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.

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.

Police said he became ill while parked in front of a barber shop at 229 West Pratt Street.

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

Peter Lombard ( died 1160 ) is the first writer known to have used the term, which did not become the usual name in the West till towards the end of the twelfth century, and never became current in the East.

Following World War II, Bonn was in the British zone of occupation, and in 1949 became the capital of West Germany.

After World War II, the city became divided into East Berlin — the capital of East Germany — and West Berlin, a West German exclave surrounded by the Berlin Wall ( 1961 – 1989 ).

In 1462, Bordeaux obtained a parliament, but regained importance only in the 16th century when it became the center of the distribution of sugar and slaves from the West Indies along with the traditional wine.

On 16 December 2006 he became the first player for the West Indies to pass 10, 000 One Day International runs.

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.

It was the language of the upper classes until the 12th century, after which it became the language of commoners in West Brittany ( Breizh Izel ), while the nobility, followed by the bourgeoisie, adopted French.

When the new metropolitan counties ( Greater Manchester, Merseyside, Tyne & Wear, West Midlands, South Yorkshire and West Yorkshire ) were created in 1974, their sub-divisions also became metropolitan boroughs ; in many cases these metropolitan boroughs recapitulated abolished county boroughs ( for example, Stockport ).

The adaptation, One Man, Two Guvnors, became a smash hit, transferring to the West End and in 2012 to Broadway.

Though the Bengals ran it with some success, like the West Coast Offense the scheme became more successful elsewhere, in this case with the rival Pittsburgh Steelers, where LeBeau has served two stints as defensive coordinator.

In response, Jacobs and many of the New West End congregants established the New London Synagogue, which became the center of Masorti Judaism in the United Kingdom.

Laissez faire economic liberals considered such measures to be an unjust imposition upon liberty, as well as a hindrance to economic development, and, as the working class in the West became increasingly prosperous, they also became more conservative.

Columns, or at least large structural exterior ones, became much less significant in the architecture of the Middle Ages, and the classical forms were abandoned in both Byzantine architecture and the Romanesque and Gothic architecture or Europe in favour of more flexible forms, with capitals often using various types of foliage decoration, and in the West scenes with figures carved in relief.

In 2007 the tournament was hosted by the West Indies ; the Cricket World Cup became the first such tournament to be hosted on all six populated continents.

The former site of Commodore's operational headquarters in West Chester, Pennsylvania, now houses the headquarters and broadcast studios of leading cable retailer QVC, Inc. ( On November 26, 2004, QVC became the first retailer to sell the DTV, a " C64 in a joystick " designed by Jeri Ellsworth.

West Cornwall, around Mount's Bay, was traditionally thought to have been visited by metal traders from the eastern Mediterranean During the first millennium BC trade became more organised, first with the Phoenicians, who settled Gades ( Cadiz ) around 1100 BC, and later with the Greeks, who had settled Massilia ( Marseilles ) and Narbo ( Narbonne ) around 600 BC.

Following the fall of the Shah of Iran and the Iran Hostage Crisis in 1979 – 1980, the West became concerned with ensuring the flow of oil from the Persian Gulf through the Strait of Hormuz, and the US received permission for a $ 400 million expansion of the military facilities on Diego Garcia consisting of two parallel runways, expansive parking aprons for heavy bombers, 20 new anchorages in the lagoon, a deep water pier, port facilities for the largest naval vessels in the US or British fleet, aircraft hangars, maintenance buildings and an air terminal, a fuel storage area, and billeting and messing facilities for thousands of sailors and support personnel.

As one of West Africa's principal slave states, Dahomey became extremely unpopular with neighboring peoples.

She was also the president or patron of numerous organisations, such as the West Indies Olympic Association, the Girl Guides, Northern Ballet Theatre, and the London Lighthouse ( an AIDS charity that has since merged with the Terrence Higgins Trust ).

