Therefore it was a major landmark when in 1865 Johann Josef Loschmidt measured the size of the molecules that make up air.

* Columbus Circle, a traffic circle and major landmark in Manhattan

Into the early 20th century, Greenwich Village was distinguished from the upper-class neighborhood of Washington Squarebased on the major landmark Washington Square Park or Empire Ward in the 19th century.

Intense attacks against U. S. and Western interests, including two truck bombings of the US Embassy in 1983 and 1984 and the landmark attacks on the U. S. Marine and French parachute regiment barracks on October 23, 1983, led to an American withdrawal, while the virtual collapse of the Lebanese Army in February 1984 was a major blow to the government.

After the publication of Robert Peterson's landmark book Only the Ball was White in 1970, the Hall of Fame found itself under renewed pressure to find a way to honor Negro league players who would have been in the Hall had they not been barred from the major leagues due to the color of their skin.

Winchester's major landmark is Winchester Cathedral, one of the largest cathedrals in Europe, with the distinction of having the longest nave and overall length of all Gothic cathedrals in Europe.

In 1942, Sverdrup and Fleming published " The Ocean " which was a major landmark.

The creation of Unit 101 was a major landmark in the Israeli Special Forces history.

The Campanile, a major university landmark at the center of UNI's campus.

The city also has a major art gallery which forms a landmark perched over Lake Benalla on the site of the original police station.

Events that spurred this development included the publication of Rachael Carson's landmark environmental book Silent Spring along with major environmental issues becoming very public, such as the 1969 Santa Barbara oil spill, and the Cuyahoga River of Cleveland, Ohio, " catching fire " ( also in 1969 ), and helped increase the visibility of environmental issues and create this new field of study.

Her 1986 Academy Award nomination for Aliens is considered as a landmark in the recognition of science fiction, action, and horror genres, as well as a major step in challenging the gender role in cinema.

Another major landmark in some stories is a large statue of Duckburg's founder, Cornelius Coot.

The major landmark in Folkestone, apart from the Harbour, is the Leas, the cliffs above the beach.

The Big Chair in Thomasville is also a major landmark.

The canteen ( built during World War I ) became the town hall of the Crayford Urban District Council and remains a major landmark in municipal use.

Plumstead is the location for a large bus garage built in 1981 on former industrial land and a more recent landmark is the Greenwich Islamic Centre, located on Plumstead Road which has been extant for about 20 years and is currently undergoing a major enlargement.

" The Silos " are a major Broadwater County landmark

However, it was revived in 1902 when Sumter Cogswell built the Pell City Manufacturing Company, which subsequently became Avondale Mills, which was a major landmark of the town until Thunder Enterprises, a Tennessee company, bought the building and began dismantling the factory in 2008.

BBSO, now operated by the New Jersey Institute of Technology, is still a major Big Bear Lake landmark connected to the north shore by a dirt and rock causeway.

It is the home of Pea Soup Andersen's, a major roadside stop and landmark on Route 101 since 1924.

A major landmark is a large water tower emblazoned with the words " watch Nunn grow ".

In 2007, the sculpture Couple in Conversation was unveiled on the roundabout, providing a new landmark for one of the major gateways into the town.

Allenport is home to several major landmarks however, a primary landmark has not been officially determined and is debated throughout the community.

The cost of developing a major weapon system is now so enormous that the greatest care must be exercised in selecting new systems for development, in determining the most satisfactory rate of development, and in deciding the proper time at which either to place a system into production or to abandon it.

But whenever a major purchase was contemplated forty years ago -- a new bedroom set or a winter coat, an Easter bonnet, a bicycle for Junior -- the family set off for the downtown department store, where the selection would be greatest.

Ayn Rand accredited Aristotle as " the greatest philosopher in history " and cited him as a major influence on her thinking.

In the Timaeus, Plato's major cosmological dialogue, the Platonic solid he associated with fire was the tetrahedron which is formed from four triangles and contains the least volume with the greatest surface area.

