Malls normally thronged with shoppers were closed for several days.
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The square itself was peaceful, thronged with tourists taking photos.
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Across the road, the British Museum is continually thronged with tourists.
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There were few cars, and the streets thronged with black bicycles.
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The book is thronged with detail, but of a careful kind.
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The beach is a tourist destination and is typically thronged with pleasure-seekers.
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The lifestyle advertising seems to have made headway as touristy areas thronged with cyclists.
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Shortly before sunset, the Hamas leader Ismail Haniya appeared and was thronged with supporters.
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The most famous sex store in West Berlin, Beate Uhse, was also thronged with people.
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LEVIN: You have certain Republicans who thronged with the Democrats because they want to destroy this president.
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The lobbies outside the Assembly and Senate chambers, on most days thronged with advocates, were frequently empty.
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This latest "Lear," smartly if unshowily directed by Jonathan Munby, adds to a London theater season thronged with royals.
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On a warm evening the town's neat central plaza is thronged with locals practising dance routines for exercise and entertainment.
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The course of jumps, descents and hairpin turns was thronged with fans, their faces up against the Plexiglas at sections.
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Parts of its four-lane roadway are closed to traffic in each direction for the show and are thronged with pedestrians.
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Istiklal Street, usually thronged with shoppers at weekends, was quieter than normal as more people are staying home after a series of deadly bombings.
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Nor did it matter much that the streets of midtown Manhattan were thronged with immobilized protesters who stood in place for hours on end.
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Events include the swearing-in ceremony on the steps of the U.S. Capitol and a parade to the White House along streets thronged with spectators.
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The villa is a 20-minute drive north of Seminyak, Bali's most fashionable neighborhood, thronged with ex-models and the idle rich in high season.
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Its main door was open and thronged with people, and the organ music poured out, toiling and mysterious no more, rising with ease and cheer.
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"Street-car routes, especially transfer points, were thronged with white people of all ages," a 1922 report by the Chicago Commission on Race Relations says.
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"Wait for him to arrive and you can ask him all the questions," she told Reuters at her home in Abidjan thronged with celebrating supporters.
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The elegant interior of the 203-year-old Metropole thronged with security personnel and hotel staff on the summit eve as final preparations were made.
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There is a grape arbor, as well as a chest-tall patch of native plants thronged with butterflies and bees, visited by the occasional opossum.
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Rewind to the 1700s, though, and the Bowery was thronged with clopping stagecoaches and a string of inns and taverns catering to travelers and mobile tradesmen.
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During summer Sundays, narrow roads leading through the reserve are thronged with cars and buses full of families out to picnic and camp along the riverbank.
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Today, Anniston's community meetings are thronged with the sick, who tend to introduce themselves by ticking off their sky-high PCB levels and bestiary of diseases.
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A 14th-century stepwell in Delhi, as featured in "PK", another of Mr Khan's films, is thronged with selfie-takers, as is another centuries-old stepwell in Rajasthan.
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The latest bombings came almost a year after an attack on a Hindu shrine thronged with tourists in central Bangkok killed 20 people and wounded more than 120.
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In May 2015, the former men's club reopened as a 241-room hotel, so thronged with sightseers since then that the Chicago Architectural Foundation now offers tours there.
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Not only are the pups being primped and groomed for their events, the area is often thronged with spectators who want to catch a glimpse of the contestants.
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Senators Cory Booker of New Jersey and Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts tore up their schedules to shout their way through impromptu speeches in airport concourses thronged with protesters.
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I entered a great hall lined with banquet tables and thronged with gray-haired old men, wearing feathered caps, crisp blue dress coats, and gleaming medals on their lapels.
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During his inauguration speech, delivered on a massive stage thronged with Latin American presidents and other dignitaries, a man struggled to shield him from a light rain with an umbrella.
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Adam Yauch Park, a small triangular space in an upscale neighborhood, was thronged with hundreds of people, some of whom climbed the playground equipment and sat on the monkey bars.
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Earlier, witnesses at Oxford Circus, thronged with shoppers on "Black Friday," one of the busiest shopping days of the year, described a scene of people running from the station, some in tears.
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A group of masked pro-separatists held back by riot police pelted them with eggs and hurled powder paint, creating dark clouds of dust in streets that would usually be thronged with tourists.
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When Donald J. Trump arrived in Albuquerque last week, stepping from his gold-plated jet into an aircraft hangar that was thronged with baying supporters, he held his arms aloft like a champion boxer.
