I asked the same questions inside the launch-control rooms of an Atlas missile base in Wyoming, where officers who wear sidearms are manning the `` commit buttons '' that could start a war -- accidentally or by design -- and in the command centers where other pistol-packing men could give orders to push such buttons.

Those three other great activities of the Persians, the bath, the teahouse, and the zur khaneh ( the latter a kind of club in which a leader and a group of men in an octagonal pit move through a rite of calisthenics, dance, chanted poetry, and music ), do not take place in buildings to which entrance tickets are sold, but some of them occupy splendid examples of Persian domestic architecture: long, domed, chalk-white rooms with daises of turquoise tile, their end walls cut through to the orchards and the sky by open arches.

These are traversed by another line of vaults, and thus rooms, arched on all four sides, are formed.

Photos of Conference Rooms and the General Assembly Hall can be made when these rooms are not being used for meetings.

When improvements are recommended in working conditions -- such as lighting, rest rooms, eating facilities, air-conditioning -- do you try to set a measure of their effectiveness on productivity??

My hotel rooms on the trip were arranged by Masu and the Japan Travel Bureau and were more elegant than I would have chosen, but it was fun for once to be elegant -- I did explain to the students, however, that this was not my usual style, for their salaries are very small, and it seemed out of place for me to be housed so well.

Walnut, wormy chestnut, pecan, three varieties of burl, hand-woven Philippine cane, ceramic tiles, marble are used to emphasize the feeling of texture and of permanence, the furniture to fit into rooms with tiled floors, brick or paneled walls, windows that bring in the outdoors.

The collection contains about one thousand examples and are divided into seven rooms called Masks of the World, Mexico across History, The Huichols and the Jaguar, Alebrijes and Dances of Guerrero, Devils and Death, Identity and Fantasy, and Afro-Indian masks.

The Falcons ’ corporate offices, state-of-the-art training and locker room facilities, a 140-seat auditorium and associated meeting rooms, are located in the two-story headquarters.

The rooms are custom designed to fit NFL players.

* The five dormitories are just beyond the practice fields for easy access for players and coaches to the locker room, meeting rooms and offices.

These guitars are commonly called " parlor steels " as they are well-suited to smaller rooms.

Baroque palaces are built around an entrance of courts, grand staircases and reception rooms of sequentially increasing opulence.

Many smaller reception rooms are furnished in the Chinese regency style with furniture and fittings brought from the Royal Pavilion at Brighton and from Carlton House.

The state rooms, used for official and state entertaining, are open to the public each year for most of August and September, as part of the Palace's Summer Opening.

According to Grímnismál, the hall is the greatest of buildings and contains 540 rooms, located in Asgard, as are all the dwellings of the gods, in the kingdom of Þrúðheimr ( or Þrúðvangar according to Gylfaginning and Ynglinga saga ).

A collection of immense importance, the holdings of Assyrian, Babylonian and Sumerian antiquities are among the most comprehensive in the world with entire suites of rooms panelled in alabaster bas-reliefs from highly important sites between the rivers Euphrates and Tigris and include the biblical cities of Nimrud, Nineveh and Khorsabad.

Upper Houses are divided between double rooms and singles, with about sixty percent of the population being in doubles.

The Lower Houses each have four floors, but are much narrower with each level having only four rooms.

The Lower Houses do have far larger and better fitted common rooms that are similar to the ones the Upper Houses had before the renovations.

The rooms in the Lower Houses are also considered more luxurious with hardwood floors and large sizes.

The third floor is identical to the second except that in place of the don's room there are two single rooms.

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These specialty and pay BBSes usually had something special to offer their users such as large file libraries, warez, pornography, chat rooms or Internet access.

Today, the exterior doors of most large ( especially public ) buildings open outward, while interior doors such as doors to individual rooms, offices, suites, etc.

In Switzerland, most residential shelters are no longer stocked with the food and water required for prolonged habitation and a large number have been converted by the owners to other uses ( e. g., wine cellars, ski rooms, gyms ).

The twelve resident halls surround Eisenhower hall in the center, a non-residential building which contains a late night diner called Ike's ( open until 4am ), a large study lounge, a handful of small group study rooms, HDTV lounge with a pool table and vending machines.

Each apartment is fully furnished, and each floor of every building contains at least two large study rooms ( in some cases three ).

Adjacent to the Council Chamber, there are three rooms used for civic functions and large meetings: the Satinwood Salon, Octagonal Room, and Mahogany Salon.

In the modern age, faldstool trays or stackup type legged trays may still be seen used in zashiki, i. e. tatami-mat rooms, for large banquets or at a ryokan type inn.

It consisted of a large courtyard surrounded by columns and banquet rooms, where the nobility of Athens would eat the sacrificial meat for the festival.

A large podium building below the pavilion accommodates most of the buildings actual built area in more functional spaces for galleries, support and utilitarian rooms.

Since mining entails removing dirt and rock from its natural location creating large empty pits, rooms and tunnels, cave-ins as well as ground and rock falls are a major concern within mines.

Because of their low-rise construction ( most were simple one-story buildings, anything more than two floors with outside corridors being rare ) with large car parks, the number of rooms which would fit on any given amount of land was low compared to the high-rise urban hotels which had grown around railway stations.

However, marionette productions presented in empty halls, the back rooms of taverns, or within large tents at England's yearly agricultural events at Bartholomew Fair and Mayfair were expensive and cumbersome to mount and transport.

They had large central rooms ( unlike Egyptian pyramids ) and the Hellenikon structure is rectangular rather than square, which means that the sides could not have met at a point.

Amongst these temples there is one, the principal one, whose great size and magnificence no human tongue could describe ,... All round inside this wall there are very elegant quarters with very large rooms and corridors.

Among the many beer palaces around Potsdamer Platz were two in particular which contained an extensive range of rooms and halls covering a large area.

Through the late 20th century, workers on large plantations lived in villages of small houses or in " line rooms " containing ten to twelve units.

* are creatures with large rabbit-like ears that hop around rooms in erratic patterns.

This features a large central room dedicated to Surrealism while the surrounding rooms feature works by artists influenced by Surrealism and its methods.

His people were able to discover over time, for example, if there was space for large steamer trunks, if light switches needed to be added beside the beds to prevent injury, etc., before hundreds of state rooms had been built into the ship.

The rooms in the Lower Houses are also considered more luxurious with hardwood floors and large sizes.

There are 3288 rooms on 42 floors, with an overall area of 123, 000 m², containing cinemas, theatres, museums, offices, bookshops, a large conference hall for 3000 people, and an accredited university, Collegium Civitas on the 11th and 12th floors of the building.

* Confirming the descriptions of bulkhead hull compartments for Chinese sailing ships in Zhu Yu's Pingzhou Table Talks of 1119, a large Song Dynasty trade ship of c. 1277 A. D. is dredged up from the waters near the southern coast of China that had 12 bulkhead compartment rooms in its hull.

Portable walls, such as room dividers or portable partitions, are used to take a large open space and effectively divide it into smaller rooms.

He completed a sequence of three rooms, each with paintings on each wall and often the ceilings too, increasingly leaving the work of painting from his detailed drawings to the large and skilled workshop team he had acquired, who added a fourth room, probably only including some elements designed by Raphael, after his early death in 1520.