In mammalian and avian embryological development, the pharyngeal arch ( aortic arches ) arteries contribute to the normal pattern of the great arteries.

When Sir Arthur Conan Doyle killed off his most-beloved character Sherlock Holmes by plunging him to his death over the Reichenbach Falls with his arch nemesis Professor Moriarty, the public's demand for Holmes was so great that Doyle was compelled to bring him back to life in a subsequent story, where he details that Holmes had merely faked his death.

The only visible remains are the great arch Taq-i Kisra or Tagh-e Kasra ( the literal meaning: arch of Khosrau ) located in what is now the Iraqi town of Salman Pak.

The splendor of the imperial palace complex at Ctesiphon, to include Khosrau II's palace ( Shâhigân-ǐ Spêd = the white palace, now almost totally ruined ) and the great arch Taq-i Kisra, remain legendary.

The arch is significant because, in theory at least, it provides a structure which eliminates tensile stresses in spanning a great amount of open space.

In one of these earlier strata, of very great antiquity, there was discovered, in connection with the shrine, a conduit built of bricks in the form of an arch.

This is the left basis of the great arch over the front of the stage.

Piercing the windowless, city-like curtain wall of the east court is the great East Gate, a monumental triumphal arch, more Egyptian in design than Roman, an optical illusion was created by tapering its walls to create an impression of even greater height.

The approach continues through the great portico into the hall, its ceiling painted by James Thornhill with the Duke's apotheosis, then on under a great triumphal arch, through the huge marble door-case with the Duke's marble effigy above it ( bearing the ducal plaudit " Nor could Augustus better calm mankind "), and into the painted saloon, the most highly decorated room in the palace, where the Duke was to have sat enthroned.

The plan of the finished building is built around two major axes, at the southern end of Westminster Hall, St. Stephen's porch was created, as a major entrance to the building, this involved inserting a great arch with a grand stair case at the southern end of Westminster hall, this leads to the first floor where the major rooms are located.

The east end of the priory church was left standing with its great window forming a distinctive arch shape, a well-known landmark which is used as a symbol for Guisborough.

Today all that remains of Hatton's great house are two archways and the kitchen wing incorporated into the Victorian rebuild, now standing on a lawn, which once gave access to the courtyards ; a near identical third arch bears the date 1659 and so must have been built for Baynes the Cromwellian owner.

The great Romanesque arch on the west front is particularly striking, and the stained glass window at this end has recently been restored.

The advantages of the segmental arch bridge were that it allowed great amounts of flood water to pass under it, which would prevent the bridge from being swept away during floods and the bridge itself could be more lightweight.

The great innovation of the Romans was to combine a round arch and a square entablature in a single free-standing structure.

The move was also criticised by Argentine great Diego Maradona as Salas was scouted by arch rival Boca Juniors prior to joining River.

Before entering into the question of the web or stone shell of the vault carried on the ribs, the earlier development of the great vaults which were thrown over the naves of a cathedral, or church, before the introduction of the pointed arch rib, shall here be noted.

The test generated great concern in Pakistan, which feared that it would be at the mercy of its long-time arch rival and quickly responded by pursuing its own nuclear weapons program.

His approach soon inspired the great masters of the day including his arch rival Semmangudi Srinivasa Iyer.

Hagia Sophia ’ s templon surrounded, according to Paulus, " such space as was reserved in the eastern arch of the great church for the bloodless sacrifices ".

Of the two arches, the outer arch, which had collapsed with great force in 1845, is now seen as remnants in the form of an " obelisk ".

Together with Dídac Masana, Gargallo sculpted the great arch over the front of the stage of the Palau de la Música Catalana in Barcelona.

General Jones was fresh from a long series of bridge burnings, including the long bridge at Fairmont, and, after seeing a great drove of horses and cattle he had collected safely across the bridge, he sent his men to work piling combustibles in and around it.

Most bridges are utiltiarian in appearance, but in some cases, the appearance of the bridge can have great importance.

Although Villaggio's movies tend to bridge trash comedy with a more elevated social satire ; this character had a great impact on Italian society, to such a degree that the adjective fantozziano entered the lexicon.

The flooding of the area now known as the Black Sea ( when a land bridge, where the Bosporus is now, collapsed under the pressure of rising water in the Mediterranean Sea ) submerged a great deal of human activity that had been gathered round what had been an enormous, fresh-water lake.

As American troops tried to retreat across this bridge to Vossenack, great parts of the Kall Valley were already cut off by the Germans.

The existing port at Porto Torres, which is almost wholly artificial, is based in great part on Roman foundations ; and there exist also the remains of a temple ( which, as we learn from an inscription, was dedicated to Fortune, and restored in the reign of Philip ), of thermae, of a basilica and an aqueduct, as well as a bridge over the adjoining small river, still called the Fiume Turritano.

Gondor maintained garrisons in the region to maintain the road and great bridge at Tharbad, but these were withdrawn in the aftermath of the great plague.

It was placed in a tower on the great bridge in Osgiliath that crossed the Anduin.

Many contemporary string players vary the pitch from below, only up to the nominal note and not above it, although great violin pedagogues of the past such as Carl Flesch and Joseph Joachim explicitly referred to vibrato as a movement towards the bridge, meaning upwards in pitch ,— and the cellist Diran Alexanian, in his 1922 treatise Traité théorique et pratique du Violoncelle, shows how one should practice vibrato as starting from the note and then moving upwards in a rhythmic motion.

It was only with great effort in the 1950s and 1960s that Verrazzano's name and reputation as the European discoverer of the harbour was re-established during an effort to have the newly built Narrows bridge named after him.

In 2003, the weight of crowds travelling to and from the Ashton Court festival and Bristol International Balloon Fiesta put such great strain on the bridge that it was decided to close the bridge to all traffic, including pedestrians, during the whole of the Ashton Court Festival and part of the Balloon Fiesta in 2004.

This bridge was worn smooth due to its age and the thousands of people who had walked over it, however the superstition was so great that corpses were no longer carried over it.

Ernst deployed his force behind a ditch, hoping to fight a delaying action, but the Spaniards were already in great strength across the bridge and charged right home, piercing his centre.

The town became a center for industry until the great flood of 1915, when the main bridge was destroyed, as were the huge factories along the river.

The bridge, spanning the Intracoastal Waterway, offers a great view of the Bogue Sound and Bogue Banks.

When the Jefferson Highway was first located through Eufaula the only way of crossing the South Canadian River, about four miles below the town, was by means of a rather uncertain ferry, and the citizens of Eufaula, feeling the great need of a good bridge across the river, incorporated-The Jefferson Highway Bridge Company, and at a cost of almost a quarter of a million dollars, built the present splendid structure of steel and concrete, forty feet above low water ; affording a 365 day crossing throughout the year.

The game was named one of the NES best games ever by IGN, saying that the game offers greater diversity in graphics and gameplay than the original, making it a great bridge game between the other NES Mario titles.

In the 1920s there was no bridge spanning the watery expanse between San Francisco and Marin in California, so when the U. S. Post Office issued a postage stamp on May 1, 1923, celebrating The Golden Gate, the issue naturally portrayed the scene without a structure bridging the great span.

The line of celebration and honour of his victorious life began with the great column of victory surmounted by his statue and detailing his triumphs, and the next point on the great axis, planted with trees in the position of troops, was the epic Roman style bridge.

Brown's great achievement at this point was to actually flood and submerge beneath the water level the lower stories and rooms of the bridge itself, thus reducing its incongruous height and achieving what is regarded by many as the epitome of an English landscape.