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The city had been under Visigothic siege since shortly after Stilicho's deposition and execution in the summer of 408.
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I had come to New Orleans two years earlier after graduating college, partly because I loved the city and partly because there was quite a noted art colony there.
Grigorss overcomes the suitor in battle, delivers the city from its oppressors and marries Sibylla who had fallen in love with the beautiful knight the moment she saw him.
Miriam had not yet goaded him into mentioning her directly, but one can feel the generalized anger in Wright's remarks to reporters when he was asked, one morning on arrival in Chicago, what he thought of the city as a whole.
In 1687 the Turks, who had been in control of the city since the fifteenth century, with a truly shattering lack of prudence used the Parthenon as a powder magazine.
It was not until we had returned to the city to live, while I was still at Brown and Sharpe's, that I felt the full impact of evangelical Christianity.
New Orleans had a notorious red-light district extending over twenty-eight city blocks, and the business-minded mayor of the city journeyed to Washington to present the case for `` the God-given right of men to be men ''.
The U.N.-chartered plane which was flying from the conference city of Ndola in Northern Rhodesia had been riddled with machinegun bullets last weekend and was newly repaired.
We had assumed that at least this local legislative body had nothing to hide, and, therefore, had no objections to making the deliberations of its committees and the city commissions available to the public.
For the old preacher who had been there twenty-five years was dead, and the city mourned him.
The city had recently given him a small salary, but it was not enough to supply even necessities.
He had on his gray tweed overcoat and his city hat, and his brief case lay on the bench.
But that year was different, for just as the city, in the form of my street clothes, had intruded upon my mountain nights, so an essential part of the summer gave promise of continuing into the fall: Jessica and I, about to be separated not by a mere footbridge or messhall kitchen but by the immense obstacle of residing in cruelly distant boroughs, had agreed to correspond.
It was reported to Welch's office that a thief in the city jail had attempted suicide.
Despite the opposition of the city newspapers, the Pratt Hall meeting `` brought together a very respectable audience, composed in part of those who had been distinguished for years for their radical views upon the subject of slavery, of many of our colored citizens, and of those who were attracted to the place by the novelty of such a gathering ''.
Davis commenced his remarks by an allusion to the general feeling of opposition which the meeting had encountered from many of the citizens and all the newspapers of the city.
And they also had the lights of the city, the port wall lanterns, and a shore crane's spotlight to guide on.
One vocational instructor in a city vocational school, speaking of his course in a certain field, said he had no difficulty placing all students in jobs outside of the city.
Radio broadcasts had not begun and most devotees of baseball attended the games near home, in the town park or a pasture, with perhaps two or three trips to the city each season to see the Cubs or the Pirates or the Indians or the Red Sox.
When he turned into the highway that led to the outskirts of the city and then rose toward home, he had to pull over to the curb and wait for a few minutes, sucking in air and squinting and blinking his eyes to clear them of tears.
City Controller Alexander Hemphill charged Tuesday that the bids on the Frankford Elevated repair project were rigged to the advantage of a private contracting company which had `` an inside track '' with the city.
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There has probably always been a bridge of some sort at the southeastern corner of the city.
It is remembered and has been commemorated by a bust in a park and a square in the city which was renamed Piazzo Lauro Di Bosis after the war.
The inference has been too widely accepted that because the Communists have succeeded in building barricades across Berlin the free world must acquiesce in dismemberment of that living city.
In each city civic and education leaders have been working hard to get public opinion prepared to accept the inevitability of equal treatment.
The trends have been in evidence for many years -- population shifts to the Southwest and Far West, and from city to suburbs.
If the distant patron of the suburban branch has been frightened away from downtown by traffic problems, however, the city store can only pressure the politicians to do something about the highways or await the completion of the federal highway program.
`` For three days now a German reconnaissance plane has been over the city taking pictures.
`` Washington '', President Kennedy has been heard to remark ironically, `` is a city of southern efficiency and northern charm ''.
Mr. Hawksley, the state's general treasurer, has been a part-time CD director in the city for the last nine years.
Business relations between the companies and city have been under investigation by Hemphill and District Attorney James C. Crumlish, Jr..
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.
For the convenience of guests bundle centers have been established throughout the city and suburbs where the donations may be deposited between now and the date of the big event.
