Its collection boasts a large collection of 19th and early 20th century decorative arts, furnishings and material culture reflecting Iowa State and Iowa heritage.

Its streets are lined by hundred year old oaks, maples, and evergreens, plus decorative plantings which the town maintains in its right-of-ways.

Its modern decorative, practical, and performing arts works span a spectrum ranging from the traditions of Japan to purely Western modes.

Its defensive characteristics are essentially decorative.

Its four distinctive domes were designed as a decorative means of disguising the building's shape.

Its decorative elements were sculpted by Lee Lawrie ( 1877 – 1963 ).

Its cupola on a 255 foot ( 78 m ) tower contained a decorative beacon.

Its design is in the Italianate style, with an extremely decorative frontage.

Its permanent holdings contain an important collection of Old Masters and 19th-century and 20th-century artwork, as well as some of the nation's best collections of German Expressionism, folk and Haitian art, American decorative arts, and post-1960 American art.

Its earliest known developed form, one that continues to the present-day, is arguably the decorative surface pattern work exemplified by the Lindisfarne Gospels and the exterior carving of Anglo-Saxon churches and monuments.

Its dragster themed trains once had decorative spoilers and engines, but these were removed soon after opening, allowing an extra row of seats to be added to each one.

Its decorative scheme includes a trompe l ' oeil ceiling fresco in the first room, or Salone, by the Sicilian artist Mariano Rossi makes such good use of foreshortening that it appears almost three-dimensional.

Its notable decorative features include a painted ceiling with numerous coats of arms and other symbols, stained-glass side windows, and a small rose window in the east wall, above the altar.

Its collection spans Australian and European paintings, decorative arts and Chinese, Japanese and Korean decorative arts, with the majority being 18th century or later.

Its purpose is now decorative.

Its core is the extensive Kurortny ( Glavny ) Park ( planted mostly with ash, oak, hornbeam, chestnut, maple, poplar, linden, etc., decorative bushes, flowers ), laid in 1849, with springs of mineral water and numerous constructions: the building of the drinking gallery ( 1847 – 1856, architect S. Upton, Moresque style ), the Nikolayevskiye ( the present Verkhniye ) baths ( 1899, architects N. V. Dmitriyev and B. V. Pravzdik ), the Commercial gallery ( 1912, architect Y. F. Shreter, neo-classicism ; the present Electroheliotherapy Institute ), the wooden observation pavilion with colonnade referred to as Oreanda ( 1912 ), four pavilions above drinking well-rooms ( 1912 – 1913, architect N. N. Semyonov, neo-classicism ), etc.

Its permanent collection comprises roughly 35, 000 works and includes European and American decorative arts from the late seventeenth century to the present, works on paper, paintings, prints ( notably Japanese prints ), sculptures and installations.

Its wooden body, entirely painted red with decorative patterns, is covered with two drumheads of cowhide or pig skin.

Its popularity was due to its being suitable for many different building materials and budgets, as well as the development of cast-iron and press-metal technology making the production of decorative elements like the brackets and cornices more efficient.

Its collection includes paintings, photographs, prints & drawings, textiles, architecture, and decorative arts.

Its decorative character led to its use as a decorative element in several public and domestic buildings constructed prior to the Republican period in Turkey.

Its hunting shotguns were known for their fine decorative work, typically waterfowl or hunting dogs.

Its collections encompass diverse cultural items such as Ashanti Empire sculptures, Buddhist art, Dutch Golden Age painting, works by Albrecht Dürer, Jean-Baptiste Greuze and Auguste Rodin, among others.

Its main altarpiece is 30 meters high and divided in compartments of different sizes where are find bronze sculptures and canvas authored by Tibaldi, Zuccari or Leoni.

Its strong neoclassical character, its impressive frontons, the columns and the sculptures indicate the architect's attempt to emphasize on the power, wealth and the national pride sourcing from the ancient tradition.

Its holdings include biographical documents, works, designs and diagrams as well as Greek sculptures or casts, along with other small artworks from antiquity.

Its name comes from the Medici lions-inspired sculptures that stand there.

