Included in this project have been the western walls of the medina, its skala, or bastion, and its colonial-period clock tower.

The signal, also known as the MSF signal ( and formerly the Rugby clock ) is broadcast at a highly-accurate frequency of 60 kHz and can be received throughout the UK, and in much of northern and western Europe.

The Kwai Chung Container Terminals in the western part of the harbour is the main container handling facility, operating round the clock and handling about 62 percent of the 21, 930 TEUs handled by the territory in 2004.

In the 1930s both of the tower's clocks were replaced by a metallic clock placed on the western corner of the tower.

Whilst the eastern, southern, and western faces of the clock display the conventional Roman clock-face numerals, the Roman numerals on the northern ( Oxford Street ) side of the clock have been replaced as follows: 1: D, 2: U, 3: S, 4: T, 5: H, 6: E, 7: VII, 8: E, 9: D, 10: V, 11: A, 12: R. This was done to celebrate the coronation of King Edward VII ; and, commencing at where the VIII ought to be, the northern clock-face reads E. D. V. A. R. D. U. S T. H. E VII.

There is an octagonal clock face on the western elevation of the tower.

The invention of the mechanical clock in western Europe, and its subsequent technical developments, enabled a public time discipline even less related to natural phenomena.

By the early 10th century, a monumental clock had been installed by the entrance in the western part of the southern wall of the mosque ( Bāb al-Ziyāda.

After Shakespeare the master spirits of western consciousness are no longer the blind seers, the poets, or Orpheus performing his art in the face of hell.

Though some of the masonry in the ruins is certainly pre-Roman, the Suda's identification of it with Cyinda, famous as a treasure city in the wars of Eumenes of Cardia, cannot be accepted in the face of Strabo's express location of Cyinda in western Cilicia.

" In the face of a rocky hill, on the western side of the city, the local belief has placed ' the grotto of Jeremiah.

The Roman legion surrounded Masada, and built a circumvallation wall and then a siege embankment against the western face of the plateau, moving thousands of tons of stones and beaten earth to do so.

There is a small ledge of 3. 5 by 1. 3 metres ( 11 by 4 ft ), known as Hall's Ledge, from the summit on the rock's western face.

The rugged western face of the escarpment drops steeply to the coastal plain, the Tihamah lowlands, whose width averages only sixty-five kilometers.

One of two identical UCI signs that face the main campus ' western entrance.

Temple of Hephaestus, a Doric order | Doric Greek temple in Athens with the original entrance facing east, 449 BC ( western face depicted ).

As early as 722, in a face to face meeting between Pope Gregory II, born and raised in Rome, and Saint Boniface, an Anglo-Saxon, Boniface complained that he found Pope Gregory's Latin speech difficult to understand, a clear sign of the transformation of Vulgar Latin in two regions of western Europe.

The high valleys farther north, on the same western face of the Sailughem range, are but little known, their only visitors being Kyrgyz shepherds.

In the western face, near the southern corner, is the Barclay's Gate – only half visible due to a building on the northern side.

Also in the western face, hidden by later construction but visible via the recent Western Wall Tunnels, and only rediscovered by Warren, is Warren's Gate ; the function of these western gates is obscure, but many Jews view Warren's Gate as particularly holy, due to its location due west of the Dome of the Rock.

After 20 years on the rodeo circuit, his distinctive Oklahoma-Texas drawl ( even though he was a lifelong Californian ), his wide eyes and moon face and strong physical presence gained him a role in the western Rocky Mountain ( 1950 ) starring Errol Flynn.

The northern face of the totem was white ( hence White Russia ), the western face was red ( hence Chervona ( Red ) Rus ), the southern face was black and the eastern green ( hence Zelenyj klyn ).

As the mountainside began to rise, the western side was carved away to a vertical wall and bricks were carved to create a virtual continuation of the brick face, which was continued for a while until the northern slope reached ground level.

The dramatic western portal, near Box, is designed in a grand classical style, while the eastern portal, at Corsham, has a more modest brick face with rusticated stone.

It served students from all over western Alaska until it closed in 1985 due to the changing face of education in the villages of Alaska with the addition of local high schools in all villages.

