In the second half of the Sixteenth Century, Sinan, the great architect who is the Michelangelo of the East, designed the massive buttresses that now help support the dome.

One of the most beautiful buildings in Istanbul, it was constructed in the early years of the Seventeenth Century, with a huge central dome, two half domes that seem to cascade down from it, and smaller full domes around the gallery.

The impression from the valley floor that this is a round dome which has lost its northwest half is an illusion.

Although the trend of this ridge, as well as that of Tenaya Canyon, is probably controlled by master joints, 80 percent of the northwest " half " of the original dome may well still be there.

* George A. Stephen, founder of Weber-Stephen Products Co., invented the kettle grill by cutting a metal buoy in half and fashioning a dome shaped grill with a rounded lid.

) This vista is protected by a ' dome and a half ' width of sky on either side.

In 2005 the then Mayor of London, Ken Livingstone, sought to overturn this protection and reduce it to ' half a dome '.

A dome is a structural element of architecture that resembles the hollow upper half of a sphere.

The Romans also used semi-domes, half a dome " cut " vertically, in niches and the exedras of basilicas.

The dome of the Great Mosque of Kairouan ( also called the Mosque of Uqba ) built in the first half of the 9th century, has a ribbed hemispherical dome which rests on an octogonal drum with slightly concave sides.

Although he was executing an aesthetic plan made half a century earlier, it is his name, rather than Neri's, that is commonly associated with the dome.

The Univex Mercury ( 1938, USA ) half frame 35 mm camera had a very large dome protruding out the top of the main body to accommodate its 1 / 1000 sec.

However, this is only a myth, as the current half dome, which creates the effect, was not installed until 1902.

The sharpness of this ogive is expressed by the ratio of its radius to the diameter of the cylinder ; a value of one half being a hemispherical dome, and larger values being progressively more pointed.

Mosaic of the half dome of abside

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They would be based on the geodesic dome developed by R. Buckminster Fuller, would cost half as much as conventional theaters of comparable size, and could be built in half the time.

The Mihrimah Sultan Mosque, which is also known as the Üsküdar Quay Mosque, was completed in the same year and has an original design with its main dome supported by three half domes.

Neoclassical architectures along the Canal date to 18th century: during the first half was built San Simeone Piccolo, with an impressive corinthian portico, central plan and a high copper-covered dome ending in a cupola shaped as a temple.

The chapel contains a fine painting of the Resurrection in the half dome of the apse, painted by Sebastiano Ricci and his nephew Marco ( who assisted with the painting at the Royal Hospital ) and dates from the end of Queen Anne's reign.

It seats 71, 228 for football, and can hold approximately: 75, 000 for concerts, 53, 000 for basketball when the dome is fully open and 40, 000 for basketball and gymnastics when the dome is sectioned off ( one half closed off by a large curtain ).

In 1911, Ernest Rutherford gave a model of the atom in which a central core held most of the atom's mass and a positive charge which, in units of the electron's charge, was to be approximately equal to half of the atom's atomic weight, expressed in numbers of hydrogen atoms.

This central charge would thus be approximately half the atomic weight ( though it was almost 25 % off the figure for the atomic number in gold ( Z = 79, A = 197 ), the single element from which Rutherford made his guess ).

In the Coastal Plain are the Tombigbee River in the west, the Alabama River ( formed by the Coosa and Tallapoosa ) in the western central, and in the east the Chattahoochee River, which forms almost half of the Georgia boundary.

Also well-known and well worth seeing are the two remaining city gates, the Ponttor, one half mile northwest of the cathedral, and the Kleinmarschiertor, close to the central railway station.

Although opinions differ as to his character there is no dispute over his great achievements: he helped to save the Habsburg Empire from French conquest ; he broke the westward thrust of the Ottomans, liberating central Europe after a century and a half of Turkish occupation ; and he was one of the great patrons of the arts whose building legacy can still be seen in Vienna today.

In the central highlands this resulted in unification in a kingdom with the city of Samaria as its capital, possibly by the second half of the 10th century BCE when an inscription of the Egyptian pharaoh Shoshenq I, the biblical Shishak, records a series of campaigns directed at the area.

" This paper was central to any chemical affinity theory in the first half of the nineteenth century.

The distribution of immigrants is largely uneven in Italy: 87 % of immigrants live in the northern and central parts of the country ( the most economically developed areas ), while only 13 % live in the southern half of the peninsula.

In the first half of the nineteenth century, during the heyday of American whaling in the central Pacific, Malden was visited on a number of occasions by American whalers.

* The thinly populated Canadian Shield in the northwestern and central portions, which comprises over half the land area of Ontario ; though this area mostly does not support agriculture it is rich in minerals and in part covered by the Central and Midwestern Canadian Shield forests, studded with lakes and rivers.

Prepared parchment sheets retained their original central fold, so each was ordinarily cut in half, making a quarto volume of the original folio, with the overwritten text running perpendicular to the effaced text.

More than half of these roads were in central and southern Luzon and three major highways of this island were, and probably still are, Routes 1, 3, and 5.

This can be visualized as a central core of diameter x, with typically a curved spiral wound around of thickness half x, although of course in reality it is made from one casting.

The 1916 fire was so extensive that it destroyed almost half the town, ruining most of the central business district and sweeping through a residential area before it was finally controlled, resulting in property damages estimated at $ 11 million.

This devolution of power weakened the central government's grip on the whole country, a weakness further aggravated by foreign powers vying to carve up autonomous colonial territories in different parts of the Qing Empire in the later half of the 19th century.

The problem with DC was that the power plants could economically deliver DC electricity only to customers within about one and a half miles ( about 2. 4 km ) from the generating station, so that it was suitable only for central business districts.

* Lothair received the central portion of the empire which later became, from north to south: the Low Countries, Lorraine, Alsace, Burgundy, Provence, and the Kingdom of Italy ( which covered only the northern half of the Italian Peninsula ), collectively called Middle Francia.

The Tang Dynasty was largely a period of progress and stability, except during the An Shi Rebellion and the decline of central authority in the latter half of the dynasty.

Roughly half of all spirals are also observed to have a bar-like structure, extending from the central bulge, at the ends of which the spiral arms begin.

Another measure of central obesity which has shown superiority to BMI in predicting cardiovascular disease risk is the Index of Central Obesity ( waist-to-height ratio-WHtR ), where a ratio of >= 0. 5 ( i. e. a waist circumference at least half of the individual's height ) is predictive of increased risk.

Nearly half of FHA ’ s metropolitan area business is located in central cities, a percentage that is much higher than that of conventional loans.

Among the indigenous people of Sakhalin are the Ainu on the southern half, the Oroks in the central region, and the Nivkhs on the northern part.

Nantes is the central point of the land hemisphere ( the half of the earth containing the largest possible area of land ).