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was and centrepiece
The usual pattern for building a railway terminus was to conceal the metal structure behind an elaborate facade: Eiffel's design for Budapest used the metal structure as the centrepiece of the building, flanked on either side by conventional stone and brick-clad structures housing administrative offices.
The design of the Eiffel Tower was originated by Maurice Koechlin and Emile Nouguier, who had discussed ideas for a centrepiece for the 1889 Exposition Universelle.
United States President Woodrow Wilson and his adviser Colonel Edward M. House enthusiastically promoted the idea of the League as a means of avoiding any repetition of the bloodshed of the First World War, and the creation of the League was a centrepiece of Wilson's Fourteen Points for Peace.
Canadian motels were often constructed as poorly weatherized cabins in which a centrepiece of the motor court was an outdoor swimming pool usable for little more than two months of the year.
The centrepiece of each visit was a trip into the Rovers, the Queen Vic, or the Woolpack to be offered a drink.
Although synthesizers were still used in many songs, the instrument was no longer featured as the centrepiece of Rush's compositions.
The centrepiece of the campaign in North America, an expedition to capture Louisbourg was aborted due to the presence of a large French fleet and a gale that scattered the British fleet.
The centrepiece of Henry's renovated abbey was a shrine to Edward the Confessor.
Pope intended this poem to be the centrepiece of a proposed system of ethics that was to be put forth in poetic form.
The NCDC ended four decades of disputes over the shape and design of Lake Burley Griffin — the centrepiece of Griffin's design — and construction was completed in 1964 after four years of work.
In 1865, a replacement cross was commissioned from E. M. Barry by the South Eastern Railway as the centrepiece of the station forecourt ; about east of the original site.
It was the centrepiece of the show, Stuckist Clowns Doing Their Dirty Work, the first exhibition of the Stuckists in Mayfair, and depicted Saatchi with a sheep at his feet and a halo made from a cheese wrapper.
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.
The Festival's centrepiece was in London on the South Bank of the Thames.
The Festival's centrepiece was the South Bank Exhibition, in the Waterloo area of London, which demonstrated the contribution made by British advances in science, technology and industrial design, displayed, in their practical and applied form, against a background representing the living, working world of the day.
A note in Himmler's telephone log from 30 November 1941 saying " no liquidation " was to be the centrepiece of Irving's efforts in Hitler's War to prove that Hitler was ignorant of the Holocaust
The Cenotaph was originally commissioned by David Lloyd George as a temporary structure to be the centrepiece of the Allied Victory Parade in 1919.
In April 2006, the bridge was the centrepiece of the Brunel 200 weekend, celebrating the 200th anniversary of the birth of Isambard Kingdom Brunel.
Benn also led the government's campaign to close down the many off-shore pirate radio stations of the time, a campaign that formed the centrepiece of the 2009 film The Boat That Rocked, and he was responsible for introducing the Marine Broadcasting Offences Bill.
The second single was the album's centrepiece ballad " I'll Stand by You "; this track received substantial airplay, and was a top 10 success in the US and UK, and top 20 in Canada.
The centrepiece of this was an extended sketch featuring an orchestra in which Drake appeared to play all the instruments ; as well as conducting and one scene in which he was the player of a triangle waiting for his cue to play a single strike-which he subsequently missed.

was and Tasman
It was from a hill on Arapawa Island in 1770 that Captain James Cook first saw the sea passage from the Pacific Ocean to the Tasman Sea, which was named Cook Strait.
The territory was created in 1969 by the Coral Sea Islands Act ( before, the area was considered part of Queensland ) and extended in 1997 to include Elizabeth and Middleton Reefs nearly 800 km further South, already in the Tasman Sea.
Across the Tasman Sea, only 2. 5 % of the corpus of New Zealand Sign Language was found to be fingerspelling.
In the 17th century Dutch explorers such as Abel Tasman explored the coasts of Australia, while in the 18th century it was British explorer James Cook who mapped much of Polynesia.
On January 21, 1643, the Dutch explorer Abel Tasman was the first European to visit the main island ( Tongatapu ) and
The Dutch explorer Abel Tasman was the first European to land on the shores of Tasmania.
Eventually, in order to remove the unsavoury connotations with crime associated with its name ( and its homophonic connection to " demon "), in 1856 Van Diemen's Land was renamed Tasmania in honour of Abel Tasman.
The first European explorer to discover New Zealand was Abel Janszoon Tasman on 13 December 1642.
It was subsequently Anglicised as New Zealand by British naval captain James Cook of HM Bark Endeavour who visited the islands more than 100 years after Tasman during 1769 – 1770.
Various claims have been made that New Zealand was reached by other non-Polynesian voyagers before Tasman, but these are not widely accepted.
New Zealand, first seen by the Dutch explorer Abel Tasman in 1642, was regarded by some as a part of the continent.
Finally, in 1642 Tasman showed that even New Holland ( Australia ) was separated by sea from any continuous southern continent.
During the 1950s Aitutaki's lagoon was used as a stopover for TEAL ( Tasman Empire Airways Limited ) flying boats on the famous Coral Route.
It was subsequently Anglicised as New Zealand by British naval captain James Cook of HM Bark Endeavour who visited the islands more than 100 years after Tasman during ( 1769 – 1770 ).
The sea was named after the Dutch explorer Abel Janszoon Tasman, the first recorded European to encounter New Zealand and Tasmania.
It was named by the explorer Abel Tasman in 1644 and is Dutch for " Large Island " in an archaic spelling.
However, it was not until 1644, when Tasman arrived, that the island was given a European name.
When Dutch explorer Abel Tasman first saw New Zealand in 1642, he thought Cook Strait was a bight closed to the east.
It was opened around a year after the Tasman Bridge disaster destroyed the only river crossing and effectively divided the city in two.
The Bailey bridge was in use until the reconstruction of the Tasman Bridge was completed on 8 October 1977.
Lutjegast was the birthplace of the explorer Abel Tasman.

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