Aided by a massive buildup of Soviet advisors, military personnel, and advanced weaponry during the Cold War, Cuba became a staunch ally of the USSR during Castro's rule, modeling its political structure after that of the CPSU.

Clusters of galaxies are the most recent and most massive objects to have arisen in the hierarchical structure formation of the universe and the study of clusters tells one about the way galaxies form and evolve.

The Commonwealth, subjected to almost constant warfare until 1720, suffered enormous population losses as well as massive damage to its economy and social structure.

The massive tombs consisted of mud-brick walls and the style of the structure imitated a palace portico probably to mimic Djoser ’ s palace in Memphis where he lived at one point in his life.

As of 2011, the atomic structure of the 26S proteasome has not been solved, despite massive efforts to do so.

While polymers are often randomly constructed with massive entanglement, biopolymers often have a well defined structure.

This structure would remain unchanged until 1941, when a massive labor and death camp system in the occupied territories necessitated the concentration camps to be placed under the Wirtschafts und Verwaltungshauptamt ( SS-WVHA ) in three main divisions of Labor Camps, Concentration Camps, and Death Camps.

The plots share the same basic structure progressing in the same sequence: the stories begin at Bag End, the home of Bilbo Baggins ; Gandalf sends the protagonist into a quest eastward ; Elrond offers a haven and advice ; the adventurers escape dangerous creatures underground ( Goblin Town / Moria ); they engage another group of elves ( The Elf King's realm / Lothlórien ); they traverse a desolate region ( Desolation of Smaug / the Dead Marshes ); they fight in a massive battle ; a descendant of kings is restored to his ancestral throne ( Bard / Aragorn ); and the questing party returns home to find it in a deteriorated condition ( having possessions auctioned off / the scouring of the Shire ).

The massive structure of information available in a wiki, or an open source software project such as the FreeBSD kernel could be compared to a termite nest ; one initial user leaves a seed of an idea ( a mudball ) which attracts other users who then build upon and modify this initial concept, eventually constructing an elaborate structure of connected thoughts.

As with most foundation myths, this account needs to be taken with a grain of salt ; archeological excavations in the 20th century suggested that the Merovingian Cathedral replaced by Sully was itself a massive structure, with a five-aisled nave and a facade some 36m across.

Today, the massive castle of the Knights of Malta still stands in Bodrum, and the polished stone and marble blocks of the Mausoleum can be spotted built into the walls of the structure.

At the Tschoga Zanbil ziggurat, archaeologists have found massive reed ropes that ran across the core of the ziggurat structure and tied together the mudbrick mass.

Unfortunately, not much of even the base is left of this massive structure, yet archeological findings and historical accounts put this tower at seven multicolored tiers, topped with a temple of exquisite proportions.

Sometime in the Uruk III period the massive White Temple, was built atop of the ziggurat, and under the northwest edge of the ziggurat an Uruk VI period structure, the Stone Temple, has been discovered.

The revised Mustang retained the original body structure but styling was refreshed, giving the Mustang a more massive look overall.

The castle is a compact, massive structure, and though ruinous, most of the walls are intact.

Taking six years to build ( 1884 – 1890 ), the massive stone prison structure towers over Lake Barkley, and is sometimes called " The Castle on the Cumberland.

The massive structure has 90-ton doors and sides.

Windstorm damage often opens the door for massive amounts of water and debris to cause further damage to a structure.

The massive salients were added in 1010 to strengthen their structure, and the northern minaret was incorporated into the city wall.

The most important structure of the site is certainly the fogou ( Cornish for cave ), a man-made underground passage which is covered with massive stone slabs.

In the suspension bridge, a large cable hangs between two towers, and is fastened at each end to anchorages in the ground or to a massive structure.

The use of ribs stiffened the structure, allowing domes to be thinner with less massive supporting walls.

The young Texas pianist can make great chords ring out as well as anyone, so last night the massive sonorities of this challenging concerto were no hazard to him.

