Wuppertal is known for its steep slopes, its woods and parks, and its suspension railway, the Wuppertal Schwebebahn.

One of the city ’ s greatest attractions is the suspended monorail ( Wuppertaler Schwebebahn ), which was established in 1901.

It is located close to Standseilbahn Dresden funicular railway and the world's oldest suspension railway Schwebebahn Dresden, as well as near the Dresden TV tower.

The monorail is similar to the Schwebebahn Wuppertal, but has rubber tires rather than steel wheels.

The Schwebebahn Dresden is one of the oldest suspension railways — a kind of hanging monorail — in the world, having opened in 1901.

Despite its unusual suspended format, the Dresden Schwebebahn is operated as a conventional funicular railway.

The Schwebebahn is one of two funicular railways in Dresden, the other being the much more conventional Standseilbahn Dresden.

Wuppertal Schwebebahn or Wuppertal Floating Tram is a suspension railway in Wuppertal, Germany.

Its full name is " Electric Elevated Railway Installation ( Floating Tram ), Eugen Langen System " ( Anlage einer elektrischen Hochbahn ( Schwebebahn ), System Eugen Langen ).

The Schwebebahn is still in use today as a normal means of local public transport, moving 25 million passengers annually ( 2008 ).

The Schwebebahn is both subject and title of video work by the Turner Prize-nominated artist Darren Almond.

Produced in 1995, Schwebebahn is the first of three videos that constitute his Train Trilogy.

The railway is one of two funicular railways in Dresden, the other being the unusual Schwebebahn Dresden, a suspended monorail.

Rüdiger Vogler and Yella Rottländer use images of the Schwebebahn in Wim Wenders ’ s 1974 movie Alice in the Cities ( Alice in den Städten ).

During the 1890s there was some interest in suspension railways, particularly in Germany, with the Schwebebahn Dresden, ( 1891 -) and the Wuppertal Schwebebahn ( 1901 ).

The Victorian love of anagramming as recreation is alluded to by Augustus De Morgan using his own name as example ; " Great Gun, do us a sum!

* Salieri's supposed hatred for Mozart is also alluded to in a spoof opera entitled A Little Nightmare Music, by P. D. Q.

The latter etymology was first suggested by John Mitchell Kemble who alluded that " of six manuscripts in which this passage occurs, one only reads Bretwalda: of the remaining five, four have Bryten-walda or-wealda, and one Breten-anweald, which is precisely synonymous with Brytenwealda "; that Æthelstan was called brytenwealda ealles ðyses ealondes, which Kemble translates as " ruler of all these islands "; and that bryten-is a common prefix to words meaning ' wide or general dispersion ' and that the similarity to the word bretwealh (' Briton ') is " merely accidental ".

The Book of Chronicles is alluded to, though not directly quoted, in the New Testament ( Hebrews 5: 4 ; Matthew 12: 42 ; 23: 35 ; Luke 1: 5 ; 11: 31, 51 ).

" The adversary " occurs in the framing story alone — he is never clearly alluded to in the central poem.

The British Statute of Anne ( 1710 ) further alluded to individual rights of the artist, beginning: " Whereas Printers, Booksellers, and other Persons, have of late frequently taken the Liberty of Printing ... Books, and other Writings, without the Consent of the Authors ... to their very great Detriment, and too often to the Ruin of them and their Families :" A right to benefit financially from the work is articulated, and court rulings and legislation have recognized a right to control the work, such as ensuring that the integrity of it is preserved.

The story of the Latin king Picus is told in the fifth episode ( and also alluded to in the Aeneid ).

The application of the catenary to the construction of arches is attributed to Robert Hooke, whose " true mathematical and mechanical form " in the context of the rebuilding of St Paul's Cathedral alluded to a catenary.

The story of Hanukkah is alluded to in the book of 1 Maccabees and 2 Maccabees.

A story similar in character, and obviously older in date, is the one alluded to in 2 Maccabees 1: 18 et seq according to which the relighting of the altar fire by Nehemiah was due to a miracle which occurred on the 25th of Kislev, and which appears to be given as the reason for the selection of the same date for the rededication of the altar by Judah Maccabee.

In Biblical myth, the archetype is alluded to in the descendants of Adam crushing the head of the Serpent, and in Christian mythology, this was interpreted as corresponding to Christ as the " New Adam " crushing the Devil.

The story of the reinterment of Sterne's skull in Coxwold is alluded to in Malcolm Bradbury's novel To The Hermitage.

The casino is alluded to in the ABBA song Money, Money, Money.

