Alfred's burhs ( later termed boroughs ) consisted mainly of massive earthen walls surrounded by wide ditches, probably reinforced with wooden revetments and palisades.

It was to be a massive and impregnable 600-metre aircraft carrier made from reinforced ice (" Pykrete "): Habakkuk was never carried out due to its enormous cost.

The application of steam power to the industrial processes of printing supported a massive expansion of newspaper and popular book publishing, which reinforced rising literacy and demands for mass political participation.

The tube tunnel is made from 20 prefabricated reinforced concrete segments – the most massive in the world at 55, 000 tonnes each – interconnected in a trench dug in the seabed.

" In the center of the rear of the working space is the massive vault, the big circular door weighing fifteen and a half tons, and the vestibule sixteen and a half tons, and the heavy steel lining of the vault forty-eight tons, a total of eighty tons, or one hundred and sixty thousand pounds, the back and sides of the steel vault having a heavy reinforced concrete wall outside.

The Germans developed massive reinforced concrete blockhouses, some more than six stories high, which were known as Hochbunker " High Bunkers " or " Flaktürme " flak towers, on which they placed anti-aircraft artillery.

The city has also a massive line of walls designed by Antonio da Sangallo the Younger, which were erected from 1518 and reinforced in the 17th century.

Muir was delighted at the canyon's similarity to Yosemite Valley, as it reinforced his theory regarding the origin of both valleys, which, though competing with Josiah Whitney's then-accepted theory that the spectacular mountain valleys were formed by earthquake action, Muir's theory later proved correct: that both valleys were carved by massive glaciers during the last Ice Age.

The massive glass curtain wall façade of reinforced blue tinted mirrored glass is its central feature and changes colour during the day, ranging from a trademark dark blue to a brilliant gold during sunset.

The central area of the church is dominated by a large octagonal dome which is reinforced by the arcades of the vaulted ceilings and is supported by four massive octagonal columns.

Below was a massive titanium plate, 3 m of sand and a reinforced concrete plate.

After suffering massive losses themselves, due to being continuously used as the buffer to protect the retreating army ( especially at the Battle of Slim River ), the remaining Argylls were reinforced with Royal Marines who had survived the sinking of HMS Prince of Wales and HMS Repulse in December 1941 changing their name to Plymouth Argylls ( in reference to the Argylls affiliation to the Plymouth Argyle Football team and that all the Marines were from the Plymouth Division ).

The massive brick and concrete reinforced church features two thin towers and a green copper dome that rises above the ground, dominating the northwestern skyline of Brussels.

The auditorium rests on massive reinforced concrete beams spanning at the same level as the orchestra pit.

The one-nave church, heavily reinforced by massive buttresses from the exterior is severely plain and the low side, its solidity is relieved only by the lateral buttresses, somehow break up the walls into regular sequence of alternating masses, creating a simple rhythmic movement

The housing authority's massive housing complexes quickly developed a reputation as centers for crime, and this reputation, perhaps reinforced by racial prejudice against the complexes ' African-American residents, likely did as much as the confusing street plan to drive commerce away from East Liberty.

Panshet Dam burst in its first year of storing water on 12 July 1961, when the dam wall burst, because of the total absence of the ubiquitous reinforced cement concrete ( RCC ), causing massive flooding in Pune.

With the assistance of a Brooklyn Union Gas Co. ( now National Grid ) engineering crew, he then broke through the massive concrete bulkhead wall, which is several feet thick.

A large wrecking ball was used to demolish Throop Hall, and smashing the concrete revealed massive amounts of rebar, far in excess of safety requirements.

This reaction occurs independently of the presence of rebars: massive concrete structures such as dams can be affected.

They are massive concrete structures deeply seated on bedrock on the landside of Tsing Yi and Ma Wan island.

The foundations were completed within 12 months by Bachy Soletanche and required massive amounts of concrete.

A massive range of artworks ( around 132 in total ) ranging from concrete hippos to bronze statues, dancing children, giant flowers, a dinosaur, a horse and chariot and crocodiles, to name but a few, were created.

Hidden behind a massive concrete door disguised as a shelf, the cell was long, less than wide and high.

El Fraile, a rocky island some in area, supports the massive concrete and steel ruins of Fort Drum, an island fortress constructed by the United States Army to defend the southern entrance of the bay.

A massive range of artworks ( around 132 in total ) ranging from concrete hippos to bronze statues, dancing children, giant flowers, a dinosaur, a horse and chariot and crocodiles, to name but a few, were created.

In the film version, the craft are grey and cubic, a continuation of the emphasis on bureaucracy in the Vogons ' conception: " Douglas's description of the Vogon ships hanging in the air in much the same way that bricks don't to these Vogon ships which are these massive concrete tower blocks, with hardly any windows, they just have a few doors around the base ," says Joel Collins.

An anvil for a power hammer is usually supported on a massive anvil block, sometimes weighing over 800 tons for a 12-ton hammer ; this again rests on a strong foundation of timber and masonry or concrete.

Although concrete evidence of such is yet to be presented, there were massive speculations in the Bangladesh media that young first time voters, who comprised 31 % of the entire electorate this year, overwhelmingly rejected the BNP because of its association with corrupt businessmen, Islamic fundamentalists, and war criminals.

