A little after 5:00 PM on September sixteenth, visitors to Washington thronged the grounds outside this building in their usual numbers and no doubt with their usual thoughts.

On opening morning, some 40,000 visitors thronged there before noon.

During the last Christmas holiday season, when visitors were thronging the city in unprecedented numbers, every major Manhattan museum - but one - had record attendance.

During the Cultural Revolution visitors thronged the institution every day, for this is where Mao Zedong studied from 1913 to 1918 and later taught.

Although visitors have thronged to it and Mayor Paul Schell has spoken enthusiastically of proposals to tie the boat up permanently as a floating monument near historic Pioneer Square, there is the matter of money.

Such was the renown of Lord Rosse himself, brought about by his consummate mechanical genius and his astronomical discoveries, and such the interest which gathered around the marvellous workshops at Birr castle, wherein his monumental exhibitions of optical skill were constructed, that visitors thronged to see him from all parts of the world.

American and foreign visitors, having paid $425 (excluding hotel costs) for the weekend, thronged the Marriott Marquis to socialize with, and listen to, wine celebrities, and to drink their fill of wines that many consumers never taste in a lifetime.

Over a million and a half visitors thronged to the park each season during this era.

Unseasonably cold weather this spring delayed the blossoms on the magnolia trees sprinkled about Madrid, but finally summer has arrived and residents and visitors are thronging to the many outdoor cafes (terrazas) that have proliferated in recent years.