The massive gate of the Maltese villa affords one of the most extraordinary views in Rome.

The most significant plague epidemic began in Attica in 1688, an occasion that caused the massive migration of all the Athenians toward the south ; most of them settled in Aegina.

The Hep Stars got their breakthrough in March 1965 with their massive hit " Cadillac ", eventually becoming the most celebrated of the Swedish 1960s pop bands.

While in the first five years following World War II, massive emigration from these states to the West occurred, restrictions implemented thereafter stopped most East-West migration, except that under limited bilateral and other agreements.

* Baphuon Style ( 1050 – 1080 ): Baphuon, the massive temple mountain of King Udayadityavarman II was apparently the temple that most impressed the Chinese traveller Zhou Daguan, who visited Angkor toward the end of the 13th century.

Without massive Soviet subsidies and its primary trading partner Cuba was comparatively isolated in the 1990s, but has since entered bilateral co-operation with several South American countries, most notably Venezuela and Bolivia.

Eventually, most paleontologists began to accept the idea that the mass extinctions at the end of the Cretaceous were largely or at least partly due to a massive Earth impact.

Some of the most elaborate columns in the ancient world were those of the Persians, especially the massive stone columns erected in Persepolis.

The Greek Doric, developed in the western Dorian region of Greece, is the heaviest and most massive of the orders.

In late 1989 and early 1990, Mobutu was weakened by a series of domestic protests, by heightened international criticism of his regime's human rights practices, by a faltering economy, and by government corruption, most notably his massive embezzlement of government funds for personal use.

The most widely discussed models for nonbaryonic dark matter are based on the Cold Dark Matter hypothesis, and the corresponding particle is most commonly assumed to be a weakly interacting massive particle ( WIMP ).

Guided missile destroyers such as the Arleigh Burke class are actually larger and more heavily armed than most previous ships classified as guided missile cruisers, due to their massive size at long, displacement ( 9200 tons ) and armament of over 90 missiles.

Initially, most known exoplanets were massive planets that orbited very close to their parent stars.

It is most widely accepted that stromatolites from the late Archean and through the middle Proterozoic eon were mostly formed by massive colonies of cyanobacteria ( formerly known as blue-green algae ), and that the oxygen byproduct of their photosynthetic metabolism first resulted in earth ’ s massive banded iron formations and subsequently oxygenated earth ’ s atmosphere.

The most massive galaxies in the sky are giant elliptical galaxies.

Under President Shevardnadze's leadership, the government had nonetheless made some progress on basic market reforms: all prices and most trade have been liberalized, a stable national currency ( the lari ) was introduced, and massive government downsizing took place.

They are among the most massive objects in the Solar System outside the Sun and the eight planets, with radii larger than any of the dwarf planets.

Clusters of galaxies are the most recent and most massive objects to have arisen in the hierarchical structure formation of the universe and the study of clusters tells one about the way galaxies form and evolve.

The earthquake caused massive devastation, with most buildings crumbled, including Haiti's presidential palace.

The most famous of these is the massive Hadrian's Wall in Great Britain, and the Danube and Rhine borders were strengthened with a series of mostly wooden fortifications, forts, outposts and watchtowers, the latter specifically improving communications and local area security.

By June 1920, the Polish armies were past Vilnius, Minsk and ( allied with the Directorate of Ukraine ) reached Kiev, but then the massive Bolshevik counteroffensive moved the Poles out of most of Ukraine and on the northern front arrived at the outskirts of Warsaw.

Larvae and most aquatic adult amphibians excrete the nitrogen as ammonia in large quantities of dilute urine while terrestrial species, with a greater need to conserve water, excrete the less toxic product urea.

Mammals came to occupy almost every available niche ( both marine and terrestrial ), and some also grew very large, attaining sizes not seen in most of today's mammals.

Apart from terrestrial mammals, the seas around Crete are rich in large marine mammals, a fact unknown to most Greeks, although reported since ancient times.

Most episodes in the 1960s, 70s, and 80s rated with over 20 million viewers and during the 1990s and early 2000s 15 – 20 million per episode would be typical Like most terrestrial television in the UK, a dramatic decline in viewership has taken place and the show currently posts figures of between 8 and 14 million per episode.

The common chimpanzee is both arboreal and terrestrial and spends its nights in the trees, while most daylight hours are spent on the ground.

In addition to the direct applications ( mp3 players or computers ), digitally compressed audio streams are used in most video DVDs ; digital television ; streaming media on the internet ; satellite and cable radio ; and increasingly in terrestrial radio broadcasts.

Dolphins, along with whales and porpoises, are descendants of terrestrial mammals, most likely of the Artiodactyl order.

Since most terrestrial ecosystems are nitrogen-limited, nitrogen cycling is an important control on ecosystem production.

Most non-dinosaurian archosaurs, most therapsids, and most of the large amphibians were eliminated, leaving dinosaurs with little terrestrial competition.

Because it is warm, the surface radiates far IR thermal radiation that consists of wavelengths that are predominantly much longer than the wavelengths that were absorbed ( the overlap between the incident solar spectrum and the terrestrial thermal spectrum is small enough to be neglected for most purposes ).

During the governments of General Juan Alberto Melgar ( 1975 – 78 ) and General Policarpo Paz ( 1978 – 82 ), Honduras built most of its physical infrastructure and electricity and terrestrial telecommunications systems, both of which are state monopolies.

** Monkey lemurs, most terrestrial of lemurs, often compared to baboons or macaques.

In his most recent book, " The Vanishing Face of Gaia ", he rejects scientific modelling that disagrees with the scientific findings that sea levels are rising faster, and Arctic ice is melting faster, than the models predict and he suggests that we may already be beyond the tipping point of terrestrial climate into a permanently hot state.

Conifers were the dominant terrestrial plants for most of the Mesozoic.

In Australia, terrestrial placental mammals disappeared early in the Cenozoic ( their most recent known fossils being 55 million year old teeth resembling those of condylarths ) for reasons that are not clear, allowing marsupials to dominate the Australian ecosystem.

** Digital Satellite pay TV is also available and carries most terrestrial networks.

They are present in most primary cell walls and in the non-woody parts of terrestrial plants.

It is the Earth's most severe known extinction event, with up to 96 % of all marine species and 70 % of terrestrial vertebrate species becoming extinct.

Although observing redshifts and blueshifts have several terrestrial applications ( e. g., Doppler radar and radar guns ), redshifts are most famously seen in the spectroscopic observations of astronomical objects.

This terminology may be muddled somewhat in other jurisdictions, for instance Europe, where terrestrial channels are commonly mapped from physical channels to common numerical positions ( i. e. BBC One does not broadcast on any particular " channel 1 " but is nonetheless mapped to the " 1 " input on most British television sets ).

While negligible for most human activities, terrestrial tides ' semi-diurnal amplitude can reach about at the equator — due to the sun — which is important in GPS calibration and VLBI measurements.

This agricultural region of Western Australia is in the top nine terrestrial habitats for terrestrial biodiversity, with a higher proportion of endemic species than most other equivalent regions.

Tetrapods dominate the megafauna of most terrestrial environments ( including fossorial and arboreal realms ) and also include many partially or fully aquatic groups ( e. g., sea snakes, penguins, cetaceans ).