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unusual facts about canopy



Balsam woolly adelgid

The Spruce-fir moss spider, which lives on moss mats below the forest canopy, is considered endangered due to the decline of the Fraser fir.

Beilschmiedia tarairi

It is a common canopy tree in lowland forests north of Auckland, often growing in association with kauri (Agathis australis), pōhutukawa (Metrosideros excelsa), tawapou (Pouteria costata), and pūriri (Vitex lucens) on basalt rocks and soils.

Brushford, Somerset

The Herbert memorial chapel, designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens, includes a chest tomb with effigy of Aubrey Herbert of Pixton Park, the Conservative Member of Parliament (MP) for the Southern division of Somerset from 1911 to 1918, and for Yeovil from 1918 until his death in 1923, by Cecil de Banquiere Howard of Paris under a wooden canopy also designed by Lutyens.

Bubble canopy

A bubble canopy is a canopy made without bracing, which attempts to provide 360° vision to the pilot.

Although it never went into production the concept of the bubble canopy was utilised on other British aircraft, such as the Hawker Typhoon and Tempest.

The British had already developed the "Malcolm hood", which was a bulged canopy, but the British Miles M.20 was one of the first aircraft designs to feature a true bubble canopy.

Cambridge University Eco Racing

The team used CFD simulations to make minor tweaks to the canopy, and tested the car extensively at a local airfield, before heading out to the next World Solar Challenge in October 2011.

Chek Jawa

The seven-storey viewing tower called the Jejawi tower allows visitors to view the tree canopy and observe birdlife such as the Collared Kingfisher and Straw-headed Bulbul.

Church of St Nicholas, Brushford

The Herbert memorial chapel includes a chest tomb with effigy of Aubrey Herbert of Pixton Park, the Conservative Member of Parliament (MP) for the Southern division of Somerset from 1911 to 1918, and for Yeovil from 1918 until his death in 1923, by Cecil de Banquiere Howard of Paris under a wooden canopy designed by Edwin Lutyens.

Coldfire Trilogy

Human lands and Rakhlands are separated by the Canopy, a Bermuda Triangle-esque anomaly in the Fae.

Costpoint

Among Costpoint users are L-3 Communications, CACI, Northrop Grumman, CSC, Serco Inc., SAIC, Lockheed Martin, Orbital Science Corporation, Triple Canopy Inc and SGIS.

Drivers Hill

The larger wood, which is at the north of the site, is called Wentworth Hall Wood, and has a canopy mainly of pedunculate oak and ash.

Emperor tamarin

Infant mortality in the wild is at its most highest during the first 5-15 weeks of their lives when the begin to first move around and explore on their own, this is because one of the greatest threats to infant survival is falling from the canopy.

Fairfax Islands

An impenetrable metre-high thicket of Wollastonia biflora (Asteraceae) and other species rapidly developed but after eight months later the canopy had regrown, the forest floor was again in shade and the undergrowth thicket was dead.

Five Acre Grove

The tree canopy is dominated by Pedunculate Oak and Ash some of which are estimated to be 200 years old.

Franz Reichelt

Early parachuting successes, such as those by Louis-Sébastien Lenormand in 1783 and by balloonist Jean-Pierre Blanchard, had used fixed-canopy parachutes (that were already "open" before the jump began), and although André-Jacques Garnerin had invented a frameless parachute suitable for use from high altitudes, by 1910 a parachuting solution that was suitable for use when jumping from a plane or at low altitude had yet to be developed.

Griselinia

The young tree often colonizes amongst other epiphytes like Collospermum and Astelia high in the forest canopy, before growing aerial roots down the trunk of its host.

Henry Tang illegal basement controversy

Following media allegations of illegal structures at the Kowloon Tong residence, Tang backtracked and admitted on 13 February 2012 that there was an unauthorized structure at his home at No. 5A York Road in the form of a canopy above the garage.

International Day for Biological Diversity

Coincided with the observance of International Day for Biological Diversity, on May 2011 Indonesian Forestry Minister inaugurated the Ciwalen Canopy Trail that is 120 meters long and 60 meters wide at an elevation of 30–40 meters above the ground at Gunung Gede Pangrango National Park, West Java to accommodate 5 to 10 people in one trip.

Iridana

The only known specimen of I. agneshorvathae was collected at light in Bia National Park in Western Ghana from a dry semi-deciduous forest and is most probably a canopy species.

Larch Hill

The forest in the North Eastern corner of the site benefits from a canopy of Norway Spruce trees while the Southern most wooded area is populated by robust Sycamores, Elms and Larches which provide the necessary shelter for survival camping.

