In the 1970s, wide expanses of the northern and eastern plains were sparsely populated, with scattered villages each huddled around an artificial lake.

There is not a hill or hillock in the whole district, but it derives a certain picturesque beauty from its wide expanses of cultivation, and the greenness and freshness of the vegetation.

These wide expanses are a unique characteristic of North Queensland wetlands produced by comparatively low rainfall and a short wet season that never washes the salt away.

Its topography is flat with wide expanses of farmland.

The " ceiling "- frontiers, the wide expanses of walls to be frescoed would, for the next decades, be thronged by the monumental brilliance of the Carracci followers, and not Caravaggio's followers.

The sound and its ocean inlets are noted for wide expanses of shallow water and occasional shoaling, making the area hazardous for larger vessels.

The styling featured curved bodysides, long hoods and wide expanses of glass.

Within, Tuan has unified the elements of interior space, the outdoors, and the enclosing sky, using wide expanses of glass to frame traditional Asian gardens, pools, and bridges.

From him he learned how to express movement in nature ; and the district of Southampton and Plymouth, with its wide, unbroken expanses of water, sky and ground, gave him good opportunities for studying the tempestuous motion of storm-clouds and the movement of foliage driven by the wind.

This shy and easily startled bird favors mid-sized rivers which meander through wide expanses of mixed forest in the lowlands, up to 1, 000 meters ASL or less.

Gothic architecture greatly increased the amount of glass in large buildings, partly to allow for wide expanses of glass, as in rose windows.

The term ' plateglass ' was coined by Michael Beloff to reflect the modern architectural design of the new universities which often contains wide expanses of plate glass in steel or concrete frames.

Kanegasaki is characterized by a variety of geographical features, including mountains and wide expanses of rice paddies to the west and a small merchant district and neighboring residential areas to the east.

" Metropolitan area " is used in a wide sense here: often there are wide expanses of farmland and forest between the urban / village agglomerations, especially in the parts of the area located to the north or east of Lund.

In summer, great heat is encountered here on the relatively low ( 3000-4600 feet ), gravelly expanses on the north and on those Of the south ( 4000-5000 feet ); but on the higher ground between, which in the Pe-shan ranges ascends to, there is great cold even in summer, and a wide daily range of temperature.

Generally, playing fields are wide expanses of grass, dirt or sand without many obstructions.

In the eastern part the eye constantly rests on wide expanses of rice fields, green in the rains but parched and dry in summer.

The styling featured curved bodysides, long hoods and wide expanses of glass, similar to that of Chrysler Corporation's 1969 full-sized cars, but with a lower beltline than the Chrysler products.

Soundings taken at the landing site indicated a water depth of 16, 000 feet, and Wilkins hypothesized from the experience that future Arctic expeditions would take advantage of the wide expanses of open ice to use aircraft in exploration.

Liddington Castle was the favourite haunt of local writer of natural history and rural life, Richard Jefferies, who spent much of his spare time walking through the wide chalk expanses of the Marlborough Downs.

The designation Prairie is due to the dominant horizontality of the majority of Prairie style buildings which echos the wide, flat, tree-less expanses of the mid-Western United States.

Heusch certainly painted the same effects of evening in wide expanses of country varied by rock formations and lofty thin-leaved arborescence as Both.

Fantasies in red, yellow and opal, sunset, sunrise and moonshine, distances of hundreds of miles like those of the Andes and the Himalaya, narrow streets in the bazaars of Cairo or Suez, panoramas as seen from mast-heads, wide cities like Bombay or Pekin, narrow strips of desert with measure-less expanses of skyall alike display his quality of bravura.

The word may be a compound containing the Old English adjective brytten ( from the verb breotan meaning ' to break ' or ' to disperse '), an element also found in the terms bryten rice (' kingdom '), bryten-grund (' the wide expanse of the earth ') and bryten cyning (' king whose authority was widely extended ').

The latter etymology was first suggested by John Mitchell Kemble who alluded that " of six manuscripts in which this passage occurs, one only reads Bretwalda: of the remaining five, four have Bryten-walda or-wealda, and one Breten-anweald, which is precisely synonymous with Brytenwealda "; that Æthelstan was called brytenwealda ealles ðyses ealondes, which Kemble translates as " ruler of all these islands "; and that bryten-is a common prefix to words meaning ' wide or general dispersion ' and that the similarity to the word bretwealh (' Briton ') is " merely accidental ".

In 1487, Kramer and Sprenger, published the notorious Malleus Maleficarum ( the ' Hammer against the Witches ') which, because of the newly invented printing presses, enjoyed a wide readership.

Apparatus norms set by the International Gymnastics Federation ( used for Olympic and most elite competitions ) specify the beam must be 125 cm ( 4 ') high, 500 cm ( 16 ') long, and 10 cm ( 3. 9 ") wide.

Because the multinational corporation is able to choose between a wide range of underdeveloped or depressed nations in setting up overseas factories, and most of these countries do not have limited governments, bidding wars ( or ' races to the bottom ') sometimes erupt between competing governments.

The most significant change from normal Lego is that single-stud wide bricks (' beams ') have circular holes through their vertical face, positioned in-between the studs.

Each royal burgh ( with the exception of four ' inactive burghs ') was represented in the Parliament of Scotland and could appoint bailies with wide powers in civil and criminal justice.

* 11 hardpoints for up to 4, 400 kg ( 9, 700 lb ) of disposable ordnance, including rails for 2 × R-60 ( AA-8 ' Aphid ') or other air-to-air missiles for self-defence and a wide variety of general-purpose bombs, cluster bombs, gun pods, rocket pods, laser-guided bombs, and air-to-surface missiles such as the Kh-25ML or Kh-29L.

The goals ( or ' gulleys ') are three metres wide and are sited at opposite ends of the playing area on the pool bottom.

Known commonly as andromedas or fetterbushes, they are broad-leaved evergreen shrubs growing to 1 – 6 m ( 3. 3 ' - 19. 7 ') tall and ( 3 ' - 10 ') wide.

* The Syriac Orthodox baţrašil or uroro rabbo (' great stole ') is a straight strip of embroidered material, about 20 cm wide, with a head-hole midway along it, that hangs down a bishop's chest and back.

The name Breda derived from brede Aa (' wide Aa ') and refers to the confluence of the rivers Mark and Aa.

Their main feature is a wide reception area ( known as the ' Club House ') where most socializing and official business takes place.

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Emporium ( medieval Latin from Greek emporos = ' merchant ') is a term used for a store selling a wide variety of goods, and for marketplaces or trading centres in ancient cities ( see emporia ( ancient Greece ) and emporia ( early medieval )).

Romanesque church windows were normally quite small, somewhat taller than wide and with a simple round-headed (' segmental ') arch at the top.

The large, well-built houses, the wide, tree-lined avenues, and the often colourful street names (' The Esplanade ', ' The Oaks ', ' The Elms ', ' West Lawn ', ' Holmlands Park ') signify the area's affluence.

The Union is responsible for supporting and funding student societies (' socs ') on campus, of which more than 200 are currently enlisted catering to a wide variety of interests.

Most impressive is the wide assortment of styles here -- a tuneful anthem (' Innocent '), crunchy metal (' All for You ') and spacey prog (' Bring Back the Sun ') -- with which OLP defy the ' gravity ' that personnel changes can have on a band.

Kō shōgi ( 廣将棋 or 廣象棋 ' wide ( elephant ) chess ') is a large-board variant of shogi, or Japanese chess.

The flats themselves are a mixture of single-storey apartments and two-storey maisonettes, with wide balconies ( the ' streets ') on every third floor.