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811 Stewart Hotel

The site, a three-quarter-block, L-shaped parcel that R. C. Hedreen Co. bought in 1995 for $4.5 million, included a Greyhound Lines bus station that would have been demolished for the hotel.

Ainur

AINUR (Atlas of Images of Nuclear Rings), catalogue of star-forming ring-shaped regions that circle certain galactic nuclei

Black tie

Emily Post, a resident of Tuxedo Park, New York, stated in 1909 that "Tuxedos can have lapels or be shawl-shaped, in either case they are to have facings of silk, satin or grosgrain." and later republished this statement in her 1922 book "Etiquette", adding that only single-breasted jackets are appropriately called "Tuxedos".

Burha River

A little to the south of Betla National Park is the wide bowl shaped Chhechhari valley, with a high hill range around it.

Caustic Eye Productions

Caustic Eye Productions is a small Charleston, West Virginia based record label and promotions company that was started in August of 2001 by Rod Lanham.

Cornish Place

The first phase of the works were a U shaped series of buildings which fronted onto Cornish Street and the River Don and consisted of workshops, casting shops and offices.

Corranierna

On the 1609 Ulster Plantation map it is named ‘Claghan’ (Gaelic ‘Clochán’ meaning a small beehive-shaped stone house), but by the Down Survey of 1655 it was merged into Mullaghduff townland where the combined townland was called ‘Mullaghduffe alias Cloghane alias Cornerin’.

Darryl Starbird

He is one of a group of designers and artists including Ed Roth, George Barris, Norm Grabowski, Dean Jeffries, Bill Cushenberry and the great pinstripe artist Kenny Howard (nicknamed Von Dutch), who presided over one of the most productive and creative periods of American custom car and hot rod design.

Dragon King

Chaotian Palace (朝天宮) of Beigang, Yunlin County in Taiwan, is devoted to the goddess Mazu, also has human-shaped statues for the four Dragon Kings, each riding on a dragon.

Dystroglycan

alpha-dystroglycan is extracellular and binds to merosin alpha-2 laminin in the basement membrane, while beta-dystroglycan is a transmembrane protein and binds to dystrophin, which is a large rod-like cytoskeletal protein, absent in Duchenne muscular dystrophy patients.

Egg Fu

He was a Chinese Communist agent, inexplicably shaped like an egg the size of a house, with a Charlie Chan-like speech pattern, who used his mustaches as whips against his enemies.

Eltmann

These wines are bottled in the distinctive, green, flagon-shaped bottle called the Bocksbeutel.

Eryngium castrense

At the tops of the stems are flower heads one to one and a half centimeters wide and rounded or egg-shaped.

Fullerene chemistry

Fullerene or C60 is soccer-ball-shaped or Ih with 12 pentagons and 20 hexagons.

Gastromancy

Crystal ball gazing: i.e., gazing into round ("belly-shaped") objects.

Gdańsk Shakespeare Festival

Actors, human-shaped puppets and various artists, together with the residents of Dolne Miasto, march along Długi Targ, which is the centre of the Old Town of Gdańsk.

Genevieve Bell

Her book, Divining a Digital Future: Mess and Mythology in Ubiquitous Computing, written in collaboration with Paul Dourish, is an exploration of the social and cultural aspects of ubiquitous computing, with a particular focus on the disciplinary and methodological issues that have shaped the ubiquitous computing research agenda.

George Charles Haité

As president he fashioned his own medal shaped like a painter's palette and staged a then-novel "Phonograph Evening" where the members recorded their voices onto an Edison wax Phonograph cylinder.

Giannetto De Rossi

De Rossi was next called by Dino De Laurentiis to work with Carlo Rambaldi to create the on-set practical effects for two films in Mexico including the sci fi blockbuster Dune, for which he worked wonders, creating the fetus-shaped Spice Guild Navigator seen floating in a tank.

Homec, Rečica ob Savinji

In the early 20th century the original L-shaped building was converted into a rectangular structure with a steep roof.

