One of the most significant advancements in design of plastics signs is the so-called trans-illuminated billboard, now being produced by several large sign manufacturers such as Advance Neon Sign Co., Los Angeles, and Industrial Electric Inc., New Orleans, La..

Seed is available only to large professional farmers who sign a stewardship agreement.

* 1701 – Representatives of the Iroquois Confederacy sign the Nanfan Treaty, ceding a large territory north of the Ohio River to England.

Famous for its docile, friendly personality and large size, it is considered a sign of good luck among koi keepers.

This was a strange hybrid creature that combined the head and torso of a man with the legs and tail of a lion ( the cuneiform sign ' UR ' simply refers to a large carnivore ; lions, wolves and dogs are all included ).

During the McCarthyism of the 1950s, a large sign was placed in the courtyard defending the artistic merit of the murals while attacking his politics as " detestable.

On May 28, 2002, NASA reported that Odyssey's GRS had detected large amounts of hydrogen, a sign that there must be ice lying within a meter of the planet's surface.

Another important factor was that during the Middle Ages a large proportion of the population would have been illiterate and so pictures on a sign were more useful than words as a means of identifying a public house.

The sign was switched on for the first time on 10 October 1950, watched by a large crowd.

Cattle and horses were an obvious sign of wealth and prestige, sheep and pigs were kept in large numbers, and place names suggest that transhumance was common.

Several dozen nearby large galaxies, with no sign of a quasar nucleus, have been shown to contain a similar central black hole in their nuclei, so it is thought that all large galaxies have one, but only a small fraction emit powerful radiation and so are seen as quasars.

Crow, performing with Kid Rock at the 45th annual Grammy Awards, wore a large peace sign and a guitar strap with the words " No War.

At the battles of Thermopylae and Magnesia, Antiochus's forces were resoundingly defeated and he was compelled to make peace and sign the Treaty of Apamea in ( 188 BC ), the main clause of which saw the Seleucids agree to pay a large indemnity, retreat from Anatolia and to never again attempt to expand Seleucid territory west of the Taurus Mountains.

Hollywood casting directors strolled through shopping malls in Kansas City, looking for local people to fill small and supporting roles, while the daily newspaper in Lawrence ran an advertisement calling for local residents of all ages to sign up for jobs as a large number of extras in the film and a professor of theater and film at the University of Kansas was hired to head up the local casting of the movie.

* March 12 – The Soviet Union and Finland sign a peace treaty in Moscow ending the Winter War ; Finns, along with the world at large, are shocked by the harsh terms.

Also in many cases where large scale text was required, it was simpler to hand the job to a sign painter than a printer.

The large lit sign in front of the club featured a picture of her with red lights on her breasts.

A large number of cirrus clouds can be a sign of an approaching frontal system or upper air disturbance.

A 1999 study by Bencie Woll suggested that IS signers often use a large amount of vocabulary from their native language, choosing sign variants that would be more easily understood by a foreigner.

No had previously been a member of a Chinese Tong, but after he stole a large amount of money from their treasury, he was captured by the organisation, whose leaders had his hands cut off as a sign of punishment for theft, and then ordered him shot.

During Samuel Mason's 1797-1799 occupation of Cave-In-Rock and after his departure, the name of Bully Wilson became associated with cave ; a large sign was erected near the natural landmark's entrance, " Liquor Vault and House for Entertainment.

In such scripts, the total number of signs is large and imprecisely defined, so producing a text with every possible sign is impossible.

The house has a large " Darling Harbour " sign along its edge, and the World Tower high rise building can be seen behind it.

This means that advocates of phylogenetic nomenclature have removed a large number of basal Devonian and Carboniferous amphibian-type tetrapod groups that were formerly placed in Amphibia in Linnaean taxonomy, and included them elsewhere under cladistic taxonomy.

Small fragments, formerly thrown away or used only for varnish, are now used on a large scale in the formation of " amberoid " or " pressed amber ".

