In 1967 the then National Capital Development Commission adopted the " Y Plan " which laid out future urban development in Canberra around a series of central shopping and commercial area known as the ' town centres ' linked by freeways, the layout of which roughly resembled the shape of the letter Y, with Tuggeranong at the base of the Y and Belconnen and Gungahlin located at the ends of the arms of the Y.

Many radical feminists in Australia participated in a series of squats to establish various women's centres, and this form of action was common in the late 1970s and early 1980s.

The gameplay centres on controlling wind with a baton called the " Wind Waker " and sailing a small boat around an island-filled ocean, retaining similar gameplay mechanics as the previous 3D games in the series.

* Canadian artist-run centres ( ARCs ), a series of galleries by artists in Canada

A number of British towns and cities have whole series of banners decorating their city centres, effectively advertising the town or its special features and attractions.

The lava contracted towards each of a series of equally spaced centres as it cooled and solidified into prismatic columns, a process known as columnar jointing.

The series is mainly set in Hell and the plot usually centres on the relationships and conflicts between Satan, his various minions and the damned.

In Canada, a series of artist-run organizations often known as " parallel galleries " or artist-run centres ( ARCs ) have developed in cities across the country since the 1960s to encourage the exhibition of contemporary works by Canadian and international artists.

In the television series Downton Abbey, much of the drama centres on the arrival of Matthew Crawley, the new heir presumptive to the current Earl of Grantham, following the death of two closer cousins.

The series shares most of the locations in Dunnett's earlier series, the Lymond Chronicles, but it extends much further geographically to take in the important urban centres of Bruges, Venice, Florence, Geneva, and the Hanseatic League ; Burgundy, Flanders, and Poland ; Iceland ; the Iberian Peninsula and Madeira ; the Black Sea cities of Trebizond and Caffa ; Persia ; the Mediterranean islands of Cyprus and Rhodes ; Egypt and the Sinai Peninsula ; and West Africa and the city of Timbuktu.

It was announced that Woodall and Constantine were to embark upon a tour to New Zealand and Australia where they made a series of public appearances at shopping centres owned by the Westfield Group.

The film centres around a vagrant with the supernatural ability to enter the dreams of others and a police officer who pleads with him to help her solve a series of bizarre murders committed by a serial killer with a similar ability, played by Tsukamoto himself.

It was recognised that simple enlargement of the river channel would not provide a satisfactory solution, as it would just move the problem to the River Don, and therefore a series of washlands were created, which could be progressively flooded if required, without affecting centres of population.

Long overdue health facilities were constructed in the regional centres of Iqaluit, Rankin Inlet and Cambridge Bay, infant and child inoculation rates were expanded, more physicians took up residence in the territory, the first Inuit certified midwives graduated and a series of elder-care facilities were planned and constructed.

Other photographic series, including Sites of Technology ( 1989 – 92 ), depict the clinical, pristine interiors of hi-tech industries and government research centres, principally in France and Japan.

While developing his theory on the centres of origin of cultivated plants, Vavilov organized a series of botanical-agronomic expeditions, collected seeds from every corner of the globe, and created in Leningrad the world's largest collection of plant seeds.

The premise of the series centres on a Royal Canadian Mounted Police ( RCMP ) constable named Benton Fraser ( Paul Gross ) who travels to Chicago to solve the murder of his father ; this is how he meets his soon-to-be partner, Ray Vecchio ( David Marciano ), a tough, streetwise cop.

The series was produced by The Pygos Group and Trickfilmstudio for Swiss television, and centres on a family of anthropomorphic penguins living at the South Pole.

Soon after, the first series was shown in the United States on public television, and rapidly became something of a cult, especially in large metropolitan centres like New York and San Francisco.

The series centres on five failed genetic experiments by the Titan Thanos, with each being a clone of his DNA and modelled on other beings, including the characters Professor X ; Doctor Strange ; Gladiator ; Iron Man and Galactus.

The series centres on the exploits of two bumbling French criminals-the eponymous brothers of the title.

Takalik Abaj was one of a series of early sites on or near the Pacific coastal plain that were important commercial, ceremonial and political centres.

:: Shown in 1981 as a standalone between the initial drama and the subsequent series, it centres on Danny Duggan played by Peter Postlethwaite, the building boss who employs people cheaply by being complicit in the social security fraud of his employees and therefore guilty of a crime himself.

General Jones was fresh from a long series of bridge burnings, including the long bridge at Fairmont, and, after seeing a great drove of horses and cattle he had collected safely across the bridge, he sent his men to work piling combustibles in and around it.

Centering around this historic old structure, a group of public-spirited Barbour County citizens have organized and planned a week-long series of events, beginning on May 28th and continuing through June 3rd, to observe most appropriately the centennial of the first land engagement of the Civil War at Philippi.

These two recollections form the frame around a series of experiences and sights which, to me at least, symbolize the extremes in the aesthetic as well as ethical conflict between materialism and humanism.

There have also been a number of games based on the characters, and a theme park near Paris, Parc Astérix, is themed around the series.

A central ritual of Ásatrú is the sumbel, a drinking-ritual in which a drinking horn full of mead or ale is passed around and a series of toasts are made, usually to gods, ancestors, and / or heroes of the religion.

Between 1977 and 1987, the Australian Football Council ( AFC ) in conjunction with the VFL ran a night series, which invited clubs and representative sides from around the country to participate in the " National Football League " for the Wills Cup, however Victorian sides still dominated.

" Yokum " was a combination of yokel and hokum, although Capp established a deeper meaning for the name during a series of visits around 1965 – 1970 with comics historians George E. Turner and Michael H. Price.

The ringways ( or orbital roads ) around bigger cities have their own series of numbers.

The 1971 team, centred around the skilled Welsh half-back pairing of Gareth Edwards and Barry John, secured a series win over the All Blacks.

This level two tournament series, a tour for the world's elite players, stages twelve open tournaments around the world with 32 players ( half the previous limit ).

Each series lasts for around three months, with 12 – 16 contestants entering the house.

It is possible to define the function by its Taylor series expansion around x = 0:

By the late Bronze Age, however, a series of treaties had established safe passage for merchants around the Eastern Mediterranean, spreading from Minoan Crete and Mycenae in the northwest to Elam and Bahrain in the southeast.

A series of rolls and acrobatics ( like the Cartwheels called aú ) allows the capoeirista to quickly overcome a takedown or a loss of balance, and to position themselves around the aggressor in order to lay up for an attack.

* The comic series Concrete ( 1986 -) revolved around the life of an ordinary human whose brain had been placed in a large artificial stone body by aliens.

*** The muzzle astragal and fillets are a series of three narrow rings running around the outside of the chase just behind the neck.

The 26-episode series revolves around the often violent adventures undertaken by the arguably mismatched crew of the BeBop starship.

Notable examples of space adventure anime series developed around this period include Sunrise's Outlaw Star and Madhouse's Trigun.

Throughout the series, Clark never officially adopted a costume until around the eighth season, but prior to this was seen wearing Superman's traditional colors of red and blue, more often as the series progresses ( more commonly a blue shirt underneath a red jacket, reflecting Superman's uniform and cape colors ).

If y is a point where the vector field v ( y ) ≠ 0, then there is a change of coordinates for a region around y where the vector field becomes a series of parallel vectors of the same magnitude.

If the next time the orbit loops around phase space in a different way, then it is impossible to rectify the vector field in the whole series of patches.

Thales of Miletos made a series of observations on static electricity around 600 BC, from which he believed that friction rendered amber magnetic, in contrast to minerals such as magnetite, which needed no rubbing.

* ECD around the United States A list of English dance series.