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unusual facts about skyline



Ancroft

A village tradition claims that each of the one hundred trees on the southern skyline represents a cobbler.

Black Mountain Tower

Black Mountain Tower is one of the most visually imposing structures on the Canberra skyline, visible from many parts of Canberra and Queanbeyan.

Blowick

The Southport gas holder on Crowland Street was the tallest building on the Southport skyline, visible from as far afield as Blackpool and Parbold.

Brothers Strause

In 2010, the Brothers directed and produced the science fiction thriller Skyline, written by Joshua Cordes and Liam O'Donnell, starring Scottie Thompson, Eric Balfour, Donald Faison and David Zayas.

Church Office Building

The observation deck is open to the public for free, and provides a good view of Antelope Island and the Great Salt Lake to the northwest, the Wasatch Mountains to the north and east, the skyline of the city to the south, the Oquirrh Mountains to the west, and Temple Square to the immediate west.

Conoco-Phillips Building

It is the tallest building in state, and with the nearby Robert B. Atwood Building, predominantly defines the center of the skyline of the city.

Cribarth

The hill is sometimes referred to as The Sleeping Giant after the resemblance of its skyline to such a figure when seen from further down the upper Swansea Valley.

Crystal Springs Reservoir

The original name of the southern or Upper Crystal Springs Reservoir was Laguna Grande, which has a California Historical Marker ("NO. 94 PORTOLA EXPEDITION CAMP - The Portolà expedition of 1769 camped on November 5 at a 'laguna grande' which today is covered by the Upper Crystal Springs Lake.") located at Crystal Springs Dam on Skyline Boulevard, 0.1 mi south of Crystal Springs Road.

Endel Ruberg

In Omal Maal (1978) Ruberg depicts the skyline of Tallinn, the capital city of Estonia.

Ewing family

Soaring upward from the Dallas skyline, the Ewing Oil building is right up there, at fifty stories, with the Republic Bank and Reunion Tower.

Fitchburg Municipal Airport

The airport is also the base for Bullock Charter which operates a fleet of two Learjets for charter operations and Skyline Flight which operates a fleet of Cirrus for local Air Taxi.

Geography of Sudan

Between the Dindar and the Rahad rivers, a low ridge slopes down from the Ethiopian highlands to break the endless skyline of the plains, and the occasional hill stands out in stark relief.

Hibernia Bank Building

The white tower atop the building remains a familiar part of the skyline, and during holidays is lit up with colored lights—red and green for Christmas and purple, green, and gold for New Orleans Mardi Gras.

Housing Commission of Victoria

The Commission presided over the construction of the Melbourne Olympic Village in 1956, and made its mark on the Melbourne skyline during the 1960s in the form of high-rise blocks of flats on various sites around inner Melbourne, the largest of which being Lygon Street in Carlton and Atherton Gardens in Fitzroy.

Hrusice

The village has experienced a significant growth in recent decade thanks to good connection to the capital city, but its picturesque skyline is still well preserved, which makes Hrusice with dense net of marked hiking paths a favourite destination for family trips from Prague.

Interstate 581

The southern end of I-581 offers views of the downtown Roanoke skyline, most prominently the Hotel Roanoke, the Wachovia Tower, the former Roanoke Shops of Norfolk Southern, the Norfolk Southern tower, and St. Andrews Catholic Church.

KRCA

In May 2005, KRCA was the subject of controversy due to billboards advertising its local newscasts, in which the place name "Los Angeles, CA" had the "CA" postal abbreviation crossed out, replaced with the word "MEXICO" in bold red and a picture of the El Ángel victory column on the Paseo de la Reforma superimposed onto a picture of the Los Angeles skyline.

Kristy Thirsk

She also sings on "Overkill" for the D:Fuse & Mike Hiratzka album Skyline Lounge (July 2007).

Le sens de la vie

Other scenes show Tal jogging in Manhattan or display New York's streets, the subway system and the city's skyline.

Live from the Lake Coast

The first DVD release from Umphrey's McGee features excerpts from the band's two-night stand at the Skyline Stage in Chicago, on July 26 & 27, 2002.

Logos and uniforms of the New York Mets

The skyline itself includes, from left to right, representations of a church spire (symbolizing Brooklyn, the "borough of churches"), the Williamsburgh Savings Bank building (tallest building in Brooklyn), the Woolworth Building, the Empire State Building, and the United Nations building.

Midnight Youth

Skyline Studios(Drums) in Manhattan, GoodleString (Guitars,Drums,Vocals,Bass)in Brooklyn, The Buddy Project (guitars and vocals) in Queens and (Grand Piano) City College's Sonic Arts Center concert hall were all unique recording environments Dover selected for their debut record The Brave Don't Run".

