Aroused by what they considered an evil influence, some members of the clergy, joined by city authorities, merchants, and master craftsmen, began the attack on the plays and the actors for what they called `` the abuses of the art '', but by 1582 some of them began to denounce the whole idea of acting.

The big factories which are relatively near the centers of our cities -- the rubber factories in Akron, Chrysler's Detroit plants, U.S. Steel's Pittsburgh works -- often began on these sites at a time when that was the edge of the city, yet close to transport ( river ), storage ( piers ) and power ( river ).

Gladden has been an outspoken critic of the present city administration and led his union's battle against the teamsters, which began organizing city firemen in 1959.

The architectural development of the city ended in the 18th century, when the city began to expand beyond its ( still existing ) wall.

The Muslim Arabs then began to move towards the lands east of Persia and in 642 captured the city, Herat.

With the coronation of Frederick I in 1701 as king ( in Königsberg ), Berlin became the new capital of the Kingdom of Prussia ( instead of Königsberg ); this was a successful attempt to centralize the capital in the very outspread Prussian Kingdom, and it was the first time the city began to grow.

According to an early interview, with the city snowed under during the Great Blizzard of 1978 in Chicago, the two began preliminary work on the Computerized Bulletin Board System, or CBBS.

After the defensive battles at Slivnitsa and Vidin, Bulgaria began an offensive which took the city of Pirot.

The BBWAA began by polling three writers in each league city in 1938, reducing that number to two per league city in 1961.

:" Being in great difficulty they fled to a neighbouring city ( ad civitatem, quæ iuxta erat, confugerunt ) and began to promise and offer to their gods -- But inasmuch as the city was not strong and there were few to offer resistance, they sent messengers to the Danes and asked for friendship and alliance.

In the early 1970s, however, the New York Convention and Visitors Bureau ( now NYC & Company, the official marketing and tourism organization for New York City ), under the leadership of its president, Charles Gillett, began promoting " the Big Apple " for the city.

In 1503 the new bishop Christoph von Utenheim refused to give Basel a new constitution whereupon, to show its power, the city began the construction of a new city hall.

After the creation of the Republic of Turkey in 1923, the Turkish government began to formally object to the use of Constantinople in other languages and ask that others use the more common name for the city.

The first group of Ottomans who entered the city were killed almost immediately, with the effect that the other Muslims began to retreat.

The city's commercial center began to shift from Harvard Square to Central Square, which became the downtown of the city around this time.

Harvard University had always been important in the city ( both as a landowner and as an institution ), but it began to play a more dominant role in the city's life and culture.

He was employed as a law clerk at Chioggia and Feltre, after which he returned to his native city and began practicing.

After a year in Paris, he therefore began to leave the city and paint scenes in the countryside to capture the daily reality of village life.

As the city's population — and public college enrollment — grew during the early 20th century and the city struggled for resources, the municipal colleges slowly began adopting selective tuition, also known as instructional fees, for a handful of courses and programs.

Fueled by the cheap and plentiful coal barged up the canal and down the river, the city was able to develop and industrialize at the same pace as other Eastern cities.

The city has been slow to industrialize due to environmental considerations and having an already vibrant economy based on Tourism, Ship transport and Agriculture, nevertheless there are local Food processing, Timber Treatment and Steel industries.

In the late 1920s, sociologists at the University of Chicago subdivided the city into 77 distinct community areas, which can further be subdivided into over 200 neighborhoods.

These included provisions to curb excessive demands on peasants for provisions by the monasteries and tax evasion by the nobles, setting up an independent police force, the abolishment of the death penalty, extension of secular education, and the provision of electricity throughout the city of Lhasa in the 1920s.

In the mid 1920s the city established the first zoning ordinances, electrical traffic signals and street lighting.

The T. Eaton Company's catalogue warehouse moved to the city in the early 1920s, employing over seven hundred people.

A total of 15 chefs were employed there, and Alois Hitler, the stepbrother of the future Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler, was a waiter there in the 1920s, before he opened his own restaurant and hotel at Wittenbergplatz, in the western part of the city.

In the 1920s and 1930s, some remains of the city were exposed ; they suggest a population of at least 1, 500 to 2, 000, which is fairly large for that region and time, and it is likely that Rungholt was a major port.

1920s Berlin was a city of many social contrasts.

The city hosts a large Chinese community since the 1920s.

The city centre is a mixture of medieval, neoclassical and art nouveau buildings, as well as ' neo-Romanian ' buildings dating from the beginning of the 20th century and a remarkable collection of modern buildings from the 1920s and 1930s.

" By the 1920s, Birmingham was the 19th largest city in the U. S and held more than 30 % of the population of the state.

After suffering a decline during the First World War and the Russian Civil War, the city resumed its growth in the late 1920s, with the expansion of various industries, iron ore and metallurgy in particular, and by 1939 its population had reached 104, 500.

It's the early 1920s and Aleksandr Ivanovich ' Sascha ' Luzhin ( Turturro ), a gifted but tormented chess player, arrives in a Northern Italian city to compete in an international chess competition.

During the 1920s and 1930s, the city re-emerged as a major tourist destination.

By the 1920s Odessa had become a large, thriving city, complete with European architecture and electrified urban transport.

The first marxist groups in Cyprus formed in Limassol in the early 1920s ; in 1926, the Communist party of Cyprus was formed in the city.

In the 1920s and 30s, the city essentially was rebuilt from scratch under the rule of the Shah of Iran, Reza Shah Pahlavi.

In the 1920s and 1930s the first council houses were built in the city, much of it within the newly formed Raffles suburb to the west of the city.

During the Florida land boom of the 1920s, New Port Richey became the winter home of silent screen star Thomas Meighan and golfer Gene Sarazen ; Meighan attempted to bring other Hollywood figures to the city.

In part due to the German-Polish trade war in the 1920s, the industry of Chorzów, a border city at that time, stagnated until 1933.

Through the 1920s, Zelzah grew up, linked to Los Angeles by annexation, water, city government taxes, and transportation.

Birmingham's banking institutions enjoyed considerable growth as well and new skyscrapers started to appear in the city center for the first time since the 1920s.

One of the reasons why population growth was so slow in Hamilton until the 1920s was the great difficulty in bridging the many arms of the deep swampy gullies that cross the city.

Most of Petts Wood was built in the early 20th Century by the developer Basil Scruby together with Master builder, Noel Rees, as a high quality estate in a rural setting only a short train journey from the city, with the east side being built first: it is often quoted in sociological textboooks as a classic piece of 1920s town planning, as the first building in place was the station, and the rest of the town developed from there.