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The city dates back at least to the 10th century when it was known by its first Latin name of Alavarium, literally, " a gathering place or preserve of birds.

STAM, the new Ghent City Museum, is committed to recording and explaining the past of the city and its inhabitants, and to preserve the present for future generations.

According to the theology of the Deuteronomists the terms of the treaty with Yahweh were that he would preserve both the city and the king in return for their worship and obedience to the law-code.

Operating from the First Congregational Church, city officials and the Aldermen began taking steps to preserve order in the city.

The sense of the expression damnatio memoriae and of the sanction is to cancel every trace of the person from the life of Rome, as if he had never existed, in order to preserve the honour of the city ; in a city that stressed the social appearance, respectability and the pride of being a true Roman as a fundamental requirement of the citizen, it was perhaps the most severe punishment.

The uses of these islands vary: Davids ' Island, the former location of the U. S. Army ’ s Fort Slocum, is currently unoccupied but is slated for use as passive parkland ; Glen Island is a County park for passive and active recreation ; Huckleberry Island is largely undeveloped and has one of the largest rookeries for some shore bird species in western Long Island Sound ; Columbia Island was the former site of CBS television broadcast antennas and is currently unoccupied ; Echo Island is used by a private yacht club ; Execution Rocks is the site of a 19th century lighthouse listed on the National Register of Historic Places ; Pea Island is owned by Huguenot Yacht Club but remains undeveloped ; Goose Island is undeveloped ; Clifford, Harrison and Tank Islands are part of a nature preserve and city park ; and Oak and Pine Islands are used as private residences.

Much of its historic heritage remains intact, and today there are always renovations going on in the city to preserve the many old buildings, fortifications, churches and statues for later generations.

The city is home to Raven Run Nature Sanctuary, a nature preserve along the Kentucky River Palisades.

The Philadelphia Historical Commission was created in 1955 to preserve the cultural and architectural history of the city.

The city began to industrialize in the 1920s and 1930s, but industry increased tremendously during World War II, with the relocation of factories from western Russia to preserve the Soviet industrial capacity from the invading Nazis.

These were created through a tunnel in the Monte Catillo, to give an outlet to the waters of the Aniene sufficient to preserve the city from inundations like the devastating flood of 1826.

In 2001-2003 the construction of a Dracula theme park in the ' Breite ' nature preserve near Sighişoara was considered but ultimately rejected, due to the strong opposition of local civil society groups and national and international media as well as politically influential persons, as the theme park would have detracted from the medieval style of the city and would have destroyed the nature preserve.

After strip commercial interests began to move downtown, the city worked to designate several areas as historic districts in the 1970s and 80s to preserve the architectural character of the city.

With a new city cemetery built elsewhere, the old cemetery stopped accepting new burials in about 1883 ( save for very few exceptions ) and fell into disrepair until the 1940s, when the city began to restore and preserve the graveyard.

Hillsborough's landscape is dominated by large homes ; the city enforces a minimum house size and minimum lot size of to preserve exclusivity.

The project also would preserve greenspace throughout the city and create new parks.

This last bath house is in danger of being demolished while the Friends of Historic Preservation are working with the city to preserve it.

Geographical landmarks of note include Kaplan's Woods, a hardwood nature preserve on the southern border of the city, Cinder Hill, a steep 60 foot hill on Linn Avenue overlooking downtown that is used by local athletes for training, the Straight River dam, originally used to power a mill and now reconstructed to include a fish ladder, and the Forest Hill Cemetery, an old wooded cemetery on the ridge to the north of Maple Creek that marks the boundary between the oldest parts of the city and more recent developments.

He created a new political group that sought to preserve the old status quo while accepting the basics of laissez-faire and free trade.

When the copyrights granted to works published before the Statute began to expire in 1731, the Stationers ' Company and their publishers again began to fight to preserve the status quo.

In other words, innocent monopoly, or monopoly achieved solely by merit, is perfectly legal, but acts by a monopolist to artificially preserve his status, or nefarious dealings to create a monopoly, are not.

An important aspect of extinction at the present time are human attempts to preserve critically endangered species, which is reflected by the creation of the conservation status " Extinct in the Wild " ( EW ).

* challenge the prevailing status quo ( which includes activities such as correcting misinformation ( or misapprehension ), identify flaws in the argument ( s ) presented, to preserve ( for the long-term ) objectively established fact, and to refute specific assertions that some particular thing is permissible, forbidden, known, believed, possible, or necessary );

This body was supposed to be chaired by the immediate former president ; its expansion to eighty members, broadened functions, and elevation to cabinet rank made it appear to have been designed, as one Seoul newspaper said, to " preserve the status and position of a certain individual.

The moderates, on the other hand, although willing to seek peace with Sparta on terms that would preserve Athens ' power, were not willing to sacrifice the empire and the fleet, and wanted to broaden the oligarchy to include the putative 5, 000, presumably including all men of hoplite status or higher.

In the film, Pilate is portrayed as world-weary and somewhat sympathetic towards Jesus, but believes he has to die to preserve the local status quo.

However, the Cato Institute officially resists being labeled as part of the conservative movement because " conservative smacks of an unwillingness to change, of a desire to preserve the status quo ".

It is also argued that he intentionally kept Russia as a vassal to the Mongols in order to preserve his own status and counted on the befriended Horde in case someone challenged his authority ( he forced the citizens of Novgorod to pay tribute ).

One kind of interim order is a temporary restraining order ( TRO ) to preserve the status quo.

