The main buildings on the square consist of hollow shells, constructed from marine plywood facades mounted onto steel frames.

In China it was a baby sitting on a railroad platform, smudged, blood-specked, with the village burning about him and shells exploding.

He put the shells on the table, as though he could no longer bear to hold them.

By the end of the third act, the artist is dead but the body lingers on, a shell among other shells.

Passive defence naval armour for use against shells and other projectile weapons has almost completely disappeared on modern warships.

Remarque comments in the preface that " Quiet on the Western Front will try simply to tell of a generation of men who, even though they may have escaped shells, were destroyed by the war.

* 1942 – World War II: The most famous ( and first international ) Aggie Muster is held on the Philippine island of Corregidor, by Brigadier General George F. Moore ( with 25 fellow Texas A & M graduates who are under his command ), while 1. 8 million pounds of shells pounded the island over a 5 hour attack.

* Laser guided shells require laser target designators, usually with observation teams on the ground but UAV installations are possible.

The practice of bedecking the May Bush / Dos Bhealtaine with flowers, ribbons, garlands and coloured egg shells is found among the Gaelic diaspora, most notably in Newfoundland, and in some Easter traditions on the East Coast of the United States.

Because of statistical probability and restrictions on the relative diameters of the individual tubes, one of the shells, and thus the whole MWNT, is usually a zero-gap metal.

Early markings from this period found on pottery and shells are thought to be ancestral to modern Chinese characters.

The findings at Anyang include the earliest written record of Chinese past so far discovered: inscriptions of divination records in ancient Chinese writing on the bones or shells of animals – the so-called " oracle bones ", dating from around 1200 BC.

Though the Shang did not have a concept of " medicine " as distinct from other fields, their oracular inscriptions on bones and tortoise shells refer to illnesses that affected the Shang royal family: eye disorders, toothaches, bloated abdomen, etc., which Shang elites usually attributed to curses sent by their ancestors.

Dynamite is an explosive material based on nitroglycerin, initially using diatomaceous earth ( AmE: kieselgur ; BrE: kieselguhr ), or another absorbent substance such as powdered shells, clay, sawdust, or wood pulp.

* In Patrick O ' Brian's Aubrey – Maturin series, Helsingør fires mortar shells at the heroes in book seven, The Surgeon's Mate, as they sail past on their way to a rendezvous in the Baltic.

On the most basic level, electronegativity is determined by factors like the nuclear charge ( the more protons an atom has, the more " pull " it will have on negative electrons ) and the number / location of other electrons present in the atomic shells ( the more electrons an atom has, the farther from the nucleus the valence electrons will be, and as a result the less positive charge they will experience — both because of their increased distance from the nucleus, and because the other electrons in the lower energy core orbitals will act to shield the valence electrons from the positively charged nucleus ).

Air forces began to replace or supplemented them with cannons, which fired explosive shells that could blast a hole in an enemy aircraft — rather than relying on kinetic energy from a solid bullet striking a fuel line, control cable, pilot, etc.

In China, the polymath Shen Kuo ( 1031 – 1095 ) formulated a hypothesis for the process of land formation: based on his observation of fossil animal shells in a geological stratum in a mountain hundreds of miles from the ocean, he inferred that the land was formed by erosion of the mountains and by deposition of silt.

The shells were gravity-fed into the breech through a hopper or stick magazine on top of the gun.

The title of a work of Cardano's, published in 1552, ' De Subtilitate ' ( corresponding to what would now be called Transcendental Philosophy ), would lead us to expect, in the chapter on minerals, many far fetched theories characteristic of that age ; but when treating of petrified shells, he decided that they clearly indicated the former sojourn of the sea upon the mountains.

Progressive presses handle several shells at once, with each pull of the lever performing a single step on all the cases at once.

Taxes on slaves were mostly paid in cowrie shells.

It consisted of a fougasse ( or later, sometimes a shell fougasse, that is, a fougasse loaded not with stones but with early black powder mortar shells, similar to large black powder hand grenades ) activated by a snaphance or flintlock mechanism connected to a tripwire on the surface.

If the surface of concentric sphere shells were considered, the number of stars on each shell would be proportional to the square of the radius of the shell.

In the picture above, the shells are reduced to rings in two dimensions with all of the stars on them.

The chemical properties of an element largely depend on the number of electrons in the outermost shell ; atoms with different numbers of shells but the same number of electrons in the outermost shell have similar properties, which gives rise to the periodic table of the elements.

Though the four new studio decks could utilize the full 90-minute Betacam SP cassettes, the BVW-35 remained limited to the original Beta-form-factor 30-minute cassette shells.

The shells of amoebas are often composed of calcium.

Almonds are sold shelled ( i. e., after the shells are removed ), or unshelled ( i. e., with the shells still attached ).

Each atom has, in general, many orbitals associated with each value of n ; these orbitals together are sometimes called electron shells.

Other common names are ear shells, sea ears, as well as muttonfish or muttonshells in Australia, ormer in Great Britain, and venus's-ears in South Africa and in New Zealand.

The shells of abalones have a low and open spiral structure, and are characterized by several open respiratory pores in a row near the shell's outer edge.

The meat ( foot muscle ) of abalone is used for food, and the shells of abalone are used as decorative items and as a source of mother of pearl for jewelry and other decorative items.

Highly polished New Zealand pāua shells are extremely popular as souvenirs with their striking blue, green, and purple iridescence.

The shells of abalone are occasionally used in New Age smudging ceremonies to catch falling ash.

E. tenera are spiral freshwater gastropods having elongated, spiral shells composed of many whorls.

A pair of beads made from Nassarius sea snail shells, approximately 100, 000 years old, are thought to be the earliest known examples of jewellery.

Brachiopods, generally thought to be closely related to bryozoans and phoronids, are distinguished by having shells rather like those of bivalves.

These are sites of exceptional preservation, where ' soft ' parts of organisms are preserved as well as their more resistant shells.

The microscopic shells of radiolarians are found in cherts of this age in the Culm of Devon and Cornwall, and in Russia, Germany and elsewhere.

Brachiopods are also abundant ; they include productids, some of which ( for example, Gigantoproductus ) reached very large ( for brachiopods ) size and had very thick shells, while others like Chonetes were more conservative in form.

Cadmium and its congeners are not always considered transition metals, in that they do not have partly filled d or f electron shells in the elemental or common oxidation states.

Cadmium and its congeners are not always considered transition metals, in that they do not have partly filled d or f electron shells in the elemental or common oxidation states.

The most common are calcite or calcium carbonate, CaCO < sub > 3 </ sub >, the chief constituent of limestone ( as well as the main component of mollusc shells and coral skeletons ); dolomite, a calcium-magnesium carbonate CaMg ( CO < sub > 3 </ sub >)< sub > 2 </ sub >; and siderite, or iron ( II ) carbonate, FeCO < sub > 3 </ sub >, an important iron ore.

When the organisms die, their shells are deposited as sediment and eventually turn into limestone.