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.

Bosschaert became one of the first artists to specialise in still life, and in doing so he started a tradition of painting detailed flower bouquets, which typically consisted of tulips, roses and an exotic species.

According to Suetonius in his De vita Caesarum ( The Lives of the Twelve Caesars ), written in the first century CE, the emperor Augustus sometimes presented old and exotic coins to friends and courtiers during festivals and other special occasions.

In this work, the characters come upon a secret society's foul plot to destroy mankind, and pursue it first near to home and then in a series of exotic locations.

However, he was also the first to notice some of the apparently exotic consequences of entanglement, and used them to formulate the Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen paradox in the hope of showing that quantum mechanics had unacceptable implications.

By first producing a radioactive beam by an ISOL method and then re-accelerating it to make it hit a secondary thin target, very exotic nuclei can be produced.

In Africa the chief centre of serpent worship was Dahomey, but the cult of the python seems to have been of exotic origin, dating back to the first quarter of the 17th century.

Karloff always claimed he chose the first name " Boris " because it sounded foreign and exotic, and that " Karloff " was a family name.

Japanese garden selections were the first exotic clematises to reach European gardens, in the 18th century, long before the Chinese species were identified in their native haunts at the end of the 19th century.

Plant's resort featured a race track, a heated indoor pool, a golf course, a 2000-seat auditorium, tennis courts, stables, hunting and fishing tours, and electric lights and telephones in every room, plus the first elevator in town and exotic art collectibles which Plant had shipped in from around the world.

Since the first Europeans arrived, 34 exotic plant species have been recorded in the Park, representing about 6. 4 % of the total park flora.

During the 1950s and 1960s more than 30 motels sprang up along Collins Avenue including the Ocean Palm, the first two-story motel in the U. S. Tourists came from all over to vacation in themed motels of exotic design along " Motel Row .".

When Sharon first meets Lauren in the episodes " For The Birds " she is afraid that Lauren should not have a exotic bird that belongs in its natural habitat.

More exotic imports included French and Spanish wines, and some of the first imports of tea, coffee and chocolate.

the Jaguar XK120 achieved an officially timed ; the " Jabbeke Speed Record " Triumph TR2 car was driven by Ken Richardson ; André Pilette set a Belgian record in the 2 litre class in the Veritas RS ; in 1952 the Rover JET 1 turbine driven by Spen King set the first speed record for gas turbine cars at over the flying kilometre ; and the exotic Pegaso Z-102 clocked to make it the ' fastest production car in the world '.

One of the first " exotic " deaths for a soap opera character, it was in tune with actor Robert Mandan's wish to leave the show.

Heinz baked beans were first sold in the UK in 1886 in the upmarket Fortnum & Mason store in London as an exotic import at a high price.

Ellen is already engaged to another man ( Vincent Price ), but she jilts him and rapidly marries Richard, who at first is fascinated not only with Ellen's beauty, but with her exotic and intense manner.

Hawthorne's fiction had a profound impact on his friend Herman Melville ( 1819 – 1891 ), who first made a name for himself by turning material from his seafaring days into exotic and sensational sea narrative novels.

The first were made from hardwoods, most from ironwood, but some from ebony and other exotic woods, through the early 1980s.

In 1747, Noverre became ballet master in Strasbourg and created his first great success, the exotic Les Fêtes Chinoises.

In its first half century, the National Zoo, like most zoos around the world, focused principally on exhibiting one or two representatives of as many exotic species as possible.

As the first Romani immigrants arrived in England a century before Shakespeare wrote The Tempest, the Bard may have been influenced by their exotic looks and manners.

* Geoduck was used as part of an exotic protein challenge on the first episode of Top Chef season 3 and episode six of Top Chef Masters season 2.

They settled first in the Ancient Pueblo areas for a few hundred years, then migrated to their current location.

The 1971 census was the first census in Botswana to use de facto enumeration ; this method counts people based on how many people spent census night at a specific location.

To make the show more cost-effective, it was also shot with virtually no outdoor scenes ( in contrast to the first series which was shot largely on location ) and several frequently used indoor sets, such as the Queen's throne room and Blackadder's front room.

" was shot on location at the California Institute of the Arts around the time the school first opened.

However, there is another possible location for the third layer, such that its atoms are not above the first layer.

Together with northern Somalia, Djibouti, and the Red Sea coast of Sudan, Eritrea is considered the most likely location of the land known to the ancient Egyptians as Punt ( or " Ta Netjeru ," meaning god's land ), whose first mention dates to the 25th century BC.

* Rangitata River-The location of the Erewhon sheep station, named by Butler who was the first white settler in the area and lived at the Mesopotamia Sheep Station.

He was one of the first to emphasize that the location of the school is important to learning.

The concept of a sequel to The Evil Dead was discussed during the location shooting on the first film.

General responsibilities include arriving first at the location to allow the Set Dressers into the set for preparation ; maintaining the cleanliness of the location areas during filming ; fielding complaints from neighbors ; and ultimately, at the end of the filming, making sure it seems as though the film crew was never there.

The five areas listed in 1: 1 as the geographical location of the first readers were Roman provinces in Asia Minor.

The gardens were the first location in Ireland where the infection responsible for the 1845 – 1847 potato famine was identified.

Schliemann's first interest of a classical nature seems to have been the location of Troy.

* Helped to design the first professional video clip of " Böhse Onkelz " called " Dunkler Ort " ( dark location ) from their album " Ein böses Märchen ... aus tausend finsteren Nächten ", which was released in 2000.

On 14 October 1968, the band announced the new name and played their first show at the University of Surrey ( at its original Battersea Park location, not at Guildford ) on 25 October ; this was followed by a short British tour.

Buried by time, the city was consigned to the realm of legend until the location was first excavated in the 1860s.

In that case the invalid location Λ can be any index before the first element ( such as 0 or − 1, respectively ) or after the last one ( n + 1 or n, respectively ).

if the first item of the list has the desired value, return its location ;

The images were used both to determine the location of the stones on the ground and, more significantly, to calculate for the first time an accurate orbit for a recovered meteorite.

* In Terry Bisson's Voyage to the Red Planet ( 1990 ), the first expedition to Mars is organized by a Hollywood producer so he can film a science fiction movie on location.

The first is discovery of the ore body, which is carried out through prospecting or exploration to find and then define the extent, location and value of the ore body.

It is notable for being the location where Muhammad received his first revelations from God through the angel Jibreel, also known as Gabriel to Christians.

The first mention of Nijmegen in history is in the 1st century BC, when the Romans built a military camp on the place where Nijmegen was to appear ; the location had great strategic value because of the surrounding hills, which gave ( and continues to give ) a good view over the Waal and Rhine valley.

Samuel Morse received his first ever patent for the telegraph in 1847, at the old Beylerbeyi Palace ( the present Beylerbeyi Palace was built in 1861 – 1865 on the same location ) in Istanbul, which was issued by Sultan Abdülmecid who personally tested the new invention.