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15 unusual facts about Dome


Austromoine

At Clermont he is said to have converted the senator St. Cassius and the pagan priest St. Victorinus, to have sent St. Sirenatus (Cerneuf) to Thiers, St. Marius to Salers, Sts.

Chalus

Chalus, Puy-de-Dôme, a commune in the Puy-de-Dôme département of France

Château de Randan

The Château de Randan was a former royal domain in the French town on Randan in the department of Puy-de-Dôme.

Château de Ravel

The Château de Ravel is a castle situated in the commune of Ravel, in the département of Puy-de-Dôme, France.

Closed ecological system

The critically panned 1996 comedy film Bio-Dome involved the protagonists becoming trapped in a closed ecological system being run as an experiment.

Dorat

Dorat, Puy-de-Dôme, a commune of the Puy-de-Dôme département in France

Gouttières, Puy-de-Dôme

There is a coverage of about 30% woods and some cereal cultivation and the breeding of Charolais cattle.

Kao's II Wiz*7*Dome

The album was even less commercially successful than his previous album, Pawns in the Game, only making it to #70 on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart.

Nonette

Nonette, Puy-de-Dôme, a commune of the Puy-de-Dôme department in France

Puy-de-Dôme's 6th constituency

Before its excision, the 6th constituency consisted of Aigueperse, Combronde, Ennezat, Manzat, Menat, Montaigut en Combraille, Pionsat, Pontaumur, Pontgibaud, Randan, Riom, Saint-Gervais-d'Auvergne.

Randol Abbey

Randol Abbey (Abbaye Notre-Dame de Randol) is a Benedictine monastery situated at Randol near the village of Saint-Saturnin, Puy-de-Dôme department, in the Auvergne mountains of France.

Roger Clinton, Jr.

Clinton has had minor roles in several films, including Bio-Dome and Fred Claus, and guest-starred on a number of television shows, including The Nanny as himself (neighbor), Sabrina, the Teenage Witch, and Cybill.

Saint-Nectaire, Puy-de-Dôme

The eldest branch of this family held the marquisate of La Ferté, and produced a heroine of the religious wars of the 16th century, Madeleine de St Nectaire, who married Guy de St Exupery, seigneur de Miremont, in 1548, and fought successfully at the head of the Protestants in her territory against the troops of the League.

Strata-Dome

The "High Dome", painted blue and lettered "American Railroads 1869–1969", was part of the 1969 Golden Spike Centennial Limited to mark the centennial of the first transcontinental railroad in the U.S. Both cars later ran on the final Capitol Limited run April 30, 1971 when the train was discontinued at the start of Amtrak.

William VII the Young of Auvergne

The young count was able to maintain his status in part of his county, especially Beaumont, Chamalières, and Montferrand.


Baldassarre Lanci

Lanci also designed the church of Santa Maria della Rosa in the spa town of Chianciano Terme, in today's Province of Siena; Santa Maria della Rosa was built on a central plan; even though it was not finished, the church is notable for the sobriety, and clean lines of its design which culminates in an elegant dome.

Bradley Pryce

Pryce turned professional in July 2001, winning his first fight at the Doncaster Dome, Doncaster, South Yorkshire, England beating David Hines on points over four rounds on a card which included Ricky Hatton, Junior Witter and Ryan Rhodes.

Bridge Street, Sydney

It includes the obelisk designed by Francis Greenway and constructed in 1818; the bronze statue of Thomas Sutcliffe Mort erected in 1883; the cannon and anchor from HMS Sirius, the anchor having been placed on its pedestal in 1907; and the men's lavatory built in 1908, which features stucco and a glazed dome.

California Quadrangle

The dome's design looked to the dome at the Church of Santa Prisca and San Sebastián in Taxco, Mexico.

Cathedral of Mren

Odzun Church, an architecturally similar and contemporaneous three-nave basilica with dome in Odzun, Armenia

Cathedral of St. Sophia, Novgorod

The large cross on the main dome (which has a metal bird attached to it, perhaps symbolic of the Holy Spirit in the form of a dove) was removed by Spanish infantry.

CIBK-FM

Among the many parodies the VIRGIN Morning Show plays, they have parodied In da Club to create the more popular "In da Dome" in 2004 (with revised versions for 2006, 2007, and 2009) when the Calgary Flames were in their Stanley Cup runs (along with She Bangs by Ricky Martin, parodied as The Flames).

Dee-1

In August 2009, Dee-1 released a Saints-themed song with trumpet player and rapper, Shamarr Allen, titled "Bring Em to the Dome".

Dundalk Ice Dome

In April 2007, Dundalk Ice Dome successfully staged the International Ice Hockey Federation Division III World Championships, where Team Ireland claimed a silver medal and promotion to Division II .

East Jersey State Prison

The prison's distinctive architecture, with its large dome and imposing metal gates, has appeared in many films including Lock Up, Crazy Joe, Rounders, Malcolm X, He Got Game, The Hurricane, and Ocean's Eleven.

For My Baby

The composition was recorded for the Full Flava's second studio album Colour of My Soul on Dôme Records, that included eleven solo songs performed by several female vocalists (Carleen Anderson, Donna Odain, Beverlei Brown, Hazel Fernandes, Romina Johnson, Alison Limerick, CeCe Peniston, and Donna Gardier).

Francesco Borromini

In 1668, Carlo Rainaldi returned as architect and Ciro Ferri received the commission to fresco the dome interior which it is highly unlikely that Borromini intended.

Giovanni Antonio Pellegrini

He submitted designs for the decorating the interior dome of the new St Paul's Cathedral, and is said to have been Christopher Wren's favourite painter, but did not win the commission, losing out to Sir James Thornhill.

