A few kilometers to the north of Alcobaça is another wondrous building constructed in memory of a different important battle, that of Aljubarrota in 1385, when Dom João I defeated the Castilians and ensuring two hundred years of independence from the Castilian invaders.

The Gendarmenmarkt, a neoclassical square in Berlin whose name dates back to the quarters of the famous Gens d ' armes regiment located here in the 18th century, is bordered by two similarly designed cathedrals, the Französischer Dom with its observation platform and the Deutscher Dom.

The Portuguese presence in East Africa officially began after 1505, when flagships under the command of Dom Francisco de Almeida conquered Kilwa, an island located in what is now southern Tanzania.

During his reign as a Pope the famous Illyricum Sacrum was commissioned, and today it is one of the main sources of the field of Albanology, with over 5000 pages divided in several volumes written by Daniele Farlati and Dom.

It was until 1877 a separate town ( Dom zu Reval ), the residence of the aristocracy ; it is today the seat of the Estonian parliament, government and some embassies and residencies.

Nearby is the 13th-century Gothic Meissen Cathedral ( Meißner Dom ), whose chapel is one of the most famous burial places of the Wettin family.

* The Dom ( Cathedral ) is a very interesting example of pure German Gothic and counts as the main work of Gothic architecture in Bavaria.

Inspired by the experience of lucid dreaming and dream incubation, DiCaprio portrays the character of Dom Cobb, an " extractor " who enters the dreams of others to obtain information that is otherwise inaccessible.

The highest mountain which lies entirely on Swiss territory is the Dom ( 4, 545 metres ).

" In an interesting meditation on what he viewed as the harm which would result if Christian ideals were abandoned in Belgium, he said: " Every time society has distanced itself from the Gospel, which preached humility, fraternity, and peace, the people have been unhappy, because the pagan civilization of ancient Rome, which they wanted to replace it with, is based only on pride and the abuse of force " ( Commemorative speech for the war dead of the Battle of the Yser, given by Dom Marie-Albert, Abbot of Orval Abbey, Belgium, in 1936 ).

The Dom Tower ( Cathedral Tower, Dutch: Domtoren ) of Utrecht is the tallest church tower in the Netherlands, at 112. 5 metres ( 368 feet ) in height, and the Gothic-style tower is the symbol of the city.

The tower has its own visitor centre, RonDom ( a Portmanteau of ' Rond ' - around-and ' Dom '), which is located in the square.

Lone Starr readily accepts, as he is in major debt with the space gangster Pizza the Hutt ( voice of Dom DeLuise ).

The monastery was designed by the community's first abbot, Dom Paul Couvreur, and is a fine example of Cistercian architecture.

Musician and comedian Bill Bailey is also a fan of Queens Park Rangers as is London Wasps & England rugby union player Dom Waldouck.

The church is termed Dom, in German a synecdoche-pars pro toto-used for cathedrals and collegiate churches alike, and much like the Italian Duomo, is imperfectly translated here by the English cathedral.

It is also featured on the cover of black metal band Mayhem's album De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas.

Verstegan's account is also repeated in William Ramesey's Wormes ( 1668 )—"... that most remarkable story in Verstegan, of the Pied Piper, that carryed away a hundred and sixty Children from the Town of Hamel in Saxony, on the 22. of July, Anno Dom.

While Dom Perignon is often credited with inventing Champagne, he actually spent most of his life trying to prevent the wine from developing bubbles.

Kim is also said to have received English language education at the University of Malta in the early 1970s, on his infrequent holidays in Malta as guest of Prime Minister Dom Mintoff.

The cohesion-tension theory is a theory of intermolecular attraction commonly observed in the process of water traveling upwards ( against the force of gravity ) through the xylem of plants which was put forward by John Joly and Henry Horatio Dixon.

" Joly Herman of Commonsense media describes the show as a " cute, highly stylized series thrills the senses with its strange characters, funny situations, and lots of lowbrow humor " she goes on to say however, that the show does go from innocent to violent in no time and that there is not much protecting young viewers against the violent undertones.

* 1903 – George Darwin and John Joly claim that radioactivity is partially responsible for the Earth's heat

The ship on the left is La Belle ( ship ) | La Belle, in the middle is Le Joly, and L ' Aimable is to the right.

Along with his friend Henry Horatio Dixon, Joly also put forward the cohesion-tension theory which is now thought to be the main mechanism for the upward movement of water in plants.

After his death, his friends subscribed the sum of £ 1, 700 to set up a memorial fund which is still used to promote the annual Joly Memorial Lectures at the University of Dublin, which were inaugurated by Sir Ernest Rutherford in 1935.

He is also remembered by the Joly Geological Society, a student geological association established in 1960.

* George Darwin and John Joly claim that radioactivity is partially responsible for the Earth's heat.

Dominic John Romulus " Dom " Joly (; born 15 November 1967 ) is a British television comedian and journalist.

Joly is also an author with several books to his name, and an award-winning travel writer for both the Sunday Times and the Mail On Sunday.

