It features a flat, larger, and more cushioned surface almost parallel to the floor, which slopes downward at the end closest to the springboard ; gymnasts nicknamed it the " tongue "; it appears to be somewhat safer than the old apparatus.

After the railroad retained its on each side and closest to the tracks, eight blocks were located on each side parallel to the tracks.

Several authors, including Ioan Petru Culianu, have drawn a parallel between Eugène Ionesco's Absurdist play of 1959, Rhinoceros, which depicts the population of a small town falling victim to a mass metamorphosis, and the impact fascism had on Ionesco's closest friends ( Eliade included ).

The court is divided by 14 parallel lines going horizontally across the court, with line 1 closest to the front wall and line 14 the back wall.

* The anterior border ( closest to the edge of the hand ) is a pair of parallel and intimate tendons, of the extensor pollicis brevis and the abductor pollicis longus.

Perhaps the closest parallel is with the armies of medieval Flanders.

The similarities between the kinkajou and olingos are thus an example of parallel evolution ; the closest relatives of the olingos are actually the coatis.

However, the evidence for a Rhodian commission of the statue has been questioned, and the closest artistic parallel to the Nike of Samothrace are figures depicted on Macedonian coins.

The empire's capital, named Trantor, is the habitable planet closest to the center of the galaxy, and the novels in the Foundation trilogy describe its fall, over a period of centuries, and a period of anarchy and decay, a parallel to the fall of the ( Western ) Roman Empire and the Dark Ages.

In criminal matters, the closest parallel to a settlement is a plea bargain, although this differs in several important respects, particularly the ability of the presiding judge to reject the terms of a settlement.

West Falkland is more hilly on the side closest to East Falkland ; the principal mountain range, the Hornby Hills, runs north and south parallel with Falkland Sound.

Although its closest relative is the hedgehog, full grown specimens more closely resemble large rats, or the North American Virginia Opossum ( Didelphis virginianis ), with which it shares similar habits and ecological niches ( an example of parallel evolution ).

A fold axis, “ is the closest approximation to a straight line that when moved parallel to itself, generates the form of the fold .” ( Davis and Reynolds, 1996 after Donath and Parker, 1964 ; Ramsay 1967 ).

6845 ( a fragment of the Iliad estimated to date around 100 CE ) which he suggested ( other than in the form of the letter alpha ) is " the closest parallel to our text that I have been able to find "; and the Egerton Gospel itself, which was then estimated to date around 150 CE.

In one statement derived from the original, it was to find geometries whose axioms are closest to those of Euclidean geometry if the ordering and incidence axioms are retained, the congruence axioms weakened, and the equivalent of the parallel postulate omitted.

A solid white line with a broken white line parallel to it indicates that crossing the line is allowed for traffic in one direction ( the side closest to the broken line ) and not the other.

Without loss of generality, this edge is usually chosen to be the closest one on a face, so that in parallel view this edge corresponds to the same one in a perspective view.

On Earth-6, the former Atom ( Ray Palmer ) has become his world's Ray, a Nazi Ray exists on " Earth-10 " and his closest Earth-50 parallel is prominent Wildstorm Universe character Apollo, a Superman pastiche who debuted in the early 90s.

His closest analog, interestingly, is his primary antagonist, Jack-in-the-Box, whose origin, inventive genius, and use of gimmicks parallel his.

The Players Championship's closest parallel in Europe is perhaps the BMW PGA Championship, although that was originally the British PGA Championship, and thus equivalent to the PGA Championship, organised by the PGA of America, which is a major championship and is now a European Tour event.

The NMR technique which is closest parallel to µSR is " pulsed NMR ", in which one observes time-dependent transverse nuclear polarization or so-called " free induction decay " of the nuclear

There are two portions of Manichaean scriptures that are probably the closest thing to the original Manichaean writings in their original languages that will ever be available.

The preface explains that the original concept of a general system theory was " Allgemeine Systemtheorie ( or Lehre )", pointing out the fact that " Theorie " ( or " Lehre ") just as " Wissenschaft " ( translated Scholarship ), " has a much broader meaning in German than the closest English words ‘ theory ’ and ‘ science '".

Minnesota SNOBOL4, By Viktors Berstis, the closest PC implementation to the original IBM mainframe version ( even including Fortran-like FORMAT statement support ) is also free, and is at http :// www. berstis. com / snobol4. htm.

Traditionally, Rea Irvin's original Tilley cover illustration is used every year on the issue closest to the anniversary date of February 21, though on several occasions a newly drawn variation has been substituted.

Murasaki's poems were published in 1206 by Fujiwara Teika, in what Mulhern believes to be the collection that is closest to the original form ; at around the same time Teika included a selection of Murasaki's works in an imperial anthology, New Collections of Ancient and Modern Times.

The most realistic sound effects may originate from original sources ; the closest sound to machine-gun fire that we can replay should be an original recording of actual machine guns.

Niçois is the archaic form of provençal closest to the original language of the troubadours, and is sometimes to said to be literary language of its own.

The German word Zaun comes closest to the original meaning of the word: a fence of any material.

As the original negatives are lost, the closest to an original print is a spare negative stored in Paramount's vaults.

In contrast, the original CMH is found in as much as 5 % to 8 % of Jews who have no family tradition of being Kohanim, and only 1. 5 % were found to have the closest match to the most detailed sequence.

* That he was perfectly aware of the consequences of his actions all along the way, and that he directed his closest supporters, the original twelve Apostles, unknowingly to aid him in his plans.

This was due to it being the closest river port to the original state capital of Corydon, Indiana.

However, where there is a difference, the computer does not attempt to decide which reading is closer to the original text, and so does not indicate which branch of the tree is the " root "— which manuscript tradition is closest to the original.

Willem Nyland, one of Gurdjieff's closest students and an original founder and trustee of The Gurdjieff Foundation of New York, left to form his own groups in the early 1960s.

The Petrine Matthew bears the closest relationship to this original Gospel ( Urevangelium ); the Pauline Luke is later and arose independently ; Mark represents a still later development according to Baur ; the account in John is idealistic: it " does not possess historical truth, and cannot and does not really lay claim to it.

The quaternion so obtained will correspond to the rotation closest to the original matrix Q

Today, most critical editions of the Greek New Testament, such as UBS4 and NA27, consider the Alexandrian text-type corrected by papyri, to be the Greek text that is closest to the original autographs.

According to the Introduction to the Twentieth-Century Biographers Series published by The Christian Science Publishing Society, Mary Baker Eddy trusted Ira greatly, making him one of the original Directors of The Mother Church and " one of her closest workers over more than two decades ".

The Faculty of International Relations ( founded in 1986 ) being perhaps closest to the original liberal foundation principles of 1923, as all students are required to learn one of nine Asian languages ( Chinese, Korean, Urdu, Hindi, Arabic, Persian, Thai, Indonesian, Vietnamese ) for at least two of their four years of undergraduate study, in addition to one year of English, and most students participate in school festivals celebrating Asian language and culture, such as Asia Week, and the Asian Language Speech Contest.

Numbering about 500 people still living in the original villages of Istria ( while the majority left for other countries after World War II ( mainly to Italy, United States, Canada, Germany, France, Sweden, Switzerland, and Australia ), they speak the Istro-Romanian language, the closest living relative of Romanian.

This is particularly the case with Philippe Séguin, who opposed the Maastricht Treaty in 1992 and more recently with MP Nicolas Dupont-Aignan, who founded his own party, Arise the Republic ( DLR ) which seems to be the closest to the original Gaullism.