The central high point of the citadel rises like a giant natural obelisk complete with a military observation post at the top, with a giant cross at its apex ; at the foot of the observatory lies St. George's church, in a classical style punctuated by six Doric columns, as opposed to the Byzantine architectural style of the greater part of Greek Orthodox churches.

– Chinese sassafras or Tzumu, central and southwestern China, it differs from S. albidum in the leaves being more frequently three-lobed, the lobes having a tapered acuminate apex ( not rounded to weakly acute ).

The central feature of the bas-relief facade is a large coconut tree which reaches almost to the apex.

The delta covers about 1800 km < sup > 2 </ sup >, consisting of mangrove areas near the shore, Nypa swamps in the central areas, and lowland forest near the apex, corresponding to the first bifurcation, however, recent fishery development in this area has converted a vast area of mangrove into shrimp ponds ( tambak ).

The positions of Brodmann areas 3, 1, and 2 are-from the nadir of the central sulcus toward the apex of the postcentral gyrus-3a, 3b, 1, and 2, respectively.

The central tower is topped with a tiled mosaic pyramid with suns on the sides with a hand holding a torch representing the " Light of Learning " at the apex.

The symbolism of the Child Jesus in art reached its apex during the Renaissance: the holy family was a central theme in the works of Leonardo Da Vinci and many other masters.

As well as the aperture, some gastropod shells have additional openings in their shells for respiration ; this is the case in some Fissurellidae ( keyhole limpets ) where the central smaller opening at the apex of the shell is called an orifice, and in the Haliotidae ( abalones ) where the row of respiratory openings in the shell are also called orifices.

Moore-Gilbert claims that this approach unfairly puts rock at the apex, and makes every other influence become an add-on to the central core of rock.

Peter J. Reynolds also demonstrated that, although a central fire would have been lit inside for heating and cooking, there could not have been a smoke hole in the apex of the roof, for this would have caused an updraft that would have rapidly set fire to the thatch.

At the center and apex of the central arch is a diamond rosette of twelve petals from which rises a large red spinel, weighing 398. 72 carats ( 79. 744 grams ), one of the seven historic stones of the Russian Diamond Collection, which was brought to Russia by Nicholas Spafary, the Russian envoy to China from 1675 to 1678.

It has a single central stem up to 5 cm tall bearing a spore-producing cone at the apex, and was previously classified variously in the family Lycopodiaceae or in its own family the Phylloglossaceae, but recent genetic evidence demonstrates it is most closely related to the genus Huperzia and is a sister clade to the genus Phlegmariurus, which was formerly included in Huperzia.

The basal part has a ring-shaped central part 0. 5 times 1. 3 mm ( 0. 051 inch ) and a stigmoid -- resembling the letter " S " or the lower-case Greek letter sigma ( ς )-- apex half the 0. 9 mm ( 0. 0395 inch ).

A keystone head at the apex of the central span symbolises the River Liffey, corresponding to the heads on the Custom House ( also designed by James Gandon ) which personify the other great rivers of Ireland.

The stems are solitary and erect, usually with three branches on the apex and with longitudinal purple stripes in the central part.

It is 10. 3m high at its apex and 11. 3m from wall to opposite wall and was substantially re-built by Bishop Andrew Stewart ( 1482 – 1501 ) whose coat of arms is placed on the central pillar.

An advantage of being exposed to such specificity about an important and recurring feature of social reality is that it can be taken advantage of by the reader to examine covert as well as overt resonances within himself, resonances triggered by explicit symbols clustering around the central figure of the Jew.

Battalion Chief Stanton M. Gladden, 42, the central figure in a representation dispute between the fire fighters association and the teamsters union, suffered multiple fractures of both ankles.

This central charge would thus be approximately half the atomic weight ( though it was almost 25 % off the figure for the atomic number in gold ( Z = 79, A = 197 ), the single element from which Rutherford made his guess ).

Sir John Tenniel's illustration of the Caterpillar ( Alice's Adventures in Wonderland ) | Caterpillar for Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is noted for its ambiguous central figure, whose head can be viewed as being a human male's face with a pointed nose and pointy chin or being the head end of an actual caterpillar, with the first two right " true " legs visible.

