At each of the corners, a 1 m radius quarter-circle is drawn, and a dotted line is painted parallel to the shortline and five metres away from it without extending into the penalty area.

The concept was much improved by the Italian Roberto Valturio in 1463, who devised a boat with five sets, where the parallel cranks are all joined to a single power source by one connecting-rod, an idea also taken up by his compatriot Francesco di Giorgio.

Some scholars see in this five-part layout a deliberate plan to create a parallel to the first five books of the Old Testament ; others see a three-part structure based around the idea of Jesus as Messiah ; or a set of weekly readings spread out over the year ; or no plan at all.

His next two films each experimented with parallel narratives: Mystery Train ( 1989 ) told three successive stories set on the same night in and around a small Memphis hotel, and Night on Earth ( 1991 ) involved five cab drivers and their passengers on rides in five different world cities, beginning at sundown in Los Angeles and ending at sunrise in Helsinki.

The Khitan, however, had two scripts of their own and many Mongolic words are found in their half-deciphered writings that are usually found with a parallel Chinese text ( for example, nair = sun, sair = moon, tau = five, jau = hundred, m. r = horse, im. a = goat, n. q = dog, m. ng = silver, ju. un = summer, n. am. ur = autumn, u. ul = winter, heu. ur = spring, tau. l. a = rabbit, t. q. a = hen and m. g. o = snake ).

groups of five parallel to each other.

One of its marked features is the five parallel furos which from the north-west at almost regular intervals the Amazon sends to the Purus ; the most south-westerly one being about 150 miles ( 240 km ) above the mouth of the latter river.

On the surface of a sphere there are no parallel line s. Euclid's Elements contained five postulates that form the basis for Euclidean geometry.

The eastern part of the island is dominated by five mountain ranges, each running from north-northeast to south-southwest, roughly parallel to the east coast of the island.

The Himalayan range, which consists of three parallel sub-ranges, abuts or crosses five countries: Bhutan, India, Nepal, People's Republic of China, and Pakistan, with the first three countries having sovereignty over most of the range.

They have three or five parallel veins that diverge in the wider part of the leaf.

* The Fionavar Tapestry, concerning five people from our Earth in a parallel world, " the first of all worlds ," in three parts:

The title of the series was inspired by earlier crossover stories involving the multiple parallel Earths of the Multiverse, such as " Crisis on Earth-Two " and " Crisis on Earth-Three ", but instead of lasting two to five issues and involving members from many superhero teams from many parallel worlds, it involved virtually every significant character from every parallel universe in DC's history.

" However, he expects the attack and allows it to happen so that his death will release enough energy to protect the last five parallel Earths ( the homes of the known DC Universe ) long enough for the heroes to lead an assault on the Anti-Monitor under the guidance of the Monitor's assistants, Harbinger, Alexander Luthor, Jr., and Pariah.

" From there the boundary was to follow the fortieth parallel due west for five degrees of longitude.

At Dallas-Fort Worth, there are five parallel runways, named 17L, 17C, 17R, 18L, and 18R, all oriented at a heading of 175. 4 degrees.

One to five team members stand in a line facing the opposing team across the court, with the two teams lined up parallel to each other.

When the ball is in a scrum, the scrum-half must remain behind the ball and all other players not in the scrum must remain behind a line parallel to the goal-line and five metres behind the hindmost foot.

These carvings fit into ten categories, five of which are curvilinear ( circles, spirals, arcs, serpentiniforms and dot-in-circles ) and the other five of which are rectilinear ( chevrons, lozenges, radials, parallel lines and offsets ).

In the same vein, the Pali suttas ( and parallel āgamas, both referred to collectively below as the nikāyas ), categorize the phenomena experienced by a being into five groups (" khandhas ") that serve as the objects of clinging and as the basis for a sense of self.

He corresponded with more than five hundred men in the worlds of politics and of thought.

The Sisterhood of Karn also state " Our senses reach beyond the five planets ", intimating Gallifrey's solar system comprises five worlds.

Crystal distinguishes among five Internet situations: The Web, email, asynchronous chat ( for example mailing lists ), synchronous chat ( for example Internet Relay Chat ) and virtual worlds.

He ruled over the third of the five worlds in Aztec belief.

In many non-canon sources like The Star Trek Star Fleet Technical Manual and Worlds of the Federation, as well as the FASA and Last Unicorn Games Star Trek role-playing games, the five founding worlds of the United Federation of Planets were Earth, Vulcan, Tellar, Andoria, and Alpha Centauri.

The earlier history of Trantor is recapitulated in The Currents of Space, mentioning the five worlds of the Trantorian Republic growing into the Trantorian Confederation and then Trantorian Empire ( evidently modelled on the Roman Republic, originally ruling only part of central Italy, developing into the vast Roman Empire ).

For example, the world ( in Yaqui, anía ) is composed of five separate worlds: the desert wilderness world, the mystical world, the flower world, the dream world, and the night world.

Within the BattleTech fiction, the long journey of Kerensky and his followers is termed " the Exodus " and ends with the discovery of five marginally habitable worlds depicted as being located deep within the Milky Way galaxy, termed " the Pentagon Worlds ".

A tradition minded Warden Clan bearing cultural stylings of the ancient Terran Native Americans, the Coyotes are among the most powerful of Clans, having exclusive control of five worlds and partial control of many others in the Kerensky Cluster.

