Marlene ( surname: Adamo ), 25, a Brazilian divorcee who learned the dance from Arabic friends in Paris, now lives on Manhattan's West Side, is about the best belly dancer working the Casbah, loves it so much that she dances on her day off.

A further example of the incompatible difference in personalities was when two policemen held up a Torrio beer convoy on a West Side street and demanded $300 to let it through.

Still more jealous bitterness was engendered by the O'Banion gang's seizure from a West Side marshalling yard of a freight-car load of Canadian whisky worth $100,000 and by one of the biggest coups of the Prohibition era -- the Sibley warehouse robbery, which became famous for the cool brazenness of the operation.

I felt lonely and depressed as I stared out the bus window at Chicago's grim, dirty West Side.

I grew up in an Irish neighborhood on Chicago's West Side.

Due to the large percussion section utilized in the Broadway musical West Side Story, composer Leonard Bernstein chose to utilize a string section without violas.

Four schools have been named for Heschel, in the Upper West Side of New York City, Northridge, California, Agoura Hills, California, and Toronto, Canada.

In the 18th century, Broadway ended at the town commons north of Wall Street, where traffic continued up the East Side of the island via Eastern Post Road and the West Side via Bloomingdale Road.

North of Columbus Circle, Broadway retains planted center islands as a vestige of the central mall of " The Boulevard " that became the spine of the Upper West Side.

Further north, Broadway follows the old Bloomingdale Road as the main spine of the Upper West Side, passing the campus of Columbia University at 116th Street in Morningside Heights, in part on the tract that housed the Bloomingdale ( Lunatic ) Asylum from 1808 until it moved to Westchester County in 1894.

* Columbus Avenue ( Manhattan ), a north-south thoroughfare on the West Side of Manhattan in New York City, also known as Ninth Avenue

The White Stockings played their home games at West Side Grounds, and quickly established themselves as one of the new league's top teams.

As principal owners, the pair moved the club from the West Side Grounds to the much newer Weeghman Park, which had been constructed for the Whales only two years earlier.

Chicago has four main sections: Downtown ( which contains the Loop ), the North Side, the South Side, and the West Side.

The central area includes the Near North Side, the Near South Side, and the Near West Side, as well as the Loop.

The West Side holds the Garfield Park Conservatory, one of the largest collections of tropical plants in any US city.

The Near West Side holds the University of Illinois at Chicago and television production company of Oprah Winfrey's Harpo Studios.

Alston's step-father, Henry Bearden, left before his wife and children to secure a job overseeing elevator operations and the newsstand staff at the Bretton Hotel in the Upper West Side.

It is the largest single donation in the history of CUNY and has been used to buy a landmark building on the Upper West Side of Manhattan that is to become the permanent home of the Honors College, and will add support to its endowment.

Though there may have been earlier attempts to pull cars by endless ropes, the first cable car installation in operation was the West Side and Yonkers Patent Railway in New York City, which ran from 1 July 1868 to 1870.

West Side Lumber Company Shay No. 7, inside the old millyard at Tuolumne, 1981.

Lumber City is located at 31 ° 55 ' 48 " North, 82 ° 41 ' 1 " West ( 31. 930033 ,-82. 683723 ).

By 1907 the Trinity Valley and Northern Railway Company, built for use of the Dayton Lumber Company, served Dayton, located on the west side of the Trinity River and originally known as West Liberty.

The company acquired its first West Coast facility in 1947 and changed its name to Georgia-Pacific Plywood & Lumber Co. in 1948.

Rainier Scenic Railroad A 99 ton West Fork Logging Heisler # 91 is operational, a 70 ton Hillcrest Lumber Climax # 10 is operational, a 95 ton Pickering Lumber Shay # 11 is awaiting boiler work, and a 75 ton Rayonier Company Willamette # 2 is operational and is the only Willamette operating

The Yosemite Mountain Sugar Pine Railroad owns and operates two former West Side Lumber Company Shays, Nos.

1923 Shay locomotive, West Side Lumber Co. # 9, in service on the Midwest Central Railroad.

* West Side Lumber Company railway, narrow gauge industrial railway in California

On the other side of the mountain, the West Virginia-based Fenwick Lumber Company logged Hunter and Southwest Hunter so thoroughly between 1903 and 1917 that it is hard to find virgin forest anywhere in the lands they once owned.

The Sierra Railway served the West Side Lumber Company mill at Tuolumne.

Her acting began with the Birmingham Repertory Company and she soon became the toast of the West End.

More than 40 have subsequently been produced in the West End, at the Royal National Theatre or by the Royal Shakespeare Company since his first hit Relatively Speaking opened at the Duke of York's Theatre in 1967.

By comparison, the former colony of the United Province of Canada ( divided into the District of Canada East, and the District of Canada West ) and the western provinces were dozens of times larger and in some cases were expanded to take in territory formerly held in British Crown grants to companies such as the Hudson's Bay Company ; in particular the November 19, 1869 sale of Rupert's Land to the Government of Canada under the Rupert's Land Act 1868 was facilitated in part by Maritime taxpayers.

Thompson continued working for the Hudson's Bay Company until May 23, 1797 when, frustrated with the Hudson's Bay Company's policies, he left and walked 80 miles in the snow to enter the employ of the competition, the North West Company where he continued to work as a fur trader and surveyor.

An artist's impression of Thompson based on historical accountsThompson's decision to defect to the North West Company in 1797 without providing the customary one-year notice was not well received by his former employers.

However, joining the North West Company allowed Thompson to pursue his interest in surveying and work on mapping the interior of what was to become Canada.

In 1804, at the annual meeting of the North West Company in Kaministiquia, Thompson was made a full partner of the company and spent the next few seasons based there managing the fur trading operations but still finding time to expand his surveys of the waterways around Lake Superior.

Concern over the American-backed expedition of Lewis and Clark prompted the North West Company to charge Thompson with the task of finding a route to the Pacific in order to open up the lucrative trading territories of the Pacific Northwest.

Thompson mapped and established trading posts in Northwestern Montana, Idaho, Washington, and Western Canada ; including Kootenae House and Saleesh House ; the first trading post west of the Rockies in Montana extending North West Company fur trading territories.

This was a response by the North West Company to the plans of John Jacob Astor to send a ship around the Americas to establish a fur trading post.

During Thompson's 1811 voyage down the Columbia River he camped at the junction with the Snake River on July 9, 1811, and erected a pole and a notice claiming the country for Great Britain and stating the intention of the North West Company to build a trading post at the site.

Upon his arrival back in Montreal, Thompson retired with a generous pension from the North West Company.

The map covered the wide area stretching from Lake Superior to the Pacific, and was given by Thompson to the North West Company.

Dutch West India Company (; ) was a chartered company ( known as the " WIC ") of Dutch merchants.

Spain refused to sign the peace treaty, if a West Indian Company would be established.

In 1619, his opponent Johan van Oldenbarnevelt was beheaded, and when two years later the truce expired, the West Indian Company was established

Only in 1630 the West India Company managed to conquer a part of Brazil.

The first West India Company conducted a long agony, and its end in 1674 was painless.

But because of high demand for trade with the West ( mainly slave trade ), and the fact that still many colonies existed, it was decided to establish the Second Chartered West India Company ( also called New West India Company ) in 1675.