The centre of the museum was redeveloped in 2001 to become the Queen Elizabeth II Great Court | Great Court, surrounding the original British Museum Reading Room | Reading Room.

The Queen Elizabeth II Great Court is a covered square at the centre of the British Museum designed by the engineers Buro Happold and the architects Foster and Partners.

At the centre of the Great Court is the Reading Room vacated by the British Library, its functions now moved to St Pancras.

There have been attempts at categorizing this fictional group of beings, and Phillip A. Schreffler argues that by carefully scrutinizing Lovecraft's writings a workable framework emerges that outlines the entire " pantheon " – from the unreachable " Outer Ones " ( e. g. Azathoth, who apparently occupies the centre of the universe ) and " Great Old Ones " ( e. g. Cthulhu, imprisoned on Earth in the sunken city of R ' lyeh ) to the lesser castes ( the lowly slave shoggoths and the Mi-go ).

Davros emerges as " The Great Healer " of the funeral and cryogenic preservation centre Tranquil Repose on the planet Necros in the Sixth Doctor story Revelation of the Daleks, where he uses frozen bodies to engineer a new variety of Daleks loyal to him, distinguished from the original Daleks by their white and gold livery and slightly changed design.

On 2 and 3 September, the Great Fire of London destroyed much of the centre of London.

Jericho went from being an administrative centre of Yehud Medinata under Persian rule to serving as the private estate of Alexander the Great between 336 and 323 BCE after his conquest of the region.

Especially during the " Golden Twenties " the Kurfürstendamm area of the " New West " was a centre of leisure and nightlife in Berlin, an era that ended with the Great Depression and the Nazi Machtergreifung in 1933.

The name derives from Cree manitou-wapow or Ojibwa manidoobaa, both meaning " straits of Manitou, the Great Spirit ", a place referring to what are now called The Narrows in the centre of Lake Manitoba.

This measure was directly inspired by the Great Terror, during which the government had lost control of many rural areas far from any centre of government.

Bahrain was referred to by the Greeks as " Tylos ", the centre of pearl trading, when Nearchus discovered it while serving under Alexander the Great.

Hence the bogus Lopukhina Conspiracy and other attempts of Frederick the Great and Louis XV to get rid of Bestuzhev ( making the Russian court the centre of a tangle of intrigue during the earlier years of Elizabeth's reign.

From around 304 BC the area formed part of the Seleucid Empire, and from around 250 BC it was the centre of a Greco-Bactrian kingdom, ruled by the descendants of Greeks who had settled there following the conquest of Alexander the Great.

This site remains the main office of OUP in the 21st century, at the corner of Walton Street and Great Clarendon Street, north-west of Oxford city centre.

This site is recognised by modern convention as the centre of London for the purpose of indicating distances by road in favour of other previous measurement points ( such as St Paul's Cathedral which remains as the root of the English and Welsh part of the Great Britain road numbering scheme ).

In 1861 the hippocampus minor became the centre of a dispute over human evolution between Thomas Henry Huxley and Richard Owen, satirised as the Great Hippocampus Question.

Huntingdon Elms once lined the Ladies ' Mile avenue through the centre of the Common, but many were lost to the Great Storm of 1987 and replaced by the Dutch elm cultivar ' Lobel '.

The outbreak of war was followed ominously by the Great Plague and the Great Fire of London, hitting the only major urban centre of the country.

* The Maze was planted with 1, 209 yews in the centre of the site of the former Great Conservatory in 1962.

However, by the end of the Great War much of the city centre was more or less rebuilt and many of the former inhabitants were allowed to return.

rightIn 1856, Speke and Burton went to East Africa to find the Great Lakes, which were rumoured to exist in the centre of the continent.

As Bree lies at the meeting of two large roadways, the Great East Road and the ( now disused ) Greenway, it had for centuries been a centre of trade and a stopping place for travellers, though as Arnor in the north waned Bree's prosperity and size declined.

At the centre of the museum the space around the former British Library Reading Room, which was filled with the concrete storage bunkers of the British Library, is today the Great Court, an indoor square with a glass roof designed by British architect Norman Foster.

During their time at the theatre, McDiarmid and Kent were described by The Guardian as " Islington a centre of enlightened internationalism " and, as they were about to leave their positions in 2002, Michael Billington, in same newspaper, summed up their achievements as threefold:

The olfactory lobe is the centre of the sense of smell.

The cerebellum is the centre of muscular coordination.

First a raft is built first, then eggs are laid in the centre, and then a foam cap is placed.

* In the centre of Dooagh is a commemoration plaque to Don Allum, the first man to row across the Atlantic Ocean in both directions.

As South Australia's seat of government and commercial centre, Adelaide is the site of many governmental and financial institutions.

A centre for the arts, learning and philosophy, home of Plato's Academy and Aristotle's Lyceum, it is widely referred to as the cradle of Western civilization and the birthplace of democracy, largely due to the impact of its cultural and political achievements during the 5th and 4th centuries BC in later centuries on the rest of the then known European continent.

A common theory about the building is that the rounded feature to the left of centre, terminating at the top in a turret and cross, represents the lance of Saint George ( patron saint of Catalonia, Gaudi's home ), which has been plunged into the back of the dragon.

The plain of Idavoll is the centre of Asgard ( Section 14 ).

; Assault on a secure training centre custody officer: This offence is created by section 13 ( 1 ) of the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994 ( c. 33 ).

* God is an intelligible sphere whose centre is everywhere and whose circumference is nowhere.

Aachen has a large number of spin-offs from the university's IT-technology department and is a major centre of IT development in Germany.

Aachen is connected to the Autobahn A4 ( West-East ), A44 ( North-South ) and A544 ( a smaller motorway from the A4 to the Europaplatz near the city centre ).

Port Blair is the chief community on the islands, and the administrative centre of the Union Territory.

A 2003 study by TD Bank Financial Group found the corridor is the only Canadian urban centre to amass a U. S. level of wealth while maintaining a Canadian-style quality of life, offering universal health care benefits.

There is, however, in the centre a circular basin occupied by Lake Tsana.

The city centre is laid out on two perpendicular axes: a water axis stretching along Lake Burley Griffin, and a ceremonial land axis stretching from Parliament House on Capital Hill north-eastward along ANZAC Parade to the Australian War Memorial at the foot of Mount Ainslie.

There are seven districts ( with an eighth currently under construction ), each of which is divided into smaller suburbs, and most of which have a town centre which is the focus of commercial and social activities.

At the centre of the Acropolis is the Parthenon or Temple of Athena Parthenos ( Athena the Virgin ).

In spatial planning, Aalen is designated a Mittelzentrum (“ medium-level centre ”).

Aerial view of the district of Unterkochen ( the town centre is partly covered and in the background ), the Aalen lowlands well perceptible in the back

The elevation in the centre of the market square is 430 meters relative to Normalhöhennull.