Adam's Bridge, a land connection to the Indian mainland, is now mostly submerged with only a chain of limestone shoals remaining above sea level.

One of Adam's masterpieces: Pulteney Bridge, Bath, Somerset | Bath

Adam's Bridge ( Tamil: ), also known as Rama's Bridge or Rama Setu ( Tamil:, Sanskrit:, ), is a chain of limestone shoals, between Pamban Island, also known as Rameswaram Island, off the southeastern coast of Tamil Nadu, India, and Mannar Island, off the northwestern coast of Sri Lanka.

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Gulf of Mannar, Adam's Bridge, Palk Bay, Palk Strait, Bay of Bengal

Adam's Bridge separating Palk Strait from the Gulf of Mannar

It is studded at its southern end with a chain of low islands and reef shoals that are collectively called Adam's Bridge.

Among them is Abbot Adam's Bridge, which is notable as it was constructed in mediaeval times with much of the original structure standing today.

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A chain of low islands and reefs known as Adam's Bridge, also called Ramsethu, which includes Mannar Island, separates the Gulf of Mannar from Palk Bay, which lies to the north between India and Sri Lanka.

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Sethusamudram Ship Channel Project () proposes linking the Palk Bay and the Gulf of Mannar between India and Sri Lanka by creating a shipping channel through the shallow sea sometimes called Setu Samudram, and through the chain of islands variously known as Ramar Palam ( Tamil: இர ா மர ் ப ா லம ் Rāmar pālam ), ram sethu and Adam's Bridge.

Ram Karmabhoomi is the area composing of Rameshwaram, Dhanushkodi, Adam's Bridge, also known as Rama's Bridge where the Hindu deity Rama is believed to have conducted his fight against Ravana to rescue Sita.

Sir William Chambers was at the forefront, designing in Palladianism style, while Chambers ' rival, Robert Adam's designs had Roman influence, in a style known as Adam style.

Nigel Edward Buxton ( born 1924 ) is a British travel writer and wine critic, also known for appearing as BaaadDad in the Channel 4 comedy series The Adam and Joe Show, which was written and presented by his son Adam Buxton along with Adam's friend Joe Cornish.

The waging of an undeclared war against France, known as the Quasi-War, by the Adam's Administration in retaliation for French seizures of American naval vessels during the French Revolutionary Wars, effectively made the Treaty of Alliance a mockery, as it represented an official declaration of military alliance, maintained solely by the French government, between two nations who were unofficially at war with each other.

Tchaikovsky most admired Adam's 1844 score for Giselle, which featured the use of the technique known as Leitmotif: associating certain themes with certain characters or moods, a technique he would use in Swan Lake, and later, The Sleeping Beauty.

The proposition in probability theory known as the law of total expectation, the law of iterated expectations, Adam's law, the tower rule, the smoothing theorem, among other names, states that if X is an integrable random variable ( i. e., a random variable satisfying E ( | X | ) < ∞) and Y is any random variable, not necessarily integrable, on the same probability space, then

Adam's Curse: A Future Without Men ( also known as Adam's Curse: A Story of Sex, Genetics, and the Extinction of Men ) is a 2003 book by Oxford University human genetics professor Bryan Sykes expounding his hypothesis that with the declining sperm count in men and the continual atrophy of the Y chromosome, within 5, 000 generations ( approximately 125, 000 years ) the male of the human species will become extinct.

The Adam's apple — technically known as the laryngeal prominence — is a feature of the human neck.

This was the only debris flow in Mount Adam's recorded history, but there are five known lahars.

He has since also helped release records from Adam's Junior and from Mamar Kassey, perhaps the best known Nigerien group outside the country, who combine traditional Songhai styles and modern jazz.

Grimlord's alternate identity in the pilot was known as Cyrus Rikter ( Gardner Baldwin ) who also had a son named Percy Rikter, Adam's martial arts rival.

Adam's script was actually bought mistakenly by Dragonfire Films because his name was confused with much better known writer Alan Rifkin.

Surgery known as thyroid chondroplasty ( or trachea shave ) is used to reduce the visibility of the Adam's Apple in transsexual women.

An earlier encyclical of Leo's on marriage, Arcanum Divinae Sapientiae ( 1880 ) had described in passing the Genesis account of the creation of Eve from Adam's side as " what is to all known, and cannot be doubted by any ..."

