It is an exotic place, so different from the ordinary that the casual tourist is likely to see at first only the contrast and the ugliness of narrow streets lined with haphazard houses.

Unlike in many other European countries, the general image of Święty Mikołaj in Poland is basically no different to the one of the Anglo-Saxon Santa Claus ( he is said to live in the North Pole, wear red clothes and a white beard, use reindeers to pull his sleigh, or enter houses via the chimney ).

Since two houses may be very different from one another, a design pattern for houses must be broad enough to apply to both of them, but not so vague that it doesn't help the designer make decisions.

If the two houses choose different individuals, then a joint committee of both houses is appointed to agree on a common candidate.

Although most of the country consists of sand deserts, a small part of the country houses different vegetation zones, where trees, reeds and shrubs like tamarind, phragmites, and mace can grow.

King and his wife own and occupy three different houses, one in Bangor, one in Lovell, Maine, and they regularly winter in their waterfront mansion located off the Gulf of Mexico, in Sarasota, Florida.

Houses are made in many different architectural styles which may be of European, American and International architecture and which vary in size, although the main difference with the US and Canada is that houses are mainly constructed with bricks and concrete instead of wood ; thus houses tend to last much longer, approximately 50 years.

If not, production houses such as Warner Bros. and Sony Pictures can distribute their content to the different networks, and it is common that a certain production house may have programs on two or more rival networks.

The show This Old House, which began in 1979, the start to finish renovation of different houses through a season ; media critic Jeff Jarvis has speculated that it is " the original reality TV show.

Three Little Pigs is a fairy tale featuring anthropomorphic pigs who build three houses of different materials.

The book was rejected by different publishing houses for a myriad of reasons.

The aim of the Housing Foundation was to create a garden city which would be a microcosm of Finnish society: all social classes would live there and there would be different types of buildings, ranging from detached houses to terraced and multi-storey blocks.

In some advertisements, the Champagne houses catered to political interest such as the labels that appeared on different brands on bottles commemorating the centennial anniversary of the French Revolution of 1789.

Until then, Champagne houses produced different cuvées of varying quality, but a top-of-the-range wine produced to the highest standards ( and priced accordingly ) was a new idea.

Initial analyses indicated there were at least two types of bottle from two different houses: Veuve Clicquot in Reims and the long-defunct Champagne house Juglar ( absorbed into Jacquesson in 1829.

The different districts produce grapes of varying characteristics that are blended by the champagne houses to create their distinct house styles.

It includes antique houses, farms, and factories from different parts of the Netherlands.

During the Great Northern War, the Swedes again captured Rzeszów, in 1702, then several different armies occupied the town, ransacking it and destroying houses.

The temple houses sculptural samples from different eras and artists.

Each house belongs to a different family member, and additional houses are created behind this arrangement to accommodate additional family members as needed.

Other cognac houses, such as Moyet, exclusively use the crus to describe their different cognacs.

In others, separate houses accommodate needs of different years or classes.

The ANFC ran the Championship of Australia, the first national club competition, which commenced in 1888 and saw clubs from different states compete on an even playing field.

In Hong Kong, Schools Music Festival is held every year for school students to compete in different music classes.

Many different types and classes of boats can compete in individual races, on the same course, at the same time.

However, it is common for top riders not to compete at all the events of the series, with teams often using the events to field younger riders or attempt different line-ups at some events.

The Keirin is a variant of the sprint in which a higher number ( usually 6-8, or 9 in Japan ) of sprinters compete in a very different format.

Combined events, which include the decathlon ( typically competed by men ) and heptathlon ( typically competed by women ), are competitions where athletes compete in a number of different track and field events, with each performance going toward a final points tally.

In essence, with the SCPP we seek to find the answer to how firms interact and compete with each other in different situations, and the results of these interactions, and are these results consistent with an ideal competition or not.

Wrestlers who are from the same training stable cannot compete against each other, nor can wrestlers who are brothers, even if they join different stables.

This competition led to eight prototype boats built to compete in two different classes.

Setting different parts of the Nazi bureaucracy to compete for his favor in areas where their administration overlapped was a standard tactic employed by Hitler to reinforce his authority ; and just as in other areas of government, there was a rivalry between the OKW and the OKH.

Over twelve thousand visitors come to this small northern Wisconsin town each year in late July to watch men and women compete in 21 different events, including log rolling, chopping, timed hot ( power ) saw and bucksaw cutting, and pole climbing.

Local groups parade down Old Lancaster Pike, neighborhoods compete in different athletic events, and there is a fireworks display in the evening in Swift Park.

Teams have come from many different states and as far as Canada to compete.

The rail line was built to compete with another North / South rail line operated nearby by Seaboard Air Line ( also called the Florida Central & Peninsular, Seaboard Coast Line, and presently CSX ) which ran a different course through Denmark, Fairfax, Estill, Garnett ( parallel to US321 ) and then into Georgia.

In doing so, he became the only player in hockey history to compete in six different decades at the professional level, having played in the NHL, WHA and IHL from the 1940s to 1990s.

Systems similar to GM's were implemented by other major companies, especially in the United States, and they eventually undermined the ability to compete with companies that used different accounting, according to Waddell & Bodek's 2005 analysis.

Psycholinguistic experiments have shown that homonyms and polysemes are represented differently within people's mental lexicon: while the different meanings of homonyms ( which are semantically unrelated ) tend to interfere or compete with each other during comprehension, this does not usually occur for the polysemes that have semantically related meanings.

" On their best single, Jerry Miller, Peter Lewis and Skip Spence compete in a three-way guitar battle for two and a quarter red-hot minutes, each of them charging at Spence's song from different angles, no one yielding to anyone else.

Mérillon proceeded to publish an entirely different schedule of events, with the result that many of those that had made plans to compete in concordance with the original program withdrew, and refused to deal with the new committee.

As Kids ' WB shared more and more of its programming with Cartoon Network, because of the 1996 Turner-Time Warner merger and the fact that Cartoon Network was outrating Fox Kids, airing Kids ' WB became financially unattractive as broadcast stations started showing only live-action talk shows and sitcom reruns in the afternoon to compete and go after a different audience, figuring children had all moved to watching cable networks in the afternoons.

Finally, where there are party systems, elected leaders of different parties will ultimately compete against the other parties for laws, funding and power.

The 1996 Act requires that intercarrier compensation rates among competing local exchange carriers ( CLECs ) be based on the “ additional costs of terminating such calls .” However, the framework created by the 1996 Act set different intercarrier compensation rates for services that were not competing at that time but do compete today.

The game also includes a split-screen multiplayer mode in which two, three or four players can compete in different types of deathmatch games.

The multiplayer mode allows two, three or four players to compete against each other in five different types of split screen deathmatch games: Normal, You Only Live Twice, The Living Daylights ( Flag Tag ), The Man With the Golden Gun, and License to Kill.

This value, although considerably in excess of that previously found by different methods, was held by Airy, from the care and completeness with which the observations were carried out and discussed, to be " entitled to compete with the others on, at least, equal terms.