The coming of the railroad to North Cambridge and Northwest Cambridge then led to three major changes in the city: the development of massive brickyards and brickworks between Massachusetts Ave., Concord Ave. and Alewife Brook ; the ice-cutting industry launched by Frederic Tudor on Fresh Pond ; and the carving up of the last estates into residential subdivisions to provide housing to the thousands of immigrants that arrived to work in the new industries.

Bartov wrote that German film-makers liked to show the heroic last stand of the 6th Army at Stalingrad, but none has so far showed the 6th Army's massive co-operation with the Einsatzgruppen in murdering Soviet Jews in 1941.

However, thanks mainly to the massive immigration of the last two decades, in recent years Italy experienced a significant growth in birth rates.

At last word, her attorneys were examining a challenge to the Constitutional validity of massive statutory damages, where actual damages would have been $ 24.

Extreme examples of pollution from mining activities include coal fires, which can last for years or even decades, producing massive amounts of environmental damage.

In about 1175 BC, Egypt was threatened with a massive land and sea invasion by the " Sea Peoples ," a coalition of foreign enemies which included the Tjeker, the Shekelesh, the Deyen, the Weshesh, the Teresh, the Sherden and the PRST ; the last group are commonly regarded as identical with the Philistines.

Unlike the ancient Minoan civilization, the Mycenaean Greeks emphasized the need for fortifications alongside natural defenses of mountainous terrain, such as the massive Cyclopean walls built at Mycenae during the last half of the 2nd millennium BC.

* Y2K spread fear throughout the United States and eventually the world in the last half of the decade particularly 1999 about possible massive computer malfunctions on 1 January 2000.

In 480 BC a small force of Spartans, Thespians, and Thebans led by King Leonidas ( approximately 300 were full Spartiates, 700 were Thespians, and 400 were Thebans although these numbers do not reflect casualties incurred prior to the final battle ), made a legendary last stand at the Battle of Thermopylae against the massive Persian army, inflicting very high casualties on the Persian forces before finally being encircled.

More widely over the last 40 years, a massive increase in fertilizer use together with the increased availability of semi-dwarf varieties in developing countries, has greatly increased yields per hectare.

The nebulae of the last type show the strongest concentration to the galactic plane and their progenitors are therefore relatively young massive stars.

Despite the massive loss of natural habitat in Australia over the last 200 years, it is adaptable and capable of living in surprisingly small patches of remnant bush, particularly if it does not have to cross large expanses of cleared land to reach them.

Most notably ( and again William Pulteney was influential ), in 1801 Telford devised a master plan to improve communications in the Highlands of Scotland, a massive project that was to last some 20 years.

If Israel's very existence is threatened, some speculate that she would use a " Samson Option ," a " last resort " deterrence strategy of massive retaliation with nuclear weapons, may be initiated should the state of Israel be substantially damaged and / or near destruction.

It's somehow fitting that those two massive antagonists lived out their co-evolutionary belligerence through the very last days of the very last epoch of the Age of Dinosaurs.

The Anti-Monitor attacks one last time, transporting Earth to the Anti-Matter universe, and summons a massive horde of shadow demons.

Following Busch's last 1995 event ( the Rams ' last home game prior to the opening of the now-Edward Jones Dome ), the Cardinals began a massive project to retrofit it into a baseball-only stadium.

This last point had worried economists, businessmen and banks, who feared that even a partial Brazilian default along with the existing Argentine default would have a massive ripple effect through the world economy.

In 1997, during a violent rainstorm, the roof collapsed causing massive damage just an hour after the last movie of the night let out.

During the last glacial period, massive ice sheets at least thick ravaged the landscape of the state and sculpted its current terrain.

During the last glacial period, massive ice sheets at least thick ravaged the landscape of the town and sculpted its current terrain which can be easily seen in Long Lake Regional Park within the city.

The topography is a result of the massive glaciation of the last Ice Age, and as such the soil is extremely rocky and the surface shows glacial erratic boulders.