Thus, Margenau remarks: `` A large number of unrelated epicycles was needed to explain the observations, but otherwise the ( Ptolemaic ) system served well and with quantitative precision.

That unused room was large enough for -- well, say an elephant could get into it and, as a matter of fact, an elephant did.

The meat cutters' union, which has a history of being one of the fairest and least corrupt in our area, represents the little corner markets as well as the large supermarkets.

But they, naturally, kept his secret well, and the public at large knew only of a great excitement in musical and court circles.

And, besides, there are a large number of scholars, artists, composers of music, novelists, poets, essayists, choreographers, lawyers, servants of government, and men of affairs -- hundreds, indeed -- who serve the Foundation well with the advice they give us freely and gratis out of their experience.

With a large and circumspect 20th-Century technique, he wove the materials of national heroes and events, national folklore and children's fairy tales -- Slavic dances and love songs -- into a solid musical literature which served his people well, and is providing much enjoyment to the World at large.

Every taxpayer is well aware of the vast size of our annual defense budget and most of our readers also realize that a large portion of these expenditures go for military electronics.

This hypothesis will account for a large part of the difficulties of tonal analysis, as well as the fact that vowel systems are often more puzzling than consonantal systems.

However, as witnessed by the large corporate bond calendar at present, as well as the record amount of municipal bond issues approved by voters, the over-all demands for capital funds seem likely to remain high, so that any downward pressure on rates from reduced demand should not be great.

To be sure of matching color as well as form, pieces of cartoon were traced on the roughcast, and large samples painted in fresco, then left two months to dry out to their final key.

Consequently, both the rake angle of the knife as well as the friction occurring between the back of the removed coating and the front of the knife will determine in large part the detailed mechanism of the cutting removal process.

On contraction, these alternately pass the blood to a single ventricle which pumps it both into both the systemic vessels ( which service the body at large ) as well as the pulmonic vessels ( which return to the lungs for oxygenation ).

Salt and water absorption occur in the large intestine, as well as mucous secretion to aid in the transport of faecal matter, which is passed out through the cloaca.

Aided AAC makes great use of symbols, particularly for non-literate users, as well as a large variety of input methods.

During World War I, the Armenian Genocide, the Greek genocide ( especially in Pontus ), and the Assyrian Genocide almost entirely removed the ancient communities of Armenian and Assyrian populations in Anatolia, as well as a large part of its ethnic Greek population.

A multitude of airports around the Alps ( and some within ), as well as long-distance rail links from all neighbouring countries, afford large numbers of travellers easy access from abroad.

Throughout the southwest Ancient Puebloan region and at Mesa Verde, the best known site for these large number of well preserved cliff dwellings, housing, defensive and storage complexes were built in shallow caves and under rock overhangs along canyon walls.

A key problem in the design of good algorithms for this problem is that formulas for the variance may involve sums of squares, which can lead to numerical instability as well as to arithmetic overflow when dealing with large values.

However, using pure mass to resist the forces of a storm only works well as a permanent mooring ; a large enough rock would be nearly impossible to move to a new location.

Artigas, Uruguay and neighboring Brazilian state Rio Grande do Sul are large world producers exceeding in quantity Minas Gerais, as well as Mato Grosso, Espirito Santo, Bahia, and Ceará states, all amethyst producers of importance in Brazil.

Although amaranth was cultivated on a large scale in ancient Mexico, Guatemala, and Peru, nowadays it is only cultivated on a small scale there, along with India, China, Nepal, and other tropical countries ; thus, there is potential for further cultivation in those countries, as well as in the U. S. In a 1977 article in Science, amaranth was described as " the crop of the future.

However, in practice they proved to be too large to manoeuvre well in the close waters of estuaries and rivers, the only places in which a ' naval ' battle could occur.

With a large number of people relocating to the state from the Midwest and the Northeast, as well as from California, many teams ( most notably the Chicago Cubs and the Los Angeles Dodgers ) have normally had large followings in Arizona.

This includes special paint treatments such as aging and gilding, as well as simulating the appearance of wood, stone, brick, metal, stained glass -- anything called for by the Production Designer.

