The western stretch of Exmoor boasts Hangman cliffs, the highest cliffs in mainland Britain, culminating near Combe Martin in the " Great Hangman ", a 1, 043 ft ( 318 m ) ' hog-backed ' hill with a cliff-face of 820 ft ( 250 m ); its sister cliff " The Little Hangman " has a cliff-face of 716 ft ( 218 m ).

* The Curry Mile is the stretch of Wilmslow Road in central Rusholme: it boasts at least 50 restaurants, take-aways and kebab houses specialising in the cuisines of South Asia and the Middle East.

Mqabba also boasts of a stretch of around 139 cubic metres of catacombs which were discovered in the 1860s.

Some axons can extend up to one meter or more while others stretch to as little as one millimeter ( inhibitory interneurons ).

The Alps, one of the great mountain range systems of Europe, stretch approximately across eight Alpine countries from Austria and Slovenia in the east, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, Germany, France to the west and Italy and Monaco to the south.

In the most common usage, β strand refers to a single continuous stretch of amino acids adopting an extended conformation and involved in backbone hydrogen bonds to at least one other strand ; by contrast, a β sheet refers to an assembly of at least two such β strands that are hydrogen-bonded ( or H-bonded ) to each other.

The creation of the Tortuguero National Park in 1970 gave much needed protection to one of the region's most important and unique natural resources: a 22 km stretch of shoreline that serves as the principal nesting site for sea turtles.

During one stretch in May, the team went 2 – 17.

In June 2009, the team rapidly improved and by the end of June, the Rockies set a franchise record for victories in a month with 21 in a 28 game stretch ( one win better than the September 2007 Rocktober run ).

Herkimer contributed many firsts to the sport: the founding of the Cheerleader & Danz Team cheerleading uniform supply company, inventing the herkie ( where one leg is bent towards the ground and the other is out to the side as high as it will stretch in the toe-touch position ), and creating the " Spirit Stick ".

For example, an operon is a stretch of DNA that is transcribed, to create a contiguous segment of RNA, but contains more than one cistron / gene.

Driven by Stephenson, Locomotion hauled an 80-ton load of coal and flour nine miles ( 15 km ) in two hours, reaching a speed of 24 miles per hour ( 39 km / h ) on one stretch.

For comparison, woven garments stretch mainly along one direction ( the bias ) and are not very elastic, unless they are woven from stretchable material such as spandex.

In one of history's greatest experiments in communal living, the Jesuits had soon organized about 100, 000 Guaraní in about 20 reducciones ( reductions or townships ), and they dreamed of a Jesuit empire that would stretch from the Paraguay-Paraná confluence to the coast and back to the Paraná headwaters.

During this stretch, the Rangers made one of their most unpopular trades ever, sending multi-Gold Glove catcher and fan favorite Jim Sundberg to the Milwaukee Brewers for future Brewers ' manager Ned Yost.

Josephus describes multiple tortures and positions of crucifixion during the Siege of Jerusalem as Titus crucified the rebels ; and Seneca the Younger recounts: " I see crosses there, not just of one kind but made in many different ways: some have their victims with head down to the ground ; some impale their private parts ; others stretch out their arms on the gibbet.

The anus is terminal, although in Priapulus one or two hollow ventral diverticula of the body-wall stretch out behind it.

Thanks to its clear air and lovely golden sand, this romantic stretch of sand was voted the best place in the UK to watch the sun set ( Country Living magazine 2005 ) and one the top romantic spots in the country ( The Guardian 2007 ).

Most towns and districts of any size on the river have at least one club, but key centres are Oxford, Henley-on-Thames and the stretch of river from Chiswick to Putney.

Since this cannot stretch, the animals have to molt in order to grow, in other words they grow new but still soft cuticles and then cast off the old one and wait for the new one to harden.

Officially Inner Mongolia is classified as one of the provincial-level divisions of North China, but its great stretch means that parts of it belong to Northeast China and Northwest China as well.

So one of the most effective strategies for regenerating biotopes is to plan a stretch of biotopes, not just a point where animals and plants come and go.

If one animal who is lying in a battery egg farm cage could have the extra room to stretch her wing today because of something you've done, I think she would choose to have that happen.

