The contest of Athena and Poseidon was the subject of the reliefs on the western pediment of the Parthenon, the first sight that greeted the arriving visitor.

The Gorgon as depicted on the western pediment from the Temple of Artemis ( Corfu ) | Artemis Temple of Corfu, on display at the Archaeological Museum of Corfu.

The western frieze was completed between 445-440 BC, while the eastern frieze, the western pediment and several changes in the building's interior are dated by these scholars to 435-430 BC, largely on stylistic grounds.

The important group which includes Zeus and Athena moving in opposite directions recalls the scene showing the struggle between Athena and Poseidon on the western pediment of the Parthenon.

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.

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

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.

Artemis may have been represented as a supporter of Troy because her brother Apollo was the patron god of the city and she herself was widely worshipped in western Anatolia in historical times.

* Hymn to Apollo is written and inscribed on stone in Delphi ; it is the earliest surviving notated music, in a substantial and legible fragment, in the western world.

Prior to this demolition, the Fort had been built between 1686 and 1743 by the British East India Company with three gates ( the Apollo Gate, the Church Gate and the Bazaar Gate ), a moat, esplanade, level open spaces on its western fringe ( to control fires ) and residences.

It lies along the western outer ampart of the immense walled plain Apollo.

In general the inner wall is unusually narrow along the western rim, but is much wider in the eastern half near where the rim approaches the Apollo basin.

Apollo Hospitals also operates the International Hospital, located on the western side of Chanakyapuri.

“ To the east of Crommyon, at the western extremity of the Scironian rocks, was a temple of Apollo Latous, which marked the boundaries of the Corinthia and Megaris in the time of Pausanias.

“ His ( Pausanias ) Corinthiacs, therefore, open at the western extremity of the Scironides, near a temple of Apollo Latous.

US 11 joins the two state-numbered highways on Queen Street past the Apollo Theatre and near the Martinsburg Amtrak Station, which is the western terminus of MARC's Brunswick Line.

In the Byzantine Empire, Anatolikon called also Theme of the Anatolics ( ανατολικόν θέμα ) was a theme covering the western and central parts of Turkey's present-day Central Anatolian Region.

In the Byzantine Empire, Anatolikon called also Theme of the Anatolics ( ανατολικόν θέμα ) was a theme covering the western and central parts of Turkey's present-day Central Anatolian Region.

In central and western Anatolia another Indo European people, the Luwians came to the fore, circa 2000 BC.

From the 10th to late 7th centuries BC, much of Anatolia ( particularly the east, central, south western and south eastern regions ) fell to the Neo Assyrian Empire, including all of the Neo-Hittite and Syro-Hittite states, Phrygia, Urartu, Nairi, Tabal, Cilicia, Commagene, Caria, Lydia, the Cimmerians and Scythians and swathes of Cappadocia.

Two hundred years later western and central Anatolia came under Roman control, but it continued to be strongly influenced by Hellenistic culture.

In the Coastal Plain are the Tombigbee River in the west, the Alabama River ( formed by the Coosa and Tallapoosa ) in the western central, and in the east the Chattahoochee River, which forms almost half of the Georgia boundary.

The Berber peoples of the Maghreb in the early Middle Ages could be roughly classified into three major groups-the Zenata across the north, the Masmuda concentrated in central Morocco and the Sanhaja, clustered in two areas-the western part of the Sahara and the hills of the eastern Maghreb.

Aimaks live in parts of western and central Afghanistan, making up the majority in Ghor, and also live in large numbers in the western areas of Herat and Badghis, and to a lesser extent in Farah, Faryab, Jowzjan, and Sar-e Pol.

* Read, Ian G .( 1995 ) Australia's central and western outback: the driving guide Crows Nest, N. S. W.

These provinces and many areas of Navarre are heavily populated by ethnic Basques, but the Euskara language had, at least until the 1990s, all but disappeared from most of Álava, western parts of Biscay and central and southern areas of Navarre.

The Mediterranean climate regime resembles the climate of the lands in the Mediterranean Basin, parts of western North America, parts of Western and South Australia, in southwestern South Africa and in parts of central Chile.

Property values are depressed, resulting in a smaller tax base for these three provinces, particularly when compared with the national average which benefits from central and western Canadian economic growth.

* California montane chaparral and woodlands: In southern and central coast adjacent and inland California regions, including covering some of the mountains of: the California Coast Ranges ; the Transverse Ranges ; and the western slopes of the northern Peninsular Ranges.

* California interior chaparral and woodlands: In central interior California surrounding the Central Valley, covering the foothills and lower slopes of the northeastern Transverse Ranges and the western Sierra Nevada range.

It uses the highest possible concentration of caffeine for beverages allowed by German law ( 25 mg / 100ml ) and is available in most of Germany, as well as parts of western and central Europe.

* Billund Airport ( BLL ), in central Jutland, one of Denmark's busiest cargo centres as well as a popular charter airline destination and an airport for regular flights serving 2. 4 million passengers a year, mainly from the western part of the country.

The western valleys, along the Haitian border, remain relatively dry, with less than of annual precipitation, due to the rain shadow effect caused by the central and northern mountain ranges.

This genus is native to western and southwestern Europe, western and central Asia, Australasia and northwestern Africa.

A cultural definition of Europe as the lands of Latin Christendom coalesced in the 8th century, signifying the new cultural condominium created through the confluence of Germanic traditions and Christian-Latin culture, defined partly in contrast with Byzantium and Islam, and limited to northern Iberia, the British Isles, France, Christianized western Germany, the Alpine regions and northern and central Italy.