As part of the funeral procession, they carried the bathtub in which Marat had been murdered as well as a shirt stained with Marat ’ s blood.

Cold work includes traditional stained glass work as well as other methods of shaping glass at room temperature.

Vellum can be stained virtually any color but seldom is, as a great part of its beauty and appeal rests in its faint grain and hair markings, as well as its warmth and simplicity.

The fish's eyes also allow them to see well in turbid waters ( stained or rough, breaking waters ), which gives them an advantage over their prey.

The windows were very often filled with stained glass which added a dimension of colour to the light within the building, as well as providing a medium for figurative and narrative art.

Secondly, the statues, sculptural decoration, stained glass and murals incorporate the essence of creation in depictions of the Labours of the Months and the Zodiac and sacred history from the Old and New Testaments and Lives of the Saints, as well as reference to the eternal in the Last Judgment and Coronation of the Virgin.

Other sights include the 15th century former castle ( Château vieux ) and the adjacent 15th century Roman Catholic church with fine stained glass and sculptures ; a gothic former Franciscan, then Récollets, monastery with a church and a cloister ornated by 17th century frescoes ; as well as several old houses, among which the heavily decorated Maison Katz stands out.

The stained glass collection is possibly the finest in the world, covering the medieval to modern periods, and covering Europe as well as Britain.

Many well known designers of stained glass are represented in the collection including, from the 19th century: Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Edward Burne-Jones and William Morris.

The game pies and other delicacies of Chartres are well known, and the industries also include flour-milling, brewing, distilling, iron-founding, leather manufacture, perfumes, dyeing, and the manufacture of electronic equipments, car accessories, stained glass, billiard requisites and hosiery.

The interior is particularly well preserved and features Art Deco light fixtures, and stained glass windows designed and fabricated by Giannini & Hilgart of Chicago.

California is also home to California Glass Arts, a shop which specializes in stained-glass supplies and offers several classes in mosaics and glass etching, as well as stained glass.

The one sad removal was a pipe organ received from Andrew Carnegie ; and the stained glass windows, which had been added well after the original construction.

* Maurice Heaton, well known stained glass artist .,,

A well situated 3 km west of the village of Ruthwell is stained reddish ( Latin: rutilius ) by the high levels of iron salts in the water.

Both rods and rings, as well as the Nerite shells, were stained superficially with red, and lay in the same red substance that enveloped the bones.

The permanent collection also includes one of the largest and most well respected stained glass collections in North America with over 1000 pieces primarily from France and Germany dating from 1200 a. d. through present.

His son Arthur ( also a brewer ) came in for humorous but gentle criticism when he donated a stained glass window of ' Rebecca at the well '; its motto read: ' I was thirsty and ye gave me drink '.

Now disaffected as a church, displays Martin Schongauer's masterwork La Vierge au buisson de roses as well as 14th century stained glass windows and baroque choir stalls.

Gothic and Renaissance stained glass windows and mural paintings, as well as a wooden and painted ceiling.

Novak is an artist who paints in watercolor and oil as well as creating sculpture, stained glass design, poetry, and photography.

Real wood blinds are often made from this lightweight but strong and stable wood, which is well suited to natural and stained finishes.

The church contains a large organ as well as stained glass windows which were painted by an artist from Budapest.

The seal can be seen in its various incarnations near the entrances of a number of state buildings in downtown Sacramento, including the State Capitol ( as well as several inside of the Capitol, including an 1854 carving and a 1908 stained glass " sky " light ), Stanley Mosk Library and Courts I ( within the tympanum at 914 Capitol Mall ), Department of Rehabilitation ( 721 Capitol Mall, not to be confused the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation ), State Personnel Board ( 801 Capitol Mall ), Employment Development Department ( 722 / 800 Capitol Mall ), Resources Agency ( 1416 Ninth Street ), Secretary of State ( 1500 Eleventh Street ), CalTrans ( 1121 O Street ), Office of the State Fire Marshal ( 1131 S Street ), and the Department of Motor Vehicles ( 2415 First Avenue ).