Via an old girlfriend, Conchita Montenegro, Howard had contacts with Ricardo Giménez-Arnau, a young diplomat in the Spanish Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Via John Pringle, who had been a family friend since the 1740s, he quickly made many valuable contacts in London, and in due time became a master inoculator.

Via correspondence with Professor Jigoro Kano, the founder of Kodokan Judo, and other contacts in Japan, Barton-Wright arranged for Japanese jujutsu practitioners K. Tani, S. Yamamoto and the nineteen year old Yukio Tani to travel to London and serve as instructors at the Bartitsu Club.

Retrace your steps a few yards on the Via Di Santa Sabina and turn right on the Via Di S. Alessio, a street lined with stately homes.

Or what was it that, before Via, Sonny, Walter and all, I began almost to dance with shuddering and cry out, `` I knew she'd do it!!

The substantial remains of the western cardo have now been exposed to view near the junction with Suq el-Bazaar, and remnants of one of the tetrapylones are preserved in the 19th century Franciscan chapel at the junction of the Via Dolorosa and Suq Khan ez-Zeit.

" Mount " Megiddo is a Tell on which ancient forts were built to guard the main highway, the Via Maris, which connected Ancient Egypt with Mesopotamia.

The community soon increased in importance with the monastery ’ s founding and profited from the lively goods trade on the Via Publica.

During the late Middle Ages it was an independent commune with considerable importance owing to its location on the old Via Francigena, the main road between France and Rome, but increasingly Montalcino came under the sway of the larger and more aggressive city of Siena.

Since nothing is known of the Saints Alexander, Eventius and Theodulus of 3 May other than their names and the facts that they were martyred and were buried at the seventh milestone of the Via Nomentana on that day, the one whose name coincided with that of a pope was identified with the Pope.

He also refortified Centumcellae, and purchased off Thrasimund II of Spoleto the fortress of Gallese along the Via Flaminia, which had been taken by the Lombards, interrupting Rome ’ s communications with the exarch at Ravenna.

The statement of the Liber Pontificalis concerning the pope's martyrdom results obviously from a confusion with a Roman martyr of the same name buried on the Via Aurelia, and over whose grave a church was built.

According to more recent studies, the oldest liturgical books indicate that the saint honoured on 30 May was a little-known martyr buried on the Via Aurelia, who was mistakenly identified with Pope Felix I, an error similar to but less curious than the identification in the liturgical books, until the mid-1950s, of the martyr saint celebrated on 30 July with the antipope Felix II.

# Via glareata: An earthed road with a graveled surface.

# Via munita: A regular built road, paved with rectangular blocks of the stone of the country, or with polygonal blocks of lava.

He retreats with his Gothic army northeast along the Via Flaminia.

* As a convolution operator: Via the formalism of incidence algebras, difference operators and other Möbius inversion can be represented by convolution with a function on the poset, called the Möbius function μ ; for the difference operator, μ is the sequence ( 1, − 1, 0, 0, 0, ...).

It grew to be an important trade-hub located on the Via Egnatia, the road connecting Dyrrhachium with Byzantium, which facilitated trade between Thessaloniki and great centers of commerce such as Rome and Byzantium.

Its importance grew with the extension of the Via Aemilia from Ariminum ( Rimini ) to the Po River ( 187 BC ), which it crossed at Placentia ( Piacenza ) and there forked, one branch going to Mediolanum ( Milan ) and the other to Ticinum, and thence to Laumellum where it divided once more, one branch going to Vercellae-and thence to Eporedia and Augusta Praetoria-and the other to Valentia-and thence to Augusta Taurinorum ( Turin ) or to Pollentia.

The first Roman road connecting Italy with the province of Raetia north of the Alps, Via Claudia Augusta, was finished in 46 – 47 AD, but it did not cross the Brenner.

In the High Middle Ages, it was part of the important Via Imperii, an imperial road linking the Kingdom of Germany north of the Alps with the Italian March of Verona, since the 12th century controlled by the Counts of Tyrol.

The Topino, cleaving the Apennines with passes that the Via Flaminia and successor roads follow, makes a sharp turn at Foligno to flow NW for a few kilometres before joining the Chiascio below Bettona.

Via the Act of September 30, 1850, Congress appropriated funds to allow the President to appoint three Commissioners, O. M. Wozencraft, Redick McKee and George W. Barbour, to study the California situation and "... negotiate treaties with the various Indian tribes of California.

" Food sovereignty " is a term coined by members of Via Campesina in 1996 to refer to a policy framework advocated by a number of farmers, peasants, pastoralists, fisherfolk, indigenous peoples, women, rural youth and environmental organizations, namely the claimed " right " of peoples to define their own food, agriculture, livestock and fisheries systems, in contrast to having cross-border trade in food.

So, many caffetterie acquired cultural importance ( like Caffè Greco at 84 Via Condotti, Rome ; established in 1760 ) and became famous meeting points of artists, intellectuals, politicians, etc.

They were built along Roman roads, like the Via Appia, the Via Ostiense, the Via Labicana, the Via Tiburtina, and the Via Nomentana.

Names of the catacombs – like St Calixtus and St Sebastian, which is alongside Via Appia – refer to martyrs that might be buried there.

Balbo began road construction projects like the Via Balbia in an attempt to attract Italian immigrants to ASI.

Important organizational pillars of the movement are Via Campesina, the family farmers ' international ; Peoples ' Global Action, a loose collection of often youthful groups ; Jubilee 2000, the Christian-based movement for relieving international debt ; Friends of the Earth, the environmentalist international ; and some think-tanks like Focus on the Global South and Third World Network.

They were authors of the facade decoration in classicising Graffito, usually in grisaille, of several Roman houses, like those ones in Borgo and in Parione ( near Santa Maria della Pace and in Via del Pellegrino ).

