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.

During his presidency, an earthquake near Ambato severely damaged the city and surrounding areas and killed approximately 8, 000 people.

Gallienus returned in 263 or 265 and, as even Historia Augusta admits, was entirely successful, finally besieging Postumus in an unnamed Gallic city ; however, during the siege, he was severely wounded by an arrow and had to leave the field.

Bolsec was banished from the city, and after Calvin ’ s death, he wrote a biography which severely maligned Calvin ’ s character.

In the period after the Flanders Campaign which led to the French occupation of the Netherlands from 1794-1815, Haarlem's economy was severely depressed and the city council sought a local hero.

While under following Swedish occupation Osnabrücks's Catholics were not expelled, but the city severely suffered from Swedish war contributions.

Dozens of public buses stood idle for months, severely damaging the bus transit company's finances, until the city repealed its law requiring segregation on public buses following the US Supreme Court ruling that it was unconstitutional.

For a number of years Crescentius II exercised authority over the city, severely limiting the autonomy of the pope in the process.

') In 1410 it received city rights, although the growth of the city was severely affected by the 1424 fires.

The city was severely damaged by Anglo-American aerial attacks.

The army reached English-occupied Bordeaux on 24 December 1373, severely weakened in numbers and capacity having lost at least one-third of their force in action and another third to disease, and many more than succumbed to the bubonic plague that was raging in the city.

The climate can be severely affected by the Bora, a very dry and usually cool north-to-northeast katabatic wind that can last for several days and reach speeds of up to 200 km per hour, thus sometimes bringing all-day subzero temperatures to the entire city.

From this period onward, the city experienced rapid growth and industrialisation, although this was severely disrupted by a major earthquake on October 6, 1948.

In 1987, cyclone Uma severely damaged the city.

The city was twice severely bombed by British forces, on 16 and 23 August 1943, before being liberated by the Americans in 1944.

In 1944 the medieval city of Königsberg, which had never been severely damaged by warfare in its 700 years of existence, was almost completely destroyed by two Allied air raids on the night of 26 / 27 August 1944 and three nights later on the 29 / 30 August 1944.

In 1997, a Charlotte woman claimed that Shinn had raped her, and the resulting trial severely tarnished his reputation in the city.

* The Chinese city of Jinyang is severely flooded in the Battle of Jinyang, where the elite families of Jin, Zhao, Zhi, Wei, and Han, fight.

The severely low rainfall impacts on water supply in the city, which originates from wells and from rivers that flow from the Andes.

1, 126 city blocks were flooded, or more than, 561 city blocks were severely damaged, on both banks of the Cedar River.

The city sought to close the Haunted Barn after an accident involving two teenaged visitors, one of whom was severely injured.

Still other innovative strategies include hospitals digitizing medical information in electronic medical records ; HUD ’ s HOPE VI initiatives to eradicate city ’ s severely distressed public housing to revitalized, mixed income environments ; the Harlem Children ’ s Zone that uses a community-based approach to educate local area children ; and EPA ’ s brownfield grants that aids in turning over brownfields for environmental protection, green spaces, community and commercial development.

Because Venlo had both a road and a rail bridge over the river Meuse River (" Maas " in Dutch ) the city was severely damaged during several bomb raids ( 13 October – 19 November 1944 ) on those bridges at the end of the war.

About two thirds of the homes in the city were severely damaged.