As for progress, the `` backward South '' can boast of Baton Rouge, which increased its population between 1940 and 1950 by two hundred and sixty-two percent, to 126,000, the second largest growth of the period for all cities over 25,000.

It is the second largest city in Japan, with about four million people.

The proposed C & O-B & O railroad would make it the hemisphere's second largest.

The largest city in the Aegean Region of Turkey is İzmir, which is also the country's third largest city and second largest port after Istanbul.

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.

The Atlantic Ocean is the second largest of the world's oceans.

In the form of proteins, amino acids comprise the second largest component other than water of human muscles, cells and other tissues.

* 1902 – Quetzaltenango, the second largest city of Guatemala, is destroyed by an earthquake.

* 2008 – ATA Airlines, once one of the 10 largest U. S. passenger airlines and largest charter airline, files for bankruptcy for the second time in 5 years and ceases all operations.

With a capacity of over 72, 000, it is the second largest of its kind in Italy, with only San Siro able to seat more.

Aon is the world's second largest insurance brokerage, and largest reinsurance brokerage.

His Durrani empire was the second largest Islamic empire in the world, behind the Ottoman Empire at that time.

With a population of 3. 5 million people, Berlin is Germany's largest city and is the second most populous city proper and the seventh most populous urban area in the European Union.

The largest city is Vancouver, the third-largest metropolitan area in Canada, the largest in Western Canada, and the second largest in the Pacific Northwest.

British Columbia's provincial parks system is the second largest parks system in Canada ( the largest is Canada's National Parks system ).

With the span of, the Solkan Bridge over the Soča River at Solkan in Slovenia is the second largest stone bridge in the world and the longest railroad stone bridge.

Its arch, which was constructed from over of stone blocks in just 18 days, is the second largest stone arch in the world, surpassed only by the Friedensbrücke ( Syratalviadukt ) in Plauen, and the largest railroad stone arch.

They cited the time delay of ten years between the alleged behavior by Thomas and Hill's accusations, and noted that Hill had followed Thomas to a second job and later had personal contacts with Thomas, including giving him a ride to an airport — behavior which they said would be inexplicable if Hill's allegations were true.

Barcelona is the transport hub with one of Europe's principal ports, Barcelona international airport, which handles above 34 million passengers per year, extensive motorway network and also is a hub of high-speed rail, particularly that which is intended to link Spain with France and the rest of Europe as the second longest in the world.

By far the largest airport is Helsinki-Vantaa Airport, and the second largest by passenger volume is Oulu Airport.

Germany's second most important international airport is Munich.

, the airport is the third busiest airport for passenger traffic, and second busiest airport for cargo traffic in the world.

Heathrow is London's main airport, having replaced RAF Northolt, and together with Gatwick, Southend, Stansted, Luton and London City, London is the busiest city airport system in the world by passenger traffic ( with 133, 666, 888 passengers travelling through the six airports ); and second only to New York City in terms of traffic movements.

The largest domestic airport, Tokyo International Airport, is Asia's second busiest airport.

Kaohsiung International Airport serving the city is the second largest airport in Taiwan.

The second closest airport to the city is Nador International Airport

Located here is the second largest international airport in Poland ( after Warsaw's ), the John Paul II International Airport.

The main airport is the international Roland Garros Airport located close to Saint Denis and the second one is the Aéroport de Pierrefond, located near Saint-Pierre in the south of the island.

Since March 29, 2009 the airport is officially known as Lennart Meri Tallinn International Airport, in honour of the leader of the Estonian independence movement and second President of Estonia Lennart Meri.

Heathrow Airport is the world's second busiest international airport, Northern Ireland's roads are overseen by the Roads Service Northern Ireland, a section of the Department for Regional Development.

At the end of World War II, growth in aviation and in the Washington metropolitan area led Congress to pass the Washington Airport Act of 1950, providing federal backing for a second airport.

Until March 2012 ( when it was converted into a business airport ), it was the second airport in Romania in terms of air traffic and Bucharest's low-cost hub.

Additionally, it is the second airport in the Western Hemisphere, and the third airport in the world, to successfully pass the International Civil Aviation Organization's ( ICAO ) Universal Security Audit Program ( USAP ).

It also has the second busiest airport in France after Paris and two convention centres dedicated to business tourism.

