The topography of the island consists of dramatic rock formations in the north ( unlike the rest of Denmark which is very flat with few hills and no mountains ), sloping down towards “ pine and deciduous forests ” ( greatly damaged by storms in the 1950s ) and farmland in the middle and sandy beaches in the south.

In the 1950s and 1960s, the eastern hills to the original site of Ho Man Tin became a resettlement area for refugees from China, the city building there the Ho Man Tin Estate, which gave the name Ho Man Tin to that section of the hills, thus shifting away name-wise from the original flat fields.

Residential development reached Highton by the post war 1950s, the scenic hills overlooking the Barwon River valley being popular with residents.

In the 1950s, Jurong West was mainly dominated by swamps with low hills covered by shrubs and a thick jungle.

Bardrainney, possibly from the Gaelic for " hill of thorns ", is ( post 2000 ) a housing area, dating from the 1950s and built by the local council, on the hills above Port Glasgow, just to the south of the A761 road to Kilmacolm.

Starting in the 1950s, high purity ( above 99 %) neodymium was primarily obtained through an ion exchange process from monazite, a mineral rich in rare earth elements.

Much of the equipment used by the Workshop in the earlier years of its operation in the late 1950s was semi-professional and was passed down from other departments, though two giant professional tape-recorders ( which appeared to lose all sound above 10 kHz ) made an early centrepiece.

Variant 7, as sung in New Zealand in the 1940s and 1950s, similar to the Australian version above in its use of " Go-balls ".

Just above Barton Mills, a side weir connects the river to the start of the Cut-off Channel, a 25-mile ( 40 km ) drain running from there to Denver along the south-eastern edge of the Fens, which was constructed in the 1950s and 1960s.

During the 1840s, as railways proved to be a cheaper and faster method of transporting goods, attempts were made to attract more trade by reducing tolls, but this had little effect and by 1868 all trade above Lewes had ceased, although boats continued working on the Lower Ouse to Lewes right up to the 1950s.

Four early atmospheric tests were conducted above Area 1 in the early 1950s, as well as three underground tests in 1971 and 1990.

Of the 1950s designs, Nader notes " bumpers shaped like sled-runners and sloping grille work above the bumpers, which give the effect of ' leaning into the wind ', increase ... the car's potential for exerting down-and-under pressures on the pedestrian.

Manned US Lunar and Interplanetary guidance systems leverage many of the same guidance innovations ( described above ) developed in the 1950s.

In the late 1950s and early 1960s, Lincoln, Buick, and Chrysler arranged the headlamps diagonally by placing the low-beam lamps outboard and above the high-beam lamps.

In the 1950s, however, the country had been undergoing a period of above average austerity: in 1953 the car's £ 390 sticker price represented 40 week's worth of the average UK wage.

Vacuum melt processes developed in the 1950s helped remove impurities in the steel used to make valve springs, although after sustained operation above 8000 RPM often springs would still fail.

The elevation was chosen in the early 1950s when Dan Smiley, a descendant of the founders of Mohonk Mountain House and his fellow birders were trying to find the elusive Bicknell's Thrush, which prefers to nest and breed in the boreal forests that predominate above that elevation in the Catskills.

* James L. Farmer, Jr., one of the leaders of the U. S. Civil Rights Movement in the 1950s and 1960s, son of the above

This was followed by the extension of the science laboratories in 1995 ; the extensive renovation of most classrooms ( with the removal of such features as 1950s desks with attached seats and the installation of large interactive whiteboards in most classrooms ) in 1998 ; and the conversion of Big School into a library, and the construction of a new hall and theatre building at the cost of several million pounds, completed in 2002 and named the Bushell Hall after the former headmaster ( see above ).

The northern building of Wanamaker's store, but not the southern building above, burned in the 1950s.

When studying aeronautics and astronautics in the 1950s, Kármán calculated that above an altitude of roughly, a vehicle would have to fly faster than orbital velocity in order to derive sufficient aerodynamic lift from the atmosphere to support itself.

A prolific writer, during the mid 1950s he wrote for the Cavendish Magazine, published by the Congregational Chapel on Cavendish Street, Chorlton-on-Medlock ( see Religion, above ).

Though recent work has found support for the existence of the three dimensions identified above, work from the 1950s through the 1980s consistently revealed two dimensions ( competence and character ) with other dimensions such as dynamism found only when broad approaches equating credibility with " person perception " were taken.

