) They have unique red tips to some of the wing feathers where the shafts extend beyond the barbs ; in the Bohemian and Cedar Waxwings, these tips look like sealing wax, and give the group its common name ( Holloway 2003 ).

The same century also saw the introduction of a practice unique to Sweden, that of attaching a feather to the wax seal of a letter to indicate that it needed to be delivered more quickly.

Occasionally, a custom-made wax might be molded in rubber first as insurance against the loss of the unique wax and related labor costs incurred in carving it.

Rügen Bridge is fitted with suspension cables using a system unique in Germany, whereby they are triple-protected from corrosion: first the cables are galvanized, secondly they are covered with a coating of polyethylene and finally with special wax as well.

Until 1997, when the British Library ( previously centred on the Round Reading Room ) moved to a new site, the British Museum was unique in that it housed both a national museum of antiquities and a national library in the same building.

The collection of the works of Wilhelm Busch and the extensive collection of cartoons and critical graphics is this museum unique in Germany.

These museums are also unique in that the actual structure belongs to the museum collection as a historical object.

The Shin-Yokohama Raumen Museum is a unique museum about ramen.

According to the Finnish museum bureau, Tapiola is a unique phenomenon in the world.

Within the next two to three years Sheringham Museum Trust plans to have an extended museum to house this unique collection together with three crab boats and general lifeboat and fishing industry ephemera.

An important position on the main road and the railroad, valuable cultural ( castle, museum ) and natural heritage ( the municipal park and the unique sequoia tree are protected as horticultural monuments ) underlie the development of Slatina as a transit tourist destination.

* 1911 Wright B Flyer Museum-Free museum, home to a flying replica of the Wright brothers ' second airplane, where visitors get a chance to actually fly in the unique aircraft.

* A unique bicycle museum can also be visited in Roeselare.

The unique collection of inscriptions and antiquities of Pentima and the museum at Sulmona were both created by the late Professor Antonio de Nino, whose devotion to the antiquities of his native district rescued every single Paelignian monument that we possess.

The museum is dedicated to the preservation of the history of the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan and serves as a unique memorial to those airmen who trained and served, and especially those who died, while serving their country in the air war of 1939 – 1945.

This is one of the features that makes Suomenlinna unique: the fortress is not simply a museum, but a living community.

This unique object is now on display at the archaeological museum of Heraklion.

The Hermitage Volunteer Service offers all those interested a unique opportunity to involve themselves in running this world-renowned museum.

* Preus Fotomuseum, The Norwegian Museum of Photography, is a unique museum located in the same building as the naval museum.

The Setesdal Mineralpark is internationally acclaimed to be a unique museum, with a collection of very high quality.

Botanical artists have always been among the most exacting and accomplished watercolor painters, and even today watercolors — with their unique ability to summarize, clarify and idealize in full color — are used to illustrate scientific and museum publications.

Hitler described the bust as " a unique masterpiece, an ornament, a true treasure ", and pledged to build a museum to house it.

Funding from the Heritage Lottery Fund to conserve the unique museum collection plus other government and charitable sources was obtained to match money raised by friends of the Railway and Museum.

Consequently the disused mine was developed into a unique museum to preserve its heritage and display the history of the mine and its industrial equipment.

Monuments to the Canadian and Norwegian Merchant Navy are located just outside the museum along with a unique children's playground in the shape of a submarine.

When it was shut down the opportunity for the creation of a unique museum was presented, where the original machinery and social and cultural artefacts of the technological revolution in Fray Bentos can be shown to the world.

they are fields of force exerting a unique influence on the sensibilities and a unique relatedness to one another.

What makes the current phenomenon unique is that so many science-fiction writers have reversed a trend and turned to writing works critical of the impact of science and technology on human life.

It would appear that it should be possible to determine unique mechanisms for the thermal and photochemical reactions in both the liquid and gas phases and to determine values for activation energies of some of the intermediate reactions of atoms and free radicals, as well as information on the heat of dissociation of the carbon-halogen bond.

To each paired vertex and diagonal point there corresponds a unique forward corner point, i.e., the corner on C reached first by proceeding along C from the vertex in the direction of increasing T.

The Brahmic family of alphabets used in India use a unique order based on phonology: The letters are arranged according to how and where they are produced in the mouth.

* Kleiwerks-International organization recognized for their unique contribution to modern earthen and natural building techniques throughout the world, their focus is on education through hands on experience.

* The School of " Minor-talks ", which was not a unique school of thought, but a philosophy constructed of all the thoughts which were discussed by and originated from normal people on the street.

* Let Q be a set enclosed between two step regions S and T. A step region is formed from a finite union of adjacent rectangles resting on a common base, i. e. S ⊆ Q ⊆ T. If there is a unique number c such that a ( S ) ≤ c ≤ a ( T ) for all such step regions S and T, then a ( Q )

image: Goelbench06390140. JPG | The unique shape of the serpentine bench enables the people sitting on it to converse privately, although the square is large.

Concerning Antianeira and Andromache, see below ; for almost all the other names on the list, this is a unique attestation.

It remains a unique and intriguing experiment in direct democracy, a political system in which the people do not elect representatives to vote on their behalf but vote on legislation and executive bills in their own right.

Although most dialects of English used in the former British Empire outside of North America and Australasia are, to various extents, based on British English, most of the countries concerned have developed their own unique dialects, particularly with respect to pronunciation, idioms and vocabulary.

The Aster used 64KB of RAM memory and had the unique feature of supporting two fundamentally different internal architectures: when turned on without a boot floppy or with a TRS-DOS floppy, the Aster would be fully TRS-80 compatible, with 48KB or RAM.

Based on a newer, slightly more flexible, version of the Asters original Motorola MC6845 video chip, the Rockwell 6545, it worked by adding a new video mode, one with the ability to reprogram an extended, ( 2048 characters instead of 256 characters ) version of the character set, supported by an extended character memory of the video card that did not use one ( 8 bit ) byte per character, but an 11 bit " word ", so it could address each one of the available 2048 unique programmable characters.

Some luthiers have increasingly focused their attention on the needs of fingerstylists and have developed unique guitars for this style of playing.

In 1973 he presented a unique 6-part documentary on BBC Radio 1, The Rolling Stones Story, and in 1977 he established a Sunday-night blues and soul show on Radio 1, Alexis Korner's Blues and Soul show, which ran until 1981.

German tank destroyers based on the Panzer III or later German tanks were unique in that they had more armor than their tank counterparts.

Modafinil is unique in its effect on sleep ; it increases alertness and reduces drowsiness while the patient is active, but does not inhibit normal sleep.

Depending on how much the paint is diluted ( with water ) or modified with acrylic gels, media, or pastes, the finished acrylic painting can resemble a watercolor or an oil painting, or have its own unique characteristics not attainable with other media.

Alternatively, a unique position on the board on which a game piece may be located while in play.