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.

They attacked and finding no opposition, managed to recover eastern Thrace with its fortified city of Adrianople, regaining an area in Europe which was only slightly larger than the present-day European territory of the Republic of Turkey.

Two of the city's largest parks are also located on this side of the city: Jackson Park, bordering the waterfront, hosted the World's Columbian Exposition in 1893, and is home of the aforementioned museum ; and slightly west sits Washington Park.

Justinian had the city rebuilt, but on a slightly smaller scale.

The sculpture was initially slightly different in design and intended to be part of a fountain set in the city center, but the people of Vimmerby vehemently opposed the idea.

Its principal city is Lille, which with nearby Roubaix, Tourcoing and Villeneuve d ' Ascq constitutes the center of a cluster of industrial and former mining towns totalling slightly over a million inhabitants.

The city has a relatively dry climate, with rainfall occurring mainly in the slightly warmer months of November to March.

* A new city is constructed in Fuzhou slightly south of the original city Ye ( the main street of the city has remained unchanged since that time ).

Rickshaw Beijing: City People and Politics in the 1920 by David Strand quantifies the effect: " Sixty thousand men took as many as a half million fares a day in a city of slightly more than one million.

The elevation of the city is approximately twenty feet above sea level, slightly lower than surrounding areas.

For example approximate prices ( as on January 2010 ) of Gasoline ( Petrol ) is 5 US $ per Liter, electricity prices close to 0. 33 US $ per unit, A domestic gas bottle ( or gas cylinder ) is slightly over 20 US $, Rent for average family accommodation, two bedroom apartment-approximately US175-US $ 200 per month in safe ( Georgetown city center ) locations and personal income tax, which is 33. 33 % ( one third ) of total taxable income ( amount that exceeds approximately G $ 20, 000 ( US $ 100 ) adds to the difficulties.

The city averages slightly more than 1600 mm of precipitation annually.

It tends to be slightly cooler in the city during the dry season.

After the 16th century, the name was steadily changed slightly from Chachkand / Chashkand to Tashkand, which, as " stone city ", was more meaningful to the new inhabitants than the old name.

The slightly unusual precipitation pattern is partially due to the 500 m ( roughly 1600 feet ) altitude that the city features.

The city has slightly fewer than 100, 000 inhabitants but has a regional catchment area of over 480, 000 people.

With a population of 108, 321 at the 2010 census, it is slightly smaller in population than Vallejo, which is the Bay Area's ninth-largest city.

The area has been settled extensively since prehistoric times, and numerous Jōmon period sites have been found by archaeologists, the most famous being the Sannai-Maruyama Ruins located just southwest of the city center dating to 5500-4000 BC, and the Komakino site slightly further south dating to around 4000 BC.

Thinly sliced ribeye or other tender cuts, cooked on a hot griddle and shredded slightly, and served on Italian style rolls are called Philly steaks, named after Philadelphia, the city in which they became famous.

The city is slightly wetter during the summer than the winter, seeing on average roughly of precipitation each year.

The format of the postal code was expanded in 1998 to include more specific information on location within cities ; it now uses a letter that identifies the province, a four-digit number, and then three more letters ( and slightly different numbers are used for different parts of a city, which was formerly done only in the case of Buenos Aires ).

At the core of the city was a high temple complex always sited slightly off of the geographical center.

The city of Elwood lies in Madison County to the east and extends slightly over the border ; as of the 2000 census, seven Elwood residents lived in Tipton County.