In 2007, it closed an outlet in the Forbidden City in Beijing after complaints that a coffee shop was inappropriate in such a famous center of Chinese culture.
Tula was once a famous center of gunsmithing -- Peter the Great put a small arms factory here in 1712 -- and a pinion of Russia's defense industry.
Mr. Wahid's time at Al-Azhar University, Cairo's famous center of Islamic learning, had given him not just a deep knowledge of Islam but also insights into the dangers of rote learning and narrow-mindedness.
More to the point, whatever the organizers' intention, an invitation to talk at a famous center at a prestigious college does lend legitimacy to the speaker and his views.
The Jungle's most famous center of worship — St Michael's Church — remains standing for the moment.
In 1940 41, Auden lived in a house at 7 Middagh Street in Brooklyn Heights, which he shared with Carson McCullers, Benjamin Britten, and others, and which became a famous center of artistic life, nicknamed "February House".
From there he spent a year in the kitchen at the now closed El Bulli in Spain, the world famous center of molecular gastronomy as practiced by chef Ferran Adria.
Mrs. Ayyappan had come to the world-famous center from Madras, India, two months after she was told by doctors there that her best chance of surviving the malignant tumor was surgery in the United States.
How much did it cost to launch the product line in one of the busiest and most famous transportation centers in the world?
