The terra Australis begins at two or three degrees below the equator and it is said by some to be of such magnitude that if at any time it is fully discovered they think it will be the fifth part of the world.

Alternatively, terra incognita may also refer to the imaginary continent Terra Australis.

But time is running out, and many of Stravinsky's admirers begin to fear that he will never find terra firma.

The name derives from the most notable Renaissance location for the earth, Siena, Italy, and is short for terra di Siena, " earth of Siena ".

It is derived from terra, the Latin term for Earth.

They regard it as wholly distinct, and affirm that it is larger and much more dangerous than the spotted jaguar ; that they recognise it by its cry ; that it belongs to the terra firma rather than to the water-side ; finally, that black pairs with black, and that the cubs are invariably black.

On occasion, the entire building is hand washed to preserve the terra cotta.

Augustine says that dea Levana is invoked when the child is lifted de terra, from the earth or ground.

The exterior of the building is white glazed terra cotta.

** Vowel harmony: the final syllable of a disyllabic word adopts a preceding open ⟨ e ⟩ or ⟨ o ⟩ if the final vowel is an unstressed -⟨ a ⟩ or -⟨ e ⟩; e. g. terra (' earth, land '), dona (' woman ').

Finzi ’ s choral music includes the popular anthems Lo, the full, final sacrifice and God is gone up as well as unaccompanied partsongs, but he also wrote larger-scale choral works such as For St. Cecilia ( text by Edmund Blunden ), Intimations of Immortality ( William Wordsworth ) and the Christmas scene In terra pax ( Robert Bridges and the Gospel of Luke ), all from the last ten years of his life.

Since the building of the mill much of what is today's Seattle is the result of extensive terra forming by the local people to make the hilly landscape of Seattle habitable.

Terracotta, Terra cotta or Terra-cotta ( Italian: " baked earth ", from the Latin terra cotta ), a type of earthenware, is a clay-based unglazed or glazed ceramic, where the fired body is porous.

The words that were used when popes were crowned were: Accipe tiaram tribus coronis ornatam, et scias te esse patrem principum et regum, rectorem orbis in terra vicarium Salvatoris nostri Jesu Christi, cui est honor et gloria in saecula saeculorum ( Receive the tiara adorned with three crowns and know that thou art father of princes and kings, the ruler of the world on earth, the vicar of our Savior Jesus Christ, to whom is honor and glory through all ages ).

A similar energy source is terra preta nova.

The sacristy is also embellished by a glazed terra cotta and a marble font, masterpieces by Giovanni della Robbia ( 1498 ).

This almost monochrome fresco, transferred to canvas in the 19th c., is painted in terra verde, a color closest to the patina of bronze.

Practically all of the terrain of the state of Acre is part of the low sandstone plateau, or terra firme, morphological unit which dominates most of the Brazilian Amazon.

: Silvester is said of sile or sol which is light, and of terra the earth, as who saith the light of the earth, that is of the church.

Court cases in 1977, 1979, and 1982 brought by or on behalf of Aboriginal activists challenged Australian sovereignty on the grounds that terra nullius had been improperly applied, therefore Aboriginal sovereignty should still be regarded as being intact.

Lieutenant William Hobson, following instructions of the British government, in 1840 pronounced the southern island of New Zealand to be uninhabited by civilised peoples, which qualified the land to be " terra nullius ", and therefore fit for the Crown's political occupation.

Sinkholes, caves and caverns, disappearing streams, hummocky hills, and terra rosa ( residual red ) soils in the valleys are distinguishing features of a karst landscape ; all these are present in Jamaica.

* Rejection of terra nullius: The decision recognised that the indigenous population had a pre-existing system of law, which, along with all rights subsisting thereunder, would remain in force under the new sovereign except where specifically modified or extinguished by legislative or executive action.

Vowel harmony differs greatly from dialect to dialect, while many subvarities would alternate and, according to the previous stressed vowel ( e. g. terra ' Earth, land ' and dona ' woman '); others will favor just one realization ( either in all, or some, instances ; or ), thus, terra and dona can be pronounced and ( by those who favor ) or and ( by those who favor ).

After the downfall of the Roman Empire, Torcello was one of the first lagoon islands to be successively populated by those Veneti who fled the terra firma ( mainland ) to take shelter from the recurring barbarian invasions, especially after Attila the Hun had destroyed the city of Altinum and all of the surrounding settlements in 452.

His early works are the terra cotta altarpiece in Santa Chiara at Monte San Savino, and the marble reliefs of the Annunciation, the Coronation of the Virgin, a Pietà, the Last Supper, and various statuettes in the Corbinelli chapel of Santo Spirito at Florence, all executed between the years 1488 and 1491.