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In April, a driver deliberately plowed his white Ryder rental van into a lunch-hour crowd, killing 10 people and injuring 2003 along a roughly mile-long (1.6-km) stretch of sidewalk thronged with pedestrians.
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Times Square was thronged with people celebrating the end of the war, and Eisenstaedt's series of four photos showed a uniformed sailor grabbing a woman in a nurse's outfit, bending her back and kissing her deeply.
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The record itself is similarly thronged with a varied cast of characters from the drama of African and black American history, from Kunta Kinte, a fictional 18th-century slave from Alex Haley's novel "Roots", to Nelson Mandela.
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Despite the suspension of all state public transport in the capital and the presence of heavily armed police, the rally site was thronged with supporters waving flags and hand-made signs with slogans such as 'RIP voting machines.
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But wherever they are, New York City's play sprinklers have one thing in common: As soon as it is hot, they are thronged with children (and some adults) who know that in July, bliss is whatever cools you down.
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TORONTO (Reuters) - A driver deliberately plowed his white Ryder rental van into a lunch-hour crowd in Toronto on Monday, killing 10 people and injuring 15 along a roughly mile-long (1.6-km) stretch of sidewalk thronged with pedestrians, police said.
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When she took office in 2014 the World Trade Organisation's (WTO's) Doha round of multilateral tariff reductions was stagnant and European city squares thronged with protests against the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP), a mooted trade deal with America.
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St. Pierre Journal ST. PIERRE, St. Pierre and Miquelon — Christina Hamel remembers when the island of St. Pierre, a foggy French outpost a dozen miles off the coast of Newfoundland, once thronged with boisterous fishermen from Europe, Russia and Canada.
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Monaco is still partly owned by the royal family; its players still wear a jersey inspired, according to the officially endorsed history, by Princess Grace; its home, the Stade Louis II, is still nestled between two marinas, thronged with superyachts.
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DIYARBAKIR, Turkey (Reuters) - Thronged with shoppers and men sipping tea on a warm day in early spring, the main streets of Turkey's Diyarbakir show few signs of the devastation wrought by months of fighting last year between Kurdish militants and security forces.
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The prime minister said people also could leave their houses for exercise, either alone or with family members, and he did not close parks in London, which became a symbol of Britain's nonchalant response this weekend when they were thronged with people.
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In the Ginza shopping district of Tokyo, which is often thronged with Chinese tourists, Michiko Kubota, who runs a clothing boutique, said she hoped the Japanese government might do more to help China, such as by sending masks or other medical supplies.
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It is in those cities that the World Cup has, over the last month, been felt most keenly: Saransk, invaded by delirious Peruvians; Samara, its streets stripped of traffic and thronged with Uruguayans; Volgograd, its history explained to countless English and Panamanians and many more besides.
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Struth is famous for his images of museum rooms thronged with rumpled, preoccupied, rapt tourists, yet I've always been especially drawn to his portraits; his subjects (mostly families he knows personally, but also Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip) stare straight into the camera with unsettling equanimity.
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Although the women's bathroom was thronged with bikini-clad wang hong examining themselves in a full-length mirror, one of them explained that swimming was out of the question: there were so many selfies to be taken and edited, and almost everyone was live-streaming the event to their fans.
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Midday had turned perfectly clear, and from up there you could see the trails, the open slopes thronged with skiers, children sledding, the lift station and the line, which had re-formed, the hotel, the parked buses, the road that wove in and out of the black forest of fir trees.
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A local, 31-year-old, Tunisian-born Frenchman with a record of violence but unknown to counter-terrorism agencies drove the rented heavy truck for 2 km (1.5 miles) along the palm-fringed Promenade des Anglais seafront, which was closed to traffic and thronged with thousands of revelers watching fireworks.
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For many Americans, a modern dread of contamination has been distilled into cathartic post apocalyptic film fare such as 28 Days Later, Right at Your Door, or Dawn of the Dead that feature poisoned lands and communities thronged with those so degraded by infection and environmental exposures that they have lost their intelligence and even their humanity.
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Such a quaint ideal and needless effort this service obligation seems now, when exhibitionism in the pseudoraw is what gets rewarded, thanks in large measure to the phony theatrics of reality TV, which turned the social theorist Daniel Boorstin's notion of a celebrity — someone famous for being famous — into a terrarium thronged with dance moms, mob wives and Honey Boo Boos.
