Almost two thousand years after it was built, the Pantheon's dome is still the world's largest unreinforced concrete dome.

Some have gone so far as to describe the Pantheon's form as " perhaps the most influential ... in Western Europe ", and it is held as a " symbol of the highest architectural excellence ".

As you pause in the piazza by the Egyptian obelisk brought from the Temple of Isis, you will admire the Pantheon's impressive Corinthian columns.

When the building was designed in the previous century, no one had any idea about how such a dome was to be built, given that it was to be even larger than the Pantheon's dome in Rome and that no dome of that size had been built since antiquity.

Cassius Dio, a Graeco-Roman senator, consul and author of a comprehensive History of Rome, writing approximately 75 years after the Pantheon's reconstruction, mistakenly attributed the domed building to Agrippa rather than Hadrian.

Pope Urban VIII ( 1623 to 1644 ) ordered the bronze ceiling of the Pantheon's portico melted down.

The grey granite columns that were actually used in the Pantheon's pronaos were quarried in Egypt at Mons Claudianus in the eastern mountains.

In the walls at the back of the Pantheon's portico are niches, perhaps intended for statues of Julius Caesar, Augustus Caesar, and Agrippa, or for the Capitoline Triad, or another set of gods.

The original early 19th-century interior designs, many of which still survive, included widespread use of brightly coloured scagliola and blue and pink lapis, on the advice of Sir Charles Long.

In the interior of Borneo are also the Penan, some of who still practice a nomadic hunter-gatherer existence.

In 1853, gold was discovered in the interior, precipitating border disputes with Brazil and Suriname ( these were later settled in 1891, 1899 and 1915, though a small region of the border with Suriname is still disputed ).

Since the World War II, copper and plastic piping has replaced galvanized piping for interior drinking water service, but galvanized steel pipes are still used in outdoor applications where mechanical strength is required.

Julian not wanting to give up what he had gained and probably still hoping for the arrival of the column under Procopius and Sebastianus, set off east into the Persian interior, ordering the destruction of the fleet.

The central highlands are both drier and cooler while the west is drier still, and a semi-arid climate prevails in the southwest and southern interior of the island.

In the Viking Age Mälaren was still a bay of the Baltic Sea, and seagoing vessels could sail up it far into the interior of Sweden.

Glass Moonshine slides are made of glass, but have a porous ceramic interior that helps prevent slipping ; other slides have been designed to reduce the weight of brass or porcelain slides by using a lightweight interior, while still others are made of glass on the front and of metal on the back to allow easy switching.

Developed under the leadership of AMC's François Castaing and marketed to urban families as a substitute for a traditional car ( and especially station wagons, which were still fairly popular at the time ), the Chrerokee had four-wheel drive in a more manageable size ( compared to the full-size Wagoneer ), as well as a plush interior resembling a station wagon.

His careful selection of materials, passion for craftsmanship and use of ' Raumplan '-- the considered ordering and size of interior spaces based on function — are still admired today.

The males ' only tasks are to mate with the females while still within the fig syconium and to chew a hole for the females to escape from the fig interior.

It had been thought that these bright areas might be material ejected from ice volcanoes early in Rhea's history when its interior was still liquid.

The church interior was once totally frescoed by Byzantine artists: fragments of these paintings, portraying the Histories of Christ, can be still seen in the two side apses.

In 1881 Tiffany did the interior design of the Mark Twain House in Hartford, Connecticut, which still remains, but the new firm's most notable work came in 1882 when President Chester Alan Arthur refused to move into the White House until it had been redecorated.

The sawtooth roof's lighting concept partially reduces the summer " solar furnace " skylight problem, but still allows warm interior air to rise and touch the exterior roof glass in the cold winter, with significant undesirable heat transfer.

The theatre underwent massive phased remodeling of both interior and exterior, initially while the house was still open, but production activities ceased at the end of October 2006 to allow full refurbishment.

However, the interior of Languedoc is still losing inhabitants, which increases the difference of density that was mentioned.

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Though unexciting on the outside, its interior is still today, a fine example of this type of architecture, and CAMRA has placed it in its National Inventory of Pub Interiors of Outstanding Historic Interest.

The other theatre was the Theatre Royal Haymarket ( 1821 ), with its fine hexastyle Corinthian order portico, which still survives, facing down Charles II Street to St. James's Square, Nash's interior nolonger survives ( the interior now dates from 1904 ).

The city's Victorian-era courthouse was originally built in 1903 and still maintains the exterior character, despite necessary refurbishments to the interior offices and courtroom.

The historic Sebree Deposit Bank ( c. 1890 ) is still in operation with a refurbished interior including a marble floor.

A square inscribed in a curve C means a square with its four corner points on the curve, though it may not lie entirely in the interior of C.

The restless earth and its interior

In the wood frog ( Rana sylvatica ), the interior of the globular egg cluster has been found to be up to 6 ° C ( 11 ° F ) warmer than its surroundings which is an advantage in its cool northern habitat.

It had been painted a dreary brown and many of its interior color schemes had been abandoned or allowed to deteriorate, but it has since been restored and many of the original colors revived.

He led tours of its interior through December 17, 2010.

Abdera was a wealthy city, the third richest in the League, due to its status as a prime port for trade with the interior of Thrace and the Odrysian kingdom.

The well-watered north of the continent is often called the " Top End " and the arid interior " The Red Centre ", owing to its vast amounts of red soil and sparse greenery amongst its landscape.

A sparsely populated, arid country, Botswana has nonetheless managed to incorporate much of its interior into the national economy.

Brain tissue in its natural state is too soft to work with, but it can be hardened by immersion in alcohol or other fixatives, and then sliced apart for examination of the interior.

Despite its invisible interior, the presence of a black hole can be inferred through its interaction with other matter and with light and other electromagnetic radiation.

The interior of the nucleus does not contain any membrane-bound subcompartments, its contents are not uniform, and a number of subnuclear bodies exist, made up of unique proteins, RNA molecules, and particular parts of the chromosomes.

The British Churchill tank because of its good cross-country performance and capacious interior with side hatches became the most adapted with modifications, the base unit being the AVRE carrying a large demolition gun.

France's priorities were in settling and strengthening its claim on New France and the exploration and settlement of interior North America and the Mississippi River valley.

* A circle circumscribing any Delaunay triangle does not contain any other input points in its interior.

* If a circle passing through two of the input points doesn't contain any other of them in its interior, then the segment connecting the two points is an edge of a Delaunay triangulation of the given points.

This is the operating principal of the Faraday cage, a conducting metal shell which isolates its interior from outside electrical effects.

Therefore, earthquakes lower the Earth's available elastic potential energy and raise its temperature, though these changes are negligible compared to the conductive and convective flow of heat out from the Earth's deep interior.

# Disturbed natural forest – Any forest type above that has in its interior significant areas of disturbance by people, including clearing, felling for wood extraction, anthropogenic fires, road construction, etc.

# Disturbed natural forest – Any forest type above that has in its interior significant areas of disturbance by people, including clearing, felling for wood extraction, anthropogenic fires, road construction, etc.

Much of the interior, with its large plains, lavascapes and volcanic mountains, consists of protected areas, although there are organised tours and vehicular access across them.

In its first stage, completed in 1983, the project linked the port of Owendo with the interior city of Booué ( 332 km ).