In winter, in the city, there had been the Maneret School, which taught excellently with a kind of austere passion for knowledge ; ;
A new gas pipeline to Iran has been completed, and a road to Iran through the southern city of Meghri allows trade with that country.
The precise archaeological site of the city of Akkad has not yet been found.
Despite numerous searches, the city has never been found.
She has been banished as high priestess from the temple in the city of Ur and from Uruk and exiled to the steppe.
The city had long been ruled by kings born to the Penthilid clan but, during the poet's life, the Penthilids were a spent force and rival aristocrats and their factions contended with each other for supreme power.
The Acropolis, the Temple of Aphrodite, the market, the city ’ s walls, the basilica and the port have all been excavated.
In the east and west extremes of the city the two acropoleis are situated, where a number of tombs have been found, many of which are intact.
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Around that statue in the green park where children play and lovers walk in twos and there is a glowing view of the whole city, in that park are the rows of marble busts of Garibaldi's fallen men, the ones who one day rushed out of the Porta San Pancrazio and, under fire all the way, up the long, straight narrow lane to take, then lose the high ground of the Villa Doria Pamphili.
The wartime protocol of September 12, 1944, designated a special `` Greater Berlin '' area, comprising the entire city, to be under joint occupation.
Farmers were recruited into regiments for this work from August to October — a period of food shortage — under the control of city temple authorities, thus acting as a form of unemployment relief.
She begs the moon god Nanna to intercede for her because the city of Uruk, under the ruler Lugalanne, has rebelled against Sargon.
He promulgated the fuero of tortum per tortum, facilitating taking the law into one's own hands, which among others reassumed the Muslim right to dwell in the city and their right to keep their properties and practice their religion under their own jurisdiction as long as they maintained tax payment and relocated to the suburbs.
He founded the Academy of Naples under Giovanni Pontano and, for his entrance in the city in 1443, had a magnificent triumphal arch added to the main gate of Castel Nuovo.
Also excluded from voting were citizens whose rights were under suspension ( typically for failure to pay a debt to the city: see atimia ); for some Athenians this amounted to permanent ( and in fact inheritable ) disqualification.
Abadan is thought to have been further developed into a major port city under the Abbasids ' rule.
On 4 November 2003, voters approved a greenbelt plan under which the city government bought development rights to pieces of land adjacent to Ann Arbor to preserve them from sprawling development .< ref name =" greenbelt ">
The Older Parthenon was still under construction when the Persians sacked the city in 480 BC.
By 150 BC, Assyria was under the control of the Parthian Empire as Athura ( the Parthian word for Assyria ) where the Assyrian city of Ashur seems to have gained a degree of autonomy, and temples to the native gods of Assyria were resurrected.
Some also claim it to be the oldest subway tunnel in the world, as it was built by the cut and cover method under a city street, specifically for the purposes of improved public safety, attaining grade separation and enhanced railway operations.
Insofar as it carried railroad trains under a city street, some have claimed it be the world's first subway tunnel, though, unlike a modern rapid transit subway, it had no stations.
The construction boom has raised many environmental concerns and both the local autonomous government and city council are under scrutiny by the European Union.
The mayor put the city under the municipal equivalent of martial law and declared a curfew.
The city was under the Republic of Venice from 1405 to 1797.
Abd al-Rahman died in his adopted city of Córdoba, and was supposedly buried under the site of the Mezquita.
* 1862 – American Civil War: Forces under Union Admiral David Farragut demand the surrender of the Confederate city of New Orleans, Louisiana.
In the city the population was spread out with 27. 8 % under the age of 18, 8. 9 % from 18 to 24, 28. 0 % from 25 to 44, 19. 5 % from 45 to 64, and 15. 9 % who were 65 years of age or older.
In the city the population was spread out with 27. 8 % under the age of 18, 9. 4 % from 18 to 24, 31. 4 % from 25 to 44, 19. 3 % from 45 to 64, and 12. 1 % who were 65 years of age or older.
The city ’ s lush tree canopy, which filters out pollutants and cools sidewalks and buildings, has increasingly been under assault from man and nature due to heavy rains, drought, aged forests, new pests, and urban construction.
St Athanasius seems to have been brought early in life under the immediate supervision of the ecclesiastical authorities of his native city.
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.
The city fell under Roman rule around 60 BC, its importance lying in the commerce of tin and lead towards Rome.
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