The Baldacchino, the main altars, the side altars, and the statues were cleaned and restored.

( Vatican City ) 1951 ; the results were assessed in Roger T. O ' Callaghan, " Recent Excavations underneath the Vatican Crypts ", in The Biblical Archaeologist 12 ( 1949: 1-23 ) and " Vatican Excavations and the Tomb of Peter ", The Biblical Archaeologist 16. 4 ( December 1953: 70-87 ).</ ref > Construction of Constantine's Old St. Peter's Basilica and of foundations for Bernini's Baldacchino destroyed most of the vaulting of these semi-subterranean burial chambers.

Bernini's Baldacchino in St Peter's, Rome

The surname Baldacchino comes from the artisans who used to make the Baldachin.

* Baldacchino, Godfrey, Extreme Tourism: Lessons from the World's Cold Water Islands ( Elsevier Science: 2006 ) pp. 121 – 122

Baldacchino.

These include Pawlu Seychell l-Għannej ( 1907 – 1992 ), Pawlu Degabriele il-Bies ( 1908 – 1980 ), Mikiel Abela il-Bambinu ( 1920 – 1991 ) and Frans Baldacchino il-Budaj ( 1943 – 2006 ).

Although the rule still applies, the visible fuselage " waisting " can only be seen on a few aircraft, such as the B-1B Lancer, Learjet 60, and the Tupolev Tu-160 ' Blackjack ' — the same effect is now achieved by careful positioning of aircraft components, like the boosters and cargo bay on rockets ; the jet engines in front of ( and not directly below ) the wings of the Airbus A380 ; the jet engines behind ( and not purely at the side of ) the fuselage of a Cessna Citation X ; the shape and location of the canopy on the F-22 Raptor ; and the image of the Airbus A380 above showing obvious area rule shaping at the wing root, which is practically invisible from any other angle.

Blodeuwedd found out from Lleu how he could be killed — with one foot on the back of a buck and the other on a bath of water, underneath a canopy, using a spear that had been made over the course of a year only on Sundays.

As the coup grows, the canopy closes and it becomes unsuitable for these animals again — but in an actively managed coppice there is always another recently cut coup nearby, and the populations therefore move around, following the coppice management.

Most similar canopy walks around the world are constructed using suspension bridge-type structures — not for the faint of heart.

Beneath the canopy walk there is a pathway around the Tingle trees for walkers — this is known as the ' Ancient Empire '.

The building was opened in 1854 and re-developed as an arcade in 1987, featuring a barrel vaulted stained glass canopy — the largest stained glass window in Britain — designed by Brian Clarke.

The canopy at the dais end of the Great Hall was destroyed — although part of it can still be seen in the north wall — when a floor was inserted and new rooms were formed with lath and plaster partitions.

Liriodendron trees are also easily recognized by their general shape, with the higher branches sweeping together in one direction, and they are also recognizable by their height, as the taller ones usually protrude above the canopy of oaks, maples, and other trees — more markedly with the American species.

The gliders appears to have evolved in the open forests of Australia — gliding membranes are an adaptation which aids mobility when the forest canopy is incomplete, and are of little use in rainforests — but now has representatives in New Guinea and many of the smaller islands nearby.

In New Zealand it is considered an invasive species and noxious weed, along with Lodgepole Pine — Pinus contorta and Scots Pine — Pinus sylvestris, due to their habitat conversion nature in tussock grassland plant communities, shading out the native bunch grasses as their forest canopy develops.

In late 1944, USAAF-marked P-51 Mustangs began to be assigned to CACW pilots — first P-51B and C models followed by, in early 1945, D and K models, which were reduced-weight versions sharing many of the external characteristics of the D model aircraft including the bubble canopy.

This entrance should be protected by some sort of canopy ( or an extension of the roof ) to reduce or eliminate the formation of dew on the landing platform — large drops of water will tend to trap early leaving bees until the water evaporates.

The state bed, a lit à la Duchesse — its canopy supported without visible posts — was delivered for the use of Queen Marie Leszczinska at Versailles, as the centrepiece of a new decor realized for the Queen in 1730 – 35.

A throne room is the room, often rather a hall, in the official residence of the crown, either a palace or a fortified castle, where the throne of a senior figure ( usually a monarch ) is set up with elaborate pomp — usually raised, often with steps, and under a canopy, both of which are part of the original notion of the Greek word thronos.

They feed upon — and are important long-range pollinators of — nectar-bearing flowers of the forest canopy, as well as terrestrial flowers, such as lantana.

The Black Heron has an interesting hunting method called canopy feeding — it uses its wings like an umbrella, and uses the shade it creates to attract fish.

Lincoln spent many hours a week talking to politicians from across the land and using his patronage powers — greatly expanded over peacetime — to hold the factions of his party together, build support for his own policies, and fend off efforts by Radicals to drop him from the 1864 ticket.

Developed by over 80 leading experts in the field, this call to action details what would be required to curtail amphibian declines and extinctions over the next 5 years — and how much this would cost.

Baker notes the uncanny way that both authors imply an ironic " justification by ownership " over the subject of sacrificing children — Tertullian while attacking pagan parents, and Swift while attacking the English mistreatment of the Irish poor.

) While Rotokas has a small alphabet because it has few phonemes to represent ( just eleven ), Book Pahlavi was small because many letters had been conflated — that is, the graphic distinctions had been lost over time, and diacritics were not developed to compensate for this as they were in Arabic, another script that lost many of its distinct letter shapes.

