Its permanent collection features more than 800 works of art, primarily by artists from Africa, Asia and Latin America, including paintings, photographs, prints, drawings, and mixed media.

Its permanent collection, numbering some eight million works, is amongst the largest and most comprehensive in existence and originates from all continents, illustrating and documenting the story of human culture from its beginnings to the present.

Its head, the Metropolitan, fled from Kiev to Vladimir in 1299 and a few years later established the permanent headquarters of the Church in Moscow under the original title of Kiev Metropolitan.

Its capital, Salalah, was the permanent residence of Sultan Said ibn Taimur Al Said and the birthplace of the present sultan, Qabus ibn Said.

Its first known permanent resident was Portuguese, Fernão Lopez who had turned traitor in India and had been mutilated by order of Albuquerque, the Governor of Goa.

Its permanent headquarters were in Garderkasernen ( Garder barracks ), Høvelte 30 kilometres north of Copenhagen in Denmark.

Its basic subject matter and setting — love at the Heian court — are those of the romance, and its cultural assumptions are those of the mid-Heian period, but Murasaki Shikibu's unique genius has made the work for many a powerful statement of human relationships, the impossibility of permanent happiness in love ... and the vital importance, in a world of sorrows, of sensitivity to the feelings of others.

Its design has a spot in the Museum of Modern Art's permanent collection.

Its permanent and current home, now renovated, designed in the International Style by the modernist architects Philip Goodwin and Edward Durell Stone, opened to the public on May 10, 1939, attended by an illustrious company of 6, 000 people, and with an opening address via radio from the White House by President Franklin D. Roosevelt ..

Its first permanent building opened at Exhibition Place in 1961.

Its tactical method is the strike — the regular strike for protecting the material welfare of the workers, and the general strike as a means to accomplish the desired permanent solution to industrial strife.

Its permanent collection is considered one of the best and most important contemporary art in Basque and Spanish.

Its situation having attracted fishermen from the Cinque Ports, a permanent settlement was made, and the town numbered 70 burgesses before the Norman Conquest.

Its first European settlers were members of a Puritan colony established in 1720, which was the first permanent settlement of its type.

Its permanent population is 96 ( 2008 ) and its area is 39 hectares.

Its goals include a complete withdrawal from the United Nations, defeat of the treaty establishing a permanent International Criminal Court, and " rejection of one-world government ".

Its goal is a meaningful survey and near permanent archive of 1, 500 languages.

Its low expense led to the development of permanent versions using teflon-coated fiberglass and within 15 years the majority of the domed stadiums around the world used this system, including the Silverdome in Pontiac, Michigan.

Its French gardens and pond are a haven of calm, while the interior of the castle harbours a permanent exhibit of ancient furniture and a small pharmacy museum.

Its collections, of which only a small part is on permanent display, comprise nearly three million items, including the largest collection of paintings in the world.

Its superconducting magnets will permit it to generate a strong permanent toroidal magnetic field.

Its permanent collection covers the history of the state and is divided into two halls: one for archeology and the other for history starting from the Spanish conquest.

Its causes are unknown and although it is a permanent condition, it does not have any other effect on the affected individuals.

Its duties included appointing representatives to the United Nations, appointing interim ministers to Iraq's vacant cabinet positions, and drafting a temporary constitution known as the Transitional Administrative Law ( TAL ), which would be used to govern Iraq until a permanent constitution could be written and approved by the general electorate.

Its Provisions Library houses special collections focusing on social change and the arts.

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 aims were to complete the Pacific discoveries of James Cook ( whom Lapérouse greatly admired ), correct and complete maps of the area, establish trade contacts, open new maritime routes and enrich French science and scientific collections.

Its participants – Piotr Buchkin, Rudolf Frentz, Alexander Samokhvalov, Isaak Brodsky, Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin, Kazimir Malevich, Nikolai Dormidontov, Mikhail Avilov among them – became the founding fathers of the Leningrad school while their works formed one of its richest layers and the basis of the largest museum collections of Soviet painting of the 1930-1950s.

Its first section discusses the ten Sandman collections sequentially, analyzing their meaning, explaining some of Gaiman's myriad references and sometimes providing information on the writing of the comics.

Its collections include Egyptian, Medieval, Renaissance, Contemporary, and Native American.

Its main collections were held in a building on Naamsestraat dating back to the 17th century.

Its development flourished after 1900 when Carnegie grants began to aid in building construction and the expansion of collections and services.

Its mission is to constitute collections, especially the copies of works published in France that must, by law, be deposited there, conserve them, and make them available to the public.

Its collections include over 1. 6 million rolls of microfilmed records onsite and access the total collection of more than 2. 4 million rolls of microfilmed genealogical records ; 727, 000 microfiche ; 356, 000 books, serials, and other formats ; 4, 500 periodicals ; 3, 725 electronic resources including subscriptions to the major genealogical websites.

Its special collections include an image collection and 35mm slides.

Its collections include the Maps, Data and Government Information Centre ( MADGIC ), the Geographic Information Systems ( GIS ) Collection, and Special Collections & Archives.

Its collections of Hebraica and Judaica are the largest in the world.

Its Asian and Melanesian collections are also of strong interest.

Its extensive historical and special collections are nationally and internationally recognized.

Its collections, comprising more than 90, 000 musical scores, books, periodicals and recordings, are housed in a state-of-the-art facility that opened in October 1997.

Its collections include more than seven million books, journals, technical reports, manuscripts, microfilms, photographs, and images on medicine and related sciences including some of the world's oldest and rarest works.

Its collections, which were started by the Geological Survey of Canada in 1856, include all aspects of the intersection of human society and nature, from gardening to gene-splicing.

Its functions mainly include audit and collections.

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 collections focus on images of famous individual Americans.

Its collections were created by donations initially from Dr Forrester who had been a President of Derby Philosophical Society.

Its collections include over 2. 4 million rolls of microfilmed genealogical records ; 742, 000 microfiche ; 310, 000 books, serials, and other formats ; 4, 500 periodicals ; 700 electronic resources.