The Poppelsdorfer Allee is an alley flanked by chestnut trees which had the first horsecar of the town.

The local area is home to a relatively large number of American chestnut trees, planted by pioneers from New York and Pennsylvania who settled in western Michigan.

Red hair ( chestnut ) is also used by some bassists.

It is the highest town in Sardinia, and situated among fine scenery with some chestnut woods.

Their plumage is mainly light chestnut brown with blackish spots on the upperside and buff with narrow blackish streaks on the underside ; the remiges are also blackish.

It is very dark brown in color, and its flavor is rich, sweet, and complex, with the finest grades being the product of years of aging in a successive number of casks made of various types of wood ( including oak, mulberry, chestnut, cherry, juniper, ash, and acacia ).

Displayed at right is the color chestnut, also known as the web color Indian red.

The coat is variously described as sandy, tawny or greyish with brown, chestnut or faded rosettes.

The name Mitsubishi ( 三菱 consists of two parts: " mitsu " meaning " three " and " hishi " ( which becomes " bishi " under rendaku ) meaning " water caltrop " ( also called " water chestnut "), and hence " rhombus ", which is reflected in the company's famous logo.

The diamond has been compared in size and shape to a pigeon egg, walnut, a " good sized horse chestnut " which is " pear shaped.

The plumage is usually composed of browns, whites, chestnut, black and grey, often with barring of patterning.

Quercus montana ), the chestnut oak, is a species of oak in the white oak group, Quercus sect.

The application of the name Q. prinus to the chestnut oak is now often accepted, although sometimes that name is declared to be of uncertain position, unassignable to either species, with the chestnut oak then called Q. montana, as in the Flora of North America.

The chestnut oak is readily identified by its massively-ridged dark gray-brown bark, the thickest of any eastern North American oak.

The chestnut oak is easily distinguished from the swamp white oak because that tree has whitened undersides on the leaves.

Another important distinction between the chestnut oak and the swamp chestnut oak is by the habitat ; if it grows on a ridge, it is chestnut oak, and if it grows in wet bottomlands, it is probably the more massive swamp chestnut oak ; however, this is not fully reliable.

In Norse religion, Asgard ( Old Norse: Ásgarðr ; meaning " Enclosure of the Æsir ") is one of the Nine Worlds and is the country or capital city of the Norse Gods surrounded by an incomplete wall attributed to a Hrimthurs riding the stallion Svaðilfari, according to Gylfaginning.

A related hybrid, the hinny, is a cross between a stallion and a jenny ( female donkey ).

The male parent of a horse, a stallion, is commonly known as the sire and the female parent, the mare, is called the dam.

The estrous cycle ( also spelled oestrous ) controls when a mare is sexually receptive toward a stallion, and helps to physically prepare the mare for conception.

* Estrus, or Follicular, phase: 5 – 7 days in length, when the mare is sexually receptive to a stallion.

* Diestrus, or Luteal, phase: 14 – 15 days in length, the mare is not sexually receptive to the stallion.

And by the stallion Svaðilfari, Loki is the mother — giving birth in the form of a mare — to the eight-legged horse Sleipnir.

The illuminating exception is the archaic and localised myth of the stallion Poseidon and mare Demeter at Phigalia in isolated and conservative Arcadia, noted by Pausanias ( 2nd century AD ) as having fallen into desuetude ; the violated Demeter was Demeter Erinys.

The builder makes a single request ; that he may have help from his stallion Svaðilfari, and due to Loki's influence, this is allowed.

* The term " thoroughbred " is first used in the United States in an advertisement in a Kentucky gazette to describe a New Jersey stallion called Pilgarlick.

The hybrid between a stallion and a jennet is a hinny, and is less common.

There is some evidence that about 6, 000 years ago, near the Dneiper River and the Don River, people were using bits on horses, as a stallion that was buried there shows teeth wear consistent with using a bit.

A stallion who has won many races may be put up to stud when he is retired.

In this, which is the earliest written account, Daphne is a mortal girl fond of hunting and determined to remain a virgin ; she is pursued by the lad Leucippos (" white stallion "), who assumes girl's outfits in order to join her band of huntresses.

