Spiral galaxies are disk-shaped with dusty, curving arms.

Surviving examples have a variety of head forms but there are two main variants, one with the side blades ( known as flukes or wings ) branching from the neck of the central blade at 45 degrees, the other with hooked blades curving back towards the haft.

Other lungfish and Polypterus, however, have two lungs, which are located in the upper part of the body, with the connecting duct curving round and above the esophagus.

The head and thorax are merged into a cephalothorax, with the abdomen curving around underneath.

The poles are actually huge, subtly curving holes that allow passage between the outer and inner world, although it is a long, hard trek through a cold, unlit, stormy and anti-magic area.

The instrument is often curved to the right, and the player ’ s right hand is placed lowermost, but many specimens are ‘ left-handed ’, curving the opposite way.

The curving letters over the west window are most famous: SCT.

In the gaps the magnetic field lines are no longer confined by the core, so they ' bulge ' out beyond the outlines of the core before curving back to enter the next piece of core material, reducing the field strength in the gap.

The original Miami Lakes development, east of the Palmetto Expressway, was master planned by Lester Collins with curving tree-shaded roadways and numerous curving lakes which are unusual compared to most surrounding areas with treeless streets on a square grid and rectangular lakes.

Due to the curving of 1st Avenue, there are some areas in western Cedar Rapids where NW addresses are actually south of SW addresses.

While Grosse Pointe and Grosse Pointe Park are built on a standard street grid and are basically flat, Grosse Pointe Farms is partially built on the same grid flowing out of Detroit, but also features districts with irregular, curving street paths.

Concentric, curving waves are characteristic of the process.

A major focus of his career was the remodelling of older country houses, his first major commission was the transformation of Henry Holland's Trentham Hall, Staffordshire ( 1834 – 40 ) it was remodelled in the Italianate style with a large tower ( a feature Barry often included in his country houses ), Barry also designed the Italianate gardens, with parterres and fountains, largely demolished in 1912, only a small portion of the house consisting of the porte-cochère, with a curving corridor and the stables are still standing, although the gardens are undergoing a restoration, additionally the belvedere from the top of the tower survives as a folly at Sandon Hall.

Hilts are sometimes canted, curving in the opposite direction as the blade which improves handling in some forms of cuts and thrusts.

All the instruments had 17 pipes with a long curving mouthpiece and are very similar to the traditional sheng in use today.

Tinamous are slender and compact birds with a small head and a short, slender bill that is downward curving.

There are also several variants, such as WarheadsSE in which the players fire missiles between planets, with the trajectories curving as missiles pass through gravitational fields.

The Roaches are the most prominent part of a curving ridge which extends for several miles from Hen Cloud in the south to Back Forest and Hangingstone in the northwest.

Where long carriages are used on a curving platform gaps will occur between the platform and the carriage door causing additional risk.

To make the roads the Romans used stones, broken stones mixed with cement and sand, cement mixed with broken tiles, curving stones — so the water could drain, and on the top they used tightly packed paving stones.

As the firing velocity is increased, the cannonball hits the ground farther ( B ) away from the cannon, because while the ball is still falling towards the ground, the ground is increasingly curving away from it ( see first point, above ).

These blades had deep fullers running their length, yet still had single-handed hilts which sported a unique shaped pommel, flat at the grip side and roughly triangular early on, with the flat curving to fit the hand later.

In the sanctuary, rows of names of the countless grateful ancient visitors may still be seen, votive and memorial inscriptions on columns, on steps and walls and even on a curving marble bench: in their entirety the inscription of Clarus form the largest assembly of surviving Greek inscriptions.

Wire Pass, a short tributary to the Buckskin, is an ideal alternative for a short day hike that still takes hikers through the narrow, curving features that are the hallmark of slot canyons.

The gates on Lake Avenue mark the entrance to the estate which still has its long, paved, curving driveway which leads to the site of the defunct manor.

The Lexington and West Cambridge Railroad was branched off in 1846, with the curving connection still visible today, passing under Alewife Brook Parkway, along the west side of the Alewife Station parking garage, and proceeding northwest along the right-of-way of the present-day Minuteman Bikeway.

David Thigpin ( with Rolling Stone ) called the album's sound, " curving, melodically rich tunes that weave folk, blues, rock and wisps of jazz place him in the company of David Gray and Jeff Buckley, minus the melancholy.

The curving stairway is faced with Knoxville pink marble, and features mosaics and ornate bronze balusters.