In the mid-1870s, a form of amplitude modulation — initially called " undulatory currents "— was the first method to successfully produce quality audio over telephone lines.

The practice of commendation, by which — to meet a contemporary emergency — the revenues of the community were handed over to a lay lord, in return for his protection,

) After the dispute over Arianism became politicized and a general solution to the divisiveness was sought — with a great majority holding to the Trinitarian position — the Arian position was officially declared heterodox.

Abbesses are, like abbots, major superiors according to canon law, the equivalents of abbots or bishops ( the ordained male members of the church hierarchy who have, by right of their own office, executive jurisdiction over a building, diocesan territory, or a communal or non-communal group of persons — juridical entities under church law ).

When a character in Aristophanes ' Knights says, " I dreamed the goddess poured ambrosia over your head — out of a ladle ," the homely and realistic ladle brings the ineffable moment to ground with a thump.

The warning — a result of violent activity springing from Mexico's drug cartel debacle — took college campuses by storm, with some schools going so far as to warn their students about the risks of travel to Mexico over spring break.

* 378, Battle of Argentovaria — Western Emperor Gratianus is victorious over the Alemanni, yet again.

The Ainu were becoming increasingly marginalized on their own land — over a period of only 36 years, the Ainu went from being a relatively isolated group of people to having their land, language, religion and customs assimilated into those of the Japanese.

However, Sargon took this process further, conquering many of the surrounding regions to create an empire that reached westward as far as the Mediterranean Sea and perhaps Cyprus ( Kaptara ); northward as far as the mountains ( a later Hittite text asserts he fought the Hattite king Nurdaggal of Burushanda, well into Anatolia ); eastward over Elam ; and as far south as Magan ( Oman ) — a region over which he reigned for purportedly 56 years, though only four " year-names " survive.

By terms of the treaty, moreover, Alfred was to have control over the Mercian city of London and its mints — at least for the time being.

Of these three bodies it is the assembly and the courts that were the true sites of power — although courts, unlike the assembly, were never simply called the demos ( the People ) as they were manned by a subset of the citizen body, those over thirty.

He was essentially a theorist, and his great merit lay in the capacity of taking over experimental work that others had carried out — without always adequately recognizing their claims — and by a rigorous logical procedure, reinforced by his own quantitative experiments, of expounding the true explanation of the results.

During the crossing, the river grew dry as soon as the feet of the priests carrying the Ark touched its waters, and remained so until the priests — with the Ark — left the river after the people had passed over ( Josh.

Lincoln was a master politician, bringing together — and holding together — all the main factions of the Republican Party, and bringing in War Democrats such as Edwin M. Stanton and Andrew Johnson as well.

In 2010, the main macro deficiencies of the Armenian economy — namely, unsustainable growth drivers, a narrow and resource-dominated export base, and overdependence on private transfers — were still prevalent.

In reality, this goal was divided into three main efforts — to prepare for future invasion, to seek revenge against Persia, and to organize a means of dividing spoils of war.

Albion's historic brick main street — first laid in 1903 and reconstructed with hand-laid, kiln-fired clay bricks in 1993.

But time and the investigations of subsequent explorers have shown that Abbadie was quite trustworthy as to his facts, though wrong in his contention — hotly contested by Beke — that the Blue Nile was the main stream.

This bond lies outside the main C — C axis, with half of the bond on one side and half on the other.

With the ruse thus revealed, the main characters run for their lives, resulting in a madcap chase across the stage with both Miles and Senex pursuing all three " Philia " s ( Domina, Hysterium, and the actual Philia — all wearing identical white robes and veils ).

Atlanta ’ s tree coverage does not go unnoticed — it was the main reason cited by ‘‘ National Geographic ’’ in naming Atlanta a " Place of a Lifetime.

Euskara Batua was created so that Basque language could be used — and easily understood by all Basque speakers — in formal situations ( education, mass media, literature ), and this is its main use nowadays.

Much of biochemistry deals with the structures, functions and interactions of cellular components such as proteins, carbohydrates, lipids, nucleic acids and other biomolecules — although increasingly processes rather than individual molecules are the main focus.

The main adverse effects are keloids — large, raised scars.

By the summer of 1944, victories in the Southwest and Central Pacific had brought the war closer to Japan, with American bombers able to strike at the Japanese main islands from air bases secured during the Mariana Islands campaign ( June — August 1944 ).

The biotechnology sector has allowed the U. S. farming industry to rapidly increase its supply of corn and soybeans — the main inputs into biofuels — by developing genetically modified seeds which are resistant to pests and drought.

Broadway then runs past the proposed uptown campus of Columbia University, and the main campus of CUNY — City College ; the beautiful Gothic buildings of the original City College campus are out of sight, a block to the east.

In 1912, differences between the two main groups of the Narodna Odbrana — political leaders of the Radical Party and military officers — arose.

Importance was given to instrumental music — the main kinds were sonata, trio, string quartet, symphony, concerto, serenade and divertimento.

Allende had two main competitors in the election — Radomiro Tomic, representing the incumbent Christian Democratic party, who ran a left-wing campaign with much the same theme as Allende's, and the right-wing former president Jorge Alessandri.

In 1840 he qualified as university lecturer in theology with a dissertation on the recensions of the New Testament text — the main part of which reappeared the following year in the prolegomena to his first edition of the Greek New Testament.

Three of the five main Crux stars — Acrux, Mimosa, and Delta Crucis — are co-moving B-type members of the Scorpius-Centaurus Association, the nearest OB association to the Sun.