* Square ( slang ), from the thumbs and forefingers of two hands forming the shape " L7 "

Square used as slang may mean many things when referring to a person or in common language.

* Square ( slang )

After becoming New York's de facto Red Light District in the 1960s and 1970s ( as can be seen in the films Taxi Driver and Midnight Cowboy ), since the late 1980s Times Square has emerged as a family tourist center, in effect being Disneyfied following the company's purchase and renovation of the New Amsterdam Theatre on 42nd Street in 1993.

* The IRT Broadway – Seventh Avenue Line runs under and over Broadway from Times Square to 168th Street ( trains ), and from 218th Street to its terminal in the Bronx at Van Cortlandt Park – 242nd Street ( train ).

) between Union Square ( 14th Street ) and Times Square ( 42nd Street ), the Ninth Avenue Railroad's Ninth and Amsterdam Avenues Line ( 1884 ) between 65th Street and 71st Street, the Forty-second Street, Manhattanville and St. Nicholas Avenue Railway's Broadway Branch Line ( 1885?

Before Broadway became one-way, the main bus routes along it were the New York City Omnibus Company's ( NYCO ) 6 ( Broadway below Times Square ), 7 ( Broadway and Columbus Avenue ), and 11 ( Ninth and Amsterdam Avenues ), and the Surface Transportation Corporation's M100 ( Kingsbridge ) and M104 ( Broadway Branch ).

* Bloody Sunday ( 1969 ), violence after a protest in Taksim Square, Istanbul, Turkey

Soon after, turnpikes were built: the Cambridge and Concord Turnpike ( today's Broadway and Concord Ave .), the Middlesex Turnpike ( Hampshire St. and Massachusetts Ave. northwest of Porter Square ), and what are today's Cambridge, Main, and Harvard Streets were roads to connect various areas of Cambridge to the bridges.

He also provided the voice of Jack Skellington, the main character in Tim Burton's animated Disney film The Nightmare Before Christmas ( 1993 ), and has since reprised the role in many other subsequent productions, including the Disney / Square video games Kingdom Hearts and Kingdom Hearts II and the Capcom sequel to the original film, Oogie's Revenge.

Monzie Square ( named after the Cameron Campbells of Monzie, Perthshire, former landowners in the town ), Station Square, where the long-since demolished railway station used to be, Gordon Square ( named for the Gordons, who owned land where the town now stands in the late 18th century, during which time the town was named Gordonsburgh ), and Cameron Square — formerly known as Town Hall Square.

* Harvard ( MBTA station ), the subway station located in Harvard Square

A fundamental rhythmic figure heard in Gottschalk's compositions such as " Souvenirs From Havana " ( 1859 ), many different slave musics of the Caribbean, as well as the bamboula, and other Afro-Caribbean folk dances performed in New Orleans Congo Square, is the three-stroke pattern known in Cuban music as tresillo.

A number of landmark buildings in Oxford, including the Radcliffe Camera ( in Radcliffe Square ), the Radcliffe Infirmary, and the Radcliffe Observatory were named after him.

The flat actually belonged to singer Harry Nilsson, who was loaning it to Moon, The flat, No. 12 at 9 Curzon Place ( now called Curzon Square ), Shepherd Market, Mayfair, was the same property where singer Cass Elliot died four years earlier.

John-F .- Kennedy-Platz ( John F. Kennedy Square ), formerly Rudolph-Wilde-Platz, in Berlin-Schöneberg is the square in front of the former city hall of West Berlin ( Rathaus Schöneberg ).

At the intersection with 72nd street, the triangle of tiny Verdi Square is surrounded by several notable apartment buildings, including The Ansonia, and the Florentine palazzo occupied by Apple Bank for Savings.

In 1989, the death of former general secretary Hu Yaobang helped to spark the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989, during which students and others campaigned for several months, speaking out against corruption and in favour of greater political reform, including democratic rights and freedom of speech.

A character may return to Times Square in New York City several times throughout a movie, but as it is extraordinarily expensive to close off Times Square, those scenes will likely be filmed all at once to reduce permit costs.

