Literal flatness now tends to assert itself as the main event of the picture, and the device boomerangs: the illusion of depth is rendered even more precarious than before.

Sixty-nine cars started the selection event that would show which entrants would be allowed to start the main event, the race from Paris to Rouen.

During a major news event one or more of the main news presenters may be sent to present live for the channel from the scene of the story, where they will conduct interviews with the people involved, question correspondents, introduce related reports and also give general information on the story, much as a reporter sent to cover a story would.

On the third day of battle, July 3, fighting resumed on Culp's Hill, and cavalry battles raged to the east and south, but the main event was a dramatic infantry assault by 12, 500 Confederates against the center of the Union line on Cemetery Ridge, known as Pickett's Charge.

Beginning in 1975, " Bert " was used for Jet Assisted Take Off ( JATO ) and short aerial demonstrations just prior to the main event at selected venues, but the JATO demonstration ended in 2009 due to dwindling supplies of rockets.

The impact of a meteorite or comet is today widely accepted as the main reason for the Cretaceous – Paleogene extinction event.

The Test-playing nations qualify automatically for the World Cup main event, while the other teams have to qualify through a series of preliminary qualifying tournaments.

In the event of a complete failure of the main line, the throne would pass to the nearest collateral branch, again in the male line.

Gladiatorial combats were the main event and usually held around this time of day.

Double leg work however, is the main staple of this event.

Another common workaround is to run GLUT's event loop in a separate thread, although this may vary by operating system, and also may introduce synchronization issues or other problems: for example, the Mac OS X GLUT implementation requires that be run in the main thread.

Jon often attempts to ask her out on a date, but rarely succeeds ; however, in an extended story arc from June 19 to July 29, 2006 ( the main event on July 28 ), Liz and Jon kiss.

The main event in the First Republic in the sixties was the inclusion of the Socialist party in the government, after the reducing edge of the Christian Democracy ( DC ) had forced them to accept this alliance ; attempts to incorporate the Italian Social Movement ( MSI ) in the Tambroni government led to riots, and were short-lived.

There are two main types of legal expenses insurance: before the event insurance and after the event insurance.

Hulk Hogan wrote in his autobiography that Mr. T saved the main event of WrestleMania I between them and " Rowdy " Roddy Piper and " Mr. Wonderful " Paul Orndorff because when he arrived, security would not let his entourage into the building.

In 2007 MSP organized the first Mars Festival, a two-day event which drew 600 visitors, with Discovery Channel as the main sponsor.

The film's main action sequence, when Nanook hunts a walrus, was also a staged event.

Berkeley's idealism has two main strands, phenomenalism in which physical events are viewed as a special kind of mental event and subjective idealism.

Historians that attribute responsibility for the war to Athens cite this event as the main cause for blame.

Such preliminary contests were held prior to the major games to determine who would participate in the main event.

Face special referees will often fight back against hostile heel wrestlers, particularly if the special referee is either a wrestler himself or a famous martial artist ( such as Tito Ortiz at the main event at TNA Hard Justice 2005 ).

In WCW, Kevin Nash was banned from using his finishing move, the Jackknife powerbomb, not because the move itself was dangerous, but because he was kayfabe billed as being so good at the move that it would end careers ( this was designed to help push him towards the main event ).

As a concentrated form of narrative prose fiction, the short story has been theorised through the traditional elements of dramatic structure: exposition ( the introduction of setting, situation and main characters ), complication ( the event that introduces the conflict ), rising action, crisis ( the decisive moment for the protagonist and his commitment to a course of action ), climax ( the point of highest interest in terms of the conflict and the point with the most action ) and resolution ( the point when the conflict is resolved ).

Prokofieff might well emerge as a cultural hero, who, by the force of his creative life, helped preserve the main stream of tradition, to which the surviving idioms of current experimentalism may be eventually added and integrated.

As a consequence, both countries share cultural aspects: language ( Portuguese ) and main religion ( Roman Catholic Christianity ).

