High quality Roquefort comes from the brebis ( sheep ) on the Larzac plateau.

The Serbian High Command, in its pre-war wargames, had concluded that the likeliest site of the decisive battle against the Ottoman Vardar Army would be on the Ovče Pole plateau, before Skopje.

With the awakening of public interest in Tibet, the Pamirs, " since 1875 ... probably the best explored region in High Asia ", went out of the limelight and the description " Roof of the World " has been increasingly applied to Tibet and the Tibetan plateau, and occasionally, esp.

Eltham Hill offers the steepest descent from the plateau to sea-level, starting at Eltham High Street and ending due west at the Yorkshire Grey ( now a McDonald's outlet ).

In common with the High Priest's abode in The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath, the walls of the buildings atop the plateau are covered with detailed frescos that are disturbing to read.

Consisting as it does of a weathered plateau divided by deep gorges, the High Plains region provided natural paddocks.

At the northern edge of the plateau a further wind shelter marks the descent to the mountain rescue stretcher-box and the High Level Route.

On 21 – 22 November 1971, five pupils from Ainslie Park High School in Edinburgh and a trainee instructor from Newcastle-under-Lyme died in a blizzard at Feith Buidhe on the Cairn Gorm plateau.

In addition to purely canal traffic, there was a lively freight interchange with the Cromford and High Peak Railway, which traversed the plateau of the Peak District from Whaley Bridge in the north west, and which descended to the canal at High Peak Junction by means of an inclined plane.

The High Fens (; ; ), which were declared a nature reserve in 1957, are an upland area, a plateau region in the province of Liège, in the east of Belgium and adjoining parts of Germany, between the Ardennes and the Eifel highlands.

Situated in one of the quieter areas of the Lakes, the High Street range has quite gentle slopes with a flat summit plateau.

South of Victory Boulevard, the altitude gradually increases, and the south end of the neighborhood is situated on a high plateau ( sometimes referred to as Manor Heights ) where can be found Susan Wagner High School ; opened in 1968, the school is named for the wife of former New York City mayor Robert Wagner, and was built to meet the increased demand for classroom space caused by the population growth that accompanied the opening of the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge a few years earlier — growth that has seen Staten Island's population skyrocket from 212, 020 in 1957 to 459, 737 by 2003.

The summit itself, which is also known as High White Stones due to a smattering of grey boulders in the vicinity of the highest point, has an Ordnance Survey column and a large cairn which also doubles as a wind shelter ; a ruined fence also crosses the summit plateau.

These picturesque craggy heights form the parapet of High Raise's southern plateau, standing atop the valley wall and the centrepiece of many views.

Bernese German is the dialect of High Alemannic German spoken in the Swiss plateau ( Mittelland ) part of the canton of Bern and in some neighbouring regions.

Another plateau is home to Rigobert Landji High School, the largest high school in the city.

Called the flax capital, the town is situated at the centre of the Pays de Caux, the chalk plateau in High Normandy and one widely known for its fields of blue-flowered flax.

North of Dollywaggon Pike the ridge narrows and then steps up over High Crag to the plateau top of Nethermost Pike.

The driest regions of the plateau are in the lee of the High Jura between Morges and Neuchâtel.

In large churches where they were celebrated the services were usually grouped ; e. g. Matins and Lauds ( about 7. 30 A. M .); Prime, Terce ( High Mass ), Sext, and None ( about 10 A. M .); Vespers and Compline ( 4 P. M .); and from four to eight hours ( depending on the amount of music and the number of high masses ) are thus spent in choir.

* Canterbury High School ( disambiguation ), numerous high schools named thus

High tech titanium heads are lighter and allow for longer handles, thus increasing velocity and delivering more energy with less arm fatigue than that of a steel head hammer of the same weight.

The " difficulty " of English as a written language thus began in the High Middle Ages, when French orthographic conventions were used to spell a language whose original, more suitable orthography had been forgotten after centuries of nonuse.

