On modern band and orchestral drums, the drumhead is placed over the opening of the drum, which in turn is held onto the shell by a " counterhoop " ( or " rim "), which is then held by means of a number of tuning screws called " tension rods " which screw into lugs placed evenly around the circumference.

On Diego Garcia, the main plantations were located at East Point, the main settlement on the eastern rim of the atoll ; Minni Minni, north of East Point ; and Pointe Marianne, on the western rim, all located on the lagoon side of the atoll rim.

On a geostationary view Alpha Centauri has a speed many times greater than c as the rim speed of an object moving in a circle is a product of the radius and angular speed.

On a 10 " gong, for example, the rim extends about a half an inch perpendicular to the gong surface.

On his last visit, in 1982, he noted that the desert winds and resultant movement of the dune system were covering the site: " instead of two thirds of the crater rim ( visible as before 1966, 16 years earlier ), less than a quarter of it showed.

On the western rim of the mare is the palimpsest Yerkes.

* On October 29, 1963, two Aeronautical Chart and Information Center cartographers, James A. Greenacre and Edward Barr, at the Lowell Observatory, Flagstaff, Arizona, manually recorded very bright red, orange, and pink colour phenomena on the southwest side of Cobra Head ; a hill southeast of the lunar valley Vallis Schröteri ; and the southwest interior rim of the Aristarchus crater.

On a really clear day, the south rim of Crater Lake in Oregon is visible.

* On three legs but connected to them by means of a rim mount on the lower rim, the original floor tom rim mounting.

On a kayak, the spraydeck is secured to a rim surrounding the cockpit with a line or elastic string called a rand.

On modern neoprene spraydecks the rand is usually elastic cord attached directly to the spraydecks rim.

On November 11, 1817 the border was corrected and the eastern rim of the county was ceded to

On October 6, NASA released detailed pictures from the MRO of Victoria crater along with the Opportunity rover on the rim above it.

On its reef rim are many inhabited islands.

On the rim to the right and left of Jesus are pictures of the archangels Michael and Gabriel, followed by half-length images of the Saints George and Demetrius, and Cosmas and Damian.

On the other hand, in the western rim of Peros Banhos, the island north of Île Verte was only a small sandbank at the time of Commander Robert Moresby's Survey in 1837, but now it is a medium-sized island covered with vegetation.

On measured samples of cases, the rim ( R1 ) diameter was no more than 0. 18 mm ( 0. 007 in ) wider than the case wall ( P1 ) diameter ( in typical semi-rimmed cases the rim ( R1 ) diameter is roughly 0. 51 mm (. 020 in ) wider than the case wall ( P1 ) diameter ).

* On an auxiliary boom attached to the rim of a snare drum or timbales.

On June 20, 1943, a United States Army Air Force plane on a meteorological flight over the Ungava region of Quebec Province took a photograph which showed the wide crater rim rising up above the landscape.

On their frequent hikes into the nearby mountains, the children carry whole grains to munch along the trail.

On the Pacific side are steep mountains 1, 500 to 3, 000 meters high, with deep valleys and gorges.

On the high mountains, such as Mount Kenya, Mount Elgon and Kilimanjaro, the weather can become bitterly cold for most of the year.

On August 26, 1943, Albert Speer called a meeting with Hans Kammler, Dornberger, Gerhard Degenkolb, and Karl Otto Saur to negotiate the move of A-4 main production to an underground factory in the Harz mountains.

We can thus understand the localisation of sub-genera, genera, and families ; and how it is that under different latitudes, for instance in South America, the inhabitants of the plains and mountains, of the forests, marshes, and deserts, are in so mysterious a manner linked together by affinity, and are likewise linked to the extinct beings which formerly inhabited the same continent ... On these same principles, we can understand, as I have endeavoured to show, why oceanic islands should have few inhabitants, but of these a great number should be endemic or peculiar ; ...

On the west the line of lakes and mountains proved so impenetrable that the Belgian forces from the Congo had, in the first instance, to be moved through Uganda.

On September 26, 1996, as the Taliban with military support by Pakistan and financial support by Saudi Arabia prepared for another major offensive, Massoud ordered a full retreat from Kabul to continue anti-Taliban resistance in the Hindu Kush mountains instead of engaging in street battles in Kabul.

On vacation in the mountains with his family, he nearly drowned in a lake, an experience he describes as “… the most beautiful world I ’ ve ever seen in my life ” and “ without fear ,” and “ peaceful ”

* On April 12, 1264, the master builder Giovanni di Simone and 23 workers went to the mountains close to Pisa to cut marble.

On the north side of Denver it is joined somewhat inconspicuously by Clear Creek, which descends from the mountains to the west in a canyon that was the cradle of the Pike's Peak Gold Rush.

On some cameras this is indicated by symbols ( head-and-shoulders ; two people standing upright ; one tree ; mountains ).

On 14 February they were reunited in Vologda, and, now travelling together, headed eastwards across the Ural mountains, arriving in the small city of Tobolsk ( one of the main stopping points of the journey ) on 16 March.

On the summits of hills and mountains flourished the cult of the givers of increase, and " under every green tree " was practised the licentiousness which was held to secure abundance of crops.

On September 12, 1943, Otto Skorzeny led a daring glider-based assault on the Gran Sasso Hotel, high in the Apennines mountains, and rescued Benito Mussolini from house arrest with very few shots being fired.

On the Central Plateau, numerous rivers — most of which have dry beds for the greater part of the year — form from snow melting in the mountains during the spring and flow through permanent channels, draining eventually into salt lakes that also tend to dry up during the summer months.

On the higher parts of lofty mountains in the Alps more snow falls in each year than melts.

On either side of the Valley are high mountains with rough terrain and heavy timber.

On March 22, 2006, ten residents of Monroe Township, from The Ponds retirement community, were killed in a tour bus accident in the Andes mountains in northern Chile.

On one side almost the entire stretch of the main lake is visible and on the other, the mountains that reach into the states of Pennsylvania and New York.

On the mountains east of Ogden are three downhill ski areas: Snowbasin, Powder Mountain, and Wolf Mountain.

On the nearby Blue Ridge Parkway is Moses Cone Memorial Park, which offers scenic views of the surrounding mountains.

On 25 October, Rundstedt took up his new post as commander of Army Group A, facing the French border in the Ardennes mountains sector, and based in Koblenz.

On 16 March 1521 ( Spanish calendar ), Magellan sighted the mountains of what is now Samar while on a mission to find a westward route to the Moluccas Islands for Spain.