Sterntor ( star gate ), a reconstruction of a gate of the medieval city wall

This led to the addition of the number sign (#, sometimes called ' octothorpe ,' ' pound ' or ' diamond ' in this context-' hash ' or ' gate ' in the UK ) and asterisk or " star " (*) keys as well as a group of keys for menu selection: A, B, C and D. In the end, the lettered keys were dropped from most phones, and it was many years before these keys became widely used for vertical service codes such as * 67 in the United States of America and Canada to suppress caller ID.

Besides the lions on her gate, her symbol is an eight-pointed star.

In the time of Frederick William ( 1688 ), shortly after the Thirty Years ' war and a century before the gate was constructed, Berlin was a small walled city within a star fort with several named gates: Spandauer Tor, St. Georgen Tor, Stralower Tor, Cöpenicker Tor, Neues Tor, and Leipziger Tor ( see map ).

The artifact is a wormhole gate that allows instantaneous transport to an outer area of the Sanction star system where an ancient Martian warship is adrift.

Another tradition has it that one could destroy a witch by going to her house on November 1, and marking a star on the gate.

The first ( southernmost ) gate is named " Lingxing Gate " after a star in the Great Bear constellation, the name suggests that Confucius is a star from heaven.

Balen offers Kevin his morning star in recognition of his bravery and disappears through the gate.

In Exodus ( season 4 ), Carter uses a stargate to destroy a star by dialing the gate on P3W-451, the planet being consumed by a black hole ( originally discovered in A Matter of Time ), and launching the active stargate into the nearby star ; the resulting imbalance in mass causing the star to go supernova and destroy Apophis's fleet.

Due to the complex nature of their construction and the physics that they are based upon, in the official lore of the game, a jump gate must be placed between two stars of a star system with at least two stars-this makes " approximately one in every three " star systems unsuitable.

Its name reflected the GWR's westerly direction: ' the western star ' has no particular association with any specific star ( although Antares was the quarter guardian of the western gate in Persian ' royal star ' mythology ).

Most of the goddesses are specific to the Book of Gates, and do not appear elsewhere in Egyptian mythology, and so it has been suggested that the Book of Gates originated merely as a system for determining the time at night, with the goddess at each gate being a representation of the main star appearing during the hour.

Victory can be accomplished by sending a spaceship back to Earth, by building a quantum gate back to Earth, or by conquering the star system.

: The open gate, and the star of the sea, aid a fallen people,

He attempts to open the gate to the underworld when the returning evil star is closest to the Earth, but is killed by the combined efforts of Ayame, Sakon and Ryoma, the latter two however sacrifice their own lives for the victory.

One of the most famous involved star second baseman Napoleon Lajoie, who in 1901 went across town in Philadelphia from the National League Phillies to the American League Athletics.

One of the most famous involved star second baseman Napoleon Lajoie, who in 1901 went across town in Philadelphia from the National League Phillies to the American League Athletics.

Kronborg is a castle and star fortress in the town of Helsingør, Denmark.

* Bartolo " Buddy " Valastro Sr., whose son Bartolo " Buddy " Valastro Jr. is the star of the TLC network program Cake Boss, was born and raised in the main town of Lipari on the Island.

A local myth has it that the star and crescent were included in the town arms after the Ottoman Empire ( predecessor to the Republic of Turkey ) sent ships laden with food to Drogheda during the Irish famine.

Pavo was featured in country music star Alan Jackson's video for his hit song " Little Man ", lamenting the decline of small town America.

When Indiana claimed official statehood in 1816, Decatur's name was as well known and revered as any star or celebrity today, thus when the town of Decatur was founded in 1836 it took its name in honor of the war hero.

The town features four covered bridges, and was the home of theatrical trouper Denman Thompson, who gained a national reputation by his portrayal of the Yankee farmer, " Joshua Whitcomb ", star of his stage play The Old Homestead.

Top Gun star Kelly McGillis married her partner Melanie Leis in Collingswood in 2010, and the couple reside in town.

The leaning water tower still remains a popular target for cameras, and the town of Groom turns on a large colored star mounted on the top around Christmas time.

This town is famous for being the hometown of NFL star LaDainian Tomlinson.

The ring is a tin star provided with a hole at its centre, hanging from a ribbon strung above horseman's height across the street near the Cathedral, at which masked horsemen aim with their swords on steeds galloping at breath-taking speed, after being announced by trumpets and drums and having gathered pace down a route, covered with sand, snaking across the town centre.

( Basinger would lose the town to her partner in the deal, the pension fund of Chicago-based Ameritech Corp., in 1993 after being forced to file for bankruptcy when a California judge ordered her to pay $ 7. 4 million for refusing to honor a verbal contract to star in the film Boxing Helena.

Soon they reach a small town where an enormous man with a sheriff's star on his chest is seated outside his office, apparently trying to read a newspaper.

Sweet Bird of Youth is a 1959 play by Tennessee Williams which tells the story of a gigolo and drifter, Chance Wayne, who returns to his home town as the accompaniment of a faded movie star, Princess Kosmonopolis ( also known as Alexandra Del Lago ), whom he hopes to use to help him break into the movies.

The town of Bakersfield saw the rise of the Bakersfield sound as a reaction against Nashville, led by people like Buck Owens and future star Merle Haggard.

