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On the exterior, the verticality is emphasised in a major way by the towers and spires and in a lesser way by strongly projecting vertical buttresses, by narrow half-columns called attached shafts which often pass through several storeys of the building, by long narrow windows, vertical mouldings around doors and figurative sculpture which emphasises the vertical and is often attenuated.
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On the return trip to Earth, Mattingly performed a one-hour spacewalk to retrieve several film cassettes from the exterior of the Service Module.
On the exterior Le Corbusier installed a stairway to provide second-floor access from ground level.
On the exterior wall of the " Hôpital Necker – Enfants Malades ", where Laennec wrote Mediate auscultation, near the entrance of the hospital in 149, Rue de Sèvres, there is a marble memorial tablet with an engraved portrait of Laennec and this inscription: " Dans cet hôpital Laennec découvrit l ' auscultation.
On November 11, 1981, Veterans Day, high-rise firefighting and rescue advocate Dan Goodwin, for the purpose of calling attention to the inability to rescue people trapped in the upper floors of skyscrapers, successfully climbed the building's exterior wall.
* Carry On Constable ( 1960 ): Used many locations around Ealing, with Hanwell Library serving for the exterior shots of their Police Station.
* Carry On Teacher ( 1959 ): The Maudlin Street School exterior scenes were shot at Drayton School, Drayton Grove, West Ealing.
On the other hand, viscosity itself was not enough to explain the transport of angular momentum to the exterior parts of the disc.
On March 25, 2010, the Chatham County Courthouse ( pictured above ), while undergoing a $ 415, 000 exterior renovation, caught fire.
On the left is the mausoleum of Ascia, with an exterior wall painting of vine shoots rising from kantharoi up trompe-l ' œil pillars.
On the opening night of the exhibition the artist Gerhard Richter vandalized the exterior of the Kunsthalle by spray painting the text, " Power, Corruption, and Lies ".
And for Supporters: On either side a Kangaroo holding in the exterior fore-paw a Boomerang proper.
On a bright day, the exterior of the Beinecke Library appears to " float " above its darkened entry level
On the exterior, the R3 had a different, lower front bumper sporting a splitter, lower side sills, and a standard rear spoiler.
On the premium Commodore SL / E, a resurrected " Shadowtone " exterior paint option became available in a limited range of dark-over-light colour combinations.
On the two sides, to the north and south of the dome, it is supported by vaulted aisles in two storeys which bring the exterior form to a general square.
There is also, however, a small Iron Man reference in the episode " On Angel's Wings ", when a sign reading " Stark Enterprises " is seen during an exterior shot of New York City and a small Spider-Man reference when Angel was reading the Daily Bugle, the newspaper that Peter Parker / Spider-Man normally takes pictures for.
On the Yaesu side, the current multi-story exterior will be replaced by a much lower structure with a large canopy covering outdoor waiting and loading areas, and twin high-rise towers at each end.
On the exterior on the Market Street side are a pair of handprints, which, according to folklore, are cursed, as many attempts over the years have failed to eradicate them.
On the exterior were redesigned side view mirrors, 14x5 " aluminum wheels are now standard ( the previous year had steel wheels with plastic wheel covers standard and the aluminum wheels were optional ).
On Ifield Road itself, a now-derelict house at No. 10 is a mid-17th century timber-framed house with exterior tile-hanging and 19th-century brickwork ; and No. 60 and 62 were a pair of cottages created in the 19th century from a 16th-century timber-framed farmhouse, which is now used as one building again.
On August 3, 2005, as a Mission Specialist ( and Flight Engineer ) on STS-114, the first Return to Flight mission following the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster, Robinson became the first human to perform an in-flight repair to the Shuttle's exterior.
" On Bullens Road side, a bomb dropped in the school yard had badly damaged the exterior wall of this stand and the roof was badly perforated here also.
On the third, they installed the External Stowage Platform and repaired the shuttle, the first time repairs had been carried out during a spacewalk on the exterior of a spacecraft in flight.
On the exterior, the grille switched from vertical bars to horizontal bars, and a spoiler and a Ram Air induction hood scoop were added as options.
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On Fridays, the day when many Persians relax with poetry, talk, and a samovar, people do not, it is true, stream into Chehel Sotun -- a pavilion and garden built by Shah Abbas 2, in the seventeenth century -- but they do retire into hundreds of pavilions throughout the city and up the river valley, which are smaller, more humble copies of the former.
On the one hand, he does not work for a large agency, but is almost always self-employed.
On the face of it, it is because he employs deductive techniques alien to official police routine.
In answer to a New York Times query on what is fame ( `` Thoughts On Fame '', October 23, 1960 ), Carl said: `` Fame is a figment of a pigment.
On April 11th he wrote an open letter in The Advocate, making it known `` to the world that Jas. W. Robinson is by his own admission a base liar and a slanderer ''.
On the contrary it is my duty to make my own decision as between the two ''.
On the other hand, the consensus of opinion is that, used with caution and in conjunction with other types of evidence, the native sources still provide a valid rough outline for the English settlement of southern Britain.
On the other hand, the bright vision of the future has been directly stated in science fiction concerned with projecting ideal societies -- science fiction, of course, is related, if sometimes distantly, to that utopian literature optimistic about science, literature whose period of greatest vigor in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries produced Edward Bellamy's Looking Backward and H. G. Wells's A Modern Utopia.
On the contrary, the frenzy and furor of combat is only the sombre foil against which the sudden illuminations of the human flash forth with the piercing radiance of a Caravaggio.
On a team a man feels he is a part of it and akin to the men next to him.
On the other hand, it is no interference with sovereignty to point out defects where they exist, such as that a plan calls for factories without power to run them, or for institutions without trained personnel to staff them.
On the ground floor the radiation would be about half what it is outside.
On the other hand, the new authority of $3,825 million proposed for missile procurement ( excluding research and construction ) in 1961 is $581 million higher than for 1960.
On the contrary, if this be an apocalyptic era as is commonly said, we see it as an era of opportunity.
On those rare occasions when a faculty member on tenure is not meeting the standards of the institution, the president must also bear the ultimate burden of decision and action.
Torrid Freight ( Torrid-Breeze On Hal ) is a very rugged, strong-made colt with a wonderful stride who has done with ease everything asked of him.
On most drill presses, it is impossible to get the exact speed, but you can come close by adjusting the drive belt on the step-cone pulleys.
Chapter 8, is entitled `` On Magnetism '' and in it are included such remarks as, `` One has always been tempted to compare the magnetic forces with the electrical forces.
On the other hand, the process of obsoleting an old product and introducing the new one is usually mighty expensive.
On this first venture the central storage is 20,000 gallons, in two tanks, or an average of 400 gallons for each of the 50 homes.
On this, she builds an `` egg compartment '' or `` egg cell '' which is filled with that famous pollen-and-nectar mixture called beebread.
On the basis of its life history, we like to think that Andrena is more primitive than the bumblebees.
On chemical grounds it seems most likely that iodide is first converted to Af and then to Af as the active iodinating species.
On the other hand, the temporary reduction in hypothalamic excitability through the injection of a barbiturate into the posterior hypothalamus causes a lessening in frequency and amplitude of cortical strychnine spikes until the hypothalamic excitability is restored.
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