In the horizontal approach, solid bars or " bullets " are more commonly used, and the grip is overhand: the hand is not wrapped around the neck, the index finger is nearest the bridge, the little finger nearest the nut, fingers pointing away from the chest.

The nearest major city is Yakutsk, away via an unpaved road which is best used in the winter, especially since there is no bridge over the Lena River at Yakutsk ( the choices are: ferry from Nizhny Bestyakh in the summer, when the rest of the road may not be passable due to standing water, or over the ice in the dead of winter ).

From the start Thamesmead was cut off from Abbey Wood the nearest town, with shopping facilities by a railway line over which a 4 lane bridge was built to overcome in the early 70s.

Attica is the nearest town to the location where Paul Dresser is believed to have written the state song, " On the Banks of the Wabash, Far Away ", and the bridge over the Wabash River bears his name.

The part nearest the Union Avenue Bridge was redone along with the bridge.

Even with the canals and the bridge bringing easier access to larger markets Cohoes was a sleepy place to be in prior to 1831, the nearest post office was at Waterford and fresh meat and groceries were a luxury hard to come by in Cohoes.

With the then newest and nearest bridge spanning the Forth ( the Kincardine Bridge, built in 1936 ) still around upstream, the upsurge in demand for a road crossing between Edinburgh and Fife prompted the UK Government to establish the Forth Road Bridge Joint Board ( FRBJB ) by Act of Parliament in 1947 to oversee the implementation of a new bridge to replace the ferry service.

The soundboard, or belly, a separate piece ( the upper surface, nearest the strings ), was most often made of deal or some other soft wood, and the bridge was usually made of cherry or some other fruitwood.

The creek now ends at Stonehouse Bridge ( for many years a toll bridge ) and to the north east the wide river bed which led up past Millbridge to Pennycomequick and beyond to the bottom of Ford Park Cemetery, has been reclaimed and infilled to provide the playing fields of Victoria Park, rugby pitches for Devonport High School for Boys, and nearest the bridge a large hardstanding used several days a week for Plymouth's biggest car boot sales.

The nearest railway station is at Nam Tok Sai Yok Noi, where trains of the State Railway of Thailand can be taken for a trip over the famous Whampo Viaduct and across the bridge over the River Kwai to Kanchanaburi, which is the nearest major town and tourist base.

Totnes Bridge is the nearest bridge to the sea and is a road bridge built in 1826-28 by Charles Fowler.

The nearest and only bridge over the river Slupia is located outside the centre, in the western part of the town-just beyond the main railway station.

The most conspicuous colour in the bridge's paint scheme is red, the same colour as the leather benches in the House of Lords which is at the southern end of the Palace of Westminster nearest the bridge.

The bridge nearest the camera is Westminster Bridge, the next bridge is Lambeth Bridge, and the bridge just visible in the distance is Vauxhall Bridge ( as seen from the London Eye Ferris wheel | observation wheel )

The bridge is painted predominantly green, the same colour as the leather seats in the House of Commons which is on the side of the Palace of Westminster nearest the bridge.

For over 600 years, the nearest bridge to London Bridge was at Kingston.

Quarters are numbered from the dexter chief ( the corner nearest to the right shoulder of a man standing behind the shield ), proceeding across the top row, and then across the next row and so on.

However, the flashover voltage of a string is less than the sum of its component discs, because the electric field is not distributed evenly across the string but is strongest at the disc nearest to the conductor, which will flash over first.

On 4 August 1933, the Courier published as a full news item the assertion of a London man, George Spicer, that a few weeks earlier while motoring around the Loch, he and his wife had seen " the nearest approach to a dragon or pre-historic animal that I have ever seen in my life ", trundling across the road toward the Loch carrying " an animal " in its mouth.

St. John's Episcopal Church, just across Lafayette Square, north of the White House, and built in 1815 – 1816, is the church nearest to the White House, and its services have been attended at least once by nearly every president since James Madison ( 1809 – 1817 ).

Instead, he uses these free limbs to either grab one of the ring ropes ( the bottom one is the most common, as it is nearest the wrestlers ) or drape his foot across, or underneath one.

It arises because the gravitational force per unit mass exerted on one body by a second body is not constant across its diameter, the side nearest to the second being more attracted by it than the side farther away.

The nearest sizable town is Olbia, and the small fishing village of Porto San Paolo is directly across a small strait.

At South Foreland, the nearest point to the continent, Cap Gris Nez near Calais is away, across the Strait of Dover.

Amtrak also runs past the city north towards Sacramento, but the nearest train station lies in Martinez across the Carquinez Strait.