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Although it is a mere shadow of its heyday half a century ago when it thronged with activity, many relics of that era remain.
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Thus the second committee meeting was thronged with people, many of whom had come specifically to make an example of the wicked Mr Stewart and his cronies.
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Mitchell, Revolutionary Government in Ireland, p.17 Among the audience were the Lord Mayor Laurence O'Neill and Maud Gonne. Scores of Irish and international journalists were reporting on the proceedings. Outside, Dawson Street was thronged with onlookers.
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Until the end of the 1850s, Holmead's Burying Ground was one of the two most prominent cemeteries in the District of Columbia, and until Glenwood Cemetery and Oak Hill Cemetery opened, Holmead's Burying Ground was thronged with visitors each Sunday.
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The streets, sidewalks, balconies, and windows were thronged with mourners. These included three generals, clergymen of all denominations, and city representatives. The cortege passed the New Orleans Stock Exchange at noon. Members suspended proceedings, left the room and came down to the sidewalk.
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The entrance fee for Friday was half-a-crown (2s 6d), but on Saturday the fee was one shilling only. Approximately 8,000 arrived by train, with another 10–12,000 by other means. As on Friday, the market place was thronged with shooting galleries, carousels, swing-boats and other attractions. The pageant again assembled at Studley, and at one thirty, again processed to Fountains Abbey.
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The glider was destroyed by a gale on 26 August 1911. Prosser flew a 50 hp Caudron biplane over Cwmamman, Wales. The Amman Valley Chronicle reported on 30 October 1913: "Every vantage point was thronged with people watching the first aeroplane flying through the district and, of course, like most other things, it went to Ammanford." Prosser visited Alcester, Warwickshire, on 8 March 1914.
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Approval of Steele's bill was received with great enthusiasm in Marion, where the local newspaper predicted that the expenditure for the branch would total at least $500,000. News of the bills passing was favorably received in Grant County and on July 30, 1888 a celebration took place and it was estimated that the streets of Marion were thronged with the largest assemblage ever reported in Marion.
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Badami is famous for its cave temples all hewn out of sandstone on the cliff of a hill. The region is adorned with pristine blue lake, famous ancient temple shrines, museum and above all Hindu and Jain caves, carved out of sandstone. The largest and most ornamental is the third cave temple dedicated to Vishnu. Agastya teertha reservoir thronged with temples dedicated to Vishnu and Shiva.
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In 1943, the second wartime Boat Race between the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge was held on the Thames at Sandford. Like the first, it was unofficial and no Blues were awarded. However, public enthusiasm was high and the river banks were thronged with spectators, all of whom had to reach the course either by bicycle or on foot. Contemporary newspaper reports estimate the crowd at between seven and ten thousand.
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Samuel Palmer, St. Pancras, memoranda relating to the parish (1870), p. 266: "ROSSITER AND HIS COMPANION IN THE BALLOON OF THE LATE MR. HARRIS. At twenty minutes past five o'clock we took our seats in the car from the Bedford Arms. Having cleared the obstructions which at first retarded our ascent..." The fields around the hotel were thronged with people who had come to see the balloon's departure.
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The fire broke out on a Tuesday evening about 8:30 when the evening mail was arriving. The streets, stores and hotel porches were thronged with summer visitors when the alarm sounded. By the time the firemen responded and the hoses were laid the power house was roaring in flames. The fire quickly spread to the huge Palatine Casino, which was consumed in fire in a matter of seconds.
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Wichard von Möllendorf After the battles on the 14th, a large number of refugees appeared at Erfurt. At first they were refused entrance, but later the gates were opened and soon the city thronged with at least 12,000 demoralized soldiers. Attempts were made by some officers to return the troops to their regiments, but the men refused to cooperate. By noon on the 15th, Murat was near Erfurt with the leading elements of his cavalry.
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After Jena and Auerstedt, a large number of refugees appeared at the Prussian fortress of Erfurt. At first they were refused entrance, but later the gates were opened and soon the city thronged with at least 12,000 demoralized soldiers. Attempts were made by some officers to return the troops to their regiments, but the men refused to cooperate. Joachim Murat, Marshal of France, sent French Colonel into Erfurt under a flag of truce.
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Sammarco was active during an era that was thronged with Italian baritones of exceptional ability. It was no small achievement for him to carve out a lucrative international career in the face of powerful competition from the likes of Mattia Battistini, Antonio Magini-Coletti, Giuseppe Campanari, Mario Ancona, Giuseppe Pacini, Antonio Scotti, Eugenio Giraldoni, Riccardo Stracciari, Titta Ruffo, Domenico Viglione Borghese, Pasquale Amato and Carlo Galeffi. He taught singing after retiring from the stage and died in Milan.
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When Lincoln had the painting exhibited to the public in the East Room of the White House, Carpenter noted that the exhibition was thronged with visitors. Carpenter campaigned for Congress to purchase the painting, enlisting the help of fellow Homer native William O. Stoddard, Lincoln's private secretary. Congress did not appropriate the money. The painting remained in Carpenter's possession until 1877, when he arranged for Elizabeth Thompson to purchase it for $25,000 and donate it to Congress.
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The shrine is surrounded by votive tablets. The older woman checks on the decorations with the use of a mirror which she holds high in her extended right hand. The foreground of the canvas is thronged with a swarm of male infants, or putti, who distract themselves in activities such as climbing trees, leaping, flying, gathering apples, lying around, fighting, fondling, shooting arrows and pulling each other's hair. A dam is shown in the middle background, near a sunlit meadow.
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By 1345, Cheapside was again thronged with butchers' and fishmongers' stall on market days, obstructing the streets. The butchers and fishmongers were required to move to Stocks Market and the poultrymen to adjoining shops or to Leadenhall Market. By 1359, Stocks Market had 71 'covered plots' in four rows for the sale of meat and fish, and 27 more in covered areas along the outer walls. The fruit and vegetable stalls had moved too an area at St Paul's Churchyard.
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It has always been considered an honour to carry the baton for which different organisations "buy" kilometres to support the Basque language as well as its supporter, AEK. Behind the race leader, the immediately following participants carry a banner bearing the race slogan, that changeson every edition. The race is conducted in an extremely jovial, uncompetitive spirit, accompanied by music and general fanfare, with roads thronged with spectators. Each edition has its own song, made by different and recognized artists.
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July Fourteenth, Rue Daunou, 1910 depicts the celebration of Bastille Day from the artist's viewpoint on top of the Hôtel l’Empire in Paris. The street below is thronged with automobiles and people, while the flags of France, Belgium, and the United States are being flown on various buildings. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, where the painting is now on display, considers the painting to be a precursor to Hassam's famous Flag Series. It is on display in the Metropolitan Museums's Gallery 774.
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If she were to die without any heirs, Goshen wanted his estate to go to his sister, Margaret Caley Gelling of Rochester, New York. His will was contested by his ex-wife Mary Welch who was living with family in Elgin, Illinois. His funeral was described in the following manner: > The farm house of the dead giant was thronged with villagers long before the > hour fixed for the funeral. The remains had been placed in a coffin eight > feet long and three feet wide.
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Previous to this the study of chemistry in the university of Genoa had been much neglected, but soon after his appointment the lectures were thronged with pupils. He also made a special study of botany, and gathered an extensive collection of rare plants. His wide and varied acquirements and his public spirit won him the general esteem of his fellow-citizens, which was greatly increased by his self-sacrificing attentions to the sick during the severe epidemic of 1800. He resigned his professorship in 1787 on account of a prolonged visit to England.
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On 28 June 1887 Cass went out in the late evening to do some shopping at Jay's Shop at 243–253 Regent Street (a respected retailer of silk and millinery, holding a Royal Warrant). The week had seen Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee, and London was thronged with people enjoying a month of record sunshine. Jay's was closed, and the pavement was full of people. As she pushed her way through the crowd on Oxford Street to go home, she was suddenly arrested by PC DR 42 Endacott, of Tottenham Court Road Police Station.
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His correspondence is noted for its wisdom and kindness, reminiscent of Montaigne, and, occasionally, Charles Lamb. He produced a book of memoirs, which was translated into English, and started work on a treatise, Social and Political Morality, which was left unfinished on his death. During his final illness, the street in which he lived was thronged with sympathisers and his death was an occasion for national sorrow and mourning. It was feared that the funeral would be the signal for some political disturbance; but the government took immediate measures, and all went quietly.
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Shortly after that, when Nizāmuddīn returned to Delhi, he received news that Baba Farid had died. Chilla Nizamuddin Auliya, residence of Nizamuddin Auliya, towards the north-east from Humayun's tomb, Delhi Nizāmuddīn lived at various places in Delhi, before finally settling down in Ghiyaspur, a neighbourhood in Delhi undisturbed by the noise and hustle of city life. He built his Khanqah here, a place where people from all walks of life were fed, where he imparted spiritual education to others and he had his own quarters. Before long, the Khanqah became a place thronged with all kinds of people, rich and poor alike.
