On Fridays, the day when many Persians relax with poetry, talk, and a samovar, people do not, it is true, stream into Chehel Sotun -- a pavilion and garden built by Shah Abbas 2, in the seventeenth century -- but they do retire into hundreds of pavilions throughout the city and up the river valley, which are smaller, more humble copies of the former.

She is the former Judy Chapman, daughter of John S. Chapman of this city.

The great number of these indicates the former importance of the city.

The Grashaus was the former city hall before the present building took over this function.

* Aba, Abia, a city in Nigeria and former second capital of Biafra

Aelia came from Hadrian's nomen gentile, Aelius, while Capitolina meant that the new city was dedicated to Jupiter Capitolinus, to whom a temple was built on the site of the former Jewish temple, the Temple Mount.

The main Hadrianic cardo terminated not far beyond its junction with the decumanus, where it reached the Roman garrison's encampment, but in the Byzantine era it was extended over the former camp to reach the southern walls of the city.

As the chief port of north-west Asia Minor, the place prospered greatly in Roman times, becoming a " free and autonomous city " as early as 188 BC, and the existing remains sufficiently attest its former importance.

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.

The former ( 1237 ) is considered to be the founding date of the city.

Recently, the celebration took place in The Liberty Hotel, a former city jail converted into a boutique hotel, though more often the festivities occur in Boston's Back Bay neighborhood, near the Cultural Center's headquarters.

The city was plundered by the troops of Abd er Rahman in 732, after he had defeated Duke Eudes in the Battle of the River Garonne near Bordeaux and before the former was killed during the Battle of Tours on 10 October.

The Roman veterans who had been settled there mistreated the locals and a temple to the former emperor Claudius had been erected there at local expense, making the city a focus for resentment.

The Emperor achieved this by summoning former residents having fled the city when the Crusaders captured it, and by relocating Greeks from the recently reconquered Peloponnese to the capital.

*, a loop route through downtown, running largely along the former route of US 131 through the city.

He ultimately chose the former when a deal between the city, Hamilton County, and Major League Baseball's Cincinnati Reds ( who were seeking a replacement for the obsolete Crosley Field ) was struck that resulted in an agreement to build a multipurpose stadium which could host both baseball and football games.

Similarly, rebels who took power in the city but with the citadel still held by the former rulers could by no means regard their tenure of power as secure.

The city's former mayor, Darwin Hindman, is largely in favor of a non-motorized transportation system, and can often be seen riding his bicycle around the city.

Corinth ( Greek Κόρινθος, Kórinthos ) () is a city and former municipality in Corinthia, Peloponnese, Greece.

The Corinth Canal, carrying ship traffic between the western Mediterranean Sea and the Aegean Sea, is about 4 km east of the city, cutting through the Isthmus of Corinth and separates the Peloponnesian peninsula from the Greek mainland, thus effectively making the former an island.

The city is also the home of several talk shows, including former The Oprah Winfrey Show on WLS-TV, while Chicago Public Radio produces programs such as PRI's This American Life and NPR's Wait Wait ... Don't Tell Me!

In 1969, the county was abolished and Carson City and a few small surrounding settlements within the former county were merged into a newly formed independent city called Carson City Consolidated Municipality.

Dan Bahat, the former city archaeologist of Jerusalem, regards them as unsatisfactory, as there is no known Temple of Aphrodite matching Corbo's design, and no archaeological evidence for Corbo's suggestion that the Temple Building was on a platform raised high enough to avoid including anything sited where the Aedicule is now ; indeed Bahat notes that many temples to Aphrodite have a rotunda-like design, and argues that there is no archaeological reason to assume that the present rotunda wasn't based on a rotunda in the temple previously on the site.

* The former name of Devonport, Devon, now a part of the city of Plymouth

Notable natives of the city have included jazz musician Bix Beiderbecke and former National Football League running back Roger Craig.

In the early 2000s, former governor of Nagano Prefecture, Yasuo Tanaka ( president of New Party Nippon ), proposed the renaming of his prefecture to " Shinshū " ( 信州, a name derived from Shinano Province ) because it is still widely used, as in Shinshū soba ( 信州そば ), Shinshū miso ( 信州味噌 ) and Shinshu University.

On February 13, 2005 the towns of Tsukechi, Fukuoka and Sakashita and the villages of Hirukawa, Kashimo and Kawaue, all from the former Ena District ( which was dissolved by this merger ), and the village of Yamaguchi from Kiso District, Nagano Prefecture, merged into Nakatsugawa.