Glen Canyon's design was overall based on that of Hoover Dam, a massive concrete arch-gravity structure anchored in solid bedrock, with several changes.

Upon inspection, it was found that cavitation had caused massive gouging damage to both spillways, carrying away thousands of tons of concrete, steel rebar and huge chunks of rock.

But they were permanently sealed with massive concrete plugs, isolating them from the remaining sections of the downstream outlet tunnels when the main dam began to be raised and, later when the lake was filled.

In 1938-39 the signal boxes at North and South Junctions were completely reconstructed as massive concrete structures to withstand air raids, and remained in use until the resignalling project in 1985.

This is truly Modernistic bulk having elaborated architectonical shape with its perpendicular ribs of concrete dividing windows into narrow quarters-black and white as main colours of building and deep green of greenery around it together with precisely cuboidal massive creates unique impression, indeed.

It stands on two, solid concrete pillars and there are additional shop windows for on the ground floor below protruding massive of façade.

* Zatorze District-entire area is built over in the decade of 1980s. It comprises characteristic, massive block of flats made of grey concrete in prefabricated elements.

The concrete dam incorporates massive steel floodgates to control water levels with a walkway across the top with viewing windows to the powerhouse.

Birmingham continues to develop, following the removal of the Inner Ring Road, which acted as a ' concrete collar ' preventing the expansion of the city centre, a massive urban regeneration project known as the Big City Plan in progress.

By early 1942, Raeder and Dönitz were openly feuding with each other, with Dönitz mocking Raeder's obsession with " dinosaurs ", as Dönitz called battleships, and Raeder complaining of Dönitz's massive ego and his tendency to run the U-boat arm as it were his own private navy.

Top scientists have warned that an area hit by an atomic missile of massive power would be engulfed in a suffocating fire storm which would persist for a long time.

He was freshly shaved, and if there had been any alcohol in him we could never have missed detecting some scent of it on the massive gusts of his laughter.

They would have to bide their official time and see, trusting that the massive doses of shell-psychology would suffice her, too, as the necessary bulwark against her unusual confinement and the pressures of her profession.

* 1990 – Customs officers in Middlesbrough, England, United Kingdom, say they have seized what they believe to be the barrel of a massive gun on a ship bound for Iraq.

Support groups have cited massive economic benefits for the deprived East Lancs area from business and commuter traffic.

However, earlier controversies over impact of the Boston extension of the Massachusetts Turnpike, particularly on the heavily populated neighborhood of Brighton, and the large number of additional homes that would have had to be destroyed, led to massive community opposition to both the Inner Belt and the Boston section of I-95.

“ Biological weapons have massive, unpredictable, and potentially uncontrollable consequences ,” he declared.

Both sexes have heavy spiral horns — those of the male are longer and more massive.

Males have massive backswept horns while females have smaller, thinner and more parallel horns.

Monoculture and the massive decline of many bee species ( both wild and domesticated ) have increasingly caused honey bee keepers to become migratory so that bees can be concentrated in seasonally varying high-demand areas of pollination.

He came to the view that private charity would never be sufficient to alleviate poverty, and only massive action and income redistribution by the state would have any serious effect.

Several impact craters and massive volcanic activity, such as that in the Deccan Traps, have been dated to the approximate time of the extinction event.

These events would have released massive amounts of dust and ash into the atmosphere, reducing surface sunlight, hindering photosynthesis, and severely disrupting Earth's biosphere.

However, even Walter Alvarez has acknowledged that there were other major changes on Earth even before the impact, such as a drop in sea level and massive volcanic eruptions that produced the Indian Deccan Traps, and these may have contributed to the extinctions.

Detroit, Michigan, and Windsor, Ontario, have, since the 1950s, celebrated both Dominion or Canada Day and the United States ' Independence Day with the International Freedom Festival ; a massive fireworks display over the Detroit River, the strait separating the two cities, is held annually with hundreds of thousands of spectators attending.

Like white dwarfs these objects are extremely compact and are supported by degeneracy pressure, but a neutron star is so massive and compressed that electrons and protons have combined to form neutrons, and the star is thus supported by neutron degeneracy pressure instead of electron degeneracy pressure.

In his memoirs published in 1970, Khrushchev wrote, “ In addition to protecting Cuba, our missiles would have equalized what the West likes to call ‘ the balance of massive nuclear missiles around the globe .’”

Of course, businesses targeted by class actions for inflicting massive aggregate harm have sought ways to avoid class actions altogether.

The massive property boom and consequent rise in house prices has led to friction between the new arrivals and the old Docklands communities, who have complained of being squeezed out.

Some relatively lightweight exoplanets, only a few times more massive than Earth ( now known by the term Super-Earth ), are known as well ; statistical studies now indicate that they actually outnumber giant planets while recent discoveries have included Earth-sized and smaller planets and a handful that appear to exhibit other Earth-like properties.

All exoplanets that have been directly imaged are both large ( more massive than Jupiter ) and widely separated from their parent star.

It is widely believed that giant planets form through core accretion, and that process may sometimes produce planets with masses above the deuterium fusion threshold ; massive planets of that sort may have already been observed.

But in addition, statistical analysis indicates that lower-mass stars ( red dwarfs, of spectral category M ) are less likely to have planets massive enough to detect.