The left-wing German historian Hans-Ulrich Wehler has defined social imperialism as " the diversions outwards of internal tensions and forces of change in order to preserve the social and political status quo ", and as a " defensive ideology " to counter the " disruptive effects of industrialization on the social and economic structure of Germany " In Wehler's opinion, social imperialism was a device that allowed the German government to distract public attention from domestic problems and preserve the existing social and political order Wehler argued the dominant elites used social imperialism as the glue to hold together a fractured society and to maintain popular support for the social status quo Wehler argued German colonial policy in the 1880s was the first example of social imperialism in action, and was followed up by the " Tirpitz plan " for expanding the German Navy starting in 1897 In this point of view, groups such as the Colonial Society and the Navy League are seen as instruments for the government to mobilize public support.

The sultan and those who surrounded him were conservative and desired to preserve the status quo.

When Cordelia decides she needs to break up to preserve her social status, Xander coerces witch Amy Madison ( Elizabeth Anne Allen ) to cast a love spell, which misfires ; Cordelia is unaffected but, seeing how much Xander loves her, reunites with him in defiance of her former friends, in " Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered ".

Efforts were made to preserve the theatre, but at the time it did not qualify for national or state historical landmark status ( as it was not more than fifty years old ) nor were there local preservation laws.

The difference / contrarian interpretation of the green belt's effects / motivation ( for example, suggested by economist Tim Harford ) is that a green belt is created by residents to preserve the bourgeois status quo of those already living within the zone, and especially the advantage of landlords who profit from a scarcity of housing ( see above, " preserving the character of rural communities ").

Berwanger initially chose not to sign with the Bears in part to preserve his amateur status so that he could compete for a spot on the U. S. team for the 1936 Summer Olympics in the decathlon.

Tied closely to the concept of organizing not as a craft, or even as a group of workers with industrial ties, but rather, as a class, is the idea that all of the business world and government, and even the preponderance of the powerful industrial governments of the world, tend to unite to preserve the status quo of the economic system.

Dorr continued to acquire property and renewed his efforts to obtain full national park status for his beloved preserve.

Later, they would have said that he committed seppuku in order to preserve his status as a true samurai.

* Save Ally Pally: campaign to maintain the charitable status of the palace and preserve its TV studios, organ and Victorian theatre for the public

Although the British industry continued to expand after its brilliant beginning, the new companies that replaced the first innovative film-makers proved unable to preserve their drive and originality.

The Foreign Legion now had a new role as a rapid intervention force to preserve French interests not only in its former African colonies but in other nations as well ; it was also a return to its roots of being a unit always ready to be sent to hot-spots all around the world.

The Federation of Expellees has steadily lobbied to preserve the inheritability clause, as a change might deeply affect its ability to recruit new members from the post-WWII generations.

A concerted effort was made to identify and preserve surviving varieties and new orchards were planted.

This state lasted just over two years ( 13 December 1917 to 26 August 1920 ) before surrendering to the Bolshevik authorities, who then sought to preserve Russian control under a new political system.

" Basilwizi is now undertaking new activities to revive the Tonga culture, to preserve the language and to build local access to education.

This new organisation would preserve the new prototype metre and kilogram standards when constructed, distribute national metric prototypes, and maintain comparisons between them and non-metric measurement standards.

He abandoned the Kulturkampf in 1878 to preserve his remaining political capital ; indeed, he needed the Centre Party votes in his new battle against socialism.

Robert the Bruce ’ s remains were ceremonially re-interred in Dunfermline Abbey on 5 November 1819 in a new lead coffin, into which was poured 1, 500 lbs of molten pitch to preserve the remains, before the coffin was sealed.

( The new rite in fact prays: " May Jesus preserve you to sanctify the Christian people and to offer sacrifice to God ".

For example, a system may relegate a claim of a certain amount to a judge but preserve the right to a new trial before a jury.

All Mazda-made Wankel rotaries, including the new Renesis found in the RX-8, burn a small quantity of oil by design ; it is metered into the combustion chamber to preserve the apex seals.

He therefore allowed others to believe that he was laboriously spending most of his nights and free time grinding increasingly tiny lenses to use in microscopes, even though this belief conflicted both with his construction of hundreds of microscopes and his habit of building a new microscope whenever he chanced upon an interesting specimen that he wanted to preserve.

In 1798, the university was abolished by the French, who had invaded Cologne in 1794, because under the new French constitution, universities were abolished all over France. The last rector Ferdinand Franz Wallraf was able to preserve the university ’ s Great Seal, now once more in use.

State-run Chinese media have publicly questioned whether it is in China's long-term interest to preserve the " new class of monopoly state capitalists " that Li's family represents.

Existing states were broken up and new ones created ; the new nation-states were founded on the principle that each nation is entitled to its own sovereignty and to engender, protect, and preserve its own unique culture and history.

After a conservative procedure that attempts to preserve the affected fallopian tube such as a salpingotomy, in about 15-20 % the major portion of the ectopic growth may have been removed, but some trophoblastic tissue, perhaps deeply embedded, has escaped removal and continues to grow, generating a new rise in hCG levels.

In practice, zoning is used to prevent new development from interfering with existing residents or businesses and to preserve the " character " of a community.

Ellsworth's interest in aiding agriculture was evident in his annual reports that called for a public depository to preserve and distribute the various new seeds and plants, a clerk to collect agricultural statistics, the preparation of statewide reports about crops in different regions, and the application of chemistry to agriculture.

Echeverría designated José López Portillo, his secretary of Finance, as his successor for the term 1976-82, hoping that the new administration would have a tighter control on inflation and to preserve political unity.