During the 6 February 1934 crisis, France faced the greatest domestic political turmoil since the Dreyfus Affair when the fascist Francist Movement and multiple far right movements rioted en masse in Paris against the French government resulting in major political violence.

* LaGuardia Airport, the smallest of New York's three major currently operating airports, bears his name ; the airport was voted the " greatest airport in the world " by the worldwide aviation community in 1960.

A moral philosopher who produced alternatives to the ideas of Thomas Hobbes, one of his major contributions to world thought was the utilitarian and consequentialist principle that virtue is that which provides, in his words, " the greatest happiness for the greatest numbers ".

' Religion remained the major cause of differentiation in all Irish diaspora communities and had the greatest impact on identity, followed by the nature and difficulty of socio-economic conditions faced in each new country and the strength of continued social and political links of Irish immigrants and their descendants with the old country.

Childeric's mane, with its striking color and length, was a major asset to him ( and possibly his greatest claim to hold the throne ) at a time when the Merovingian dynasty was faltering.

Shelley's Ode to the West Wind, written in fourteen line terza rima stanzas, is a major poem in the form, but perhaps the greatest odes of the 19th century were Keats's Five Great Odes of 1819 which included Ode to a Nightingale, Ode on Melancholy, Ode on a Grecian Urn, Ode to Psyche, and To Autumn.

It did not take long for Smith to earn recognition in the major leagues, making what some consider his greatest fielding play only ten games into his rookie season.

Of China's major airports, Beijing Capital International Airport ( PEK ), located northeast of central Beijing, has the greatest flow of passengers annually.

This motivated Polygram ( who now owned the Verve / MGM label archives ) to re-release the song to Top 40 radio where it became a major hit for a second time ( their second UK # 1 ) and a greatest hits CD collection called The Very Best of The Righteous Brothers ... Unchained Melody.

Rashi and his family survived the major anti-semitic outbreak when he was 45 years old ; many of his teachers who were some of Judaism's greatest Ashkenazi sages and his mentors did not survive.

Sosa's performance in the month of June, during which Sosa belted 20 home runs, knocked in 47 runs, and posted an. 842 slugging percentage, was one of the greatest offensive outbursts in major league history.

The Texas Chain Saw Massacre is considered one of the greatest — and most controversial — of horror films, and a major influence on the genre.

A major protagonist for the Constitution of the United States, and the single greatest contributor to the Federalist Papers, advocating for the constitution's ratification through detailed examinations of its construction, philosophical and moral basis, and intent.

The next five years were triumphant, with major successes with his greatest works, La sonnambula, Norma and I puritani, cut short by Bellini's premature death just nine months after the premiere of I puritani.

Citing a lack of decent exclusives and an " astronomical asking price ", in 2009 video game website IGN chose the 3DO as its 22nd greatest video game console of all time, slightly higher than the Atari Jaguar but lower than its four other major competitors: the SNES ( 4th best ), the Sega Mega Drive ( 5th ), the Sony PlayStation ( 7th ), and the Sega Saturn ( 18th ).

A man of integrity who has been described as the greatest Pope of the 17th century, he played a major part in founding both the League of Augsburg, against Louis XIV ; and the Holy League, against the Ottoman Empire.

Boris Godunov, among major operas, shares with Giuseppe Verdi's Don Carlos ( 1867 ) the distinction of having the most complex creative history and the greatest wealth of alternative material.

On a VH1 special about the 100 greatest child stars, many of the interviewees considered Ron Howard to be the most successful child star of all time, considering his two major television acting roles and his directing career.

The greatest venue for Bakweri music and dance are the two major festivals that take place each year in December.

Though his work crossed many stylistic boundaries, his involvement with the other major figures of Impressionism and their exhibitions, his dynamic paintings and sketches of everyday life and activities, and his bold color experiments, served to finally tie him to the Impressionist movement as one of its greatest artists.