The western pediment has Apollo as the central figure, " majestic " and " remote ", presiding over a battle of Lapiths and Centaurs, in strong contrast to that of the eastern pediment for its depiction of violent action, and described by D. E. Strong as the " most powerful piece of illustration " for a hundred years.

The frieze and remaining figures of the eastern pediment show a profound understanding of the human body, and how it varies depending upon its position and the stresses that action and emotion place upon it.

Fragments of the eastern pediment survive, showing the Sack of Troy.

The palmate acroteria have been replaced here with small figures, the eastern pediment being surmounted by a winged Nike, poised against the wind.

The western frieze was completed between 445-440 BC, while the eastern frieze, the western pediment and several changes in the building's interior are dated by these scholars to 435-430 BC, largely on stylistic grounds.

The gopura's eastern pediment shows Indra, who was associated with that direction, mounted on his three-headed elephant Airavata.

Neither pediment of the eastern gopura is in situ.

The eastern pediment of the gopura shows Śiva Nāṭarāja ; the west-facing pediment has an image of Durgā.

In the sculptural frieze of the Great Altar of Pergamum ( 2nd century BC ), Dione is inscribed in the cornice directly above her name and figures in the eastern third of the north frieze, among the Olympian family of Aphrodite ; thus she is an exception to the rule detected by Erika Simon that the organizational principle according to which the gods on the Great Altar were grouped, was Hesiodic: her company in the grouping of offspring of Uranus and Gaia is Homeric, as is her possible appearance in the east pediment of the Parthenon.

Where Diocletian's system of rescripts shows an adherence to classical tradition, Constantine's law is full of Greek and eastern influences.

The fossil record shows Homo sapiens living in southern and eastern Africa at least 100, 000 and possibly 150, 000 years ago.

As the fossil record for the Cryptobranchidae shows an Asian origin for the family, the story of how these salamanders made it to the eastern U. S. has been a point of scientific interest.

One photograph taken at 02: 33 am shows an okapi feeding in the Watalinga forest in the north of the Virunga National Park in eastern DRC, thus providing evidence that they do not only feed during the daytime.

Seabed survey shows that when the sea level was lower in the Ice Age the River Solent continued the line of the eastern Solent ( Spithead ) to a point roughly due east of the east end of the Isle of Wight and due south of a point about 3 km west of Selsey Bill, and then south-south-west for about 30 km, and then south for about 14 km, and then joined the main river flowing down the dry bed of the English Channel.

The eastern arm shows considerable diversity.

Part of the data about eastern Asia provided by Muslim geographers of the 10th century actually goes back to Sogdian data of the period 750 – 840 and thus shows the survival of links between east and west.

Reference to his map shows that he must have landed and stayed in the Siesia area, the eastern part of modern Nukualofa.

The current image also shows the Henry Hudson Trail crossing the eastern edge of the runway.

At the time, most television shows were produced from New York with live broadcasts of the show airing for eastern and Midwest audiences.

The process operated in the reverse for the few programs that originated live in Hollywood, such as Burns and Allen and The Ed Wynn Show, thus making blurry kinescopes of these shows the only available print for eastern audiences.

In La Question d ' Orient au XVIII ' siècle, les origines de la triple alliance ( 1878 ), he shows how the partition of Poland on the one hand reversed the traditional policy of France in eastern Europe, and on the other hand contributed towards the salvation of republican France in 1793.

This view of Goshen from the hills at the village's eastern boundary shows its topography and many landmarks: from left, the tower of the First Presbyterian Church, the cupola of the 1841 Goshen Courthouse | 1841 courthouse, the Goshen United Methodist Church, St. John the Evangelist Roman Catholic Church and C. J. Hooker Middle School.

Rockapella began joining the Boston Pops on stage in the eastern US in 2006, creating a concert experience that shows both the orchestra's and Rockapella's talents separately and together in a manner never done before: a cappella with instrumentation.

