And Vienna is world-famous for its coffee houses, where intellectuals gathered in the days before home central heating, to discuss the ideas of the day (and still do).

In the summer of 1950, more than 100 prominent intellectuals gathered in West Berlin to ponder the fate of the "free world."

In the 1993 attack, a mob surrounded a hotel in the Anatolian city of Sivas, where intellectuals had gathered to discuss ways of promoting secularism.

On the appointed date, numerous collectors and intellectuals gathered in Binche, hoping to bid on the books.

Their Chelsea brownstone was a place where artists, writers, and intellectuals often gathered.

At the conference here, organized by the Palestinian Authority's ministry of culture, politicians, intellectuals, educators and community leaders gathered to plan a year of activities memorializing their loss.

Reformists, closet-reformists and non-party intellectuals gathered in his home, feeding him their ideas and plotting against hardliners.

Downtown, in a bookshop cafe where intellectuals gather, the views were the same.

Since then, besides becoming the point of dissemination for the FCE's catalog, it became the place in which many famous Peruvian authors and intellectuals gathered.

At Town Hall recently, black intellectuals gathered to watch a discussion between the Harvard professors Cornel West and Henry Louis Gates.