She testified that when the Earp party passed by her location, one of the Earps on the outside of that party looked across and said to Doc Holliday nearest the store, "... let them have it!

d ) they could not be certain that the two halves of the map, held together by a binding strip glued on the back, had ever been a single sheet — unlike any other known medieval double-page map ; looking at the map, it is clear that the artist knew exactly, to the nearest millimeter, where it was going to be folded, because several place-names start or finish right next to it while none are written straight across it, and the rivers of eastern Europe run parallel to it ;

Charing Cross, at the Trafalgar Square end of Strand, and the City Thameslink entrance at Ludgate Hill are the nearest mainline stations, whilst London Waterloo is a walk or bus across the River Thames.

In preparation for the October 31 dedication ceremonies, the LHA asked clergy across the United States to discuss Abraham Lincoln in their sermons on November 2, the Sunday nearest the dedication.

There are no interstates or limited-access highways in the town ; the nearest, Interstate 91, lies west of town, across the Connecticut River.

There are no interstates or other limited-access highways within town, with the nearest being Route 2, the major east-west route across northern Massachusetts, which lies just north of the town.

The nearest Amtrak station is just across the Delaware River in Trenton, just over to the east.

Castleford offers the nearest available shopping for residents of the new Allerton Bywater Millennium Community, to the north of the town across the River Aire.

Positioned on the allies ' right ( the western section of allied line, nearest the sea ) they would assault the cliffs across the river.

As in the passenger model, it was assumed that lorries would pick up goods and transport them to the nearest railhead, where they would be taken across the country by train, unloaded onto another lorry and taken to their destination.

Long Buckby station had a brief moment of fame in 1997 when, as the nearest stop to Althorp, it was the final stop on the journey by the Prince of Wales and his two sons during the funeral of the Princess of Wales, and was seen on television screens across the world as they got off the train.

As a former Assistant District Officer in Tai Po recalls, one of the claimed concerns of the villager elders at the time was to be able to carry coffins across the tracks to the nearest road as not all villages were served by an alternate road access.

Mimesis is the nearest possible thing to the actual re-living of experience, in which the imagining person recovers through images something of the force and depth characteristic of experience itself.

We assume for this illustration that the size of the land plots is so great that the distance between dwellings is greater than the voice can carry and that most of the communication is between nearest neighbors only, as shown in Figure 2.

Information beyond nearest neighbor is carried second-, third-, and fourth-hand as a distortable rumor.

`` Be sure the man nearest you is awake.

To state fully what the Bible means as my daily spiritual food is as intimate and difficult as to formulate the reasons for loving my nearest and dearest relatives and friends.

No larger settlements, however, have been found to have existed in this remote rural area, located at least 15 km from the nearest road even in Roman times, up to the early medieval period when the place is mentioned as a king's mansion for the first time, not long before Charlemagne became ruler of the Germanic Franks.

Alberta is landlocked, and separated by a series of mountain ranges from the nearest outlets to the Pacific Ocean, and by the Canadian Shield from ports on the Lakehead or Hudson Bay.

At present the nearest airport is the Jaipur International Airport, about 132 km away, with daily flights to the major cities in India.

Its nearest neighbor is Howland Island, to the north.

After each competitor has delivered all of their bowls ( four each in singles and pairs, three each in triples, and two bowls each in fours ), the distance of the closest bowls to the jack is determined ( the jack may have been displaced ) and points, called " shots ", are awarded for each bowl which a competitor has closer than the opponent's nearest to the jack.

It is isolated from the nearest Dravidian-speaking neighbour population by a distance of more than.

The current consensus is that chordates are monophyletic, meaning that the Chordata include all and only the descendants of a single common ancestor which is itself a chordate, and that craniates ' nearest relatives are cephalochordates.

The chessboard is placed with a light square at the right-hand end of the rank nearest to each player, and the pieces are set out as shown in the diagram, with each queen on its own color.

Tau Ceti is noted for being the nearest Sun-like star at a distance of 11. 9 light-years.

Alpha Centauri is a triple star system that contains Proxima Centauri, the nearest star to the Sun.

The Putney End is the southernmost stand in the ground, nearest to Putney and Bishops Park.

The family enclosure is located in the corner nearest to the Hammersmith end.

* Chamber: The cylindrical, conical, or spherical recess at the nearest end of the bottom of the bore into which the gunpowder is packed.

In optics, particularly as it relates to film and photography, depth of field ( DOF ) is the distance between the nearest and farthest objects in a scene that appear acceptably sharp in an image.

The nearest Met Office weather station is Slapton, about 5 miles South south west of Dartmouth and a similar distance from the coast.

The distance from the front edge of the circle to where the discus has landed is measured, and distances are rounded down to the nearest centimetre.