Among its most spectacular features are its falls, the highest being Upper Yosemite which drops 2,425 feet.

" The Chicago Daily Tribune called it “ One of the most spectacular crimes of the 20th century, and what is believed to be the first airplane kidnap murder on record .” Because it occurred somewhere over three Missouri counties, and involved interstate transport of a stolen airplane, it raised questions in legal circles about where, by whom, and even whether he could be prosecuted.

As the largest and most spectacular forest antelope, the western / lowland bongo is both an important flagship species for protected areas such as national parks, and a major trophy species which has been taken in increasing numbers in Central Africa by sport hunters during the 1990s.

Brochs are the most spectacular of a complex class of roundhouse buildings found throughout " Atlantic Scotland ".

The Museum continued to collect from all countries and all centuries: among the most spectacular additions were the 2600 BC Mesopotamian treasure from Ur, discovered during Leonard Woolley's 1922 – 34 excavations.

Despite the fact that Barks had done little traveling his adventure stories often had the duck clan globe trotting to the most remote or spectacular of places.

Trafalgar Falls, located near the national park, is one of the most spectacular sites on the island.

Dives with multiple twists and somersaults are some of the most spectacular movements, as well as the most challenging to perform.

The French Revolutionary Wars started in 1792 and ultimately featured spectacular French victories that facilitated the conquest of the Italian Peninsula, the Low Countries and most territories west of the Rhine – achievements that had eluded previous French governments for centuries.

The Hanover Zoo is one of the most spectacular and best zoos in Europe.

The economic history of Japan is one of the most studied economies for its spectacular growth in three different periods.

One of the most spectacular features of Justinian's reign was the recovery of large stretches of land around the Western Mediterranean basin which had slipped out of Imperial control in the 5th century.

Frankenheimer followed Seconds with his most spectacular production, 1966's Grand Prix.

The Leonids are famous because their meteor showers, or storms, can be, and have been in a few cases, among the most spectacular.

The liner notes of the first recordings of the Davis Quintet for Columbia Records call it one of the most spectacular failures of the jazz club scene.

Located adjacent to the Bushveld in north-central Namibia is one of nature ’ s most spectacular features: the Etosha Pan.

This has been described, in Auckland's case, as " one of the most spectacular declines in public transport patronage of any developed city in the world ".

The World Health Organization and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention consider this date the anniversary of the eradication of smallpox, the most spectacular success of vaccination.

The best known and most spectacular of the island's archaeological sites is the complex of Midhowe broch and Midhowe Chambered Cairn.

Sometimes the result is merely humorous, but the most spectacular examples result in the opposite meaning of the standard proverb.

In 2000, after losing two division series games to Oakland, Clemens pitched his most spectacular game as a Yankee in the ALCS against the Seattle Mariners: a complete game one-hit shutout with an ALCS-record 15 strikeouts.

However, the oldest and most spectacular Saxon site found in France to date is Vron, in Picardy.

But in 1999, he experienced one of the most spectacular seasons ever by a quarterback, recording a passer rating of 109. 2, completing 65. 1 percent of his passes for 4, 353 yards, 41 touchdowns, and just 13 interceptions, and earning the NFL Most Valuable Player Award.

The Local Government Board Act 1871 put the supervision of the Poor Law under the Local Government Board ( headed by G. J. Goschen ) and Gladstone's " administration could claim spectacular success in enforcing a dramatic reduction in supposedly sentimental and unsystematic outdoor poor relief, and in making, in co-operation with the Charity Organization Society ( 1869 ), the most sustained attempt of the century to impose upon the working classes the Victorian values of providence, self-reliance, foresight, and self-discipline ".

While hydrogen fusion can occur in a stable manner on the surface of the white dwarf for a narrow range of accretion rates, for most binary system parameters the hydrogen burning is thermally unstable and rapidly converts a large amount of the hydrogen into other heavier elements in a runaway reaction, liberating an enormous amount of energy, blowing the remaining gases away from the white dwarf's surface and producing an extremely bright outburst of light.

This means that it is possible that most galaxies, including our own Milky Way, have gone through an active stage ( appearing as a quasar or some other class of active galaxy depending on black hole mass and accretion rate ) and are now quiescent because they lack a supply of matter to feed into their central black holes to generate radiation.

Of these, perhaps the most prominent is the theory of competitive accretion, which suggests that massive protostars are " seeded " by low-mass protostars which compete with other protostars to draw in matter from the entire parent molecular cloud, instead of simply from a small local region.

The classic 1974 work by Shakura and Sunyaev on thin accretion discs is one of the most often quoted papers in modern astrophysics.

The infalling matter, which is usually rich in hydrogen, forms in most cases an accretion disc around the white dwarf.

