as Pike proved himself adept in the political arena, he also became a social lion in the village of Little Rock, where he served as a symbol of the culture that the ladies of the town were striving so eagerly to cultivate.

Mr. Banks was always called Banks the Butcher until he left town and the shop passed over to Meltzer the Scholar who then became automatically Meltzer the Butcher.

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.

Each of the larger burhs became the centre of a territorial district of considerable size, carved out of the neighbouring countryside in order to support the town.

The charter known as " Alphonsine ," granted to the town of Riom, became the code of public law for Auvergne.

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.

Before the 1988 NFL season, the team moved to Tempe, Arizona, a college town suburb of Phoenix, and played their home games for the next 18 years at Arizona State University's Sun Devil Stadium.

# Geographic communities: range from the local neighbourhood, suburb, village, town or city, region, nation or even the planet as a whole.

Titorelli lives in the attic of a tenement in a suburb on the opposite side of town from the court that K. visited.

Its fortifications have been replaced by boulevards beyond which extend numerous suburbs, while on the left bank of the Tarn is the suburb of Villebourbon, which is connected to the town by a remarkable bridge of the early 14th century.

The family lived in two popular districts of the town, in el-Gamaleyya, from where they moved in 1924 to el-Abbaseyya, then a new Cairo suburb ; both provided the backdrop for many of Mahfouz's writings.

In the United States and Canada, suburb can refer either to an outlying residential area of a city or town or to a separate municipality, borough, or unincorporated area outside a town or city.

The town also has other points of cultural notability ; in recent times, its position as an affluent suburb of Paris has meant that it forms a part of the Paris artistic scene, and musical groups such as Phoenix, Air and Daft Punk have some link to the city, as does the director Michel Gondry.

* Evanston, Illinois, a Chicago suburb of 75, 000 residents, became the largest town to ban handgun ownership in September 1982 but experienced no decline in violent crime.

Kauniainen was founded by a corporation in 1906, AB Grankulla, that parcelled land and created a suburb for villas ; Kauniainen received the status of a market town in 1920, the Finnish name in 1949, and the title of kaupunki (" city, town ") in 1972.

The township of Trento is geographically very large and encompasses the town centre as well as many suburbs of extremely varied geographical and population conditions ( from the industrial suburb of Gardolo, just north of the city, to tiny mountain hamlets on the Monte Bondone ).

A number of new public buildings were also added including ; the Arsenal ( 1610 – 19 ), the town hall with its north staircase tower ( 1632 – 34 ) and its eastern facade ( Archive tower 1624, completed 1703-14 ), the Jesuit church ( 1680 – 89 ), the new Ambassadorenhof ( 1717 – 24 ), the Holy Spirit Hospital in a suburb ( 1735 – 1800 ) and the new classicist Church of St. Ursus ( 1763 – 90 ).

Between 1970 and 1995, the population of Benicia grew steadily at a rate of about 1, 000 people per year, and the city changed from a poor, blue-collar town of 7, 000 to a white-collar bedroom suburb of 28, 000.

This is a more quiet part of town that almost feels like a suburb.

Lamington is also a suburb of Western Australian outback town of Kalgoorlie-Boulder.

During this era some of the most renowned city managers of Tampere were Erkki Napoleon Lindfors ( who was responsible for many ambitious construction projects such as the Näsinneula tower and the construction of the suburb of Hervanta, Tampere's " daughter town "), Pekka Paavola ( who gained some notoriety in corruption scandals ) and Jarmo Rantanen.

He also co-planned the Tingbjerg town ( yellow brickstone and greens ) in Copenhagen suburb NV, as well as the town Hørsholm.

Although known today as a dormitory suburb of Glasgow, the town grew from a country village within the parish of New Kilpatrick to a minor industrial centre in the nineteenth century with paper mills and bleach works on the Allander River to the north east of the town centre.

The Australian and New Zealand Beckenhams were named after the town in London, and this association continues in the naming of adjacent areas: the town of Sydenham is next to Beckenham in London, the suburb of Sydenham adjoins the suburb of Beckenham in Christchurch, and the suburb of Beckenham in Perth contains a Sydenham Street.

Like many Dutch painters of his time, Jan van Goyen studied art in the town of Haarlem with Esaias van de Velde.

By the 12th century it was a fortified town, and Haarlem became the residence of the Counts of Holland.

Having been granted papal rights from Avignon was perhaps the reason that the ties to Rome were never very strong in Haarlem, since the building most commonly called the Cathedral in the center of town only held a cathedra for 19 years, from 1559 to 1578.

The town is served by Heemstede-Aerdenhout railway station, which lies on the Oude Lijn between Haarlem and Leiden.

* Haarlem, the Netherlands, SPQH on the face of the town hall at the " Grote Markt "

With the assistance of the famous architect, Pieter Post of Haarlem, he transformed Recife by building a new town adorned with splendid public edifices and gardens, which was called after his name, Mauritsstad.

Located in the dunes between Haarlem and the Netherlands's popular beach town Zandvoort, it ranks as the wealthiest town in the Netherlands.

Here the group had gained considerable influence, through the adhesion of Bernhard Rothmann, the Lutheran pastor, and several prominent citizens ; and the leaders, Jan Matthys ( also spelled Matthijs, Mathijsz, Matthyssen, Mathyszoon ), a baker of Haarlem, and Jan Bockelson or Beukelszoon, a tailor of Leiden, had little difficulty in obtaining possession of the town and deposing the magistrates.

Probably the most famous image identified as of a " cavalier ", Frans Hals ' Laughing Cavalier, in fact shows a gentleman from the strongly Calvinist Dutch town of Haarlem, and is dated 1624.

After the Reformation, Haarlem promoted the stories of the Damiaatjes and the associated Wapenvermeerdering and produced many windows with this central story, which it presented as a gift to other churches and town halls.

Embedded in the artistic environment and tradition of his home town of Haarlem, Wouwerman made an important and highly influential contribution to the canon of seventeenth-century Dutch painting.

Wouwerman also worked as an estate agent in his home town, as many documents in Haarlem archives mentioned the artist in this context.

He seems to have resided for a time in Haarlem ; but he finally settled in Deventer, where he became a member of the town council, as which he appears in the portrait now in the gallery of the Hague.

The earliest mention of it in town records is from the History of Haarlem by Samuel Ampzing in 1628, who claims to have copied the stichtingsbrief or letter of foundation ( since lost ).

In Haarlem the city council became responsible for acts of mercy on a grand scale when the leper colony was founded outside the city walls in the town of Schoten in 1393.

In the Middle Ages it was unusual to fight in the winter, but the city of Haarlem was crucial and Don Fadrique stayed and put the town under siege.

The story within the book is about a Dutch boy, Hans Brinker, " The Hero of Haarlem ," who stuck his finger in a dike to prevent the town from flooding.

He was born into a wealthy family at Haarlem, and spent his youth in his home town.

Situated a mile and a half from Haarlem center, in those days it was situated in the middle of a town called Schoten.

It is unknown how many staties existed in Haarlem at the end of the seventeenth century, but since town records show that these underground churches were tolerated and taxed by the Haarlem council in the eighteenth century, we can be certain that at least seven had more than 300 attendees for mass.

Keukenhof is located in South Holland in the small town of Lisse, south of Haarlem and southwest of Amsterdam.