While no larger than Dutch Springs, this mining supply town had the appearance of being far busier and more prosperous.

While Axbridge grew in importance as a centre for cloth manufacturing in the Tudor period and gained a charter from King John, Cheddar remained a more dispersed mining and dairy-farming village.

While Maritimers are predominantly of west European heritage ( Scottish, Irish, English, and Acadian ), immigration to Industrial Cape Breton during the heyday of coal mining and steel manufacturing brought people from eastern Europe as well as from Newfoundland.

While exploration and mining can sometimes be conducted by individual entrepreneurs or small business, most modern-day mines are large enterprises requiring large amounts of capital to establish.

While the results overall have been impressive, many large state-owned industrial enterprises, particularly the railroad, mining, steel, and defense sectors, have remained resistant to change and the downsizing required to survive in a market-based economy.

While they are not visible during mining, they appear after refining.

While initially profitable, the mining generally ended because the deeper reefs contained not only gold but other metals, and mining technology at the time was not advanced enough to cope with these and extract the gold profitably.

While this " Treaty of Boston " did not exactly favor the purist of original D & RG intentions, the conquering of new mining settlements to the west and the future opportunity to expand into Utah was realized from this settlement

While there is still some mining of cobalt, nickel, and chromium in the Gasquet Mountain area, the economy has reoriented to agriculture and timber.

While at first a booming mining town with 5, 000 inhabitants, once the gold was mined out Auburn's population dwindled, and county citizens eventually voted in 1868 to make Baker City, incorporated in 1874, the new county seat.

While placer mining had played out in much of the Gold Country by the early 1860s, it was still active here as late as 1870.

While originally an iron mining town, the area is now known for its downhill skiing resorts, including Big Powderhorn, Blackjack, Indianhead, Mount Zion and Whitecap as well as its cross country skiing at the Wolverine Nordic Trail System.

While mining and agriculture acted as the commercial centre for the locality, the community thrived on the state speciality of gambling, with many casinos and three legalised brothels, although all of the latter are now closed.

While DuBois was founded as a lumber town, the mining of bituminous coal quickly became the chief industry in DuBois, supporting a population of 9, 375 in 1900 ; 12, 623 in 1910 ; 13, 681 in 1920 ; and 12, 080 in 1940.

While in Chambersburg Brown posed as Dr. Isaac Smith, an iron mine developer, and bought and stored weapons under the guise of mining equipment.

While occupations continued to center around the courthouse activities and the typical needs of a community, the 1900 census reflects the influence of the railroad by citing four railroad employees, eight salesmen, one insurance agent, one mining engineer, and one timber dealer.

While gold mining itself was unprofitable for most diggers and mine owners, some people made large fortunes, and the merchants and transportation facilities made large profits.

While the focus initially remained on ore mining and iron production in the Ruhr region, mechanical engineering became the dominating branch of business in Augsburg and Nuremberg.

While Joplin was first settled for lead mining, zinc, often referred to as " jack ", was the mineral resource on which the town built its economy.

While travelling to a subterranean base, Ben and Nelani are forced out of a mining car.

While the majority of news reports echoed these official declarations, there were others which opined that Western critics should " suspend judgment for a time ," and despite its generally critical stance on South Africa's policies, Time magazine wrote that Bophuthatswana had " considerable economic potential " with an expected $ 30 million a year coming from mining revenues.

While the group is busy checking on David and watching Audrey's body disintegrate, Tak-possessed Ellen grabs Mary and takes her to the mining pit.

While authors such as Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie, Marc Ferro and Jacques Le Goff continue to carry the Annales banner, today the Annales approach has been less distinctive as more and more historians do work in cultural history, political history and economic history.

While the Reno Air Races keep this tradition alive, most air shows today primarily feature a series of aerial demos of short duration.

While popular during the 1950s, these terms are infrequently used today.

While it is tempting to attribute this major decline solely to Mongol ferocity, scholars today have mixed sentiments regarding this subject.

While the Great Wall had been built in earlier times, most of what is seen today was either built or repaired by the Ming.

While many mathematicians before Galois gave consideration to what are now known as groups, it was Galois who was the first to use the word group ( in French groupe ) in a sense close to the technical sense that is understood today, making him among the founders of the branch of algebra known as group theory.

While it is possible to identify earlier legal structures that would today fall into the " environmental " law metric-for example the common law recognition of private and public rights to protect interests in land, such as nuisance, or post-industrial revolution human health protections-the concept of " environmental law " as a separate and distinct body of law is a 20th Century development.

While cod was formerly the main catch, today the industry centers on cold-water shrimp and Greenland halibut.

While all states currently have provisions for grand juries, today approximately half of the states employ them and only twenty-two require their use, to varying extents.

While few players " play Goren " exactly today, the point count approach he popularized remains the foundation for most bidding systems.

While Conservative Jews have varied views regarding the origin of the Torah and its authority today, and believe it can be continuously reinterpreted.

While the majority of his films lost money at the box office ( the main reason for Santana's end ), at least two of them are still remembered today ; In a Lonely Place is now recognized as a masterpiece of film noir.

While it may well be the case that the people of the western stream spoke a language belonging to a wider Eastern Bantu division, it is a puzzle which remains to be resolved that they spoke a language most closely related to the languages just mentioned, all of which are today spoken in southeastern Africa.

While the settlement today referred to as Hedeby / Haithabu lies on the south side of the Schlei inlet, the settlement that grew up at around the same time on the north side has had a continuous history of habitation to modern times, and has now grown into the town known as Schleswig and given its name to the surrounding province.

While on the Bears, Aaron earned $ 10 per game ($ today ).

While the North American and European regions are technically independent of each other, today many issues within EFnet are handled at a global level.

While in the early days these calculations were extremely expensive to perform, the advent of high speed microprocessors has made them much more feasible today.

While the nations still offer limited housing, today they are best described as student societies.

" While he did not graduate from George Washington, his time there subsequently became important because, as George Malko puts it, " many of his researches and published conclusions have been supported by his claims to be not only a graduate engineer, but ' a member of the first United States course in formal education in what is called today nuclear physics.

While many today would say that any misfortune surrounding a production is mere coincidence, actors and other theatre people often consider it bad luck to mention Macbeth by name while inside a theatre, and sometimes refer to it indirectly, for example as " the Scottish play ", or " MacBee ", or when referring to the character and not the play, " Mr. and Mrs. M ", or " The Scottish King ".

While it is possible to write programs in machine code, because of the tedious difficulty in managing CPU resources, it is rarely done today, except for situations that require the most extreme optimization.

While the VW / SEAT / Ford model had alength of, the Espace and the eurovan were around shorter and would be considered today as compact MPVs.

While most Jews consider Modern Orthodoxy traditional today, some within the Orthodox community groups to its right consider it of questionable validity.

While early PDAs connected to a user's personal computer via serial ports or another proprietary connection, many today connect via a USB cable.