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A horde of 25,000 Afghan horsemen swooped down upon the sacred city of Muttra during a festival, while it was thronged with peaceful Hindu pilgrims engaged in their devotions. "They burned the houses," says the Tyrolese Jesuit Tieffenthaler, who was in India at that time, "Together with their inmates, slaughtering others with the sword and the lance, haling off into captivity maidens and youths, men and women. In the temples they slaughtered cows (the sacred animal of the Hindus), and smeared the images and pavement with the blood." The borderland between Afghanistan and India lay silent and waste.
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Although he was offered a burial at Westminster Abbey, Shaftesbury wished to be buried at St. Giles. George Williams (YMCA) chaired the organising committee of his funeral, and was a pall-bearer at it. A funeral service was held in Westminster Abbey during early morning of 8 October and the streets along the route from Grosvenor Square and Westminster Abbey were thronged with poor people, costermongers, flower-girls, boot-blacks, crossing-sweepers, factory-hands and similar workers who waited for hours to see Shaftesbury's coffin as it passed by. Due to his constant advocacy for the better treatment of the working classes, Shaftesbury became known as the "Poor Man's Earl".
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Mansel, 255 The King entered Paris on 8 July to a boisterous reception: the Tuileries Palace gardens were thronged with bystanders, and, according to the Duke of Wellington, the acclamation of the crowds there were so loud during that evening that he could not converse with the King.Mansel, 256 Although the Ultra faction of returning exiles wanted revenge and were eager to punish the usurpers and restore the old regime, the new king rejected that advice. He instead called for continuity and reconciliation, and a search for peace and prosperity. The exiles were not given back their lands and property, although they eventually received repayment in the form of bonds.
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Potter was buried in the Poughkeepsie Rural Cemetery at Poughkeepsie, New York. On January 8, 1887 The New York Times ran article entitled "Bishop Potter’s Funeral" with the subtitle "Trinity Thronged with Sorrowing Friends." The article said, > From the time of the brief services at the Bishop’s home early in the > morning, until the interment at Poughkeepsie, when the shadows of the day > were lengthening, the ceremonies were marked by a quiet taste akin to the > prelate’s habits of life, and through all coursed manifest sorrow for the > dead and sympathy for the mourners. The special train bringing the Bishop’s > remains to Poughkeepsie arrived at 2:30.
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News of the bills passing was favorably received in Grant County and on July 30, 1888 a celebration took place and it was estimated that the streets of Marion were thronged with the largest assemblage ever reported in Marion.Historical Files, Indiana Room of the Marion Public Library: Marion Daily Chronicle, The Soldiers' Home, October 8, 1888 In early 1890 Steele became the first President of the First National Bank in Marion. However, at the request of President Benjamin Harrison, he took the position of governor of the Oklahoma Territory from mid 1890 to late 1891. Upon his return to Marion in 1894, he was elected Congressional representative for four more terms.
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3, paragraph 1 in Whiston's translation); dates given are approximations since the correspondence between the calendar Josephus used and modern calendars is uncertain. surrounding the city with three legions (V Macedonica, XII Fulminata, XV Apollinaris) on the western side and a fourth (X Fretensis) on the Mount of Olives, to the east. If the reference in his Jewish War at 6:421 is to Titus' siege, though difficulties exist with its interpretation, then at the time, according to Josephus, Jerusalem was thronged with many people who had come to celebrate Passover. The thrust of the siege began in the west at the Third Wall, north of the Jaffa Gate.
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The two hotels were sold by the Co-op in December 2017 and the new owners Northern Powerhouse Developments planned major refurbishments. Gilsland Spa hotel frontage The hotel has been a popular resort since the eighteenth century. Susanna Blamire, the Cumbrian Muse, came to take the waters in the later part of the century and Walter Scott came here in "the season" of 1797 looking for a wife, and found one. The opening of the railway station in 1836 galvanised the village and during the later part of the 19th century and the early 20th, Gilsland was thronged with tourists, many of whom were working-class people from Tyneside.
