* Zenith distance, the distance from directly overhead ( i. e. the zenith ) is sometimes used instead of altitude in some calculations using these coordinates.

Babbitt ( 1922 ), by Sinclair Lewis ( 1885 – 1951 ), satirizes the American bourgeois George Follansbee Babbitt, a middle-aged realtor, booster, and joiner in the Midwestern city of Zenith, who — despite being unimaginative, self-important, and hopelessly conformist and middle-class — is aware that there must be more to life than money and the consumption of the best things that money can buy.

Samual ' Sam ' Dodsworth is an ambitious and innovative automobile designer, who builds his fortunes in Zenith, Winnemac.

His forty-one year old wife, however, motivated by her own vanity and fear of lost youth, is dissatisfied with married life and small town Zenith, wants to live in Europe permanently as an expatriate, not just visit for a few months to allow Dodsworth to visit some manufacturing plants looking for his next challenge.

Octoberfest in Zenith ParkCloudcroft is home to three festivals, each taking place at Zenith Park.

Zenithia, also called Zenith Castle or Zenith, is a floating castle that first appears in Dragon Quest IV ; it is used as a descriptor for several elements in Dragon Quest IV, V and VI.

In addition to the trilogy, a castle in the Dragon Quest III remakes is also called Zenith, although the layout differs from the castle in the Tenku series.

Zenith is dark and more than just the brightest shining stars can be seen ( except low above the horizon in the direction of the sun ).

The " youth club " building which is what the viewers see onscreen, known as The Mitre used to be a nightclub and a pub ( which was mentioned in a few storylines from episodes in the late 90s ) before it was bought by Zenith Television, who film the series.

Currently the property is semi-vacant, and the Zenith North Television signs have been removed outside the building.

Dolby also offered an incentive for Zenith to switch their vote ( which they did ); however, it is unknown whether they accepted the offer.

Zenith is a typical mid-sized, Midwestern city.

" This is not true for Zenith, Babbitt ’ s literary home.

Zenith is a fictitious city in the equally fictitious Midwestern state of “ Winnemac ,” adjacent to Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, and Michigan.

Lewis's own correspondence suggests, however, that Zenith is meant to be any Midwestern city with a population between about 200, 000 and 300, 000.

The actual layout of Zenith is also imagined with careful attention to detail.

Zenith's chief virtue is conformity, and its religion is “ boosterism .” ( Prominent boosters in Zenith include Vergil Gunch, the coal-dealer ; Sidney Finkelstein, the ladies '- ready-to-wear buyer for Parcher & Stein's department-store ; Professor Joseph K. Pumphrey, owner of the Riteway Business College and “ instructor in Public Speaking, Business English, Scenario Writing, and Commercial Law ;” and T. Cholmondeley " Chum " Frink, a famous poet of dubious talent.

But aside from these three cites, which are notoriously so overgrown that no decent white man, nobody who loves his wife and kiddies and God ’ s good out-o ’- doors and likes to shake the hand of his neighbor in greeting would want to live in them .” Zenith is thus presented as more than simply prosperous ; it is safe and wholesome.

Ness Ziona is home to the Israel Institute for Biological Research ( IIBR ), a chemical and biological research institute with 350 employees, and Zenith Solar, a solar energy company.

Ultimately Gantry marries well and obtains a large congregation in Lewis's fictional Midwestern city of Zenith.

) When Babbitt was published, newspapers in Cincinnati, Duluth, Kansas City, Milwaukee, and Minneapolis each claimed that their city was the model for Zenith.

The major names and families of the fictional city of Zenith are well documented in these journals, and many of them emerge again in Lewis ’ s later writings.

His novel Babbitt takes place in Zenith, its largest city ( population 361, 000, according to a sketch-map Lewis made to guide his writing .).

Zenith, the largest city in the state, was founded in 1792.

According to Batchelor, in 1921, Lewis's wife wrote to a friend that Lewis had made " the most astonishingly complete set of maps of Zenith, so that the city, the suburbs, the state " were clear in his mind.

" Batchelor called it " the most exciting " and said that it was " of greater imaginative importance than the city it provides in a greater way than Zenith the interrelatedness among these works.

Football Club Zenit (, Zenith ) is a Russian football club from the city of Saint Petersburg.

" Lewis's map places Zenith due east of Chicago and 17½ miles from the Illinois border.

Winnemac " is much further north than had previously been thought ... New York City is decidedly southeast of Zenith ... Lake Michigan is simply ignored by Lewis in creating the state.

Zenith kept circuit boards out of their televisions until the Chromacolor line in the early 1970s, and even then only used them with solid state components, mounting the four tubes used in the Chromacolor " 4 tube hybrid " on the steel chassis.

Zenith only moved to circuit boards in their radios when they moved to solid state in the late 1960s, and even Zenith's early transistor radios were completely hand wired with socketed transistors.

But Winnemac is Midwestern in its fields of corn and wheat, its red barns and silos, and, despite the immense antiquity of Zenith, many counties were not settled till 1860.

The University of Winnemac is at Mohalis, fifteen miles from Zenith.

Eel Pie Island was also the setting of a murder mystery written by David Frome ( Zenith Brown ) in 1932.

Schiehallion was the setting for the final showdown in Grant Morrison's comic series Zenith.

* OZ-Over Zenith, a game for the PlayStation 2

* Vympel ( or Vega, also known under other names ) was formed in 1981 from a merge of two elite Cold War-era KGB units Cascade ( Kaskad ) and Zenith ( Zenit ) that were similar to the CIA's Special Activities Division ( responsible for covert operations involving sabotage, assassination, etc.

In addition to Sony and Sanyo, Beta-format video recorders were also sold by Toshiba, Pioneer, Murphy, Aiwa, and NEC ; the Zenith Electronics Corporation and WEGA Corporations contracted with Sony to produce VCRs for their product lines.

The producers were Margaret Matheson ( who executive produced Cox's Sid and Nancy for Zenith ) and Tod Davies ( Cox's wife, who also wrote and produced Cox's Three Businessmen ).

The rent of the Zenith for meetings in Paris, as well as the December political poster campaign, account for most of the expenses.

The Zenith, the College yearbook, founded in 1890, is published under the direction of a student editor and student staff and has copies for students at no cost.

Morrison's work on Zenith brought him to the attention of DC Comics, who asked him to pitch for them.

The Invisibles was Morrison's first major creator-owned title for DC Comics and it drew from his Zenith strip as well as 1990s conspiracy culture.

His books include an appreciation of Chuck Jones, an introduction to geodesic math, and a user's guide for the Heathkit H100 / Zenith Z-100 computer ; in his later years was a columnist for both Art & Antiques and Byte magazine.

Moorcock also borrowed the character of Zenith the Albino, both as partial inspiration for Elric of Melniboné and as an actual character ( who was implied to be an avatar of Elric ).

Some organizations continue to keep their Zenith numbers-as of 2006, the California Highway Patrol continues to use the same single number it has for decades, Zenith 1-2000.

** 1LA6 ( loctal ) and later 1L6 ( 7-pin miniature ) – battery pentagrid for Zenith Trans-Oceanic short wave radio.

The Crosby system was technically superior, especially in transmitting clear stereo signals, due to its use of an FM subcarrier for stereo sound rather than the AM subcarrier employed by GE / Zenith.