Suburban Dublin has several modern retail centres, including Dundrum Town Centre, Blanchardstown Centre, The Square in Tallaght, Liffey Valley Shopping Centre in Clondalkin, Omni Shopping Centre in Santry, Nutgrove Shopping Centre in Rathfarnham, and Pavilions Shopping Centre in Swords.

In the United Kingdom, the first Aldermaston March organised by the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament took place at Easter 1958, when several thousand people marched for four days from Trafalgar Square, London, to the Atomic Weapons Research Establishment close to Aldermaston in Berkshire, England, to demonstrate their opposition to nuclear weapons.

PTP currently has about 100 wireless hotspots offering free Internet access at locations around Portland including Pioneer Courthouse Square, three public parks, and several restaurants and coffee shops.

After several major political rallies ( especially in January ), in April 1990, a sit-in protest contesting the results of the recently held parliamentary elections began in University Square, Bucharest.

* Siam area in Bangkok, the neighbourhood surrounding Siam Square and several shopping centres within the vicinity which bear Siam as part of their names

After releasing several unsuccessful games for the Famicom, Square relocated to Ueno, Tokyo in 1987 and developed a role-playing video game titled Final Fantasy, inspired by Enix's success with the genre, Dragon Quest ( later released in North America as Dragon Warrior ).

Several team members, including Yasumi Matsuno, Hiroshi Minagawa and Akihiko Yoshida, left Quest in 1997 to join Square, where they worked on several titles for the Sony PlayStation, including Final Fantasy Tactics and Vagrant Story.

The city hosts several cathedrals belonging to the colonial times, such as the San Francisco Cathedral and the Metropolitan Cathedral, this last one located on Murillo Square, which is also home of the political and administrative power of the country.

The home of the Bolivian government is located on Murillo Square and is known as " Palacio Quemado " ( Burnt Palace ) as it has been on fire several times.

The Dow Jones news ticker in Times Square. Dow Jones also owns Dow Jones Local Media Group, which publishes several community newspapers in the U. S.

There are several other major shopping centers in the Columbia area, including Snowden Square, Columbia Crossing I and II, Dobbin Center, and Gateway Overlook.

After the announcement of Lumumba's death, street protests were organized in several European countries ; in Belgrade, capital of Yugoslavia, protesters sacked the Belgian embassy and confronted the police, and in London a crowd marched from Trafalgar Square to the Belgian embassy, where a letter of protest was delivered and where protesters clashed with police.

Station, Madison Square Garden, Times Square, Grand Central and several new office complexes together.

There are several other attractions in Thimphu such as the National Post Office, the Clock Tower Square and the Motithang Takin Preserve ( an erstwhile Zoo ).

For example, in Central Park and Tompkins Square Park in New York City, stands of several large elms originally planted by Frederick Law Olmsted survive because of their isolation from neighboring areas in New York where there had been heavy mortality.

The American sitcom Friends has used shots of Madison Square Garden several times.

In the basement of the new Ellicott Square Building, Main Street, Buffalo, New York, Mitchell Mark ( properly spelled Mitchel Mark ) and his brother Moe Mark added what they called Edison's Vitascope Theater ( entered through Edisonia Hall ), which they opened to the general public on October 19, 1896 in collaboration with Rudolf Wagner, who had moved to Buffalo after spending several years working at the Edison laboratories.

The Square Trust Rescue Helicopter was forced to take evasive action several minutes before the collision, when one of the accident aircraft turned into its path.

The Square is home to several nightclubs, making it often very busy, particularly on Friday and Saturday evenings.

But manuscripts from 1735 ( The Square of Sevens ) and 1750 ( Pratesi Cartomancer ) document rudimentary divinatory meanings for the cards of the tarot as well as a system for laying out the cards.

For other meanings of Berkeley or Berkeley Square, see Berkeley ( disambiguation ).

Motion-picture exhibitions took place in stores in a general atmosphere like that of the penny arcade which can still be found in such urban areas as Times Square.

