Tag: Metropolitan

The Metropolitan Cathedral of Saints Vitus, Wenceslaus and Adalbert -Prague.

The Metropolitan Cathedral of Saints Vitus, Wenceslaus and Adalbert is a Roman Catholic metropolitan cathedral in Prague, seat of the Archbishop of Prague. Until 1997, the cathedral was dedicated only to Saint Vitus and is still commonly referred to only as St. Vitus Cathedral. This cathedral is a p...

S.F. Metropolitan Temple, Sept. 1901

Abe stood in the back of the union hall, crowded with men, yes and women, tumescent with anger, drunk with choler, as the priest, red-faced, bellicose, umbraged defiance at what had transpired that day. Union men bristling with outrage Abe had seen before. Didn’t he labor too? Although his ...

Using census data and GIS to find the centre of population for Sydney Greater Metropolitan Area (PDF Maps)

Ever since I was asked by a friend to meet him and a few others somewhere closer to the “centre” of Sydney instead of the CBD, the question of where exactly this centre lies has occupied my mind. My friend A. was working around the far northwest at that time, the others were scattered ar...

The Decline And Fall Of The Metropolitan Police

I have written an article or two on the British police both as a historical insight into its changing political role in industrial disputes during the Miners’ Strike of 1984 and at its inability to change and reform itself internally before, during, and after the racist murder of Stephen Lawre...