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Annually in late September, the town is the destination of choice for thousands of music lovers and top name performers for the Looe Music Festival, which takes place in temporary venues around the town, harbour and on East Looe beach. There is a tradition of the townsfolk wearing fancy dress on New Year's Eve, when the streets are thronged with revellers in inventive outfits. Looe has been on the list of the top ten places in the UK to celebrate New Year, and ranked third on the list for 2007-08. Looe is regenerating itself, like many other ports, to serve as a small cargo port.
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In the Paris–Madrid race of May 1903, the Mors of took just under five and a quarter hours for the to Bordeaux, an average of 105 km/h (65.3 mph). Speeds had now far outstripped the safe limits of dusty highways thronged with spectators and open to other traffic, people and animals; there were numerous crashes, many injuries and eight deaths. The French government stopped the race and banned this style of event.Rose, G 1909 p 177 From then on, racing in Europe (apart from Italy) would be on closed circuits, initially on long loops of public highway and then, in 1907, on the first purpose-built track, England's Brooklands.
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Yale and nearby Emory City, in the vicinity of Hill's Bar, where the gold rush had begun, as well as all the major Canyon towns to Ashcroft, thronged with temporary residents and business of various kinds and legitimacies. Three- times daily rail service to Vancouver - begun in the early 1880s before construction in the Canyon was finished in 1885 - made Yale a popular excursion run. With construction ended, however, the population dropped dramatically in Yale by 1890, and continued to decline afterward. Daily return service remained in effect until World War I. When Onderdonk moved on in 1886, he donated his estate for a girls' school, All Hallows.
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In the winter the doors of this place are thronged > with a crowd of sleighs and sleigh drivers, while inside, skaters and > spectators form a living, moving panorama, pleasant to look upon. The place > is lighted by gas, and men and women, old and young, with a plentiful > sprinkling of children, on skates, are practicing all sorts of gyrations. > The ladies are prettily and appropriately dressed in skating costumes, and > some of them are proficient in the art of skating. The spectators sit or > stand on a raised lege around the ice parallelogram, while the skaters dart > off, singly or in pairs, executing quadrilles, waltzes, curves, straight > lines, letters, labyrinths, and every conceivable figure.
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The Uzbek Sultans who were in Samarkand being also filled with alarm in like manner took refuge in Turkistan and thus the country of Transoxiana was for a time cleared of the Uzbeks after they had held it about nine years. After Babur had been a short time in Bukhara he proceeded to Samarkand. At Samarkand he was welcomed by processions of the chiefs of the law and of the merchants and the grandees and men of every class came out to receive him. The roads and streets were thronged with the population; the houses, bazaars, and public entries were hung with drapery of brocade and of the richest stuffs paintings and wrought work.
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After the first contest, the emphasis changed from finding a song named after the town to one of promoting the town through attracting composers, of various genres, from all over the world to the town. This strategy was successful and the town (and some of the neighbouring towns) were thronged with contest participants for the first week of October for the remainder of the contest's life. From humble beginnings with a mere £50 in prizes, the event grew in status to a point where its prize money at £20,000 was bettered only by the Yamaha Song Contest in Japan. In 1981, the future of the song contest became political when it was debated in Dáil Éireann.
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Enormous crowds could be accommodated at Spring Gardens, Vauxhall. In 1749 a rehearsal of Handel's Music for the Royal Fireworks attracted an audience of 12,000, and in 1786 a fancy-dress jubilee to celebrate the proprietor's long ownership was thronged with 61,000 revellers. Many of the best known musicians and singers of the day performed at the Gardens, for example Sophia Baddeley. In 1732, their fashionable status was confirmed by a fancy dress ball attended by Frederick, Prince of Wales. At that time access from the West End was by water, but the opening of Westminster Bridge in the 1740s made access easier though less charming. An entertainment in Vauxhall Gardens in about 1779, by Thomas Rowlandson.
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South of the Sambre, Austrian howitzers bombarded and Fort du Bourdiau from behind, quickly making them untenable and endangering the right flank of the line behind the Solre. Reports of the collapse soon reached Fournier and that only half the infantry was left, its spirit broken; the French guns had all been knocked out and d’Hautmont was the last fort under French control. Fournier realised that Maubeuge was doomed and that an attempt to delay the Germans on the south side of the Sambre would quickly be forced back on the village of Hautmont, which was thronged with thousands of refugees. Fournier decided to open negotiations to play for time and hold out until the night of 8 September if possible.