Delibes was asked in 1867 to add a divertissement, known as either ' Le jardin animé ' or ' Le pas des fleurs ', to a revival of Adolphe Adam's ballet ' Le Corsaire '.

Yucca filamentosa, leaf margin detailYucca filamentosa, commonly known as Adam's needle, is a medicinal plant native to eastern North America.

Also Adam's Peak a mountain top that is also known as Sri Pada by the Buddhists and Sivanolipada Malai by the Hindus.

Eco ( 1993 ) notes that Genesis is ambiguous on whether the language of Adam was preserved by Adam's descendants until the confusion of tongues ( Genesis 11: 1-9 ), or if it began to evolve naturally even before Babel ( Genesis 10: 5 ).

He was replaced as the director of Gone with the Wind ( 1939 ), but he went on to direct The Philadelphia Story ( 1940 ), Adam's Rib ( 1949 ), Born Yesterday ( 1950 ), A Star Is Born ( 1954 ) and My Fair Lady ( 1964 ).

Over the course of seven years, the trio collaborated on seven films, including A Double Life ( 1947 ) starring Ronald Colman, Adam's Rib ( 1949 ), Born Yesterday ( 1950 ), The Marrying Kind ( 1952 ), and It Should Happen to You ( 1954 ), all starring another Cukor favorite, Judy Holliday, who won the Academy Award for Best Actress for Born Yesterday.

In executing this choking technique ( ἄγχειν — anchein ), the athlete grabs the tracheal area ( windpipe and " Adam's apple ") between his thumb and his four fingers and squeezes.

The Mahavansa relates that following the repudiation of Kuveni by Vijaya, in favour of a " Kshatriya " princess from the " Pandya " country, their two children, a boy and a girl, departed to the region of " Sumanakuta " ( Adam's Peak in the Ratnapura District ), where they multiplied, giving rise to the Veddhas.

Tracy finished off the 1940s with Malaya ( 1949 ), an adventure film with James Stewart, and Adam's Rib ( 1949 ), a comedy with Tracy and Hepburn playing married lawyers who oppose each other in court.

Following Fertility to the airport, Tender finds her, takes Adam's gun ( which she has stashed in an urn purportedly containing her brother's cremated remains ), and uses it to board the plane.

His high-profile estrangement and then divorce from Adrianne Allen was the inspiration for Ruth Gordon and Garson Kanin's script for the film Adam's Rib ( 1949 ), starring Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy, and indeed Massey ended up marrying the lawyer who represented him in court, Dorothy Whitney, while his then ex-wife Allen married the opposing lawyer, William Dwight Whitney.

His workshop was continued by his son, Thomas Chippendale, the younger ( 1749 – 1822 ), who worked in the later Neoclassical and Regency styles, " the rather slick delicacy of Adam's final phase ", as Christopher Gilbert assessed it.

In the Summa Theologica ( Q97 ), Thomas Aquinas argued that the tree served to maintain Adam's biological processes for an extended earthly animal life.

Baldwin joined Parenthood for a multi-episode arc that aired in fall 2010 as Gordon Flint, the " wealthy, charismatic " boss of Adam ( Peter Krause ), a bachelor who also has eyes for Adam's sister Sarah ( Lauren Graham ).

In explaining the various views concerning Eve's creation, they taught that Adam was created as a man-woman ( androgynous ), explaining ז ָ כ ָ֥ ר ו ּ נ ְ ק ֵ ב ָ֖ ה () as " male and female " instead of " man and woman ," and that the separation of the sexes arose from the subsequent operation upon Adam's body, as related in the Scripture.

Together with his close allies, Battle Cat ( who undergoes a similar transformation from being Adam's cowardly pet tiger Cringer ), The Sorceress, Teela, Man-At-Arms and Orko, He-Man uses his powers to defend Eternia from the evil forces of Skeletor.

The term Adam-ondi-Ahman has been speculatively translated as the " Valley of God, where Adam dwelt " ( by Orson Pratt ), Adam-ondi-Ahman " the valley of God in which Adam blessed his children " ( by John Corrill ), " Adam's grave " ( by Community of Christ historian Heman C. Smith ), or " Adam with God ," because elsewhere in the Doctrine and Covenants " Son Ahman " is said to refer to Jesus.