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 permanent collections consist of paintings by Birger Sandzén and the wood engravings of local artist E. Hubert Deines.

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 native civilization is decadent and the various city-states and desert tribes squabble as the canal system slowly falls apart and Earthmen arrive to carve out colonial holdings.

Its holdings include many local family histories, photos and other artifacts.

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 came from 213, when Cao Cao's feudal holdings were given the name Wei ; historians often add the prefix Cao ( 曹, from Cao Cao's family name ) to distinguish it from the other states in Chinese history also known as Wei, such as the earlier Wei state during the Warring States Period, and the later Northern Wei state.

Its British portraits collection is exceeded in size only by that of the National Portrait Gallery and its holdings relating to Vice-Admiral Horatio Nelson and Captain James Cook, among many other individuals, are unrivalled.

Its holdings include more than 100, 000 works spanning the history of art from ancient times to the present.

( Its holdings totaled around 1, 025, 000 koku.

Its Canadian holdings, notably the National Post, several smaller papers, and a majority stake in the Southam newspaper chain, were sold to CanWest in 2000 in connection with Conrad Black renouncing his Canadian citizenship to gain a British peerage.

Its holdings are non-contiguous and do not include the Indiana Dunes State Park ( 1916 ), a separate, parcel of protected dune land on the lakefront near Porter, Indiana.

Its customers may, however, choose to become Co-operative Group members and hence indirectly acquire an ownership interest in the Bank, earning dividend on their account holdings and borrowing with the Bank.

Its diversified holdings included Champagne Taittinger, Société du Louvre and Concorde Hotels, whose flagship is the famed Hotel de Crillon on the Place de la Concorde in Paris, France as well as the Loire Valley wine producing firm of Bouvet-Ladubay, and a partnership in Domaine Carneros in California, until it was sold to Starwood Capital in 2005.

Its main holdings were the networks and assets of the Big Four national regional railway companies: Great Western Railway, London and North Eastern Railway, London, Midland and Scottish Railway and the Southern Railway.

Its art holdings comprise more than 1. 6 million works.

Its holdings also include numerous illustrated works from as early as the 15th century, including Konrad Gessner's Historia animalium, Maria Sibylla Merian's Insects of Surinam, Edward Lear's Psittacidae or Parrots, and a double elephant folio of John James Audubon's The Birds of America.

Its holdings now include 28, 639 electronic periodicals in Chinese and other languages and more than 1 million electronic books.

Its holdings originate in the private collection of Charles ( 1858 – 1940 ) and Emma ( d. 1934 ) Frye.

Its collection, which includes Jasper Johns, Andy Warhol, Cindy Sherman, Kara Walker, and Alexander Calder, contains historical samples of 1940s – 1970s late surrealism, pop art, minimalism, and conceptual art ; notable holdings 1980s postmodernism ; as well as contemporary painting, sculpture, photography, video, installation, and related media.

Its total holdings include about 1. 3 million pieces, as well as twenty-four historic buildings.

Its holdings comprise more than 100 languages with 17, 000 volumes in Persian, 15, 800 in Arabic, and 14, 500 in Spanish.

Its holdings incorporate the collections of four older libraries, namely the Ashmolean library, the Classics Lending Library, the Eastern Art Library, and the History of Art Library.

Its holdings are largely devoted to relics of the Silla kingdom, of which Gyeongju was the capital.

Its holdings include significant works of Austrian Secession art, German expressionism, 1920s abstraction, and material related to the Bauhaus.

Its vineyard holdings include Clos Vougeot, Echezeaux, Grands Echezeaux, and the monopole La Grande Rue.

Its holdings include R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company, American Snuff Company ( formerly Conwood Company ), Santa Fe Natural Tobacco Company and Niconovum AB.