It stands in the centre of the Place Charles de Gaulle ( originally named Place de l ' Étoile ), at the western end of the Champs-Élysées.

The plateau, on whose centre stands the town of Ajmer, may be considered as the highest point in the plains of North India ; from the circle of hills which hem it in, the country slopes away on every side-towards river valleys on the east, south, west and towards the Thar Desert region on the north.

In the centre stands a man in an officer's uniform with a bandage around his head.

Outside the centre stands a bronze statue of Thomas, by John Doubleday.

It stands in the centre of the St. Pauli district.

Glasnevin Cemetery ( The round tower in the centre stands over the tomb of Daniel O ' Connell )

Today Saturn's statue stands in a piazza in the centre of the city.

A statue of Garibaldi, who was fiercely in favour of the union of Nice with Italy, stands in the centre of the square.

The city centre, reconstructed after World War II, stands on approximately a metre ( 3. 3 ft ) of flattened rubble.

The oak became a symbol of the rebellion when an oak tree on Mousehold Heath was made the centre of the rebel camp, but this " Oak of Reformation " no longer stands.

At ( 53. 704 °, − 2. 199 °), north-northeast of Manchester city centre and north-northwest of central London, Bacup stands on the western slopes of the South Pennines, amongst the upper-Irwell Valley.

The official record for Murcia stands at a stifling, at Alcantarilla airport in the western suburbs on July 4, 1994 with being recorded at a station near the city centre on the same day.

It stands as a landmark in the centre of the town.

In the centre of the old town is the Place d ' Armes, in which stands the former Hôtel-de-ville, now the town hall and police offices.

Slane Castle stands on the river about upstream from the centre of the village.

It stands in the centre of the city in Broad Street, near the Bodleian Library and the Sheldonian Theatre.

* Portlaoise stands at a major crossroads in the Irish roads ( major roads to Dublin, Limerick, Cork ) network although construction in the 1990s of the M7 motorway, which bypasses the town, has reduced traffic congestion in the town centre.

Much of Hornsey was built up in Edwardian times, but the tower of the original parish church still stands in its ancient graveyard in Hornsey High Street, at the centre of the old village.

A recently re-opened sports centre called The Workhouse stands on the site of Poplar Workhouse, where local politician Will Crooks spent some of his earliest years ( a nearby council housing estate is named after him ).

On its western edge stands the former filter house, now set out as a visitor centre with a café ; some of the old hydraulic machinery can be viewed in the main hall.

One named the little figure, has a blue cross on each side and represents ace, deuce, tray ; another yellow on both sides, styled the yellow figure, signifies, 4, 5, 6 ; a third with a black lozenge in the centre, named the black figure, stands for 7, 8, 9.

On Aldeburgh's beach, a short distance north of the town centre, stands a sculpture, The Scallop, dedicated to Benjamin Britten, who used to walk along the beach in the afternoons.

In the centre of Gemert stands a castle of which the oldest parts date back to the Late Middle Ages, although it has been rebuilt a couple of times.

Beginning in 1751 a certain John Wallace obtained several warrants for the land on which the centre of the town now stands.

The site was originally considered somewhat remote from the centre of the university ( indeed, an alternative site on Lensfield Road, where the Catholic Church now stands, was considered but rejected as being too small ), however, with the growth of departmental buildings, libraries and new faculties, Selwyn ( along with Newnham College ) now neighbours the Sidgwick Site, affording Selwynites the easiest access of any Cambridge college to the many arts faculty buildings housed there.

Its importance was instead conveyed by the height of the tower ( prasat ) rising above it, by its location at the centre of the temple, and by the greater decoration on its walls.

In the Crescent is the classical style church of St Mary in the Castle ( its name recalling the old chapel in the castle above ) now in use as an arts centre.

On 26 March 1965 Border Television commenced relay of their signal through a local transmitter on Richmond Hill, above sea level and three miles ( 5 km ) from the centre of Douglas.

The city serves as the nation's cultural and learning centre, situated above sea level in a narrow valley, wedged between the Hindu Kush mountains along the Kabul River.

Turrets could not be placed above the centre of the ship and instead had to be placed at the side, meaning two of the six turrets would always be on the wrong side of the ship when firing broadsides.

Between 1908 and 1912 two Moltke class battlecruisers were constructed, adding an extra turret on the centre line astern, raised above the aft turret, but still using 28 cm guns.

The kerling lay across two strong frames that ran width-wise above the keel in the centre of the boat.

In the centre is a shield with a ship in full sail above a red field with three diagonal black lines.

In our galaxy, the distribution of clusters depends on age, with older clusters being preferentially found at greater distances from the galactic centre, generally at substantial distances above or below the galactic plane.

The bas-relief of the Samudra manthan | Churning of the Sea of Milk shows Vishnu in the centre, his turtle Avatar Kurma below, asura s and deva ( Hinduism ) | deva s to left and right, and apsaras and Indra above.

The teams start with the rope's centre line directly above a line marked on the ground, and once the contest ( the " pull ") has commenced, attempt to pull the other team such that the marking on the rope closest to their opponent crosses the centre line, or the opponents commit a foul ( such as a team member sitting or falling down ).

This became the prototype of modern " shaped " skis ( when viewed from above or below, the centre or " waist " is significantly narrower than the tip and tail ).

Immediately above the oval shape of foundation, is the visual centre of the coat of arms, a protea.

The city sits on an elevated plateau, 130 to 140 metres ( 425 to 460 ft ) above sea-level ( whereas the elevation of the centre of Paris is only 33 m ( 108 ft ) above sea level ), surrounded by wooded hills: in the north the forests of Marly and Fausses-Reposes, and in the south the forests of Satory and Meudon.

Some of the smallest machines for cotton covering have a large drum, which grips the wire and moves it through toothed gears ; the wire passes through the centre of disks mounted above a long bed, and the disks carry each a number of bobbins varying from six to twelve or more in different machines.

( Note that r is the orbital radius, the distance from the centre of the Earth, not the height above the Equator.

To completely specify a location of a topographical feature on, in, or above the Earth, one has to also specify the vertical distance from the centre of the Earth, or from the surface of the Earth.

In Lugano, a funicular connects the city centre with the above train station of SBB-CFF-FFS and Ferrovia Lugano-Ponte Tresa.

Video systems ( the vertical white panels ) are visible above the very centre seats of the aircraft

Bacup is roughly above sea level ; the Deerplay area of Weir is above sea level ; Bacup town centre is above sea level.

An arms depot was later built above the Porte Saint-Antoine, all making the Bastille part of a major military centre.