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.

So the verdict was `` death at the hands of a person or persons unknown '', and the elite of the city, accepting Delphine's testimony, welcomed her and the doctor back into the fold.

It was to provide a safe and spacious crossing for these caravans, and also to make a pleasance for the city, that Shah Abbas 2, in about 1657 built, of sun-baked brick, tile, and stone, the present bridge.

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.

That night a note written in Slocum's hand and dated from inside the captured city came to Sherman stating that the Twentieth Corps was in possession of Atlanta.

Samuel Gorton was born at Gorton, England, near the present city of Manchester, about 1592.

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.

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 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.

As we understand, this directive was given to all city and county employes.

The city was a center of manufacture, especially in textiles, and also because of the beauty of some of its surroundings, a residence for many owners of the great industries in north Alabama.

the rather pleasant white city was on the hill where the chief stores were.

For the old preacher who had been there twenty-five years was dead, and the city mourned him.

Port Jervis, basking in the foothills, was the city of God.

The city had recently given him a small salary, but it was not enough to supply even necessities.

The doctor sat down rather wearily, caressing the hen and remarking that the city was not the place for a poultry-loving man, but no sooner was the remark out than a knock at this door obliged him to cover the hen with his greatcoat once more.

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.

From proud pool-owners to perpetual hosts and handymen was a short step -- no more than the change from city clothes to trunks.

It was reported to Welch's office that a thief in the city jail had attempted suicide.

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 ).

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

Left alone while her husband was miles away in the city, the modern wife assumed more and more duties normally reserved for the male.

The central city areas, in other words, exhibit the two characteristics which violate the life principle of congregations of the major denominations: they have too few middle-class people ; ;

Central city areas have become progressively poorer locales for the major denominations since the exodus of middle-class people from most central cities.

With few exceptions, the major denominations are rapidly losing their hold on the central city.

Samuel D. Goodis, representing the Philadelphia Hotel Association, objected on Tuesday to a proposed boost by the city in licensing fees, saying that occupancy rates in major hotels here ranged from 48 to 74 percent last year.

Abadan is thought to have been further developed into a major port city under the Abbasids ' rule.

Recently, Abandan has been the site of major labor activity as workers at the oil refineries in the city have staged walkouts and strikes to protest non-payment of wages and the political situation in the country.

Canberra is a planned city that was originally designed by Walter Burley Griffin, a major 20th century American architect.

Aeschylus travelled to Sicily once or twice in the 470s BC, having been invited by Hiero I of Syracuse, a major Greek city on the eastern side of the island ; and during one of these trips he produced The Women of Aetna ( in honor of the city founded by Hieron ) and restaged his Persians.

The first major meetings of the national left-wing campus group Students for a Democratic Society took place in Ann Arbor in 1960 ; in 1965, the city was home to the first U. S. teach-in against the Vietnam War.

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.

Phoenix is by far the hottest major city in North America ; the average high temperature during baseball's regular season is, and game-time temperatures well above are very common during the summer.

An International Council ( IC ) was set up to discuss and decide major issues regarding the WSF, while the local organizing committee in the host city is responsible for the practical preparations of the event.

It is well connected with Jaipur, Delhi, Ahmedabad, Ujjain, Howrah, Bhopal, Mumbai, Jammu, Indore and all other major cities. There is a major technical and repair railway workshop in the city.

The population of Ajmer city according census 2011 is 5, 42, 580 positioning Ajmer in top 100 major cities of India and 5th in Rajasthan.

The latter fell after a violent fight, leaving the road open to the major city and provincial capital of Málaga, which he captured after one day.

Atlanta has a reputation as the " city in a forest " due to an abundance of trees that is unique among major cities.

However, the nickname is also factually accurate, as the city ’ s tree coverage percentage is at 36 %, the highest out of all major American cities, and above the national average of 27 %.

It was thought, however, that locating the capital in a major city like Frankfurt or Hamburg would imply a permanent capital.

Bursa became the first major capital city of the early Ottoman Empire following its capture from the Byzantines in 1326.

The city has traditionally been a pole of attraction, and was a major center for refugees from various ethnic backgrounds who immigrated to Anatolia from the Balkans during the loss of the Ottoman territories in Europe between the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

The city is still a major center for textiles in Turkey and is home to the Bursa International Textiles and Trade Center ( Bursa Uluslararası Tekstil ve Ticaret Merkezi, or BUTTIM.

Each of the seven military commands has its headquarters in a major city: Eastern Military Command ( Comando Militar do Leste-CML ), Rio de Janeiro ; Southeastern Military Command ( Comando Militar do Sudeste-CMSE ), São Paulo ; Southern Military Command ( Comando Militar do Sul-CMS ), Porto Alegre ; Northeastern Military Command ( Comando Militar do Nordeste-CMN ), Recife ; CMO, Campo Grande ; CMP, Brasília ; and CMA, Manaus.

There were major commissions: one from the city of Dessau for five tightly designed " Laubenganghäuser " ( apartment buildings with balcony access ), which are still in use today, and another for the headquarters of the Federal School of the German Trade Unions ( ADGB ) in Bernau bei Berlin.