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A Liberty figure adorned most American coins of the time, and representations of Liberty appeared in popular and civic art, including Thomas Crawford's Statue of Freedom ( 1863 ) atop the dome of the United States Capitol Building.
A monumental statue for the top of the national Capitol appeared in architect Thomas U. Walter's original drawing for the new cast-iron dome, which was authorized in 1855.
It had steam and sand domes that appeared comparatively square in profile and lacked the common, ornate, cast-iron dome " rings ," a decorative molding that dressed up the appearance of such domes and that many 19th century locomotives sported.
However, the structure was given an apparent dome in the 1895 edition of the California Blue Book ( see image ' 1895 '), and it was in this configuration that the building appeared in the 1937 and 1943 ( see image ' 1937b ') standardizations of the official seal.
The prison's distinctive architecture, with its large dome and imposing metal gates, has appeared in many films including Lock Up, Crazy Joe, Rounders, Malcolm X, He Got Game, The Hurricane, and Ocean's Eleven.
During rehearsals for the first Doctor Who serial in which they appeared a numbered piece of card was taped to the dome of each Dalek to assist the director in distinguishing them, with a tape roll being wedged behind the top front collar of each prop for safekeeping.
The Conservatory, as it appeared in 1879, before its dome was replaced following the 1883 fire. Through its life, the Conservatory of Flowers has undergone several repair campaigns.

dome and 1967
In The Tomb of the Cybermen ( 1967 ), veins and brains were visible through the domed head of the Cyberman Controller and similarly, in Attack of the Cybermen ( 1985 ) and " The Age of Steel " ( 2006 ), the Cyber-Controller's brain is visible through the dome.
At one point, the city of Bloomington had plans to place a dome over Metropolitan Stadium, or build a new football stadium located between the Met and the Met Center, which had opened in 1967 just north of the Met.
* the Montreal Biosphère, a geodesic dome on Ile Sainte-Hélène in Montreal, Quebec, Canada used as the pavilion for the 1967 World Exhibition Expo 67.
The train remained popular throughout the 1960s and gained ex-Missouri Pacific Railroad dome coaches in 1967.
* 1967 – Expo 67 in Montreal features the American pavilion, a geodesic dome designed by Buckminster Fuller, and the Habitat 67 housing complex designed by Moshe Safdie.
In 1967 the observation lounge cars were discontinued, but the sleeping car passengers could still enjoy lounge atmosphere in the dome sleepers, since below the dome two of the four single bedrooms were replaced with a buffet, and 24 lounge table seats were installed on the dome level, which made Northern Pacific advertise the new rebuilt and re-styled dome sleepers as “ Lounge in the Sky .”

dome and James
Another unusual Spanish example from the late 12th or early 13th century is the dome of The Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Torres Del Río, on the Way of St. James.
Bathurst's Courthouse ( c. 1860 ) designed by colonial architect James Barnet stands in a prominent city position and is neo-classical style with octagonal Renaissance dome, a doric portico with pediment, octagonal tower with turret, stone facings and brick pilasters, a colonnade of Doric pillars, a sage-green roof, red bricks, yellow bricks and long lines of sash windows.
The bombings damaged numerous buildings and monuments, including the dome of the Cathedral of St. James and the 1870-built theatre building.
A bronze bust of the film's star James Dean is on the grounds just outside the dome.
Major artwork at St. James Cathedral include an extensive collection of stained glass by Charles Connick, installed in 1917-1920, during the rebuilding of the cathedral following the collapse of the dome.
At 92. 9 metres ( 305 feet ), the tower and spire have remained the tallest in Canada and the second tallest in North America after St. Patrick's Cathedral, New York — although the spire of St. James is still shorter than the dome of Saint Joseph's Oratory in Montreal, which is the tallest church in the Western Hemisphere.
A funeral service was conducted by Father Collin, the Superior of the Sulpicians, at the Church of Notre Dame, and Bourget's body was buried alongside that of his predecessor Jean-Jacques Lartigue in a vault under the southwest pillar of the dome of the then-unfinished St James Cathedral, later renamed as Mary, Queen of the World Cathedral.

dome and film
Unlike " dome switch " keyboards, the pattern consists of two D-shaped capacitor pads for each switch, printed on a printed circuit board ( PC board ) and covered by a thin, insulating film of soldermask which plays the role of a dielectric.
Among its collection of artifacts are Captain Kirk's command chair from Star Trek, the B9 robot from Lost in Space, the Death Star model from Star Wars, the T800 Terminator and the dome from the film Silent Running.
In the late 1960s the San Diego Hall of Science ( now known as the Reuben H. Fleet Science Center ) began searching North America for a large-format film system to project on the dome of their planned tilted dome planetarium.
The dome system, which the San Diego Hall of Science called OMNIMAX, uses films shot with a camera equipped with a fisheye lens on the camera that squeezes a highly distorted 180 ° field of view onto the 65 mm IMAX film.
Alfred Hitchcock used the Reading Room and the dome of the British Museum as a location for the climax of his first sound film Blackmail ( 1929 ).
Many soft dome tweeter diaphragms are thermoformed from polyester film, or silk or polyester fabric that has been impregnated with a polymer resin.
The radiating surface of a dome midrange is typically a 90-degree section of a sphere, made from cloth, metal, or plastic film, with its suspension and voice coil co-located at the outer edge of the dome.
Douglas Trumbull, director of the 1972 science fiction classic film Silent Running, stated that the geodesic domes on the spaceship Valley Forge were based on the Missouri Botanical Garden's Climatron dome.
* In the 2009 film 2012, Bellagio, along with the rest of The Strip, was destroyed while the dome of the hotel is nearly crashed into by the giant plane similar to the Antonov An-225.
The IMAX dome projection method ( called " OMNIMAX ") uses 70 mm film running sideways through the projector to maximize the image area and extreme wide angle lenses to obtain an almost hemispherical image.
The Movie Dalek exhibits several alterations from the film appearance including ‘ jam jar ’ dome lights, an enlarged eyeball with protruding torch lens, panels fitted to the appendage box fronts, a gun terminating in a small plunger and elongated, crimped rods fixed to the arm.
According to Anger, the film takes the name " pleasure dome " from Samuel Taylor Coleridge's atmospheric poem Kubla Khan.
* Xanadu ( Citizen Kane ), the fictitious mansion owned by Charles Foster Kane in the film Citizen Kane, and inspired by Coleridge's " stately pleasure dome "
The Cernan Center's dome theater is equipped with a Spitz 512 star projector, a C-360 35 mm film projector, a laser projection system, a three-screen video projection system, a 2, 300-watt audio system and numerous slide and special effects projectors.
* A variation of the IMAX film format that is projected on an angled dome
It also consists of its dome, automation, sound and film systems, and projection equipment.
A year later, The 400 seat OMNIMAX theatre in the upper section of the dome was opened, extending upon the 3D IMAX theatre which was built in 1986 for the Expo " Transitions " film series.
Flyover II, like its predecessor, ends with a shot hovering over the Fort Worth Museum of Science and History itself, where a crowd waves and cheers from the roof near the Noble Planetarium's dome ( in the later film, decorated as a volcano to promote for the Omni's 1992 engagement of Ring of Fire ).
The founders also wanted to develop a large-format film projection system to show movies on the dome.

dome and You
/ You, at last, are something new / ' Neath the theatre's dome.
You probably know this very well, but your orgone energy goes out the top of your head and it dissipates out the top, but if you wear an energy dome it recycles that energy.
While it was being built, the architect's saying of " You can never build a dome larger than the dome of Hagia Sophia and specially as Muslims " was his main motivation.

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