In the 1950s, screwworms caused annual losses to American meat and dairy supplies that were projected at above $ 200 million.

The styling of the 1960-1961 model year took cues from the late 1950s Chevrolet cars and had large oval ports above the grille.

* Just as in the 1890s mauve symbolized homosexuality, the tone of lavender described above as lavender or floral lavender became the symbol of homosexuality in the 1950s and 1960s.

This procedure was limited to once in a six year period ; beginning in the 1950s conventions began to be held almost as often as allowable, and had made considerable changes in the state's basic document, such as allowing city-county consolidation as alluded to above and also for other updatings such as the extension of gubernatorial and state senate terms from two to four years, allowing legislators to be paid over and above expense money, and other similar modernizations.

In the 1940s and 1950s, some railroads experimented with automobile-loading assemblies that would lift one or more automobiles above others within a boxcar.

In the 1950s, Colville was one of the primary founding investors in what would become Northern Television Systems, WHTV, in Whitehorse, Yukon, Canada.

The trial will be held, probably the first week of March, in the famous Old Bailey central criminal court where Klaus Fuchs, the naturalized British German born scientist who succeeded in giving American and British atomic bomb secrets to Russia and thereby changed world history during the 1950s, was sentenced to 14 years in prison.

Korzybzki was well received in numerous disciplinary realms, as evidenced by the positive reactions from leading persons in the sciences and humanities in the 1940s and 1950s.

Angst was probably first discussed in relation to popular music in the mid-to late 1950s that was popular amongst the nuclear disarmament and antiwar protester subculture.

Bloch was shot by the Gestapo during the German occupation of France in World War II for his active membership of the French Resistance, and Febvre carried on the Annales approach in the 1940s and 1950s.

From the 1950s Federico Brito Figueroa was the founder of a new Venezuelan historiography based largely on the ideas of the Annales School.

ALGOL ( short for ALGOrithmic Language ) is a family of imperative computer programming languages originally developed in the mid 1950s which greatly influenced many other languages and was the standard method for algorithm description used by the ACM, in textbooks, and academic works for the next 30 years and more.

Prior to the 1950s, Alberta was a primarily agricultural economy, based on the export of wheat, beef, and a few other commodities.

During the early 1950s the board was divided on whether to defend communists persecuted under McCarthyism.

By the 1950s, the development of civil jets grew, beginning with the de Havilland Comet, though the first widely-used passenger jet was the Boeing 707, because it was much more economical than other planes at the time.

The subspace radio, best known today from Star Trek and named for the method used in the series for achieving faster-than-light travel, was the most commonly used name for such a faster-than-light communicator in the science fiction of the 1930s to the 1950s.

During the late 1950s it was sought by two rail historians, George Horn and Martin Schachne, but they did not gain access to the tunnel itself.

The first commercial television systems were black-and-white ; The beginning of color television was in the 1950s.

The monochrome combinations still existing in the 1950s are standardized by the International Telecommunication Union ( ITU ) as capital letters A through N. When color television was introduced, the hue and saturation information was added to the monochrome signals in a way that black & white televisions ignore.

The modern form of AAS was largely developed during the 1950s by a team of Australian chemists.

Electrothermal AAS ( ET AAS ) using graphite tube atomizers was pioneered by Boris V. L ’ vov at the Saint Petersburg Polytechnical Institute, Russia, since the late 1950s, and further investigated by Hans Massmann at the Institute of Spectrochemistry and Applied Spectroscopy ( ISAS ) in Dortmund, Germany.

The slate quarries on Craigmore which operated from the 1820s to the 1950s are now defunct ; at its peak this was a major industry.

Heschel was particularly spurned by his colleague Mordechai Kaplan, founder of Reconstructionist Judaism, and many students who attended JTS in the 1950s sympathized with Kaplan over Heschel.

A first generation of antipsychotics, known as typical antipsychotics, was discovered in the 1950s.

Most of the drugs in the second generation, known as atypical antipsychotics, have been developed more recently, although the first atypical antipsychotic, clozapine, was discovered in the 1950s and introduced clinically in the 1970s.

In the late 1950s the most widely used term was " neuroleptic ", followed by " major tranquilizer " and then " ataraxic ".

* About 50 people in Vernon, Florida collected insurance claims for loss-of-limb accidents in the late 1950s and early 1960s ; this was more than two-thirds of all such claims in the United States during that time.

He was a liberal during the conservative 1950s, only to switch to conservative during the liberal, hippie-era 1960s.