Buddhist ( and Hindu ) temples were Mandala shaped, they are oriented according to the four cardinal points, the main gate being towards the east. Since building space and materials were scarce, Maldivians constructed their places of worship on the foundations of previous buildings.

* Nearly four centuries later Giorgio Vasari wrote: " Guglielmo, according to what is being said, in year 1174 with Bonanno as sculptor, laid the foundations of the belltower of the cathedral in Pisa.

* There are four open cells and four open foundations.

Due to the high water table in the new location, the cathedral was built on only four feet of foundations, and by 1258 the nave, transepts and choir were complete.

Magdalen is one of the four Choral Foundations in Oxford, meaning that the formation of the choir was part of the statutes of the college, the other three choral foundations being New College, Christ Church, and, since 2007, Merton College.

He persevered, however, and after four years had built the foundations of a solid compositional technique.

The disciple shows great appreciation and devotion for the guru, whose blessing is the last of the four foundations of Vajrayana Buddhism.

Together with model theory, axiomatic set theory, and recursion theory, proof theory is one of the so-called four pillars of the foundations of mathematics.

These four men, more than any others after Richard Bentley, laid the foundations of modern Greek scholarship.

In 1876-77 this desolate ruin was brought back to life as a place of worship after centuries of neglect, when four of the original seven bays of the nave were rebuilt on the old foundations in Neo-Romanesque style by the Gothic Revival architect C. C.

Mathematical applications required geometry of four or more dimensions ; the close scrutiny of the foundations of the traditional Euclidean geometry had revealed the independence of the parallel postulate from the others, and non-Euclidean geometry had been born.

To this end the Presbyterian church incorporated Albany Academy in 1858, making Lewis & Clark one of four Oregon colleges with foundations predating Oregon's statehood ( along with Willamette University, Pacific University, and Linfield College ).

Rohl's redating is based on criticism of three of the four arguments which he considers are the original foundations of the conventional chronology for the Egyptian New Kingdom:

Between the time of Hippocrates and the 19th century, when the foundations of the scientific method were laid, diseases were attributed to an alteration or imbalance in one of the four humors ( blood, phlegm, yellow bile or black bile ).

In 1577, the decision to build the bridge was made by King Henry III who laid its first stone in 1578, during which year the foundations of four piers and one abutment were completed.

For the Scuola della Trinity ( the scuole or schools of Venice were more in the nature of hospitals or charitable foundations than of educational institutions ) he painted four subjects from Genesis.

Policy direction in President Kufuor's second term has built on the foundations laid in the first four years.

At the start of play, an ace, two, three, and four of any suit are removed from a standard deck of cards and laid out as the foundations.

The four foundations of mindfulness are:

Approximately four times larger than today's cathedral, this church was one of Constantine's great imperial foundations, ranking with other major churches at Rome, Constantinople, Jerusalem, and Bethlehem.

* There are four open cells and four open foundations.

After taking Babylon, Cyrus the Great proclaimed himself " king of Babylon, king of Sumer and Akkad, king of the four corners of the world " in the famous Cyrus cylinder, an inscription deposited in the foundations of the Esagila temple dedicated to the chief Babylonian god, Marduk.

But Schnabel was a great teacher in addition to being a great performer, and the fact that four of the ten versions I listened to are by Schnabel pupils ( Clifford Curzon, Frank Glazer, Adrian Aeschbacher, and Victor Babin ) also sheds light on the master's pedagogical skills.

Measure the puppet to determine the height of the light socket, allowing three to four inches above the puppet's head.

He leafed through the light reading provided by Mrs. Kirby for her guests: four separate adventures of the Bobbsey Twins ( At the Seashore, At the Mountains, On the Farm, and In Danger ) and several agricultural bulletins on the treatment of hoof-and-mouth disease in cattle, hideously illustrated.

The remaining twenty pieces cover problems in physics and ethics, of which the largest group deals with questions of vision and light, and the final four with fate and providence.

St. Bonaventure ’ s “ Retracing the Arts to Theology ”, a primary example of this method, discusses the skills of the artisan as gifts given by God for the purpose of disclosing God to mankind, which purpose is achieved through four lights: the light of skill in mechanical arts which discloses the world of artifacts ; which light is guided by the light of sense perception which discloses the world of natural forms ; which light, consequently, is guided by the light of philosophy which discloses the world of intellectual truth ; finally, this light is guided by the light of divine wisdom which discloses the world of saving truth.

A military armored car is a type of armored fighting vehicle having wheels ( from four to ten large, off-road wheels ) instead of tracks, and usually light armor.