The town seemed to attract its fair share of celebrity openings, with shops and businesses opened by Frankie Vaughan, Benny Hill, Terry-Thomas, and the new cinema was opened by Hollywood star Lauren Bacall.

He married TV soap opera star Patricia Breslin in 1969, having previously been a well-known bachelor and man about town.

The town is stooped in athletic tradition, and has produced many star athletes.

The town is the home of the annual UK Boogie Woogie Festival, which in 2009 saw an appearance from veteran boogie woogie star Little Willie Littlefield.

When the traveling Buffalo Bill's Wild West show visits Cincinnati, Ohio (" Colonel Buffalo Bill "§), Frank Butler, the show's handsome, womanizing star (" I'm a Bad, Bad, Man "§), challenges anyone in town to a shooting match.

It is a four star luxury hotel which is just a short stroll from the centre of town.

In 2007 Claus-Peter Lumpp, whose restaurant " Bareiss " is the second three-star eatery in the town of Baiersbronn earned his third Michelin star.

People involved in the arts and born in the town include the actress Kathleen Harrison in 1892 ; Alfred Wainwright, author of the Pictorial Guides to the Lakeland Fells, in 1907 ; broadcaster Russell Harty in 1934 ; the internationally renowned Contemporary artist Ross Eccles in 1937, many of his paintings feature Blackburn and Lancashire scenes and landmarks ; the writer Josephine Cox in 1941 who set many of her novels in Lancashire ; the actor Anthony Valentine in 1939 ; the actor Michael Billington, star of UFO in 1941 ; actor Ian McShane in 1942 ; rock musician Tony Ashton in 1946 ; actor Jon Walmsley in 1956 ; film maker Michael Winterbottom in 1961 ; actor Steve Pemberton in 1967 ; actress Wendi Peters in 1968 ; actor / comedian Lee Mack in 1968 ; television host Debbie Travis ; author Tony O ' Neill in 1978 ; television presenter and documentary director Michael Gibson in 1980 ; and singer and actress Diana Vickers in 1991.

** Maritim Bonn, 5 star hotel and convention centre

It is located in a binary star system ( Gridlock ) within the constellation of Kasterborous ( Pyramids of Mars, Attack of the Cybermen and Voyage of the Damned ), at " galactic coordinates ten-zero-eleven-zero-zero by zero-two from galactic zero centre " ( Pyramids of Mars ( 1975 ), Full Circle ( 1980 ) and partially in " The Family of Blood " ( 2007 )), which is some 250 million light years away from Earth ( as stated in the 1996 Doctor Who television movie ).

In 1962, another of Geelong's star players, Alistair Lord won the Brownlow Medal playing in the centre.

Typical star densities in the centre of a cluster are about 1. 5 stars per cubic light year ; the stellar density near the sun is about 0. 003 stars per cubic light year.

Standard with the Manufacture Year 2006 ( MY06 ) Forester came with larger side mirrors with indicator lights, curtain airbags giving a 5 star safety rating, remodelled centre console and exterior with a new look nose, lights and bumpers and the rear lost the large Suburu badge under the rear window.

But Gretzky himself dispelled the rumor at the end of one grueling season with the Edmonton Oilers, in which he had suffered a mild concussion as a result of what writer Michael Benson called a " cheap shot " from Winnipeg Jets star centre Dale Hawerchuk.

Polaris, within a degree of the pole, is the single nearly-stationary star just to the right of the centre of this image.

Originally copper pipes were running directly from the brewery and, when in the 90s the brewery moved out of the city, Thor beer replaced the centre of a star with a giant tank.

By the modern definition, the term binary star is generally restricted to pairs of stars which revolve around a common centre of mass.

At the centre of the Crab Nebula are two faint stars, one of which is the star responsible for the existence of the nebula.

The national flag of Djibouti ( French: Drapeau de Djibouti ) features two equal horizontal bands of blue ( top ) and green with a white isosceles triangle based on the hoist side bearing a red, five-pointed star ( representing the areas Somalis live in the region ) in the centre.

Of note is the eight-pointed Garter star / Masonic Blazing Star in the centre of the floor with a painting of King Charles I in the background

In the centre of the floor in this room is positioned an eight-pointed star, a potential reference to the star of the Order of the Garter which was introduced by King Charles I in 1629 and received by Lord Burlington from King George II in 1730.

At the centre of the painting is positioned the eight pointed star of the Order of the Garter which Lord Burlington received from King George II in 1730.

He attended Howbridge Junior School and then Notley High School where he was a star centre forward in the school's football ( soccer ) team.

As well as being open to the public every day, the discovery centre also organises various public outreach events, including public lectures, star parties, and " ask an astronomer " sessions.

The nebula itself resembles a small elliptical galaxy, but the magnitude 13 star at its centre gives away its true nature.

The shell of gas was ejected from a supergiant star ( 10 times the mass of our sun ) at the centre of the emission about 900 years ago.

The Carlton idents featured an opening film featuring a heart at the end, before a star shaped light came from the heart, engulfing the screen, and showing the endboard, which featured a background of spinning stars in different colours with the brand name centre screen above an ITV logo.

The earth is a star like other stars, is not the centre of the universe, is not at rest, nor are its poles fixed.