* Preston Bradley Hall-A large, ornately patterned room of curving white Carrara marble, capped with an austere 38-foot Tiffany glass dome designed by artist J.

A curving double flight of steps led up to the arched door under an arched niche containing a gift from William Bingham — a marble statue of Franklin in a classical toga sculpted in Italy by Francesco Lazzarini.

The Pavilion has 3, 197 seats spread over four tiers, with chandeliers, wide curving stairways and rich décor.

In the special case of a planet in circular orbit around its star, for example, where is zero, the centripetal acceleration alone is the entire acceleration of the planet, curving its path toward the sun under the force of gravity, the negative F ( r ).

This complex occupies the site of the former Haus Vaterland, and its principal building, which for a few years was the headquarters of the large German trade union ver. di ( Vereinte Dienstleistungsgewerkschaft, meaning United Services Union ), rises to 45 metres and has a curving glass facade designed to evoke the shape of that erstwhile landmark.

It was originally named Drépanon from the Greek word for " sickle ", because of the curving shape of its harbour.

Ferrabosco's motets provided direct models for Byrd's Emendemus in melius ( a5 ), O lux beata Trinitas ( a6 ), Domine secundum actum meum ( a6 ) and Siderum rector ( a5 ) as well as a more generalized paradigm for what Joseph Kerman has called Byrd's ' affective-imitative ' style, a method of setting pathetic texts in extended paragraphs based on subjects employing curving lines in fluid rhythm and contrapuntal techniques which Byrd learnt from his study of Ferrabosco.

Totality will occur along a path curving from Oregon to South Carolina, and will last at most for 2 minutes and 40. 2 seconds.

Her feet were extremely rigid, so she strengthened her pointe shoe by adding a piece of hard wood on the soles for support and curving the box of the shoe.

A climb down a small waterfall and a curving squeeze can be difficult for some to negotiate.

He and teammate Stan Mikita were the most formidable forward duo of the Sixties, notorious for curving the blades of their sticks.

The Million Programme ( Miljonprogrammet ) is the familiar term for an ambitious housing programme implemented in Sweden between 1965 and 1974 with the aim of building one million new dwellings in 10 years ; in the beginning strongly influenced by the " Garden City " developments in England during the 40's – 50's, but towards the end the developments were mostly built as single family homes along curving streets and cul-de-sacs and / or as immense tower blocks, similar to many residential districts built in Eastern Europe.

The gesture for Love is to form a heart by curving your fingers and thumb with the person who is receiving the kandi.

While curving northwestward and then northward, Alberto began to re-strengthen, and was upgraded to a hurricane for the third occasion on August 18.

The back coverThe transition between the top left, perhaps where the artist began, and the standard pattern, is somewhat awkward, leaving a rather bald spot ( for an interlace pattern ) to the left of the first curving yellow vertical.

The Chepstow Bridge carried the South Wales Railway across the River Wye and featured a main truss of with a curving tubular main member, and three conventional plate-girder approach spans of, a similar solution to that adopted for crossing the River Tamar at Saltash.

However, when combined with the steep, curving sea wall it slows down any attacker, giving time for a nearby machinegun bunker ( out of view ) to sweep the area with enfilade fire.

Spreading from Italian to the other European languages, the term was long used largely interchangeably with arabesque and moresque for types of decorative patterns using curving foliage elements.

Aside from requiring more speed and range, the center field position is slightly easier to field because balls tend to fly on a straight path, rather than curving as they do for the other outfield positions.

The curving outbuildings of Schwetzingen inspired the smaller Rococo perfections of Schloss Benrath, with its quarter arcs of matching corps de logis embracing a formal sheet of water, built for Carl Theodor near Düsseldorf, 1756 – 1770.

Soda glass remains “ plastic ” for longer when heated, and can therefore be shaped into elegant curving leaves and flowers.

200px It is a well-known tourist destination, known for its curving white sand beaches backed by commercial development.

The complex gateways support the view that the site was militaristic ; the long, curving east entrance maximised the time it would have taken for attackers to enter the fort and would have allowed defenders on the ramparts more time to hurl missiles, while the south-west entrance narrowed forcing attackers together and causing disarray.

The freeway passes to the south side for the airport, and it crosses a rail line owned by CSX Transportation and used by Amtrak's Pere Marquette train before curving northeasterly through the interchange with M-40.

These lines generally follow the musculation ; for instance, there is a prominent line of non-elongation running from the shoulder area, down the front of the body, then curving under the armpit.