One winter's night, two French nuns, Sister Margaret and Sister Scholastica, come to the small New England town of Bethlehem ( most likely modeled after Bethlehem, Connecticut – given the Abbey of Regina Laudis in that real town and the proximity to New York City ), where they meet Amelia Potts, a painter of religious pictures.

France shortly afterward modeled her law on that of Connecticut.

Tradition maintains that UGA's oldest permanent building, Old College, is modeled on Yale University ’ s Connecticut Hall.

* Oral history interview with Mary Doyle Keefe, who modeled for Norman Rockwell's " Rosie the Riveter " painting from the Veterans History Project at Central Connecticut State University

* 1874 – Japan launches its postal savings system, modeled after a similar system in the United Kingdom.

Computer scientists have modeled the coat patterns of several subspecies using reaction – diffusion mechanisms.

The MPPC was preceded by the Edison licensing system, in effect in 1907 – 1908, on which the MPPC was modeled.

This can be modeled as a subtraction game with a heap of 21 – n objects.

During the thirteenth Knesset ( 1992 – 1996 ) it was decided to hold a separate ballot for prime minister modeled after American presidential elections.

It is modeled on an average village in the West of Ireland but with its own distinct personality – diverse population that share secrets, romances, friendships etc.

The recurring " Acorn Antiques " skit on the UK's Victoria Wood As Seen On TV ( 1985 – 87 ) was modeled on Crossroads and other British soap operas of the 1970s.

Lorentzian wormholes known as Schwarzschild wormholes or Einstein – Rosen bridges are connections between areas of space that can be modeled as vacuum solutions to the Einstein field equations, and which are now understood to be intrinsic parts of the maximally extended version of the Schwarzschild metric describing an eternal black hole with no charge and no rotation.

* July – A revolt under Guglielmo Pepe forces Ferdinand I of the Two Sicilies to sign a constitution modeled on the Spanish Constitution of 1812.

Maximilian also gave a bizarre jousting helmet as a gift to King Henry VIII – the helmet's visor featured a human face, with eyes, nose and a grinning mouth, and was modeled after the appearance of Maximilian himself.

In 1997, she won her third Golden Globe award for CBS ' Cybill ( 1995 – 1998 ), a television sitcom, in which the title character — Cybill Sheridan, an actress struggling with hammy parts in B movies and bad soaps — was loosely modeled on herself ( including portrayals of her two ex-husbands ).

At very small scales or under extreme conditions, real fluids made out of discrete molecules will produce results different from the continuous fluids modeled by the Navier – Stokes equations.

Under the leadership of President Philibert Tsiranana, Madagascar's First Republic ( 1960 – 1972 ) was established as a democratic system modeled on that of France.

such that the following properties ( modeled on the group axioms – more precisely, on the definition of a group used in universal algebra ) are satisfied

* Permaculture – theory of ecological design which attempts to develop sustainable human settlements and agricultural systems modeled from natural ecosystems.

* Republic of Niger – Young Pioneers ( Niger )/ Jeunes Pionniers ( 1961 – 1974 ) non-communist youth paramilitary group, one of several set up in post independence Africa, funded by and modeled on the Israeli Nahal (" Fighting Pioneer Youth ").

The Song Dynasty supported a widespread postal service that was modeled on the earlier Han Dynasty ( 202 BC – AD 220 ) postal system to provide swift communication throughout the empire.

Under certain mathematical circumstances, blood flow can be modeled by the Navier – Stokes equations.

Formally, the Sachs – Hornbostel is modeled on the Dewey Decimal classification.

The blackletter lines are broken up – that is, their forms contain many angles when compared to the smooth curves of the Antiqua ( common ) typefaces modeled after antique Roman square capitals and Carolingian minuscule.

The idea, modeled after the federal Civilian Conservation Corps program ( 1933 – 42 ), was to take the burden of labor-intensive jobs such as entrance fee collecting or trail work from the National Park Service and shift to the SCC.

Coevolution branching strategies for asexual population dynamics in limited resource environments have been modeled using the generalized Lotka – Volterra equations.

" The painting shows a farmer standing beside his spinster daughter, figures modeled by the artist's dentist and sister, Nan ( 1900 – 1990 ).

It is also the oldest award ceremony in the media ; its equivalents, the Grammy Awards ( for music ), Emmy Awards ( for television ), and Tony Awards ( for theatre ) are modeled after the Academy.

The microfibrillar structure of adult tendon, as described by Fraser, Miller, and Wess ( amongst others ), was modeled as being closest to the observed structure, although it oversimplified the topological progression of neighboring collagen molecules, and hence did not predict the correct conformation of the discontinuous D-periodic pentameric arrangement termed simply: the microfibril.

