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The city has a variety of sporting and cultural activities and houses several schools including The Blue School, a state coeducational comprehensive school originally founded in 1654 and the independent Wells Cathedral School, which was founded in 909 and is one of the five established musical schools for school-age children in Britain.
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There has probably always been a bridge of some sort at the southeastern corner of the city.
I think that we are here also talking of the kind of fear that a young boy has for a group of boys who are approaching at night along the streets of a large 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.
Falling somewhere in a category between Einstein's theory and sand fleas -- difficult to see but undeniably there, nevertheless -- is the tropical green `` city '' of Islandia, a string of offshore islands that has almost no residents, limited access and an unlimited future.
The city has a stake in stimulating growth and purchasing power throughout outstate Missouri and Southern Illinois.
Even apart from the fact that now at the age of 31 my personal life is being totally disrupted for the second time for no very compelling reason -- I cannot help looking around at the black leather jacket brigades standing idly on the street corners and in the taverns of every American city and asking myself if our society has gone mad.
When a city has arranged things like this you cannot easily change them.
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.
Land within commuting distance of a growing city is usually high in price, higher if it has subdivision possibilities.
`` Washington '', President Kennedy has been heard to remark ironically, `` is a city of southern efficiency and northern charm ''.
In the city, he said, the waiting list for those who want to join the union is so long that unless a boy has an inside track he can't get in.
One of the hardest chores a detective has is hanging around on a city street, trying to make himself inconspicuous, keeping an eye on the entrance of an office building and waiting.
Mr. Hawksley, the state's general treasurer, has been a part-time CD director in the city for the last nine years.
These contend there is a serious question as to whether Mr. Wagner has the confidence of the Democratic rank and file in the city.
The city has sued for the full amount of the $172,400 performance bond covering the contract.
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.
Mrs. Mary Self, who knows more than any other person about the 5,000 city employes for whom she has kept personnel records over the years, has closed her desk and retired.
A startlingly high percentage do not exceed $500 annually, which includes the librarian's salary, and not even the New York Public has enough money to meet its needs -- this in the world's richest city.
Practically everybody in Berlin has relatives and friends that live in the opposite part of the city.
As soon as the fox has taken hold on most of the populace he imports more wharf rats, who, of course, say they are the aggrieved victims of an extermination campaign in the city.
In describing the initial Allied occupation of a middle-sized German city, the picture has color, pictorial pull and genuinely moving moments.
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His testimony came during a hearing on a bill raising fees for a wide variety of licenses, permits and city services.
The city was referred to as " Hüdavendigar " ( meaning " God's Gift ") during the Ottoman period, while a more recent nickname is " Yeşil Bursa " ( meaning " Green Bursa ") in reference to the parks and gardens located across its urban tissue, as well as to the vast forests in rich variety that extend in the surrounding region.
:* Chicago has hosted a variety of Bastille Day celebrations in a number of locations in the city, including Navy Pier and Oz Park.
This certainly was a successful device as water clocks of similar design were still being made in Baghdad when the Mongols captured the city in 1258 A. D. A variety of automatic devices have been used over the centuries to accomplish useful tasks or simply to just entertain.
Getting unsatisfactory responses from city officials, as many as 7, 000 women joined the march to Versailles, bringing with them cannons and a variety of smaller weapons.
In addition to a wide variety of restaurants, hotels, shops, and a modern BRT transport system ( Transmetro ), the city has a wide variety of art galleries, theaters, sports venues and museums ( including some fine collections of Pre-Columbian art ) and continually offers an increasing amount of cultural activities.
Outside the limited boundaries of the old city, a variety of arrangements have governed the wider area since 1855, culminating with the creation of the Greater London administrative area in 1965.
Embedded in Greek myth, there remain fragments of quite variant tales, hinting at the rich variety of myth that once existed, city by city ; but Hesiod's retelling of the old stories became, according to the fifth-century historian Herodotus, the accepted version that linked all Hellenes.
The majority of common wet-cured ham available in U. S. supermarkets is of the " city ham " or " sweet cure " variety, in which brine is injected into the meat for a very rapid curing suitable for mass market.
He began experimenting with a wide variety of techniques, an experimentation that coincided with the burgeoning of the nearby industrial city of Manchester.
Certain regions are especially associated with some dishes ( for example, the city of Jeonju with bibimbap ) either as a place of origin or for a famous regional variety.
Being a cosmopolitan city of Pakistan, Karachi has variety of restaurants from fast food to conventional restaurants and international.
Near Downtown, the urban core of the city has a variety of neighborhoods, including historic Westport, Ivanhoe, Hyde Park, Squire Park, the Crossroads Arts District, 18th and Vine Historic District, Pendleton Heights, Quality Hill, the West Bottoms, and the River Market.
According to Weber, the city as a politically autonomous organization of people living in close proximity, employed in a variety of specialized trades, and physically separated from the surrounding countryside, only fully developed in the West and to a great extent shaped its cultural evolution:
In fact, the number and variety of foreign residents ( especially the expatriates ) makes the city quite culturally diverse, with many foreign pubs, shops and cultural events.
A variety of languages were spoken: Lithuanian, Polish, Ruthenian, Russian, Old Slavonic, Latin, German, Yiddish, Hebrew and Turkic ; the city was compared to Babylon.
The most popular variety, Zhenjiang vinegar ( 鎮江香醋 ), originated in the city of Zhenjiang, in the eastern coastal province of Jiangsu, China and also is produced in Tianjin and Hong Kong.
In the 2000s, a wide variety of historic buildings in the city centre underwent restoration.
* In some countries, Shiraz is a synonym for the grape variety Syrah, used for wine, and once thought to originate from the city of Shiraz, Iran
The city has a variety of theatres, museums, and other cultural and sporting venues, which have helped to make it a major centre for tourism, with over one million staying visitors and 3. 8 million day visitors to the city each year.
The castle now serves as a gallery for a variety of temporary exhibitions in the city.
Białystok has a wide variety of media outlets serving the city and surrounding region.
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