Don DeLillo's Underworld ( 1997 ) is also set in the Bronx and offers a perspective on the decline of the area from the 1950s onwards.

Modeling that compares the effects of albedo differences between forests and grasslands suggests that expanding the land area of forests in temperate zones offers only a temporary cooling benefit.

" The Merriam-Webster Dictionary offers four definitions, including " something characteristic of a colony " and " control by one power over a dependent area or people.

Gers, a department of France, is within this region and has high quality poultry, while La Montagne Noire and Lacaune area offers high quality hams and dry sausages.

The Les Cévennes area offers mushrooms, chestnuts, berries, honey, lamb, game, sausages, pâtés and goat cheeses.

The infield, a spectator area inside the track, offers general admission prices but little chance of seeing much of the race.

The college also offers a Continuing Education program and the Community Enrichment Series for adults in the Jackson area.

Aeronautics offers ; airborne systems, related subsystems, Unmanned Aerial Systems ( UAS ) and aerostructures The business area Aeronautics is responsible for airframe structures for JAS 39 Gripen, and whole sections for Airbus, Boeing and NH90.

The school offers undergraduate degrees ( BA or BS depending on content area ) in Inclusive ( Adolescence ) Education ( Middle School Extension, Grades 5-6 ; Students with Disabilities, Grades 7-12 ), Childhood Education ( Grades 1-6 ) and Childhood Education / Special Education ( Grades 1-6 ).

The Merriam-Webster dictionary offers a definition of the term: " the practical application of knowledge especially in a particular area " and " a capability given by the practical application of knowledge ".

* PhotoGlobe-Berchtesgadener Land offers high quality photos of the area around Berchtesgaden together with GPS coordinates.

The area offers excellent vantage points for whale watching.

For example the Roman tribunal is a densely populated area with a shortage of magical resources but offers high political plots while Novgorod is a hostile environment where barbarian invaders and magical beasts can be a recurrent problem.

The largest tourist attraction in the caldera is the Mammoth Mountain Ski Area: the area offers skiing and snowboarding in the winter, and mountain biking in the summer.

Solvent inks are divided into two sub-categories: hard solvent ink offers the greatest durability without specialized over-coatings but requires specialized ventilation of the printing area to avoid exposure to hazardous fumes, while Mild or " Eco " solvent inks, while still not as safe as aqueous inks, are intended for use in enclosed spaces without specialized ventilation of the printing area.

Any handmade envelope is effectively a lettersheet because prior to the folding stage it offers the opportunity for writing a message on that area of the sheet that after folding becomes the inside of the face of the envelope.

This area of Stratford, which runs from the foot of Bridge Street to Holy Trinity Church ( and leads directly off Sheep Street and Scholars Lane ) runs alongside the River Avon and offers access to the Waterside Theatre and all areas of the RST.

Like the RUC, the Rapid Refresh model also runs hourly out to 18 hours on a 13-km grid spacing, but also covers a wider area and includes an experimental high-resolution mode that offers 3-km resolution at 15-minute intervals A backup version of the RUC continues to run.

The town is located towards the eastern side of the park and offers accommodation to the many tourists who visit the area.

There are public paths through the area and Chatsworth offers guided tours with commentary in a 28-seater trailer pulled by a tractor.

The Greensboro Transit Authority offers public bus service throughout the city, including a service called Higher Education Area Transit, or HEAT, which links downtown attractions to area colleges and universities.

Within the university ’ s dining system, “ Nature's Healthy Corner ,” a small area of the cafeteria, offers some locally grown and organic options, and fryer oil is recycled to create biodiesel.

The Mary Immaculate Hospital is aj acute care hospital, and was relocated to the Denbigh area of the city and offers a wide range of services, including minimally invasive surgery, orthopedic services, The Liver Institute of Virginia, and women's services.

The Hampton Transit Center, located 2 West Pembroke Boulevard, at the intersection of King Street, close to the downtown area, offers a hub for local and intercity public transportation.

Regardless of rights and wrongs, a population and an area appropriate to a pre-World-War- 1 great power have been, following conquest, ruled against their will by a neighboring people, and have had imposed upon them social and economic controls they dislike.