( Rossum's Universal Robots ), Karel Čapek's 1921 play which coined the term robot ; the play was written in Prague and while Capek denied that he modeled the robot after the Golem, there are many similarities in the plot.

This causes the iron atom to move backward into the heme which holds it ( the iron moves upward as it binds oxygen, in this illustration ), tugging the histidine residue ( modeled as a red pentagon on the right of the iron ) closer, as it does.

The only substantial leading role he got during this period was in Dead End ( 1937 ), while loaned to Samuel Goldwyn, where he portrayed a gangster modeled after Baby Face Nelson.

Paul Van Arsdale ( b. 1920 ), a player from upstate New York, uses flexible hammers made from hacksaw blades, with leather-covered wooden blocks attached to the ends ( these are modeled after the hammers used by his grandfather, Jesse Martin ).

Abilities in the HERO System, particularly Powers ( a broad category that includes superpowers, magic, psionics, and high technology ), are modeled based on their effects.

The word politics comes from the Greek word Πολιτικά ( politika ), modeled on Aristotle's " affairs of the city ", the name of his book on governing and governments, which was rendered in English mid-15 century as Latinized " Polettiques ".

Commanded by Emil Maurice, and known as the Stabswache ( Staff Guard ), the original group consisted of eight men and was modeled after the Erhardt Naval Brigade, a violent Freikorps of the time.

The governance was modeled on the provincial University of Toronto Act of 1906 which established a bicameral system of university government consisting of a senate ( faculty ), responsible for academic policy, and a board of governors ( citizens ) exercising exclusive control over financial policy and having formal authority in all other matters.

Contrary to speculation, the North Portico was not modeled on a similar portico on another Dublin building, the Viceregal Lodge ( now Áras an Uachtaráin, residence of the President of Ireland ), for its portico postdates the White House porticos ' design.

Another well-known landmark in Bucharest is Arcul de Triumf ( The Triumphal Arch ), built in its current form in 1935 and modeled after the Arc de Triomphe in Paris.

Other examples are My Big Fat Obnoxious Boss ( modeled after The Apprentice ), My Big Fat Obnoxious Fiance, Hell Date ( modeled after Blind Date ), Superstar USA ( modeled after American Idol ), Space Cadets ( which convinced the hoax targets that they were being flown into space ), Punk'd ( involving celebrities in staged crises ), Invasion Iowa ( in which a town was convinced that William Shatner was filming a movie there ), and Reality Hell ( different target and premise every episode ).

A spectacular find in 2006 was the richly detailed bronze and silver brooch ( fibula ) modeled with the figure of Mars, on which Quintus Sollonius, a Gaul to judge by his name, had carefully punched his name before he lost it in the early second century ; nothing comparably fine has been recovered along the Wall.

The sculptor Juan Martínez Montañés modeled a statue of one of Velázquez's equestrian portraits of the king, painted in 1636, which was cast in bronze by the Florentine sculptor Pietro Tacca and which now stands in the Plaza de Oriente at Madrid.

The seal of the City of San Marino, California is modeled on that of the republic, depicting the Three Towers of San Marino each capped with a bronze plume, surrounded by a heart-shaped scroll with two roundels and a lozenge ( of unknown significance ) at the top.

The bronze and terra cotta pieces of art are modeled on the original Interborough Rapid Transit Company logo, and references the Soldiers ' and Sailors ' Memorial Arch in the plaza above with its Winged Victories.

Union Square is noted for its impressive equestrian statue of U. S. President George Washington, modeled by Henry Kirke Brown and unveiled in 1856, the first public sculpture erected in New York City since the equestrian statue of George III in 1770, and the first American equestrian sculpture cast in bronze.

It had the " world's most extensive and impressive applications of bronze ", " embellished with a wealth of detail, delicately modeled, carefully tooled, finely chased and exactingly finished.

The gateway featured two bronze torsos, male and female, modeled on contestants in the games.

The piece, made of bronze ( wide and deep ), shows three modeled figures which represent Fidelity, Bravery and Integrity.

This form of the imperial mitre-crown can be seen in the extant portraits of such emperors as Frederick III and Maximilian I The bronze effigy of Maximilian I found on his monumental cenotaph in the court church in Innsbruck has a crown with two arches which cross over the top of the mitre and the unique form of the imperial crown adopted by Maximilian as Emperor of Mexico: File: X-Large Portrait of Maximiliano. jpg appears to have been modeled on this form, but with the half-arches and the eagles on the circlet on the front, back and sides of the imperial crown of Napoleon III.

Perkins was the largest subscriber to the construction of the Boston Music Hall, forwhich he also contributed the great bronze statue of Beethoven, modeled by his friend Crawford, which since 1902 has stood in the entrance hall of the New England Conservatory of Music, Boston.