* Ueda, Nagano Prefecture ( since the former city of Ueda and the former town of Izushi were sister cities before the recent creation of both Toyooka and Ueda )

* Azumino, Nagano ( former Misato village )

* Fukushima-juku – a former post town on the Nakasendō and Kisoji, located in Nagano Prefecture

The roots of Seiko Epson Corporation started with a company called Daiwa Kogyo, Ltd. that was founded in 1942 by Hisao Yamazaki, a local clock shop owner and former employee of K. Hattori, in Suwa, Nagano, Japan.

For the album, Saadiq worked with steel guitarist Robert Randolph ; former Earth, Wind & Fire keyboardist Larry Dunn ; Swedish / Japanese indie rock songstress Yukimi Nagano ( of Little Dragon fame ); Funk legend Larry Graham ( on the bonus cut Perfect Storm ) plus soul newcomer Taura ' Aura Jackson ' Stinson.

The party is headed by the former Nagano governor Yasuo Tanaka, and includes Diet members Kōki Kobayashi ( deputy leader ), Takashi Aoyama, Makoto Taki, and Hiroyuki Arai, who left the Liberal Democratic Party in opposition to Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi ’ s postal privatization drive.

* 1946 – The International Military Tribunal for the Far East convenes and indicts former Prime Minister of Japan Hideki Tojo and 28 former Japanese leaders for war crimes.

The Ainu were distributed in the northern and central islands of Japan, from Sakhalin island in the north to the Kuril islands and the island of Hokkaidō and Northern Honshū, although some investigators place their former range as throughout Honshū and as far north as the southern tip of the Kamchatka Peninsula in what is now Cape Lopatka.

* Yutaka Akita ( 秋田豊, born 1970 ), former football player played in Japan National Football Team

In Hollywood, a screening of a restored version of How to Make Movies was held at his former studio, and in Japan, he was honoured with a musical tribute.

Football legend, former FC Bayern President and DFB Vice-President, Franz Beckenbauer, on the other hand, showed his support for Stoiber by letting him join the German national football team on their flight home from Japan after the 2002 FIFA World Cup.

Japan assisted Paekche loyals in the attempt to retrieve former Paekche territory.

The Emperor of Japan is defined as a symbol, not head, of state by the post-war constitution ( contrasting with the former divine status ) but is treated as an imperial head of state under diplomatic protocol ( even ranking above kings ) and retains Shinto mystique.

Australia's ties with the UK dwindled rapidly as Britain closed foreign bases, disengaged from its former territories East of Suez and began courting the EEC, as a result of which American investment in Australia increased dramatically and Australia's onetime enemy Japan replaced the UK as Australia's major trading partner.

In December there is a very pronounced sunshine gradient between the Sea of Japan and Pacific coasts, the former side can receive less than 30 hours and the Pacific side as much as 180 hours.

Even before Japan regained full sovereignty, the government had rehabilitated nearly 80, 000 people who had been purged, many of whom returned to their former political and government positions.

LDP leadership was drawn from the elite who had seen Japan through the defeat and occupation ; it attracted former bureaucrats, local politicians, businessmen, journalists, other professionals, farmers, and university graduates.

The former president of South Korea Roh Moo-hyun rejected a conference with the Prime Minister of Japan following his visit to the controversial Yasukuni Shrine.

However, both the former Prime Minister of Japan, Fukuda Yasuo, and Korean President Lee Myung-bak emphasized the importance of " open a new era in Japan – South Korea relations.

In February 1937, before a meeting with the Lord Privy Seal, Lord Halifax, Ribbentrop suggested to Hitler that Germany, Italy, and Japan begin a worldwide propaganda campaign with the aim of forcing Britain to return the former German colonies in Africa.

Ribbentrop was instrumental in February 1938 in persuading Hitler to recognize the Japanese puppet state of Manchukuo and to renounce German claims upon her former colonies in the Pacific, which were now held by Japan.

The Empire of Japan occupied the Marshall Islands in World War I, which were later joined with other former German territories in 1919 by the League of Nations to form the South Pacific Mandate.

On December 17, 1920, the Council of the League of Nations approved the mandate for Japan to take over all former German colonies in the Pacific Ocean located north of the equator.

This excludes serving members of the Japan Self-Defense Forces, as well as any former member of the Imperial Japanese Army and Imperial Japanese Navy who is strongly connected to militarist thought.

Already in Japan, the records invest heavily in the launch of former Sambista's set of discs, which eventually created a market comprised solely of catalogs of Japanese record labels.

Japan joined the Allied Powers in World War I and attacked German colonial possessions in the Far East, adding former German possessions to its own empire.

After its fall, the Empire of Japan renounced control over many of its former possessions including Korea, Sakhalin Island, and Taiwan.

Meanwhile, CIA officers John Clark and Domingo Chavez are sent to Japan to reactivate a former KGB spy network in order to gain intelligence.

The territory comprised the former South Pacific Mandate, a League of Nations Mandate administered by Japan and taken by the U. S. in 1944.