Sentences with phrase «of city history»

The most notable are the Slovak National Museum and the Museum of City History.

The urban - pastoral space, located on the former grounds of the City History...

McEneny emphasized that the author's «Albany cycle» of novels, eight books covering more than a century of city history, is recognized as having helped establish Albany as a culture center.

The miscreant was, of course, Governor Eliot Spitzer, the hard - driven former prosecutor once mentioned as a possible future presidential candidate, and suddenly, two days later, after his brief, grim - faced resignation, merely a broken political doll tossed on the scrap heap of city history.

Not exact matches

Klein could have made the citizens of Hartford and his client momentarily happy with a safer team name like the Huckleberries, the choice of Hartford Courant readers, in honor of Mark Twain's history in the city.

As per the title, he thinks the urban environment is our greatest invention as a species, and explores the economic underpinnings of assorted cities, ascendant and in decline, today and through history.

«You have to stop thinking of relating metallic value to value of the medal,» said Jim Greensfelder, a one - time Proctor & Gamble executive, software entrepreneur and former elected city government official who wrote «the bible» on the history of the modern Olympic Games medals.

(A new city hall will be located three blocks south, as part of a roughly $ 500 million redevelopment effort that includes a museum dedicated to the history of the Las Vegas Mafia and a proposed arena for a professional basketball team.)

Wilmot Collins, 54, made history this year when he became the first black person to be elected mayor of a city in Montana.

This coming together of history and technology is incredibly unique, and definitely works in the city's favor.

Giordano spoke before hundreds of people gathered at a college in Santa Rosa, one of the hardest - hit cities, for a memorial service to honor the lives lost in the deadliest series of wildfires in California history.

As laid out in a history of the industry included in the New York City Bar report, all promised to reduce debts for a fee, and all eventually provoked a regulatory response.

The only currency in the history of mankind that had actual intrinsic value was when people traded barley in the markets of the ancient city of Ur.

Eager not to repeat history, Bird started a «dialogue with the city» of San Francisco in January ahead of its launch, and waited to see how the city responded to Spin and LimeBike before delivering 175 scooters.

Chicago History Museum — Getty ImagesPortrait of the Morris family, who moved to Chicago during the Great Migration of African Americans from the South to northern cities around the time of World War I, ca. 1915.

«It is truly unfortunate that this announcement is occurring amidst the aftermath of one of the biggest tragedies in the history» of Houston, the release said, referencing the extensive flooding in the city caused by Hurricane Harvey.

Netflix description: «In 1977 New York City, the talented and soulful youth of the South Bronx chase dreams and breakneck beats to transform music history.»

While Querétaro is well - positioned at a key intersection of the so - called «NAFTA Highway,» the network of roads, rail and telecommunication lines that connect the U.S. to Mexico City, the state has had a long history of foreign investment.

Milwaukee is one of the most segregated cities in the U.S., with a history of racial discrimination that links back to Great Migration.

The fourth child and younger son of media mogul Rupert Murdoch, James Murdoch went to Harvard to study film and history after graduating in 1991 from Horace Mann, an elite New York City private prep school.

For example, the American Museum of Natural History issued some $ 78 million in bonds through the Trust for Cultural Resources in New York City.

The videos would eventually form a history, a chronicle of how the New York City startup community develops over time.

Nestled among the beautiful Blue Ridge Mountains, the city offers plenty of outdoor activities as well as shopping, history, and a thriving arts scene.

Craig Hall, a serial entrepreneur and investor based in Holland, notes that the city's history of entrepreneurship emerged from economic necessity.

He engineered a state takeover of the perpetually troubled city of Detroit, installing a hand - picked emergency manager who quickly filed the largest municipal bankruptcy in U.S. history.

Bryant Simon, a professor at Temple University, whose book Boardwalk of Dreams chronicles the history of Atlantic City, including Trump's business dealings there, says business owners who worked on the Taj Mahal were often paid just 10 cents to 20 cents on the dollar in the bankruptcy.

Around 5,000 years ago, humans made the transition «from the anarchy of the hunting, gathering, and horticultural societies in which our species spent most of its evolutionary history to the first agricultural civilizations with cities and governments,» Pinker wrote.

On July 18, the city of Detroit became the largest municipality in U.S. history to declare bankruptcy, with debt estimates ranging from $ 14 billion to $ 20 billion.

From Pericles through Edmund Burke, Borat and New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg, Holdforth offers a history of the idea of manners: why they exist, how they developed, and why they matter today.

Congress had initially set aside more than $ 49 million for the organizing committee, but — like many other host cities throughout Olympics history — Lake Placid ran way over, spending upwards of $ 100 million on the Games.

«Our goal with these guitars is to preserve the history of the city we love while honoring its tradition of superior craftsmanship,» says Wallace Detroit Guitars owner Mark Wallace.

Images of the flooded Lower Ninth Ward and the misery of people stranded at the city's Superdome will haunt memories and history books forever.

In the history of the Chicago's newspaper wars, Ferro's acquisition of the Second City's second paper will be seen as a stepping stone to the Tribune.

On the one side is an American technology company with a history of questionable business practices, and on the other is an outdated bureaucracy that does much to keep transportation costs high in the city.

There was wrestling history, videos of Hogan yukking it up with Howard Stern and, most notably, howGawker — a 12 - year - old news and gossip website in New York City — does journalism differently from legacy media.

A scrap metal recycler with a history of air pollution problems in north Minneapolis could relocate 50 miles northwest to the city of Becker as soon as this summer.

Like many other cities in South Carolina, Spartanburg is full of American history.

From a mix of culture, landscape and history on the one hand, to a money trap on the other, being a tourist in Europe's most popular cities proves...

The city also has an annual Wagon Days Parade, featuring original Lewis Ore Wagons, in celebration of the town's rich pioneer mining history.

Mr. Musuraca received a B.A. in Political Science from New York University, a M.A. in American History from the University of Massachusetts / Boston, and a Master's of Philosophy from the Graduate Center, City University of New York.

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There's a reason the history - rich city of Lisbon is growing in popularity.

The Comptroller serves as investment advisor, custodian and a trustee to the New York City Pension Funds, which have more than $ 160 billion in assets and a long history of active ownership on issues of corporate governance and sustainability.

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Moderator: William V. Harris, William R. Shepherd Professor of History and Director, Center for the Ancient Mediterranean, Columbia University Speaker 1: L. Randall Wray, Research Director of the Center for Full Employment and Price Stability and Professor of Economics, University of Missouri - Kansas City Speaker 2: Michael Hudson, President, Institute for the Study of Long - Term Economic Trends and Distinguished Research Professor, University of Missouri - Kansas City Tuesday, September 11, 2012 About the Seminar Series: Modern Money and Public Purpose is an eight - part, interdisciplinary seminar series held at Columbia Law School over the 2012 - 2013 academic...

Galveston - for those of you who are students of history - was the jewel of the Texas coast and a potential gateway city for the southern United States to the world.

The rich history of the American South meets the influence of metro Atlanta's global community, offering a variety of shopping, dining, and cultural experiences that draw upon the diverse tastes of those who call this city home.

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You might prefer the buzz of living in an Old World city packed with museums, galleries and history, a place where you don't need a car, and every cobbled lane hides a new adventure.