He described it as brown in colour and the size of a wagon load ; it was a local landmark for more than 500 years.

A landmark in the " institutional history " of the Cathars was the Council, held in 1167 at Saint-Félix-Lauragais, attended by many local figures and also by the Bogomil papa Nicetas, the Cathar bishop of ( northern ) France and a leader of the Cathars of Lombardy.

This theme is also explored in the Doctor Who story The Dæmons in 1971, where the local superstitions around a landmark known as The Devil's Hump prove to be based on reality, as aliens from the planet Dæmos have been affecting man's progress over the millennia and the Hump actually contains a spacecraft.

However, sceptics question the narrative's reliability, noting that water-beast stories were extremely common in medieval saints ' Lives ; as such, Adomnán's tale is likely a recycling of a common motif attached to a local landmark.

Stone from the cove was also used to construct the nearby church of St Buryan, whose 92 foot granite tower is an imposing local landmark often used as a line of sight by fishermen coming into port.

* Seneca Rocks, a large crag and local landmark in West Virginia

The spire is a prominent local landmark, and resembles on a smaller scale the spire of St. James Church, Louth, to the north.

Shooter's Hill water tower is a local landmark in London, United Kingdom.

In particular, the train station ( 1934 – 36 ) is considered a landmark building of Italian railways architecture and combines many varieties of local stone with the most advanced building materials of the time: glass, reinforced concrete, metal.

The Sydney Opera House, as well as quickly becoming a distinctive cultural landmark in that city, gave the company a permanent performance home and thus helped to expand its repertoire and develop local audiences.

The current Post Office building, a local landmark, was completed in 1886

The Anglo-Bavarian Brewery, built in 1864 and still a local landmark, was the first brewery in England to brew lager.

West made the tree, already a local landmark, famous by incorporating it into his painting after hearing legends ( of unknown veracity ) about the tree being the location of the treaty.

West made the tree, already a local landmark, famous by incorporating it into his painting after hearing legends ( of unknown veracity ) about the tree being the location of the treaty.

This local community theater and landmark ( now in a new home at the University of California, San Diego ) still thrives today.

It also contains a Prairie Village with local landmark homes and other buildings, including a Pony Express station and pioneer church among many others.

Table Mountain ( Afrikaans: Tafelberg ) is a flat-topped mountain forming a prominent landmark overlooking the city of Cape Town in South Africa, and is featured in the Flag of Cape Town and other local government insignia.

The surviving blimp hangar is a local landmark and the location of the Tillamook Air Museum.

In 2008, the shop was listed in the Guardian's list of London's finest bookshops. Du Cane Court is a distinctive local landmark with its Art Deco design

One notable local landmark is Queen Elizabeth's Hunting Lodge.

Crystal Palace is a residential area in south London, England named from the former local landmark, The Crystal Palace, which occupied the area from 1850 to 1936.

' The Pump ' is a significant local landmark.

The building is a local landmark and is the tallest building for miles around.

A road just north of the campus is named Pope's Grove, and a local landmark next to the main road is the Alexander Pope Hotel ( until recently known as Pope's Grotto ), a public house and hotel where Pope's landmark informal garden used to be.

-- liberal considers that the need for a national economy with controls that will assure his conception of social justice is so great that individual and local liberties as well as democratic processes may have to yield before it.

He is a Craig's wife who agonizes about tobacco ash on the living room rug and he is a forgetful genius who goes boating with the town baker when dignitaries from the local university have come to call.

In this domain the simple fact of coexistence in the same local, national, and world community is enough to guarantee that we cannot refrain from having some effect, large or small, upon Gentile-Jewish relations.

This is not to deny the existence of pogroms and ghettos, but only to assert that these horrors have had an effect on the nerves of people who did not experience them, that among the various side effects is the local hysteria of Jewish writers and intellectuals who cry out from confusion, which they call oppression and pain.

Through all this raving, Krim is performing a traditional and by now boring rite, the attack on intelligence, upon the largely successful attempt of the magazines he castigates to liberate American writing from local color and other varieties of romantic corn.

A road block to desirable local or borough improvements, heretofore dependent on the pocketbook vote of taxpayers and hence a drag on progress, is removed by making these a charge against the whole city instead of an assessment paid by those immediately affected.

As a source of investment capital, the system is beneficial to local communities and encourages the development of industries in rural areas.

This problem of fair and equitable assessment of value is a difficult one to solve in that the determination of fair valuation is dependent on local assessors, who in general are non-professional and part-time personnel taking an individualistic approach to the problem.

This condition will undoubtedly continue until such time as a state uniform system of evaluation is established, or through mutual agreement of the local assessing officials for a method of standard assessment practice to be adopted.

The Federal Government is aiding local governments in several places to survey residential, commercial and industrial buildings to determine what fallout protection they would provide, and for how many people.

In the event that agreement is not reached on the use of the rupees for grant or loan purposes within six years from the date of this Agreement, the Government of the United States of America may use the local currency for any purposes authorized by Section 104 of the Act.

A minor is subject to tax on his own earnings even though his parent may, under local law, have the right to them and might actually have received the money.

and it is to be noted also that confidence should grow from remembering that great men often appeared in the past to turn local catastrophe into future good for all mankind.

Having a boat financed through a local bank is done much the same way as an automobile loan is extended.

It is always wise to consult your marine dealer, local yacht or boat club secretary, or local law enforcement officers if you are not positive what the regulations are.

However, there is also much to be gained by making use of the abilities of the local people who are available and interested in recreation.

Not a year goes by but what several local companies in the U.S. and Canada, even overseas, write to Fueloil & Oil Heat to inquire if it's feasible and where it is being done.

For this first development the supplier signing the lease is a major oil company but in turn the deal is being transferred for operation to its local fueloil distributor.

Oddly enough, this is an amulet against housebreakers, presented to the mem and me by a local rajah in 1949.