Among tourists, Nice is the second most popular French city after Paris, a fact which, combined with the difficulties of land travel at long distance ( partly because of the Alps ), allows it to have the second busiest airport in France in terms of passenger numbers ( close to 10, 000, 000 passengers in 2005 ).

In an interview with Eurostar's Chief Executive Nicolas Petrovic in the Financial Times in May 2012, an intention for Eurostar to serve ten new destinations was expressed, including Amsterdam, Frankfurt, Cologne, Lyon, Marseille and Geneva, along with a likely second hub to be created in Brussels.

Geneva (;, ;, ) is the second most populous city in Switzerland ( after Zurich ) and is the most populous city of Romandy, the French-speaking part of Switzerland.

The second main river of Geneva is the Arve River which flows into the Rhône River just west of the city centre.

She decided to stay in Geneva alone, living first on the lake at Plongeon ( near the present United Nations buildings ) and then at the Rue de Chanoines ( now the Rue de la Pelisserie ) with François and Juliet d ’ Albert Durade on the second floor (" one feels in a downy nest high up in a good old tree ").

During the second half of the 1920s, France, Britain and Germany were all using the League of Nations as the focus of their diplomatic activity, and each of their foreign secretaries attended League meetings at Geneva during this period.

The second generation of Classicists, often trained in philosophy as well ( following Heidegger and Derrida, mainly ), built on their work, with authors such as Marcel Detienne ( now at Johns Hopkins ), Nicole Loraux, Medievalist and logician Alain De Libera ( Geneva ), Ciceronian scholar Carlos Lévy ( Sorbonne, Paris ) and Barbara Cassin ( Collége international de philosophie, Paris ).

In 1960, the United Nations held the second Conference on the Law of the Sea (" UNCLOS II "); however, the six-week Geneva conference did not result in any new agreements.

The first conference took place in Geneva in 1964, second in New Delhi in 1968, the third in Santiago in 1972, fourth in Nairobi in 1976, the fifth in Manila in 1979, the sixth in

While the first conference was held in Geneva in 1964, the second conference in New Delhi was an opportunity for schemes to be finally approved.

The second referred to the burning of Michael Servetus at Geneva Oct. 27, 1553.

The Tevatron was a circular particle accelerator in the United States, at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory ( also known as Fermilab ), just east of Batavia, Illinois, and is the second highest energy particle collider in the world after the Large Hadron Collider ( LHC ) near Geneva, Switzerland.

The second, easier one would lead them to the town of Geneva, where the Lake Geneva flows into the Rhone River and where a bridge allowed passage over the river.

After taking his Abitur examinations in 1909, he began studying Law in Berlin in October of the same year, spending his second semester in Geneva at the start of 1910.

Her favourite places were Cap Martin on the French Riviera, where tourism had started only in the second half of the nineteenth century ; Lake Geneva in Switzerland ; Bad Ischl in Austria, where the imperial couple would spend the summer ; and Corfu.

The second half of the film becomes appreciably darker, after Gowan falls in love with a young college student, Geneva Spofford ( Kelly McGillis, in her debut film role ), who has everything to lose from a relationship with a drunken deadbeat poet unable to hold a job.

The first and second Geneva Conventions provide for the humane care of sick and wounded combatants on land and sea without discrimination.

There is a second QUNO office in Geneva, Switzerland ; support for that office is provided by European Quakers.

There are currently 194 countries party to the 1949 Geneva Conventions, including this second treaty but also including the other three.

Born in Aix-en-Provence, she was the second daughter of Ramon Berenguer V, Count of Provence ( 1198 – 1245 ) and Beatrice of Savoy ( 1205 – 1267 ), the daughter of Thomas I of Savoy and his second wife Margaret of Geneva.

In 2001, the ITU Council decided to hold the Summit in two phases, the first from 10 to 12 December 2003, in Geneva, and the second from 16 to 18 November 2005 in Tunis.

He certainly was in Paris on 4 July, when he gave Louis de Lavernade of the province of Forez, then chancellor of the duke of Bourbon and first president of the parliament of Toulouse, a copy of his second edition of Cicero, as appears from a note in Lavernade's own hand at the end of the book, which is now in the library of Geneva.

The couple's first child, Prince Karim, was born in Geneva, seven months later ; they also had a second son, Prince Amyn Muhammad Aga Khan.