Atari released four 7800 light gun games: Alien Brigade, Crossbow, Meltdown, and Barnyard Blaster.

In November 2006 Libya supplied Chad with four Aermacchi SF. 260W light attack planes.

Therefore, four loose families of more-efficient light transport modelling techniques have emerged: rasterization, including scanline rendering, geometrically projects objects in the scene to an image plane, without advanced optical effects ; ray casting considers the scene as observed from a specific point-of-view, calculating the observed image based only on geometry and very basic optical laws of reflection intensity, and perhaps using Monte Carlo techniques to reduce artifacts ; and ray tracing is similar to ray casting, but employs more advanced optical simulation, and usually uses Monte Carlo techniques to obtain more realistic results at a speed that is often orders of magnitude slower.

In 2009, researchers at the University of Texas, Austin created a monocolored light mill which has four curved vanes ; each vane forms a convex and a concave surface.

By 1943 however, large numbers of fleet and light carriers became available, which required larger formations of three or four carriers.

In January 1777 four regiments of light dragoons were raised.

The electricity powered four light bulbs.

The first four fingers of each hand are used to pluck the strings ; the little fingers are too short and cannot reach the correct position without distorting the position of the other fingers, although on some folk harps with light tension, closely spaced strings, they may occasionally be used.

Between 1910 and 1912 four Magdeburg class light cruisers were constructed of 4, 600 tons, at around 7. 4 million GM each.

It is the second largest metro system in the world in terms of route miles, after the Shanghai Metro and part of the largest system in terms of route miles when taken together with the Docklands Light Railway. The light metro lines in London are operated by the Docklands Light Railway, whereas the Shanghai Metro is a group of four companies which operate heavy rail rapid transit and light metro lines.

The same legislation also imposes a minimum distance between street lamps of about four times their height, so full cut off street lamps are the best solution to reduce both light pollution and electrical power usage.

This produced a commercially packaged white light giving 65 lm / W at 20 mA, becoming the brightest white LED commercially available at the time, and more than four times as efficient as standard incandescents.

The four striped triangles and the two striped rectangles have a common vertex: the center of an homothetic transformation with a negative ratio – k or, that transforms one triangle and its stripes into another triangle with the same stripes, enlarged or reduced.

The flag of San Lorenzo is divided in four rectangles of equal size, two rectangles are yellow and the other two are stripped with red and yellow stripes.

When the band found it necessary to change their name from Panic in 1977, it was Pettibon who suggested the new name Black Flag and designed their iconic logo: four vertical black rectangles comprising a stylized rippling black flag.

In effect, this unusual feature of the plan made it possible to subdivide the square into four smaller rectangles.

However, despite having found rectangles that were not squares, all the rectangles she did find had four sides.

She then makes the new conjecture " All rectangles have four sides ".

Suppose that after a while the mathematician in question settled on the new conjecture " All shapes that are rectangles and have four sides of equal length are squares ".

So she needs to check the truth of the statements: ( 1 ) " All shapes that are rectangles are squares " and ( 2 ) " All shapes that have four sides of equal length are squares ".

Septimius Severus endowed Laodicea with four colonnaded streets that divided the city into a series of rectangles.

This circuit diagram can be interpreted as a drawing of a hypergraph in which four vertices ( depicted as white rectangles and disks ) are connected by three hyperedges drawn as trees.

Thus a system for replaying height information might utilise a set of four speakers at ear level, say, and another four directly above them and higher up (" stacked rectangles ").

The flag of the Dominican Republic, as described by Article 96 of the Dominican Constitution, features a centered white cross that extends to the edges and divides the flag into four rectangles — the top ones are blue ( hoist side ) and red, and the bottom ones are red ( hoist side ) and blue.

The flag of Patillas has four green rectangles on the corners that symbolize the valleys and mountains of the town.

In this geometric visualisation, the value at the black spot is the sum of the value at each coloured spot multiplied by the area of the rectangle of the same colour, divided by the total area of all four rectangles.

The speedometer was now circular, and the other four gauges were rectangles.

These are temporary havens identified by four small white rectangles on the corner of the square.

The first season's opening sequence had mixed home movies of two girls portraying younger versions of Holly and Val, shots of Bynes and Garth sticking their tongues out at the camera and scenes from the first four episodes, all shown on rounded rectangles which for most of the sequence moved from right to left sliding in from the right side of the screen.

The front end was simple: a single headlight on each side, and a grille divided into four thin rectangles laid horizontally.

Each edge is lined by rectangles where the wall of the city is to be built and each corner is labelled with one of the numbers one through four.

The rectangle in question is quadrisected into four, congruent quarter rectangles.