British Columbia's provincial parks system is the second largest parks system in Canada ( the largest is Canada's National Parks system ).

As the largest and most spectacular forest antelope, the western / lowland bongo is both an important flagship species for protected areas such as national parks, and a major trophy species which has been taken in increasing numbers in Central Africa by sport hunters during the 1990s.

Lincoln Park, the largest of the city's parks, covers and has over 20 million visitors each year, making it second only to Central Park in New York City in number of visitors.

Two of the city's largest parks are also located on this side of the city: Jackson Park, bordering the waterfront, hosted the World's Columbian Exposition in 1893, and is home of the aforementioned museum ; and slightly west sits Washington Park.

Its 16 km perimeter wall encloses one of the largest walled city parks in Europe.

Swope Park is one of the nation's largest city parks, comprising 1, 805 acres ( 2. 82 sq.

Radiating from the centre of the city, the historic cathedral is surrounded by paved granite streets, tucked away in the old town, and separated from the newer part of the city by the largest of many parks throughout the city, Parque da Alameda.

The eastern area of the North End plays host to the city's largest park, and one of Canada's largest urban parks.

West of Lancaster, the city hosts its second largest park, and one of the largest coastal urban parks in the country.

The district contains a hospital ( St. Elisabeth hospital ) and has one of the largest parks of Tilburg, the Leijpark.

It is one of the largest parks in the city, and indeed Yorkshire.

At over, Pelham Bay Park is the largest of New York City's parks, forming a substantial ' buffer ' between suburban Westchester and urban Bronx County.

Shelby Farms park, located at the eastern edge of the city, is one of the largest urban parks in the United States.

Around the city there are a series of interconnected lakes and unique cultural landmarks, in particular the parks and palaces of Sanssouci, the largest World Heritage Site in Germany.

Philadelphia's largest park, Fairmount Park, encompasses of this parkland and includes 63 neighborhood and regional parks.

Philadelphia is home to the United States ' first zoo and hospital, as well as Fairmount Park, one of America's oldest and largest urban parks.

* Hyde Park, London, one of the largest parks in central London, United Kingdom and one of the Royal Parks of London, famous for its Speakers ' Corner

It has several high-tech parks, among them the oldest and largest in the country.

Also nearby is Adirondack Park, one of the largest parks in the nation.

Arlington Stadium's outfield bleacher section was the largest in Major League Baseball.

With this in mind, the outfield fences were placed at an unusually far distance from home plate ; thus creating one of the largest outfields in baseball today.

They used to be very common, forming some of the largest herds of mammals ever documented, but their numbers have diminished significantly since the 19th century due to hunting and fences from farms blocking their migratory routes.

It features a red donkey ( largest piece ) trying to escape a maze of fences and pens to get to its carrots.

During the early part of this century, the Brown & Sharpe works in Providence were unchallenged as the largest single manufacturing facility devoted exclusively to precision machinery and tool manufacture anywhere in the world.

Juveniles may also have had different lifestyles than adults, filling predator niches between the enormous adults and the smaller contemporaneous theropods, the largest of which were two orders of magnitude smaller than adult Albertosaurus in mass.

Interview Island ( the largest wildlife sanctuary in the territory ) in Middle Andaman holds a population of feral elephants, which were brought in for forest work by a timber company and released when the company went bankrupt.

It was unwieldy due to its enormous size: were it still considered a single constellation, it would be the largest of all.

The railroads were the first big businesses in America, and the Pennsylvania was one of the largest of them all.

His steel enterprises were bought out at a figure equivalent to 12 times their annual earnings —$ 480 million ( presently, $) which at the time was the largest ever personal commercial transaction.

During the third and final lunar excursion of the mission, astronauts Young and Duke were to explore North Ray Crater, the largest of any of the craters any Apollo expedition had visited.

The number dropped to 38 in 1968, but grew to 82 in 1969, the largest number in a single year in the history of civil aviation ; in January 1969 alone, eight airliners were hijacked to Cuba.

The town is famed for manufacturing the hardest and densest building bricks in the world, " The Accrington NORI " ( iron ), which were used in the construction of the Empire State Building and for the foundations of Blackpool Tower ; famous for its football team and for having Europe's largest collection of Tiffany Glass.

Uintatheres were huge creatures with long narrow skulls, of which the elongated facial portion carried three pairs of bony horn-cores, probably covered with short horns in life, the hind-pair having been much the largest.

Brazil's three largest arms firms were established in the 1960s.

Although it has been known for a while that the Black Sea and the Sea of Marmara flow into each other in an example of a density flow, findings of a study by the University of Leeds in August 2010 reveal that there is in fact an underwater channel of high density water flowing across the floor of the Bosphorus ( caused by the difference in density of the two seas ), which would be the sixth largest river on Earth if it were to be on land.

The researchers estimate that the river — known as a submarine channel — would be the sixth largest river in the world if it were on land based on the amount of water flowing through it.

It should also be noted that the second largest of the three predecessor bodies of the ELCA, the American Lutheran Church, was a congregationalist body, with national and synod presidents before they were re-titled as bishops ( borrowing from the Lutheran churches in Germany ) in the 1980s.

The barge and canal system contended favorably with the railways in the early industrial revolution prior to around the 1850s – 1960s for example, the Erie Canal in New York State is credited by economic historians with giving the growth boost needed for New York City to eclipse Philadelphia as America's largest port and city but such canal systems with their locks, need for maintenance and dredging, pumps and sanitary issues were eventually outcompeted in the carriage of high-value items by the railways due to the higher speed, falling costs, and route flexibility of Rail transport.

Strabo confirms that the Boii emigrated from their lands across the Alps and were one of the largest tribes of the Celts.

They treated comradeship as of the greatest importance, those among them being the most feared and most powerful who were thought to have the largest number of attendants and associates.

This is a crude caricature of a highly competent general who authored Army Regulation 300 ( Troop Leadership ) in 1933, the primary tactical manual of the German Army in World War II, and under whose direction the first three panzer divisions were created in 1935, the largest such force in the world of the time.

" In 2006, the state with the largest number of students enrolled was South Carolina, but many of these were married students who had moved from other parts of the country to attend the University.

At the time of the battle, Sparta and Athens were the two largest city states.

The nuclear reactors were decommissioned at the end of the Cold War, and the Hanford site is now the focus of the world's largest environmental cleanup, managed by the Department of Energy under the oversight of the Washington Department of Ecology and the Environmental Protection Agency.

Also, by 1999, 38-40 % of the population of the Cayman Islands was of Jamaican origin and in 2004 / 2005 little over 50 % of the expatriates working in the Cayman Islands ( i. e. 8, 000 ) were Jamaicans ( with the next largest expatriate communities coming from the United States, United Kingdom and Canada ).

The largest air-breathing survivors of the event, crocodilians and champsosaurs, were semi-aquatic and had access to detritus.

The Church of Hagia Sophia, the sacred palace of the emperors, the hippodrome, and the Golden Gate were among the largest of the many churches, public edifices, and monuments lining the arcaded avenues and squares.