A lance is formerly a weapon of war and it was also used to kill large marine animals after it has already been harpooned.

This unwanted side-effect has caused many common volatile brominated organics like methyl bromide, a pesticide that was formerly a large industrial bromine consumer, to be abandoned.

In 1904 the ground was acquired by businessman Gus Mears and his brother Joseph, who had also purchased nearby land ( formerly a large market garden ) with the aim of staging football matches on the now 12. 5 acre ( 51, 000 m² ) site.

Companies such as MAN B & W Diesel, ( formerly Burmeister & Wain ) and Wärtsilä ( which acquired Sulzer Diesel ) design such large low-speed engines.

As this area has had very limited use for agriculture, habitats remain largely undisturbed while parts of the desert are protected areas including Mamungari Conservation Park ( formerly known as Unnamed Conservation Park ) in South Australia, a large area of pristine arid zone wilderness which possesses cultural significance and is one of the fourteen World Biosphere Reserves in Australia.

The city also maintains a large Polytechnics College campus ( formerly TAFE Tasmania ) for post-secondary studies in Trades and other non-university qualifications.

According to Manoel de Almeida ( a Portuguese missionary in the early 17th century ), there were 21 islands, seven to eight of which had monasteries on them " formerly large, but now much diminished.

Lake Tana supports a large fishing industry, mainly involving the Labeobarbus barbs ( formerly in genus Barbus ), Nile tilapia and sharptooth catfish ( a large catfish that is widespread in Africa ).

The Pastaza ( formerly known as the Sumatara ) is a large tributary to the Marañón River in the northwestern Amazon Basin of South America.

In later years Lenné would completely redesign the Tiergarten, a large wooded park formerly the Royal Hunting Grounds, also give his name to Lennéstraße, a thoroughfare forming part of the southern boundary of the park, very close to Potsdamer Platz, and transform a muddy ditch to the south into one of Berlin's busiest waterways, the Landwehrkanal.

Instead large Level 1 caches are used, formerly as separate chips connected by a bus, and now integrated on-chip.

Resulting in the division of the mouth of the Congo River between Portugal, who obtained Cabinda, an enclave north of the Congo River situated on the Atlantic Coast, the French who seized the large area north of the River, and king Leopold II gaining only a small foothold at the mouth of the Congo River but obtaining the huge hinterland, the present-day Democratic Republic of Congo ( formerly Zaire ).

Many standard procedures have been moved to the new standard libraries, which themselves form a large expansion of the standard, containing procedures and syntactic forms that were formerly not part of the standard.

In large cities such as London, suburbs include formerly separate towns and villages that have been gradually absorbed during a city's growth and expansion.

CFRA ( 580 AM ) in Ottawa ( formerly part of the CHUM network, which is now part of CTV ) has a large and dedicated listening audience.

One of Tajikistan's leading industrial sites, the aluminum plant at Tursunzoda ( formerly known as Regar ), west of Dushanbe near the border with Uzbekistan, generates large amounts of toxic waste gases that have been blamed for a sharp increase in the number of birth defects among people who live within range of its emissions.

The Fragment Targums ( formerly known as Targum Yerushalmi II ) consist of a large number of fragments that have been divided into ten manuscripts.

This was formerly the universal custom and still persists among the less sophisticated Veddas who sometimes in addition place a large stone upon the chest for which no reason could be given, this is observed at Sitala Wanniya ( off Polle-bedda close to Maha Oya ), where the body is still covered with branches and left where the death occurred.

* Chinese Emperor Xuanzong of Tang has four palace walls in the northeast sector of the capital city Chang ' an torn down and reassembled to construct a new Daoist abbey, the grounds of which were formerly a large garden for the governmental Bureau of Agriculture.

This also applies to the large hill ski jump event, formerly the sprint.

The " unicorn " figures on the seals have been interpreted as representations of aurochs — a type of large wild cattle that formerly inhabited Europe, Asia and North Africa — or derivatives of aurochs.