In many regions, Nasreddin is a major part of the culture, and is quoted or alluded to frequently in daily life.

What is known about the easternmost satraps and borderlands of the Achaemenid Empire are alluded to in the Darius inscriptions and from Greek sources such as the Histories of Herodotus and the later Alexander Chronicles ( Arrian, Strabo et al .).

Another case alluded to in the Torcaso v. Watkins footnote, and said by some to have established secular humanism as a religion under the law, is the 1957 tax case of Washington Ethical Society v. District of Columbia, 249 F. 2d 127 ( D. C. Cir.

This is alluded to in their name, derived from the Greek words tetra meaning " four " and odous meaning " tooth " and the Latin forma meaning " shape ".

The existence and founding of the organization is also alluded to, in the third novel, The Indigo King.

* Trimalchio's Feast is alluded to in the short story " Toga Party " by John Barth, which was included in The Best American Short Stories 2007, in reference to Tom and Patsy Hardison's lavish toga party.

" The theme is hinted at in the play's ironic title, and " earnestness " is repeatedly alluded to in the dialogue, Algernon says in Act II, " one has to be serious about something if one is to have any amusement in life " but goes on to reproach Jack for ' being serious about everything '".

Active warfare is raging between the forces pressing for a monument to the first Roosevelt on Theodore Roosevelt Island in the Potomac, and TR.'s own living children, who wish to preserve the island as a wildlife sanctuary.

Mrs. Stanley Wright is ticket chairman and Mrs. Theodore Pate is in charge of publicity.

Mrs. Theodore Kapnek is vice chairman of the committee for the gala.

He was taught by Theodore Beza, Calvin's hand-picked successor, but after examination of the Scriptures, he rejected his teacher's theology that it is God who unconditionally elects some for salvation.

* 1996 – Suspected " Unabomber " Theodore Kaczynski is arrested at his cabin in Montana, United States.

* 1937 – Theodore Cole and Ralph Roe attempt to escape from the American federal prison on Alcatraz Island in San Francisco Bay ; neither is ever seen again.

** Matilda in The Castle of Otranto – She is determined to give up Theodore, the love of her life, for her cousin ’ s sake.

** Theodore in The Castle of Otranto – he is witty, and successfully challenges the tyrant, saves the virginal maid without expectations

** Theodore in The Romance of the Forest – saves Adeline multiple times, is virtuous, courageous and brave, self-sacrificial

Hay is also known for his comment, written in a letter to President Theodore Roosevelt, describing the Spanish – American War as a " splendid little war ".

In the Aramaic book of Enoch, in the Qumran writings in general, and in the original Syriac section of Manichaean scriptures quoted by Theodore bar Konai, he is called " malka raba de-ikara " ( the great king of glory ).

In every language and region that Manichaeism spread to, these same deities reappear, whether it is in the original Syriac quoted by Theodore bar Konai, or the Latin terminology given by Saint Augustine from Mani's Epistola Fundamenti, or the Persian and Chinese translations found as Manichaeism spread eastward.

* 1906 – Theodore Roosevelt is the first sitting President of the United States to make an official trip outside the country.

* 1967 – American physicist Theodore Maiman is given a patent for his ruby laser systems, the world's first laser.

* 1912 – While campaigning in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, the former President of the United States, Theodore Roosevelt, is shot and mildly wounded by John Schrank, a mentally-disturbed saloon keeper.

Theodore Dalrymple wrote in 2010 that Singerian moral universalism is " preposterous — psychologically, theoretically, and practically ".

Dionysius ' authenticity is criticized later in the century, and defended by Theodore of Raithu ; and by the 7th century, it is taken as demonstrated, affirmed by both Maximus the Confessor and the 649 Lateran Council.

He was a heretic, not in intention, but in fact ; and he is to be considered to have been condemned in the sense in which Origen and Theodore of Mopsuestia, who died in Catholic communion, never having resisted the Church, have been condemned.

This theory, proposed by Theodore Meliteniotes, could be correct, but it is late ( ca.

The basis of turntablism and its best known technique is scratching, pioneered by Grand Wizzard Theodore.

Ralph Merkle is the grandnephew of baseball star Fred Merkle, the son of Theodore Charles Merkle, director of Project Pluto and the brother of Judith Merkle Riley, a historical writer.

* 1901 – President of the United States William McKinley dies after an assassination attempt on September 6, and is succeeded by Theodore Roosevelt.

" Left to right is 3rd US Cavalry, 1st Volunteer Cavalry ( Col. Theodore Roosevelt center ) and 10th US Cavalry.