Half Dome, a granite monolith in Yosemite National Park and part of the Sierra Nevada batholith.

A well-known result of this process is Half Dome, located in Yosemite Valley.

The valley is about long and up to a mile deep, surrounded by high granite summits such as Half Dome and El Capitan, and densely forested with pines.

Between them both, at the eastern end of the valley, is Half Dome, the most famous and most recognizable natural feature in the Sierra Nevada.

Above and to the northeast of Half Dome is Cloud's Rest ; at 9926 feet ( 3025 m ), the highest point around Yosemite Valley.

Tenaya Creek flows southwest from Tenaya Lake and down Tenaya Canyon, finally flowing between Half Dome and North Dome before joining the Merced River.

Yosemite Falls and Half Dome in the winter

The youngest Yosemite Valley pluton is the 87 million year old Half Dome granodiorite, which makes up most of the rock at Glacier Point, the Royal Arches, and its namesake, Half Dome.

Half Dome from Glacier Point

Their glaciers were huge and covered nearly all the landmarks around Yosemite Valley except Half Dome, Eagle Peak, Sentinel Dome, and the top of El Capitan.

The parallel Tenaya Canyon and Little Yosemite Canyon glaciers were, at their largest, 2, 000 feet ( 600 m ) deep where they flowed into the Yosemite Valley near the base of Half Dome.

They also formed Cloud's Rest behind Half Dome as an arête.

Half Dome figures prominently on the reverse side of the California state quarter.

Half Dome is a granite dome in Yosemite National Park, located in northeastern Mariposa County, California, at the eastern end of Yosemite Valley — possibly Yosemite's most familiar rock formation.

Half Dome from Washburn Point, showing its profile

Half Dome is nearly as whole as it ever was.

From Washburn Point, Half Dome can be seen as a thin ridge of rock oriented northeast-southwest, with its southeast side almost as steep as its northwest side except for the very top.

Half Dome was originally called " Tis-sa-ack ," meaning Cleft Rock in the language of the local Native Americans.

The face seen in Half Dome is supposed to be hers.

Climbers on The Visor atop Half Dome, looking down ( west ) into Yosemite Valley.

The trail climbs past Vernal and Nevada Falls, then continues into Little Yosemite Valley, then north to the base of the northeast ridge of Half Dome itself.

Half dome and Yosemite from a plane

* On an episode of Two and a Half Men, Charlie remembers his mother having sex with a man that resembled Yosemite Sam, since then, when he sees Yosemite Sam on TV, he gets nauseated.

Ansel Adams: Half Dome, Apple Orchard, Yosemite, 1933

From its northern terminus in Yosemite Valley, the trail runs northeast, passing south of Half Dome and then on to Tuolumne Meadows.

In addition, in Yosemite hikers face competition with other backpackers simply wanting to camp overnight while hiking Half Dome or to Tuolumne Meadows.

The story, originally initiated by an invitation from fellow photographer Dewitt Jones to help him on an assignment, came about when Jones was called away and Rowell suggested an ascent of Yosemite National Park's Half Dome that he documented on his own.

* Half Dome, Yosemite National Park, California

The ultimate result of this process is a rounded boulder or a dome monolith such as the rounded back of Half Dome in Yosemite National Park.

The attraction, which lasts about four minutes and 51 seconds, takes 87 guests at a time on a simulated hang glider tour of California, flying over the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, Redwood Creek in Humboldt County, Napa Valley, Monterey, Lake Tahoe, Yosemite National Park ( including Yosemite Falls and Half Dome ), the PGA West golf course in La Quinta ( credited in the queue video presentation as Palm Springs ), Camarillo, Anza-Borrego Desert State Park, San Diego, Malibu, Los Angeles, and Disneyland itself during the Christmas season.

The Other Half featured Anthony and Hagar performing classic Van Halen songs from both the Roth and Hagar periods.

" In Cleveland, a reviewer for The Plain Dealer said: " As Rachel Carson's " Silent Spring " once catalyzed us to save our birds and better steward our earth, ' Half the Sky ' stands to become a classic, spurring us to spare impoverished women these terrors, and elevate them to turn around the future of their nations.

The Wrekin was immortalised in song through Half Man Half Biscuit's seminal classic from 1987, " Rod Hull Is Alive, Why?

Half his pictures in public galleries are landscapes, views of imaginary lakes and harbours with impossible ruins and classic edifices, and woods of tall and motionless trees-the whole very glossy and smooth, and entirely lifeless.

track " Beyond The 16th Parallel " alongside Demon Boyz, MC Mell ' O, Cookie Crew, The She Rockers, London Rhyme Syndicate, Katch-22, Gunshot, Hijack, Icepick and Overlord X, they released " Live Like The Other Half Do " in 1989 then dropped their classic ( and only officially released ) album, Gangster Chronicle ( Mango Records, 1990 ).