Goldfield Ghost Town, a popular tourist spot preserved from former prospecting days, nestles near the western face of Superstition Mountain just off Highway 88 ( Apache Trail ).

To the northeast of town, Tom Ball Mountain peaks just over the town line in West Stockbridge, with its western face being somewhat marshy.

Legislative restrictions upon such developments were initiated in the late twentieth century to prevent further visible scars on the western face of the scarp.

This bypasses a single-arched bridge built in the late 1700s, which has a female head carved on the keystone of the western face, presumed to be the Kate after whom the bridge is named.

The situation of the South since 1865 has been unique in the western world.

The breakdown of classical structures of meaning in all realms of western culture has given rise to several generations of artists who have documented the disintegrative processes.

The entrance to a church has been walled up, so that the congregation, most of which is in the western sector, cannot worship God there anymore.

Among many roles in his career, Arau has played " Captain Herrera ", a lieutenant of Federal general " Mapache ", in Sam Peckinpah's 1969 western, The Wild Bunch, chief bandit " El Guapo " in Three Amigos ( USA, 1986 ), a comedy with Martin Short, Steve Martin, and Chevy Chase, and the smuggler " Juan " in Romancing the Stone which starred Michael Douglas and Kathleen Turner.

This street pattern has been preserved through Jerusalem's later history ; the western cardo is Suq Khan ez-Zeit ( Olive-oil Inn Market ), the southern decumanus is both the Street of the Chain and Suq el-Bazaar ( Bazaar Market ; called David Street by Israelis ), the eastern cardo is Al-wad Road ( Valley road ), and the northern decumanus is now the Via Dolorosa.

So broad a notion has inevitably been elusive and controversial in the history of philosophy, beginning in western philosophy with attempts among the pre-Socratics to deploy it intelligibly.

As the largest and most spectacular forest antelope, the western / lowland bongo is both an important flagship species for protected areas such as national parks, and a major trophy species which has been taken in increasing numbers in Central Africa by sport hunters during the 1990s.

Since the following two hundred years saw the rise of the Classical Greek civilization, which has been enduringly influential in western society, the Battle of Marathon is often seen as a pivotal moment in European history.

Western Khmer, also called Cardamom Khmer or Chanthaburi Khmer, spoken by a very small, isolated population in the Cardamom mountain range extending from western Cambodia into eastern Central Thailand, although little studied, is unique in that it maintains a definite system of vocal register that has all but disappeared in other dialects of modern Khmer.

In the late 20th and early 21 century in Thailand, for example, there has been a cultural shift away from western social and political values more toward Japanese and Chinese.

As well, Thai culture has reinvigorated monarchical concepts to accommodate state shifts away from western ideology regarding democracy and monarchies.

* In the Chinese language, common era ( 公元 ， Gong yuan ) has been predominantly used to refer to the western calendar without any religious connotation.

The Canadian Great Lakes region has similarities to that of the Upper Midwest & Great Lakes region and / or Yooper dialect ( in particular Michigan which has extensive cultural and economic ties with Ontario ), while the phonological system of western Canadian English is virtually identical to that of the Pacific Northwest of the United States, and the phonetics are similar.

Recently, the toads have made their way into Western Australia and one has even been found on the far western coast in Broome.

It originally ranged primarily in the western half of North America, but it has adapted readily to the changes caused by human presence and, since the early 19th century, has been steadily and dramatically extending its range.

Citizenship has generally been identified as a western phenomenon.

It has been read as " together with the Gaels ", suggesting either public participation or the presence of Gaels from the western coasts as well as the people of the east coast.

The comparatively large population growth of western and central Canada during the immigration boom of the 20th century has reduced the Maritimes ' proportion of the national population to less than 10 %, resulting in an over-representation in Parliament, with some federal ridings having fewer than 35, 000 people, compared to central and western Canada where ridings typically contain 100, 000-120, 000 people.

This is similar to the argument that fire suppression in western United States has allowed Ponderosa Pine forests to become “ overstocked ”.

He has blended judo, western boxing, kickboxing, and gymnastics into his own unique fighting style and is a master of multiple martial arts.

In most western countries, to become a qualified dentist one must usually complete at least four years of postgraduate study ; within the European Union the education has to be at least five years.