But this we know: Here is a great life that in every area of American politics gives the American people occasion for pride and that has invested the democratic process with the most decent qualities of honor, decency, and self-respect.

The Title 8, program of the National Defense Education Act of 1958 was a great spur to this trend toward area schools.

The combined surface area of all red blood cells of the human body would be roughly 2, 000 times as great as the body's exterior surface.

Dabormida's remains were never found, although his brother learned from an old woman living in the area that she had given water to a mortally wounded Italian officer, " a chief, a great man with spectacles and a watch, and golden stars ".

Throughout the world there are many organizations and institutions dedicated to the area of computer and electronic music study and research, including the ICMA ( International Computer Music Association ), IRCAM, GRAME, SEAMUS ( Society for Electro Acoustic Music in the United States ), CEC ( Canadian Electroacoustic Community ), and a great number of institutions of higher learning around the world.

The Permian through Jurassic stratigraphy of the Colorado Plateau area of southeastern Utah is a great example of both Original Horizontality and the Law of Superposition.

It was the seat of the archbishops, who ruled the surrounding area and ( from 1248 to 1880 ) built the great Cologne Cathedral, with sacred relics that made it a destination for many worshippers.

Once in an area of great wealth, the demise of the mediaeval wool trade was indirectly the saving of the village, ( as we know it today ), since the locals were unable to afford the expense of upgrading their houses with the latest architectural fashions.

The rounded sections gave maximum displacement for the lowest wetted surface area, similar to a modern narrow rowing skiff, so were a very fast shape, but not great load carriers.

In those centuries, the area controlled by Rome had great economic development.

For typical liver mitochondria, the area of the inner membrane is about five times as great as the outer membrane.

The flooding of the area now known as the Black Sea ( when a land bridge, where the Bosporus is now, collapsed under the pressure of rising water in the Mediterranean Sea ) submerged a great deal of human activity that had been gathered round what had been an enormous, fresh-water lake.

Both the Imperial and U. S. definitions of the nautical mile were based on the Clarke ( 1866 ) Spheroid: they were different approximations to the length of one minute of arc along a great circle of a sphere having the same surface area as the Clarke Spheroid.

At this time the total area of Nineveh comprised about, and fifteen great gates penetrated its walls.

However, in the Western thought, it is generally supposed that it was a specific area peculiar merely to the great philosophers of Islam: al-Kindi ( Alkindus ), al-Farabi ( Abunaser ), İbn Sina ( Avicenna ), Ibn Bajjah ( Avempace ), Ibn Rushd ( Averroes ), and Ibn Khaldun.

Thus followed the line of Lomonosov and the contributions of the Russian school became more frequent through his disciples, and in the nineteenth century we have great geographers as Vasily Dokuchaev who performed works of great importance as a " principle of comprehensive analysis of the territory " and " Russian Chernozem " latter being the most important where introduces the geographical concept of soil, as distinct from a simple geological strata, and thus founding a new geographic area of study: the Pedology.

As the isthmus ' central interoceanic traffic zone, as well as the City of Panama had been of great historical importance to the Spanish Empire and subject of direct influence, so, the differences in social and economic status between the more liberal region of Azuero, and the much more royalist and conservative area of Veraguas displayed contrasting loyalties.

They cut a great area of very low-lying country into five islands.

As well as Swastika flags and propaganda everywhere, Nazi-affiliated concerns occupied a great many buildings in the area, especially Columbushaus, where they took over most of the upper floors.

Although isolation is of great importance in the production of new species, on the whole I am inclined to believe that largeness of area is still more important, especially for the production of species which shall prove capable of enduring for a long period, and of spreading widely.

Throughout a great and open area, not only will there be a greater chance of favourable variations, arising from the large number of individuals of the same species there supported, but the conditions of life are much more complex from the large number of already existing species ; and if some of these species become modified and improved, others will have to be improved in a corresponding degree, or they will be exterminated.

Among these were Rome ’ s great sewer systems, the Cloaca Maxima, which he used to drain the swamp-like area between the Seven Hills of Rome.

This new government would survive for the next 500 years until the rise of Julius Caesar and Caesar Augustus, and would cover a period during which Rome's authority and area of control extended to cover great areas of Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East.