Historically, the main dispute between the national organizations has generally centered on the interpretation of " Nordic heritage " as either something cultural, or as something genetic or racial.

At the end of the century, the administration of the city hall and the city underwent diverse structural changes with the opening of several avenues, hospitals, cultural spaces and it became one of the main tourist destinations in the Northeast and in Brazil.

Mixing of cultural groups did not occur much beyond governance and business due to two main reasons:

Critic Georg Lukács points to middling main characters like Ivanhoe in Sir Walter Scott's other novels as one of the primary reasons Scott's historical novels depart from previous historical works and better explore social and cultural history.

Orton's legacy stands to live on in his hometown, Leicester ; the development of the " cultural quarter " of the city, a former industrial area, continues apace and the new Theatre, Curve, the central development in the area, has a new pedestrian concourse outside the theatre's main entrance named " Orton Square.

With the advent of the series Star Trek: The Next Generation ( 1987 )— in which one of the main characters, Worf, was a Klingon — and successors, the language and various cultural aspects for the fictional species were expanded.

The primary language of Babylon ( and the administrative and cultural language of the Sassanid Empire ) at that time was Eastern Middle Aramaic, which included three main dialects: Judeo-Aramaic ( the language of the Talmud ), Mandaean Aramaic ( the language of the Mandaean religion ), and Syriac Aramaic, which was the language of Mani, as well as of the Syriac Christians.

A historical explanation of the myth refers to the time when Crete was the main political and cultural potency in the Aegean Sea.

After the annexion to the Piedmont in the Kingdom of Sardinia, the town became the administrative center of the area, obtaining the title of city in 1836 ; in the 19th century it was one of the main cultural centers of Sardinia.

Renaissance trends from Italy and Central Europe influenced Russia in many ways, though this influence was rather limited due to the large distances between Russia and the main European cultural centers, on one hand, and the strong adherence of Russians to their Orthodox traditions and Byzantine legacy, on the other hand.

Four main strategies have been used by translators ; the first leaves all characters ' names unchanged and in their original spelling, thus the name is respected and readers reminded of the original cultural setting, but the liveliness of the pun is lost.

The main cultural institutions of Tirana are the National Theater, the National Theatre of Opera and Ballet of Albania, and the National Arts Gallery ( Galeria Kombëtare e Arteve ).

Wemics in the Maelstom game-world are divided into two main cultural groups-those from Amun-Sa and those from Tritoni, although there are also populations in in the Free Islands, Gerosos and Lyzanium.

Texas has four main styles, all with different flavors, different cooking methods, different ingredients, and different cultural origins.

One definition describes Eastern Europe as a cultural ( and econo-cultural ) entity: the region lying in Europe with main characteristics consisting in Byzantine, Orthodox and minor and limited Ottoman influences.

Some cultural evidence ( the presence of sati in the Mahabharata but not in the main body of the Ramayana ) suggests that the Ramayana predates the Mahabharata.

Today Sassari is the main cultural, administrative and historical centre of Northern Sardinia.

The city's main theatre and cultural venue is the Courtyard Centre for the Arts which was opened in 1998, replacing the New Hereford Theatre.

Capital of the historical region of Galicia, Lviv is now regarded as one of the main cultural centres of today's Ukraine.

Mantua's historic power and influence under the Gonzaga family made it one of the main artistic, cultural, and especially musical hubs of Northern Italy and the country as a whole.

The ground was divided into four neighbourhood units, separated by green belts, and in the middle was built a main shopping and cultural centre to meet the needs of 30, 000 inhabitants ( including those of surrounding districts ) ( Hertzen 1959 ).

Milwaukee is the main cultural and economic center of the Milwaukee – Racine – Waukesha Metropolitan Area with a population of as of 2010.

In an article in the journal Science, Boas argued that this approach to cultural evolution ignored one of Charles Darwin's main contributions to evolutionary theory: