We have now a quiet city, fewer automobiles, less congestion, and fewer retail customers shopping in center city.

If an atom bomb in 1945 could destroy an entire city surely the atomic arsenal we now have is more than adequate to fulfill any military objective required of it.

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.

Only a radical change in the nature of the population in the central city would be likely to destroy this preference -- and we must now turn our attention to the question of whether such a change, gloomily foreseen by so many urban diagnosticians, is actually upon us.

`` For three days now a German reconnaissance plane has been over the city taking pictures.

There were lights glinting in the city, too, even though it was now dark enough for a few stars to become visible.

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.

Memphis stinkpotters like McKellar Lake, inside the city limits, and sailors look for autumn winds at Arkabutla Lake where fall racing is now in progress.

However, this story may reflect a cultural influence which had the reverse direction: Hittite cuneiform texts mention a Minor Asian god called Appaliunas or Apalunas in connection with the city of Wilusa attested in Hittite inscriptions, which is now generally regarded as being identical with the Greek Ilion by most scholars.

In December 1988, the second largest city in the republic, Leninakan ( now Gyumri ), was heavily damaged by a massive quake that killed more than 25, 000 people.

* 1539 – Re-founding of the city of Bogotá, New Granada ( now Colombia ), by Nikolaus Federmann and Sebastián de Belalcázar.

* 1782 – The city of Rattanakosin, now known internationally as Bangkok, is founded on the eastern bank of the Chao Phraya River by King Buddha Yodfa Chulaloke.

The castle was classified as a protected historical monument by France in 1984 and most of the domain now belongs to the Coastal Protection Agency and is managed by the city of Hendaye.

The Bonapartes at the time had a modest four-story home in town ( now a museum known as Casa Buonaparte ) and a rarely used country home in the hills north of the city ( now site of the Arboretum des Milelli ).

After the death of Alexander the city ( now known as Akroinοn ( Ακροϊνόν ) or Nikopolis ( Νικόπολις ) in Ancient Greek ), was ruled by the Seleucids and the kings of Pergamon, then Rome and Byzantium.

Sakharov was arrested on January 22, 1980, following his public protests against the Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan in 1979, and was sent to internal exile in the city of Gorky, now Nizhny Novgorod, a city that was off-limits to foreigners.

The city is also famous for the Convento de Jesus ( now known as the City Museum " Santa Joana "), built in the 15th century, which contains the tomb of the daughter of Afonso V, St. Joana, who died in 1490.

The three highest buildings in the city are the radio mast of WDR in Bonn-Venusberg ( 180 m ), the headquarters of the Deutsche Post called Post Tower ( 162. 5 m ) and the former building for the German members of parliament Langer Eugen ( 114. 7 m ) now the new location of the UN-Campus.

Also relocated from the state of Rio de Janeiro were the 1st and 3rd Combat Cars Regiment, now stationed in the city of Santa Maria, in the state of Rio Grande do Sul.

The Turks called the city Istanbul ( though not officially renamed until 1930 ) and it has remained Turkey's largest and most populous city, although Ankara is now the capital.

" A second possible objective now occurred to the French – an Allied incursion into Alsace and an attack on the city of Strasbourg.

The Louisiana city is known, of course, for its fine food, good music and its colorful hospitality `` and, when guests arrive at Philmont that night '', says Mrs. Grinsfelder, `` that is exactly what we expect to offer them.

In French, and sometimes ( especially earlier ) also in English, the city is known as Aix-la-Chapelle ().

There is some documentary proof that the Romans named the hot sulfur springs of Aachen Aquis-Granum, and indeed to this day the city is known in Italian as Aquisgrana, in Spanish as Aquisgrán and in Polish as Akwizgran.

The first known mention of the city of Akkad is in an inscription of Enshakushanna of Uruk, where he claims to have defeated Agade — indicating that it was in existence well before the days of Sargon of Akkad, whom the Sumerian King List claims to have built it.

* Amastris, who was believed to be the eponym of the city previously known as Kromna, although the city was also thought to have been named after the historical Amastris

* Myrleia, possible eponym of a city in Bithynia, which was later known as Apamea.

The city states of this region later formed a confederation known as the Achaean League which was influential during the 3rd and 2nd centuries BC.

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.

* In the science fiction movie series The Matrix, the last human city, known as Zion, is a hyperstructure.

It was already founded at the time of the establishment of the city shortly after 1200 ; the exact date is not known.

To the north of the city is a large artificial lake, called Anasagar with a marble structure known as Baradari.

The city was known as Afyon ( opium ), until the name was changed to Afyonkarahisar by the Turkish Parliament in 2004.

Little could Abd al-Rahman have known that as he set off to settle matters in that northern city, his hopes of warring against Baghdad would be indefinitely put on hold.

In the 10th century Troas is given as a suffragan of Cyzicus and distinct from the famous Troy ( Heinrich Gelzer, Ungedruckte ... Texte der Notitiae episcopatuum, 552 ; Georgii Cyprii descriptio orbis romani, 64 ); it is not known when the city was destroyed and the diocese disappeared.

Atlanta is mostly encircled by Interstate 285, a beltway locally known as " the Perimeter " that has come to mark the boundary between “ Inside the Perimeter ” ( ITP ), the city and close-in suburbs, and “ Outside the Perimeter ” ( OTP ), the outer suburbs and exurbs.

Ansbach, originally Onolzbach ,( Onz ’ s-bach or -“ brook ”) also known initially as Anspach, a city in Bavaria, Germany.

The city also has castle known as Margrafen – Schloss built between 1704-1738.

The city dates back at least to the 10th century when it was known by its first Latin name of Alavarium, literally, " a gathering place or preserve of birds.

The city is well known for its festivals, diverse architecture, nightlife, contemporary arts, public transportation networks and a high quality of living.

The earliest known settlement at this location was the Ancient Greek city of Cius, which Philip V of Macedon granted to Prusias, the King of Bithynia, in 202 BC.