle's Lyceum, it is widely referred to as the cradle of Western civilization and the birthplace of democracy, largely due to the impact of its cultural and political achievements during the 5th and 4th centuries BC in later centuries on the rest of the then known European continent.
Aachen was the administrative centre for the coal-mining industries in neighbouring places to the northeast ; it never played any role in brown coal mining, however, neither in administrative or industrial terms.
The early 1960s and 1970s ( up until his death in 1976 ) were marked by key works in Helsinki, in particular the huge town plan for the void in centre of Helsinki adjacent to Töölö Bay and the vast railway yards, and marked on the edges by significant buildings such as the National Museum and the main railway station, both by Eliel Saarinen.
The second Abbasid caliph, Al Mansur ( 754 – 775 ) founded the city of Baghdad to act as a centre of learning, and included in its design a library-translation centre known as Bayt al-Hikma ‘ Storehouse of Wisdom ’, which continued to receive development from his heirs and was to provide a major impetus for Arabic-Persian translations of Hellenistic astrological texts.
Kabul University was a centre for political debate and activism during that time.
During this period the Muslim world became an intellectual centre for science, philosophy, medicine and education as the Abbasids championed the cause of knowledge and established the " House of Wisdom " ( Arabic: بيت الحكمة ) in Baghdad.
Nuremberg was then an important and prosperous city, a centre for publishing and many luxury trades.
One land, however, has eclipsed all others in the Aegean by the wealth of its remains of all the prehistoric ages — Crete ; and so much so that, for the present, we must regard it as the fountainhead of Aegean civilization, and probably for long its political and social centre.
It is a pilgrimage centre for the shrine of the Sufi Saint Khwaja Moinuddin Chishti and is also the base for visiting Pushkar ( 11 km ), an ancient Hindu pilgrimage city, famous for the temple of Brahma.
A tourist information office run by VisitScotland sits in the centre of town, offering free information, selling souvenirs and acting as a booking office for many of the local B & B's and hotels.
Abersychan was a thriving industrial centre in the 19th century and early 20th century, particularly for iron production.
One of the most important pieces of the regeneration jigsaw for the Borough is reviving Accrington town centre.
The town centre is a principal engine of economic revival not only for all communities across the Borough, but also for Pennine Lancashire.
The Council using funding from the Single Regeneration Budget appointed URBED ( Urban, Built, Environment Design ), consultants based in Manchester to help the Council, our partners and the local community develop a new vision for Accrington town centre.
Local landmarks include the Christie Park, the Fountain ( a traffic junction in the town centre, although there has not been a working fountain there for some years ),
Fierce hand-to-hand fighting gradually forced the French towards the village centre, in and around the walled churchyard which had been prepared for defence.
The time was about 16: 30, and the two armies were in close contact across the whole four-mile ( 6 km ) front, from the skirmishing in the marshes in the south, through the vast cavalry battle on the open plain ; to the fierce struggle for Ramillies at the centre, and to the north, where, around the cottages of Offus and Autre-Eglise, Orkney and de la Guiche faced each other across the Petite Gheete ready to renew hostilities.
The massive, reinforced concrete U-boat pens have proved impractical to demolish and are now partly used as a cultural centre for exhibitions.

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