Distinctive features of American Queen Anne style ( rooted in the English style ) may include an asymmetrical facade ; dominant front-facing gable, often cantilevered out beyond the plane of the wall below ; overhanging eaves ; round, square, or polygonal tower ( s ); shaped and Dutch gables ; a porch covering part or all of the front facade, including the primary entrance area ; a second-story porch or balconies ; pedimented porches ; differing wall textures, such as patterned wood shingles shaped into varying designs, including resembling fish scales, terra cotta tiles, relief panels, or wooden shingles over brickwork, etc.

The term " monster truck " became the generic name for all trucks with oversized terra tires.

His territories were exempted from the grant to the knights, but half of the royal taxes generated by his land ( terra Lytua ) was assigned to the Hospitallers – except for the income from the Haţeg district ( terra Harszoc in the diploma ’ s only surviving, papal copy ), which the king kept all for himself.

Like many Art Deco buildings the Boston Avenue Church reveled in the use of various building materials, so metal, glass, terra cotta, Indiana limestone and Minnesota granite can all be found.

'" While acknowledging the possibility of Croatia having held all the depicted territory and more, Fine stated that whoever controlled the eastern land depicted in Tomislav's kingdom is unknown and should be marked as terra incognita in maps.

It contained genetic information from all the life forms of the sulphur-breathing Gadmeer's home planet, all the knowledge of the Gadmeer, and things of cultural importance to the Gadmeer, and was to re-create them once the ' terra '- forming process was completed.

< p > We take pleasure in giving publicity to the next great work of Gen. Daniel Pratt, the travelling encyclopedia and universal genius, the library of facts, the original oratorical author, the great favorite of the students of all the colleges, the greatest pedestrian in the world ; been talked of for the mayoralty, the governor, member of Congress, and the President of the United States for the last twenty years ; the general of generalities, the harmonizer of the laws of the solar system, the only value of knowledge and wealth of the universe of worlds, non terra sed cosmos.

Imports to Britain included: coin ; pottery, particularly red-gloss terra sigillata ( samian ware ) from southern, central and eastern Gaul, as well as various other wares from Gaul and the Rhine provinces ; olive oil from southern Spain in amphorae ; wine from Gaul in amphorae and barrels ; salted fish products from the western Mediterranean and Brittany in barrels and amphorae ; preserved olives from southern Spain in amphorae ; lava querns from Mayen on the middle Rhine ; glass ; and some agricultural products.

The terra cotta disks were used to ceremonially offer the toys of youth to certain gods when a child came of age — discs of other materials were used for actual play.

Like the other Buffy characters in the series whose names have symbolic interpretations, Tara's name resembles the Latin terra, meaning " earth.

In 1835 Governor Bourke implemented the doctrine of terra nullius by proclaiming that Indigenous Australians could not sell or assign land, nor could an individual person or group acquire it, other than through distribution by the Crown.

* the current terra nullius cases of Bir Tawil and Marie Byrd Land are not claimed by any of the other 222 entities ;

The extensive Greek, Roman and Etruscan Collection comprises marble statues, small terra cotta statues, reliefs, pottery and other artifacts.

Popular motifs in Jacobean embroidery, especially curtains for bed hangings, are the Tree of Life and stylized forests, usually rendered as exotic plants arising from a landscape or terra firma with birds, stags, squirrels, and other familiar animals.

The thesauros luminis, or terra lucis ( topos probolon ) is then, according to this representation, the place from whence the light, which has its source in the upper world, is brought down into the lower world, and whereby it is again transmitted upwards from the one world to the other.

Some Terriers were designed to go down the holes of the European fox and other agricultural pest animals in order to chase them out for the hunter, and the name terrier is from the Latin terra, meaning earth, in reference to the dogs going underground.

Lyonnais terra cotta, pottery and wine were traded throughout Gaul, and many other items were crafted for export.

In 1835, Bourke issued a proclamation through the Colonial Office, implementing the doctrine of terra nullius by proclaiming that Indigenous Australians could not sell or assign land, nor could an individual person acquire it, other than through distribution by the Crown.

In European languages other than English, terra sigillata, or a translation ( e. g. terre sigillée ), is always used for both Italian and Gaulish products.

Besides the standard bronze, limestone, granite, cast stone, terra cotta and the marbles used by other artists, Hord ’ s works appeared in various tropical woods such as mahogany, eucalyptus, ebony, lignum vitae and rosewood, and in minerals such as obsidian, diorite, onyx and nephrite.

Gaula's history is tied to universe of local history, popular culture, literature, traditions and customs ; it was originally referred to as the terra do amadis de Gaula ( Land of Amadis de Gaula ), terra de adelos ” ( Land of the wandering salesmen ), terras de doutores ( Lands of the Doctors ), terra de padres ( Land of Priests ), terra das amoras ( Land of the Blackberries ) and terras de malvasias ( Land of the Malvasia ), among others, that served to identify it from other regions of the island.

Dale's predecessor, Guigliani, endured a particularly violent end while on terra firma, the cause and nature of which is speculated by the other crew members.

Embrapa and other organizations in Brazil are working with terra preta.