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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.

Aachen's railway station, the Hauptbahnhof ( Central Station ), was constructed in 1841 at the Cologne-Aachen railway line and replaced in 1905, moving it significantly closer to the city centre.

At the centre of Alfred's reformed military defence system was a network of fortresses, or burhs, distributed at strategic points throughout the kingdom.

In early manhood ( c. 464 – 461 BC ) he went to Athens, which was rapidly becoming the centre of Greek culture.

From the Renaissance onward the chained nude figure of Andromeda typically was the centre of interest, and often she was shown alone, fearfully awaiting the monster.

It was known as Asuristan during this period, and became a main centre of the Church of the East ( now the Assyrian Church of the East ), with a flourishing Syriac ( Assyrian ) Christian culture which exists there to this day.

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.

Nuremberg was then an important and prosperous city, a centre for publishing and many luxury trades.

In the summer of 2001 a new visitors ' centre was opened to the public beside the Abbey's west front.

An archaeological investigation of the site of the visitors ' centre before building started revealed the foundations of the medieval precinct wall, with a gateway, and stonework discarded during manufacture, showing that the area was the site of the masons ' yard while the Abbey was being built.

Aberdare, during its boom years, was considered a centre of Welsh culture: it hosted the first National Eisteddfod in 1861, again in 1885, and in 1956 at Aberdare Park where the Gorsedd standing stones still exist.

Abersychan was a thriving industrial centre in the 19th century and early 20th century, particularly for iron production.

The centre of this cult was in uten-ha / Sa-ka / Cynopolis, a place whose Greek name simply means " city of dogs ".

The Council recognized expert help was required to help shape what the town centre should look like over the next 10 – 15 years and how to make this happen.

In antiquity, Arcturus was closer to the centre of the constellation.

The town was redeveloped in the 1970s with a new town centre layout and traffic system.

The modern beef breed was developed in the 1950s by Professor Hanset, working at an artificial insemination centre in Liege province.

Both Benedict Biscop and Ceolfrith had acquired books from the Continent, and in Bede's day the monastery was a renowned centre of learning.

By 16: 00, with the enemy troops besieged in Blenheim and Oberglau, the Allied centre of 81 squadrons ( nine squadrons had been transferred from Cutts ' column ), supported by 18 battalions was firmly planted amidst the French line of 64 squadrons and nine battalions of raw recruits.

With the battle still not won, Marlborough had to rebuke one of his cavalry officers who was attempting to leave the field – " Sir, you are under a mistake, the enemy lies that way ..." Now, at the Duke's command, the second Allied line under von Bulow and the Count of Ost-Friese was ordered forward, and, driving through the centre, the Allies finally put Tallard's tired horse to rout, not without cost.

The purpose is to accumulate the highest score for a game ; points are scored for the stones resting closest to the centre of the house at the conclusion of each end, which is completed when both teams have thrown all of their stones.

Michelangelo's Moses ( Michelangelo ) | Moses ( centre ) with Rachel and Leah on his sides, completed in 1515

The term ' Staines Lino ' became a worldwide name but the factory was closed around 1970 and is now the site of the Two Rivers shopping centre completed circa 2000.

In 2007, Enfield Town centre completed a major redevelopment project under the name PalaceXchange while retaining the Palace Gardens Shopping Centre.

In 1960, the BBC opened the BBC Television Centre, and in 2008, Westfield London, a large development with new transport links and a shopping centre, finally completed the redevelopment after one hundred years.

The present church on the site west of the town centre is St Alfege's Church, designed by Nicholas Hawksmoor in 1714 and completed in 1718.

This completed the northern half of the site, creating a quadrangle with the garden at its centre, but left the museum without a proper façade.

The substantial task of re-building the cloisters as an education centre and refectory began in 2003 and was completed in May 2007.

The proposals, which promise to create up to 2, 000 jobs, will extend the town centre and edge of centre southwards in a three-stage development, which was expected to be completed by 2012.

Kingston's location at the Rideau Canal entrance to Lake Ontario, after canal construction was completed in 1832, made it the primary military and economic centre of Upper Canada.

The centre was completed in phases, the last one as of 2012 being the Spazio shopping centre and the Cadenza residential development in 2005-2006, next to the RandstadRail station Centrum-West, which serves as the terminus for RandstadRail lines 3 and 4 and the central bus station of Zoetermeer.

It was finally completed and removed nearer the centre of population at that point.

Located between Montpetit Hall and Morisett Library, the centre was completed in 1973 at a cost of over C $ 6 million.

Todmorden has the look of a Victorian mill town and has some notable buildings including Dobroyd Castle ( completed in 1869 ), now used as a residential activity centre for schoolchildren ; the Edwardian Hippodrome Theatre ; an imposing Greek Revival town hall ( built 1866 – 1875 ) that dominates the centre of town ; the Grade I listed Todmorden Unitarian Church ( built 1865 – 1869 ); and the 120 ft Stoodley Pike monument ( built 1814 and rebuilt in 1854 ) atop the hill of the same name.

An inner ring road system was completed in 1975 in an attempt to reduce congestion in the town centre, which has since been augmented by an outer bypass with the expansion of the A417 road.

* Rama IX Bridge, Bangkok, 450 m main span, 6 traffic lanes, completed 1987, at that date the second longest centre span in the world.

In halloween, expect to see youngsters to dress in costumes trying to scare passersby. The Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre ( HKCEC ), a HK $ 4. 8 billion convention centre extension completed in 1997, covers over 16 acres ( 65, 000 m² ) of newly reclaimed land that added an extra 38, 000 m² of functional space to the existing convention centre.

Another pedestrian bridge over the Upper Trave River was completed in spring 2007 to provide a connection the university ’ s main building complex in the old city centre.

* Centrepoint Shopping Centre is a shopping centre that began construction in early 2007 and was completed by Christmas 2008 behind the Tamworth Town Hall, in the CBD between the old city library and behind the speciality shops in the main street Peel St.

By 1971, the full route was completed between the junction with the M1 motorway at Rugby and the A38 road several miles north-east of Birmingham city centre, including Bromford Viaduct between Castle Bromwich ( J5 ) and Gravelly Hill ( J6 ), which at 3½ miles is the longest viaduct in Great Britain.

The first building to be completed was the Nationwide Building Society which, while not directly connected to the shopping centre, was part of the development.