High voltage is momentarily applied to the metal plate, thus creating an exposure.

The mediaeval period thus is the mid-time of the traditional division of Western history into Classical, Medieval, and Modern periods ; moreover, the Middle Ages usually is divided into the Early Middle Ages, the High Middle Ages, and the Late Middle Ages.

For example High School age poets only, or Women poets only may be allowed to participate in a particular slam, and thus it might encourage poets from those demographics to feel more confident in participating in a poetry slam for the first time.

High temperatures allow the atoms and ions in solid crystals to migrate, thus reorganizing the crystals, while high pressures cause solution of the crystals within the rock at their point of contact.

The family's perhaps most prominent lineage comes from Norway, where at least three of his ancestors have been that country's leaders in a position comparable with a modern prime minister: in 16th century, his ancestor Nils Henriksson av Østråt ( Gyldenløve ) served as Lord High Steward of Norway and another ancestor, Vincents Vincentson Lunge, as Viceroy of the kingdom of Norway ; and then in 17th century, yet another ancestor, Jens Ovesonn Bjelke served as Lord High Chancellor of Norway, and was himself descended from king Haakon V of Norway ( the king and his forefathers thus also being Bildt's ancestors ) through his daughter Agnes Hakonardottir, Dame of Borgarsyssel.

Furthermore, cotton farmers left fields bare over winter months, when winds in the High Plains are highest, and burned the stubble as a means to control weeds prior to planting, thus depriving the soil of organic nutrients and surface vegetation.

1196 / 1207 – 9 April 1241 ), of the Silesian line of the Piast dynasty was Duke of Silesia at Wrocław and Duke of Kraków and thus High Duke of all Poland as well as Duke of Southern Greater Poland from 1238 until his death.

High shear wet granulation processes use equipment that mixes the powder and liquid at a very fast rate, and thus speeds up the manufacturing process.

Although it was a commercial flop, the film broke stylistic ground by being more focused and less visually ambitious – and thus easier to emulate on a tight budget – than either RHPS or Ken Russell's 1975 adaptation of The Who's music and storyline from the album Tommy, or even a lower-budget affair like The Ramones ' Rock ' n ' Roll High School ( 1979 ).

Hampton High School traces its origin to the Syms-Eaton school and thus lays claim to being the oldest public school in the United States.

In November 2006, the Twin Falls School Board selected " Riverhawks ," thus officially giving birth to the Canyon Ridge High School Riverhawks.

The field was located at Statesville Senior High School and thus named Senior High Stadium.

Burlington's school district merged with Des Lacs ' school district in the late ' 60s to form United Public School District 7 ( United Public School District 7 ), thus Des Lacs High School now serves students living Burlington, and Burlington School the Elementary.

The original Frazeysburg High School building was built in the early 1900s, with the sports teams known as the Red Raiders ( thus the reason state route 16 in northwest Muskingum County is named Raiders Road ).

Union High School is on the east end of town and straddles the borders of Duchesne County and Uintah County, thus the name " Union ".

Regardless of their type, all Gohonzon issued by Nichiren Shoshu have been consecrated by one of the successive High Priests in an " Opening of the Eyes Ceremony ", conducted in the Dai-Gohonzon's sanctuary, and thus have the same power, as defined by Nichiren Daishonin himself in his Gosho " The Four Debts of Gratitude ".

( When thus defined, shamanism tends to occur in its purest forms in hunting and pastoral societies like those of Siberia and Central Asia, which revere a celestial High God " on the way to becoming a deus otiosus ".

Fortuna, the Roman goddess of fate or luck, was popular as an allegory in medieval times, and even though it was not strictly reconcilable with Christian theology, it became popular in learned circles of the High Middle Ages to portray her as a servant of God in distributing success or failure in a characteristically " fickle " or unpredictable way, thus introducing the notion of chance.

Under modern conventions, the office of Lord High Steward is only filled on the day of a new monarch's coronation ; thus, at all other times, the Lord Chancellor remains the highest ranking Great Officer.