Much of their housing was illegally built, primitive tiny cottages.

By the mid-1990s, the Rotunda contained some 41 miniature castles, cottages and manors, all furnished down to the last tiny piece of porcelain.

It was nothing more than a tiny distant rain squall, a dull gray sheet which reached from a layer of clouds to the earth.

Or against her back, pressed on the column of vertebrae, which held her so magnificently straight and unyielding, until the segments of bone made tiny sharp cracking noises, like the snapped stem of a tulip.

The male Colostethus subpunctatus, a tiny frog, protects his egg cluster which is hidden under a stone or log.

In large part, this is because the tiny flowers forming the umbels, are perfectly suited for ladybugs, parasitic wasps, and predatory flies, which actually drink nectar when not reproducing.

The outer portion of the cell, or ectoplasm, is distinct and is filled with many tiny vacuoles, which assist in flotation.

The characters and lands created by the children had newspapers, magazines and chronicles which were written in extremely tiny books, with writing so small it was difficult to read without a magnifying glass.

The thickness of the aorta encourages an extensive network of tiny blood vessels called vasa vasorum, which feed the outer layers of the aorta.

Dürer's belief in the abilities of a single artist over inspiration prompted him to assert that " one man may sketch something with his pen on half a sheet of paper in one day, or may cut it into a tiny piece of wood with his little iron, and it turns out to be better and more artistic than another's work at which its author labours with the utmost diligence for a whole year.

The Battle is now in the Alte Pinakothek, which has the best collection of Altdorfer's paintings, including also his small St. George and the Dragon ( 1510 ), in oil on parchment, where the two figures are tiny and almost submerged in the lush, dense forest that towers over them.

A tiny assembler program was hand-coded for a new computer ( for example the IBM 650 ) which converted a few instructions into binary or decimal code: A1.

The Macedonian king had suffered a disastrous defeat at the hands of the Romans in the Second Macedonian War ( 200-197 BC ), which had reduced him from a powerful Hellenistic monarch to the status of a petty client-king with a much-reduced territory and a tiny army.

Slender beaks were found on the finches which found insects to be the best source of food on the island they inhabited ; their slender beaks allowed the birds to be better equipped for pulling out the insects from their tiny hiding places.

Carbon forms more compounds than any other element, with almost ten million pure organic compounds described to date, which in turn are a tiny fraction of such compounds that are theoretically possible under standard conditions.

As more detailed knowledge of biology and biochemistry developed, the colloidal theory was replaced by the macromolecular theory, which explains an enzyme as a collection of identical huge molecules that act as very tiny machines, freely moving about between the water molecules of the solution and individually operating on the substrate, no more mysterious than a factory full of machinery.

The Carboniferous lycophytes of the order Lepidodendrales, which are cousins ( but not ancestors ) of the tiny club-moss of today, were huge trees with trunks 30 meters high and up to 1. 5 meters in diameter.

The player begins in a tiny hamlet, near which he / she used to live.

This makes water the element with the greatest number of sides, which Plato regarded as appropriate because water flows out of one's hand when picked up, as if it is made of tiny little balls.

This slaughter forced the tiny surviving Party to switch from a workers ' union-to a peasant, guerilla-based organization, and to seek the aid of the most heterodox sources: from " patriotic capitalists " to the dreaded KMT itself, with which it openly sought to participate in a coalition government, even after the Japanese general surrender in 1945.

On a small island, in a tiny hut on stilts, he first read Vannevar Bush's article " As We May Think ", which greatly inspired him.

It is said the Igbo of Nigeria ( mostly Aro ) slave traders arrived and founded very few tiny settlements in Bioko and Rio Muni which expanded the Aro Confederacy in the 18th and 19th centuries.

Born into a family of relatively low status, his parents sent him to be educated by the monks of Fulda-one of the most impressive centres of learning in the Frank lands-perhaps due to his small stature ( Einhard referred to himself as a " tiny manlet ") which restricted his riding and sword-fighting ability, Einhard concentrated his energies towards scholarship and especially to the mastering of Latin.

Visitors to the site in December 1954 reported being deeply shocked by the conditions and the constant screams from the cell-block still in use for convicts who had gone insane and which had only tiny ventilation slots at the tops of the walls under the roof.