Annual rainfall, which is evenly distributed over the year, shows considerable variation due to the Otway Ranges to the southwest: the northwestern shore of the bay is the driest part of southern Victoria and almost approaches a semi-arid climate ( BSk ) with a mean annual rainfall as low as ( comparable to Nhill or Numurkah ), whilst the eastern shores less shielded by the Otways receive as much as.

The Cayman spreading ridge shows a long-term opening rate of The eastern section of the trough has been named the Gonâve Microplate.

Ptolemy's geography shows the commercial relations between western India and Alexandria, the chief eastern emporium of the Roman Empire.

New archaeological evidence from Baise, China shows that there were also hand axes in eastern Asia.

The archaeological evidence shows a widespread collapse of Bronze Age civilization in the eastern Mediterranean world at the outset of the period, as the great palaces and cities of the Mycenaeans were destroyed or abandoned.

The archaeological record shows that Arabian Bifacial / Ubaid period came to an abrupt end in eastern Arabia and the Oman peninsula at 3800 BC, just after the phase of lake lowering and onset of dune reactivation.

Like all squirrels, the eastern gray shows four fingers on the front feet and five on the hind feet.

Wansdyke's origins are unclear, but archaeological data shows that the eastern part was probably built during the 5th or 6th century.

A scene from the eastern gallery shows a Khmer army on the march.

One gallery just north of the eastern gopura, for example, shows two linked scenes which have been explained as the freeing of a goddess from inside a mountain, or as an act of iconoclasm by Cham invaders.

This movement provides us with the term rising sign, which is the sign of the zodiac rising over the eastern horizon at the moment of birth.

If there was ever a chance of reuniting the eastern and western churches, and coming to reconciliation with the Pope permanently, this was probably the most favourable moment.

For example, a very typical Western plot is that an eastern lawman heads west, where he matches wits and trades bullets with a gang of outlaws and thugs, and is aided by a local lawman who is well-meaning but largely ineffective until a critical moment when he redeems himself by saving the hero's life.

Meanwhile, Michael Palaiologos was proclaimed emperor of Nicaea, afterwards expelling the Latins from Constantinople, and became emperor of the restored Byzantine Empire ; and from this moment Akropolites becomes known in the history of the eastern empire as one of its greatest diplomats.

The heliacal rising (, ) of a star ( or other body such as the moon, a planet or a constellation ) occurs when it first becomes visible above the eastern horizon for a brief moment just before sunrise, after a period of time when it had not been visible.

After consulting the astrological chart, the Dalai Lama set the return date, but at the moment of departure, the weakening of the ice on the Volga River permitted only those Kalmyks who roamed on the left or eastern bank to leave.

However, Constantine foolishly disbanded the Armenian troops to save money in 1053, leaving the eastern frontier poorly defended at precisely the moment when its defences should have been strengthened.

The Third Burmese Empire, for a brief moment the terror of British India, was crippled and no longer a threat to the eastern frontier of British India.

A common feature of all three traditions however, is the significance of the Ascendant-the zodiac sign that is rising ( due to the rotation of the earth ) on the eastern horizon at the moment of a person's birth.

This line was the first railway link from the eastern United States to the Mississippi River, and thus a more than symbolic moment in westward expansion, allowing for commerce and westward immigration, and ultimately a complete rail line to the Pacific coast.

So, at that moment, Hungarian and Papal documents use the name Cumania to refer to the land between the eastern border of the lands of Seneslau and the land of the Brodnici ( Buzău, southern Vrancea and southern Galaţi ): that is Cumania meant, more or less, Muntenia.

During the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake, which measured 6. 9 on the moment magnitude scale, a 50-foot ( 15 m ) section of the upper deck of the eastern truss viaduct portion of the bridge collapsed onto the deck below, indirectly causing one death at the point of collapse.

The most recent work by Timothy Barnes and Constantin Zuckerman concludes that the entire document belongs to a single moment, c. 314, the eastern and western parts corresponding to the respective spheres of responsibility of the emperors Licinius and Constantine during the period between Licinius ’ defeat of Maximinus II ( Daia ) in 313 and his own defeat in his first civil war with Constantine in 316-317.