Mictlantecuhtli ( left ), god of death, the lord of the Underworld and Quetzalcoatl ( right ), god of wisdom, life, knowledge, morning star, patron of the winds and light, the lord of the West.

She is patron of Llanelan in West Gower and of the church at Penisa ' r-waun near Caernarfon, where her feast day is May 22.

Alfred Beckley ( 1802 – 1888 ) said he gave Raleigh County its name in honor of Sir Walter Raleigh ( 1552 – 1618 ), the “ enterprising and far-seeing patron of the earliest attempts to colonize our old Mother State of Virginia ,” according to Raleigh County: West Virginia by Jim Wood.

Tarrant's charity work, for which he received an OBE in 2004 includes: being an ambassador for the homeless charity, Centrepoint ; Trustee / Patron of The New School at West Heath for disadvantaged children ( the school previously being a private school for girls that Diana, Princess of Wales attended ); patron of Milly's Fund, set up in memory of murdered Surrey teenager " Milly " Dowler ; patron of the Phoenix Centre for children with special needs.

West is patron of The National Piers Society, a charity dedicated to preserving and promoting seaside piers.

Healy remained rooted in the extended Bantry Gang, a highly influential political and commercial nexus based originally in West Cork, which included his key patron, the Catholic business magnate and owner of the Irish Independent, William Martin Murphy, who provided a platform for Healy and other critics of the IPP ..

As a rich patron, he used his ' interest ' in favour of William Pitt the Elder, sponsoring and encouraging his political rise, supporting the Whig cause in general and the West Indies sugar industry ( from which his fortune came ) in particular.

He became a patron of Croi ( The West of Ireland Cardiology Foundation ) in 1997 in response to the care given to his mother while she was a patient in a Galway hospital.

In 1671, he married Mary Craven, the daughter of Thomas Craven of Burnsall in the West Riding of Yorkshire ( now North Yorkshire ), the son of a cousin to the Earl of Craven, one of the queen's closest advisors, and a friend who served as his patron for many years.

Her feast day in the West is 13 December ; with a name derived from Lux, Lucis meaning " Light ", as she is the patron saint of those who are blind.

To the west and south, evidence of the extent of West Saxon influence is provided by the fact that Cenwalh, who reigned from 642 to 673, is remembered as the first Saxon patron of Sherborne Abbey, in Dorset ; similarly, Centwine ( 676 – 685 ) is the first Saxon patron of Glastonbury, in Somerset.

He is also patron of West Sussex County Scouts.

Today he is venerated in the East as wonder, or miracle worker and in the West as patron of a great variety of persons-children, mariners, bankers, pawn-brokers, scholars, orphans, laborers, travelers, merchants, judges, paupers, marriageable maidens, students, children, sailors, victims of judicial mistakes, captives, perfumers, even thieves and murderers!

In the West, we would regard Lü as a merchant-prince, a patron of culture and literature, an eminent statesman and wise counselor, a kind of Medici prince who influenced not merely Florence and Italy, but all of European civilization.

Garech Domnagh Browne, born 25 June, 1939, is a member of the titled family of Oranmore and Browne in the West of Ireland and is a wealthy patron of Irish arts, notably traditional Irish music.

In 1961 His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama became patron of the Society, the first organisation in the West to be so honoured.

This usually led to a parody of Wild West saloon fights in which every patron got involved in the dispute for no real reason, though in this case it was always a shouting match, and blows were never thrown.

Henry was the earliest patron of Benjamin West, who lodged in Henry's home in Lancaster in 1756 and painted portraits of William and Ann Henry, probably shortly after their marriage.

In Bengal, Ilyas, an officer of Alauddin, murders his patron and captures the throne of West Bengal.

She is married to actor Alan Leith currently resides in Hurstpierpoint, West Sussex and is a patron of local drama group, the Hurstpierpoint Players.

Alberto Vilar, a. k. a., Albert Vilar, ( born 4 October 1940 ) is a Cuban-American investor and philanthropist from West Orange, NJ, particularly known as a patron of opera.