Certain thoroughfares like Leeds ' Victoria Quarter, Milan's Via Monte Napoleone, Rome's Via Condotti, Tokyo's Ginza, Moscow's Tverskaya Street, New York's Madison Avenue and Fifth Avenue, Chicago's Michigan Avenue, Beverly Hills ' Rodeo Drive, Paris ' Champs-Élysées, Avenue Montaigne and Rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré, London's Bond Street and Sloane Street, Mexico City's Avenida Presidente Masaryk, São Paulo's Rua Oscar Freire, Prague's Pařížská street, Toronto's Bloor St., Düsseldorf's Königsallee and Singapore's Orchard Road are some places where most luxury brands tend to be concentrated.

The Via Francigena was not a single road, like a Roman road, paved with stone blocks and provided at intervals with a change of horses for official travellers.

Apollonia, like Dyrrachium further north, was an important port on the Illyrian coast as the most convenient link between Brundusium and northern Greece, and as one of the western starting points of the Via Egnatia leading east to Thessaloniki and Byzantium in Thrace.

From the other main Greek cities, like Athens and Thessaloniki, the Via Egnatia highway passes by Ioannina.

Via several online qualifiers the Bwin user can qualify for offline events like the World Series of Poker ( WSOP ), the Aussie Millions and events on the World Poker Tour, with the results reported at the official Bwin Poker Blog.

Besides dramatic Italian ballads like " Anima Mia " and " Vado Via " the album includes Lyngstad's interpretations of 10cc's " The Wall Street Shuffle " and David Bowie's " Life on Mars ", sixties hits like The Beach Boys ' " Wouldn't It Be Nice " and Gary Puckett & The Union Gap's " Young Girl ", the country and western ballad " The Most Beautiful Girl ", " Send in the Clowns " from Stephen Sondheim's musical A Little Night Music as well as the Greek folk song " Siko Chorepse Syrtaki " and " Som en sparv " ( with lyrics by Swedish poet Barbro Hörberg ) originally recorded by Swedish band Wasa.

Via these libraries, it can also be adapted to individual and local demands like specific target groups.

Via transcripts of interviews, an 80-year old Marian gives accounts of what Robert was like as a young man, and of life during the war.

Via a special code, or through such hardware like Gameshark, an unfinished version of the Alcatraz track could be unlocked within the game.

All the others were either pulled down and rebuilt with their fronts on the new roads ( like Palazzo dei Convertendi, rebuilt on Via della Conciliazione, and the houses of Febo Brigotti and Jacopo da Brescia, whose façades were assembled again on the new Via dei Corridori ), or, like the small churches of San Giacomo a Scossacavalli and Sant ' Angelo ai Corridori, built respectively on Piazza Scossacavalli and along the Passetto, simply demolished and never rebuilt.

However, a more recent source says that of the martyr Felix nothing is known except his name, that he was a martyr, and that he was buried in the cemetery on the Via Portuensis that bears his name.

Via the French Alberon, the same name has entered English as Oberon – king of elves and fairies in Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream ( see below ).

For the theoretical studies only, Ettore Majorana also took part in what was soon nicknamed " the Via Panisperna boys " ( after the name of the street where the Physics Institute was ).

At this point three roads run into the Via Appia, that from Tusculum, that from Alba Longa, and that from Antium ; so necessarily here would be a halting-place, which took its name from the three shops there, the general store, the blacksmith's, and the refreshment-house ... Tres Tabernae is translated as Three Taverns, but it more correctly means three shops " ( Forbes's Footsteps of St. Paul, p. 20 ).

Via Maris is the modern name for an ancient trade route, dating from the early Bronze Age, linking Egypt with the northern empires of Syria, Anatolia and Mesopotamia — modern day Iran, Iraq, Turkey and Syria.

Some consider the name Via Maris a misnomer and instead prefer to call this route the Great Trunk Road.

The newspaper's offices have been in the same buildings since the beginning of the 20th century, and therefore it is popularly known as " the Via Solferino newspaper ", for the name of the street where it is still located.

Mathematically gifted, he was very young when he joined Enrico Fermi's team in Rome as one of the " Via Panisperna boys ", who took their name from the street address of their laboratory.

The Catacomb of Priscilla, situated at the Via Salaria, in front of the Villa Ada, derives its name probably from the name of the landowner on whose land they were built.

Nothing is known reliably of St. Valentine except his name and the fact that he died on the Via Flaminia north of Rome on February 14.

In the 1969 revision of the Roman Catholic Calendar of Saints, the feast day of Saint Valentine on February 14 was removed from the General Roman Calendar and relegated to particular ( local or even national ) calendars for the following reason: " Though the memorial of Saint Valentine is ancient, it is left to particular calendars, since, apart from his name, nothing is known of Saint Valentine except that he was buried on the Via Flaminia on February 14.

The name " Akeman Street " is also given to the Roman road that ran from Ermine Street near Wimpole Hall northeast to the settlement at Durolipons ( Cambridge ), where it crossed the Roman road known as the Via Devana.

The bilingual name Via or Via CN originated in 1976 as a marketing term for Canadian National's passenger train services and the Via logo began to appear on CN passenger locomotives and cars, while still carrying CN logos as well.

Sleeper Touring class is the name being used by Via Rail for what was previously " Silver and Blue " class on The Canadian, and " Easterly " class on The Ocean.

Via calls this service The Canadian after a famous Canadian Pacific train that ran between 1955 and 1978, but the name is misleading since the Via version follows the more northerly Canadian National line rather than the historic main line of Canada's first transcontinental railway.

Its name means " Via Egnatia " in Greek, alluding to its ancient predecessor.