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The domed ceiling was painted to resemble a starry sky, and gave its name ( os-giliath, the Dome of Stars ) to the city itself.
The glittering Italian ' cabinet ' of 1780 is elliptical in plan with a mirrored domed ceiling, elaborate parquet floor, and carved panelling.
The domed ceiling is an allegorical representation of Peace: John Churchill is in the chariot, he holds a zigzag thunderbolt of war, and the woman who holds back his arm represents Peace.
The Reading Room's domed roof is metal framed in segments, and the surface that makes up the ceiling is a type of papier-mâché.
The domed ceiling of the Great Hall is reputed to be the second largest of its type in the world.
Stars representing companies and creatures representing speculators are projected into a domed ceiling in a dark room, creating an artificial night sky which visualises the dynamics of the world stock markets.
Examples include George Martin's AIR Studios in London, the famed Columbia Records 30th Street Studio in New York City ( a converted Armenian church, with a ceiling over 100 feet high ), and the equally famous Decca Records Pythian Temple studio in New York ( where artists like Louis Jordan, Bill Haley and Buddy Holly were recorded ) which was also a large converted church that featured a high, domed ceiling in the center of the hall.
The distinctive reverberation on the early hit records by Bill Haley & His Comets was created by recording the band under the domed ceiling of Decca's studio in New York, located in a former ballroom called The Pythian Temple.
He also describes a device for adjusting the heat by a bronze ventilator in the domed ceiling.
The chapel had a gallery around three sides, and the centre of the ceiling was domed and supported by two tuscan columns.
His first suggestion was for a church with a circular nave and a domed ceiling ; this was considered too expensive, and Gibbs then produced a simpler rectilinear plan, which was accepted.
In 1862 the domed ceiling was completed and Rabbi Yeshaya Bardaki, head of the Ashkenazic community, was honored with placing the final stone of the dome.
Two prominent American ideals are reflected in the building's architecture: The Doric columns of the facade, designed by Ithiel Town and Alexander Jackson Davis, resemble those of the Parthenon and serve as a tribute to Greek democracy ; the domed ceiling inside, designed by John Frazee, echoes the Pantheon and the economic might of the Romans.
The auditorium was lit by the huge crystal chandelier that today still hangs in the centre of the domed ceiling.
It uniquely combined a formal restaurant with a dramatic domed ceiling with a more casual drive-in cafe outside.
The highlight of the interior is the central, circular hall, surrounded by a balcony and covered by the domed ceiling ; it soars the full height of the main house up to the cupola, with walls decorated in trompe l ' oeil.
The interior is largely faced in white marble, and features a domed ceiling adorned with 120, 000 gold stars-one for each of New South Wales ' military volunteers during World War I.
* 藻井 Caisson domed or coffered ceiling
The Science Theatre hosts live, interactive and humorous science demonstrations linked to the main exhibition, and the planetarium-the largest in the North-utilising its 360 ° domed ceiling and immersive projections to present a range of shows and films from traditional astronomy demonstrations to specially created animated films on a range of science-inspired subjects.
The outstanding characteristics of his houses are his use of beautiful golden sandstone, Corinthian or Ionic pillared entrance porticos, elegant staircases with beautiful ironwork balustrades leading to an upper gallery with an iron balustrade of the same design, and the hall's having a domed ceiling and glass centrepiece.
The interior of the arcade was long with an arched ceiling decorated in the Grecian style and with several domed skylights.
Between pillars, the ceiling is domed and intricately decorated.
Yet further away from the tomb complex, lie Mughal-period monuments, Bada Bateshewala Mahal, the tomb of Muzaffar Husain Mirza, the grand nephew of Humayun, built 1603-4 on platform with five arches on each side, has its interior walls decorated with incised and painted plaster ; the Chote Bateshewala Mahal once an arcaded octagonal building with a domed ceiling and stone jaalis.

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He clambers onto the domed roof of the British Museum Reading Room and is killed after falling through a glass panel of the dome.
Construction of the Xanadu house in Kissimmee, Florida, began with the pouring of a concrete slab base and the erection of a tension ring in diameter to anchor the domed roof of what would become the " Great Room " of the house.
The two domed ballrooms on that floor ( the South and North Cameo rooms ), were turned into the Ethel Barrymore Tea Room and a restaurant called Founders.

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Those three other great activities of the Persians, the bath, the teahouse, and the zur khaneh ( the latter a kind of club in which a leader and a group of men in an octagonal pit move through a rite of calisthenics, dance, chanted poetry, and music ), do not take place in buildings to which entrance tickets are sold, but some of them occupy splendid examples of Persian domestic architecture: long, domed, chalk-white rooms with daises of turquoise tile, their end walls cut through to the orchards and the sky by open arches.
This method of computing compression ratio cannot be used accurately for engines that have pistons with either domed or irregularly shaped heads.
Cowboys Stadium is a new domed stadium with a retractable roof in Arlington, Texas, for the National Football League's Dallas Cowboys.
Compared with most other mammals, the head of cats is highly domed with a short muzzle.
The destruction that had taken place during the revolt provided Justinian with an opportunity to tie his name to a series of splendid new buildings, most notably the architectural innovation of the domed Hagia Sophia.
The story of a troubled youth transported to Mars as a convict laborer who becomes involved with a rebellion by independent farmers and tradesmen who want to terraform Mars and break the stranglehold by the corporations and domed cities sponsored by Earth governments.
Saladin first fortified the Citadel of Cairo ( 1175 – 1183 ), which had been a domed pleasure pavilion with a fine view in more peaceful times.
The Région des Lacs is a land of gorges and waterfalls dotted with tiny villages, each with a domed belfry decorated with mosaic of tiles or slates or beaten from metal.
Only the coronal consonants can be divided into apical ( using the tip of the tongue ), laminal ( using the blade of the tongue ), domed ( with the tongue bunched up ), or subapical ( using the underside of the tongue ), as well as a few rarer orientations, because only the front of the tongue has such dexterity.
Their relatively small ears with rounded tips are set far apart, making the head look domed.
A peculiar first dish is the pasticcio di maccheroni, a domed macaroni pie, consisting of a crust of sweet dough enclosing macaroni in a Béchamel sauce, studded with porcini mushrooms and ragù bolognese.
* Genus cumulus ( Cu ): Cumuliform clouds of free convection with clear-cut flat bases and domed tops.
:* Species cumulonimbus calvus ( Cb cal ): Thunderclouds with very high clear-cut domed tops similar to towering cumulus ( C < sub > L </ sub > 3 ).
The triplet-cut opal backs the colored material with a dark backing, and then has a domed cap of clear quartz or plastic on top, which takes a high polish and acts as a protective layer for the opal.
Adult males also have a protruding crest which gives them a " high, domed forehead "; it is tufted with white hairs.
The site on which the silver domed mosque sits, along with the Dome of the Rock, also referred to as al-Haram ash-Sharif or " Noble Sanctuary ," is the Temple Mount, the holiest site in Judaism, the place where the Temple is generally accepted to have stood.
The Royal Palace at Nyanza, a domed construction made with traditional materials, has been restored to its 19th-century state and is now maintained as a museum.
There are several styles of sweat lodges that include a domed or oblong hut similar to a wickiup, or even a simple hole dug into the ground and covered with planks or tree trunks.
Dipper nests are usually large, round, domed structures made of moss, with an internal cup of grass and rootlets, and a side entrance hole.
His later coins show him bearded, wearing the high domed Parthian crown applied with a star.
A domed church with a cross-shaped nave and elongated apse, and dating from the perhaps as early as the end of the 6th century, its bema was decorated with very fine mosaics that had been restored in the 9th century.

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