The Koopa Kingdom has been glimpsed at least five times as the last worlds in Super Mario Bros. 3, Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island, and New Super Mario Bros., though several maps and tracks from the Mario Kart and Mario Party series take place here as well.

Assigned a five year galaxy patrol, the bold crew of the giant starship explores the excitement of strange new worlds, uncharted civilizations, and exotic people.

In his book Designing Virtual Worlds, Richard Bartle ( co-creator of the original MUD ) cited DikuMUD as one of the five " major codebases used for ( textual ) virtual worlds ".

They moved their planet further from their sun, to lessen the effects of global warming, but overindustrialisation forced them to move four of the other planets in their system closer to their world and terraform them into " farming worlds ", arranging the five planets into a Klemperer rosette ( though Niven misspelled " Klemperer " as " Kemplerer ").

Four or five worlds: Chicano / a literary criticism as postcolonial discourse )

In the medieval West and Middle East, one finds reference to four worlds ( olam ) in Kabbalah, or five in Sufism ( where they are also called tanazzulat ; " descents "), and also in Lurianic Kabbalah.

In Kabbalah, each of the four or five worlds are themselves divided into ten sefirot, or else divided in other ways.

The sevenfold constitution of man is related to five of seven worlds, different planes of existence having varying density and vibration, states of spirit-matter not separated by space or distance but permeating one another, so that God and the other great beings pervade their own realms and those of greater density than their own, including our own.

Isfa must travel across five worlds to rescue Scheherazade's three sisters, her father, and finally Scheherazade herself.

In late 1998 or early 1999, in the season five premiere " The Unstuck Man ", Quinn and his brother Colin were unwillingly used in an experiment by Dr. Oberon Geiger to merge people and parallel worlds together.

Weis and Hickman created five distinct fantasy worlds during the course of the series, along with developing the cultures of five major races: their unique Patryn and Sartan, and the common fantasy races of dwarves, elves, and humans.

The Arctic Circle is one of the five major circles of latitude that mark maps of the Earth.

Just under five hours later, on the CSM's 65th orbit around the Moon, its Service Propulsion System main engine was reignited to propel the craft on a trajectory that would return it to Earth.

The five major planets are associated with and even named after the elements: Jupiter 木星 is Wood ( 木 ), Mars 火星 is Fire ( 火 ), Saturn 土星 is Earth ( 土 ), Venus 金星 is Metal ( 金 ), and Mercury 水星 is Water ( 水 ).

Earth is one of the five elements that appear in most Wiccan and Pagan traditions.

It is large, five degrees by seven degrees, and is 600 light-years from Earth.

* 1999 – NASA launches into orbit the Terra platform carrying five Earth Observation instruments, including ASTER, CERES, MISR, MODIS and MOPITT.

Based on the fossil record, the background rate of extinctions on Earth is about two to five taxonomic families of marine invertebrates and vertebrates every million years.

Relativistic precession has been observed for all planets that allow for accurate precession measurements ( Mercury, Venus and the Earth ), as well as in binary pulsar systems, where it is larger by five orders of magnitude.

In the distant future, Mankind has colonized space ( with clusters of space colonies at each of the five Earth-Moon Lagrange points ), and, down on the Earth, the nations have united as the United Earth Sphere Alliance.

The operation involves five teenage boys, who have each been chosen and trained by each of the five scientists, then sent to Earth independently in extremely advanced mobile suits ( one designed by each of the scientists ) known as " Gundams " ( called such because they are constructed from a rare and astonishingly durable material known as Gundanium alloy, which can only be created in outer space ).

Although the five Gundams succeed in destroying several of OZ's supply bases and mobile suit factories, the sinister organization is still able to complete its ultimate goal of overturning the Alliance and becoming the new ruler of Earth and the colonies.

During the Vedic period, Indians ( Indo-Aryans ) had classified the material world into five elements: Earth ( Prithvi ), fire ( Agni ), air ( Maya ) and water ( Apa ), and ether ( Akasha ).

* Sleepers of Mars ( 1973 ) a collection of five stories originally published in magazines in the 1930s: Sleepers of Mars, Worlds to Barter, Invisible Monster, The Man from Earth & The Third Vibrator.

He found that each of the five Platonic solids could be uniquely inscribed and circumscribed by spherical orbs ; nesting these solids, each encased in a sphere, within one another would produce six layers, corresponding to the six known planets — Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn.

The Lagrangian points (; also Lagrange points, L-points, or libration points ) are the five positions in an orbital configuration where a small object affected only by gravity can theoretically be part of a constant-shape pattern with two larger objects ( such as a satellite with respect to the Earth and Moon ).

The number of prokaryotes on Earth is estimated to be around five million trillion trillion, or 5 × 10 < sup > 30 </ sup >, accounting for at least half the biomass on Earth.

Solar and lunar eclipses are not observed every month because the plane of the Moon's orbit around the Earth is tilted by about five degrees with respect to the plane of Earth's orbit around the Sun ( the plane of the ecliptic ).

Baba explained that at all times on Earth there are fifty-six incarnate God-realized souls and that of these souls there are always five who constitute the five Perfect Masters of their era.

According to Meher Baba the Avatar appears on Earth every 700 – 1400 years and is ' brought down ' into human form by the five Perfect Masters of the time to aid in the process of moving creation in its never-ending journey toward Godhood.