Besides mining anthracite coal, Pittston was home to many industries in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, including metals, plastics, paper products, apparel, electrical equipment and beverages.

Besides destruction of the affected areas, coal fires often emit toxic gases, including carbon monoxide, sulfur dioxide and methane.

Besides being more expensive, coal required a larger firebox in which to burn.

Besides parts of the carboniferous measures of the Saar and the Ruhr, it also contains important deposits of coal near Aachen.

Besides the passenger business, there were also plenty of farms and creameries ( most of them in Delaware County ) as well as businesses shipping coal, stone, ice and various wood products.

Besides bricks and ladders, levels also consist of blocks ( which can't be dug into ), rope ( to traverse platform chasms ) and crumbling bricks ( which you fall through ).

Besides the columns, hundreds of blocks of the original stone were removed and are stored behind a National Park Service maintenance yard in Rock Creek Park.

Besides its utility as both a fixed bayonet and a digging implement, the Rice trowel bayonet could be used to plaster log huts and stone chimneys for winter quarters ; sharpened on one edge, it could cut tent poles and pins.

Besides papyrus, stone, ceramic shards, and wood, there are hieratic texts on leather rolls, though few have survived.

Besides his smooth and deep voice, Cornelius was best known for the catchphrase that he used to close the show: "... and you can bet your last money, it's all gonna be a stone gas, honey!

Besides the remains of buildings, walls and graves, Dr. Banks discovered a large number of inscribed clay tablets of a very early period, bronze and stone tablets, bronze implements and the like.

Besides the standard bronze, limestone, granite, cast stone, terra cotta and the marbles used by other artists, Hord ’ s works appeared in various tropical woods such as mahogany, eucalyptus, ebony, lignum vitae and rosewood, and in minerals such as obsidian, diorite, onyx and nephrite.

Besides, he got all the old and existing temples repaired and set up in all of them holy statues made of gold, stone, silver, brass and of a mixture of fine metals and performed their Anjankala ceremony: i. e., declared them fit for worship.

Besides the Viergötterstein ( a “ four-god stone ”, a pedestal on which a Jupiter Column was customarily stood ), special attention is earned by two altars from Großlittgen that were found in Pantenburg in 1920.

Besides papyri the collection includes papers, records on clay tablets, inscribed wood and wax trays, stone tablets, leathers, textiles and bones, as well as gold, silver and bronze articles with inscriptions.

Besides being dedicated as a memorial, it was also envisaged that the road would connect isolated settlements on the coast, and become a vital transport link for the timber industry and tourism.

Besides their use as ornamental plants, some members also provide timber, such as roble de sabana ( Tabebuia rosea ), Catalpa, Oroxylum, Haplophragma, Spathodea, Meliosma, Stereospermum.

( Besides mining, other primary activities ( or extractive industries ) are considered material oriented: timber mills, furniture manufacture, most agricultural activities, etc .. Often located in rural areas, these businesses may employ most of the local population.

Besides being slippery in wet weather, the timber absorbed water and became heavier which affected the balance and placed excessive loads on the opening machinery.

Besides the trade coming from Norway, the timber ships had to come through the Sound-the narrow straits separating Denmark from Sweden-a passage easily blocked by enemy navies, especially the Dutch who were geographically well placed to impede trade through the North Sea, as could, to a lesser extent, the French.

Besides private sponsors, it relies on resources obtained from the Ministry of Science and Higher Education and local authorities, proposing projects to be undertaken with local communities and thus engaging with the general public.

Besides general legislation, the Grand and General Council approves the budget and elects the Captains Regent, the State Congress, the Council of Twelve, the Advising Commissions, and the Government Unions.

Besides general health benefits and stress management attributed to t ' ai chi ch ' uan training, aspects of traditional Chinese medicine are taught to advanced t ' ai chi ch ' uan students in some traditional schools.

Besides the actual buildings discovered, a number of points were situated and mapped in a general study of Spartan topography, based upon the description of Pausanias.

Besides discovering and naming many of the rivers and mountains in the Intermountain West and Pacific Northwest they often kept diaries of their travels and were available as guides and consultants when the trail started to become open for general travel.

Besides the health aspect of the subject, obesity has a strong influence on one's general mood and behaviour.

Besides their role in photogrammetry, aerial and satellite imagery can be used to identify and delineate terrain features and more general land-cover features.

Besides reforming the city's constitution to the advantage of the Ionians and replacing Dorian cults with the worship of Dionysus, Cleisthenes gained renown as the chief instigator and general of the First Sacred War ( 590 BC ) in the interests of the Delphians.

Besides making decisions about legality of delivery, appeals for wickets and general conduct of the game in a legal manner, the umpire also keeps a record of the deliveries and announces the completion of an over.

Besides numerous minor works, wrote a Théorie générale des équations algébriques, published at Paris in 1779, which in particular contained much new and valuable matter on the theory of elimination and symmetrical functions of the roots of an equation: he used determinants in a paper in the Histoire de l ' académie royale, 1764, but did not treat the general theory.

Besides societies which have their roots in religion, there are also general ( with no religious bonds ) societies.

Besides faulting Chinese for lacking a general " barbarian " term, Beckwith also faults English, which " has no words for the many foreign peoples referred to by one or another Classical Chinese word, such as胡 hú, 夷 yí, 蠻 mán, and so on.

Besides cultural anthropology and its interest in games in the human culture, one of the first efforts to think about sports in more general way was Johan Huizinga's " Homo Ludens " or Thorstein Veblen's " Theory of the Leisure Class ".

Besides scholarly writing, Sowell has written books, articles, and syndicated columns for a general audience in such publications as Forbes Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, and major newspapers.

Besides drafting legislation, at this time Stephen had to attend to the current administrative business of his department, and he took a full share in the general deliberations of the viceroy's council.

Besides editions of the works of William Shakespeare, James Beattie, Henry Fielding, Samuel Johnson, Joseph Warton, Alexander Pope, Edward Gibbon, and Henry St John, Viscount Bolingbroke, he published A General Biographical Dictionary in 32 volumes ( 1812 – 1817 ); a Glossary to Shakspeare ( 1807 ); an edition of George Steevens's Shakespeare ( 1809 ); and the British Essayists, beginning with the Tatler and ending with the Observer, with biographical and historical prefaces and a general index.

Besides the camel-pullers the caravan would also include a xiansheng ( 先生, literally, " Sir ", " Mister ") ( typically, an older man with a long experience as a camel-puller, now playing the role of a general manager ), one or two cooks, and the caravan master, whose authority over the caravan and its people was as absolute as that of a captain on a ship.

Besides numbers, other types of values can be added as well: vectors, matrices, polynomials and, in general, elements of any additive group ( or even monoid ).

Besides the already mentioned connections with the structure of reductive algebraic groups over general and local fields, buildings are used to study their representations.

Besides their inherent injustice to others these demands would, I believe, seriously and detrimentally affect the general position of Jews throughout the world ..".

Besides offering usual supply goods, the post supported the Inuit in general, and gave, as far as possible, medical assistance.

Besides the general promiscuity of the characters, some parts of the work depict in a more or less detailed fashion the practices of homosexualism ( almost exclusively lesbianism ), cunnilingus, and, marginally, sado-masochism ( although the persons engaging in these activities usually aren't identified by name ).

Besides an excellent command of language, copy editors need broad general knowledge for spotting factual errors ; good critical thinking skills in order to recognize inconsistencies or vagueness ; interpersonal skills for dealing with writers, other editors and designers ; attention to detail ; and a sense of style.

Besides battle pictures, large and small, taken from biblical as well as secular history, he painted various religious subjects, which, however, count for little in his general reputation.