In Norse mythology, Svaðilfari ( Old Norse " unlucky traveler ") is a stallion that fathered the eight-legged horse Sleipnir with Loki ( in the form of a mare ).

The builder makes a single request ; that he may have help from his stallion Svaðilfari, and due to Loki's influence, this is allowed.

The stallion is believed to have been captured by Captain Robert Byerley at the Battle of Buda ( 1686 ), served as Byerley's war horse when he was dispatched to Ireland in 1689 during King William's War and saw further military service in the Battle of the Boyne.

It tells the story of Alec Ramsay, who is shipwrecked on a desert island, together with a wild Arabian stallion whom he befriends.

In the summer of 1946, Alec Ramsay ( Kelly Reno ) is traveling aboard the steamer Drake off the coast of North Africa, when he sees a wild black stallion being heavily restrained by ropes leading to his halter and forced into a makeshift stable on the ship.

Unruly hair goes straight up from his forehead, standing so high that the top falls gently over, as if to show that it really is hair and not bristle.

Piepsam tries to stop him by force, receives a push in the chest from `` Life '', and is left standing in impotent and growing rage, while a crowd begins to gather.

If man is actually the product of his environment and if science can discover the laws of human nature and the ways in which environment determines what people do, then someone -- a someone probably standing outside traditional systems of values -- can turn around and develop completely efficient means for controlling people.

Had Churchill been returned to office in 1945, it is just possible that Britain, instead of standing fearfully aloof, would have led Europe toward union.

Even apart from the fact that now at the age of 31 my personal life is being totally disrupted for the second time for no very compelling reason -- I cannot help looking around at the black leather jacket brigades standing idly on the street corners and in the taverns of every American city and asking myself if our society has gone mad.

Then he thought of Aaron Blaustein standing in his rich house saying: `` God is tired of taking the blame.

The Carleton Social Co-operative is a standing committee of the Carleton Student Association.

It is not difficult to see that the stamens of the catkin are always arranged in pairs, and that each individual flower is nothing but one such pair standing on a green, black-tipped little scale.

`` The standing or rank of an actor in a given social system is determined by the evaluation placed upon the actor and his acts in accordance with the norms and standards of the system ''.

After all, the henpecked husband with his shrewish wife is a comic figure of long standing, in literature and on the stage, as Dr. Schillinger points out.

Made of gold-plated britannium on a black metal base, it is 13. 5 in ( 34 cm ) tall, weighs 8. 5 lb ( 3. 85 kg ) and depicts a knight rendered in Art Deco style holding a crusader's sword standing on a reel of film with five spokes.

Kouros ( male youth ) is the modern term given to those representations of standing male youths which first appear in the archaic period in Greece.

The first three of these prizes are awarded for eminence in physical science, in chemistry and in medical science or physiology ; the fourth is for literary work " in an ideal direction " and the fifth prize is to be given to the person or society that renders the greatest service to the cause of international fraternity, in the suppression or reduction of standing armies, or in the establishment or furtherance of peace congresses.

The gases are contained in a test-tube ( A ) standing over a large quantity of weak alkali ( B ), and the current is conveyed in wires insulated by U-shaped glass tubes ( CC ) passing through the liquid and round the mouth of the test-tube.

The usual arrangement is for the actors to stand in an irregular line from one side of the screen to the other, with the actors at the end coming forward a little and standing more in profile than the others.

The instability is therefore worsened when standing with the feet together, regardless of whether the eyes are open or closed.

Also, when the patient is standing with arms and hands extended toward the physician, if the eyes are closed, the patient's finger will tend to " fall down " and then be restored to the horizontal extended position by sudden muscular contractions ( the " ataxic hand ").

For his decades-long standing among the world's elite, Karpov is considered one of the greatest players of all time.

This is a limestone belt with parallel hard rock ridges left standing by erosion to form mountains.

Kintraw is a site notable for its four-meter high standing stone.

The lowland anoa ( Bubalus depressicornis ) is a small bovid, standing barely over at the shoulder.

Alcoholism is a broad term for problems with alcohol, and is generally used to mean compulsive and uncontrolled consumption of alcoholic beverages, usually to the detriment of the drinker's health, personal relationships, and social standing.