However, his first show for the BBC, This is Dom Joly, a spoof chatshow in which Joly played an appallingly egotistical media character who had the same name as him, thereby confusing a lot of the audience as to what was real and what wasn't, did not achieve the same success as Trigger Happy TV, leading to the hidden camera format being revamped on BBC1 as World Shut Your Mouth.

" The premise of investigating alcohol is ridiculous ," Joly admitted during an interview.

In the show Joly goes on a road-trip around the UK looking at what is still made there after his house is emptied of everything not made in Britain.

Joly published a humour travel book called The Dark Tourist: Sightseeing in the World's Most Unlikely Holiday Destinations ( 2010 ) which is about dark tourism.

Joly is married to Stacey Joly ( née MacDougall ), a Canadian graphic designer.

Joly has stated that he is an atheist.

" This region is filled with spacious country parks areas and leisure facilities, including Val Joly, an outdoor sport and nature park, being one of the most popular parks in the region.

There is general agreement that Russian-French writer and political activist Matvei Golovinski fabricated the text for Okhrana, the secret police of the Russian Empire, as a work of counter-revolutionary propaganda prior to the 1905 Russian Revolution, by plagiarizing it, almost word for word in some passages, from The Dialogue in Hell Between Machiavelli and Montesquieu, a 19th century satire against Napoleon III of France written by French political satirist and Legitimist militant Maurice Joly.

Hector de Joly, the minister of justice wrote to the president of the Assembly, " I have denounced these attacks in the criminal court ; but law is powerless ; and I am impelled by honour and probity to inform you, that without the promptest assistance of the legislative body, the government can no longer be responsible.

* A random customer about to enter a grocery store is told by Joly ( dressed up in a flamboyant suit, flanked by glamorous women and beneath a celebratory banner ) that they are the millionth customer and anything they can get in their shopping trolley in a one minute " dash " will be free.

* Salieri's supposed hatred for Mozart is also alluded to in a spoof opera entitled A Little Nightmare Music, by P. D. Q.

A parody or spoof film is a comedy that satirizes other film genres or classic films.

Currently on the Comedy Central program The Daily Show, the phrase " a global cabal of Jews " is referenced from time to time, as a spoof on antisemitic conspiracy theories.

The Bad Times computer virus warning is generally considered to be a spoof of the Good Times warning.

The romance tradition of Arthur is particularly evident and, according to critics, successfully handled in Robert Bresson's Lancelot du Lac ( 1974 ), Eric Rohmer's Perceval le Gallois ( 1978 ) and perhaps John Boorman's fantasy film Excalibur ( 1981 ); it is also the main source of the material utilised in the Arthurian spoof Monty Python and the Holy Grail ( 1975 ).

Not the Messiah is a spoof of Handel's oratorio Messiah.

They have proven easy to spoof in some famous incidents testing commercially available systems, for example, the gummie fingerprint spoof demonstration, and, because these characteristics are unalterable, they cannot be changed if compromised ; this is a highly important consideration in access control as a compromised access token is necessarily insecure.

On occasion, this is explicitly recognised: the one-off strip Whitley Baywatch, a spoof of the popular American TV show Baywatch, is based in the North East coastal resort of Whitley Bay.

" is a spoof of Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged.

The idea seems to have originated in a spoof history essay by Professor David Daube written for The Oxford Magazine in 1956, which was widely believed despite obvious improbabilities ( e. g., planning to cross River Severn by running the ram down a hill at speed, although the river is about 30 m ( 100 feet ) wide at this point ).

Paul Blart: Mall Cop is a recent spoof of this trend ( as Die Hard in a mall ).

" Cantatrix sopranica L. Scientific Papers " is a spoof scientific paper detailing experiments on the " yelling reaction " provoked in sopranos by pelting them with rotten tomatoes.

Gil is a spoof of actor Jack Lemmon's portrayal of Shelley Levene in the 1992 film adaptation of the play Glengarry Glen Ross.

He introduces himself with the line, " My name is Michael Paine, and I am a nosy neighbour " and in a spoof of the stakeout at the beginning of The Ipcress File, recounts to the camera the ' suspiciously ' mundane behaviour of his neighbours, before saying, " Not a lot of people know that I know that ".

Voice authentication, however, presumes that it is infeasible for a MITM to spoof one participant's voice to the other in real-time, which may be an undesirable assumption.

When his entire family is seen together, they appear to be a spoof of The Cosby Show.

: In modern age Quick Gun Murugun a 2009 Indian comedy film which is a spoof on Indian western movies.

Recent additions to the subgenre of the whodunit include the novels of Simon Brett, the Thackery Phin novels of John Sladek, Lawrence Block's The Burglar in the Library ( 1997 ) ( which is a spoof set in the present in an English-style country house ), Kinky Friedman's Road Kill ( 1997 ), Ben Elton's Dead Famous ( 2001 ), and Gilbert Adair's The Act of Roger Murgatroyd ( 2006 ).

A more recent example of a spoof, which at the same time shows that the borderline between serious mystery and its parody is necessarily blurred, is U. S. mystery writer Lawrence Block's novel The Burglar in the Library ( 1997 ).