On the ground floor the radiation would be about half what it is outside.

The best protection would be on the ground floor in the central part of the house.

The central area of the ground floor of a heavily constructed apartment building, with concrete floors, should provide more fallout protection than the ordinary basement of a family dwelling.

You then descended one story, glommed a television set from the music room -- the only constructive feature of your visit, by the way -- and, returning to the ground floor, entered the master bedroom.

Various of the apartments are of the terrace type, being on the ground floor so that entrance is direct.

The name Ardipithecus ramidus stems mostly from the Afar language, in which Ardi means " ground / floor " ( borrowed from the Semitic root in either Amharic or Arabic ) and ramid means " root ".

The ground floor, in particular, is rather astonishing with tracery, irregular oval windows and flowing sculpted stone work.

The lower ground floor with the main floor and two first-floor galleries are contained in a structure of Montjuïc sandstone with undulating lines.

Andrew Carnegie was born in Dunfermline, Scotland, in a typical weaver's cottage with only one main room consisting of half the ground floor which was shared with the neighboring weaver's family.

The main body of GC & CS, including its Naval, Military and Air Sections, was on the ground floor of the mansion, together with a telephone exchange, a teleprinter room, a kitchen and a dining room.

Some early ' skyscrapers ' were made in masonry, and demonstrated the limitations of the material – for example, the Monadnock Building in Chicago ( opened in 1896 ) is masonry and just 17 stories high ; the ground walls are almost thick, clearly building any higher would lead to excessive loss of internal floor space on the lower floors.

The World Financial Center's ground floor and portions of the second floor are occupied by a mall ; its center point is a steel-and-glass atrium known as the Winter Garden.

On the islands of Orkney and Shetland there are very few cells at ground floor.

The King's Library, on the ground floor of the East Wing, was handed over in 1827, and was described as one of the finest rooms in London although it was not fully open to the general public until 1857, however, special openings were arranged during The Great Exhibition of 1851.

This means that the Doric order was the order of the ground floor, the Ionic order was used for the middle story, while the Corinthian or the Composite order was used for the top story.

The St-Gervais-et-St-Protais Church in Paris presents columns of the three orders: doric at the ground floor, ionic at the second floor, corinthian at the third floor

In order to reduce large shear reversals in the core walls in the basement, and at the top of the tower base level, the ground floor, basement levels 1 and 2 and the 5th and 6th floors, the floor slabs and beams are separated horizontally from the core walls.

Egg dance is a traditional Easter game in which eggs are laid on the ground or floor and the goal is to dance among them without damaging any eggs which originated in Germany.

British Club in Kathar ( in Orwell's time, it occupied only the ground floor )

The ground floor includes a buffet style restaurant named the Bistro, the campus radio station WGMU Radio, a coffee shop named Jazzman's, 300-seat movie theater, and Dewberry Hall.

The Sargasso Sea contains large amounts of seaweed and is also the spawning ground for both the European eel and the American eel.

Specifically it is the amount of a substance that contains as many elementary entities ( atoms, molecules or ions ) as there are atoms in 0. 012 kilogram ( or 12 grams ) of carbon-12, where the carbon-12 atoms are unbound, at rest and in their ground state.

The bestiary contains a drawing depicting an elephant on its back being dragged along the ground by another elephant, with a caption stating that elephants lacked knees.

Portland blastfurnace cement contains up to 70 % ground granulated blast furnace slag, with the rest Portland clinker and a little gypsum.

* the adiabatic quantum computer ( computation decomposed into a slow continuous transformation of an initial Hamiltonian into a final Hamiltonian, whose ground states contains the solution ),

Cartilage is composed of specialized cells called chondrocytes that produce a large amount of extracellular matrix composed of Type II collagen ( except Fibrocartilage which also contains type I collagen ) fibers, abundant ground substance rich in proteoglycan, and elastin fibers.

Each follicle usually contains one or two small seeds, each with a wedge-shaped papery wing that causes it to spin as it falls to the ground.

The building is home to offices and restaurants, as well as about 700 condominiums and contains the third highest residence ( above adjacent ground level ) in the world, after the Trump Tower ( also in Chicago ), and the Burj Khalifa ( in Dubai ).

Glasnevin is one of the few cemeteries that allowed stillborn babies to be buried in consecrated ground and contains an area called the Angels Plot.

It houses operations and training facilities above ground for the Federal Emergency Management Agency ( FEMA ) and contains an underground facility designed to house key components of the American government in the case of nuclear war.

There is no standardised form of cross country course and each venue is significantly defined by the environment it contains – some may be relatively flat and featureless, while others may be more challenging with natural obstacles, tight turns, and undulating ground.

The department also contains numerous rivers, above and below ground, including the Tarn, whose source is on Mont Lozère, and which flows through the Gorges du Tarn in the Causses.

It contains on the ground floor the famous Durbar Room which is named after an anglicised version of the Hindi word durbar.

The most popular kestomakkara in Finland is meetvursti ( etymologically this word comes from mettwurst ), which contains finely ground full meat, ground fat and various spices.

: A bus strip usually contains two columns: one for ground and one for a supply voltage.

Set in, the property contains 4691 vaults, all above ground, of which 94 have been declared National Historical Monuments by the Argentine government and are protected by the state.

The dominant basis of arsenic poisoning is from ground water that naturally contains high concentrations of arsenic.

According to the United States Geological Survey, it is likely that a significant percentage of the material sold as zeolites in some countries is ground or sawn volcanic tuff that contains only a small amount of zeolites.

* Bradley Park-Albany Ave, on the high ground between Thruway Market and Ulster Ave ( Rte 208 ), contains 4 baseball & 1 softball field ( Home to the Walden Little League ), 2 Tennis courts, a playground, and a skateboard park.

The ground floor contains the college bar and shop i. e. ' The Buttery ' ( west side ) and the Senior Common Room lunch room ( east side ).

The two-storey building has rusticated arches on the ground floor and a row of Ionic columns above, dividing the façade into seven bays — the ground floor contains the first purpose built senior common rooms in Oxford, above is the library.

Between 1998 and 2000 the Maplethorpe Building was constructed ; the building contains conference facilities on the ground floor and student accommodation on the upper three floors.

Level 1 of the terminal contains baggage carousels and ground transportation access.