Homes and businesses throughout the city were destroyed, officials said, bringing back memories of a 1947 twister that wiped out city blocks in Woodward and killed more than 100.

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Anger is leavened by memories of the City's contribution to Labour's spending splurge in office.

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One of the few positive memories I have of Detroit is the DIA. If the city were a body, the DIA might be its heart.

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Images from a City of Culture project 'Portrait Of A City' were shown on large screens on either side of the stage and brought many memories back for those there.

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In the 1980s, he says, when Militant, a Trotskyist faction within the Labour Party, ruled city hall and even the 1990s, when memories of this period were sharp, such an investment would have been unthinkable.

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Memories of those characteristics drove his decision to move from his own Jersey City apartment in September 2011 and back to his mother's house -- they'd noticed that Laurance became more animated when her grandson was around.

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Many memories still live on but every time I walk through the arches of the City Chambers, often past demonstrators, I think of my dad standing there receiving his medal for bravery from the Lord Provost, and that he lived in the trenches, the medical treatment he received when he was shot up, and the life that he lived until his death.

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