The open ceiling, with allegorical and classical figures thrown in masses against the sky: the closed frieze, formally divided into historical scenes and tightly tied to the stone walls, belong in their large ordering to the line of Correggio and his Baroque followers.

Hughes supported Gov. Meyner's `` Green Acres '' plan for saving large tracts of open land from the onrush of urban development.

An amethyst geode that formed when large crystals grew in open spaces inside the rock.

Communities would come together for an entire day of singing in a large building where they sat in four distinct areas surrounding an open space, one member directing the group as a whole.

Participation was by no means open, but the in-group of participants was constituted with no reference to economic class and they participated on a large scale.

At the end of the session, each voter tossed one of these into a large clay jar which was afterwards cracked open for the counting of the ballots.

The open savannas are the home of large ungulates, especially antelopes, the giraffe ( peculiar to Africa ), zebra, buffalo, wild donkey and four species of rhinoceros ; and of carnivores, such as the lion, leopard, hyena, etc.

The repression plunged large parts of the country, especially the rural areas, into open revolt against the PDPA government.

The baidara ( large skin boat ) was a large open walrus skin-covered boat used by Aleut families to travel from island to island, as well as, transport goods for trade and warriors to battle.

The open area of the kitchen chimney is large enough to take a whole ox for roasting.

It is found near large bodies of open water with an abundant food supply and old-growth trees for nesting.

The Anthropology Library is especially large, with 120, 000 volumes However, the Paul Hamlyn Library, which had become the central reference library of the British Museum and the only library there freely open to the general public, closed permanently in August 2011.

The rules committee considered widening the playing field to " open up " the game, but Harvard Stadium ( the first large permanent football stadium ) had recently been built at great expense ; it would be rendered useless by a wider field.

When the bridge was in use, boaters would signal the operator, who would start a diesel engine and rotate the bridge to the open position on a large gear.

Such doors are popular in public transit stations, as it has a large capacity, and when the door is opened, traffic passing in both directions keeps the door open.

Today, the exterior doors of most large ( especially public ) buildings open outward, while interior doors such as doors to individual rooms, offices, suites, etc.

For example, while burning an area of fairly thick forest and thus turning it into a more open, grassy environment might reduce the viability of a large browser ( an animal that eats leaves and shoots rather than grasses ), the reverse could also be true: removing the browsing animals ( by eating them, or by any other means ) within a few years produces a very thick undergrowth which, when a fire eventually starts through natural causes ( as fires tend to do every few hundred years ), burns with greater than usual ferocity.

Either way, the trend is toward the modern Australian environment of highly flammable open sclerophyllous forests, woodlands and grasslands, none of which are suitable for large, slow-moving browsing animals — and either way, the changed microclimate produces substantially less rainfall.

This virus has two large open reading frames one encoding the capsid gene and the other the Rep gene.

Cooper cracked open his briefcase long enough for her to glimpse eight red cylinders (" four on top of four ") attached to wires coated with red insulation, and a large cylindrical battery.

The twelve resident halls surround Eisenhower hall in the center, a non-residential building which contains a late night diner called Ike's ( open until 4am ), a large study lounge, a handful of small group study rooms, HDTV lounge with a pool table and vending machines.

Hector smashes open a gate with a large stone, clears the gate and calls on the Trojans to scale the wall, which they do, and

Several large, brackish lagoons open onto the Caribbean in northeast Honduras.

Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities also defines the communication to include the display of text, Braille, tactile communication, large print, accessible multimedia, as well as written and plain language, human-reader, augmentative and alternative modes, means and formats of communication, including accessible information and communication technology.

* Para-Lift Flaps – these were the large Fowler flaps Cessna introduced on the 170B in 1952, replacing the narrow chord plain flaps then in use.

As early as 490 BC a breed of large horses was bred in the Nisaean plain in Media to carry men with increasing amounts of armour ( Herodotus 7, 40 & 9, 20 ).

In the spring of 216 BC, Hannibal took the initiative and seized the large supply depot at Cannae in the Apulian plain.

In between the two lies a large plain in the valley of the Po, the largest river in Italy, which flows eastward from the Cottian Alps to the Adriatic.

All of the Island's towns are at threat from rising sea levels while the Northern Plain, a large, flat and low-lying plain composed of soft marine sediments and glacial material, which makes up about a quarter of the Island's landmass, is in danger of being lost to the sea over the next two centuries.

Directly south of Chios Town lies the island's airport and the region of Kambos ( Κάμπος, " plain "), a large fertile plain.

The lush primeval forest which once covered the eastern coastal plain, where the Amerindians built their first settlements during the Aceramic period, is gone forever, and so is a large portion of the ecosystem surrounding the coral reef just offshore.

The Indus River basin is a large, fertile alluvial plain formed by silt from the Indus.

The Simpson Desert is a large area of dry, red sandy plain and dunes in Northern Territory, South Australia and Queensland in central Australia.

In the 1891 book, The Flowing Bowl: When and what to Drink, author William Schmidt listed the Tom Collins as including :< u > Tom Collins Gin ( 1891 )</ u > The juice of half a lemon in a large glass, a bar-spoonful of sugar, a drink of Tom gin ; mix this well ; 2 lumps of ice, a bottle of plain soda. Mix well and serve.

The giudicato of Cagliari comprised a large area of the Campidano plain, the mineral resources of the Sulcis region and the mountain region of Ogliastra.

In the Hebrew Bible the Jordan is referred to as the source of fertility to a large plain (" Kikkar ha-Yarden "), and it is said to be like " the garden of God " ( Genesis ).

It is a vast plain comprising large brine lagoons or étangs, cut off from the sea by sandbars and encircled by reed-covered marshes which are in turn surrounded by a large cultivated area.

In Daniel chapter 3, Nebuchadnezzar erects a large idol made of gold for worship during a public ceremony on the plain of Dura.

Large areas of the western plain were subject to large land rents called Huan Da Zu ( 番大租 — literally, " Barbarian Big Rent "), a category which remained until the period of Japanese colonization.

The remains of the kârum form a large circular mound 500m in diameter and about 20m above the plain ( a Tell ).

Cilicia Pedias (" flat Cilicia "— Greek: Κιλικία Πεδιάς ; Assyrian Kue ), to the east, included the rugged spurs of Taurus and a large coastal plain, with rich loamy soil, known to the Greeks such as Xenophon, who passed through with his 10, 000 Greek mercenaries, for its abundance ( euthemia ), filled with sesame and millet and olives and pasturage for the horses imported by Solomon.

It is a vast plain comprising large brine lagoons or étangs, cut off from the sea by sandbars and encircled by reed-covered marshes.

Apart from the aforementioned Plastics Valley and numerous smaller business parks which have been founded by local initiatives the large industrial park of the plain of Ain has to be mentioned.

By the late 1980s the large plain of Harran had fallen into disuse as the streams of Cüllab and Deysan, its original water-supply had dried up.

Much of this plain has been burned for agriculture, but large patches still remain.