Due to deadlines, some real-world events have rendered some of Trudeau ’ s comics unusable, such as a 1973 series featuring John Ehrlichman, a 1989 series set in Tiananmen Square in Beijing, China, a 1993 series involving Zoë Baird, and a 2005 series involving Harriet Miers.

Dublin grew even more dramatically during the 18th century, with the construction of many famous districts and buildings, such as Merrion Square, Parliament House and the Royal Exchange.

Several public parks have been constructed, such as the Public Square.

Square has also made other widely known games such as Chrono Trigger, Chrono Cross, Secret of Mana, Legend of Mana, Xenogears, Brave Fencer Musashi, Parasite Eve, Parasite Eve 2, Saga Frontier, Romancing Saga, Vagrant Story, Kingdom Hearts ( done in collaboration with Disney Interactive ), and Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars ( done under the guidance of Shigeru Miyamoto ).

Other focal-plane shutter designs, such as the Copal Square, travelled vertically-the shorter travelling distance of 24 millimetres ( as opposed to 36 mm horizontally ) meant that minimum exposure and flash synchronisation times could be reduced.

Most video game publishers maintain development studios, such as Electronic Arts's EA Canada, Square Enix's studios, Activision's Radical Entertainment, Nintendo EAD and Sony's Polyphony Digital and Naughty Dog.

The British noticed that, during the V-1 flying bomb attacks of 1944, the weapons were falling 2 – 3 miles short of Trafalgar Square — the actual Luftwaffe aiming points such as Tower Bridge were unknown to the British.

However, because of space limitations, indoor tracks may have other nonstandard lengths, such as 160-yard ( 146. 3 m ) indoor track at Madison Square Garden used for the Millrose Games.

The section from Leicester Square tube station to Cambridge Circus is home to specialist bookshops, and more general second-hand and antiquarian shops such as Quinto Bookshop, Henry Pordes and Any Amount of Books.

Sassari is a city rich in art, culture and history, and is well known for its beautiful palazzi, the Fountain of the Rosello, and its elegant neoclassical architecture, such as Piazza d ' Italia ( Italy Square ) and the Teatro Civico ( Civic Theatre ).

One such movement began during the Beijing Spring in 1978 and was taken up again in the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989.

Statues of Edward can be found throughout the former empire, such as those in Waterloo Place, London ; Centenary Square, Birmingham ; Union Street, Aberdeen ; Queen's Park, Toronto ; North Terrace, Adelaide ; Franklin Square, Hobart ; Queen Victoria Gardens, Melbourne ; Phillips Square, Montreal and outside the Royal Botanic Gardens, Sydney.

Stripping also was part of " genre " films, such as horror thriller Fear City ( 1984 ), by Abel Ferrara, about a mass-murderer who terrorizes dancers working at a seedy strip club in Times Square, New York.

This would be the excuse for all sorts of happenings, such as the two-man inter-rabbi bobsleigh championships ( to be held on the down escalator at Leicester Square underground station — weather and platform tickets permitting ), Formation Goat Nadgering, Paso Doble Jockey Wagging, Floodlit Horse Massage, and Nark Fettering on Ice, and reports of the latest activities of the Over-Eighties Nudist Leapfrog ( or Basketball, or Judo ) Team.

Three of the dances, such as “ Dull Sir John ”, actually state " A Square Dance for Eight thus " ( see the diagram on the right ).

Square dances such as “ Newcastle ”, one of those original eight, are still very popular today, and countless new dances have been written in the Playford style, or English Country Dance ( ECD ) style as it is known in America.

Willock in the “ Manual of Dancing ” ( c. 1847 ); regional traditional folk dances such as the “ Goathland Square Eight ” and the “ Cumberland Square Eight ”; American traditional square dances ; plus countless new square dances written in the 20th and 21st centuries.

Some smaller, more isolationist Hasidic groups actually founded their own small towns, such as New Square, New York, and Kiryas Joel, New York, patterned after the communities they left in Europe.