From this sprang tiny copper wires which ended in a dainty cone plugged into her right ear.

" When I have finished baptizing the people, I order them to destroy the huts in which they keep their idols ; and I have them break the statues of their idols into tiny pieces, since they are now Christians.

In 1920, Adolf Hitler had just begun his political career as the leader of the tiny and as-yet-unknown Deutsche Arbeiterpartei / DAP German Workers Party, which was soon renamed the Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei / NSDAP ( National Socialist German Workers Party ) or Nazi Party in Munich.

But when tiny, 145-pound Albert Gregory Pearson of the Los Angeles Angels, who once caught three straight fly balls in center field because, as a teammate explained, `` the other team thought no one was out there '', hits seven home runs in four months ( three more than his total in 1958, 1959, and 1960 ), his achievement borders on the ridiculous.

The one-third-size test craft was operated and maintained by a tiny crew of three people based out of a trailer, and the craft was once relaunched less than 24 hours after landing.

Although crystals were once loaded into glass capillaries with the crystallization solution ( the mother liquor ), a modern approach is to scoop the crystal up in a tiny loop, made of nylon or plastic and attached to a solid rod, that is then flash-frozen with liquid nitrogen.

Today only tiny pieces of this former peat moor remain, some reflooded as mini wetlands, scattered along the fault line that once brought about its very existence.

Heading south past the Mid Steeple on the High Street, once the town tolbooth and prison, you come to a tiny vennel leading to the Globe Inn, his favourite drinking place.

As a precursor to the later Star Treks communicator being incorporated into the insignium, theirs functions as a two-way radio once a tiny antenna is raised from the star on the insignia on the left.

It was once the capital of the tiny principality of Schaumburg-Lippe and is today located in the district of Schaumburg close to the northern slopes of the Weserbergland ridge.

Lice feed on blood once or more often each day by piercing the skin with their tiny needle-like mouthparts.

The lands north of the Sieg are called Wildenburgisches Land, after the tiny earldom of Wildenburg, that once existed here.

No shows were planned for the remainder of 2006, but Wheeler stated that they were hoping to test out their new songs " in tiny New York bars " once the album was complete.

The Stephens Island Wren was once thought to have been restricted to the tiny Stephens Island in the Cook Strait, but fossil evidence has shown the species was once widespread on both North and South Island.

As of the 2012-2013 season, the Silkmen play in the Football Conference once more after relegation in April 2012, having been bookies relegation favourites for seven years due to playing on a tiny budget.

Her face, once blunt-featured and later flawlessly beautiful, now had a small mouth and tiny eyes surrounded by smooth folds.

The railroad depot, which still stands, was once an important landmark that literally put the tiny towns of Mason and Greenville " on the map " in New Hampshire.

On the tiny island of Chole Mjini, just offshore in Chole Bay, once stood a settlement that constituted one of the most important towns controlling trade from the silver mines of Eastern Zimbabwe, which reached the town via the old ports of Kilwa and Michangani.

The interior of the grotto is quite spacious, and once inside it is possible to sit upright, until conveyed back out through the same tiny hole.

The only island still in the possession of direct descendants of the Lords of the Isles is tiny Cara off Kintyre, which is owned by the MacDonalds of Largie, a small remnant of a once vast family inheritance.

I was just a tiny kid .” His mother, a costume designer, once told him after The Deer Hunter that she knew he was famous because his name was in the New York Times crossword puzzle.

* Hubert Opperman-Australian cyclist and politician, who was once employed by Malvern Star Cycles, a tiny cycle shop in Malvern.

According to The Marvelous Land of Oz, the Woggle-Bug was once a regular tiny woggle-bug, about the size of a pea.

The relative slight was tiny because the baseball writers voted only once between 1939 and 1945 and elected only one recent player.

However at home it highlighted the dominance at the time of the non-violent Social Democratic and Labour Party ( SDLP ) in Northern nationalist politics, while Sinn Féin's vote in the Republic remained tiny once the emotion generated by the 1981 hunger strike subsided.

Her grandfather weaves tall tales about the family's evacuation from their home on the tiny island of Roan Inish and his great-great grandfather, who once cheated death at the hands of the sea.