At one point, his mouth would stretch out back " beyond his beardline "; but this was dropped when it got " out of control.

In the Poetics Aristotle had merely recommended that action should consist only of the main plot without any subplots, and that the time represented by action should not stretch beyond the length of one day.

The stretch between Florence and Yachats is considered one of the more attractive segments of this highway.

Everybody who arrived by car a few hours later was made to get out and walk the last stretch.

During this period, no large scale territorial conquest was intended by the Portuguese ; only a few minor settlements were established in the immediate hinterland of Luanda, some on the last stretch of the Kwanza River.

In this technique, a few selected positions or a short stretch of DNA may be exhaustively modified to obtain a comprehensive library of mutant proteins.

Viroids are plant pathogens that consist of a short stretch ( a few hundred nucleobases ) of highly complementary, circular, single-stranded RNA without the protein coat that is typical for viruses.

Jet stream-powered cirrus clouds can grow long enough to stretch across continents, but they remain only a few kilometers deep.

# Eastward again, there is a stretch that ranges from a few miles in the extreme northern areas to about 6-wide in the southern area, including Hilliard and much of County Road 108 and State Road 301.

Along this stretch it is extremely close to shore-literally just a few steps from the shore.

The stretch of the Colorado River between Hoover Dam and Lake Mohave is mostly tame but offers a few white water rafting opportunities.

Dunedin is one of the few open waterfront communities from Sarasota to Cedar Key where buildings do not completely obscure the view of the Intracoastal Waterway and the Gulf of Mexico beyond ; a stretch of Edgewater Drive ( also known as Alternate US 19 ) south of downtown offers views of St. Joseph Sound, Clearwater Beach, and Caladesi Island.

Over the next few years, Walker suggested two new routes for the Higham to Strood stretch, for which Acts of Parliament were obtained and money raised.

Although lipid bilayers can easily bend, most cannot stretch more than a few percent before rupturing.

The Thuringian Forest ( Thüringer Wald in German ), running northwest to southeast, forms a continuous stretch of ancient rounded mountains posing ample difficulties in transit routing save through a few navigable passes in the southern reaches of the German state of Thuringia.

* One of the few beaches in the Thousand Islands, Potter's Beach on the American Grindstone Island has a fine, shallow sandy bottom with a very gradual slope, perfect for boaters that want to stretch their legs or socialize.

There are few records of the Inner Temple from the 14th and 15th centuries — indeed, from all the societies, although the records of Lincoln's Inn stretch back to 1422.

Cowdrey asked Snow to give him a few overs at full stretch in the nets before the First Test to test his fitness, but Snow refused as he had not exercised for two days and bowled only medium pace.

The Boulder Bank, at the entrance to Nelson Haven at the northern end of the South Island, is a unique 13 kilometer-long stretch of rocky substrate a few metres in width.

For a few years in the late 1990s, he toured a concert version of Porgy and Bess, partly in honor of his father, who sang the role for Sidney Poitier in the 1959 film version, and partly " to preserve the score's jazziness " in the face of " largely white orchestras " who tend not " to play around the bar lines, to stretch and bend ".

Shimbashi is the original terminus of Japan's first stretch of railway, the Tōkaidō Main Line, and is one of Japan's oldest stations ( the oldest station being Shinagawa, a few kilometres down the line ).

While most of the plain is developed for picnicking, gardens and sports fields, it has a stretch of open habitat called oak savannah, of which there are few other examples in Ontario.

After a short stretch of dual carriageway north of Glenrothes ( until it meets the A912 towards Perth and the A914 towards St Andrews ), it reverts to a single carriageway until a few miles short of the Tay Road Bridge at Dundee.

The construction of Finland's first stretch of railroad, the Helsinki – Hämeenlinna line, determined the location of the present city centre and the railway station of Hyvinkää is one of the few original stations still in use.

The Chinese Eastern Railway was essentially completed in 1902, a few years earlier than the stretch around Lake Baikal.

The final of the river was called the " upper Missouri " – this stretch traversed remote unsettled plains, and the last few hundred miles to Ft. Benton passed through the Missouri Breaks.

This stretch is sharply eroded with washouts, and there are precious few places to turn around, if the traveler decides he has had enough.