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The town became noticed in American media when CBS 60 minutes made a critical piece on the town being the " safe-haven " for American corporations.
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Rich in Christian and Moslem art, Istanbul is today a fascinating museum of East and West that recently became a seaside resort as well with the development of new beaches on the Bosphorus and the Sea of Marmara only a short distance from the center of town.
The town became a refuge for the Arab, Christian, and Jewish colonies of that region.
In Raleigh, Jacob Johnson became town constable, married and started a family.
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The town became a regional transportation hub in 1839 with the arrival of the Michigan Central Railroad, and a north — south railway connecting Ann Arbor to Toledo and other markets to the south was established in 1878.
The forks of the Kalamazoo River provided power for mills, and Albion quickly became a mill town as well as an agricultural market.
It became the chief town of the Hirpini after Beneventum had become a Roman colony.
The former princely state became part of the new Indian state of Vindhya Pradesh, and most of the territory of the former state, including the town of Ajaigarh, became part of Panna District, with a smaller portion going to Chhatarpur District.
During the latter half of the 19th century, considerable public improvements were made to the town, which became, despite its neighbouring collieries, a pleasant place to live.
Originally the site of a Roman fort, Gobannium, it became a medieval walled town within the Welsh Marches.
A myth explaining this servitude states that a bear had formed the habit of regularly visiting the town of Brauron, and the people there fed it, so that, over time, the bear became tame.
A town that only became notable in the 12th century when it became the site for the construction of Portugal's largest church.
The Haworth Art Gallery in Accrington contains an outstanding collection of Tiffany glassware presented to the town by Joseph Briggs, an Accrington man who had joined Tiffany ’ s in the late 19th century and eventually became art director and assistant manager.
The 1924 town council elections in Cicero became known as one of the most crooked elections in the Chicago area's long history of rigged elections, with voters threatened by thugs at polling stations.
Administered within the Prussian Rhine Province, the town became part of the German Empire in 1871 during the Prussian-led unification of Germany.
" Jim Rob ", as he became known, drifted for several years, traveling from town to town to try to earn a living, at one point almost losing his life when he nearly fell from a moving train, and later being chased by railroad police.
With Hampton out of town and Neagle injured much of the year, Jennings became the centerpiece of the Rockies ' pitching staff in 2003.
In the early 15th century, the town became an independent state once again, and emerged as a safe harbour for pirates and privateers, leading to it being targeted by the Portuguese, who destroyed the town in 1468.
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The situation in the town is now improving, but regular instability is being noticed.
In 1987, a kind of national fame reached the town when a resident noticed what she took to be an image of Jesus appearing on an upright freezer on the porch of her trailer.
When town residents spotted loose dollar bills in front of the bank on Main Street and noticed that there was no one inside the bank, town marshall Charlie Bagnell was notified.
As with all aspiring teenagers, she posted her work on Myspace, which was soon noticed by Red Dot Music, an independent studio and management team in her home town of Leighton Buzzard who have taken her under their wing, and professionally recorded her music.
During the Siege of Mafeking, when the town and British soldiers were besieged by Boer soldiers, B-P noticed how the young boys made themselves useful by carrying messages for the soldiers.
In 1842 Queen Victoria visited Perthshire on one of her grand tours and her favourable opinion of the area caused the town to be more widely noticed.
In order to play down this unsavoury branch of her family tree, Lacey instead used a story that Karen made up — that pioneers somehow got hold of a hot air balloon, got an aerial view of the town site, and noticed that the creek formed a shape similar to that of a dog's leg.
In 1989, the 18-year-old Kovinar player was noticed by FK Partizan's Milko Ǵurovski, at the time doing his mandatory military service in town, and recommended the youngster to the national giants.
Laypersons who noticed that these young adults working six days a week and gallivanting about town on Sundays aspired to educate them.
The pigeons spy on the town residents without being noticed very much.
After this time the town seems to have declined and is rarely mentioned, though it is still noticed by Pliny and Tacitus.
The change in the site of the town alluded to by Strabo, is not noticed by other contemporary authors, however some suggest that Magnesia was moved from the banks of the Meander to a place at the foot of Mount Thorax three miles from the river.
This is a phenomenon noticed throughout the world as the development of waterfall tufa and is a relevant explanation for at least some formation through the region, especially through the town site of Lava Hot Springs.
First noticed by chroniclers as a Severian town in 1152, Hlukhiv became the seat of a branch of the princely house of Chernigov following the Mongol invasion of Rus.
The Commanding Officer whilst on one of his forays within the town, noticed a fine fighting ram tethered in a temple yard.
A reddish ball was noticed by the inhabitants of the town at around 8 PM on that date.
The addition of an extra Stewart was not noticed by anyone ( although, according to Albee, he and Molly are adopted ) in Leawood, the town where the series took place in.
A native of the town of Blue Hills, Providenciales Ewing's family members and friends noticed her looks and suggested a future in modeling.
As the ice melted, many miners noticed the old mines of Verdigris were once again accessible and founded the town of New Verdigris.
In addition, people have noticed that Kitui town is suitable for a pit-stop or a sleep on the way from Mt.
The formation of the town is noticed in the Turkish documents from 1633.
When he arrived at the town Rocamora noticed that the place where the first settlement had been established was low and prone to flooding, so he decided to move it to the north, in front of Libertad Island.
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