But a writer who has a taste for irony and who sees incest in all its modern dimensions can let his imagination work on the disturbing joke in the incest myth, the joke that strikes right at the center of man's humanness.

Wilson stressed the fact that clear as this was, they must have a better church, a more business-like conduct of the church organization, and an effort to get this religious center out of its rut of wild worship into a modern church organization.

This latter assumption will permit us to center attention on the most controversial aspect of modern public utility cost analysis -- the distinction among costs that are functions of outputs of the same service measured along different dimensions.

Despite this, aircraft today are much more extensively used as the primary tools for both army and navy, as evidenced by the prominent use of helicopters to transport and support troops, the use of aerial bombardment as the " first strike " in many engagements, and the replacement of the battleship with the aircraft carrier as the center of most modern navies.

It originated as a Phoenician colony in Africa, near modern Tunis, and gradually became the center of a civilization whose hegemony reached along the North African coast and deep in its hinterland, and also included the Balearic Islands, Sardinia, Corsica, a limited area in southern Spain, and the western half of Sicily.

It was in the Roman glassmaking center at Trier, now in modern Germany, that the late-Latin term glesum originated, probably from a Germanic word for a transparent, lustrous substance.

He did employ some cartographers to chart the coast of Mauritania after the voyages he sent there, but there was no center of navigation science or observatory in the modern sense of the word, nor was there an organized navigational center.

In the late 9th century, a Slavic Pomeranian fortified settlement was built at the site of modern part of Kołobrzeg county called Budzistowo near modern Kołobrzeg, replacing nearby Bardy-Świelubie, a multi-ethnic emporium, as the center of the region.

The surrealists and modern artists from every cultural center of Europe had fled the onslaught of the Nazis for safe haven in the United States.

That same fast-fission effect is used to augment the energy released by modern thermonuclear weapons, by jacketing the weapon with < sup > 238 </ sup > U to react with neutrons released by nuclear fusion at the center of the device.

While remote, rural areas still largely depend on non-mechanized means of transport, a modern maglev train system was built in China to connect the city center of Shanghai with its international airport.

At the fin de siècle, when Vienna was a major crucible and center for modern arts and culture, Altenberg was a very influential part of a literary and artistic movement known as Jung Wien or " Young Vienna ".

A secondary center of genetic variability of the potato is Mexico, where important wild species that have been used extensively in modern breeding are found, such as the hexaploid Solanum demissum, as a source of resistance to the devastating late blight disease.

Limiting car access to the city center, building new tram lines ( including Poznański Szybki Tramwaj ) and investing in new rolling stock ( such as modern Combino trams by Siemens and Solaris low-floor buses ) actually increased the level of ridership.

The French and Soviet systems, however, had continuous-wave operation and could not give the full performance that was ultimately at the center of modern radar.

The skyscraper, in name and social function, is a modern expression of the age-old symbol of the world center or axis mundi: a pillar that connects earth to heaven and the four compass directions to one another.

The modern building is located in the very center of the city, adjacent to the Old Town.

Since the 1950s, Montevideo's prosperous middle classes have tended to abandon the formerly fashionable downtown areas for the more modern high-rise apartment buildings of Pocitos, a beachfront neighborhood east of the center.

The middle classes preferred to live in more modern apartments near the city center or the University of the Republic.

Dating back to the late 19th century, the main center of the older Chinatown is Pender Street and Main Street in downtown Vancouver, which is also, along with Victoria's Chinatown, one of the oldest surviving Chinatowns in North America, and has been the setting for a variety of modern Chinese Canadian culture and literature.

The center of the political power of the Tang was the capital city of Chang ' an ( modern Xi ' an ), where the emperor maintained his large palace quarters, and entertained political emissaries with music, sports, acrobatic stunts, poetry, paintings, and dramatic theater performances.

Hus ' writings center on technical, theological questions ; however, he did publish a set of his Czech sermons and created rules of orthography and grammar that would be used to create the foundations of modern Czech in the 17th and 18th centuries.

Synagogues often take on a broader role in modern Jewish communities and may include additional facilities such as a catering hall, kosher kitchen, religious school, library, day care center and a smaller chapel for daily services.

A number of major thoroughfares run north-south: El Camino Real ( SR 82 ) and US 101 on the east side along the bay, Interstate 280 down the center, Skyline Boulevard ( SR 35 ) along the crest of the Santa Cruz Mountains, and Highway 1 on the west along the Pacific.

Statues of King David and Solomon stand on either side of the entrance to the basilica of El Escorial, Philip's palace, and Solomon is also depicted in a great fresco at the center of El Escorial's library.

One of the best examples of this cultural diversity is represented by the former synagogue, now the church of Corpus, and the Jewish cemetery located in " El Pinarillo " with its interpretation center in the most important Jewish palace of the Spanish aljamas, the chief accountant Meir Melamed, son-in-law and successor of Abraham Senior, chief rabbi of the Kingdom of Castile, Melamed after converting to Christianity under the name of Fernán Núñez Coronel, was alderman of the city and occupied important positions in the kingdom.

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A number of large parks lie outside the city center, including Reducto Park, Pantanos de Villa, El Golf ( San Isidro ), Parque de las Leyendas ( Lima Zoo ), El Malecon de Miraflores, and the Golf Los Incas.

El Dorado is the population, cultural, and business center of the 7, 300 mi² ( 11, 748. 21 km² ) regional area.

El Dorado is the largest urban population center in its region.

Arlington Boulevard, a major north-south thoroughfare traversing the Berkeley and El Cerrito portions of the Berkeley Hills, runs through the center of the community and terminates at its north end.

El Cerrito is best known for El Cerrito Plaza, a large automobile-oriented shopping center origially built as a regional mall in the 1950s, and for the Cerrito Theater, a restored two-screen movie theater that is known for offering beer, wine, and a full dining menu.

The center of the Sikh community is the Gurdwara Sahib of El Sobrante.

The center of the Sikh community is the Gurdwara Sahib of El Sobrante ( known for its large golden dome ) which sits high in the hills above San Pablo Dam Road.

The part of Granite Hills within the city of El Cajon consists of a " gerrymandered " corridor, approximately wide on the south side of Madison Avenue, roughly through the center of the neighborhood.

The police and fire departments were housed together for several years at Hillcrest Boulevard and El Camino Real before the vital services moved to their permanent location in Millbrae's civic center, a few blocks west of El Camino.

Under its new ownership, Dunbrooke today maintains two offices – corporate headquarters in Independence, MO, and a modern decorating and distribution center located in El Dorado Springs, MO, built in 1998

* Derrick Caracter ( born 1988 ), played power forward / center formerly for the Louisville Cardinals basketball team, then the University of Texas at El Paso ( UTEP ) Miners basketball team, current member of NBA's Los Angeles Lakers.

Las Cruces is the economic and geographic center of the fertile Mesilla Valley, which is the agricultural region on the flood plain of the Rio Grande which extends from Hatch, New Mexico to the west side of El Paso, Texas.

The headquarters for the El Paso Intelligence Center, a federal tactical operational intelligence center, is hosted at Fort Bliss.

Since the late 2000s ( decade ) the southeastern district of Surco has experienced a significant increase in upscale corporate developments in the area comprised by avenues Manuel Holguín, El Derby, El Polo and La Encalada due to lower restrictions to grant construction licences and proximity to residential middle and upper class districts and is set to become, after traditional San Isidro and Miraflores, the new corporate center of Lima.