Alexander Grothendieck (; ; born 28 March 1928 ) is a mathematician and the central figure behind the creation of the modern theory of algebraic geometry.

He was a central figure in the resistance against the Soviet occupation between 1979 and 1989 and in the following years of civil war.

* 33 – Generally agreed-upon date for the historical crucifixion of Jesus of Nazareth, the central figure of Christianity.

The term was first coined by August Derleth, a contemporary correspondent of Lovecraft, who used the name of the creature Cthulhu — a central figure in Lovecraft literature and the focus of Lovecraft's famous short story The Call of Cthulhu ( first published in pulp magazine Weird Tales in 1928 )— to identify the system of lore employed by Lovecraft and his literary successors.

He was a central figure in the First Council of Ephesus in 431, which led to the deposition of Nestorius as Patriarch of Constantinople.

In The Eternal Adam and the New World Garden, written in 1968, David Noble argued that the Adam figure had been " the central myth in the American novel since 1830 ".

David is also viewed as a tragic figure ; his acquisition of Bathsheba, and the loss of his son are viewed as his central tragedies.

Al-Hakim became a central figure in the Druze faith even though his own religious position was disputed among scholars.

Epic: a long narrative poem in elevated style presenting characters of high position in adventures forming an organic whole through their relation to a central heroic figure and through their development of episodes important to the history of a nation or race.

Film noir encompasses a range of plots: the central figure may be a private eye ( The Big Sleep ), a plainclothes policeman ( The Big Heat ), an aging boxer ( The Set-Up ), a hapless grifter ( Night and the City ), a law-abiding citizen lured into a life of crime ( Gun Crazy ), or simply a victim of circumstance ( D. O. A .).

Franklin Delano Roosevelt ( or ; January 30, 1882 – April 12, 1945 ), also known by his initials, FDR, was the 32nd President of the United States ( 1933 – 1945 ) and a central figure in world events during the mid-20th century, leading the United States during a time of worldwide economic depression and total war.

Georges Auguste Escoffier is commonly acknowledged as the central figure to the modernization of haute cuisine and organizing what would become the national cuisine of France.

Patriarchy is a social system in which the role of the male as the primary authority figure is central to social organization, and where fathers hold authority over women, children, and property.

Also called " Forry ," " The Ackermonster ," " 4e " and " 4SJ ," Ackerman was central to the formation, organization, and spread of science fiction fandom, and a key figure in the wider cultural perception of science fiction as a literary, art and film genre.

Without Abkhazia and South Osetia, the population in the regions controlled by the central government of Georgia was 4, 321, 500 in 2005 and 4, 382, 100 in 2008 ( compare the 2008 figure with the CIA estimate of 4, 630, 841 for all of Georgia, including Abkhazia and South Osetia ).

John MacLean emerged as a key political figure in what became known as Red Clydeside, and in January 1919, the British Government, fearful of a revolutionary uprising, deployed tanks and soldiers in central Glasgow.

The Italian mathematician, astronomer, and physicist Galileo Galilei ( 1564 – 1642 ) was the central figure in the Scientific Revolution and famous for his support for Copernianism, his astronomical discoveries, and his improvement of the telescope.

A central figure of the Scottish Enlightenment, a founder member of the Philosophical Society of Edinburgh, and active in the Select Society, his protégés included James Boswell, David Hume and Adam Smith.

Murray also used an inaccurate drawing of a mesolithic rock-painting at Cogul in northeast Spain as evidence of group religious ceremony of the cult, although the central male figure is not horned.

As the central figure for his works, Ian Fleming created the fictional character of James Bond, an intelligence officer in the Secret Intelligence Service, commonly known as MI6.

Market Street is the central street of Malgudi, the location of several big shops including Bombay Anand Bhavan and Truth Printing Works.

In 2005, he produced Evangelical Truth, which summarises what he perceives as being the central claims of Christianity, essential for evangelicalism.

: Q: Why do we need two central newspapers, Pravda ( Truth ) and Izvestiya ( News ) if both are organs of the same Party?