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Billed as his birthplace, his boyhood home in Matsusaka (designated a municipal Historic Site) lies on the , the road that was once thronged with pilgrims to Ise Jingū, the 1830 pilgrimage alone seeing some five million visit the Grand Shrine. The young Takeshirō began calligraphy lessons at the local Sōtō Zen temple of at the age of seven. As a boy he showed signs of his later energy, playing on the temple roof, and enjoyed reading illustrated books of meisho or famous places. He also showed early literary promise himself, composing aged eleven a haiku on the subject of returning wild geese that met with the approbation of his father, and he began to manifest his later antiquarian leanings, copying pictures of temple bells from old books.
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The statue of Moses was the source of a satirical joke involving the nearby statue of Pasquino, wherein the Roman statue was said to have tried to talk to the biblical statue, only to be replied with a whistle. When the Pasquino statue asked why he could not talk some mention was made to the sibilant posture of the statue's lips. In this piazza, now thronged with young tourists out on stroll, the whistling and horns may have other sexual connotations, resulting in the joke, that sometimes also includes a sexual reference to the horns on Moses' head as well as his forked beard. Without correlation, the biblical horns of light in traditional Catholic iconography is derived from the Vulgate translation of the Bible.
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The fashion for medicinal waters brought a brief period of fame, with the exploitation of the wells at Old Oak common, when East Acton and Friars Place were said to be thronged with summer visitors, who had brought about improvement in the houses there. Although high society had left Acton by the mid 18th century, many professional and military men bought houses there, sometimes including a small park, until well into the 19th century. The break-up of the Fetherstonhaugh estate, which had had no resident owner, produced four or five small estates whose owners, professional men such as Samuel Wegg, John Winter, and Richard White, were active in parish affairs. Grand early homes included: Heathfield Lodge, West Lodge, and East Lodge by Winter c.
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Lemery did not concern himself much with theoretical speculations, but holding chemistry to be a demonstrative science, confined himself to the straightforward exposition of facts and experiments. In consequence, his lecture-room was thronged with people of all sorts, anxious to hear a man who shunned the barren obscurities of the alchemists, and did not regard the quest of the philosopher's stone and the elixir of life as the sole end of his science. Of his Cours de chymie (1675) he lived to see 13 editions, and for a century it maintained its reputation as a standard work. In 1680, using the corpuscular theory as a basis, Lemery stipulated that the acidity of any substance consisted in its pointed particles, while alkalis were endowed with pores of various sizes.Lemery, Nicolas. (1680).
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Bethel is mentioned several times in Genesis. It is first mentioned in ,Genesis 12 / בראשית י"ב (Origin), Genesis 12:8 (Translation) as a place near where Abram stayed and built an altar on his way to Egypt and on his return. It is said to be close to Hai (Ai) and just to the west of it. More famously it is mentioned again in ,Genesis 28 / בראשית כ"ח (Origin), Genesis 28:19 (Translation) when Jacob, fleeing from the wrath of his brother Esau, falls asleep on a stone and dreams of a ladder stretching between Heaven and Earth and thronged with angels; God stands at the top of the ladder, and promises Jacob the land of Canaan; when Jacob awakes he anoints the stone (baetylus) with oil and names the place Bethel.
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Barnum wrote: "During the week we spent in seeing San Francisco and its suburbs [in 1869], I discovered a dwarf more diminutive than General Tom Thumb was when first I found him, and so handsome, well-formed and captivating, that I could not resist the temptation to engage him. I gave him the soubriquet of Admiral Dot, dressed him in complete Admiral's uniform, and invited the editors of the San Francisco journals to visit him in the parlours of the Cosmopolitan Hotel. Immediately there was an immense furore, and Woodward's Gardens, where "Dot" was exhibited for three weeks before going east, was daily thronged with crowds of his curious fellow citizens, under whose very eyes he had lived so long undiscovered." Starting in 1877 he performed with the American Lilliputian Company.
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In Düsseldorf, eighteen men and boys, taken by surprise at the singing of Prime in the Church of St. Lawrence, had been cast down one by one into the city sewer, each chanting as he vanished: Christi Fili Dei vivi miserere nobis, and from the darkness had come the same broken song until it was silenced with stones. Meanwhile, German prisons were thronged with the first batches of recusants. The world shrugged its shoulders, and declared that they had brought it on themselves, while it yet deprecated mob violence, and requested the attention of the authorities and the decisive repression of this new conspiracy of superstition. And within St. Peter's Church the workmen were busy at the long rows of new altars, affixing to the stone diptychs the brass-forged names of those who had already fulfilled their vows and gained their crowns.