Glockengasse Synagogue

It was the first example of a central plan over a Greek cross, that was covered by a dome.

Green Legislative Assembly

Green Legislative Assembly, a 200-feet high dome, is an initiative by the Indian State of Tamil Nadu.

Gunnar Johansen

He organized conferences which included such notables as Edward Teller, inventor of the American hydrogen bomb, and Buckminster Fuller, inventor of the geodesic dome.

Hayden Planetarium

It is accompanied by a digital dome projection system that provides a 3-D visualization of the universe based on images generated in real time by a Silicon Graphics supercomputer.

Hypaethros

In the conjectural restoration of the opaion or opening in the roof shown in Cockerells drawing, it has been made needessly large, having an area of about one quarter of the superficial area of the celia between the coltirnns, and since in the Pantheon at Rome the relative proportions of the central opening in the dome and the area of the Rotunda are I: 22, and the light there is ample, in the clearer atmosphere of Greece it might have been less.

Il mondo della luna

The Gotham Chamber Opera presented Il mondo della luna at the Hayden Planetarium in New York City in January 2010, transforming the planetarium into an opera house using the 180-degree dome and projections courtesy of NASA; the director was Diane Paulus.

Lacey, Washington

There is also speculation that former NFL Washington Redskins Fullback Mike Sellers, a North Thurston High School alumnus, may seek to build a multi-sport event center or football dome in Hawks Prairie, which could attract national competitions.

Le Puy Mine

At the close of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century the Le Puy Mine was together with Poullaouen and Huelgoat in Finistère, Vialas in Lozère, Pontgibaud in Puy-de-Dôme and Pontpéan in Ille-et-Vilaine one of the most important lead mines in France.

Leopoldsberg

The Romanesque-Gothic basilica as well as the copper dome with the imperial crown can be seen.

Mankiala

The stupa's relic deposits, all now in the British Museum, were found by Jean-Baptiste Ventura in 1830 between 10 and 20 metres below the top of the dome.

Martine Blanc

Martine Blanc (born 16 September 1944 in Clermont-Ferrand, Puy-de-Dôme) is a French author and illustrator of ten books for children including The story of Timothy, the Two Hoots series in collaboration with Helen Cresswell, and All about Jesus.

Mole Antonelliana

Antonelli had recently added a 121 metre-high dome and spire to the seventeenth-century Basilica of San Gaudenzio in Novara and promised to build a synagogue for 280,000 lire.

Mount Stony Brook Observatory

The dome contains a Meade 14" Maksutov–Cassegrain telescope and SBIG (SBIG-STL1001e) imaging equipment. The telescope is used for teaching undergraduate and graduate astronomy labs by the department, as well as by the Astronomy club. The observatory's imaging capabilities have been used to monitor variable stars. On the first Friday of every month during the school year the department hosts "Astronomy Open Nights" during which a lecture is given, followed by observing if the weather permits.

Naoki Hattori

In 1997, he tested a Formula One prototype, the F105, for Dome F1 at Suzuka and other Japanese race tracks, but Dome F1 never entered a Formula One Grand Prix.

Panch Kedar

A further supporting fact mentioned in this regard is that the emblem used in Kedarnath temple dome is the same as displayed in the Pashupathinath temple dome in Kathmandu.

Penn State–Syracuse football rivalry

In 1987, Coach Dick MacPherson finally led Syracuse to a resounding 48–21 victory over the Nittany Lions in the Dome.

Placer Dome

Placer Dome (and now Barrick) are defendants in an ongoing court battle over the highly controversial Marcopper mining disaster, which took place at the Marcopper Mine (run by Marcopper, a Placer Dome subsidiary) on the island of Marinduque, Philippines.

In New South Wales Australia, Placer Dome obtained ownership of the defunct Timbarra Gold Mine, where it achieved some local acclaim for setting new, higher State standards for mining rehabilitation.

Prohepialus

It contains only one species, Prohepialus incertus, which was described from a Thanetian crater lake diatomite (Paleocene) in Menat (Puy-de-Dôme), France.

Qubbat al-Khazna

Qubbat al-Khazna (Arabic: قبة الخزنة Qubbat al-Khazna), meaning the "Dome of the Treasury", is an old structure, located inside the courtyard of the Umayyad Mosque in Damascus, Syria.

Roman Catholic Marian churches

The cathedral was consecrated by Pope Eugene IV in 1436 and was the first 'octagonal' dome in history to be built without a wooden supporting frame and was the largest dome built at the time (it is still the largest masonry dome in the world).

Santa Maria della Salute

The dome of the Salute was an important addition to the Venice skyline and soon became emblematic of the city, inspiring artists like Canaletto, J. M. W. Turner, John Singer Sargent and Francesco Guardi.

Takestan

Pir Mausoleum: The Pir mausoleum, alternatively known as Pir-e Takestan and Imamzadeh Pir, is a small domed Seljuk building dating from the 11th century and has since been restored.

The Fool Monty

Once again a cruel, heartless miser, he decides to put a dome over the town to get revenge on everyone who had treated him badly (inspired by Stephen King's novel Under the Dome), only to be informed that he had already done something similar and it would not work again because they could simply cave their way out.

Wyoming Cowboys and Cowgirls

Built in 1982 at a cost of $15 million, the Arena-Auditorium commonly called the AA (or "Dome of Doom") seats over 15,000.

Zogbodomey

Zogbodomey is divided administratively into 11 arrondissements: Akiza, Avlamè, Cana 1, Cana 2, Domè, Koussoukpa, Kpokissa, Massi, Tanwé-Hessou, Zoukou and Zogbodomey.

Zome

The word "zome" was coined in 1968 by Steve Durkee, now known as Nooruddeen Durkee, combining the words dome and zonohedron.