A large fraction of the AGN's primary output may be obscured by interstellar gas and dust close to the accretion disc, but ( in a steady-state situation ) this will be re-radiated at some other waveband, most likely the infrared.

This is vital for accretion, because the gas can be accreted by the central protostar only if it loses most of its angular momentum, which must be carried away by the small part of the gas drifting outwards.

Spartina alterniflora, which had the most sediment adhering to it, may contribute > 10 % of the total marsh surface sediment accretion by this process.

NGC 3115 has consumed most of the gas of its youthful accretion disk.

While it is still mostly a mystery to physicists how polar jets are formed and powered, the two most often proposed origins of this power are the central object ( such as a black hole ), and the accretion disc.

The first and most common is the growth of a massive object by gravitationally attracting more matter, typically gaseous matter in an accretion disc.

In addition, in most species the accretion of calcium carbonate and gelatinous matrix alternates on a daily cycle.

There are different designs of vehicle clutch but most are based on one or more friction discs pressed tightly together or against a flywheel using springs.

Examples of non-volatile memory include read-only memory ( see ROM ), flash memory, most types of magnetic computer storage devices ( e. g. hard disks, floppy discs and magnetic tape ), optical discs, and early computer storage methods such as paper tape and punched cards.

It was built in the Ionic order and consists of seven fluted columns, unusually carved from single pieces of stone ( most columns were constructed from a series of discs joined together ).

Most players that are starting off will be most likely throwing lighter discs.

Early 928s had 15 " or 16 " " phone dial "- style wheels, while most 1980s 928s had 16 " slotted " flat discs ", CSs, SEs and 1989 GTs had 16 " " Club Sport " wheels, later GTs had 16 " " Design 90 " style wheels which were also option on same period S4s, the GTS used two variations of the 17 " " CUP " wheels.

The most common failure is " brake fade ," usually caused when the drums or discs and the linings of the brakes overheat from excessive use.

Lip piercing continues to be practiced by many people, the most well-known of which are certain African tribes, who wear large decorative lip plates or discs, usually in the lower lip.

The Choir now records with Hyperion Records, and has released four discs to date with the label: one of the music of Mendelssohn, a collection of music for Advent, Christmas and Epiphany, Christmas at St John's, a recording of the choral and vocal music of Jongen and Peeters and most recently, a collection of the music of Bairstow.

Through the nineties, the music grew to become one of the most popular genres in France ; in 1997, IAM's release " L ' école du Micro d ' Argent " sold more than 1 million discs, with NTM moving more than 700, 000 copies of their final album " Suprême NTM ".

The friction coefficient for most standard pads will be in the region of. 40 when used with cast iron discs.

If the proportioning valve is left out or functions improperly, the result is a car that stops only with the front discs during careful stops, which are most of the stops encountered in daily driving.

The ISO 9660 file system ( mainly used on compact discs ) has similar limitations at the most basic Level 1, with the additional restriction that directory names cannot contain extensions and that some characters ( notably hyphens ) are not allowed in filenames.

Replacing the security chips in most modern consoles are specially-encoded optical discs that cannot be copied by most users and can only be read by a particular console under normal circumstances.

* Audio quality: phonograph discs, Vitaphone's in particular, had superior dynamic range to most sound-on-film processes of the day, at least during the first few playings ; while sound-on-film tended to have better frequency response, this was outweighed by greater distortion and noise

This elaborate package, which DVDtalk. com called " the most extensive set released only one film " includes four discs of film and bonus features, a replication of Roosevelt's speech, collectible promotional postcards and a carrying case that resembles a historic photo album.

A raw is still required, but unlike the fansubbers who relied on laser discs, most raw sources comes directly from recordings off Japanese TV, which are widely available via Japanese peer-to-peer programs such as Winny, Share, or Perfect Dark.

This may be due to poor-quality CD recorder drives, low-quality discs, or incorrect storage, as the information-bearing dye layer of most CD-recordable discs is at least slightly sensitive to UV light and will be slowly bleached out if exposed to any amount of it.

Duff has recorded numerous singles for various soundtracks with her sister, with most of them appearing on the Disneymania discs.

) The concert orchestra of Victor Herbert made several recordings for the company in 1903 ; these early discs may not have been conducted by Herbert himself, but Victor signed Herbert and his orchestra to a long-term contract in 1911, engaging them to record symphonic and theatre music under Herbert's direction ( most of the labels credit " Victor Herbert's Orchestra / Personally directed by Victor Herbert ").

This warehouse held four floors ' worth of catalog and vault masters ( most of them were pre-tape wax and metal discs ), test pressings, lacquer discs, matrix ledgers, and rehearsal recordings.