Janayugom

They include Kambisseri Karunakaran (who was editor for the longest period and shaped the weekly into its popular form), a theatre personality and humorist, Vaikom Chandrasekharan Nair, a novelist, playwright and orator, Thirunalloor Karunakaran, a revolutionary, poet and scholar, Malayattoor Ramakrishnan, a novelist and cartoonist, and Kaniyapuram Ramachandran, a playwright and orator.

John Lees

Sir John Lees, 1st Baronet (1737–1811), Secretary of Irish Post Office and Black Rod in Ireland

Julio Sánchez Cristo

Sánchez intended to enter the Jorge Tadeo Lozano University, however most of his journalistic experience was shaped by his empirical approach.

Kunsthalle Wien

It opened in 1992, and was originally located on Karlsplatz, in a container-shaped building designed as a temporary site by the Austrian architect Adolf Krischanitz.

Lincoln Castle Academy

Tracy Borman (1988 to 1990) PhD Historian, author of Henrietta Howard: King’s Servant, Queen’s Mistress, Elizabeth’s Women: Friends, Rivals and Foes Who Shaped the Virgin Queen and Queen of the Conqueror: The Life of Matilda, Wife of William I as well as regular appearances on television for BBC, Channel 4, Channel 5 and Sky.

Lomaland

The building combines late-Victorian wooden architecture with historical motifs such as the modified Corinthian column (now shaped like a papyrus leaf) and flattened arches.

Mayda

Ortelius (in Theatrum Orbis Terrarum) placed a crescent-shaped island in the traditional location of Mayda with the name "Vlaenderen".

Merrimac, Massachusetts

Merrimac is roughly diamond-shaped, and is bordered by Amesbury and Lake Attitash to the northeast, West Newbury to the southeast, Haverhill to the southwest, Newton, New Hampshire, to the north and northwest, South Hampton, New Hampshire, to the far northeast, and Plaistow, New Hampshire, on the western corner.

NSU Spider

Invented by Felix Wankel, the Wankel engine differed from a piston engine because the quasi-oval design of the combustion chamber, containing a rotor that ascribed within the chamber an Epitrochoid shaped trajectory, enabling the combustion pressure to be converted directly into a rotary motion.

Pākehā

Christianity in New Zealand, despite its foreign origins, has also been shaped by Māori through movements such as the Ratana Church and Destiny Church, as well as their involvements in churches of European origin such as the Anglican Church.

Panos Prevedouros

He ran against veteran city prosecutor Peter Carlisle (who won the race with 39% of the vote), city manager and acting mayor Kirk Caldwell, and term-limited council member Rod Tam.

Passing of Peregrinus

Benko claims that the manner of Peregrinus’s suicide seems to have been shaped in some part by the public martyrdom of early Christians like Polycarp.

Paul Harrington

Paul Randall Harrington, American orthopaedic surgeon and designer of the Harrington Rod

Rob Inglis

His plays include Voyage of the Endeavour (1965), based on the journal of Captain James Cook; Canterbury Tales (1968), dramatised readings from Chaucer; Erf (1971), a one-actor play about the twenty-first century; A Rum Do (1970), a musical based on the governorship of Lachlan Macquarie; and Men Who Shaped Australia, for Better or for Worse (1968), a one-actor play dealing with significant historical figures.

Rod Boleche Hobe

Rod Boleche Hobe (Bengali: রোদ বলেছে হবে) is a solo album released by Shayan Chowdhury Arnob in 2010.

Rod Coutts

Rod Coutts was the founder of Teklogix International with 4 other young entrepreneurs: Lawrie Cragg, Al Vanderburgh, Cliff Bernard and Pete Halsall.

Rod Roddenberry

Eugene "Rod" Roddenberry is the son of actress Majel Barrett and writer and producer Gene Roddenberry, who is best known for creating the American science fiction series Star Trek.

Rod Rosenbladt

On the occasion of his sixty-fifth birthday he was honored with a Festschrift, Theologia et Apologia: Essays in Reformation Theology and its Defense Presented to Rod Rosenbladt (Eugene, OR: Wipf & Stock, 2007).

Scream Aim Fire

Bullet for My Valentine have also released the album on a metal bullet-shaped Flash Drive with the band's symbol engraved into it.

Scrophularia atrata

The flower has an urn-shaped corolla with a rounded body and an open mouth at the top which is edged with hoodlike lobes.