Montana Television Network

KFBB-TV in Great Falls and KMSO-TV in Missoula (now KECI-TV) began sharing programs with KOOK and KXLF in 1958; the four stations formed the Skyline Network.

Nash, Newport

The village skyline has recently been transformed with the installation of two 2.5-megawatt wind turbines, on the site of chemical company Solutia UK Ltd, which will supply up to one-third of the facility's electricity needs.

New York-New York Hotel and Casino

The idea of a casino modeled after the New York skyline was conceived by Sig Rogich (a former White House staffer and United States Ambassador to Iceland) and Mark Advent.

One Detroit Center

The building is famous for its postmodern architectural design topped with Flemish-inspired neo-gothic spires which blend architecturally with the city's historic skyline.

Ontario Place

Developed in collaboration with Live Nation Entertainment, Echo Beach is a general-admission concert venue designed to help re-create the popular ambience of the original Ontario Place Forum, minus the revolving stage but introducing a real sandy beach section with spectacular views of the Toronto nighttime skyline.

Outside the Skyline

Outside the Skyline features vocal performances by Migs's main vocalist, Lisa Shaw, as well as Aya, disco legend Evelyn "Champagne" King, reggae artists Capleton, Half Pint and Freddie McGregor, with Meshell Ndegeocello, Berlin-based singer Georg Levin, and bossa nova artist Bebel Gilberto.

Panorama Resort

Like Skyland Resort and Little Switzerland, it was one of many private mountain resorts with nature themes that predated Skyline Drive and the Blue Ridge Parkway.

Pearse Óg GAC

The club's crest includes a sword in flames, a symbol associated with Pádraic Pearse since his editorship of the nationalist newspaper An Claidheamh Soluis, surrounded by the green and gold club colours and a skyline of Armagh city.

Perot Museum of Nature and Science

Dallas Skyline Climber allows kids to traverse a miniature Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge, climb a playground made of tiny Dallas landmarks that includes the Dallas County Courthouse, Reunion Tower, the Magnolia Hotel, Thanksgiving Tower and Neiman Marcus building.

Rosslyn Mountain Boys

The cover of the Rosslyn Mountain Boys album showed the band in a glade, with the 1970s skyline of Rosslyn, Virginia in Arlington County, directly opposite Georgetown, D.C. on the Potomac River, grafted in behind them.

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.

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

Sky Wheel

Sky Wheel, a SkyLoop roller coaster, at Skyline Park, Bad Wörishofen, Bavaria, Germany

SkylineFM

Skyline is run almost entirely by volunteers, and although many of them have broadcasting experience from Hospital or University radio, for many this is their first time on the radio, with training given by the station.

Stereo Skyline – EP

Stereo Skyline – EP is the second EP of American powerpop band Stereo Skyline.

Swynnerton

A grand manor house used to exist until its destruction in the English Civil War by Cromwell's men, its replacement being Swynnerton Hall, built in 1725 by Francis Smith of Warwick, which still dominates the Swynnerton skyline today.

The Border Blasters

The group started in 1976 playing their first gig at Gruene Hall, and played consistently in and around Austin, Texas at popular venues such as the Armadillo World Headquarters, The Split Rail, The Broken Spoke, The Skyline Club, Saxon Pub, including a two-year standing show at Raven's Garage on Sixth Street (Austin, Texas).

They All Laughed

The theme of hidden desires is echoed in the soundtrack, which juxtaposes country music by Roy Acuff, Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings, and Rodney Crowell—as well as by Camp—with visuals of the Manhattan skyline (the credits sequence follows a trek into Manhattan, notably focusing on the twin towers of the World Trade Center as Dorothy Stratten's credit appears) and songs by Frank Sinatra, including the eponymous hit "They all laughed when Christopher Columbus..."

Umuarama

From the top, left to right: Skyline of Umuarama; Hênio Romagnoli Square, at the civic center; Eiffel Tower replica, on the PR-323 highway; Main Campus of UNIPAR, one of the biggest private Universities of Paraná; Project of the future regional bus station, located on the Paraná Avenue, a region where the city is rapidly growing.

We Lost the Skyline

We Lost the Skyline (also Transmission 7.1) is a live recording by Porcupine Tree, recorded during an in-store performance at Park Avenue CDs in Orlando, Florida, with 200 fans in attendance.

Windows Mobile 6.5

Along with Windows Mobile 6.5, Microsoft announced several Cloud computing services codenamed "SkyBox", "SkyLine", "SkyMarket".


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