Its façade features scenes of the Legion's retreat through Siberia and sculptures of Legionnaires top the pillars.

Its primary focus is on extravagant chocolate-based desserts, including chocolate sculptures, centerpieces, and other edible artwork.

Its church also features extensive sculptures based on Psalms and the Dormition of the Theotokos.

Its main feature is a baroque spa building with famous sculptures by Matthias Braun.

Its inspirations come from the sculptures of the ancient temple of Chidambaram.

Its collection of more than 14, 000 works includes artists such as Thomas Daniell, Raja Ravi Verma, Abanindranath Tagore, Rabindranath Tagore, Gaganendranath Tagore, Nandalal Bose, Jamini Roy, Amrita Sher-Gil as well as foreign artists, apart from sculptures by various artists.

Its main entrance is clearly marked by two bronze sculptures by Giuseppe Moretti atop Ionic columns on each side of the road.

Its Stanton Avenue entrance features another Moretti pair of sculptures on grand pedestals, depicting two groups of lean, heroic youths taming wild horses.

Its frieze sculptures depict episodes from the myth of Dionysus, the god whose rites developed into Greek theatre.

Its name is dedicated to the Aztec people, due to the resemblance between the plant's shape and certain Aztec sculptures.

Its collection of well over 6, 000 works of art includes historical and contemporary paintings, sculptures, installation works and photographs by Canadian and international artists.

Its radar screens would register Soviet missiles shortly after they are launched against the United States.

Its ontological status is itself most tenuous because apart from individual men, who are its `` matter '', tradition, the `` form '' of society exists only as a shared perception of truth.

Its massive contours are rooted in the simple need of man, since he is always incomplete, to complete himself.

Its elimination would result in the saving of interest costs, heavy when short-term money rates are high, and in freedom from dependence on credit which is not always available when needed most.

Its figures are a half inch high and very easy to read, even into tenth gallons.

Its clarity and good optical properties are other important factors.

Its findings are reported each year in its Rapport Sur l'activite Pendant annee ( Bruxelles ).

Its folklore and legend, usually disguised as history, are allowed to account for group actions, to provide a focal point for group loyalty, and to become a cohesive force for national identification.

Its people are agreeable friends.

Its contents are another matter, for they reveal the kinds of interests pursued by the congregation.

Its size is determined by its function as a glycogen and fat storage unit, and may change with the seasons as these reserves are built or used up.

Its eggs are laid on the forest floor and when they hatch, the tadpoles are carried one by one on the back of an adult to a suitable water-filled crevice such as the axil of a leaf or the rosette of a bromeliad.

Its other main uses are for bituminous waterproofing products, including production of roofing felt and for sealing flat roofs.

Its primary symbols are only 4: the directed arrow showing program flow, the rectangle ( SEQUENCE, GOTO ), the diamond ( IF-THEN-ELSE ), and the dot ( OR-tie ).

Its most common isotopes are < sup > 241 </ sup > Am and < sup > 243 </ sup > Am.

Its chemical and physical properties are so similar to that of natural amethyst that it can not be differentiated with absolute certainty without advanced gemnological testing ( which is often cost-prohibitive ).

Its chemical composition makes it difficult to match the amber to its producers – it is most similar to the resins produced by flowering plants ; however, there are no flowering plant fossils until the Cretaceous, and they were not common until the Upper Cretaceous.

# Its seeds are a good source of protein.

Its ancient cult of Aphrodite was the most important, after Paphos, in Cyprus, her homeland, though the ruins of Amathus are less well-preserved than neighboring Kourion.

Its functions are thought to include tasks such as lipid and heme biosynthesis, and it appears to be necessary for survival.

Its preparation involves digging a hole about 150 cm deep in the ground, within which incandescent stones are placed inside a bonfire.

Its purgative properties are important ( known as la purga or " the purge ").

Its partners for movement towards a solid object and for being next to that solid object are the allative case and the adessive case respectively.

Its partners that correspond to movement away from, or out of, something are the delative case ( for movement from a surface or from a Hungarian city ) and the elative case ( for movement out of a container or from out of an international city ).