During the early part of this century, the Brown & Sharpe works in Providence were unchallenged as the largest single manufacturing facility devoted exclusively to precision machinery and tool manufacture anywhere in the world.

Potter ’ s paternal grandfather, Edmund Potter, from Glossop in Derbyshire, owned the largest calico printing works in England at the time, and later served as a Member of Parliament.

Its permanent collection, numbering some eight million works, is amongst the largest and most comprehensive in existence and originates from all continents, illustrating and documenting the story of human culture from its beginnings to the present.

Formerly the Department of the Ancient Near East, with a collection numbering some 330, 000 works, the British Museum possesses by far the world's largest and most important collection of Mesopotamian antiquities outside Iraq.

Historically, some encyclopedias were contained in one volume, but some, such as the Encyclopædia Britannica or the world ´ s largest Enciclopedia universal ilustrada europeo-americana, became huge multi-volume works.

The current program works to advance U. S. foreign policy objectives by focusing on Guatemala's potential as Central America's largest economy and trading partner of the United States, but also recognizes the country's lagging social indicators and high rate of poverty.

Apart from historical collections in general museums, modern works of art in glass can be seen in a variety of museums, including the Chrysler Museum, the Museum of Glass in Tacoma, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Toledo Museum of Art, and Corning Museum of Glass, in Corning, NY, which houses the world's largest collection of glass art and history, with more than 45, 000 objects in its collection.

In his long life he completed over 35 works, the largest and most famous of which is Tantrāloka, an encyclopedic treatise on all the philosophical and practical aspects of Trika and Kaula ( known today as Kashmir Shaivism ).

The scientists used several locations in the USSR for their works, the largest was a massive test range to the West from Lake Balkhash.

The fountain is the largest public works gift ever given to the city of Berkeley.

* The Gemeentemuseum ( Municipal museum ) is home to the world ’ s largest collection of works by the Dutch painter Piet Mondriaan as well as other modern art.

Other major companies are ČEZ ( biggest company in central and eastern Europe ), Škoda works ( manufacturer of rail vehicles ), Panasonic ( electronics ), Tatra ( Heavy truck manufacturer ), Acelor Mittal ( Metallurgy ), Avast ( Software ), PPF ( largest Central European investment group ) and many others.

The altar at in Kraków was not completed until 1489, and was the largest triptych of its time and, like his other large works, required a large workshop including specialized painters and gilders.

These ambitious works are some of the largest paintings in the history of Cubism.

In addition to works in North America, the Singer Corporation also had the honour of creating the largest clock face in the world, the Singer's clock at its Clydebank, Scotland factory which opened in 1885 and closed in 1980.

Many of his works are found in the Apostolic Palace of The Vatican, where the frescoed Raphael Rooms were the central, and the largest, work of his career.

Perhaps the largest contribution to the public works system in the U. S. came out of President Franklin D. Roosevelt ’ s New Deal initiatives particularly the creation of the Works Progress Administration ( WPA ) in 1935.

One of his pupils was Lodewijk Elzevir ( 1547 – 1617 ), who established the largest bookshop and printing works in Leiden, a business continued by his descendants through 1712 and the name subsequently adopted ( in a variant spelling ) by contemporary publisher Elsevier.

This development had a direct effect on the sculptural decoration of temples, as many of the greatest extant works of Ancient Greek sculpture once adorned temples, and many of the largest recorded statues of the age, such as the lost chryselephantine statues of Zeus at the Temple of Zeus at Olympia and Athena at the Parthenon, Athens, both over 40 feet high, were once housed in them.

As a result of this and ample access to hydropower due to the falls, Richmond became home to some of the largest manufacturing facilities in the country, including iron works and flour mills, the largest facilities of their kind in the south.

* Irish Cement, Ireland's largest cement works at Platin.

After a first-level flood alert in 2003, about 100, 000 works of art were moved out of Paris, the largest relocation of art since World War II.

The Works Progress Administration ( renamed during 1939 as the Works Project Administration ; WPA ) was the largest and most ambitious New Deal agency, employing millions of unskilled workers to carry out public works projects, including the construction of public buildings and roads.

The fact that sticks out in this voluminous record is that the bulk of Du Pont's production has always supplied the largest part of the requirements of the one customer in the automobile industry connected to Du Pont by a stock interest.

however, the anode is still the part receiving the largest heat flux.

It is often stated that the largest snakes require five years to attain maturity, but this apparently is an overestimation.

Bernard Heuvelmans also treats of the largest snakes, but on the third level, and is chiefly concerned with the anaconda.

In addition, the iodoamino acid formed in largest quantity in the intact thyroid is di-iodotyrosine.

This development is reflected in the action taken in February, 1961, by the general board of the National Council of Churches, the largest Protestant organization in the Aj.

The ultimate objective of American policy is to help establish a world in which there is the largest possible measure of freedom and justice and peace and material prosperity ; ;

I speak of `` the largest possible measure '' because any person who supposes that these conditions can be universally and perfectly achieved -- ever -- reckons without the inherent imperfectability of himself and his fellow human beings, and is therefore a dangerous man to have around.

The dome of the church is, outside of St. Peter's, one of the largest in Rome.

It is the second largest city in Japan, with about four million people.

The largest hurdle the Republicans would have to face is a state law which says that before making a first race, one of two alternative courses must be taken: 1

Behind this reply, and its many variations, is the ever-present budget problem all libraries must face, from the largest to the smallest.

Also, the state with the largest number of Negroes is New York -- not in the South at all.

The largest city by population is Birmingham.

The largest city by total land area is Huntsville.

The single largest organization of Anthropologists is the American Anthropological Association ( AAA ), which was founded in 1903.

The largest amphibian is the Chinese Giant Salamander, Andrias davidianus.

The suborder Neobatrachia is by far the largest group and includes the remaining families of modern frogs, including most common species.

The largest family in this group is Plethodontidae, the lungless salamanders, which includes sixty percent of all salamander species.

Alaska () is the largest state in the United States by area.

One of the largest problems that affect patients with disabilities is discomfort with prosthesis.

The largest segmental script is probably an abugida, Devanagari.

The largest known abjad is Sindhi, with 51 letters.