Seattle Computer Products

Twenty-two-year-old Tim Paterson was hired in June 1978 by SCP's owner Rod Brock.

Sony NW-A810

Crave, the CNET gadget blog, named the NW-A810 series as one of the MP3 players that shaped year 2007, with another three, the Zune 80, iPod touch, and the ZEN.

The Comics We Loved, Selection of 20th Century Comics and Creators from the Region of Former Yugoslavia

"In this book, these intrepid, discriminating compilers have realised an exceptional achievement by combing diligently through thousands of pages of comics and comics reviews to distil a captivating alphabet of artists and writers who have shaped and enhanced not only the comics of their homeland but in several cases the comics of the world." — Paul Gravett, writer, curator, international comics historian, director of Comica Festival, London

The Motown Song

It paid tribute to Motown (featuring animated versions of The Temptations and The Supremes) and featured other charting stars of the time, including animated versions of Vanilla Ice, Sinéad O'Connor, Michael Jackson, Madonna and Elton John; along with both a live action and an animated Rod Stewart with his animated dog.

The White Diamond

It illustrates the history of aviation and depicts the struggles and triumphs of Graham Dorrington, an aeronautical engineer, who has designed and built a teardrop-shaped airship which he plans to fly over the forest canopies of Guyana.

The Ziff Who Came to Dinner

However, at the Googolplex Theatre, every kid-friendly movie is sold out, and Rod and Todd will not let Homer see a raunchy comedy called Teenage Sex Wager since it is one of many movies condemned by a Christian publication called "What Would Jesus View?".

Tortuca

The pocketbook-size shaped magazine has no illustrations on the cover (only the colour changes per issue) and well balanced and coherent typography in the interior with use of the typefaces Bodoni and Garamond.

Trade Boards Act 1918

The Trade Boards Act 1918 (c 32) was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that heavily shaped the post-World War I system of UK labour law, particularly regarding collective bargaining and the establishment of minimum wages.

United States v. Cruikshank

As constitutional commentator Leonard Levy later wrote in 1987, "Cruikshank paralyzed the federal government's attempt to protect black citizens by punishing violators of their Civil Rights and, in effect, shaped the Constitution to the advantage of the Ku Klux Klan."

Wilfrid Worland

Wilfrid V. Worland (1907–1999) was an architect who between the 1930s and the 1990s shaped the suburban landscape of Washington, D.C., by specializing in town houses and who designed two developments named for him --"Worland", a five-story apartment building on Wisconsin Avenue in Washington, D.C., and a town house cluster also called "Worland" on Democracy Boulevard in Bethesda, Md.


see also

Burkholderia heleia

Burkholderia heleia is a gram-negative, nitrogen-fixing, aerobic, non-spore-forming, rod-shaped bacterium from the genus of Burkholderia and the family of Burkholderiaceae which was isolated from the Chinese water chestnut Eleocharis dulcis in acid sulfate soil areas of Vietnam.

Castellaniella hirudinis

Castellaniella hirudinis is a gram-negative, rod-shaped, non-spore-forming, bacterium from the genus of Castellaniella which has been isolated from the skin of a juvenile medical leech (Hirudo verbana) in Biebertal in Germany.

Columnaris

Columnaris (also referred to as cottonmouth) is a symptom of disease in fish which results from an infection caused by the Gram-negative, aerobic, rod-shaped bacterium Flavobacterium columnare.

N. vulgaris

Nitrobacter vulgaris, a rod-shaped, Gram-negative and chemoautotrophic bacterium species

Pigmentiphaga litoralis

Pigmentiphaga litoralis is a gram-negative, oxidase and catalase-positive, facultatively anaerobic non-spore-forming, non-motile, rod-shaped bacterium from the genus Pigmentiphaga, which was isolated from a tidal flat sediment in the South China Sea in China.

Pseudomonas peli

After approximately 24 hours of growth at 28°C in Tryptic Soy Agar medium, Pseudomonas peli colonies are 1–2 mm in diameter, beige to yellow in color and have non-uniform edges while the cells themselves are rod shaped (width near 1μm and length between 2-3 μm) with rounded ends.