Its distance is unusual for a naked-eye star.

Its reproductive success is partly because of opportunistic feeding: it has a diet, unusual among anurans, of both dead and living matter.

Its sweat glands can be found in its haired skin surface, an unusual trait among rodents.

Its unusual rock formations, stone bridges, and waterfalls remained etched in Pei's memory for decades.

Its program in the sciences is likewise unusual – Reed's TRIGA research reactor makes it the only school in the United States to have a nuclear reactor operated entirely by undergraduates.

Its trajectory was designed to take advantage of an unusual alignment of the planets ( that occurs once every 177 years ) that allowed one space probe to fly by Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune, if everything went well.

Its unusual name, coined by Thomas Carlyle in 1858, refers to an ear severed from Robert Jenkins, captain of a British merchant ship.

Its main goal is to give an overview of the subject but, unusual for a popular science book, it also attempts to explain some complex mathematics.

Its summit, an alpine area above the tree line, is a nearly flat plateau about 13 km ( 8 mi ) across composed of serpentine bedrock and supporting a quite unusual flora.

Its unusual architecture and innovative communications solutions qualify him among the most interesting sights of the city.

Its onion dome is highly unusual for Northern Germany.

Its replacement, constructed by Roger Bigod, the Earl of Norfolk, was unusual for the time in having no central keep, but instead using a curtain wall with thirteen mural towers to defend the centre of the castle.

Its rare and unusual phonographs include models by Thomas A. Edison.

Its Classic Revival style, fashionable for private residences in the Bay Area at the time, was unusual for naval base housing.

Its grave is marked by an unusual stone, also known locally as the " Donkey Stone ".

Its ingredients include coriander and salt, which are unusual for German beers.

Its all welded construction was very unusual for the cycle industry at the time, and many years were to pass before other manufacturers adopted this method.

Its unusual mid-span height was a requirement of the New Jersey ports.

Its name originated because steel, instead of wrought iron, was used in its construction, very unusual for the time.

Its growth form is unusual in that it tends to spread by runners, offset from the parent plant by several centimeters.

Its unusual cell wall, rich in lipids ( e. g., mycolic acid ), is likely responsible for this resistance and is a key virulence factor.

Its other famous landmark is the Fairhaven United Reformed Church, which is of unusual design, being built in Byzantine style and faced with glazed white tiles, and commonly known as the White Church.

Its plain, stark orange color and unusual fonts went against conventional design aesthetics.

Its many unusual locales include an intricately designed space station, and a 3D network of underground caverns.

Its topography is flat with wide expanses of farmland.

Its disadvantages included the facts that the Army would have to purchase the property and the topography required extensive grading costs to construct an airfield.

Its unique, hilly topography was first noted in 1823 by its founder, Jeff Moore, who decided that the site would serve as an excellent strategic position against attacks by local Native American tribes.

Its topography is characterized by rolling, eroded hills, deciduous forests, and fast-running, narrow, shallow streams that feed the Yadkin / Pee Dee River Basin.

Its topography did not allow for much agriculture, so Antioquia became dependent upon trade, especially of gold and gin for the colonization of new land, although much of this trade was due to reformations passed after a visit from an inspector of the Spanish crown, Juan Antonio Mon y Velarde in 1785.

Its topography consists of a flat central area with gently rolling hills cresting at the village limits.

Its topography, ecology, and modern history are similar to that of Navassa Island, a small limestone island located in the Jamaica Channel, between Jamaica and Haiti.

Its position in the West Pennine Moors makes its topography relatively arid and it stands within a valley with the River Darwen flowing at its base.

Its rugged topography includes ravines, grassy hillsides, oak-capped knolls, and rocky summits offering glimpses of the Pacific Ocean.

Its diverse topography ranges from the volcanic Tibesti Mountains to the Bodélé Depression, a vast Holocene lake-bed that is one of the Earth's strongest dust storm producing regions.

Its climate is greatly influenced by the topography ; the mountains exert a barrier effect to the passage of hot and wet air masses coming from the Atlantic Ocean, resulting in elevated precipitation throughout the year.

Its topography is shown in the MTN50 sheet ( scale 1: 50, 000 ) No. 1047 of the National Topographic Map.

Its topography ( on average 750 metres altitude ) is bisected by the Igrejas River, as well as many of its tributaries.

Its topography varies, with sandy beaches and rocky shores, slightly undulating slopes, foothills and steeper semi-rugged terrain.

Its mountains are composed mainly of granite, and the topography of the park is generally very steep.

Its climate is more moderate than that of Mirpur due to the sub-mountainous topography.

Its toponomy was first defined by Father Gaspar Frutuoso during the 16th century, who reflected on the fact that the area received its name owing to the physical topography.

Its topography includes rolling hills and terraces, some of which are still covered by sugar cane, which was the island's chief cash crop during its colonial period.

Its topography includes a small area of Chile's central valley, glaciers, rivers, volcanoes, and the Andes range, which forms the border with Argentina.

Its initial object was to carry out surveys of the topography and ethnography of Ottoman Palestine with a remit that fell somewhere between an expeditionary survey and military intelligence gathering.

Its topography consists predominantly of slopes which are characterized as nearly level to slightly and strongly undulated rolling hills.

Its topography is 70 % flat and 30 % rolling, which is suitable for agricultural crops such as corn, rice and other commercial crops like coconut, coffee, cacao, rubber, banana and sugar cane.

Its topography is generally mountainous in the eastern portion as it slopes down west towards the shore line.

Its topography is characterized by undulating land, with sand dunes of various sizes spanning several kilometres in parts of the State.