Large, relatively unjointed volumes of granite form domes such as Half Dome and monoliths like the 3604 feet ( 1098 m ) high El Capitan.

# Most plentiful are rounded boulders and cobbles and angular fragments, all deeply weathered, of Half Dome quartz monzonite, the light-colored granite of which not only Half Dome, but all of the Little Yosemite and its surrounding heights are composed.

The Half Dome Cables Route hike runs from the valley floor to the top of the dome in ( via the Mist Trail ), with of elevation gain.

He made his name as Tony Hancock's co-star in Hancock's Half Hour and also starred in the popular Carry On films.

Although there were less in this decade than there were in the 1990s, the 2000s still saw many popular and notable sitcoms, including Will and Grace, Malcolm in the Middle, The King of Queens, Arrested Development, How I Met Your Mother, Scrubs, Curb Your Enthusiasm, The Office, Two and a Half Men, The Big Bang Theory, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, and 30 Rock, among many others.

* Conchata Ferrell-Emmy nominated Actress, most well known for the role of Berta on the popular CBS sitcom Two And A Half Men.

The Shim Sham routine created by Leonard Reed and Willie Bryant in 1927 uses four popular steps of the period: the Shim Sham, the Pushbeat and Crossover, the Tackie Annie or Tack Annie, and the Half Break.

The derivatives of the Noble, the Half Noble and Quarter Noble, on the other hand were produced in quantity and were very popular.

New gold coins, the Noble, Half Noble, and the Quarter Noble were introduced, followed later by the silver Groat or fourpence which became very popular and eventually superseded the penny in importance, together with the Half Groat which was also popular.

He is particularly noted for producing and co-writing a string of popular BBC sitcoms including Dad's Army, Are You Being Served ?, It Ain't Half Hot Mum, Hi-de-Hi !, ' Allo ' Allo!

Single-camera shows with no laugh track have become increasingly common on broadcast networks as well, with critical and popular hits such as Malcolm in the Middle and Modern Family, alongside multi-camera hits such as Two and a Half Men, The Big Bang Theory, 2 Broke Girls and Mike & Molly, which employ live audiences with sweetening performed during post-production.

In 2003, Sheen was cast as Charlie Harper in the CBS sitcom Two and a Half Men, which followed the popular Monday night time slot of Everybody Loves Raymond.

In popular culture, Mr. and Mrs. Dursley were growing Agapanthus in their yard in Harry Potter and the Half Blooded Prince.

While lecturing in sociology, from 1963 – 67, at the University of Canterbury, Mitchell wrote a popular book about New Zealand, The Half Gallon Quarter Acre Pavlova Paradise ( 1972 ).

* Meia Praia ( Half Beach ) — the most popular tourist beach, consisting of soft, white sand, Meia Praia is one of the largest open bays in Europe, resulting in calm seas, permitting conditions for many nautical sports, while cliffs provide sheltered coves from strong windy conditions ;

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, the author of the popular and critically acclaimed novels Purple Hibiscus ( 2003 ) and Half of a Yellow Sun ( 2006 ), commented in a 2006 interview, " Chinua Achebe will always be important to me because his work influenced not so much my style as my writing philosophy: reading him emboldened me, gave me permission to write about the things I knew well.

Half of the sugar of a can of regular cola still exceeds the daily sugar allowance of some popular low-carbohydrate diets.

Either side of Red Bluff are many popular beaches and seaside destinations, including Half Moon Bay.

The station also airs popular English-language shows such as The Price Is Right, The Simpsons and Two and a Half Men alongside its multicultural programming.

Despite coming from a sports background, he was able to oversee a successful era of programming across all types and genres, with the introduction of popular new sitcoms such as Porridge, The Good Life, Fawlty Towers, Some Mothers Do ' Ave ' Em, It Ain't Half Hot Mum and The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin, and dramas in the vein of Poldark, When the Boat Comes In and The Duchess of Duke Street.

Yet soon the article proved to be popular and Riis spent the better part of a year expanding it into the book How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York, published by Charles Scribner's Sons.

Wilfrid Brambell, later star of the sitcom Steptoe and Son ( 1962 – 74 ) and The Beatles ' film A Hard Day's Night ( 1964 ), appeared as a tramp, and Melvyn Hayes, who played the small role of Frankie, became one of the stars of the popular sitcom It Ain't Half Hot Mum ( 1974 – 81 ).

The Half Gallon Quarter Acre Pavlova Paradise was a popular book by Austin Mitchell, published by Whitcombe and Tombs ( Christchurch, 1972 ), with illustrations by Les Gibbard.

* The Half Gallon Quarter Acre Pavlova Paradise, a popular book by Austin Mitchell