Martensitic stainless steel

This was later marketed under the "Staybrite" brand by Firth Vickers in England and was used for the new entrance canopy for the Savoy Hotel in 1929 in London.

Mimusops caffra

These trees serve to lift the vegetative canopy in coastal dune vegetation, thereby allowing space and protection for more delicate plant species such as Isoglossa woodii (which is fed on by Blue Duiker) and the Large-leaved Dragon Tree (Dracaena aletriformis).

Mir Jalal Khan

Rind had been appointed successor to the Phagh or Royal Turban by his father and proposed to perform the ceremonies and erect an asrokh or memorial canopy.

Motorola Canopy

Competent Canopy implementations such as the Broadband for Rural Nova Scotia initiative however have demonstrated VoIP, gaming and other low latency applications work acceptably over this system, and in areas of challenging weather including high wind conditions (which cause antennas to move and affect connections).

Mount Kelam

Leptospermum trees form a sparse canopy on the mountain's upper slopes, while grasses and Sphagnum moss cover the ground.

Nacimiento Campground

The campground has 8 sites set in a high valley adjacent to the Nacimiento River with a canopy of Oak trees.

New Guinea Highlands

Conifers (Podocarpus, Dacrycarpus, Dacrydium, Papuacedrus, Araucaria, and Libocedrus) and broadleaf trees of the Myrtle family (Myrtaceae) form a thin canopy, with a prominent understory.

Old Shute House

He and his wife are depicted in life-size effigies under an ornate canopy supported on Corinthian columns in Colyton Church.

Ponderosa Campground

The campground has 23 sites set in a high valley adjacent to the Nacimiento River, with a canopy of Ponderosa Pine, Oak, Madrone, and California Sycamore trees.

Poor Leno

It is used in the video game SSX 3 as well as in The Drop, a short film displayed on the canopy at the Fremont Street Experience in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Ralph Yarro III

From 1995 to 2004 he worked directly with Ray Noorda as part of the Noorda family companies, ultimately serving as president and CEO of The Canopy Group, Inc.

Rocket Racing League

The Mark-III (N133XP) airframe was modified during manufacturing at Velocity Aircraft explicitly for use as a rocket racer, with canopy top, center seat and control stick, and other enhancements.

Rogozhskoye Cemetery

The largest and richest family burial belongs to the Morozov dynasty - a 'cemetery within a cemetery' protected by an elaborate wrought iron canopy.

San Luis Obispo Botanical Garden

It will also include an avenue of Mediterranean cypress intermixed with a broad leaf evergreen canopy lines the entry road.

Southend Central railway station

It involved the complete refurbishment of the ticket office and toilets and the construction of a new forecourt on the north side of the station (leading to Platform 2 which has Shoeburyness-bound services) opposite the University of Essex Southend Campus, with new steps and Disability Discrimination Act 2005 (DDA) compliant handrails on both sides of the canopy, and a new glass roof and lighting over the bicycle parking area there.

St Bartholomew's Church, Welby

The Perpendicular "tall" south porch is surmounted by crocketed pinnacles on its gable canopy corners, which Pevsner describes as "oversized".

Standardwing

The Standardwing was filmed for the first time in 1986 for the BBC nature documentary Birds for all Seasons, when a cameraman stationed in the canopy captured footage of a male bird displaying.

Streissguth Gardens

Over time, the tree canopy has been thinned to allow for better views of Lake Union from the various paths and higher points in the garden.

Themes in Italian Renaissance painting

Leonardo da Vinci abandoned any sort of formal canopy and surrounded the Madonna and Child with the grandeur of nature into which he set the figures in a carefully balanced ye seemingly informal trapezoid composition.

Thomas Willement

From observing 14th century windows such as the West window of York Minster, Willement developed the artistic method of arranging figures one to each single light, surmounted by a decorative canopy.

Tupolev Tu-2

3 × 7.62 mm (0.30 in) rear-firing ShKAS machine guns (later replaced by 12.7 mm (0.50 in) Berezin UB machine guns) in the canopy, dorsal and ventral hatches.

West Des Moines, Iowa

Patrons of the Val Air could dance under a canopy of stars to the melodious sounds of Guy Lombardo, Benny Goodman, Glenn Miller, and other big bands.

Westminster tube station

In 1922, a new entrance and canopy was designed for the Bridge Street entrance by Charles Holden and, in 1924, he designed a plainly rendered replacement elevation for the eastern entrance on to the Embankment.

Yatton railway station

The Clevedon branch was seeing increased passenger traffic, up to 26 trains daily and 10 on Sundays by 1958, and in 1956 the unusual canopy was taken down, replaced by a second-hand canopy from Dauntsey railway station.


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