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The Burgher Defense Council, which commanded the Free Corps, organised a petition (the "Act of Qualification") which was signed by 16,000 people, and the next day the Dam Square before the city hall was thronged with thousands of guild members, Patriot citizens and armed militiamen. The Amsterdam council was once more locked in chambers, not expected to emerge without a positive decision, and on the initiative of Hooft the vroedschap was purged of the members whose dismissal had been demanded in the Act of Qualification. Amsterdam had belatedly joined the Patriot coalition. The rioting of the BijltjesThis so-called Bijltjesoproer (insurrection of the "Little Axes") is actually a misnomer as the Bijltjes reacted to attacks by Patriots on Orangist clubs in the center of Amsterdam, and the Bijltjes rioted in reprisal, only to be attacked and suppressed by armed Patriots.
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The Bank of the United States building was described by Charles Dickens in a chapter of his 1842 travelogue American Notes for General Circulation, Philadelphia, and its solitary prison: > We reached the city, late that night. Looking out of my chamber-window, > before going to bed, I saw, on the opposite side of the way, a handsome > building of white marble, which had a mournful ghost-like aspect, dreary to > behold. I attributed this to the sombre influence of the night, and on > rising in the morning looked out again, expecting to see its steps and > portico thronged with groups of people passing in and out. The door was > still tight shut, however; the same cold cheerless air prevailed: and the > building looked as if the marble statue of Don Guzman could alone have any > business to transact within its gloomy walls.
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On one side of the line, there was some > slight covered accommodation, but in bad weather this was so thronged with > men smoking and spitting that it was not suitable for ladies. On the other > side, there was no covered accommodation, whatever, but the Station Master, > like all other officials connected with the railway, was very kind to the > public, by allowing them the use of the only room he had for living and > cooking in. (The Furness Railway's managing director responded that there were various plans for the improvement of the station, but nothing could be done until a dispute over the provision of a bridge at the station was resolved.) The station that was built was actually originally designed for Millom, by Paley and Austin. The chalet-style station was opened on 1 April 1868.
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Queen Victoria sent a telegram saying, "Pray express to the Naval Brigade my deep appreciation of the valuable services they have rendered with their guns" while a reception and celebratory march through London were among the first events ever recorded on film. The Daily News described the Powerful's return home: "As the great vessel steamed into Portsmouth Harbour at four o'clock this afternoon, she was greeted with thunders of applause .... vessels lying off here were dressed with flags, and their crews, swarming along the yards, swelled the roar of welcome......By three o'clock the jetty was thronged with men, women and children. ... A more eager, joyous gathering I never saw.....We cheered, we waved hats and handkerchiefs and we were half wild with delight." Lambton was appointed a Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB) for his services in South Africa on 13 March 1900.
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Pinxton Wharf. Tickets to travel on the railway could be bought at the Boat Inn The line was opened on 13 April 1819, when "the first load of coals was brought in to the Company's wharf [at Mansfield]... the coal was unloaded and taken to the market place where it was heaped up and set on fire." This was evidently a major event in the locality: crowds met the incoming train at the five-arch bridge "where they met ten waggons laden with coal from the Pinxton colliery... the assemblage amounted to some thousands... Having arrived at the market-place about three o'clock, which, not withstanding the heavy rain falling at the time was thronged with people, the band struck up "God Save the King"... Nearly three hundred of the workmen who had been employed during the last three months on the road, then returned to partake of a dinner, provided for them by the proprietors, at different public houses in the town."Nottingham Journal, 17 April 1819, quoted in Birks and Coxon The Mansfield terminal was Portland Wharf, alongside White Bear Lane.
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But, if we are to judge from his own statement in a letter from Heidelberg in 1846, the doubts which now actively assailed him had long been latent in his mind. The crisis of his mental conflict had just been passed in Tirol, and he was now beginning to let his creed grow again from the one fixed point, which nothing had availed to shift: > "The one great certainty to which, in the midst of the darkest doubt, I > never ceased to cling—the entire symmetry and loveliness and the unequalled > nobleness of the humanity of the Son of Man." After this mental revolution he felt unable to return to Cheltenham, but after doing duty for two months at St Ebbe's, Oxford, he entered in August 1847 on his famous ministry at Holy Trinity Church, Brighton. Here he stepped at once into the foremost rank as a preacher, and his church was thronged with thoughtful men of all classes in society and of all shades of religious belief.
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