Northern Celestial Hemisphere & North Circumpolar Region:

* the North Celestial Pole, a point on the Northern Hemisphere, directly above the geographic North Pole, around which the stars appear to revolve.

The two most famous sites are Tiandishan (" Celestial Ladder Mountain "), which was south of the Northern Liang capital at Yongcheng, and Wenshushan (" Manjusri's Mountain "), halfway between Yongcheng and Dunhuang.

The top two stars in the Northern Cross, Sadr and Deneb, point to the north Celestial pole of Mars.

Kou Qianzhi ( 365 – 448 ), the founder of the Northern Celestial Masters received revelations there, as did Chen Tuan ( 920 – 989 ), who spent the last part of his life in hermitage on the west peak.

* A smaller figure, next to the man, sitting on a chair ; as it is near the pole star, it may be seen by observers in the Northern Hemisphere through the whole year, although sometimes upside down ( the constellation Cassiopeia )

As seen from locations in the Earth's Northern Hemisphere, celestial objects with declinations greater than 90 ° − ( where = observer's latitude ) appear to circle daily around the celestial pole without dipping below the horizon, and are therefore called circumpolar stars.

An extreme example is the pole star which has a declination near to + 90 °, so is circumpolar as seen from anywhere in the Northern Hemisphere except very close to the equator.

* In the Northern and Southern pole regions of the Earth aurorae will be observable in the sky.

A relatively inconspicuous star in the night sky of the Northern Hemisphere, it is historically significant as having been the north pole star in ancient times.

Category: Northern pole stars

Northern hemisphere summer occurs at the right side of this diagram, where the north pole ( red ) is directed toward the Sun, winter at the left.

One of the last track and field events to develop was the pole vault, which stemmed from competitions such as the Fierljeppen contests in the Northern European Lowlands in the 18th century.

While observers in the Northern hemisphere can use the star Polaris to determine the Northern celestial pole, there is no corresponding " southern pole star ".

Category: Northern pole stars

Category: Northern pole stars

Northern pole of inaccessibility

He was killed in practice for Craigantlet hillclimb in Northern Ireland after his Pilbeam's front wing failed and he hit a telegraph pole.

From the vantage of the Northern Hemisphere of Earth, the pole star is apt because day or night it is always in the sky, hence constant, immutable and fixed, but not necessarily visible.

Steel utility pole in Darwin, Northern Territory | Darwin, Australia.

They are traditionally found in stilt and pole dwellings such as fishermen's huts in Asia and Scandinavia using wood and in elevated houses such as Old Queenslanders in Australia's tropical Northern state, though they are in this case classified as " stumps ".

The political situation on Terra Nova has three major nations of the north polar region banding together to form their alliance called the Confederated Northern City-States to oppose the Allied Southern Territories from the south pole.

The Bourbon economic philosophy, moreover, is not very different from that of Northern conservatives.

Obviously, such a Northern tourist's purpose is somewhat akin to a child's experience with Disneyland: he wants to see a world of make-believe.

Most of these would be in the Northern Hemisphere, where the fallout is concentrating.

Still existing on a `` Northern Union '' telegraph form is a typical peremptory message from Peru grocer J. J. Hapgood to Burton and Graves' store in Manchester -- `` Get and send by stage four pounds best Porterhouse or serloin stake, for Mrs. Hapgood send six sweet oranges ''.

Today Northern Vietnam is overtly Communist ; ;

This is not due to any policy of discrimination on the part of the Northern universities.

and that they can ignore what is happening in Northern cities because what is happening in Little Rock or Birmingham is worse.

In England, Wales, Northern Ireland and Australia, arraignment is the first of eleven stages in a criminal trial, and involves the clerk of the court reading out the indictment.

The region north of this circle is known as the Arctic, and the zone just to the south is called the Northern Temperate Zone.

While strong forms of the various dialects are not normally fully comprehensible to Northern Germans, communication is much easier in Bavaria, especially rural areas, where Bavarian dialect still predominates as the mother tongue.

The town's name is attested as Aisincurt in 1175, derived from a Germanic masculine name Aizo, Aizino and the early Northern French word curt ' farm with a courtyard ' ( Late Latin cortem ).

April ( ) is commonly associated with the season of spring in the Northern hemisphere and autumn in the Southern hemisphere, where it is the seasonal equivalent to October in the Northern hemisphere and vice versa.

* Liberation Day in Italy-April 25 is a National Holiday that celebrates the end of the Nazi Germany occupation in the Northern Italy.

In the Southern Hemisphere, August is the seasonal equivalent of February in the Northern Hemisphere.

* 461 – Majorian is arrested near Tortona ( Northern Italy ) and deposed by the Suebian general Ricimer as puppet emperor.

The Northern Hemisphere is considered to be halfway through its summer and the Southern Hemisphere halfway through its winter on this day.

The Battle of Qarqar is mentioned in extra-biblical records, and was perhaps at Apamea where Shalmaneser III of Assyria fought a great confederation of princes from Cilicia, Northern Syria, Israel, Ammon, and the tribes of the Syrian desert ( 853 BC ), including Ahab ( A-ha-ab-bu < sup > mat </ sup >) ( Adad -' idri ).

under secction 7 ( 1 )( a ), but that section has been superseded by section 66 ( 1 ) of the Police ( Northern Ireland ) Act 1998 ( c. 32 ) which now provides that it is an offence for a person to, amongst other things, assault a constable in the execution of his duty, or a person assisting a constable in the execution of his duty.

Stuart is assigned command of all the cavalry of the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia.